The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1852, Page 4

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BOWFRY Perron cHRisT Onaisty' WOOD'S MINSTR! way—Ermorian Minera SOCIETY LIBRARY—Necro Minsraxusy sy THe New Orixans TRovrs. Wew York, Snturday, April 17, 1852. AMPDITHEATRE, Dewery—Equesraiax OES. "S OPERA HOUSE—Neamo MixstRensy ny COMPANY. Musical Hall, 444 Broad- The News. By the arrival of the Sierra Nevada, one of the | wteamers of an independent line by the Panama route, we have three days’ later intelligence from California. The mails, however, are still behind- hand, although two steamers have arrived since they were brought to the Isthmus. It appears | that the agent is under rigid instructions | to put the United States mails in those steamcrs only which touch at Havana—whereas, | by a proper discretion to the Isthmus agent, the mails to New York would, as he showed, be put in the mail steamers, whether they touch at Havana or not, and especially in those steamers direct to | this port. wise head to this problem, and endeavor to study out? The genoral tone of the news is good and highly encouraging for extraordinary crops of gold, and everything else in California, this season. The friends of David C. Broderick will be charmed to learn that he has fought a duel with a re- volver against a revolver, and was saved by his watch, which was shattered to pieces. So much for a good time-keeper. We refer our readers to the news elsewhere, in this paper, for their more general and particular information. Additionally to the California news, by the Sierra Nevada, we have received very late advices from Jawaica, Galagapos Islands, Peru, Ecuador, and New Granada. The accounts from Galapagos Islands inform us of the seizure of the American whale ship George Howland, by the Ecuadorean convicts. After setting the officers and crew on shore, and murdering the Governor of the islands, the villains set sail for Tombez. On the way, they captured a small schooner, filled with men, who were going to join the Flores expedition. They cut the throats of twen- ty-three of these expeditionists, in hepe of making atonement to the government for their former mis- deeds. The murderers were eventually captured and carried to Guayaquil. According to the advices from Ecuador, the invad- ang force under Flores had not landed, but was hovering around the coast. It was an extensive affair of the kind, and will probably succeed, unless the Swedish frigate, stationed at Guayaquil, aids the Ecuadorean government. The force at that point is too weak to cope with that of Flores; and judging from the unsuecessful effort to hit the English steamer Lima, he is safe from the eannon balls of the government forts. It is expected that if Flores fails, there will bea war between Peru and Ecuador, in consequence of the assistance which the former afforded the invaders. New Granada and Jamaica are quiet. The Con- gress of the former was in session. The eugar crops of the latterarere not very good. Congress is in a perfect etew. The proceedings, yesterday, on the public printing, in both houses, disclose a vast amount of rascality and corruption somewhere. Nothing is so exciting, in either house, as a question of public plunder. Start it, and on all sides they bristle up, and snap and sput- | ter like cate and dogs. In the House the debate was Will the Postmaster General turn his | | have, with few exceptions, been the reverse ofall | that appertains to wise, deliberate, and courteous discussion. The tone and demeanor of several members were mere in accordance with the conduct ‘of frequenters «¥ bear baits, than that of men who had been selected for their euperior knowledge and extraordinary talent towtevise laws for the govern- ment of their follow citizers. However, there were, happily, some gentlemen among them, whose con- ciliatery course tended to somewhat redeem the wild antics of their injudicious associates. Upon the whole, it would have ‘been far more to the credit of the people of the State, if this Legislature had never ‘been convened, for too many of the members have irretrievably disgraced themselves and their con- stituents. A portion of the acts of the session will be found on the inside of this sheet. For the pro- ceedings yesterday, the reader is referred to the telegraphic columns. Both houses appear to have been engaged in endeavoring to complete the Ap- propriation bill. The bill for the abolishment of all military duties, except in case of war, finally passed. The resolutions of the Virginia Whig Convention are all that could be desired by the friends of the Union. They endorse the compromise, out and out. They will not willingly submit to the repeal of any of those mengures, and the principles of the man who receives their vote for the Presidency must be known on this important question. They prefer Mr. Fillmore to all others, highly eulogise his past conduct, and earnestly recommend his claims to the consideration of the nominating convention. So far as heard from, Scott delegates have been appointed to represent Ohio in the whig convention. A despatoh from New Orleans announces that a bloody fight recently took place near Havana, be- tween some English and American sailors, in which several were killed. The Cherokee, now fully due, | will probably bring the full particulars. In the Board of Aldermen, yesterday evening, the report of the Committee on Public Health, con- curring with the Board of Assistant Aldermen to give the contract of removing dead animals, butchers’ offal, &e., from the city, to W. B. Reynolds, for the sum of thirty thousand dollars, was adopted, after some discussion on a point of reference. Also, the report to pay ten thousand dollars to James Pollock, for constructing a sewer in Tenth avenue, was con- firmed, notwithstanding the veto of his Honor the Mayor. In the Board of Assistant Aldermen, last evening, the special committee on ‘‘Potter’s Field” reported in favor of purchasing a site on Ward’s Island, con- taining 69 acres, at $1,500 per acre, as a burial ground, to be designated the City Cemetery. The | consideration of the report was made a special order | for Monday, previous to which, a resolution was adopted to convey the piece of ground, containing ten acres, and formerly attached to the House of Refuge, on that island, to the Governors of the Alms House for the same purpose, and to be similarly de- signated. Much important matter, to which we have neither time nor room to refer, will be found in our columns this morning. The numerous telegraphic despatches are particularly interesting. | | The Late Whig Caucus—The two Old Par ties and the Compromises—Signs of the Times. The late Congressional Whig Caucus at Wash- | ington was intended to be a purely confidential and private affair. The official report of its proceed- ings, in the Washington organs, was evidently de- signed to stifle public curiosity, and to quiet public suspicion as to the matter which detained the cau- cus in session from seven till eleven o'clock at night. The efforts of this journal, however, to bring that matter to the light, have been signally successful. The great iseue pending in the caucus, and the obstacle to its action, it is now abundantly admitted, was a direct issue upon the slavery ques- tion between the Northern and Southern whigs. It was an issue between principles and expediency— between consistency and security on the one hand, | and mere time-serving availability on the other. | Enough, too, hag been disclosed to satisfy us that in the caucus on Tuesday night next, the Southern compromise whigs will be driven to the wall by Seward and his Northern and Southern allies. Mr. Senator Mangum, chairman of the late cau- cus, no doubt impelled by the discussion of its pro- ceedings in this and other public journals, hasthought it proper to define his position on the Presidential question, publicly and without reserve. As we ex- pected, his personal explanation is frank, flat-footed, and without ambiguity orcircumlocution. He is for General Scott, because he is the most available whig candidate. He is for General Scott, just as he stands, because his very questionable attitude upon the Fugitive law may render him acceptable to its most virulent enemies, while in the South no posi- tive accusation of his personal hostility can be brought against him. In brief, Mr. Mangum is for | availability first, and for principles afterwards. | He is still willing, notwithstanding the disastrous particularly spicy and spasmodic. And in the se- quel we are furnished with one of those extraordinary illustrations in which public justice is subserved bya combination of the disturbers of the pubiic peace. Here we have a coalition among the old fogics o} both parties, to divide the plunder of the public printing~-about a hundred thousand dollars each per annum, of Galphin money—between the two favorite otbodox party organs in Washington. It was to be given to them as their share of the Compremise meaeures, and for the party job work of hireling pamphletcers in the Presidential ‘eampaign. But, thanks to the pestilent free soilers and the fire-easing secessionists, they stood side by #ide, like the English and Trish at the battle of Waterloo ; and “la garde rwule!""—the day ie won by the free soil and secession all: Venable and Giddings are marters of the feld; and Polk and Gorman and the gormandizers.sre in full flight. This isa good bheginning—gnuc the combination ef the Northern fanatice and Southern scceders is for once 2 good thing. For once they are on the right side of the queation, and have the old fogies | uron the hip. “We have whipped you,” says Ven- | able, “three timer, ard can whip you again.” | Good. Let them etick to.an honest division of the | plunder all round, or none.at all. Giddings is look- ing up, and Venzble is a host in himself. | But the fun of the scene in Congrese is eclipsed | by the hazmonious love fens laet evening of the whigs of New York, at the Broadway Heuse. It took the shine off the most beautiful shindies of Tammany Hall. Rynders and Mike Walsh would have joined the whig perty instanter, had they been present, forte priviloge of mixing in. It scomsthat the Fillmore whigs had been forewarned of tieexap | judgment intended by the Scott men; ami ¢o | they went up cocked and primed, apd after the long rigmarole of Governor Jones, they put in for the first fire. Our reporter's report telle the rost of the story. The Webster men, it seeme, kept | aloof from the méleé, having in roserve, like Captain Tyler, a little convention of their own. Perhaps Beott will he nominated even there. No telling. But what a splendid exemplifieation it is of the | Practical working of our free institutions, that even | | eubstance of the public plunder of fifty millions a i or will he resist all efforts of the agitators to disturb it, | precedents of Harrison and Taylor, to take his can- | didate upon trust, and trust toluck. He is opposed | to agitation ; he despises Seward and his incendiary | allies. He is in favor of peace and harmony between | the two sections, but above all, he is in favor of | first securing the spoils. | With the sagacity of natural instinct, Mr. Man- | gum opposed and fought haad to hand the abolition | demagogues of the Senate through all the fiery and | protracted battles upon the compromises and the | constitution ; but now he is willing to harmonize | and fraternize with Seward, Weed, Thaddeus Ste- | vens, Horace Mann, and, if necessary, Lloyd | Garrison, Abby Kelly Foster, and Fred Douglass, so that General Scott is elected and tho spoils are | secured. What hostile elemente—what a mot- | ley crew of diverse stripes and colors, can thus | be drawn together in the bonds of brotherly | affection by the “‘cohesive power of the pub- | lic plunder !” Mr. Mangum, is, however, a prac- ‘ical.man. He does not enter the Preaiden- | tial fight upon abetractions. They are visionery things. To Ge sure, the constitution is but a string of ebetractions—the rights of the Statee are only abstractions—tie sovereignty of the people is an abstraction; but what are they, compared with the year? The plan of the campaign, therefore, as iaid down by Mr..Wangum, will doubtless be the plan of the whig party—a gunpowder candidate, and the platform of the spoils. Thus, we presume, will read the whig catechian :— Question—What isthe ¢pinion of General Beott upon i va eh coe iy see a nswer—Look at the batties of Quee! and Lundy's Lane Se Q—Ishe in faxor of that isw as a binding compact between the North and South, strictly constitutional and proper? A.—The siege of Vera Crus wae one of the most splen- did military achievements of modern times, Q.—Willhe, if elected President, co-operate with Sew- ard and his ailies for the repeal of the Pugitive iaw, and stand fort in its vindication like Fillmore and Webster ? A.—The vietoriesof Cortez were eclipeed by the tri- mophs of Churubuseo, Contreras and Chapultepec; sud whatever may be the political opinions of General & man who was offered the dictatorship of Mexico a1 theiree gift of a million of dollars, and becowe a traitor, can be trusted in guy! id ot refused to &@ party row contributes to the developement of con- stitutional principles H Both branches of our State Legislature are eup- Posed to have finally adjourned some time this | morning, but they are not positively known to e done 0, for fortunately for those of our readers who desire to have their paper early, the wires gave out and deprived us of the closing proceedings. On re viewing the business of the sevsion, mach more will be found to regret than approve. To be sure, nany bills of a wholesome character have been passed ;— still, the grain has not been winnowed from the chaff. Our legislators, in too many instances, lomt sight of their legitimate dutics—were wholly carriea away by party cxcitement, and gave their assent lo @ reat number of measures, which cool, plain, com- mon sense would have told them were decidedly wrong. The general debates, scenes, aud incidents Ané thus endeth the'first lesson of onr morning | exerciser in the whig catechism for 1852. It is the | toket of availability, and the platform of the spoils. In eonvertion with this movement of the whig caucus, a waxl is due to Mr. Senator Dawson, of Georgia. He, 100, has defined his position. He was not present @ the caucus, does not coneur in the views and policy of Mr. Mangum, but distinctly testifies to his faith in, ond adhesion to, the platform of the Georgia Union party, and nis determination to have an explicit and ywaquivocal endorsement by | the whig candidate, of the @nality of the compro- mi This is good, This is clear. Thie if the bavis of a fair understandftg, and of a sure nearures, claim no other conservative principl¢s than the seven fundamental principles of Johp. Randolph—the five Joaves and the two fishes. The democratic party do not promise anything better. They, too, are spreading their neta to make the very largest possible haul, and every- thing is fich that will come in. In their na- tional convention at Baltimore, they will certainly re-hush the écld victuals of "44 and 48, and the hard orssts of the bran bread resolutions of °98 and "99; but we expect nothing more—nothing better. And thus, the epoch of 52, with all its tremertious responsibilties, and its vast and impesing | realities of mighty principles in active agitation, promises nothing of advancement---nothing of pro- grese—nothing of principle—nothing of peace or se- curity to the Union—nothing in the choice of a new administration for this great republic and its on- ward destiny—nothing between the two old parties but a pitiful, contemptible squabble for the spoils. There is yet hid under this decrepitude and demo- ralization of the two old parties, the elements of a better state of things. The great cardinal measures of the whig party have been decisively rejected by the American people. They are done for. Tho substantial policy of the democrats has been estab- lished as the practical policy of the government. They, too, are done for. There is no longer any controversy about a national bank; nor is there any longer an organized opposition to the sub-treasury. There is still a feeble effort in certain quarters to re-establish a high protective tariff, but it amounts to nothing. Nor is there any prospect of a distributien of the proceeds of the public landsamong all the States, as long as there are speculating railroad stock jobbers inthe West, cla- morous for thousands of square miles; for the de- mands of Buncombe are paramount with both par- ties. But still, in the North and in the South there are elements, not only of demoralization and utter imbecility in both parties, but of change and re- generation, pointing distinctly to new parties, on new principles, with new men. The po- pular mind is elastic, progressive, and practi- cal; and as the two old parties decline into dotage, new parties, upon new issues, and under new leaders, will supersede them. Nor should we be surprised, after the battle is formally joined by the whigs and demecrats, upon their rot- ten and rickety platforms of *44.and °48, to see the organization of some new party by the North or in the South--or in both—cutting up the rank and file of both the old parties, and scattering the cal- culations of old fogydom to the winds. A substan- tial nucleus for a Union party already exists; the materials for such an organization are abundant, and it needs only a little independence, and a little pluck, to put forward an independent Union ticket, which will be amply sufficient to carry the election up to the House of Representatives, and thus give the death-blow to the two old fogy parties of the present day, who are in the last stage of decropti- tude and age. In that contingency, the game of fraternizing with Northern abolitionists for the spoils would be utterly demoliched. The first step towards the solution of the problem rests with the Southern Union men in the Whig Congressional Caucus of Tuesday next. Let them be firm. Boston Preparations To RecerveE KossutH.— The Boston authorities, both legislative and muni- cipal, seem to have suddenly waked up to the neces- sity ofmaking vast preparations for giving a magni- ficent reception to ex-Governor Kossuth, in the be- ginning of next wee . Both the Legislature of the State and the government of the city are engaged in these preparations; and a committee has been insti- tuted to wait on Kossuth, in this city, next Monday, and escort him through New England to the city of Boston, where he is to be astonished, as he never has been astonished Before in this country. Boston is a singular city; but not more se than Philadelphia. Botti these cities are, in some sense, outposts or suburbs of this metropolis. Whatever we doin Now York, must be outdone in Philadel- phia and Boston. When Kossuth first arrived here, his mission and his measures—intervention, material aid, and all—were scouted at by the Boston and Phi. ladelphia journalists almost universally. But when they saw whata splendid holiday we had made out of Kossuth—how elegantly he had humbugged us and we had humbugged him—straightway both these cities were determined to outstrip us. One of them has just finished the first act, and now Boston is to complete the second. Boston and Philadelphia are certainly funny-- very funny cities. It is not of any consequence what may be the hubbub, the mania, the humbug, or the fuss that we get up in New York about any Euro- pean or modern celebrity—they always beat us in Boston and Philadelphia. Look at the careor of the Right Honorable Lola Montes, the Countess of Landsfeld, and wonder. Out of pure pity, jocular compassien, we gave her a 80-80 reception inthis city; and although as an artiste she is but a fourth or fifth rate—and hardly that, as she cannot dance at all—yet we put her forward with our thumb on our noses, and we praised her pretty eyes, and her modo of dancing, which was no dancing at all. Straight- way in Boston, when the Countess visits them, they take her up, give hor first rate notices in the news- papers, trot her round to see all the curious sights in Boston—the publie schools, grammar schools, young ladies’ schools, and ending with the House of Correction—the latter a very natural place for her to examine, we admit. They make her a theatrical, a literary, and almost a police celebrity, and before they have done with the business, we should not be surprised to cee Signor Parsons, the gasman, get a requisition from the Governor of Massachusetts upon the Governor of New York, for the arrest of her la- dyship, for pulling the nose of the said gasman, Signor Parsons, and frightening the poor man out of his seven senses. It is much the same with Phila- delphia. Whatever foolery we commit in New York, out of the abundance of our drollery, Philadelphia and Boston must beat us, outstrip us, outfool us, out- humbug us—and all out of the abundance of their rivalry and genius for imitation. We give it up. Wehave no doubt that Boston and New England will far outstrip us in their re- ception of Kossuth, as they did inthe splendid re- ception which they gave to Lola Montes. But will ¢hey put money in his purse? He wants fifty ora hundred thousand dollars financial aid from Boston, andhe will give them in exchange his valuable Hnngarian bonds, payable with compound interest, on ¢he third day after the day of judgment—at which period Hungary will be a republic. Will they not purchase these valuable securities, and fill bis coffers 1—for that is what he wants. Have they any secon@hand muskets or saddles on hand? ,That swould be material aid. Seriously, however, al- though the Senate of the Massachusetts Legislature hae passedl some resolutions for the reception of Kossuth, and put forth an expression of sym- pathy toward bis cause, yet some of the pross of Boston seem tobe quite cool on the subject; and al- though they will receive him hospitably and re- *pectfully, there will be no enthusiasm, nor will they be ‘“‘dragoomed into his measures,” as they call it, or tambugged by his Hungarian bonds. Several of the journsis there begin to speak very plainly about oertain portions of his conduct, both at Marssilles aval in tuis country, particularly towards Mr. Clay; but we cuppose these symptoms will be attributed by Secretary Pulszky to Aus- trian intrigue and infionoe—just as Lola Montes attributes the opposition that she may receive to the | Jesuits, who follow her ail over the world, marely to make the orchostras play out of time, and so put her out of her pirouettes. Oh! humbug! when wilt thou be done! | Marine Affairs, Lavncii—The pilot boat William Skiddy will be Jaunched nt 6 ’clock this morning, from the yard of Mr. Aaron J. Westervelt, foot of Houston street, Lion? House Wasnep AWAy.—The Lighthouse at the mouth of te Kalamazoo ri%¢r, Michigag, has leon and stable reorganization of the whig party. But We anticipate a decision in favor of Mrs Mangum’s policy and candi a the caucus of Tucsday next, and ybat the whig party, in the campoign, will pro- warhed from ite foundation Koseura an Ceav—Tus Dirricunry ssrwaen Tae 8ace OF A®HLAND AND THE ROMANCER OF Hunoary.—it appears that Kossuth, on his return to Washington, has been making some unsuccessful | attempts tosce Henry Clay, wishing, no doubt, to “explain” privately the insult he offered him publicly, and thus to avoid the necessity and the mortification of a public amende; but Henry Clay | isnot the man to be insulted with impunity; and Koesuth will find—if he has not already found—that | he has waked up the wrong customor. The case | stands thus:—During Kossuth’s first visit to Wash- ington, an interview took place between him and | Mr. Clay, in which the latter very strongly ex- | pressed his disapprobation of the intervention doc- trines of the Magyar dreamer, and his adherence to the sound policy of George Washington. The pro- ceedings of this interview being of great importance to the country, found their way into the news- papers. Kossuth was very indignant; and in a speech at Louisville, declared, in effect, that the proceedings were private, and that he who gave publicity to them was no gentleman. Now, it so happened that Mr. Clay corrected his own speech, and gave publicity to it by consenting to its inser- | tion inthe Washington Union, and it was so stated | in tle yaper. By inference, therefore, Kossuth pro- | nounced Henry Clay ‘‘no gentleman”—an insult which he has never since retracted, though he took the opportunity of recently adverting to the subject, ina speech at New Orleans. This was a most impudent and yersonal attack upon the greatest statesmen in the United States, and Mr. Clay would feel very small in his own esti- mation, a8 he would in the estimation of thejeountry, if he did not resent it till an ample apology was rendered. We should like to know upon what prin- ciple a political discussion between two public men, which so deeply affected the interests of this country, could be regarded as private, or how it was ungen- tlemanly on the part of Mr. Clay to take the neces- sary precaution that he should not be misrepresent- ed in the matter, by Kossuth or hisagents. Accord- ing to Kossuth himself, there can be nothing secret, and at the same time honest, in political or interna- tional matters. He has designated the secrecy of diplomacy as the curse of nations, and boasted that he would hold no private communication with Lord Palmerston, when he was in England, though invited by the British Secretary of Foreign Affairs to do so. This, therefore, is only another of the in- consistencies of Kossuth, to accuse Mr. Clay of ungentlemanly conduct in giving publicity to his own speech upon a great public question. An honest man, with a sound cause, has nothing to fear by the publication of his own sentiments, or of those uttered against him. Themore publicity tho better for him; and Kossuth only betrays his own weakness by complaining of the proceedings of the interview between him and the Senator of Kentucky seeing the light of day. Vain, conceited, and inflated with an idea of his own importance, he seems to imagine that Mr. Clay, and every man, woman, and child in the United States, should bow down to and worship him, as the self-constituted autocrat of all public opinion in the New World or the Old, regarding all independent expression of sentiment as rank heresy, not to be tolerated or endured. Such is the modesty of a penniless exile, who at this moment has no more status than our printer’s devil, here or anywhere under the wide canopy of heaven. Curious Lreistarive Reroxt—Biack Main Lgvies ON THE Banks.—We give, elsewhere, the evidence contained in the report made the othor day in the Legislature, showing the conduct of tho State government and the banks, in relation to the charges which have been recently made of black mail levies made upon these institutions, in the West, for procuring the canal deposits. These dis- closures possess, on a small scale, the same general character which was so magnificently developed in the canal lettings. The money paid by the banks to political partisans for seeuring canal de- posits, is, however, but a very small affuir—a mere miniature business—compared with the recent gi- gantic operations growing out of the unconstitution- ality of the Canal law, and the corrupt and unjust lettings and contracts perpetrated under that law by the authorities of the State. We much fear that as this country is growing more rich and populous, it is growing more corrupt and more rascally every day, particularly in all the avenues of public offiees and government. Nothing can prevent this republic, in all ite parts, from be- coming one of the richest countries in the world. And we believe that nothing oan save the character of our politicians, and the State and general govern- ments from sinking into the meanest and most despicable system of corruption that ever disgraced any government on the face of the earth. Only look at the scramble for the spoils, in Congress, at Washington, or in any Legislature of the Union. Allarealike. Men engaged in the other prosperous pursuits of life, who conduct their business well, ac- quire wealth rapidly, and become rich. Politicians imagine they have a right to get rich, too; but, as there is no other way for them to increase their wealth than by robbing and plundering the treasury, they have taken to that plan on a most magnificent scale, and seem to be surpassing the example of the whole world. Tue Hicn Price or Provisions.—The price of provisions is enormously high for this season of the year, and must seriously affect a large olass of the poor and the working population, especially those who have large and helpless families to support. The following are samples of the prices in our mar- ket :— ‘Beef, 15 cents per pound. Ham, 14 eu Butter, 30 cents do. Potatoes, 9 shillings per bushel. Onions, 6 shillings do. Turnips, 3 to 4 shillings do. Bhad, 3 shillings apiece. No doubt the obstruction of communication from the West by a long, hard winter, protracted into spring, and other eauses, which always force the price of provisions to go up, account, in part, for these high prices, but not altogether. They aroreally exorbitant, being twenty or thirty per cent higher than in Philadolphia, and other localities equi-dis- ant from New York. The result is, groat injury to the city, driving away some of the most industrious and useful of our population, who cannot bear up against such prices. It is to be hoped that a know- ledge of the fact will bring such a supply from Penn- sylvania and other quarters as to speedily reduce tho present prices to their proper level. Those who take the trouble of sending promptly the articles we have mentioned to this market, will be amply re- munorated. Rocneeren Knocxinos in New Yoru.—We un- derstand that some of the spirit-rappors, or knock- ers, who firet made their appoarance at Rochoster in this State, have taken up their residence some- where in the neighborhood of the Fifth Avenue in this city, and are coining moncy at the rato ofa hundred dollare a day, by receiving visiters and al- lowing them to communicate with the spirit world. The lady in question finds spirit knocking more oa- pablo of knocking up customers and making moncy, than a California mine. This new developement seems to be making progress in all ranks through- out the country. One or moro of the learned judges of this metropolis have, it seems, beon giving lee- tures on the spirit seionce in Connecticut, and forming magical circles jn some country towns in thia State, for the purpose of conversing with all the spirite of the dead men mado perfect, from Solomon and So states down to Tom Paine and Fourrior. How long will this business last? Wo live fast in this eoun- try. We use up o mania, or a humbug, in #ix months. In former times, and in other countries, humbugs weed to last half a century, and some of them a whole century. Trg Suveravce °F THINGH Nor seEN.—RrOoklyn pump mY eee ‘Tae Mare Liquor Law Fanaricisa—How 1 ‘Worxs in New Jarsey.—It will be seen by reference to the letter of a correspondent, which we publish in another part of this day’s paper, that the Maine Liquor law and the Holy Alliance fanatics have set the people of New Jersey by the cars, in various sections of that State—the son against the father, and the father against, the son—the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother. | It has entered even into the contests for town officers, and embroiled whole neighborhoods and | families, and caused the most bitter animosity, as every euch absurd attempt to interfere with the per- sonal liberty of man has done, from the beginning of the world till the present time; and the result will be just what might be expected by every student of « philosophy teaching by example.” This movement may be very successful in stirring up the bad passions of men and women, and sowing the seeds of hate and discord and strife; but, like every blue law enacted from the time of Draco, or every attempt to coerce the conscience and the free- dom of man in every age, it will utterly fail in ac- complishing the objects which it professes, and will very soon be consigned to ‘the tomb of the Capu- lets”—to ke followed, no doubt, by another ism which, after “ fretting its busy hour upon the stage,” will pass to the same oblivion, and so on “till crack of doom.” Theso various movements and isms are like that class of insects called ephemera, which are brought into existence by the heat of the sun, from the stagnant, putrid ponds, fluttering in tho beams of the luminary of the world for a single day, and perishing as the chill of night comes on, to be suc- ceeded by another swarm next day, equally short- lived and equally evanescent. They are not basod upon the broad foundations of humanity—are not suited to the wants, desires and passions of the great mass of the people—and therefore they can never be permanent. They are always the offspring of ‘a mind diseased,” and are only embraced by weak brains of small calibre, or by knaves and schemers who do not believe in them, but turn them to account for some temporary selfish purpose of avarice, profligacy or ambition. Meantime, these ephemeral buzzing creatures, resulting from the surshine of our prosperity, produce some annoy- ance, while at the same time they afford ‘‘infinite mirth” to the calm, good-humored student of human nature, who, like the laughing philosopher Democri- tus, always looks at the bright side of the picture, and finds hilarity in trees, pleasure in the running brooks, amusement in stones, laughter in the white coat and dirty boots of a Fourrierite philosopher, and good in everythin; Wuia DEvELOPEMENTS IN THE SouTH.—Every whig developement south of the Potomac seems to point to the support and nomination of Mr. Fillmore as the whig candidate for the next Presidency. The Southern whigs, with the exception of a few old fogies in Congress, appear determined to stick to Fillmore and the compromise; and perhaps they mean, if they cannot get Fillmore nominated, to settle down on Webster, in opposition to General Scott. Well, Scott and Webster, the two great whig can- didates, are wonderful men in their way. Scott is the great military genius—very honest, with some administrative talent, but very soft in many things. Webster is the great oratorical or legal genius—has little moral courage, and much selfishness, with Spring Style of Hats and Caps, as uty, durability, or cheapness, one price store, rh No. 128 Canal street. jats.—Economy, tant points can only be combit ab au street, where for $3 50 oan be pur- superior to the $4 or $5 hats of Th AN'S ¢ ‘a bat altoge Broadway. A sagacio' any atratecem, ¢: public cannot be ¢ ly by one that would n hem pay. erior article, to any vender who gives rt tickets, But the triek don’t thrives gentlemen of in are not to be gulled into paying or a hat, when one superior in every rompect ean be obtained, for $3 /0 Lystepjing in at Espenscheid’s, 107 Nassau street, corner of Ann. large sums for ¢ More of the Same Sort.—Notwithstanding the great rush at the store of the Hat Finishers’ Union dus ring the last week. Hate of their elegant Spring Sty! they would sy ‘ plenished. P Park Row, oppo $i and $4, Hat Finishers’ U: ¢ Astor House. White & Fieming, 49 Chatham street, have reduced the price uf therr 8 Moleskin Hates t> $3,00, including a neat hat case; which will excel im style. an beauty of finish, any Broadway hat, Give them a trial. Citizens and strangers buying hats of the New Hat Company, whether judges of the article r_not, are sure of getting as fine and as fashionable a hat in all ro= spocts, as any ro w York for $4, ‘They have bnt one quality and one price ($3) only. Nos. 146 und 148 Nassau. street, (Tract Buildings). Gentlemen’s Hats, §$3.—Moleskin Hats, Spring fashion, ef brilliant jet black color, beantiful in de- sign and el 1y made, 28 per cent cheaper than Broadway: prices. Sold at’ BA 8, No. 106 Canal street. The jargest assortment of Caps and children’s Hats to be found in any store in this city. New and beautiful patterns. Spring Fashion: P. David, 301 Broad= way, near Duaue etre o furnish his beautiful epring style o VID'S spring style of hat is admitt to be far the most clegant he has et introduce blie. Give him a eail and try one, They are really a superb article, Men that are acknowledged to be shrewd business m Hote made by A. FR MAN, 90 Fultom street. Thi {i cilities for manu- facturing lése es him to sell a st~ perior hat for less thai inferior article. Superb Hats, Manufactured expressly for the Fashionable World.--Knox has ® most splendid assort- ment of Spring Hats, to which we would direct the attention © all who wonld | the fashion.” Visit him at No. 128 Fulton street, ever regret the outlay of $4, tle standard 7 Genin has akeen appreciation of substan= tial compliment, and the incessant demand for his spring atyle for 152, which is one of the “features” of the return- ing sunshine, iv 2 substantial com pli tasteful economiste who come to investments of four dollars each in GENIN hats, are always weleome. So are the ladies, for whose inspection his epr ing styles of riding hats, children’s fancy hate. &¢., &c., from Paris and after his own devizns. are now ready. GENIN, No, 214 Broadway, opposite St. Paul's, Delegations of Advice to Citizens and Strangers.—Time and Money Wasted !—We have daily to take an incredible number of good Daguereotypes for persons who have wasted their mor ey in paying fifty cents, or one dollar, for. miser- sble pictures. No good artist can do oither his sitter or himself justice at such prices. MEADE BROTHERS, Ame- rican Gallery, 283 Broadway, next Ameriean Hotel. Fine Arts.—Daguerreotypes in Oll.{This beautiful art, combining, as it does, the detail of the dagner- reotype, with the finish’ of the finest miniature paintin Mr. BUTLER, Proprictor of the Plum! enables him to copy portraits, miniatur and daguerreotypes, making @ perfect, beautiful, and i perishable pictit Nature is ever Changing, and Time ts ever marring the bivoin of beauty and of pride; but art has the power to arrest, in a great degree, these efforts of de~ struction. Youhave a child, or a friend, whom you dearly love; or you have a mother, or a wife, who loves you; then 4 of them, orof your= , and leave no pt regret,“ KOOT: of 343. Broadway, bas been awarded eleven gold and silver Medals for his superior Daguerrectypes, fair vex of Brooklyn visited HOLMES’ Gallery yos terd to get their Daguerreotypes, which were taken in the beau ful New York style, Feople ont of the city know well th the best pictures in the world are made at No, 289 Bro: way. To Railroad Conductors dl others, who are striving to procure for themselves correct time keepers. —The undersigned lias just received a fine acsortment of those celebrated watches made hy T. F. Coo) different sizes, and cased in gold and silver east little administrative talent, but great power in the developement of principles for others to apply. More Aztec Hum®va.—A New Orleans paper publishes a long yarn about a very singular manu- script which has been discovered in Central America, in relation to the Aztecs of that region. There is little doubt that this extraordinary volume was pro- cured in that wonderful central city by the same travellers who escaped with the two Aztec humbugs now exhibiting here in the North. The story of the New Orleans paper looks precisely as belonging to the same piece of manufacture with the pamphlet published in this city, and written by a well known ingenious man, who has been hoaxing the public from the “Story of the Moon” down to the last re- ception of Kossuth. This hoax may do very woll for advertisements, and may succeed in blinding the gaping people of Europe, when the wonders arrive on the other side of the Atlantic. Fuss anovr a Capet APPorntmMeNT.—A great fuss is made in some of the party papers about the appointment of a nephew of Com. Stockton to West Point, in place of a son of Senator Miller, of New Jersey. If young Bayard had been a poor boy, not connected with a great politician, he never would have received any appointment as cadet in West Point, or anywhere else under the government. All these appointments are too much under the infu- ence of favoritism. EE Mails for Burope. THE NEW YORK WERKLY HERALD. The American mail steamship Atlantic, Captain West, will leave this port at noon, to-day, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will clove at a quarter before eleven o’elock this morning. The New York Weeniy Heraco, printed in French and English, will be published at hatf- past nine o'clock. Single copies, in wrappers, sixpence. Court Calendar—This Day. Surneme Covxt.—Special Term—Motion*. Cireult— Adjourned to Monday, mitep Status Disrnict Count.—Motions, Screnion Counr.—Motions and decisions, Common Pi.zas.—Part 1—Nos, 29, 361. 850, 365, 969, 971, 973, 78 S77, 86, 3, er. SOL, BND. 88D, BOT, Park 2 43 40 72, 474, 476, 478, 480, 484, 486," 488, Abo, aban? 1m ATH AT, 478, 480, 482, We call the attention ef our readers to Henry R. Costar's advertisement, in another column. Bayard’s Soups, Terrapin, Gravies, To-day, Green Turtie Sou Breet ed The following Soups made atter the bert mann, K Turtle, Ox Tail, atawny, &e., &e., mado to order. M. BAYARD, No. 8 State street, Sunday Excursions.—The steamer Thomas E. HULSE will, on regular trips to New! the new steamboat p o'clock A. M, ad for Yonkers and Haverstraw vertiser will at 634 o'slock P. M., The Lantern—Special Notice.—For the fu- turo, this popular and suecessfal periodical will be issued eats No. 16, (on Monday next,) will eontain Fun and Philosophy in proft abundance, «plendidly illusteaten All the topics of the day transmuted to gold, through tho erucible of Diogen ice 149 Fulton street, Price 6d, The Sunday Dispatch.—Read this week’ number, and especially “The Story of Agnes Fitzhenry,” heartrending revelation of elopement and its consoq: ert eironlation of the bined Sunday press. preper price for th tivers who are willing to vice, oan find & place in its oolummas, Lives lay publi , the Life and Adventures of 1 k Rann, Claw Neheated ride vo Fork, Prt ealebrated ride to York, '. THOMAS ORNSBY, Publisher, 102 Nassau street, A New Line of a permit for ing ry to Chatham streets up the ntreet, Bowery to Union Square, thence up Broadway to Twenty. third street, and re, Tenth avenne to the Tadson River | Rall at the foot of Thirty-rocond strost. The y,g0,into operation during the week. Th ‘and very handsomely otten itl he stock “of horse it ie nd anyentien 1¢ shortest Li a will Ay? run, commence’ Away with Bad Bread!—By sing Dar keo's Baking Powder, housewivos and cooks can always de- nd upon having light bisouit, pastry, &¢., and aitor a rial will never be without it. Try it, Ouly one shilling @ | of Celebrated Highwaymen.—This | not to besurgursed in their Hime and quality of finish by any other class of wateh at present in the market, and are bee lieved to be the best article ever imported. ARCHIBALD COCHRANE, 300 Greenwich etreet. The Best Segars.—Manuel Morales requests his friends and customers, as well as all ¢onsumers and good judges of Segars, to give him @ call at hi establichme: t, N 113 Nasean street. He ceived & new inv: from, brands of Segars ever smoked in 2 tely re- cing the best Professor Lovett will Remove, on the Ist of May, to 114 Chambers street, near Hudson, where he wi'l continue to cure Baldness, and restore grey hair to ita ori- ginal color, with his nsual success, ig reduced his price to country agents selling “ Wahpene,” for cash only. ‘We direct attention to Mr. Geo. Brodie’s Urought it to a pitch of perfection trully eurpri e visite Paris periodically, in order to select everything desira- dle in hisline, and having jnst returned from his finished tour," is now exhibiting an assortment of Mantillas, Cl &e., which have merely to be seen, even by the most diour, to be admired. We recommend our Indy re generally, as well as dealers, to give Mr. B. a call. G. B. Clarke, Tailor, 16 William street, has some very handsome single-breasted Frock Coates, from $10 to $13 lined with silk and finished be: ifully—made to order, came price. A very fine Full Dr Coat, $16; the finest $20, to order. All other garments le to order, and ready made at proportionate low pri To the Mercantile Community.<A great variety of well made, comfortable, and becoming office Coats, of all the different and spproved styles, can be obtained at choap rater at Union Tall, earner of Pulton and Naseau etrests. Merchants, © and others, who wish something peovliarly a selection. ould call and make The success of General Taylor's Head Quarters, No. 76 Fulton street, corner of Gold, as managed where he sells the cheapest clothing in city, has been paralleled only by the brilliant victories of General Taylor during the Mexican campaign. Commercial Bank, Perth Amboy.—E. EVANS, 70 and 72 Fulton street, who has been redeeming notes on this Bank at 25 percent discount, will stop doing #0 on the 15th inst. To Economise—Please the Eye and Deco- rate the Person—Purchace “one of them $5 Suite,” con- sisting of cloth Coat, carsimere Pants, and fancy Vert. Also, a large assortment of spring sacks and business $2 10 $8. Oud Fellows very style and , corner of Gra ity. fro Je gant and 16, our Spring 8, $65 p clothin K must. Vt consiste ofteock, dro silk, eatin, and cassimero Voste, $2; fancy cassimere Pants, gan tover Coats, $5. Corner of Nassan and Beckman streets. LEVI & REGAN, Beautiful rts Made to Order at $2 ench, by MCLAUGHLIN, corner of Chambers and Green- wich’ streets, who keeps on hand a I swortinent of all sizes of shirte—good na they are cheap. Shirts made to mea- } suro are to ft. Under Garments of all kinds, Suependers, Horiery, &e. This Is the Season when green garments, and priate to the limbs of | of trees, At GREE 1 by an unfailing rystem, the most perfoctly fitting shirts are made to order, and delivered with the utmost punctuality, It cannot be denicd.—Sewing reduced to. astime. Singer's Sewing Machine has established the fact exond ail contradiction, that sewing ean, and in future will, be done by machinery. A person, mule or female, with | one of these machines, can earn from $20 to $30 a week, and work only eight hours a day; this ean bo proved to the en- tire satisfaction of all who feel an interost in this wonder of the age. Machines in operation during the da; J.M. SINGER & C 208 Brondway. ‘Peterson in Carpet way, corner of Whi Great Bargains ahoupuney an ing purchased largely at the late large auoti dispore of me atthe following low pric ‘vets, 12s.; Tapestries, 9s ; Brus: Three-ply, | Ingrains, 4s. to 6s., and all oth eq! aig lowe Canal Strect Carpet time. If you want to make @ saving of f | oall at 70 Canal strect, E. A. PETERSON & CO's, | r will find good Ingrain Carpets, four shillings per yard, hree en shillings per yard, Tapestry Brurscle, eight to shillings per 150, & large and splondid of Tapostry Velve Great excitement! Tre ndous low pricest Good and handsome floor Oilel "2 b fa 6a. seand As. Re 7s. Carpet rium, Gopy the addrees The Crystal Palace Again!—Patent Tapes. try Ingrain and Patent Threo-ply Carpets, the same ns were exhihited » orld’s Fair, at HIRAM ANDERSON'S, 0 Howry. Also, English Tapestry Brussels, ry eon! jes, importod ex; York city trade. ‘hey wilite sold a a fa Glorious!—English Impe @arpe of glittering solors, elegant m: figures, only one dollar the yard, at 99 ANDERSO: ewert and most desirad! Offered in this market este by examining thi AMdavits Extraordinary.—S! tifie f patients cured of consum| the uso of Dr, Watts’ verbatim, as nearly as possible, to the de the patients themselves, and sworn to hy yofore me. Tanne | B. Bathehelor, Com missioner of Deeds, & Watts street, package. Long ind Land, best located for Coun- try rosidencor, and for farming and garden purposes, Now and splendid Locomotives are now running on the L,I. Rail- | road, aver the value of those iands, nd every day ii age Lots Vean now be had a Vinge Apply to € WAY, Oornor of et, Where maps, pamphlets, &o., ean be had Ladies’ Bloomer Dresses.—It is not true Miller, of Canal street, intends to open a" Fanc "for the sale of Bloomer Dresses. Cortaint eon find beactiful Gaiter Boots at 12s,, It iF pair, with mixaoe’ and children’ in great variety, at | te) iter Roots and Shoes | J.B. MILLEWS, Wd Canal et, — | Teas.—The best assortment of fine Teas nd at the store of the CANTON TEA COMPANY, tham street, between Pearl and Roosevelt, the Ablishment in the ety. We anaure our readers water, do hotter here than dlaewhero, eitheg at Wholer | *nle ox retail, They dave now no byaneh stores. | jn | ment that will epeedily and efeetually restore al cre has commeneed.—The , oaches, rate, and m tof execution done by 1; to exceed ton ry hack ‘This arivon from hin having pee Ros 1% over all former experience, down the price of each artiole to a quarter of a dollay member, that while Lyon’e preparations aro still worth the £14 price, although sold so low, the imitations a feits also retain their former value. Now, aa fort are worth leak than nothing. Road LYON'S inanife Lody of the paper, and then make your purcha At hie depot, 424 Broadway, At once, ‘Wonderful Discovery. rostored= spectacles and oar trum LUTENER, © Privee street, N. ¥ Sight and Heart n dispense: 1 has disenve: | apecion of blindness aud deafness to th no mi may k n oF hy . 9 RSORBY or Uy Netter: Cally, from 9 til 8, at his Tutirmary, P ‘ ‘