The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1853, Page 4

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Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New York Herat, will be veceived at the following places in Europe — E. Sandford &.(’o.. London. William Thomas & Co., 19. and 23 Catherine st Mvingston, Wells & Co., Paris. B. H. Revoil, 17 Rue de la Banque. The European mails will close, in this city, at haif-past ten o'clock this morning. The Werniy Hrnaip will be published at half past nine o'clock. Single copies, in wrappers ‘The News. First in importance among the large amount of highly interesting intelligence with which we pre- sent our readers this moruing, is the report of the Droceedings in the United States conate sosterday. ‘The speeches of Messrs. Soulé and Cass, with rogarq to Cuban affairs, the Monroe dgctrine, and the tri- partite treaty proposition, would be wel! calculated to arouse the attention of the people of this country to the necessity for a change in the foreign policy of this government, even had nothing been said hitherto upon the subject. The Sonthern Senator had evi- dently prepared himself for the task with great care. He reviewed the question in all its phases, and eontended that the present administration had not a nail left whereon to hang a compliment for ite foreign policy. It was a wholesale, sweeping broad- | side,and one that he supported by documents from the time when England, over one hundred years ago, undertook to acquire possession of Cuba through an out-and-out fillibustero expedition, down to the day when our present administration violated or refused to fulfil a postal contract by not permitting the mails to be carried by a steamer which had an “indi- vidual named Smith’ on board—for the reason that said individual, though guiltless of crime, had be- | «ome obnoxious to the authorities in Cuba. Mr. | Soulé declined to express an opinion as to what | should be declared as the foreign policy of this gov- | ernment, because he deemed it inexpedient and | improper to embarrass the incoming adminis- tration upon this point. He considers that, as | General Pierce has been elected by an over- | whelming majority, he will be found fally competent | | | 4 the railroad in question, that is.@ matter which will, ‘which prhuyry elections ate conducted; ‘ptt, on tarn- ing to the past, it is feaved that they will tind, to ‘Wall ‘Bereet Wall street is active. Sto¢ks are buvyant, come cheaper than tron, for it is intrinsically of little practical utility. Diamonds, if as plenti- lees danger than there is in having three or four watchmen about the place all night. with their own mortttication, that it was ndt merely the | with a steady upward tendency. The semple | fut as common pebbies. would be as valueless, | rousing fires. plenty of lights and. probably, aspirants for local offices in this city who were in- strumental in producing this state efthings. Let not oar kgislaturs forget that if incompetent or un- trustworthy men get into office, they doso through the people, who retain the power, and -will exercise it whenever they deem it expedient, to change them for better men when their terms exphe. It is not the Browlway Railroad ouly—on which the sentiments of this journal are too well known to need repetition— bet our whole municipal system, against which some of the Senators are directing their blows. They ‘would tear to pieces the entire lecal fabric, and hence ttheir course is generally looked upon ‘with disfavor. Let them take heed and not push matters too far, else they may drive the people of this city to resort | toa measure of redress that the remainder of the State will ever after regret. As to the dispute about, in time, be either regulated by the judiciary or the citizens, to the entire satisfaction.of a majority of the latter. A telegraphic despatch from New Orleans makes the important announcement that President Arista resigned his office and lett the cfty of Mexico on the 6th instant. The government troops had again been beaten, in a regular battle, by the revolutionists, who were everywhere triumphant throughout the coun- try. The.return of Santa Anna was confidently looked forward to as an event: that would restore peace and quiet. But how is be to harmonize the discordant elements with a bankrupt treasury? He can only do so by levying contributions upon the wealthy, and a movement of this kind will, in time, cause his overthrow, and again compel him to flee the country. The intelligence received yesterday from Mexico, by the mail from New Orleans, is not so late by three days as that received at this port, and published more than a week ago inthe Hegatp. It embraces only some of the details of the news then given. Tu consequence of the absence of counsel, the Uni- ted States Cirenit Court, at Albany, was yesterday compelled to postpone the trial of those persons who are accused of rescuing the fugitive slave Jerry from the officers of justice, at Syracuse, some eighteen months ago. The case of Enoch’ Reed, the colored man, is to be investigated first. The anniversary meeting of the Methodist Episco- pal Church Society, was held at Buffalo last Mon- .day. The condition of the association is represented totbe most promising. The appropriations for mis- sionary work, during the current year, amount to crease of sixty thousand dollars over the expenditures for the same purpose last year. During the year, missionaries haye been established in France, Tur- key and India, and it is anticipated that their labors | will be produetive of an abundant harvest. Aman named Burke, at Springfield, Mass., yes- terday undertook to jump upon a railroad train while in motion, but, missing his footing, fell under the wheels and was instantly crushed to death. How often we are called upon to record casualties of this kind. A splendid reception is reported to have been given to Thos. F. Meagher, in Boston, yesterday. In the evening he delivered his lecture on Australia, before 4n andience of three thousand persons. Gan. Pierce was in Boston yesterday. The commercial advices received from Europe by the steamer Europa, seem.to have had no effect upon the New Orleans cotton market. Pricesat that place were on Monday reported firm at previous rates. LAST eyeuiip sue save eee ian a very able and eloquent address, at the Mechanics’ Institute, No. 1 Bowery. Subject—‘Knowledge is Powe! He maintained that society was indebted, ina very eminent degree, to the intelligence and industry of the mechanic, and passed a high eulogi- um upon the system of free schools, which, in his opinicn, were of inestimable benefit to the communi- ty. In concluding his lecture, he pointed out how necessary it was for the morality and bealth of the inhabitants of this city that public parks should be established, as in London and Paris, and called upon the working classes to unite together to procure the establishment of such places of recreation. A fall report will be found on our eighth page. The Governors of the Alms-houze met last even- ing, and transacted a large amount of business. Upon the inotion of Mr. Dugro, the committees upon the Alms-house and Work-house were authorized to dis- charge able-bodied men from those institutions, upon the requisition of any responsible person who will secure them work. Messrs. Smith, West, and Her- rick were appointed a committee to proceed to Al- bany in order to procure from the Legislature the necessary enactment authorizing the Common Coun- cil to grant an appropriation of $50,000 to complete the new Work-house. The census of the various in- stitutions under supervision of the governors showed that they contained five thousand two hundred and to carry out their views in any emergency that may arise. Gen. Cass, as did the previous speaker, sup- ported the soundness of adhering to the Monroe doc- trine, and substantiated his argument by a letter from Jefferson, showing that it was a principle not for a day but for all time. In the early part of the day, Mr. Cass introduced a | forty-two inmates last Saturday. This was an in- crease of thirty-two compared with the preceding | week. A statement of the number of vagrants dis- | charged and re-committed during the two years end- | ed last December, was submitted by the clerk. The total number of males and females discharged was two hundred and ten thousand dollars, being an in- | vesolution in the Senate, which was laid over, in- | fifteen hundred and seventy-six. Two hundred and structing the Committee on Foreign Relations to in- | fifty-four were re-committed. A motion to expend quire and report whether any and what measures it | two hundred dollars in the purchase of a new piano is necessary that this government should adopt with | for the Lanatic Asylum stands over. regard to the codicil attached to the Clayton and | Last evening was celebrated, with great éclat, by Bulwer treaty, which declares that the treaty is notto | the Burns’ Club, at the Astor House, the auniversary be construed as interfering with the possessory rights of Great Britain in British Honduras. The House | hill for the suppression of frauds in the prosecution | song prevailed till an advanced hour. The affair | of claims by Congressmen and others, was so amended as to include executive officers, and to | punish all attempts to make way with public papers, after which it was passed by the Senate. The morning hour was yesterday consumed by the | House of Representatives in the consideration of the , New York Branch Mint bill. It is pleasing to learn that the opposition to this measure, on sectional grounds, is fast disappearing, and that the actual national necessity for an establishment of the kind is daily becoming ma yparent to all disint ted parties. The Deficiency 4 ppropriation bill waa taken np, and among the amendments agreed to was one granting $20,500, ip addition to the $72,000 al- ready appropriated, for the completion of the Con- gressional library. A bill.was reported to establish @ territorial government for Columbia, and a message was received from the President in reply to the reso- lution of inquiry as to whether any officers of the treasury haye ever received exira compensation for their services. The President deems it unnecessary to protect the treasury from unjast claims by any further legislation. That is only his opinion. The Postmaster General has officially announced that the United States postage on all letters to and from France, by wey of England, is twenty-one cents, and en newspapers four cents. collected and retained by the United States. npon the subject, we may as well cali attention to the fact mentioned in @ recent letter from our Paris correspondast, that, in oxcer to ensure the <lelivery of a letter ix that city, it is necessary it ehould contain the name of the stmet and number of the house where the person resides for whom itie des- tined. Otherwise, the letters pre thrown aside at the Paris post office, end seldom or never reach those to whom they are written. way Rail- siption convected the.e- ic of disenssion in the State judge from their speeches, the morality of our puissant Senators has been horribly shocked at the innumerable abuses which they. sup pose have not only been conntenanced, but partici- | pated in, by the members of the New York Common } Council. Thos far Mr. Conger is the only member | who has spoken in favor of the project. Prior to denouncing others so severely, would it not ae well for these sapient le whether they themselves are all immaculate bers from different sections of the State he pernivious evils arising fram the loow manner alleged co nly te y road, and the with, was the Senate yester it be ators to ascertain Mem mpplain of This postage is to be | While | Progress of kind; Professor Davis, on the His ! tory of New Amsterdam, and Professor Y on Chesuistry: proceedings in the varions Courts; local items, | of Robert Burns. The entertainment was of the most révherché description, and mirth, and humor and passed off most happily, With the exception of a little contretemps towards the close. Horace Gree- ley’s account of his ancestry is very funny. We will give a report to-morrow. Miss Bacon delivered the last lecture of the present term, at the Styvesant Institute, yesterday morning, and finished the subject of Oriental Antiquities. She announced her intention of commencing a course of lectnres on Greece, on Monday. Last evening Prof. A. Davis delivered a lecture on “The History of New Amsterdam, or New York as it was in the Days of the Dutch Governors,” at the Hope Chapel, Broadway. He praised the Dutch very highly for their exemplary conduct towards the In- dians, and their honesty towards each other, at the time when they first settled in this country, and con- tended that New York owes a great deal of its pros- perity to the people of that nation. A licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, named Walter Jardine, committed suicide inthe rear of the house No. 135 Walker street, in this city, on Monday night. He seyered the femoral artery, and was found dead in the yard, with razor in his hand. Mr. Jardine had very strong tes- timonials of professional qualification and moral worth, but disappointed expectations, it is said, led him to commit the unhappy deed. Edward McLaughlin, a boy of about sixteen years of ave was instantly killed at the tobacco manufac- tory of Messrs. Hoyt & Co., yesterday morning. The -leeve of his shirt caught in the belt of a wheel, and the shaft drew him upwards, until his head struck a beam, by which the cervical vertibra were dislocated. The steamship Aret is now ¢ days’ Jater news from Muro due with fonr ‘Two weeks’ later advices from California may also be expected at any | mon Necessity | ompels us to defer the publication of | the following among much other interesting read- ‘ ing Rev. Theodore Parker, on the Lectures of Ovr inv ide pages to-day contain much interesting and official War and the Mexiean Boun Report of the Fancial Cor information concerning the Seminole ry Survey; the Annual n of the New York of Janue is shut, Excepiing’e few filibustering, and the-e—in Mexico, in Caffraria. in Burmah, in Chima, end among the «bloody republics of South America—there is universal pesce. The world has taken a new start in the march of improvement and progress. Capital is abun- dant —trade is brisk. employment is plentiful, bread is plentiful, speculation is rampant. the bulis are carrying everything before them, and Wall street is quiet, but active—onward and active ae it never was before. This is one of the wonders of the age. The time was when the change of the British minis- try. or the most trifling modification of the British tariff or navigation laws. er the rumor of.a street fight in the most obseure provincial town of France would tell upon the pulse of | Wall street, and render it feverish and uneasy. | Six years ago, the arrival of half a million of gold-dust, or the shipment of the eighth of a | million of silver, would have told powerfully upon the sensitive nerves of Wall street. A lame duck, but a few years since, knocked off his pegs to the tune of two or three hundred thou- sand, would have paralyzed Wali street, and created a temporary panic in the whole com- munity, During the splendid administration of Gen. Jackson, he found it expedient to remove the public deposites from the United States Bank i and branches, the whole amount ecarcely ex- ceeding twenty millions, which was transferred to certain pet State banks. Who docs not re- |~member the panic in Wall street, and the panic all over the country, at that so called “high- -handed exercise of arbitrary power?” In Van Buren’s time, he found it necessary to remove the government funds from the State banks to the Sub-Treasnry, and the consequence was a regular earthquake in Wall street, scattering helier-ekelter thousands of unfortunate wretches, and drawing into that confined chasm between Trinity Church and the East river sucha swarm | of vultures and buzzards as was never seen he- fore. Who can forget the terrible effect of that transfer of the public funds, of a few paltry mil- lions, upon the whole country? The State Banks suspended and exploded in a feu de joie—mer- chants, traders, workingmen and idlers were ru- ined by thousands all over the land. Credit was destroyed;. confidence was destroyed; and air- built-eastles upen town lots, city sites, country seats, and town houses, vanished like fog be- fore a northwest wind. Universal bankruptey and hundreds of millions of private debts were wiped off the books with the universal sponge of repudiation. And who go stupid as not to know that the entire schedule of our political elections— Presidential, Congressional, and lo- cal—from that day to this, were shaped out, and have been but the consequences of the transfers of a few millions of the public money, more or less, by Jackson and Van Buren, from one, set ehdenentigrien. te another? nas street, and throughout the country and the world, since the terrible financial times of Old Hickory and “the Little Magician!” Califor- nia and Australia forever! We have had a war with Mexico, costing a hundred and fifty millions, and the people have not felt it. It created scarcely a ripple in Wall street; and now, with the prospect of half a dozen wars before us, government stocks and securities are still going upward. A republic is overthrown in France—it does not disturb the bulls of Wall street. An empire, in the teeth of the Holy Alliance, is proclaimed, and formally inaugurated under the Napoleon dynasty—it does not suftice to bring the bears of Wall street out of their holes. The United States Senate proceeds to take up, and, in the face of John Bull, to give life and practical effect to the Monroe doctrine, while all the country is ex- pecting the early acquisition of Cuba, with or without the filibusteroes; but it does not change a muscle in the shining faces of the old rogues of Wall street. They withstood the panic of a threatened dissolution of the Union ‘on the nigger question,” and they are now easy. They” have heard the cry of “wolf” too often to be deceived, except by some visible and real dis- turbance in the horizon. Wall street is active, but quiet. A California steamer arrives with two mi- lions and a half of gold—the real virgin gad —and brings news of another steamer on jhe way. with an equal. or greater amount—it makes no sensation in Wall street. It has be- come one of the regular branches of trade. Still more astonishing quantities of gold are extiact- ed from the mines of Australia. and ser to England; but even there the receipts of the precious metals are becoming an every day story. The activity. and the buoyancy. andthe upward tendency of Wallstreet and the Lonton money market, and the Paris bourse, howe‘er, are mainly due to California and Austriia, Hence, too, the expansion of trade. emigraton navigation, and all the multifarious deprt- ments of industry, in this vast and glorius country of ours, and in Europe. which ve reacting upon Wall stree® and keeping stoks still upwards. Hence, especially, the advanciy tendency of coal. iron. copper, and other mincal stocks—not even excepting the zine stocksw’ the Tribune philosophers, in New Jersey. The fact is, we are in the very midst of career of unexampled financial prosperity; anc gorged to a surfeit with gold, Wall street i} quietly spreading its operations over the coun! try and over the world. But it may be ss that Wall street must sooner or later pect a re-action corresponding to the exti ordinary stimulus it now enjoys. Houses going up in price beyoud all the bounds of a permanent equilibrium—and go of lots and plots and ground rents ; and so of provisious, and so of all the necessaries of life, while fixed sala- ries, annuities, and pensions, and the general compensation of all kinds of labor, win at a stand still. The same may be said of our mer- chante, of all classes. Their rents and expenses are inordinately increased ; but they are de- barred by a general competition from raising their scale of pric It may he urged that | | | | { X- ‘a classes to enforce something of an equivalent or a balance between their pay and their necessi- ties; and that the continually increasing receipts of gold from California and Anetralia, instead of retarding, will only precipitate the revulsion required to restore the proper equilibrium he- | tween capital and labor. The bears already say, why should not an inordinate inflation of gold in the general cir- culation, produce, finally, the same reactionary consequences as an undue inflation of paper mo. Canals, by the Auditor; @ Pogitive Slave Case in Philadelphia ; Thea‘tical and Commer Intel. | ney’ The valne of gold is based npon its sear gence, & ity. Make it ae plentifial ae iron, it will he followed; a general bankrupt law was passed, | | do, and whomever th the end of this state of things must be an ex- | plosion, or # combined rising of the laboring | Let the gold basis, then, of the world’s currency ply. and it must come down. or all other things, labor included, must rise with it. But all this sophistry will not do. The gold of California and Australia has heen turned up just in the nick of time. It was waxted as ac- tive capital to develope the immense resources of our vast country. Those resources are now in rapid course of developement. and the field for labor and enterprise is daily enlarged with the extension of our railroads through the inte- rior. Nor until the full measure of our internal riches are brought into the market. will the activity of Wall street be suspended. Nay. more. with a railroad to the Pacific, the city of New York will take .2nother and a mightier start inthe march to the commercial supre- macy of the globe. Nor will the supplies of gold from the Pacific and the antipodes dimin- ich its standard value materially till all the waste places of the earth are penetrated, and their resources made tributary to civilized peo- ple and the general traffic of mankind, New York city must go onward. and with her mighty progress Wall street will continue active. What effect the enforcement of the Monroe doc- trine, and the work of annexation, may have upon the quiet activity of Wall street. time will soon determine, But nothing short of a disso- lution of the Union.can arrest the + manifest destiny” of New York city; and with its eon- tinuing progress, we must even submit to the supremacy of the bulls of Wall street. Onward! is the word. New Mope or Fruuwwa tue Posie Or- rices.—-A new mode of saving the President the trouble and annoyance of selecting fit and proper persons to fill the offices vacated by the outgoing incumbents throughout the Union, has just been initiated and put into practical operation in various quarters. The old and present method of diseharging this onerous por- tion of the President’s earliest duties. was quite too roundabout and troublesome to suit the utilitarian principles of the universal Yan- kee nation. The style savored too strongly of ~old fogyism,” to be palatable to the go-a-head | genius of the country; and, besides, there was no | reason why the people should not have the first | voice in the participation of the spoils. There- | fore, the system of procuring letters of recom- mendation, and signatures of politicians, attest- ing the qualification of the candidate for the coveted office, has received a blow whieh will probably prove to be its coup de grace. We were first made cognizant of the new and improved method to which we allude, by reading, a few days since, the report of the proceedings of a political party somewhere out in Ohio, who. in the coolest and most systematic manner possible, went to work to cast their votes for the various candidates put in nomination by themselves for the Postmastership and Collector- ship. The balloting being completed. the suc- cessful candidate received a certificate of his Teguan. ~ +a the post, on presentation of which to the Rect oonfidentass suranee that he will be most courteuuty ye. ceived, and legally installed in the office tu which the suffrages of his party had elected him. This is decidedly one of the coolest and quietest manifestations of the power of the sovereign people that we have seen for some time; and its imitation in other quarters indi- cates how much it harmonizes with the general views on the great and important subject of an equable division. We have said that this novel method has found admirers and imitators. Let us verify this statement, by presenting to the public the fol- lowing curt note, received yesterday at the office of the Hxrarp, from Oswego, in this | State :— t | Osweao, Jan. 25, 1853. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Sra—The democrats of Oswego ballotted for Col- | lector of Customs and Postmaster, on Saturday, 22d | inst., with the following result:— ! Postmaster—Samuel R. Beardsley. + 222 | # Willis Sumner... . +213} rity for Beardsley......... 2... cee “9 | Maj J. P Bentley received the unanimous vote of the meeting for Collector of Qustoms. It was the largest gathering of the party ever held in this city. | Democrat. We presume that General Pierce will view with much favor this spirited abnegation of a | custom which, as would seem, is now “more honored in the breach than the observance, ” What is any President expected to know about | the peculiar talents, for office, of individuals | personally unacquainted with him? The club- { rooms are the places to regulate all these little | affairs, and here they will be managed in a | masterly style. The President ‘has nothing more to do except to go through the formality of ratifying the appointments made by the poli- ticians. Therefore, the first official act of his, | we presume, will he to gazette Mr. Samuel R. | i Beardsley to the office of Post master, and Mr. J. B. Bentley to that of Collector of Customs in Oswego, and do the sume with the philosophers elected in Ohio. Now is the time fur Tammany Hall to dispose of all the vacant places in this State. Let the Empire Club sound the rappe/ this evening —let the soft and hard shells, hunkers and barnburn- ers, meet in their strength, in the Old Wigwam, and proceed to divide the spoils by ballot, con- fident that, under the new mode, whatever they y elect, shall be approved of and confirmed by the President. To the work, gentlemen !—the least delay may be dan- gerous, and wisdom lies in vigorous action a. aid: The first perceivable efect of the operation of | catted the new style will be the diminution of the troops of pilgrims now wending their way to- wards Concord. Verily, we ple, and at the head of the whole world inventive genius. our ) Tue Recest Fire iy tHe Boxoep Ware- wousk.—We learn from Washington. that the Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the Col- lector to investigate the cause of the recent re in the Bonded Warehouse in this city. We just. forthe sake of the commereial commu- | |ty. that the investigation will be thorough and | wrehiog. Had the building. with its contents, | len destroyed. it would have rained many of | @ merchants, tor a large proportion of the Pperty is not insured. toswe risks are osidered so great upon that building that Thy merchants are tunable to procure any at aland the few who are insured. pay moet exe trragant rates to the insurance companies, ‘e do not believe in government watchmen feuch a place, unless the merchant derives Sot benefit in better security and cheaper rates, oliurance. A building or factory. Med with erges and farnaces, ond fires blazing away al fight, it might be well to have a watch owt but in a place like this. let the fires be | prqyly extinguished when the building is | clod in the afternoon, and there wonld be fur | | | 1 ous, but impertinent and offensive. At all | duct, and that of its agents in Central America. i appreciated or understood by the public. On Meeting ef the Ten Governors. ‘The usual weekly meeting of the Governors of the Alm: #. house Department was held at four o’clooklast evening, in the office, City Hall? Park, Messrs. West, Henry, Her= revolutionary, or land-stealing enterprives here | be increased beyond the proper aggregate sup- | watchmen in his store all night? And what va- | were present. The chair was taken by Mr. West. The segars. What merchant would have one or two rick, McLaughlin, Dugro, Williams, Pinkney and Smith, , ‘ jue are watchmen if they are to be shunt | minutes of the or eye? meal cl are fie { - jn which a fire ig | ¥sv#l requisitions for supplicsto thedifferent institutions gah of Me” very. “reo Sah ‘The s toi By under charge of the Rourd were read, examined, and } most likely to originates: The Wuth is, | passed, Yome were referred to the proper eommitteos this building contains too much property. | pefore any oider would be given. Upon a requisition fron t Government. in fact. should have nothing | the Lunatic Asylum being read, Mr McLaughlin said 5 to do with the storage business. The English , be considered that establishment as the best and most; f system, of free storage for! bonded goods, is the economically managed of any under the Board. This 4 A introduced here to a | °MBIOR was kenerally acquiesced in. The estimate for, true one, and Is already introduce _} | Rondall’s Islond contained a proposition for the expendi- certain extent. These stores are located at dif- | t..1e of $600 in dagging around the house. Mr. MeLaugh- ferent points, most accessible to the merchants | lin suid it was a bad time of year to commence such work.. ; and the shipping. They are all under the su-} Mt Herrick said, if the work be necessary, let it be: j vision of a government officer, the amount | “e2¢ bY all means: but in the meantime, T move that the $ PER IRON. OF Si ROP ” | matter be referred to the committes to report pon. This } of whose salary the proprietor of the store pays j ,.,.< seconded by Mr. McLaughlin, and petri ’ to the Collector. There are many of these pri Upon the reading of the report from Bellevue Hosplial, vate stores, in various parts of the city, in which | Mr. Herrick said, if the Legislature would jein, an effort. ¢ should be made to enlarge the house aceonunstations more goods are bonded, in the aggregate, than in the government store, costing the govern- ment not one cent, while their own stores are an expense upon the treasury of probably not ! less than one hundred thousand dollars per annum at this port alone. This shows how much more economically a private business can be conducted than a public or government one. The Congress now in session should adopt some measures towards relieving itself from these bonded warehouses, or at least allow the merchant to make selection of such regularly honded store for his goods as he may deem best, which now is often refused, and we are there- fore glad tosee that Senator Hunter has intro- duced a bill of this description into the United States Senate. It is certainly to be hoped that that body will immediately pass it into a law. Mr. Ex-Commissioner WALSH AND WIS VISIT to Nicarnaava.—We published, on Saturday, a letter from Mr. ex-Commissioner Walsh. deny- ing that he was obstreperous and made a row in Nicaragua. when he went out to Central America, (or rather to Costa Rica,) as the bearer of the precious project for cutting up Nicara- gua and creating a Musquito kingdom. Mr. Walch says that he was not delegated to go to Nicaragua; and, furthermore. did not get there until some days after the project had been sig- nally kicked out of doors by the Nicaraguan government. To all of this—as Mr. Walsh seems apt at French—we say tres bien. Yet Mr. Walsh had an interview with the Nicaraguan govern- ment, which he describes as “a simple visit of eourtesy,” and * in which nothing was said or done,”’ on his part. “‘ which could give umbrage to any reasonable man.” But it did give umbrage to every body, and very justly, too, if the ex-Commissioner is cor- rectly reported. We happen to have before us an account of that interview. from the highest possible source in Nicaragua, and we copy it by way of commentary on the ex-Commission- er’s letter. It was written the day after ~ the visit of courtesy.” and runs thus :— Yesterday arrived in this city Mr. Walsh, who was pre- sented, without ceremony, in the office, by Mr. Kerr. Huy- ing already Snished treating with Mr. Wyke, who pre- sented the matter, (i. ¢. the Webster and Crampton pro- jé,) ina moderate and courteous manner, the senten- tions and little respectful style of Mr. Walsh appeared very strange, He seemed to think his mission was to give notice of a matter determined, answering all the obser- | vations made on the subject with a sardonic laugh, emi- nently inappropriate in one professing to be a diplo- matist, and uo throughout a threstening style. I nevertheless gave him my real sentiments, as became the. representative of a weak power in the presence of a st ch ive . and let him SHOE ONG aio uRb Ate’ deste gonadencs, and et him heeded, the dignity and honor of Nicaragua should not be debured. © ® © He referred rudely to Mr. Squier, saying that his conduct in ragua had been condemned by his government, inaxmuech as he had in many things exceeded his instructions, &c. ) Now. we are constrained to say there isa | very clear discrepancy between the story of | our ex-Commissioner and that of the Nicara- guan functionary. which we dismiss with the | single inquiry—if Mr. Walsh had no mission to Nicaragua, wherefore did he mix in what did not concern him? According to his own ac- count. he was merely officious—according to that of the Nicaraguan. he was not only offici- j events. he left an unfortunate impression in the | country; and it will require much care to re- store the confidence and good feeling which ex- | isted there previous to the accession to power of the present administration. Its whole con- | haa been characterized by folly. and we shall wait impatiently for a new order of things. Tae Caaritres or Rica M ‘The charitable | douations of rich men are ordinarily but lite looking over one or two recent sub:crip- tion lists, we find Mr. James Lennox contribu- | ting $25,000, another gentleman $10.000, W. B. | Astor $13,000, and others in sums varying frou | $5,000 to $3,000, for the building of hospitals | and other useful institutions in this city and , | ought 10 goif they there; in his opinion it was too contrasted for the healthy arvan,ement of six hundred innzates. Mr. McLavonun said that he had been throszh the institution last week, and that the people were very com- fortable ; they were not so much crowded @: was ima- gined. special requisition was 1% Hospital, tor a su for the use of the hospital stai Weod and the physicians thought this so necessary, if the Board retused to order it they would purebase ig themselves. My. Witttams said that this subject was frequently be fore the Board. He entertained the opinion hu always dik garding it—it was wrong to furnish those young doe with « pint of brandy a week to make inilk punele , and sanction, by the Board, the teaching them intem- perance at a time that the hospitals were tu of its vie- tims. The staif now had their crackers, clieeso and milk. weekly, which they had not before. | Now they wan inandy, and I would move that the requisition be re- jected, We have added $52 a year for their -ypport, and, iu my opinion, thisis going too far. Mr. TowsseNp supported the: granting of ihe supply, which, he said, was sanctioned by the visiting physicians, men of as high character and standing as any of the Teard, What motives could they have in view except the proper treatment and support of the hospitaiy None whatever; they give their services as the members of this Howrd do, and I think we are not bound to go belind their opinion. Nir. Frvksmy moved that the matter be referred to the proper committee, to report upon at next day ofgmeeting.. le was certain it would then be settled to the satis*action of all pa: ind that this discussion wonld not be re- newed as it had been frequently of late. The following communication was read:-— Dear Sinc—In consequence of the recommendation of the Coroner, at the inguest of the late murler xt Ran. dull’s Island, Lnow petition your honorable body to ap- point me watchman at Randall’s Island. T have been w - New York volunteer in the Inte war with Moxieo, and fought in six battles, and can bring the highest moniais of character and capability, I have a family, and am out of employment, und hope you will take my case into your favorable consideration. With my best regards to you, I remain your most obedient servant, C. H. FARRELL, Sergeant uf New York Volunteors. he Board ot Governors of the Alms- To the Honorable ¢ louse. ‘The communication was referred to the Committee om Randall’s Island Affairs. The interments at the new City Cemetery, Ward's Island. for the week, were reported Number of bodies from the ci real Ne Ward Total, Mr. Ken rk, Su rintendent of Out-door ted his report of the number of vagrants who had been . aoe Th Poor, submit- discharged from, and recommitte] to, the Penitentiary from the year 1850 to 1852. From this it appeared that the by the Board were. Governor Daly Almshou:¢ Males discharges Do G0, Do. transferred to do. Governor transferred to Randall's Island. Lo. lo. Almshou Total males and females.... Re-committed before time expired— Males, Females, jired— Total number ro committed............ 6.2... the following is the census of the various institut upon the 22d instant, as report . 2d ions, ed by the Clerk to the Poard, viz.: Rellevue Hospital. taunatic Asylum, Alinshou; Venitenti . 03 Smallpox Hos Randall's Islan Do. do. City Prison Total.. increase , Mr, Witttams reported from the committee upon the re- organization of the Penitentiary Hospital staff, and re- commended the appointment of a steward to that insti: tution After debate, Mr. Williams withdrew his resola- ticn for the appointment. The entire matter was laid. over for further consideration. It was Propored to make a donation of five hundred dollars to Mr. Shadbolt, a keeper of the penitentiary at Blackwell's Island, who was disabled a year ago, by the loss of his eye, while engaged in blasting rocks for the public service, Mr. Towsskivp moved the grunting of the donation at. this meeting. This was not concurred in by the Govern oth The claim was referred to a committes to repori upon. A medica! bill for $18, for services rendered at Essex market prison, was ordered to be paid, on motion of Mr. Herrick , Mr. Dano had received a communication from a fri in Bordentown, N. J., saying that he would ate knee ber of men, now in the Workhouse, and give thea work at seven shillings a day. He (Mr. D.) would offer the following resclution :— _That the Committees on the Almshouse and Workhouse be authorived to discharge from the Alms and Workhonses, to the order of any responsible person, ates of those institutions, pro: vided the applicant pledges his responsibility to procure them employment elsewhere. Mr. Hogrick said he did not see many able-boui at the institutions at any time. _, Mr. DuGRo said—Of course others would not be taken:but. if any men unnecessarily burthened the public. they i got employment. : The resolution was adopted. any number of mate inm: 1 men P & great peo- | } | are few, devotes the surplus to the poor and | vicinity; and it is no uncommon occurrence to | witness the name of a millionaire heading the | list of-a national or individual want with his .000 or $40.000. People generally ima, and are too apt to give expression to their feel- } ings in the remark. that such sums are but m | drops. the loss of which are felt by the man of wealth no more than that of a cent by x | $500-a-year dry goods clerk thrown into the ' lap of a blind beggar. This may be true, as far as it goes; but if we | were to examine the gross amount which many rich and charitable men in this metropolis ex- pend in charity during a single year. we should | be greatly astonished. Every subseription | that is started for the relief of the starving | needle woman. or the erecti ii | tributes his $5, or 50.000, as the case may be and seareely aday can pass but that he is | upon to administer in silence to the wants of others. We are acquainted with | 4 gentleman in New York. whose an- nual income amounts to about $100 000 | who having first satisfied his own wants. which needy. Thousands of dollars ave yearly stveam- ing from the pockets of the rich towards the re- lief of thore around them, which is unknown to the public at large; and we consider it anfair | and ungenerous tor any one to sneer at the princely donations that so frequently appear and to express their astonishment that the man worth two millions of dollars should not have put down his name for at least $100,000. We believe that thonsands of individual cases of poverty and sudering are alleviated. without the numes of the donors being heralded forth to the public, and pass unrewarded by the ap- planse and approbation of the world; but, in ony | Judgment. it is better that the millionaires, | while living, shonld distribute their riches among the poor, rather than have immense sunt spent in litigation and lawsuit. on their de ceave Trin Frowps War. [tis eaid that about 1.000 volunteers are prepared in Mlorida to take the field ageinst the Seminole Indians, whenever the authori ties say the word. We have late advices from Plor- ida, Init see no mention of the report that Billy Bow lege had “ declared war against the United States,” nor any reference to a massacre of troops, os stated ip the Ravaineh papers. tion of the hospital | s headed by some wealthy individual, who con- | | Canton, ovrived at this post last night, having left ostor | tore the operation her person me: { Seven inches in circumference; in the same place she | HOW Measures seventeen inches, Mr. Towniop said, that previous to adjournment, he * would wish to warn the Board that some acti yuld be ; taken with reference to the asking for a further appro- | priation of $60,000 for finishing the new Workhouse. The }Toposed new law should be drafted and forwarded to the Legislature, in order that the Common Council may be authorized to give the money. A former resolution of Mr. Pinkney, ter, was read. Mr. Weer, Mr. PiINKNRY, and Mr. Sarma, were requested to s0 arrange as to proceed to Albany during the weok upon the subject. The gentlemen expressed their readiness (o relative to the mat Roard; that the said list contain the name of the deseri, therefor, A motion of Mr. Herrick, to the effect that the okt Piano at the Iunatie Asylum’ be sold, and the sum of $200 f fo the seller, ption of goods or property, and the price paid proceed to the eapital. | Mr. Duro offered the following resolution -— | Resolved, That the purchasing clerk prepare 2 weekly | ist of all gocds and other property purchased by this | be aided to the price for the purchase of a now one, was he o be laid upon the table. | 1H1iaMs moved that the Board do new sijourn. V4 to Marine Affairs, ARRIVAL OF A VESSEL FROM THE ROLY LAND. © bark Marcitta, Captain Capureo, arrived here afew lays ago, from Malta, She belongs to Jerusalem, and ia owned by one of the inhabitants of the Holy City. ‘Thir is the only vessel that has ever entered New York barbor rusalem, and is therefore a great curiosity tians aud antiquarians. Ship builders will Goi her model a great curiosity when compared with the sn perb sailing eraft of this country. Her captain ix a Mal tese, as are also severalof ber crew. Having no Consul in this city, the captain delivered his papers to the British: Consul, he himself being an English subject, and that go yernment being represented at Jerusalem by a bishop of the established chureh. ARRIVAL FROM CHINA.—Tho ship Benjamin Howard, fr belonging to J to Deo, 24, 1861, for San Francisco, in which port she lay 50 days, and proceeded to Manilla, from thence to Canton, where she loaded, and returned to New York, having been absent just thirteen months. The ship is in first rate condition in every respect, Although she experienced vers. heavy gules on our coast, she has not lost a sail or spar. Tre Sreamsiny Brack Warnron, Capt, Shufeldt, saile! yesterday for Havana and Mobile, with sixty passengers and $400,000 in apecie. ARRIVAL OF SOUTHBRN Stean#aY.—The steamer Uniow arrived from Charleston on Mouday night, and the Florida, from Savuunah, yesterday morning, We are indebted (o their pursers for a supply of Southern papers. Lavxcit.—'The new clipper «lip Radiant, of 1,400 tons owned by Baker & Merril and intended for the California. and China crade, wax lanuehed on Monday from the vara of Mr. Paul Cards, at East Boston, EXTRAORDINARY AND SUCCESSFUL Str On Thursday last a tumor weighing twent pounds was taken from the interior of the aby ofa woman in this cit; euffored unde: Y— -four lomen this city named Rafferty. She had rit for some years. Immediately he- asured thive feet. She has recovered operation, and ive Bangor Mercury, dane 22. from the immediate effects of th doing well.