The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1852, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR AND BDITOR OPFICE » W. CORWES OF FULTON AXD NASEAU STS. TERMS. ca: ILY HERALD, 2cents copy—$7 per annum Tuk WEEKLY HERALD. coccy 8 cturaay » at Ghe cents or $i per eanwn; Buropean ion, $i per ist of Great Britain “and $5 te aay part ef per copy, fee von th to include the portage. to any the Continent, VOLUNTARY CORRESPUNDENCE, conte nt news, solicited from way jor qarer of Ovk Porsies CORRESPOND QURETED TO ORAL Ler: AND PACKAGES SENT UO ALL LETTERS by mail for Subscriptions, er with Ad- wertiscm ents, to be post prid, or the postage will be deducted From th © moucy remitted. JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, sheapness, and = vteh IDVERTISEMENT'S renewed coery day, Wolume XV, Bil be Wberally para By F PARTICULARLY .NO, 136. AMUSEMENTS TO MORROW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Macie Bavr—Consrean Baorneus BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdwav—Poor ReLarions Acres Devene—KirLe Smicave, KIBLO'S GARDEN—Caxco, rus Minerh et. BURTON'S THEATRE Chambere street—Davin Cor- PRuriELD—Goop vOR NoTHING. NATIONAL TARATRE, Chatham rtreet-Ornari0— Ovaxse Hain’d Broruss TUM THEATRE, Brosdway. on, BAnwum, AND Jenny br Fue GoUpEN Leona. ASTOR PLACE OPERA AMERICAN MUSEUM vam AFTERNOON anv Eve! ies’ Barrin— LY Wn Far Oxe with HACK. NG PEXFORMANCES IN CHRISTY'S OPERA HUUS. Cunmrr's Company WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Woed’s Musical Hall, 444 Broad- ‘Way—Ermiorian Miners eisy, Neeno Mixereeuey vy New York, Sunday, May 16, 18 5a. Whe News. The exceedingly disagreeable weather, combined with the fact that the United States Senate was not in session yesterday, had the effect of greatly short- eaing our telegraphic matter this morning. The membors of the Senate, it seems, were not disposed to work while their coadjutors in the House were at play; conrequently they adjourned till Monday. When the two bodies again commence operations, it is hoped that they will evince a little more deter- mination to legislate for the benefit of their constituents than for different aspirants to the Presidency. For the credit of the ecoun- try, it is essential that the Senate should cease talking, and go toacting, on the Deficiency bill. Al- though there is no doubt that many of the bills in- curred by army officers are exorbitantly extrava- gant, and that much corruption has existed in this department of the government, still, it is necessary that these bills should be paid. Most of those who farnished supplies, &e., did so in good faith, and with the understanding that they would be eventu- ally paid; and it would be extremely unjust to de- Prive a majority of them of their rights in order to pinish the few rogues among them. The drafts of the Quarter-Master have already been pro- tested. This would be considered disreputable to, and put a cheek upon, the transac- tions of any commercial house in this city— consequently it is equally disreputable to the nation, which should always hold itself in readiness to liqui- date all proper claims. If frauds have been perpe- trated by a few, there is a way of remedying the evil without depriviag a large number of creditors of their a Let Senators recollect this, and get through with the bill before them as soon as possi- ble. Another very important measure—the A ppor- Aienment bill—bas not yet been acted upon by the House. present indications, some of the Party Troubles and Coalitions Congress— Party Prospects. It is somewhat singular—it is, indoed, somewhat ominous—that neither of the old parties have boen | able to harmonize upon any measure of legislation or party policy, during the present session of Con- gress. Tu the very outset, the democrats, in caucus, upon the Compromise measures, were compelled to lay them upon the table for want of harmony—the motion to adept them being defeated by a coalition of see iste and free soilors. The whigs of the House, in caucus, did adopt the Compromise plat- form—-but it was a cheat; and though boasted of by Master Brooks at the time, it was bat a cheat, amounting to nothing. The subsequent voto in the open House, upon Jackson's resolutions, proves that in caucus Master Brooke was hambugged, or that he was a party in an attempt to humbug the country. for, upon Jackson’s Fugitive Slave law resolutions, there were but eight whigs from the entire North, and, presentation agaixstit. Indeed, both the resotntions foree of the compromires of the constitution and of Union men of both parties, agaiast a coalition of the abolition and secession agitators of both parties. So upon the printing question. demoerate could not harmonize the party on the de- sirable project of transferring the public printing for the relief of that paper. What then? A coalition was formed with the whigs, and it was agreed to share and share about the spoils between the Union and the Republic. job of the public printing was throttled till the ungodly coalition cried out peccavi ! Major Donel- son sold out his interest in the Union, on the spot, and abandoned his useless labors to harmonize the democracy, indisgust and despair. On the other seceders, and their milk and water manifesto, (skimmed milk and warm water) establish the detestation in which the Fugitive Slave law is held their want of harmony against the abolitionists, in the South. Lastly, the vote by which the home- stead bill was passed, was a coalition vote of both the old parties, and both” sections, against both parties and hoth sections. Thus we have the singular and ominous exhibition of the total extinction of the old parties, in the most important proceedings of the session—just the same asifno such things as the whig and democratic parties existed—just as if they were used up, done for, defunet, and buried. Well, what does all this mean? It simply means that the virility and vital- ity of both the old parties are gone? They have become threadbare, hackneyed, jaded, worn out, full of aches and pains, and their old crutches aro broken and useless. They are in a transition state, like that between the years 1820 and 25, resulting from the Compromise, and which brought about an | entire reconstruction of parties. So of the greater and more complicated Compromise of 1850. Its ef- cets are greater and more complex ; and hence the disruption of the old parties and the curious coali- tions of the fragments which we had this session in the proceedings at Washington. Now what does all this portend? We do verily think it portends a terrible time at Baltimore, in beth conventions. The democrats open the dance on the first of June, and such, very likely, will be the scenes between the old fogies and young America, the Compromise men, abolitionists and secessionists—sueh the personal bitterness and members proj ose giving this matter the go-by until the next session. This ie not right, because it may Very materially affect the result of the Presidential election. After the election, the House may refuse te concur with the Senate on this question. Too many of our Congressmen, like Jewsharps, are all jaws and torgue—let them cease their political music and get on with the work. We elsewhere publish an outline of the transac- tions in the whig conventions of the Congressional districts of thie city. Much bitteraecss and jealousy appears to Lave been evinced, wherever there was a chance y it, between the rival factions of Scott and Fillmore The Democratie Convention of North Carolina adjourned on Friday, after a session of two days. to disy The resolutions cd by the body aro of the pure, sound, ancient democratic order. They re that they wiil support no candidate for the Presidency whose principles are not openly avowed in faver of the Compromise; and they svind up by recommending the Hon. Robert Strange for the Presiden Almost as mu h excitement has, within the last ted at Albany with regard to the State printing, as there has been at Washington concerning that of the government printing. days ago the Atlas was designated as the newspaper, for the publication of official advert few years, been mani ments, &e y the Comptroller and Secretary of Btate. Tk d jealousy and di ion amovg the rival journals, from whence sprung a ama. us case to test the lo, which was argued ty of the rda, At the commence- ment of the s¢ eI ature, the memb will find it greatly to the advantage ef themselves, as well as th ents, if they at once pass an | act for the establishment of a State printing office. | Such a concern, erly aged, will save money | os gsion of t | for the peaple and annoyance to the legislators— | besides, there would be no almost interminable | waiting for the work ordered, as under the old | system. “The Korsuth fover is beginning to rage with con- siderable violes but it is not to be compared with t nt fierceness of the diseato on his evteriag some of the towns in the Eastern States. However, the popular pulse is again resuming its wonted regularity in New Eng. | land, and he will therefore make it convenient to | leave Boston and visit the Albanians on Tuesday. | Where he will go from the latter place is not exactly | known—thovgi the surmise is that he will soon take his departure for Europe, in order to raise | funds to moot the twenty millions of Hungarian | bonds which he says he bas disposed of, and will | redeem on his return. What arrangements have | Yeon made for his second coming have not trans- pired, and probably never will. Nothing hae been heard of those muskets and saddles lately. Where are they? Some late and interesting news from Utah will be found in another column. The Mormons appear to be getting along joyfully and prosperously. Brig- ham Young, the head of church and territory, is an admirable twetician. Whatever may be said against | his spiritual doctrines, some of his earthly ones are | decidedly good. He is a worker—mentally and | pbysicully—and none of hie faith can live in his do~ | minions unlese they toil for their bread. His disqui- sition on music and dancing is founded on pure com- mon sense philosophy, and many of our eminent divines may learn wisdom from it. Read it. The Mr. Green, who was arrested for ewindling, some weeks ago, was yesterday sentenced to twenty-one months imprisonment in Philadelphia. This man ip said ty be @ very eloquent orator, had preached in many of the churehes at Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and other places, and succoeded in converting ® great number of sinners. Yet, withal, he hae been convicted as a vil impostor and knave. Verily, the way of the tranegressor is hard As ueval on the Sabbath, we devote a portion of our epace to the dissemination of religious intelli- gonee. Many items of great interest to all denomi- nations of Cristiane will be found under the head The Atlantic, with four days’ later advices from Vnrope, and the Paniel Webeter and Kl Dorado, with ten deys’ later from California, may be ex- pected to arrive ae ropn as the fog way Rev oper | that one-thi | these agents, in the jealousies of the several cliques of the various can- didates—such the row and the ‘noise and confu- sion,”’ that the very bones of Old Hickory, at the distant Hermitage, will rattle in their coffin at the horrible discords of the late invincible democracy. We should not at all be surprised if the National Democratic Convention were to be scattered inte fragments by their dissensions, like a baggage wagon scattered to pieces under tho explo sion of abombshell. Nor, if this occurs, should we be at all surprised to see the whig convention ex yloding in the same way, and from the same causes, as the democratic convention. With regard to hoth, “it is a consummation devoutly to be wish ed.”’ The breaking up of the old organizati a free ecrub-race upon at least a half-dozen every man upon his own hook and bie own les—would muke a delightfal carnival of the campaign. would put an end to both the present rotten and effete old parties, and give us something better— | something possessed of the life, and vigor, and practical spirit, which characterize this country and the age. Indeed, we begin to think that nothing now will save the Union but a scrub-race. Tue Mextcan Craits—Misrake Correcrep.—In \ the briefremarks we have made in respect to the mys- | teries of the Mexican claims, we meant to have said rd of the aggregate amount of claims, or one million out of three millions, had been appro- priated to the pay of counsel, and agents, and lob- by members, by the claimants, in order to procure the recognition of their rights by the recent Board of Commissioners. Indeed, we are not sure buta larger proportion than one-third had to be appropria- ted to these agents. Probably it would bea more ac- curate estimate to that one-half had been paid to shape of fees, black mail, bo- DD intimation of one of these agents, who received on | one of the claims twenty-five thousand dollars for carrying it through to a certain point ; and this very same agent, as goon as he had pocketed the money, | sand dollars opposed the claim which he had previ- | | fraud The scerct history of these claims and their re- | cognition, with the modes adopted by the agents to pocket so much of the amount, will be given to the publie at the proper time. It is a curious and the nine millions of the canal lettings in New York, but, for the amount involved, presenting ag strong and repulsive features as those which Albany bas exhibited. It nay be called the ‘ Galphin Mys- tery No. 2.7 The first mystery of that description took place under the administration of Gen. Tay- lor, and only involved a hundred thousand dollars, which went into the pockets of several individuals, | but principally into those of a member of the cabi- net. The second Galphin mystery, which has taken place under the administration of Mr. Fillmore, covers a sum of more than three millions of dollars: nearly one-half of which has found its way into the pockets of agents, counsellors, lobby members, ex- Senators and ex-Members of Congress. One of the most curious features of this business has been the indictment of Dr. Gardiner, the indict- | ment of Captain Levy, and the arrest, we believe, | of several other parties, all which eriminal suite spring, we have reason to believe, from the intrigues | of the lobby members and agents, in order to cover up their tracks and prevent their doings from reach- ing the light or being probed by Congress. In this bu s we do not accuse the Prosident of any im- Pp y, for perfectly innocent ; neither do w ite anything to the Secretary of Stats, or to But there are tails, ed the & ary of the Treasury. pretending to be the friends of these distingu men, who hb used their names, and who have in- volved them in potitions which will yet startle the iodividuals themselyes, when the affair comes to be clearly divulged to the public, A whole brood of lobby members and agents ha heow living for several years at Washing plundering claimanta | of ali kinds out of their rig the ence of using the io nee of the ident, ¢ ret, moe Counnissioners, and doing ev g elie to forward their snits igress would only go to work nud investigate this eubjoct,they would fad a rich mine, if not of gold, at least of rascality, to develope. The indictments which we have mentioned, agains , are mere tricks, inst prevont Congress frou id explaining them ¢ Gardiner, Levy, and othe’ gated by thete persons, looking into the subjects an the world . consequently, a large majority of the entire whig re- | Congress, were carried only by coalitions of the | The Union newspaper | This was a most | ungodly coalition for the public plunder ; but it was | Slave law and the other compromise measures | scale, a banker, a steamboat proprietor, a shrewd | a dead failure. The combined forees of the old | have not even scotched the enake, much Jess killod politician, and a leading man in the most important fogies of both parties were crushed by a coalition of | it. Already, in eight weeks, fifty thousand copies | pursuits of this great metropolis. He is one of the the outside fragments—the compounding corruption have been sold, and it ix expected that fifty thou- | few, and belongs to that galaxy of living intellects, Tue Anti-Stavery Socienes or rus Nori. —TneiR PERMANENCE AND Prooreres.—One of the anti-slavery soeicties bas held its auniversary meet- ing this year at Rochester, the other in New York Both seem as full of vitality and vigor asever. The society at Rochester is the more outspoken, extreme, and violent, but the more honest and straightforward of the two. Its great guns wee Fred, Douglas, | Wendell Phillips, and Lloyd Garrison, The society | at the Tabernacle was represented chiefly by the | Tappans, and Henry Ward Beecher, who, according to his father’s account, says very rash things in tho | heat of the moment, which he gets ehango? b j they find their way into the payors an least, Dr. J. MeCuno Smith, and George Dow: | of oyster celebrity, and lately invested by his sable | majesty, Soulouque of Hayti, with the cordon | of the Legion of Honor. The meetings of tb's | | society were very large and enthusiastic, aud a new impulse seems to have been given to ite energies. A sort of revival hag taken place, and money was subseribed to send on for anti-slavery agents to lecture and distribute treot+ of Jackson and of Hillyer, recognizing the binding | frem village to village and from house to house. the cate of Kossuth.) He has obtained a very high | There was much anxiety evineed to get a cheap od tion of Mrs Stowe’s novel—*'Unele Tom's Cabin” — for general circulation among a class of the popu- lation that the dollar and dollar and a huif editions could not reach. This book is a remarkable specimen of the aati- slavery literature of the North, and its suecess—bo- yond all precedent in the history of works of tietion— | isan undoubted evidence of the deep-seated aati- slavery sentiment that prevails in the Northern and Eastern States. It demonstrates that the Fugitive Pestivan to 4 ARnomrecr oF utg OwN For- Waenrxaton Ow Dirs.—The Southern Press ba” TUxE. —A number of festivities have been recently been making some awful discoveries in the Rotunda got up in New York, resembling the ‘Attic nights” of the Capitol at W: . It says that— of the Greeks. One of them ie to take place at the An Ser crieg: peers thet deatatn eane Astor Houve on Thursday evening next, in the ba foam getting and financial aid for the es- shayo of a dinner to George Law, Esq., who has re- tabllchiaans ¢ oe be eed orgon ae are “ps de vently returned from Panama, where he wont on ated iy consideration of certain organic changes. by business in relation to the Panama Railroad, which — which (he Neyubiie may receive some detriment through. arking proeers. t is further suggested that the introduction of a new brocm is expreted to sweep “the whole or none” of the crgenship and the printing into a glorious Union, It is aleo intimated that the old gull-traps having failed to cateh the refrnetery Southern rights men, a nice new dead full is forthwith to be set for them, baited with the rerclutions of 98 anc “48, All this betrays the beautifal harmony exist among the political hacks and quacks at Washing: ton. There isa lull just now, but everything poi- tends, before another month is over, a terrible smashing of the old political erockery. Let every anan strap himeelf up for the fight. Nothing like leather. isto connect bis line of steamers, and laid en this do the Tet hmus the foundation of the new, Ameri- can city of Avpinwall, at Navy Bay, which isto be the depot of the railroad, and also of tue steamships. "i entertainment isto be given by anamber of n this city, wha, like George Law, are avchi- of their own fortunes—many of them mochani who have been connected with him in his groat en- terpri wen who admire his go-ahead genius, and that originality of character whieh loaves its mark in the world. He is a self{made man—the maker not only of his own fortune, but hundreds of others, and without any of that brilliant, dazzling talent that so often wins popular applause, though ra- | diating from very shallow braing (as, for instance, in al 1 “ Op News.”—The English and American pa- pers are now engaged in publishing an account of the starvation of a party of missionaries at Pata- gonia. We published a full account of the euffer- ings of these unfortunate people, in the New York HERALD, six or eight weeks ago. degree of popularity in this city, of the substantial kind—the popularity more of deeds than of words. A youth of ninetoen years of ago, with a stick in one hand and a bundle in the other, he started from Saudy Hill, in the northorn part of this State, to Argival of the Dutch Frigate Prinee of seck his fortune. In one of his pockets wasa Bible, 2 Orange. in the othera pack of cards; and by a due mixture ‘The Netherlands frigate Prince of Orange, from Norfolte, of both in the proper proportions—like a properly "rived off Sandy Hook yesterday morning. She was i Mary Taylor. Owing to the mixed glass of brandy and water—he has succeeded -Dearded by the pilot boat Mary in gaining the highest position as a com- | dense fog that set in. she was compelled to remain below . | 0 ‘ity to-day. soon as the fi mercial man, a financier, o contractor on a large Bhe wih comes oniey ths elt 4 Spnsueatatie bd | clears unay, Annexed is a list of her officers :-— Captain, Chevalier By] De Vroe, Commander, Du Cloux. Lieutenants, Van Ommen, Jansen, Vor. Damme, Pan, Kileynema, sand more will be sold ere long. The publisher and | who manage all the vast business concerns of New writer have both made plenty of money, and will , York—such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Daniel Drew, | side, the whig Congressional caucuses, the Southern | The country would gain by it, for it | turned round to another claimant, and for fifty thou- | ously supported, and actually represented it as a | instructive history, covering not so much moncy as | make plenty more. The result will be, that a | and others. tremendous impulse will bo given to anti | slayery literature in the North, and the | country will be inundated with novels, not 80 well written, perhaps, as the work of Mrs. Stowe, | but of the same character and teadency. The suo- cess of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin” will stimulate into by the Northern branch of the whig party, and | activity five thousand pens, and the presses of pub- | imagined they were using him. He has given ex- lishers, who are tho most mercenary portion of the | entire community, will henceforth teem with negro tales, and narratives of facts stranger than fiction, and stories of fugitive slaves founded on fact, and true in all but the names. It is singular enough that the publishers and booksellers who furnish the South with new works are the most decided patrons of this species of litera- ture. It is not difficult to see what the effect of this hook will be—which is already re-published in Canada, and will shortly, make its appearance in England, to stir up the fire there—and what will be the effect of other works now in process | of composition by the same authoress, aud those that, like mushrooms from dunghills, will spring from the hot, reeking brains of all the fanat- ical writers in the ]and, who will follow in her wake, either in the hope of making money, or from the ambition of being read by so many thousands of the community, or it may be from a pure desire of glori- fying God, making converts to the abolition cause, and contributing to the amalgamation of the white and black races on this continent. There is a good time coming, and we would not be surprised if, with the excitement of meetings, the agitation of organized societies and lecturers, the agency of col- porteurs, and the influence of the class of literature to which we have just referred, the boiling cauldron of abolition would ere long overflow, and produce an amount of mischief at which the stoutest heart would now shudder, if it could only realize those scenes and events whose dim shadows the sagacious and the far-secing discern as * through a glass darkly,” but which may, sooner than we are aware, loom out of the misty obscurity of the future into the form and pressure of present realities. ; Women’s Riguts Convenrions.—There is to be a Women’s Rights Convention on the 2th instant, in Ohio, and one at Philads'phia on the first of June. There was another recently at Rochester— the birth-place of the ‘knockings.” The public may perhaps be curious to know of what description | of individuals those gatherings consist. “The male | portion (if we may be pardoned the bull,) areold women in pantaloons, who are to be found figuring at the meetings of the anti-slavery and abolition | Societies, at the orgies of the spiritual rappers, and in the re-unions of all the isms of the day. The wo- | men who kick up sach a dust at the conventions, are either old maids who cannot get husbands, and are down upon the whole of the other sex—shocking brutes that they are—or they are of that class of married ladies who are too much of a Xantippe to live with a Socrates. There are probably not three hundréd in all; and no matter where the coaven- tions are held--whether in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, or Pennsylvania—the same names tura up as the chief aetors in tho farce, and each por- ms the same rive she enacted somewhere elso, | There are not, perhaps, three handred of them in | all; but still they make a terrible noise about their | rights, just as if anybody was disposed to deny ! them. We at least go for women’s rights, an to do battle for them, with pen and ink, opposer. are ready | againstevery | We hold, in the first place, that women , or whatever elee it may be called. We have { have a right to a husband, and they have a right to | shown any mutuber of babies. They have a right to any | quantity of scolding. They have a right to tho | domain of the kitchon—thoy have a right to make | | their husband's shirts, knit bis stookings, and sow | | on a button that has dropped from his collar or | | wristband ; and they have several rights which they | do not always enforce. But that they have a | | right to put on the breeches, | | and do a great | | many other things which they re | vince, we cannot adm ard as their pro- | m is #0 prepos- | terous and absurd, that the rest of womankind | ridicule it moro efiectually than men. All true- | hearted women—all who have a right cone the delicacy of their sex, and of their relat head of the creation—disclaim the masculine pre- | tensions of these viragos. Good women are too | happy and too much at home in their domestic | spheres, to have any taste for the din of the work- hop, the publicity of the courts, the wrangling of | Congress, the turmoil of politics, the carnage of tho | battle-field, and other scenes in which men play their appropriate parts, but which are revolting to the finer sensibilities of lovely woman. The Amazons not only reverse the law of nature, and cast off the authority of man, but they cast off the authority of God and the holy Scriptures, which declare that the man was tnade first,and then the woman as “an help meet for him”’—that the man is the head of the woman, as Christ is the head of the Church— thata woman ought not to speak in the church, and that wives ought to submit themselves to thoir husbands, aud that they ought to be keepers at home, adorning themselves with the ornaments of a meek and quiet spirit, which is, in the sight of God, of great pri The tendency, therefore, of these | conventions is to make women infidels; and we find, | in point of fet, from the blasphemous and reckless speeches of somo of the tribe, that this result is | etually produced; and if there be infidelity to God, | What relianeo, we ask, enn be placed on their fidelity | to man, or their recognition of those obligations of | morality and religion which keep the framework of | society together? eption of | nto the | | Youxe Aurnica.—Where is Young Amoricat | What has become of the Democratic Review? We | aroon the ove of tho Baltimore Convention. No | | time to be lost. But if it bo trne that the Review | will be forthcoming in a day or two, with a slash | ing article upon Gen, Cass, cutting him up root | and braneh, and skinning him alive, we can wait. Ob! the fan that we shall bave at Baltimore! What says Young America? What say the old fogies? | connected with the name of George Law long after | George Law himself, will, no doubt, be a curious | generally reputed to be the author of the original | demolished in a single blow the dashing Jack Tar’s | F | Among the works which will stand he islaid in the silent tomb, is the High Bridge over Harlem river—the greatest structure of the kind in the world, A man of massive, solid intel- lect—not shining or sparkling, except inthe gold dust—he has always used the politicians when they tensive employment, and is regarded as a liberal man. This ‘rough diamond” is supposed to be worth about two millions of dollars. About three hundred choice spirits will assemble ayound the festive board, on Thursday, to do him honor. Wit, and skill, and practical genius will contribute to this “feast of rezson and flow of soul,’ and several men of distinction, who have heard of it, are seeking to be invited. But the invitations are limited and select, and there will be considerable difficulty in getting ‘‘a provoke.” Tho speech of onec—not very polished, but full of originality, and more interesting by far than one of Daniel Web- ster’s, or any of the trained orators of the day. There is one point which we expect him to touch upon—‘‘ those two dollar muskets ”’—whether they have gone off yet, or what time they are likely to explode. This dinner will be a grand affair, and the friends of Mr. Drew ought also to set on foot a feast of ** fat things,” and invite all those who were con- nected with him in business transactions, from the time he was driving fat beeves in Ohio, or keeping the Bull’s Head in the Third avenue. The admirers of Commodore Vanderbilt ought to get up a similar demonstration, and bring around him all the en- gineers, firemen, pilots, and captains of all the steam- boats he has had anything to do with, from the time that he first commenced his career on board of one of them, till now that he is owner of five lines of steamers, and worth, it is said, some three millions of dollars. Tue Azrec Huxsues are Gornc.—That portion of our cotemporaries who are so jocular or philo- sophical as to aid and assist In humbugging the people as to the exhibition of the Aztec dwarfs, have announced that the little humbags are about to change their locality from New York to Phila- delphia. The managers of this concern, we believe, have been pretty successful in the Barnum line, but have not yet surpassed theoriginal. We rather think that Joyce Heth and Tom Thumb, by the jodicious management of the great genius of Bridge- ort, bagged more money than the Aztecs, with all their certificates and affidavits, and the puffing of the religious and satanie newspapers of the day. | The truth of the matter is, the American public | are beginning to get tired of these protracted jokes, which make sucha levy on their credulity and their pockets. The story of the Aztecs is admitted, we believe, to have been a hoax and fabrication on all sides. Even Mr. Richard Adams Locke, who is pamphlet giving the marvellous account of the abductiorof the dwarfs from the city of the Aztees, has come out, under his own name, in a card, ace krowledging, in his ewn way, all that was ever eLarged against him ag being its a r, and says: —‘I do not know any more of these dwarts than any other person in tho community.” Very naive of Mr. Locke. Who suspected him of knowing any nore about them than any other person ever did? The suecess which has attended this Aztee exhi- bition in New York, is beginning to attract ia- genious speculators in public credulity to get up other monstrosities of 2 similar character, to be to the people ato much'a head. We seo, by an advertisement in a Charleston (8. C.) paper, that there is now on exhibition, in that city, what escribed_as “The Monkey Boy—a great natural curiosity, or African wonder. ago of fourteen, and presents the closest affinity be- tween the human species and tho lower order of animals.” We may caleulate on the market boing quickly overstocked with goods in this line. The Axtec humbugs will have their day, as their pre- | decessors have had, and then will he shoved out of | the way to make room for greater rarities. Will Mr. Locke give us the story of the monkey boy? | Com. Stockron on rie Sreausure Question.— Com. Stockton, the gallant and victorious general of the horse marines in California, during the war vith Mexico, isalways at homo onsalt water. But | dry land polities throw him on his beam entls. His | gun elastic speech at the India rubber trial at Trenton, in behalf of Mr. Webster and a high taviff, prospects of a nomination at Baltimore, by either party; and his subsequent efforts to ropair the damage have been wholly unavailing. His last specehin the Senate, as far as it relates to steam- This animal usually | goes on ull fours, is thirty-three inches high, of the | Captain Marines, Quarles de Quarles, Lieutenant Marines, Roce, Physician, Van Wyck. Surgeon, Lueke. Purves, Coryn, Lieutenant Prussian Navy, Rogge. Midshipmen, Van Den Boeche, Van Asperen, Dinaux, Haerolten, Brandsen, Tromp. Lafaille. Cramer, Muller, Mass Gistecnnus. De Kanter, Byl De Vroe. Adj. Purser, Yan Es, Clerks, Wolfson and Umbgrove, ‘The P, of O. arrived off Annapolis on Sunday the 18th uli., and remained in that vicinity till the 11th inst., when the left Hampton Roads for New York. She was from Chagree, San Juan de Nicaragua, and Havana, and is now en route home. While the ship was at Annapolis, her commander, the Chevalier Byl de Vroe, gjsited Wash. ington city and waited on the President, 8 whom, with several of his ofilcers, he was introduced. These officers express themselves yery favorably impressed with the courteous reception given them by the President. They also paid their respects to the Secretary of State, and to the Secretary of the Navy. They visited the Vapitel, and were introduced to a number of the members of both houses. They also visited the Navy Yard. From theau- thorities of the State of Maryland they received the greatest attention and hospitality. The frigate rates sixty guns, and is considered the finest versel of the Dutch navy. Thoze who visited her at An- napolis speak with delight of the politeness of her officers, Ler crew, which is composed mainly of men above the middle stature, They were equally surprised and pleased on beholding the extreme cleanliness and neatness of the ship, and everything on board of her. Though last from Havana, a place unfavorable to the healih of the Eu- ropean, there is not a single individual on the sick list. ‘The officers and crew of this man-of-war will be well received here by the Knickerbockers. The St, Nicholas Society have made arrangements to give the officers » splendid dinner, avd the Board of Aldermon on Friday evening appoitted a committee of five to wait upon the commander and his officers, on their arrival, and extend to them the bospitalities of the city, Last Arrranaxce of Miss Cusuman ox tum Astentcan Stace—Her Fanewrit Penroumancr, axp Parrixe Avpress.—Mies Charlotte Cushman has closed her bril- Mant profersional career in this conntry. She appeared yesterday evening, for the last time before an American audience, at the Brondway theatre, which was crowded with thoee who wished to evince their admiration of her character and taleuts, The play selected for the occasion was “Guy Mannering,”’ dramatized from Sir Walter Scott's novel cf that name, and in which Miss Cushman enacted her great character of Meg Merrilfcs. It would be super- crogatory to attempt to criticise or eulogize her mute lees rendering of this, one of the grandest creations of the “Great Wizard of the North,’ Suffice it to say. she has nobly sustained the high reputation which she has long since won on the stage for her unrivalied dclineation of the Gipsy Queen, and was frequently interrupted in h performance by.the irrepressible plaudits of (he audiene After the curtain fell, Miss Cushman. in obedience to the call of the house, came before the lights, supported by Mr, Barty, the talented stage manager of the estab! ment, Ier appearance was greeted with rapturous and long sustained applause, As soonas the uproar subsided | sufliciently to permit her voice to be hoard, she spoke her adicu in these words :— we Lavirs anv Gestixaex—L vill not indulge in the Cant of saying that this call was unoxpected, or that have come entirely unprepared for it. The eustom of se- tors addrersing audiences is. I believe. “more honored in the breach than the obvervance.”” Inolden times it was punithed by forfeits or fines. I may scem and be an- tediluvian in my taste; but, for the sake of allconeerned, Tcould wish the old fashion restored, For myself, | have but little to ray; and if yeu find it not at ali to the pur- pose. Imust beg yet. in your kindness and courtesy, to think that it’s pretty well for a yoman, especially one “unneeustomed to public speaking. (Laughter and great applaure.) Onthe Sth of April. 1835, then eighter | years of age, under the direction of the gentleman at my Larry.) my first and last manager, I launched | my tiny eraft upon the sea of public opinion. In a course of alternate storms and calms, which has known no r. trogression, but which bas ever been onwan your apy ion, among the earliert breezes that | filled my swilk—E have mot many land rate rats, (pirates, I mean.) crufsers under mermcn and mermaids, rocks, shoals, pass but the examples of x fore meno t the prow, a cmyears’ voyage, come safe into t em, wit! » of indep nailed to the mast-head. (Great applause.) My Inbor has been incesrant. The world little “knows the labor of s can know hn actor found a generous master, @ life, for none but an actor In the public TL have ever Thelieve you will award me the credit of having proved myself a faithful servant, (Cheers,) For all these now straggling as Len truggle Lark of you the rame approbation which cheered aud on- couraged me to the attainment of that proud pre sional and focal position which [now enjoy. then, to bid you a repectfuland thankful farewell, Miss Cushman bowed and retired. amid the warmest | evidences of public approbation. ‘This celehated American actress proceeds from hence to England, where she plays her lost engagement. makes her congé to the public and takes a final farowell of the profession of which rhe has tong been one of the most brilliant ornaments, Tt is to be regretted that she retiree now, while che ia yet in the zenith of her successful ca- one of the greatest living aetrerres leave a void in the profession which will not be supplied sndily Superior Court.—Part Socond, Before Hon, Judge Sandiord. HUAVY VERDICT AGAINST AN INSURANCE COMPANY May 1.—Henry Beckett against the Insurance Company, ships and a steam navy, is the practical argument of a practical sailor, who knows what he is talking | abont, But when he comes to the dry land po- | litical abs'ractions of constitutional obligations— the Wilmot proviso and State rights—he is out of his reckoning. There is one political question, however, upon wh the Commodore can enlighten | us-it is the constitutionality of the New Jersey railroad tax upon the citizens of other States, Let him settle thet question to the public satisfaction, and it will be worth o thousand speeches on gum clastic, Daniel Webster, protection, and the Wilinot | | | the premivm at the time the of the State of Pennsylvania. —This was an acti by the plaintiff on a polic « fendants on the “Paterson Machi inthe town ef Paterson, New Jerse: stroyed by fre on the 28th of Jane, 1: itwas contended that the promiu Offered to be paid. For the det awas never that there were other ins: not no pany. Itis also said t plaintift app policy of insurance, and the terms, but did not pay the prominin, as the agent Was to draw on him for the amount, The Judge, in lis cherge, suid that if the agent had raised the payment of | poliey was mrde ont, ib weuld not invalidate the poliey; butit the ogent had only made out the potfey, nnd rot personal dit tothe | plaint fat the time, but only temp put it futo his hands. then it would not be valid; hut if delivered to him | proviso. In the men ne, we advise the Com- modore to keep 2 sharp eye upon Baltimore. Somo- thing may turn up yet. Who knows? Marine Affairs. Deranvvar or tHe Bar rie.—The U. & | M. rteamship | ' Paltie, Captaia Comstock, left at noon yestes day. for Liver- } Yosterdey np Dorl. | She was crowded with passengers, and many per- | | | | sous were refused tickels, from the Inability to Gnd roon forthem, Among the passengers aro Dr. Wainwright, elegant: from this city to (he Eptreopal Conve London: Archdesean Kelhune. of Toronto; and W. 8 Campbell. Bra. U.S. Consens to Rotterdam aad bearer of: despatches, with hie family. We Sreamane Jastes Avorn, Captain Dickinson, ar+ rived yerterday mavning fein Charleston, by which we received late Southern papers Poa Aavixwart.—Tho steamship United States, Saye. Berry. left port yesterday afternoon, for Avpinwail, with a Jurge Bumber of passengers, finally, it would he valid and be binding on tho dofend- arin, May li—'The jury, thie morning, rendered a verdict for the plolutiffs of $5 Police Intelligence. Charge of the Chief Ward Police. 9 Seales, a bnker by trade, Wiilliemeburg, whe an acocmpli used with being | ted some four days since. tho dwelli haw modea e fon on his examination. ja which No | states hat r Mus lnstigated to fo the auld promieon by | jeorge Preslei Y Prevler. oa hia arrost, and wher taken before the Chief of Poli oe etatye ot, | nitterly falre; and anye he eli boaterto eee te se; and suyr he rhall be able t thas the | Mory told by Schaeffer fea fal pwitinenemaicy | of endeavoring to extricate himeelf from the erime by fnplienting another party, Prosler was detained by th. Chief of Police onul the case v more fgiiy investigated, ' and admiration of the healthful and fine appearance of Allow me, | veer, her laurels still green, and hervelf acknowledged as | | Her retirement wiit + | meratin, rieation, with a viewmainly |’ * The Next '. THE WHIG CONVENTIONS IN THIS CITY—BaLLorinG FOR PELEC ATES TO BALTIMORE—EXCITEMENT AND CONFUSION, ETC. THIRD DisTRICT. The convention of the Third distriet, comprising tho First, Sccond. Third, Fifth and Righth wards met yester- day evening at the Girard House, corner of West Broad- way avd Chember street. The Fillmore members being in the mpjority, proceeded to organise by appointing Wyllis Blackstone a*Cha:rman, To this the Seott mem- bere protested. and the other faction refusing to receive the protert, they withdrew, The Fillmore men. having completed their organization, elected Hon, J, W. Beckman as delegate to Baltimore, and J, W. Mecks as alternnate. ‘the Sectt or ceeding portion ef the convention took poreertion of ab adjoining room, appointed Mr. Sturte- Vant a chainuan and then balloted for a delegate to Baltimore, which resulted in the choice of Wm. L. Shard- low. Jchn B. Frink was chorem alternate. It now re- mains for (be Albany Convention to decide, which ef the foro dolegater shall represent the Third distriet, FOURTH DISTRICT. The Convention of the Fourth district, comprising the Se 5 Fourth, Sixth. Tenth, and Fourteenth wards, met yester- / day evening at Florence's Hotel, corner of Walker street 5 and Broudway, There was considerable spouting and I balloting. which continued up to eleven o'clock, when the conventicn adjourned over until Monday evening, without succeeding to clect a deiegate, FIFTH DISTRICT. The delegates of the Fifth district, comprising the Se- venth and Thirteenth wards, and Williamsburgh, met latt evening at eight o'clock, at 120 East Broadway. There were 6 delegates from each, which made 18; and in order to huve an odd number, they clected a nineteenth man. David Forbes, taking him from the Thirteenth ward, which is a Fillmore ward, The Sevonth ward is Scott and Webster. Williamsburg is mixed, but supposed to be more in favor of Scott than of any other candidate, ‘There were three candidates—J. Hl. Bri; of the Thir- teenth ward. a Fillmore man; Morgan Morgans, of the Seventh ward a Web:-ter man, (second choice Seott;) and Jurtice Coles. of Williamsburg, elected as a Fillmore man. but said to be really for Scott. The convention could not agree there being fifty ballots at half past one o'clock this morning. when our reporter le! being no wppearonce of an agreement, Briggs had! even votes. and each of the other two, six. In iact. it reemed as if each ward voted for their own man, There was considerable excitement, and a number of pertons around the door and in the lobby, and at Eart Brosdway House, and the other side of the street, waiting for the result, SIXTH DISTRICT. The delegates of the Eleventh, Fifteenth, and Seven- teenth wards, met at the Henry Clay House, corner of First street and avenue A, and, after sixty ballots, couk not ogree, and adjourned at a quarter to 12 o'clock til Monday evening at 8 o'clock. There were deacons and churchmen in the convention, and they would not break the Sabbath like the Fifth district convention. The ballot stoodin the beginning of the evening for William S. Duke, (Fillmore man.) six; Henry Davies, (late Corpo. ration Attorney. also a Willmore man.) five; and Og- den Hofman, (Scott man.) four, Finally the voting war five for each, the delegates of each ward voting for theit- own man, = En Fe me a Oe } SEVENTH DISTRICT. The @elegates for this district, embracing the Ninth, Sixteenth, and Twenticth wards, met last evening, at the Utah Houre, corner of Twenty-fifth sttreet and Eighth avenue. On the first ballot they stood :— William Turner (Scott) Joreph Smith (Filme ell, ¢ Six teenth ward, (Fillmore,) waa unanimously elected. and Nichclas Carroll, ot the Ninth ward, chosen as substitute. MisceNancous Political Items. Linerty Variy Nationar Coxventign.—-The leaders of the liberty party have called a con¥ention, to meet at buffalo on the isi of Septefper next. to nominate can- 4 didates tor President aud Vice-President of the United States, Tne “Persona, Linenty Biti”? iw rie Massacut e178 LyorstaTune.--The bill to preserve personal libe ty, whieh hud previously passed the Massachusetts Se. inte, hag wow pas:ed the House by three majority. secures the protection of the huleas corpus, and is éa Peat impede the administration of tho Fugi Slave law. United States District Court. Before Hon, Judge Judsen. May 15 —frraiznment of Prisoners.—Nicholes Rots, 1 ward Nichoiron, Wm, Wallace, John Kelley, Isaac Fen and Willian Lose, were indicted for an eudeayor to make a revolt on board the American ship Now World. on her late voyage to thi: port. The prisoners pleaded guiity, and rentenee was defersed. Charge of Larceny.—Gvorge B, Lee and Jas. Sptith were | indietea for lasecuy of $1 O00 worth of gold. oF. bowed the Wm. 0. Ulden. prisoners pleaded not sAiten pied Kevolt.—lhe ailty, Armatrong. William Johnson, William Deukman. and Charles Miller, were arraigned for ap endeayor to make a revolt on board the Albert Galls- tin, The pri-cners pleaded not guilty, ‘The petty Jury not cupaunelled in the revenue eause har ge on trial, were d) until next Tuesday week. y High Bridge Motes for Sale.—The sotel a igh bers o th i with G ving a good busine » two carriage 4 ving about forty The seewery is very Leantiful, with the advanta ii Vortef fiehing. “The place will he sold rersonadle if cite tion is mate carly. For further particulars, inquire «f or fr JOHN BOARDMAN, Cortlandt Alley, or on (he promises. Make one Trial of Dr. Watt's Nervous Antidote for rhemmati im: palsy, epileney, paraly or nervous celility. gm Will Le siven to retur ey i not beneeial, JOUN PYNER, No. 18 Ann atre per bottle, As poverty is the father of invention. so Prosperity is the promoter of energy.—Whatever id acing, fx worth the vndersaned public the Lest de, ice, ho has proved geous to his curtomers and now invites an inpection &e., for gentlemen superb Hat Warers for the reveption to rely upen his own var! tyles fer the dif ¢ all tastes, k adoyted by other Ir visit bis establishin that, so far asthe r iveness ef appes ran heing accommodated. call and exaroise his extent and bea is and the p in the pre tseasona, he still, to ofthe various fashions rere, so that all who vith tho full assurance t be surpass 2G. MUBCH proved Folian Pianos, sroudway, corner of Anthony Broadway Theatre, where the larg- # with or withont the Empzoved ). 230 Third avenue. i | Moliar sand will Le gold at press bargains. | There now eoming into general use. Fail nos to see aud Lear them, Pianos to let. ____ HORACE WaTERS. jothing E:stablisi 1 al Menten | invited to call @ Ladics’ India Rab! | ing, Lover cleaning, &e | and arms from exposure driving, will Hike th | make the | Louse-fnri COCK & Lk rubler stores, What are the People Thinking of !=Those | who beve not go Sewing Machine, ara sotually losing w large aaount every day, A shrewd judividual pur thared five of the clines one year aco. and kept an ja and fund at the end of tho | year be bad clea 0, Thi «The name | of the rarty (w te restricted va from giving | his name) will such persons ag want to maka money, on applicattin 1. M. SINGER & CO., 258 Broadway. opolitan | Millinery, Emportun, c. The long ones protest the wrists entlemen fond of gerdening or . They are wat . For zal The Me | 605 Hromdway, vorver of Nilo’ York.—Paris, Land | Aud European Millinery Lace, Mentill Fancy Goods, Of the Intest fashions and designs, are now open by De LEADY, Eovlish, Belgian, Swies and German the mest exq ident in, an an opportunity not various tastes in sl) Metropolitan Millinery, | Porisian sad Lowdown M. sazlicet atonmers, ¢ kind, at most mod ovate prices. arin ce and Fangy Goods Emporium, My Fashfons teve:ved’ by the Multum in Parvo.—Space forbids us enue gto atiresions of SMITH & RICE'S clothing stro, 102 Felton etroct, hut we are compelled to any thay if you want fire rate articles very cheap, you must deal Wish them. Give them a trial, aud yon will ever after know where to g Let Tradcemen, whose articles require Yehered praise, deal in long advertisements. Pour lin ve to remind tho public that at GREEN'S, No, ovfe, the most clepant Shirts ont of France (and go Paris aro better) can be ordered, with ceiving them home, at the honr appo 1,000 Pair Flippers, just receive © Ereporinm, 100 + city to get ® good 9 Of every style or di cer f- ti ity of te: he certainty of re- inted, ay 'rench Galtcrs and nm Paris, at BROOKS’ Boot tho t plac in lippers, &e., Cheap, Elegant and Durable ts eve tte cold by Boa Rout and 90 eFENT V8 ndsomely made, » y 1 alii dal! tncommenly ¢ $3 50 Roots mnde to order, of the best. Frevch cenit shin. wich shanks, at A. Baker's, 20 Beekman street, Patent Leather tr, $650, Bost quality Patent: Leather Shoes, Gaiters, Tee, f every style, cheapsr than eleewlere. A good acsortment eo tly on hand, (oi and examine for yourself, at A. BAKER'S, 0 Bockman street. Great Bargains in Carp & HUMP paving pote igo anet dienore vf the sane ae the following low pr! yete, 124; Tapertrivs, 9: Kensnols, be; Thre 7a, to 89.5 Ingraing, 4. t0 O#,, Wad ail othor goods equally Lows Canal Street Carpet Store—Now ts the time If you want Co mehe # saving of fifteen por cent, eal) VO Canal etrect, BA. PRERGON COE, wal Ther M1 find good ‘Tuerain Carpets, four sbillinga per Ny; even 8 sNloHs por tay Brusaeis ry ment of Tupestty Velvere