The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1853, Page 4

ETRE SO PEST RTT SS TAT A el a RN tt ea A TT A TS in relation to the late Rass pavement contract waa taken up, and after some discussion, for which we would refer our readers to another p: was laid on the table. ‘The reports of the Baptist given on another page, wi d highly interest- ing. The American and Bible Society have abolished the restrictive resolutions of 1850 and sub- stituted those of 1838. By the annual report of the Treasurer, it appears that the disbursements “NEW YORK HERALD. FAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, orsaries ia Albany, TERMS 204k tn adounce, THE DAILY HERALD, 2 cents per <opy—81 per annem. THE WEEKLY HERALD. very Saturday, at 64 conte opy or % per annum, the Buropean kdition per annum. to amy port of Creat Hmggjn and $510 amy part ef Ae Continent buth to Lrctusle the a VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing impor- $335 24 more than gt Me ply ge Sr s i ae 3 and the balance on hand at the com- wedi K CORR FEPON ~. RD TO REAL OL) Lar r. The appropriations for . distributing the Scriptures, amounted to $23,37 Ac- Seat vs nowraous communications. We 2 not d S by Mil, for Subscriptions. or with A.Jver were: ts, ta be pos aid, or the postage will be deducted from the managers of the Ame- oney romtlted ; he: : JOH PRINTING ezecuted wih yeatness, cheapness, and | yican Baptist Missionary Union, the total expendi- ESC RR TISEMENTS, renewed everv day. tures of the Union during the year 1852 were Z —— ssa. The debt 1145498 66, and the receipts $113,356 e Wnionin April, 1 was $21, We ive place to a synopsis. of. te proceedings of thern Baptist Convention, held at Baltimore, .. AMUSEMEN the _QOVERY THEATER. Bore ete guava which possesses considerable interest. er : The Cunard steamer Africa will probably arrive pBROADWAY THEATKE, Groadway—Hewner—Oners | 4 doy, with three days later news from Europe. One SERION’S RE, Chawbece sireet—Senrqus Paar, | Week later advices from California may also be ex- Ly-—Tee Toop. pected in the course of the nonnage NATIONAL YHEATKE, Chatham stresb—Wowar’s as pones—Inior OF THe SHAN*ON—OURANG OuTAN, a | What the Union Party Think of the WALLACK’S THEATRE, ros¢way~Don Cesar ve Admin Istradion. Bazan—Usev Ur Bae ss mh . sveceereng: The sense of relief which the decision of the Sf. CHARLES THEATKE, Bowsry—Tae Toopurs— last Baltimore Convention imparted to the country is yet fresh in the memory of our readers. Before. all was suspense. uncertainty. Neither party felt certain that its doctrines atanoueme sr Cauntery's Oruds Taoure. | would have a fair trial. No one could say WOOD'S MINSTRELS. Wood's Musics! Hall, 44 Brosd- | what principles were to decide the contest. vay -Rrworiay Minsraxray ‘ diccite guste Gea ose aetalaecenia After much random argument all doubts were yenay CoLossal Hirroonome, cleared away by the Conventions, and the rival ¥ GEACUn, wy Bewcry_tewaeesvi? Newagitiiitewes, idates were placed upon definite, well-un- — derstood platforms. Scott was well known to be the nominee ofthe Seward faction—unsound on the slavery question, the secret ally of Hale and Giddings, an opponent of the naturalization laws, and a foe to the extension of our territory. With equal clearness Pierce’s position was de- fined by his nomination by the party whose motto is the preservation of the integrity of the Union: be went to,the country asa Union man, the champion of the Compromise, and the Lapis’ Rich °s-~ Decor anue rar AMERICAN U4USROM-Afterncon—M. Bvoniug—ALL THAT Givtrens is Nor Gox. P.—Omninvs OHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSER, 473 Brosdway—Erusortar @ROKAMA, 4% Brontway—Darvann’e Panonama oF mz Horr Lasp, AELLER’S SOIREZES HYS USES, S9 Broadway. O@WEN'S ALPINE KAN HKUES 59 Broadway, METROPOLITAN HAL — sor, Awoenso ——————— May 19, 1853. New York, Thu outa Poetfie. KLY HERALD. Malis for ne THE YORK The Unitet States imal steamship Iilinels, Caj ilment of “manifest destiny.” Between can- Hartsteine, will his port to-morrow afternoon, st ates so plainly identified no citizen could or two o'clock, for Aspinwall, | hesitate in the disposal of his vote. All The mails for California and other parts of the Pacis, | those who were opposed to the Compromise and sill close at one o'clock Southern institutions ranged themselves under the banner of Scott; those who viewed minor questions of social or political economy as utterly insignificant, in comparison with the preservation of the Union and the harmonious working of the constitution handed down to us | by our forefathers, looked to Pierce as the man for the country. Upon the issne thus laid before them, the a verdict unparalleled in point of unanimity sinee the days of Monroe. 296 electors, 254 registered their votes in favor of the preservation of the Union, the Compromise, and the fulfilmeat of “manifest desijny.”’ The Union party were triumphant. They saw their candidate victorious and their ene- miesprostrated. They counted a larger num- ber of adherents than had ever rallied round eny prev. andard since the Independence. Even their opponents were prepared to give the victor a fair trial. The state of the country a his favor. Commercial enterprise was thriving to an unexampled extent. Prosperity spread contentment among all classes. Peace prevailed. A large surplus lay idle in the treasury. No internal dissensions agitated the public mind. Viewing this extraordinary combination of circumstances, the Union party predicted that the new administration would shed unexampled lustre on the country. They were confident that General Pierce would strong and united Cabinet, com- | posed of men of tried worth and well known principles. They scouted the idea that men x ofice with such brilliant advantages } would allow a week to elapse without to the country some evidence of the | or at least some carnest of their patriotic inten- tions. ) Th sintments, it must be confessed, took | most people by surprise. The names of Guth- | rie, Dobbin and Campbell were new to the pub- terest on the public debt and treasury notes, $44,- | lic; but the President's choice was some guaran- 481,447, | tee for their character. Mr. Davis had opposed A large amount of very important business was | the Compromise Union measnres and advocated transacted in the law courts yesterday, as will be | Southern secession; and Mr. M’Clelland had seen on reference to our reports. Judge Roo: | de free soil speeches, and voted for the Wil- delivered the opinion on the Amory Will Case : | mot proviso; bat the surprise which their se- Supreme Court general term, which reverses the | tection created was overcome : and all thoughts order entered pro form at the apecial term. Ac | oe 414 nast were forsotton. ia antici re ng A sas I] vas re) 107; ”1 a icipa ns cording to this opinion the parties to the partition | I oP oN ails tad not the absolute title in fee, and, ¢ _ | the future. Mr. Marcy was hardly the man the quently, the purchaser is not bound to complet | Union party expected to succeed Mr. Everett purchase, He must be discharged, and the ten per | and Mr. Webster. The limited opportunities he cent paid on the sale refunded. In the First had enjoyed for gaining a practical knowledge trict Court, Judge Greene gave a@ deci n affairs were no qualification for the deri verbal contract between merchants ve post of Secretary of State; and however ser- “and of no effect. A curious case was heard in t viceable his dictum, “ to the vietors belong the Superior Conrt, being an action of B. L. C oo had proved io the democrats. the Union recover one thousand do! from the Metrop litan 4 not help wishing that they had been Bank for a violation of the law against thecireala- | 17g, Lin the if tion of foreign bank bills. The bank in question, it | ToPHC“ni#” aa appears, received a bill of the Bank of Charleston as | adeletahrath adapt 49 ng part payment of anote. The plaintiff, it is under- | huckster. stood, has instituted fifty similar suite. when the whole country had pronounced vor of their doctrines, the contro! of so important The New Yous Wuuxty Henatn, California edition, with the latesd intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at ten o'clock to-morrow morning. Single coples sixpence. Agents will please send in their orders as early as possible. The News, The details of our Mexican, Central agd South American news, which we give to-day, will be found very interesting. In it are conprehended extracts | from General Santa Anna’s discourse on taking the oath as President of the Mexican republic ; his de- cree against the officers of the army who rendered themselves yoluntary prisoners to our forces at the period of the invasion of Mexico; the programme of administration of the President of New Granada: and other matters of general interest. Recent advices from Buenos Ayres declare that the city was besieged, the terms of the treaty of peace not having been carried into effect. Not a line of political information was received by telegraph from Washington yesterday. The con tinnation of the summing up of the District Attor. | ney in the Gardner case, and the proceedings and | by-laws of the Smithsonian Institution will be found | interesting. Genera! Gadsden, according to a despatch from Chazleston, bas received official notification of his appointment as Minister to Mexico. He will accept. A despatch from Albany announces that the Su- | periatendent of the king Department will to- morrow sell at public auction, at the Merchants’ | Exchange, in this ci urities deposited by | the broken Fa nk of Ononde ga, consisting of 26.000 of State six per cent stock and $5,000 in | United States | choose a The State canal tolls, np to the 14th instant, this year, show an increase of $36,502 over those to the same time last year. We elsewhere publish a very interesting table national stati nade out at the ance of } Sargent, Esq € Treasury. Among other items of importance w m that the publi debt, on the 2d of March, 1 131,692 13. The various appropriations made Congress, for the = ar, ending Jane 30, 1 ding the in assumi st office of State by one 3 were not those of a They had hoped, moreover. that true; the damaging anteeedents of others might be effaced by noble deeds. Mr. M’Clelland, they said. might atone for his vote on the Wil- mot proviso by a course of unflinching fidelity to the Union ; Mr. Davis might obliterate the recollection of his career as a Southern seces- sionist by similar proofs of his amendment, Mr. Cushing might serve the democrats more traly than he had served the whigs. and even Mr. Marcy might give symptoms of disinterested patriotism. Reasoning in this wise, and abandoning the equivocal pleasures of memory for the unalloy- ed pleasures of hepe, the Union party forbore to interrupt the universal pean with which General Pierce's administration was inaugura- ted. Not a sigh betrayed the misgivings of their hearts. Where all was rejoicing, and glad- ness, and proud exuliatton, théy'schooled their face into radiance, and forged themselves to participate in transports that private apprehen- sions sadly belied. The future, indeed, was yet before them, heavily mortgaged with the ; expectations they had formed, the hopes they had raised, the pledges they had given: and to that future they looked [for « warrant for their present demomstrations of joy. Of that future ten weeks have now elapsed. What have they brought forth? Mr. Marey has appointed all his friends and relatives to handsome offices, and has beguiled the time by disputing the public plunder with ‘the President and his colleagues. Nothing more. Mr. Davis has organized three expedi- tions to discover a route for the railroad to the Pacific. Mr. Dobbin has carried out Mr Kennedy's plan for the Ringgold exploring expedition. Mr. Guthrie has commenced the work of examining the government contracts Mr. Camphell has effected a reform in our foreign postal arrangements, and is shortly ex- pected to turn his attention to our domestic post offices. To Mr. M’Clelland and Mr. Cushing we can trace the performance of no task worth mentioning. We trust that in view of this statement of the labors performed by the Cabinet the Union party will forbear to indulge gloomy fore- bodings. We trust that they will continue to suspend their final judgment until the Cabinet has had a longer trial—until the disposal of the public patronage has ceased to occupy the at- tention of the President, and his administration have full leisure to devote their whole energies to grappling with the important problems of our national policy. Above all, we hope that the Union party will not allow their confidence to be shaken by any apparent symptoms of un- soundness which they may detect in the poli- tical course of the Cabinet. Time will surely convince us all that the administration is de- voted to the Union, and that they are grossly mistaken who fancy that the work of last No- vember will need to Le performed afresh. New Ramroap Laws—A Rore or Sayp.— It strikes us that the bill which has been intro- duced into the Connecticut Legislature has re- ceived unmerited praise. It will not accomplish its object. It prescribes a high penalty for the destruction of life on railroads, but it requires that the destruction of life should be the result of carelessness. and it leaves the carelessness to be proved as at present. Now, merely specifying the amount of damages to be paid is not sufti- cient. Something more must be done. The away from the dust and din of the city. We only wish that some arrangement could be made by which all stores would be closed at the same time; but this we know to be impos- sible, as more business is transacted through- out the city on Saturday evening than on any other during the week. Let it be done, howev- er, where it can, so that the clerks may have a few hoursin the evening to themselves. From eight o’clock in the morning till eight in the evening—twelve hours altogether—is surely long enough to be keptin close confinement. Let us close our stores carly then, that our clerks may have some breathing time. Canapran Arrarrs—Pourtics ann Rat roaps.—As the close of the session of the Ca- nadian Parliament draws near, the printed votes and proceedings begin to exhibit com- mendable evidéhce ofactivity among the com- mittees. Mr. Drummond's Seigniorial Tenure bill is in a fair way to become a law. It has passed the Assembly, and now only waits the concurrence of the Legislative Council and the sanction of the Governor to take its place in the statute book of the province. It is, as our readers are aware, the first legislative step towards the abolition of the feudal tenure in Canada. As such it will find favor with all who have the interest of the province at heart. That it may inflict gratuitous injury on a few of the seigniors its adherents will hardly deny; but the blessings of a free tenure are cheaply purchased at such acost. Like many other institutions which have elicited the ap- plause of superficial observers, the feudal tenure was so wadically vicious in, its funda- mental principles, that every country which adopted it has already, or will hereafter dear- ly expiate its error. Military power and com- mercial influence may arrest its downfall for a while in Central Europe; but it must long since have jarred violently against the national spirit of Canadians. It is indeed wonderful that our neighbors should have submitted so long toa Code by which it was forbidden to erect a grist mill, and sales of real estate were discouraged by the imposition of heavy fines. Mr. Drummond and his colleagues are entitled tothe gratitude of their countrymen for having dealt the first practical blow at so suicidal a system. Together with the Seigniorial bill, the bill to increase the Representation will be laid before the Legislative Council. We cannot see that this scheme will produce any practical results of importance. The English party assert that it will give the French Canadians the prepon- derance in Lower Canada. To us it seems strange enough to hear of a small colony like Canada being inhabited by two antagonistic races. with opposite interests. We can hardly discover how measures which conduce to the good of the one should not be equally advanta- geous to the other; nor can we realize the im- portance which our neighbors seem to attach to the origin and descent of their representatives. Jf men with French namgs make bad laws, while others rejoicing in such patronymics as Snooks, or Wiggins, or Boggs,can make good ones. it seems obvious to our mind that the latter will be selected for the purpose, as well by their French as their English countrymen. Every- body knows, moreover, that the French Cana- dians had a hard time of it under the heel of the British colonists from the conquest to 1841; a presumption of culpability on the part of the road, which the law already makes, must be de- clared absolute, incontrovertible—not to be re- butted by any evidence whatsoever. As long as such evidence is received, and permitted to defeat the claims of the injured, it can always be had by wealthy corporations. No law which does not dispense with this altogether, and which does not take the ground that railroad companies are to pay for every life destroyed by their trains, that they are to be regarded as culpable and made liable in all such cases, will meet the emergency and furnish that security, the want of which we vainly deplore, The companies have the control of their track; let them take measures to keep it clear; let them study out the ways to run their trains safely, which they will do when every defence which the law now leaves open to them is closed. The precise kinds of signals required, the number of watch- men and policemen necessary, and various other details, the directors ¢an determine bet- ter, perhaps, than anybody else; the most that the Legislature can do is to imposé a heavy penalty for every fatal accident, and then the companies will omit no possible preventive or precaution. If we would secure the dog, let us fasten him with something better than a rope of sand; let us put a chain of iron around his neck. How stands the law now in regard to the common carriers of passengers? Judge Story says:— Where any damage or injury happens to the passengers, by the breaking down, or overturuing of the couch, or by any other accident occurring on the road, the presumption, prima facie, is, that it occur- red by the negligence of the coachman; and the onus proband: is on the proprietors of the coach, to lish that there has been no negligence whatso- and that the damage or injury has been occa- sioned by inevitable casualty, or hy some eduse which luuman care and foresight could not prevent. For the law will, (as we have seen,) in_ tenderness to human life, and human limbs, hold the proprietors liable for the slightest negligence, and will compel The cace of Jane Trainer, the colored child, was terminated yesterday evening by the Jndge deter- | an office as the Department of State would not mining to leave her in the custody of Mrs. Porter. | have heen entrusted to one whom they regard- An exciting scene necurred; but though there was | oq gu a deserter from their ranks. Similar rea- sons contributed largely to the feeling of regret an abolition exhortation for a rescue, the anti- Savery folks did not screw. thelr courage to the | Osi which many beheld Mr. Cushing’s appoint, | ment to the office of Attorney General. He Sticking place, and Jane was permitted to depart wog thdoubtedly a man of considerable infor- _ With her mistress, asa free child in a free State, and bound for the gold regions of California. 3 The Grand Jury} made a very ttiely | mation, talent and experience, and brought to and important presentment, a report of whi the Cabinet the resources of a well cultivated appended to the proceedings of the Court of General | mind. But these advantages were more than counterbalanced, in the opinion of many Union men, by the versatility with which he had shift- ed his support from the whigs to Mr. Tyler, from Sessions. The jury call alon4 upon the municipal and State legislators to remedy the growing and Mr. Tyler to the Coalitionists, and from the lat- ter to General Pierce. deplorable evil known as tenant houses, in which human beings, regardiess of number, are indiseri- minately crammed, reckiess of health, and with- y 8 of § egress in case of nec poy to saeemanent saleiiogs in the upper Still the Union party uttered no complaint. part of the city as public nuisances, deprecate the They regretted that the first offic act of the running of fire engines on the sidewalks, and spe- President should have fallen short of their ex- cially enjoin upon legislators the stern necessity of | pectations; but their regret was endured in enacting a stringent law for the better preservation | silence. That the administration was neither strong nor united they felt convinced, and they feared that it would not prove a Union adminis- tration. It had never entered their minds that a Cabi- of life on railroads, &c. Both branches cf the Common Council met last net, called to power by a vote that might al- most be called unanimous, would have been evening pursuant to adjournment. The Aldermen adopted a resolution instructing the proper commit- tee to report an ordinance directing the Street Com- Missioner to appoint inspectors to superintend the @emolition and alteration of buildings in the city~ said inspectors to be paid by the owners of the pro- | composed in nearly equal proportions of men perty undergoing repair. Should a law of this kind | who had given the public no proof of their right be enforced, it will add much to the security of life | to the position and men whose antecedents and limb to the pedestrians and laborers who | were hardly in their favor. A Southern seces- are hourly in immirent peril in consequence | sionist—a Northern free soiler—an untravelled of the careless manner in which houses are | of chell—a converted whig—were not precise- occ ead verlag pete ltl ly the materials out of which the Union party fancied the new administration would have been composed. Still, for all slips of the Pre- sident they found a ready, consolation in the sanguine confidence they tad ‘never cthsed tb entertain in his wisdom. New men might prove h is streets. In the Board of Assistants the report of the committee in favor of paving that portion of Broadway now paved the Perine pavement, between Franklin and Canal streets, with, a squai block pavement, at awost of $3 85 per yard, was most unanimously adopted. The veto of the Mayor them to repel, by satisfactory proofs, every imputa- tion thereof. Story on Bailments, §601. iad And yet, notwithstanding this prima facie presumption of negligence, it is perfectly noto- rious that in almost every case corporations are able to bring forward sotae witnesses to swear that there was no negligence nor carelessness, but that everything on their part was perfectly right Give us a law that will amount to some- thing. Farry Cros oN RpAY.—We are glad to learn that a movememis at present going on among the merchants doing business in the lower part of the city, having for its object the closing of all the stores after three o'clock every Saturday afternoon. Some years agoa large proportion of the shopkeepers agreed to close at eight o'clock every evening, that their clerks might have a little leisure time for men- tal improvement. but after a few months they returned to the old order of things. We hope, however, that the present movement will result in a general change in the hours of closing the stores, except those whore peculiar business re- quires them to keep open till a late hour. In our advertising columns will be found a notice from the importing stationers, stating that they have entered into an agreement to close their stores at three o'clock every Saturday on and after the 4th of June, A large number of the foreign and domestic dry goods and commission merchants have also determined on closing at the same hour, commencing May 21 and ending August 1. By this judicious and excellent arrangement the merchants themselves, and those in their em- ployment whose families reside in the country, will be enabled to spend their Sundays at home, little retaliation would be almost excusable. Mr. Morin has reasserted his intention of moving the abolition of the Legislative Council. Objections of grave import have been advanced against the details of his scheme. and from all we learn it will meet with formidable opposition. Without entering into particulars, we will simply express our wish that if Mr. Morin’s plan is not carried out, some other equally effective one should be devised and adopted. As at present constituted, the Council is an absurd anomaly. Of more real importance perhaps than these legislative measures, are the practical steps which are being taken in Canada for the con- struction of railroads. We learned a few days ago that Lon@on capitalists had taken up all the stock in the great trunk line. Some ninety millions of dollars will thus be expended in Canada during the next few years. This will make a ‘vast change in the country. Property will rise in value. and hoth the demand for and the supply of labor will become more abundant. Lower Canada will derive especial benefit from the work. The contract isin the hands of men who possess the requisite experience and capital to execute it promptly and efficiently; and from the judicious selection of the local directors—-the old tory obstructives of Quebec being carefully excluded—we see every reason to anticipate an early completion of the work. Talk on *Change. Cotton was cold to the extent of 1,400 bates, at steady prices, Pork was more activeand firmer, Other branches of trade wore n quiet aspect. By acard published in another part of this paper, it will be seen that the owner of the clipper ship Sovereiza of the feos has, under certain conditions therein stated, accepted the challenge of Mr. Webb, on the return of the Sovereign to thie port. He offers to run her to San Francisco agaiust any vessel Mr. Wi. H. Webb may put up ogainst her. Importing houses complained of the custom which had been introduced within a few years past of compelling them to bave their bonded goods stored in the stores at the Atlantic Docks, in Brooklyn, The practice was one of great inconvenience and expense to them, and was more caleulated to subserve private interest than the public good. Why should the government order cargoes of sugar and other foreign goods to be warehoused,in Breoklyn— Which was nota port of entry—while plenty of room could be found in safe and commodious warebouses in the city, were the government disposed to employ them? CorroraTiON MANVAL FoR 1863.—This very valuable volume, published by the veteran and much esteemed Clerk of the Common;Council, Mr. D. T. Valentine, has just made its appearance for the present year. Upcn its close inspection we found the conclusion that it is un- equalled by any other book of the kind in respect to its historical and statistical information. It it a complete record of al) the important transactions of our city from the days of the honest burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam to Mayor Westervelt and the present Common Council of New York. Mr. Valentine’s Manual is interspersed throughout with various maps of the tity, both ancient and modern, showing its rapid growth, and contrasting the condition of the Knickerbockers of 1652 with that of their wealthy descendants of 1863. And on some of these maps it is interesting to trace the course of the streams and ponds along which our phlegmatic an- cestors used to indulge in snipe shooting, but whose waters have long since been swallowed up, and upon the sites of which now beats the heart of the city. Thi, book contains a hthograph and the history of each of our public buildings, as also interesting notices of some of the old Dutch edifices, a few only of which now remain, stand_ ing beside the princely palaces of the present day as if they were supplianta, imploring time to spare them as the venerable repregmmtattros of the pnst, The sketches of the lives of tho various Mayors are interesting, and, in abort, no business man can well dispense with this yolume. For the research manifested in its compilation its publisher should be rewarded with an extensive sale, Movement across THE Ptains.—The Indepen- The Palace, THE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRITISH GUIANA. We have reecived a catalogue of the articles transmit- ted from Pritish Guiana to this city, and intended for ox. hibition at the Crystal Palace. They consist of the na- tural products of the country principally, and some speci- mens of its manufactures. Of sugar, which British Guiana produces in great abundance, there are no less than six varieties, and of rum thiee. They are ciassed ‘under the head of saccharine productions, and form the swallest part of the collection. The fibrous substances compose the second class, and eonsist of the fibre of plan. tain, ochro, agave or wild aloe, banana. Ita palm, cotton, silk grass, hammock rope, and mahoe, Some of the spe- cimens of the plantain fibre were prepared by a very primitive mode of manufacture, the fibre having been obtained by scraping the stem with a blunt cutless, and without any process of maceration or washing. It issaid to compare favorably in regard to quality and mercantile value, with Manila hemp. The ochro is an exceedingly abundant and troublesome weed, which is found growing on most of the roadsides throughout the country, and could be easily cultivated touny oxtont that may be re. quired, Some of the specimen’ of the” cotton are ob: tained from wild or self-sown plants, the remains of a plantation which was abandoned abdut twenty-seven years azo. , Under the third class are enumerated the substances used chiefly as food, or in its preparation, consisting of riee, maize, coffee, cocoa, pigeon peas, capsicums, plain- taines, the celebrated bread fruit, vanilla, cassava, arrowroot, and a few other articles. The plantain is one cf the principal articles of food used in British Guians, and is prepared for eating in a great variety of ways. ‘The plantain is not unfrequently dried and converted into flour or meal, which is done by first stripping off the huk, elicing the core and dryivg it inthe sun, This mass, we may here state, when beaten in a movtar, con- stitutes what is called the “foo foo” of the negroes. Tea amade from tke meal has a very fragrant odor, aud is par- tiewarly adapted as food for children and convalescents, on account of its being exceedingly easy of digestion, It is the opinion of some that it will soon become an impor- tant question whether the plantain might not, in its frosh state, be used asa substitute for the potatoe. ‘The materials used in the chemical arts, or in medi- cine, form the fourth class of the productions of the pro life soil of this country, Some of the names are al most unpronouncable, and we do not like to inflict them upon our readers; we will, however, mention a few of the most valuable:--The fit weed, or fever bush, is a popular domestic remedy among the lower classes of the popula- tion, and is used to prevent convulsions in the fevers of children and adolescents. The laurel oil is extensively used in uffections of the joints, and is an admirable sol- vent for India rubber. The hiarri is employed by the natives to intoxicate fish for the purpose of eapturing them. There are no less than one hundred and thirty-three specimens of woods, for building and other purposes. The wood of the mora, which grows to the height of one hundred ard fifty fect, has recently been employed in ship building. It grows abundantly on bar- ren gand reefs, is very plentiful on the banks of many of the rivers, ard when it has attained its full size the trunk will square about eighteen inches, The bullet tree is very useful on actount of the variety of purposes for which it can be ured. The weather has little effect upon it, anditis employed for house frames, posts, floors, shingles, wheel spokes, &c. The wood of the duealliballi is of a deep red—finer, more equal and more compact than mahogany, and is much used for furniture. Of each of the different descriptions of wood a table top has been constructed, making 133 specimens, besides a large number of picture framos. The specimens from the anfmal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms are both numerous and interesting. Among the vegetables may be mentioncd the locust tree, and the cow tree, which yields a kind of milk. The Indians have contributed largely of their manufactures, which are of ‘a most primitive character, and particularly interesting If the contributions from every other part of tho world are as numerous as those from Guiana, the Crystal Palace will not hold one-hundredth part of them, and we doubt if New York itself would be sufficiently large to contain them. The Torf. UNION COURSE, L. I.—PACING AND TROTTING. On Tuesday last, a purse of $500, two mile heats, in harness, for pacers, was contended for by three of the fastest horses in this country, viz:—Hero, Tecumseh, and Roanoke. The money waa won by Hero, Tho first heat of the race was most exciting between Hero and Tecumseh, the time being astonishingly fast. Part of the second heat was also good; but after a mile anda half, Tecumseh gave it up, and was distanced, Roanoke going in ahead of him, There was a good attendance at the track, but not so many as was anticipated, the trot in Philadelphia between Flora Temple ani Black Douglass leading a great many in that direction. The betting was not brisk, Hero being the favorite of nine tenths of the crowd. He was offered against the fleld at 100 to 20, First Heat.—Tecum:eh won the pole, Hero the second place, Roapoke outside. They got away pretty close together. Tecumseh went round the turn the fastest, and led to the quarter pole two lengths ahead of Hero, in thirty-five anda half seconds, Rosnoke doin, Preity weli, Down the backstretch Tecumseh kept the lead, and reached the half mile pole in 1:093, under a bard pull, On the lower turn, Hero let out a link, and began to approach the leader, leaving Roanoke far behind ; but the faster Hero paced, the more speed Tecumseh seemed to have tospare, and he continued to lead up the home. stretch until near the score, when be broke up and gal- lnped thirty or forty yards. He was, however, the first to pass the stand, Time, 2:24. His driver, in bringing him to a pace, had to pull him to 2 dead halt; and before he started again, Hero was five or six lengths ahead of him, and going like a quarter horse. Tecumse’s break appeared to refresh hima, and he darted off aiter the gray at an accelerated rate of speed. He did not, however, gain much until he had passed the half mile pole, when he made a mort splendid ‘burst. He rushed up to Hero, and headed him on the turn of the homestretch, not- withstanding the driver of Hero was slinging on the gad with might aud main. Tecumseh maintained the lead up the homestretch to the mile distance stand; but his ériver, instead of mindivg his own business, wan looking over his shoulder—prcbably admiring the tylish move- ment of Hero—lettiog his licrse break, and ranning him to the score, without an apparent effort being made to make him pace again, He went over the score a length in front of Hero; but the judges did not: recognize the right cf running, and gave the heat to Hero. The time ot the lust mile’ was 2:3234, and of the heat 4:563;. Roancke wes about an eighih’ of a mile behind; but the judges, not thinking of Koawoke, neglected to deop the Second Heal.—Mr. Daniels induced Mr. Whelan to tske charge of Tecumech for the remainder of the rae, one of his wrists having been strained ia the previous heat by the hard pulling of his horee. The horses were started finely, and they went like lightning round the turn, Te- cumsth leading, Roancke secord, with Hero at his whecl. ‘Yecumseh passed the quarter pole one length in front of Roancke, in thirty five and a quarter seconds, and kept the lead down the backstretch. Hero was second at the pole, Tecumseh being two lengths in advance. ‘ime 1:09, He was still in front all around the lower turn and about half wey up the homestretch, when he broke up, and Hero dashed past him, and was forty yards ahead at the score, making the mile’ in 2:2214. Roanoke and Tecumseh now took sider, and had a struggle by themselves, giving up the contention with Hero entirely. They made a very pretty race for about half a mile, when Tecumech getting tired of the roan, dropped off in the rear, making Roanoke the second best in the race, and suffering the disgrace of being distanced. Hero jogged home ore bundred yards ahead of Roanoke, making the ¢ wile in 2:46, and the heat in 5:083;. The following @ summary — Tuerdey, May 17.—Pacing, purse $500, two mile heats, in hainers. C, Hood entered 5, g. Hero, ©. Brooks entered r, g. Rounoke J. Daniels entered ch, g. Tecuinse Time— First Heat. i First mile. 2:24 First mile... Second mile. . 2:523¢ Second mile 6 Total 5:603g — Total....ceceeeee 510835 ‘As soon as the pacing race was concluded, a trotting match for $500, tile heats, came off between a gray gelding, ed Colonel Johnson, and a bay mare known as Lady Warren. The gray won the race. In the first heat ef this race, an amusing incident occurred. The word ‘+go”” was given in rather a feeble volee, so low that neither of the drivers heard it; and after going part of the way around the upper, turn, the gray horse was stopped. The bay mare went about halt way down the backstretch,, when she also was pulled up. The judges, in the meantiwe, were beckoning to the driver of the gray horse to go one He was then nearly a quarter of a mile Denind the mare : but afer starting afresh, he got nearly up to her before her driver was aware of the fact of word beirg given. He then went on about his busin and won the heat. Nothing afterwards occurred worth relating, the gray winning the two subsequent heats easily. The following is @ summary -—~ ‘Tuesday, May 17.—Trotting match $600, mile heats, in harness, W. Whelan named g. g. Colonel Johnson, C. Brooks named b. m, Tady Warren Time, 3:03—2:57—! Tus Natio Mvaper.—Thomas Casey, who has Decn on trinl in Boston for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Tuslor, at Natick, was found guilty of the charge on the 1ith inst, and rentenced to be executed. Under the news law he will remain in prison one year before execu tion, Court Calendar—This Day. Uxrrep States District Court.—Nos, 25, 48 to 56, 24. Furamwe Covrt—General Term.—Nos. 23, 15, 27, 21, 24, 25, 26, 16, 28, 3, 20 to 27, BL Supreme Covrt—Circuit.—Adjourned to Friday. Common Prxas—Part First.—Nos. 521, 663 207, 064, 817, ) Me er of the 20:h ult ives the follow- | 892, 906, 891, 964, 009, 913, 915, 984, 085, 086. ine salen of ha movement from ‘that place to Ore. Comma Pra —Part Second!—025, 941, 944, 946, 940 nd forni to }o a Kimber of cattle. 8,263 Numberofmen,...... 386 oriane Two Branches.—Nos. 200, 522, 401, Number of wagons... 148. Number of carriages... 6 | $40, 00, 621, 568, 860, 480, 443, 460, 473, 474,311, 412, 613, Number of animals... 900 Number of sheep,.,..2,20 | 671, 678, 589 to 602, 694 b Additional Names of the Passengerson the lost Ship Wiliam and Mary. In our account of the lossof the ship William & Mary, awong the Bahamas, we gave the names of abo thirty-five of the passengers, besides a complete list the officers and crew. We have since obtained Bames of nine others, but we are ynable to say whet) apy of them were saved by escaping in the long boi) ‘They are as follows :— } John Diamond his wife aud wife’s sister, going tos Louls after their arrival iu New Orleans. Their chill about eighteen weeks old, died when they were abo} two weeks on the passage, Catbarine Burns, Margaret Welsh and John Welab. Aman apd wife named Fitzgerald. Heinrich Spayard, from Berlin, going to St. Louis meet a relative, He wasa gilder, and about twenty 6] years of age. The captain left the city yesterday for Bowdoiaha Me., where his family, consisting of a wife and one ch are living. Some of the sailors have already been ¢ gaged apd ove or two went to sea-a fewgdays ago, Onslanght on the Four Cent Man, TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Can’t something be done to abate the nuisance so mu complained of in the vicinity of the Post Office, in t sbape of a street pediar of writing paper aud envelope Di one business hours. daily in that vieinity, you c, bear nothing put ‘ twelve sheets of letter paper for fc cents, twenty five self sealing envelopes for four cent: and thet too, ina nasal, monotonous song, which is a1 thing but agreeable to persons whose minds are engross with important business matters, aud who tind t! necessary annoyances of a crowded city quite ax mu_ as their perves will beat ithout being subjected tot’ upnecessary and disgusting ove complained of. The certainly can be found some way to stop it. Ifa m ome daily in one of our crowded streets, blowing) noisy tin horn for hours, would not the city authoriti interpore their authority to compel the person to desis) And yet that would be a delicious serenade compar, with the everlasting bull-frog oroaking of the paper a envelope mi Igo for the largest liberty in all these 1aatters, prov’ ing the peat axsuming it does not annoy and intefe| with the comfort and rights of others. Association for the Exhibition of the Indus of ali Nations. Orvice. No. 53 Broanway, Now York. of their announcemont, that prizes fer exe: of the exhibition will | the direction of eapable aud eminent pr the Board of Directors now invite artists sud perso of taste to offer designs for s prise medal, not more thy three inches in diameter, that shall be suitable to the sbo purpoee, and illustr: of the objects of the exhibitio: 7 fe should \idreseed to the subscriber, seal: porscribed ‘* Design for Medal.” will be opened on the third day of June, by & cor upon whose award the sum of twa Hundred dolla od, . Secretary Gentlemen’s Summer Hats.—An extensly assortment of Rocky Mountain, Fronch gray, white Rus: and Neples beavers, Canton, Manila, Legh 'wiss sonne| Panama and Guayaquil straws. Gentlemen’s sult travelli hats in great variety and colors. ‘WARN OCKS, Hatters, 275 Brosdway, Irving House Summer Hats,—Beebe & Co., Fashionabl) Hatters, No. 156 b tion of the i and beantifu assortment of caps, is also full a1 exceeding ountain Beaver Hat eo and | complete. brilliant fabrics lovely garnitures for welcoming in the tim blossoms of spring, and the idealization of genius, at No. i Broadway, under the Metropolitan Hot now the Fashion to Patronise the es] fashion go hand in hand, for their fabrics are as beautiful in conception as they are eracetnl-in a lent in make. Price $4. ‘The Prescott corner of Broadway and Spring stroct, Strike the Alarm Bell! Rejoice !~Kuox, 0 No. 128 Tulton street. acknovledgod to bo ono of our bes “getters up” of head gear for members of the masculiny en) ad of all competitors in ii Beaytiful in concept rably made, who would hesit J. Souder would inform his friends an the public that he has made arrangeme h_ Smith] Drumgold, & Proch, kmpire Clothing Ws 60, 120 an 122 Fulton street, where he will be pleased to seo them, It ls of no use Keeping tt a Secret from thi people, that George P. Fox, the mercantile tailor, sells roo articles cheap—aye, cheaper than the cheapest. Fox say there isno use or #ense in “hiding y under a bus) el.” Cute Yankees will find it ov P. FOX thank his friends, New Yorkers in d visiters to the Crystal the “elephant Fox.” His sty displayed in the new drawing room store, 333 Broadway, corner of Anthony, takes down many fifty cent exhibitions, No North, no South, no East, no West, known to H. L. FOSTKR. wholesale and retail clothier, Ci reet, Now York. He has customers nd styles and fabries to suit every Si suinmer patterns in great varioty, very hand A full suit made to order in twelve how Pointing. An immense variety of ready. supericr quality, very moderate in price, novelties at 27 Cortlandt street. One of the most exten’ coteh, way and Under Garment Ma ufastory, site Metropolitan Hotel and Niblo' Summer Unde:-garments.—A fine asso! ment of gossamer, zypher, silk, cotton, merino and cash-| mere nnder clothing ‘all sizes, selling cheap, at McLAUGIL-| LIN'S, No, 292 Greenwich street, corner of Chambers, shirts which he furnishes to measure not only tit to admira- tion but are cheaper than ar: of the like down town. Are Yo ‘ou want as handsome a in Haste to Leave Townt. {shirts as can be made on the fastant’ Jf #0, call on GREEN, No. 1 Astor Hosse: you will be mensurcd with mathematical precision in tive min- utes, and you will have the articles in timo, and equal to your expectations in style and workmanship. The style and fit of a Shirt, a Cravat a Col- lor in fact of any article of the wardrobe, is looked upon ae marking the taste of the gentleman who wears thom. while comfort depends in no sinall degree upon the quality and make of his underclothes, © Who desire elozance and comfort combined are invited to AGATE'S old and cele Drated store, No. 256 Broadway. Facts Speak for Themselves.— TERS’ ladies’ boots and shoes took the medal at ‘air. ) work and materials both defy d shapes and directs bis f , aro Jeffers’ peculiar rybody of tarte ultimately seek Jeffers’ continues at 407 Broadway. What Boots It?—Just this, the Man who ct go to Mr. E. A. BROOKS, at No. Fulton street, lies moat probably a shabby pa The Indy who ‘docs not is ashamed to show her tiny fet beyond her dress. We piiy them both. Canal street Ci t Store, No. 70 Canal atrect.—E. A. PETERSON & CO, call the attention of theie friends to the stock of new and elegant carpetings just re- ceived fiom the most celebrated manufactories, comprising tapestry velvet, Brussels, threeply, and ingrain; also, & laree astortment of oileloths, venetians, matings, window: shades, Ac., &e. Ist. JEP. the World’s 2d. Jeter Carpets, at Hiram Anierson’s rooms, No. 99 Bowery. Magnificent f Axminster, Thrkey, aud Mosaic carpets, of ono Also, Monsic rege, landscapes, table and piano ,eejroyal ¥elvot, melailion and tapestry Braggels garpeting, imported exrrersiy for exhibition a& the Now York Cryétal Palace. Also, Hare's celobrated Efziish floor oileloths, eight yards wide, of fresco, Gothic and Italian painting, Also; English aid American imporial thy o-ply carpeting, at astonishing! 4. N. B.—Beautitul in- grain carpeting per yard; oflelothe xt 2s and 5s. por yard. Also, 1,000 pieces ¥ wana white and check fancy matting, of a splendid qu remarkably cheap. Patent Sewing Machines of every variety, making a new and superior stitch. No ehuttle is used, and the threads are tied together at each etitch ina seam of the grentert beauty and strenvth, which will not rip when every third stiteh iseut, Price $60 to $150. Com dd se them ith certifeates from persons using hundreda, atvour Chambers street, GROVER, BAKEK & CO, pa- ‘and proprietors. Mourning Mantilias and Bonnets —Bar~ tholomew & Weed are constantly in reeeipt of tho latest styles of Paris mantilins and bonnote. Citizons and strangers are respectfully solicited to examine one stock, Pibich will be found rmpert city affords, Prices ore, 4 Tow. New mourning 8 oT Hroadway. OO Ae eee er GARTHOLOMEW & WEED, Defiance Salamander Safes, Gayler’s Patent -KOBERT M. PATRICK is the solo manufactur Unites f tates of the above celebrated safes, an i fin’s impenetrable de: ance luaks—the host safes aad looks combined in the world. Depot No. 192 Poaorl street, ono door below Maiden lane, formerly 90 John streat. Lace and Muslin Curtains at Reduced Prices. —The hest assortment in the city at KELTY & FERGU SON'S Window Shade aud Curtain Store, No. 9 Broadway, one door above Reade etrevt New Paper Hangings.—Thomas Faye & Co., 696 Pearl atreet, near Madison, have just received the n spring patternd of ev nown style in the trade. ‘Ch Public aro invited to examine before purchasing. Artisti workmen attend to the retiif department. THOS. FAYE & CO., 436 Poorl street. Dye,--Cristanoro’s Liquid Hair Jehented dye has entirely. revolutionized the {o theory and eyetem of hair dyeing. It stands slene and wnapproachadle inthe prity and natural appearance ot the color it produces, in the thought like rapidity of eperation, and in its losting and anfading perm: Applicd privately, and sold at CRISTADO, Houte. Gouraud’s Liqut:t Hair Dye ts, without ex- coption or reservation, the very best ever invented, Hewaro of puffed dyes. 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