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‘and pase@ lawful Dill for the completion ¢f the ca- NEW YORK HERALD. | unle, On thecontrary, he and his party friends will ahanrnane eng make an iseue of the canel enlargement question, ‘and endeavor to have the constitution so ainended | as to admit of the legatizetion of a bill siuitar to | the ono whish has just been declared unconsttta- tional by the Court of Appeals. If the whixs ander- take anything ofthe Kind, it will be a tacit eflmis- sion on their part that the measure which they and their hunker allieshave been so strenuonsly endos- bs natn ia voring to foist upon the people, gti aes Rey rot fired te stitutional, andes such, was, in reality, gran eee oustee 0 sean Nix’ Lereens | scheme to unlawfully draw out ofthe Sate a 1 an immense sum of moncy. ‘e have en vie be pal ver Thorpe Be detacted bogtt of this whole matter in another article. Tho newe-despatch from Rochester, this morning, JAMES GORVON FENVETT. PRORRIBTOR AND BDITOR —eeeeeee OPFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON aND MASSEY RTH. peeeennner rer nen es) THe Gay mae, Reeate per copy BT ber wenn er the Sirepenn kis ” THO NOTICE telsen of WReKymous communications, We de nol return HOw eejer ed ‘@nib(s of its constitattowality,’ and moved 9 refe- and sont to that the Canal Board bas nob ta day legally one of them. The the House, when it wa the Sennte. Its fate was not certain in that body. Several whig Senaters had previously. expressed b “ thelr opinions adverse to Yhe bill, “Mr. Morgan had proceed, and rome few contractors made a small commencement. When the first month expired, they rence to the Juiiciary Committee, imeorder that his presented drafts to the Auditor for instalments. He, mind might be onligbtened. Mr. Bockman was not deeming the contrgts completod aod fulilied opposed to it, on acvount of Seward’s mark boing avcording to the requisitions of the Jaw, refused pay-, upon it. Mr. Robinson originally him. ment. He was immediately cited before a Sapteme felf strongly opposed to the bill; Mr. James Judge, to give his reasons for witholding the canal M. Cook, then Chainman of the Bank Committee, | funds. The Auditor consulted John C. Spencer, entertained strong doubts of the correctness of the | who upheid him in hig views. A peremptory man- provisiua wisich allowed the revenue ¢ertificates to Camus was, however, issued, compelling him to pay. ‘de used for‘basiking purposes. The democratic Se- Believing himself correct, he carried the case to the ; nators very soon took 2 united amd determined Court of Appeals. Argument was heard in April, stam] against the bill. Chiy made it a party mea- | and the Court adjourned until the second Tuesday oF ent etree gineer, notwithstanding, autborised the work, 10... ted. J@B PRINTING exceuted with nectuem, cheapness, aud 'TISEMENTS reacwed every day. dexy teh. dove .No. 134, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY ®HEATRE, Dowery—Leca Monrez—Gon- moan BRvTHERS. 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The Furopoan jai!s-sill close at a quarter before: 11 o'clock. <The New Youx Werxty Hraaco, with the latest news from all partsof the Union, printed in Freneh and Exg- | Beh, will be mublished at half-past 9 o'clock to-morrew Single copies, in wrappers, six pence, —————=E | The: News, \ A highly impertantant despateh from one of our special telegraphic correspondents at Washington, x atory of the real causes ¢f the rejection of the Tehuantepec «tveaty by the Mexican Congress, will be found amoug our telegraphic advices in this day's IIenazr». Ibgppears that the Mexicans are especially jealous ef the large tract of land granted for colonization purposes in the Garay contract, among the benefits of the Tehuantepeo nght of way ; audtLey charge that this extraordinsxy land grant was effected by dxibery and corruption. It further ap- pears that. om the rejection of the treaty, Mr. Letcher wade ite ratification our ultimatum at the hazard of war, and that from this ultimatum Presi- dent Arista has appezled to the Presigent of the United States, rapresenting the impoaglbility of g to the Gazay.treaty, even under te threat hut urging, at the.came time, the readinoss o to grant the zight.cf way upon fic and liberal terms. Doulviless.the Garay treaty will now Le abandoned and a new .one catered into. (It is highly probable that the cabinet will have the exb- Jeet wader special consideration to-day. It syocars from our special advices, also, that the Chevalier Hulsemann, im throwing up his commis- sion as Minister of Austria, left his parting blessing upon record for the henefit of Mr. Webster, in the form of a lengthy and characteristic letter. The course of the Sccretary of Stateiin regard to Koseuth, Meegary, and Austria, was too much for the a of the Austrian Ghevaier. The Rassian Miniger has had, pezkaps, as much “£0 for »ffenee, but Mr. Bodiseo is an old diplomat, 26d trifles do net frighten him out of his prypricty. He keows that in this country something must be conceded to the principle ef ¥berty. But the more impe- vious Austiian hes simply made himself and his t ridieuleus, in his puerile eomplaints ances. Vor .example, who, before this, ; of a foreign sinister complaining to the ent@f the remarks.of the newspapers upon his conéict? Ifwe bed a censership over the thay have in Austs32, such an appeal might | ible; but until the censors we furnished by | the Austrian,gsvernment, hey gpinister at Washing- ton will continue to be liable to the same freedom of | newspaper eritjoian as Kossuth, or Kinkel, or Lola | Montes, and the Jeguits. The only censorship over | the press with us isa jury of tweive “good men | |.them at ann’s Gength, and show their dislike contains some very curious and interesting informa- tion. In consequence of the meeting of the Anti- Stavery Bociety in that place, which weuld vory naturally-dvaw together a large number ef fugitive slaves, their masters got out warrants, ana yesterday repaired to the spot with the imtention of arresting | them. But they were not quite quick enough. ‘The | dlack birds got wind of the mentuvre, and | vanished. As a matter of course, the affair | preduecd .great excitement, wut not sufficient | to deter Isla Montez from taking the town by storm in the evening, and perfectly upset- | ting the danaties, with as much ease'as she does the Jesuits, wherever and whenever she finds them. No Jesuitical abolition-humbugging mronomaniacs were present ; at least the despatch ‘says “‘she ap- peared before a crowded and highly rospectable au- dience,” 0 that, of course, no meck philanthropist could havebeen in the house. But this is not all. A iarge meoting of the democrats took place on Wednosday evening, at which o hearty support was pledged to any constitutional moasure for the enlargement of the canals. This gives’ the whip | start to the-éemocrats with regard to, this matter. Reports of the proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Se- ciety and Ediectic Medical Convention will be found under the:head of *‘ Anniversaries.” Rochester is alive with.exeitoment this week. Late advieoe from Newfoundland and Nova Svetia announce that large quantities of ice were drifting in the vieinity «f those islands, and that a groat number of wessels in the Straits of Canso were hédged in, an@ some of them would probably be much injured. ‘The ice had already cut through and sunk the‘bajg Manilla,.at Ship Harbor. Tho repart.of the proceedings of the second day’s | meeting of the #American-and Forcign Anti-Slavery Society, which we.publish: to-day, is highly amas- tng, and no doubt will wake our readers laugh | heartily. There was quite an effort to get up an excitement about «an anti-slavery novel writ- ten by Mrs. Stowe, of which 50,000 copies have been sold in cight weeks, or 1,000 per day, at a dollar and avhalf a copy. The pub- lisher has realizod $25,000 already, and expects to make $50,000. ‘The writer has made only $7,500, at the rate of fifteen, cents per copy. It seoms, after all, that vory pious people can read novels whemthey squaro with their views. The sale of this book is argued to be an ovidence of ihe deap hold the anti-Slevery sentiment has upon the people; but there will be very few copies sold in the Gouthern States, and it is there only that the influence of the book coxkd have any effect. It seems that@he Anti-slavery Seeiety are not satisfied with tracts.and novels; they are getting upagencies lec- turers and colporteurs—itinerant missi ‘ies of mis- chief. We shall soo how it will allend. But the most, agausing part of the report is, that in which the black livered pitch ito the white livered abolitionisig, and there can ‘be no doubt that George Doxning, the oystermen, was perfectly right in hie «esolution, and all tke colored men are right in what they say and think of the hypocri- tical white Magorms of the Abolitien Society, who affect such wonderful sympathy with the black race; but when it comes to practice, they keep and prejudices mere strongly than aSoxthern plan- ter, who really leves ‘his slaves. We dearn that George Downing, ef oyster notoriety, is to )e.in- vested, as he ought .to.be, by his black majosty Seulouque, with theesoss of the Legion of Honor. This is all right. Readex, turn to the report, and seo what an exhiLition ix made of the white aboli- tionists. In eonaection with a laxge amount of*other in- teresting aratter, for whick we have not room fora general reference, is the follexying :—The details of the European news brought by the Canada; ac- count of the coronation of Faustin of Hayti; <ommon Coungil proceedings ; burning of French's Hotel, and loss of two lives; « variety of local | itows; Police retarns of Brooklyx; fatal case of | hydvophobia ; exeftement relative to a condemnod negro in Richmond, Va; full reportg of several Annivaczaries; Commercial, Financial aud Shipping intelligence, &e., &e. The Canat Bill—Its Inception, Paterxity, Progress, and Speedy Dissolution, and tru Porhape the late Austrian minister war e of even ihis tribunal of redzess, or we » been favored with his counsels at Wash- | sometime longer. But he has quit, and | consent to iose him. | ding the brevity of the report of yes y's proceedings in the United States Senate, a | . work got through with. Among | ueed was one asking for land for the | the 601 of a railroad from Cincinnati to | ft The proposed road is much needed, | and the inhabitants of those two cities, when | their d advancement i taken into con- | jon,onght to possess spirit enough to com- | the road without asking the government tthem. However, they may as well come in for their share of the public plunder, while they Betweon the freo farm bill of the House rider } | ve much land to qnarrel about hereafter. The | took up the Defieiency Will, and after infor- $ug over the Collins steamship appropria- | of Mr. Borland, .i mmendinents which appropriate $101,000 for | the varions objects named in the report. Tho cleaning and ventilating operations, which wore commenced in the hall of the House of Repre- veniatives yesterday morning, appear to have had the effect of pretty effectually cleaning out Wash- ington—-al least we should judge so from the num- | | ber of Con veamen who came into this city last ¢ those who sought quarters at the Senator Foote, of Vt., and the | inson, and Haven, of New | .5 B. Stanton and No doubt more real practical work was wg Plished in the hall of the House yesterday than on: any other day since the opening of the session. ul returns of the election of whig delegates to | e representatives to the National Convention, h took place inthis city and vicinity yesterday, ven in another part of this paper. We have | turns from twen of the th’ cty-six Con- al districts of this State, of which Scott las cen and Fillmore seven. Scott will, no doubt, pave the six districts not heard from. It ia Mid that Foerctary Webster’ still detain him ai Marshfield for he will, however, address th» Bosto: Hall, prior to his return to Washingt Nottith- standing all the man res of the free soilors to impair him in the estimation ef the whigs, the latter party in Massachusetts, where hi and feelings are so thoroughly un tood, ev a determination to stick to him, and they will elevate him to the Prosidency, if true devotic Le of any avail. As yet, none but Webster « gates have been chosen bythe whigs of the old Bay State. According to the despateh from our Albany cor- respondent, Gov. Hunt will not take the trouble of ing an extra session of the Legislature to devise injuries will ntimonts | 6 | oflivers then in power, in consultation with Seward, . | dohn C. Spencer, pronouncing the bill pert | democrats planted themselves behind the opinions | cumectly prot The history of legislation, the action of combina- tions of men ia power, the unrogulated spirit of | speculation in this State, present no parallel, no comparison, to the vilanies and corruptions brought into requisition upor what is familiarly known as the Canal law of 1851. Its conception had men of all parties engaged, and its originators—it is charity to believe—had no design to make it a political Lobby. The bantling was first introduced to light in the House of Assombly, in the month of Feb- | ruary, by a member from the county of Orleans— lag M. Burroughs. Being a professed democrat, and holding, in a measure, a prominent position as | a leader of his party in the House, it was imagined that be could carry a sufficient number of his par- tisans to insure ita passage through the House. The bill, upon being introduced, was referred to the Committee on Canals, of which Orlando Alien, a whig mcmber from Buffolo, wos chairman. Here it underwent a protracted scrutiny. All the State Weed, Abell, Seth C. Hawley, and: other master spirits, held daily and nightly confer- ences upon the bill. The Chief Engincer, and all his army of subordinates, were added to the conclave. Burroughs, and a few hard shell honkers, were permitted to have a voice in perfecting its details. Finally, after a month of protracted meetings, the committee, through Mr. Allen, presented the bill, though modified most essentially from the one originally intro- duced by Mr. Burronghs. Being conscience- stricken at the daring attempt to violate a plain section of the constitution of the State, the conspirators obtained, in advance, an opi exeeptionable as regards its interference fundamental law. he discussion of the bill was quite fui] and free in the private cixcles of members, many days before it was taken up in the House. Thus, the fact became evident that 0 large portion of the democratic members intended to rezistits pas- sage, mainly on the ground of its unconstitutionali- iy. It then began to weer a party aspect. The of Hoffman and others, as expressed im the convon- vontending that no more money could ing the canals than rved fox that purpose in the eonsti- tution. Lbey urged, with great zeal, the absolute ity of submitting the question of borrowing ‘They also ly ree ne ted against ma o canal re- venue certificates a 3 for ! asthey could not be recognized as State stocks ity provided by the bauking The discussion of the bill | was mostly on the democratic side. The whigs of | the House, having beceme united upon it, v purposes, or any other sect laws of the St | The democrats being driven to the wall, and having , sure, most emphatically. Even Brandreth, the most incerrigibie lrunker, and one of the hardest of the shells, yielded and went with his party. in May. The Court met on the day assigned—all the members present except Judge Gridley, detained by sickness. A decision was rendered reversing the | \d take a, ** of soup” under the Low hear health of Gen. Scott. h fg the flexible nature of politicians, that often, When they appear to be as stiff as steel, they are as elastic as gutta percha, They sometimes split upon personal grudges, joalousies, and rivalries; but they, of the same party, seldom quarrel upon prin- ciples, when the spoils are at stake. We conclude, therefore, that Gen. Seott will not berequired to endorse the Fugitive Slave law by the whig national convention—that the convention it: will not endorse that act, or any other act of the slavery adjustment—that the Southern Union whigs will submit with very little grumbling to the North- ern majority—that gll the late Southern inanifestoes and pronunciamentocs will be resolved Into mere fustian and moonshine, except the letter of Mr. Botts, which, being according to the policy of Sew- ard and compan ;, »\ii | ecome the guide-book of the The whigs having a majority of two, also formed | decision of the Court below, thereby pronouncing Union whigs, from Virginia to Texas. a stzict party phalanx, and unitedly resisted every proposition for amendment offered by the other | skte. By this time Daniel Wobster’s opinion ar-— rived, agreeing with Spencer; and it was freely as- serted at the time that it was mainly on thisaccount | that Babcock and Beekinan changed their views. exhausted ‘all argumenta—all efforts in the Senate the canad-bi!i unconstitutional ! Had Jove hurled a thunderbolt directed at the heads of the canal conspirators—-the nino million robbers—no greater consternation could have been produced. All their plans frustrated— the grand political superstructure which had almost received its cap stone, demolished with | one fell swoop—the mighty scheme of controll- The cohesive properties of shoemakers’ wax aro nothing compared with the adiesive plaster of the spoils. Scott will be the whigcnndidate, and upon no other principlesthan the fifty millionsa year from the public treasury, and the furty thousand office holders of the President. But these will be enough to bring out the full strength of the whig party, North and South, abolitionists, Union men, seces- to defeat/the bill—held'a caucus, when they rezolved | ing the political destinies of this State for a score of | sionists and all. More than this, let the democrats to resign their seats rather than witness'a deliberate murder ofthe constitution. The next morning nearly years, blown sky high. All the hopes of a desperate and daring legislative lobby scattered,to the furi- sce to it in the right way, and at tho right time and place, or Scott will inevitably gain enough of their every democratic Senator was atsent. Mr. Mann | ous winds. All the anticipated fortunes ofknaves, | loose materials to secure his election. His military arose and inquired whether it was the intentien of the anajority to-press the question upon the bill. The re- ply was that it was the ogject. He then gent to the | ‘ ‘ | are the banks discounting upon them ? What aro Chair the resignation of himself and cleven othor Senators, which, being read, he calmly and with the . greatest coolness anddignity, retired from the Se- nate chamber. solemn, interesting and ‘inposing ever witnessed in that or any other-legislative hall. This important step saved, at that.tim>, thé Constitution from vio- lation; -but-it causod.au immediate adjournment of both heuses. Bofore these, proceedings were recorded ‘upon the journals of the two branches, the friends of the Canal bill demanded that Governor Hunt should forthwith call an extra session, and issue a procla- | moment baried bencath the billows. The scenee was one of the most | | which interest is being paid at six per cent ? What political blacklegs, rapacious blooghounds, in a) Where are the revenue certificates now ? Where | they, inreality, worth 2 Where is the one million five hundred thousand dellars which the State has borrowed under the defonet Canal law, and for oecasion has the State to pay that rate of interest ? If put on depasit; only five per cent can be realized; consequently .a dead loss of ono per cent must ac~ crue. The million and a half thus obtained, what is to be done with it? The law under which it has been obtained, has been pronounced a fraud upon the people. The highest court of the State has s0- lJemnly declared that this money was obtained under mation to fill the vacaneigs of the resigned Senators. | ‘Ho promptly complied. | It now became evident-that the law would pass ! as soon as the Legislature-convenod. No time was to be lost in parcelling-eut the ten or twenty mil- | lions. A special secret-meoting washeld at Albany. | The master spirits, being the chief and confidential associates of the weelly whig order, and a few of Burroughs’ hard shell democrats, adopted a ¢late, upon which was written,-in bold characters, the name of a firm which was to have the entire control of the canal completions. Allen, of Buffalo ; Abell, | of Genesee ; Dickinson,.ef Steuben ; Dimmick, of | ‘Broome, were assigned the duty of selecting the | sub-contractors for certain ;portions of the work. -Heavy bonuses, in the shape .of premiums, were to be secured for certain privileges and emoluments. | The revenue certificates te be:issued by the Comp- troller were also parcelled.out among particular favorites, to be at once returned to the banking department, upon which to iesue paper purporting to represent money. The extra session was held, the bill enacted, and | the persons directed therein, proszeded with all pos- sible despatch to carry out its provisions. The | Comptroller advertised for a loan of a million; the Canal Board, engineer, and assistants examined the line of the unfinished canals, preparatory to solicit- ing bids from canal contractors. In the meantime, the annual State election took place, and the people changed the political complexion of the Canal'Board, the members of which would assume duty.on the first of the then coiffing January. This was a shocking and an unexpected event. The persons and the party who had recklessly overrode the con- stitution, in order to accomplish such a magnificent scheme, had been frustrated. All the fruit which they had expected to pluck, was nipped by a chill- ing frost. They stood as motionless as statues. Pillars of marble were not more stationary. The pill which had been so nicely gilded became tar- nished, and the actors in this drama of infamy exhibited the appearance of disordered hypochon- driacs. The commissioners finally advertised for bidders on the whole work. The time raa out— the propositions were opened in form, as the daw required. The meetings of the Board were in secret. The man Abeli demanded that contracts should be allotted accerding to a pro- gramme arranged by Weed. The Beard stood, four woolly whigs, one silver gray, (Seymour,) and four | democrats. Qf course, Seymour would not agree to Weed’s slate, and eonsequently it was broken. Seymour apxt demanded that his “ next friend,” George Lasy, should have contracts to the smount | of three miliions, or about one-third of the wholo. | This was deni Then it wes concluded to make | a political division, as it was found that unless Sey- mour was gratified, neither tke woolly whig democrats could inake a distribution to their fr and here became developed a most remark: The very men who denounced the law from inception, and threw every possible obstaclo in the | way of its passage, now became as zealous for epn- | tracts as the friends of the bill. Although they as- | serted repeatedly that the law could never be car- | ried into effect—although they declared it unconsti- | tutions!, and must eventually be so decided by the Lighest tribunal in the State—although they caused | ai adjournment of the Legislature rather than the Canal bilj,should pass—although their chief law of- ficer openly asserted his determination totest the question—yet, notwithstanding all this, these identi- | cal men entered as voraciously into the contest for | contracts for themselves and political friends, as any of the woolleys or hunkers. The first slate which was submitted, was by Mr. Chatfield, who, by agree- ment with Engincer Seymour, wanted to give Geo, Law a three million contract. The circumstance that General Chamberlain offered to “throw a thousand dollar bill in his pocket” already demon- strated the fact that the Attorney-General himself | was making the wost he could for his friends, not- withstanding he believed the law, and all tho pro- ceedings under it, wore filled with villany and abo- mination. The whole transactions show that the leaders of cach section of the two parties endeavored with all their might to obtain the lidn’s share of the vine millions. A number of meetings were held— | Seymour went to Canada in disgust and wrath. The Board, four to four, could do nothing; the first of January was nigh, when the old Board would expire. Finally, the Board adopted a resolution throwing up all the slates, and directed the commissioners and en- gincers to allot the contracts to the “ lowest respon- sible bidders,” irrespective of party favoritiem; and on the 31st of December, the expiring hour of their official existence, the lettings were announced. The evidence of corruption and venality was so conspicuons that the whole community, as with a sia- gle voice, pronounced condemnation upon the com- | be attended to at once. | bill—something like the one submitted by Senator j false pretences—obtained without any warrant underthe constitution of the State, or any authority from our Magna Charta. The capitalists have been induced to part with their funds uniler a firm belief that the instruments were legally made; but it turns out that they have been doccived; and as the matter now stands, the Comptroller cannot pay any further interest upon those moneys. The Legislature must unake the earliest provision for the relief of those persons who have been drawn inte this unfortunate dilemma; but until some provision is thus made, we doubt whether the first dollar of interest will be paid. The Comptroller will be highly censurable should he undertake to assume any such quos- tionable responsibility. How stand the conspirators who parcelled out the canal contracts to their brothers, sons, relatives, and favorites? Will they realize the threo millions which they undertook most deliberately to take fin the hard earnings of tho people of this State? Where are thesecret conclave—the letting board— Hawley, Abell, Hollis White, Bray, and othors, who for a week, night and day, were closcted in No. 7 Congress’ Hall, Albany, during the ex- piring days of last December, parcelling out the contracts? Where are the profligate political gamblers, pettifoggers, newspaper drivellors, law- yers, scriveners and eo on, who sold out their contracts for premiums of from one to ten thousand dollars? Echo can answer where? A few of tho contractors who have entered with good faith apon the perform- ance of their work, and have been arrested from further proseeution, vill undoubtedly present claims to the State for damages; but there are very few of thiskind. Nearly the whole, fearing the law might be pronounced unconstitutional, have not made nny preparations for commencing work; aud they have adopted the wisest course. Well, what isto be done? The canals must be, completed, and done, too, as speedily as the provisions of the conatitution will allow. Will the Governor call an extra session of the Legislature for the pur- pose of enacting alaw submitting the question to the people at the coming November election—whe- ther they will approve the borrowing of a certain sum of money for the purpose? Will Governor Hunt | be as prompt as he was when the twelve Senators | resigned? All sincere friends of the canals, now that the law of 1861 has been annulled, will cor- dially unite in a eall for an extra session. If one is not held, another year will roll round before any steps can he taken, which will put off so much longer | the time for the completion of the canzls. Some- thing should be speedily done with the million-and- a-half illegally placed in the treasury : the canal revenue certificates are in a perilous predicament, and the banks which are now flooding the State with paper issued upon such a tottering basis, must | Our advice, therefore, is that an extra scesion be held as soon as possible—if only for a couple of days—pass a legitimate canal MeMurray—give us another deal of the canal le}- | tings, and let us seo whether there cannot be a dis- tribution made more honorable and more uprighd, and of greater advantage to the people, than the late infainous ‘transaction. But, as Weed is exe pected home on the first of June, Governor Hunt may as well defer his proclamation for aw extra session until that time. The Game of th ‘0 Old Partics on the Compromise. at says the South t The light increases—the fog is clearing away— | to the verge of the political horizon its landmarks are becoming visible. The plan of the campaign of 1852 already stands. out in bold relicf. It is too palpably manifest to be misinterpreted, that the compromise measures will be completely dodged by both the Baltimore Conventions—that neithor the democrats nor the whigs will have the moral courage to touch them—that they will both go be- fore the country with the door wiile open to the slavery agitation, and that the great issuc will not be the finality of the slavery adjustment, but o con- . test between the whigs and democrats for abolition votes and the plunder ef the public treasury. The whig primary elections in this city, yostor- day, practically amount to nothing. They only show, by a very striking contrast, the feeblencss of Fillmore and Webster, and the overwhelming strength of Seott in the State at Jarge. Throughout a the North and the West it is the same story. Scott | , and Seward are the Alpha and Omega of the whig party. At the Baltimore Convention, the forces of Scott will be sufficient to gag all attempts at resist- ance to his nomination without a platform—to silence all opposition, and to dragoon the Southern delegates into submission and gorvile obedience;* and north ond south we may expect to see the whig party uniting in the pitiful seramble for tiie epoils, as harmonious’y as if principles and great measures of nationa! safety were the more clap-trap and hum- joners and engineers. Js there not renson to be- | lieve that corruption ruled in many of the lettings ? | ‘The result showed that tho hunker# and woolleys had | combined in the letting board, and distributed all the anost profitalls contracts to their friends, r gardless of the instructions received from the Canal | Board. afton, it was found that the | Upon a ev contracts were given to men—and in numerous in- such as Hawley, | 2» of Black Kock, Nathan | aud scores of others of | © of more than | made by the most | capable and responsible contractors. Such irre" | | | | bids sponsible political demagegucs possessed the influence of the letting board, had constant tain of its passage through that body, and con very little time, merely referring to Mr. opinion as dn answer to all the te bill. i j A week or 60 was | dumed upon it in access to their private deliberntionsx—they were | advised as to who would receive vontracts, and | when ay award was made of # favorable nature, these contract brokers were ready for » sale or pur- cbase. So palpably fraudulent weve the contracts, | the seeeders from the late whig caucuses at Wash- i | ing to see, before the suns bug of paliry demagoguer for local purposes, to be abandoned by cominon consent in the grand strag- gle for the public plunder. Wo may expect to see ington, foremost upom the stump in repairing the damagee which they atte: to inflict upon the military whig candidate. J( would not be surpris- r, such mon as per is o | the leading organ of the barnburuers, or anti-slavery | tion upon the Fugitive law, we may safely assume 4 Seward and his allies all over the North, that both glory is intended for the same successful effect upon the loose democracy as was realized in the election of Harrison and the election of Taylor. Now, what are the prospects of a recognition of the binding effect of the Compromise measures, by the National Democratic Convention? They meet on the Ist of June, and the whigs wi thus have the advantage of their platform as a guide. If the democrats, then, evade the Compromise, and give it the go-by, or Jay it under tho table, the whigs will have all the advantages of doing the same thing. Still it ia clear that tho democrats intend to dodge the question. We have recently had some very curious developements on this subject, perfectly satisfactory to us, that the democratic convention will bo as dumb as General Scott upon the compro- mise measures, from a fatal misconccption of their true policy. . Major Donekon, the late active editor of the Washington Union, has just thrown up his interest in the concern, on the plea, that, as the advocate of the compromise platform, his labors have tended rather to distract than to harmonize the democratic party. Tho plain English of the matter we sup- pose to be this :—Major Donelson was a party to the recent arrangement in Congress, by which the public printing was to be taken away from the present contractor, and given to the Union and the Republic. But both these organs, standing upon the compromise platform, were defeated, or mainly defeated, by a junction of free soilers and socession- ists, who do not recognise the doctrines of such ora- cles. The Southern rights democrats were particu- larly determined to give the Union the tasto of a little retaliation. So they repudiated it, and indignantly made sport of its distress. Failing to harmonize the party upon the public printing, Major Donelson might well despair of evor uniting them upon the compromise measures at Baltimore. He was compelled, therefore, either to abandon his principles or abandon his post. le has preferred the latter alternative, and we think he has acted wisely. The prospect of any very pro« fitable job of the public printing to the Union office is slim and dubious; and without government pap, a daily party organ in Washington is a pain- fully losing concern. Major Donelson, thorefore, by leaving the Union, gots rid of his troubles, anxiety and hope deferred, and saves his principles, his character, his credit, and his money. But his re- linquishment ofthe Union simply means that, as ; the advocate of the compromise platform, he has been beaten from the field, and that no such plat- orm will be attempted at Baltimore. To strengthen this view of the case, Mr. John Forsyth, a leader of the Southern rights branch of | the democratic party of Georgia, forewarns his | Northern brethren against attempting to make a platform of the compromise measures, after all the late fierce elections in the South on the question of open resistance to the admission of California. The Souther rights party cannot surrender, at this late day, to Cobb, aud Clemens, and Foote, even to sara the democratic purty, for this Southern quarrel is a personal matter with the leaders of the Union purty. On the other hand, the Evening Post of this city— wing of the New York democracy—admonishes the party that they cannot consent to an endorsement of the Fugitive Slave law—it must not be made a party test. And thus, to conciliale the secessionisté in reference to California, and the Van Buren fac- that the Baliimore Democratic Convention will give the compromise the slip, or throw it overboard as quietly as possible. What will the South do? Can they, ov will they, after submitting to the action of both conventions aitimore, do anything to resist the controlling nences of the anti-slavery sentiment of the North? Can they do anything but submit, if both parties at Baltimore dodge the fugitjye question? This is the only vital question of the Whole adjust- ment; for, while the other parts of it eannot be dis- turbed, this may be repealed, and the entire North made as open and safe to fugitive’ slaves as Canada itself. Let the demoerats evade this qnestion, and without gaining anything in the North, thoy will give every advantage of the dodge to General Scott in the South, and, most probably, lose the election, from t' ¢ useless attempt to outbid Seward for ubolition votes. The true policy of the. demo- erats is to recognise the binding finality of the Iu- gitive Slave law—that.isthe question; and the trae policy of the South is to make it the sine gua non in both the Baltimore conventions. The democratic party is pretty sound in the Nort on slavery, ex- cept in the whig States. Let tho democrats adopt the Fugitive Slave law, and if they fail to bring Gen, Scott to the mark, they will get their usual Northern vote, and will sweep the whole South. If they bring him to it, theyare at least upon equal | ground on this vital issue. But we fear the plan of the campaign is settled— | that the democrats are resolved to shirk the fugitive | question to conciliate the Northern abolitionists; and that, in resolving to sacrifice principles for | plander, they will be beaten by the military candi- | date of the whig party, North and South. It is | manifest that both parties intend to dodge the fagitive law, a law which has been already nullified by a law of Vermont, and which is threatened with uullification in Massachusetts, a bill to that effect having just passed the popular branch of tho Legis- lature. It is manifest, wo say, although the | repeal of this fugitive act is the first chjcet of parties intend to dodge the question for the sake of abolition votes. In this contingency, what will the South do? Will they act independently of both parties, or will they submit to “ the higher law?” The Baltimore conventions will answor the question. The Lord save the Union! The Turf. . Unies Covnse, L. L—Trorrme.—May 12, mateh W. I. Seward and Humphr the State: of New York in the « sleeping as Jovingly under the some blanket as John M. Botts and-Captain Tyler. 1 would not astonish us tosee Botts and Giddings operating together in Ohio, and Mangum and Clingman the wonder and admiration of the pine barrens Yorth Carolina, in their eloquent praives of ancther no-party whig candidate—the Goliah of the Philistines—the terror of the Mexicans—-and the greatest and most glorious whig, dead or alive. Most wonderful of all, it would be no wonder if Gov. Johnston, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Webster should come to- $1,000, t1.xee mile heats, in harness, John Perrin named g. g. Bagle of the West.. J, Somerindyke named gs Tae Mae hime, §:1 :34—8 44. ‘The above race was a beautifully contested affair through. out; infact; one of the best three mile races that ever \ on the Inland, The inclement state of the 121 212 Anglo-Aworioan race, at the presont day, are almost "es peculiar, stfange, novel, and unintelligible to. Europeens, as were those of the aboriginal race of Americans when Columbus and his follewers first Planted their feet on the shores of this continent, | nearly four ccaturies ago, And yet it seems but natural that tho inhabitants of the New World should have their own peculiarities and traits of character, distinguishing them from the mortals of the Old World, even though thoy descended from the same stock. We bave completely outgrown the comprehension of Europeans—they are completely + « bewildercd by our eccentricities, and eannot under- stand the funny phases of our national character. We are, in fact, a perfect puzzle to their duller in- tellects; and they cannot make out our social lati- tude and longitude, by any manner of calculation or apalysis. We present to them such wordorfal com- binations of folly and wisdom—piety and irreligion —ybilozophy and humbug—sevexity and drollery— patriotj-m and nonsense—commercial greatnoss and £0: littleness—stoicism and exeitability— that we sro to. them, at tho present day, as little understood as are the inhabitants of the wonderful city of the Aitees in South America. They cannot, by any exercise of their reasoning powers, comprehend the furore with which we enter into the most opposite pursuits of money making, politics, religion, sceialism, fa- naticism, hero worship, theatricals, fun, and drolle- ry. They don’t kuow how we can make such an exquisite mélange of social habits by the admixture of qualities so apparently incongruous. When » Fanny Els-lux, with Chevalier Wikoff for her ma- nager, comes oyer from Europe to cnt capers and dance pirouettcs, the cold, calculating Yankees lay aside, for the time, their business habits, put on their funny humor, and kick up as mueh fun and excitement in honor of the fair danseuse as thoy do on a fourth of July anniversary. If Tom Thumb, Joyce Heth, the Fejec Mermaid, or the Woolly Horre from the Rocky Mountains, are advertised for exhibition in Barnum’s menagerie, the public swallow the bait with a most voracious andludi- crous appetite, and the ingenious manager hauls in his nets with a great take. If Jenny Lind eonde- scends to visit us on a professional tour, attracted by the great field which we present for operations, the same manager, with sanctimonious face, iAtimates that she is an angel of philanthropy, and the ex- citement grows into such a mania that a concert ticket becomes as valuable as half a dozen ounces of gold dust. If Kossuth, and Kinkel, and Lola Montes seek our shores as political refugees, apostles of liberty, tho avant-couriers of European. yepublican- ism, the victims and deadliest enemies of Jesuitisny, the cauldron of excitement is immediately set boil- ing, ovations are got up in thoir honor, and the dol- lars contributed with the most reckless extrava- gance, to pay for their oratorica! or dancing exhi- bitions, to promote their grand designs, and to send them on their way rejoicing. Mormonism and Ro- chester knockings, Presidential elections and European intervention, the lower]aw and the higher law, by times receive the attention of the public, who have always some three or four of theseexciting subjects before them, and are, therefore, always kept well stocked in fun, drollery, fanaticism, and humbug. Who has forgotten the famous log-cabin campaign and hard-eider revelry of 1840, when Gen. Harrisow was elected President of the republic? Since those rollicking days, however, we have had very few po- litical eaturnalias in our Presidential elections. But luckily we have every prospect this year of # return of these funny scenes, in the contest for the spoils, in which Gen. Scott figures as the great “ fuss and feathers” of the occasion. He, in all probability. will be the exclusive candidate of ‘he whigs, probably will be elected by one of those exuberiur: species of frolic and drollery in which the Americun people delight to indulge occasionally. He may hw seated in the Presidential chair by just such a dis- play of facetiousness, on the part ofthe great Ame- rican people, as characterized their doings of a simi- lar nature in past years, as, for instanec, i the ease of Gen. Harrison—when they could not refrain from perpetrating the capital joke of electing him—and such as they constantly exhibit in their social, po- litical, aud religious matters. The cognomens of “fuss and feathers,” and the “hasty plate of soup,’™ by which the General is known, will enly tend to ada ® grenter zest to the joke, and inerease the popu-- larity, for the time being, of the man who dear- these Tunny designations. bd No wonder that the dull-pated Raropeans shoala be lost in amazement, and their intelleeta utterly be- wildered, when they attempt to solve the problem of~ Americanism. To them it isan enigma as dark as the fabulous Sphynx ever propquuded. We are as far abead of them in all sublunary things as we are in our knowledge of the spirit-world, thanks to Judge Edmones and the host of spiritual mediums. Police Intelligence. 4 Lnposter,—A young man, eal himsel ’ Jem Vatdire, ‘was, on ‘Thureday. arrested by office: Nrenehurd, of the chief's bureau, charged with) havi folicitcd and btained money ofjvarious persons, Topre. | senting that he was from the members ot fire companies Wand 17. under the pretence of sald money being ay prepriatcd for the benefit of dirabled tireméty when, (8 | fact, he retained the money for his own use, The av- cused was conveyed before ‘the Mayor, who committed him to piison for trial, ik tolen Property.—Officer 8. J, Smith. of the court, arrested. on Phureday, a man calling sick Sinith, alias Courdy, having in his posses antity of broadcloth, and an india rubber ever= hen airested by the officer and conveyed before Bogert. he could not give a satisfactory account in possession of the articles named, and n was, that the property was atolon, for Which an owner is wanted, Tho articles oan be seen by culiing on the property clerk at the Tombs, The iagis- thule cominitted the prisoner for a farther examination. Charge of Stealing a Diamond Breast Pin—Officer Bil | Seb ef che Jelicron market police court, om Thursday dn mau named Hevry C, Hope, a’ bar doing. Lusiness in Canal street. on a charge of steabing a dia : ined at $60, and $100 in gold coin, the pro: Ilarrict Forrester. keeper of a saloon at th: adway and Canal street, It gppears thitt t y has existed between Mrs, Forrester: and Hope. \uc }aving Lorrowed $420 fiom her, and gave hee his mic fe revurity; and now she olieges that thé ac- cused has exiracied from her trunk the above manied proparty, tevether with the note acknowledging his in- dcLiediess to ber, The officer conveyed the accused be- fore Justive MeGeath, who committed h'm to prison for a. further examination, Siricnixa Yrr.—The stages + Troy on Fridny lust from Bi lows F miles of the route on runners; and the driver that he should continue tv do «oat least two- weeks longer. a Court Calendar for This Day. Scrnemx Covnt.—General Term— Motions, Usriep Srates Distnret Count.—Sesont Class—Nue. % +55 ae Clase—Nos.7, 10, 11. 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