The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1852, Page 4

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BOWERY AMPHITHEATRE, Bowery—Eqvesraian Pan ronw ances. eee CHKISTY'S MINSTRELS, Mcchanice’ Hall, 472 Broadway Ermorian MinstRELsY. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Bi way—Ermorian MinsTRELSY. PABERNACLE—Dempsten'’s Concer. SOCIETY LIBRARY—Neono Mixernxtay ay rum New @axrans Trovrr. DOUBLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, April 7, 2662. “The News. Onr telegraphic columne, this morning, abound with highly interesting and important matter from wi sections of the American eontinent. The synop- ais of the speech of Judge Mason on non-interven- tion in the Senate, is of especial interest. It will be observed that the Virginia Senator strongly favored Mr. Clarke’s resolutions, and was etrongly eppored to the impolitic resolutions ef Messrs. Case and Seward. He also took his State rights ally from Louisiana, Mr. Soulé, to task, for doubting whether Washington intended his non-intervention Policy to be permanent. He wentover the whole ground, and proved from documents, speeches, his- tory, &c., that non-interferenee in the affairs of foreign nations was the only true poliey for this government to pursue. The combined attempt of the Southern rights and free soil members of the Honse of Representa- fives to revive the slavery agitation, met witha @ignal rebuke on Monday. Mr. Jackson, one of the two Southern rights gentlemen from Georgia, had taken especial pains to introduce a reso- Yntion—originally manufactured by a Michigan abolitionist—which declared that the compromiecs ef the constitution were sufficiently binding, and aunply deprecating the agitation growing out of the compromice of the last Congress. To this reso- Jation, after a very exciting debate, an amend- ment, originally drawn up by Mr. Polk, of Tenn., ‘was appended, in which the compromise of the last Congress was declared to bea final settlement of all difficulties therein embraced, and should be maintained and executed as such. This amendment ‘was passed by a vote of one hundred to sixty-five. ‘This is an overwhelming triumph for the Unionists. ‘The names of those who voted against the second resolution will be found in the proceedings. It isa remarkable fact that the sixteen Southerners who voted against it are State rights men, and the re- mainder are nearly, if not all, free soilers or aboli- tionists of the most uncompromising stamp. It is curious to observe the manceuvres of these factions. What will be their next move ? After a long debate in the House yesterday, the wote by which the bill to promote discipline in the mavy was defeated, was re-considered. Two or three substitutes wore offered, and the subject was then postponed. The announcement that under the existing law, being the act of 1800, punishment, | po. nor, . ean be inflicted of a far more severe character than under the law which was lately repealed, appears to have brought our Congressmen to their sonses on this subject. Acrording to the act now actually in force, any punishment, from putting a refractory sailor in irons to hanging him by the neck, may be inflicted. A debate on the free farm bill wound up the day's proceedings. Quite an exeitemont was created in the State Senate yesterday, by the refusal of the Commission- ers of Emigration to furnish certain information called for by the Medical Committee of tho former body. The Commissionors, it appears, do not ac- knowledge the right of those who created their of- fice to pry into their affairs. Perhaps the worthy Commissioners would very much dislike to have an investigation and exposition of all their official trans- actions. Which party will gain the viotory remains to be seen. A long discussion took place on the question of incorporating the Irish eteamship companies. It is strange that the Sonate cannot get rid of these steamers in some way. Much more time bas been spent in their consideration than the subject is worthy of. Soveral gubernatorial ap- pointments were confirmed, and many were rejected. Governor Hunt is certainly very porsevering; he @ontinues to return names to the Senate which have already been rejected threo or four times. Nume- roug bills, mostly of an unimpertant character, wore passed by the Assembly. From the style in which beth houses are hurrying along the work, it is not probable any more time will be wasted in unnecessa- ry debates prior to the adjournment. Our Albany cerrespondents announce that the ease of the Canal Auditor has been placed on the ealendar, and will shortly be finally decided in the Court of Appeals. Tke Albany Common Council has agreed to issue one million of bonds for the bencfit of the Albany and Susquehanna railroad. According te our returns, the democrats have earried the Connecticut election, against the Holy Allianes of whige, the Maine Liquor law, Greeley, Barnum, Joyce Heth, and the Woolly Horse, oom- bined. if this be indeed 60, elean and clear, the Maine Liquor law and Barnum are politically de- faonct in Connecticut. The whigs seem to have forgotten that this liquor is a two-edged sword, aud ‘that their gains from the temperence democrats ‘would probably be balanced or overbalanced by the Joss of the whigs who love a good glass of liquor, and the liberty to drink it without « modival certificate. If Connecticut rejects the Maine-iaca, well may the Cogniacs rejoice. The Holy Allisoce of the Malo Jew ie essentially swamped. * Pampkin pice are on the rise, And rum & in demand." ‘The returns of the municipal election in Portland | are convincing proofs, if any more were wanting, of the downfall of teototalism. Neal Dow, who hae gained 60 much notoriety as tho author of the Maine Liquor law, has been defeated for the mayoralty by Mr. Parris. The democrats also elected a majority | of their candidates for other city officers. What ‘will Philosopher Greeley say to thie? At the municipal election in Cincinnati, last Menday, the democrate carried the city. They heave at least five majority in the Common Council, | witieh is a great gain. The whigshad a majority in | the previous Council. The Aemocrate of Missouri met in State Conven- tion last Monday, and, after organising, appointed eommittese to attend to preliminary business—balf | ef whom were Bentoniays, and the other half anti- | | and law- | tent, @ sentiment of religious fanati $5 to amy part efthe | The latter became infuriated, and tore down the or with Adeer- | house. Tho alarm soon spread, and a mob was speedily collected, who were also fired upon from the containing it | windows of three or four other houses, which in their turn were demolished. A largo number of persons wore either killed or wounded during the mélé. The triumph of the whigs in the city, combined with the fact that Kossuth had been among them, and in- flamed their minds with his peculiar speeches, pro- bably caused the few ignorant Germans, who com- menced the row, to shoot at those who were of opposite politics. Fortunately, the larger portion of the great German population of St. Louis, are intelligent, and generally well educated. They do, not seem to have mixed in this murderous onslaught —and hence the riot did not become more general. The telegraph furnishes accounts of very do- structive fires in Paducah, Ky., Louisville, &c. In the former place forty buildings, embracing nearly the entire town, were burned to the ground. It is cetimated that the loss will be over $100,000, in addition to the insuranee. The loss by the con- flagration at Chillicothe ie supposed to be about A whole family were poisoned last Sunday, by carelessly leaving noxious drugs on an upper shelf, so that it dropped into food below. Two of the read. | Pereons died soon after the discovery. Capt. Pittman has been convicted at Boston of robbing the wreck of the bark Missouri, of New York, of $16,000. Despatches from Cincinnati and Pittsburg an- nounce the water to be very high, and still rising in the Ohio river and its tributaries. At the former city an overflow is anticipated. Revival of the Slovery Agitation—Policy of the South. Tt has been repeatedly denied that there was any dosign or desire among the anti-slavery factions of the whig or democratic party of the North, to re- open the agitation of the slavery question; but the events springing up daily prove the hypocrisy of all such protestations emanating from those quarters, which haye seized the first occasion to vont their malignity upon the Fugitive Slave law, in terms the most vindictive, abusive, and offensive. We have already adverted to the attempts mado at a re-opening of this sectional agitation in the United States Senate, by W. H. Seward, after seve- ral months of comparative silence upon the subject. Even then he acted under cover of the right of peti- tion. But the experience of a suceoseful demagogue has taught him that emooth faced deception is bet- ter adapted to his position than open and hot-head- ed violence. He glides, therefore, like the serpent, to his object, and bites, and steals away. His agents and organs intho North are under less re- straint, and upon the first provocation they disclose their true sentiments in their true colors; and now the South are fairly admonished that instead of peace there is to be war, and war tothe end. Nor is this re-agitation of slavery confined to Seward and the whig party of New York. Both parties in this State, and in New Englandand the Northwest, are deeply tinctured with the spirit ofthe abolition petitions lately presented in the Senate—hostility to the fugitive law, hostility to slavery in the Territo- ries, in the District of Columbia, in the States—in- flexible and incessant hostility to the whole syetem of the social institutions of the South. Step bystep, the approaches upon these institutions are to be fol- lowed up, till the last stronghold of slavery is in- vested, and reduced to a surrender or the hasards of extermination. Between absolute emancipation and disunion there will be no ultimate choice. Inanother part ofthis paper we have given a variety of extracts in reference to the late proceed- ings under the law of 1850, in the arrest, trial, and surrender to his master, of the fugitive slave Horace Preston. Here we find the New York Tribune, a leading whig organ of this city, and the Evening Post, a leading domeeratic journal, equally violent in their unscrupulous denunciations of the law and the agents of the law. The New York Sun, a sert of neutral, in disguise, supposed to be under tho abolition influenees of the Reverend Henry Ward a devout worshipper of Kossuth in all the late humbugs of glorification in this eity, also gives the obnoxious law a stab through its agents, and laments the injustice of thejr proceedings. But rising abovo all in the unmeasured malignity of its reprobation, isthe Albany Evening Journal, the central mouth-piece of the arch-agitator, and, in the absence of Thurlow Weed, conducted by a son of Wm. H. Seward himself, and doubtless reflesting his opinions to the life. The caption of the article from that paper is in the best etyle of the Boston | Liberator—‘New York market---negroes---prime quality, $700 9 €1,000—holders are firma.” The tom- per and drift of the article are of the first elass of ram- pant abolitioniam—ripe for open treason and fire and sword. Indeod, the language of the beautiful phi- lanthrepiat, Groeley, and that amiable Christian poet, Bryant, ure much in the same vein. The Tridunc, after having personally denounced the agente of the law as the ‘‘jackalls and bloodhounds of slavery,” uses euch terms of conciliation as these —“‘unserupulous constable,” “lawyer equally un- serupulous,” ‘commissioner pockets his foe of ten dollars,’’ ‘‘unkappy man is dragged of into slevery,” ‘bullied by the eoumsel,’’ “ Busteed interrupted the legal by pugilistie proceedings,” ‘“‘a fugitive slave bill with «a trial,” ‘what trouble snd what disgrace the country would then have been spared!” The Evening Post vents its wrath in expletives of equal liberality and moderation. It says that the law ‘cannot be eo administered as not to disgrace our national character and our institutions,” and confines its practical application (o the atrocities of the African slave trade, The ren-mad incendiary abolitionists of Massachusetts scarcely express thom- selves with more savage emphasis. They employ, indeed, the same ideas and terms of avuse. In the last annual report of tho Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, they spook of the fugitive law ea ‘ bring- ing slavery kome to ths bosoms and business of almost every part of the free Btates, Ths most hateful scenes of tho peculiar institution were transferred from the South and enacted in the sircets of Northern citios and villages. Poaceable citizens, supporting themselves by honost industry, wore seized by force or fraud, held in chains, and delivered upton new tyranny, by the willing toole of the abominable law.” ‘‘ However designed, we fecl assured that these horrors have dono much moro to- wards weakening than stronghtening tho ties which bind the North to the South.” We have given onough. The parallel is complote. The aame sentiments are re-echoed in New York and in Massachusetts, in Ohio and Wisconsin. From the Atlantie to the Mississippi, the elements of the anti- elavery agitation are alive and kindling egain into action.* Wo publish from Fred. Dongiass’s paper, in confirmation of these facts, the official procesdiuyrs of the organization of a new anti-slavery society, i | to be almost rivals of Punch, io his line ; but Hoven, ap ras Awri-Gawarme As- the penitentiary. The recent law passed makes the lass and Gerrit Smith, Thurlow Weed and Licyd | letteries, gambling, intemperance, and disorderly law, keeping © gambling house wasa misdemeanor, Garrisen, are all co-operating to the great end of fomenting @ rupture between the North and the South, and the extinction of slavery, at the hasarde of disunion and civil war. Such are the elements of hostility and danger which the South will be called upon to meet in tho Philadelphia and Baltimore eonventions. Those periodical assemblages may be regarded as an off- shoot of the original convention which formed the federal constitution. In a spirit of wisdom and compromise, that convention laid down the funda- mental principles of the Union for all time to come. In tho Presidential conventions of the two great parties of the day, the bases of the practical measures and policy of the government are laid down for the next four years; and here it is that the South, meeting the North upon equal ground, have the power of enforcing, at least, the concession of theirconstitutional rights. How im- portant, in view of the November election, that the South, of all parties, should come up to Philadelphia and to Baltimore united in demanding an unequivocal declaration ofprinciples! Let Southern men consider themselves as standing in the place of the fathers of the republic, and as holding in their hands its dosti- nies and tendencies for the next four years. Let them | stand by their rights and their social institutions at the paramount obligation, and enter into no compact with whigs or democrats, upon any torms which will surrender the security of the South to the doubtful forbearance of either party. Letthem take nothing for granted, where everything is in jeopardy. There is a self-evident necessity for the national conventions of the whigs and of the demoerats to meet the crisis without flinching, or subterfuge, or paltry professions admitting of a double construc- tion. We have had sufficient experience of the risks and damages of a no-party candidate upon a no-party platform. And what may be reasonably anticipated from the election, for example, of General Sectt, without pledges, without principles, but altogether upon trust? A vain man, a weak-headed soldier, with no foresight, no prescience of future events, no will or poliey of bis own, he will, of conrse, be sub- ject to the instruments ofhisclection. His adminis- tration, even to a greater degree than that of Gene- ral Taylor, will fall under the malign influence of Seward and his clique, reeulting most probably in the complete alienation of the North and the South, the destruetion of all national parties, and the creation of two great sectional factions, as hostile insentiment and in policy as Northern abolition and Southern slavery. Let the South look to it. The harmony of the Union can only be restored by conciliation and Northern forbearance, and good faith upon the slavery question. Abolition votes will be purchased dearly upon any terms. The true policy of the South ie plain. It isto require of both parties of the North a distinct recognition of their rights, and a distinct assurance of their social security from abo- lition incendiaries and their designs. Failing in these assurances of protection and eafety, it will be the difty of the South to fall back upon a ticket, or two tickets, of their own, 60 as to throw the election into the House of Representatives, where, each State being entitled to one vote, they will have the power ofvhaping the President and the policy of his ad- houses, reminds us that we received, afew weeks ago, | ® communication from one Lucian Burleigh, who | designates himself ‘‘Correeponding Secretary to the | Association for the Suppression of Gambling,” in whieh he states—and no doubt wishes to make us believe—that the recent jassage of the Gambling law, procured by them, has closed nearly all the gambling houses and lottery policy offices in this city. They also denounce the idea that any impata- tion should be cast upon their association, inti- mating that any one in their employ, or concerned in the suppression of gambling, should indulge in “levying black mail” on gambling houses, to stop | threatened prosecutions :. Mr, Eprron—In your paper of the 16th, I find an arti- cleon “the Gambling Law of New York,” which you eall adead letter, In this article you have made several staements not fally warranted by facts, and which are calvulated to mislead the public mind’ and injuriously affict parties undeserving such a course of remark, The law in question has been in operation seven and a helf months, "It bas closed the gambling houses in many | Jovalities, and its faithful execution on the part of sworn pe officers would prevent all but the more secret bing practices throughout the city and State, Hu: of policy offices were closed within a few days of the first inception of the law; and while some few of these have re- | tarned again to their unlawful business, the it majo- tity of them have found other employment. Many pro- teoutions have already taken place against violators of the law, and others will be cominenced as evidence can be | obtained, Among thero “ who got up the excitement about gam- bling. aud managed the parcage of the law,” are the | Anciation for the Suppression of Gambling, and they | wold sinecrely thank you to reveal any facts you may have in your posseesion in relation to the levying of * black mail on the gambling houses, to stop threatened prosecutions,” by any parties like thoxe referred to. ‘The opening of any facts of such a nature, concerning any yereons in the service of the association. will eonfer on them an important favor, and merit their warmest comyendation, ‘They have sought, and will seek, by all lawful and pro- per peans, to suppress the fatal viec of gambling in all its nanifestations; but would be no less solicitous to mppress that basest of frauds and impositions, the levying of black mail,”’ and, I doubt not, will co-operate with you, and all other friends of honesty and integrity, in ing any servant of theirs, ao offending, to justice. Yours for trath, LUCIAN BURLEIGH, (orrexponding Secretary fo the Association for the Suppression of Gambling. Now, we can assure this worthy eceretary of a wortly association, that we are in possession of manyfacts relative to the management of their con- cern,ind the modus operandi by which all the wires are pulled, whereby to raise money for the suppot of the same. There may be some very worth; and honest members belonging to the as sociatbn, and we trust there are; but atthe same time itis possible they may have a black sheep or two inshe floek, who nibbles outside the enclosure, only subject to @ fine, or, at most, the penitentiary. Again we assert that the anti-gambling associa- tion have the whole matter within their own control; Dut instead of tdking proper steps to break up the gambling houses, they are more industriously en- gaged in collecting subscriptions towards the sup- port of the association, and deepatching letters of advice to those who do not want their counsel. We hope the Grand Jury, so well instructed by tho Recorder in their public duties, will send for this secretary, and the association too—for from that source some information may be found to guide them in their investigations hereafter. Commoporr Srockton aNp Henny A. Wise— Tue Jack Tan Run AGnuounp.—The Richmond Wing, in reforence to the splendid eulogium of Hon. Henry A. Wise, at the Virginia democratic convention, upon the romantic and terrible exploits of Commodore Stockton, on shipboard and on horseback, says:— Never was mortal man lifted to a loftier height of glory, than this hero of ocean. by the Accomac Demosthenes. Not only, according to Mr. Wise, had he invested the name of Stockton—already immortal upon the scroll of the Declaration of Independence—with new lustre ; he had sustaincd the honor of America in foreign climes. He had stormed Gibraltar with a pocket-pistol. The hair- breadth ‘scapes of the Moor of Venice were but child's play to the young American middy’s adventures within the limits of this renowned fortificatlon—rolling down the precipice in a deadly tug with a sentinel, after shooting an officer on the ramparts, and finally jumping the outer wall on horseback, and breaking the animal’s legs in the hagardous leap. Mr, Wise, interrupted by the vehement applause of bis audi . recited all this with a dramatic effcct such as we might combination of the powers of fought the duel over again. ine would result from a emble and Grimaldi. Ie He rolled down imaginary precipices and leaped hypothetical barriers. We are not certain that be did not Jump several pews near the pulpit of the African church, by Way of illustration.” Mr. Wisé closed his eloquent panegyric, by de- claring that with Captain Stockton as their candi- date, the democrats could sweep the field, and leave the whigs forever in hopeless defeat. But the Whig goes on to Bay :--- “ y asiegulas: coincidence, just at the very moment Mr, Wise was edifying the Virginia democracy after this fashion another scene was transpiring at Trenton, of a very different character. ‘The Paladin of the Seas,’ was himself upon his legs. ‘The occasion. as our readers al- ready know, was the reception of Danicl Webster by the New Jersey Legislature. Captain Stockton being present, ‘was called upon for a speech. and he proceeded to enounce some democratic doctrines which were not preeisely in accordance with the Virginia platform. The tariff, he declared, for instance, bad always been a democratic mea- sure in New Jorsey, and by a tariff, he meant a protective tariff. What says Mr. Wise to that? But more aston- ishing still, Chem Stockton affirmed that he had ul- ways been, in his political sentiments—a federalist ! Yes, this patent democrat, endorsed by the Virginia con tion, a federalist! Hung,.be the heavens with black democratie candidate for tbe Hresilency boasting of his withow the knowledge of the others. In such case, it might reasonably be construed as pointing to- wards ‘Llack mail.” As ic “levying black mail’’ on the gamblers, or the kceers of gambling houses, we certainly acqu them, fom the fact that the attempt would be us onecent The ‘black mail,” if made at all, is from other eairces. For instance, a short time ago, a merchait doing business down town, received a let- ter fron one of the prominent members of this “anti-gumbling association,” requesting him to call and seohim. The morchant examined the letter, ponderel over it a little, and concluded not to notice it. A ew days after, he received another letter from thy same party, which he treated in the liko manner, and took no notice of either. A weck or two afte, # merchant who held a promissory note for several hundred dollars, given for merchandise ministration. The game is in their hands. Let them look to it in time. Tne Youne Mey’s Waic CoMMITTER, AND THE COLLECTOR OF THE PorT.—The juveniles of the General Whig Committee called the ‘‘ Young Men’s Democratic Republican,” and some of the older heads of the same illustrious organization, have been thrown into a state of tremendous excitement, as the penny-a-liners would say, by the publication of the proceedings of their last meeting at the Broadway House. The truth of our report was vehemently donied in the Express, by Nathan Ely and Erastus Brooks, and the Evening Mirror mixes in the general mélée, professing to have received information which substantially eonfirms what ap- peared in the Henxavp. But the reporter for the Tribune, D.C. Henderson, who was present in vir- tue of his being a member, comes out under his proper signature, and establishes the truth of the reports both in the Heranp and the Tribune, that the select committee did report, beyond all doubt, “that no one did or should receive his bread from any office in the Custom House, who was not a friend of Mr. Fillmore.” That the chairman of the General Committee, and the chairman of the Select Committec, have not responded to our challenge to publish the report, is further confirmation, if any were wanting, that Mr. Maxwell did say, or was represented by this committee to have said, what ia attributed to him. Now,we do not see why this should excite so much indignation. ‘To the victors belong the spoils of office ;”’ andit is the doctrine both of whigs and democrats to give these epoils only to tho friends of the powers that be. It is in accord- ance with the old fogy doctrine, from time imme- morial, and was practised by the chiefs of the highlands of Scotland—and it is all right ;:--- ‘The simple rule—the good old plan— That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. There is no necessity, therefore, for raising “a tempest in a teapot” about what is the acknow- ledged and undoubted usages of the black mail Scottish chiefs, and the ‘ whig democratic republi- can” or any other party, when in office. New JocanarisM—Picx anp Poncn, &c.—Births and deaths in journalism are as numerous in a free country, in proportion to the population, as they are in real life. A considerable list could be made up every year, in this city, with the names of new jour- nals which have come into existence, and of those that have gone out. During the last ten years, vast mortality has been exhibited in daily and weekly and monthly journals and magazines. At this mo- ment there are six or sight journals, both daily and weekly, dying by inches; and some few nro gather- ing strength as they grow older. One curious feature in journalism here, m cortain quarters, is tho attempt to imitate everything English, by one eect, and everything Fronch, by another. For several yeurs past, many ingenious mon, in their own @onceit, have startod weekly jour- nals in imitation of the London Pynch, but all of them fell through;*not one of them had the wit or the humor natural to American life, manners, ideas, or existence. Even at this moment we havea num- ber of journals pretending to be very witty, and the only ono that seems to spring into popu- larity at once, aad to indicate some natural talont of this kind, ia the one recently published by Mr. Scoville, by the name of ** Ptck,” which seoms to have something American, Knickerbocker, or Yaukee, in the character of its wit and drolleries. The editor appears to be young, energetic, lively, racy, with plonty of raw material, but only in the beginning of his career. Another novelty in the rame line of literature is the revival of the Demo- evatic Review, which bas had a sleopWexistence for thie Btate, headed by Gerrit Bmith. It is reason- able to expect that this movement will be followed up by similar organizations in other States, as tho combustibles of agitation are fanned into a flame. Now, where ix the prospect of peace and harmony, with these etartling facts before us? How can this law remain as a settlement of the question involved, in view of the unconquerable prejudice and hatred existing in the North against it? This is the ques- tion for the calm consideration of the Union-loving g men of both the great parties of the fearful ex- m in the country. “Mlostility to slavery is, to Bentoniane. Thev appear to have worked very fmorthly during thy firet day; but whether they | North ; and while it exiats, there will be active aud intriguing demagogues to keep it alive, and turn it to yeurs past, as an ‘ old fogy”’—but recently changed hanss--received a new editor—and waked up with a vengen woe and a raciness in the literary and politi- cal world, that tolls all ovor the country, and kicked np o row & Congress. The now manager who furnishes the “eoding ideas, traits, and themes, it » | pervonage pe rfo Uy au fait with American charac- ter, life, and polit, 4. Mir writers dross np these ideas with all the das ‘ng style of Irish blackguard- ism, or Yankee drolle: ¥ They are fast trottere— very fnet. The Reviéiw uy. W Up poor Judge Donglas, by pretending ort of ke to be hax advocate for the Prosid but it ‘¢, “wiles & perfect enthu- by the firs merchant mentioned, sent for him, and requested an additional security on thenote. The debtor lovked with astonishment, and asked the reason for such an uncalled for request, such as never bad seen made before. The merchant then told him that he had been informed by the gambling association that he was in the habit of visiting gambling 1ouses, and for that reason’ ho wished some extra security that the note would be paid. The debtor at once comprehended the motives which actuated thé request made to him by a mem- ber of the ani-gambling association, to call and see them. Asto this method of doing business we do not pretend to express an opinion at present. It is enough foe us to state the facts. Many instances of the same character we could name, all going to establih the same facts. It was but the other week that ore of the attachés of the association ¢alled on a mercant in Cortlandt street, and requested him to suberibe ten dollars towards the Association for the Suygression of Gambling. The merchant, how- ever, dij not possess much faith in the asgociation, and accwdingly refused to subscribe. If the anti-gambling association are sincere in the attempt \o abolish gambling, they have ample means in their own hands, even under the recent law (lameas it isin many of ite foatures), to break the wholeof them up, if they feel so disposed. Why don’t they zo to the Mayor or Chief of Police, and ask to see the quarterly returns made by the police captains ofsach ward? In those returns, the gam- bling house, poliey offices, and all othor suspicious places, are given. From these returns, any attaché of the anti-gumbling association could select out the houses freqwntcd and kept by gamblers, and, in addition, coud obtain from the police captains many important fats which would aid them in the under- taking, and in the precuremont of such evidence as would, when aid before a police magistrate, justify him in issuing a warrant, not only for the arrest of the oceupant w keeper of the house, but « warrant to search the premises, whereby the apparatus and implements usd in gambling might be found, thereby perfecting the evidences of guilt. Neither the Mayor nor Chief of Pelice considers it legitimate polive business to compel policemen to act as “tool pigeons,” by assuming a disguise to enter these gambling houses, and thus obtain testi- mony to convict proprietors of such houses; but the anti-gambling association, we aro led to believe, are sworn to abolish all species of gambling, aro astociated for that especial purpose, and are actually collecting, or at least calling upon merchants and othors to subscribe, sums of money for tho suppres- sion ofgambling, and to support the assoviation—why don’t they meve in tao matter? It is their logiti- mate businese. It is what they profess to be doing. Yet what have they done? Who have they convicted during the Jast seven months? Why, noone. The law, they tell you, has been in operation for seven or eight months past, and has closed the gambling houses in many localities. Well, so it did; fora weck or two some of the gainblers rested awhile, and closed their doors. Others sold out just for a sham, and went a few weeks into the country, but soon retumed again, apparently invigorated by the excur- sion, re-opened in their old localities, mostly all of them with an additional new carpet and apparatus, taking good care to double the guard at the on- trance, to give timely information should an unex- pected attack be mado by the police authorities. The lottery policy dealers aleo stepped for awhile their operations; but finding no immediate steps wore taken against them, they have, like the others, nearly all resumed the business again. The only complaint instituted to our knowledge, by the anti-gambling association, since the gam- bling law has gone into effect, was tho taking of the evidence of a convicted thief, who obtained a reduction of sentence on condition of making oath against certain gamblers, with whom he alleges he lost money #t the game of faro. In this instance, however, no search was made for the apparatus of gambling kept in the house where the money was uid to have been lost, and the lack of finding cor- roborative evidence, leaves a question of mach doubt as to whether any conviction could be obtain- ed, should the matter ever be brought to a trial. Be that ne it may, the complaint will only stand good under the law existing before the recent gam- m among all the politician,’ 4 see ‘ winnt the devil the follow will say newt.” . Verily, our Mashy liierature has ta hou @ eturt it the Pick ond the pet Magazine 4 bling law was passed, which old law has never beon abolished, and designatos a gambling house a ‘ dis- orderly house ;’’ and the owners, on conviction, sould only be subjected to @ fine, or imprisonment in less, asit is well known they would not pay them | federalism !"* But the democratic organ of Virginia—the Rich- iquirer—is completely taken aback. It pro- the speech of the gallant commodore, as re- nthe IWhig papers, rank heresy, and right \ the teeth of the resolutions of ’98 and ’99. Mr. Ritchie becomes decidedly inquisitive, and aske:--- “ What was Mr. Webster doing with Mr. Stockton at Trenton? ‘The former was there to attend ‘agum clastic trial’—Caoutchoue! indeed. But what was Mr. Steckton futx there 7 It was Trenton, the capital, aad Mr, Steck- ton the Senator, of New Jersey, Was there any sohome of a new political conjunction, sure enough, to be then and there formed? Is Mr. Webster out of the question forthe Presidency? Can't Gen. Scott's and Mr. Fillmore’s friends be reconciled? Will Mr. Webster not allow Gen. Scott tobe nominated? Does he know that Mr. Fillmore can'tbe? Is he playing tempter of Commodore Stockton, and trying to take him and New Jersey from the demo- cratic ranks, to bear the flag of federal whiggery in the coming campaign? Look out for some such meaning in thie strange defection of a man like the brave Commo- dore—the hero of Ban Gabriel? Remember that the whigs accused the democrats of attem game with the hero of Bucna Vista! W. Of course the Commodore, as a democratic candi- date, is run aground. In taking Mr. Webster and whig principles on board ship, at Trenton, he isturned over on hie beam ends. India rubber won’tsave him —the victories of his horse-marines in Californiacan’t save him—the speech of Wise falls to the ground— the applause of the Virginia democrats goes for nothing—the only chance now forthe Commodore is to run as the Compromise candidate of the Philadelphia Slaughter-house Convention. Let them nominate him as theUnion candidate—the tariff candidate—the internal improvement candidate—the candidate of the army, the navy, and the horse-marines—and he may whip the forces of the democratic ‘‘old fogies,” and “Young America” eombined. What or who can resist a candidate equally at home on the ship's deck or on horseback, on dry land or salt water—a Jack-tar and a general, and a statesman to boot ? And why can’t the friends of Scott, Fillmore, and Webster split the difference upon Stockton? Oh! why? ting just such a tcan it mean?” Tue Iris Exites Coming To THE UNITED States. —It is highly probable, from the announcement. made by the Dublin Freeman’s Journal, that tho new British ministry are about to release John Mitchel, William Smith O’Brien, and the other exiles, from duranee, on condition of their leaving the British deminions and never returning. If Webster’s case had not been so far gone, he might have plucked up a little capital from this event for the dread day of “the Slaughter-house” Conven- tion at Philadelphia, on the ground of his having written a private letter to Abbott Lawrenco, our American Minister at the court of St. Jamos, urging him to uso his influence with the Russell ad- ministration, to set the captives free. It is now, however, too late to turn the matter to account with the Irish population in the United Statos, for Webster cannot possibly get the nomination. But we do not believe that his tetter to Abbott Lawrence had any more to do with the release of these Stato prisoners—if thoy are released—than his let- ter to Mr. Barringer had to do with the release of the fllibustero prisoners by the Queon of Spain. Earl Derby has probably done it as a capital stroke of policy, which it undoubtedly would be, but which the stunted and contracted intellect of Lord John Russell could not see. The object of punishment on | the part ofa government is not, or at least ought not to be, revenge, but the prevention of a recur- ronce ofthe offence. All the ends of statesmanship in the punishment of the Irish exiles have been long since answered; and no purpose but a vindictive one ean be served by retaining them any longor in cap- tivity; while, on the contrary, it would be a highly popular act on the part of the new ministry to set them at large immediately. It is, therofore, very likely that we shall soon have them all in the United States; for, of course, men | who loveliberty as they do, would prefer this coun- | try to any other in the world, next to their own. Thus does each of the revolutionary spirits of Eu- | rope, who has no hope for the redemption and Maritime Intelligence—Its Extent and Ime Portance to the Public—Our Shipping List. Among the many thousand daily readers of the New Yoru Hepaxe, there are doubtless many who may never, probably, have had their attention ar. rested at the silent but rapid growth of what is, to thousands of others an important department of our paper. The feature we allude to is the Maritime Intelligence. The importance of such a department to a paper which professes to give commercial news to tho public, eannot be too highly valued, when the vast interest to the maritime nation which it represents, is duly considered. There is no branch of industry in which 60 large an amount of capital is represented as in thie. Itis but a few years back that half a column of the New York Heravp amply sufficed for the daily quantity of marine news received at our office, excepting om an occasional arrival from the Old World. By refer- ence to our pages, it will easily be seen what a chance such a circumscribed limit would now have of represonting that department. The average quantity of important marine news wo daily place before our readers, amounts to between two and three columns. On some occasions, indeod, we have published in one edition four columas of ship news: not repetitions of previously reported ships-~ as is often the case—but fresh advices from vessels in all parts of the world. Such a fact is true and incontrovertible proof of the growth and prosperity of the country—an index as infallible aud palpable as the sun at mid-day. The commerce of the United States, as indicated by the dafly growth of this most useful department of our paper, has nearly doubled within the past ten years; and we are now, after a national existence of but seventy-seven years, the firet maritime nation in the world. Such s rapid increase is unparalleled since the early Grecian navigators launched their first bark upon the waters of the Archipelago. And in the knowledge of such a flattering testimony of enterprite, we may be excused for feeling, and also expressing, the exultation that every well-wisher of his country must entertain, that the United Btates, while yet in its infancy, has so fur outstripped all competitors for supremacy in such a noble and hu- manizing pursuit. As an evidence of this increase, we tind that the number of vessels built during the past year, in New York city alone, amounted to 60--namely, 18 steamers, 25 ships, 2 brigs, 13 schooners, and 2 sloops; the first two classes averaging considerably over 1,000 tons burthen. The whole tonnage of the yort of New York is about 900,000 tons. From the Ist of January, 1851, to the Ist of Jannary, 1852, the number of vessels which entered this port was 3,888, of which 2,38] wore American, of the aggre- gate burthen of 2,381 tons. The number of pas- sengers brought in these vessels, from foreign ports, was 299,051. The daily arrivals at the port of New York nearly double those at any other port in the Union, or, indeed, in the world, exeopting, probably, Liverpool and London. The discovery of the auriferous region in Cali- fornia has done much to increase the commercial marine of the United States. Some few years back, an arrival from the Pacific at an Atlantic port, was quite an event—the number of American vessels in that trade being extremely limited. But now, that ocean is crowded with vessels bearing the flag of the Union—vessels, too, that in speed and beauty are unequalled. Owing to this sudden in- crease in that particular trade, the marine news from the Pacific has greatly increased in quantity and im- portance, and is eagerly read by commercial men ag foon as published in the celumns of our paper, upon the arrival of a California steamer. When these facts are duly coneidered, the value ofa correctly compiled marine department to a daily Dewepaper can be easily appreciated. But it is not only in a commercial view that its usefulnces is a0- knowledged by all who have occasion to refer to it for information—many an anxious heart has been relieved by imtelligence: thus obtained of a vermel long unhoard of, and whose fate had becu wrapt in doubt. A simple paragraph, of perhaps not more than a couple of lines, has probably informed a lonely wife or mother ofthe near approach of'a cherished husband or son, whose long absence had filled their minds with thoughts of shipwreck and death, and raised them at once from the depth of misery and despair. The interest taken in this department could aot be better shown than by a perusal of the many letters we are continually receiving from all parts of the country, imploring information of the whereabouts of some missing vessel. Some of these letters aro touchingly simple, and betray in every line the anxiety of the writers. Some of them are from emigrants away out in Michi- gan, concerning rolatives whom their improved circumstances in this country have enabled them to send for, to unite with them in their new homes; another, from a parent wishing news of a sailor son, era wifoof her husband. A vessel, when sailing from New York, is duly recorded in our columna and icaves behind some fifty or sixty persons in- terested in her safety, eomprising owners, consignees, and relatives and friends of the captain and crew. To such persons, until the return of the vessel to port, the marine records published in the daily HERALD possess unbounded interest; and when we reflect that from this port alone some 4,000 vessels, with thirty to forty thousand souls on board, an- nually depart for all quarters of the world, an ides of its usefulness and vital importance may be ga- thered. Tho intelligence contained under the ma- rine head has often been the precursor of the fall of many a proud merchant, whore prosperity and ability to fulfil all his ongagoments had never, till that mo- | ment, been doubted. Through that medium he first | bears (hat a valuable cargo—the stay upon which he depended for stemming the torrent of some unlucky | speculation—has been swallowed up by the wares, the loss of which has made him a ruined man. When the amount of capital invested in shipping, the number of men employed in navigation, and the consequent interest taken insuch matters by a large class of our citizens, aro taken into consideration, the importance to the public of an accurate and fall aily record of marine matters cannot be too highly valued. Forthis reason it has always been our aim o make this department of the New York Heranp worthy of the extensive interest it represents. We | Lave the sutisfaction of knowing that our exertions have been successful, from the fact that the Heranp is preferred above all the other city journals, for in- | formation upon this subject, by merchants and others interested in marine matters. By meane of extensive correspondonce from all quarters of the | world, we are enabled to give fuller and more relia- regeneration of his own nation, or has failed in the | bl¢ information upon these matters, than any of our attempt to set it free, Over the deep Fly, and one current to the ocean add, One spirit to the souls our fathers had, One freeman more, America, to thee. Taking refage under the sheltering wings of our eagle, and with the light of happier stars shed around their path, they become useful citizens, and | contribute, by their heads or hands, to build up the home. Tue Marxe Law ann tur Inpran Curers.—A humbug memorial has been got up to the Albany Legislature, purporting to come from two Indian | avalanche, chiefs, signing themselves David Hill and David | Smith, and sixty-one more, of the Onondaga tribo, in favor of the Maine Liquor law. The document | do: bears on the face of it the evidence of forgory, and is too poor a thing, in point of langunge or style, to emanate from the Indians. imitation of the simple eloquence of the red men; but every one who knows anything about tho native | children of the forest, can detect the cheat. Let tho Holy Alliance try their hand again. They may suc- ceed better next time. Oxp Wixe.—An old eubseriber of the Henan, ia the Third ward, who had kept his files for ten years | back, sold them yesterday for $110—cash down. | This is abont 35 per eont prefit en the original oost. + emi | by fre Thore is a miserable | | (even Bpanish, ono ¥ | contemporaries, and our means of retaining our pre- uce in this department are boing daily increased. 6h additions. The character the New York HERA has fairly | earned for this department of the paper, it will be | our endeavor to increase by every addition that can ; add to its importance and usefulness. City Politics. ‘The Old Men's Whig General Committee met last eve- ight bli i ae | ning at the Broadway House, ‘There was no shin mighty republic’ which gives them freedom anda)! s+ cay. are, Maxwell, (he! Collecter'of the pect. kor ped | other exciting topic. There was in fact nothing done---all the business transacted being of « routine charaeter---if, | wemay except “laying of pipe” for the eleetion, The news of the Connecticut election came upon them like an THe: Srrascenie Pros aptain 1} y afternoon, from Savannah” We teow ‘mons ant Loner by the purser, Dir, Culver, with late Savannah *, iv Srsamtsiiie Uxton, Capt, Adame, arrived y ti Charleston. We are indebted to the purser, Me for papers in udvanee of the mail, wing Ataca.—The following is ‘an liter fiem the American Consal at Malaga Cokin trivad in Washington, dated the first lt.:—"A tremendous Kole of wind was experienced here on the 6th inst. ine vewela wore blow shore within the barbor an ; arrived during’ the storm, aud won” Pe Americon vecrels in port, “Reporte from Gibraltar sa; that forty'veels went ashore, and that a groat frunaber ewreeked between this and the rock. & souiier ar. from tho tastward this morning. counted fourteen Ix on shore between this and Carthagana, ‘The rm Was Very violent from the southeast, ) doubt will bear of many dismters) a ae viv ¥ tr