The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1853, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. Anes JANES GORDON BENNE?®, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, OFFICE K. W. CORNER OF FULTOW AND WASSaC STS. Br nity, TERALD, 2 conte = WEEKLY HERALD, coory Sekirdey st eae copy, or $8 per annum; the sion, ¥ meses Great Britain, and $5 to any part of Saree he eleapete atten smcers me AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Tux Wrve—Tue Srv. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—M.opern. BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street-Serrove Fam- ‘any Toopnss. NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street~Txe Daume- -@np—ARMORER oF I'rRE. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Youns Quaxar— “Youn Scane. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Roors Swan—Ouninus. Evening—Witow Corse. S87. CHARLES THEATE! cwenor—EveLzes W120) CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broadway—Erniorias Mevopine sy Cunutr’s Orsna TRovre. aT THE Bowery—Coraican's Re- MALUMEAUX, + WOOD'S MINSTRELS. Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Broad- way—Brmiorian MinstReisy. ‘CERCUS, 87 Bowery—Equrernian EXTeRrarnmenrs, GEORAMA, 58 Broadway—Banvann's Panorama oF ‘war Hour Lazv. HELLER’S SOIREES MYSTERIBUSES, 589 Broadway. OWEN’S ALPINE RAMBLES, 539 Broadway. ‘New York, Monday, May 2, 1853. Notice to the Public. ‘Those of our subscribers who are so unfortunate as to ‘Be compelled, between now and to-morrow, to move their Mhouseheld goods, had better leave the street and number of their new places of residence with our clerks. Amidst ‘the confusion of a change s newspaper is indispensable. ‘The sews. The Collins steamship Baltic, which arrived at this ‘port yesterday afternoon, brought, us four days later news from England and the continent of Europe. ‘The British Parliament was engaged in debates upon ‘the late extensive seizure of war munitions in Lon- don, supposed to belong to Kossuth, and the great financial scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the furnishing of ‘(material aid” to the govern- ment treasury. The friends of the Hungarian exile indignantly denied his cognizance of the storing of arms, but the London Times hints its doubts of the truth of the disavowal. It was proposed to extend the Incéme Tax to Ireland, and to rate personal revenues under one hundred and fifty pounds a year. This scheme of the budget was keenly canvassed in the London journals. The bill for the admission of Jews to Parliament had passed the Commons, but with a majority so #mall that its ultimate success in the House of Peers was considered doubtful. A select committee of the Lords had been appointed, with a commission to inquire into the course of education in Maynooth College. The tenure of office of the Aberdeen minis- try was not considered very secure. Cotton was «qaoted at a decline in price, and breadstuffs remained unchanged. After parting trom the Reverend Doctor McNeile—the propounder of the most impracticable fanatical theories both ‘in religion and politics—at Liverpool, Mrs. H. B. Stowe had arrived in Glasgow, and, after a retirement of two days, was entertained at a soirée in the City Hall. Baillie Macdowell, senior magistrate of the city Joccupied the chair; but the other civic dignitaries, the mannfacturers, and the old anti-slavery leaders, were absent upon ‘the occasion. There was plenty of tea and talk, but mo money: the Scotch people, in this instance, yeri- fying the poetical ascertion of — Kill a man’s family, and they may brook it, But keep your hands from out their breeches pocket. France enjoyed a perfect lull. Trade was dail, but the quarter’s revenue showed a slight improvement im some departments of excise. The grand religious weremonial for the repose of the soul of Napoleon First was fixed for the 4th instant, and it was said abat Austria had consented to give up the ashes of Wapoleon Second, so that they should rest with the remains of his great sire. The Eastern question ‘was progressing toward a settlement. The Datch Ambassador had been withdrawn from Rome. The Queen of Spain had formed a new cabinet. It was be Jeved that the sudden dissolution of the old one wae caused by the dread of revelations by Gen. Concha upon the Cuban slave trade. The Austrian block- ade of the Swiss frontier had been relaxed. Three executions for politics! offences had taken place at Bologna. A general peace feature pervaded the continent. ‘We publish latest market quotations, commercial, | maritime, and miscellaneous uews, in another part of this paper. Scarcely have our readers recovered from the pain- ful sensation caused by the perusal of the details of ‘the terrible railroad accident in Michigan, ere we are ealled upon to record another disaster of a far more destructive character, ao far as concerns the loss of human life. The telegraph announces that the steamboat Ocean Wave was entirely consumed by fire on Lake Ontario, early last Saturday morning, and that not less than twenty-eight persons perished im the flames. The ill-fated vessel was owned by the Northern Railroad Company, and plied between | Hamilton, C.W., and Ogdensburg, N. Y. Ofa great number of women and children on board only three of the former were saved. All the officers of the vessel, except the first engineer, together with the greater portion of the crew, managed to make their escape. The flames are reported to havespread #0 rapidly that there was not time even to launch the small boats before the vessel was completely en- veloped in a sheet of fire. A partial list of the saved and missing will be found under the telegraphic head, to which the reader is referred for a more Jengtby account of the melancholy occurrence. “Gov. Lane’s extraordinary pronunciamento ap- pears to be the chief topic of discussion throughout the entire country. Our Washington advices state that the supposed organ of the administration has retraced the position it assumed upon the subject, and a despatch from Providence declares that Mr. ex-Commissioner Bartlett, of the Boundary Survey, is about publishing a reply to Gov. L.'s manifesto, in which he will show that the Mesilla Valley is and always hase been in the undisputed possession of Mexico. We understand that information has been received from the Sandwich Islands, that King Kamehameha has made another strong appeal to our government to intercede and prevent the encroachments of the french, which now threaten the complete subjuga tion of his dominions. | We have received a copy of the Singapore Bi | Monthly Ci and Prices Current, dated Tl | learn ula since the mr han and thirty. | ne and | Sin hatte «al. x to the twenty Aft iaty Vrem the last report o will be found in auothes nomber of deaths in } werk, we the Weel ending Yy'coneumytion, 29 by convulsions, 14 Sy dropey in the head,'8dy small pox (which, we are ‘told, is alarmingly prevalent at present), 9 by delirium tre- mens, 14 %y inflammation of the lungs, 13 by maras- mus, ané 5 by unknown diseases. No leas than 25 persons died of scarlet, typhus, and other kinds of fevers. The proportion of deaths among the sexes is-as Yollows :—Men, 72; women, 63; ‘beys, 105; and girls, 88. Asnsual, the mortality among chil- dren under ten years was excessive, the deaths num- “bering 198, or nearly two-thirds of the whole, and of these 89 were under one year. The degrees of mor. tality which mark the various periods of human life are particularly worthy of attention. Between the first and the second year the number of deaths were 39, presenting a remarkable decrease in the mor- tality among children in their first year. As we ascend the scale, we find the deaths vary in the following manner :—From 2 to 5 years, 50; from 5 to 10, 12; from 10 to 20, 8; from 20 to 30, 32; from 30 to 40, 40; from 40 to 50, 26; from 50 to 60, 10; from 60 to 70, 12; from 70 to 80, 5; from 80 to 90, 3; and from 90 to 100, 1. The proportion of deaths every week among persons of different ages, varies very slightly from the fore- going statement. We are not aware that any scien- tific explanation has ever been given in relation to this subject, but we should think its investigation would be exceedingly interesting to the medical faculty. We desire to know, for instance, what diseases are most fatal to persons between ten and twenty years of age, and so on throughout the deeades, to the average length of life in this city. ‘The influence of the atmosphere upon the general health at diferent seasons, has been pretty well determined; but on this matter we are not aware that anything has ever been published. Of the 328 persons who died during the past week, 214 were born in the United States, 65 in Ireland, 14 in Eng- land, 26 in Germany, arf 3 in Scotland. The annual sermon in aid of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions was preached last evening, at the Rev. Mr, Alexander's Church, Nineteenth street, Fifth avenue, by the Rev. Dr. Smythe, of Charleston, South Carolina. The Rev. Dr. J.C. Lowrie read an interesting abstract from the sixteenth annual report of the Board, which is to be found in another column. Father Gavazzi delivered, last night, in the Sun- day-shool room of the Tabernacle, an interesting lec-- ture on “The Martyrs of Italy,” in commemoration of the 30th of April, 1849, on which day the French army without Rome was routed by the legions of Garribaldi. The hall was densely crowded, and the ooator was often interrupted by applause. The ar- rival of the Baltic prevents us from publishing the lecture, which will appear in another number. In addition to the details of the foreign news, our inside pages to-day contain some very interesting information under the head of the “ Romance of Crime ;” Important Decisions in the Supreme Court ; Financial and Commercial Reviews; Theatrical Gossip, &c. Our Expose of Civil Corruption. It beeomes our duty. this morning. to lay be- fore the public another instance of civil cor- ruption. We trust we may be allowed to use this term, though in the case before us the City Council figures as the agent and not the patient, the donor, not the recipient, of a bribe. If any sensible distinction can be drawn be- tween the two shades of guilt, that is no doubt the most heinous which involves subornation aswell as direct criminality, and which not only degrades its own perpetrator, but impli- cates others in his offence. Grave as is the wrong done to society by the individual who barters his couscience for a bribe, the tempter and purchaser deserves at least equal reproba- tion. His offence is fearfully aggravated. when, as in the case we are about to disclose, the high credit and reputation of the donor and the poverty of the recipient smoothed the path for the nefarious offer, and the consideration was of such magnitude that the most resolute integrity might have been shaken—not that we would urge these matters in extenuation of the guilt of the victims: poverty. as every body knows, is no excuse for crime. We renounce the benefit of this and all other pleas in mitigation, and, confessing with becoming contrition, that we ourselves received the bribe, humbly throw ourselves on the merey of the public for for- giveness. To some few of our readers, whose means en- able them to add to the substantial comforts of the Heraup the luxury of other city papers, further explanation may be superfluous. They learnt long since that we had attained the en- viable distinction of ‘Corporation Printer,” and that, as such, we were bound to defend the City Council at all hazards. It is true that oc- casional articles in our columns may have seemed to militate against this belief, and must have appeared widely at variance with the theory of our elevation to the post of Corpora- tion organ. The readers of our cotemporaries must have found it difficult to reconcile the se- verity of our strictures on many of the acts of the aldermen, with the notion that we were | paid for supporting them. But the fact had been stated by men of unquestioned veracity, and the simplest mode of explaining the contra- diction was to suppose that, though the paid defender of the aldermen, we defended them badly, and so far forgot our compact as occa- sionally to adminieter a somewhat vigorous cas- tigation to our employers. That this was the conclusion to which many came, we are quite ready to believe. To those whose newspaper reading is confined to cur own columns, it is right that we should explain that for the last twelve months our co- temporaries have periodically charged us with being the paid organ of the Corporation. When we refused to join in the hue and cry against an alderman until bis delinquency was estab lished, we were told we had been paid to defend him. When we showed that many of the griev- ances of which the public complained were due to the imperfections of t law, and not to the faults of its adminis we were told we had been paid to fe them, Seme charitably inclined persons expostu lated @ enormity of onr con duct, but the mi pitiless course of b rupt. Under the wi we trust we may congratal having preserved a tolerabl mity. We have borne the reore ( resignati whic of inve ve te pour on our hea that we con look back upon of as the merit ¢ of the | 4 sum of $3000. We offer was a seri mited means, like t of ver seek no excuse for our conduct, thensand-dollar bribe. and be ‘ es have said in the a Pyinter. we have publish: end a half to two eolunas Carefully cale at e ad ements would have be three ‘eemente. worth to us, at our usual rates of advertising. a gum not less than ten thousand dollars. FEati- mating that they have covered two sides of one column of the Hzraxp, each day, the paper on which they have been printed during the past year has cost us $6,852, or one twenty-fourth part of our whole daily paper bill. Our corrupt transactions with the City Council have thus really put us to an expense of upwards of Jour thousand dollars over the amount re- ceived, without calculating the cost of type. type setting, rent and other expenses attend- ing the publication of a newspaper. Besides the advertisements, we have pab- lished, in fulfilment of our contract, the official minutes of the Boards of Common Council, ave- raging a couple of columns of the HERALD, for some ten days in each month? This, be it un- derstood, is independent of the reports of meet- ings, which are furnished us by our own reporter. All duly considered, we question whether $10,000 a year would indemnify us for the space occupied in our columns, directly and indirect- ly, by the City Corporation. We certainly would hesitate about placing the same space at the disposal of a private advertiser for that sum; and those who have witnessed the straits to which the recent press of advertising has re- duced us will readily give faith to the assertion. In view of so shocking a case of corruption as s disclosed in the above statement, public in- dignation will doubtless rise to boiling pitch. Whether the Corporation ought to be sacrificed for having bought $10,000 worth of our space for $3,000, or whetLer the HeraLp ought to be crushed for having sold itself in so base a man- ner, we are at a loss to determine. The zealous reformers who were the first to expose our cor- ruption may possibly decide; and, should it be deemed expedient to guard against the recur- rence of the evil, we dare say that among our assailants more than one, with their limited circulation, might be found to accommodate the City Council at a much more reasonable figure, without incurring any serious risk of pecuniary logs to themselves. Uncie Tom anp His Errecrs on Society.— When Ainsworth’s novel of “Jack Sheppard” was first published and dramatized, the imme- diate effect of its representation on the London stage was, to imbue fresh, harmless, innocent apprentice boys with the ambition of imitating that badly-notorious specimen of their society, and to overrun London with burglars and street robbers. The effect was so palpably referrable to the cause, that it was found abso- lutely necessary to prevent the further rep- resentation of the drama which had produced so much mischief. Just so discerning people can perceive the deleterious influence on so- ciety which “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is beginning to operate in some rural districts of this coun- try. Of late days we can observe that there is springing up a demand in the Northern market for ebony color, not to be sent to Southern plan- tations. but to supplant some of the white lords of the creation in the affections of their wives, sweethearts and daughters. We are occasion- ally supplied by the country newspapers, of this and neighboring States, with romantic ac- counts of elopements of fair daughters of the Anglo Saxon race, with swart sons of Afric; and for the last few months these events have become so numerous as to give some cause for alarm lest the evil should spread and magnify. To what is this new feature in our society to be traced, but to the effect which the reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin has had, and is calculated to have. on the minds of silly, weak-minded young ladies ? One of the English papers recounts a curious circumstance which occurred in that country, from the same cause. A lady, whose nervous emperament was so highly excited by the perusal of that now fashionable production, and who happened to be at the time in that peculiar jituation “in which ladies like to be. who love their lords,” gave birth to two young babies of fine physical conformation. but whose skin was of the color prevailing in the dominidns of the King of Congo. Investigations established the pleasing fact that there had not been a colored person seen in that quarter of the country for three years previously. And so the phenomenon was properly referred to the action of natural sympathy, In this latitude, however. the effect of the dangerous novel is seen in a more physical and less phenomenal shape. Several married and unmarried ladies have recently exhibited a very striking partiality for kissing those whom the sun hath fiercely kissed. And not content with this mark of favor, they have in too many instances exposed their shame by actually eloping with them, leaving their husbands or the houses of their fathers, and throwing them- selves and their purses into the arms of some strapping negro. Various instances of this kind have occurred of late. which it is unne- eessary for us here to particulurize, as some of them have already appeared in the news columns of our paper; and if there be not an immediate cessation to them, heads of families must begin to exercise more discrimination in selecting their colored ser- vants. lest Sambo, the groom. or Pompey, the coachman, should turn out to be an African counterpart of Don Casar de Bazan. In fact. there is some reason to fear that, with the silly young ladies affected in this strange manner, suiters who happen to be of the white species will have to adopt the prayer which Shakspeare puts into the mouth of the Moorish prince— Mislike me not for my complexion.” It is only very recently, and since the publi- cation of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” that this strange fancy has developed itself in womanhood. Solo- mon, the wise. among his numerous wives and concubines. had one favorite, whom he describes in his song as black but comely ; and Moses, we know. gave great offence to his brother and sister by wedding an Eihiopean woman; but we have never seen it recorded in history, or found it true ir that women of the Caucasian alfee- tion nona is the had such a rv the negr ly who is re weakness ted hey her life fact t and exy it is a ve 1 one of the that hor 5 Othello, i ane ing gated by her could have we not justified ir i) to the eff upon hey, are linput og th prev reading of the Ca lence of the ¢ ath ey Tom reception of Mre. Stowe n ecms that the hic Kow monstration made in her honor in Liverpool. Perhaps, as in duty bound, they were praying for the restoration of Her Majesty to health. Neither was it participated in by the nobility, who might have been also engaged in their du- ties about the royal antechamber. However, Mrs. Stowe was, strangely enough, presented with a sum of £130, which she accepted as if she had gone there to collect alms—and in the course of her career through the United King- dom she may create as great a sensation and collect as large an amount as Messieurs Kos- suth and Kinkel did in this country. One thing however we must say in favor of Mrs. Stowe’s novel, and that is, that we anticipate from ita greater effect in the way of liberalizing the institutions of the Old World than are to be expected from all the petty and abortive at. tempts of Kossuth, Mazzini and Ledru Rollin, However we might desire to see it accomplish such a result. we by no means relish the turn it has taken in this quarter of the American con- tinent. Who does? Tue PeRss or TRAVELI.ING.—It would really seem that the dangers to life and limb. which ought now to form the most serious item in the calculations of the traveller in the United States, increase in a regular arithmetical progression, and pari passu, with the developements of trade. commerce. and general resources. Our rela- tions with California and the States of the Pa- ciffe are bound closer from month to month; but just in like proportion with the in- crease of trade and prosperity comes the appall- ing contra of the sacritive of human life. The States of the Union are linked into more imme- diate connection by those innumerable rail. road arteries through which flow trade and travel—the life of the body social; but for this we pay the fearful equivalent of having terrible casualties by the way multiplied in a like ratio. The evil and the good seem to keep their rela- tive proportions, and it is matter of doubt which preponderates in our scale of developement. How seldom does a steamer bring us from the States of the Pacific the golden treasures which California yields so unsparingly, with- out also bringing us news of the occur- rence of some dreadful steamship calamity, involving a serious loss of human life! Month after month the details of this and that casualty fill the columns of the newspapers, and the last always outswells and absorbs the previous ones, as the serpent of Moses swal- lowed up all the other monsters of the Egyptian necromancers. The last and most terrible of these disasters which has yet reached us is that of the destruction of the steamship Indepen- dence, off the island of Margarita, in the Pacific ocean, on the 16th of February, by which some hundred and fifty persons were sacrificed, either by fire or water. Legal inquiries are insti- tuted, apparently resolute and sincere efforts are commenced, with the object of punishing the reckless or ignorant authors of the calamity; but in the meantime, and pending the law’s de- lays. some new calamity. of a like nature, and perhaps transcending it in horror, may occur— the public mind becomes careless and oblivious of the past—the prosecution ends in a sort of mock trial, and, acquitted. and the culprits are again sent forth, as careful and trustworthy men, to be placed, it may be, ina position to enact the tragedy over again. And what is true of the destruction of human life by steamboats on ocean and river, applies equally to its kindred Moloch the railroad, only that on the former the casualties are rarer, though on a much more magnified scale. and that, on the latter, the victims are daily sacri- ficed—singly. in twos. threes, dozens. or scores. For the past few days the journals have recorded details of the terrible acei- dent which occurred on the Chicago Railroad on Tuesday last, whereby some twenty persons, men, women and children, were killed, and fifty | more or less dangerously injured. We have already given a full report of the inquest. and the verdict from the Coroner's Jury, from which it will be seen that the conductors and \ engineers of the two colliding trains are charged with, and held to answer for. the crime of having. by their gross negligence and care- leseness, caused this dreadful destruction of life. There does not seem to be a single palliative | circumstance in this case. The only difficulty is to discover how the collision could possibly have taken place unintentionally. The two lines of railroad—the Southern and Michigan Central—intersect at right angles on anexten- sive prairie or marsh. where there is not a bush or tree for miles around. te obstruct the sight. and the night of the occurrence was bright moonlight. And it is also stated that the dead and dying were left on the roadside for four hours before arrangements were made to bring them into Chicago, a distance of only eight miles. If this be so, it aggravates the crime, and renders those companies and their servants fit subjects for the severest punishment which the law can inflict upon them. This casualty however, only proves more conclusively how wrong, improper and danger- ous it is to have two or more lines intersect on the same level. No charter should be given to any company whose projected line would cross that of any other, without compelling them to alter the grade so asto run the road by means of a viaduct over the other, or by means of a tunnel under it. And in this case, in Michigan it is stated that one of the companies actually proposed such a measure to the other, for their mutual benefit; but the offer was refused, and the negotiations broken off. Will this calamity have tha effect upon all State Legislatures, to make them for the future refuse charters for railroads projected to intersect one or more al- ready in operation, until at least the companies make proper arrangement. by difference of level, to avoid such disasters as that of Chicago? We hope, that with an enlightened view to the public welfare, measures may be promptly adopted to regulate such lines as may happen to be constructed in this dangerous way. and that henceforth the plans we have metioned will be strictly enforced from all companies re- ceiving charters. P. S.—Since writing the above we have re- ceived a telegraphic despaich announcing the loss of twenty-eight lives by the burning of the steamer Occan Wave on Leke Ontario, early last Saturday ws Of some fifty persons on beard only twent lives. » escaped with their AGnicunr SLavEHOLDING Staves hassomoled | The So last October in Macon, called the bers, to be held In n May, and the conve he place a PourticaL Movine Day.—The leases of the various place-holders in the Custom House, Post Office, and other governmental depart- ments in this city, expire today, The new te- nants are bustling in, to take possession; while the old, disconsolately prepare to bundle and go. And the scenes of confusion which take place in such movements, are curious. instructive and amusing. The out-going tenants cast a long- ing. lingering look behind, on the fine, comfort- able places which. by the rotatory movement of the political machine, they are obliged to va- cate—on the vines and the fig trees under which for the space of four years they have been en- joying their otium cum dignitate. no man making them afraid; while, on the other hand, the victorious democratic Vandals are eager to en- ter on the enjoyment of the sweets of office. and cruelly urge on the melancholy-looking in- cumbents to hurry up their cakes with all ex- pedition. It is at once a laughable and pitiful scene to witness; but the decrees of fate and party must be obeyed, and the clearing out and the filling in is performed with merciless exact- ness and regularity. We give to-day, as apropos to the movement. a very interesting sketch of the past régimes of collectors. surveyors, naval officers, postmasters, &c., of the city. Besides its appropriateness to the present quadrennial May-moving epoch. the information which it contains will be found of much historical and personal interest. As many of our non-political readers may not be well posted up as to the changes that have taken place and those that are to go into effect to-day in the Post Office, Custom House and Naval departments, we supply them with the following table. showing the political pro- clivities of the new incumbents :— ; Coleman reer C. Bronson, hard shell Marcy, hunker. District Attorney—Charles O’Conor, hard shell Dickinson, hunker. Surveyor of the Port—John Cochrane, soft shell Van Buren—barnburner. Postmaster—Isaac V. Fowler, soft shell “Van Buren—barnburner, slightly tinged with Marcyism. 4 Ni ayy Agent—C. Swackhamer, hard shell Marcy, jubker, Naval Officer—H. C. Redfield, hard shell Marcy, hunker. Marshal—A. Hillyer, hard shell Dickenson, hunker. Naval Storekeeper—Daniel E. Delavan, hard shell Mare hunker. Sub Treasurcr—Mr. A. Dix, soft shell Van Baren —barnburner. These are only the heads of the departments; but throughout the minor offices. what a number of ejectments will be mercilessly enforced! In the Custom House alone there are some seven hundred offices filled principally by whigs. most of whom will be summarily and unceremoniously thrust out to make room for the more lucky demo- crats. In the Post Office the changes will be more gradual, but no lesscertain. Itisahard thing to have to flit at any time, but particularly so on this day, when the charges of the public cartmen are so exorbitant. However. necessity has no law, and it is now a truism that to the victors belong the spoils. “True, ‘tis a pity, pity ‘tis ‘tis true.” The New Foreign Appointme) (+ Our telegraphic despatches from Wa ington yesterday, announced the important fact ‘hat the missions to France, Russia, and Mexico had been filled by the appointment of General Dix, Governor Seymour, and Gen. Gadaden. The first of these gentlemen, Mr. John A. Dix, was recently appointed Sub-Treasurer of this port, and was to be sworn in to-day. Should he accept the new appointment of Minister to France—which is more than probable, as his friends were exceedingly desirous he should obtain it—there will be a scramble among the office seekers for the vacant situation. General Dix has already occupied several important public positions, and, in 1848, was a candidate on the Van Buren ticket, for Governor of this State. In the early part of his career he served as lieutenant in the army, and subsequently filled the office of Secre- tary of State of New York. He was next elected United States Senator from this State; but from the expiration of his term till his recent appointment he has not served in any official capacity under the general or State government. Mr. Dix is a native of New Hampshire, and is now over fifty years of age. Colonel Thomas H. Seymour, Governor elect of Connecticut, has been appointed our Minister to the court of Russia. Wednesday next, as may be seen from the following note, inviting us to his in- auguration, was the day fixed on which the oath of office was to be administered to him :— Hanrrorp, April 20, 1858. Sm—You are respectfully invited to meet in the court room, at the St louse, at 9 o'clock, A. M., on Wednes- day, Mey Sth, 1863, to take part in the parade, at the inauguration of his Exeellency, Goy. Seymour. Carriages will be in attendance at the time. Please i oye yourself to Horace Johnson, Assistant Marshal, who will designate your position in the line. Yours respectfully (OSEPH PRATT, airman Committee of Arrangements. E. A. Dow, Secretary. Governor Seymour was Colonel in the New Eng- land Regiment during the Mexican war, and a brother cfficer of Gen. Pierce, who belonged to the same brigade. Previous to his entrance into the army he had been four times elected Governor of Connecticut, and a member of Congress from that State. Gen. James Gadsden, of South Carolina, Minister to Mexico, was one of the aids of Gen. Jackson in the war of 1812, and under the administration of Mr. Monroe was nominated Adjutant General of the United States. He was subsequently appointed Brigadier General of United States Engineers, in the place of the celebrated Gen. Bernard, who retarned to France; but, after helding the office for a short period, he resigned, and it was abolished at his own recommendation. In his politics General Gadsden is a strong pro-slavery man, and in 1950-51 was a secessionist on the negro question. He suggested the idea to the South of establishing slavery in California, by sending their slaves to the southern section of that State, which he considered well adapted to slave labor. Taik on ‘Change, ‘Change was rather thinly attended on Saturday, as ustal about the Ist of May. Cotton sold te the extent of 1,300 bales, without change in quotations. State brands of (our were firm at $4 62, and Cavadian sold at $475; Southern fancy at $5 75, and common at $625. During the week about 1,00 varrels Gallegos Richmond City Mills sold at #8 (or export. Rice was stendy, with sales atfajl prices for prime. The stock wae estimated at 7,00 casks, ‘The vew Corn Exchange, started the past year, and in- corporated by the Legisiature last winter, has met with gocd success, It was raid that a dividend was declared equal to $180 per share, on which only $10 had been paidin, The company oceupy a temporary building at No. 16 South street, where a Corn Exchange is held each forenoon It commenees nominally at about 1034 A.M., but generally there is net @ full attendance until about 11 A. M., and all is over by 113g to 12 M. ‘The chief transactions are in flour and grain. Inme. diately along the wharves and docks in front, and above and below, are crowded together a Jarge number of canal beats and other smell craft, loaded chiefly with the brendsrufta. When @ steam towt boats. laden with We has arrived, The air ¢ arrives with n fleet of canal 1 produce, it is sai of two or three 1 tow’? towe frequently deprestes prices, and when no tows arrive, by resscr of & break in the grand esnai, prices sometimes advance The neighborhood of Cocnties slip and below often nts one of the moe! ero and busy scones in the iu the spring and yr Thin ie ul city part stom, ‘The seem rede ti Theats or | twa,” t wae said, were alto Hinited and were it not 1 BE COMM CORLER Atlantic Do lew in Hrocklyn, for @ pr v it of the urpe proportion of the nal boa are sold afloat, and neinose erage. ke The being urgoe: be tit in A frequently conditioned to be delivered alongside the, for export. Considerable lots are also sold deliverabh the wharf as well as from store, The Corn Exebange Company contemplate building edifice for its accommodation, and it wae suggested tli it would be better to have it constructed of iron and gla 80 as to secure the most room—the best light, consistat with strength and durability. Had the old Exchange been built on a cenvenient plar, #0 a8 to have secured the most room, with good light ad durabiliiy, and at a moderate cost, there was no dowt but it would have proved one of the most productive investments in the city. It is «noble and imporing ballin, but vastly more costly than convenicat or profi- table. A wigh was expressed that means might be adapted by the Postmaster General to sccure greater regularity and speed in the transmission of the mails between New York and New Orleans. Much inconvenience and loss ha? been. experienced by merchants during the past winter, on ne- count of the frequent failures on the great Southern maid route. The May Revolution, TROUBLES OF THE TENANTRY IN NEW vorK—vUtaw RAL MOVING Day. To-day will be a busy one in the metropolis. It is the annual moving day. Houses are to be turned in- side out—furniture smashed—cartmen abused—and landlords blessed. It is one of those days yet to be properly described in history. Housekeepers have generally busy times for two or three weeks preceding the first of May in expeditions of discovery after new residences, or in preparations to leave their old ones. The population of New York is of a more migratory and erratic character than that of any other city in the United States. About this time every year they are seized with a. trange and unaccountable desire for moving, which in some cases becomes @ perfect infatuation. ‘here are, we venture to say, hundreds of familics in the city, who, no matter how irregular they may be in all their other proceedings, have not allowed. a single May day to pass by without chang- ing their place of residence. They look for- ward to the period when they can gratify this morbid desire with no ordinary feelings of delight, and make ready, at least, a fortnight before the proper time artives. This class are the most indefatigable house hunters, and will spend whole days in pevarnbulat- ing the city in search of a dwelling tolet. A small proportion of these might appropriately be termed anti-renters, from the insuperable objection they have to paying their landlords. They generally manage to get into a row about once a day with those who are 20 unfortunate as to live in the same house with. them, and manage to convert the most trifling diffi- culty into a cause of quarrel. Of such people we- would advise landlords to beware; and if they do hap- pen to have them for tenants, to get rid of them on the casiest terms. The old saying, that “an empty house is better than a bad tenant,” has vecome a truism not only in New York, but in every city throughout the world. When alandlord undertakes by legal means, to make such a tenant pay his reni. he generally finds, to use an expressive phrase, tht “it costs more than it comes to.” The tenant, ifie has no property which can be attached, has it inhi power not only to annoy the landlord, by refasingto- leave, but he can, as experience has too often provd, 80 injure the house as to put him to considerableex- pense in repairing it. We have heard of sont in- stances of this kind in which the landlord acutally paid his tormentor to leave the house. This ehss of tenants, however, as we have said, form a sn:ll pro- portion of our migratory population. It is the general impression that more removals | will take place this May than have been cnown in any preceding year. This is toa groat cxent attri- butable to the large increase in the rate of rents, and, a8 a consequence, the desire of tenaits to pro- cure cheaper houses. To effect this desirasle object, large numbers have been compelled to mcve farther up town, where, although they have noi 90 many conveniences, they are enabled to live cheaper. It is said that the establishment of the Sixth and Eighth avenue railroads had such a surprising effect upon, building operations in the section of the city lying between Thirtieth and Fiftieth streets, and Fourth avenue and the North river, that, during the past year, the number of houses erected is nearly double that of the year before. A large proportion of these may be set down to the credit of the Crystal Palace, which has also been the partial cause of the present great increase in renta. We hope, however, that. the termination of the Exhibition will bring about a better condition of things for tenants—for, no mat~ ter who gains, they are generally the losers. Tradesmen and mechanics can strike for higher wages, and their employers, as we have seen, have generally to accede to their demands; but who ever heard of the tenants combining in a body,. and striking for a reduction of rents? They are completely at the mercy of their land- lords; and they have te submit, no matter how unwillingly, to their terms. If the rente were made more uniform throughout the city, there is little doubt that the number of removals would be materially lessened; but we are afraid the day is far distant that will see a uniformity in the value of houses on Manhattan island. Meantime, as moving is at present the order of the day, the only thing we can do is to prepare for i; the best way we can. The May Term of the Law Cousts, There will be litt'e more than forty-eight hours inter- missicn between the termination of the April and the commencement of the May term of the law courts; and if the general household move does not make jurors scarce to-day, the several branches for trials wili be in active operation, as a great deal of business has to ve disposed of within the next three months; and then lawyers and litigants will anxiously look out for their annual relaxa- tion from the turmoils and vexations of all who deal io Jaw. The Supreme Court, General Term, where Judges Ed- monds, Edwards, and Mitchell preside, will sit this term— the first Monday and Thursday and the second Friday, being motion days. There will be but one part of the Cireuit held, (by Judge Roorevelt,) and the calendar will be contiz ued from where part first of April Jeft off. Judge Roosevelt will hold the Special Term contemporaneously with the Circuit, and Judge Morris will preside at Cham- bere, where the clerk will receive notes of issue for the May Saturday motion ca endar. The Canal and Walker street reference has been continued for three weeks, at the expense of the objectors, The Court of Oyer and Terminer will not be beld until June, when a special term will be called by the District Attorney, for the tris] of De Corne, for the Greenwich street homicide. The Superior Court will, as usual, have two bravches for jury trisls; and though upwards of foar Lunired causes were disposed of during the month of April, there yet remain the balance of nine hundred to be |. The Gerers} Term, Special Term and Chambers of this Court will also rit. Two parts of the Common Pleas will be in operation for trial causes, and one Judge will dispose of Coamber ant Special Term business. The United States Courts commence their termon the first Iwescay of the month--to morrow. The Cirsuit and the District Courts will be held by Judge Ingersoll, of Con necticut, and Judge Betts. The case of the Ilenry Cla; steamboat dieaster is eet down forthe 11th of Mi but we are informed that it will not be tried be+ Prescott. the first Tuesday in June, Mr. J. Hell, ex-District Attorney, and Mr. William will appear for the prosecution, as Mr. 0’Conor, the present United States Attorney, wan previously re tained for the accused parties, and he, cons will not take any part in the trial, either for ment or the defences ‘There ix une case of mauslcughter, ited on board the American ship Roseius, which fore con will be tried during the present term, The Grand Jury whe are subpeenned for ten ge muipant of criminal business to dispore of, amongst whtel Is the case of Michael Reardon, for an alleged murde: oo board the ship Ameriown Congross, In the Marine Court, the Judges elect—A. A. Taopson, A. A. Philips,fand Vlorenes MeUarthy—asceod the benth cen the 10th of this month, when Judges Tyarh and Cowles retire. The bu will thencofor rsd be dis- pered of in the new courtroom in the ba sions and other Jaw purpores, on Ch Mr. M. D. Gale, a member of th: has been appointed clerk of the ders'and that the silrry of the xed at $8,000 a year each, In con. for and the Park. House of Assembly ‘ourt, and we «elect will he