The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1853, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 7456. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA, ARRIVAL OF THE . UNITED STATES AND FALCON AT NEW ORLEANS. San Rranciseo to New Orleans, via Panama, in Nineteen Days. PROSPEROUS CONDITION OF THE MINES. Over Two and a Quarter Millions in Gold en route to New York, EXTREME DULNESS OF TRADE, Acquittal of Captain Sampson, of the Wrecked Steamer Independence. _ HIGHLY INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. Partial List of the Foreign Appointments, THE REMAINDER NOT AGREED UPON. ACCIDENTS—MARKET REPORTS, bie., Sie., Sie. FATAL The News from California. New Oaumans, May 21, 1853. The steamship United States arrived at this port yester- day in five days and two hours from Aspinwall. She brings San Francisco papers of the 30th April, and @ number of passengers brovght down to Pavama by the steamship Golden Gate. The run from San Francisco to New Orleans has thus occupied but nineteen days. The steamship Falcon arrived here to-day in six and a half days from Aspinwall, bringing the California mails and sixty pasaongers. The Georgia would cailon the evening of the 15th, for ; New York, with two hundred passengers and $2,300,000 gold dust. An the United States was coming up she came in col lislon with three ships being towed down, The U.S. was slightly damaged, but the ship Quebes, which cleared here yesterday for New York, sunk to her deck. The other vessels were not injured. Several towboats have gone down to attempt to raise the Quebec. The Faleon reports that the passengers from New York by the Uncle Sam and Union, were obliged to take pascage on the Pacific mail steamship, in consequence of -#0 accident to the Winfield Scott. ‘The steamship Crescent City sailed from Aspinwall for New York om the evening of the 14th instant. The health of the isthmus was geod. The steamship Golden Gate, on her passage down to Panama, one night came in collision with another steam- er, supposed to be the Sierra Nevads. The Golden Gate sustained only slight injury, and as the other steamer kept on her way it is supposed she was not materially damaged. The California news is of but little general importance. The Grand Jury of the District Court of San Francisco, had ignored the bill brought against Capt. Sampson, of the steamer Independence, for manslaughter, but said af they had the power they would bring bills against the owners and agents of the Vanderbilt line, on account o the miserable outfit, unseaworthiness and otheracts, and the unjustifiable negligence which entailed the loss o ‘ver one hundred lives. ‘We fiad no mention of the amount of gold taken out by this mail, but the ascounts from the mines eppear to be of a very favorable character. | In the Senate, on the 29th April, the bill for the exten- | siowgef te city front of San Frauciseo was Indofinitely | postponed by the casting vote of the Lieutenant Gover- | Dor. The Legislature would finally adjourn on the 11th of May. Tre fires had occurred at San Francisco, but they were fortunately extinguished before any damage of im- Portance was done. The banking house of Page, Bacon & Co. had been robbed of $8,060, ‘Two discoveries of gold near Negro Hill are reported. ‘The agricultural prospects of the State are in a very | flattering condition. : Later dates from China had been received at San Fran- cisco. The American ship Chazles Andrews had arrived at Sin- gapore. THE MARKETS. ‘The Alia California says that business continues very dull for the leading articles, with still further depression. ‘There is but little chance of prices remunerating shippers during the present season. Frovr—Rather firmer, but the stocks being generally Leavy, there is but little chance of improvement in prices. Provisions generally have a declining tendency. Apavantine Canpirs have declined to 28c. Guxnr Bags firm at 15. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Arrived at San Francisco April 28, bark Old Hickory, from New York Nov 27, The News from Washington. THD PONEIGN APPOINTMENTS UNDECIDED—NAMES OF SOME OF THE SELECTED—LONG CABINET SITTING— ALL SORTS OF RUMORS AFLOAT, ETO. SYYCIAL CORRESTONDENER OF THE NEW YORK HeRAID, Wasinxcton, May 21-10 P. M. It was supposed the foreign eppointments would be con- eluded to-day; they are, however, still undecided. The members of the Cabinet were at the White House all day: Any quantity of rumors are floating about; but #« the President and Cabinet have been espee'ally careful not to give any information, the rumors are at best but guess- work, which may or may not turnecut correct. Itis use ‘ers, therefore, to give them. There are several appoint scerts yet undetermined, which may change the whole pro gramme, By Tuesday, at farthert, the qnestion will be finally settled, The mission to France will probably remain open for the present, As yet nothing lias been decided with re- gard to it. This is also the cace with the Commision- ership tp China. Tt is alo said that ro ehangs for the present will be made {a the chargeship to Portugal, the resident minister at Constantinople, the charge at Venezvela, and at Rome Ard it is further said that Sardicia will not be touehed jurt now, uuless Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana, shoull | munication varied only to uk the obj got it. A large number of the consulates will also remain open Peter J. Vioom, of New Jersey, goes as Minister to Ber Yin, The New Jersey mon have been quarreling ovor two ox three chargeships, which has resulted im their all be" ing thrown overboard, and a full mlasion given toe man who was not in the émewe. Lieutenant Governor Leake, of Virginia, gets the Com, mnissionorship to the Sandwich Islands. Mr. Bendioger, of Virginia, left bere this evening with the promise of a Chargeship. Mr. Meade, of Virginia, will also get a Chargeship. ¥ Sam Medary, of Ohio, goes to Chili, not to Brazil, as haa boon stated. Gov. Seymour, of Connecticut, goes to Russia, as we announced several weeks ago. Mr, Trousdale, of Tennessee, as we amnoun:+d some days ago, goes to Brazil. The vames given above ean be relied upon as correct. x. Y. 2. Items from Baltimore. THE BALTIMORE AND LIVERPOOL STEAMSHIP LINE— VATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT, ETC. Barnmonsg, May 21, 1853, ‘The bill incorporating the Baltimore and Liverpool Steamship Company passed the Senate to-day, Also, the bill to incorporate the Elyeville Ratiroad, which will con- nect the Baltimore and Ohio with the Philadelphia road. ., 4m unknown lady was run over and instantly killed to- ‘day, by « railroad cer, on Pratt street, Kew Orieann papers of Sunday last are at but Yaoy do not contain om item Of pers worth, .| been 321; remaining April let, 170. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1853. ‘The Gardner Trial. Wamnneron, May 21—10 P. M. The jury om the Gardner case are still locked up. Ramor says they stand nine for acquittal and three for conviction. = Later from Havana. Naw Onimans, May 21, 1863, The steamship Empire City has just arrived from Ra- vans, with dates to the 18th instant. The nows is quite unimportant. Thomas Strickland, third officer of the Empire City, fell overboard on'the 18th instant, and was drowned. ee en ae Schooner Ceylon Ashore. Norro.x, May 21, 1363, The rchooner Ceylon, hence for Boston, with a cargo of corn, ia ashore near Cape Henry. The cargo is conside- rably damaged, and the vessel has bilged. Cow saved. From Boston. MUNIFICENT BEQUEST—TWO YOUNG MBN DROWNED. Boston, May 21, 1853, The late Robert G. Shaw, of this city, bequeathed in his will the sum of $110,000, to be set apart at interest by his executors until it shall amount to $400,000, this sum then to be known as the ‘Shaw Fund,” and to be appropriated for the benefit of destitute mariners’ chil- dren under the age of ten years. Last vight two young mon of Newburyport, named John Porter and Charles Moseley, (the former a son of the treasurer of the Globe Mills, and ‘the latter of Eben- exer Moseley, a sawyor,) were drowned while eniling upom Kimball's pond West Awesbury, the boat having cap- sived. A bat of one of the drowved parties and the up sot boat ix ail that has yot been found. Markets. New Ontxans, May 19, 1858, Cotton has been in fair demand to-day, mostly for Rog- land; prices exuibit no ehange. New pork has deelined to $16, at which 500 bbls. were sold. Ohio flonr has de- clined’ to $4 20. Sterling exchange is at 93 a 92 prem. New Orinans, May 20, 1853. Cotton—Sales to day 2 000 bales, at unchanged prices. Sales of the week 20,000 bales. Tho excess of receipts at this port over the same tine last year now amount to 280,00 bales, and at all the Soutliorn ports 258,000 bales. The stock on hand here 000 bales, Col, Benton on the National Central Highway. The following letter of invitation was addressed to Colonel Benton on his recent visit to the Western frontier :-— Brunswick, Mo., May 3, 1853. Hon. Tuomas H. Benton:— Dear Sir—We, a portion of your fellow citizens of this vicinity, without political distinction, learning that you are on gone way to Kansas, Mo., to open the question of the Great Central Pacific Railway, would most respectfully ask you to deserts a day when we may have the pleasure of hearing you speak in Brunswick. Very truly, &c. Cwar.es Dinrickson, and many others. COL. BENTON’S REPLY. _ GxntLEMEN—Your very acceptable invitation has been duly received, and will be complied with, but not at this time. A long absence from home leaves ne no time to turn to the right or left, or stop a day, _ in this voyage to the West, undertaken solely to see a small pioneer party set out to explore the route to the Pacific, which is recommended by Fremont and Le- roux, and which the map shows to be the shortest and most direct, and most central between the United tes and the Pacific ocean. Your invitation comes —as such a one should do—from the citizens gene- rally; from the body of the community, without re- gard to political distinctions. Happily, we havo a subject to occupy us which is independent of party, and above party, and in which all citizens may unite heart and hand, and work together cordially and zealously, to produce a grand consummation which is to reaound to the benefit of every part of the com- munity, and to cvery section of our country, and to the whole Union, and even Europe and Asia, and to the latest posterity. It is now thirty-five ra since I have been at work upon this subject—that of commercial commu- nication between the Pires pi—the mode of com- rebel ofevents, always, began with weter on the the Miusourl and Co- Inmbia rivers, when we owned nothing but Oregon | beyond the Rocky Mountains, and the steam car un- known; now, when California is acquired, the steam cars already run over more miles in the United States (all made by States or individuals) than would ; make six different roads to the Pacific ocean from our frontier, ] change the mode and the line, and go for the car and San Francisco, and that upon tl route closest to the parallel of thirty-nine degrees which the nature of the ground will adinit of. I caught the idea from Mr. Jefferson, who, in his message to Congress propusing the expedition of Lewis and Clark, presented the commercial commu- nication as the leading object, and the one that gave Congress constitutional jurisdiction of the case; and the extension of geographical science as the incident to the pursuit of that main object. That was before we acquired Oregon, or sct up any claim to territory on the Pacific ocean; now we have both Oregon and California, and besides the commercial object, have another in the duty of communicating with the citi- zens in these distant possessions, and stretching a ligament of union from the Atlantic to the Pacific. When I first wrote upon this sebject it was a sub- ject of ridicule with a great many; but that had no effect upon me. It is my prerogative to disregard unworthy opposition, aud to vanquish it. I have continued steadily at my work for abovethirty years, and now see success in view. But I had something more than ridicule to encoun- ter, and that was the unwise action of the federal government. In 1818 it made a treaty of joint occu- pation of the Columbia with the British for ten years. 1 was not then in the Senate, but degounced that treaty as unjust and injurious, as it would eatpone our settlement for ten years, and give the British a foothold which might require ‘“‘a vigoreus effort of policy or of arms to ‘remove.”’ In 1528 that treaty of joint occupation was indefinitely renewed. | op- posed it to the uttermost in the Scnate, but in vain. The administration, and the enemies to the growth of the West, were too strong tor me. In 1846, under the administration of Mr. Polk, this uniortunate treaty | was abrogated after it had nearly produced war be- tween Great Rritain and the United States; and I had the satisfaction to give it the last lick in that year, as I had given it the first in 1818—twenty- cight years before. n the year1824 £ began another work in Con- gress, which was deemed chimerical—that of a road to Santa Fé. Solitary and alone | began to work | Upon that read, and accomplished it, having obtained { an appropriation of $30,000 for marking it out, treating with the Indians for safe passage through their country, and conciliating the good will of the New Mexican authorities in Santa Fe. Perseverance and a good cause crowned my efforts with success, and | had never dovbted of eventual snecesg ; and the period seems now appidaching for the grand consummation. The public mind seems to be effectually aroused up to it; and that all over our Union, and in Europe also. The British minister, (Lord John Ruesell,) told our late minister, Mr. | Abbott Lawrence, (as Mr. Lawrence told me,) that this he 2 a it accomplished, would have a greater influence upon human affairs than any event since the discovery of the New World: by Cofumbus, in which opinion fir. Lawrence concurred, and told me it would be one of his cherished objects for the remainder of his life. Having lately spoken fally on this subject at Kan- sas, Westport, and Independence, a report of which you will see in the newspapers, I sey no more until we meet. Yours, truly, AS H. Benton. Political Intelligence. The municipal election in St. Paul, Miunesota, was held on the 6th, and the entire democratic ticket was elected. ‘The following is the result:-— POR PRESIDENT OF THR COUNCH. Democrats. Whigs. By WONG cs conse BND A, ee RECORDER. LM. Olivier... +++ 6 8, W. Walker...........2 MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, L. Sloan... +91 Geo. Irvine... A, Dressler. . 233 J. Farrington, H. Ravdall........992 D, I. Benson Charles Paxil! 239 Robert C Ki Joun Rogers, on J. W. Harvrvorp Insane Retreat.—The twenty- ninth annual report of this institution represents the whole number of patients during the year to have if the 151 dis- charged during the year, 64 were entirely recovered, 21 much improved, ‘26 not improved, and 21 died. ‘The whole number of patients since the commence- ment of the institution is 2,318, of which number 1,267, or more than one-half, left the institution en- tirely recovered. Domestic Misccliany. The trial of Mary Ann Wheeler, indicted for the murder of J. M. W. Lace, in Milwaukee, Wis., on the 14th of October last, commenced on the 16th inst. A fire has been ragii woods ucar Marsbfleld. Alccady 120 actos bave bo. burned over. for two days past in the | ‘The Wi Places. (From the Caratogn Reteblican May 13.) ~ HOTELS AT sinseoeh, ms e are reminded, approach of warm , of the duty we pty to the travelling yeting. community, to enlighten them on the sub- ject of our hotel arrangements. While the the world are turned hitherward, the first in “What sort of hotels will be found at Saratoga?’ and uestion, and one that we will try to answer without fear, favor or affection. And first of the UNITED STATES HOTEL. ‘This apacious establishment, with its numerous Clegent cottages, ita beautiful or pleasure grounds, its extensive piazzas, still ranks as one of the best and most attractive hotels in the Union. It is now undergoing the process of re-painting, reno- vation and repair, and will be open for company on the first of June. It will be kept and cond |, as heretofore, by J. M. Marvin & Co., and the only change resulting from the death of the lamented, Judge Marvin is his absence from the establishment; otherwise everything about it remains the same, his interested therein being represented or enjoyed by his widow and children. The Judge will, no doubt, be very much missed by the numerous guests whom he was wont to meet and welcome so cordially; but the efforts of his surviving partner will be the greater to fill the void thus created, and the numerous patrons of this magnificent establishment will be well cared for, and all their wants properly supplied. UNION HALL. In Union Hall, a partial change of arovssalarablp has taken place since last year, Seymour Ainswort! having purchased the interest of ‘Mrs. Washii n Putnum, and thereby becoming an equal co- with Henry H. Hathorn. It wilt be kept and con- ducted by Hathorn and Ainsworth. ere is no hotel in this country more popular with the travel- ling community than this, nor one which is any better patronized from the opening to the closing of theseason. It cau now accommodate some five or six hundred people at the same time. The enter- prising pencietice are making many essential addi- ms and improvements in and about the establish- ment, by way of fashionable furniture, additional rooms and enlarged pleasure grounds. A new and beautiful enlarged stairway graces the front hall— @ large three story building with some twenty parlors and sixty or seventy lodging rooms is being added and the whole house is undergoing improvement and repair, The establishment has been extended by the addition of the store lots on Broadway—by the old York House premixes on Congress street and by one or two lots on Federal street, thereby much enlarging and improving the grounds and making the Union Hall accommodations equal to any hotel in the State. The proprietors seem to be peculiarly well qualified for the business of hotel keeping—libe- ral in proriate aie and obliging to their pa- trons, and making everybody comfortable aud happy about them. Of course, such a hotel, conducted by such landlords, cannot fail to command a full share of public patronage, and herein is the secret of the unbounded success which Union Hall has hitherto enjoyed. The house will be opened for company on 7 26th. CONGRESS HALL, ‘he proprietor of this serine hotel, appreciating the importance of keeping pace with the changes and improvements of the age, is refitting and refur- nishing see Hall in a neat and fashionable style. It is to be kept by George Daly, one of its conductors last year, and a gentleman well qualified for the station. “He is to be assisted by N. M. Clark, long and favorably known as the keeper of the Vil- lage Hotel, of Balston Spa. There isa charm about the name of Congress Hall which alway3 has and always will be attractive. Its location in the imme- diate vicinity of Congress Spring—its beautiful pro- menade piazzas—the early recollections cf comforts here enjoyed when this village was almost a wilder ness—the unwearied efforts of its present conductor to preserve the fame and good name which old Con- grees has for along time enjoyed—his experience in the business of hotel keeping—all afford a safe gua- yranty that this time honored establishment will con- tinue to be the sreat rendezvous of strangers from parts of the world. ‘This house will be open some- time betwcen the fifth and tenth of June. COLUMBIAN HOTEL. This delightful house is still under the supervision of William $8. Balch, one of the best and most atten- tive landlords at Saratoga. His houge is always in gocd order—is pa eee and well supplied with everything desirable (except spirituous liquors) to accommodate his numerous patrons. Being sita- ated about midway between the principal mineral fountains and in cloce proximity to the railroad de- it, the Columbian is preferred to many other loca ions; indeed everything about this establishment is such as to command a large share of the Uresterns from the visiting and travelling community. It is always open with the beginning ef the season and kept upon strict temperance principles. AMERICAN HOTEL. This large and commodious establishment is still kept by Wilcox and Pitkin, its original Li dla Here, too, the spirit of improvement has been at work. The room heretofore used 28 a barroom has been enlarged and made one of the pleasantest rooms in the house. Several commodious lodging rooms have been added, the interior has been painted, and the whole establishment put in the most com- plete order from top to bottom. The American ranks with the first class hotels in the village, and always commands its full share of company. It is open throughout the year. EXCHANGE HOTEL. ‘This is the name already given toa new hotel in rapid progress of erection on the site of the old Railroad, more recently called the Madison House, at the foot of Division strect, the premises having passed into the hands of Philip Snyder, this gentle- man having wisely concluded to rebuild a new three story, seventy feet front, designed expressly for a first class spmmer and winter hotel. Of course, its rooms will be spacious, and tastefully and con- veniently patel for that purpose. “He designs to finish it and furnish it ready tor the reception of company by the first of July, when we shall en- ceayor to speak of it again. BROADWAY HOUSE. This is another of the large class hotels, or tem- perance hoarding house, delightfully situated at the north end of Broadway, ina very pleasant and agree- able part of the eS The house is large, its rooms are spacious. e is arranging his pleasure grounds, which extend from Broadway to Matilda street, and altogether it is one of the most inviting stopping places in Saratoga. Abicl Stoddard. its propriesse and conductor, is entitled to much credit for the enterprise and taste displayed by him in fitting up and furnishing this excellent house, and bis reward will no doubt be in the enjoy- ment of a full share of public patronage. It will be opened for company about the first of June. STANWIX HALT. This new and spacious edifice, on the corner of Congress street and Broadway, and directly opposite Congress Spring, is now under the supervision of Devid Richards, formeriy a worthy and competent assistant at Congress Hall. The Stariwix has been very much improved, and is fitted up and furnished with good taste and in modern style, the close pr imliy to Congress Spring rendering it an exceedi ly interesting and agreeable location. Frow what we knew of Mr. R., we hazard nothing in saying that his he will be thronged with company from the beginning to the close of the year. GLOBE HOTET., This large hotel is kept open winter and snmmer, e corner of Matilda and Church street, a few Q { Broadway, and at the junction of the Saratoga and Washington with the Saratoga, Rens selaer and Schenectady Railroads, and the terminus of the Saretoga and Hadley Plank road. It is kept by.J. W. Wecden, who is very obliging and attentive to his businers. It is a large and commodious house, with spacicus and well furnished apartments, and there is no hotel in Saratoga better adapted to the comfort of travellers than this, especially tose who travel with their own conveyances, Attached to this hotel are extonsive barns, sheds and stables, for the accommodation of travellers. MONTGOMERY HALL. The contagious spirit of improvementes prevalent in our ee has overtaken proprictor of Mont- Pads ry Hall, and his arrangements are being per- tracted to make it a and spacious establishment, he having purcbased the brick building onthe north, thereby giving him a conspicuous corner 150 fect on Broadway by 200 feet on Washington street, and one of the moat eligible building lots, for a first rate hotel, in this village. The owner, C. B. Moon, has overhauled and improved the brick corner and made it a very spacious well arranged house for boarding. W. Ti.” Trusdell, the lessee of the Montgomery, is putting that part of the establishment in neat order. Nis experience as a landlord, with his liberality in providing—bis central location and the facility with which he may connect it with the premises at presen‘ occupied by Mfr. Moon, on the north, render this ono of the hae and most inviting summer and winter hotels at Baratog: New Broxswice-We have received St. John apers to-the 19th, which contain, however, but ht le of interest, the most prominent topic bein; a discussion whether the Attorney-G: paid £11 for a silk ‘0 obtained from England, for himself, or cba: d it to the province, as the opposition as serta, the 18th, there was a celebration of the ) vivergary of the the . which one ce calls a“ grand display,” aad the oliey o uiserable tailore te THE NEW YORK HERALD: “a PRICE TWO CENTS. ‘The Rescued Family. AN INCIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE LADIES! HOME MISSION AT THE FIVE POINTS. ‘The outward history of the Mission at the Five Points has been sketched, from time to time, in the public prints; but there are facts and incidents con- nected with it which have ministered encouragement tothe laborers in this unpromising field, the nar- ration of which cannot fail to interest every philan- thropic heart. The public who have contributed so liberally towards the erection of a sanctuary of refuge on a spot—the Old Brewery—where sin has slain its thousands, are entitled to ask for the trophies in this holy war against vice and iniquity. The following narration, therefore, cannot fail to be interesting. We give it in the words of the lady in whose experi- ence at the Mission the facts were brought out:— In the early of June, 1850, shortly after the opening of the Mission room, I observed; one Sunday morning, among the children gathered in the school, a girl of cight or nine years of age, whose innocent expression of countenance was so strongly contrast- ed with the bold air of most of her associates that it attracted my attention. When the school was dis- missed 1] asked her name, where she lived, &c. She seemed to shrink from the glance which I cast upon her tattered, filthy garments and disshevelled hair. “Do you know where the Tabernacle is?” I asked. ‘Oh, yes; I sweep the street there some- times, and se! mint at the hotel near it.” “Will you come to my house to-morrow morning, at No. —,near the Tabernacle? 1 wish to see yor.” At nine o'clock the next morning she was at the door. J took her to the laundry, had her put into a tub of water, where she got a thorough ablutjon, and had afterwards her hair well combed—an operation to which it eeemed it had been months, if not years, a stranger. Asif had alittle Sonne: about her age, whose clothes would fit her, I clothed her from head to foot, and when the bonnet was put upon her head the poor child looked up witha pleased and hap- py expression of countenance, and broke the silence which she had maintained throughout the entire ceremony, os she exclaimed, “Oh, Ma’am, how food I fee! Seap and water, with clean clothes, had made a potent. transformation, and the little, clean, satisfied face that looked ont from the bonnet amply rewarded me. On leaving, she was told she must keep her clothes neat for the coming Sabbath, and another suit.was in part provided tor her. The following Sabbath she was one of the first at the Mission School, in as neat a trim as che had left me the Monday before. In the interim she had reas- sumed her vsual garb, to pursue her ordinary ayoca- tion, which was sweeping the street and supplying markets and hotels with mint for ‘“sint jaleps.” Little Jane’s altered appearance made so favor- able an impveasion on her associates, that I thought the rude rough, boys might be benefitted by an ex- ample of cleanliness among their number. ‘My eye again sought ont and found the same innocent ex- pression of face in ay honest, well behaved lad of about fourteen years of age. He was so retiring and modest in his bearing. that I resolved to speak with him when school should be dismissed. I did 60; in- vited him to my house; had him dressed; sent him to the hatter’s for a cap, and had him an prepared for the next Sabbath. Upon inquiry, I learned to my surprize that he was a brother to little Jane. The antaloons which we had provided for him being too long, I teld him to ask his mother to put a tuck in them, just where I put the pins for a mark. The next Sunday both the children were at the Mission School, clean and neatly dressed, but no alteration had been made in the pantaloons; the pins remaining just where | had placed them ‘as marks for a tue He ton my eye as I entered, and while speaking with him I observed he was chewing tobacco, I desired him to come to wy. house again on the mowrow. When he came i asked him if he believed I was his friend, “ O yee, Ma‘nm, T guess Ido.” Then I wish yeu to feel, my boy, that what say to you is the expression of ry interest in your wellure, und 1 wish you to be opea and frank with me, and answer me truly; do net be afraid to own anything that is wroug im yourelf, for 1 know you are surrounded by mach to lead you astray.” From the look he gave me, [felt 1 had his confidence. “Do you swear, Joseph?” “Yes, ma’am.” “Do you drink?” “No. ma’am.” “Do you break the Sabbath?” “Yes, ma’am, Vm afraid I do.” “Do yon steal?” His no was empha- sized and elongsted, ax with a look of almost tri- umphant innocence he said, “I never stole a pin in all my life.” “Well, Joseph, do you chew tobaceo?”” “Yes, ma'am.” “Quarrel with bad boys inthe street! “Yes, they lick me first, I pay them back, that's al Upon farther inquiring, { found he had becn emoloy- ed for two years to set up pine-ping, in an alley in the basement of one of our principal hotels. Mor this work he received two dollars and a half a week, but the poor child was kept up nearly all night, and then sold papers to fill up his other waking hours. } When I asked him why he had not had his pant loons made ehorter, he hesitated; he seemed unwil- ling to answer, but on my repeating the question, with the assurance that it was no fault if he had for otten to ask his mother, he replied, while his eye illed with tears, and his lip quivered with emotion, “My mother drinks, ma’an not you persuade your mother tobecome sober?’ said I. **No, ma’am, the will not take the pledge.” 1 took down a book end asked him if he could read. ‘Quite imperfect- ly,’ was the sensible reply. I then read to him va- rious dents related in anecdotes for the young hy the iate Rey. Daniel Smith, concerning the swearer, the Sabbeth-breaker, and the drunkard, showing bim how signally God would bless even the efforts of a child to rescue a parent f intemperance. The silent tear rolled d heck as 1 urged upon him the necessity of doing wll he could to free himself and fimily from the vices to which they were addicted; and he said most eamesily, “J will not swear any more, nor chew any more tobacco,” A fow days’after tl mise was made, obséryed Joseph ag cl faid kindly to him, “So, Joseph, your habit of c: ing was so strong you could not keep your promizx “Oh yes I have; Lam chewing camonuile ‘i taking them froma his veet pocket. He sai tite left him when he gave up his was obliged to break off by this means, succeed—patterm we think to older head you take me to see your mother, Je pl a “Not to-day, m n it no up yet: Never mind, let me go with } uu now; I think L be up by the time we get there.” Alter much persnasion he con- sented; on our way down Anthony street, as if to prepare me for the wretchedness of his misexable ome, he said 1 would find the house, vory ¢ and no anticipation could equal the sad reality. e entry through which T was obliged to pick my steps, Ica to the door of a room, the air of which was alinost intolerable, so offensive the odor on opening the door. It was on the ground floor, and the cre- viees aud holes of the broken flooring were a recep: tacle for the refase food and slops. The front of the room had been used as & bar room, but the partition had been taken down, aud with it larye pieces of the welland ceiling, Ona ken tab aced up against the wall to keep it from falling: lay a dog, beside*a piece of bicad, a dirty plate of butter, a broken tea-pot, and en ivon pot with a few votatoes; a few plates, knives and forks, &c.; other urpiture there was none, save an old chair with- ont o back, a few dirty rags serving for bed and Led “clothes, and a broken hedstend thrown down in a drunken frolic a week before. And this was the home of those children, with their sweet, innocent facer—this was the atmosphere of ph and moral pollution in which these young crea were being trained for ctemity! A man was seated on a bundle of old and fresh “Lerbs, with three boys opposite him, all busily engaged tying up herbs and arene mint in bundles, for the markets and hotels. Could the drinkers of mint juleps, as they Lifted the cup from the marble table of the gilded sa- Joon, have seen the untold filth of the room in which the mint gathered by the side of the limpid brook ‘was prepared for their use, they would have dashed down the draught with disgust, from their lips, and would never haye felt an inclination to taste itagain. Jn the far corner of the room another scene pre- sented itself. Ther? lay the mother of tho three in- teresting children, drunk, upon the floor, The boy, approaching her, pushed her with his foot, saying, with almost despairing earnestness in his tones, “Mother, get up; do get up; here is the lady who gave Jeanie and me our clothes; do get up.” She was at length aroused by the child’s appeal, and, staggering towards the mantel- piece, against which she leaned heavily. she said, “You are very good, ma‘am, for whet did for my childven--and ] am very sick.” “Ti. c you look ill,” I replied, ‘and I came, here to eee if 1 could do you any good.” She was evidently affected at these words of kindnoss, but ehe only reiterated that she was so sick. And so she was, poor creature, with a sore and grievous sickness, overpowering both body.and mind; but she was to me a most interesting woman, her face indi- cating she had not always been so degraded. The man on the herbe, who had been listening to our conversation, and had not before spoken, now exclaimed, “You know you are not sick at ore know you have been drunk all night; and I had to get the breakfast this morning my If. ‘That is what ails her, ma’am.” “Is this your husband ¢”” I asked the women. “ Yes, ma’am; no, ma'am,” she har- tiedly answered. “No, ma'am; he has lived here with me suce tho ols bets 6 father died, aud he is rery good to my children.” -“Are there three boys all your children ?”" ‘ Only one; the other two lads who are bundling mint are not mine. I have but two boys and one girl. Those two boys, ma'am, are orphans, whoee parents died with the cholera; and they have lived here ever since, for I promised their r to look after them.” And in all berdegrada- t’on and poverty she had sheltered these orphans in her wretched home, and they accom: the man when he went into tif countey to gather herbs, and assisted him to prepare them for sale; gnd in this way the family was supported. now expostulated with her on her vicious course of life. How could she,a mother, with three such ed interesting children growing up around her, 80 dcbase herself? She replied, that she had no de- cent clothes or they would have been married. The man, contradicting her, said that was not the case, for he had been willing several times to be married, but she would go on a spree, and then he would not have her. He added, that if she only would keep sober she was as respectable as any lady in New York. I suggested, and then urged, that she should sign the pledge, aud if she remained sober till after the Fomth of July, and they were still of the opinion that it would contribute to their happiness to be married, that suitable clothing should provided, and the ceremony should take place in the mis- sion room. She took the pledge and kept sober, and on the evening of the Sth of July, 1850, they stood respectably arrayed in front of the altar in our mission room, while the missionary performed the marriage ceremony with great solemnity, and at the close gave them an instructive exhortation, to be on their gnard ee the evils of intemperance. They promised, as they retarned home with lighter and happier hearts than they had known for many a day. A comfortable room was then procured for them; it was neatly whitewashed, and furnished with the luxuries of bedsteads, bedding, chairs and a table. A place was found for the man in a coal yard, and the elder boy, Joseph, was placed at a trade, the younger children at school, and the orphan boys at trades. After come months the watchful oversight of the woman was thought to be no longer necessaiy, and she broke her pledge. Nothing discouraged, how- ever, the missionary and myseif besought her again to sign it; and, to our surprise, she not only con- sented to do so, but said with a strength of resolu- tion, “I shall now sign it asl ought; I feared my habits were too strong when I signed before, and therefore allowed you to write my name, while I put my cross under if; 1 feared I would break it, but now, with the heljy of the Lord, { think I can keep it,” and she wrote her name as good as we could have written it for her; and, though two years have nearly elapsed since, yet she maintains her integrity, and has never tasted ‘anything that could intoxicate. The husband bas never broken his pledge at all, but is considered strictly an honest, sober man, and still retains his place in the coal yard. Joseph, by his strict attention to evening school, has learned to read and write, and bis employer entrusts him with every valuable article in his store, and believes him to be worthy of unlimited confidence. And as we visit them from time to time in their altered home, they show us with great satisfaction some addition to its comforte—a clock, bureau, and a few pictures, &e., which their sayings have enabled them to pur- chase—and if even a new dress or coat is purchased, they wish us to see it, even before it is worn, know- ing how fully we ein all their prosperity. At the last Thanksgiving supper,when seven hundred i ed in the mammoth tent, we in- vited them to be present, but Joseph replie We are out of the Five Points now, andI do not wish to eat with them pa Dus ing that when self-respect is ea they will not desire to live among the de- graded. ‘This is but one of the families rescned from deep degradation throngh the instrumentality of the La- dies’ Heme Missionary Society; and there are still innocent young faces’ pleading for their neglected childhood, their miserable homes, and their aban- doned parents. Will not the citizens of New York, by their liberal gifts, enable this society to carr their plans to s: ory issues? The missi @ public geod in view, eid it looks for public sym- pathy and 't. Lt endeavors to clevate the tem- e poor forlorn ones, so long un- aims to throw the Christian degraded masses, with the wileven here attest its divine jer-working power-—that the little Jeaven will leaven the whole hanp. Mexteo and Santa Anna Ina French Pott of View. The French journal, La Petrie, give: in its issue of the fourth May a translation of Concral Santa Anna's manifesto to the Mexican nation, made on the day after his arrival at Vera Cruz, and accom- panies it with the following remarks: Afier having read, over and ain, will the greatest attention, the preceaing manilesto, we have still to find in it the appearance of any political pro- gramme whatev We read in it the protestations usual in such in favor of liberty and order, of whick all ambitious meu are prodigal, with promises ¢ of moral and iaterial ameliorations, n of which may be indefinitely expected. But apart from these commonplaces, tue manifesto is all that can be imagined of the most meaningless and empty. 2 And now if, as we are strongly inclined to be- lieve, Senta Anna is at this moment the only man of any worth that Mexico can reckon on, we are forced to admit that this impo: lity—a Me: republi dat the critical movement of definite disappearance or of a radical transformation. It is absolutely nec: y either that Mexico find immediately i i forci chief, or thy States. B nna hes not the stuffor a man of genius, the nexation of Mexico to the American Union is the only issue to the embarrass ments of every kind un which the Mexican con- federation suecums. tion can hence- forth only be a matter of tim i be very possible that the inrutishle avidi and the still increasing distress’ of Mex! granted, this tim ory far distant. New ale mail, ae om from Fort Lrramic, under charge of Mr. Hobl Jast in contract time. arrived he con- ortion to nd has succeeded, in spite of ch Port Laramie. Atevery attempt ce to the vai the mail “has heen stopped » xnow since last November. By this aurival w tes to the 15th from Vort Laramie. ttle of interest hi re * the last th. A few w f om the t, who state that the winter's severity had de- stroyed many cattle for our Mormon 1s, and that such a se 8 not } for many years. The snow, which has been deep in and around the s near, had dispersed, and b fiat and moun rains all the streams exeept South Platte were un- usually full. But litte grass was to be found b tween Forts Loramie and Kearny—trom Kearney in heie it was pretly well advanced, and cattle conld be well sustained. Tho first tr were met beyond Little Bine river. A company from St. Louis, cher, Foulke & Co., were at Little 2 on the 25th of April, consisting of seventeen wagons and 300 men. Other smaller companies were met at p Chiles & Co., fromm here, erossed the stream but a fuw deys aflerwards. This year more enerey hay Leen shown in pushing onward than ever before; we hope they may mect with ne trouble. The mail x days from Fort Kearny here, ints along. averaging seventy nulles per day. On the Ist of this month the Santa Fe and Salt Lake mails left here at contract time. Wm. 8. Mes- ‘€RVY, t outas passenger in the first,and Hon. Mr. Bernheisel, in the Salt Lake stege.—Jntqwadence, Mo., Messe Mary 7. fs Ate—“The valley lay smiling before me ’ ‘the headlands were frowning before us, As we flew throngh the wide open «es, While those left behind who adere us Sighed, Farewell acushla-machre.” T looked o'er the waters beneath me, ‘Whilet ons ard our good versel bore, And those who in sorrow did greet me Now stood on the sea beaten shor: it war a clear, cloudless morning; ‘The wind from the southward it blew; The aun rose, the blue waves adorning, Over which like a sea bird we flew Twer then that my heart beat in sndnoss At leaving wy country behind, And none conlil afford me the Felon Which comports the wearied in mind. For there lay the scenes that I cherish, Which never can Jeave my fond heart; Ob, ne’er can that memory perish, ‘Though ocean may keep us apart Then give me the broad billows heaving ‘That bear me away o'er the sea; ‘Tis the home ef our fathers we're leaving, he free. Te dwell in the land of t Ne OOLAS LUMSDEN, © My darting forever. It is to remove the remains of Gon. Har tombed at North Bend, to rison, which are now ent duere to slaanbar 5 tose of the wlepid Cob Jog Davica aud thos com- patrigts, the battle field of Ti Marine Affaire Tm Qreamemp Hremans, Capt. Higgins, left port af noon yesterday, for Bremen, via Southampton, with ong hundred and seventy passengers and $400,000 im specte, Tox Buimisu Scrxw Sreameur Grascow, Captain Craig, sailed yesterday for Glasgow, with a fall cargo ead twe hundred apd severty seven passengers. Pollee Inteliigence. Arvest of a Gang of Dock Thimes Associates Howlett and Sind. At about daylight on Tia oo — officers Duffey, Holden and Colgan, of the Fourth wi arrested five young men known in that ward as thieves, ames are John Conveily, John Wallaes, Jobn Quinn, John Kerrigan and Patriek Neville, whom officers ‘found wt and conversing together the deck foot of Roosevelt street. Kerrigan and Ni bad a boat which they had evidently just stepoed from, ‘The officers, well kpowing that some robbery had been effected, by the actions of the z, accordingly took them into custocy on suspicion, and in the bottom of the y found’ a razor ina case, and on the person of Neville was found a white silk handkerchief, The five prisoner® were tben taken to the station house, and soom atiee ape sing etwleg ia thai an 12 beeen the previous pight, the barge General 8. M Burroughs, ut the foot of’ Dover etreet, had been entered. and tl = trunks containing clothing, valued at $60, and o silver watch worth $22, ard an axe and hammer, had ae called Neville, a: persons he saw shove off from the barge in s boat, the rome time saw that the boat contained several trunks. Tr seems by the evidence of the captain that between and] o'clock that night he was awoke by @ noise the eabin of the barge, and hurrying to the deck, he was just in time to see two young men rhove a boat off amd row away; and one of ‘the prisoners ho identifies as one of the two who occupied the said boat on that oces- sion, The captain ako identifies the razor as a part 0° his Vga which bis trunk contained. The handker- chief bas been identified by the owner of one of ths other trunks. The belief is that the thieves rowed off into the stream, their contents, so doiz g the razor accidentally fell into the bottom of the boat, and was there left nnobserved untij fourd by the lice, as an evidence showing the accused to be the a parties. Justice Bogart committed the five prisoners te the Tombs for trial. Stealing Pig Iron, and the Arvest of the Receiver.—Tae men, named Jamen Boyle and Mertin Gaivin, were arreat- ed by Officer Money pennny, of the Fifth ward, on a charge of beni a quantity of pig iron, valued at $30, the pre- perty of £.S. James, No. 105 Water street. The priso- ners acknowledged their guilt, and informed the officers that they rold the said tron toa man named Patrick Do- novan, at much Jes: than its value. Donovan was alee arrested, and Leid to bail to“answer the charge of ing Bolengee erty, knowing the same to have been ol tained by Boyle and Galvin disbonestly. Donovan gave i, ~ the two thieves were committed to the Tombs fer trial. Viclent Assault on an Emigrant Runner.—Tqo mem, remed Lovis Kruder and Charen McDougall, re yeatere doy arrested by officer Mansfield, on a charge of aesaulting and beating an emigrant runner named Lemon Lauder- qanck, residing at 70 Greeawich street. The complsinamé swore that he was attacked by the two men dbove- named, and that MeDougall struck him on the heed wits aslung-shot, knocking him senseless for some time, and irflicting a severe wound. The accused parties were held to bail in the sum of $500 each, to answer the charge a6 a hearing to take plage como day in the ciming Personal Intelligence. Joshua R. Giddings, Samuel Le vis and Salmon P. Chase were to address the citizens of Cincinnati, on the 10th inst , on the subject of American slavery. The Washington Republic of the 20th fost. says: Of one hunéred and forty five arrivals at Willard’s Tot oo Wednesday and Thursday, we no‘e the following: Jones Bucharan, Pennsylvania; Hon. R M, Price, New Jersey; Col J. P. Tayior, United States Army; J. McAllia- tor, Uxited States Army; Capt. Gunnison, United ‘States Navy; Commander Ringgold, United States Navy: Parser New Somplo, United States Navy; Nicholas Hai zit, York; Dr Maulsby, United States Navy; I. Veq..’ California; Robert Tyler, Esq., Jeff Neyler, Missiesippi: Wright Hawks Benjamin Parke, Harrisburg, Pennsyly Concoré, New Huinpebire; T. P. Lathora, ppl; Gen. A. H. Brisbane; Lambert Get- Itimore. ARRIVALS SEAWARD, fontioruer from Charleston Mee R Wit me, iD . JL Brower, JT Keaton, J G Vose, BDoton, 3 Tams, B ryeur avd servant, JS Wate, J W Weed, S SY Timolat, J Webb, F rage. In brig Goy Brown from t Morks—Mirs A P Smith, ehild and ge i 1K Whitmore, wife and child, A G Crane, Jae In brig 2 Lawton from Havana—Don Juan R Wilson, & Pierce, J Aikens, Wm Mowst. : Jn brig Black Prince from Sunderiand—Wm Thompeon, P Barker. In echr Cecelia from St Thomas—Mrs F Hilton, Miss Mary: Hilton, Mise EB Rock, str N Hilton, Master BJ Hilton. In scbr Archiover from St Thomas—Mr Gurrier, wife and two children, J Brugman. DEPARTURES SEAWARD. Tn tho steamship Glascow, for Giaszow—Mrs Cameron, Elizabeth Todd, Mra Smith, Miss Smith, Mre Small, Mien Ri ir © I Morewood, Mrs G & Morewood nurse and Helen Routh, Mr. Small, Mr Klinsk, B Me~ 1, Mrs Betl, Thomas Bell, Mre Watson and ph Hargrave, Nrs Old and 2 children, New r is MeDonald and infant, Brooi Mre Brvden, Mr Bryden, Mast Bryden y Clint "ei John Newland, Albany; Isaae Gilmor, Cr M ‘hee d child, Mies Cowso, Sorel; J B. k, Lyneh~ v Dr Scott, lady nnd 2children, Newark; De Sur- mont, Jobn Bleck, Demarara; Brooldyn; G MeF: a bers Patterson J Dutton Torn H John McDonald, Wm Smil Dut, Jobn M Coohrat Ret field Mra H W Armstrong, Mra. 6 Heddernock, New York: Mra ‘oughksepsic; Hon G W Roswell as ties E Daintry, John Harge, John Thor nade ; Dr Robbins; Alfred Major, In- ‘an, Samvel Hamiltou, Mrs Hamiltom, Dy ae Buchanan, Jas Thomson, fire i Aloxan‘or Gow, George Gow, Ta Torker, Dr Daivdelt, New Yorks Rove Robert a hson, Mr Cornelson, Jamos An- dJobn 3 ren Donald- N milion; Forman, Brook Walter W Re 5 ~ , Miss Fraser, Ha rork; Elizabeth ii ore, John Murray, 4 Forman, Broo! a: Edward Pront oArthur, Mise Cray, ore. ‘0 ol Mizon, Canad y rs M » C jest M ‘and ‘on, ond marae, sa ats jorner, Indy, four eb r 9 chil three children, :”N Le Bran, Phi uurse, NY; Mi \ Miss Julia de « Teabel de Peyer, do: Jacob Kopler, Baltimore an P Ronate, New ‘imon Vidot, New Orleans; WNelnacker, do; J CH Clana JM Meyer, St horat, a children ron, ¢ iW ener! GHD Rippe, Indy and two Vi Lehman! Baltimore; A Peyn, Indy and child, © Gerken, lady and infent, do; 3 Sommer & 7 veln, “do; J N Scohalk. Newar! * Ge: Henry Penverthy and. lody, Wisconsta: Theodore Vogelseng. Boston: ¢ H Sucka York: Fipiivand Urnite, Bronce; Cd Hester, New York; FP Ola Vty. Cineinmes! MC Nengony Se Louls; Richard Bray, We xico; Geo ‘ork; Max Wooher, Cinotm: ork; Mre Amalia Wooher and ivnr children, atts Lovie, Sebtier, New Yorks Migg 8 Xchumnacher, do: Brucksclimidt and lady, Daenr'el and Gottiich Ehplet, Virginia; Isaac Schwa! ington. Va; L_* V Mennigerode, Germat Now Jerrey; F Ulrich, Wisconsin; Geori ew York; Oblsen Bi nati: Lovie Sol gt ob, Engle: William aM, ivard, Mars {more; David Bomberser, do; Dessaner, lo. a a ke, for Norfork and Riobm Rouneks. Fan fico ene inaged NOs ise Hekeridge, J P aS 4 I ‘MC Thompaon, Capt Doughty and Mice Kellogs, MEF Kellogg, iC B indy, rete Ee Guremight, O Fo 1 E Geinith and sony Mes Parker and Mi Hart, Te Fleming, Jom Indy. A Orr, 3 Goddet New Fork; Jace ler: Geritard Feldman, Mise L Brown, Pee, T Adkine Koberte and lady M_ Kenney, Mi. S Tnm}in, § Di 16, EP Chap ith, R Coles, k m nd lady, J Newton and Mnisoa, BW Cnepeator, Chl DD Botcher, Dr. Mee S Millert and two children, LM Moore, Jl, Crowns, 1 belishary, Mae Beecington, Mine MBG Mire Gert . a W Gerrard, B M Greenway, Dr G MER nt) 20 1m steer’ te age Tn the steamehip Florida, for Savannah—De AW Dr W G Bullock, Mrs Pliza A Ch Murray, JP Broome, A Solwanl, A J we Lanthir, IP Perry, P Jijge Prendergast, J 8 Moore, and} qi a MoKenzie, G ike, FW. Aa | two childron and servant, Miss Mi Mrs Griffis, of Anton Boskowits, A Mackay, dae The splendid residence of Charles W near Annapolis, Md., said to Cari Tetons est buildings in the country, was destivyed vy ke om Thupedey leat, felt, Indy, S Morrill,