The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1853, Page 4

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His remains will lie in the City Hall, Brooklyn, up to the time of his funeral. Mr. Brower served in the Mexican war with great | credit, being at the time attached to the First Regi- ment of New York Volunteers. Sergeant Henry Stanton, also a gallant member of the New York Volunteers, was buried at Greenwood yesterday, with military honors. Important Report of the Committe? on Foreign Relations of the Senate—TRe Der- nier Issue, The telegraphic synopsis of the report of the Committee on Foreign Relations #f the Senate, on the subject of British entoachments ir Central America, published is the Heraup ¢f Saturday, although meagre, has not failed ‘to | arrest public attention. Te report itself, we understand, is very full and conclusive. ‘it re- | lates to two points :-— Ist. The seizure of the islands of Ruatan, Bonacca, Utila, Barbarat, Helena, exd Morat, | and their organizatien as a colony of Great Britain, under the €enomination of the “Bay Islands,” 2d. The occupation in sovereis# iy, and the orgawization as acolony, of that wrt of Guate- mata known as’ Belize, or, vulga#ty and impro- perly, “British-# onduras.” The question of the value which is to be at- tached to the ea-post facto waderstanding be- tween Messrs. Clayton and Bulwer, in respect to port, but onty as an incident, and as subordinate to the more important issues which the aggres- sions of Great Britain have raised. This under- standing, in the opinion of the committee, amounts to nothing more than an admission that wkatever legal rigkts England possesses in Belize are unaffected by the treaty. What these rights are is well known; they consist on. ly of a precarious licerse to cut dyewood, and nothing more. If Epgland transcends those rigitia, she violates, not only the treaty, but alse the supplementary understanding between Messrs. Clayton and Bulwer. A reservation of renders will'fnd transferred to our columns. The exsrossing’ event in Eurepe was the approaching nuptials of Napoleon III. to the lady of ‘his heart. Throughout:Franc: the poop! responded with enthusiasm’ *o his reso! unkingly, act of partner for himself, and the greatest pre- | s wore being made in Paris to give éclat to | nuptials. The city of Paris had voted a valua- ie present of jewels to the Empress, which she has nobly declined accepting, suggesting to the council | that their cost might be better: expended in some work of charity. Viwel'imperatrice! A greatpeace eonference held its first sitting in Manchester, on the 27th, at which Mr. Bright made a long speech, in-whicb he discussed the probabilities of war be- “tween England and the United States. Though the -orator.is not much of an authority on such points, yetwethink the topic of sufficient interest to give am extract from his speech. Mexican affairs, it ‘would seem, are attracting much attention in Eng- Jand. There had been no late-arrivals from the gold wegions, though several ships were heing looked out fer ; among. those now on their return to England ‘are the Great Britain and Sydney. On the Burope- an: continent the »political movements in Spain, and ‘the progress of-the Montenegrine hostilities, are the @hief points of interest just now. We turn over the whole news to our readers, who will find in it much ‘*eattract and engage their attention. The steamships Northern Light and Uncle Sam asrived yesterday morning, bringing us San Fran- -<@isco papers to the 15th of January, from which we @ather full details of the news hitherto briefly fur mished by ‘telegraph from New Orleans. The intel- ; Migenee possesses 2 painful interest. Famine had {done ‘its fell work within the snow-beleaguered gorges of.the mountains, and some of the miners had \wboolutely died of starvation. The destitution was mot confined te solitary and scattered instances, but 1 seems to have affected entire communities, situated j Ww remote districts, which had been rendered almost 4 Wacoessible from a number of causes, the principal © which was the inundation of the roads and the de- mt ‘action of bridges hy the immense floods. Each y ‘ssel on its arrival at the port of San Franciseo pre- ge; vted dill of mortality that was truly alarming. On the passage of the steamship Cortes, from Pana- ma to San Francisco, no less than twenty-seven of her, *assengers were eonsigned to the rolling waters of th: * Pacific, all of whom died from dysentery and fever, diseases which were engendered in the transit across the isthmus. On the steamer S. 8. Lewis, eleven deaths occurred; on the steamer Panama there y ereeight deaths, and on the California five ; besides four-on the Winfield Scott, and @ number on sailing vessels. The news is very interesting, and will requ ite an attentive perusal. | | | | | The stc ‘amersfrom the Isthmus brought late and interesting advices from the territories of Deseret and Oreg: 2; the Hawaiian Kingdom; Tahiti; New Zealand; t he }sthmus of Panama, Jamaica, &c. From th e Honolulu papers we glean the particu- lars of sey trai serious maritime disasters—among | them a con{ ‘mation of the reported loss of the whale- | ship A. H. I Towland. Also, a full report of the busi- | ness of the i Wmense whaling fleet recently moored | in the vicinity ' of the Sandwich Islands; a synopsis of the new cemstitution of Hawaii, and many otlaer items of wonsiierable interest to the general 7 tite rumored Tevslt of the natives of Tahiti aguinst the French, is pronounced a hoax. The enterpris- ing,wpirit of the age is manifesting itself among the €e,65 well as mearly all the other inhabitants of the Pagific islands. Their railroad and other pro- jects‘<f improvement are rapidly advancing. Th eme appears to be no end to the discoveries of gold . ud other precious metals. it is now announced that gc dard auriferous quartz have been found in New Z wlag’, and a belief prevailed that the island teemed \ vith: i reasures. Accord wg *o some of the British West India papers, her , Majesty's colonies are in a fair way of becoming clepepulated in consequence of the exten- sive emigrat'‘dop,s9 Australia. Advices fiom Pio Janeiro tothe 2d ult. announce that the yellow f-ver was still raging with great virulence. e ‘The strike among the railroad employées and me- chanics of Baltitwar, which has been ina great measure setiled, « tien led to the Norfolk and Porte moth boiler and ear manufacturers. No compro- mige has yet been tae with the operatives in the latter places. Despatches fram Baltiggsre and Washington chro- ricle the winding over of @ couple of naval officers, on saspicion of the Secretaxy of the Navy that they intended to fight a dal Speculators in faney stocks would do well to read carefully the money article in,¢bis day's paper. A little caution may save many from serious losses. New stocks have been brou,’ht out 4o fast, with such Jarge capitals, and upon such slim foundations, that the market is over supplied, and one of these days thene may be a stampede amon,t holdgrs which will peatter the whole crowd. The anniversary of the Sanday School Missionary Amociation was celebrated last evening, at the Bleecker street Presbyterian church. The covgre- gation was tolerably numerous. The proceedings were opened with prayer and singing, after which the Secretary read the report. Rev. Joel Parker, D. D., the Rey. B. B. Camptield, Jr., the Rev. Mr. Bart- «Mosquito shore. legal and just rights cannot warrant illegal | and unjust assumptions, such as the organiza- tion of Belize as a colony involves. In respect to the main questions to which the attention of the committee has been called, the report is more explicit, and uses the most direct language. It says that the islands of Ruatan, &e., lying in the bay of Honduras, in the opin- ion of the committee, constitute part of the ter- ritory of the republic of Honduras, and there- fore form a part of Central America; in conse- quence, their occupation and colonization by Great Britain is a violation of the treaty of April 19, 1850, which provides that Great Bri- tain “shall neither oceupy, fortify. or colonize, any part of Central America.” Such being the opinion of the committee. after mature delibera- tion. it is not difficult to predict what will be the policy of the incoming administration. Great Britain must withdraw, uncondi_ tionally, from the islands in question or maintain her piratical hold on them at the expense of a rupture with the United States. The rights.of the feeble and friendly republic of Honduras are thus formally receg- nized, and her wavering confidence in the good faith of the United States re-assured. Thus is the first step, and an important one, taken to regain'the influencMMost through the ignorance, folly, and subserviency of the present adminis- tration. The recognition of the territorial aud sove- reign rights of Guatemala over Belize are hard- ly less explicit. In fact. they have more than | once been admitted by Great Britain herself, | notwithstanding her present arrogant and offen. | sive pretensions. Upon this point we cannot do better than copy the cautious but significant language of the report :— The committee, from the information before them, entertain a decided opinion that the British settle- ments at Belize, as defined by the treaties with Spain, lie within the territory of the republic of Guatemala, and so equally constitute a part of Central America. Should such be the fact, while the committee are not prepared to say that the engagements of the treaty of 1850 would require that those settlements shall be abandoned and discontinued on the part of Great Britain, yet this government would have just cause of complaint against any extension of the limits of these settlements beyond those prescribed by Spain, or as further allowed by the republics when they may be founded, and that in any manner to en- large or change the character of these settlements, by any mode of jurisdiction, would be in violation of said treaty. In other words, any conversion of the license | to cut logwood into territorial sovereignty, un- pgler the name ofa colony or otherwise, would | be a violation of the treaty of 1850, notwith- standing and granting full weight to the under- standing of Messrs. Clayton and Bulwer. If, then, the information should prove true, that Great Britain has organized Belize as a colony, we have another distinct issue presented, in which England has the alternative of receding from |her unfounded pretensions or risk a rup- ture with the United States. Guatemala has hitherto been very much un- der English influence, and has been induced to do many things in conflict with her true inter- ests under English instigation. The agents of Great Britain have sedulously inculcated there a distrust of the United States, and endeavored to. create the impression that it was her policy to overwhelm and absorb, rather than protect and foster, the smaller republics of the conti- nent. The government and people of Guate- mala will now discover their error. The hypo- crite that warned them against the United States, and affected the language of friendship, has been the first to abuse their confidence. and endeavor to rob them of their territeries. On the other hand, the highest legislative body of the United States, through its most important and influential committee. has asserted. and the government of which it {s an exponent will firmly maintain, the rights of Guatemala or the highest and most disinterested grounds. We cannot too warmly express our grati- fication with the report of the committee. It is an earnest for the future, and assures ys that for the next four years our foreign affairs will be conducted with a vigor, and watchful and jealous care, worthy of the age and our own commanding and responsible position. But we trust the committee will not stop here ; there are other matters in Central Amer- ica which demand thet immediate attention, Almost three years have elapsed since the sig- nature of the Clayton and Bulwer t ty ; but England has not relaxed her pretensions on the She still assumes to exercise her alleged “ protectorate,” amounting to prac- tical sovereignty, over that region. Ler yes sels of war. it is true, have stopped firing on Awerican steamers in the port of San Juan ; but one is kept constantly there to ovcrawe the Jett, and the Rey. Mr. Boardman then addressed the childxp, aod pointed out the vencte whic would | town, and preyent Nigaragna frow asserting the treaty of 1850, is also afluded to in this re- | her ancient and indisputable sovereignty. A | view of the momentous aspects of our relations handful of savages, without laws or civil in- with Cuba. Mexico and Central America, no- stitutions of any kind, without the rite of mar- | thing is more imperatively dersgnded than the riage, with no distinct idea of God, and desti- | reorganization, root and bre .nch, of the Navy. | has given positive instructions to the commer- tute of a written language, England still en- | Pass the bill and put Stock*sn in the Navy De- deavors to pass off on the werld as an inde- | partment, or any other man who can control pendent nationality, entitled to the considera- | the horse marines as * ¢e}) as he did in Califor- Apart from all | nia, and then, whe, the Navy is needed for hot treaty stipulations which this gross fraud con- | work, we may ¢ pect to see the fur fly. tion of a sovereign State. stantly violates, on the high ground of decency and international law, these insolent assump- tions should cease. Nicaragua, which has suffered most and longest from English aggressions, should not be forgotten. Her claims to our sympathy are foremost and most impeative, because she has suffered most froun Enclish encroachments, and because she has been most unworthily treated, not only by the existing administration of our government. but by companies of our citizens, t whom she ge- nerously threw open the gates of prosperity and profit. Insulted in her sovereignty by a pro- position to erect a negro monarchy within her indisputable limits, and insulted in her dignity by the dismisse.{ of her minister, for ne other reason than because he discharged his duties faithfally, and upheld firmly the honor of his country—under these circumstances, while we render to Honduras and Guatemala the support which is due to them, let us not forget our old and steadfxst friends in the much-abused but always unyielding republic of Nicaragua. General Plerce’s Cabinet—The Question Set- tled, Perhaps—Glory Enough for Two or ‘Three Days. We published yesterday, from one of our cor- respondents at Washington, a complete schedule of General Pierce’s Cabinet, and, for the more extensive information of our readers, we give | it again to-day. It is as follows:— Caleb Cushing, of Mass........Seeretary of State. A. C. Flagg, of New York ......fecretary of the Treasury. Robert F. Stockton, of N. Secretary of the Navy. Jefferson Davis, of Mis Secretary of War. James C. Dobbin, of N. C. -Secretary of the Interior. R, M’Clelland, of Michigan..., Postmaster General. James Campbell, of Penn..,,.Attorney General, From all our sources of information, includ- ing the latest arrivals from Concord and Bos- ton, we are strongly inclined to the opinion that the majority, or some. of the above list will be submitted, on the fifth of March next, for the confirmation of the Senate. In the meantime, all the multifarious cliques and factions of the cumbersome democratic party have been sore- ly embarrassed at the imperturbable silence of General Pierce on the subject. As far as we can ascertain, of all the visiters to Concord, or applicants for information in any other way, di- rect or indirect—excepting the several individ- uals selected for the cabinet—not a solitary man has received of General Pierce a particle of in- formation concerning these important appoint- ments. In this inflexible secresy which he has thus maintained. we have a very striking illustra- tion that, in the sterling qualities of self-reli- ance, self-possession. tact, and sagacity, the President elect is by no means deficient. We apprehend that he has consulted, in keeping his own cabinet counsels, the very best, and, in- deed, the only safe policy -he -could have pur- sued, notwithstanding the temptations and Of Jeiferse 4 Davis, as an eminent graduate of | West Poir’ as a practical soldier, as establish- | m ed on tye field of Buena Vista—and as a practi- cal * atesman. as confirmed in his chairmanship of, the Military Committee of the Senate, to go no farther, it is not neeessary to say much in urging his superior fitpess for the War Ollice. The secession question, however, here confronts us; butas General Davis promptly gave in his support to General Pierce and the Baltimore platform, and as the State rights branch of the party és predominant in the South, we should not be surprised if this reported nomination, or something of the same stripe, were officially confirmed on the 5th of March. Of Mr. Dobbin, of North Carolina, the world at large knows little more than of the country- man’s horse— “Gee up, Dobbin, gee up and gee ho!” But he has been a good, hard working mem- ber of Congress; and this fact, and the late re. peated attempts of the democrats of his State Legislature to get him into the United States | Senate, are very strong recommendations in his favor. Mr. M‘Clelland, of Michigan, is a man of the same class, for he has also been a useful working member of the House, and has received the most decided expressions of the partiality of the democrats of Michigan—next, perhaps, to General Cass. But the friends of Col. Medary, of Ohio, are sanguine that their man is good for the Post Office; and it is not impossible that it may yet turn out so to be. But notwith- standing the good opinion which General | Pierce, it is said, entertains for Medary, we in- | cline to think that the more immediate wish of | General Cass has been consulted in the person of M‘Clelland. Of Judge Campbell, of Pennsyl- | vania, we presume very little doubt will be en- tertained; and very little opposition will be | manifested when his name goes up to the Capi- | tol, through the medium of Mr. Sidney Webster. « By and large,” as Old Bullion would say, our Cabinet isa pretty stiff Cabinet, and as nice apiece of mosaic as could well be put toge- | ther. The Tyler-Young American progressive democracy are admirably represented in the person of Cushing—the soft shells in the person | of Flagg, and the hard shells in M‘Clelland; and | while Davis stands the exponent of Southern | rights, free trade and annexation, Dobbin comes up to the rescue as a Union-conservative | old hunker, and Stockton as the fearless cham- pion of coal and iron and home protection, | sailors’ rights, and the reform of the Navy. If this arrangement does not gatisfy the various local and sectional factions of the party, North and South, we shall give up the task in des- IT. But, satisfactory or otherwise to this or that particular set, we are seriously disposed to be- lieve that our Cabinet is very near the mark. And we are not without our circumstantial evi- dence to support it. But, as General Taylor perplexities by which he has been so incessant- ly surrounded. What, for example, would have been the consequences had Gen. Pierce, in some authoritative form, promulgated his cabinet ad- visers a month ago to the world? Whoever they might have been—no matter who—every man of them would have been assailed by the combined forces of all the petty personal, local or sectional cliques opposed to him; and while the characters of the appointees, however pure or above reproach, would thus have been torn into fragments, the whole party throughout the country would have been thrown into a state of insurrection. General Pierce would have been worried to death by numberless detach- ments of mutineers; and, in adhering to his first selections, they would be endangered by the probable organization of hostile conspiracies in the Senate. Such are the powerful reasons in justification of the inexorable and vigilant silence of Gen. Pierce eoneerning the members of his Cabinet. He has saved the characters of his official ad- visers from unlimited abuse—himself from un- limited annoyances—and all concerned from conspiracies, intrigues. plots and counterplots, dangerous to the integrity of the administra- tion and the fidelity of the party, and likely to throw everything into confusion before any- thing could be definitely done. By keeping his Cabinet to himeelf till the time arrives for sub- mitting it to the Senate, he holds the game in his own hands. and all the various cliques and squads of the party are kept in check. They will not move while there is danger of commit- ting incurable blunders; and when the time ar- | rives for action there will be no time for treach- ery, and the Cabinet will thus be ratified by ac- clamation. But if Gen. Pierce has pursued this policy of unconquerable silence respecting his Cabinet, whence this plausible announcement of the identical gentlemen who are said to compose it? It is derived from various sources, more or | less reliable. It ia utterly out of the question, in a matter of such universal interest, to com- mand inviolable secresy. And thus we account to our readers for the Cabinet at the head of this chapter. The thing, prima facie, bas a genuine look about it; but if anybody can give us a bet- ter one, let‘us have it. Time is precious. Next reours the important question. how will this Cabinet answer, assuming it to be the thing? There will be some wry mouths among the old f¢ ” so called, and especially at the bare mention of the name of Caleb Cushing: But as no man can doubt his talents, learning, industry, and practical qualifications, we pre- sume that even Bright, of Indiana, will submit to his confirmation. Flagg, of New York, for the Treasury, we regard as a good hit between the extremes of the hard shells and soft shells. In 1845, the Silas Wright wing expected his nomination by Mr. Polk, and were very much outraged at being superseded by Marcy ; but as Marcy is now in the same interest with Flagg, the nomination of the latter ought to be eatisfactory to both sides of the house. Stock- ton, for the Navy, will be universally conceded as@ capital appointment. It holds out in full relief the promise of practical reform in this branch of the service—thoroughyoing and prac- tieal, from beginning to end. The bill for the reorganization of the Navy. which has recently od the Senate, is most satisfactory evidence s view; and we take this occasion to admonish the House that the wants of the Navy, the condition of our foreign affairs, and all the manifestations given out of the public sentiment of the country, de- mand that the bill should be made a law of | Union claims for itself the credit of having changed his Cabinet on his way to Washington, there may be possibly a change or two in our schedule during the next two weeks, or even an entire revolution, should Mr. Hunter agree to stand at the top, and Mr. Cushing at the bottom, with A. O. P. Nicholson as an offset to the State Rights Premier. Still, how- ever that may be, we apprehend that General Pierce has considered the conciliation of the several cliques of his party as but an incidental consideration—his paramount object evidently being a practical working Cabinet, up to the standard of the times; and the closeness with which he himself has kept the secret. is proof positive that his Cabinet, whatever it may be, will be of his own choosing. He has sufficiently | shown the party and the country that he intends to assume the responsibility as- signed him; and that, as the agent of the people, he intends to select his advisers, | instead of submitting the work to the | cliques and coteries at Washington or else- where. Furthermore, we are somewhat confi- dent that if the Cabinet is refractory or unma- | nageable, he will dismiss them without ceremony and select another, and another, and yet ano- ther, until he procures a set that will work as a unit; not dictating the policy of the admi- nistration, as in the case of Gen. Taylor, but faithfully pursuing the policy of the chief of the administration, unmixed with any mischievous conspiracy looking to the succession. But upon this point we may have something to say to-morrow. Our Cabinet is glory enough for one day. Let the disappointed of the hun- gry democracy look into it, turn it over, piece by piece, and all in the lump, and then let them give us a more plausible Cabinet, if they can. | If they cannot, we shall conclude that, for the time being, the Cabinet isa settled question, Who speaks first ? Ti Tex Mitton Prosmcr.—The Washington first suggested the policy of placing at the dis- cretion of General Pierce the sum of ten mil- lions of dollars, to meet such exigencies as may arise in our foreign affairs in the long interval of nine months to the next mecting of Congress, This is a little too fast. The measure was first promulgated and advocated in the New York Heratp; and had not the very cautious and skittish editors of the Union, and the “ old fogies” of the House of Representatives, been efraid of their ehadows. the ten million project might have been, by this time, the law of the land. A political organ that is so very fear- ful to move that it does not take a step for- ward without consulting all the old grannies of Congress, could not have ventured to lead off for the ten million measure. The thing was impossible. A terrapin has to travel by slow and casy stages. A locomotive is a different tl That’s all. ASSACHUSETTS ANTI-SLAVERY Socigty.—The following persons were chosen at the lat@an- nual meeting of this society, to constitute its Loard of Managers for the ensuing year:—Wil- liam Lloyd Garrison, Maria Weston Chapman, Cornelius Bramhall. Eliza Lee Follen, Charles K. Whipple, William I. Bowditch, Wendell Phil- lips, John Rogers, Anne W. Weston, John M. Spear, Samuel May, Jr., John T. Sargeant. Here, now, we have a practical exemplifica- tion of Woman’s rights, Maria Weston Chap- man stands next to that great abolition Mogul, | Lloyd Garrison himself. This is, however, but | Iurortant COMMERCIAL Onpae.—Ovr Trae wima §1, THomas.—We are credibly inform- ed that the government of the United States cial agent at St. Thomas, W. L, to discontinue charging the register fees of four dollars on American vessels anchoring at that port. whe q they merely touch, without loading or dise’agry. ing cargo, or coming to an entry at the custom house. It has been the practice hecetofore, for any years, for the consuior commercial agent at that island, to devaand vessels’ regis- ters, &c.. and exact the fee of four dollars, whether loading or discharging cargo, or enter- ing at the eustom house; but the representations, petitions, &c.. against its illegality and unjust- ness, have induced the government to make this decision. St. Thomas being, as it is termed, a fi centrally situated. a large number of all nations touch there for orders, supplies, ad- vices, &c., without doing business—that is to say, loading.or discharging cargo. The govern- ment of that island requires, all registers, sail- ing licenses, &c., deposited at the custom house and there remain until their departure. The commercial agent has made this a plea for collecting the fees on American vessels, regard- ing the same as an entry; whereas the govern- ment does not require a vessel to enter at the custom house, unless cargo is taken in or dis- charged, and the register fees of four dollars can only be exacted when a vessel comes to an ¢ port, | entry at the custom house for the purpose of taking in or discharging cargo. We are pleased to see this restriction re- moved from our commerce in that quarter. Tue Sramese Twrxs or Anonrrroxtsa.—Gar- rison’s abolition Liberator calls “ Bexyert’s Heratp,” the “ special organ of Pandemonium, and the zealous defender of the American church.” The Fourier abolition organ of this city gives this journal also the fearful title of “the Satanic press ;” and we suspect the rea- son is that the Heratp is the “ zealous defend- er” of this American Union. Such compliments from Garrison and Greeley are but another confirmation of that old established fact in na- tural history concerning birds of the same fea- ther. What a happy pair ! The Theatres. Of the public amusements of this metropolis, we have but to record the same prosperous condition during the past week, as has characterized the entireseason. About & score of theatres, concert rooms, dioramas, or other exhibitions, have had their doage open nightly, and the report from all, is crowded houses and well filled treasu- ries. To the uninitiated in the peculiarities of New York, it would seem an inexplicable mystery how all these es- tablishments manage to sustain themselves; but the problem is easily solved when it is recollected what o stream of strangers, from all parts of the world, is emptied daily into this embouchure, and when is also considered the peculiar construction of society here, distributed, as such a large proportion of the population is, among hotels and boarding houses, and therefore driven to reek outside amusements. First among these amusements, as well in its high cha- racter, as in its great success, has been, of course, the splendid series of operas given at Niblo’s by Madame Sontag and her talented collaborateurs. ‘Bon Pas- quale”? was performed to brilliant houses on the two first evenings of the opera, and ‘La Sonnambula”’ was repeated on the third. Madame Sontag has been finely successful in her representation of the rdle of Norina, and has added thereby still another ornament to the triumphant wreath which encircles her brow. On Saturday evening she assisted at opening a new music hall at Philadelphia, and this evening she is announced to ap- pear, for the first time in this city, as Lucy Ashton, in the beautiful opera constructed on Sir Walter Scott’s romance of the “ Bride of Lammermoor.” The next greatest musical event of the past week has been Mr. L. M. Gottschalk’s début here as a pianist, in a grand concert given by him in Niblo’s saloon, on Friday evening. His success more than verified the high public expectation formed of him from his great European suc- cess, and the young artist was greeted with a most enthusiastic reception from a crowded and fashionable assemblage. But if Gottschalk’s début has been a leading feature of the past week, that of the coming week will be, par excel lence, the cancert to be given at Metropolitan Hall, on Tuesday evening, the 22d, by the most admired and brilliant yourg artist of the day, the distinguished juve- nile maestro, little Paul Julien. Under the magical in- fluence evoked from his violin, all other sweet sounds are for the time erased from the memory of the charmed auditory, and the young provengal minstrel is acknow- ledged with acclamation as the most charming violinist of the age, and the worthy representative of the ancient glories of the whole line of his musical compatriots down from the Crusades. Still farther attractions will surround his concert, in the assistance to be rendered to it by Madame Sontag, who has proffered her services to her little favorite, and by Badiali, Pozzolini, Rocco and Eck- ert, allof whom haye, in the same generous manner, volunteered their artistic services. Burton’s theatre has had nothing daring the woek calling for particular notice, for crowded houses have been, during the season, the order of each night, and it is enough to say that no diminution is perceptible. “The Serious Family,” ‘‘Paris and London’’ and ‘ Nicholas Nickleby,” have alternated the performances at this theatre. The Broadway has replaced the exhibition of tho Chinese troupe by the engagement of the distinguished comedienne, Mies Fitzpatrick, and of the celebrated dan- seuses, Soto, Pougand, De Meliase, Drouet, Lavigne, Lee- der and Mons. Mege. With such attractions it is no won- der that it has enjoyed crowded houses during tho week. Wallack’s has ably sustained the reputation which it has so signally acquired within the brief space of six months. Itis patronized by large and fashionable au- diences, and occupies the first rank among our metropo- litan theatres. The “ Lady of Lyons” has been repeated, with a splendid cast, each evening of the past week, with the laughable afterpiece of the “Review.” In the Bowery theatre, young Mr. Hamblin, the son of its late proprietor, made his début’on Tuesday evening last, with much éclat. The National theatre has had a successful run in the presentation of the dramatic piece, “O'Neal, the Great.” We regret to see that the neat little theatre known as White's Varieties, is advertised to be disposed of. This is the only symptom of theatrical unguceoss which has come under our notice for some time. Barnum’s Museum, the Circus, Heller’s Saloon of Won- ders, and Christy's and Wood's concsrt rooms, come under our eategory of prospercus establishments. And «#s for the dioramic and panoramic representations which will be found advertived in our columns, they are also enjoying a large share of patronage, By reference to our advertising columns, {t will be seon that the dramatic slave satire, retaliating npon England for her recent interference with our affairs, (and of which we spoke some days since) {s completed, and promises to produce co erable excitement. It is said the au- thor has already arranged with managers in three diffor- €nt cities for {ts production, and has ao limited the price of copies as to make it an olject of eager interest to every theatre in the Union, great and small, to have a chance at it. ‘The benefit of Madame Alboni, at Boston, on the 11th instant, was a brillant affair. The audience was ofa highly fashionable and appreciative character, and she rang with unusual energy and aweetness, She has boon re engaged for three night», The subscriptions for the stock for the new Opera House and Theatre at Boston, amount to $243,000, and tho edi- fice will be erected on the Melodeon and Mason street lot this summer, and be completed by the fall, ready fer 00, cupancy. New Mart. ARRANGEMENTE.—The first express train for Canada, as far as Kingston and Toronto, leaves this morn- ing at six o'clock, over the Hudson River Railroad. Mr. the beginning. Who knows but that some one of these “ strong minded women” may be the | next abolition candidate for President of the United States, or for Governor of Massachusetts, or something of that sort? The world docs the land as speedily as possible. At this crisis in our history, ia the svorld’s Aistory, gud la | move, after all, Nothing like “leather and | pruucila,” John McNamee takes charge of the mails, They will be delivered in Toronto to-morrow morning. ‘The new arrangement for the transraission of (he mails between Boston and New York on Sunday nights, was to go into operation last night. This will save the business | men of the two cities twenty-four hours. Casanian PartiamMent—The Canadian Par’ MES Wile demeeuluwee Wedy wb qutlow asels of | I am: PPR conden RAILROAD. Wasmmaton, Feb. 13, 1853 en. Pierce has rented a pew in Rev. J. C. Smith's New School Presbyterian Church, which he attended when Senator. There is a good prospect for the passage of Mr. Doty’s Dill for the eonstruetion of an air line railroad be- tween this eity and New York. A petition favorable to the project was appropriately referred by the House yew | terday. Anticipated Duel Prevented. NAVAL OFFICERS BOUND TO KEEP THK PEAOR. Barrimone, Feb, 13, 1858. A despatch was received last night from Secretary Keu> nedy, by Judge Stump, requesting the arrest of Lieuten- ant W. W, Pollock, of the navy, on the ground of a beltet that he had come to Baltimore from New York to fight m duel. He was arrested, and bound over to answer to- | morrow morning. Wasutnatoy, Feb. 13—P. M. ‘We cannot learn anything about the intended duel, ex+ cept that a naval officer, named Nelson, was arrested here last evening, and bound over to keep the peaee, on @ charge of being about to fight. The Snow Storm Down East. Bostow, Feb. 13, 180% It commenced snowing here this morping at feur o'clock, and nearly six inches have fallen. At five o'clock this evening there was a prospect of oh cb SprinarienD, Mass., Feb. 13—P, M. We bave had a_driving snow storm here all day, and the mail train which left Boston this afternoon for New York, will be, necessarily, much delayed, The snow in about halfafoot deep. This evening the weather is clears From Springfield, Maas. DEATH OF A DISTINGUISHED LAWYER—FATAL CASR OF HYDROPHOBIA. Sprinarietp, Feb. 18, 1883. The Hon. William Porter, of Lee, a prominent member of the Berkshire county bar, died of erysipelas, on Frie day. He was recently the State’s attorney for the western, district of Massachusetts. A little boy, aged 6 years, died here on Friday, of a sud= den attack of the hyrophobia, induced, as is supposed, by the bite of a mad dog, two years ago. Intoresting Items from Baltimore. THE STRIKE AMONG RAILROAD OPERATIVRS—HOMI@ CIDE—FATAL ACCIDENT—LATER FROM RIO, BTC. Barrmore, Feb. 13, 1853. ‘The boiler and car makers of Norfolk amd Portamoutlt have struck, and sent a committee to this eity. The en gineers and brakemen of the Baltimore and Ohio Raflroad resumed their posts last night, and the large accumula: tion of freight frains, covering the tracks for many miles in the vicinity of the Cuinden street station, Mount Clarey and Locust Point, are now rapidly disappearing. The Ohio Railroad mechanics will go to work to-morrow morning. Messrs. Winan’s, Denmead’s, and other large establishments, still refuse to accede to the demand, and another meeting will be held in Monument square in the morning. President Wright, of the Susquehanna road, addressed the men, acknowledged they wore entitled to the advance, advised them to go to work, and present their grievances to_the board, and had no doubt of a fa» yorable response. It is understood they will adopt the course recommended. £o also will the mechanics on the Philadelpkia road. Jacob Mann shot Wm. Cushaw, last night, killing hime instantly. The parties had ajprevious difficulty at a bal, Cushaw attacked and beat Mann; and whilst Mann drew a pistol and fired. They were both young me= chanics Wm. Short, laborer on the railroad, was run over and * instantly killed by the Washington train this Lagan Rio Janeiro, ‘The bark Linwood, arrived below fxs lo Ja uary 2, reports the fever as still raging ly. Time LAnWacn wan) One thirty-seven days to the capes, and brings 5,000 bags of coffee. Large Fire in Providence, &e. Provipence, Feb. 18, 1858. The starch factory on Eddy street, owned by James G. Anthony and others, was destroyed by fire this morning about one o’clock. The adjoining building, in which the Legislature met in 1842,now used as a store house, and owned by Sherry Clark, and a dwelling house, owned by Charles Dyer, were a!so consumed, with their contents. Several other buildings were more or less injured. The loss is estimated at $10,000 to $15,000, om which the amount of insurance is not knowm. Jan bai Dr. Catling was arrested on Saturday, for taking frour the Post Office and opening a letter of Daniel Cudworth’s. He was held for trial. Markets. New Ontxans, Feb. 12, 1883. The cotton market to-day was quite active, and the entero led bales, rae ata Sie one- eighth. ing is quoted at 83 to 9c. aomeare on New York has advanced, and we now canta at 34 discount. Freights are firm, and the asking rates are three farthings to Liverpool. Provipence, Feb. 13, 1853. The cotton market yesterday was qniet, with moderate rates at firm prices. The active demand continues, with 8 firm market, and siranciig: tendency. The sales of the week were 138,200 pounds. Printing ‘cloths were active, and prices firm. The sales of the week were 69,800 pieces: City Politics, THE HARDS AND THE. SOFTS. It now appers that the ha:d-shell General Committee of the democracy changed their tactics at the last minute, concluding not to waste their-energios upon the fight of Saturday evening, the result of which, if. in their favor, could not put them in possession of Tammany Hall. Upon examining the by-laws, they found that the Tammany Society could not reverse the action of the Sachems, and that the most that could be accomplished would be to express an opinion amounting merely tos vote of censure. As this could have no practical effect upon their present position, the hard-shells deter- mined to husband their strength for the election of the new Council in April next, when it is their intention to make a grand rally, elect Sachems as hard as hicko- rynuts, and thas recover possession of the old — wam and all the prestige associated with it. This ac- counts for the overwhelming majority by which the ao- tion of the Sachems and the soft-shell committee were endorsed on Saturday evening last. There is no donbt that the hards are at least equal, if not superior, in num- bers to the softs in the Tammany Society; and there would not, therefore. have been so great a disparity in the majority, but that it was understood among the leaders of the hards not to make the fight on that issue. A few zealous hunkers, who were not in the secret, made: an inetiectual resistance. The great battle is yet to- come, which shall annibilete one or other of the factions, cr perhaps Lota, like the Kilkenny cata. Personal Intelligence. We notice among the arrivals by the Uncle Sam, from California, the names of Licut. Edward F, Beale, Superin-- tendent of Indian Affairs in that State ; ex-Senator Thos. B. Van Buren, of the Cal fornia Legislature; Capt, Ran- dall and lady, steamship Northerner; and G. B. Post, Fsq., merchant, fan Francisco. Cou. Jack Hays, of ‘Texas Ranger’’ netoriety, now Sheriff of San Francisco, is a passenger on the steamship: Ohio, now due at this port. He is en route for Texas, the old scene of his daring exploits, via Washington. His. visit in this city will necessarily beof short duration, Arrivals at the Metropolitan.—Kx-Governor Paine, Vers mont; Hon. Thomas B. Van Buren, California; Col. B & Roberts, U.8.A.; Edward R. Platt, U.S.A.; San Franci 7 8.A.; Major Sangers, DraTns OF AMERICAN SkAwEN ny FeveR at Port at Privcr.—Captain Harding, of the brig Timothy Crosby, ar- rived yesterday from Port au Prince, reports that from June to January 26, nine captains, eleven mates, and forty seamen, belonging to American vessela, had died by fever at Port au Prince. He had lost his mate and one of his crew by the disease, ax previously announced. During: the 14 days previous to the T. C. leaving, the mortality had decreased. Coroners’ Inquests. Deatt oF AN AGED MAN From INTEMPERANCR—Coroner Wilhelm held an inquest, yesterday, at the house No. 130 Anthony street, upon the body of Bryan McDermot, aged 92 years, who died there suddenly on Saturday night: It appeared in evidence, that the deceased enjoyed as good health as could be expected at his time of life. Ho went out Faturday evening and returned to the house under the influence of liquor; he had supper, and in a short time afterwards fell from his chair, was carried to bed and died. ‘The jury rencered a vordiet of death from congestion e lungs, produoed by inte ‘ deceased was a native of Ireland eee Nee DraTt FROM DRowsiN¢—Ropy Fourp.—Coroner Gamble held an inquest yesterday evening on the body of on unknown man who was found drowned in the North river, at the foot of Charles street, in the morning. Garret Smith and Francis Buskirk a to recing the body floating iv the water, when the fatter made it faet, The jur, ‘leved a verdict of ‘death from. drowning.” The dress of the deceased consisted of a dark tweod coat, satinet vex!. checked striped blue shirt, and ve lark pants, wilh blue overalls, ° protruded and his teeth pom iti eee whiskers. The body appe some weeks. A copy of the Police Gazette of the 25th of December last, was the only thing found in his pockets. ‘The men was considered to. be about twenty-five years of oge, and about five feet eight inchos high, and {4 stout bodied. Fatar Ramnoap Accim Young, fell from one of the vortation Railroad Comp borhood of Princeton, on —A man named Jacob ars of the New Jersey Trans- when passing in the neigh irday night, and was killed, A telegraphic de«patch was forwarded to’ this city, direct- ed to his family, at No. 3! Forsyth streot, But upon inquiry it wax found that they did not live there. second despatch was received yesterday, by Mr. Isract Jeon, of No. 71 Chatham street, ‘announeing the fact of his death, ‘he body was co b? brought to. this city last Pight, und Coroner O'Donnell will hold an inquest apocy by Gay. Ab wilh be Solow bu lio. wi Suse slaves