The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1853, Page 4

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To-day Weare obliged to submit to the force of circum- | stances—to-morrow we hope to do better. Animmense gathering of our citizens last eve- | ning took place in Metropolitan Hall, for the pur- | pose of giving expression to their feelings with re- gard the Madiai family, and others, who have been | from their escutcheon. The Legislature wii ad- | Phe Ciayten and Bulwer Treaty—Let t be | could never have received hie support, except under | fall s prey to » drooping, terrible melancholy. the belief that this was its scope and object. Yet, | Living in an atmosphere peopled with spirits, more Wo learn that private letters have been coceived | The affairs of Contral America, to which we have | we repeat, no single iots of English pretensions to-day. Terminated. from the coast of Africa, whieh state that the | #0 frequently and-carncstly recurredin these columns, | bas been relaxed, nor single stride of English British government are about to withdraw their | are at last receiving the attention which their im- | rapacity been stayed by ite provisions. More than an act, abandon ite efforts in that quarter for the suppression of the slave trade. This information comes from a high souree. The propriety of the course has been lately brought before the English public in a variety of ways, yet we deubt the truth of the report. The recent vigor infused into the slave trade at Cuba, and the renewed efforts of the English to suppress it, are alone sufficient to con- vince us that England, till Spain observes her treaty stipulations, will continue her endeavors to crush the trade at the source of supply—the coast of Africa. The report that Billy Bowlegs, with his remaining bandful of Semiroles had refused to leave Florida, has been confirmed by despatches from Gen. Blake. Tho latter gentleman recommends the making of a contract with the Creeks to drive out the Seminoles at so much per head; but the head of the War De- partment very humanely thinks that it would be more advisable to set surveyors to work, protected by a strong force, and thus coavince Billy and his followers that the government is in earnest. Of the two plans, Gen. Blake’s would probably be the moat successful, though it would not redound to either the credit of our own soldiers or the chris- tianity of our people. Hon. Charles E. Stuart, democratic member of the House of Representatives, has been elected to the United States Senate by the Michigan Legislature, in place of Hon. Alpheus Felch, whose term will expire on the 4th of March. During his career in the House, Mr. 8. has wonthe reputatiou of a most indefatigable worker, and for that reason, it is thought, will prove @ very valuable acquisition to the Senate, which, at this time, appears to be rather in want of men of this description. The message of Governor Lowe was duly delivered to the Legislature of Maryland on the 6th inst. It is an able document, and presents the various mat- ters affecting the interest of the State in a very for- cible and comprehensive manner. It exhibits the prosperity of the internal improvements, and shows the financial condition of the government to be on @ most favorable footing. He recommends the re- duction of taxes, and particularly aims at the stamp tax, which, he says, falls so heavily on the com- mercial interests. He also thinks that the debt of the State can be liquidated in ten years. A despatch from Louisville announces the killing of six firemen by the collapsing of a flue on beard the steamer John Simonds. The intelligence from Mexico is interesting to the few friends that unfortunate republic still possesses The Monitor, of Mexico, recommends Congress to grent supreme and extraordinary powers to the government, in order to save the country from falling into the embraces of the United States. Those who are desirous of obtaining a complete history of the Japanese empire, the peculiar manners imprisoned for four years and eight months in the | ®D4 customs of the people, &c., are recommended to Grand Duchy of Tuscany for possessing and pe- | read the letters of Mr Palmer, which we to-day rusing the sacred Scriptures. The sufferings of these | publish. These documents are replete with interst wnfortunate persons have aroused the sympathi The gale last Tuesday appears to have been of a @f the friends to religious freedom throughout | far more destructive character than was anticipated. mest of the nations of the Old World, and | The telegraphs announce that many vessels have delegations, headed by ono appointed from | been driven ashore at different points along the England, have waited upon and in vain endeavored | °°4*t, from Maine to Charleston; and from the re- to move the Grand Duke in behalf of his vistims. | POTS of the severity of the blow, it is feared that | It now remains for the inhabitants of the United | Bumbers of those who were a short distance at sea Btates to exert themsclves, and, in conjunction | *™ered dreadfully. with the friendly offices of the President, secure, if | _ The Board of Aldermen met last evening, and ad- possible, the release of the captives. The statement | J9¥7ned after the transaction of some ordinary rou- of the facts, together with the speeches delivered | tine busines. In the Board of Astistants the arsess- last evening, were of a very eloquent character, and | ment list was amended and the name of Isaac Ed- elicited the heartfelt responsos of the large au- | wards was substituted for that of Abner Sanford, as dience. Our reporters have furnished a graphic ac- | collector. It was ordered that the annual Manual eount of the proceedings. | of the Common Council, for the current year, be We elsewhere give the latest and most authentic | P'Psred. Messrs. Barker and Wells presented the particulars of the awful railroad catastrophe by report of a special committee appointed to revise which Gen. Pierce was instantly deprived of his | the rules and ordinances of the Board. The report only child. It will be soon that several ladies and | recommended that the fourteenth. thirty-third, and gentlemen were severely, though it is to be hoped | thirty-eixth rules be amended. The report was or- not fatally, wounded. When we reflect upon tho | Jered to be laid upon the table. The Bosrd con- nature of the aczident, and the fact that the car, | curred with a messsge from His Honor the Mayor, which was crowded with sengers, was literally | nominating Mr. G. W Matsell to the office of Chief fe sat ideas na A of Polise. Both Boards meet next Monday. The deplorable effects of the spiritual manifosta- tions, or epiritual knockers, was exhibited yester- day before Coroner Hilton, who held an inquest on - the body of Martian Langdon, an unfortunate man riven into fragments, it seems almost miraculous | that more persons were not killed. It is pleasing to | dearn that Mrs. Pierce was not injured, and that she | is gradually recov coring from the terrible shock she | has received. Among other interesting items furnished by our special Washington correspondent this morning, is the announcement of a contemplated union of the democratic members of the two houses of Congress, in order that the adoption of the resolution of Gen. Cass, re-aseerting the Monroe doctrine, may be amply backed by the proposed secret service fund | of five or ten millions for the new Prosident. This is right. The democrats throughout the country | east aside all sectional prejudices, and united | to place Gen. Pierce at the head of affairs, and they now naturally expect their representatives to wnite and extend to him every facility for carrying | out their principles to the full measure. Our cor- respondent remarks that cabinet speculations are dying out, though there has boen some informal Osucussing among « portion of the New York Con- gresemen, in which, it is u stood, they expressed & willingneés to forego all claims to any post higher ‘than that of Attorney General. If they will oaly keep quiet, and refrain from opening old wounds, our State may possibly get something better. Past _eyerts thould teach them that everything is to be gained by harmony, and nothing but certain dofoat by dissension. Let harmony bo the order of the day, all around { | | who committed suicide by cutting his throat, having | evidence taken by the Coroner will be found ia this become a believer of the spiritual communion. The day’spaper. It is about time that the Courts and Grand Juries took cognizance of the impositions practised on weak-minded people. | A man was killed yesterday by the blasting of a | rock in /"ifty-ejghth street. The particulars will be | made known at the Coroner’s inquest this day. The eystcm of blasting rocks inthe upper part ef the city appears to be carried on in a very reckloas manner. | The steamer America, with one week’s later news | from Europe, had not reached Halifax at midnight. She is now in her fourteenth day Our inside pages to-day contain the importa proceedings at the last Annual Meeting of the New | York Histc y; report of the Meeting of the | Oneida Ind'ai ionaries; Norfolk Correepondence, | giving an account of the late terrible storm; cews from Texas; Obituary Notices, and much other entertaining matter which it is unnecessary to par- ticularize. Tue Burtiso FLeer aT HavANA—AN AMERICAN | Verssét SeancoeD —In one of our articles of yes- | | terday we took oceasion to say, apropos of the fleet | nently before the public and the government, and it was supposed, from the prodigious diplomatic bustle at Washington, that they would be brought toa satisfactory and permanent settlement. indeed, after many months of suspense, it was finally pro- claimed that they had really heen adjusted, at tho cost of vast labor and through unequalled skill, by Mr Clayton, upon bebalf of the United States, and Sir Henry Bulwer, upon the side ef Great Britain. The prodigy which these national midwivee in- troduced to the world was a treaty, or “‘conven- tion,” which has since obtained some notoriety ag the ‘Clayton and Bulwer Treaty.” This treaty, it was vauntingly announced to the world, was not only intended to settle all dispates in Central Ame- rica, and terminate forever the pretensions of Great Britain in that quarter, but to dispose, permanently, of “The Musquito Question,” and secure and gua- rantee to the general good and welfare of mankind all existing and all possible modes of communication between the two oceans.— The only article, however, which had a political bearirg, or which really touched the chief question in which the United States was interested, namely, that of British aggressions in Central America, was as follows:— Axricix I.—The governments of the United States and Great Britain hereby deciare. that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or muintain for itself any ex- clusive control over the raid ship canal; ing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or os- cupy. or fortify, or colonize, or assume. or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua. Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, oF any part of Central America; nor will either make use o} any protection which either affords or may afford, or apy alliance which either has or may have to or with any Btate or people, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying. or colonizing Nicarsgua, Costa Rica, the Mos- quito coast, or apy part of Central America, or of assuming or exerciting dominion over the same ; nor will the United States or Great Britain take advantage of apy intimacy, or use any alliance, connection, or in- fluence that either may possess with apy State or govern- ment through whose territory the said canal may pase, for the purpcse of aequiring or holding, directly or indi. rectly, for the citizens or subjects of the one, any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or navigation through the said canal which shall not be offered on the same terms to the citizens or subjects of the other. Under the belief that this article not only terminated all existing British pretensions, but guarded against them for the future, and that it restored to the Central American States, but especially to Nicara- gua, all the territories of which, under one pretext and another, they had been deprived, it was ratified by the United States Senate. This construction, it would appear, was accepted by the Senate, on the authority of the negotiator, and not deduced by its members from a careful consideration of the terms of the treaty; for, stripped of all of its high-sound- ing phrases, it will be found that it amounts to very | little. It ie nothing more than a dexterous play on words, and means anything or nothing, and may be read backward or forwards, az interest or policy may dictate. Such was the view taken of it at the time by those who were best acquainted with Central | American affairs, and the result has proved the ac- | curaey of their judgment. It is true Mr. Clayton claimed that it not only terminated the pretended British protectorate on the Mosquito shore, but freed Central America from | all further ensroachments. The British govern- | ment, on the other hand, asserted that it recognized | and confirmed that protectorate, and it continued to maintain not only the same relations which it had previously sustained with the Mosquito savages, but followed out systematically the aggressive policy which it hed previously pursued. The construction put upon the article by Mr. Clay- ton was explained in his letter to Mr. Squier, dated May 7, 1850. He then said:— ‘We have never acknowledged, and never can acknow- ledge, the existence of any claim of sovereignty in the Mortquito King, or any other Indian in America. To do 60 would be to deny the title of the United States to her ownterritory. Having always regarded the Inlian title as a mere right of occupancy, we can never sgree that such a title shouldever be treated otherwise than as @ thing to be extinguished at the will of the discoverer of the country. Upon the ratification of the treaty, (the Clayton and Bulwer treaty.) Great Britain will no I have any interest to deny this principle which she bas recegnized in every other case. in common with us. Her protectorate will be reduced to @ shadow—stat nomines umbra—for she can neither occupy, fortify, or colonize, nor exercise dominion or control in any part of the Morquito coast, or Central America. ‘To attempt to do either of these things, after the exchange of ri ‘tions, would inevitably produce a rupture with the United States. By the terms of treaty. neither party cam pro- tect to occupy, nor occupy to protect. Not only so; but ina speech made subsequently, at Wilmington, (Delaware,) Mr. Clayton distinctly | asserted that General Tayler desired to recognise the Nicaraguan title to the Mosquito shore by the Nicaraguan treaty ne- gotiated by Mr. Kquier; but left the question, after sub- mitting ¢hat treaty to the Senate, with an avowal of his willingness to ratify it, to be decided as the Senate should think proper. Buch being the construction of the treaty, as pro- claimed by Mr. Clayton, what wore its practical re- sults? It waa signed April 19, 1850; ratified, and the ratifications exchanged July 4, 1850; and pro- claimed July 5, 1850. Two years anda half havenow | elapsed, and yet England persists and insists on her | Mosquito pretensions, and the port of San Juan, wrested from Nicaragua by British arms, in 1848, still remains under virtual English jurisdiction, and under the guna of a British vessel of war! Nor has Eng- land contented herself with an unyielding hold on her assumptions anterior to the proclamation of this treaty. In August, 1851, more than a year after it was perfected, a British vessel of war appeared in the fine and commanding harbor of Ruatan, an island belonging to the republic of Honduras, a State of Central America. The captain of thie vesiel, an officer named Jolly, then proceeded to or- The House of Representatives yesterday passed | maintained by Great Britain on the coast of Cuba, | ganize the island as a dependency of Belize, some- thirty four private bills, including one relinquishing to Ohio the unfinished portion of the Cumberland that it required the American government tobe on | the alert to grapple with contingencies which are | times called British Honduras. Andin July, 1952, (July last,) a proclamation was made from Belize, road in that State. The Naval Appropriation bil | almost certain to arise from the operations of this | as follows :— was reported, and referred to the Committee of the Whole; and without transacting any other Lbusinecs, | the House followed the example of the Senateon the | day previous, and adjouraed till Monday, ia order | to give members an opportuaity of participating in he inauguration of the equestrian stetue of Jack- gon, which takes place this day—the thirty eighth maniversary of the battle of New Orleans. Never, within the bistery of this State, Lave # many important Lilis been brought forward so soon after the assembling of the Legislature as ut the In most of these measures tae | | | force. We did not conceive, however, that we should eo soon see the necessity of this warning being attended to; but the Charleston Courier nar- rates a circumstance which proves the correctness of our previsions. From this journal we learn that the American schooner Aid, which arrived at that port from Cardenas, on Saturday last, was boarded on her passage from Matanzas to Cardenas, by the officers of a British sloop-of-war, who searched the ‘oughly and overhauled her papers The shove is the meagre outline which is fur- ves | | | Present session. nished of an incident which must be regarded in | poople of this city are decply interosted, end for | the ight of an unwarrantable exersise of a | that reason itis hoped that our legislatora wil! cure | ¢r the part of the ofllcer in command of the sloop fuily delibe | ofwar. Wo are ail fer that be was o final de cruising int ngaged in the elave is the joint resol ¢ ade, anc m that ¢ Aid wa pointment © duty is shall be | one of th We ere not to report 2 t of the casak 2 y uowar This subject bids fair to ag me tho lea hal ace tra topic of digcnsvion and oxe That @ ux | ty ¢urr f is from jouity of the | of this prot ut the sam admit the exi to have the canals saed of Brit n but then it uld be r b work must be 1 the w The law ia pe y: I 4 : tance to our own inons Ie introdaced t Genator Tabor, whick vtopos hibit ; #truction of any ork exec epecial permiss' watch the fate gassed, it will ef om of granting rai Counsil, despit property along the tv the report of th many other meee o] great moment introduced; to which we Sve bo room to rio | 1 ter Coner ne eaccessful portios js tod mat th e a Hompehire Logiste | x oC ornia by th 6 act larga mojority, in tho | ? This ie the first link gained for a chain of Be. oto’s ree n deprecstory, of ther ‘ , which the ja the conatit sof that State. It ts biaster G as now under sdvisemont bable that ihe people of the camer Albatross leaves to-day for Vera Cruz, wi) Within a y oar 9 dave Vals fou! aa { trip \o urgauize this line and route | PROCLAMATION. Orrice or THe CoLostat Srckerany, Beuizr, July 17, 1862. This is to give notice that Her Most Gracious Ma- jeaty our Queen has been pleased to constitute apd make the islands of Rua‘an, Bonaecca, Utilla, Barbarat, Helene, and Morat, to be a colony, to be known and designated as “The Colony of the Bay Islands.”’ ‘By command of Her Majesty's Buperintendeut. AUGUSTUS FRED. GORE, Colonial Secretary. God Baye the Queen! And this has been the’practical commentary on the | Clayton and Bulwer treaty! Such are the tangi- ble results of two and a half years’ experionco of ita bleeeings! It has disgraced us amongst foreign nations, and discredited us, and weakened our influ- erce amongst the States of Central America, | whom we deluded with the pretence that it would | bring a redress of thoir grievances. AND Nassav ses. | naval forces from the coast, and, of course, by such | portance deserves. Two years ago they were promi- | two years ago, the government of Nicaragua asked to kncw if the construction given to the treaty by Mr. Claytom was the true one; but to that request mo an- swer has to this day been given. The inquiry was afterwards repeated, with no better success. The imbecile administration of Mr. Fillmore, if it did not concur in the interpretation put upon it by Great Britain, certainly connived at its violations, ae construed by its negotiator on the American side, by the Senate, and the public at large. And now, when asked how has the treaty beon observed, it stultifies itself by professing entire ignorance. And no doubt it is ignerant! Does it know nothing of the open establishment, within six months, of an English colony in the is}ands of friendly republic, whose rights thie treaty affects to guarantee! The fact is notorious; it has been published and placarded, end undergone every variety of proclamation; ard yet Mr. Fi'lmore knows nothing of it! Of courae he does not ; nor does he seem to care more about it than he knows. Does this administration know that the negro puppet of England is still sustained in shirtless grandeur on the Moequito shore by British power ? and tbat the port of San Juan is still kept from its rightful possessors by Evglish force? Has it forgot- ten that American vessels have been fred upon in this port by British cruisers, because they did not chooze to submit to the arbitrary exactions of a British Con- sul? No! Itknowsnothing! Itcannot say whether England continues to ‘ assume or exercise dominion over any part of Central America or the Mosquito shore,” nor whether it has founded “ colonies” there! In fact, it does not know whether solemn treaties are kept or violated ; but it can insult a friendly republic by dismissing its representative without a reason, and compromiso our national honor by refusing a reply to the just and anxious inquiries of that republic, upon points affecting its vitality, and which the United States had assumed to guard. The Clayton and Bulwer treaty, therefore, no matter what its intent and purpose, is s pompous nullity. It was negotiated upon a false principle, and has produced no good result; bu:, on the con- trary, only further complicated the matters which it profeesed to adjust andsettle. What then isthe con- duct to be observed towards it? Clearly to give notice to terminate it within ninety days. Why should its useless bulk cumber our action, when, so | of England, it constitutes a cloak under which sho | more effectually carries out her derigna? Away with it! Away with it to the constitutional guillotine! We want neither tripartite, nor dualistic treaties; but an energetic and faithful enforcement of the exclu- | sion of European, and especially of monarchical, in- terference and influence both from the domestic | affairs and from the relations of the American States. We trust, therefore, not only that the requisite measures will be taken to put a period to this diplo- | matic abortion, but algo that, in the general giving up of its dead of the State Department, all the documents connected with it, as well as the subse- qaent extraordinary project for partitioning Nicara- gua, and creating a Mosquito kingdom, will bo called for, and exposed to public condemnation. Let this Augean etable of diplomacy be swept of its | rubbish, and a new start taken in our relations with the world, upon broader, higher, and purer princi- ples. The work has been well begun. Let it go on. Melancholy Suicide—Spiritual Manifesta- tions, In another part of this paper will be feund the melancholy narrative of the death of one of that deluded class of individuals who have allowed their minds to be led away from the path of common sense by the impostures of those arch humbugs, the soi-disant spiritual rappers. He died by his own hand, hisintellect being, of course, beyond his con- trel, and his reason on this one point a total wreck. Constant communings, as he fancied, with another world, had unfitted him fora sojourn in this ; for one whose habitual companions are the shades of the departed, the converse of the living could have but few attractions. Insane he was, no doubt, but still not @ prey to such a form of insanity as is familiar perceptive faculties unimpaired, his reasoning powers on most subjects complete, his sense of right and wrong correct, and to all outward appearance he was calculated to be a valuable member of society ; but, on the single question as to the rela- tion of the dead and the living, his notions were so radically wrong tha’, from his point of view, death must have been a desirable consummation, and a future state the acme of bliss. What comparison can there be, to the mind of a believer in spiritual earthly ltfe and the glorious existence of 2 spirit, acting, thinking, and wa‘ching over those who are dear, and contemplating, from an eminence far re- | moved feom cares or passions, the trials, tempia- | thie world? Had we faith implicit, none of us would hezitate for an instant if the choice were of fered us. Suicide in the cage of the deceased scom- ed tohim alogical, reazonable act. You cannot blame him, you who encourage, the juggleries to which he fell a victim; on the contrary you ought to envy him. Leading, asa belief in spiritual manifestations must do, to insanity in one form or other, the pity which is at first awakened for those who are deluded by the votaries of the creed quickly changes intain- dignation, and the sense of the ridiculous is soon | overpowered by a strong feeling of anger. Ono can conceive, perhaps, that nurserymaids and boarding- school girls,in whose minds a love of the marvellous too often prevails over more rational impulscs, should honestly believe that their grandmother spends the evenings, when she is not otherwise en- gaged in Paradise, thumping on tables, or dancing a rather violent jig with her favorite arm chair— | that the good old dame isas chatty as ever, and be- ing deprived of more convenient means of articula- tion, has receurse te a acale of percussions on the floor or the table, and cheerfully resigns herself to a some- what copious use of the monosyllables yes and no; that | the epirit, which bas obviously taken some trouble } to visit the eublunary world, is, notwithstanding, far from proving an impediment to the assumptions | to the medical faculty ; his memory was good, his | visitations, between the chequered web of a mere | tions, triumphs, and disappointments of the men of | quite content to convey to her dear relatives harm- | | less little pieces of intelligence, generally bearing | | on the number of her children, thoir age, and t! Mr. Everott might very well have quoted this | place of residence, and seldom iadul ges ia any re troaty es ample of the impolicy as well as the | lation morepetounding than the fact that she hor ity of entering into “ entangling al » | self was married twice, aud trusts the questi with European pows re yof the | willbe w good girl. That young ladies and oven countries lvery argument which | boys ahou'd be found to believe all chia, we must, tella with equal | perhaps, admit; but wearo bound to express our ¥ ancound | utter wawillingness to oredit the fact of th er 1 and Franeo im | tion of any sane man, in the po ‘on of his full ag nor lest ao t yeopre re gon, t and thoroughly nize 0 England in 1 ta Central | absurd or be not cor A mando o groat’and radical of i the ont of | in the pre ia errcd still more deeply when he joined Eng- | petled r opinion that a H projet for partitioning the ly State | man who ger’ has communed ams of a * Moxquito King | tiewlar point, mad His madness may not be dan G reeult can ever flow from com gorous—he may be to distinguish tho for any purpose affecting this e round of @ hammer floor from the rap eT is broad ¢ of a gh knuckles nocessarily g ’ i) g enough, his wife and ting the baby—he may ve ee i sense y of the couatry, to rapel | that a bold-faced fernnie, wh iety on earth had any borized i fc vire or upon | never been perticularly selec, bas a large he rights of any of jean § | acquaintance in beave without fancying If T on i t treaty was ratified, a8 | the Shah of Persia, or mistaking Betsy the cook for a distinotly aegeeris, under the assurance and | Queen Victoria ho will ne ‘that all of the power, dominion, and con- | ly and hopelessly mad trol of Groat Britain in Central Ame f mind, the ingenious 5 away by it.” Nor was he alone in in the Germen theory aod understanding of it. Senator Do may at first div bie atte wise yoted for its ratification, also » b | whose death we this day chronicle, is by no means | treaty is concluded. Indeed, we doubt whether it would | the world as the cole example of such juvenility of talent er | MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. Fatal Effects of Spiritual Manifestations— The Coroner’s Inquest—Verdict against the Rew York “ Knocker” Meetings. Om Wednesdsy morning last we reported « case of attempted suicide, by a man named Martin Langdon, who resided at No, 91 Eleventh street. The unhappy man made an effort to destroy kis life, by outting his- throat with a knife. He was removed from his lately happy home to the hospital at Bellevue, where he died,” at an early hour on Thursday morning. from the effect of the wound and & co existing derangement of his general health, affecting his brain more immediately. Soroner Milton held an inquest upon the body yesterday; and the ample report which we give of the testimony taken at the inquiry, will unfold to our readers # sad and authenti- cated bittory of @ useful lifelost, a wife widowed, and am only child orphaned, by means of the operations of those miserable delusions practived under the name of spiri- tual knockings or manifestations. The deceased was @ printer by trade, and of very steady habite of industry.’ Some months ago be lost » daughter, by death, which produced in him a very desponding state of mind. When enerrated from this cause, end bis previous course of reading such publications as the Spiritual Telegraph, and Mountain Cove Journal, he got introdaced into what are called “circle meetings,” held tu this city, where his mind was 60 acted upon by chariatanism axid imposture, that be was mad to believe he would become a seeing ‘mediuin and that them he could hoid converse with his beloved child, We would call attention te that part of the testimony of Mrs. Langdon where she narrates a part of bis training for this spiritual communion. It was to be accomplithed by his sitting in a dull, stupid mood for an hour each cvening—b7 a disruption of the endearments of his home—by a neglect of his, then only, child and wife, and by cloze attention to the meetings of the knockers, or rappers, ig the various houses named. Let our philorophers and literati, who sanction the visionary thecry with their names, ponder upon the ef- fect of their doctrines aud practices. A hitherto vigor- ous brain became clouded, and the unhappy monomantac. ended his existence in a state of insanity, and almost by his own hand. Coroner Hilton deserves much credit for his patience and perseverance during the inquiry; and we trust that the Grand Jury will take the recommendation: appended to the verdict into their most serious consideration, and endeavor to protect our people from such baneful in- matter becomes indifferent to him—his duties and responsibilities, se» » member of @ family and society, grow distasteful—when heaven is so near, worldly comfort is not worth the gaining. Enthu- siastie minds-——and these only sre in any danger— soon conjure up an enticing picture of the delights of ghost life; and placing it side by side with the stern realities of positive existence, can hardly fail to give the preference to the former; or if, owing to some peculiar constitution of his mind, he cannot be reconciled to suicide, the monemaniac stops short at the brink—in a atate still more deplorable than death. Loozened from all that makes life desirable, he might well envy the dead. The unfortunate man the most pitiable victim of spiritual manifestations. Orens iy New York.—For a long time past there has been a etrong desire felt throughout this community for the establishment of a regular Italian opera in New York, on ® ecale commensurate with our wealth, taste, and importance. The democratis as well as the uptown classes, the lovers of music, aud the resolute halitués of the theatre, combined in this sentiment with wondrous unanimity. Their desires have now been gratified, and their expectations more than realized. Nor are we merely restrained to the patronage of one eperatic estab- lishment; but we have now two troupes, led by the two greatest musical artistes of the world, Sontag and Alboni, ‘What could be desired more, or what can London, Paris, or Vienna, present to cope with this’ The natural rivalry which must subsist between these musical Capulets and Montagnes, will probably manifest itself also among thelr respective adherents and ad- mirers. The beautiful, fascinating, and brilliant Sontag will draw around her, in Niblo’s handsome theatre, meg- nificent assemblage on Monday night. She has not yet been heard here in opera. and great anxiety is felt in her debut, which she makes in the rd/e of Marie, in “The Daughter of the Regiment” We anticipate, therefore, an immense house at Niblo’s on Monday, while at the Broadway the great attractien of “La Somnambula” cannot fail to exercise « like influence. The contest be comes exciting. One word of advice : Secure your seats early. Paci Jevies, tHe Youre Frenen Viorry ist.- It has been recently rumored that this celebrated young artiste had fluences. accepted an advantageous cngagement which had beon é , offered to him here, but {t ls not yet certain that the uae gentlemen were sworn upon the jury yesterday :— James Dunigan, Michael McCabe, F, Dunigan, The first witness called was Maria Langdon, wife of deceased, being duly sworn, depored—I am wire of the deccased, Martin Langdon ; I lived with my late husband at No. 91 Eleventh street, up to the time he cut his throut ; he committed the act last Monday, between the hours of one and two o’clock in the afternoon ; be had not been very well for three or four weeks previously ; he complained of pain in his head ; he was not very ill until the Thursday before ; he was a printer by trade ; he lived in this city for twenty ears ; we were married nine years ; he had been work- ing at his trade us usual. up to the Thursday before he committed the deed ; he did not work bay Famed from the time he began to complain of his head ; he was employed. by Mr. Lloyd, of No. 188 William street ; upon the Saturday and Sunday night previous to the act he slept none, and he taiked all night; he talked about the epintual manifestations all the time, and constantly ; about ten o'clock, Monday morning. he got up from bed, and after walkin; he fainted ; he re- covered in a few minutes, and I helped him into bed ; he then began to talk as before ; in about an hour he jumped up and wanted to go into the street ; I prevented him going out at the door ; I got him to bed again; and fa etont an hour I heard s noite, and going into the room I found him rolling himself up in the quilt; then he wanted to goto Dr. Gray’s; upon hig going to bed again, he told me to go and mind the child; uhis was the last he spoke, until after he committed the act; [ went into an adjoining room; in @ short time I heard him coughing and epitting; I did not mind this, ae he was in the habit of doing 0; then J heard # gurgling ncie in his throat; upon this i went into the bedroom, and the firet thing’ I eaw was the deceased pulling a pen- knife out from his mouth; he had had it inside his mouth; I would know the knife; I tried to take the koife from him, but he would not give it to me, he resisted me; I left the room, ran across the hal!, and called a man living in the same howe; he is Mr. McMenomy; when this man came in deceased immediately jumped out of the bed and followed me across the hall; he left the knife in the bed; after a little time I led him back to the room again; & man named Mr. Barry, residing up stairs, came down upon hearing the slarm, and made the deceased sit down in a chair, where he held him until the offloers. in; the polieemen took him away. and I cannot tell hat oc curred after that; for the last ten months the deceased has been constactly reading what he called spirituat Reapers: he read the Spiritual Telegraph, and also the fountain Cone Journal; the first payer 1s published in city, the Journal is published, I believe, in Latayette county, Virginia; be did belong to the Methodist church, but since began to read these particalar Patrick Kettey, James Welsh, Michsel Crimuin. be advisable for him to enter into such an engagement. ‘To our mind, he can do no better than to act indepen- dently, and be his own maneger Talent like his, so seldom met with, and cf so high an order of merit, should rely on itself; and we rest assured that the American public, always genercus to deserving merit, will not failto re- spond to his efforts, and that too in a substantial man ner. Paul Julien ia no prodigy—for that word, in its ge- neral scceptance. fails to convey to the mind the slightest idea of his capabilities, Heis an artiste ia thought and action, a boy of but eleven years of age, with the mind and spirit of manhood’s prime=a virtuoso on the violin—and yet asimple artless child. Such may appear an incongruity, but the thousands who have been entranced by the dis- play of his marvellous abilities will recognise the truth of our description, There ig a remarkable and praiseworthy feature in young Julien’s course in this country. He came to us unheralded by the trump of newspaper adu- lations or biographical hyperbcle—we were not inundated by over wrought accounts cf the enormous excitements,the great musical triumphs, he had achieved, or the peculiar vicissitudes of ill fortune that marked his early career: He came, with but bis viclin, and said, “Hear me, judge of me;” and presenting himeolf before a New York audience, famous alike for their just discrimination and taste in mu- tical matters, awaited their judgment upon bis perfor- mances. No greater triumph was ever achieved—evenjby more mature crfistes—his success was as unprecedented as it bas been unrivalled. It was the same, if not greater. in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore. and the other cities he bas visited. With this reputation what has he to fear? He has passed the ordeal of critielsm. Besides, itis not known that he is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris, the very temple of the ssience, aud one too who reflects credit on his alma mater. Such a title is the most flattering that can be bestowed on hin— for he gradusted at an age people seldom sttain the privi- lege of entering so high s school—and he stands before across the room and capability of advantageously exercising it. Let Paul Julien but try the public on his own account, and we are confident they will sustain him, meomed rhol: absor | true Eaverriian Brarve ov duorson —he iron equas- | PART! E*_ mind seemed | whol, sbeerbed tm trian statue of General Andrew Jackson, which has just | the spiritual circles in York for the last ten months; for three or four weeks previous to his decease, he went. tothe circles very frequently ; during this latter period he visited them twice @ week; one circle meeting waa held at Mrs. Fish’s, in Seventh avenue, near Twenty se- cond street ; another met at Mrs. Clackley’s, in Sixth avenut, near to the ccrner of Cwenty-second strect ; another meets at Mrs. Riker’s, in Tenth avenue, near to Twenty-fourth street ; all of these ladies bave husbands living ; my husband toid me that at Mrs. Fish’s circle, each person attending the meeting paid one dollar each night of meeting ; my husband was not able to pay, and they let him in without pay ; they somet do 20; de- ceased told me that Mrs. Clackiey wished me to attend the meetings; I went one time to Mrs. Clackley’s for about an hour, but I got so much frightened I would not go ; this was between three and four months ago ; it was upon a Sunday evening ; Mrs. Clackley, upon that pight, by an extraordinary motion of her hands, and. placing them upon hie head, metmerized my husband and put bim to sleep ; she also meemerized Mrs Searles, of No. 110 Monroe street, who accompanied us; Mra Bearles was put to rleep first ; she then made passes over her eyes, her head. and her arms ; Mrs Cearles sat still for about ten minutes; there may have been ten or fifteen persone present in the room ; Mrs, Claokley would not allow talking in the room ; after Mrs. Searles awoke, Mrs. Clackley went to put a mun asleep, and she would not allow talking ; another man in the room interfered, and prevented her operating on the other ; she told this man to be quiet; next she put my husband to sleep; she put his right band upon the top of his head snd told him to hold it there; he held it so for nearly ten minutes; he took it off bimselt ; after chis he opened his eyes: and I then come away, for I was frightened; after we got in- to the street he his head ° feit very bad”; what made me afraid was that Mrs. Clackley seid there were so many spirits im the room; #bhe said that when her hand moved it was the spirits tnay meve ir; we went straigat home; Mre. Clackley told the company that she was « medium. and the spirits manifested themselves through her; about War weeks previous to this meeting, the deceased told me that Mrs Viacki-y and Mra Riker ssid be should sit still for one hour, et nis own house, every night, and this would prepare him to becomes seeing jum ; he did £0 nearly every night after; ho would not allow me to speak to him during this time; I did not doso but minded my work; he purrued this course until withir ‘been completed and placed in Lafayette square, in Wash- ington city, will be inaugurated to day (the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans) by the proper public cere- monies and display, in which the government authorities, including the President of the United States and his Cabinet, will take part. Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, U 8. Senator, frm Ilinois, will deliver the oration; end Colonel G. W. Hughes, of Maryland, will act as Marshal om the cecasion. At the conclusion of the dedication, a banquet will be given in Jackson Tiall, which, judging from the preparations which have been made, will be a most brillient affair, City Intelligence. New York Acavemy or Mepicine.—The annual mest- ing of the Academy of Medicine was held at the New York University. on Wednesday evening. when the fol- lowing officers were eleoted for the ensuing year .— President—Teaac Wood, M. D. Vice Presidents—¥. Campbell Stewart. M. D.; Edward L Beadle, M. D.; William Detmold, M.D ; Willard Par. ker, M.D. Recording Secretary=8 A. Purdy, M.D. Assistant Secreta y— Jenkins, M. D. Treasw er—James 0, Pond D. Lin aria ‘hos. Cock, Jr., M.D. Dowesiie Corresponding Secretary—J. W. Wubbara, M D Foreign Corresponding Secretary--8. ©. Foster, M.D Tue Wratser remained wild and clear, with a cloud- lees rky. from daybreak yesterday morning until the night clored in, During the early corning the air was a litttle cold, but from noon until evening it was as balmy a8 an advancing spring. The thermometer at the Henatp Building Fanged: Atnoon, 44 degrees; at 3 P. M., 451g degrees; at 6 P. M., 43 degrees. Ata late hour of the night we had a starry sky, with « mild air, and a promise of continued fine weather. Mr. Wiriiam Scrvvter—Bvurrosep Traces or Him -~ Our readers will recollect that this gentleman, whose continued disappearance has given rise to so much un- easiness amongst his triends, was last seen in this city upon the Wednesday (December 22d) before Christmas day, He wes then in South strect, between Moore and | three or four days of the time at which he cut his throat; Whiteball streets. Next (Thursday) mornipg, an in- | from the time that deceased became acquainted with this turance watebman found @ portion of the breast of a | medium, Mrs Clackley, hiv health seemed to decline; this cloth coat, a piece of the bosom of # linen shirt, a sus- bout three months ago; I never heard him threatem wi self-destruction; before deceased became acquainted with any of the mediums he wasa strong miaded man; I have now one child living. aged three years and three months; as deceased got iil he would not notice the child oat all; he always treated me well —(A knife chown te witness by the Coroner)—I know that knife to be the one ho drew from his mouth; he had {t. for correcting his proof when at work; I had another child, a girl, and it died ten fete ol the death of this ohild affected decensed good deal; the spiritual peopls told the deceased that If he became a seeing mo- dium he could see his ohild ; it was for this he consuited the medium, or knockers; he told meif he could see his child be would fet! sutiafiv 1; deceased told me that thie was the reason be practiaed for a medium, and also con- sulted them; when I sail hat Mrs. Searles was put to sleep I b@leved the bad dren so, from the fact that hex heed droopod upon her breast. snd she had hor eyes closed. ender, and an tha fn of an umbrella, upon pier No. 2, Kast river. These articles are supposed to have belonged to the missing gentleman; and a relative of his was making inquiry yesterday for the watchman by whom they were found. The police should look sharp. Suppen Deatn.—A woman named Mary Ianlon, aged about forty years, a native of Ireland, was received yes- terday afternoon into,the Bellevue Hospital,upon a ticket ‘iven her by the Almshouse authorities in the Park. The poor woman died immediately after admission. Coroner Hilton empannelled a jury andtheld an inquest upon her body. Thomas Haley, Clerk of the Mos. pital, produced the regular admission tieket brought by the dectared. Dr. K. T. Bryan. house physiciai pored to the symptoms presented by deceased upor miseion, and that he had ordered warmth and stimula) she died before they could be alwinistered. Verdict— Death from exhaustion conrequent upon exposure. Faran Accipest raom Biastixa.A very serious agci- dent, terminating fatally, occurred from the blasting of rocks ast Thurtday afternoon It appears that aman named Cornelius Crimmin, in the emp nent of Mr. Vanderpool, of Fifty-eigbth stre ad avenue, hed retired from bis work, and n¢ of the arles who was in attendance by order of Goro- n, here left the room abruptly, and could not be hen her testimony was required The Coroaec da cubpuna ib order to procure ber testimony. witness Weam M_ D., who being duly sworn, deposed { Offices anon the pramises to est his dine This. mo. \tted to Uhis hospital on Moaday, Jan- ponte Raped, atkinid he Bek boll ‘a: six o'clock, P.M; Lam one of the messy sixty poond e rurgeons Of the hospital: am ivetsion bad been Lgesbpagnlb otal ik. wade in bie throat, two inolwes in leugth ex\ormal iwas wad, bursting through | js owediately along the thyroid eartilege; hemorrhage oo ge og Met mn was Ve a the lips of the wound were ae oe brought in centact by flexing toe head upon the i very mifeh internally, He | Peeve ie tcey much cabausted ; om Tacadag morsirg be was weak but comlorteble; he told ue that Le bad been infiuenced b: ual manifestations, in ¥ hich he exp d his belief, to commit suicide ; he spid that o en months aco, he had lost a daugl under peowllariy sugre tances; he also ea fier seven that hr hoo been eubject to Acs of despondency, an oui heast ¢ neh tin) hed beso promp ed to pub an end to ug. corner existence; in the afternoon & nenoed er his mind.'sna w tie in prayer s nj be epowe of ’ aud bat we her Harris, of wou e Fo winia, of tbe spi and nu; he also at ¢ hospital to pre water Prev by terion congreg wl-o used duri No emuse is at uttempts we for @ portion of than mained ia much thy sa~ was quiet he would take hie meticigos iment and wis anxious to recover; at wend refure a!) medicines and noveieh ‘and epenk of the certatnty of death ; he thea wae 18 10 aie; the ear of Wedov#tny night bs ik look Te arsuay, taoratag roomed to dwell upsr niked aud prayed tho 10 ‘wa nt known of th street withia wa hou cently entered on night, a» liv hed eteeog’h: he died in the pants. M. Watson, | cot that cay ut eight o'clork ; the cause of bis ofthe U. & steaunaz | death wae exbavetion irom ovental excitement and from Ie wound | John Walker being duly swore, deposed=T am a po 3 | Heemen cf thesevesieuth ward; Las not acquainted ly wrerident of Dayton, | wirh the deceased, Twas on duty xt the corner. of Couth y Congress from Nebrnsks | Ftreet and Third nvente; aboat en Monday, taking he Indien wife with him to rd instant, 1 afternoon Olinows same " } wp to me, and we vrocerded ia company to No, Oh