The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1852, Page 4

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Masica) Hall, 444 Broad- The News. ‘The arrival, yesterday, of a steamor from Europe, avd a steamer from California, fills our disposable space this morning, with rews from the four quarters ef the world The Asia brings us dates from Liverpool to July 3d, being three days later than the intelligence by the last preceding mail. The European news, though of no extraordinary imporiance, is still pos- essed of considerable interest. The British Parlia- meut has been dissolved, and writs have been issued for anew election. The result will probably be the defeat of the Derby and Disraeli Cabinet, notwith- standing they have been endeavoring to effect a re- conciliation, or at least an armistic, with the free traders. The Protestant and Catholic riot at Stockport, growing .out of an old act of Parliament lately trumped up and revived in England and Ireland, prohibiting Catholic processions, &e , is a serious and ugly business, and may possibly lead to. still nds. We have more rcrions troublesin the British had severul scenes, involving the destruction of Ca- tholic churches and convents, in this country; but, thanks to our “civil and religious liberty,” perse- eution here only recvi!s upon itself. Tho battle for religious freedom has yet to be fought in Great Bri- tain, and she will have to meet the issue, sovner or Vater, when all the existing restrictions of a bar- barons age will be swept away. Justice may be delayed yet fora season; but it is sure to come. The arrivals of gold from Australia continued to astonish her Majesty's subjects. Australia is no ** South Sea Bnbb! but a real Ophir, from the hills and valleys of which the gold is rolled out, not by pennyweights, as in North Carolina, not by ounves and pounds, as in California, but by the ton Over £1,250,000, or $6,250,000, of Australian gold, had arrived in London in three wécks prior to the Bist ult. And the harvest was just beginniag. In addition to all this, the Bank of England had in its vaults $1 00,000 of California gold. Its total sum of bullion, er and gold, on hand, was not less than the astoundir g aggregate of one hundred and ten millions of dollars! There is absolutely a pros- pect now for the payment of the English national debt. This is the golden age, and Australia is the real El Dorado. Micawber, in going out there, with the final hope of “something turning up,” hit the wail on the head. Something has * turned up,” and the movement of the “ great globe itself” is re- versed. What next ? France is quiet, and the Continent reposes in the heaviest lethargy of despotism. Emigration pro- mises to secure its quiet for an indefinite period to It appears that our government, by the war steamer Sun Jacinto, has sent special instructions for an inquiry into the case of the imprisonment of Nr. King, by the authorities of Greece, for preach- ing the gospel in his own house. The noble wehip Mivois, (via Panama route) with sixteen days’ later intelligence,with over three hundred passeng nd two millions of geitd dust, from California, d yesterday afternoon. ‘It never rains, but it pe What are te be the con- sequences of th increasing influx of geld? They defy all the lished data of finance and eommerce. The m must work out itself. There is no visible sign that the California mines will soon diminish in their supplies. They go on increasing in their returns, and fresh recruits and new discoveries are daily enlarging the field of active The problem, therefore, of Australia eome. operations. and California must left to work out itself. It transcends the limits of human calculation. We publish a copious variety of the news from California, clsewhere in our columns to-day, to which we refer our readers, with the assurance that they will find much in it to interest them. Accounts have been received by the way of Hono- Juln, and given in another column, of a maseacre at the Galiipagos islands. It is but a few months since that we announced the seizure of the whaler Geo Howland, at that group. We learn by the same arrival that brought the last news, that the United States fiigate Raritan, Captain McKean, (Com. MeAuley’s flag ship), had cleared at Panama ou the 25th ult., for these islands, and we hope thag the guilty parties will be made to suffer for this crime. Very late and interesting news has been received | from Tahiti and Ecuador, the present revolutionary points on the Pacific. Flores has made no progress e in his steps to revelutionize Ecuador, and appears to be acting the part of a very silly leader. The accounts from Tahiti are more decisive. Queen Po- ware, after an attempt to recover her lost position, was compelled to take to flight, and had arrived at the Sandwich islands The advices from the Isthmus of Panama are sad. The cholera had broken out at various points, and carried eff quite a number. We deeply regret to announce the sudden death of Roger Jones, Adjutant General U. 8. Army. He was apparently in the prime and vigor of life, when, in a brief hour, he was stricken down. He was an accomplished and faithful officer, an intelli- gent and amiable gentleman, and highly estecmed in all ranks of society at Washington, as a good man and distinguished citizen. He was a brother of Commodore Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, and he eaves an interesting family behind him. General Jones was about forty-five years ot age, and had aly tbe appearance of a nan destined to pass the full term of three score and ten, when he was thus sud- denly cut off. Truly, ‘in the midst of life wo are in death.” ‘The Hon. David Merriwethor, who was appointed by the Governor of Kentucky, to serve out the un- expired term of Mr. Clay inthe United States Se- nate, appeared yesterday in that body, and after taking the requisite oath, was conducted to his seat; not, however, without the legality of his appoint. ment having been questioned. The House resoly. tion fixing the 16th of August as the day for the adjournment of Congress, was taken up, and elicited considerable debate, during which an amendment. was offered to substitute the 30th of August, which was rejected by a tie vote, and the resolution was laidwver for one week. A resolution was adopted to amend the rules, so as to require the appropriation bills to be sent to the Senate ten days before the time of aijournment. This will tend to check the disorderly wcenes of past sessions, partly caused by the epproprietion bills coming before the Senate at the last hour, when they had to be passed without | reading, or not t all. The Senate, with Abroe oxceptions, adopied the House amcudments to the Deficiency bill; but what these three tions were the telegraph did pot inform us ‘The House ot Representatives yesterday, after adopting @ resolution requesting the Public lands Committee to inquire into the expediency of estab- lirbing an additional land office in Minnesota, took up the bill granting the right of way, and appro- | priating adjaceut lands to Florida and Alabama, to aid in building a railroad from Pensacola to Mont- | gomery. After a speech by Mr. Cabell in its favor, & motion was made to lay it upon the table, which was rejected, and the bill finally, by the casting vote of the Speaker, was referred to the Committee of the Whole. The Printing bill, which has been such a prolific source of conversation, again came up yesterday, and atter some small! talk, in the | shape of interrogatories and answers, its furthor | consideration was postponed until to-morrow. The cholera, although considerably abated, still lingers in the western cities and towns, and on the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In consequence of greatly exaggerated reports of the existence of cholera in an epidemic form, at Columbus, Ohio, the whigs of that State have with- drawn their call fora mass convention, which was to havo been held at that place on the 22d inst. The Catholic College of the Holy Cross, near Worcester, was destroyed on Tuesday last, by fire. A portion of the books of the library only were saved, and the loss, in building and furniture, is estimated at from $40,000 to $50,000. The number of persons in the funeral procession of Mr. Clay, in Lexington, on Saturday last, was estimated at 40,000, and the carriages, if placed in a line, would have extended twenty-five miles, All hon or to the departed sago. Four negroes were killed by lightning on Tues- day, at Lexington, Miss., while taking their dinner, during a thunder storm, under a tree. A riot occurred on Tuesday last, at Hamilton, Canada, between some Protestant aud Catholic Trish, during which a man named Campbell was stabbed, who immediately shot his assailant, caus- ng him to die immediately. The degree of doctor of laws was honorarily con- ferred on Thomas Francis Meagher, Esq., yester- day, by the Faculty of St. John’s College, Ford- ham, at their annual commencement. Mr. Meaghey excused himself from attendance, on the ground of sickness, much to the disappointment of those gen- tlemen, and a numerous audience assembled in ox- pectation of seeing and hearing him. Corruptions of the Corporation—A Crisis, at Last. mente. Ever since the New Yorx Hara.p wae estab- lished, it bas been w fixed purpoee of its proprietor that the latest news, of whatever character, from whatever quarter, and at whatever cost, must be obtaived for its columns. To effect this purpose, agencies and correspondencies were establiahed in every prominent point in our own country, and in nearly all tho'priucipal cisios of the rest of the world, both civilized and uncivilized. In the carly years of the Hernan, fast horses, fast steamers, and clipper schooners, were kept in coa- stant readiness to serve its purposes, and it soon be- came as famous for the speed with which its des- patches were conveyed trom the most distant points, as forthe vast fertility of its resources in obtaining the intelligence those despatches contained. The other Teepectable newspapers of New York, finding them- selves in the background, were soon compelled to imitate our example as nearly as they could; and it must be acknowledged that in the course of a few years subsequently to the establishment of the Heraxp, a most remarkable revolution was effected in the character of the newspaper press of New York. They have improved wonderfully, in all their departments—commercial, political, news, and literary. But the New York Heap still oc- eupies a station far in advance of them all; and this the far reaching enterprise, and the stintless ex- penditures of its sole proprietor—James Gordon Bennett. In its news department—of which we mean chiefly to speak—the Hera, it is admitted, stands unri- valled. The money absorbed by this one branch of its expenses, even in its earliest years, was enor- mous—unparalleled inthe annals of newspaper enter- prise. But the burden was shouldered cheerfully, for, in the cant phrase of the day, we had a mission to perform, and not even the predictions of pecu- niary bankruptey could ppal us But we dido’t fail, as all the world knows. On the contrary, we rushed onward, still onward— stopping only to make new improvements as we went, until the HuraLp stood confessedly the model paper of the Western continent—quoted and relied on by all the respec table journals of Europe and America. This char- acter it had attained long before the invention of Professor Morse was put into practical use, and thus opened a new era in newspaper enterprise. When the electric telegraph went into operation, and was made available for newspaper purposes, the fast horses were of course trotted off tho field, A very important crisis, affecting the integrity of the members ef the Common Council and the vera+ city ofa considerable portion of the newspaper press of this city, bas now reached us, and cannot be passed over without a minute, full, and critical in- vestigation before both civil and criminal tribunals. For some time past, a certain portion of the pross— partly disreputable and partly malignant—has been endeavoring to find out the seerct history of Corpora- tion legislation, and to detect any acts in the conduct ofthe Aldermen and Assistants that nfight render them infamous and unpopular in the eyesof the com- munity. For many months, however, thestaple ofthe newspeper remarks on members of the Board of Aldermen or Board of Assistants, consisted of aceu- sations against them for unwarranted interference with the arrests made by the police, over night, for disturbing the peace. During the last six months, it appears, acccording to the statements pub- lished, that about a hundred night brawlers, rioters, and disturbers of the public peace» who were arrested by the police over night, were discharged from custody in the morning, under the action of the Aldermen or the Assistants. This, however, is but a small proportion of the rowdies, nuwbering several thousands, who have broken the peace during the 1s monthsin thiscity. Anoth- er subject of attack on the members of the Corpo- ration, has been the expenditures of the tea-room, and the refreshments paid for on occasions of funcrals, receptions, or other public celebrations. A small outery has been raised against the Alder- men fur an expenditure of three thousand dollars, or something like that sum, towards defraying the expenses attendant on the obsequies of Heury Clay. This complaint comes with a very bad grace from those who make it, more especially when some twenty thousand dollars, or over, was paid by the previous Common Council for the glorifications got suth, the Hungarian charlatan and pa- triot. poor compliment to the memory of the great statesman of Kentucky, to complain of the outlay of afew thousand dollars in receiving and conveying his sacred remains through this city to Ashland, when the elaborate and ridiculous fea ing thrown away on Kossuth and his humbuggeries cost the city of J York from twenty to thirty thousand dollars. But all these complaints, or criminations, against | the present Board of Aldermen and Assistants have amounted to little in the the way of real gris ane have been made—springing out of the decision of the th Avenue Railroad case. In that busines five or rs have disti x of the newsp: otly charg forty to fifty thousond dollars, and dividing it among themselves, as the reward of their corrup- tion in voting in a particular way, in favor of a particular line of railroad. Those charges purported to be conveyed in the shape ofan affidavit, which is a part of the proceedings of an injunction case brought by Pettigrew & Co. in the Superior Court, this affidavit only makes the accusation on hear-say evidence, and that it is not even established on the sauctity ofan oath. Yot, although this affidavit ap- pears to be a part of the legal proceedings, itisnota privileged publication, nor to be viewed in the light of a regular report of any case tried in court, but is rather a special extract from the files of the court, obtained out of the usual way, and published in the newspapers for the purpose of criminating the Alder- men on cx parte and hearsay tes'imony, of the mos, startling character, against their iategrity and honor. This, therefore, has produced the crisis which has now to be decided between a considerable por- tion of the press of this city and one-half or more of the Common Council. The Aldermen are distinetly charged by these five or six journals with corrup tion of the grossest kind. If they are gnilty of the acts imputed to them, they are utterly unfit for their office, and ought to be indicted, tried, con- victed, and degraded from the public posts they hold. If, on the other hand, it should appear that these journals have been putting forward false and ungrounded accusations, their proprietors are liable,, and deserve to be indicted, tried, convicted, and punished, for foully and mali- ciously calumniating the Aldermen in the ho- nest discharge of their duty. In this business there can be no escape for either party. The public attention is watchfully fixed on both sides. If the Aldermen, thus openly charged with these corrupt practices, do not forthwith proceed, by indictments and by an appeal to the laws, to procure a public investigation, and prove themselves innocent of the crimes imputed to them, the public will believe them guilty, and will bo justified in entertaining that belief. They are bound, therefore, at all hazards and in every form, to clear up their char- acter, and refute all the assertions of their enemies. If it should be proven that the Aldermen have been belied, and are not guilty of taking bribes to the amount of forty thousand dollars, or any other sum, then the newspapers which shatnclossly and mali- ciously put forward these charges against thom, on mere heresay evidence, without being ablo to sub- stantiate them, ought to be brought up before the proper tribunal, indicted, tried, convicted, and se- | vercly punished, for defamation of character of tho | most malicious dye forward, therefore, Come Messrs. Aldermen, defond your reputation as public men, or, by submitting to the imontations, eonsten | yousselves sorever to ineffable contempt and ia any. | , compared to the last developements which | six or seven of the Aldermen with receiving from | before Judge Oakley. But it will be observed that | and fast steamers and clipper schooners were only useful for local purposes. The electric wires usurp. ed the functions of all three, and are now used al- most exclusively for the transmission of domestic news fiom city to city. The New York Heranp was the first journal in the country that availed it self of this new method of transmitting intelligence; and, ever since the first news despatch flashed along the wires, ithas puid more than any paper in this country, and with the exception of its asso- ciates of the New York Associated Press, probably from three to five times more than any other jour- nal inthe world, for its telegraphic intelligeuce, To prove this fuct, we havo had a series of tables carefully prepared by tho agent of the Associated Press, showing the Hur ap’s proportion of the ge- neral telegraphic expenses of his office, for a series of twenty-six weeks. These tables we here sab- join:— Nshs oF THE Asso. © Mancn 27, °52, Trurcrarime Gexera, News cratep Parss, rnom Serr, 27, ‘01 New York Total for Date. Herald. Association, et. $BI5 vi 4, 185 ll. Nov. Dee. Jan. Mar. $15,592 39 loz 67 gov2 OL Foneren (Evnor: A Hativax, N.S c Total for Associa ion. October to March. . $1,142 87 $8,000 09 Average weekly expenses 43°95 8,000 00 Avenaore Tota E: Ordinary ceneral news, &¢ Extra domertic news... | Kusopean news, via Malifas Totals......sseeesees tee 43:95 $146 69 | seven principal morning pu namely—the Courier ond y Joursal af Commerce. Express, Tribund. Su and Herald ‘This association retains in i vice competent and reliable correspondents in London, Liverpool, Southampton Lavre, and at other impor points in Europe. as well as ia each of the prow cities and chief towns throughout the United States and British American porserriony. ‘The as-ociation bas also a telegraphic news room in this city. wholly detached. amply furnished with reporters, | copyists, &e.—the whole under the snperintende Mr. DH Craig. a gentleman whose long experience in ( the business. energy of character. and devotion to the interests of the pics. eminently qualify him for the perplexing aud arduous dunes a-tigned him. To this room all the telegr+phic despatenes of the association are directed. and there they are copied out io manifold for the above wamed joursals and also re-transmitted by telegraph, to all ports of the country. But we have given above only the telegraphic expenses incurred by the Heratp in its associate capacity. We now annex a tabular statement of the exclusive despatches received and paid for by sconnected entirely from the association, and running over the same space of time, namely, six moutbs:-= Teteonarn Tous Paro sy tue New York Henarp’ Exouvaiyery. Week Ending Wek Ending | October 4. 1861 + $121 (6 Jan’y 17,1552..... 55.17 | 18, » 118 } ag 1203 see 93 64 si, “ 03 | Nov'r + 4156 Feb'y 7, . 102 93 am 63 ai, % + 138 5) 2, « Dee'r 262 Mareh 6, “ + Be Bf ° 90 2, “ 6 lo Jan'y + 1090 a, « + 164 25 MR * visce CS so Total exclusive told... 666 cece eee + eee $1,820 37 RCAPITULATION, General news telegraphic despatches + $2,660 42 Foreign news vin Halifux....... + 1.142 87 Exciusive despatches to tho Her see 1,820 37 Total.. ++ ++ $5,682 66 Here is a grand total of five thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-two cents paid by the New York HeRawy, fortelegraphic despatches, in the short peried of six months, or, at this rate, eleven thousand tivo hundred and sirty-five dollars and thirty-two cents per annum!—a sum unparalleled in the annals of American newspaper enterprise, and large enough to swamp, at the outeet, nino hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand newspapers published in the country. But our telegraphic expenses do not continue the same--they are daily increasing, and will probably amount to fifteen to cighteen thousand dollars for the year ending with next September. This large annual expense, it should be borne in mind, is a new item in the expenditure of a newspaper establishment— introduced by the introduction of the telegraph, and forced upon the newspaper proprietor by the spirit of the age. We do not grumble. To have the uttermost parts of the world within calling dis- tance is worth paying for. Iudeed, we hope to eee the day, avd will do our best to bring it about, when the whole of the New York Henaun—itg eight poges of forty-eight columns—with tho exoop- tion of the advertisements, editorials, and cicy news, will bo filled with despatches received the night previous by telegraph. Our correepondonts position it owes alone to the sagacity, the energy, | everywhere will ‘hen, a8 ‘gow in Washington, Al- Dany, &e , be instracte, to drop their letters into the Telegraph Offices, instead of the Post Offices. It may vot be out of place to state here, that the HexatD, in addition to this enormous outside ex- penditure, maiv‘ains, in connection with its asso. ciates, @ ship-news department, consisting of four boats, with ‘che force of six men, under the supor- intendenca of Captain Hall, one of the most effi- cient and experiepeed ship news colleetors in the county. The cost of this department is from $125 to $150 per week. Its provinee is to board all steamers and sailing vessels arriving at this port, in the outer \arbor when prasticable, for the pur- pose of procuring whatever : ews from foreign ports may be obtained in this way, a+ well as of report- ing the arrivals of the vessels themselves. The English and Contivental steamers are all boarded in this way; and the news thus obtained is almost alwaysin the hands of the compositor, and fro- quently under the eye f our readers, long before the vessels bringing it are inoo: ed in their docks. We intended, in this connection, to have com- mented on the superiority, in fulness and rvliability, of our foreign and domestic news despatches, as compared with those of our outside contemporaries— the evening press, of this city—who, with a fow evening aud morning papers elsewhere, cyntrive to | keep up a beggar'y assvciation of their own. We purposed, also, to glance at the means by which these outsiders have managed to obtain many of their despatches, especially those containing the Halifux news, which, as the public is aware, | they used unblushingly to paradé in their | columns as coming from their ‘ own correspondent at Halifax,” continuing the a: ception up co the mo- ment of the pub ication of the unlucky ‘ assassi- nation of Louis Napoleon” despatch, when, as our, avd their readers also, have doubtless noted, their ‘own correspondent at Halifux” suddenly disap- peared, and has not been beard of since. But we must defer the:e matters to a more leisure oppor- ‘unity. Country Journais ann rari New York Cor- RESPONDENTS.—The literaii in this city, who en- lighten the community all over the country, by their correspondence with the newspaper press ia tho cities and villages, and by transmitting them all sorts of news from the great metropolis of the Union, must possess a more than ordivary stock of impu- dence and assurance in their organization, and a most unlimited faith in the simplicity and gulli- bility of those readers who are to be so much edified by their literary productions. They actually think that nothing is too absurd or incredible to be palm- ed off on the gubemouches of the country; and so long as they can earn a dollar by the exercise of their genius for scribbling, they never stickle much at the quality or veracity of their epistles They seem to imagine that the national credulity has been distended so largel , by the modern exhibi- tions ef the Misses Fox and Judge Edmonds, and ofa whole host of spiritual mediums, philosophers, and reformers, besides, as wellas by the no less ex- traordinary operations of forcign exiles and revolu- tionists, who have been successful in hoodwinking the understanding, and extracting dollars from the pockets of the public, that they—the afore- said correspondents—need not be afraid to hazard any quantity ef mendacity or absurdity io their communications to the country press Wo therefore frequently find stuff of this cha- racter administered in large doses, and perhaps swallowed with as much voraciousness as are the tons weight of patent medicines distributed from this grand emporium of nostrums, all over the coun- try. The following are samples of the character for truthfulness of these ‘* private correspondents,” which we cut out of the Mobile Tribune of the first July :— Mrs Sinelair (late Mrs. Forrest) played a farewell en- gegement here a few nights ago aud is now gone to & Iand im the +teamship Asia, Che real object of her de. purture is said to be to conceal an interestiog event that ust about to take place. brought about by the co-op- sof the editors of this city. between whom clair it is said there has longexisted a much intimacy than purely Platonic friendship — Mrs. Sinclair's friexds. fecling virtuously indignant at the slander. bave requested the editors of several of the city papers tounpounce that “the object of Mrs Sinclair's voyage is to see her sick Father. whose death is daily ex- These trifles, however, do not. much concern the peblic * * All people having a proper respect for the dead. have recently been shocked by au outrage which it was thought, ac ene Lime, would have exered a geeat riot. The bones of 4 former generatior interred in ‘Trinity churebyard, in this city. hove been dug up from their graves to clear the ground for foundations of a row of new dry goods palaces. Probably a tumult would have ocsurred hud not an extensive police foree been placed around the scene of desecration. Several cart loads of hu- man boues have been carried off. aad thrown no one knows e. and the laborers employed have reaped quite aharvest of gold rings, nnd other vale nable mementos, interred with the dead. ~ Alas! poor Yoriek!"” * * ® & & * These paragraphs, which, it is needless to say, have not the slightest pretensions to truth, are in- tended for two particular classes of readers. The first isto administer to the depraved tastes of those who devour, with the utmost eagerness, everything of an immoral and prarientchar and the oth to gratity that equally extensive class of old ladies, of both sexes, who, on reading it, would be apt to lay down their spectacles, and with cadaverous countenance ejaculate, ** Goodness gracious, what shocking profanity in New York!” They are both, however, only specimens of the stuff which the New York correspondents of country papers deal in, on @ very extensive’ scale, and may serve to convey an idea of the general authenticity of these communi- cations. Mr. Bewnerr’s Laxn Bruit.—This tremendous bill, which proposes to distribute no less than 60 - 500,000 acres of land among the several States—the share to Now York being 5,250,000 acres—will pro- bably pass the Senate, if it is not stayed off till too late for its confideration. We have, from time to time during the Inst six months, contended that, as the public lends were di- verted from their constitutional object as an aid to the expenses of the treasury—that, as the question is settled that they are to be largely squandered away among the Western States and Western lund jobbers and railroad speeulators—it was high time that the Eastern States should have a finger in the pie. We have contended that the public lands are the property of the United States—that is, of all the States, in their united capacity—that they were paid for out of the common treasury, and were de- signed as a fund for the common benefit of all the States, and that if they are to be squandered away, New York is entitled to her fair proportion of the plunder. Upon this plea, wo have called, from time to time, the attention of our representatives in Con” gress to the subject; and at length our onterprising namesake has taken up the matter in his bill of the magnificent proportions we have described. The experiment in General Jackson’s time, of the distribution of the surplus revenues, turned out & bad failure. The money fell into the bands of hungry leeches, political stock jobbers, speculators, and peculators, so that scarcely a einglo State in the Union derived any substantial benefit from the fund. In fact, it coatributed to the inflation of that great financial and commereial bubble of ’34, °S and 6, which exploded in 1837 with all the disasters of bankruptey—that general bankruptcy which required tho eponge of a general bankrupt law to set the lamo ducks and crippled brokers and gam- blersen their pegs again. Still, we have contended that, a3 the public lands are to be squandered, all the States are entitled to a share of the plunder. The share to New York muy tall again into the catches of greedy cormorants; but it may, possibly, contribute something in lessening our State taxes, and ia building up schools and railroads, There- fore, a8 the lands are going, lot Mr. Bennott see to it that his bill is not smothered in the Senato, or superseded by that free farm bill, giving away the whole public domain, of at least 1,000,000,000 acres, to actual setilers. Let the plunder be fairly Tue District ATtoRNEY on RowDyYI8M, OR RA- THER xoT OW Rowpy1sm.—We alluded the ofher day to the declared resolution of Mr. Blunt, the District Attorney to do his duty in reference to the bringing to punisbment all offenders against the public peace, and especially the fighting rowdy characters who, for a length of time past, have been carrying oa their depredations with impunity. The people generally do not understand the facts as they exist; hence they are misled by the miserable party news papers, who only seek to build up a party politic in their own favor, without giving to the public the rea) cause of the existing rowdyism now under dis- cussion. What do the people care whether the breaker of the public peace isa whig or a democrat? It is enovgh for them to know that he is a violator of the laws—one who assaults without provocation—and a dangerous member of society, and as such, is a suita- ble person for the iron hand of justice to interpose and biing to pupishment. But the bringing to punishment seems to be the great existing difficulty, Amongst all the turmoil of rowdyirgu, the mere discharge, by an Alderman or Police Justice, of a person under duress for two or three hours, who can procure ample bail, does not by any means increase that species of disorder, although in many cases it would be better not to interfere, as that temporary lock-up is about ail the punirhment the accused receives. Again, all these cases are made bailuble by our statute laws; and the greater the rowdy or fighting character, the moro able is he to procure bail. In many cases it is not through the want of vigilance on the part of the police, that the violator of the public peace is not brought to justice, but absolutely the delay which follows by the public prosecutor. Week after week, and month after month, passes away, and yet no assault and battery case is even brought to trial, during which time the same depredators are arrest- ed by the police for other acts of violence, the same process of letting to bail takes place, and the ag- gressor is permitted to run at large again. Thus we see heaps of assault and battery cases laid over from one Grand Jury term to anothor, especially at this worm season of the year, when only prison felony cases are disposed of by the District Attorney— and the rowdies on bail, of course, are not called upon to answer. However, in tho fall of the year, it generally hap pens that a whole batch of these assault and bat” tery cases are thrown before the Grand Jury, who behold them with astonishment, look them over» and, from the long standing of the majority, very frequently treat them with indifference ; and more especially when the defendants are acquainted with John Doe or Richard Roe, of the Grand Inquest, who may suggest (und that, too, with a full wish of doing justice to all parties) to the other members, that, from the long time the cases have been stand- ing—many of the complainants never wishing to appear and prosecute—it would be folly to trouble the courts und juries with so many frivelous charges of assault and battery, and, accordingly, batch after batch are dismissed; and, in that way too often the defendants slip through the meshes of the law without punishment. We admit that in too many cases the complainants are induced by pecuniary means to settle their matters, and never appear to prosecute ; but if the action was prompt on the part of the prosecution, justice would be more likely tobe meted out to the rowdy than it is at present. It isnot the sending of poor, miserable loafers weekly to the penitentiary for acts of violence, by the Special Sessions, that can remedy this evil. It can only be effected by taking up the ring- leaders of these gangs, who set the example to the younger branches. Let them know that so surely as they commit acts of violence, just so sure will the public prosecutor bring them to punishment. Then and not until then, can the people hope for relief’ We alluded, in a previous article, the other day, to the breaking up of the Chichester gang, some years ago, by the criminal courts of that day, and the sending of two or more of the rowdy leaders to the penitentiary for six months each; so in the like wanner must our courts, and the county prosecutor, now take up the matter of rowdyism, before the existing trouble can be effectually stopped. Heretofore the present District Attorney has given his attention almost exclusively to tue con- vietion of forgers, burglars, &c., deeming the com- mon rowdyism, and the frequent assaults and ba tery accruing therefrom, as only secondary affairs; and as the prison cells are almost filled to overilow- ing with offenders charged with high crime, his at- tention has been fully engaged. Be that as it may, he must now wake himseif up, and give some little of his services to the suppression of rowdyism, about which the political organs have been blaming the When the police make the arrests, the magistrates do their duty by recognizing the assailants to appear for trial, and the affidavits and papers are sent to the office of the District Attor- ney, and there they are apparently stowed away on the shelves, becoming a dead letter. It is nowhigh time that tbe dust was shaken off some of these old standing documents, and the cases prosecuted, if for nothing wore than to let the public understand that all the branches of the prosecuter’s duty can be at- tended to; it will, at the same time, leave room for some recent official papers to take their places. Commerce Between THE ATLANTIC AND CALt- FORNIA. —The following table gives the number ot vessels that have sailed from Atlantic ports in the United States to California, from the commencement of the emigration to that region, or the discovery of gold, up to the end of June, 2. The list only comprices vossels that cleared direct for a California port, and consequently does dot inelude the semi- monthly stenmers. Many vessels cleared for Ore- gon and other Pacific ports, and afterwards went to San Francisco, but are also not included in the ta- ble, as they cannot be considered as legitimately belonging to the trade Vr Ponts ron D FROM ATLANTIC » 1848, ro Jun 18419. 1 List or Cairo 8i divided, and let every ato havo its shero. ™ Honesty among tveves” is a good old maxim, January - PY - 109 - 8 ~ 4 va 5 - 6 pi - 4 - pans 23 4 - 3 37 8 - 6 41 i - u aL 10 ~- 20 678 580 15 122 Novmen or Veserns Lert Artaxtic Ports ror Cate FORNIA. Of which cleared from New York. From other Atlantic ports......... It will be perceived by the above that the increase during tho past six months is very large, tho num- ber of vessels exceeding, during that timo, the de- partures for tho whole of 1851. It is very probablo that each coming year will exhibit a continued and steady increase over its antecedent, as the trado between the Atlantic States and California is now in a healthy stato, the supply being controlled by the demand, as in other trados, and consequently must increase as tho population in that region in creases, and its resources become daily more de- veloped. i Prorin's CoLuEGe—A New Ism.—Some of the ismites, men and women, aro ondoavoring to get up convention to establish a new Peoplo’s College—as they eall it—in this State, for the purpose of giving a collegiate education to boys and girls under the same roof, working at the same trades, attending the same classes, and playing in the same play- grounds, This will be a sort of a Fourierite school on 9 new pln. Drsewaren Lift tore oy Tukey, or Bostox — Borebal Lekes, of Dosvou, bas been superceded by Mr. Gilbert Nourse, whois now Chief of Relive of that ity. Wauat’s THE Fuss Asour?—Every now and then {| there is a little ‘* tempest in a teapot” made on pre- senting some curious or useful utensil to Charles O’Conor, Esq,, the lawyer. Sometimes the ladies are the donors—sometimes the gentlemen. The + last was @ present of a vase and salver by the law- yers, at which speeches were made and compliments. swallowed in any quantity. What is all this fuss about? We have presents made to us every week,’ complimentary to our patriotism, our temperance,, our piety, our eloquence, and our years. Last week. Messrs. Newton & Co., of Newport, were directed by | amass meeting to send us a present of a basket of” champagne and segars, for our enlightened support of the personal liberty of American citizens against fapaticism—but as we are a water drinker, andsmoke no segars, we gave them to a friend who knows how’ | to do both, and who certifies that Newton & Co., of Newport, are capita! judges of champagne and segars- This week, a gentlemun and old friend, from Cali- fornia, presented us with a California gold bead- ed cane, made out of a spear used by Prince ° Btlahtecytspxtop, of the Owhyhee Islands, This wo i ‘ shall keep. Next week we expect a prosent of a | battle axe of a Saxon king—a present of a besom of destruction to sweep the streets clean, or some such curious things, besides a pair of thin breeches, and a bill from our tailor. Can’t the Jawyers make presents to cach other without boring the public about them? Or, if Mr. O’Conor can’t live without some curious presentation every moath, why not present bim with a bottle of the newly invented and patented ‘Wash for the tongues of Lawyers,” which, in two solutions, gives a courteous tone and a gentleman’y bearing to all legal argu- ments before judges and jusies, ever after? It would do no harm. Wno First Nomivatep Genera Prerck?—Some: of the journals throughout the country—comprising, even the Washington Union and the Republic—are discussing this important question—‘*Who first nominated or put forward General Piorce as Presi. dential candidate?’ None of them scem to know much about the matter In January last the Demo cratic State Convention of New Hampshire first nominated General Pierce, and on that nomination the New York Heratp made a comment, declar ing that he would be one of the most formidable candidates of the lot presented to the people. No other journal or convention noticed the matter, and certainly no one in Washingt5n articipated such a. thing as General Pierce’s nomination by the Balti- more Convention ; for, to know what is doing in the capital or throughout the conntry, one must feome. to New York to Jearn—there is no chance of aequir- ing any such knowledge from the Washington pa- pers. The Southern Press is crying its eyes out bocauso it has no party, no candidates, and nothing to sup- port—unfortunate wight! Will not some benevo- lent traveller, passing through Washington, put his hand into his breeches pocket, pull out a cent, and give it to the Southern Press to buy astick of candy with, and see if that will not have the effect of making it dry up its tears and cease blubbering. Ayorner Catt on Mr Tauimavae.—Tho Bos- ton Courier, »fter again noticing the first statement attributed to Mr FP. A. Tallmadge, by the lesser Seward organ of this city, concerning the alleged adhesion of Mr. Webster to Gon Scott’s nomina- tion, contends that, although ihe allegations of that statement bave been greatly ced by the card of Mr. Tallmadge, still another card is wanted to make all straight and smooth. The Courter says + We repent. what we said on a former oecasion—that we have the best reasons for beliewmg that Mr. Webster never uttered a syilable of the kind imputed to him by Mr. Tallmadge “The latter gentleman must tell bisstory” a third time, If it dwindles down as rapidly as it has done from the first rebearsal to the second. there will be Gincon left to excite the cheers of the Lundy Lane Piub, The qnestion again recurs on tho original propo- sition, What did Mr. Wcbster say? What did’ Mr. Tallmadge, at the Lundy Live Club, say that. Mr. Webster said? Did Mr Webster adhere to the whig nomination? Mr. Tallmadge says yos. Mr. Webster’s Boston organ seys no. Mr. Tallmadge then says that Mr. Webster thought the whigs ought. to support Scott. The Bostou organ says no, “he never uttered a syllable of the kind.” What does Mr. Tallmadge now say Mr. Webster said? Cail Mr. Tallmadge. Alp To THE MonrreaL Svrrerers-—We aro happy to learn that the committee organized to col- lect funds forthe Montreal sufferers, yesterday af= ternoon sent off to them $5,000, with word that more would be forthcoming. Police Intetiig, Charge of Steaiing $400 Fourth ward. yerterday ai Corneli ree table Joseph, of the two young men. named ‘The former was a clerk of No. 195 Chate hford Batd win, furnitur ham eqnare the ment of Mr Borh these charged with stealing $400 in b of their employer On their young men were ‘es trom the store beeame alarmed, nat between them they they restored to Mr Baid- bob the priconers beforo » on the positive evidence of their born to prison for trial ‘the eatluir ix the fret, t at soon after Mr. Galdein went to a fortune biaining information as to who tel saying the foriune © ingly pro ho very voon hut the ° than half It is probable thal mplaint weinst the forcune teller, t cured the ald of of guilty parties in cust of the stolen money. will be ineti moncy by 3 omming ny firny n officer Leightow Phillip Keed Juuu- J her pervon who refi by the deseription given by the polis. named parties werem a merry u the policemen deem d inclining The po trated with them begeing them to he more qui ead of obeying (he instr commenced an axeauli A Mr. Sinelair ob alt ran off fo the pole turnboll of the violene patched agsistaee who, on order sneeveded in taking iv persons who were conductor parties under arrest des man Cornel whe enme hearing the facts in the the accused parties. to appear tice MeGrath at + o'clock tha! morning = fhe parties appeared at the apoointed hour. and as no complaint appexred to sustain the charge. the magistrate dismissed the case, We since understooe th: ted the matter jn a fiiendly way, Assault by Cutting with a Knife —On Wednerday night» Assistant ( he Sixth ward police, ar- v7. called Bill Wilson, om es Reed with a large cher’s knife. inflicting a se wound on the face. ‘The sffray took place in Mulberry street. ‘Che injured Man was conveyed to the station house, along with the srisoner but was eabsequently rent to the City Hospital, Jor medical attendance Justice Osborn committed (be cused to prison. for examination, daa disturbance. above name ation houve. ‘The & messenger for Alder- ho fpelice ¢ tation, and after ‘the parties had 5 Marine Affaira. Lavyen.—The Vireataqua. ® noble ship of about 600° tons. was launched fn fine style from the yard of Messrs, Fernald & Petigrew. in Portsmouth, on Thureda She is owned by gentlemen in Mortemouth. and will be com- mandcd by Capt. 2. M. Weeks, late of hip Robert Parker, On the stocks. by the tide. is the frame of another ship of 1.500 tons, to be owned in Portsmouth and New Oricans. The same builders will also immediately set on the waya of the Pircataqua the frame of a clipper ship of 1,100. tons, to be owned in New York, Nuw Fisnine Vesseis —The Gloucester Telegraph pub- lishes a list of thirty six new vessels, enrolled in that district since January 1. 1852--thirty-one built at Basox, three at Gloucester Harbor, and ‘two at Annisquam Many others havo been built in the district within that time, but have left under a carpenter's certificate, and? areenroiled in Mher districts Of the thirty six. how- ever, thirty-one, tonnage, 2.646 63 tons, have been to the Gloucester Harbor fleet; three. of 287 40 tone, te- maip at Breex; one. of 82 90 tons, is owned at Annis~ ia and one of 68 54 tuns, has gouc to Southpert.,. Me the average tounage of the vussels is 85 70, and tie Srerogate smount is 5.086 63 tons. The cost of these essels. When fitted for sea. is about $00 m ing in the nggregate to $154 338, baat‘ tinin ‘ The Watering Piaces. Wo learn that the bathing ve: Sn at Old Point Comfort. Va. ia now in the full tide of succes ful experiment, the hot wentber of the past. week having brought quite an accw sion to the company at the Hy.tein, ro that there are Bow but few goartmente vneant, if any, Among the rivals om ihe TWth were Mr MOP. Filta Fillmore ond Mies Fillmore, the Lady and ‘deaghter sf thee Previa 1 vey from that at cia bea one rout resorted to at the fe de chowen.—Baiti