The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1852, Page 4

AMES GOP. pon BENNETT, PROPRIRTOR AND EDITOR. N,.W. ©ORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. . Ne. 188. THIS EVENING. BOWERY THRATRE, Bowe: —Tax Varw BW SLO'S, Broatvay—-A Rorany vor an Ovtver— Dit). Teen. NATIONAL THEAT! Rerans sep Torins CASTLE OARVEN-Texrrarion—Ticnt Rore. Lota Mowres iy Bava Tomer, Chathom street—Rexr Dav— ASTOR PLACE OPERA LOUSE—Doverri’s Taoure or Puaiwney sximas. AMERICAN MVSEUM-Amvei;c Prerormanons 16 Pes AvTEUN ON AND EVENING. CHRISTY’'S OPERA ROUSE 472 Brosdway—Eruiorian INOTKRLSY DY OK) 18P Y's MINST ELS, 1, 444 Broad- at the dem ie members of the Senate and House of Representatives held a caucus last Tucsday evening, at which a joint commictee of ten Was appointed, to report to a mecting this evening on a] matters connected witb the ipterests of the party- | Among otber stions, the committee are to take inio consideration the subject of printing, editors, ec, Of jute years the party seem to have hada | deal of Louble with the different eciters of their or gavs at the copitul The latter, somehow or other, have rot been diposed te draw quietly at all times @od under al) cireunstances, by , on the contrary» proved bunlky and kicked over (he traces oceasional- | ly Grent dissutisfactio’ has been expressed with Tegud to the reocnt pol'ey of the Washington Uricn, and it is probably the intention of the demo- eratic members to rewedy this evil. According to the despitch of our Washington eorrespondent, there is trouble brewing among the froe solers Tappau bas made known his | disapproval of the call for the Pittsburg conven- ticu. He is opposed to limiting the action of the nvention by covstitutional bounds; and being an Rtra abolitiouist, is determined to withheld his sup- rt from uny measure that is not caleulated to arry out kis peouliar views to the fullest extent. Yhether he will be able to restrain many of his arty from following the course laid down by the poming Pittsburg convention, js deemed quite ubtiel Ten wortal columns of yesterday's Republic are _, taken up ina single electioneering article for the Bouth, in eupportof Gen Scott. It embraces the platforms of the two conventions lately held at Baltimore, thc letters of aeceptatce of the whig and democratic candidates, and a running commentary to prove that the whig candidate and the whig platform’ are the safest and most reliable for the Senth. The article also includes the full proceed- the German Kossuth meeting on interven- held im this city u short time since. The thing is intended as an auswer to the South- ern whig menifesto, published in the National In- teitegercer, of the 6th inet. The whigs of Bo. tou, who are opposed to the no- waination of Gen Scott, met in Fanueil Hall last ] | ferenn g. Aeoording to cur report it was a signal Lewis ings wh failure, especially so far as concerned the presence ef wenof fluence. This was to bave been anti- Mpared. It wil! be seen by the resolutions, which » giveu under the telegraphic head, that the whigs sachnectts ave urgently enjoined to exert all nenee to c)-operate with the unionists vot the country, and secure, if possible, the ion an? ec evation of Secretary Webster to As for Gen. Scott, they express sion to te every means in their hi: cleetion. ¢ Americans at Philadelphia—or rather merica:.s, for they Lave expunged the word esterday fired cae hundred guns, by sting tueir savefaetion at the nomi- rand Washington. Secretary Web- ey. nation of We amendments to that measure, several of which wore approves. The clause granting additional eompen- gution to the Colling steamers has not been reached yet. However, no doubt is apprehended of its pas- gage by a handsome majority. : Attorney General Crittenden denies that there is any truth in the rumor that he is going out as Mi uister to Eegland, in place of Mr. Lawrence. The remains of Mr. Clay reached Columbus las; evening. /t Buffalo, Cleveland, and other place: i the route, large crowds assembled to look patriot, end every demonstration of sorrow was i A The telegraphic despatch from Halifax, announce upon ail that is Jeft of the great statesman and manifested ing the arrival of the Canada, stated that M. Ca- bet, chief of the Nauvoo Icarians, would leave London on the 18th for Nauvoo. M. Cabet is now in this city. After baving been cleared by the . French tribunal of the accusations against him, he departed on board the steamer Africa, and arrived in New York on the let inst. We learn that he will leave town in a few ays, to join his followers at Nauvoo, and intends soon to establish another Iea- rian colony in Texas. The Tearians will become < * ator, wl o passed through that city during the after- 400, on being tendered the nomination, is reported 46 have stated thet he was willing to “etand the fire.” What next ? But little business of special interest has been tfantacied in the United States Senate within the Yast two deys. Either an excessive overflow of prtriotiem, produecd by the anniversary of Indepen- dene, or else the encrvating ivfluonce of the warm weather, consequent on the near approach of the ; s, combived with the coming national elec- prevented muoy members from occupying their ts—only twenty-five of the sixty-two chairs ~~ peng filled yesterday. On Tuesday those present were somewhat startled from theie drowveiness by ) Colonel Weller’s fierce and bitter denunciation of ex-Se for ihe course pursued by him 1 ret " sican Boundary Cc After disposing of covsiderable rou- ess yesterday, the body took up and made several amendwents to the bill providing r the betcer eecurity of life on board of steam ves- fis. This is a very important measure—one in which every pergon in the country is interested. Let it be carefully considered, in order that there zany be no flow through which its violators can es- care punishment: and aftor it is passed let it be ri- Borously entorced - The méwbere of the Houso of Representatives sed to get through with the work of the gersion, and go home Having fired off about all their politicel amunition on the Deficieney bill, r *hey yesterday commenced voting on the Senate American citizens. : * Tor the necommodation of whose who are anxious See know all about the effects of practically placing megroce upon an entire equality with white men, we publish an account of o fight that recently came off otween the white and black troops in Canada. It ill be ween that the two races do not.get along very micably, even while under the sway of British au- norit The ‘committees of the Common Council, lately ) attendant on the obsequies of Henry Clay, having rived at home yesterday morning, @ quorum of Hoard was, for the first time, present last rg. In the Board of Aldermen, the subject of sinting health wardens was introduced by Ald ud softer # spirited debate, and some dif- t being presented, it was to report an ordinance a auch or wa of the subjoc 1 to th } osth b, for the purpose of repealing tho last, and { Committee, | late Hon. Heury Clay's obsequies. A pumber of | routine papers were acted on, | on the stoeks, and about being commenced. | Iu the long litigated Mason will case, Judge In- 2 re-appeinting the wardens. In the Board of apts a similar motion was made by Assistant Ald. canteen ¥ Mabbatt, and, after a short discussion, was referred Bltsdak -ae'0 x “ y the manifesto “A i f to the Commitice on Pablic Health. Tye ofthe | sippi, Abercrombie of Alabama, snd other Southern members of Congress, lately identified with the whig and both Boards party, but pashan ayy ce mambo is evening, when Alderman Sturte- | ground that he in hie letter of secepttnce, { Serena tes the reports on the dia- to clear his ekirts of his abolition and free soil incli- puted election in the Ninteenth ward, | nations and partialities. On another page will be found an interesting ac- | We hardly expected these Southern gentlemen count of the business at the various ship yards ia | to push their consistency to this extremity. We | this vicinity. comprising a chronological list of the | were rather disposed to think that, as the Seward | vessels Jaunched sioce the Ist. of January last, and , faction accepted the candidate, though they “spit” | the pumber and character of thos? now unfinished , upon the platform, so the Georgia Unionists, par | | excellence, would accept the candidate for the sake | of the platform, and for the sake of the party, | greham gave a decision a few days since, in the | like the Courier and Enquirer. That paper matter of the application of JamesMason for letters | despies the nomination of General Boot, and | of administration on the estate of the deceased thinks, as Mr. Webster thought of that of Genera John Mason, The Judge gives an elaborate review | Taylor—that it was a nomination absolutely | ofthe case, and concludes by denying the applioa- | not fitto be made, over the head of the Gread | tion. This, however, does not decide the main , Expounder; but still, like Ancient Pistol, our cotem- } question—the validity of the will—at issue since | porary gulps it down—‘‘he eats and swears.” And the year 1829. | 80, it was expected, that after a little swearing and | ee earn, bravado, the Southern whigs, of the Georgia ‘The Great Free Soll Movement—cott, Sew= | stripe, would fall into line, and work harmoniously | | in the Scott harnees to the end of the campaign. | ard, and the Unton Whigs. Tho feist uldron is beginning to boil aud | put they eannot go the ticket; and to prevent “all | bubble—ihe scent of the soup is overpowering--and | uitske and apprehension” in the subject, they | | the most sstounding ingredients are rising to the | pave come out with their manifesto. turfaco The various outside movements upon the | The old Intelligencer at Washington iv struck Presidential issue, give, already, a smattering of | gyyb with amnzement; but as soon-as it can col- spice and variety, of salt and pepper, to the contro- | ject ite seattered ideas, the seceders may look out verey; but the great free soil omnium gatherwa | for prosdside. The old fogy Commercial, of this | movement of the North is of the highest possible im- | city, affects to be well pleased at this happy deliver- portance, and is the most intensely interesting, be- | ance of the whig party from those locofocos in dis- cause it involves the balance of power in the elec- | guise. But there is no uge in mincing the matter. | ton. | This act of secession of Mr. Stephens and company, 8.000 was appropriated to meet the expenses of the ele nowipation by the Baltimore Nationa' laid before our readers a very ‘Tus Press avp Tus PaagipawriaL Canvipares. Ly Ovs Ravarions wirn Muxico. —We Conventious of their respective Presidential candi- our correspondent in the city of Mexico, and an ao- dates, the most unworthy and discreditable means companying translation of the Sloo contract for the have been employed by the politicians and journals Tehuantepec right of way. of both parties, vo defeat edob other in the great The letter of our correspondent confirms our pre contest for spcile, whivh is to be decided at the polls viove impressions, of the interference of British emis- in November next. ‘The partican press throughout saries againat the interests of the United States in the country—numbering some three thousand news- Mexico. Butupon one point our correspondent must papers of ail sections and partlety-have ever since be mistaken. The President of the United States indulged in mean and malicious attacks on the per- has no such amount of money as t#0 millions of dol- sonal character of cach of the nominees. ,Instead lars to pay over, for any purpose, without first ob- of eecking popular votes by an hovorable and high taining authority from Congress. He could, there- toned line of conduct—by basing theiroppealsfurthe fore, have made no such promise as two millions of support of the people on the principles and platforms dears to Arista, upon striking the effective blow of established as their political creed—they descend to | a coup d'état. No doubt a coup d’état has been pro- the base and coutemptible policy of endeavoring to | jected, and we are well satisfied that our cabinet placken the private character of each of the candi- | has been lately engaged in a very important cor- dates, The whig journals are more particularly | rerpondence, through Mr. Letcher, with the Mexi- violent and bitter in this mode of warfare, and on- | ean government, in respect to the Tehuante- deavor, in every possible way, to ridicule the public | pee right of way, and the eleventh article of the acts and vility the private character of the candi- | treaty of Gaudaloupe Hidalgo. But we expect | date of the democratic party; while, on the other | that our government has made no promises, and hand,the democratic journals generally treat General | has received or listened to no overtures for a coup Beett with much more respect, and seem to be in- | d'état by President Arista. If we agree to pay fluenced by more commendable ideas of the cour- | to the government of Arista several millions of dol- teay due te him, even though some of them are oc- | lars for the Tehuantepeo route, and the expunging casiovally tempted to fight their adversaries with | of the eleventh article of the treaty of peace, their own weapons, by calling in question the ca- | it is for these equivalents. Whatever Arista may pacity and bravery of General Scott, and prying | contemplate doing with the money is his own into his domestic relations. and private sentiments. | affair. If he thinks proper to proclaim a dicta Wo bave lately bad occasion to utter our condem- | torsbip, he is welcome to do so; but it is not nation of this mode of carrying on the political | a matter of negotiation with the government of contest for the Presidency. We have denounced the | the United States, in advance of the experiment. unworthy atteropts, made by sore ofthe democratic | After the experiment is made, should thore be journals to injure General Scott on the ecore of his | avy offictous intermeddling with the new govern- private life, domestic eoncerns and religious senti- | ment by the agents of Great Britain or any other iments; while we have also held up to publis disap- | foreign power, then it will be proper and necessary proval the malicious calumniations indulged in by | for our government to intervene, to enforce the doc- The game is in the hands of this free soil party— | | they are entering into the arena with startling energy | and enthusiasm—there is no longera doubt that | they will make a tremerdous and decisive impres- sion in all the great Northern States, one way or another. Noris this all, This third party is in- evitably destined, in this campaign, to re-open the agitation of slavery at every assailable point—to | swallow up either the whig or democratic party of | the North—and thus result in the organization | of a Northern Union party and a Northern abolition and mongrel party, absorbing between them all the other parties and factions of the day. The tide is setting strongly in this direction. All around us | we hear the signals of preparation for a terrible ar- | ray of a third great army upon the battle ground of | next November, which is sure to drive one or the | other of the two old parties, in ignominious and ir- retrievable defeat, from the field. The Worcester Free Soil Convention gives us a foretaste of the platform of the great Pistsburg omnium gaiherum of the lith of August. The reso- lutions of Tion. Henry Wilson embody the follow- ing sweeping, progressive, and comprehensive principles, to wit:—The right of all men to liberty and equality before the laws; a repudiation of both the whig and democratic parties; the doctrines that slavery is a sin against God and a crime against man; that the American slave trade, and slavery in the District of Columbia, onght to be abolished, and positively exeladed from the territories; that the Fugitive Slave law is unconstitutional, and ought to be repealed; that there shall be no more slaye States, and no more territories for slavery, admitted into the Union; that the Sub-Treasury is a good thing; ‘that postages ought to be reduced; that all executive of- ficere, ac far as is possible, ought to be elected by the people; that rivers and harbors ought to be improved by federal appropriations; that the public lands should be ceded away in free farms to actual settlers; that the government should adopt the lately imported doctrine of foreign intervention; that the pro-slavery administration of President Fillmore, and the treachery of Daniel Webster to freedom, deserve the public cotidemnation; and that the Worcester gathering goes in, heart and soul, for the Pittsburg Convention. Here we have a pretty broad platform, of which intervention, free farms, rivers and harbors, cheap postage, and the sub-treasury, are conspicuous pil- lars; but of which abolition is the corner stone and the roofing. There are some recent discoveries in moral and political science which have been omit- ted—such as woman's rights, which involve the wearing of boots and breeches, and the repudiation of the Bible, and amalgamation, white, black and yellow; and such as Fouricrism, anti-rentism, spirit- | Georgia; and now, if they go by the board, it will reduces the prospects of Gen. Scott in the South very materially. Georgia may now be considered as hopelessly gone. Tennessee is at least rendered exceedingly doubtful for Scott; and as for Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi, they have always been entirely out of the whig estimates. Those States, which were impregnable against the whirlwind and tornado of Harrison’s popularity, are, of course, given up as hopelestly irreclaimable. But there was some expectation by the whigs of Tennessee and become an imperative duty on the whigs of the North to carry all three of the great States of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, or the chances are that they will lose the election. But, again; with the whig free soil defection in Ohio, as in 1848, how is Ohio to bo carvied? And with both branches of the democratic party in New York, even to old Mar- tin Van Buren himself, thoroughly re-united, and with the Wall street Websterian mutiny in the whig ranks, and a considerable coolness among the Fill- more silver greys, how is New York to be carried ? Pennsylvania is even doubtful, if the seventeen or eighteen thousand majority against Governor Johns- ton at the last election means anything. The whigs of Georgia hold a State convention on the 15th July, on the Presidential issue ; and the direct question before them will be, whether they shall or shall not accept the Baltimore whig nomi- nation, ‘‘with the reeolutions annexed.” Tho movement of Messrs. Toombs, Stephens, and their associate protestants at Washington, will be very apt to push the Georgia convention to a separate no- mination, and was probably intended to effect that ohject. Thus, the unsatisfied friends of Mr. Webster in New York and Boston, and the une entisfied friends of Mr. Fillmore everywhere, may yet have a Union ticket to their liking. Possibly Mr. Webster or Mr. Fillmore, molens volens, may be nominated by the Georgians—possibly somebody else, in connection with Graham on the regular whig platform, so that the seceders may have the privilege of voting half the regular whig ticket any how. We must wait for the Georgia conven- tion—and, above all, for the grand filibustering, white and black, breeches and petticoat convention at Pittsburg, of the 11th of August; and the State elections cf August, for the definite shaping of the campaign. The Southern Whig manifesto is but the beginning of the end. Hurry up the soup. Cou. Benton on Navtonan Poxttics.—Colonel Beuton is ‘‘a lion, and not a rabbit”—so he says himeelf, In proof of this, we published yesterday certain extracts from a late speech at St. Lo by thisoldlion. He is upas a candidate for Congr: and has been defining his position before the people. He isa lion—no rabbit. He makes horrible work of his enemics, on the stump; and, from his own ual manifestations, and the Rochester knockings; but doubtless these will be supplied in the Pitts- burg platform, together with the rights of labor and the rights of idle, blathering, crazy fanatics | and demagogues to live without labor. The fisher- men of the large rivers of Chesapeake Bay some- | times use seincs nearly a mile long, and when they | make a hani they bring everything to the shore | within their eweep—shad, herrings, bass, sturgeon, | perch, ecls, catfish, crabs and turtles, and everything | | else; and just such a haul of odd fish we may look for with the prodigious seine of the Pittsburg Con- vention. At the election of 1848, upon a much nar- rower schedule, the Buffalo ticket numbered nearly | three hundred thousand votes. In November next, | , Bullionis surrounded. But he is alion—no rabbit. showing, no statesman or politician of these times, or apy other times, has ever been blest with such a host of active, persevering, conspiring, bitter and unprin- cipled enemies, as the hungry ewarm by which Old Nor has ever an old lion in the desert, assailed by a regiment of dogs and Hoitentots, made a better | fight, ‘solitary and alone,” than the indomitable ex-Senator from Missouri. He is a lion—no rabbit. Nor is he content with a drawn battle or an armis- tice with his foes. Ie ie a lion—not a rabbit. Nothing will satisfy him but their extermination or his own. He is a lion—nota rabbit. One way or the other, he is resolved to purify the democratic party of Missouri, or perish inthe attempt. He isa lion—not a rabpit. He is not to be laid quietly upon some of the whig journals and politicians of this city and eleewhere, in representing Franklin Pierce as a drunkard and poltroon. We consider this mode of carrying on the war as base and paltry, discreditable to both parties, and utterly unworthy of journals having tho slightest pretensions to respectability or independence. Genera] Scott and General Piero are both mon whose publie and private characters have been such ag to have recommouded them to the confidence and esteem of the delegates of their respective partivs, who were commissioned to select out of their great men a candidate for the highest office in the nation. Their nomination by the conventions of the two great* national parties should, in itself, be a com- plete guarantee that their character was abovo re- proach. Tho public career of General Seott is universally known throughout the land, and has won for him the honor and admiration of the whole people ; and though General Pioree has not had the good fortune of being placed in a position wherein he might have attained sugh celebrity, yet in his native State of New Hampshire his publio acts, as a legislator and politician, have rendered him eminently popular. Both candidates being thus men whose past life and public character have pointed them out to their respective parties as being in every way worthy of filling the office of President of the United States, it is a mean, paltry and disgraceful policy to attempt to render them unpopular by vilifying their private character and prying into the seerecy of their do- mesetic and social relations. And we regret to see such a system pursued by the press and politicians onenchside. Tho whig journais, North, South and West, teem with scurrilous abuse of General Pierce, the democratic candidate. The Commercial Adver- tiser of Buffalo, while indulging in a laudation of the glorious career of General Scott, enecringly says that “tho military renown of the other might bo summed up briefly in two summersets and a swoon.” Tho Hartford Daily Courant insinuates that Gen- eral Pierce played the coward at the battle of Chapultepec. The Detroit Daily Tribune asser's that he never fought a battle and never was in one; and the Louisville Journal jablishes an ex- tract accusing him of dodging the enamies’ shot *| behind a ditch at the battle of Contreras, and fa- cetiously adds that ‘the migbt have done tolerably well in Mexico if he had only some one to ride in front of him on that terrible horse of his.” In addition to this scurrility and abuse of the demo- cratic nominee, one of the leading Southern jour- | nals—the Richmond Whig—goes so far as actually ; to manufacture and publish a document purporting to be a manifesto from General Pierce, applying to the whig candidate the opprobrious epithet of “cowardly traitor.” The following is tho article 60 fubricated, and which, it will be seen, is caleu- lated to injure most materially the charactor of General Pierce, and to render him extremely un- | popular with those who admire the military career | of General Scot GENERAL ORDERS, NO. I. Heapqvakrens. June 25,1852, As the campaign has now fairly opened. and hostile bards are everywhere arraying themselves under the lead of that cowardiy traitor. Winteld Scott. the New Hampshire Regiment of Militia ix hereoy ordered tu hold itself in readiness (as my tonin reliance) for active ser- vice. It is expected that the decisive battle will be fought about the 4th day of November uoxt. In tho meantime it will be well to prepare ior any emergency having especial reference to a safe retreat in the event of & disastrous result BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANK PIERCH This is the style of warfare resorted to by | the whig journals and politicians—even by those trine of foreign non intervention. Uitimately, the entire republic of Mexico must fall under the general supervision of the government at Washington, or that of England. All our negotiations should be cozdacted with a vigilant eye to one of these alter- natives or the other. For the present, we presuine, Mr. Webster has his bands quite full with Tehuantepec, the eleventh article of the treaty, and the affairs of Central Amcriea, to say nothing of the Gardiner claim, which is a very curious thing, remarkably curious and ramified. Mr. Webster ought not to resign till all these matters are settled, Gardiner claim and ali. But the government of Aristu hangs upon a slender thread ; and short of a coup d'état, or a revolution, it is not likely anything definite can be done in re- ference to pending negotiations. We give the Sloo contract for what it is worth; but without some equivalent in ready cash, we presume the Mexican goverpment does not intend to grant to any company the Tehuantepec right of way. Mr. Letcher is on the right track. A little hard cash will be required to settle the question in the end. Tur Pargrs or Mn. Cray.—We tee it stated that the diplomatic and other papers of Mr. Clay have been left with one of his friends for publica- tion. This, we presume, alludes to the papers pre- pared by him while Secretary of State, in the form of instructions and correspondence with American ministers, in foreign countries; also his correspon- dence with foreign ambassadors to’ the United States. Mr. Clay never was in the practice of keeping copies of his specches for preservation, with a view to publication; consequent!y, no complete collection exists; and many of his best specches in Congress, we believe, were not reported, particularly those on the Missouri Compromise question. The best col- lection of his speeches was affixed to his life, &c., called Mallory’s edition, and published in this vity in 1844, in two handsome volumes. Tho speeches, ¢ighty in number, were collected, and a preface writ- ten to each by Mr. Edwin Williams, compiler of the Messages of the Presidents of the United States, &e. Mr. Clay was much pleased with the manner in which the work was done, and expressed surprise at the extent of the cofection. We published in the Hernan of SVednesday, (the day after Mr. Clay's death.) the most complete sketch of his political life which has yet appeared in the papers. Theatrical, The Broadway theatre concluded, last night, the most successful season it has ever yet passed through, Under the talented management of Mr. Barcy it hos produced, in succession, the greatest attrections, in the engagements ot Forrest, Miss Charlotte Cushman, Madamo Celeste, Lela Montes, the Seguins, Barnoy Willians and his wife, With various other theatrical eters, who have brought crowded houses, and made the season a most profitable one to the lessee, The closing. last night, was celebrated by a brilliant concourse of talent, theatrical and mu- sical, in which Mr, Forrest, Mr. Charles Braham, Mr. and Mrs, Williams, and the Segain family, were the principal actors, Mr. Forrest playod Jack Gado, and an olio musicale was sung by Braham and the Seguins, Niblo’s theatre continues to draw excellent houses, by the great variety of attractions it now presents Madame Fleury Joly, Geard, Menchand, and an cx- quicite comic opera (roupe, alternate with the most talented bailet troupe we have ever had cn the stage here. propos of the latter: we have heard it re- marked that the Fronch dancers at Niblo’s aro ncens- tomed, in their gyrations, to display too much of their limbe, by reason of the short and very liglit dresses they wear; while Senorita. Soto, the Spanish danseuse, is re- the Pittsburg ticket, iteis by some expocted, wil, | the shelf, like Cass, Buchanan, Marcy, Butler, and | muster, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, as many / the rest of the old fogies, but he has shown that the of the South, from whom moro chivalry might marked as wearing a dress of the propor longth and as five hundred thousand; but even. three hundred ( thousand, or one hundred thousand, or fifty | thousand, votes will he equally decisive. Lose than six thousand more votes would have elected Henry Clay, in 1844; and at tho same time there were probably not less than ten thousand | whige of the fifteen thousand free soilers who voted in this State the abolition ticket, and thus turned the State over to James K. Polk. We have, then, in this free soil movement, opened | with such ominous enthusiasm at Worcester, the turning point of the battle. The native American movement at Trenton, and the Southern whig movement at Wasthington, are mere specks upon | the political firmament ; but this free-soil omnium gathervm movement looms up a heavy, overshadow- | ing cloud ali along the Northern horizon, surcharged with thunder and lightning, gas, hailstones, and all the dust and rubbish of a mighty whirlwind. In full view of this impending calamity, what is to be done? The whig party of the North is immi- nently threatened with the brunt of the storm. It is already in a state of rapid transition from nationality to sectionalism. Seward has linked his fortunes with General Scott, and the one is dos- tinod to eink or swim with the other. It is unfor- tunate that the old soldier should have fallen into the hands of a friond and adviser so danger- ous and unprincipled, so utterly the selfieh dema- gogue, as W. H. Seward. But so it is. Henco the Southern whig manifesto. Hence the dis- content in the ranks of the Northern whig union conservatives, with the nomination of Gen. Scott. It is not because he is held unworthy his position; but it is because, in elevating him, Seward is ele- vated, and gains another step forward towards the formation of a great Northern whig free soil party, with himself as their candidate, in open defiance of the combined power of the South. Exoorating and spitting upon the whig platform, as the Seward fac- tion are, there can be no mistake in their ardor for the election of Gen. Boott. If he is clocted, his ad- ministration isto be victimized to the ambitious and treachorous disunion designs of Seward and his gang. In this light we see no cause of immediate alarm in the Pittsburg movement for a separate free soil ticket. But what say the Union whigs ? | Are they for the permanent maintenance of good | faith and good fellowship between the North and | South—for the Union—for all the immeasurable | blessings and profits which we of the North derire | from the Union? If so, can they hesitate between | | the promotion of Seward and the sacrifice of thelr Let them anewer. Tho | time approaches for action. | old party asscciations 7 | abandoned, or tote attempt with him makes the issue a battle of life and death. He is a lion—not a rabbit. After serving thirty yeare in the United States Senate, he regards the conspiracy by which he was | superseded as an unpardonable outrage ; and so, to pave the way for ousting ‘Davy Atchison,” | when his term shall expire, Colonel Benton is up as | acandidate for the House of Representatives. He | isa lion—not a rabbit. The supposed descent to | that body from the Senate requiring an explana- tion, he justifies the step with considerable force, | and pleads that the House holds, in fact, the initia- tive and controlling power of the governmont—a fact which, we apprehend, nobody will attempt to dispute. If elected, also, he will serve his consti- tuents, constantly looking forwards, and not back- wards; for Benton, after his own fashion, belongs to the progressive democracy. He is a lion—not a rabbit. Incontéstibly, if elected, he will make the far and feathers fly in the House worse than did old John Quincy Adams in his day, who, from the | White House itself, re-entered Congress to fight the battles of Northern fanaticism against tho flibusters of the South. He is an old lion—not a stale rabbit. The views of Colonel Benton, regarding the pro- sent system of national conventions, by which the two great parties of the couatry are governed on the Presidential quostian, will particularly challenge attention. He is correct in saying that by these conventions the whole plan of the constitution for the election of a Presi- dent by the people, is frustrated and thrown into the hands of a few wire-working and gambling politicians. The demoralizing scenes at the two late conventions at Baltimore, wero, in themselves, sufficient to disgust all right-minded men with the syetem which is controlled by such proceedings. For example, what could be more demoralizing than the opening of free drinking establishments by the friends of this or that candidate, for elec- tioneering purposes with the delegates; or than the bartering away of cabinet offices, foroign missions, and custum house patronage, in advance, for votes in the convention? Nothing could be more revolt- ing to a looker-on than these things, oxcepting, | perhaps, the littlo petty spites and personal grudges and jealousies under which the most experienced candidates of both parties were sacrificed, The matees of the people can have no sympathy ia each ings. On the contrary, the bargaining and ions of the late party conventions at Balti- more may possibly operate to throw the whole tem into such publi empt that it will be te respected. hereafrar, by people Bevton and Te © both r have been looked for—to agperse the personal cha- racter of General Pierce, to say nothing of the still more scurrilous abuse launched at him by our | polite and philosophical cotemporary of the Tyibune, in holding him up to public scorn as an habitual drunkard. While the whig journals pursue this unworthy couree, tho democratic party have alao commenced to imitate their system of tactics, by attacking General Scott in a similar way, and accusing him of rank cow- ardice in having refused to accept the challeage of General Jackeon, in 1816. The Plain Dealer, of Cleveland, selecting this incident as his text, saya that “the Knight of the Yellow Piume could not muster the nerve, even in his younger days, to look Old Hickory in the eye at the short distance of | twelve paces; so he showed the white feather on that occasion.” Other democratic journals and politi- cians seek to tarnish the reputation and injure the | popularity of the whig candidate through his do- mestic relations and ideas on the subject of religion; but it must be acknowledged that the democrats generally exhibit much less of this spirit than their opponents. They are willing to accord to General Scott the reputation he hus so honorably earned, and do not seck to pluck a feather out of his cap by | resorting to such unworthy moans as those pursed | by the whig journals for the purpose of tarnishing the character of General Pierce. All such paltry attempts to promote the interests of party at the expense of individuals, deserve the scorn and repro- bation of the independent men of both partios, and the politicians and partisan journals who haye re- course to thom, only injuro the cause they seek to serve, and expose themselves to the contempt of the high-minded and independent portions of the community. Personal Intelligence. Mr. Webster arrived in this city yesterday afternoon’ and proceeds today to Boston. The most extensive arrangements have been made for his reception intha; | city, There is balm in Gilead. In eponking of Mr. Webster, the Philadelphia Bulletin of yesterday afternoon says:—" Just before going to prers, wo heard « rumor that Mr, Webster had signified his acceptance of the nomination for the Presidency tendered to him by the “ American’? Convention at Trenton,” Px-Governor Payne, of Vermont, was in Cincinnati on the 8d inst. Arrivals at the Union Place Hetel—Hon Henry John- son and family, Louisiana; Hon, Edward Curtis and lady, Washington; M, M Thorp. New Orleans; Eugene Mov Santa Peo; 4. D, Soubrey and formily, England; R, | . Monterey ond we must have it. Be are liens t fi them ia a rabbit, " Chamberlin, Lake Champlain ward Hotel-—Captoin A, Rdwards, Buffalo do; Major 8 Burt, Worcester, Hon, J ©. Rives, Washington; Hon, 8 Parker do ; W. Brownell Civeinveti; Hon. BW Ketcham, Plattsburg ; Captain | Signora Maberlini (an cminent voeulist and pupil of the } cherges some and had texture, which, thongh it does not in the slightest degree interfere with the velocity and grace of her movements, looks much more modest and becoming. The talented Rousset Family are still Presenting their very beautiful duileis at Castle Garden. aud in addition to their graceful and refined entertainmont. they now pro- Pere to Offer an attraction of a different character. With this design, they have entered into ucgotiation with cclebrated Rossini), Badiali, Vietti,and other operatic alternate nights, This engagement, if effected, will doubtiees be a very successful and profitable one, as Maberlini is an artiste of very superior abilities and repu. tation on the Continent, besides being « novelty, having but recently arrived in this eity from italy, People are beginning to find out that Castle Garden, at this season of the year, is the coolest and most salabrious prome- nade in the city, and it will therefore be extensively patronized for the next couple of months, when such sented, rerpectability enhanced, by the performances of Donetti’s Wonderful company of monkeys, dogs, and goats, It will troupe, and will then be put into the hands of contractors, | to modify it into @ regular theatre, for Mr. Charles & Thorne, who hae taken a five yenrs’ lease of it. ‘The Rowery theatre, vince the accession of Lola Moutes and the improvements effected in it by Mr, Hamblin, is | making rapid progress to the attaimnent of the first | rank fachionable theatre of the city, Upper-toudom is be- | ing transferred frcm the boxes of the ‘Artor Opors House | to those of the Bowery, and thearaigamation of the Fifth | avenue exquisites with the Bowery bellow promiros soon | jo become an an accomplished fact. Lola’ etit to take place to-night, 4 bles The great bulk. however, of those who patronise the Bowery. are drawn from the region of ihe city lying be tween 't enue and the East river, which compriees » opulation of rome one hundred thousand, Those ara all In the middle walks of life. and re for the most part mo- chanics connected with ship building and iton foundry establishments, and other mechanical pursuits, It ie | Principally from this class of the cou muni'y tbat the | Bowery theatre is nightly fillet—the reason probably being,” that they are anxious to see # celebrity of whom they have beard so mush, und who t such a dice tinguished cbarneter in the royal courts the Old World. as the celubreted fire-valt Tandefeldt, It is, however, mere eutie tracts them, ae they are sensible, industriows singers, to engage them to perform in Italian opera on | | | united attractions in the opera and ballet linu are pre- | ‘The Astor Place Opera House is still enlivenod, andits | soon, however, lose the refining influence of this talented | Fy 3 F oEe betiltis J Tue Late SHootinc Case.—We noticed, in of yesterday, the circumstance Cl bg Catharine Ledwith, whore parents Tweifth atreet, having been killed on the ing shot by Wm. Moore. a laa »xteén eater ys in the adjoming Lowe aday held an inquest upou the body but noevidence war adduced showing will on the part of the lad towards (ne that from the position be was red the pistol, he could pot bave seen rendered the following ver:\ct. viz :—That come to her death by the dire! ofa Joaded with pewder and bnilets in the hands Moore; and furtber. uncer the ¢l him guilty of culpable cxreiessness, On the of the verdict Moore wa: committed to prison ‘the avtion of the Grand Jury. Br poor by the patients at G28 ee Fy Ni pees F <3 ff Peas ? if hd ili to Tue Eastern Disranssny —It for last month, thet ube nuarber the office was, niaies 5¢ 1 mvle- 1,007 ; total, 1,623, At pti males 96 tev ules 143; total Vac- cinated 347. The whole nuinb-r attended, 2,199. 13. Presoriptions put wp. ?.465; st nl ia one day, 183 ; smallest, ¥3, Average 153, Surcwe at tue Wasemneic: Horen.—A man named 3.8 Barnum arrived, on oe-day in the city. and put upat the Warbington ictel corner of Broadway an® Battery place, enicring his pluce of residence on the re; ‘Aldcn, Ere ecumy, New York, About 10 o'clock he Fume evening he retired to bis room, and abeut two hours ¢ficrward+ jumped from a window in the room (which is on the third tory). to the yard, where be wus immediately ufferwards found. by the night waich of the hotel in a stui:, of n-ensibility, and heen injured. He was removes to the New York Uospital atieuded by Dr. Suchter but dicd sbortly after bis ad- ‘Phe Corouer heli an ingrest ou the body, ‘The Gecessed bad ayalie wich hi: when be went to the hotel, which conte:ved oivihing bu: no inoney was foun’, in Lis possession, Before ceritimg. he war heard to. in= quire for Mr. P. T. Larwum to whom it is supposed be Was related, Suicipr.—A young man. of rerpectable appearance’ about 25 years a ageron Monday ersulug jaisped-thnt the steamer Henry Clay ino the forth River, opposite the foot of Twentieth ‘etreet. end was drowned. The body was recovered about twenty minutes afterwards, Distunsance is THE Nivta Ware —On Tuesday after- noon. Capt, Taft. of the Noth ward police, received in~ formation that a party o men wereengaged ina fight at the toot of Clarkson street He wiih a number of his officers. repaired to th pivee. und arrested seven men, who were abusing a beat captain avd bis men, whom they astuulted with clubs. stones &c. They gave their mames nt dames Lobeed. Patrick Dotun, Francis Ruddy, James MeQuillen, James Ryan, Thomas MeQuillen and Willian: Loheed. s Taran Accipent rnom Camenenr.—The Coroner yes— terduy beld an inquest at the Bellevue Uospital, upoo the body of Ann Odell a native of Ireland, 30 years of” age. whose death was caured by burns, It appears that on the 28ih ult , tho decea-ed. who was avervant in the temily. residing at No” 108 Fvurth avenue, was present. when a feliow fersunt-was evgnged in filling a eamphene Kimp. which exploded in the heads of the latter, who threw it from her, end it came tn contact with the clothing of the dereased which took fire, and she wag. dreadfully burned A viairict of accidental death was rendered by the jury. Fartat Accipent at tur Fuiton Denny—Bov Drownep. As the ferry beat Mavhatian wos towing im from Brooklyn about 7 o'ck yerterday gy 2 @ boy, in a. etl Dost, was rowing out uf the Flip. Finding be could. not get ont of the way he cr'led repeatedty to the pilot, but no notice was won. ‘The terry boat eame on 8 raight into the slip, and. of ccucse, ran the small boat: down Afier looking -ome mautes for the boy, the boat was backed ont. but be cculd not be found, end mast in- evitably have perished. Farat. Faru—The Coroner yesterday held an inquest at the New York [fospitel upon the body of David Ho- cier, apative of Germany 25 sears of age. who died from the effrots of a fall reeesved Gu Cuesday afterncon, The deoenced. with thrce others. was evgiged at the thme in conveying « hervy stick ef timber acsors the fourth story: of on uvirieked Luldirg in Dey ttreet. and missed his, footing. and fell to ihe basement from the eflects of which fall bodied, Verdict, accidi utai death, Fatar Raw.aoap Accrpext.—Stephen Minnard, @ dea? and dumb man, who wes <everely injured on the Hud- ton River Kailroad. on t oth ult. died yesterday, from the eflects of the injuries rece ved The aecident occurred at Yonkers. end the decersed at the time was standing upon the track. when the up train came al and he wus etruck by the loeomotive and sevorely in: jured. The conductor. scc'ng him upon the track, sounded the elesm whistle bat the deoeased being deaf, did not hear it, The Coroner was notified te hold an in- quest upon ihe body. Issunep ox sor Manurct Rainroan.—A boy. named Daniel Duyle reeiding at No 6 Murion street, in jum off one cf the emati cers on the Harlem i on Tuerday afternoon. hue bis right foot badly injured im consequence uf one of ihe Whevis paasing over it. He wal taken bome. Fixw.—About one o'clyck Tuesday morning a fire wae. diecovered in en alley way btween Nos 200 and 902 Church street, ‘The aiarm’ was promptly given; bat be- fore the fremea urrivec on the spot, ihe back part of the: buildings were in flames, The fire then ¢ .mmunieated to the honees Nos. 196 198 and 26 The ciremen worked nobly. put betore ihey could cxtinguirh the flames the houres Now. 00 and 202 were Custroyed; the roofs of the: other houses wes destroy:d the damage will pro- bably nmount to All these buildings were oveu- pied’ by poor fams'ies. who were axleop at the time, and it iswonderful how they all ¢ d withont any aeci- dent, Their furniture tud cic was damaged by fire and water, The same evening. abort 7 o'clock. a fire was discovered iesving from the fourth story of the bailding 83 Pia» ftreet. the first, third. fourth and fifth floors being ocou~ fed by W. I, Norris, tinemith; the eccond floor by W. II. itearne. broker in wines, in, Se. The fire was eon- fined to the two upper storie. which were totally des- troyed The ret of tho uiiding 1 damaged by waur ton considerable extent. The atendanceot iiremen waas- humerous. The domage will be about $12.00, W. H. Stearneie inured. WH Norris, who own. we believe is insured, As the engines were returning from the five in Pine street. a fire broke out in « hat shep. corner of Pearl and Chatham rtireeis, vhich was extinguished with tiling damage, ¥inr.—At 1 o'clock Treeday night a fire was discovered mission a thing in the second focr of the store No. 118 William street, o¢- cupica by Higgs & Locterno. peck: ibook and satchell manufactory. Tt was soon Ene loss will Uuguisbed, bot smount to $1000. Mesers, p' insured for the full aasount Company, Steam Comey, Dener.--OP Tuesday mofaing. at fone the steamboat Chas, Devin, lytog at the foot of street. burt ber str chimney, veviding & man + mamed John Willovalby, He was taken to the Liggs & Tosterno ure tne MLyveront Ensarance torte Tenth P Sie Sm Srwin.—This enco. which was come on on Trerday, wa ourned. wiih the consent of both parties, tilt this morning at 11 o'clock. _ Svicrpr.—On Monday. a presenger on board the Ifenry Clay, on her way frm Albwny to this ery. jumped ever board. and was drevned betore any asalstance could be | rendered him, ‘The hedy was yerovered and brought to- this city, in order to hold au inquest An Ariserr to Cosmmt Stier. named Mi 1 over t the foot of Roosevelt of destroy- ing herceli ntil abe was Tereued from her perilous porition Ly the poliee, She was conveyed to (he Tombs Suppen Dear —On Tuesday morning, a man named: | James McCall, wo Jived at inth avenue, while ab | work at the foot of Forgs third street. Noxth river, war taken witna fit. ano died in afew minute: afverwurds, ‘The Coroner was notified to beld an inquest. Mr. MePhersom. second enginecr of the Cunard steam- hip Africa. oied..on Monony moruing, from tho injuries eccived by his fail on Saturday night. Marine affolos. Tur Sirsssiie Amony, which was advertiood to be launebed yesterday, from Mr, Sneden’s vard. at Groen- point, was launched yosterday.at 13 P.M. She is owned y T. C, Schomberg & Co.. sndis to be Htted up in avery Lendscme memmer, regardiess of expense. Hor engiaes snd boilers are to be furnished by Mesers, Peaso & jurphy. Deatn ov Carrais Wanemay —We learn t Samvel Wakewan, late of the stenwship & ster diedon he 2d inst. at liv reddence { Connecticut. of fever. MWe was 8d years of oge. Tue Stearsumr Paxxy. which put into Savonuah some time back, for supplies. &c.. on hee pactage from New Orleans to San Francisco, it is announced will resume hor voyage on the Sth inst., ihe U. 8. Marshal having received: orders to release her, the olsims eguinst the vesvel having Veen arranged Monrarsy a Sra.—Sebooner Willls Putnam arrivede at Provinesiowa on Saturday from a whaling ” rent but li aonths, and reports the loss of nine men, eight of them by sicknes# and one (Wim, Chuffle), lost overboard av 2orclock, A.M. ist inst, whilo tho rossel was in contact with a versel from New York for Quebec, suppored the British bark ( names of thore who died ¥ t Captain oh Web- ‘eatport. and democratic people, cratic manners and nonsense, Wut #0 dospire and them ‘thot they studiously frveid coming in o With vpper-tendom, and thorefore seldom extend thelr | evening waike through the eity farther than ine | Howery. Few of therm ever Iet themselves b eon ia Hirendway, a6 they consider that this fushtona node would est dieeredit upon them, ‘he Nati theatre ts oleo patronised by the denizens of the eutern the Germans und Je aviog n particular f wr iuwards ft, Lola Montes announces hor benefit in the Bowery. for tonight: andin her vian!fedte Hight yur ¢ the pr he will t of her at y thie ie bu ral engagement. in whiet arittery to heme wpe bin be a fim ile tw Lbottcr beh np, #0 at to be _& wich, aged 42; John Thomas, of idence unknown; Wm, Jatoes dence unkuown; Eolcmon B. Mavly, Weston, Vt, | Geo. More. Bosion, 22; Peter Jocoph, Boston, 21,’ ang two nativer of the Sandwich !rlauds, Lavxerev—At Medford, 8d fust., by Mr, ares 0, Cure tis, a fine elipper chip of about 860 tone, jot the On- ward. owned by Mossre, Heo. Wade & Co,, of Boston, to. be commandca by Captain otting, laic of the bak Geo, B. Webvter, At South Morton. on Saturesy, by Messrs. Briggs, a clipper ship of about 900 tons. c#ned by Mears, Baker ormiil, and Jotended for the Cailtornia traue. Dhe Extradition Case. U 8. CinculY Count. Jviw 7.—In the matter of Thomas in: claimed by the Briti- government a9 a fogirive m jascles, the Marsbek ivformed a nua hor € rons tnt ia the qisive ty rar + for eouRt nn ee