The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1852, Page 4

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Im accordance with the request of the President, an amendment was introduced sp- propriating twenty-thousand dollars to pay for the property of Spanish citizens which was destroyed by mobs at New Orleans and Key West during the Cuban excitement. So much for mob violence. In the eourse of the proceedings in the House of Representatives, yesterday, it was mentioned that the diftieulty whieh occurred om the day previous between Major Polk, Tennessee democrat, and Mr. White, Kentucky whig, had been amicably adjusted throngh the intercession of their friends. Unani- mous eonsent wae refused to Mr Ingersoll for a per- sonal explanation. Right,—time is now too preeious to be wasted in listening to the details of political and personal squabbes. After making about one hundred and fifty amend- ments to the Senate bill for the better security of life om board ef steam vessels, the House yester- éay took up thet measure and passed it by a vote of 147 against 27. Although the bill is not by any weane covsidered perfect, it is far superior to any pre- vious law on the subject It isa remarkable fact that since the introduetion eftbis measure in the Senate upwards of seven hundred persons have lost their | lives, and an immense number have been wounded and crippled, through the very evils which it is in- | tended to prevent. It is sincerely hoped that the Senate will lose ne time in concurring in the bill as it cemes from the House, in order that it may speedily become a law and be vigorouslyeand judicially enforced. The House passed the Senate bill granting land for the construction of a ship canal around the falls of St. Mary’s river. This canal will open direct na- vigation between Lakes Superior and Huron, and is therefore of much importance te the commercial in- terests in this section of the country. A debate in Committee of the Whole on the Light House bill closed the business for the day. A very important amendment was agreed to, as will be seen by the other States—Now is the time fer Action. | ‘We spread before our host of readers to-day, the official report of the proceedings of the late Whig State Convention at Macon, Georgia, which resulted in the independent nomination of Daniel Webster for the Presidency. We are indebted for an early copy of this official publication to Mr. J. W. Patter- son, as will appear by the following letter from that gentleman. The Forsyth ffom which it is dated, is, we presume, the town of that name in Monroe county. There being no restriction imposed upon us by the writer, and regarding the trae Southern man as always prepared to stand by his assertions, we prefer to give his letter entire, to wit:— Fonsyrn, August 20, 1852. Mr. Borron:— Witbin you find an extra from the offiee of the Journal and Messenger, reporting the proceedings of the la'e Webster Convention in Macon. The great mars of the whig party in this State will give the Webster ticket its support, This is awhig county. yet there ave only six Scott men in it,all told. From this fact. you can form & eorrect notion of Seott’s strength in this state. I have ever beena whig. yet Lcam never get my own consent bo vote the Scott and Graham, alias Seward and Grecley ticket. Thinking that you would be pleased to have the earliest reliable news, 1 have taken the liberty to for- ward yeu the enclosed. Yours, truly, JAS, W. PATTERSON “Tho Seward and Greeley ticket.”” No wonder tho whigs of Georgia repudiate it, and the national convention which nominated it, notwithstandiog General Seott was strapped down to a pretty sound platform. They bear in mind the wholesome facts, that the leading Seward journals “‘execrate and spit upen” that platform—that they disavow their con- stitutional ebligations to the South—that they de- clare the agitation of slavery an open question, and that, at all hazards, they intend to agitate it, disease | it, amd abolish it, dissolution or no dissolution, | peace or war; and that the election of Goneral Scott is but a branch of the programme of the arch- agitator for sapping and destroying the institu- tions of the South, so that he may ride iato power | upon their ruins and the ruins of the Union. the | whigs of Georgia, impressed with theso solemn con- victions, have therefore repudiated General Ssott, because of the dangerous anti-slavery influences by | which he was nominated, and because they have no | the Presidential question. No doubt that, on such | an occasion, he would come to New York to deliver his views in propria persona. This, of itself, should _ be inducement enough for all Wall street to com. bine in getting up a magnificent Webster mooting - in the Park. What says Mr. ex-Recorder Tall- madge? Democratic Pamany Exzotions To-niGntT— Witt Rom anno Rowpyism se Triumeuanr ‘— This evening the democratic primary elections will take place all over the city, pursuant to the regular eallof the fifth of August, issued by the majority of the General Committee. They will be held be- tween the hours of seven and nine o’elock, P. M., the avowed object of the Committee being to give the working men time to come to the polls, after their day’s labor is terminated, in order to counter- act the efforts of the rowdies. The minority of tho | Committee at firet called the meetings from five to seven o’elock, in order, as they alleged, to avoid rowdyism, by holding the elections in daylight, but, as the majority of the Committee said, in order the more securely to carry on the rowdy tactics, as dur- | ng these hours the operative classes would be ab- sent, and only the wealthier classes could come to | the polls, who did not wish to be brought into colli- sion with bullies and fighting men. The minority have since acquiesced in the hours and places ap- | pointed by the majority, but have named different days for the delegates chosen to hold their nominat- ing conventions, and for several of the wards they have authorized the appointment of a different | set of inspectors. The object of the primary meetings this evening is:—to elect in the different wards delegates, one from each Aseembly district, to the Democratic State Convention, te be held at Syracuse on the Ist of September; three delegates from each ward to a Mayoralty Convention; five from each ward to a County Convention, to nominate county officers; five trom each ward to a City Convention, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of Comptroller, Street Commissioner, Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies, City Inspector, and Governor taken by Mr. Webster upon this subject, in his Morshficld proclamation, had created a profound | *P0tt of the proceedings. | of the Alms House; three delegates from each ward Se Es ped eee any See wero to a Judicial Convention, to nominate candidates for . behind the scones. sentation in England, particularly in the manufac- turing districts, and that the more pacific attitude of President Fillmore was hailed with undisguised satisfaction. While this is strong evidense of the @isinclination of England to 2 rupture with the Dnited States, it confirms our preeeding advicos that ehe had reeeded from her assumption of a mono- poly ef the Northeastern fisheries. Mr. Baring will @oubtiess come to Washington with a large margin ef discretionary power for the arrangement of a new According to a despatch from Savannah, the ex- ecutive committee of the Union party have pub- lithed a circular, withdrawing the electoral ticket put in nomination by the Milledgeville Convention. They also call for a meeting af the Union whigs and democrats, to be held at Atlanta, on the 18th of Gen. Seott has said he would abide by} the whig | platform ; but still the want of confidence of the | South in his eleventh hour acquiescence is not sur- prising, when we consider the strange acd unac- countable influence which Seward and his instru- next December. This does not at all interfere with the proceedings of the late convention at Macon, which nominated Daniel Webster for President. The Native Americans of Alleghany eounty, Pa., ‘treaty upon this fishery question; and, from the very amicable temper of Her Majesty’s government, it will bo the fault of Mr. Webster if more enlarged privileges and facilities are not secured to our fish- ermen than those which have been so grudgingly eonceded them under the Convention of 1818. The arrival of the new ambassador will, in itself, be hailed at Washington as a peace-offering, whatever may be the issue of his mission. So much has been gained by the emphatic stand taken by Mr. Webster at Marshfield. . It is the true policy of di- plomacy with John Bull. The cotton of the South is an argument which cannot be resisted. It is mere pewerful than fleets and armies in hostile ar- way. for it ie the means of subsistence of millions of the English people. The intelligence from South America, via Eng- land, that General Urquiza had, by a coup d’état, assumed the open dictatorship of the Argentine Confederation is a rather important, though not a warpriting bit of news. It thus appears that those people have only changed one hard master for an- ether, to be in his turn displaced by some other military chieftain, sooner or later. The true prin- ciples of popular government can never be estab- liehed by the bayonet; and, as long as it lusts, the military system of the Spanish American republics will only vibrate between anarchy and despotism. Happy is that government which stands, within iteelf, upon a broader and firmer basis than the barbaric platform of muskets, bombshells and artil- Iery. The intelligence relative to the crops in Europe is sti important. The amount of damage they have sustained is, of course, not yet known; but sufficient has been published to improve the prices of flour from ninepence to one shilling, in the three days previous to the departure of the Asia. It is too soon, however, to tell with any certainty as to the effect te be preduced by the unfavorable condi- tion of the harvests. We are pleased to learn from our special Washing- ton correspondent that both the Senate committees for the investigation and exposition of Galphinism, in all its forms, are going ahead with the work, and will report all the factsthus far collggted prior to the close of the present session. It is Mid, the gov- ernment refused to place the evidence in the Gardi- ner case before the committee, of which Mr. Soulé is the chairman, for the reason that it might interfere with the trial in the Supreme Court; nevertheless, it is understood that the committee has managed to eollect much interesting information, and in addi- tion thereto, General Houston’s committee has se- cured a large amount of evidence, all of which will doubtless form avery curious and extraordinary chapter in the-political history of our country. Our special correspondent writes, that itis proba- ble that Mr. Bennett’s Land Distribution bill will be parsed to-day, after being amended by appending to it some of the rejected Western Railroad bills. Well, if they are determined to wrest the public lands from the government, this is perhaps the least objectionable way that has been proposed for so do- ing. It will give to each of the States a share of the domain, instead of granting it to private indi- viduals, as is provided for in that ualawful and per- nicious Fourierite scheme, known as the Free Farm bill. We are likewise informed that the Committee on Foreign Relations have prepared a report on the difficulty with Mexico, relative to the Tehuantepec treaty, in which it is insisted that the stipulations of the Garay grant shall be fulfilled. It is further asserted that the Senate will sustain the report by a large majority. Should this be done, Mexico will certainly have to succumb, or else she will have trouble. She has been dodging around this matter now about long enough, and it is time that she was made to understand that it is necessary for her to stick to her pledges. For once, during the present session, the sympa. thies of the members of the United States Senate have been actually aroused. It was yesterday stated that a poor mechanic had been in Washington for nine months engaged in the prosecution of a small claim, and that he was now too poor to get away from the city, whereupon the Senate immediately ordered the engrosement of his claim. Was business ever before despatched so speedily 2 By a vote of thirty to twenty-six—(a pretty full Senate, only six members absent)—the body took up the House bill for the election of a public printer. The debate on the subject, which occupied a greater portion of the day, was of rather a curious character. Truman Smith hada great deal to say about his eonsistency, and Mr. Mangum, of North Carolina, who it was at one time generally supposed would be placed on the Scott ticket for the Vice Pre- sidency, referred to the recent course of Secretary Webster as any thing else than worthy of himself gpd of the whig party. This shows that the Web- ster movement in the South is greatly dreaded by the more prominent Scott whigs. Finally, the bill was passed by twenty-five to thirteen. By it Con- gress is to elect a printer to do the Congressional and Government work, and the President is to select another printer to superintend its execution. The Senate yesterday passed the River and Harbor bill by thirty-five to twenty-three. If the House agrees to the amendments to thie bill it will do ‘away with one of the great issues between the whig and democratic parties for some time to come. The ‘pest route bill, with an amendment establishing » yesterday assembled, and nominated eandidates for Congress and the Legislature. The meeting of the Land Reformers last evening, at Military Hall, in the Bowery, was very like tho last run of shad. The meeting was called for eight o'clock, but at that hour there were not a sufficient number present to form a respectable quorum, and several left in diegust. But the room was engaged, ard must be paid for any how. So, after waiting some time, a reinforcement arrived, making the whole number present just eight. The renewed force gave courage to the reformers, and a meeting of a sort of semi-informal character was organized. That is, a meeting to discuss matters, but not to act final- ly upon the topics under discussion. The matter brought before the meeting was a set of resolutions repudiating free soilism as connected with the land reform projects. The resolutions, which we publish elsewhere, are to be acted on at the next meeting of the reformers. So the proposed mass meeting in the Park has dwindled down to a meeting of eight reformers in the Bowery headquarters. A full account of the murder of the watchman on board the ship Thomas Watson, early yesterday morning, together with the discovery and arrest of the nerpatratora of the deed. is given in another column. Want of room deters us from specially referring to a large number of telegraphic despatches, as well as much other very interesting information, given in this sheet. The inside pages contain a letter from Concord, giving an account of the re-union of the of- ficers of the Ninth Regiment, at the head of whom was General Pierce; also, letters from Washington, Boston and Canada ; Full Proceedings of the Geor- gia Union Convention ; Hon. Mr. Bradley’s Letter concerning Gpy, Scott and Anti-Slavery; Latefrom Texas and @ Western Plains; Indian Murders; Theatric@#MN otfives; Obituaries of Distinguished Per- sons ; Financial and Commercial Reviews ; a great variety of paragraphs on all subjects, and several columns of business advertisements. Gey. Scorr iN THE NorRTH—ABOLITIONISTS Cominc To THE REscvE.—A strong abolition letter in favor of Gen. Scott, from Henry Bradley, of Penn Yan, will be found in this day’s Hera.p. We extract it from one of the Seward-Scott organs of the “rural districts.” Mr. Bradley is ‘a well known and influential member of the Liberty party’’-- that is, the Gerrit Smith and Fred. Douglass ultra abolition party of this State. He supports Gen. Scott because ‘his whole life has been devoted to the fixed purpose of promoting the cause of human freedom,”’ and because “the election of Pierce would be a triumph of slavery.” And Thusow Weed of the Albany Bvening Journal, in endorsing this man Bradley, says: ‘His reasons are enlight- ened and patriotic, and muat, we think, be con- clusive with all fair-minded free soilers.” So, there you are, are you? ‘ Show me the company,” says an old philosopher, ‘that a man keeps, and I wil tell you what he is.” What say the South to the letter of Mr. Bradley? What say the friends of Mr. Webster and the Compromise of 1850? Are the principles of Seward, Bradley, and Fred. Douglass, to be openly received as ‘a higher law” for the whig party than the whig platform and the constitution? What has become of the whig platform? Can the Seward organs tell? Can Seward tell? Can Brad- ley tell? Can anybody tell? Do the whigs of New York stand on Bradley’s platform, or where are they? Tue AGE or LittLe Men.—The cluster of great men who have conferred dignity on the councils of the nation, during the last quarter of a century— such as Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Benton, Cass, Bu- chanan, and some few others—is passing away, and is now nearly extinct. Only two of that galaxy etill remain in the public service—Webster and Cass. Benton has just returned to the House of Represen- tatives for a short season, but the rest have either betaken themselves to the shades of private life, or retreated to their eternal home. We are just entering on an age of men, great in stature, tremendous in feet amd inches, but little in intellegt, and less in genius. In this great city we never expect to see a man of eminent virtue or in- tellect selected for any public office. Twenty-five years ago we had such men as Van Wyck, Pauld- ing, Hone, Jones, Peters, and many others in the Corporation, men of intelligence, virtue, and some of them of profound intellect. In the present day, the rum and rowdyism of primary elections, in both parties, only give us candidates who are fitter for the Penitentiary and Blackwell’s Island, than for high offices in the city or county of New York. It is time for the angel to sound his trumpet, and an- nounce to the people that the day of judgment is at hand. Our CrrcvLation.—One of our cotemporaries, by calculation, estimates that our daily circulation ought to be now over fifty-three thousand. This is ® pretty fair effort at arithmetic, considering the source from which it proceeds, and if it is not that now, it very soon will be. Marine Affairs. Tue R.M. Sreaitenre Arnica, Capt, Harrison, left her dock at one o'clock yesterday, for Liverpool. She carried forty seven passengers and $632 543 in specie. The Steamer Union, Captain Adams, arrived yester- day morning from Charleston. Our ssknowledgmonts “_ to the officers for a supply of late Charleston pa- ments exercised over the unfortunate administration of Gen. Taylor. Does not every man remember that the policy of Seward, adopted by Gen. Taylor, in reference to Texas ant w Mexico, was driving the country headlong to civil war, when, by a sud- den dispensation of Providence, the good old man was taken away from the dirty free soil clique that surrounded him, and carried up, straight up, to Abraham’s bosom? And with this late alarming example fresh in their recollection, does it not become all good Union loving whigs, in Georgia and out of Georgia, to guard against the possibility of the same dark and malign influences in tho kitchen cabinet of the coming administration? In this view, the bold and manly patriotism of this Georgia movement stands out in beautiful relief. The proceedings of the Macon Convention stamp the Webster movement of Georgia with all the force of a regular, extensive, and systematic party organization. From the note of our correspondent, and from various other sources of information, and, considering, too, the defection of the Cobb detach- ment of the democratic party, we should not be surprised if Mr. Webster, in November, were to the offices of Justices of the Supreme and Superior Courts, Counsel to the Corporation, and Justices of the Marine Court; seven delegates from each ward to a convention to nominate candidates for membors of Congress; five delegates from each ward to a convention to nominate candidates for members of Assembly; a committee of fifteen persons to nomi- nate candidates for charter offices, in other words, members of the Common Council; and five delegates from the Eighth and Ninth wards to a District Con- vention, to nominate a candidate for the office of Justice of the Third judicial district. These are the spoils for which both whigs and democrats are striving, and for which the factions in both parties—the hunkers and barnburners among the democrats, and the “woolly heads” and silvor grays among the whigs—are struggling, with equal bitterness, to obtain the nominations. The weakest faction in each party employ the rum and rowdy influence to make up for a deficiency in numbers and power; and the result is rioting, and disorder, and violence, of the most atrocious description. That such will be the case this evening there is every reason to believe. We had a foretaste of it at Tammany Hallon Friday evening last, and we learn that ever since the belligerents are marshalling their forces for the field day. We call upon the Mayor and Chief of Police, and the captains, and all that are in authority, to be at carry the State of Georgia. His independent no- mination, at all events, by a large, harmonious, and highly respectable State convention, in the very teeth of the comparatively insignificant Scott Con- vontion sitting at the wie pluvyy oud at tho aamee time, is proof positive that the Georgia whigs are old birds not to be caught by chaff. It is also a tell- ing rebuke upon the trading poiticians who, at Baltimore, sacrificed the most popular statesmen of their party for the “‘fuss and feathers” of mere gun- powder popularity, and for the vote of the abolition wing of the whig party of the North. This inde- pendent movement is also a proper testimonial in behalf of Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Webster, both o; whom were unavailable at Baltimore because of their fidelity to the plain constitutional rights of the South. Now, then, what is to be done? The Georgia whigs have fairly and squarely put Mr. Webster into the field. The Massachusetts whigs are daily giving strergth and momentum to the Webster movement in Boston. Ina few days more, we may expect them to promulgate an independent electoral ticket for the illustrious civilian. In North Carolina, invited by the late State election, the conservative whigs have already declared for Daniel Webster. In Louisiana, a similar movement has been made. All, therefore, that is now required to give Mr. Webster a fair start all over the Union, isa grand central metropolitan Webster demonstration in the city of New York—such’ a demonstration as will startle the abolition toadies of Gen. Scott out of their old boots and breeches, and cause a grand rally to be made in every State in behalf of Web- ster, and a real national whig party, standing fast upon the broad platform of the compromise, the Union, Webster, and the Constitution. Why is it that the Webster men of Wall street are nibbling their fingers and holding back when there is such a chance for immortalizing themselves? The Castle Garden Union Safety movement was an advertising humbug, 4 /a Barnum—it was a fizale— it was a trick—it was a fleecing operation—a cotton speculation—a miserable farce, from beginning to end. And so with the grand Wall street move- ment for a grand Webster meeting at Metropolitan Hall. It was all for cotton; but it was also a woolly horse—a grand failure—a flash in the pan—another attempt to pull wool over the eyes of the South. But if only the other day thirteen thousand men could be mustered to sign a call for a meeting in favor of Webster’s nomination over all other men, and if there was any meaning in tho “wrath and cabbage” of the old fogies of Wall street at Scott’s nomination, why is it that now, when Geor- gia is moving, and Massachusetts is moving, and North Carolina is moving, and Louisiana is moving why is it that the bulls and bears of Wall street are all changed into lame ducks? Just as “easy as falling off a log” a Webster mass meeting in the Park, 9f twenty-five or thirty thousand men, might be call together. And let a series of resolutions, and an independent Webster electoral ticket be put forward from sush @ multitude in council, and it will run like a fire in the dry prairies, driving before it, hel- ter skelter, all the vermin, rag, tag, and bob-tail of Seward and his abolition allies. Such a demonstration is due to Mr. Webster—is due to the honest cotton merchants down town—due to the honest (God bless us!) the honest brokers and shavers of Wall street—is due from every con- sideration of fair play and consistency—and we ought to have it. Ifthe conservative Union whigs of this great city wish to prove their devotion to the constitution, to cotton, and the compromise measures, they now have a golden opportunity. It will not answer to grumble at Scott’s nomination because it is Seward’s nomination, and at the same time to stand shoulder to shoulder with the bitterest enemies of Southern institutions. Southern men can see through such transparent hy, pocrisy without spectacles, and they will remember it. Mr. Webster was sacrificed to appease the wrath of the anti-slavery incendimies of the whig party. We say, then, that if the Webster men of this city can now desert him, and skulk off in the dark to the Seward conventicles, their past devo tion to the great statesman was all humbug, and their professions of respect for the rights of the South, and the peace of the Union, were all moon- shine, clap-trap, and deception. On the other hand, let us have a grand Webster macs meeting in this city, in hearty response to the Union whige of Georgio, aad Wo phall spon haven . their post, to check the riotg in their incipient stage, and put down the first disturbances that manifest themselves, by arresting the offen- ders, and placing them in durance vile. Pre- ention fe beews tum Cue Meee avery: va 4 tions have been in existence for the last three or four years, and every man of them is known to the police. Their haunts and drinking dens are known, and if the officers, forewarned as they now are, cannot break them up, and preserve the public peace from violation, it will become a question for the citizens of New York whother there is any use in a police force at all, which always fail at the moment they aro most wanted. If a body of mon who are paid so large a sum of money by the citizens, for the purpose of protection, and the maintenance of law and order, are not reliable or available in the time of need, it would be far better to dispense with their services, and to keep the money, or apply it to some more useful purpose. The misfortune is that ® considerable number of the police force are them- selves most active politicians, and net only connive at these outrages, but assist to get them up. The Mayor, however, and the Chief of Police, and the magistracy, ought to look to it, and have such offi- cers dismissed from the service. It is their duty to prevent the city from being disgraced, and to make examples as well of those policemen who neglect their duty, as of those rowdies and their leaders who are guilty of disorder, or incite to a breach of the peace. The question is—and it is one that “ comes home to every man’s business and bosom’”—whether the city and county, and all its offices, and all its ex- penditures, amounting to between three and four millions of dollars in the year, shall be surrendered into the hands of these organized hands of rowdies, and left under their absolute control, to levy black mail from the candidates, and to thrust upon the public such men as never could have obtained an of- fice by fair play. And another question arises as a corrollary from this: whether the city of Now York—the empire city of the greatest and froost country in the world, a country in the very van of the civilization of the nineteenth century—whother this city is to relapse into the barbarism and savage- ry of @ state of nature, without laws or ordinances, the only right being might, and the strong arm bo- ing the only justice recognized—or whether there is still left enough of patriotism, and love of law and order, and civilized society, to arrest, at any and every expense, the torrent of violence and corruption which threatens to bear down all before it. .A po- litical and social condition has been superinduced in this great metropolis which compares unfayor- ably with that of the most savage tribes of Indians— the fiercest of whom maintain respect for their simple code of laws, unwritten though it be; whereas here, in this city, all law, and religion, and morality, and all the obligations that bind mon to each other, 4 afotrampled in tho dust, and anarchy reigns tri- aur, . an long is this state of things to last 7 itizens of New York ! now is the d: the hour to resist the de: gan aad sor ie aie orever. This day the genius of liberty calls upon overy policeman and every citizen to do his duty ! Horen SrecuLatians.—During the last eighteen months neayly half a dozen new hotels, of different sizes, have been opened in various parts of the city, and now nearly half a dozen more are ready to be opened in a very fow weeks. But it seems that this vast addition of hotel accommodation is not yot sufficient; for it is now announced that the proprie- tor of the New York Hotel intends to outstrip and surpass all others, and, in fact, hag now entered on ® project for building, near Madison square, @ still more magnificent house than any now in existence. Tho speculation in hotels has been running high for some time, and we suspect that before all are com- pleted, and before the mania has abated, somo of the new and some of tho old onos will bo run down, shut up, and ruined. About twonty yoars ago, a similar mania for building hotels commenced, and resulted in the ruin and closing up of the old City Hotel, the old Pearl Street Houso, and various other The Webster Movement in Giorgi, ona full exposition from Mr. Webster of his views upon , ScEnes IN Concress—Cause and Errect.— The scene in the House of Representatives, a report of which in yesterday's HgRa.p, and in which three members—two from Tennessee, and ono from Kentucky—were the chief actors, is disgrace- ful to Congress and the country to the last degree ; but it is only one of many such scenes ag have been enacted in both chambers during the last two months. The last is certainly the climax of Con- gressional blackguardism, and might well challenge any other national legislature in the world to match’ it. The principal dramatis persona, the stars of the occasion, consisted of one democrat and two whigs. All three called each other “liars,” usgue ad nau- seum. In the French Assombly, or the British Parliament, if such language could possibly have | been used, it would have led, not only to duels, and committals to prison by the presiding officer, but probably to expulsion from the house. In Congress such language has become so familiar that it only produces a momentary excitement, and is thought of no more, while the nation is disgusted from Maine to Texas. These scenes are highly injurious to the re- | putation of the country; and this scene in par- ticular will, no doubt, be seized by the London press and turned to account as a triumphant argument against republicanism, while the wits of the Parisian journals, not being permitted to exercise themselves upon the affairsof government at home, will revel in sarcasm upon these proceedings of the grave legis- lators of the model republic at this side of the Atlantic. But these scenes do not spring from re- publicanism, but from the present corrupt state of parties, and above all from the corrupt and degraded party presses which debauch the public morals, and bring down the tone of the national legislature to their own level. These whig and democratic members call each other liars, and they assail ythe characters ofthe candidates for the Presidency. Where did they find a precedent for this? In the columns of the party journals of both sides of the House—par- ticularly the leading party journals in this city—the Tribune and the Evening Post—the one conducted by Bryant, metamorphosed from a poet into a poli- tician, and the other by Greeley, turned from a printer to a politician, but dirty all through. The epithets in which these journals have long indulged towards each other, and towards their political op- ponents generally, make tame the classic elegance of the vocabulary of Billingsgate. A favorite phrase, for example, with the Tribune is, ‘You lie, villain, and you know it!” It was the Tribune, too, which originated the personal attacks on the candidates for the Presidency, by calling General Pierce a drunkard and a coward. And this low, vile, beastly example, has been followed by members of Congress, who, in the heat of the moment, forget- ting their dignity, and losing their presence of mind, seize upon the language made so familiar to them by the dirty sheets they have been in the habit of reading. It was the poet politician and the printer politician who established this ruffian dialect as the conventional usage of all politicians; and, to correct the evil, we must trace it to the source, and there cut it off. Ifthe fountain is impure, so will be the stream. Let no water be drank that emanates from these poisoned, filthy wells—let it not be tasted, touched or handled. Let these journals be aban- doned as unfit for the perusal of gentlemen or decent men, and particularly members of Congress, and let them take in their stead independent news- papers, like the HERALD, which will give thom ac- curate news, and tell them what they never see in those blackguard prints—the truth, and logical do- ductions from facts, couched in the language which gentlemen and Christians are in the habit of using. After that is done there will be some chance of Con- gress reforming itself from a decent example in the press ; but aslong as its membersimbibe the impure Aavuo UF BUCH JUULEle as the Use aud the Tribune, conveyed in the obscene language of brothels and rum holes, it will be as natural for them to speak in the same style, as it is for little children brought up at the Five Points, in New York, or at Bt. Giles’s, in London, to lisp the blasphemies, curses, and ob- scenities, in which they “‘live, move, and have their being.” Great Barcatns—Enrors CorrecTep.—One of our cotemporaries of the Ned Buntline order, says:— “It is perfectly well understood about town that the HERALD sold out to the democratic party for the campaign, just after the nomination was made.” There is a slight mistake in thisstatement. During the last few years the democratic party has been living on short rations, with little or no pap. They could very ill afford to buy a journal of any circu- lation, fosno party has been more scarce of funds. On the contrary, the Heratp has been flourishing and prosperous, and was more able to buy up the democratic party than the democratic party was to buy it. Indeed, it would be much more correct to say that the Heraup -has actually purchased the democratic party as “a time bargain”—to use the language of Wall street—for the purpose of extending the boundary of the republic in every direction during the next four years, if they suc- ceed in the coming election. We have tried the whig party for the last four years, and know that they are a selfish, scrambling, unprogressive party, unsuited to this great country, or the go-ahead principles of our people. We want, therefore, to see the democratic party in power, from stem to stern—from President in the White House down to page in Congress—for at least the next term of office, believing that their general policy is more congenial with the spirit of the people of this coun- try, and more adapted to extend our limits, our growth, our power and influence, over the world, than the timjd, stand-still policy of the present order of whigs. The democratic party have shown themselves to possess more of the old Roman spirit of growth and progress than the whigs have ever done; and it is only by this spirit that the Union can be preserved intact, and the abolitionists be en- tirely swamped and put down during all future time. Tue SteamMspoaT MassacrEs.—By reference to another column it will be seen that the parties ac- cused of manslaughter, in the case of the stgamboat Henry Clay, declined yesterday to take the preli- minary investigation that three weeks ora monthago they demanded. This is exactly what we anticipat- ed and predicted at the time. We knew it was only a flourish to show a conscious innogence, and that there was nothing they so much dreaded as in- vestigation. It remains for the grand jury, the petty juries, the judges, and the witnesses, to do their duty. Apathy seemed to have already fallen upon the authorities, and the public, too, in refer- ence to this horrible tragedy, till they were waked up by the still more fearful catastrophe on Lake Erie, by which at’ least three hundred human beings met a watery grave. This seems to have had the effect of jogging their memories, and supplying an incentive to duty in the case of the Henry Clay. But with respect to the fate of the passengers lost in the Atlantic, there appears to be @ still more culpable want of enorgy, promptitude, and firmness, gn the part of the officers of the outraged laws. A white washing committee, in the face of the statements of witnesses,and of the accused themselves, have A Warnixa to Conaress—Tuz Macyeric Tx uEcRArH.—We Lope the members of the present Congress will defeat any attempt that may be madg . upon them, asking for the renewal of Morse’s patent for the conveying of intelligence by electrivity, magnetism, or any other agency, for another poriod of fourteen years. Such an enactment would by no means benefit the original inventor of the telegraph —Professor Morse himself—who has little or no ine terest now in the old patent; but its effect would bo to fill,the pockets of a set of heartless, grasping spés culators, to the extreme injury of the whole body of the people, the newspaper press,"and the members themzelves of both branches of the national legige lature. Take care. Another Daring Murder in the City. MOST DARING MURDER ON BOARD SHIP—ARKEST OP THE MURDERERS —CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES AT+ TENDING THE ARREST OF THE ACCUSED PARTINS. About 1 o'clock yesterday morning, the police of the Fourth ward were “alarmed by the announcement that a murder had been perpetraied on board the ship Thomas Watson, Captain Lyle, of Philadelphia, lying at the foot of Oliver street. On hastening to the spot, a man by the name of Charles Baxter, engaged as a wateh- man on board said ship, was found on the deck, mortally wounded from a discharge of a pistol, the contents of which had lodged in the throat, The injured men wags forthwith conveyed to the Fourth ward police station, Dr. Traphagan examined the wound, and advised his removal to the City Hospital, where ho died in about one hour af- ter. The facts and circumstances attending this bold and bloody murder are very remarkable, Two meo, of no- toriously bad character. known to the police a3 dock thieves, by the names of Nicholas Howland, a'ia: How lett, and William Saul, were arrested by the Seventh ward police, about an hour after the murder was perpe- trated, Thesemen were on board a brig lying at the foot of Gouverneur street, in the act of stealing, whem detected. They are now identified as the two men who plundered the ship Watson. and shot the deceased. The details of this murderous affair are very curious, and go to show the daring of the villains who boat around the shipping in our harbor, nightly robbing vessels, 2ud when detected murder is resorted to with the utmost indiffer- ence in order to effect’ an escape and cover up their crime. It seems that about the hour of one o’clock on Wed- nesday morning, the two thieves boarded the ship Wate son, to rob the cabin, and to do the job quietly, they took off their shoes and left them on the deck. Charles Bax- ter, the deceased, who was watchman on board, hod laid himself across the cabin door as a guard, so tha’ ne ono could pass without stepping over him, and thus he would know who they were; however, Baxter fell fast asleep, and the thief Howland carefully stepped over Baxter, entered the cabin and took possession of the mate’s silver watch and pantaloons—the mate beripy Weyer? in his berth, On the thief making bis retreat from the cabin, he stubbed his toe against Baxter, which wokethe latter up, who sprang to his feet and seized hold of Howland, knowing full well be was a thief Howland finding that his chance for escape was doubtful, drew from his pocket a pistol loaded with small shot. which he discharged at Bax- ter, the contents taking effect in the threat, penctrating through the wind pipe and lodicing in the neek. Saxter, when shot, let go his bold of the rogue and fell on the deck. The two villains then jumped from the ships ran across the end of the pier, scrambled over a schooner, and joined their companion in a small boat who was awailing their return The boat was immediately rowed away. Now. it appears the daring robbers were not satisfled, with the deed of blood already committed, and the car- rying off of the mate’s watch. and some small amount of money besides, but proceeded up the river as far «3 Gou- verncur street. in the Seventh ward. Here they boarded another vessel, but luckily the mate heard them inthe cabin, it, an alarm. and the two robbers were found secreted in the forecastle, not having had time to scape to their boat. They were both secured by the ‘event ward police, and conveyed to the station house. As both prisoners were barefooted, and the fact of tho murs der becoming known to the police of that district, in- formation respecting the arrest was sent down to the Fourth ward police station, and policeman Duffy, of that. district, was shown the patent leather shoes founa on board the ship Watson. left behind by the mur- derers. These were identified by the ee officer to ‘be*those ot Nicholas Howland. from the fact of the oftcer having arrested Howland about a week since, and that be had on the seme shoes at that time. Besides the identity of the shoes, two men, named John Desmond, of No. 70 Oliver street, and Charles Shaw, of No. 79 Oliver have both identified the prisoners he two y saw run from the ship Watson and go offin the small boat. as already described. A man named Perry algo testifies to about the same facts. In addition to the above evidence of guilt. when the police arrested How- lana, in tho where he was secreted was found a (ree hermoucre Peas Fagen a haa en recently charged. pollse con the two prisoners to the City Hospital, meee View fto have them identified by the injured man, but. unfortunately, on their arrival, Baxter bad been. dead about five minutes. The prisoners were then con- veyed back to prison to await the Coroner's inquest. The deceased was about torty-five years of age. anative of Philadelphia, and has left a family of four children in that city. Yesterday, Coroner Ives empannelied a jury, and the following evidence was elicited, but in comse- bi of the absence of another witmess, the trier ne tion was adjourned over un twelve e’clock ners at oes Cowes A ory bay name of jackson nm arrested on suspici Of be! third man who was seen in the boat me bi Charles Bb aaye—l reside at Ni 8 Shaw, sworn, says—| le jo. 79 Oliver street; last night between ll and 12 o’cleck. in company with John Desmond and Robert Perry. I went down uy the end of the dock at the foot of Oliver street; Tce. mained in conversation there with the above named per- sons for perhaps an hour; I then and there saw the of a pistol, and heard the report; it was on board of the ship Thomas Watson: Isaw two men run hastily from the ship upon the dock, at the end of which lay a schooner, (I don't know her name ) these two men jumped on board the schooner, over her side into a smail boat, and put off into the river; they must have passed us within two or three feet; there was no moon, it was dark; I am net acquainted with the prisoners; one of the men was in his shirt sleeves, the other had on dark clothes; I ean- not say whether he was in his shirt sleeves or not; I did not observe as they passed me. whether the men had on shoes or not; when they jumped upon the schooner’s deck they made no noise; they alighted upon ler deck very lightiy; after the report I heard'the ery of ‘wateh’? twice from the ship; the man who nearest to me had one light colored hat; the men who passed me ‘were not or, tall, but pretty stout; these men answer to the size of the two men who passed me on the dock, as near as I can judge. John Desmond, sworn, says—I reside at No. 90 Oliver street; “last night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, I ‘was in company with Charles Shaw und Robert Perry on the said dock; as we eat in conversation together. I heard the discharge’ of a pistol or gun on board the ship lying alongside the pier; I saw two men rush off from the ship's deck; they Jotnped off and ran towards us at tho end of the dock; as they approached, the man with the white hat raised a small stick of wood or club, which he had in his hand. and raid. “You son of a b—h. if you dont get out of the way. I’ll serve you the same way.” or words to that effect; I did not advance upon him; these two men jumped on board of a schooner at the end of the dock and into a email boat lying alongside; the tall- est one was in his shirt sleeves and had on striped pants; they were both barefooted; I think they made no noiso in running or jumping on board the schocner; (the pri- soners here stood up. and the witness after exami their persons. said.) the pantaloons resembled those eaw the man have. but I could not say positively; I have no acquaintance with the prisoners; the tallest man on a white hat, the other had on a dark cap; it was about twenty minutes past 120’clock when I heard the report of the pistol; I stood in the rigging of the schooner and saw the men in the boat rowing up the stream with the tide towerds Catharine market; it was flood tide. Robert Perry, sworn, rays—I reside at No, 100 Oliver street ; I was in company with Shaw and Desmond last night en the dock in question ; it was, I think, twenty minutes to one o'clock when I went on the dock ; Iam @ ing man; Iamacook and steward; I heard the report of a pistol; I think she was heavily charged ; E saw the flash just al the mainmast ; I heard a man call out “watch” twice ; immediately watch was called. two men jumped over the gangway ofthe ship ; I got up from. where I was sitting upon the end of the dock ; as the two men came towards us. one of the persons with ma aid what is the matter, upon which, one of the men, who came from the ship Thomas Watson, raised a rough clul it looked as if it had been taken from a wood-; fie ank sald, “you son of ab——h. I'll serve you in the same ray” he addrecsed himself to the one of my party who t ken ; I do not know which one it was ; they then jumped on the schooner’s deck, ran across, and fet into @ it and put off, and went up the East river ; I got int» the schooner’s rigging and called out “ fire, watchmen;?* Imeant for them to fire at the menin the boat; the men patsed in three fect of me; it was not dark ; I could see; the shortest one was dressed in dark slothes; had a dark cap on.his head ; the tallest man had on plaid pants ; they were not light nor yery dark; the; were summer pantaloons ; he wore a white Panama hat, with a black ribbon around ; they were both bare-footed; Tam positive of that, [At this stage ot the examination the persons stood up, and the witness said, after viewing them.] the one wearing the plaid pants (Nicholag Howland) was one of the men who passed him on the dock; the other Ido not think was there; I have no ac. quaintance with them; no knowledge of seeing them before ; I think the v of the prisoner Howland re- sembles that of the man who threatened us with a club ; of the ship; I remained on the 1@ officer came ; we were looking up the dock at the time the pistol was fired; as the men jumped into the boat, one said, “wake up, shove off, be quick ;”” there attempted to exculpate them from the charge of rocklossness, and, in fact, to make out the usual de- fence in all such cases—‘ nobody to blame.” But it is to be hoped the grand juries of Buffalo, Erie, and Detroit, will supply the deficiency, and vindi- cate offended justice by prompt and decisive action. Two appalling calamities have followed rapidly upon the heels of each other, and the voice of the whole eountry—the voice of humanity itself—the instinct of self preservation, demands oxam- ples be made of those who havo sported with human life, by racing or by criminal neglect. We loarn that, notwitM@tanding all that has occurred, racing is still continued on the North river, and we it will be, till justice is done to the perpe- trators of the two recent massacres. war athird man inthe boat; I three nh iy real pal : saw men in the omar Lyle, sworn, says— m ship Thomas Watton. lying at pler 98. Vast river foot of OMe street ; the deceased was watchman on board my ship; the mate told me that he lett the deceased about 12 clocks pa suty ;, when I came to ra ship this morning the mate w was shot. Thomas Flanley, — Sa the Fourth District; this moratog, abe past one o'clock, I was ptanding and streeta; I heard ity charged; T oak it also, who was stat that direction; when I coming es he ‘up James ; he very weak; he telt bad, maid. about ia ‘cBildvens who were i Philape bats age ney Ma sent for a doctor; Dr. 6, washed wound, tothe Nompitel on'a handeart, “eee sworn—Says I am a of Neil Daa Fourth ward; last Tuesday, a woek ago, I axrested 3 i 4 \ L 4 B p 1 ' i e ‘ ' ‘ | | | ' | | q |! '