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

: bring to juetiee tho anti-remters whe recently attack- | edthe house of Mr. Vining, in Rensselaer ooanty, SR DON BERWETS, | HOt a Visiter by the nome of Wait, and afterwards BR AKD EDITOR j maimed and mutilated the horses in the stable. It miatehaeed | is understood, however, that Gov. Hant will, in a | few days, issue a proclamation offering a reward of | one thousand dollars for the arrest and eonvietion of | NEW YORK HERALD. < REKL EIR, | the parties engeged in the outrage. Why notissue Ror copy, oF 98 per annum, Se Borepeen, . dire, | the proclamation at onee? Are theso vicious mon Evatt een de geese sas Ax | to be alowed time to make their escape, because ous rms elcunt fooaamyguurter of ihe wer weed. | there is to be an election this fall? | coe ey why pons ren] Mathias Skupinski, one of the Polish brothers | under gentence of death, at Philadelphia, for having murdered the Jew pediar boy, last winter, has just made one of the most extraordinary confessions that | has ever been recorded in the annals of crime. He acknowledges that, with the assistance of his bro- ther, and # man named Rutkowski, alias Kayser, bo has murdered no less than eighty persons, and MILER RRS byt, fo, audocioion 7 ih 46 | & me for ewrtnencnis. to tapenpaia or the will be deducted i wiser ~- ree thee rejected. Sou Pain TiNe ‘roccuied with neatnees, cheapness, and fe PERT: day | BOWERY THEATIE, Bowery—Lous Montes iw Ba van. BRODY AY THEAT&R, Breaéway—Inetaxp anv Murrica-Ir's Tux Custom or tae QGounraY—AaL amar Guitrexe mm Nor Cou, WIBIA’S, Brosdway-C. WATIONSL THEATRE Chatham etreet—Rasaws amp wne—Ih LARD ASD AMERICA, APPOR PLACE orena MOUSE--Doserr:'s Taevrs er Wmarwep Animas. | SMEBRIVAN MUSBER—awveme Punrenmances m Pes srrapmeen ann Ever: OBRINTY'S OPERA HOUSER, 472 Broadway—Brureriay MBxnava suey sy Cususry's OF mE Le, WOW MINSTRELS, wey Ermeray Mireracisy. Musical Hall, 444 Breaé- DOUBLE SHEET. 30, 1862. Mallx for Europe. | ‘THE NEW YORK WEBKLY HERALD. | ‘The Britich Mail Bteamehip Europa, Capt. Lott, wil gail from thie port at neon to day, for Liverpool. The Bo vpsno maile will close at half-past ten o'clook this morning. The New Youx Weea.y Henao will be pub- Mahed ai half-part nine o'clock. It will contain the latest mows trom al) parts of ihe continent. Meath of Howry Clay. The inevitable decree it fulfilled. Henry Clay is me more. The great pacificator—the “old man @oquent’’—the practical American statesman, who { stood among his compeers—like King Saul among the mighty amen of Jeracl—a head and shoulders above them all, has gone to hie final reward. He died at hie lodgings at the National Hotel, Wash- Iagion, at seventecn minutes past eleven o'clock | yesterday morning, in the seventy-eixth year of bis | age; and after the roost brilliant and glorious career | of balf a century in theservice of hiseountry. The cireunnstances attending his decease, anda biogra- phica) sketch, comprehending the leading events of hein eventful life, will be found upon the first page of this paper. The final event bas not fallen unexpectedly upon the country. It has not come upon us like the eud- | @eu darkening of the eky a: noon-day; but, like the approach of a summer's night, calin and beautiful, and brilliant amidet the clustering stars. But al- though the shadows of disselution have for months ween gradually thickening over the old patriot’s deaih-bed—although the publie mind hag been for mouths prepared for the calamity of his death at any moment, it has yet awakened here, and will awaken everywhere, thronghout thie broad land, and throughout the limits of civilization around the work), a painful and profound sensation. Not alone will ihe American citiren, whose greatest pride is this Union, aud whore bighest respect ie for the princi- pler and ihe compromises which bind it together, not alone will be feel and sppreciate the loas of oeel) o man as Henry Clay; but the friends every- | whese of republican institutions, of popular rights, of the melioration, clevation, and most liberal de- | velopement of all nations and races of mankind, will fee] it as an individual lose. Mr. Clay wae not | alone ihe great pacificator between the North and | We South—not alone the great champion of the | Union; but, in the largest senec, he was a philan- | threpist, and the benefactor of mankind, | Hi- history, bir sete, and his reputation belong | mot to the whig party. As the founder of that par- ty, ag the embodiment of its principles and policy while living, as their sainted apostle when dead, | he once ihem nothing—ihey owe him everything. | Baerifived upon the ple of availability,when his elee- | tien to the highest office in the world appeared most ble, he outlived his dependense upon the whig | perty, and in his Jaet and moet splendid services in | the Senate, he became the idol and the admiration avail of oll parties devoted to the permanency of the re- | pablic. His history forme a series of important | ebaptere of the history of the country. He has lived an active, patriotic, and useful life—he “bas j fidied the measure of his country’s glory,” and his | own; and, full of yeare aud of honors, he has died. | The News. | The doath of Mr. Clay produced the deeyeet feel- | inge of regret in all parts of the Union. In ono hour after hie decease, the sorrowful fact was known at | the extreme pointe of the country. Everywhere | marke of re-pect for hie memory were shown. We | regret that the form of our presses will not permit | us to dress our papemin mourning. We have seldom | # mourn the death of fo great a man. One of our Washington correspondents asserts that Secretary Webster will shortly retire for the summer, to Marthfield, where he will be joined by | Fion, Mr. Crampton, the British Minister. The ob- | ject these gentlemen have in contemplation is eaid to be the negotiation of some important treatios. | Axsother correspondent solemnly asserte that he has high suthority fer saying that Mr. Webster will take the place of Minister Lawrence, in England. | Betb correspondents may possibly be correct. | The wiree having given out or Monday night, feicr to our receiving the conclusion of General Keott’s letter, sccepting the nomination of the Baltimore Convention, we to-day re-publish it in full, together with @ similar letter from ex- Becretary Graham, expressing his willingness to become the whig candidate for the Vice-Presi- devey. These documents, together with much otber interesting intelligence, is placed under the head of the “ Presidential Contest.” Several poli- tical iteme from various quarters will be found in the telegraphic columns Seoretary Graham has given up his official post, and now stands before the people as a private citi- zen. However, it is said that he has consented to yrform the dutics of his late office until hie succes- I have been selected for eh. General Soott, on the other hand, will retain his station at the hoad of the army, witil be is sure of being placed at the bead of the natios | A large convention of the Maine democracy, was land last evening, at which tho Legisla- | nination of Gov. Hubbard for re-election, | Tho great cause of objection to that he pleced his official signature dinted or, is notorious liquor law of that Stato, and there yt st flagrant and unconstitu | cent developement, does not stop here. | which is \ and epit upon” the platform of the convention. | Gen Beott cannot be elected upon these three pla burned thirty hongee, in this country. The number of horrible deeds must be greatly exaggerated, er olee the man ie certainly deranged. The statement is entirely too revolting for the truth—but that he isa deop-dyod villain there is ne deubt; otherwise bis mind would not be troubled, as it apparently is, by his former miseondact. Among our local intelligence, this morning, the reader will find the particulars of a bloody affray on Staten Island, inst Monday evening, im which two men were killed. The inside pages of this edition ef the Henaxp, in addition to a large number of advertisements, « contein a great varicty of interesting reading, among which is the following:—Additional Cali- fornia Inte ligence; the Pearl Fisheries in the Pacific: Later and Important from Callao and Ecuador; Albany and Boston Correspondenee; The Indictment for Alleged Kidnapping at Syracuse; New Line of Steamers between New York and Quebeo; Cure for Hydrophobia; Notices of the Thestres; The Tenth Avenue Sewer Investigation; | Money Market, Trade Report, &o. The steamship Afriea will probably be along to- day or to-morrow, with three days’ later European news. General Scott's Letter, ant Other Letters— Plenty of Letters—Plenty of Soup. We published, in advance of all our cotemporarier, yesterday, General Scott’s letter accepting the whig nomination for the Presidency. We re-pub- lish it this morning, together with the letter of President Fillmore, defining his position to the Whig Convention; and the letter of Mr. Graham, accepting the whig nomination for Vice President. ‘Thore three letters are each remarkable in their way. The letter of Mr. Fillmore is manly and magnanimous. ‘The letter of Mr. Graham is straight-forward and unprotending; but the letter of General Scott is moet strikingiy characteristic of the very peculiar style aud qualities of the man. He begins by saying that be had “not written a word to procure this distinction,” from which it is evident that the letter fished out of Mr. Botts’ coat pocket, in the convention, was a forgery, or was ia- tended tor some other purpose—probably to aid in the nomination of Fillmore or Webster. The Gene- ral then proceeds to inform us that he “lost not a moment’? after the nomination was mado, in hastening to accept it, platform | and ali—not even stopping to take “a hasty plate of coup.” It might have been supposed by some that Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, had that des- patch all the time in his coat pocket, or waistooat pocket, or breeches pocket, cut anddried. This ex- planation, therefore, of General Scott {s apropos and to the purpose, though there was no particular necessity in being in such a prodigious hurry, after the nomination was made. Tn this, his more formal letter of acceptance—for he twice accepts the nomination and the platform— be makes ehort work of the resolutions, by simply saying that he uccepts thom. He says the platform is very broad; but, not being quite broad enough, he proceeds to widen it by a few additional planks of his own. He feels a lively interost in the “actual eettlers”’ of the public lande, which is quite natural for any man in his position, and hints, in a rather roundabout way, that if the States have no objec- tion, he ie in favor of free farms, aud may possibly recommend eemething of that somto Congress one of these days, for all he knows. The only difficulty in the matter ie, in giving to everybody in the United States his juet rights ‘‘in that vast national inheritence” of the public domain. On the Native American question, however, General Scott's views appear to have undergone the most remarkable change. From 1836 to I848— a period of twelve long years—he was, from hie own published correspondence, a rigid native American. He bad, in conjunction with one or two friends at the Astor House, in that long interval, drawn up an address to the American people in favor of the organization of a native American party. after the whige had carried the country by aterm, and after all immediate political causes of popular excitement had subsided, General Scott writes a letter to a Mr. Reed, of Philadelphia, in which ho says that ‘‘ between an extended period of naturali- | zation, and a total repeal of all lawson the subject,” £0 as to exclude the alien forever from the right of suffrage, hie mind inclines to the latter alternative. Aud it ie not till the Presidential election of 1848 that he retracts these long cherished heresies, of | Bat in / the stamp of the alien and sedition laws. 1852, not only does he make the most thorough-go- ing apology, but in & letter to an Irish benevolent | society at Brooklyn, he declares that he can’t help being the friend of Irishmen, because they have been his friends, and thet he never knew an Irish- man to “ turn his back upon a friend or an enemy.” From this we are led to infor, point blank, that Riley aud his desertere at Mexico, were Yankees, or Datch- men, or Frenchmen, or Seotehmen, speaking the English language with a stiff Irieh accent; for had they been Irishmen, Gen. Scott would have been the first to know that those base fellows had die- honored the patriotic Irish character, by theirtreach- ery. But the affectionate regard of General Boott for our foreign born population, though of re- Ho says in this letter, accepting the whig nomination, that he is in favor of giving to all foreigners who shall have served one year in the army or navy, in time of war, tbe full rights of citizenship, & tremendous and magnanimous im provement upon his native American theory of | 1886, °37, "38, "BG, "40, °A1, 42, “43, 44, 45, 746, *47, and down (to the spring season and the Richelica Robinson lettor of 1848. Furthermore, Gen. Scott promises to punish all | “disorder, sedition, faction, or resistance to the laws,” most stringently. He wili not tolorate these things. He also hints at the possible resort to the veto power; but whether this has reference to a possible bill repealing the Fugitive Slave law, or to a possible bill for the admission of another Btate or two into the Union, or for the acquisition of Cuba, does not appeer. He is silent on these subjects, ae also on she Canadian qnostion, upon which be wrote a very fuir annexation letter as late as 1849. Gen. Beott closes his letter with an ex- pression of opinion on the imtervention question, which gives Kossuth and Kinkel the out direct, sticking closely upon this point to the whig plat- form, notwithstanding Greeley says it was drawn up by an ase. Here, then, we have the position of Gen. Scott completely defined. He etanda upon three plat- forms. Gen. Taylor bad only two—one North and one South. Harrison had none. But Gen. Svott has three. First, his Native American platform ; sccond, the platform of the Whig Convention, on- larged aud improved by himself; and, third, the platform of the Seward party, who “ defy, execrate If . then, indeed, is gun- mibshelis go for avthiag: ow forms a» a military ehiefts powder at ad unt, aud Iu 1841, | Military Electioncering. No circumstance or action of life is ononlated to develope more fully, and bring into more active | play the qualitics ef the human mind for general- ship, ingenuity, and tactics, than the poriodioal return of a great election, in which national, party, . and personal interests are se deoply involved. It is an old and recognized maxim that “ everything is fair in war;” but it seems that the application of it has quite as much strength and appropriateness ia regard te the bloodless, though not spoilless, eon- flict of polities. We are led into these remarke by the conduct of whig party, in the prosent clectioncoring eampaign, and by the facility, duplicity and skill which they exhibit in adapting themeelves to cireumstances, and converting to their own purposes the vory thing to the existence of which they have been most an- dagonistic. These politicians, journals, and orators and hold up to popular admiration, the brilliant military services ef their Presidential candidate, Winfield Scott. his prowess in the field, and his humanity | after victory; and on these qualities build ap | people at the polle noxt November. They re- | eount all the battles and sieges he has fought, and his ‘‘hairbreadth ‘scapes in the imminent deadly breach” and these they endoavor te make the scaling ladders by which to ascend into the citadel of power. Lundy’s Lane and Chippewa, and that brilliant series of victories from Vern Crus to Chapultepec, are re-chronicled, and dressed up im the grandest terme of imagery, and given to the ed- miring publie in the speeches and writings of the orators and journalista, who endeavor to make them re-awaken the popular enthusiasm, re-echo to the praises and subserve to the political aims of thoir great chieftain. Now, ail thie landation of Gon. Winfield Scott is, per se, perfectly appropriate and justifiable. His military achievements entitle him to the admiration and gratitude of his country. They are written on the page of history, and shed lustre on the path of | this great republic. Therefore, we would not seek to take one leaf from the laurel which en- circles his brow. But wo do question the candorand consistency of that particular party in relying solely on the milltary fame of General Scott, or any other candidate, to create popular hurrah in his favor, and to carry him into office on the enthusiasm ex- cited by the recollection of his glorious deeds. To the warlike career of their chieftain they ouly ap- peal, as being all-sufficient to secure his election by the votes of the people; and thoy are silent as to those qualities of statesmanship which are now {n- dispensable to the proper discharge of the fanctions of the chief magistrate of thir republic. They do ties. They make no declaration as to his political principles, or what his administration will be, and do not feel authorized to disclose bis views of pub- lic affairr, but simply confine themselves to chaunt- ing pwans laudatory of hi genias and bravery in the field. Now, in all this there is a vast deal of insincerity and inconsistency, however much it may tell for the ingenuity and tactics of the party, and for the ability with which they adapt thomselves to circumstances which are even inimical in their nature. It is very well known that the party supporting General Soott opposed to the utter- most the policy which diciated both the wars in which their present idol distinguished himeolf. The war of 1812 with Groat Britain, the results of which encompassed his‘ brow with laurels derived from the battles of Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane, end that of Mexico, from which he has been accord- ed his honerary nom de guerre of “‘ Old Chapulte- pec,” both reccived the most unyielding epposition and hostility from the very party who now so eagerly teize upon them, when they think they can manu- facture political influence out of thom. Thisis, in- deed, a singular instance of inconsistency and aban- donment of principles, and verifies our observation as to the strange developements of character which an electioneering campaign is sure to exhibit. The firgt military candidate for the Presidency of the United States—we do not reckon Washington in that category—was Gen. Andrew Jackson. He was taken up by the democratic party, and, by the application ef whip and epur, was carried into the White House by the tap of the drum. their adversaries, began to consider that heroism and military renown afforded a capital topic for | electioneering with, and resolved to adopt it on their own hook. They therefore, in the following campaign, abandoned all the great statesmen and intellectual goniuses of their party, negatived their claims for the candidature, and nominated on the | military platform Gen. Harrison, whom they sue- ceeded in electing, not so much, even, by the hurrah | of his martial fame, or the qualities ef the hard | cider co liberally indulged in, as by the division and want of unanimity in the democratic ranks. The | first experiment of the whigs ia the miliary Prosi- | dent line having thus been carried out victoriously | —though Gen. Harrison did not live long to enjoy bis elevation—they thought they would continue to follow the same path; and for the next term they | took up Gen. Taylor. And certainly Old Zack's glory was brighter and fresher than that of his pre- decezsor, and even than that of him whom the whigs now bring forward as his successor—-Gen. Scott. But notwithstanding all the military enthusiasm which was kindled throughout the Unionin support of General Taylor, be never would have been elected but for the defection in thieState of Van Ba- ren from the democratic party. The whige, embold- ened by their good fortune in these two Presidential campaigns, wero, it seoms, resolved to stick to their luck, and have again nominated a military hero for their candidate in 1862. They have selected G neral Scott, eneircled as he is by the halo of all his great victories, and sre now endeavoring, might aud main, to create a prodigious popular excitement on his renown as a military chieftian. They may, per- haps, for a weck or two, manage to aroure and keep alive a furore and enthusiasm in his favor, through- out the country, but it will necessarily be evancs- cent, and soen give place to a more rational and bo- coming sentiment in the public mmd. His sup- porters are not acting with good policy or general- thip, in so soon convertivg all his great battles inte political ammunition. They bave beon rather too vociferous, neisy, and boasting; and when thoy should be only husbanding their resources, they have been recklessly expending them without any adequate advantage. The hurrah they awake will bardly last, and hie party will find, to their cost, that all their powder and shot have been exhausted before the campaign is rightly entered upon, and that when the great action comes, they cannot bring a single gun to do effective service. The Seward party will be apt to discover this fatal error in their tactice, when it is too lute to remedy it. All the excitement on military grounds will have cooled off long before the eventful day arrives, and they will then experience the folly of relying too much on martial glory to secure the votes of @ sober, rational, and enlightened people. Their in- sineerity, too, will moet with its appropriate pua- ishment, by the failure of their efforts to elect a candidate whom they put forward for his mere mili- tary fame, acquired in wars to the carrying on of which the same party were so adverse from the very beginning. General Scott is the third candidate whom the whigs have nominated on the military platform, notwithetanding the fact that that party has always been, and is, utterly opposed to all milie tury expeditions. What strange inconsistencies and abandonment of principles are exhibited in there great national arenas, where conflicting par- ties contend for the epoile of office! We expoct that | thin wiJl be the last artempt of ercating military | Presidente, avd that henceforth men of real thei Jeet and cnpmeity will ut forward to reevive the a eertain section—the Seward-perce section—of the , at recent ratification mectings, seize with avidity, | They extol his wiedom in counsel, | their claims to the support of the American | not attempt to recommend him on his civil quali- | The whigs, seeing the experiment #0 successful with | in Confiiet with tme Courts—The Former The public printing of this State has long been a bone of contention. Under the eld regime, many fortunes have beeu accumulated, and ag immense ‘amount of political influence exercised. Solomon Bouthwiek, # politician of no mean rap&, though injndicious and headstrong, held the offies of State Printer until 1812; and if he hed net boon reckless and extravagant, would have left a fortune, instead of leaving his family in want and poverty. Jesse Buel was brought from Uleter county, established State Paper—The State Offleers person shall be selected to pablish the legal the Albany Argus, and, by Daniel D. Tompkins | ond Martin Van Buren, made to supersede South- wick, in eonsequence of the unwillingness of the ' latter to be dictated to, and held in leading strings. Mr. Bue), aman of quiet and and domestic habits, amiable and universally respected, never was a rabid politician, but his paper always teemed with the abiest articles in support of the republican par- | ty and its candidates. The ablest pens of the day contributed to the columns of the paper, which | rendered it the leading party paper of the | State, and amongst thostrongost in the Union. Mr. | Buel enjoyed the patronage of the Siate some | eight or ten years only, when,he retired with an ample fortune, and entered upon the speculative science of agriculture, horticulture, reclaiming sand hills and worthless marshes, the im- portation of Durham cattle and Spanish sheep, until he achieved the reputation, all over the country, of being s model agriculturist. His experimental farming, however, cost him nearly all his fortune. About the year 1822, Messrs. Cantine and Leake be- came Mr. Buel’s snccessors as publishers of the paper, and also State printers—the former « lawyer of Catekill, a brother-in-law of Mr. Van Buren; the latter a bank teller. Mr. C. possessed solid talents, and produced articles of the highest political saga- city ond discernment. He was very dignified and reepectfal to his political opponents, which olarac- teristic was a perfect shield against any umraauly controversy with his opponents. He remaived in the concern only a year or twe, when his hea!th be- gan to decline, and he was soon gathered to his fathers. His successor was Edwin Croswell, shen a mere youth—a partner with his fathes, Maekay Croswell, in tho publication of the Catskill Recorder. In the course of a year or two, Mr. Lonke retired from the concern, on account of having become ob- noxious to the party. Neither himself nor Mr. Can- tine remained a sufficient length of timo to make much political display, nor amase any consideravle amount of means. About this time (1824 or 1825), politics began to assume a more dignified form; intellects ef the highest order enlisted in the cause, and in time became nearly reduced to the standard of scientific principles. The repub- liean party was mighty in its strongth in this State, and on almost every occasion when a contest occurred, federalism wae scattered to the winds. Being strong, courageous, dictatorial, and arrogant, the patronage lavished upon the State printer was enormous. Prices for all manner of printing and | official advertising were liberal. Mr. Creswell en- | joyed this patronage up to about 1840—some twen- ty-five years—when & combination of political ele- mente, together with two or three false steps of the ‘*regeney”—guch as the paasage of a large number | of bank laws, the “ small bili” law,” &¢.—produced | arevolution, and the old federal, alias new anti-ma sonic and whig party, obtained the ascendancy. Upon the firet opportunity, Thurlow Weed was mado | State printer. His party, liberal to its friends al- | ways, throw su immense amount of patronage in hishands. The United States Bankrupt law was enacted about this time, and the publication of no- tices under it produced an incalculable revenue, which, together with the State patronage, rolled fortunes into the coffers of himself and his partnors. Although Weed was State printer only a few years, he contrived, with the assiztance of the Legislature, and by constructive jobs, to realize more than ever was done in three times the period of time that any other person enjoyed tho patronage. In 1846, the Legislature was ngain democratic. Croswell elaimed the office of State printer. Niae- tenths of the fortuno which he had accumulated dar- ing the quarter century he hada cart blanche upon the treasury, was sunk in Western lands, and in corner and water lots all over creation. It was important that he should be restored, in order that he might retrieve his losses. His partner, Van Dyck, owning some quarter of the Argus, reared his head, adjust- ed his spectacles, and proclaim€® to the democracy, “aut Cosar aus mullus”—“i'll be State printer solus or nothing.” This produced a rupture. An excit- ing controversy ensued in the caucus. When Van Dyek ascertained that his chances were only second beat, he withdrew, and the Evening Post was sub- stituted. This proved afailure; when finally, after a spirited contest, » majority was found in favor of Cassidy, of the Atlas. Then came the tug of war. John C. Wright and Orville Clark, tho leading friends of Croewell in the Senate, became absolate- | ly desperate ecause Mr. Croswell was defeated in eauens. They immediately sent a flag of truce to the whigs as a hailing sign of distress, and the first intimation of a combination between those hunker leaders and the whigs, was a notice introduced of an intention to repeal the law appointing a State printer. Here originated the quarrel between the hunkers, led by John C. Wright, and the barnburn- ers, under control of Col. Young. The debatos ofthe seesion of 1846 are filled with more personal malico, invective, and wrathfulnees, than any on record. Not only wae Silas Wright, but Col. Yonng aleo, politically asearsinated during thot remarkable boisterous session. In a few days a bill was intro- duced repealing the State printer Iaw, and carried through. Immediately another wes presented, giv- ing out all tho offieial advertising, the legislative and department printing, by contract, to the loweet bidders. Tho whig and bunker votes combined, carried the bill through both branches of the Logis- lature, leaving poor Cassidy the empty honor of being, to this day, the cancus nominee for State Printer. The Secretary of State and Comptroller, in complianco with the new law, issued the roquisite proposals. When they were opened, it appeared that Mr, Crorweil was the lowest bidder, he agree- ing to publish all the official notices required by statute, for nothing! This set all hie competitors aback, and he was again legally declared State printer. In 1948, and aleo in 1850, he was also awarded the privilege of publication, upon tho same gratuitous terme. In the spring of the present year, the Secretary of State and Comptroller (the first democrate ever empowered to act under the Jaw of 1846,) issued the usual proposals for the public official advertising, logislative printing, &o. The proprietors of some half dozen papors sont in their documents, all stipulating to perform the advertising without charge, some of whom, as report goos, actually offered a bounty for the privilege of per- forming the duty gratuitously. The State offiecrs, after canvassing the bids, the morits of the bidders, and the best subservance of the public interests, finally concluded to award it to Mr. Van Dyck, of the Atlas. The proprictors of the Argus feigned a compliance with the decision of the State officers, and suspended the publication of notices which had been commenced in its oolumns; consequently, an opplication was made to the Supreme Court for a peremptory mandamus, compelling the continuance of the insertion of certain notices. Counsel were heard on both sides, and the Judges, Messrs. Wright, Parkor, and Harris, took the quostion under advisement. After a delay of soveral weeks, wo find in the Argus of Monday, the 28th Juno, an unanimous decision, of considerable length, eone eluding by throwing the action of tho Secrotary and Comptroller aside, and declaring that the person who was declarod State printer in April, 1846, under the law of that session, is State printer still, and will continue to be while that statute re- maine in existences. It appears, upon # oritioal review of the lew, that there ie no period of timo stated whon the term of State printer shail expive Ji only staves thet notices. But it seems that the State officers, both whig and demoerat, have misconceived the true intent ef the lew, and have biennially made the award. But as the publication hae uniformly been awarded to the same paper, there has been no occa- tion for any conflict; whereas it is now certain that the action of the State officers would have been brought before the court for review had they, here” tofore, made any other selection than the Argus. This plainly shows the sagacity ef Croswell and the stupidity of John C. Wright, because it is now per- fectly evident that the latter, when ho advocated the paseage of the bill through the Senate, was the mere eatspaw of the former. The former, no doubt, dic- tated the law to meet this particular contingency, | -but avoided to point out to Wright the true inter. pretation of the fourth section; and the latter, not knowing the character of the offspring committed to his nursing in 1846, renders himself absolutely ridi- culous by his obtuseness, ignorance, and imbecility, in dandling it in 1852. If no one was compelled to pay the penalty; or to suffer pecuniarily, while this bone of contention is being picked, but the pickers themselves, nobody would care @ rush-light how long the controversy continued between the Snarleyows. But the public have a mighty interest in the matter. There is seareely a legal gentleman in the State but has cli- ente deeply interested. During the laet two months, the legal notices have been inserted in the Av/as, amounting to some twenty columos, some to run three, othgte six months, and others for a shorter or longer period. Many of them are from surrogates, having in charge immense estates, the hoirs to which must await the regular.course of law. Now, al! those notices must be discontinued, and the pub- lication commenced anew in the paper, and by tho person declared by the Supreme Court. All that time, labor and expense must bo sacrificed, in con- sequence of this decision. One good result will ua- doubtedly follow, and that is, it will set the people thinking, and induce them to select a Legislature ahat will promptly repeal a law of such ambiguity as puzzles the State officers to have it understand- ingly administered. The whole affair gives evidence of what has been remarked @ thousand times—that legislative bodies are weak, dull and stupid, incom- parison with the aeuteness of the lobby. Important Movements of the Anti-Slavery Party of the North—Balance of Power in the Presidential Election. The anti-slavery party of the North has at length commenced its mevements and operations in the approaching Presidential eleetion. We give else- where in our columns, a vory important manifesto, written and issued by the Anti-Slavery State Com- mittee of Massachusetts, and published in their Boston newspaper organ, calling a State convention together at Worceatér, in that State, for the purpose of beginning their groat operations in the approach- ing election for the Presidency. Tho same com- mittee has already put forward the candidates whom they prefer—these being John P. Hule, of New Hampshire, and Cassius M. Clay, of Kontucky. In this manifesto, they denounce, with-equal bitterness, the platforms, ‘the principles and the candidates of the two national parties—the whigs and demoorats —who held their conventions recently at Baltimore. In tho language of one of the anti-slavery organs in thie neighborhood—which, by a singular inoon- sistency, eupporta General Seott while it re- pudiates tho principles of the platform—the manifesto may be said to “defy, oxecrate, and spit upon” tho platforms and principles both of the whig and democratic perties. The anti- slavery people of Massachusetts and the North, have now, it scoms, attained their growth, and are determined to organize a party of their own, and to combine in this movement all the strange “ isms,” and doctrines, and ideas, and crotchets, and vaga- ries which have been agitated in this country for the last twenty years. This convention at Worces- ter is snerely the first of a series, passing around the Northern States, to be more generally repre- sented and organized by a national convention, to be held at Pitteburg on the llth of August. This latter will be the great organ and authorized expo- nentof the party whieh is now about to enter the feld and contend against both tho whig and demo- cratic parties, for the electoral votes of the free States of the North. There is every prospect that anti-slavery, with all the other “isms” that have been agitated for years past, is now rising to a head, and will set up for iteelf, permanently and finally, either to rule or to be ruined. ince the nominations by the two parties at Baltimore indications have eprang up in various quarters, showing a common feeling, among the ultras of the day, to meet together to nominate their candidates, to construct their platforms, and to run on their own hook at the election in November next. The Anti-Slavery Committee of Massachusetts have called @ convention at Pittsburg. A meeting of the same kind of people was held the other evening at Philadelphia, at which both the old parties, with their candidates and platforms, were oqually de- nounced. A meeting was recently hold in Cam- bridge, at which attended the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Palfrey, where similar sentiments were promul- Bated; and meetinge are being held all over ‘the North and Northwest, developing the samezviewss the same principles, and the same purposes. Gen- eral Scott end General Pierce are denounced by this new party with equal unction and equal vigor. It ie very ovident, therefore, from every aspect of the case—from every developement of opinion through the free States—-that ail the strange va- garies of fancy which have been put forward by po- liticians, or moralists, or visionaries, during the last twenty years, are now going to form a grand union—conatruct @ new party, and enunciate new principles, at the convention about to be held at Pittsburg on the eleventh of Ayguet. Anti-slavery is the basie of this now ngs but, com bined with this feeling, and firmly uniting with it, we expect to sce the notions about in- tervention in European affaire, the Maine Liquor law excitement, the anti-rentiem doo- trinee of New York and other States, tho spiri- tual knockings, and all those who believe in such delusions, woman’s: rightism, and these among the fair vex whe want to walk in Bloomer costume. In short, all the vagaries of opinions, in doctrines, and parties, and politics, and religion, and morality, and social life, which havo been fanned and agitated by the politicians and editors of the whig party and of the democratic party, for particular solfish purposes, are now going to unite and set up shop on their own acoount—construct @ party of their own—run oan- didates of their ewn, and make a» decidod, bitter, and unchangeable opposition to both the old parties, and to both classes of mon who have been sotting them agoing for the last twenty years. This is an entirely now view and new phase of these isms of the day. We expect to see this no- velty acquire prodigious force and momentum daring the next two or three months. All those philoso- phors—men and women—peliticians and pickpock- ete—who have been agitating the world, will now find ® common bend and @ common field in which to operate, and carry out their vagaries to somo Practical purpose and extent. Thoy will carry off from the old parties vast masses of the votes, particularly of that class who havo hereto- fore been mere attached to the whig ranks. Seward and hie editers, who have beon agitating and fanning these vagaries for the last fifteen or twenty years, will most probably, in this coming mania and oxcitement for the construction of a now party, be left high and dry, without materials, but with a few officers morely, to enter into the field. Tho first movement, which will be watchod by the whole country, im this effort at the construction of a new party, takes place on the 6th of Jaly— next week—at the Worcester State Convention, which will be a singularity nnd fo rarity not often found in the history of polities. In this eity and in thie Brate the antl slavery people and Maine Liquor law adherents, and the Bloomerites and interven: Moniste on the Kossuth plan, are all Preparing te unite and form » third party, for the purpose of running their own candidates, from the office of President down to the lowest office in the ward. It will be an interesting philorophical spectacle to look on this new movement, with all its strange, Varied, and striking developements. On it will also- depend the results of the coming Presidential elec- tion; and according to all appearances, the whig Party will suffer most from the organisation and formation of this new party, composed of all the “isms” of the last, twenty years. City Intelligence. Naw Your Vouunrxens—The remaining members’ of” this noble regiment, under the command of their gallant Colonel, (Ward B. Burnett ) intend celebrating the eom- ing anniverrary of our national independence by s general: parade, furnished with new uniforms complete, They purpose joining, by invitation. the citizens of Trey and. Albany in commemorating this sacred . They will leave this city on Friday evening next, by the wen. ing line of boats, and return on the following Tuesday. We predict for these veteran soldiers @ pleasant and heppy sojourn among their patriotic fellow eltizens of Albany and Troy. Fara Arrray at THe Quarantine, Stavew Ietanp—- Two Mrn Kittep.—On Monday evening, abeut 5 o'clock,” an effray took place at the Quarantine, Staten Island, between some boatmen belonging to the government and tome Frenchmen, who with ‘heir wives were en a pienic, in which the boatmen got very severely handled. There are a variety of stories aflout. from which we gather the from one of the boxtmen e: in the affray: Troeneiine one of the Seateee, eed Baker, had with one of the frenchmes, in which he was com) to retreat. Me then went for assistance. and returned with two or tive friends and two young men from New York. ‘They then made an attaek upon the Frenchmen and their wives, the Frenehmen defend- ing themeelves with great valor. In the affray, one of the ‘Voatmen. nemod Elias Butler. received a blow ef a stone ‘upon the head, which fracturrd his skull to seeh an extent. that he died yesterday morning, at two o’oloek. One of the men from New York. nawed F. Biasicks, ears injured that he died last night, at his residemee, 87 L street Chase was then made after the Frenchmen. and the Tritb labo ers employed in the bunks adjacent teok up the bunt, and after a while. drove tiie party into a house tp Stapleton, where they captured two of them, who were most inhumanly beaten During the affray, the women fought like ae 5 and oue cf them, in the exeitement of the melee, lef child behind her. One ef the boat- men-named Berg. admits that it was their own fault, and that they had no rigbt to enterfere with the French- men. Coroner Randolph. of Quarantine, held an inquest upon the body of Elfas Butler. yorterday, and the rn Socata rec Ge aa fracture of the 4 al, eau a stone. and inflicted by some persem or person; mow unknown to the jury Tho deceased was 64 years 0: age. id was employed im the U. 8. barge on Staten Island. Trovste in Wittiamsnvunc.—About tem e’eloek, om Monday evening. a fire broke out near the junetion of Lorimer and Devoe streets, which destroyed @ sash fac- tory and two dwelling houses After the fire hed been extinguished. and tho engines omthelr return howe, a serious riot oceurred. in which several companies became nd a number of ns seriomly hurt; also engine nearly destroyed. The foreman ef No 7, Mr. Brennan. it is feared has been fatally injured. by a ‘blow on the ride xt the heed. The aictenity com- menced. it id. by No. 1 purposely erossfi 6 ropes of No. 7. It is said. also, Thee No! 4, ‘ot New York, stationed at the foot of Houston street. was very active in the matter, owing to some difiiculty that occurred some time ago. Present to Bisnor Hvanes—On Mor ht & onan named Mergaret Sarwc fond aa infant 8 three months old, on the steps of Rishop Mughes’ resi- dence, in Mott street. It bad heen abandoned but a short time. The police took the foundling to the Alms Houre. Ditcaminey Avteart to Count Suicips —On Monday @man named Jumes Gibbons jnmped overboard at the foot of James street, with the intention of eommitt suicide, He was rescued by an officer, and. after ns ha landed, he made two other attempts to jump into the water ugain. Hertated that moncy and frienda were all gone, and it waa time for him to goto. He was eon- veyed to the station-house by the officer, Surresen Artemet to Commit Surcmpe.—Yeosterday morning @ woman, named Mary Grogan. jumped out of the attic window of the houre 140 Centre street. She fell on the stoop, and broke her leg juat above her ankle, ond otherwire reriourly injured herself, She was takers into the house. and medical aid procured. Bint at tHe Station House.—On Monday evening, » young woman. named Mary Falkver, applied to the ets- tion house of the Sixth ward for lodgings, About half en hour after she gine admittance she was delivered of a female child. Mother and child are doing well. Cour pr Sorem.—On Monday. a man named James Sitomons was sun-struck in Spruce strect; be waa taken to Dr. Varillo. of Chambers street who bled him, when be was conveyed to his home at 97 Washington street. Fine. ney, morning a fire was discovered issuing from the stable of Thos Miller, in Thirty- fifth street, near ‘Tenth avenue. It is supposed to be the work of am in- cendiary. The fire was extinguished with triffing damage Ennatum —In our report. yesterday. of the preceedi: in reference to Mr. T. Meagher, a mirtake eesurred by whioh the eloquent address of Mr, Davis, on the of the civic rocivties. was attributed to Mr. Gilehrist, who Presented the resolutions from Jersey City. It was m mere transpori:ion of names, Personal erermemees Annivats Yestenpay.—At the Irving Honse—Hon. Peter McGill. Montreal; Commodore Parker, U. 8. N. Hon. J. H. Boyd, Whitehali; Hon. A. H Buel, N. Majo Btevens, Washington; Colonel Joseph Knapp, Ca- nada; Wm. Molton, Canada; Jehn Molson, Jr., Canada, Dr. MeKenrle, England; Captain Neilly, U. 8. A; Oapt Bowen. British Army. At the American—Penn Jones. aya J. Barry, involv: Maseachurettr; W.T. Hunt, Boston; F, Chathard, U. 3 3 Rutledge, §.0.; J. Q. Adams, U. 8. Navy; Dr Irving. Charleston; H. Cobb, Georgia; Hon. A. Hull. Georgia; Judge Beardsley, U Pitcher, Albany. zi i, Atthe Howard—J. Hartz, Kingston, 0. W.; H.W Titus, UawHton. C. W.; J. Long, Montreal, 0. ,; Hon N. M. Masters, Schaghticoke; J A. Parks, Boston; Dr Nenry, Boston, J. L. Norris, Utica. ; Major No Ascension on Horseback, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, As rome of the daily papers have stated it is my inten- tion to make a ballon ascension from this eity on the pecan ATG Baten it is a mirtuke and may lead to co Pprebenston on the part of the public, I beg leave to rtate that I shall make an aseens! the fifth of July, from Bridgeport Conaestieat ney New York, June 25, 145 ‘B. 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Dr. Powell informs his patients that he has removed to 62 Brom a 89 heretofore, to all from 9 te dv'elock daily "ean be procured at hi Just imported, which will mi Cleavers Prize oun! jal Palace Again.—Patent Tapestry atthe World's Fair, at the No Bowery—HIRAM } jon's Eng Arpete are sold at ae ae in any paper tn the United Bea ja can be contracted fur. at the old ea tad) of WM. HL. MoDUN a LD, 109 Nageun atroct. Ww. he very best tori of all the leading ra. papers daily by mail. aw Fishing Excursions.—The Steamer Baffalo, Cap. Hancox, brought to the city 5,000 Son Bane yesterday. Thow ‘the Hxoursion should’ know that this host the boniness five years. Phe Captain and Pilot knows the precise spot where fish own be caught in abundance, ad baa been engaged in hine.—Those persons Machine, are advived ; after the 4th of July * of fabrics inn manner, Call oud nee, NGER & CO., 258 Broadway. bat change It by D