The New York Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1852, Page 4

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BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—-Danox Prrvias. he NIBLO'S GARDEN—Caranina—Le Draute a Qva- wx. ¢ AND BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers strect—Wno Srore yur Pocker Boox—Seriovs Fawuny—Maip or rue Movntaiw. TIONAL THEATRE, Chatham stroet—Crossing tie —CARBIER AND His Doo—Buacksmitu oy ANr- LYCEUM THEATRE. Broadway—Loaw or A Lovrn— A Maw Wirnovr A Mean -Tie Fain One with tur Gorpex Locks—M&R, Ann Mas Preven Wire, AMERICAN MUSEUM—A Bur ArreRNoon Axv Evenin G Penronmances 1n CHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE @nnisty’s Company, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Broad- way—Ernioriay MixsTuxtsy, eORO MINSTRELSY BY DOUBLE SHEET. New York, Friday, April 20, 1852. The News. The United States Senate yesterday adopted the resolution offered the other day by General Cass, ealling for information concerning the imprisonment ef Mr. Brace, an American citizen, by the Austrian government. This affair may yet create a deal of trouble. General Cass probably intends to use the facts called for in connection with his intervention policy. The bill providing for a Board of Commis- aioners to examine claims arising from the conquest ef California, was engrossed. Tho arrest of ex- Senator Fremont, in London, appears to have some- what startled our present worthy Senators. It is #eldom that we Gud a measure acted upon in such haste. ‘The major portion of yesterday was occupied by Mr. Pearce, in the Senate, in reply to the charges brought forward by Mossrs. Gwin and Hunter against the administration of Presidents Taylor and Fillmore. Mr. P., in the course of his remarks, showed pretty conclusively that there was but little difference, so far as extravagance is concerned, be- tween democratic and whig administrations. Both parties seem to think of nothing else than the gpoils—each is desirous of making all he can out of the people, and the action of the present Congross fully establishes this fact During the present session, Congress has been per- fectly besieged with petitions asking for donations of lands to aid in the construction of railroads, and, im accordance with the desires of the applicants, thousands upon thousands of acres have been given tw them. Still there is no ces: in the number of applicatio: Wisconsin yes ay sent in ten or fifteen pet . praying for railroad Isnds. The | bill granting a Jurge amount of the public domain, and then post por another bill of for the accor of Arkansas. 2} one-third of ih g railroads would be contemplated, i likely that the people would « n—but past experience she a large por £ the te tory hitherto 1 for thes: the end, » ted a « : instead of the road id the generality of the inhabitants in the ty. Let Congr LUSG give away the lands | and reflect. ere th belonging to the Under the plea of ¢ the House, nearly the whole of yesterday was wasted im buncombe talk. wae the principal speaker. He stated that he unwell at the ti the last caucus was held, and therefore tock occasion to make known hi approval of the course pursued by his southern leagues. Nothing new was elicited, and no real business was transacted. The Fillmore whig committee, not doubtless the too analytic report of Monday ing’s proceedings, as furnished to us by one of the spiritual mediums, (our terrestrial r excluded) have thought it advisable to relax the stringency of their regulati and admit to their wonclave re crsona. We, there= fore,are enabled to present a sketch of last ev "3 performances in the Chinese rooms. The most gular feature therein is, that the orator of the ev ing, instead of going the whole figure for Mr. F more, comes out with the astounding declaration that werethat a national convention, and were he to vote for a candidate for the Presidency, he would cast his first ballot for Daniel Webster. This, ef course, took the meeting by surprise, and perfectly dumb-founded all the place-holders and place-ex- pectants; and though the speaker aflerwards made a show of throwing oil on the troubled waters by praicing up Mr. Filimore, he seemed very lukewarm in doing so. He told thom, as a sort of consolation and balm for the wound he had inflicted, that per- haps Mr. Fillmore had ae good achance to the no- mination as either Mr. Webster or General Scott. The meeting did not recover from this damper thrown upon them by the orator whom they had invited for the purpose of adding fresh fuel to the flame of their desires and aspirations. Monday, the 10th of May, bas been fixed for tho great public de- monstration in this cityin favor of Mr. Fillmore, but the place of meeting has not yet been de sided on. It appears that the Michigan democrats endorsed the old Baltimore platform of *40 and ‘48, but took especial pains to say nothing about the Compro- mise. Kossuth, with the sword presented to him by the New York military committee by his side, made his great speech to the people of Boston, congregated in Fanucil Hall, last evening. A synopsis of hie remarks will be found on the laet page. On reference to the doings in the Abolition Con- vention in Cineinnati, it will be observed that the fanatics are determined to fully maintain their hitherto unenviable reputation. They have, as asual, adopted a series of fallacious, malicious, aad ridiculoue resolutions. Much excitement was yesterday caused at Colum- bia, Pa., by the arreet of a negro, who, while in the hands of the officers was shot. The negro is eup- poredto bea fugitive slave. It is hoped that the good sense of the people in that vicinity will pre- vent another marderous rivt, similar to that which disgraced Christiana. By an arrival at Boston we have advices from Cape Haytien to the 17th, where o severe shock of an earthquake had just been experienced. All the important colored dignitaries, ag well as the mili- tary, had left the Cape, for the purpose of witnessing the coronation of his sable Maje Fauetin I., which event was to come off on the I at Port au Prince James Simmons, son of one of the mort respect Blo rteambout owners and captains in the West, after three trials, hag finally been convicted of mur- sing the free farm Will, in repo: Walsh, a Maryland whig, | gon. i} ral montha age this young man nearly all his father’s family, together with his own wife. ‘Two or three died from the effeets of the poison; yet, notwithstanding the proof was very strong against the priconer, the juries hitherto eould not agree. The new ship Elizabeth was recently wrecked near Apalachicola. She was bound to Providence, with nearly fourteen hundred bales of cotton, only five hundred bales of which were saved The vessel and cargo were fully insured in Providence. A despatch from New Orleans, states that the | steamship Meteor was recently lost in Matagorda | Bay. the was owned by Messrs Harris & Morgan, | and traded regularly between Galveston and New | Orleans. No lives were lost. Everybody will be pleased to hear of the safety of | the steamship Washington. She put into Milford Haven, Wales, on the 14th, for a supply of fuel. Severe shocks of an earthquake were experienced at Raleigh, N. C., Washington, and Baltimore, about one e’clock yesterday. These occurrences are not quite so frequent in this region as they were fifty years ago. The last European advices caused considerable activity in the New Orleans cotton market. Ten thousand bales changed hands on Wednesday. There is a prospect of the settlement of the great Methodist Episcopal Church case. The reference | ordered by the Circuit Court, to take testimony and report the value of the Book Concern, in dispute be- tween the Northern and Southern divisions of the church,was brought to a hearing before Commissioner Nelson yesterday. The only principal difference of opinion appears to be in reference to the value of the stereotype plates. The affair may be settled before the meeting of the General Conference of the Northern section, in Boston, on Monday next. The religious anniversary meetings in New York city for May, 1852, aro announeed, and we publish the programme in another column. Other meetings are to be held in Cleveland and Pittsburg. Tho General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Northern section, is to be held in Boston on the 3d proximo. Sir John Franklin’s Ships and the Iecberg off Newfoundland. We published on Wednesday a condensed account of the supposed discovery of Sir John Franklin’s ships on an ieeberg, on the banks of Newfoundland. The affair has created some anxiety, and we pub- lish to-day, in eéxtenso, the documents and correspon- dence furnished by the British Admiralty. It appears to be an established fact that Captain Coward made the statement imputed to him, and it appears to he about equally certain that his chief mate, Mr. Simpson, saw the appearances indicated. As to the fact of the statement having been made by Captain Coward, we have received the following letter:— New Youx, April 28, 1852, To te Eprror oF tir Henarp. Sin—Haying my attention drawn to the news per Frank- lin, from England. regarding Sir John Franklin's expedi- tion, Lbeg to say iat I can corroborate the evidence of Capt. Storey. in reference to the statement alleged to have been made to him by Capt. Coward, in the spring of last year. About the’ same period I was passenger in the Pomona, of Alloa, Capt. Younger, from Leith to Quebec, Three or four days after our arrival (about the middle of May.) I was in the company (along with Capt. Younger) of the enptain of the Renovation, when the lat- ter stated to us, * that in crossing the Banks he had seen two js fastened in the ice. close to a berg. but one ap- eater elevation than the other.” As it ave been a frequent subject of conversation on our passage out, between Capt. Younger and myself, that as we bad been driven so fur north we mi fall in with some vestige of Sir John Fran: it immediately ocewrred to us that these mizht have been the missing vessels; but the idea was ridiculed by several present, so much so, that I have no doubt, considering stories which had been circulated, thut Jeterred py fear of ridicule from com- Admiraity. dress to you, me tement of Taw, sir, your ob parently at a y for the purpose of t rervant. WM. DI N. ng the general accuracy of the statement r, we observe that there exists Respec of this diserey between tement of Mr. did not see ill in bed, and that med of th * very well, re not 0 take the responsi inspecting tho vessels ; housed in, stated 1 portant feature of i agreement would ing the fact of their being Franklin's ships, and, therefor an optical de There is, disere riptions o n Coward stat the os that “ the down.” Mr. Simp- | of the larger ship says, “ lower me and of the smaller v yards across, to; * lower and toy yards very squi had been aban tial inforence. n the ships with a glas record in the log-book, We do not attach much importance to the dis- crepaney as tothe masts and yards, as it | | | ays he examined | mpson made the it may also be considered | hing proof of thea ¢ of collusion; but | the di ancy of the implication in the statement of Mr. Simpson, that Captain Coward was not on deck at the time, but ill in bed, and the important discrepancy as to the ‘housing in” of the vessels, we are unable to understand. Captain Coward would also appear to have bad the ships of the Arctic expedition in his mind’s eye at the time, although he states that he had no such impression, which, to say the least of it, makes him look unac- countably stolid. The best advised opinion would appear to be, that he wasin bed at the time, and did not see the vessels; but thinking, when on shore at leisure, that they might have been Sit John Franklin’s ships, he mentioned the mutter, and spoke from his recollection of the entry in the log-book as if he had personally seen them, with probably some imaginary addenda. The better The New Naval Uniform, There is nothing of public interest at present exciting more attention than our naval establish- ment—exeepting, it may be, tho intrigues of Presi- dent making—and the probabilities are, that before the grand contest for the chief magistracy is eon- cluded, naval reform will become an element of the battle. Aftera Rip Van Winkle slumber of half a century, the people are waking to the fact that their interests are more concerned in a reform of the navy than in many of the questions hung upon the banners of Presidential candidates. It involves principles, national reputation, and vast sums of money. From all parts of the country the press is daily our navy—its adaptation only to * foreigners and to jail birds”’—its antiquated usages, inefficient offivers, Star Chamber judicial system of an irresponsible despotism; and lately the Star” correspondent of the Independent has thrown before the public the fact that an Amorican commodore and captain can be so denhtionalized as to shrink in horror from the cries of liborty, and lend mean efforts to suppress them, lest they should compromise the flag of li- berty--the flag of this republic—the flag of that land which on fourths of July we sing as— “The land of the free and the home of the brave.” But for the disgraceful, humiliating fact, could this nation have believed that its meteor flag was in such keeping doomed, at a despot’s bidding, to sneak from the acknowledgment of those principles which have imparted all the brilliancy of its constella- tion. Again, Graham’s Magazine for April, in a most able article upon ‘* What Glory Costs the Nation,” shows that the annual expense of a single ship of the Jine would sustain four universities such as Har- yard; that the yearly expense of every gun carried over the ocean is $15,000; and that the cost of the navy-—and such a navy-~is more than all the profits of the entire mercantile marine. With such facts and such agitation in the public mind, the navy began to think it must bestir itself and do something in tie matter, and, accordingly a board was organized to alter the uniform. Three officers—a captain, at three thousand five hundred doll rs; a commander, at two thousand one hundred dollars ; and a lieutenant, at one thousand five hundred dollars—were the man millinera, who, if they have not blazoned their names in battle, have identified their fame with this movement of progress. Sober, sensible people, you who have thought a navy officer might be something useful, do not be calling attention to the anti-national character of | Cov. Fasmont’s Anngsr mn Lonvon. —CaLivon- | Kossurn 1 Naw Exouaxp.—The poor Hunga- NIA Cranes AGAINST BIM.—The arrest of Col. Fre- | rian exile has got along famously in New England, mont, in London, by four ruffianly Bow street offi- | and particularly in the eapital of Yankee land. cers, fora debt or debte of $50,000, growing out of certain official transactions of said Fremont, daring the war in California, in 1845~'6, was acircumstance, which, on being related on Wednesday last, in the United States Senate, by Mr. Gwin, of Califor- | nia, very naturally surprised that vory grave and dignified body out of its usual lethargy. They have since been hurrying along, as fast as possible, with a bill to meet those identical California debts, upon apart of which an ex-Senator of the United States has been £0 roughly treated by the Bow street con- | stabulary. These are emphatically debts for Con- gress, and not for Fremont, to pay. In the winter of 1845-46, Col. Fremont, then on one of his splendid topographical surveys of the Pa- cific slope of this continent, had dropped down from the deep snows of the Sierra Nevada, to recruit a lit- tle in the valleys of California. His men and mules had been scouring the deserts of the Great Basin through and through—he had laid all that vast, dari region, including the Great Salt Lake and its fresh water tributaries, open to the light of day—he had threaded the mysterious banks of Humboldt’s river for hundreds of miles through a howling wilderness, till it suddenly sank in the desert sands, disappearing forever—he had traversed that beautiful chain of lakes which flank the eastern rim of the Snowy Mountains, and had crossed directly over from the desolation of the interior deserts down into the paradise of the Sacramento; and, from the head waters of the Missouri to the bay of San Francisco, and from the great Salt Lake down to ‘the three Parks” of the Rocky Mountains; he hi duced his observations and discoveries to maps aff charts, for the common use of the immense swarms of white men that were shortly to follow in his tracks across the continent. He had done all this under the authority and pay of the United States government; and in the winter of *45-’46, a3 a scientific officer, with his corps, he had gone down into California to rest 1 little from his labors, and recruit his strength. All that country belonged then to Mexico. Fre- mont’s scientific explorations, for several years, over a region of some eight hundred thousand square miles in extent, had been mainly upon Mexican soil. The Mexican officials in California finally suspected him, and ordered him out of the country in the win- ter of 1845. He left, quietly moving towards Ore- gon, as the nearest United States territory, but in his retreat ho was pursued and compolled to fight. He did fight, whipped the Mexicans, and roused a moved from your gravity yet. There are great prin- ciples in this uniform business, and it may be the subject of real reformation. Savagesrely upon pain feathers, and bones, to impress their brother <: and those who, by artificial arrangements, ! slid into stations above their abilities, rely trick of showy and glittering costume, the popular mind, and to excite a deference to which the natural character of the individual has no claim. Hence we have coronation and parliamentary robes, with all the gilded decorations of military service. The coronation and the parliamentary robes we have done away with from our rulers and our Senators, and the sheep’s fleece from the heads of our judges. When the papers made the important announcement that a board of distinguished efficers had the uniform under discussion, it was reasonable to suppose that the object was to arrange it upon the simple, dignified, and useful charactor of our country—nothing for the dazzling of savage simpli- ity, nothing for false distinction, but only those plain distinctive marks which would serve to indi- cate dulics and station. It was to he hoped that our vers Were going to justify public expectation, and assert the influence of real and vigorous character, independent of the adventitious aid of ornament. The Little Corporal in his plain gray coat, was téte d’armée, aud the master of gilded kings. The Hon. d Everett says:—* I have trod- den with cmotion the threshold of Westminster Hall, and the Palace of Justice in France. I thonght with i and of office, press Chancellor e, who, fear or favor, a n powerful liti t is with some- ed the Supreme because Ihave pecimen of the perfection of the moral sublime in human irs. T have witnessed when, from the low dark bench, destitute of the insignia of come graye and venerable jee and equity has gone forth to the most powerful States of the Union, ad- inistering the law between citizens of independent tes, setiling dangerous controversies, adjusting mted boundaries, annulling unconstitutional erroneous decisions.” ad of making an attempt to approach the | s of this specimen of the ‘* moral sublime,” | the public expectation meets in this board « sad dis- appointment—*‘ parturiunt montes, nascrtur mus.” The uniform is out, and here are some of its absurdi- —DBeginning at the top, great three-cornered pyramidal, ugly, unsightly, uncomfortable, expen- sive cocked hats, neither useful, ornamental, nor ap- propriate, and taking up the limited room in a man- ofwar which might better be filled with supplies | for the inside of the head ; coats, with bands of gold | Jace an inch and a half wide around the collar; several bands of gold lace around the cuffs, and bands of gold lace down the legs of the pantaloons— ing our republican navy officers look—cocked hats, epaulettes, gold lace, andall—like the liveried footmen of some lazzaroni nobleman ; and it is par- ticularly enjoined that upon all occasions and per- sons—hot or cold, Falstaff or Calvin Edson—tho cout is always to be worn fully buttoned. But what does this mean? Here are officers, termed, in this uniform regulation, “ civil officers,” Wut with the same cocked hats, swor epauleties, &e., and they are to undergo a military muster, and be tried by a court-martial if not in military costume. This seemed a contradiction betweon the statement, decidedly, appears to be Mr. Simpson’s ; andif he were not deceived by an optical delusion, there is reason to presume that they were the identi- cal ships comprising Vranklin’s Arctic expedition. Assuming the acouracy of the statement of the appearances indicated, then arises thg question, Were they the result of atmospheric influence, such asamirage, of which the Arctic steamer was recently the subject, being seen eixty miles of? It could not have been a double reflection of Capt. Coward's vessel, the Renovation, from two sides of the ice- berg, as she presented a very different aspect from that of the two ships, being under full sail and in motion. Ifa mirage isto be the explanation of this singular circumstance, it must have been a most vemarkable and surprising one—viz: that of a large iceberg and two whaling vessels in their winter quarters, and that in the mouth of April, and at an immense distance off. The wonderful effects of mirage are unquestionable ; but taking tho occur- rence and the probability of other fucts in connection with it, is it easier to suppose-that the appearances observed were the effects of a mirage, or that there were really visible two ships, and those two shi Sir John Franklin's, and that the iceberg was actu- ally before the spectators, and floatmg down from the polar regions, as they do in the spring months, and when these ships were observed t Broapway anp tHE Pusric THOROUGHFARES.—— A rather important event happened to Broadway yesterday morning at break of day. For tho firvt time for the last two hundred yeure it was swopt, and certainly wasall the better for il the suecceding day. Let thie be regularly continued, and when the filth is once ‘got under,” a great benefit may be maintained by comparatively little exertion, Our other great str leo be looked afier, anda + must facts and the term ; fearing that cither the board, or everybody else, had mistaken the meaning of our mother tongue, we turned to the pages of Webster. “Civil ; Latin, civilis, from civis, a citizen. It is distinguished from ecclesiastical, which reapects the church, and from military, which respects the army and navy.” ‘‘ This term is often employed in contrast with military; as a civil hospital.” So that this board of three navy officers is cithor deplorably ignorant of the meaning of the terma used by it, or else assumes a despotic naval authe- rity over lunguage and lexicographers. Is all this simply ridiculous? It is painfully much more. In the present tone of public fecling towards the navy, it is Nero fiddling while Rome is burning ; it isan insult to and defiance of the popular indig- nation; itis a type of naval character, and u justi- fiention of the popular clamor ; a confession that gold lace and gewgaws are necessary to dazzle the popular eye, and to make up for the want of sub- stantial fitness. It is productivo of harm, for really strong men do not need it, and the wéak are onl, made more weak and vain, more blind to their natural defects, and more ready to exorcise them for the annoyance of others. This board, then, has succeeded in devising an ill timed eostuine, in showing its ignorance of the Englich language, and in eer ant the popular im- pression respecting the force and dignity of naval character. “*Quem Deus vull perdere, prius de- mentat.”” Moyvment 10 Moore tHe Por A meeting is about to be called ina few days, in Metropolitan Hall, to make arrangements for the collection of funds to aid and assist in erecting a monument, in Dublin, to the menory of Moore, the poet. This is all very proper and appropriate for the countrymen | of Moore to do; but we should think it would be | just aswell for Americans to meet in Metropolitan proper and effective syetem of seu engprage adopted. OOF WS Civetinnnd, Ab wild bw seculievied awe oor way is ove of the finest thorough in the world, and i every day adding to its splendid attrac. tions, and to keep it inan imparsable cone | notbing short of » public disgrace, Hall to take moavures for the erection of a monu- ity to Washington, er Franklin, or man, as to send their collections poet who hae inamortalized mentin thi | verte neh gr vod to immortatize a + bidureld ie yee, | Californians. | enlarged revolution among the Am ns and the native He iustered five hundred mounted unteers into the cause, and was pushing on the war, when they first heard in California of our open rupture with Mexico. Fremont, then his operations, and incurred heavy debts in the purchase of cattle and supplies» to feed his army. All these were procured upon his individual bonds, relying himself upon the faith of the government for indemnity. He con. quered the country, and became its first governor under the conquest. Subsequently, it was again overrun by Fremont, Stockton, and Gen. Kearney, with the combined land and naval forces and horse- marines of the United States; but Fremont had sub- stantially done the business before, on his own re- sponsibility, at his own risk, and apon his own bonds and securities, in behalf of the United States. The Senate subsequently passed a bill_appropri- ating $700,000 to liquidate these claims, but it fail- ed in the House; and from that time to this, the matter has becn postponed from one session to an- other, till Fremont is grabbed by a posse of Bow- street officers, and hurried off, either to pay, or make some arrangements to pay, certain debts of the United States government, or else submit to the comforts ofa London jail. This tMfng is, in a word, a disgrace to the government, or at least a digrace to Congres; but the Senate appear to be dispoed to make up for lost time, for we seo that a Dill for the relief of Fremont the Committce ordered to a third reading. Douwhile will speedily pass both houses, and thus relieve a e citizen of the incumnbrance of a load of , to him, if they beginning to in the hands g upon the ng comy bhers of London. Beyine Epvitors.—Elsewhere in our cobmmns, to- day, our readers will meet with an entertaining ac- count from the London Times, of an attempt made by certain railroad speculators to buy that power- ful journal, at the low estimate of one hundred pounds sterling—cash down. Of course, there was no bargain ; and, doubtless, the ceol, imperious, and contemptuous refusal of the journalist was no less astonishing than mortifying to the thick-headed and orant stock-jobbers. We have many men of the same kidney here, who believe that editors of public journals are to be bought as people buy beef, or salt pr or potatoes, according to the quantity and variety in the market. Unquestionably, in this city, and in other cities, and throughout the “rural districts” of this country, there exists a large class of starveling ephemeral newspapers, which are always at the service of the highest bidder, ortho lowest bidder, as the exigency may require. Such presses, how- ever, never gain the public confidence or support, and aro always in a beggarly condition. But there isanother class of our public journals which are not to be bought with a bribe. They are sustained by the patronage of the public, and have the confidence of the public, more or lesa; and cannot afford to sacri- fice the one for fear of losing the other. And to say nothing of principles or moral inde- pendence, a journal, whose clear receipts from the public are twenty, thirty, or fifty thousand dollars a year, may well afford to decline a fee of five, ten, twenty, or a htndred, or a thousand dollars, for fathering articles intended to humbug or swindle tho whole community. Tho New York Hzraup has had frequent experiments made upon it, by persons disposed to believe the vindictive slang of its ene- mics ; and we apprehend that they have met the same rebuff, in every instance, though not the same public exposure, that Mr. Kemp, with his hundred pounds, has received from the London Times. Upon this subject, however, all partios who desire to pros- titute the public press to their selfish schemes, will have learned a useful lesson from tho Times, and we republish it, with a view to its application on this side the Atlantic. The moral is this:—Poor, ephe- meral, starving newspapers, whose good or bad opinion of anything or everything may be bought, should be first applied to in cases of bribery and humbug ; and if they fail, the applicants should go no farther, because an attempt upon a press of influ- ence, independence, means, and circulation, to make it a party in euch experiments, is only to invite the most fatal exposure of the ch VeRNAL LITERATORE.—The spring is approaching, and of course overything is beginning to look green, or ought to, be it the Battery, books, literature, politicians, or anything else. The,May number of the American Revicew—whig in its politica—is just out, and has decidedly a spring look—vernal in the extreme. It says, peaking of the Presidency, “We have never believed the General (moaning General Scott) was secking for the Presidency. We have no doubt, General Scott, out of his own manly im- pulses, cordially welcomes Mr. Webster or Mr. Fill- more to the chair of state.” To those who know General Scott's aspirations for the White House, such opinions in review are either sarceain or species of simplicity of the vernal quality. Malls fer Europe. ‘THE NEW YORK WEEKLY NERALD. ‘The American mail steamship Arctic, Capt. Luce, will leave this port tomorrow noon for Liverpool. The European mails will close at a quarter before 11 o'elock in the morning, The Niw Vora Wereeny Uerarn will be published at halfpast 0 o'eloek, Hts contents will | Drace news te the late t moment, pri + Bngiieh, Pingie evpivr, im wreyyers, siapenes, ried in French and ) There being no appenrn | Boston and the surrounding towns seem to have ex- | erted themselves to outstrip New York in their | manifestations of delirium and humbug. It isa | singular fact, too, that Philadelphia and Boston, of all other cities of this country, generally beat New | York in everything that we undertake here. If | we make fools of ourselves, Philadelphia and Boston | always exceed us, and make what they would call | in the “Five Points” “*d—4d fools of themselves.” | If we are ridiculous in New York, Philadelphia and | Boston are ten times more ridiculous. | Look at past hislory—when Fanny Elssler mado her first appearance here, we made a great deal of fuss about her; but we were beaten all to smash in Philadelphia and Boston. In the latter place she helped them to finish the Bunker Hill monument, and danced a benefit, to be added to the funds of the ladies’ fair, on the occasion of finishing that great work. When we, under the auspices of Bar- num’s mighty mind, gave a great reception to Jeuny Lind, and made a prodigious fuss and flurry about her, Boston far exceeded us, for a time at least, but exploded before they had finished. The same took place in the case of Lola Montes. We received her with some little attention here, and gave her such a reception as we could; but Boston far outstripped us in the attention exhibited to her, crowded the theatre, applauded her to the skies, exhibited her at the grammar schools, young ladies’ school, and even went so far as to carry her to the House of Correction, and then exploded. We have no doubt that Boston has far exceeded New York in the reception they have given to Kos- suth—in the splendor of the oceasion—in the enthu- siasm of the moment; just as thoy will do in the closing explosion. We doubt whether Boston will not even explode and burst up before the week is out. Kossuth, however, should have the sagacity to take advantage of his popular condition at once, and make a coup d'état of some kind. Indeed, wo have no doubt that the Hungarian orator has the spirit and disposition, if he saw the feasibility of it, to go to Washington and turn out both houses of #8, a8 Napoleon did the National Assembly, in Paris, issue decrees of war against Austria and Russia at once, and stop all the newspapers in the country, particularly the New York Hera.p and the Courter and Enquirer, by a decree against the press. Kossuth has exhibited himself in his true colors, and is now perfectly well understood. He is as great a despot, if he had the power, as ever Louis Napoleon is, and this will turn out to be the fact in the end. Loa MonrTgs AND THE JESUITS AT THE BRroAD- way THEATRE.—We have received from the Countess of Landsfeld, and insert elsewhere, a reply to an article signed by a ‘French Catholic,” published in our columns a few days ago, in which she was al- luded to with some degree of disparagement. She claims a right to reply, without violating her con- tract with Mr. Marshall not to interfere with politics and religion in the United States; and we do not seo that there is any reason to refuse her a hearing on the subject of the Jesuits in Europe. Her reply will speak for itself. We perceive, also, that she is announced to appear at the Broadway theatre for one night~to-morrow evening—in 8 new piece ; and we presume, if there are no Jesuits in the orchestra or the pit, she wil, succeed in her steps with her usual facility of execu- tion and simplicity of style. Like the Hungarian exile, Kossuth, the Bavarian exile, Lola Montes, has been followed everywhere in this country with the opposition, secret and in- visible, of the Jesuits—that distinguished body of men who seem to have a particular fancy to trouble themselves with all notoricties, and all distinguished persons who have a little crack in the head. If Lola Montes has not been, asa danseuse, equal to Fanny Elesler or Cevito, the cause is to be found jn the intrigues of the Jesuits against her, and the ef- foits which they ha t e¢ mado to smuggl orchestra some Jesuit musician, to put tho nto eve out, and spoil her steps. It is the s euth. has gone in this co Jesnit up oppe prospects, hands on the government of the conntry he saddles which he Sometimes theo sition is varied by Austrian influence and R gold. We suppose Austria would use gold, if she had any, but precious litle has Austria to use against Kossuth. However, Ru a influence is mighty as Russian gold mines, and, by its being joined with Jesuit influence, the poor exile from Hungary has had enough on his hands in progre: ing through this terrible country, beleagured by foreign influence and forcign despots. So it has heen with poor Lola Montes in her dancing and débuts. To-morrow night, therefore, there will be a great deal of interest felt in the last appearance of Lola Montes in this city, for it is going to be a final con test between the Jesuits and the deaseuse—botween the exile of Bavaria and these invisible monstors, who are following her all round about tho count: to put her out of the music, and out of her ste We have no doubt it will he a full house—ihe Jesuits will be there in foree. Tne Baurmory Democratic Convention—TuE SrRveGie ror te Insive Track.—There are four prominent cliques in the democratic party, contend- ingyand contriving, and intriguing for the mastery at the Baltimore Convention, and they may be classified as follows:— 1. Polk's old cabinct—Buchanan, Marcy, Mason, Bancroft, and company. Sometimes Buchanan is put forward, sometimes Marey; but the real object of all of them, including, probably, Marey himsolé, is Buchanan. 2. Cass and the other outside old fogies. They have not had much of the spoils for the last eight years, and are very active, very busy, and yery hun- gry—all for Cass and the spoils. 3. Young America, young Douglas, Mike Walsh, Captain Rynders, George Saunders, and the Demo- cratic Review. Young America is for everything, for everybody, liquor and all, and plenty of it. Good liquor isthe polar star of their political creed, and Douglas is always ready to stand treat. Doug- las is their man. 4. The barnburners, headed by the Van Burens, Benton, Blair, and company. This is a mighty stubborn, hard-headed faction. They could not control the convention of ’48, 20 they broke up the party in New York, and defeated Cass. They are, therefore, to be dreaded. They are tho old Bour- bons. Between these four contending Northern cliques, and two or three from the South, thore will be pro- bably come hot work at Baltimore. Nor should we wonder if it were to result in a considerable smash- It will be rare sport. ing up of the old crocker, U, 8. Scpnems Count, April 28. of Missonri,was admitted an attorn: Court. No. 130, M. Very vs. J. U. 8. Cireult Court for Arkansas, 4 delivered the opinion of this Court, affirming the decree of the said Circuit Court in this cause, with costs. No. 118. ‘The Heirs of Don Carlos de Vileraont vs. the United States—Appeal from the District Court United States for Arkansas, Mr. Justice Catron delivered the opinion of this Court, affirming the decree ofthe eaid District Court in this cause. No, 123, T. Tremlett va. J.T. Adam+— In error to the Circuit Court United States for Matsa. chusetts, Mr, Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of this Court, affirming the judgment ot wits ire Court in this cause, with costs. No. 137. C. Ci Tyler ot al., appellants, ve. G, N. Black—The argument 8 cauxe was continued by Mr. Rowo for the appelice, and concluded by Mr. Fessenden for the appellants, No. 139. R. R. Barrow, plaintiff in error ve. N. B. Hill—This cause Fi dnuitted. to the Court on'the record and printed argument by Mr. Veuable. of counsel for the defendant in error, No, 140. $.B, Lord et al.. plaintiffé 4n error va John Goddard—This cause was rebinitted to the Court onthe record and printed arguments by Mr. Norris for the plaintitf in error, and by Mr, Washburn for the de- fendont in error, No. 142, Smith Hogan ot nl., plaintiffe inerror, va, A. Rove, use of Patterson—Thix cause was submitted to the Court on the record and printed argu- ments by Mr, Davis for the plaintitis inerror, and by Mr. Coxe for the defendants in error, No, 145—The steam | towbeat Shark va, J.B. Pingyio—Appeal feom Cireuit | Court United States Kastern district of Louisiana, oor counsel for either party, tp coste, under ie O0su rule thir enn owas dingy | the Vourt, ee itical, THE FILLMORE PRELIMINARY MEETINGS. , ‘The fourth of the serial mectings of the friends of Mr, Fillmore in this city. preliminary to the grand public de- monstration to be got up in his favor, was held last eves ning in a room in the Chinese Buildings. There were some seventy or eighty persons present, most of them, as our ree porter was informed. hailing from the Chstom House and other governmental concerns, and, therefore, a little en- thusiastic in the premises. General Lamb presided, Mr. Nicholas Carroll read a report giving the names of the delegates appointed in the various wards to attend the Whig General Committee, which is to meet this evening in @ room in the Chinese Buildings, These delegates were also to meet as district committees, on Saturday evening, in certain hotels specified in the report. The great public meeting is fixed for Monday woek, the 10th of May, but the place is not yet determined. After the reading of the report, there were loud calls for Gerard; in reponse to which Mr. J. W. Gerard mounted the platform, and proceeded to address the meet- ing. He had come, he said, with great pleasure, to meet what ho understood to bean assembly of mem- bers of the whig party, and to give in a few words an idea of the principles which ought to govern the administra- tion of the country, whether whig or democrat. He was no partisan; he was no man’s man, attached himself to no man’s banner; was neither a Scott man, a Fillmore man, nor a Webster man; and therefore, whosoever thought he would advocate any man’s cause as eandidate for the Presidency would be mistaken, If he were re- ported as being a Fillmore man, he would draw back; be- cauee, as he repeated “he was no man’s man,” andif they had the idea that he would follow the whig party right or wrong, they were dreadfully mistaken. When, in the fall of 1619, he found that the whig party had deviated from their principles, and deserted the gallant standard of such men as Henry Clay, (cheers) Daniel Webster, and other great men, he jed the fore guard at Castle Garden toproclaim the great principles of the Union, and to eut down every man or principle which militated against it directly or indivectly. ‘Therefore, as he understood that Mr, Fillmore’s principles were those of maintainin; the great compromise made between. the North and South, he was. in that sense, a “Fillmore man,” He had watched closely every movement he has taken in the government. and every action of his had met his entire and cordial approval.’ (Cheers.) And if the whig party should determine to fight under his banner, he would be a private soldier in the runke, and do his best to gain the victory, He would, however, contend against the aboli- tion principle, no matter how it should come before the whig party; 2nd he would oppose the whig party, or that section of it which should go under the abolition banner, sooner than oppose the democratic party. He had no doubt himself, and the meeting would ‘agree. that, no matter who might be their man, whether Webster or Fillmore—and both stood on the same platform, precisely, for both were men of the yery first order of talent, and had their eyé on the good of the country—they would put theirunited forces ther, and fight against that sec- tion of the party which should advocate any man who would not come forward boldly and powerfully on the great platform of the compromise between the North and South. (Cheers) He did not know who would get the nomination. He was acquainted with Mr. Webster almost from his infancy, and before Fill- more came on the stage. And he had given his friends to understand that if Mr. Webster were a candidate for the Presidency ho would support him. But yet, he did not fecl tied to him, or to any man, In view of Mr. Webster's great services to the country—of hia being the great expounder and defender of the constitution, and 8s if he did not get a chance now. he never would a in view of this, if he were called on now to vote for @ candidate, he would put his first ballot down for Mr. Webster. (An ominous silence in the room at this un- expected announcement.) He would, however, feel bound not only to vote for that member of the whig party who was the most available, but there was a se- cond consideration, and that was for one who would stand strongest and firmest on the great conservative cons of the whig platform. le knew: that ir, Fillmore was a yery popular man in all ranks, rich and poor, wise and unlearned, and more articularly among the women. (Laughter.) The ine of deusarcation which in old times subsixted between the two great parties was now almost worn away; and now, what was going to be the great line ot demareation in parties was between them and a section of the democra- tic party called the frecsoilers, and that miserable section of their own party called the abolitionists. ad the abolitiovists.) If he found that the freesoil men and the abolition imen were really the philanthropists they affected to be. he would jein with them; but he should wait till he saw them put their hands into their pockets, and by their practices carry out what they preach. He would put a question which he wanted to understand, and that was why some of those States which professed the abolition principles had, within the last few years, enacted laws actually prohibiting a man of eolor—black, yellow, or mulatto—from crossing their boundaries? These Ktates were Ohio. Tlinois, and Indiana. Here were his port no man, whig or democrat, csidency of this country, unless his hand. and declared that he se made between the Not m boldly and fearlessly, with- no cheating, that he was for promise that Lad been’ established by the nation, to preserve its peace and wh he had ‘spoken ‘0 favorably comp! 2 of they were one man, ut them. bey ti name him; there 85 Ke eof events f Fillmore and Web- ga. they ought to do. anything in his life ed any th weetly w wag his tongue, ich, a8 good W d never ask —had never re he was always pe eney. to take up his pen, from Mr. wanted not case of eme in the caure of His country and of the whig party. He would go to the F were more meeting, because Mr. Pillmore’s fends, And by-and-by, when he n—and he should not say but he t lent, were equal to those of Mr. tt, he (Air, Gerard) would be found Hfe felt convineed that if 1d permitted to stand by him- nservative 5 Mr. Gerard very good recommendition to Mr. iho pleasure of knowing inti- cd that if he were elected to the t all hope for the continuance of e preservation of the national ho- friends his got th would—1 W fighting under Gen. Scott we self, his prine but he didn concluded by gi Filimor hom | mately. and felt nes Presidency they the national on Monday. the ot May, was n there were cries fora cong, and calls fer Nir, zhure” to give a stanza, That gon- tleman responded. mounted the platform. and gave with the real Yankee naval twang a chaste and highly poctical chauson, one of the bard’s own-effurions. We give the first aud last verses of this gem:— Come, whigs, and Pally one and all, ‘AS oft we've done before, And nominate for President Our own Millard Fillmore. ‘Phe constitution is his guide, The Union he'll sustain ; With honor he has filled the chair, We'll try him once again. Cuonvs. (Sustained by the whole meeting.) North and South—Enst and West— ‘The cry itis Fillmore; ‘We know he is the people's choice, Remember Baltimore. Mark! I hear a voice from Washington, You've heard it oft before, It is our patriot, Henry Clay, (Applause.) Endorsing our Fillmore. Thon organize in every ward, And send to Baltimore Delegates who will not flinch. But stick for our Fillmore. Chorus—as above, The meeting, after being regaled with this melody, sd- Jourmed till this evening. Police Intelligence. Another Burglary in the Fifth Ward—On Wednesday night some burglars forcibly entered the carpet store of Peterson & Humphreys, corner of White street and Broadway, stealing therefrom a number of piano and table covers, valued in all at nearly $200. The robbers ob- tained aceess to the store by breaking open the basement window. No arrest. Disonierly in « Dry Goods Store —A woman ealling her- relf Ann Hyde was arrested by Captain Carpenter, of the Fifth ward, on Wednesday afternoon, charged with act- ing in disorderly manner in the dry goods store of Mr. James Beck, No. 353 way. "The woman it reems, had a «mall child, about two years of “fe whi she intimated was the responsibility of one of the clerka, and the object of her visit was to obtain money for the support of herself and child. Not one of the clerks, how- ever, came forward to acknowledge the offapring; and the result was that the ice came in and took the woman away, who Was cons to be somewhat insane. Jus- tice Lothrop, before whom the woman ra ere committed her to prison in default of procuring in the sum of $200, to be of good behavior for the next six months, During the day, Dr. Covil, physician of the prison, discovered that Ann was tick, laboring under the effects of erysipelas, and caused her to be sent to the a i. OA 'Siaguler Lots of Money in a Stere—Suypeced Theftime On Wednesday sfternoon a very ‘genteel lady, named Mrs, Tilden, reviding at No, 16 Reawick street, called at the Police Court in Centre street, and stated to Justice Stewart elect, that sho had left her portmonnaie ine millinery store in Canal ¢treet, between three and four o'clock that afternoon, which contained ie bank Uills. Mrs. Tilden informed the Justice that she went into the «tore for the purpose of making a choice of a hat, and ofter a short time ehe selected one, and ther left the store; but previous to leaving. she recolleets that: two ladies were next to her several times during the time the was ehoowing a hat. Scarcely had she reachod the sidewalk before she mixed her book containing the money. and returned instantly to the store and made search for it, informing the propeletor of her lone, Atte a diligent reach nothing could be found of the money, Mrs, Tilden having cither placed the portmonnaie on the table, or ed ton the tloor, and some one picked It ‘up and carried it off. Mrs. Tilden has made an affidavit; of her low. and measures will be adopted by the police to ferret out the culity parties, The California Ticket Case—Charlea 8, Palmer and RB, 8. Taight appeared before Justice Mount fort, youorday, and gave bail on three charges of selling tickets of par rage to rnin, Officer Bumatead held ihe warrante of arrest for the (wo parties, The amount of ‘bail wag » 0B ecb ane, \ i