The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1852, Page 4

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The whole trouble has been eaused by the late change in the English ministry, and the adeption of a new line of policy. In connection with this, it has been stated that Mr. Crampton, the English Minister, ‘s in Boston, and has been closeted with Mr. Webster at the Revere House. This report is not true. Mr. Crampton is not at Boston, and has not been there. After all the conflicting reports in relation to Gen. Scott’s visiting the Lundy’s Lane celebration, it appears to be finally settled that he will not dis- play his ‘ feathers” on his old battle field on that occasion. As we ‘earn from Washington, his friends have prevailed npon him to forego his previous do- termination, and have given out that his health will not, at present, permit of his leaving the seat ef government. One of our correspondents states that Salmon P. Ciase, of Ohio, will probably be the cundidate of the Pittsburg Free Soil Convention for the Presidency, and another, that Rufus C. Bpalding, another Ohio free soil politician, will be the candidate for Vice President. It is not likely that both candidates will be taken from Ohio. After some matters of minor importance were prevented ‘in the United States Senate, yesterday, the House resolution, fixing a day for the adjourn. ment of Congress, came up, and was pretty freely debated, during which a number of very sensible remarks were made in relation to the short time allewed for the consideration and passage of the goct important bills in Congressional legislation, namely. the money bills. The resolution, after being amended by substituting the 3lst for the 16th of August, passed. The debate is interesting. The River and Harbor bill—that great source of argument and political capital—came up yesterday im the House of Representatives. Mr. Seymour stuted that the Committee on Commerce had framed the bill solely with a view to the actual wants of the country, without entering into a general system of internal improvement. In contradistinction to the one of last year, this will be the democratic bill. Netice was given that a proposition would be made, at the proper time, to substitute the defeated bill of lact session for the present one, and that the Big The Ohio Whig State Convention met yester- day, at Columbus, and after passing a series of resolutions endorsing the nominations of Scott and Graham, appointed @ State Central Committee, and nominated Presidential electors. Two hundred and fifty delegates were present, and great harmony, it is said, prevailed. ¥ telegraph furnishes us he pme additional foreign news brought by the America, at Halifax. The British and French markets form the principal fea- ture, and they will be found fully reported. ‘The remains of Bishop Henshaw reached Balti- mor night, and will be conveyed to Providence. The op was officiating in the Maryland diocess, and died ver, Menly of apoplexy. ral pre n in honor of Henry Clay took ut Norfe re lay, and the turn out of fliers, y, and citizens, was unusually id imposing. counsel for Thomas Kaine, claimed by the government as a fugitive from justice, the order for whose extradition, under the act of treaty, has heen ratified by the department of the Secretary ©f State, obtained a habeas corpus, returnable yes- terday, before Judge Bosworth, of the Superior Court. The matter came up, but was postponed until this worning The Eighth Avenue Railroad case was also post- poned, in consequence of the absence of Chief Jus- tice Oakley, whom both parties were desirous of having present. The Corporation Counsel isin a **jix,” as he expressed himself unable to decide which side he was to take, until the Common Coun- cil bad defined their position. The matter arises out of a question as to the legality of the decision of the Mayor and the Acting Mayor, Alderman Compton On our inside pages will be found a number of interesting and important articles, among which ; may be mentioned the Thrasher Dinner at New Orleans—Improvements in the Third ward, giving a description of the various buildings newly erected and erecting in that part of the city—Important Correspondence in relation to various charges made against Gen Pierce—-An Account of the Piratical Beizure of the schooner Queen of the West—Report ofa Meeting of the Pxecutive Committee of the American Tract Society—Correspondence from Sum- mer letreats; a2, also, our Parisian, Valparaiso, Boston, Concord, Providence, Texas, Nova Scotia, and Fort Lamarie Correspondence British ‘ Tue Maryn Ligvor Law anp ms Vicrtms IN « Newrort.—We never take up a Newport paper and & look at the insignificant daily arrivals at the hotels ‘small by degrees und miserably less”—but we ‘re touched with compassion and sympathy for its unfortunate condition. Newport and Rhode Island have at longth bowed before the fanatical tyrants who carried the Maine Liquor law, and are given over entirely to their remorseless fanaticism. Mas- pachusotts follows suit to-day. Can nothing be one to come to the relief of the hotel keepers in Newport, who have been victimized in this way? B.: suggestion, made last week, to issue sub. tion papers, and thus contribute material aid in relief of the innkeepers, find a general and generous response throughout the eountry? We believe there is nothing to be hoped in the way of fast and penance from the parsons, who are, porhape, cluded in the charge made against the temperance Bissors, by one of the daily papers, of preparing ‘or a siege, by laying in plenty of the water of life eau de vie. In the meantime, however, summer yourists and bathers avoid these States. The adies who have the misfortune to be there, aro yawning and dying of ennwi, and there is no hope, or some time to come, unless by adopting our vdvice of helping the hotel keepers to emigrate rom Newport. The Kessuth Chapter m the United States. During the past winter the community was much edified by a very learned historical disquisition from an eminent divine in this city, on the theme of the Catholic Chapter in the United States, in which he attempted to prove—and did #0, we presume, to the satisfaction ef his own fold—that Catholicism was not incompatible with republicaniam. Taking the pious and reverend Archbishop as # precedent, in an inverse manner, we will present our readers with a review of the Kossuth Chapter in the United States, to show that if it was not absolutely incompatible with European liberty, it has made the very small- est degree of progress towards the accomplishment of that end. The career of Kogsuth on this conti- nent has closed—at least for the present—in cloudy and disappointment. He is now on his return to Europe, with blighted hopes and chastened feelings, a melancholy memorial of arrogant: pretensions, overweening ambition, and impractical ideas. It is, therefore, a highly interesting subject, calmly and dispassionately to review his career in this country, and discover and point out the rocks and quicksands on which the frail vessel of his hopes foundered. The gallant and well sustained struggle carried on by the Hungarian nation, in 1848, against Aus- trian despotism, gained for th m the deepest sym- pathy and admiration of the whole American people And when the suri ender of Gorgoy’s army and the fight of Kossuth extinguished the last spark of hope, a universal sentiment of commisera- tion and regret pervaded the heart of the nation. This sentiment was appropriately manifested in the resolution adopted by Congress and carried out by the Executive—to send a war steamer to Asia Minor, to convey Kossuth and his compatriots from exile and imprisonment to a land of freedom and prosperity. The Mississippi had the fortune to be selected for the performance of this duty; and the hearts ofthe American people throbbed with joy when the tidings reached them that the ex Gov- ernor of Hungary, and the remnant of that gallant band who had escaped the sword, the gallows, and the prison, were at last under the protection of the stars and stripes. The joy and gratification felt throughout the land, at this event, is the best evi dence of the cordial sympathy existing inthe Ameri- can bosom for all oppressed people struggling for liberty and independence, and proves that they are not callous to the condition of their European brethren suffering under tyranny and despotism. But the arrival of Kossuth on these shores was preceded by strange and disagreeable rumors of hig conduct on board the Mississippi; of his insulting treatment of Captain Long ; and of his proceedings on the coasts of Italy and France, which were caleu- lated to compromise the flag under whose protection hesailed. These reports—based on good authority, and never since satisfactorily refuted—coupled with the indecorousness of his abandoning the Mississippi and proceeding to England, 8 adowed out for Kos- suth the elements of that unpopularity in this country, to which his own insensate conduct after- wards gave form, strength, and direction. At length, however, after spending some weeks in receiving ovations in England, and playing the sycophant by lauding the aristocratic institutions of tbat land, he arrived on these shores onthe morning of the fifth of December. According to the arrange- ments of the Committee of Reception, Kossuth was to disembark at Staten Island; and here, even before he left the ship, the first seeds of error, and conse- quent failure, were seen. Addresses were presented to him in the cabin of the Humboldt, by persons without the slightest influence or responsibility, fulsome in their adulations and hyperbolical in their assurances of the unquestionable success of his mission to the United States. This had the effect of deceiving Kossuth and confirming the anticipations and giving something like reality to the hopes which his own imagina- tive brain had previously created, but which could not have had place in a practical, rational, well balanced understanding. As soon as intelligence was received in this city of his arrival, his tem- porary residence on the island was besieged with a whole host of persons, to pay him court and bid him welcome. Aldermen, civic functionaries, politi- ticians, militia oflicers, editors, and even representa tives of some of the Apiigthds toler “hia “thelr congratulations, and place at his disposal the whole power, moral and material, of the United States, to enable him to renew the struggle in Hungary, muzzle the Russian bear, and cut off the beak and talons of the Austrian eagle. Poor Kossuth lis- tened to their bragadocio speeches, and set them all down in his weak mind as gospel truths. At noon a procession was organized—ostensibly in his honor, but really to cater to the vanity of those taking an active part in the ceremony—and the ex- Governor of Hungary, escorted by the valiant army. of Staten Island, was conducted to a rising ground, where a tent had been pitched in which he was to deliver his first speech on the American soil. Here an address was presented to him on behalf of the sovereign people of Staten Island, in which he was assured that ifthe national government should. fail to meet his views, he might command the sinewy arms and bright swords of the generous youth of the land. This address was prepared and read by a gentleman who has become famous in the commu- nity for his perpetration of hoaxes—an event some- what ominous of the whole American career of Kossuth. It commenced with a hoax, and its whole history was one long heartless hoax. But, to his mind, the words of this address conveyed a cer- tainty which admitted of no doubt, and from it he was led to adopt that course which could not fail to end in discoifiture and disappointment. Kossuth’s reception in the city of New York on the following day, was, in its fervency and enthu- siasm, unequalled in the previous history of the country, except, perhaps, on the occasion of accord- ing similar honors to Lafayette in 1824. The muni- cipal authorities, the military, aud the citizens ge- nerally—notwithstanding the unfavorable concep- tions ferced on them by his recent doings—deter- mined to honor in him the glorious cause of Eu- ropean liberty and independence, of which he appeared the professed champion and apostle. Tri- wmphal arches were erected in the principal thoroughfares—banners waved from the public buildings and private houses—the hotels and other buildings were decorated with the Hungarian tri- color ; and the whole city presented the appearance of the observance of a great national gala day. Kossuth landed amid the booming of artillery and the huzzas of tens of theusands of voices. He was formally welcomed by the Mayor and Corporation in Castle Garden, and proceeded to deliver his great eration to the people ; but after he had commenced, the anxiety of the populace to see and hear him, and their crowding into the hall for that purpose, necessarily created some disturbance, which so much affected his equanimity that he declined to proceed with his speech, and made a precipitate and unceremonious retreat. This exhibition of petulance and hauteur helped to cool the popular ardor; s@ that, from the very first day of his ap- pearance in this city, the publie sentiment was di- vided in respect to him—many opposing him on ac- count of what they considered as arrogance, and savoring too much of the manners of European auto- crats. ~ Phis feeling, thus engendered, received “fresh foree and vigor from Kossuth’s absurd and ridi- culous assumption of imperial honors ia tho salons of the Irving House. His presence chamber was— in imitation of European despote—joalously guarded by two officers of his suite with drawn subres, ro- lieved occasionally by a file of formidable looking Africans from the waiter corps of the hotel. His levee was regulated on the most approved etiquette of courte, and notice was duly given of the hours when it should commence and end. In these levees homage was paid to him, ana flattery lavished on | posraguacss _ mises given to hit, on the most liberal and munificent ' by Corporations and civic | dignitaries, and from cities and towns * throughout the Union, and black faced ahotiy ignists, editors, and bellicese churchmen, and allorders and grades of society. Hard-fisted me- ebanies also waited on him, and honestly gave evi- with Pious old round for Mogyar. All this flattery was weak mind to withstand. It made him fancy he had nothing to do but, with a wizard’s touch, trans- form all this vaporing into material aid, by which to annihilate the Austrian and Cossack. In the very lowest range which his sanguine imagina- tion took, he saw, as the results of his mis- sion, some four or five millions of dollars, half-a- dozen armed steamers, and the pledgo of the American government to his paradoxical principle of “intervention to prevent intervention.” Some of the clergy blasphemously invested him with divine attributes—one ecclesiastical firobrand, in the ardo, | of his Christian teachings, got up a display in the very sanctuary, and after breathing a pestilence of brimstone and gunpowder, ended by presenting him with an old battered revolutionary bullet-—an omen doubtless, of his own martial career being at an end; azd a romantic authoress, carried away by her own fanatical zeal, declared him as equal to the Messiah. By such vain, silly, and false flatterers was Kossuth surrounded during his first weeks in this city; and his conduct sufficiently proved how unable he was to resist their hollow adulations. Had it been otherwise—had Kossuth acted with that plain, practical, eommon sense, and concep tions of propriety which ought to have actuated him—his first public act in this country would have been to proceed direct to Washington, and there present to Congress and government his acknow- ledgments for their noble and dignified conduct towards him, in emancipating him from his prison and conferring on him the extraordinary honor of despatching a national war steamer to convey him to an asylum in this free land. Instead, however, of doing this, he allowed himself to listen to the false suggestions of a clique of fanatics, disunion- ists, and abolitionists, who wove their nets around him, and used him for their own ends. Specu- lators in steamboats and rusty old muskets and use- Jess saddles, prevailed on him by false representations of the millions of dollars he would receive through- out the country, to enter into contracts with them for supplying him with these and other munitions of war. <A revolutionary committee, composed of such men, and known as the ‘‘ Bloody Astor House Committee,” was organized to collect subscriptions in aid of the cause. Hungarian bonds were got up, signed by Louis Kossuth, and payable, with in- terest, on the establishment of the Hungarian re- public—synonymous with a week after the day of judgment—and, from first to last, Kessuth was axed, humbugged, deceived, and defrauded, by these and similar means. But the deficiency of Kossuth in practical intelli- gence and statesmanship became most apparent and undoubted, to the commonest understanding, when the intelligence reached this country of Louis Na- poleon’s coup d’état of the 2d of December. It was evident to all rational minds that, by the success of that manceuvre in French politics, the chances of any immediate revolution in Europe were utterly destroyed—and yet Kossuth, either through a shal- lowness of intellect, which would be discreditable to the schoolboy, or through hypocrisy and want of candor, which would be equally discreditable to the man, affected to believe that it was an event of the greatest advantage to the republican cause in Europe, and was, in fact, a providential interference in its bebalt. But this was too gross a piece of charlatanry to be palmed off on the public; and, while they regretted the indefinite postponement of the accomplishment of republican aspirations in Europe, they, at the same time, were forced to con- demn the obtuseness and ignorance of its professed champion, or else to despise his paltry subterfuges and attempts to impose on their understandings. Another striking evidence of the folly and insanity of his operations, and the chief cause of his ridicu- lous failure, were the threats and insinuations he in- dulged in of his intention to appeal from the govern- ment to the pecple, in case his demands were not Shiai. hy 2a. macuus a Sem his determination he at various times inti- mated in public before he was invited to Washing- ton, and it had the very natural effect of estranging from him the sentiments of the people’s representa- tives ; and when, after leaving this city, and receiv- ing fresh ovations in Philadelphia and Baltimore, and having met with distinguished honors from the government, he had the audacity, even there, to impugn and deride, and attempt to nullify, the sacred admonitions of Washington and the fathers of the constitution, his case became utterly hopeless, and there was no longer the faintest shadow of a doubt but that his mission to the United States was destined to be most irredeemably a failure. Kos- suth, at this time, began himself to recognise the unfavorable appearance of things; but this only served to make him still more petulant, and forgetful alike of his own position and of the respect due to the feelings ofthe American people. So fur was he carried away by these feelings, that he was rash enough to engage in a controversy affecting the most popular statesman of the country—the vene- rated Kentuckian, Henry Clay, who hag since gone down to an honored grave, mourned by a nation’s ears. , It is unnecessary to follow Kossuth in his erratic movements through the Western and Southern States. They all partook of the same flunky cha- racter as distinguished them here. He travelled about, assuming all the airs and pretensions of roy- alty, with his*aides-de-camp and secretarics, and agents, and retinue, making the corporations of the different cities pay in most imperial style for his lavish expenditure. The bills presented by the ho- tel keepers were perfect curiosities, and showed what a capacity for wines, brandies, segars, medi- cine and eau de Cologne was possessed by these Hungarian exiles, So extravagant wero they in their living that some of these bills are yet unpaid by the committees, who refused to sanction such squandering of the public money. On his return from the South he passed again through this city, unnoticed and unhonored, and visited New England, where the same scenes were repeated asin his ear- lier career in New York. A few weeks since he returned here fer the last time, without pomp or parade, and was allowed to retire into private and | obscure lodgings, where he had leisure to reckon up the sums he had received for Kossuth bonds and speeches, to mourn over his disappointed expecta- tions, and to moralize on the vanity and nothing- ness of worldly fame. The grand results of Kossuth’s seven months’ operations in the United States, and the material aid furnished him for the annihilation of the armies of “Young Nero” and the Czar, are comprised in the petty sum of ninety thousand dollars—equal to what Jenny Lind could receive in three woeks—a lot of rusty old muskets, dangerous only to those in whose hands they might be placed, and a few thousand useless saddles from Ohio. Ne wonder Kossuth was disheartened on beholding those mise- rable trophies of a campaign from which so much was expected. No wonder he expressed the morti- fication of his soul at such an utter failure. But the cause was in himself and in the utter hopeless- ness of his attompt, and not in the want of sympathy or generosity in the American people. He was him- self the tool and victim of a clique of heartless speculators and white livered abolitionists, who used him to attain thoir own ends, but who never felt any real cordial interest in him, or in the cause to which he had devoted himeelf. The circumstances attending Kossuth’s de- parture, form a strange contrast to those of his ar- rival, and furnish an eloquent homily on the insta- bility of popular enthusiagm. His organs had an- nounced that he would embark for England on a day named, and hadthue set at rest all suspicions ag to his movements. It was whispered, and generally | ean heart for Washington and the fathers of the ficulties, arising out ofthe contracts for munitions of war, into which he had been deluded, ang that legal were about to be instituted against him. We cannot say whether it was the anticipation of this which induced Kossuth to leave here by the Africa on Wednesday, instead of Saturday, the day first named, assuming a fictitious name— or malefactor eluding the pursuit of justice. He en- tered the city with allthe pomp, and ceremony, | and enthusiasm, which of old attended the vic- | torious general in a Roman triumph, and has left it | secretly and in disguise, without a solitary huzza to bid him God-speed, This is, indeed, profound depth to which Kossuth has fallen. The Kossuth chapter in America will be recorded in history as a monument of presumption, arrogance, vainglory and absurdity, and will serve, in future, to deter those who might attempt, with sacrilegious hand, to up-root the deep-seated reverence in the Ameri- republic. Inrortant Discovery—GENERAL PIERCE AN | AxoxitionstT.—It has been lately discovered, from some garbled extracts and reports of a certain | speech, delivered at a place called New Boston, last January, that General Pierce is an abolitionist; and | these fictions have been very rapidly diffused through the country—in somo instances by the very democratic organ, the Evening Post, which continues to ‘spit upon and execrate” the demo- | cratic platform, because it countenances the institu- tion of slavery at all. In answer to this last charge against General Pierce (which, if true, would crush him, and should crush him, in the approaching election), we pub- lish, to-day, certain communications on the subject, placing the matter in its true light. We have also received several private letters to the same effect, on the same subject, appealing to our sense of Justice to give the true version of the speech in question to the country. We do so; andsimply asa matter of fair play, it is to be hoped the Washing- ton Republic, which first published the slander, and the Evening Post, which circulated it here, and all concerned, will follow our example, for in the end, these fabrications recoil upon their authors. The first charge against General Pierce after his nomination, by the leading Seward organ of this city, was that he was a drunkard—a charge which its publishers, however, soon found it their policy to retract and apologize for. The next serious allega- tion was, that he was a coward in Mexico; which is at once disproved by the official reports of General Scott, and all his subordinate officers in command in the battles in front of the Mexican capital. Now comes up the most stupid accusation of all—that General Pierce is an abolitionist--a charge hatched up by an abolition correspondent of a New Hamp. shire abolition paper, and latterly put in circulation Gen. Soorr anp THE NraGaRa CELEBRATION.— The promise given by Gen. Scott, to be present at the whig ratification of the battles of Lundy’s Lane and Chippewa, recalls to mind the hero of “The De- serted Village,” who, amidst the admiring strip- lings of a later generation, “Shoulder'd bis crutch, and showed how fields were won.” Or of the champion at the feast of Alexander, who " fought his battles over three times on that occasion, “And thrice he slew the slain.”’ But we are not quite sure—except in the case at “The royal feast. for Persia won, By Philip's Godlike son” —that any distinguished here of ancient or modern times has ever participated in fighting, in mockery, his old battles over again, for Presidential purposes, on the fields of his real achievements. Genghis Khan built a pyramid of 70,000 human skulls, asa monument of his prowess in the popular pastime of cutting throats; but neither the great Mogul him- self, nor Hannibal, nor Cwsar, nor Cromwell, nor | Napoleon, nor Wellington, nor Jackson— “ Whom the British turned their backs on” —nor those most popular ef all military chieftains, “ Old Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” —nor that brave old chip of the frontiers, “ With his men so staunch and steady, ‘Who fought like lions by the side Ofgood old Rough and Ready,” —none of these, we believe, were ever reduced to the desperate expedient of fighting their old battles over again, on their original lo- calities, for the purpose of getting up the steam on the Presidential question, In fact, whether victorious or defeated, it has generally happened that the heroes of a great battle have had enough of it in fighting it once. Neither Na- poleon, nor Wellington, we believe, ever went back to fight over again the battle of Waterloo. If General Scott goes to Niagara, it will be the first ixstance—certainly in American history—in which the head of the army will have left his official post at Washington to attend a political jollification for Buncombe, over the ashes of the slaughtered heroes of the Niagara frontiers. But, as desperate cases re- quire desperate remedies, we must even consent to this experimental excursion. We not only consent, but recommend it. A trip to Niagara, at this season, will be good for his health, and arelief from the horrible heat and dust of tho dog days in Washington. Let him only keep cool, and not be in too much of a hurry, either in writing or speaking. Let him get out of the crowds along the way with as few words as possible, and insist very strongly on the bravery of the Irish in Mexico, and upon his admiration of the Germans ; and let him, especially, urge the point that tho term ofnatu- ralization should be reduced to six months, includ- ng the right to vote, and he will get on smoothly. Let him be mighty strong on the tariff in Pennsyl- vania; but he must touch very gingerly the Fugi- by some travelling instrument of the Seward and socialist clique of this city, nosing around in New Hampshire for such stray bits of offal as may be pick- edup. And it is a little curious that the very cause of Seward and abolition, which makes these aboli- tion agents so zealous in the support of Gen. Scott— that that same cause, and those very principles, they do not hesitate to charge upon Pierce as best cal- culated to render him odious and detestable in the public estimation. It is also a little curious that, while the whig journals admit the atrocious and abominable doctrines heretofore, and not very long ago, promulgated by General Scott on the naturali- zation laws, they plead that all those former opinions are cancelled by his letter accepting the whig nomination, in which he takes a liberal view of the question; and yet, at the samo time, these whig journals give no credit, on the slavery ques- tion, to the letter of General Pierce accepting his nomination, even had he uttered any different senti- ments at any former time. Next, we presume—the allegations of drunkenness, cowardice, and aholitionism having failed—General Pierce will be cherged with stealing, arson, bur- glary, and, in succession, with the whole catalogue of State prison offences. If he escapes even the accusation of murder, he will be Jucky; for the same set of maligners denounced poor old General Taylor os a ‘*wholesale butcher”—the same set who are now glorifying Generali Scott for his military suecesses. Fair play, upon both sides, is the true policy. As far as we are concerned, we desire to deal fairly with both parties. And we say now, that, if it can te proved that General Scott did not write, nor cause to be written, the communication signed “ Americus,” published in the National Intelli- gencer in December, ’44; and if the friends of Gen. Scett can prove that Seward is not supperting him for the promotion of his own selfish and destructive schemes, we shall give the full benefit of our columns to the diffusion of this important information. But ifa man is known by the company he keeps, there can be no difficulty in determining which of the two is most the abolitionist---General Scott or General Pierce. The Bible says, ‘by their fruits ye shall know them.” The constitution says that, when a slave runs away from his master, and is found anywhere inside of the Union, be shall be taken and delivered up to his mgster again. St. Paul said the same thing. And this is our platform; and when the leading organs of W. H. Seward “‘execrate and spit upon” this platform, we shall hold them respon- sible, perfectly regardless of the consequences to General Scott, or any other general. We stick to the Bible, St. Paul, and the constitution. Freepom IN Biscuit Makina.—We have re- ceived the following communication :— Mn, Bennvrt :— «, I notice in your paper of Saturday. that the United States Senate had passed to a third reading a bill to ex- tend Nerin’s patent fora machine for making biscuit, crackers, &o. This patent expired two years and four months ‘since, What safety have manufacturers in prosecuting any kind of business, if Congress legislates 50 recklessly? Are we to keep lobby members forever in or about Congress, to counteract the efforts of patent agents who are interested in pushing through such schemes ? Aw Oup Reaper, We learn that the patent alluded to was granted in 1836, for twelve years, expiring in 1843; when it was renewed for a further term of two years—until 1850. The patentee has thus had the full benfit of it for a period of fourteen years—one which should be able to afford compensation to any inventor; but it would seem an attempt is now being made to re- vive the monopoly. Such a piece of legislation would be most unjust in its operation, and attended with great public in- convenience. The grant has legally and virtually expired upwards of two years ago, und several per- sons—justly considering that the trade was fairly tive law in York State—particularly west of the Cayuga bridge. Let Governor Johnston pilot him through Pennsylvania, and Seward through New York, with Archbishop Hughes as their ghostly confessor, and all will bo right. A letter from Mr. Webster or Mr. Fillmore, to Lord Elgin, of Canada, might Mao induce him to co-operate in the proposed celebration on the Canadian side; for at all battles there are two sides to the question. The result of this hegira of General Scott may be tremendous ; and it may bea fizzle. We shall do everything in our power to make it a grand affair— the starting point, if possible, of another grand car- nival all the way through; but we have our doubts of raising a flame among the combustibles. We must consult the rappers, the knockers, and tho spiritual medinms of the sixth circle, as to the celestial opinions of General Taylor and General Harrison en the subject. If they approve this trip, good; but, if thoy disapprove it, then, indeed, the day Gencral Scott leaves Washington, while hold- ing one fat office, to electioncer for another, will be a dark day for him and the whig party. Will not some of the philosophers, ia holy communion, call in the spiritual mediums of the sixth circle? Accor ding to our last advices from Washington, General Scott is not going to go. ‘ How now, brave war- rior?” Swwertan Faors ne Parsrics ann THR Press. —The bearings of the daily journalism of this me- tropolis, on the Presidential question of the present day, are very different from those which existed during the election of 1848, when Gen. Taylor was successful. Let us state the precise difference. In 1848, when Gen. Taylor was the whig candi- date, and Gen. Cass the democratic candidate, near- ly the whole daily journalism of this city—embracing an aggregate circulation of one hundred and twen, ty-five thousand shectsa day—was, more or less, in favor of Gen. Taylor's election, There was only one solitary journal of any importance, that supported the nomination of Gen. Cass, and that was the Tammany organ of that day, which probably had # circulation of four, five or six thousand. Now, let us take a look at the position of the nows- papers of this city at this time, on the same ques- tion. The tendencies and tone of New York journalism in 1852 are exactly the reverse of thore which it mani- fested in 1848. Thero are only two papers of any circulation decidedly in favor of Gen. Scott, and one or two others rather coldly submitting to his nomination. The whole of the other portion of the press, of all parties, is opposed to his triumph, and working with more or less vigor for the success of Gen. Pierce, the democratic candidate. The ag- &regate circulation of the daily journals of this city isnownearly a hundred and forty thousand sheets per day; and of this number there are one hundred thou- sand sheets per day openly or quietly opposed to Gen. Scott’s election and triumph. These are singular and unquestionable facts; and we challenge the denial oftheir main accuracy, from any quarter. But how comes tho newspaper press of this metropolis to be so entirely reversed from (hat which it was in 1848? The fact arises from the belief that the great commorcial interests of the Empire City, and of this republic, aro more safe in the hands of General Pierce, and a democratic ad- ministration, than if placed under the influence of General Scott, connected with William H. Seward, and the tendencies of his dangerous abolition policy towards the South. It is objected, however, that the Van Buren interest—equally free soil, and hostile to the South—is in favor of General Pierce; but we must remember that the free soil tendencies of Martin Van Buren, and his partisans, wero not in- herent, but adopted merely ‘‘for the nonce” to defeat open—bave embarked large amounts of capital in it—to what extent may be judged from the fact that five huudred barrels of flour are daily manu- factured into biscuits, &c., in the city of Now York, alone. . The injustice and evil consequences of depriving the capitalists of their property, and the work people of employment, by putting a sudden tax on their operations, after such a lapse of time, must be obvious to all. In ‘ing thus, we speak for all patents. Give the inventor sufficient time, in his first patent, to pay him; but never renew tho monopoly, especially after a lapse of two years. Brooklyn City Intelligence. Crry Count or Brooxiys.—Judge Greenwood presid- ing —William Morrivon and Henry A. Frink, inst Jehu H. Martine, Fleming Duncan, and Samucl J. Shaw. ‘The plaintffs are the leseees and occupants of the dock and adjacent lands at the foot of Bridge street, on the easterly side. and have the right to collect dockage and wharfage of pre using the dock for Inding and un- lading vessel The defendants, under pretence of a ferry, or some other grant or license from the Vorporation of New York, aboutj the middle of July commenced driv- ing © , and constructing @ pier directly in frout of the plaintiffs’ premises, so asto completely obstruct access to the dock, and destroy its value as dock property. On an application to the Court, Judge Greenwood granted a temporary injunction, restraining the defendants from proceeding to construct a pet or any other obstruction, at the place in question. Incidentally, there may be in- volved in this action both the ferry franchivo and the right to the land between high and low water mark, a#- serted by the Corporation of New York Whig Nomination ror Conaress.—The Ton, Jobn P. Cook, of Davenport, Iowa, has been nomi- | nated asthe whig candidate for Cong.ess in the second district of that State. He is said vo be very belivyed, that hy had got into some peguuiary dif- popular. | General Cass, from a personal feeling towards him. The Van Buren interest of this city has always been in favor of the general commercial and admini- atrative policy of the democratic party, originating in Southern politicians. But the case is very diffe- rent with William H. Seward, who started as a poli- tician on the humbug of anti-masonry, and added to it that of anti-rontism, abolitionism, and every other ism of a dangerous tendency; so that hiS political capital consists of principles in deadly antagonism to the Union, and the prosperity and commercial interests of this great city and this mighty confederacy. Here, therefore, we disclose the remarkable facts, showing the position of the New York press on the pending Presidential question, and its causes. Tho same feclings and the same causes operate on the whole Union, toa greater or |gssor oxtont. Gen Taylor commanded much more confi@nce among the masses, and especially excited it among the commercial interests, than ever Gen, Scott can create, supported a8 he is by the violent socialists, abolitionists, and radical red republicans of the worst type, and of the most destructive principles and tendencies. Theso are the settled characteristics of the present cam- A Lyar From Financia Hisrory.—From the. year 1832 to the spring of 1837 the prosperity of this city, and of the country at large, was a perfect pheno. menon We remember the time very well—banks* were formed, buildings constructed, enterprises. begun, al! sorts ef speculations entered into, both in this city and inevery new town, in every part of the State and of the Union. Between these two periods: immeuee fortunes were made by the gradual rise of property in value, and the increase in prices conse- quent on theexpansion of the curroncy under the» action of the old United States Bank and of the State banks. Many men made independens for- tunes simply by the rise of property in value, during those five years intervening between 1832 and 1837, but most of them lost it in the great revulsion and break down of tho latter year. This isthe year 1852, and the symptoms of the- day, in commercial and banking aflairs, are exactly alike in principle, but larger in scale, than the times of 1832 and of other rovulsions. Bank buildings are constructed in every part of this city— new residences are built, of the most gorgeous kind— enterprises of the wildest character are entered into—al! kinds of stocks, bonds, and credits are sold. in Wall streets at any and every priceand the whole commercial fabric seeins to be tending to the- same extraordinary expansion—fortune making, end- ing in revulsion, probabiy in 1856 or 1857—similar to that which took place about twenty years ago. Now is the time to make fortunes, for those who have capital at command; but they must boware, andnot be caught when the gate is shut down and: the explosion has taken place. Banks, and curren- ey, and credits of all kinds, are increasing with the most fearfu! momentum Social lifeis expanding in the most expensive way, and habits of luxury and extravagance are spreading through every part of the cityand country. We shall have glorious times for a few short years, to be followed by a terrible explosion, and the breaking up of two-thirds of the fashionable estublishmonts of the day. The splendid houses in Fifth avenue and elsewhere, which. cost thirty, forty, or fifty thousand dollars, will, ina few years, be sold at one-half their original cost, to those who are now figuring as prudent and thrifty tailors, boot makers, ship chandlers, and ship carpenters. We have a political revolution every twenty years, and also a social and financial revolution in muci. about the same lapse of time. This is a very exciting country; democracy is an exciting state of existence: the whole country is going ahead with the speed of lightning, and al- ways holds its own; but individuals are changing and getting upset every fifteen or twenty years. No watter! Build palaces, build railroads, build. factories, build everything, while the banks supply currency, and capital, and credit. These structures will remain; but the builders, and the credit makers, and the capitalists, will get all smashed together. The next generation will enjoy the whole. TemPERANCE Party AND Pouitics —We under- stand that the tectotal politicians of this city aro very busy organizivy, 'n every ward, and concerting their movements for taking the field in the fall elec- tion, and nominating, and attempting to elect, & ticket of their own pure, unadulterated partisans. This movement may partially succeed in some of the wards; but ii seems to give great umbrage and concern to some of the socialists and their organs, who want to use the teetotallers merely as a make- weight in the coming clection, to help them to carry their own projects into completion. A few months will tell how this movement will come out. Theatrical. Broapway Tueatre —The Eyench comic opera “Ne touchez pas a la reine.” was porformed last night, at this theatre, for the first time in New York. before 9 nu- merous attendance of the most fashionabie society. The libretto was written by MM, Seribe and Gustave Vaez, and the music by a young composer, Mr. X, Broisselot, The overture gave a grand idea of the magnifieent music which wes to be performed and at the rising of the eur- tain the excellent artists, Mine, Pillotand M. Menehand, made us acquainted with a remarkable style of singing, which was recsived with euthusiastic applause. Fernand @’Aquilar, (Mr, Debrinay.) @ Spanish grandee, enters in the scene. and relates to Maximus. the Queen's jeweller, and Estrella. his wife. that he has saved the Queen of Leon, (Mme. Floury Jolly.) whose horse had ran away, The Regent of the Queen comes in and makes love to the wife of Maxiinus, whom he bas loved for a long time, and sings with her a magnificent duet, whieh is terminated by a magnificent chorus. sung by the Spanish courtiers on the entry of the Queen, The second act begius with @ chorus of the most lively character, in which Feraand @’ Aguilar sings one eclo with his sweet and admirably managed voice, After several other songs, all exe~ cuted with an ensemble reldom seen in this country, came the rcene in which the Queen sings a beau- tiful lolero, with the accompaniment of castanets, which was received with enthusiasm, while the Re« gent was speaking to her of the nffairs of state. The Queen tired of that business, sits down on her throne and is very soon asleep. Fernand D'Aquilar enters the room, aud kisses the Queen on her cheek; but the Regent was present.and sent Fernand to his judges to be sentenced to death under an old law of Spain. The third act begins with a beautiful air sung by (he Queen. in which Mme, Fleury Jolly showed all the power of her fine voice. and the perfection of her vocalization. The au» dience was almost transported by her execution of that: song, and beautifnl and numerous bouquets were thrown at her feet, and were gracefully acknowledged by this eminent actress and singer But Fernand D’Aquilar, who is the son of fainily who rendered the greatest services to the King of Leon is sentenced to death. and the Regent is adverse to pardoning him as he is loved by the Queen, In spite of her prayers. the Regent wiehes not to pardon d’Aquilar, when the queen conspires with Estrella, her lady of honor (whom the Regent loves), in a plot against him. This plot euceceds; the Queen goes to the rendez= yous which was given to Evirella, and believing that she the object. of his love. he kieres her hand. He is discovered by the courtiers, Maximas, Estrella, and suitors, snd led to the seme death as Fernand, The Queen at last finishes by offering the crown to Fernand d’Aqui- lar, who marries the Queen, and pardons the Re- gent, in the middle of a final chorus. The opera, was very well performed by all the artists engaged in it Mesdames Vleury Jolly as the Queen, and Pillot in the part of Estrella, MM. Debrinay as Fernand, Groat as the Regent. and the distinguished eomie xetor and singer, Meneliand, performed their parts to the admi+ tation of all present, who called them after the perform- ance before the curtain, and received them with enthusi- astic plaudits The choruses and the orchestra. led by M. Jabn. responded to the hopes they gave in the over= ture, ‘The same piece will be shortly repeated, ‘This evening, a magnificent performance of vaudevilies will take place. in wich Mile. Darmout and M, Menehand wil appear. Board of Education, Ph Lag 21.—The President, EC. Benedict, Bsq., in the This Board. which was summoned for five o’elock, was not organized for want of a quorum At sda o'clock, the President announced that in consequence of the usual meeting of the Free Academy interfering with the com- mencement of Columbia College, on Wednes next iG was decided to change the day of the meeting of the Froo Sunth te operant: in Kad to give the officers of both Boards an opportunity of attendiny of Columbia College j winless Saxssasts The Board of Education will meet on Wednesday next, and then probably adjourn over to September. DISArPEaRaNce AND Mysteriovs DeaTH.—John Alby, Jr.. of Colehester, Delaware county. a young man» about 25 years of oge. left home the last of April. with o raft of lwmber for Philadelphia, intending to di of the same and rewurn immediately. Uls prolonged absence caused anxiety, and @ messenger was sent after him, who learned that he fold his lumbce on the 17th of May at. Bordentown. and received the pay (near $400,) and im. mediately started for heme by the way of New-York city, where he arrived the same evening, and put up at Cham: berlain's Hotel for the night. The next morning, at half. past seven o'clock , he puid bis bill, and left for the boat connected with the Erie Railroad, which waa to start at eight ocleck. A gentleman from Delaware county was then in his company. but who left him a short time, hay- ing an agreement to meet at the boat aud come out together ; igen Ass not make his appearance, and his friend came on without him. This was the last trace of him till.a few daysago. ‘The body ofgs fg = ae en cation eae peat enpaie into the Delaware, with two ball h ‘al ltany Aitas, July 16, % net INsUNCTION A@arnat A City For Payne Recer- Bits. —The Buffalo Rough Notes, of the 20th inst., paign. Who can impugn their accuracy ? a - | Ivivruerxen prom Brazin—The bark St, Joseph, | ‘ Capt. Shevertek, from Rio de Janeiro, arrive mornings She left on th 1 of June. We | Cc the sickness at that place had greatly subside he St. J. sailed | ninjunction was yesterday served on the Onty Comptroller, restraining him from paying any of the bills ‘ommon Couneil at its Inst sitting, on noe Kossuth in this eity some sundry expenses atiending ne of Henry Clay. last: woek, i ee hy Judge Walker, at the suit of r . lownrd he m: we suppose, wi a full examination and adjudication, et wadergo