The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1852, Page 4

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THE FLW YORK WEEKLY HERALD Atiantic, Captain West, will lear errew for Liverpe ol, The European in thes at balf past tem o'clock to- The ity Nuw mails ¥iil clos morrow morning, Yous Weekiy Henaro, printed in French and English, will be published at Single haif past vine o’cloel copies, im wrappers, wixpenoe The News. io burdened with accounts Owr columns are vements of ull clases of politicians ia decidedly t the of the Conventio most important of Syra wot every of whi the Den which proceediags at claims of the rey 8 cratic body, settling the to get fairly at euse oon Me stan wok, ond comple that of ober & kk wi frow N elected made of th who ie dele es, é wusged nom! ba ate be « ided in favor of tay Towpkia 8, Shepard. a + that our pro aucicl pa y btrange thing about i be Van Buren, should sho sighted as to sunvie the unenviable predica- ment be did, by und to prevail upon th Convention to g was nleo.a contestant, displa ive bim ut. Capt Ryaders, who ed far more tact in tae matter, for, when he discovered v the day pre kre watked out, ia order to avoid But to the that he war likely to b ed out, Fike a well bred giving any further trouble nownina tion:—here they are :— Monario Seymour, balf and half.. Fox G Baxvory E Curren bur ner.. ERNOR Perper pLtert. hw + For Cana viMra" A. BanvcsCiann, bunker, . Fon 8. Parson Tyarr'n ao mauve, 10 WH recouecreu, Was deteated Hunt. “He is a soft:shell— hunker—and will probably two years ago by Go’ half bern barner and b be a full Governor. Although he may not be strong enough to get in on his own merits, he will very likely suceeed through the popularity of the demo- erat icPresi@empial ticket. Mr. Church is an out and-out barsi#mmer, and it was to his popularity en that account, t& the Western section of the State, that he owed his eleetion along with a whig Governor. The complexion of the Convention was decidedly hunker, as will be seen by the votes; and the result of the contest for Governor and Lievtenant Governor is to be attributed to the instructions with which the delegates from some of the counties were fettered. The vote of the hunker section, with the exception of those who were under instruction, were given entirely to Mr. Augustus Bebell, of this city, who received the whole sixteen votes of the New York delegation. Good feeling seemed to prevail among the delegates generally— they seemed perfectly to understand that any sec- tional splits would result in their defeat, and there- fore they worked with determination. Now, let us Bee what the party are about elsewhere. It is pleasing to know that the three companies of Rangers, ordered to be equipped by Gov. Bell, of Texas, for the defence of the American side of the Rio Grande, are nearly ready and will soon be on their allotted ground. Judging from the incaleu- lable service hitherto rendered to that section of our country by the Rangers, under the command of Hayes, McCulough, Henrie, &c., it is but ‘air to an- ticipate that these new companies will effectually ex- terminate all deeperadoes from that region, and reetere peace and happinoes to the inhabitants, who have of late been made to feel the vengeance of heartless hordes of murderous bandits. The meeting last night at Tammary Hall was jarge, but it lacked enthusiasm. It was not equal, in any sense, to the first meetiog. It was about equal to the whig ratification meeting. There was little or no enthusiasm, because every ene is impressed with the conviction that Pierce will be elected, and the contest is deprived of all in- terest. It will be seen that General Cass has de- qlared strongly for the homestead Jaw and inter- vention in foreign affairs, and the “Little Giant” has also come out for intervention, and war to the knife against England. The democrate of the Twenty-eighth district of this State, have nominated Mr. D. A. Noble for Congress. This district is at present represonted by Mr. Schermerhorn, whi, ‘The New Jertey whigs are reported to have had quite lively times at Trenton yesterday. They as- sembled in State Convention in the forenoon, and nominated Presidential Electors, and in the after- neon held a large mass meeting, and listened to epeeches from several of the prominent men of their ‘party. Both parties in Nety Jersey are remarkably ameng | the steamship Americ | the whites, the Indians, in various are murdering and plundering the inbabitents with | impunity Wharis to become of that impoverished and misgoverned people? The additional Buropsan intelligence brought by | sa, which we give in another page, will be found rather interesting, particularly the portion relative the fisheries, and the Aus- | | tralinw geld fields ‘Accounts gontinue to flow in upon us from the | Bouth, rolacive t the late disastrous storm. In the ity of Augusta, Georgia, we bear of the most | ‘The principal streets were over- | vie frightful havoc | mort melancholy part of the narrative, a great many pereons lost their lives. But it ia not only in Georgia that the effects of this gale have been felt. It appears to bave been almost entirely confined to | within one bundred miles from the sea shore, and to have made a gencral sweep all along from Mobile to New York—of eourse beiwg felt more severely in | some places than in others. Its destructiveness to | property of every description is probably as groat tf wot grea*er tban was ever before experienced from a sit@lar visitation | A despatch from the West announces that the | Obio river is now in excellent nivigable condition. | ‘The sympathy for the unfortunate Caban patriots | does not appear to have died away at New Orleans, | by apy means. A funeral procession took place in | that city on the evening of the Ist inst., in honor | of the memory of Gen. Lopez and his followers | Australia and lts Gold Mines—A New | Jerusalem, | Five years have hardly elapsed since the gold | yield in Calffornia beeame a fixed fact, and withia | hat short period of time between a bundred aad j ninety and two hundred millions worth of gold dast | trade has sprung up between the Atlantic States and San Francisco of the greatness of which some dea nay be indirectly formed, from the fact thatthe mports from ail other parts of the world to that ree and a half mil nilliona, in 13) io: Th port have increased from and a ba iforaia, withio the {ast five years, has been of a magnitude perhaps unparalleled ia the world’s history; and still it continues pouring on in such as will very | tate number at | in 1851, to te ation to Ca emig sing flood at & continvous and iner soon make the population of t least balfamillion. At y sand that, during the ides fifty thou- r, have gone by sea to California, there is a vast r forty | thousand persons traversing the plains, and | when this large item is added to the popula | tion, we may expect increased energy in the We would not be surprise}, to » the miners to ge 8 the imports of ider of the year, would | The Ca working of the mines if, when the full rains ne al sume operations on a la the rem sug 2 month. 1, during s'x mill fornia, move- niluence fult all the world; i vem3 to be ¢ reac ment bas mude but now even C by the more and outstripped in its prody ene: recent and more maegnifie fields in Australi In Aust 2,400 miles east to weet 1 north to south, by 1,900 miles from rrounded, on its eastern and southern to 6.000 feet above the level of the sea. These ranges exist at from 50 to 100 miles from the coast, with valleys and water courses on their eastera slopes which bogue into the sea. Their western slopes are less precipitous, and roll off in steppes, or irregular rich grazing platforms, giving ise to water courses, which ran towards a vast ua- explored centre. The northern part of the island lies within about ten degrees of the Equator, while the southern portion extends to about 39 degrees south Jatitude The island of Australia is divided into four prin- cipal colonies. The first, on the east side, with fifty-six counties, is called New South Wales, with Sidney for its capital; the seeond, called Victoria r Port Philip, with twenty-six couaties, at the extreme south, with Melbourne for its capital; the auiu, avew Ovuiu uses, TO ThE west of Victoria, with nine counties, and with Adelaide for its capi- tal ; the fourth, Western Australia or Swan River, on the western side of the island, with Perth or Swan River for its capital. Sidney was the earliest point settled, Western Australia next, and Victoria last, which was first inhabited by a few families, cbiefly English, from Van Dieman’s land, in 1836. The climate of Australia presents all the varieties common to tropical and temperate latitudes. Until the discovery of gold, the growing of sheep was the main pursuit of the celonist ; and in 1850- 51, the number of sheep on the island was estimated at thirteen to fourteen millions, about five millions of which were in the colony of Victoria. The climate and soil of this new and growing colony is represented to be the finest in the world. At Mel- bourne, its capital, it is almost a perpetual spring. Ice never forms thicker than @ shilling, and even a scum of snow is but seldom seen. Sheep grow and multiply by merely turning them loose to graze, and never require the slightest use of artificial food; and euch is the mildness of the climate that they jamb twice a year, in the mouths of April and Octo- ber. Butcher's meat, before gold was discovered, sold as low as 2d. per lb. So plentiful are cattle, that large boiling establishments exist, where they are boiled down for their tallow, which is exported in large quantities to England. Much of the soil, in ali the colonies, is exceeding- ly fertile and productive, on which can be grown the most luxuriant crops, of all kinds known to similar latitudes in other parts of the world, and in great abundance and perfection. But the soil found with- in fifty to one hundred miles of Melbourne, in Vic- toria, or Port Philip, exceeds in fertility any other part of the world. It is of a dark bright chocolate color, resulting, it is supposed, from the decompo- sition of ejected materials from extinet voleanoes. 1t produces, when cultivated, one hundred bushels of corn or sixty bushels of wheat to the acre; the latter weighing sixty-four pounds to t e bushel Tn the famine years of 1847 and ‘48 this wheat was shipped to England, and commanded a premium | over the best English grown article. The stalks of wheat in Victoria attain a height, in some places, of sever feet. The climate has moderate falls of rain every month in theyear. The thermometer rarely goes above 75 or SO degrees, or falls below 40 de- grees. The mean temperature is about 61 degrees the year round. It has the summer of England or Treland, and the winter of the south of France or Itwly. The growth of Victoria has been, if we ex- cept somo fow parts of the United States, without a parallel. In 1336 and 1837, there were only about 274 souls in the colony. In 1850 and ’51 the popu- lation of the town of Melbourne alone amounted to about 23,000, while the colony numbered near 77,000. Melbourne is distant about 600 miles south- west of Sidney. The handsome granite fronts of some of the houses, it issaid, would do credit to any enthusiastic, and each is striving to the utmost | European cily. A stone bridge of 150 fect span has for the atcendancy been erected over the river Yara Yara, on which Extensive preparations are said to have been the town stands, at an expense of $75,000. It con- ade by the democrats in Pennsylvania for the ky Vding of a mass meeting at Reading to-morrow, tains some six or seven churches; the principal of which cost from $10,000 to $15,000 each. It boaste at \ hich will be present some of the ablest men of ; # 8tone court house, jail, and some half dozen news- the very In consequence of the great numbers | Papers, two or three of whieh are daily, a college, going .to the meeting, the railroads have reduced mechanics’ institute, &c. In 1850 its imports were the pri ‘vo of fare one-third. ‘The 1 Wemocratic County Convention of Phila delphia, a ter balloting for several days, yesterday succeeded int nominating Jacob Peters for Short. The last in. ‘elligence from Mexico is, if possible, of » far more deplorable character than ever. The £744,295 and exports £1,041,796; giving a1 excess of exports of £297,501. The fertility ef the soil may be seen from the fol- lowing statement :—IJn 1850, in two counties only, of Victoria, (Bourke and Evelyn), 13,807 acres, sown in wheat, produced 236,140 bushels; 1,318 fneurrections, hn therto epoken of, were spreading to | acres sown in barley, produced 32.956 bushole; alarming ¢xtent that it was anticipated an perenne of Oc wgress would be called to de’ means for their eupp.ression, though what said Con- can do, with an empty treasury, and no prac tical means at |, ia more thao can be divine, Ja addition 40 the sntesting commojons 2,282 acres, sown in oats, yielded 59,338; ),.129 vise | sores, in potatoes, yielded 1,693 tons; 6,641 acro.', in hay, produced 9,961 tons We thus see aeolony, 15,000 miles from England, in about fourteen or sixteen years—in the life time of & were child—incwwase fom 274 souls to 77,000, eee dded to the wealth of the world, and «| and on the 8th November about $1,000,000. Lumpa has been added Mth of the id, | In December, | sand, and near Bathurst, at four thousand. T sides, by mountains of voleanie origin, of from 2,000 | ing to near $6,000,000. It should be borne in mind, | that Viotoria has never been a sonvict colony to the extent of New South Wales, and at this time there are uot five hundred bound convicts in the colony, and since 1843 none have been sent to any part of Austra- lia. They are now sent to Norful Island and Van Dieman’s Land. To the vast agricultural resourees of Victoria and New South Wales, we have 2ow to give the nsost astounding accounts of gold discove- ries ever made on the habitable globe. They com- pletely throw into the shade all the mines of Peru, Mexico, or California So extensive are the gold | flowed to the depth of four or five feet, houses and deposits distributed in Victoria, that the very sireet® | pridgee were washed away, and, what is by far the of Melbourne are found, in a manner, to be paved with them. The broken quartz rock which have been used to MacAdamise the streets are found to contain gold--thus realizing a sort ot New Jerasa- | lum, the streets of which are paved with gold. | While Melbourne is thus blessed, mines of immense value bave been opened at Mount Baliaret and Mount Alexander, about eighty to one havdred miles north of the city. The treasure taken from these two de- | posits alone, from the Ist of December, 1851, to the | Ist of April, 1852, amounted to about $9,000,000 Ita deposits were also discovered in a rango of moun- tains in the same colony, calledthe Pyrenoes, Mount Macedon, and Mount Cole. | The first discovery of gold was made near Ba- | thurst, in New South Wales, on the 22d May, 1851, | from 150 to 14 miles west of Sidney. ‘The looalicies | first worked were at Summerville Creek, Abercrow- bie river, from whence farther discoveries have been | made ever a vast mountain region of country, many | of the localities being known as Bungonia, Shoal Haven diggings, Wentworth diggings. Ophir, Braidwood, Major’s creek, Hanging Rock, &e.; one of the most prolific being Braidwood. From May to the 6th September the enipments reached $750,000 were occasionally found weighing from twenty to twenty-seven pounds. At an early period, Dr Kerr found one lump which weighed one hundred pounds. 1851, the parties at the diggings in Victoria were estimated at from eight to ten tho: Whole amount sent to England sioee the djzcore only & year ago, amouats to twenty millions of dol- lars alyeady. ‘Phe gold region already discovered in Australia promizes to yield double and triple the quantity of gold, by the same number of laborers, over that ob tained in California. The extent of the gold fields in Victoria, or New South Wales, exsceds that of California Hence they already possess two Californias in Aus- tralia; and are likely to find two or three more, for the mountain chain in which they are found runs a distance over from 1,000 to 1,500 miles, with various spurs and offshoots at right angles to the main chain. 'Tho gold fields, it is likely, are epread over not less than 15 to 20,000 square miles, sseing that the area of the whole @ is about three millions square miles. The whols populatioa of tho island in 1851 did not exceed 000. Tt will, however, soon contuin several millions The English government have organized a system for the working of the mines, and a smal! tribute is exacted from tho earnings of the diggers, who must procure licenses to dig. Commissioners are stuion- ed in the diggings to regulate mutters, and whose duty it is to probibit the cstablishment of all grog shops and gambling houses. They burn down grog shops wherever they can jind them. Three grog shops were burnt ia the diggings Jast winter, in Victoria. Here we have a Maine Liquor lawin full force. But the Austra- The Mermens—The MahometansoftheNine- name of tho deity, that of his prophot is insepa- ‘Uncum Tom’s Casin ar rug NaTiowaL directions, , and also increase its agricultural exports from noth- tee th Cenwary. rablein prayer in both. Many points of resemblance Philosophers tell us tha the grand law of human ean be found in the iman of Mahometans and the progression does not hold good in re+pect of moral articles of Mormon belief. Both look forward toa and metaphysical science. If this be true—and we —pillenium on earth, when peace, plenty, and brother- see no reason to doubt it—if, while we may safely hood eball reign—both foretell @ glorious resurrec- consider the steam engine, the printing press, the tion, in which the body shall be perfected, incor loom and the telegraph, to be the imperishable and ryptible. Both inculcate the soundest tenets of | mon. In many instances. and particularly wit! inalienable property of man, we have no guarantee morality. Mahomet and Smith wore equally suc- for the stability of our religious creeds and schools cessful in rousing the populace by impassioned ora- of ethies—if our descendants may be found more tory; tumults follow; Mahomet’s adherents fly from gross and earthly in their passions, more debased in Mecca; the Mormons are expelled from Jackson their feelings and desires, than we aro—the birth gounty. The Koreish bind themselves by a league and infancy of new religious doctrines and strange to have no communication with the new sect; the sects deserve a peculiarly careful notice at our Presbyterians and Methodists declare that no reli- hands. At a time when a devout Abbé confesses, ance can be placed on contracts entered into by Mor- with deep sorrow, that Christianity can no longer mons. Dissensions break out in both camps: keep pace with the intellectual progress of the Smith is not a whit less energetic than Mahomet in world, and a mitred orator s heard to declare his repressing them, and monopolizing the supreme con- conviction of the inadequacy of the Protestant doc- jyo]. Driven from Mecca to Tayef, thence back to trine to satisfy the popular craving for mental food, | Mecca, and again forced to fly to Medina, Mahomet when the converts made by countless missionaries staked his life on tho success of his cause. The abroad are too few to supply the vod created by Mormons—men, women, and chilirea—are brutally desertions at home, we may be permitted, perhaps, | hunted out of Zion in mid winter—boys of nine for argument’s sake, to suppose for a momen) that | years of age are murdered in cold blood—defenco- the present forms of Christianity will passaway, and Jess men are trod under foot till their bowels gush to ask the appalling question—What religion is to | forth; the wearied exiles, hurdly obtaining from | succeed them? At what shrine will posterity kacel? their persecu’ors time to complete the idol of their | ly devised abolition table Some worship of a higher Boing isan imporative | hearts--their temple—are buuished from Nanyoo, want in the human heart—some souree of morality, | and the merciless enmity of fanativisin is now elose nobler than a mere penal code, is absolutely indis- | on their tracks in the distant valley of Salt Lake. pensable to cement the elements of society. Among | Here the parallel fails. Mahomet, driven to des- the new schools of religion which are springing up | peration, unites his little band of followers at Me around us, is there any which can abserb Protestant | dina, makes a political question of his erved, and avd Catholic, Unitarian and Free thinker, and sub- | after defeating a thousand men with a small force, stitute a new faith forfuture ages? barely exceeding a hundred, resolves to propagate We leave speculative philosophy to suggest are- | Islamism by the sword, conquers invincible Arabia ply. But we cannot refrain from making a few | in nine years, and dics, leaving behind him halfa brief remarks on the growth and prospects of the | continent of proselytes. Joe Smith, at a time when most remarkablo of the many religious fastions | his martyrdom did more for bis eause than the most which have come to light in this country. brilliant feats of prowess, is savagely murdered ay While to the thoughtless roader the name of Mor- | Carthage. He leaves behind him a dovoted bind jem is only suggestive of ribald epigrams on | of adherents, eealed to the faith by their adoration {tency of Mr. Brigham Young, and the ex- | of his memory, and sworn to avenge him. His sne ivtence of the sect is treated ash mere joke, the hich were want eyes of thinking men are fixed on the young settle- y t Deveret, with apprehensions of no common mognitude. The colony at Salt Lake is no assom- blage of hairbrained socialists, or Agapemone o rognes and dupes—a haunt of bypocrisy and beast- ly lieentiousness; Brigham Young and his followers are neither idle knayes nor eorrapt profligetes. The stumbling blocks which have led to the downfall of so wany falee sects, haye beon avoided by the Mor- | mons. Pbeir religions eode is imbued with cnongh mysticicam to attract the imaginative; but it is litked and coupled witha moral law framed on the mo: ligious doctrine ; iss unparalloled growth, ite nove polity, its attractive garb, bas already drawa anxious eye of statesmen upon the Utah setileme Men have not been wanting to advocate the enti extermination of the sect, and experience is rite with examples of acts of fanaticism Should the blood thirsty bigots, who would extir pate Mormonism, obtain the prepouderance ia our vational councils, (which God forbid,) the moat desperate valor would be found among the por Every spur which can , of religion, of liberty, similar ented race. heroism—the love of cou » | the voice of natural affection, and the uence of a belief in a divine mi uniie to render their armies invincible. envy and cowardly pe: pire deeds of daring. et basi | “We delie say the Mormons, “in being honest, true, chute, temperate, benevoleag, virtuous aud upright and in ding good to all men; indeed we may say U we fetow the sdmonition of Paul Delieve all things, we hope all Uhings. we bave endured very many things and hope to be able to end Every thing lowly, ‘Virtuous, prais nd of good report, we reek alter, looking forward * Lo the recoaiperse of reward,’ Put wr lazy person cannot be a Christian, nei hase relyation: he is adrone, and deserves to be stuag to ceth, and tumbled out of the kive.”? Despite all the caluinnious tales which have been cheulated, we have every reason to believe thas the Mormons are just in their dealings, and kind and charitable both to strangersand to each other. Po peraatara a on— wou Oa th other side, mea are not likely to iu We forbear to spec salt Once already, in times long gone by, the banners of Christiewity and Tslamigu were unfaied in hostile array, and the fuith of the world depended on a su cessful charge. Had the prowess of C forsaken him on the plains of Cours, the e on the probable 1 ol aqueror, lygamy, it is true, is practised umong them, and bas | Abderame, would bave overrun Europe, aud been goverely used az u weapon in the hands of their | mosques might now have stuod wherever the spires assailants. But so far from being made subservient | of Christian churches poiat to realus above. ‘*His- to depraved passions, it is only tolerated in order | tory,” says the philosopher, ‘constantly repeats it- to increase the number of the faithful, and en the principle quoted above, that drones—whether male or female—must be driven from the hive. Female chastity and conjugal fidelity are essential virtues; self; but each successive revolution is the birth of a new era.” Geyunan Scorr ArLoar.—We leam by the ab- lians will soon borrow more from us than teetecal laws. The principle of republicanism has taken root inthe country. The emigrants from Europe, and those from California, will give new force and vigor to that idea, co that we believe the day is not far dis tant when America will have the pleasure of hailing Australia as the latest born, and, next to herself, the greatest of republics. In the meantime there will be no mob law—no trials and hangings by the Cole Lynch. The judicial authorities will be sustained by the strong arm of both the naval and military pene. OL UIs UlUxe loving security of bre and property may feel satisfied, while the lawless will be governed or hanged. What is to be the end of allthis? What are to be the results to the world of this illimitable supply of the precious metal? When California, in four years, produced two hundred millions of -Jollars, what will be the effect of its continued yield, when that of Australia, with three times the extent of gold fields, will be added to it? It must inevitably revolutionize the social condition of the civilized world, and produce the grandest and most mo- mentous consequences, on all that appertains to the trade and commerce of Europe and America, that kave taken place since the first discovery of this continent by the Genoese navigator. Sewarp AND THE Fvoitive Law—Tee Last Dover or THE ArTFVL DopaEr.—Some days ago, the Committee on Finance, of the Senate, re- ported the following amendment to the General Ap- propriation bill :— “And be it further enacted, That when the ministerial officers of the United States have or shall incur extraor- dinary expenses in executing the laws thereof, the pay- ment of which is not specially provided for, the Presi- dent of the United States is authorized to allow the pay- ment thereof, under the epecial taxation of the district in which the said serviees have been or shall be render- J ed—to be paid from the Appropriation for Defraying the Expenses of the Judiciary.” Mr. Sumner moved to add :—Provided, That no such allowance hall be made for expenses under the aet of September. 1850, known as the Fugitive Slave act, which act is hereby repealed.”* Upon this motion Mr Sumner made a speech of three hours long, rousing the Senate to a high state of excitement—just that sort of excitement on the slavery question which the wily and slippery cham- pion of the agitators delights in. Sumner was vigor- ously attacked—the debate was kept up against him all day; and yet W. H. Seward was in the Senate chamber, and kept his mouth tight shut; or he was out of the Senate chamber, for the par- pose of avoiding the responsibility and the dangor of standing by his friend and his principles. But worse yet, when the vote was taken on Sumner’s proviso, the great champion of the repeal of the fugitive act still was non est. There was some ex- cuse for declining to speak, for the time of the So- nate was beginning to be precious; but there was no excuse, but the excuse of cowardice, in dodging the vote. We find that on the question—shall the fugitive law be repealed—there were yeas 4, nays Ti Yuas —Messrs. Chase, Hale, sation) ¢, Hale, Sumner, Wade—4; (Seward This proves that Seward is no fanatic. A fanatic is fearless in advocating and vindicating his princi ples—he stops at no danger—he counta no cost. He is generally courageous, and ever-willing to fall as a martyr for the faith that isin him; but a dema- gogue, dyed and twisted in the wool, is another animal entirely. He isa sneaking creature, and fights in ambush. Like a snake in tho grass, his bite is felt, but upon turning to look for the reptile, it has slipped away. Such is the abolition fanatic, and such the slippery demagoguo of the higher law. Lloyd Garrison represents the one, and as such has became an abomination and a by word; but W. H. Seward is a perfect specimen of the latter, and as such is infinitely more revolting. A fanatic may challenge our commi ion—but the skulking slippery demagogue, can Oily excite our disgust. r The reason is evident, however, why Seward de- clined to vote on Senator Sumner’s amendment. It might, perhaps, have injured his friend, Gen. Beott, whose prospects in Maryland and Tennessce are al- ready sufficiently doubtful to be desperate. And so the arch agitator, when called to mark fugitive law, ‘dodges it, and, ars coring Pi aagh knows when a kick is coming, tucks his tail between his -gs and sneaks away, go did the Breat leader of rath Bag tae hes off from the direct estion in t nate. What became ward oun that vote was taken? Can Mr. ed Ls or Mr. Fish, or anybody else, answer the question t And why was it that Seward did Suumner’s amendment 7 olition organs of this latitnde, that Gen. Scott arri- ved here on Tuesday last; that he spent part of the adultery and illicit intercourse will be punished with death by the Mormon code. Both honor and religion oblige the men whose wife, daughter, or sister has been injured, to kill the seducer. It would be foreign to our purpose to attempt to analyze their religious belief. It is an eclectic compound of Christianity, Platonism, Brahminisin, Mahometanism, and that new spiritual philosophy, which, under various names, is captivating the su- perstitious minds of the nineteenth century. It is the Hon. JamesG. King, head of the financial house, and branch of the Barings, in Wall street; and that on Wednesday, after seeing Dr. Charles King, the where we suppose he sojourns for a few days. pecullurly celeulated to satisfy the aspirations of | much importance, and may have referenco to the diplomatic appointinents which will be necessary for him to make, after his inauguration on tho fourth of March—for his election he himself (few And in good sooth in this opinion, particularly since tbe Fourrierite Phalanx of New Jersey, and the Women’s Righ‘s thore who feel a void in their hearts, which Christi- anity cannot fill. Like all euccessfal sects, the polit- ical constitution of the Mormonsis a pure despotism, the president, or chief priest, holding undisputed sway over the property and persons of his subjects. But according to the testimony of an apparently trust- wortby writer, “‘there is not (among the Mormons) the usual man-worship found in the admirers of | Convention, are all coming out at this important eplendid abilities and achievements of the founders | crisis in favor of his elevation to the Presidency. of religious sects’—‘‘each man watches, with on eagle eye, that first principles are adhered to, and stands ready to proclaim apostacy in chief or lay- man”—and ‘there seems to be as fair a sample of intelligence, moral probity, and good citizenship (among them), as can be found in any Christian community.” Whether Jogeph Smith did or did not deal in im- posture, a sect established on such principles as these, and which, after a struggling existence of twenty years, counts its votaries by hundreds of thousands, is entitled to something more than sarcastic and con- temptuoussneors These but add fuel to the zoal of the acolytes ; persecution braces their energies, and strengthens their convictions. While we look on with indifference, thousands in Europe and America are silently enrolling themselves under the banner of Mormonism. Where is this to end ? Allreligions, which have been at the same time civil polities, have been the work of a single individ- ual, and have seemed, in their origin, insignifieant and ridiculous. Abraham was the inspired founder of a sect which was destined to become immortal, and to practise ueury and sell old clothes throughout allgenerations: for many centuries ’twas but a fam- ily. Egypt fought long against the hardy priests of Isis ; they purchased victory with their blood. Lit- tle did Zoroaster think, when he taught his disciples the pure tenets of his simple faith, that Persia would one day hold him to be a God, and that his creed would become the established religion of the empire. Theseus and Romulus foanded religions which were also polities: how petty were their be- ginnings, how disheartening the scorn of their neigh- bors! Yet each in turn threatened to subjugate the world. Who has not heard of or stood in the damp vaults of the catacombs, where the trembling few, who constituted the elect Christian church, usod to meet and pray that they might be permitted to practise with impunity a novel, harmless, moral form of worship, which was destined to fill the universe! ‘Thus it has been with all. Cradled in martyrdom— 4 Physical or moral, according to the ago—now forms eer us suppose, from Harvard University, which of beliof have grown to puberty, and in tho plenti- | #8 lately been so liberal in giving their diplomas to tude of their strength have deficd the scythe of time. distinguished personages in this quarter. They are all gone but the tottering church of | Gy.osn or THE FASHIONADLE SKASON.— eI Christ. None was better, perchanes, than theother | of tho fashionable eummer resorts, the cou eile —the ehiefmerit ofeach successive creed was itsfit- | season is celobratod bya grand fancy ond dross ness for the times. ball. That of Newport came off last night, and How singular, how teeming with food for specu- | wo gee by tho programme of atrangements lation, the contrast between Mahomet and Joseph | that there are no less than some hundred and Smith! Both were men of indomitable energys | fifty managers, and members of the committee of vivid imagination, and extraordinary power over directions, charged with the superintendance of the the masees. Both believed a great portion of what | fe, This number comprises governors of States, they taught, but did not scruple to varnish their judges, generals and colonels, lawyers, morchants, tale with flights of fancy. Both date thoir mission | ‘ang physicians. At the Whito Monntains, the from a vision from heaven—the command was given to both by a messenger from God. Neithor at- tempted to uproot or destroy, but to renovate Pristine simplicity was the avowed aim of both; Islamism was an attempt to restore the days of Moses ond Elias; Mormonism looks to the early others) considers certain. we are half inclined to coincide with him James G. King, in the event of Gen. Scott's election and inauguration, called to the office of Secre- tary of the Treasury ; that Charles King should be Rufus King, a son of one of the family, should be sent as Minister to the E) the appointment of Minister to Mexico; that ao- New York; and that another King should be sent as Minister to Vienna. If there wre diny more Kings, of that distinguished family, yet left without offices, there is no doubt that plenty of vacancies can be made to satisfy their ambition And if all the now existing Kings should be supplied with offices, there are stilla few offices which cun be kept vacant for those to be born hereafter. The good old era of federalism, when the name of Rufus King called up “spirits frm the vasty deep,” will bo back again under the incoming administration. Loa Montes AND Barnum —Lola Montes seems to have been lately taking a lesson from the book of Barnum, and bids fair to beat him with his own weapone, by working for popularity in the last few weeks of summer vacation. One of the most extra- ordinary efforts she has made to outdo Barnum, ap- pears to have been the Lola Montes pic nic given at Yonkers a few days ago, which, it is said, out- stripped entirely the famous feast given by Barnum, at Iranistan, to all the oyster-house critics of this city. Lola has beaten Barnum, and completely eclipsed his féte. Fora full account of this curious pie-nie, in which Barnum, Groeley, and the rest of the editors and celebrities, spperr to have figured, either in person, or by spiritual manifestations, we rofer our readers to this week's Pick—price two cents—written, printed, and published, by the Hon. and Rev. Joseph A. Scoville, A.M. and D.D , having recently received these honorary appendages to his ing; but here they show more modesty, and do not brought to a termination, and a season of coolnees day and night at the Hoboken country residence of President of Columbia College, he left the city, en route by the Hudson River Railroad, for West Point, We should not be surprised, therefore, to find sent as Minister to the court of St. James; that 0; that another King, also of the same stock, should be appoiated Collect- or of New York; that another King shoald receive other King should be made Surveyer of the Port of TRE —Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel of “Une Tom’s Cabin,” has been dramatized at the Ni al Theatre, and, being something of a novelty, it draws crowded houres nightly. The practice of drawatizing a popular novel, as| soon as it takes a run, has become very com. regard to the highly druwatic axd graphie novels Dickens, these new plays have been very successful, giving pleasure and satisfaction to the public, and putting money into the pockets of the ehuel mavoger. But in the presentasion of Unele Tom’s| Cabin upon the boards of a popular theatre, we ape| prehend the manager hus comuisted a serious and) mischievous blunder, the tendencies of which he did not comprehend, or did bot care to consider, but in relation to which we have » word or two of friendly counsel to submit. The novel of ** Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is ab present our nine days literary wonder — {t has sold by thou. sands, and tens, and huodrecsof (housands—not, how- ever, on account ofany surpassty g or wonderful litera- ry merits which it moy be soppoved to possess, but because of the widely ex!ouded sympathy, in all the North, with the pervicious »bolicion sympathies and “ bigher law” moral of this iogenious and conning- ‘Tbe furore which it hag thus created, has brought ous quite a number of catebpenny imttators, pro avd com, desirous of fill- ing their sails while yet the breeze is blowing, though it does appear to us to be the meanést kind of stealing of alndy’s thunder. This ia, indeed, a new epoch and a uew fleld of » ion authorship— a new field of fiction. hauoug aud deception, for a more extended agitation of the slavery question— than any that has heretofore imperiled the peaca and safety of the Union. Tho success of “Uncle Tom's Oubin? asa novel, has naturally suggested its « upon the ecage; but the fact has been over looked, that auy such representation must be av insuls to the Sou an exaggerated mockery of Souvh ro institutions—and calculated, more thas any ovhur expedient of egita~ tion, to poison the minds of our youth with the pos- tilent principles of abolitiovism The play, ad per- formed at the National, is a crude and aggravated affair, following the seoera! plon of the story, except in the closing scene, where, instead of allowing Tony to die under the cruel trestwent of his new master in Louisiane, he is brought back to a reunion with Wilmot and his wife—rturecd runaways—all of whom, with Uncle Tom and Avant Chloe, are set fee with the privilege of remuiciig upon the old plas. tation. The incidents of the picce are thas set forth: in the ‘small bill -ROGKAMME Sev 1— sior of Lucle Coms Cabin on Shelby’ Plantations Ns gro’ ¢ ation us, “Nigga in o> Tanovence bro Sboras, "Coma then to suptore of Mowa; In- sight Eeeape: ‘Tou, Traders; Miracut- 21 Appeal Tom's Outen; teote the Fear terior ariven fr Cr eolers ou b the Mother Uncle om bis Ci of the v Chua; Offering Prayer; the ; bank Threatenings; Ohio Storm; blight of Mora and sieve; Desperate Resolve (ce: Mountain Torrent vor Edward: Ma- or of Kaward and down the Roar- ex Hoe the Gorn; ? cape over Mountain ber Chiid; rt f the apd Fseape of Morpaon Fo and Save ot Or nivse’s Protecti Vraders on ing Torre at Extraordinary; ‘ween Edward aod auy Mag; Arrival from wry. Mountain Dell; Repentance aad Re- whim in ite Prde; Frees n Recognition more, Return of dom cf Edward « Io the progre most extravagant ext horrors of Southern sluvery The negro traders, with their long whips cut and slash their poor slaves about the stage for were pastime, and a gang of poor wretches, handcuffed to a chain which holds them all in marching order, two by two, are thrashed like cattle to quicken their pice. Unele Tom is seourged by the traijer, who has bought him, for “whining” athis bad lack. A reward is posted up, offering four hundred dollavs tor the runaway, Ed- ward Wilmot, (who, as well os his wite, is nearly This movement of Gen. Scott is probably one of | white,) the reward to be paid upon *his recovery, or upon proof that he has been ailed” But Wilmot shoots down bis pursuers in real Christiana style, as fast as they come, and after many marvellous es~ capes, and many five ranting abolition speeches, (generally preceding bis der d sbots,) he is liberated as we have described. This play, and these scours, are nightiy received atone of our most popular theatres with repeated rounds of applause, True, the audience appears to be pleased with the novelty, without being troubled about the moral of the ssory, which is mischievous im the extreme. The inetitution of Southern slavery is recognized and protected by the federal constitution upon which this Union was e* plished, and whish holds it together. But for the compromises on tho slavery question, we should have no constitution aud no Vnion—and would, perhaps, have been at thio day, in the conditioa of the South American repub- lice, divided into. several military despotism, con- stantly warring with each other, and each within itself. The Fugitive Slave law only carries out ono of the plain provisions of the constitutiqn. When a Southern slave ezcapes to us, wo are inhonor bound to return bim to his master. Aud yet, here in this city—which owes its wealth, population, power, and prosperity, to the Union and the constitution, and this same institution of slavery, to a greater degree than apy other city iu the Union--here we have night- ly represented, at a popular thoatre, the most oxag~ gerated enormities of Southera slavery, playing directly into the hands of the abolitionista and abolition kiduappers of slaves, and doing their work for them. What will our Southern friends think of all our professions of respect for toeir delicate social institution of slavery, when they find that even our amusements are overdrawn caricatures exhibiting our hatred against it and againat them? Is this consistent with good faith, orhonor, or the every day obligations of bospi- tality ? No, it is not. It isa gad blun 3 for ites our stage hail become tho deliberate agent in the cause of abolitioni ; the i juli, and their approbation, the precede mony of this Union will soon be euded. We would, fiom all there considerations, advise iM concerned to drop the piny of Uncle Lom's Cabin at once and for ever. ‘Uhe thing is in bat taste—is Lot according to good faith to the consti- tution, or consistent with either of the two Balii- more platforms; and is ealeutited, if persisted in, to become a firebrand of the most dangsrous chara s- ter to the peace of the whole country. Tux Guano Jon at me Lonos Isuanps —From the developements coming to us almost every day, from Washington, relative to the recent controversy about the guano of the Lobos Islands, we begin to suspect that both the Prosident of the United States, and the newspaper press, have been most elegantly humbugged und deceived, by a clique of palpable jobbers in Now York, operating, through some se- cret influence, on the State Department at Wash- ington. The Protident appears to have been first Jed astray in the matter in reference to the epecial rights of Poru to the Lobos Islands, and the goneral: rights of the world at large. When the affair be- came known, and the agents of Peru commenced: acting WMB® watter, the press then appears to have grand ball of the season is to tuke place this evon- | been equally hoodwinked, in consequence of the special correspondence of the Secretary of State, parade more than a dozen names as manngers. In | calculated to mys! f this manner all the amusements and follies of gay | those who wish always to do that which is right life at the mountain and sea shore are appropriately | between nation and nation. ever, ify and throw dust in the eyes of It now appeara, how- that the twenty or thirty vessels despatched: ages of the church as a model. Both Mahomet | gndsobricty eucooeds to the summer months of fazh- | to the Lobos Islands, under the authority of the pri and Smith sacrifice the social happiness of the female sex to the interest of the State, by tole- rating polygamy. The machinery of both roli- gions requires tho intervention of supernatural beings—genii in the one, angels and seers in | offices of this Union aro managed by ladies, who the other. Both appeal as well to the senses as to | generally conduct the post office business much ionable dissipation. vate and mysterious letter of Mr. Webster of lait Feith aplemsincimaine aemnsti Spring, were all sent out Prooress oF Women’s Riants.—Wo see it stated | for the samo Purpore, that somo eighty-one of the ten thousand pvst | tion all round ; but we by the samo parties, and It was & magnificent opera- fuspoct it will be exploded before the ships ever reach their destination, We are collecting the curious and dramatic facts the moral perceptions—the pleasures of conviviality | better than the postmastors in breeches; but itis | that have taken place in this inysterious job of and wholesome ablutions are inewleated by both | not stated whether tho postmistrosses wear the | diplomacy and HOF ote upon | greeds. The Koran andthe Book of Mormon acknow- | Bloomer costume or not. Thisis a boginning of | history of is, with all its sinuvsities and o! ier, im the proper Way, aad ot gu ously day, doage alike pnp God, pupromy, infinite; ond txyun the | the grvat women'arights revelation. 1a it not 1 guano, and we shall give a true