The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1853, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. BENNETT JAMmS GORDON BENE . posbewsnomenetones @vricn x. W. CORNED OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS, peeuierenneneeen ees Fe AEE Picci Rn eer rr arses fe, barges Ein Fer MLE LETTERS by mais for , o7 with Adver teements, to be post-paid, or the postage will be deducted from ae eet TING executed with neatnecs, cheapness, and “GER TISEMENTS renewed every day. Wodtame XVIUMM......... cee cceeee cece eeeees! No. 75. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Anav anv ns STEED— Busan Bonoumme. Baoan ey. THEATRE, Broadway—Pizanno—Kine awn I. BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Mzrny Wives ov Winvson—Tue Sarrns. NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—Briax— Bonomme—Ticut Rore—Stace Struck Yaraex—Mons. Ducwacumeracx. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Faist Hearr Weven Wow Farm Lavy—Paviine—Hanrsome Hus- BAND. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Atiow Mero APpo.- seuzx—Me Pricny ix rue Sruars, Evening—Your Lave’s inv Dancxr—Bivr Bearv. 9T. CHARLES THEATRE, Bowery—Srrancer—Dov- Bie Bevven Koom—Lorrxsy Ticker. * CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, Mexoprss BY CuRiery’s OPERA Brondway—Ermorran UPR. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood’s Musical IHall, 444 Broad- way—Rrniorian MixsT RELAY. CIRCUS, 37 Bowery—Equesrnian ENTERTAINMENTS. GRORAMA, 586 Broadway—Banvann’s Paxonama oF un HoLy Lawn. HELLER’S SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES, 58) Broadway. RISLEY’S THAMES, at 406 Broadway. New York, Thursday, March 17, 1853. —<————————————————— The News. Those of our readers who had grown tired of the somewhat dry debates on Central American affairs, Will be greatly relieved on perusing the report of the piquant controversy that took place in the United Btates Senate yesterday. Judge Douglas commenced the session by replying to the remarks of Mr. Clay- ton on the day previous. He brought the ex-Secre- tary back to the merits of his treaty with Sir Henry Bulwer, and was proceeding to nail him thereto, ‘when who should rush to the rescue but Judge But- Jer, of South Carolina. Not at all dismayed, the Young Giant for the moment relinguished his Dela- ware foe, and charged upon his new antagonist with a vigor characteristic of the age. Judge Butler spoke in behalf of his “Mother England,” and Judge Deuglas for all the mothers of Young America, viz.: France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, &. The South Carolinian honored England for the bless- ings she had bestowed upon us in the shape of the ommon law, the arts, commerce, &. While he ac- Anowledged the good we had derived from her, the Tinois Senator could not forget the wrongs she had endeavored and was still endeavoring to inflict upon us, through the extension of her colonization on this continent, regardless of treaty stipulations—she fortifying of every inch of dry laud on which she can gain a footing, by either fair or foul means—the sending of emissaries among us to encourage aboli- tionism, sow the seeds of discord, and undermine our social institutions, &c. The controversy was exceedingly sharp, and seems to have been duly ap- preciated by the spectators in the galleries, who were ordered out of doors for giving vent to their Satisfaction in two or three rounds of applause. But, while all this talk about British aggression is going on in the Senate, our special correspondents declare, and it is pretty generally understood, that the members are far behind the times, or rather the President, on the question at issue. The administra- tion is reported to be busily engaged in preparing to meet the crisis. The principles laid down in the inaugural are to be carried out to the letter. The Monroe doctrine is to be enforced. Congress having neglected to supply the President with the financial means for maintaining our national honor, under any emergency that might arise, it is probable that an extra session will soon be called to supply the de- ficiency. Look at the subject as we may, it has an ugly, a repulsive appearance. England, by her re- eent operations in Honduras, has touched the Amer- icans in a most tender place. What's to be done? We shall soon see. Several more minor nominations were yesterday confirmed by the Senate, as will be seen by our Washington despatches. Gen. Pierce manages to keep Senators busy with the smaller class of offices, till he has time to select proper men for the more re- sponsible ones. The appointments to foreign mis- sions are still in a fog. Considerable work was again disposed of in our Btate Legislature yesterday. The Assembly Tax and Bailroad Toll Lill was debated at great length, and with much spiciness in the Senate. agreed that this measure should be taken up after Mr. Vanderbilt's proposed amendment to the constitu- tion shall have been disposed of. It is now manifest that the Senate will pass Mr. Vanderbilt's proposi- tion, and reject the wx bill; whereas the Assembly will stick to the latter, and throw the former over- board. Office expectants will be happy to learn that there is now some probability of the holding of an executive session, for the purpose of disposing of all | the Governor's appointments, next Tuesday. The Assembly, after a very interesting discussion, im which much information was elicited as to the un- | christianlike manner in which newly arrived emi- grants are too frequently treated, passed the bill for their better protection. siderable importance to our citizens were also passed. Two more lives were lost, and several persons were dangerously scalded, by the bursting of the boilers of an Ohio river steamer yesterday. The late awful tragedy in Philadelphia continues yet to excite the public mind. In another colama we give the examination of Arthur Spring, who is ebarged with the murder, the result of which shows pretty clearly that the charge is not without some foundation. This same Arthur Spring was pardoned out of the Sing Sing prison, in this State, but a few months since, by Governor Hant, throngh the energy and perseverance of the very son on’ whom he is now striving, through his counsel, to fasten the guilt of the horrid crime with which he is himself charged. The boy, after saving some money by hard labor, came from Sing Sing to this city on foot, procured some additional assistance, went to Albany alone, and made his application to the Governor in person, for the pardon of his father. The Governor took an interest in the boy, listened attentively to his story, and granted his request. An action for libel, at the suit of Mr. Edwin Por rest, the tragedian, against Mr. Hiram Fuller, pro prietor and editor of the Lvening Mirror, was com menced yesterday in the Supreme Court Circult of this city. Damages are laid at $10,000. The Cunard steamer Cambria, which sailed from Boston yesterday, took out no specie. One of her consorts, the Canada, is now over-due at Halifax, with six days later advices. The half-yearly report of the Chief of Police to the Mayor will be found elsewhere in this day's paper. It will be seen that the chief suggests several new plans for the more efficient organization of the de- partment, which, if adopted, will, beyond a doubt, be of much benefit to the public, and, at the same ti ie, give to the policeman the opportunity of | dis- playing his vigilance to some purpose. He pro- poses to abolish the practice of detailing policemen at the various courts for an unlimited time, and recommends the selection of one hundred men, to be chosen from the different districts, according to their merit, and not by favor, as they are now ap- pointed. A squad of five men, under the direction of a sargeant, can be sent to perform the duty, who would always be at the command of the public. It is an improvement on the present system, and should be adopted forthwith by the Mayo. The report stows the offences against property to number tw Tt was finally | Several other bills of con- | thousand and sixteen, while the corresponding pe- riod in 1851 amounts to two thousand and fifteen, making an increase of only one, notwithstanding the large increase of population. The Board of Aldermen last evening passed an or- dinance creating two bureaus in the City Inspector's department, in order to promote the more efficient organization thereof, and to amend an ordinance en- titled “An ordinance organizing the department of the municipal government,” passed May 30, 1849, and ordinances amendatory thereof, passed April 25, 1850, and March 15, 1852, in relation to said depart- ment. A lengthy document was read from the City Inspector, as to the present condition of the depart- ment, urging upon the Board that no unnecessary delay should occur to prevent such a discharge of ita functions as the law and necessity, designed in ita establishment and action, which we hope to present to our readers tomorrow. Inthe Board of Assistant Aldermen there was only a moderate amount of un- important official business ‘transacted, and a slight discussion on the petition of the congregation of St. Lawrence's Church, in Eighty-fifth street, praying forexemption from assessment. The Board stands adjourned to the first Monday in April. The Board of Education yesterday evening appro- priated several sums, as the estimated amounts_re- quired for school expenses for 1853. Last evening the Hon. John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, delivered a lecture at the Tabernacle, on the “Last Gladiatorial exhibition at Rome.” The greater part of it consisted of what every schoolboy knows; but the abolitionist leader adroitly made it contribute to “point a moral” tending to the aboli- tion of slavery, and the gist of the lecture is therefore at the close. The subject chosen was a very ingenious device to draw an audience, and it had the desired effect. Owing to the prees of other matter, we are again compelled to leave out the communication of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department to the Com- mon Council, relative to Engine Company No. 25. We will make an effort to publish it to-morrow. A great variety of entertaining information of every description will be‘found in the inside pages of this sheet; among which we will mention the details of the proceedings in the Gardner case; a full rée- port of the very interesting lecture by Mr. Miles on the Geography of Iceland; proceedings of different courts; financial, commercial, theatrical and miscel- lapeous intelligence, &*.—variety enough to suit the tastes of the most dainty and scrupulous. w The Golden Revolution. We cannot admit that we expect to see a time when our tea-kettles and fire-irons will be made of gold. We know the respect that is due to the opinions of those who anticipate such things; but still we must humbly demur to their reasoning, and candidly confess that we shall be surprised if shovels cease to be made of iron, and latchkeys of copper or brass. Call them “baser” metals, as we will, they have their peculiar merits, and, in their proper sphere, are decidedly preferable to gold. We consider them safe. Whether. as some pretend, the increasing supplies of the precious metals will so alter the relative prices of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, &c., that the latter, instead of the former, will become the standard of value—whether iron and copper are destined to promotion in the list of minerals, while « dust ” becomes a drug in the market—or, whether the demand for the raw material at the mints will continue for an indefinite period to exhaust the supply, as heretofore. are very different matters. It is hard to reconcile oneself to the idea that gold will go out of fashion—still harder that silver, iron, or copper, or lead, will come in. It requires a bold imagination to picture a Broadway dandy wearing a tenpenny nail asa breastpin, or a fashionable belle with leaden wings or a copper bracelet. Such plagiarisms from our friends the Choctaws rather shock our notions. And what is to be done with the gold? Accord- ing to the estimates of Sir Roderick Murchison and Mr. Scheer, the total produce of California and Australia, up to June last, did not fall short of three hundred and fifty-five millions of dollars. Allowing for an exaggeration of even one hun- dred millions, on the part of the latter gen- tleman, the quantity of gold thrown into circu- tion in the world. between 1848 and June, 1852, would still amount to the enormous sum of two hundred and fifty-five millions of dollars. Since that period the increase of the supply has been far beyond the most sanguine estimates. The ex- port of gold from California during the first two months of 1252 were $4,675,892. This large ex- port is not one-half that of this year up to the 16th of February. The figures are as follows :-— Treasure shipment from San Francisco in Jannary, 1853 $4,576,015 Do. from Ist to 16th February. 6,220,5% | Do. during Januury and February, 18: Increase this year...........sssse005 $6,120,514 At this rate, the supply of gold from Califor- nia during this year would exceed eighty-four millions of dollars. Murchison estimated the yield of the Australian mines during the year at sixty millions of dollars; but we see by the last accounts from England that the import of gold during the next four or five months only, | is expected to reach fifty millions of dollars, at which rate, the annual yield would actually amount to upwards of one hundred millions ot dollars. We may then—supposing the various tabular returns and estimates on which we have relied to be correct, and they possess great authority in the commercial world—caleulate that by the Ist of January, 1854, California and Australia will have furnished five hundred mil- lions of dollars worth of the precious metal. Speculations as to the future annual yield would of course be unsafe; unlike the other me- tals. gold, as is known, is fickle in its deposits and cannot be implicitly relied upon. But, un- less the diggings suddenly fail, the annual crop cannot fall short of from one hundred and eighty to two hundred millions. Meanwhile the mines of Liberia are progressing at a e which, though it cannot compare with those we have just mentioned, was still, in 1846, deemed wor- thy the notice of political econo From about nine and a half millions, in 1812 the yield increased to nearly seventeen millions, in 1846, snd was estimated at upwards of thirteen mil- in 1851. Any one who takes the trouble to add together these various estimates, will find Mr. Scheer was rather under than over the mark, when he supposed that the remaining forty: en years of this century were destined to witness the production of seven thousand millions worth of gold. Statisticians differ widely in their estimates of the stock and supply of gold before the dis covery of California. One suggests thirteen hundred millions as the probable value of all the gold in use and in circulation. and our estimate of the total future yield of the world—say two hundred and twenty-five mil- lions per annam—be correct, the supply would he doubled every six years. Birkmyer supposes that in 1846 the total crop of gold was under thirty millions of dol- lars. Murchison, McCulloch, and others, seem to think this estimate too lew, and believe forty- five or forty-eight millions nearer the mark. We see no reason for doubting their figures; and at this r hall put the golden revo- | sation in the clearest light by saying that we If this guess, may expect to receive for consumption about five times as much gold as we did formerly. A large portion of the increase will be swal- lowed up by the mints. The average yearly coinage of the United States mints, during the first thirty years of this century, was, in round numbers, two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars; in 1848, it was four million dollars; du- ring the first ten months of 1851 it reached sixty-tbree million dollars. A similar increase in the coinage of Great Britain, France, and other foreign countries, has already taken place. The main consequence of this will be the sub- stitution of gold for silver, where the latter has been the chief circulating medium, as in France, and for paper. where bank notes have been too abundant, as in this country. The remainder of the increase will pass into the goldsmiths, jewellers, and gilders’ stores. We may expect to find a vast increase in the manufacture of jewelry and gilding—not five times as much as formerly, for allowance ‘must be made for the increase of population going on in the world, and especially in this country —but still a very marked increase. Young ladies, whose mammas wore a hair ring, and were proud of it, will boast a trinket box full of massive rings and brooches. The fashion of wearing jewelry, which is now chiefly confined to effeminate dandies, and a still more objec- tionable class of individuals, may possibly re- vive under the influence of large receipts from the new El Dorados. Gold will usurp the place of silver in many departments of the domestic household. We may not, as we observed above, require golden saucepans, or golden coal scut- tles; but golden teaspoons, and services"of gold plate, will certainly become more common. Similar articles of luxury will not, as hereto- fore, be confined to the wealthy. Gold will be found in the humble dwelling of the mechanic. The Croesus of 1870, like Mr. Killmansegg, of glorious meniory, will Have gold to lay by, and gold to spend, Gold to give,acd goldtolend, And reversions of gold in futuro. And the chronicler of his house may tell how Tn wealth the family revelled and rolled, Himeelf and his wife, and sons 80 bold— While his copie sang, to their harps of gold, O bella eta dell’oro! But the shower of gold will rain in equal pro- portion on us all. We will not inquire how true it be that Gold alone can make no golden age, but certain are we, that in that distamt age— seventeen years are an awful period—no one will complain, with the modern poet of Change Alley— Gold coming in, they say, both fast and free, Alas! 1 know it never comes to me. I meet no golden symptoms when Igier To eat, sans wine, my melancholy chop; Nor can I trace in any friend I join, Much augmentation of his stores of coin. Vaivanie Contriscrion To Natura. History | AND THE InpIAN Tripes—During the progress of the survey of the Mexican Boundary Commis- sion, Mr. Bartlett, the Commissioner, devoted his attention to the collection of specimens of the natural history of the regions explored, em- bracing their botany, zoology. and geology. The botanical collection is very large and covers the countries between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. on both sides of the boundary line, em- bracing the States of Texas, California, and the territory of Utah on one side; and on the Mexi- | can, the States of Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila. Of this wide region. very little is known, and the collections of the Boundary Commission will constitute important contributions to science, and the coutemplated work of Mr. Bartlett, describing them. is eagerly looked forward to by scientific men. The Com- missioner has also collected much information relating to the Indian tribes of Northern Mexi- co, and the countries adjaccnt to the boundary, including those interesting tribes occupying the valleys of the Gila, known as the Coco, Meri- copas, and Pimos. As these tribes are still in their primitive state, unchanged by contact with the whites, their history, manners, and cus- toms cannot but prove interesting. To render this information more complete, Mr. Bartlett has made a collection of portraits, characteristic of the various trikes of Indians visited by him, as well as sketches illustrating their mode of life. He has made full vocabu- laries of the languages of twenty-five different tribes, many of which had not before been re- duced to writing. These vocabularies will be anxiously sought after by philologists, who deem them more important in tracing the affinities and affiliations of tribes and nations than the val characteristics which they present. department the Commissioner has de- voted his particular care. Too much attention cannot be paid to the collection of information relating to our Indian tribes. They are fast diminishing in numbers. and another generation will only find the remains of the larger nations. The lesser will soon become extinct. It is mat- ter of surprise to all who visit Washington, that no museum or gallery has yet been erected by our government for the purpose of preserv- ; ing portraits charveteristie of the Indian tribes of the United States. together with their arti- cles of manufacture, their weapons of war, and implements of husbandry. Every nation in Eu- | rope possesses such collections, illustrating the history. manners, enstoms and arts of their primitive inhabitants, which are more highly prized than those collections exhibiting a move advanced state of civilization. Such a collee- tion, illustrative of our Indian tribes, would, at this moment, be regarded as most valuable and | interesting in London or Paris. Do they pos | sees less interest for us. who possess the soil of | these aborigines? The portfolios of Mr. Bartlett contain several hundred sketches. presenting the characteristic features of she count borderi dary line, between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific cecan, The wild andrugged mountains, with their intricate or open passes—the t plains and deserts lying between the m a ranges, to the mining distriets of Chihuahua and Soncra—views of the Mexican frontier towus and military posts or presidios—of the valle g on the boun- { \ i along the vo, Gila and Colorado rivers--of the old missions in California sof nume- | rous Indian seul ptures and paintin, thdraw- | ings of the more interesting vegetable prod tions, form the subject of these sketches a drawings. They are entirely new, and give a much better idea of the district adjacent to the boundary than the most elaborate written de- scriptions. It is to he hoped that Congress and the exc- entive willtake the necessary steps to have the results of the labors of Mr. Bartlett and bis distinguished aseociates—Colonel Graham and Major Emory—in the boundary cémmisston presented to the public in a creditable manner. They would constitute several highly inter- esting volumes, Large sums of money have ) gest as a witness, competent to give some been expended in the publication of works, by the far le jcople of the Un''ed States, overnment, of tance to | , Tas Aupgrmanic Inquisrrion—Most of our readers are perhaps aware that, subsequently to the indictment of two of the Aldermen by the Grand Jury, a committee of investigation was appointed by the Board of Assistant Aldermen, to prosecute an inquiry into the truth of the various charges and rumors reflecting on the probity and virtue of the city fathers. Still, no steps have since then been taken by this com- mittee to discharge the business assigned to them, and suspicions were beginning to be pret- ty generally indulged in that they were shrink- ing from the disagreeable task of probing the public conduct of their fellows, and mayhap of being the instruments of bringing to light still further exposures. However, all apprehensions of this nature are now set at rest, from the fact that the inquisition is to be commenced to-day, the committee having the power of subpeenaing witnesses to appear and give evi- dence, and produce such documents as may have a bearing on the subjects of the inquiry. The community will hail this measure with satisfaction. The Board of Assistant Aldermen are—it may be said—juniors at the business of municipal legislation, and it is to be expected that they who have character to make in this public path. as well as their private characters to maintain immaculate, will sift out all mat- ters devolving on them in this investigation, fully, faithfully, and impartially, thereby pro- tecting the honorable members of both boards from the general suspicion now attached to them, and fastening the guilt--if guilt there be—on those who are the real culprits. But we learn that the investigation is to be conducted with closed doors, so that publicity may not be given to their proceedings. From the wisdom, policy. or fairness of this measure» we entirely dissent. The public have a right to know what transpires before this committee, and they will look poh star-chamber meeting with natural distrust. If the committee wish to satisfy this community that the inquiry was carried on impartially, without favor or affec- tion, and that no information was stifled which would have inculpated members of the Com- mon Council, they will see the necessity of con- ducting the investigation openly and publicly ; if, on the corftrary, thay adhere to the resolu- tion of excluding the public and the reporters of the public press, they might as well have dis- pensed with the whole ceremony, which will be regarded as a mere mockery and delusion, and which will have no effect in restoring publi¢ confidence in the virtue of the Aldermen, or satisfying the people of the unfoundedness of the charges and rumors against them. While on this subject it may not be amiss for us to sug- effective testimony in the matter, the gentleman who is said to have attempted the corruption of Alderman Barr. Lethim be subpoenaed by all means, and then look out for startling de- velopemente. But, in the meantime, what is the Recorder going todo? Will he prosecute the work be- queathed to him by the defunct Grand Jury?— and, ifso, when? Now is the time for action ; wait much longer, and the popular excitement will have evaporated, and all will end in smoke. Artists 1x Courr.—Quite an array of musi- cal distingués presented themselves, a few days since. at one of the up-town district courts, in- terested in the issue of a case in which Madame Sontag and her husband, the Count de Rossi, appearcd as defendants. This is not the firet time that prima donne have had to sub- mit, in this city and elsewhere, to the like dis- agreeable necessity. Jenny Lind had to appear in court, under somewhat similar circum- stances to those which drew Madame Sontag within a place so unsuited to her tastes and habits. However, there was no help for it. The Queen of Song was but a simple private person in the temple of Justice, and had even to cecupy the witness stand and reply to the interrogatories of counsel. The action was brought by one of the company of chorus sing- ers. for an alleged claim for wages, which Ma- dame §.’s agent refused to accede to—hence this little disagreeable episode in her American life. Madame §S. must, however, be somewhat consoled by the reflection that she is not the only one of her class who has been thus com- pelled to pass through this unpleasant ordeal; | and it must also be asolace to her to reflect | that the judgment of the court was in her fa- vor; protecting her from tke suspicion that she | could have countenanced any unfair dealings | towards her poorer assistants. A report of the case will he found in another column, and will no doubt attract considerable attention. Axtiquatep Orrice cKLRS—Among the swarms of pestering politicians buzzing around Waehington, secking for appointments to im- portant offices, some of the most unrelent- } ing persecutors are persons who have hereto- | fore lived at the public charge. as government officials of one kind or other, in the days of the | Van Buren administration, and some of them even extending back to the era of “Old Hickory.” These antiquated gentlemen ought | to be satisfied with having once had the honor and profit to serve the State; and they ought to be content with the pickings which then fell to their Jot. and leave them and the cares of office to younger and more active men. Be- sides, they are wholly unfit for the position they would asi The little knowledge, tact. and experience they may have acquired in p 10. | nove of the true African type. those good old days are worse than use n the present. They might discharge the dutiesof a minor office, but would be wholly incompetent as heads of departments. The couniry bas made a gigantic spring since the time when their abilities were taxed in the public service, and has left their slow-paced ideas fur behind. Away with the Bourbons. Mr. Meacurr ann Arcupisiop Heours, A correspondence relating to Mr. Meagher public career in this country has taken p’ between Mr. T. I. Meagher and Archbishop Hughes. His Grace has written a letter to the young Irish orator. and he has received a lengthened and explicit reply. It devolves on Archbishop Hughes to publish the correspond- ence. that the world may see what it is. espe- ly as garbled and incorreet accounts have } been published of it. This is due both to his Grace and Mr. Meagher. The latter gentle- | nan could not, with propriety. give it to the But the case is different with the Arc who originated the correspondence. | If his Grace will send it to the Herarn, we | shall give it the benefit of our wide cireulation | without charge | Fre Otis, ress of all kin Nacvano.— Captain rites us from Naguabo, P. ih waw ) he would leave, Obituary. DEATH OF WILLIAM C. HAMILTON. Many and cad are the duties that devolve upon # jour- nalist in recording ‘“‘the passing away” of public and private citizens; but when he is called upon to announee the death of an associate and friend—one who has shared his confidence, his labors and his affections—sad indeed is then the task. William C. Hamilton, for many years connected with this office as an editor and short-hand reporter, snd for some time past one of the editors of the San Francisco Herald, is no more. He died on his passage hence to California, Mr. Hamilton left New York in the Obie, on the 20th of January last, in good health; and many faithful friends who surrounded him, bade him at the water’s brink, as it now seems,alastadieu. We learn by a private letter from Capt. Silvey, formerly of the First ward police, written toa friend in this city, that ‘ William C, Hamilton, the editor of the California Herald, who sailed in the Ohio the same time I did, died on board the Golden Gate, while going into the harbor of Acapulco, of yellow fever, and was buried at a small Place opposite Acapulco, called Munseinnaida, by a friend, who marked the place where he was buried, by a head and foot stone, with a crosson each; he also marked a cross on a cocoanut tree over the grave.” And thus, in afar distant land, without the solace of a relative to sooth his dying moments, William C. Hamilton died. Yet even there, on the Pacific, he found a friend to place him, with becoming reverence, in his solitary and lonely grave. ‘Mr. Hamilton was about thirty-seven years of age, and leaves a wife and three young children, residing in Brooklyn, to monrn his premature decease. Cut off in ‘the very prime of manhood, and whilst stepping on the bright threshold to wealth and fame, the intelligence has naturally been received by his friends here with ineffable sorrow, and he who pens this poor tribute to his integrity, his sincerity and his worth, can but say that in Hamil- ton we have lost a friend, and the press an able and a ready writer. To each and all of those he has left behind him, we would say— but not murmur; sigh, but not despair; friend, but asa Christian bear. Talk on ’Change. A small printed card was handed round on ‘Change yesterday, by some outsiders, containing brief arguments in favor of having a mint in New York. These, all mer- chants know, are quite abundant and ynanswerable; but the card in question alleged the fact that the Legislature of New Jersey, at its late session, imposed a transit duty on gold and silver passing on railroads through that State. It was not known whether such was actually the case. Should it be true, it was the opinion that the State had transcended the obligations of the United States con- stitution, because no State has the right to levy a tax upon the transpertation of treasure or merchandise be- longing to citizens of other States. Upon this principle, the State of New York could tax the property or prouuce of Jerseymen crossing on the ferry boats over the North river. The United States Court would nullify either measure, it carried up. The above argument in favor of a mint in New York, if correct, will do to keep untilthe next session of Con- gress, when an effort might be made to have the Assay Office changed into a mint. The impression seemed to be that there was leas four and grain to come forward then many suppose. Letters from the Western, or lake cities, represent the supplies or stocks less than at the same time last year. Owing to the mildness of the season, cana] and river navigation re. mained open much longer than usual, and, under the ex- pectation that higher prices would rule during the win- ter, supplies were freely hurried forward. It was be leved that, should the spring weather prove unfavorable in England, an immediate rise in prices would follow. No fear was expressed of any interruption to the pre- sent peaceable relations existing between the United States and Great Britain. It was believed that the opera- tions of the English in Central America had been over- rated or misrepresented; and, at any rate, were they cor- rectly stated, there was nothing in them that did not ad- mit of a peaceable solution by negotiation. There was considerable solicitude expressed for the fate of the reform petitions from this city, which have been referred to a select committee of the Legislature, and the progress of reform measures will be closely watched. ‘There was some talk regarding the proposed altera- tions in the law in relation to the Commissioners of Emi- gration. The change, it was considered, would be quite detrimental to the shipping interest, which is already greatly hampered hy many oppressive und lujurious re- gulations. Captain Marshall's letter, himself a Commis sioner, was endorsed. Cotton yesterday was more active, with sales of 2,400 bales, at an advance of one-eighth of a penny, caused by advices from New Orleans representing a falling off in the receipts. Sales of flour favored buyers. Tue Brack Swan.—The musical celebrity known under thie scbriquet, avd who bas created some sensation throughout the cities of the Union, has come to pay this metropolis a visit, and to give @ personal exhibition of the existenee of this much questioned rara avis interris. She bas paid a visit to Madame Alboni, who is said to have expressed s very high opinion of the vocal talents of Mies Elizabeth Greenfield, for that is the name of the lady. She purposes, we understand, giving a concert in this city, previous to embarking for England, where she is destined to create an overwhelming tensation. The Black Swan isa lady of magnificent proportions, vieing with, if not excelling in this regard, the great Alboni her- self, She is some twenty five years of age, and, in addi- | tion to her vocal powers, in gifted with a dark, highly- polished ebony countenance, with large black eyes, and a She is said to possess come musical talent—playing on the piano and guitar very pasrably—and a double voice of extraordinary sweetness, This latter gift is so well defined that she can sing the “Brindisium,”’ for instance, first ina male, and then in a female yoice, and none of her hearers could believe, if they did not see her, that both were by the same person. England, ho xever, is her ground at present. The African | Roscius has made a fortune there, and what may she not expect? “Unele Tom's Cabin” will pave her way with gold, and she will ve féted and caressed as that philan- thropie people only know how to fete swart Africans. We with her a glorious time of it. Martine Affatrs, Tux AvesTRAuAN Emcramion at THs Port.—There are now twelve vessels in this eity up for passengers and cargoes bound to Melbourne and Port Philip, viz. :—Ships Geir of (he Sea, St. Thomas, Florida, Rockland, Frigate Bird; barks Oregon, Theoxena, Amelia, Huntingdon, Jorephine, the three masted schooner Indianola, and the rcrew steamer City of Norfolk. Many of these are first clas yeesels, and arrangements for passengers on some of them are mech superior to what is generally observed in emigrant ships. As some carry from 160 to 200 passen gers, and upwards, ample meansof lightingand thorough ventilation become an important matter in such a long voyage. The owners of the bark Oregon, of th: Pioneer Line, whieh will leave next Monday, have most judicious- y erected but two rows of berths between decks, one on each side of the vessel, placed fore and aft. This allows ‘a free space of rome twenty-five feet, open from stem to stern, though which there can always be thorough ven- tilation, by means of the stern windows and patent ven. tilutors, increased, if necessary, by some half-dozen large skylights, and rendering the between-deeks light and chee.ful, Jt would be well if all passenger vessels coul! beso fixed. The number of vessels which have left the ited Sta‘es for Australia sinee last June is cighty four, eight of which were from this city. for Sreaxnoat Lavxenms.—The steamboat Cornelia will be launched from the yard of Mr. Isaac C. Smith, at Hobo- hen, N. J., this day, at 12 o'clock M. She is designed for fa river bout—in 190 feet long, 21 feet beam, 735 feet hold She will receive her engine at the West street foundry, The same builder will launch on Monday next the steam- bout Fairy—00 feet long, 19 feet bean, and 534 feet holi— owned by Thomas Cornell, Esq , of Rondout. ‘The Messrs. Birbeck fernich her engine. Syrammus Promummvs AXD Uxcre SAs.—We yhave ved a card from the passengers of each of these ves ing very complimentary resolutions, passed on board, relative to the excellen dations of the vesrels and the gentleman'y conduct o° the officers. 1 morning from Charleston, with the usual favor Charleeton press. e Styamemp Manrox, Captain Berry, arrived yesterday of the Navay Intelligence. United Statas Krig Painbridge, Capt. Manning, was at St. Helene Jan. 20th, bound to Mourovia. Neon Reerwenr.—We are informed that none of the cfleers of the Ninth regiment which are put down in our New Haven correspordent’s letter aré candidates for offce telligence. —Hon. F.C Marshall, 40 arbi hetert Merpent. Vermont; C.F, 8. Thomas, Beq., Commercial Adve Last evening the distinguished abolition Senater frond New Hampshire gave s lecture on this subject at the Tabernacle, which was crowded to excess by all the aboli-, tionists of the city. Among those present were Mr,’ Jey and Henry J. Raymond. But, strange to sey, Horace Greeley was non ext inventus. The speaker introducea his subject by a sketch of the history of the Church in its primitive age. The plac where the last gladiatorial exhibition was preduced wad the Coliseum, covering an eclipse of five acres. It wa 160 feet high. The centre measured 280 feet by 176, I6 aecommodated# 87,000 persons. There were seventy-si<, entrances for the people, besides two for the gladiators. The gladiators were slaves, captives, or condemned crim{- nals, and even-freemen, who subjected themselves to its and took an oath surrendering soul and body,’ to their masters. Senators, knights, and even, incredible as it seems, women, fought here in the amphitheatre, This was the last year ofthe exhibition. The first was ia the year 44, when the twosons of Brutus exhibited ia honor of their deceased father. The origin of the custong was buried in the depths of heathen antiquity, In Homer and Virgil there were accounts of combats in honor of the dead, it being believed that the blood of the vietime appeased the manes of the deceased. At last the gladia- tors became so numerous that the Roman senate and ga- vernment became alarmad, and not without reason; for in the time of the Cataline conspiracy the gladiators be- came Peer eaigrmmiyl and, subsequently, Spartacus, a¢ der Claudius, when 19.000 fought on board of ow & lake, between which and the shore all Poot is nds from land witnessed the were prohibit. The 4] then went on to de- scribe the fgets, and how the Roman con demned to th or saved, by a signal, the gladiator just as he showed cowardice or bravery. The gladiator expired with the greatest pleasure, one of the finest pieces of ancient sculpture, was the Gladiator, to which Byron alluded in some beautiful in his Childe Harold.” Women and children wit those brutaF never % them in that city they the altar to Mercy, which our fathers have worshipped a thousand years.’ Nor was it tl Rome had ted that evem there they were at first tolerated, and firally became the absorbing passion of the ‘There were Christians in those days opposed to the gladi+ torial exhibitions, who thought it was time to put am end to them, and openly declared their sentiments. But there were other [defen Christians, who said they were equally opposed to these exhibitions but the; it the {ime was not yet come to remove them. (Laught and great applause, led with bignes.) Such prudent Christians badexisteu even to this day. (appiausé.) Td danger of agitation and the rights of St were therr setforth as reasons ita charge in those peculiar institutions, which had been sanctioned by law and Fins Belly cA ihe people. Ly seep Lig @ faith: 'ul few who thoug! ferently, and they sent @ depnta« sion tg the emperor Houorlus’ to abolish the horrible Wicsedness. The emperor, though disposed to conciliate But Prudentius, an his subjects, felt sad at such a petition who proscribed it, his suit with great eloquence, and appealed to his Christian principles. Honorlus abt rubtly dismissed him, and he re; to the meeting who bad sent him, and who now that the las’ effort had been made. But Telemachus arose and said the lasteffort had not been made—that the cause was strong, but that their faith was weak. He said he had hidden one Leigiay in his heart until the time of action, andthe world would then see whether there was any sincerity in Christian profession or Christian effort. The Jong expected dey: for the gladiatorial exbibition had come. e amphitheatre was filled to its utmost. capacity. There were eighty-mine thousand there. The preliminary parts of the bition were over. The gladiators marched over the arena seyee ral times, with the most perfect unconcern, befere the spectators. The wide diver-ity of complexion and fea- tures of these men gave terrible evidence of the extent of the Roman empire—comprising the beautiful Greek and the yellow haired inhabitants of the banks of the Elbe and the Danube. Every one was now in expectation of what Telemachus would do, A shriek was heard—Telema- chus had thrown himeelf into the arena from the amphi- theatre, and, unarmed, rushed between the combatants to separate them. The audience were indignant at the interruption, and he soon ceased to live. But the noble sacrifice which Telemachus had offered turned the thoughts of the Emperor in another direction, and he soon ord the combat tocease. The event so wrought on his mind, that afterwards he issued a decree abolish- ing forever these di ful exhibitions; and the Roma pea) le, foam poe the evil of the custom, submitted the decree without a murmur. This incidcnt had not. a very prominent place in history or tradition, and it was not very creditable to the Chi that no place was found in her calendar for the name of Telemachus, a monk who had died a martyr for humanity. Had he been a warrior; and led victorions hosts to batile, his name would have been emblazoned in the pages of bistory, and enshrined in the mei of mankind; but because he saved men’s lives by the sacrifice of himeelf but little iv heard of bisname. Hig hiate — the result to which his sacrifice has led, is. not without its application. It needs no commentator to point out its application to the present time. = cous cheering and mingled birses.) This is an age of peewee: and the truth, which is mighty, will triumph at t. Error may prevail for a time, but it cannet last forever. The moral of this lecture is, that he who lives and dies in the cause of truth, will not live and die iz vain. ‘The speaker having thus concluded, the leading aboli- tionists and freesoilera of the city rushed upon the piat- form, and almost devoured their champion with em- braces. Coroners’ Inquests. Fara ACCIDENT UPON THE FIGHTH AVENUE RAILROAD.— Coroner Gamble held an inquest in the City Hospital yester- day, upon the body of Alexander Spring, whe died from severe injuries which he received from being down and run over by one of the ears of the Fighth ave- nue railroad, Tuesday morning. It appeared from the testimony of Mr. Aason Post, @ passenger, that the de- ceased was asleep in the car, between one and two o'clock in the morning. He was roused up, and went to get off, when the conductor warned him notto. ‘The car was about being stopped, when the deceased jumped off, and fell under the horses of another car asming down. Doctor Cooper tentified as to the dreadful iagaries which deceased: died of. The jury rendered a verdict of death from in- Juries accidentally received by being run over by one of the Fighth avenue railroad cars, The deeessed was a na- tive of Germany, and thirty-two ‘years of age. He was intoxicated at the time of the melancholy occurrence. Ellen Young, tne ninety-vine years, was found dead ia her bed at No. 184 West Broadway, y morning. Coroner Wilhelm held an inquest, when it appeared to the: jury that she died from disease of the heart. The de- ceased was a native of England. Corcner O'Donnell held an inquest yesterday, at No. 88 Barrow street, upon the body of Benjamin Webber Col- gan, ek petite be mn as rer epee when in wi is parents Tuesday morning. ‘The jut rendered a verdict of accidental ‘death oe Benjamin F. Doggett, a seaman, and native of Boston, was fonnd dead in his bed at No. 75 Oliver street, at an early hour yesterday morning. The deceased had boem drinking very much for a week past. Coroner Hilton held an inquest, and the jury returned a verdict of death from apoplexy. The body Iles at the dead house unvil to-mor- row (Friday) morning, in order to give his friends an op- portunity of burying it. Drematic Readings.—“Then let the pebbles on the hengry beach fill in the stnra; then let tho mutinous winds : trike the proud cedars ‘gainst the fiery sun,” but let no one doubt that KNOX has produced a hat for the spring season that hag outstripped sll competition, Price only four dollars. Call in at No. 128 Fulton street, and make your teleetion. Knox & James’ Prescott Hat Store.—4s we icipated, the demand for the spring hats introduced & ye ince by these yentlcmon havo cronted in the fash- le world that rarest of novelties sensation; ‘for them has been so great that many d. New facilities, additional work aved energy ave remedied tthe Proscott Hat. § appoir T. D. Lander, Late of Jennings & Lander, notifies Lis friends that he has removed from 94 to 97 Falton street, under the firm of S Lander & Co., whore he will be happy to see and serv with watohes, jewelry and rilver ware, Diamon in Lots to Suit.—Fine Lots, per Africn, for sale at the lowest market pricos — crosses, rings, pins, de. Jewelry at manufacturers’ piers, for cash or approved paper. DAVID RATT, 381 Broadway, corner of White street, up stairs, ‘Watckes.—Jurgensen, Lavalette, Brequet, Dechene, Courvotrier, Johnsto: i paper. DAVID RAIT, importor, 381 Broadway, Great Bargains at 155 Fulton strect.—Now fF, ?, gomts’, missos’, boys? 1» &e., Mt 8 yrvat saerifice, s immediately, to thos . 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