The New York Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1852, Page 4

Convention—Fhe human being to the level of the brate. Floggingin was not capable of committing i fall. It was, as we | came into office. He has since changed his mind. The Baltimore Democratic understand it, in order that the Chief of Police should | But General Scott is man of his word—he Preepect of the Gam . the army and navy is at length found, by experi- be invested with competent juriedietion in fire is- | changes not—“ his principles are convictions” He | The Baltimore Convention, which meote to-day, | ence, to be most mischievous—the men upon whom vestigations, that the recent act was pased, giving | is, however, progressive in his ideas; for in one | Will mark # new epoch in tho history of the coum- | such degradation is inflicted being worth- NEW YORK HERALD. JAMEE GORDON NNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. vor ety. tof Spring Garments, You ean procure a better suit of clothes, ‘them, shan establishment in sg uae of any other ry Scien tie ey GPYICE W. W. 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CRRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE—Necno Mivsraruey, av street—OnivER the Chief of Police the powers of a potice justice. | fortnight after this letter, he writes another, dated | **- Jt ismanifest thut the candidate of the demo- | Jesefor life. But it is the flogging We should like te see the decision of Judge Mitchell given in writing, that we may more fully under- stand ite pointe. Nov. 10, 1841, in which he declares himself in | favor of the abolition of the nataralisation lawa, and the exelusion of all foreigners from voting | that the game of the whigs will bospalpableevasion seen what moral means ean do, instead of violence, cratic party, whoever be may be, will be foreaworn to the support of the Pugitive Slave taw; it isevident It will be seen, by reference to the intelligence | hereafter; and adds, tbat sheald apy considerable _° thie all-important iaeue, in order to soonre the eup- under the head of movements ef Thomas Francis Meagher, that the excitement in reference to thi’ gentleman is growing stronger and stronger every day, and that, cre long, it is likely to assume atangi- | pored by the nativist committee of Philadelphia , much we hold to be scttled—that the contest will be have neither education, cultivation, nor fitnoss, in ble ebape, in one of the greatest demonstrations over given inthis city. It wasnot the best taste or the most prudent course, to threaten the Common Coun. cil, in the event of their refusing to do that which it seems @ wajority had already determined on doing. The attempt to whitewash the Irish Direc- tory was a complete failure. The people would not stand it. To make the ruse successful | the name of Jobn B. Dillon, an Irish exile, was mixed up with the Directory. Mr. Dillon was not in the country at the time the Directory were ap- | pointed, nor for long after, so that the cunning de- | viee of making him the scapegoat of the sins of | the election of the officers and magistrates appointed | ¢tndidate. We are credibly informed that during the | otbers, will not do. Jt is certainly new to us, and, we think, to the community at large, that John B. Dillon isa member of the Irish Directory. It must have been a mistake for Horace Greeley. 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Malls for Europe. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. ‘The British mail steamship Afriea, Captain Harrison, will leave this port at noon tomorrow, for Halifax and Liverpool. The European and Asiatic mails will close in ihe morning. at half-past ten o'clock. The New Youx Weeniy Henain, with the latest news, published in Englich and French, will be iesued at balf-past nine @elock. Single co in wrappers, sixpence. The News. Baltinore is now the centre of political attrac- tion. The Democratic National Gonvention meets in that city to-day, and Washington is dezerted. All sorts of reports are sent over the wires to the newspapers, having different objects in view, some of which are too transparent to make them worth even the telegraphic tolls. It will be a difficult quatter to select one candidate from thirteen, when nearly all ovenpy the same platform. It is, of course, more difficult to tell who the candidate is to be, before the convention meets. les the in- trignes of the friends of the candidates, there are outsiders, who are endeavoring to embarrass tho movements of the convention. These outsiders also raph, and send despatches to New elsewhere, te be re-echoed back to Balti- in time for the final struggle. They state that Cars and Buchanan have no chance; that the con test will bo between Marey, Butler and Donglas, aod that the chances are in favor of tho latter. Is as likely that these despatches come from from democratic sourees. The whigs are interested in the Fe ion the demo- They have their choice ofthe democratic erate are enndids By tho proceed in Congress, yesterday, it will De even th he members were unable to think or act upon any other question than that of tho Pre- The Senate concluded to adjourn till next commodate the different ly interested in the pro- ic convention, as well as y, im onder to membe eocdings of the democ those who ure anxious to assist in working the wires. For thé same reason the House decided to adjourn from to-day till Fr ‘After a spirited 5 1 debate, in which several who are per of the leading me’ of both parties became quite warm, the Re » yesterday passed the Defi- i bill, but was unable to transact any other * for want of a quorum. The Hoase fixed Bpon to-d k for the diy of the motion for the re-cousidoration of the vote tabling the Towa railroad land bill. The Committee on Public Lands reported a bill granting over a million and a half of seres for railroad purposes in Florida and Alabama. This is probubly about the most worthy of all the railroad land schemes that have been brought forward during the present session—yot it is doubtful whether it would be wise policy to make the extensive grant mentioned, to even this concern, A motion was made by Mr. Orr to setile upon a day for final adjournment, and the matter is to come up next Mond: As soon as the nominations for the Presidency have been made, our Congressmen will probably hurry slong the work and adjourn, But wo material bus will be transacted till the names 0 andidates are made public. Advices from Mexico to the 13th of May, announco that the Chamber of Doputics had passed a bill | granting to Colonel Sloo the right of way across the | Isthmus of Tehuante If true, thie is highly | important in it settles at once all doubts as tot s of Mexico in annalling the Garay grant. Judge Mitchell, of the Supreme Court, yosterday gve his decision in the case of Pinkus Goldstein, obarged with arson, in eotting fire to his store in Morris strect, on the 21st of May. Goldstein was bold by the Chief of Police, under the recent act passed by the Legislature, which is as follows— An Act to provide 8 speedy Investigation into the origin of fires in the city of New York, passed April 16, Ash2, ‘The people of the Stute of New York, represented in Benato aud Aprembly, do enact a# follows 4 1. The Chief of Police of the city of New York is erchy authorized and required to make an investigation Anto the origin of every fire occurring im esid city, and for that purpose he is hereby invested with the same powers | fend jurisdiction as are Dow possessed by the police jus Gees of suid city & 2 This act phall take offeot immediately, 7 a | in the war of 1812, or the Mexicans in more recent | | written half a dozen letters during the last ten or | he is not required to renounce any principle he pro- | an abetractionist.” His principles, then, are not mere Trish Directory, in making preparations for any | demonstration to him, the better for its success, and the better for his popularity. This Directory aro in anything but good odor with the community. Every subseriber who has paid his money to the fund asks, what has become of the $35,000 ? We are corry to learn that the cholera is again prevalent in some of the Western towns and cities. Within a few days, about sixty persons, mostly rail- road laborers, have been swept off by this fatal epi- demic, at La Salle, Ill. The President has issued a proclamation an- nouncing the conclusion of a treaty betwoen the United States and the republic of Costa Rica. The treaty is in the English and Spanish languages, and was ratified on the 26th of May. Want of room makes it necessary to defer the publication of the treaty in this morning’s HeraLp. The Political Letters and Platform of Ge- neral Scott. We publish this morning, in another portion of this sheet, four most important political letters, written and published by General Scott during the last few years—containing all his views and princi- ples on the public affairs and public policy of this country, and covering a broad national ground, that will surprise the country and the world, by their importance and probable future consequences to the United States. There is no manner of doubt that General Scott: is the strongest individual candidate as yet named, of any party, and from all the indications and signs of the poliiical atmosphere, it seems probable that he will be the nominee of tho whigs at the Bal- timore Convention, on the 16th. Not only is it pro- bable that he may get the nomination, but he stands 2 good chance of being elected. Owing to tho military spirit of the country, gencrals have always been the favorite candidates with the ‘pecple. On this principle, Jackson, Harrison, and Taylor were elected. The hero of Lundy’s Lane is a8 great a military chieftain as the hero of New Or- leans, the hero of the Thames, or the hero of Buena Vista, and the military perhaps asactive and universal ag it ever was. The question naturally arises, what is the platform of the candidate who has most chances in his favor for the possession of the White House? Vhe General himself has written four political letters, and laid down his platform, and it is one of most momen tous magnitude—the most important in its as pect upon the future destinies of this country that was ever presented by any candidate since the Union wis called into existence. Demvcracy has its basis in the Southern States, and in the original formation of the Union and tho constitution, and the organization of the govern- ment. Democracy and the South has heretofore had the preponderance in Congress. Whigism has jig foundation in the North. By tho pidly increasing population of the Northern | States the Sonth has lost its power, and the | free States havo now a majority against it. | ‘The great object of the South is to get back the | equilibrium it has lost in Congress. The Southern States do not care so much about the Fugitive Slave | law. They will not trust to any shadowy laws for | their rights. They will rely only ona majority of | substantial votes; for the strongest party will inter- | | pret the constitution as suits themselves. They | want, therefore, to purchase and annex Cuba, or | to divide California into two States, in or- der to restore the lost balance of power, and to | muke them secure againet the encroachments of the | North. Tt was with this view that Texas, Califor- | nd New Mexico were annexed by the South. | But, instead of the North consenting to the addition | of other slave Btates, it meditates the taking of | Saneda into the Union, snd manufacturing it int | two or three anti-slavery States. Such is the po | tion of partice, and such are the objects and aims | they have in view. Here are two great principles uggling for the mastery: Southern rights on side—abolition and 1» preponderance of | | Northern power on the other. They have each a ; lp ; but the policy of the one is antagonistic | | to tho poliey of the other. With both, policy | | is the road—political power at home, and the epoile of office that belong to it, is the desired end. A struggle is at hand, which will decide the fate of the two parties for at least four yoars. The Southern party have not yet chosen their champion; | tho: Norttiorn party have given unmisthkeable fadl- | cation of theirs. Though their convention is last in order of time, they are first in the field, and their one | 1 | | general has selected the battle ground, and promul- } gated the plan of action to hie oficcrs, as distinctly as over he did in his caropaigns against the Britich years. It is asked why Genoral Scott does not write a letter, and mueh noise is made about his omiseion to do so. Butthere is no necessity for a lettor. He has been already sufficiently explicit, having eleven yenrs. He isthe candidate of the North, and he is selected precisely because ho has written these letters. He bas never retracted any of the | sentiments they contain. Indeed, General Scott is not @ man to retract anything, or back down frown any position he assumes. He is a man of his worl, and his word is sufficient. Te doubt it, orto ask him for further pledges, would be only to insult the sol- dier, and cast a r ion upon his honor. His pro- gramme, then, is laid down in the lotters which we publish in this day's Hynann; and he will atick to it us obstinately as he sticks to his fight with the enemy. In one of those letters he “he will | accept the nomination for the Pro: provided Jen festes. His principles are convictions.” What are the principles professed hy General Scott? What are his convictione? In his first letter, dated October 25, 1841, he says be has “never boen a jacobin, an impracticable, or On the investi on, Geldstoin was committed to prison for trial. The matter was brought up on | a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Mitchell, who decided that the powers of the Chief of Police em- aced the invest * and origin of fires only; Phot be was not invested with judicial powers; that | peuch cases a final commitment must be given by | dicial officer; ond he accordingly sent the whole | iter before Police Jastice Bogart bere is something singular in this docision made | dy Uadge Mitohell, asthe Chief of Police possessed, prio’ the recent act, the requisite powers for the of all felonies. He could send for take testimony under oath, issue hie war- ‘gant for the arrert of parties under suspicion, bot ‘as paramount to the laws of Congress. | abstrections, but intended to be roduced to practic One of his principles, 98 annunciated in the same let- | + ter, is to regard the desisions of the Supremo Court Ho aleo | nosed to turning mon out of office who { have fitness and capacity. The whigs now holding | office will rejoice at this declaration in their favor, and those Seward whiga out of office, who are f ing #0 hard to get in, will, we fear, be greatly east | down. General Scott enys that the futher of his country would not accept n third term of office, and he thinks that by an amendimont in the constitue | tion it ought te be limited to one term. Pre- skient Villmore wos of tho snme opinion before he H soye be is | bloody separation of the Union will take place ; or a | | military republic, somewhat like that of the Romans | { inthe world. They beli mber of his countrymen assign him, or give him, ® prominent position before the-public, he will methodixe bis views on the great ‘That ia, he will put them into the practical shape port ef Seward and his multifarious shades, and stripes, and colors of anti-slavery ‘*higbor law” allies in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Thus acontest between Gen. Seott, as a sectional candi- ' men who are generally appointed trustees of public prepares the way for flogging in the army and navy. Nip the brutality in the bad, and let it be for regulating the youth of our public sehools. The misfortune is, that argument with the class of schools, is ‘‘ casting pearls before swine.” They any sense, for the office they hold—an office which of a bill for Congress, which he will have introduced dute, aud the demoeratic nominee upon & national — ghey always procure for political servieos, with rut and backed by all the influence of his government. | Platform. But the question who is to be the demo- —yegard to their qualifications, and which is too often And if the bill should pass, General Scott will as- ¢rtic candidate, is just as uncertain as the exact the result of the basest and the moanest arts. The suredly sign it, and carry it out.in the letter and spirit | thereof. What these views are he expressly states— all foreigners to be excluded from voting, though not, day of the month when Louis Napoleon will pro- claim the restoration of the French empire. root of the evil lies in the present system of pri- mary elections, and in the mob, and rum, and rowdy | According to all adviecs from Washington, there | influences, which control the choice of men to fill perhaps, the right to hold possession of real estate. | never has been anything in tho history of politics the public offices. This influence reaches to the This will chiefly affect the Germans and the Irish who exceeding the hub-bub, “ the noise and confusion,” teachers themselves—for the most part an ignorant will cease to be citizens, to have voice in the the rivalries, the jealousics, tho profound diffieul- | got of men and women—and affects, for evil, the making of the laws by which they are governed, | ties, and the hard porplexitics which now distress | destinies of the present generation, and gencration in the disposal of the taxes whieh they pay, or in ; the democratic party in reference to a Prosidential — yot unborn. by the constitution to administer justice and execute the laws. The practical operation of this principle will be to throw the power completely into the pos- session of the North, by shutting off the foreign | votes—particularly the Catholics and the [rish—from the assistance of the democracy. A consequence of thie will be that the Catholic spirit and anti- Catholic spirit will be evoked, and the one will be arrayed againet the other. His next letter is highly important. It is a letter on the annexation of Canada—it is equally decisive, and equally necessary as a partof his system of tac- tics. It is not enough to cut off power from the South—but power must also be added to the North. A good general not only diminishes the number of his enemies by despatching them by all possible methods, but takes good care to recruit his own forees. By tho annexation of anti-slavery Canada, the accession of strength to the North would be tremendous. There two measuresare but auxiliary to the grand design which the General lays down in his letter on | slavery. In that letter he says:— “Tam persuaded that it isa bigh moral obligation of masters, and rlave-holding States, to employ all means not incompatible with the safety of both colors, to me- Morate slavery, even to exterminaiton.”” —In other words, ultimate abolition. That is plain enough. The following, thongh not so clear, is | pregnant with meaning, and very suggestive :— “From the promise made to Avraham. some two thou- sand years had elapsed before the advent of our Saviour, and the Israelites, the chosen people of God, were, for wise purpores, suffered to remain in bondage longer than the Africans have been on our shores. * % * * Ido bat | suggest the remedies and consolations of slavery, to inepire patience, hope,” &e. How were the Israelites brought out of bondage atlast? By a high hand and an outstretched arm— by the destruction of the first-born of Egypt, and by the everthrow of Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea. We do not say that General Scott con- templates a massacre in every house in the Southern States. But it is an undeniable fact, that this pas- sage in sacred history is the standing text from which the abolitionists of the North—black, white, and gray—preach future vengeanec, bloodshed, re- bellion, and anarchy, when the slaves, aided by the North, grow too numerous and too powerful for their masters and the white population of the South. If General Scott did not mean that the parallel should be complete, his allusion to the case of the Israel- ites in Egypt was most unfortunate. But we willas- sume tbat he only meant abolition by moral and legal means, which are very different from the instruron- tality that delivered Israel from the house of bondage. We will assumo that General Scott had gradual abolition, and not a violent coupde main, in his eye. His tirst step, therefore, with the aid of his party will be to repeal the Fugitive Slave law, for he ig- nores the veto power. The next will be to annex Canada; the next to abolizh tho naturalization laws, and finally to aid and influence the abolition of slavery all over the United States and territories. The nomination, therefore, of General Scott, which is already settled, “cut and dried” in the North, ia the beginning of tho end. In the event of his election, there will be a total change in the ad- ministration of the government of the country. Emigration will be diminished—foreigners will be disfranghised and discouraged, and the Ivish and Germans in particular will be placed under worse disabilities than those under which they groaned in their native land. There will be a complete revolu- tion in tho action of the government, and the long | threatened separation between the North and Soyth will at last explode in open rapture. There will be terrible commotion in Con- gress and throughout the country. Genoray | Scott himeelf, will be the executive to carry out | these designs; and as President and Commandor-in- | Chief, he will enforee the now laws with all the mi- litary and civil power of the North, and at the point of the bayonet. He is not a coward to shrink from the performance of his duty, whatever may be the consequences. He was never born to yield or ro- | treat. The end of all will be, that a terrible and | | | | ve or the French, will be gradually established, and our | present institutions will be remembered among tho things of the past. The Baltimore Convention of the 16th will, thero- | fore, do well to reflect before they take the step | that will lead to all the other steps we have enu- merated. If they are prepared for the last, let them take the first. As for General Beott, it is por- feetly useless to ask him to write anothor letter; he cannot make what he has written more plain, and he is not the man to retract anything, noither is he an ‘‘ abstractionist.” ‘His principles are convictions,’ and he will bravely carry them out. The prpgramme laid down in his letters, which we publish to-day, is, therefore, his unchangeable plat- form, and the unchangeable platform of his party. His motto, like that of Pontius Pilate, is—‘‘ What I have written, I have written.” A New Reronw Movewent, or tae Marsy Law Brany.--We insert elsewhere in our columns, a very curious memorial in preparation, to’be presented to the Legislature in Massachusetts, and very pro- bably to that, also, of this State, at itenext by a body of respectable religionists, who of morality and benevolence, aro equal to the Maine Liquor law men of any part of the country—we mean the Shaking Quakers, or thore generally called Shakers. Some of this bitherio qui trious, agricultural, pious, praying posple, are be- | ginning to fecl the spirit of reform upon them, and | sn anxiety to put their oar into the water, with tho | rest of the philosophers and reformers of the day. Accordingly, they design to come forward to the proper authoritics, and present views of the new re- forms which they propose, of the most important character to the progrcss of the prevont age, and to the “ good time coming.” It is well knowa that | the Shakers disbelieve in marriage, and thet their community ts entirely without any union be- tween the se They look upon the marriage re- | lation ne being the rource of all tho evils, and | troubles, and quarrels, and disturbances that ‘ flosh | is heir to,” and even say that many a man is driven | into ruin in consequence of getting married. They therefore intend to ask the different Logislatures | which have parsed the Maino lew, or propose to pass it, to accony that partial reform with the radi- cal reform of a law entirely preventing poople from ever getting marsied he and abslishing the | isting marringe tie, as being one of the most | eroue and destru vyetems that over existed indus- | #0, u hing mat- | horeafwr yimouy entirely, and preve | between the sexes, the world may be completely re- | formed; and that if it should be a desert in a bua dred years, it will be a quiet, pleasant, and respect- able desert for those who would then happen to be | on the earth | elous practice of whipping in the publ | ble account of the whipping of a little girl in one of | operations. | last week, among the Congress. en, delegates, and | joafere collected in Washington, there has been an | unexampled consumption of whiskey, bad brandy, | lager beer, and julaps. This is a striking evidence | of the serious obstacles which eonfront the Balti- | more Convention—for difficulties and embarrass- | ments of all kinds almost invariably drive men to harddrinking. To attempt to enforce the Maino Liquor law in Washington or Baltimore, at this time, would inevitably, if pushed to extremitics, result in | a “whiskey insurrection,” so necessary is it to the juggling politicians there assembled, “To try to keep their spirits up, By pouring spirits down.”’ This day, and probably to-morrow, possibly evon the next day, too, will be required to perfect the or- ganigation of the convention, the confirmation of the delegates, and the appointment of the necessary committees. But as hotel bills on such occasions form an expensive and important item, we presume that by to-morrow night the convention will be fully organized for the direct business of the nom!- nation. | The two most prominent candidates are Cass and Buchanan. ‘There is no doubt that if the friends of both could unite upon either, they could easily carry the two-thirds vote required to make a nomination, for they would hold it in their own hands. But it appears that there is no disposition to a junction be- tween thom. On the contrary, it is quite likely, and pretty widely anticipated, that each party will stick to their man till they both find that the nomi- nation of either is utterly impracticable; for, to Young America and the scattering outsiders, there are strong objections to both. The objections to Cass are, that he has already been defeated by a second-rate military hero compared with General Scott; that the New York barnburners are not re- conciled to take him; and the Southern secession- ists, forming the bulk of the democracy in the ex- treme South, are bitterly opposed to him because of his personal affiliations with Foote, Clemens, Cobb, and others of the ate Southern union. These aro ugly impediments to Cass. Against Buchanan, it is urged that he is an old fedoraliet, has no personal popularity, and, from his high tariff affinities, would be exceedingly unpopular in the West. Tho great objection of Young America to both is, that they are old fogics, and too far behind the progress of the age to be acceptable upon any terms. Pledged up to their very eyes, they are still old fogies, and Marcy is no better, but rather worse in the esti- mation of George Sanders, and Marshall, of Cali- fornia, who are go-ahead men on the California standard. It is probable, then, that, as in 1844 all the old standing candidates were set aside fora now man, so, in 1852, they will have again to be superseded by some new and comparatively obscure eandidate We placo little reliance upon the roports that the friends of Buchanan and Cass, if driven to it, in- tend ultimately to combine upon Marcy; or that the Douglas and Cass men design to effect an alliance upon Dickinson, if it shall be necessary. In the first place, it appears that the ‘lay of the land’ will have to be tested by a practical vote in oon- vention before any definite agrangoments or plans can be entered into for ulterior bargains. Thero is accnsiderable quantity of floating materials in the convention, the exact location of which cannot be ascertained but by a practical vote. The corres- pondence with Captain Scott has increased this difi- culty, and, to tell the truth, it has actually raised the question whether some outside eandidates would not be more available, upon the whole, than any one of the list of Captain Scott's letter writers. Of all of them, there isno question that Marcy’s letter is the most judicious, for all sections of the party. It is a sort of Kano letter—vory explicit upon the sur- face, but still affording a loop-hole of escape to the barnburners, which is not to be found in any of the ret, though Gen. Cass labors very hard to concili- ate them to the Fugitive law. Upon the whole, the democratic candidate is as yeta complete mystery. From presont appearances, it can hardly be Cass or Buchanan—it can hardly he Young America; and, strange as it may appear, Marvy, ns a second choice, sooms to have as good a chance as anybody. Warrrine ix THE Pustic BcHoOLS.—The stro- schools has not attracted half the public attention it deservos. Occasionnally a case comes out, a momentary ex- citement is produced, and all about the matter is toon forgotten, while incalculable mischief is all this time perpetrated in secret, and the spirit and character of children are destroyed for life. Two or three days ago, we published alotter giving a horri- the public schools in this city, and whipping, too, without cause. To whip a boy at school is cruel, irrational, and absurd, injuring him beyond all cures and utterly failing in the alleged object of this rem- nant of barbarism. But to whip a girl is an outrago upon decency, and ought to be visited with the highest punishment known to the law. It seems that all tho satisfuction parents can get, when they complain of it to the trustees, is, that the trustees approve of it, and that, if the parents themselves had been whipped more when they wero of the same ago, they would be the better for it. Such is tho insolence exhibited by these brutal offi- cials to tho people. Tho atmosphere of the United States docs not suit them; and if there were any pro- vision for sending them out of the country to China or Japan, they would find themselves quite at home in those regiona, and might, perhaps, obtain the rank of an officer for euperintending the iniliction of barbarous panishments upon criminals in the great Celestial Empire. We would strongly urge upon our correspondent the duty he owes to his ehild, to God and nature, whoee laws have heen violated, and to that comma- nity of which he is amomber, whose prstuction he re- coives, and to which he owes obligations in return—we would impress upon him the duty of coming forward apd prosecuting, orrather bringing an action against the teacher, and thus, if no other good could be effected, exporing her name, and the names of the trustees, to the reprobation of an indignant public. But we are confident that any jury would award suck examplary damages as would put a stop to the infumous laeh; and wo hope that every case that comes to the knowledge of parents in fature, will be taken up in thie way, aad dealt with ag it de- sorver. These tyrants are behind the ago in civilization, and are ignorant of the human mind, and its laws ond In France, whipping is not practised in schools at ail, Tho system adopted for enforcing discipline and repressing bad conduct, is comfao- ment and deprivation of privileges, and not the bru- talizing method o boating the pupils, which destroys the noble sentiment of honor, and degrades the | esi Poutieat, Parcurné—Maxcy’s Lerrers.—We publish to-day, in tho shape of light reading for the Baltimore Convention, to be taken between drinks, the two letters of Governor Marcy, which were written some time ago, for the purpose of being published about this period, on the principle of bait- ing your hook with a sprat to catch a codfish. Those letters are intended to patch up the quarrel between the barnburners and hunkers of this State, and to render the vestments of the democratic party as good asnew. When Governor Marcy has any objeot to position. These letters, however, notwithstanding they affect a great regard of the writer to both par- ties, do not concur exactly with his Scott epistle, which is unequivocally in the one direction, It is unnecessary to say much more about Governor Marcy’s epistles, or his chances or prospects of euc- cess. There is no doubt but his anxiety for the nomination at Baltimore is almost as strong as the anxiety of Judge Edmonds to enlighten the world with his spiritual revelations after he has been con- versing for hours with the ghosts of the other world. Perhaps there is none of the dozen candidates so sleeplessly desirous—so tremulously anxious, for the nomination, as Governor Maroy, of New York; but as to his chances, a few days will tell. Tue Marne Liquor Law 1x Ruope Isnaxp— ‘TexRIsLE Hvssvs.—We learn from the Newport papers, that popular sentiment on the subject of the recently passed Maine Liquor law in Rhode Island is creating tremendous excitement throughout the whole State; but more particularly in Newport. “The excitement,” says one paper, “is raging with violence in our usually quiet town.” Again it says: ‘‘The revolutionary spirit is manifost in Rhode Island, and has becn commented upon abroad, and Rhode Island is held up to the gaze of the States as a violator of her own laws, and a hot. bed of insubordination.” Such is the effect of the Maine Liquor law in “little Rhody; and where the matter will end, either in that State or in Massachusetts, is difficult to determine. If the descendants of the men who threw British tea into Boston harbor tamely sub- mit to have cold water forced down their throats by their own Legislature, it will only be a melan- eholy proof of their degeneracy, and that, while the form of liberty is still enthroned among them, the animating spirit has fled, and only a corse remains. The effect of this law, as we have already shown, will be ruinous to the hotels in Newport and other watering places of Rhodo Island and Massachusetts, and, indeed, to all classes of persons in business in those cities and towns. A Newport paper, focling the shoe pinch, denies that it will injure the hotels or bueiness interest generally, and states that thore are hardly a dozen of the cottages usually let for the season, to be now disposed of in that city. The writer forgot to mention the fact that these cot- tages were taken before the Maine law passed; and that makes all the difference in the world. It is no proof, because they were taken then, that they willever be occupied now that the cold water sys- tem is revolutionizing Newport, and every watering place that has come under its influence. The very idea of commotion and bloodshed in the resistance of a law, the effect of which will soon be felt in the pock- ets of business men, will scare away three-fourths of | the cojourners. The cottages, moreover, are only taken for convenience and accommodation, and in subserviency to the enjoyment of the society of the hotels. But the hotels will be deserted, and the cottages, therefore, willnot be occupied. The hotels are the main consideration,.and the true index of the effect of the law. he visitors of the hotels are the grand source of profit of the city; and they will go anywhere rather than to Newpart. The pro- prietors of the hotels may as well, therefore, shut “p at once, and put up on their doors and windows the following notico:— “Hotel to let, cheap, for « private dwelling, or a manu- factory of root beer or oxygenated bitters, Tho Maine Liquor law has destroyed ‘the hotel business until ‘the good time coming’ comes. ” The papers to which we have already roforred, also state that wholesale wine and spirit merchants, of high respectability and unquestionable integrity, | having onhand large stocks, wil! suffer with peou- | liar severity, as their all is embarked in the busi- ness in which they are engaged. Thus ruin stares a variety of sesin the fuce; and even the local | newspapers will very soon fuel the effect, in the ro- duction of their subscription lists, which will hence- forward **grow smaller by degrees and beantifully less.” Demperance is good, but funaticism is evil. gnested, by the Commandant an Prince van Orange, to retura ti many civilives and marks of att private), Fhown them during their so ports in the United States C New York, May Si, 1 Fine Arts.—Dagucrreotypes In Oll, by W. H. BUTLEW upyer corner of Brondwny and Murvay stroot, Plumbe National Gallery. Theso portraits are on a tacts lic surface, and equal in finish the finest miniataro paint- ing. Thoy' are imperishable, a8 well a tho most truth(al and boaniifal pictures ever made. Brady’s Prize Pictures at the World's Fair, together with his extensive gallery of Portraits of distin- hed persons, universally admitted to bo the beat collec xtant, Meo now on eahibition al his Galiory, 205 Broad- tion (both publis and | in this and other | ZIMMERMAN, the Netherlands, sul General of | | i | | | i | Family men, and all others In a family | £ way, who wish te obtein an elegant Daguerrvotype, should | gall in Holmes, 290 Broadway, and pot one of those ta farily groups, which he is now taking daily, for only $4, furnished in ‘frames—pilt, rosewood, oF siell izaitation, | Tbecheapest largo pleturos ever ma eee | Cantrell’s Ladies’ Shoe Store.—Thcre ts | tetablishment iv the ety where Itios ean procure Slippers, Ti . to greater advantage, thin at TRELL’S, S86 Bowery. Assisted by the well knowa ix & Co., ho ‘produces these articles foul ‘ad ehoapr rticular atten’ hoes, Ke, aud tu sox tment is worthy the attention of parouts, y monthly meeting will be held at the hall, corner of & y steest, on Wesnasday evening, Jue ay 8 | jor. Mem bere wi thoi ducs at tho offies, 173 Spriag | - OMe open fev 20 | AVLOR, Presivont, i i | Wiamonds and Dinmont Jewelry.Dia- moudsin the pr fine quality. offered factuvers prices, thus savin; il deniers, Seica rooms, ae, OF lots thore rom, to anit customers, | at $28 por carat. Joweley at the manu- ing the large profits mado hy ro- | 1 Ibrondway, oorner of Wisito | turing Joweller. nm it, that Groy prod to its orlgival b " | When we | Mave when properly tr i folor, Davie'e Rabvapo so coloring glands, avd imparts lot of former days, Warranted, pric inte sole at v i neral depot, 206 Grand strect, and wt 12 Byond- Tudaon streot, 127 Boworg, way, 279 Washington stroe 11D Houston street. bes itch Cristadoro’s celebrated Liquid Hair Dyc, for ooloring tho hair or whiskors instanter, npon nataral principlen., apd warranted free from all caustic aubstancos, syoligd daily, and acld wholesnte and retail, at CRISTO- DORO and sealp establishmaut, No.6 astor House. | N. B—Private rooms for applying the dye, aud fitting on | wigs. Any young man can raise a fine pair of | ; yhiskers+ ra moustache in six wooks, by using Graben's | German Ouguent for tho beard, It is perfectly harwle 4, end proof oan hown of t is know the oply thing that — if padon'd ard to grow. $1 le, o art of the country. “ bees baa! RAMAM, I8'Aun eteoot. Professor Lovet has removed to 114 Cham- street, whore be ie rene 0 restore gray hate to ite color, and our: € i 0 thowe who ly that marky | Biack Straw do. both op n and | Yayo & Co. No. 46 Pours etree | | Empire Building Assoctation.<The next | | r. | faeh inva A Reasonable thon It Is that ev: nd the conventions abent. Bominati: eat erated in very aoa or other isposed of at this famous in good repair, fine yaru, &e raney Cutlery, « mbracing be - variety temen" 4 pocket Knives, of the most rare Beatirul patterna: alvo’an assortment of Pollet Guslerse G. 8A ERS, No.7 Avtor Hi and 887 Broadway, between Walker aud White strecks, this eatablithi ded on ae the v SAUNDERS & BON, way. Dressing Cascs.—The com; perfect utility of these articles, 0 of cers of the arm: or pleasure calls from ho: No.7 Astor House, am omnia coat totes ited to exumine a large ‘ie Shell and badtals born ‘Combe-the metest ttyice: Tones Shell Combs made to order, after any pattern, ‘A. kJ, SAUN DBRS, No, BY” Broadway between Walker and Whito p mow For tale b UNDERS & f0N, (0, 887 Broatway. Away with all a8 for peoples vent ell tet ove body test one hottie of Watts’ Ant. dote without pay, ifitdoes no good. N. after thie bein, anderstood, J care wot whother you get lt oF ne, for a who de, are under more obligation to me than I to them. So, pleare ‘yourselves and you will pleare me—enly bear in tind there cannot be muoh humbug about guoh an arrange- . attain, he is always in a coaxing and patching dis- | ™¢at- If It docs you good, pay Or NE, ik aney ‘Window Shades and Cornices, Lace and Muslin Curtatre, Curtain Materials. and Trimmings of ave dcecription + Paper Wanrings. with everything in the uphol- stery fine of oor own eprng importations and tho latest and most fashionable styles, are now d by tho sub- scribers twenty por cent Lo r house in the city, A.M & R DAVIE! }, 200 Bowery, Claret Wines.-A large variety in hogs. beads. Alo, in glare, from, vis ordinalre’ to the famcur owthaand bent vintagon of lergaux. Aloo, Sauter forsale by JOHN DU: 4 Summer Sepnyree te this aerteang eli- mate of ours there is ne auch light and secure coat of maf tephye Under- y. While they Rating fro frome sud~ Puppose thed a, vr thi U teolds, influenzae. aud the like as irty of RAY & ADAMS, No. 501 Br: Fe #0 light and seft in texture as sc aro an effectual provent ve of theevils den checx of perspiration. It is a one can safely dis: ith such a prot 'T. McLaughlin has now on hand at his Roe delrd Store, corner of Greenwich and Chambers atree Exo aevortmout of the celebrated Zephyr Under f Silk and Cotton Shirts osiery, &4., Ww oat reasonable rates. ‘There, and his stock and Drawers, Cravats, Stocks, Gl is very select, he will sell at the Popular Measures.The measures taken at Green's well known Shirt Making Rstablishmont, No. 1 Ag~ ‘more popular than those of any ether ho} for they always secure a perfest ft, wit The Summer Assortment at Agate’s, 256 Broadway, cons 's Zephyr Underclothing, deautiful Crave Gloves, Dressing Gowns, from the frat Fren 1 worth a criticul inspoc- tion. Ay article of fashion. making. The Opening of “ The Juantor Gosling’s Res- taurant,"No- 67 Cortlandt. street, below 0 ich, will take place on Thuraday, June 10, and will be atness and cloanlinoss unequalled by abl! in America. The best cooks, and the most polite or d; and everything will be dono to morit ths patronage of the public, whose favors izve heretofore been so liberally bestowed on bis proeent eatgolishment, Bf Liberty street, which will continue open whtil Saturday evening noxt, June 5, ndard of shirt~ ment wa: Just received per steamer Cambria, at the: new Fancy Goods, Store, N 517 Broadway, 0 few mazni- oh Head Dres cent ¥reneh Hea eaL, CARROLL & HUTCHINSON. Palace Again —Patent Three-ply ont Tapestry three-ply Carpeting, same as t the World's Fai: 99 Bowery, HIRAM NDERSON’S. Also, Pardoo's and Crosby & Son's English Exhibition Tapestries and Bruseels Carpeting, of magnificent now styles. ‘They will be nold remarkably low. English Floor O11 Cloths, 24 feet wide, elegent new marble, scroll and mcaaic Sgures, #featin finish, 9 Bowery, HIRAM ANDERSON'S. Also, | tifa) floor Oil Cloth, in vidtha, por yard, and wpwurds, the most eatras er offered im this city. Glorious!—Knglish Imperial Three-ply Carpeting of gorgcous und glittering colors, magnificent, unique, mosaie and seroll tguros never before exhibited, at H Howery, HIRAM ANDERSON'S, Also, Awserican Untoo- ply Carpets, at Ge Gd, 7s., and bs. por yard, vf vlegant new Spring style Excelsior —Unly four shillings per for beautiful Ingram Carpets of largo scroll an figures, at HIRAM ANDERSON'S, No. 9 Bowe aut new pattern of Euglish Ingrain Carpets, at ba, 5s. td.. and 7. por yard. Also, common Ingrain and Stair Carpeting, at Is. 6d., 2s., 2. Gd., 3s., Se. bd, and 46, Look at them. The Great Panic in the Straw Trade— A univerral fecling of alarm ia at the presont moment Ehown by importers of Straw Goods, owing to the snmente stocks of oostly Parie Hate on hand; the roeult is, toroee to an alorming and truly seriovs extent. The propric- rof the Lacier’ Parisian Hat Dopot, 341 Broadway, hy ken advantage of the panic. ana has purchased, to ti amount af ant Paris Dats, of the nowost ‘atyle 0. €1 Indies have therefure an unprecedented opportunity to pu chase barguine. ale Water— sxe baths, forthe & preventive of am avd ott ingencics, 19 80. universally acknowledged as to adinit of no further testimony, But it in neces+ary to inform the pa spared this yeur to render ‘men's upartments—the baths. attendances, Ke. in eplendid and effective mperatinn—snd t) name of Rabjnean ia a guaranty for the comforts to bo enjoyed hy x Virit to his baths. at the foot of Debrosseestrest, at well ae those at Castie Garde M. Levett, Dentist, No. 629 Broadway takes this method to invite o witness his great mprovements in Dentistry, a# intr 1 vy bin. Uioo © ours from 10till o'clock. ‘Hia work un the tecth can be nbtained as above. dhe per yard ree Three: Diy a other Carpets he, Mats and Matting, avd all othe with the trads, av low as auy other houso in the eiiy. Great Bargains In Carpetings.—Peterson & HUMPOREY, 879 Brosdway, decaie et hie ty Raving purchased largely at the late large auction sales, will dispose of the same at the following low prices :-Rieb Vol yore, 124.5 Mapestr Brussels, 84; Three-plz, 7s. to Bas Ingrains, 4& to 6s., aud al! othor goods equally ivw. Canal Strect Carpet Store—Yow i: the time. If you want to maks a aving of fiftoon per rent, « at 70 Conal «troct, B.A RSON & €O'S, and ‘ou will find good Tnyrain Carota, four shi hiroo-piy, woven #tiilings oer yard: ‘Tapostey to ten shillings pei Also, a large and ey! ment of Tapoatry a id ansort tre Knotted Straw Bonnets new anid rich style; Blond Lace do., the richest patterns in the market; ezhorna, Open ras and other of obher style aband the best eh mode prises, at No rom Broadway. SOUN é. work and thiek straw stylee Boys’ Hats; besi Bounets, comprising th to to found in the cit street, first stor having recently made exte manniactnr ing department, 1 their premises, would yeepoctfully inform t they are newable to soll their French Ph: ij y frames) Looking Glasses, , WL reduced prices, and fice great iudve- ments to purehusers. Rich French Paper Hangings--Thomasr ; t, moar Madivon, havo just received the new epring patterns of every known style in the trade, Thy public ace invited to exarniag. Artistic workmen ationd to the retail ¢ THOMAS FAY Bw UU. Poscd street. Improved Moltan-Phanos, Broadway, eorner 9! Sothony adway Theatre, wher ie ¢ without the finp iid at great hargal g inte general use, ©. Gilbert & Co w York warere my be f struments are Wigs f Wigs aro pr yet invented. tall nt BATCHELOL nurect, where can ve found the largeet aad bei in the'eity. Cepy the adurovs, Hair Dye.—The Celebrated Bohomian Hal Dyois 1, wt 2 iad and Toupees.—Batechelor “ | the moet porfoot fm rics than the inf in the papers. potaatly ® beantifnl bh kos brown, Gourand’s Liquid Hair Dye, Is, vwithous- exception or reveryation, the vory best ever iaventod; oquale ly evlonrntod is GUURAUD'S Medicated Bony, tor caring: im ples, froekjes, exliowness, chaps, rvaghness, &o, Poudre Rintie pproots from finy part of the hody Liqnid Rovgo, Lily Whico, aud Hair Gloss,a 67 Wailer atreet, near Broadway. nts, and cosh will alyays come. dics well for ong onrrent as His bottles are largo cortain to F what the ®. nor of how Lon ent for the horao, 90 cents onch . Hia liniment for family use is really cder and action restoring the heir » digcovery for preventia » Depote art u; 0 rf 200 Foard, street) iors, callat Mr. B, Non't buy poisonous teagh, When a quartor, hacd cash, 1 rtalely ksi 0 Bs conte F