The New York Herald Newspaper, May 15, 1852, Page 4

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Mr. Hale, in the United States Senate, yesterday, ‘wery boldly defined the position of the free soil do- mecrats on the Compromise question. Ho says that if the democrats at Baltimore make the Fugi- ive Slave law a stick of timber in their platform, they may look out for the revival of the Buffalo party, and a Buffalo ticket for 1852, which will leave the democratic candidates as high and dry as in 1848, and by the same operation. The democracy have had similar warnings from the Southern rights section of the party ; they cannot consent to the Justice of the Compromiso, which includes the admission of Culifornia, and they say that any at- tempt to choke them into it, will, just assure as fate, produce a split in the family. Major Donelson hhas been compelled to quit the Washington Union because of the impossibility of harmonizing the party upon the compromises. If the Baltimore De- mocratic Convention, therefore, agree upon any policy, it will be the policy of dead silence on the compromises. They will be as dumb as General Boott; but there is a very fair prospect that, in spite of the hopes of plunder, there will be a grand ferment and a tremendous blow up of the harmo- nious domocracy from the biter’ rivairies of thei, fifteen or twenty candidates, and their deadly squabble between Young America and the old fogies. But little was done by the Senate in the way of business. The bill granting land and the right of way for the Wabash and Missouri Railroad, was erdered to be engrossed. A resolution was present- ed, asking for information concerning the withdraw- al of the Austrian Charge, and the proceedings wound up with an uninteresting debate on the @efieiency bill: The members of the Senate appear te take things very eoolly just at present how- ever, the action of the coming National Conven. tious, combined with summer weather, will soon grouse thom from their lethargy, and raise their stoam to an explosive point. After that, look out for bustle and excitement. The House of Representatives having voted them- selves a furlough till Monday, quite a respectable de- tachment have seized hold of the opportunity for vi- siting New York, probably in part to see how the | land lies with regard to the Prosidency in these lat- titudes. Possibly some ef them have come to con- sult with George Sanders and his Irish assistant edi- tor, with reepect to the expediency of making the homestead, or free furm bill, a pillar of the demo- eratic tabernacle to be set up at Baltimore ; for we learn, incidentally, that Ju ken hold of the | the old fogies toe the mark, by pushing the measure through, at all hazards. The game is becoming in- teresting, and exceedingly important in. ite de- velopements. Kossuth addressed between two and three thou- | sand Boston Hungarian bond helders, in Faneuil Hal}, last evening. In the course of his remarks, he stated that there were now twenty millions of bonds bearing his cignature, and that, when he @ame back from Europe, they would be good. No doubt of it ; but he didnot acknowledge that he had the remotest idea of coming back. If he had, the abrowd Yankees would have assertion. Much apathy appears to have prevailed in the Common Council ef Albany concerning the visit of Komuth to thot city. Althongh the attention of that body was directed to h ning on Wednesday evening, no movement was made in the matter until Jast ovening, when a special ting wae held, a@ad—probably after a of viph: oo mit- teo was appointed to make the r range- ments for his reception. This they were, in cour- tesy, compelled to d to dodge the reeponsibi ¢ ween the enormous bille which ha ether citice while the Magyar wae their ¢ 8 hoped that the Albany landlords will not have a# mach ¢ ulty in collecting their bille ax th keepors in Harrisburg, Washington, end eleewhore, had After 4 evetion of two days, the convention to select adelegate for the Twenty-soce sional district wijourned without z a choi There was a tie between the Seott and Fillmore | men—ten for each—and neither party would give | way H prumed, hotel aking Prior tu the finn? adjournment of Besiety at Rochester, on Thareday evening, the | members teem to have hocome quite rabid with | indignation and excitement, by way of glorifying | and odvaneir ir black canse. They commenced | the afternoon session with the trathful acknowledg- mont that public ent was universally arrayed against thom, and then proceeded to denounce | eharches and pressos—the Union and oconetitution— | tho laws, their makers and exe the President, and all the rest of mankind—win Z up with the opinion that the American © tion Boctoty isa | combination of buman wickedness, duplicity and ernelty. Garrison, May, and Phillips had all the ery 1o themselves—Horace Grocley being too | busily oceupied elsewhere, in concocting schemes to | elevate Keott to the Prosidensy. Vorily, this iva | Brest country—entirely too large for the compre- | the Anti-Slavery | hension and eonvenience of these fanatical aboli- tioniete—hence their destre to break up the Union. | His tenacity of held upon this argived yesterday, in a few hours » Donglas, having ta- | lin the Senate, intends to make | scarcely credited the | nd Congres- | privileges undor this purchase of the Garay grant, It is a groat relief to knew that yesterday was tho last day of the anniversary meetings. We makes | rearons may ba clean eweep of the reports of their proceedings thie mornin; Rican Britain, the moneter iron scrow eteumer, or thirteon days, from Liverpool. She was only seventeen hours bo- hind the Canada, ono of the fastest of the Cunard line. When we take into conideration her immonso size and comparative small steam power, the rosalt of her trip across the ocean is remarkabie. we speaks in tho highest torms of the perfection of be: model. She is propelled by the Archimedian sorew Ten days later newe from California has now been thirty days en rouge from San Francisco, via San Juan del Norte and Panama. The Daniel Webster: from the former, and the Bl Dorado, from the lattor place, with these later advicor, may be expected at any moment, us Our eclations with Mexico—The Tehuan- tepes Didiculty. Wo published exclusively, yesterday morning, a | very important despatch from Washington, com- municating the substance of # letter from tho Pre- sident of Mexico to tho President of the United Btates, on the subject of the pending difficulty be- tween the two governments, arising out of the re- jection of the Tehuantepec treaty by the Mexican Congress. According to this despatch, it appears that Mr. Leteber, our Minister to Mexico, had, after the rejection of the treaty, insisted upon its recon- sideration and ratification as the only alternative between peace and the hazards of war with the Uni- ted Btates; and that, upon receiving this wtmmatum, the Mexican President had appealed directly to President Fillmore, representing the injustice of our demands, the impossibility of acceding to then— even at the risk of war—and the disposition of Mex- ico, notwithstanding, to entor into a fair and libera compact, which will secure the opening of the pro- posed inter-oceanic communication acress the Isthmns of Tehuantepce for the benefit of mankind. Such, we understand, is the substance of the letter of Pre- sident Arista to President Fillmore—information which we consider entirely reliable. A subsequent report states that the cabinet have already had the subject under consideration. The insuperable obstacle with Mexico, to the ra- tification of the Garay treaty, it appears, is the im- mense tract of country which it surronders to the company holding the grant, for colonization purposes. The sad experience of Mexico, in regard to Texas, has naturally made her distrustful of the policy of settling her territories with adventurers from the United States ; and hence the prominent cause of the rejection of the Tehuantepec treaty. But it ap- pears there are other reasons, of law and of fact, against the recognition by the Mexican government of this treaty, founded as it is, upon the Garay grant of the right of way, and its privileges. We have been furnished with a Mexican docu- ment, entitled—* Statement of the Rights and Just Reasons, on the part of the Governmont of the United Mexican States, for not recognizing eithor the subsistence of the priviloge granted to D. Jose Garay, for the opening of a line of communication between tho Atlantic and Pacific Seas, through the Isthmus of Tchuantepec, er the legality of the ces- sion which he made of said privilege to citizens of the United States of North America, published by Authority of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mexico, 1853.” This document consists of a legal argu- ment of forty pages, against the validity of the Garay treaty. The leading points of this argument are: That the contract between Santa Anna and Garay was net fulfilled on the part of the latter, who failed to commence the work within the stipulated time, after which tho grant became a nullity. 2—That the acts of the provisional govern- ment of Santa Anna, of 1842, under which the grant was made to Garay, were subject to \+ upproval of the first constitutional Congress that mig it <vececd, and that without such approval the grant was void, 3—That the provisional government of Salas, which renewed the Garay grant and extended the time for the commencement of the work, had no authority in the premises. 4—That the transfer by Garay of his charter, to the English house of Manning, McIntosh & Company, was in violation of the com- pact; and that the subsequent transfer of the grant to the American house of Hargous & Company, and their transfer again to the New Orleans com- pany, were equally illegal, and were clearly intended as a device for coereing the Mexican goverament in the matter, under the fear, first, of the power of Great Britain, and secondly, of the well attested power of the United States. The on as a lawyer is none the leas entitled to respect. | must have some foundation in law, whatever other influenced his judgment. Nor does tho argument of tho Mexican Minister of For- eign Affairs meot the fucts in the case; for, although he insivuates that the excuse to Mr. Trit for re- fusing the United States the Tehuantepee right of way for fifteen millions of dollars, was a mere quib- ble, it doee not change the fact as to the recognition by tho Mexican government of the rights of others under the Garay grant. How, then, aro we to aceount for the unanimous rejection by Mexico of a treaty which she so readi- ly negotiated? We can only guess at the eause. Mexico is 2 revolutionary country. The popular prejudices of the country against ‘the Yankeos,” have been rather embittered than allnyed by tho late war. The priesthood, who really govern the people, are naturally hostile to “Yankee” encroach- ments. Texas is a warning against “‘Yankeo” colo- nization of Mexiean soil. The right to an American | company to colonize a tract of land sixty miles wide across the republic of Mexico, from one ocean to the other, involves the possible contingenoy of another ease of ultimate independence and annexation. It is highly probable that a revolutionary party, en- popular mind of the country, and especially of the capital, as to leave no alternative to President Arista and his government but the rejection of the treaty or arevolation, and his deposition from pow- er. The late outrages at Acapulco upon American citizens, corroborate this view of the subject. No doubt the transfer of the Garay grant to the British house of Manning, MoIntosh & Company was recog- nized as an expedient of protection against the United States. In any event, it has now become evident that Mexico will run the hazard of war rather than ratify the rejected treaty. What is to bedone? Who are to indemnify the New Orleans company for their expenditures and calculations in this enter- prise? We apprehend there need be very little difficulty in the matter. Mexico, omitting the pri- vilege of colonization, declares her readiness to cede to the United States the Tehuantepec right of way. She can hardly be held to the accountability of a responsible government. find her, and do the best that can be done under the circumstances. War would be an impolitic ex- pediont of redress. Our true policy is to maintain Mexico, as long as she can maintain herself, within herself, intact. The slavery question admonishes us against any further Mexican annexations, to which war would inevitably lead. Such, we believe, is Mr. Webster’s opinion. We do not, therefore, appre- hend war, while we do suppose the Garay grant practieally defunct. The right of way may be se- cured, together with the settlement of the question ef our Indian aggressions along our Mexican fron- tiers. The sacrifice of the Garay grant will eause some serious losses to the parties concerned; but as the cabinet, we suppose, are not implicated to any serious extent, we cannot imagine the necessity for war. If necessary, a new batch of Mexican claims will make all straight. What says Mr. Webster? Wuar 1s To BE Done aout THe Cana.s ?--This is a question which seems to agitate the journals of all parties in the interior of this State, in conse- quence of the decision given by the Court of Ap- peals against the constitutionality of the recent cor- rupt legislation on the subject. Various projects are started by the different parties and partisans. Some of the whig journals propose that the best method of reaching the matter, and completing the canals, would be by amending the constitution, and by expunging from it those provisions which make it necessary to submit the law for creating a dobt to the people at the ballot box. This is a very curious proposition for managing the affair, to come from those who profess a willingness to bow to the authority of the people in all cases. An amend- ment of the constitution, in this way, is, in fact, an attempt to take away the power of creating a debt from the people of the whole State, and give it to the members of the Legislature. Now, of these to decide on the propriety of creating adobt and imposing a tax—because they lave io pay both of the Legislature, who are corrapted by their associations at Albany. The proposition, there- fore, of amending the constitution, in order to enlarge the canals, is no other than a schome to deprive the people of the exercise of their sovereign | right, and vest it in a corrupt Legislature at Al- bany—just such a Legislature as that whieh passed This pamphlet, with an accompanying note of Jose F. Ramirez, Ministor of Foreign Affairs, appoars, from the date of the note, to have been distributed among the diplomatic corps as early as March last ; but from the subsequent controversy between the two governments, and the late ultimatum of Mr. Letcher, the law and the testimony, as laid down by the learned Mexican, appear to have had very little effect upon the mind of Mr. Webster. This fact compels us to look to the argument on the other side. Ina “Memoir, Explanatory of the Transunion prepared forthe Company by Wm. M. Burwell, Esq., of Virginia, 1851,” we have the argument in support of Garay’s grant very briefly and clearly laid down. From this brief, by J. P. Benjamin, chairman of the | and Tehuantepee Route between Europe and Asia, | the recent unconstitutional law. The constitution | ia wide enough, broad enough, and strong enough, | Erie canal, and all the other canals, by creating dis- | tinct laws for-each, and to submit these laws under the requirements of the constitution, to the popular yote. But no change in the constitution should bo | permitted. The Governor of the State can, if no- | cossary, call an extra session; and if he refuses to | do so, the matter can lie over till the next regular | session of the Legislature, and can then be carried | out in accordance with the constitution as it now exists. NATIONAL Prixto is the reason that mombers of Congress will continue lxboring, day after day, ineffectually to give printing jobs to one or two papers at Washington, and to take them couraged by the clergy, have so far inflamed the | We must take her as we | two modes, we would much rather trust the people | Dawa Wessren on Inpia Ruspen—Tux Pul- Losoruy oF ADvEETISING.—We pubtich elsewhere in our columns a very curious argument, made by Mr. Webster, a few weeks ago, during the trial of | | | i} | { | to enact a legal measure for the enlargement of the | ‘tal the fumous India rubber ease in Trenton, before the United States District Court of that district. The subject of India rubber is rather dry, but vory elastic, particularly whom it gets into tho hands of such a profoand intellect as Dauiel Webster. A great deal of neiso bas been made about this India rubber case, and much money has been expended in contesting it by the two individuals claiming the patent, whose names are Horace H. Day on the one side, and Charles Goodyear on the other. Vast sums of money have been paid by both these India rubber personages, for the firat logal talent in the country, in condueting tho pleadings and making the arguments before various Judges. The Dusiness, it seems, must be immensoly lucrative, to enable both the claimants to pay such high fees and such largo sums for reporting, advertising, and making a noise about the manufacture of India rubber. Indeed, we have sometimes thought that the whole ofthe contest between Day and Goodyear looks as if it were a apocies of advertixsing—a mode of cireulating, through the highest legal minds of the nation, a knowledge of tho invaluable articlo of India rubber, rather than for the actual purpose of deciding which of the claimants has the rightful title to the patent in dispute. If this idea be correct, the scheme is very ingeni- ous, but it is a mere improvement, or modification, of those which have beon invented, adopted, and practised by other eminent men in different lines of business during the last twenty years. We know what the advertising business of this great metro- polis has been for more than thirty years past. In the time of old John Lang and Amos Butler, the respected editors of tho two leading journals of their day, neither of which had hardly as much as a single newspaper carrier for the twonty of the HeraLp—in those halcyon days of old, the business of advertising was only practised by shipping mer- chants, jobbers, and a few other ‘old fogy” per- sonages. No others thought of using newspapers to make their business known to the rest of the world. When a revolution took place in the management of the newspaper press, about the era when tho New York Hegaup and similar journals com- menced their existence, the philosophy and practice of advertising, ag a trade and art in itself, began to be studied by many ingenious men of that day, among the fires of whom was Dr. Brandreth and sme of his competitors. At that time, Dr. Brandreth, to the newspapers then started under the new system, frequently paid as much as twenty or thirty thousand dollars a year for advertising alone. These advertisements were inge- nious philosophical medical theories on the science of health and pill taking. People read them on ac- eount of the brilliancy of the narrative, the philoso- phy ofthe argument, or the curtosa felicttas of the expression. Dr. Brandreth made an itamense for- tune by the new syetem of advertising. Still more novel improvements, however, were made in tho system; and one of these, we remember, was that adopted by Dr. Comstock and his brother, who | commenced law suits against cach other in relation to their respective medicines, and by having these suits perpetually agitated in the courts, and reported in the newspapers, managed to have the merits of their medicine, to which each of them claimed a title, promulgated through all the newspapers of the city and country, almost gratuitously, in the shape of law reports. This was a most ingenious im- provement in the system of advertising, and was follewed by a good many others. Bomum was another genius in the advertising line, He was famous for his certificates, the poetry of his announcements, the novelty of his programme, and the philosophy of his whole system. Of late, hatters, cap-makers, breeches-inakers, and all sorts of trades, have adopted novel methods of advertising through the prosent system of journals, which pub- lish by thousands and thousands instead of hun- dyeds, as they did twenty or thirty yours ago. From there and other facts and circumstances, we are naturally led to suspect that the whole of this fa- mous legal controversy between the ingenious Mr. Day and the equally ingenious Mr. Goodyear, con- the debt and the tax—than leave it to the members | ‘esting which has the legal right to the patent of this valuable mode of manufacturing India rubber goods of all kinds, is one of the most novel systems of advertising the character of their goods that has ever yet been invented, from the time ! of Dr. Brandreth to the present day. There are thousands and thousands of persons who will sit down quietly and read a speech of the great Daniel Web- ster, even on India rubber, who would never think of reading an advertisement, stating simply its great ier, if found in the advertising columns. Then others will be anxious to sce what hisantagonist had to say on the other side of the question, and this will | lead every one to know and pick up all the informa- | tion relative to the invaluable qualitios of India rab- | ber, and the many uses to which it is applied in the resent day. | By this syetem of having suits against each oth and making a great noise and fuss about the trying of these suits, the whole world is made acquainted | with the curions and novel articles into which India | rubber may be manufactured, and the consequence is a vast increase in the trade and sales of the two i rival houses. | New Orleans company, it appears that the original { away from printers who can do them as well? Why | | grant of Santa Anna to Garay, of the Tehuantepec | | right of way, including a grant of ten leaguos in | width of land on each side of the railroad or canal, | along the whole route, from the Atlantic to the Pa- | cific, one hundred and seventy-five miles, more or | less, is legal and valid. The contract, it appears, | Was duly recognized by all the regular and revolu- | tionary governments of Mexizo, from 1842 down to | the close of the war with the United States, in 1847, embracing even the recognition of the transfer | In proof of t tho fact is cited that Mr. | Trist, under his instructions in negotiating the | treaty of peace, offered the governtacnt of Mex- ico the sum of fifteen millions of dollars for the right ef way in favor of the United States, of the grant to Manning, Melutoch & Company. | do they not put anend to this system of feoding party newspapers on the offals of the public treasury, ' which was a mere temporary arrangement in the | first administration of the government, necessitated | | by the want of a national printing oflice, and which has been ever since continued for anything but pro- per and just purposes ? It would he easy to establish a printing effico for the publication of an official newspaper organ, by | which all the proceedings of each day should be re- ported and published on the next; and all the docu- ments ordered to be printed on one day, should be on the table the day following. There is no difi- culty in the way of doing this. If Congress would } establish a national printing office, and employ come petent editors, reporters, und good mechanics, it If this theory of explanation be right, it shows the ingenuity both of Mr. Day and Mr. Goodyear: | Each claims the right to manufacture a particular description gf goods. Both parties necessarily | praise the quality of these goods, and puff them in all | shapes and forms. The public, of course, are irre- | sistibly ledto believe that all this is correct. The | greatest lawyers of the country are brought before | them, from Danicl Webster down to Mr. Brady, and | | Across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; and that the | would not cost so much as is now expended on these | | Mexican | ommissioners empowered to treat, replied in these exact words—‘ that Mexico could not treat on this subject, because she had several years before | made a grant to one of her own citizens, who had | | transferred his righte, by the authorization of the Mexican government, to English subjects, of whose | sights Me Mr. Bovjamin | says that nponthis solemn acknowledgment of th s grant, and the legality of i transfer to the Britich company, Mr. P. A. Hargous | par d it of that company, and subsequently | associated with him a company of New Orleans citi- | | wens. To make ull sure, the New Orleans company | determined upon a recognition of their rights aud’ | eo could not dispose.” by a treaty between Mexico and the United States. A treaty wae agreed upon, and concluded botween | Mr. Letcher and the Mexiean Preaident and owbinet; | but it was not satisfactory to the company then sent back to Mexico, modified, and roturned; and on being approved by Mr. Hargous, in behalf | Tt wae | : * | of the company, it was ratified by the Senate of the | United States, and sent back for the ratification of jobs. To be sure it might affect some of the old, rotten, stupid, indolent newspapers at Washington, who have been fattening on the treasury for yeurs: but not more than two or three local papers are re- quisite in that city, for all the purposes of giving to the people of this country and to foreign nations, accounts of the doings of Congress, or the manage- ment of public affairs. The great leading jounals | of the large cities, connected by telograph with all parts of the country, are much more useful and im- portant, thanthe dull and vapid concerns in Wash- ington. Thisis proved by the fact, that at this day than their own papers, because the former, by their instantaneous connection through the telegraph, not otherwise reach the public eye. bers of Congress have to read th to discover what is doing i fivon the mem- v York papers ton in the | bing. This tact should impresa them with a songe of the ne y of what we argue, and the mombors of Cong hould at onee take up the measure like men of eadto the di xceful jobbing system, which hae Mexico. And this is the treaty lately rejected waani- mouely, with perhaps one execption, by both houres of the Mexican Congress { The simple facts of Mr. Bonja fatement would seem to be, in a strivtly logal point of perfectly conclusive. The deliberate negotiation of the treaty by the Mexican government, involving | the transfer of ¢ '# grautfrom the British to tho American involves the ao- | knowledgment of the validity of the grant and tho | legality of the t er. Mr. Webster's opinion on | the constitutionality of the late act for the enlarge- ment of our New York canals, hos been overruled by our Court of Appeals; Wut his general repute- a's viow, comy iW } pla’ [' led jor anan, Axomimn Srcange Case oF SPNIC.—The Coroner has just iv rand fatal “ue-t nyow the thirty years of ape He bela white man, ill stroot bote of Win who boarded in Crile bove Filth. The deceased ans to have | sacried evening, to 0 Indy alo b. wring in the howe, On dnestdsy ev he eane howe #8 usnal, but gome | ned of being #i aflianeed to him to make } erwards he wor fow ‘em exomination js, and the presence of arse ftomoch, The fea waa exam right. Where the deadly hiystery whieh hes not turned & verdiet of death Philedelphea Bulletirs, My 3 tn young oe ndy who was in bed, A. po: " der Sled in’ the A. and fou to be sll einieal came fro Wa & been solved. hey SEY re- vd polsoning with arvem*. | | | | e8s habits, and put wn | | gues with gre . | by the authorities of Cuba. | from looking into it, or iny are culogizing before the whole world the invaluable qualities of India rubler. The eales of the articles inerease in both houses. The houso of Day and the house of Goodyear manufacture as hard as they can, and gell as fast as they can, pocketing the profits. In the menntime, the rest of the world, and those who wonld enter into the business, are proventel ting capital in it, in consequence of the belief that there is a doubt about the patent, and that these two personages must have the battle fought out and a decision made be- fore anything can be dono in that line, outside of the two rivals. If, therefore, by this system of prosecu- ting suits, employing lawyers, making reports, and creating a great noise, they are enabled to extend the sale of the manufactured article from a hun- dred thousand dollars a year to one or two millions a year, how mach better is it for Day and Goodyear to go on and fight from now to the day of judgment, before all the courts, and employ all the bost law- yers in the country, for they are all but advertisin, their goods on the new aud ingenious plan which | New York journals are more rend in the capital | ¥¢ have pointed out. Mr. Torasarr eNERAL ConcHa—Coniocs communicate important information, which would | Connusroxprnce.—We have recevived, by our lust auivala from Europe, a very important correspou- dence from Mr. Thrashor, formerly of the Fivo In- | ph ae ; ‘ | dustrial, of Cuba, whose case will be well remember- | way of management, intrigue, corruption, and job- ed. This correrpondence comprises a letter address- ed by Mr. Thrasher to the Hon. Daniel Webster, See- retary of State, and one to General Concha, govor- nor at Havana. In this letter Mr. Thrasher ar- at ability the illegality of his re cent arrest, trial, and sentence paseed upon him Ho also exhibits in no very enviable light the oondact of Mr. Webster and the American government in that The correspondence will be vead particular cnse. with a great deal of interost by all the friends of Mr. Thrasher, either in this country or in Guba. or tea wich che | Phe letter i¢ dated from Madrid, but it exprossly Of ‘the body wae toate by Dr Re, | appowrs by the last accounts, that My. ‘Thrashor himself has arrived in Paris, on hia way to this coun- try. Wemay soon expect him in ti we suppose hia friends intend to give bi city, and nm wayin FOr ception. TraveL TO Evrors.—Tho fashionable travel, embracing summer toure in the Old World, is bogin- ning with considerable momentum about those days. Many of tho passengers going out in the steamers recently eailing from this port, or from Boston, visit the other side of the Atlantie for purposes of hoaltn, recreation, and amusement, either for the summer, or fur fonger periods. Among the others who leave in the steamer to-day, for Liverpool, we observe the name of D. D. How- ard, Esq., proprietor of the Irving House, of this city. He is accompanied by his only daughter, a young lady of very superior attractions and accomn- plishments, who has just fiaished her education at the seminary of Mrs. Moars, up town, ono of the first and most respectable establishments of the kind in this country. Mr. Howard, we believe, in- tends to be absent in Eurepe two or three months, more or less. In that time, with the present fac! ties of travelling in the Old World, he can have very pleasant tour through England, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland, and other inter: ing countries. During last winter, Mr. Howard 1 his daughter spent a few months in Cuba, for the benefit of his health, and we suppose he now snatches from the approaching summer an equal length of timo, by way of relaxation from the fi- tiguing devotion which his extensive establishment demands from its proprietor and head. To all our friends, readers, and correspondents in Europe, we ean confidently recommond Mr. How- ard as one of the most accomplished and energetic men in his profession, and as a gentleman, and an American overy inch of him, a> Tor Mexican Ciams—Tue Garpixgr Invict- MENT —We have received full and accurate informa- tion, both from Mexico and Washington, relative to the various mysteries connected with the Mexican claims, and particularly with respect to the claims of Dr. Gardiner and Mr: Hargous, of which so much has been said in the newspapers of late years. It is doubtful, however, whether this is a proper time to publish all wo know of these matters, and of the in. tricate manceuvres, intrigues, and movements con- nected with them. We are very much disposed to believe that the indictment against Dr. Gardiner, and all the rumors and difficulties in respect to this and other matters growing out of these claims, have been produeed by two or more cliques of lobby- members, who have made of the various claimants footballs for subserving their own purposes, and making them the means of furnishing heavy fees to the agents concerned in them. It is ealculated that fees to the amount of at least throo millions of dollars, over and above the million of the whole amount of claims, have been paid away to agents, | pereons w lobby-members, ex-Senators and ex-Congresamon, for their imaginary services and influence in hav- ing these claims confirmed. We think it is timo for Congress to take up the matter, and have a fair examination of the whole subject. Court of General Sessions. Before Judge Beebo and ong Wesley Smith, and CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER—CASE (F THE ROY KILLED IN MNMCER STREBT—TRIAL AND CONVIO- TION OF THE ACCUSED. Edward Corregan, who was placed on his trial, and ap- peared, accompanied by his wife and two children, was placed at the bar, charged with manslangliter in the first degree, in causing the death of a young colored boy, name Johu Stone. The circumstances stated by the Dis- trict Attorney's assistant, Mr. A. 0. Hall, must be fresh in the recollection of many of our readers. The prisoner’ had thrown a piece of wood or stick from a window in Mereer street, rear of the National Hotel—he being em- ployedas watchman there—which had struck and killed the deccased, ‘The learned gentleman then proceeded to define the law of manslaughter, as defined by our Revised Btatutes. and called the following witnesses: Klizabeth M called and sworn.—Resided in the ry, Mercer strect, on same side as St. Nicholas ww the occurrence; was looking out of my win- dow, and this prisoner, . had been throwing down some pieces of rubbish from the third story; had stated before the Coroner's Jury that it was the second story; but now recollected herself better, and had since been to lgok; the little boy was stant a foot or two off the Hidewalk, picking up these pieces; heard a person hi “look out, or you'll get your brains knocked out;”? halloo came from same window as the things were thrown from; soonas she heard the voice, saw the wood coming down. one or two pieces; one struck the child onthe left side of the head and knocked him down on to rome brickbats that were lying there; « gentleman coming from Mr. Phil- lips’ opposite, picked up the child, and cried out to the mén in the window, “ You've killed this boy;" it was tea minutes before the boy's father came, and the boy's head bled considerably; the prisoner came down with a basket of rubbish, and gone up on the stoop sgain, when goes with the child—you had better go and see what is to be done.” ‘ Q.—Have you ever seen the prisoner at the window be- fore: Mr. C.8. Spencer, for the defence, oljected. He con- tended they ought to confine the inquiry to this transac- tion. Mr, Hall, on the other hand. wished to show, by pre- vious conduct, that the defendant had been guilty of an act, which, contemplating mischief indiscriminately, would amount to manslaughter, (Objection overruled, and exception noted as to ail testimony on the same point.) Witness.—I had locked up befow at him, and so 1 knew him; after the boy was struck 1 went out into the strect; did not cee the stick that struck him, Cross-examined—The boy at ths time wes standing in Mercer strect; witness's was the next house to the Saint Nicholas hotel; it was on same side with the St. Nicholas hotel ; she was looking out of her window; only her head and neck was out of the window, on the second story; there were oniy two windows on that story, and hex head and neck were out of the one nearest to the hot hetween seven and elght o'clock inthe morning. (The St Nicholas hotel was here admitted to be all built up, five stories high, of brick and mortar), ‘The stuff was thrown out ofthe window nearest to her house, but above on the next story; there was a stone stoop; couldn't tell how broad it was; the stuff did not fall on it, but on the side- walk and into the street; did not know Carrigan personaliy at all; there were good many men going in there;' never saw but two men carry stuf? ont, and haye soon but one throwing it out, A.—Did not seethe person who threw this? Whonshe heard the ery * you will have your brains knocked out,” it was ina moment of time the boy was struck? ‘The | voice and the throwing were together, of course she didn’t see himn.: had heard the prisoner spe to the ldren the distinet red girl, four dup atthe window and heard th prisoner say “look out” you'll get your brains knocke out.” at the same timo he halloo'd he throw the wood,and one of the sticks struck this boy on the head ; he was ott | thoteide walk in the street; witness was as far from him, | inted out the distance of six or eight fect); 0 five of them there, one the deceased's Fi quite sure the prisoner was the man that threw fs ho window, and whom she heard speak. fore; hud picked up chips two or three times there | before; was on the sidewalk at the time the wood | thrown, about two feet from the street; there was a0 | stufl on the sid there bad been, and they hind | | Picked it all wp; itcamo from the third story ; witness | Was not so fur Mrs, Murxay’s house, as from the | stand to the Judges? seat; the boy’s name was John Stone ; he was doing nothing when the stick struck him ; he was waiting for some chips to come down ; they could see nothing of the person who throw it but) his heal ; raw but one man; he had ft out only long enongh to throw ; he threw the stuff ont from his arms; believed , he had a cap on, and was in his <birt sleeves ; was aworn before the Coroner's jnry ; the prisoner was poiused ow toheras the man Who threw the rubbisix out; would have known him by iis looks if rhe had econ fi 5 where; rome of the sticks they picked up were long, and e feet long; & some short; they took one that might b the witn # had been to school, and could re nry £, Downs deposed he was called to attont at ihe house of his father. Lewis Stone, 108 wt: found his skull fractured on the left hawt | (tended him for two weeks; he died from the fnjury | to tho brain in consequence of the fracture, John Meecher sworn—Was passing at the time; raw a | buneh of sticks come down; four or five children were there gathering (hem up; saw them hit the little colored boy. and he fell; could not tell Low many sticks there | were; there were some from two to four fect long; they were about am inch and a quarter or on Pieces that were sawed off from door 4 and euch Cross exomined—saw the atieks eame from the third | floor above the husement; aaw two men ther mle not tell whether one, or both, or which, threw them; did not think such # stick eonld ny one; should judge the boy was hit by the end of one, by the way the down; did not notice the little girt childzon were in the ttle way from th 3 | could not say the Lin’ picking up chips at | that moment; hes if Bazin called,—Liy hie prisoner as at, prisoner at that window? ¥ 1 now to prove any othor those conn h this ease? Il did wean to prove the preyiow e intent. p he Court had before rated on this point exception was noted, ‘ ve reon him sometimes tvow had soon him throw ti to show acts than MrT acts and cowie: other what he did: atvexword Q.—Have you note manner? Objected and ruled out nit of rhavin Judge saying Uy vil not he a fh lef, ay a little While before be was hit; ‘aw prisoner carrying shavings down in a basket that | re wet to show morning. after the war hit and before, too--0 few minutes before, si , } one of the besses said, pointing to the father, “There he | | of their x i _ a1 | sumzace bats for gents, of the pure Rooky Movntain Silver Crows examined—Had never spoken to that man be- | 4 ‘th square; | howe BE Croea-examined—Sow another man that WEE itentet piitin—bes's a secs . Natban Sayer, carpenter—Was in the the morving of the vecurrence; sent the prise aD fet the purpore of clearing up this story, and gaye him a. rectione not to throw anything out of the window; nothing of the occurrence till afterward, when he saw dim in the third or fourth any, and asked him what had happened; he forgot what reply he made; witness said he bad beard the little black boy was hu: better godown and show inaself, be A & police oficer came in while they down himgelf, at all; were talking. Crose-examined.- or upper story of all rephed he did not ¢ hurt the boy.” or “the boy is hurt,” Jehn J. Fhillips—Resided on the opporite side of Mercer sireet; had ecen the prisoner throwing things out of the window—some shavings and ether things, sweep- ings and dust; there might be some little blocks of weod amongit (Same objection as before taken, and further examination ruled out under same ruling.) Covmel waived a formal opening, and called Mr. He ght. the proprietor of the hotel. ‘That witness knew noth ng of the vecurrence, and gave t) rivoner a gene- Tal good obssaster. cea ; Crapper mere aie Prt gil that he was more irritable thun other people: he had certain) agreat: deal to try him in that potition. Shed Mr Spencer rummed np for the defence, euntending that the prisoner could not be convicted in the first de- give. a8 he was not in the commission of any misde- meanor. by statute: and a mere breach of a munici oidinance was not sufficient to bring the case within statute. They could only convict the prisoner in.the fourth degree, if it were not a purely accidental, and, therefore, excurable homicide. ‘The Court charged the jury, taking a snmilar view, and ve 7 clearly defining the law of the ease, and the jury ret After on absence of nearly an hour, they returned into court witb ‘rdict of guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree, and the foreman added that to recommend the prisoner to mercy in the terms po-rible. The prisoner was then remanded for sen- tence. and the court adjourned. ‘The verdict affords the court an opportunity of exereis- BG very considerable ditcretion. the pumshment for the ime In the degree named ‘ing from @ nominal fine to imprisonment in the State prison. Pardon Granted. ---The Judge received from the Gover- nor a free parcon for Mary McKeon, a young woman, con- victed last term of passing a counterfeit bill, evidently under the influence and direction of Thomas Martin, aw middle. aged man (alco convicted). Mary, who had been committed to the city prison pending the application, was this day brought up and dis If thisshould prove a cloudy day, it will hojust the time for getting one of those beantiful Crayon Daguerreotypes, which no one but ROOT, at 363 Broadwi makes. They are inimitable, and wonderfully popula, tho day should be fair, it is all th certain, fe me—a pefect pictnre is The Mother’s Hope. ‘The mother gazed on her beautiful boy, Blooming in health and full of And she thought that dise And her dear one haste to t! pace, n-drawn face,” So As ry ance what will, Hor eye can gaze on her darling atill! ROOT'S Gallery, No. 93 Broadway. ny» lake wither his bioom, yuldering tomb, The crowds daily flocking to Thompson’s Daguorrean Gallery, 315 Broadway, aiford the most eonelu- sive evidence of the superiority of the low prio m, and of the exeollence of Thompson's Pictures. J. W. THOMPSON, S15 Broadway. Fine Arta—! \e1 1s in Onl, w.. H. BUTLER, 201 est upper corner of reat le his new and beautiful art is deserving the attention of ali who admire truth and beauty of finish in & portrait. Only one aitting is roquired, and is finished on # metallic surface, Youth and Beauty are Fading Flowers, but their impress may be preserved for by means of such Daguerreotynes as are taken by WHITENURST, and by him alone, at 349 Broadway, corner of Leonard etreet. Holmes’ 289 Daguerreotype Quarter:, e Broadway, is one of the most spacious and creditable in New York. Not lose than 25,000 pictures have beon sold there in five which, fer supericrity as works of art, public credit increasing business gives testimony. Citizens and str call. Eu n Di erreotypes.—W. B. Brady, 0. 208 Brondway, fas ‘recently returned. from, Berone, whore hi nt nearly a year in visiting the most cele: tt sto produce picture: superior to any hitherto exhibited. Ho has atso on exhibi- tion, Daguerreoty pes of some of the most dirtinguished men ix France; among whom are Louis Napoleon, Lamartine, Thiers, Victor Hugo Engene Sue, & also been made with several of the Artists to forward, from time to tin celebrated men in Europe, as well ag every uiscovery or im provement made by. forcign artiete—thus formag the nucleus of a Evropean Gallery, which, in connection with his American Gallery, will reader his ‘establiebment seeond to none in the worl Spiritual Knockings an 6 Mr. Bleek, will give a public exhibii 1 the Spirits, at ‘St. Luke's ‘ch, corner of Hudson and streets, on 9) h, He willhave . Any person wishing to So by Applying to the ime. anittte to report novording to the hether it ia apirite, or somethi appear on the wtnge. communs with the spirits, cw Ho will have x C evidence. in order to know vents—to be appropriated to be: Spiritual Telegraph,—This Week, Satur- day, May 15, contains, among a varicty of otler articles, Miracles of tho Nin: ath Century; 0] Manitesta- irginia, Ly ® Methodist Clergyman: Authority of tho Ideal; Proceedings of the New York Coaferouee, Pub- ‘ished by CHARLES PARTRIDGE, 3 Cor/laudtetreet. For sale at periodical depots and by the Trignnowski's Adventures.—The Sanday Courior of tu-worrow will contain #T. i's Adven- tures,” ard the conclusion of the " Magnetic Portraits,” the first and socond of the “Strang Stories of a Strolling Artis “The Monk and the Actross,” the Tenth Ward ie Celts a ms, Voreign Criminal Intelligence, Loon News, &c. Price Scents. For sale by all che agents. Sunday Trlps—The Steamer 'Thos. Hulse will make her usual trip to Newburg and i ings, om Sunday (to-morrow), leaving foot o half past soven, A, M. Sce advertisement. Hadson River Hotel.—This Hotel, delight- - fully cituated on th ner of Hoboken and Wee 1 site EB. K. Colling’ line of Jay meals in the Restavirant, there being an excellent one eonneeted with this eetablisliment. ©. & E, Kelly. Import Plowers ard scatters rtd 4 of Artificial fron William street, assortment of 't which they invite t KELLY, 12 John stave ntreot, corner of Aun, t they will kecp an exten: At the lowest prices, to perobasers. © C. SE. Gentlemen’s Hats, Summer Fashion, Ex- Beebe & Co., 15s Broadway, will introduce, on th inat., the sutam Their hat for the season Ri ntain Silver Bo: grade of the his ma , and hag b Jarge outlay and trouble. The motto of bh . 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Hats.—It 1s astonishing how fash= i is no osta- aw Hats are this scaron, aod ti where Iadies can select from a bet tock than at YOUNG y. Ho keeps ahandeome asyortme fang thing Chat fs protty aud fashion: owe 0 Rot straw line, Window Shades, from twenty couts to ten Curtains, from two dollars to twenty doll ing, from seventy-five eonts to five dollart 8 for Curtains a dothers ean. find eo, MELTY SON 2805 Broadway, f4 Rendestre ey a Judiclous system of advertising te the newspapers of the comtry, the largest fortnnes have time, ond thor oD It may be adopted con- PALMER'S informatio winona for ie y revolving ly, at hers ‘all rogu ‘to tranene’ rt which he is Gilbert & Co.'s Improved Aolian Pianos. New York Wo sadway, corner of Anthony Theatre, whore the larg- without (he Improved fold At groat bargainge © now eoming into genoral r them, Pianos to tet. ‘wh HORACK WATERS. Teax—The beat assortment of fine Teas will bo fopnd at the stove of the Canton Tea C 4 Tus Chatham stroct (between Pearl and Rosset yy oldest, Tea Ketablihment in the city, We anwure our . that the tter than elsewh ther nt wheleeale oF re! a : | |