The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1853, Page 4

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The energies of our State legislators are evidently fost oozing away under the melting influence of the present weather, and should the heat continue a few days longer a joint resolution will, doubtless, be speedily adopted for an adjournment, sine die, not- withstanding the importance of the Mather case, the new railroad bill, and other matters now under con- sideration. Indeed, two resolutions for a final ad- journment on Friday next" were yesterday offered in the Assembly, which house is represented to have been very thinly attended. In the Senate only fourteen members took their seats, consequently that body, probably to the great gratification of those pre- sent,was forced to forego its labors for the day for want ofa quorum. This being executive session day, how- ever, every Senator will of course endeavor to be in hhis place. Parties are so precisely balanced there dhat the absence of a single member on either side saight decide the fate of all Governor Seymour's ap- pointments for New York harbor masters and other ~Btate officers. The Assembly,”after having experienced some dif- Aiculty in procuring a quorum, adopted a resolution instructing the proper committee to bring in a bill providing means for the construction of a mansion for the Governor. A motion to make the temperance Dill the special order, in place of the railroad bill, after the disposal of the impeachment resolutions on ‘Wednesday, was lost by thirty to thirty-five. A re- Solution was offered directing the Commissioners of the Cangl.Fund to state whether they have autho- rized or sanctioned the application by the Anditor ef any portion of the surplus canal revenues to the payment of the canal claims of a date prior to June, 1846. This rather indicates an Sntention, if possible, to bring more of the canal Officers into difficulty. Notice was given of a Dill to loexte the Central Park in this city. Our swelter- ing inhabitants never before experienced the actual necesaky of having this long talked of park more than they do at the present moment. The resolution declaring that members shall not receive pay during the recess, was called up, briefly debated, and then tabled. This was entirely too great a stretch of liberal ty for our law makers to approve. The Mather impeachment.case was postponed from morning till afternoon, and from thence till to-day. Little was done during the afternoon session, owing to the fact that it was almost impossible to procure a quorum: There were two or three callsof the House, after which the members adjourned in despair. » Several mail route agents between Albany and Buffalo haye lately been appointed. Their names wilf be found in our despatch from Washington. The letter of our Buenos Ayres correspondent, publishad in another place, will be found very in teresting. The writer being a resident in the city had an exce lent opportunity of observing the course of all the exe.'ting events which occurred there. Of this he availed s)imself, and thus we are enabled to present our readen* with an uninterrupted thread of narrative of all the nvilitary, mercantile, and financial exertions made by the ,"overnment of Buenos Ayres, and of the different moven.ents of the federal army— outsiders—which preceded the reported naval en- faement between the city fleet ond that of Urquiza, which is {said to have taken place upoa the 1sth of April. A telegraic despatch appended to the letter, announces that Urquiza had notified the foreign ministers of his intention to blockade the port, in which event the place would be °ompelled to sur render jn a few months at the farthest. ‘We heve Ses from Hayti np t the 2st of May. The news is three days later date tha” that con tained in the letter of our correspondent puslished yesterday morning. We have had a literal transla tion made of the account of all the interesting cere- monies which took place upon the occasion of the presentation of Bishop Spacciapatra, the apostoli delegate of Pius the Ninth, to the Emperor, which we present to our readers, with his lorisip's address and the reply of his imperial Majesty. The address of the Chamber of Representatives to the monarch, congratulating him npon the rapidly improving pros- pects of the empire, is also given, and will be read with interest. The letter elsewhere given from our Laguayra cor- respondent shows that the revolutionists‘are progress- ing at a rapid rate in Venezuela. Appearances seem to warrant the supposition that President Mon will have to change places with the banished Gea. Paez before a great while. No better evidence is wanting of the immense quantities of produce that were locked up in the © Western States during the past winter than the fact that the receipts of tolls since the opening of canal navigation exceed those of last year by forty thon- sand dollars, The tolls for the second week of the present month overbalance those of the in the previous year by fourteen thous ‘The business of agriculture is rapidly increasing, and the majority of the crops are said to have never been more promising than at present, not only in our own hut in all the Western States. The great bulk of the produce of the nemerous fertile farms continually gas springing up, almost as if by ench: t, from the ‘reste and piaisies, must naturally find ite way t el ES the Atlantic seaboard;—it will come over oor rail- roads and canals, and will go to feed the millions located in the worn-out countries of Europe. Under these circumstances who will | hazard o doubt that the canals will not be able, if properly managed, to pay for themselves in accord- ance with the provisions recently adopted by our State Legislature, and to be submitted to the people for ratification at the November election? yea show that the canals can and ought to be completed + without resorting to the unnecessary and pernicious system of direct taxation, as proposed by a certaim class of politicians who are desirous of keeping up the excitement om the subject for the purpose of sab- serving their own interests. Two German editors at New Orleans fought a duel last Sunday. One of them is said to have beem mor- tally wounded. a Ry telegraph from Providence, R. I., we leurn that over three thousand dollars were yesterday recovered from the city by a Mr. Clapp, wko fell ona slippery pavement and broke his leg last winter. The ground on which the plaintiff based his suit was Chat the city was bound to enforce the ordimance providing for the removal of snow and ice from the walks. A liquor case was also decided in the same place yesterday. An officer was fined-for seizing liquor under the State jaw, which is deciared by’ the Circuit Court to be un- constitutional. ‘Over two thousand dollars have been subscribed at New Orleans tor the passengers of the wrecked ship William and Mary, who recently arrived there from® Nassau in a perfectly destitute condition. The coroner's inquest upon the victims of the @avazzi riot at Montreal is progressing, bat no new acts have been ‘elicited. A despatch from Chicago states that the Northern Indiana Railroad Company have gained the suit ‘brovught’to prevent the Illinois Central Railroad from crossing the track where the late fatal collision to theemigrant train took place. Preference and pri ority is to be given to the cars of the former company at the crossing. A dividend of seven per cent., pay able on the 5th proximo, has been declared by the Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Railroad. ‘Fhe attention of the reader is specially directed to the:very interesting foreign and home correspond- ence, published on the inside pages of this sheet, em- bracing letters from Paris, Bolivia, Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, Fort Hamilton, Concy Island, Cleve- land, Windsor, Vt., and Alton, Til. Also, statistics showing the condition of the Banks of New York; Prospects of the Crops; Curious Phenomenon—a Sleeping ‘Gisat; Financial and Commercial Re- views, &c. The steamship Humboldt is now about due with four days later news from Europe. Turkey and Persla—The Progress of Russia in the East. The present relations of Russia with Turkey and, incidentally, with Persia,.as well as the European powers, form the most interesting question now agitating the public mind on the other side of the Atlantic. The firm and de- cided stand of the Turkish government against the demands of the Emperor of Russia, we have seen will be sustained by England and France, and possibly by Austria; but if the Emperor Nicholas declines to enter the field against such immense odds as promise:to be brought against him, we have expressed an opinion, in a former article in the Heratp,that he will not withdraw his demands upon Turkey, but will keep it an open question, to be used here- after when circumstances may be more favor- able to a resort to hostilities with the Ottoman Porte. Whatever may be the result of the present difficulties between Russia and Turkey, it may be interesting to our readers to look at the pre- sent condition of the three powers of Russia, Turkey and Persia, and the progress of Russia in the East since the time of Peter the: Great. The extent of the area of the Russian empire is estimated at about seven million of square | miles, of which two million are in Europe, and five million in Asia, (principally in Siberia.) This is exclusive of the Russian territery on the northwest coast of America, large in ex- tent. but very sparse in population. The popu- | lation of the empire is about sixty-five miltion, of which more than sixty million belong to ¢he Caucasian race, located principally in European Russia. The population of the Turkish empire is estimated at twenty-five million, of which fifteen million are in Europe. and the remain- der in Asia. Persia, the natural ally of Tur- key and an important barrier to the pro- gress of Russia in a mareh of conquest to the East, is believed to have a population of twelve million. But in military strength the two Mahommedan empires, united. fall far below that of Russia alone, even in comparison with their population. It is unnecessary to say more upon this point, than that, in case of hostilities, both Turkey and Persia would fall before the gigantic power of Russia, Turkey must there- fore rely upon assistance from one or more of | the great European powers; and England. act- ing on her hitherto uniform policy of sustaining Turkey. as an important balance in the scale of | European nations, anda pari of the protection of the British possessions in India, has declared her firm intention of preserving the integrity and independence of the Turkish nation. Glancing back at the history of Russia. we cannot fail to perceive that her whole course, for a century and a half. has been that of ag-© gression on Turkey and Persia, and leading to a great extension of the empire to the East. It would seem, indeed, that the absorption of | Turkey in Europe, and eventually. perhaps, of Asiatic Turkey and Persia, was only a ques- tion of time; for under Peter the Great and each of his successors has the same policy been pureaed. When Peter the Great ascended the throne of | million. seems to have »ntemplated the acquisition of Livonia, towbJ ch Russia pretended to have some antiquated c) aim. His successes against the Swedes put ?,im in possession of a port on that northern sea; and when the victory of Pultowa had reliev ed him from all apprehension of the military *power of Charles the Twelfth, and es- tablisbe’] the reputation of his own army, he ‘turned, towards Turkey, whose power was even then-supposed tobe tottering, whose Christian subjects were believed to be ripe for revolt, and on+vhose ruins it was not doubted that the Crar of Russia, the conqueror of the Swedish ‘@4arles, could exalt his own power. The ‘Gicastrous campaign of 1711 dispelled for a ‘time the delusion as to the weakness and speedy discolution of the Ottoman Empire, as well as the belief in the discontent of the Christian subjects of that power; and the treaty of Falkeen, (a village on the river Pruth) in July 1711, which saved the Emperor, the Empress, and the Russian army, then surrounded and enfeebled, and stipulated the surrender of Taganrog and Asoph to Tur- key, annihilated the commercial projects of Peter on that sea. But stability of purpose was one of the elements of his power, and the intention to establish an Oriental commerce never deserted him. Neither his successes in the North, nor his deteat in Turkey, diverted or deterred him from pursuing the scheme. Having failed to turn one extremity of the Caucasus, he directed his attention to the other, and abandoned the Sea of Asoph to oc- cupy himself more intently on the Caspian. In 1717, the Czar sent Prince Bekeritch on an embassy to the Khan of Khiva, with an escort of several thousand men, with secret directions go seize, in the country of the Prince to whose court he was accredited, the gold mines which it was crroneously supposed to contain. This expedition was unsuccessful, for the inhabitants, on a preconcerted signal, fell upon the Russian troops and cut them off, except a few who remained slaves for life. The following year Peter sent an embassy to Persia, the object of which was the improve- ment of his commercial relations with that country. and the establishment of a trade with India, An arrangement was entered into by which the whole of the silk exported from Persia was to be sent to Russia, but the attempt to open a communication with India was un- suecessful, though forty years before this time, a Russian agent had penetrated to the court of Aurungzebe, and in the early part of the reign of Peter, Russian traders were settled in India, -A war between Russia and Persia took place in 1722, and the Czar entered Persia with an army of about fifty thousand men. the infantry crossing the Caspian in four hundred and forty-two vessels, while the cavalry pro- ceeded by land. Having taken possession of some of the ‘Persian territory on the Caspian, Peter returned to Moscow in triumph. Turkey was prevented from taking up arms in aid of Persia by the,intervention of Austria and France in favor offthe Czar. Before the ter- minatien of the negotiations which followed, Peter the Great died, in January. 1725. The successors of Peter have uniformly fol- lowed tke course he so early marked out for the extension and aggrandizement of his em- pire. At the accession of Peter, in 1689, the population of the empire was fifteen million; at the accession of Catharine the Second, in 1762. it was twenty-five million; at her death, in 1796, thirty-six million; at the death"of Alexander and accession of Nicholas, in 1825, it was fifty-six million; and¢at the present time, as we have stated, it is about sixty-five The acquisitions of Russia of terri- tory from Sweden are greater than what remains of that kingdom; from Poland the territory acquired by Russia is nearly equal in extent to the Austrian empire; the Russian acquisitions from Turkey in Europe. are of greater extent than the Prussian dominions, ex- clusive of the Rhenish provinces; from Turkey, in Asia, they are nearly equal in dimensions to the whole of the minor states of Germany; from Persia. her acquisitions‘are equal in extent to England; in Tartary, her {acquisitions have an area not inferior to that of Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Spein. The Russian frontier has been advanced to- wards Berlin, Vienna and Paris, 700 miles; to- wards Constantinople. 500 miles; towards Stock- holm, 650 miles, and towards Teheran and India, 1000 miles; and the territory added to the empire since 1772, when Catharine II. was on the throne, is greater in extent and impor- tance than the whole empire which Russia had in Europe before that time. The power and re- sources of Russia, however, lie in the countries to the west of the Volga, not in the wilds of Si- beria. “ Our next advices from Europe will perhaps | enable us to form a more definite opinion as to the fate which awaits Turkey and Persia. Veteran Corps or THE War or 1812.—We have watched the proceedings of the Legisla- ture with increasing solicitude during the extra session, to ascertain what action had been taken to promote the enactment of the bill re- ported to the Assembly by the Hon. Mr. Hen- dee, making provision for the indigent, desti- tute, and, in some instances, sick old soldiers of the war of 1812; but down to the present hour. we have not been able to discover that any member has had the boldness to advocate and Russia in i1f89, he had no commercial seaport excepting Archangel, in the Northern regions, washed by the White Sea. His own genius, aided by an intercourse with Europeans. led him early to appreciate the vast importance of commerce ; and as the trade with India had ever been regarded as a certain source of wealth to the natives, which at different times xjoyed it, his first military enterprise was an attempt, in 1695, to possess himself of a | port on the sea of Actpo an arm of the Black Sea, for the avowed purpose of drawing back fnte one of its ancient channels what, in the deficiency of more precise knowledge, was in general knowledge terms designated the com- merce of the East. The port of Taganrog was destined to become the emporium of a traffic which was to enrich his empire; and two small vessels built at Voronege, and floated down the Don to the sea, constituted the first naval effort of the Czar. The Greeks, while their empire flourished, the Kings of Pontus before, and the Genoeee after that era, made the Crimea an emporium for the commerce of India, which partly carried by the Persian Gulf, ia to Georgia. and partly through at to the pian, and up the river Kar to whence it was in like manner trans ported to the Phas’s and the Crimea, The journey of Peter the Great into various parts of Europe opened to him other views; and teaching him the value of Buropean as well as Orienta’ commeree, led him to desire an estab- lishment on the Baltig, LEvenat this period be was through Per Te eee. sustain a measure so totally disconnected with speculation. schemes of self-aggrandizement, or pecuniary advancement. This will undoubt- edly account for the delay manifested on the subject. We may be in error in our deductions; and the action had on the bill previous to ad- journment may clearly and satisfactorily de- monstrate that we are so, We are hardly pre- pared to admit that the Legislature of the great State of New York, in the year of our Lord one thousand elght hundred and fifty-inrcc can hesitate to pass a bill containing provisions to carry out a simple act of justice toward the defenders of the soil. for services rendered and dangers encountered, and privations submitted to, nearly forty years ago, and which bill has in every instance, when the subject has come be- fore the public. met with approbation bordering all see. on enthusianm. Mr. Roverr J, Warker ror Catwa—It is understood that the Hon. Robert J. Walker has appointed Minister to China, and that he icated his acceptance of the mission. be so, we have an assurance that the heen has i If President thoroughly comprehends the import- ance of a more intimate political and commer- cial relationship between the United States and the Chinese Empire, in the present important crisis in that empire; and we have also a guar- antee that it will be appropriated to our best possible advantage. We know of no man more competent to fill this mission at this time than Mr. Walker. He is fully up to the spirit of the age. ‘Our Standing Army at West Point. Not the least striking of the phenomena which a review of the state of this country dis- closes is the fact that, while all other first class powers maintain a standing army of one or more hundred thousand men, our whole regular army is hardly ten thousand strong. The United States, covering an area of more than two and a quarter millioms of square miles, is defended by a handful of men who would be unable to garrison the single city of New York in case of emergency. Nor is their number found inadequate for the task. Indeed, were it not for Camanches and Flerida Indians, these ten thousand might be cut down to a few com- panies, without endangering the safety of the country in the slightest degree. A single battalion stationed in the District of Columbia, the bulk of whose duties avould be to parade before the Capitol and fire peaceful salutes on national anniversaries, might. if these Indians were once reduced to tranquillity, answer all the purposes of a standing army. It is impos- sible to contemplate the fact without a very lively feeling of satisfaction. We see foreigners ground to the earth by taxes levied to support immense bodies of men—France requiring 390,000; Austria, 400,000; Prussia upwards of 200,000; England, 130,000, and Russia, probably, little short of a million—while the United States, with a territory larger than Austria, Prussia, France and England to- gether, contrives to ensure, almost without an army, greater tranquillity at home and equal respect abroad. In time of peace we are not cursed as they are with large bodies of idle ruffians in our cities, whose main duty appears to be to endeavor to keep each other in order ; we see nothing of the immense demoralization and social evils which the presence of bands of soldiers cannot fail to engender. In time of war we have shown that we can cope with nations whose military expenditure far ex- ceeds the whole of our revenue. There was no lack of soldiers, and no lack of discipline in 1812, or when the American flag crossed the Rio Grande. Hundreds and thousands of men were ready to march from the North and the South, from Massachusetts and Ohio, and those who did enlist proved themselves better men on the field than their comrades who had been born and bred in the barracks. So it would be ifa war again broke out. The difficulty would be to-discriminate among the volunteers not to raise levies. Nor is it in any wise a matter of astonish- ment that volunteers should flock to eur stand- ards in case of need. We have necessarily among our twenty-four millions of souls a very large number who are fired by military ambi- tion, and the love of a roving life. Though the class whence the army and navy of Britain are supplied is much smaller here than there, it ex- its nevertheless, and can afford to send forty thousand men to the West, or twenty thousand to Mexico, without a very serious effort. There is, ‘moreover, a martial feeling among the American people. which is of itself a sufficient guarantee for levies, when the country needs them. The wonder is not that we should be able to call an army into the field at a moment’s warning, but that that army should mancuvre with preci- sion, fight according to rule, and endure the toils and hardships of a campaign without mur- muring. This is really a gratifying fact; and we shall do injustice to no one if we ascribe it mainly to the influence and example of the graduates of our military school. West Point has now been the nurgery of our soldiers for upwards of half a century, and looking back on the careet of some of those whose first acquaintance with the sword was made within its precinets, we have every reason to congratulate the country on its esta- blishment. Here have arisen a large proportion of the men whose military genius has reflected fame on their native land. Here were taught the knowledge and skill which gave us such an advantage over the Mexicans in the late cam- paign. Foreigners have never been able to ex- plain how regiments of volunteers, which had left the plough and the spade a few months previous, were able to hold their ground against the vete- rans of Santa Anna’s army. The puzzle would disappear if it were known that in most in. stances these raw recruits were led by men whose knowledge of military tactics was not turpassed by that of the ablest European generals. The military nursery of West Point is, in fact, one substitute, and a perfect one, for the standing armies of foreign powers. Compare our system with that of Great Britain. There the soldier is drilled—tanght how to march, wheel, shoulder a musket, and fire—and schooled into consciousness of the necessity of discipline. So far perhaps the system needs no criticiem; though long continued submission to military tyranny is frequently subversive of manly spirit and natural courage. But while the soldier is the object of the most earnest care and watchful vigilance on the part of the au- thorities, the officer, strange to say, is left to instruct himself. He joins his regiment on leaving a boarding school; spends the first few years of his service in drawing-room campaigns and mess-table exploits; and if, by any acci- dent. he is sent on active service before routine has drubbed into him some notion of military | tactics. he isas unserviceable on the field as | the lowest drummer boy. It needed no little perseverence on the part of the late Comman der-in-Chief to establish a rule requiring ensigns to possess the rudiments of a li- beral education before joining the service Artillerymen and engineers are, it is true obliged to go through a regular educa- tion at Woolwich; but the bulk of the British army—the cavalry and line—know no more of the science of war than tailors or shoemakers. We have pursued a different course, We leave our ‘ rank and file” to plough +ho fields, weaye cloth, and hammer anvils, un- til we need thom ; knéwing that thew will be forthcoming when called for, and will acquire, after a campaign of a fortnight, as much practi- cal knowledge as will be required of them. Our officers, on the contrary, are educated for their profession. They are taught not only military tactics, engineering, and the art of war—but also self-denial. fortitude and rigorous disci- pline. The course they pursuc at West Point is.in short. a miniature campaign, which they must fight holdly, ere they can emerge upon the actual sphere of their duties. Our echool system we have mainly borrowed from Franee, Saint Cyr and the Polytechnic school have furnished to Franee all the great generals (with one or two exceptions) whose exploits have raised her military glory to so great a height. Experience supplies ample proof of the judictousness of the system; and we trust it will never be rashly abandoned, There was atime when men talked of the expense of the West Point Academy, and the uselessness of officers where there were no soldigrs to com time. We all know, now, that war may come upon us like a thief in the night, and that it be- hooves us to be prepared to meet it. That we shall best do—not by following foreign exam- ple in the maintenance of standing armies—but by fostering an institution which can supply us at any moment with able, scientific leaders for our vulunteer regiments, and thus really ren- der us formidable to the foe. Te New York Heratp np our Corem- poraRries—Can’t Sranp Ir,—That noblest of the Apostles, St. Paul, in speaking of the car- dinal virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity, says that the greatest of these is Charity. But there is a point beyond which even the forbearance of charity ceases to be a virtue. and to that point, once in a while, we find ourselves driven by our uncharitable cotemporaries. We are like the old man who had a splendid orchard of splendid fruits. His neighbors might help themselves ad libitum for the asking; they might even carry off moderate quantities from time to time, without asking; but when they began to come from day to day and take away whole hamper baskets of peaches and cartloads of apples, sans ceremonie, he frankly told them that he didn’t like it, and that in point of fact he coulda’t put up with it any longer. We have aMowed the same margin to our cotemporaries. They have from time to time appropriated the cream of our reports, our letters, our documents, our compilations, and our editorials. in this city and out of this city, and we have made no complaint. Very often an interesting article, prepared or procured for this journal exclusively, and costing us some con- siderable labor or expense, and often the fruit of labor, expense. time and learning well be- stowed, has been appropriated, with some trifling modifications, by a slow-paced cotem- porary, and adopted as its own rightful pro- perty. And thus razeed, we have frequently seen our articles “going the rounds,” credited. for exemple, to the New York Wall street Robert Macaire. We single out that paper, from the notorious character it has acquired as the Robert Macaire of our New York dailies, It has been the fashion of this free and easy neighbor, for some years, to give in his “Third or Fourth Edition,” (Heaven save the mark!) “the spirit of the morning press,” in a column of extracts, excepting the exclusive news of the Heratp, which is adopted as its own, with all the coolness of a man appropriating his own rightful property. And thus it goes to our outside cotem- poraries, who rightly considering, no doubt, the Macaire a less dangerous rival than the Henratp, gives the former the credit due to the superior enterprise and means of information possessed by the latter. Thus much for our Robert Macaire. ‘We might cover a broadside with his pickings from our columns, were it not waste of time and space to doso. We can only confess our regret for the gratuitous sup- port we thus bestow upon such an ungrateful and unprotitable customer. Our philosophers of.the Tribune betray some. thing mere of conscientious scruples in this im- portant matter of stealing a neighbor’s thunder. They do sometimes acknowledge, in very small type, that such an article is “fromthe Heratp;” but then sometimes they don’t—an omission which no philosophy can justify. For instance, in yesterday’s Tribune we have the credit of “Gov. Lane’s Manifesto,” which is right; but then there is the ‘special correspondence of the New York Tribune” on the Erie Railroad acci- dent, which is wrong, because it is not the Zri- bune’s correspondence. We charge that most of the details of that letter were taken from the account, tona fide, of our special reporter, as published in the Henarp. And here is the proof. The letter of the Tribune is dated June 16, and says that “this evening, between seven and cight o'clock, engine No. 58, &c., exploded.” Then in tfe list of killed and wounded it says that “Gilbert Hill, the fireman, was badly scalded * * * and was removed to the house of the late Mr. Arnold, where he lay last evening, in a state of de- lirium.”” Now as the letter is dated on the day of the accident, Mr. Hill, according to the ac- count in the Tridune, must have lain in “a state of delirium,” from the results of the ex- plosion, the day before the explosion took place, and so on with others of the wounded. Insteal- ing the matter from our report to fill up its skeleton letter, our philosophers simply neg- lected the fitness of the date, our correspon- dent’s letter being written after the acci- dent. We can overlook these petty larcenies. but to see our consistent and truthful reports thus changed into nonsense is insufferable. The Times manages the case with the same skill. We have now a general account to settle with the ational Democrat, (the real genuine original Jacobs.) A person well acquainted, from day to day, with the contents of the Her" Ap and of the Democrat, would be apt to sup- pose sometimes that the latter was but a modi- fied reprint of the former, published the next day to meet the demands for the Heratp which its fast working presses were unable to supply all the day before. Yesterday’s Democrat, for example, in its extracts, was made up largely from our compilations. (an indication of good taste,) but it falls into several mistakes in adapting our “ Heads of the World,” published some while ago, as applicable to the present time. Thus it puts down Baez as President of the Dominican republic, while, as all the world knows. he has been succeeded by Santana, the old liberator. Worse yet, Arista is regis- tered as President of Mexico, whereas Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, is generally believed to be at the head of Mexican affairs. And there are several other little anachronisms in the catalogue which might as well have been cor- rected. Our neighbors should remember that kings and potentates come in and go out pretiy much like other office-holders, and that an original catalogue of such people, published in the Herarp a month or two ago, may not be available now as an original article even for the Democrat without some alterations, The weather is excessively hot—our cotem- poraries are naturally inclined to be lazy; but wecannot permit t#0 many of them to forage upon our manor at the same time. We count upon Robert Macaire, but there are others who can pay as they go. “Tue Trinenk Pintosornens Sorp.—The phi- losophers of the 7ridune published yesterday, evidently with sufficient abolition credulity to swallow the bail, an advertisement from a Wilmington (North Carolina) paper, offering a reward for two runaway negroes. First. two justices of the peace, real or fictitious, issue an edict authorizing from an act of the Assembly, the capture of the two ranaways, dead or alive, and then the owner follows with this important postecript:— $226 Rewarv.—Two hundred dollary will be given ————————————————————e mand ; but this fallacy has not stood the test of | for negro Lott, either dead or alive; dollars for Bob's head, delivered ta. the ‘subscriber in the town of W! le March 2, 1853. BENJAMIN HALLETT. Doubtless when Mr. Hallett gets Bob’s head he will send it to the Tribune office to be hung. to the “Key of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”_ Our phi-- losophers have been sold. Mr. Tavgr’s Cuurcu Prorerty Bi.—We could hardly believe our own eyes as we read. that Mr. Taber’s bill had been ordered toa third. reading. What does all this mean?—and where: are we? Let us look at this bill and its his- tory. The sum and substance of the bill is to vest: in Archbishop Hughes and the Bishops of Al- bany and Buffalo, and their successors in office,. the titles to all the property in the Romar Catholic Church in the Commonwealth of New York, consisting of church edifices, parso- nages, colleges, academies, and even the cemeteries! What a tremendous influence this will give these gentlemen, whose power is now great enough in all conscience. They will have the people of their dioceses effect- ually in their power. in a short time, if this bill becomes a law. They can then shut the door of every Roman Catholic Church in the State, close every academy and college, and even the. gate of every burying ground appertaining to- their communion, should they determine, for any cause, todoso. And is this to be allowed in this republican country? Are our Senators going to pyt everything into the hands of an hierarciy Aris style, and leave the people no protection? We trust.not; or, if they should be so infatuated or so stupid, we hope that the representatives, who are more truly the expo. nents of the popular will, and the more reliable friends and defenders of the rights of the peo- ple, will prevent it. This is a very simple and easy managed af- fair. Let the Roman Catholic Church obtain as much property as it can in a lawful way, and for lawful uses; let all the Protestant Churghes- do the same; but let that property be held by trustees, as it is, and as it should be. Let each. congregation, each academy, each college, have its own trustees, and let them hold, as such, the property which may be obtained for that con. .gregration. academy, or cotlege. This is the true republican and democratic plan of doing the business. This plan was advocated by the Herap a year ago last winter, when a similar movement was made at the instigation of Arch- bishop Hughes. This plan, as we said then, pro- tects the people in their just rights, against a hierarchy; which, ifit be not insolent and grasp- ing now, may soon become such. The people ought to be protected. It is they who have to make the endowments, either by gift or bequest. which are contemplated. Arch_ bishop Hughes would be glad, very naturally to have the people give largely to build up churches and literary institutions; but then the simple hearted creatures must not expect to have anything to do with the control of these churches and institutions, not they. Against this making slaves of the people we protest; and, in their name, we do earnestly protest. And the history of this bill is singular. With- out being memorialized by the Roman Catholic Church, or any part of it, so far as we know, Mr. Taber and nine or ten other Senators are of their own accord disposed—even eager—to do- what they cannot but know to be contrary to: the feelings of the Protestants, who are four- fifths of the entire population of the State, and. contrary even to the expressed wishes of thou- sands of Roman Catholics, who, eighteen months ago, remonstrated earnestly against a similar bill. What does all this indicate but the desire to conciliate and gain over the influence of the Roman Catholic Bishops for political purposes. It is remarkable that in New Granada, a Roman Catholic country, the government has deprived the hierarchy of the very power which Mr. Taber and other Senators wish to confer upon it here. Sardinia is on the point of doing the same thing, or something like it; and well they may, for Rome there owns and con- trols one-fourth part of the lands of the entire kingdom. We shall keep a sharp look out in reference to- Mr. Taber’s bill, and we hope our readers will also. No time is to be lost. If it be necessary, let great public meetings be called instantly, all over the State, to oppose this monstrous movement.” Crystal Palace. THE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SWEDEN. Mort of the countries of Europe contribate specimen: of industrial skill, art, or raw material, to the great ex- hibition about to open at the New York Crystal Palace, Among these we are pleased to notice the contributions from Sweden, Advices have been received from our Charge d’Affairs, Mr. Schroeder, at the court of Stock- holm, to the effect that the Swedish government, aa well ae private enterprise in that country, will contribute liberally to the New York Exhibition. Several articles were embarked from Gottenburg in the brig Superior, to New York, intended for the Exhibie tion, in the latter part of the month of May. Among these were come ancient Swedivh books, of great value, on account of their rarity and antiquity. They are sent by a Swedish binder, ase spec'men of the skili of Sweden in that department of industry. A variety of other ar- ticles were aleo sent in the Superior, including specimens of candles, an article in which the manufactories of Sweden have attained a very high degree of perfection. The advices received from Mr. Schroeder repre-ent the Swedish goverment as very well disposed to assist con- tributions to the exhibition. An effort has been made to obtain some specimens of the famous Elfdabl porphyry sculpture; but owing to the iliness of the King during the winter no positive anawer has been received, and we must be satisfied with a mere promise, and the anticipation of looh ing upon these works of Swedish art and ingenuity. The asrociation of iron proprietors of Sweden, known ae the Jern-Kontor, have made arrangements to send a fine collection of mineral proc ucts, both raw and manu- factured, reprerenting the resources and industrial skilt of Sweden in this department of industry. A commis- sioner was also appointed by the association, but the ill- ness of the gentleman named to fill that place, (Mr. Lo- gerheilm,) he will be prevented from attending. Recent advices from Sweden, however, assure us that the soclety above mentioned will contribute some very handsome and valuable specimens of the mineral wealth and manufac- ‘tures of that kingéom to the New York exhibition, Talk on 'Chenge. ‘There was rather a thio attendonse of merchants yes- tercay, owing in part to the heat of the weather, and in part to the expectation of receiving later foreign news soon by the way of Halifax, Cotton sold to the extent of 1,300 bales, at unchanged prices. There was no alteration to notice in breadstulls or provisions. ‘The difficulty of procuring a suitable building for the Assay Office was eaid to be the chief cause of delty in its carly establishment, This was not to be wondered at in the present state of rects down town, There are very few places which tenants wowld feel dispored co abandon, on favorable terms, for the use of the government, The best time to have procured a suitable building would have been sbout the first of May. At present it would ve impossible, as far as Wall street and its vicinity was concerned, to do so, unless tenants were bought out. ‘The office was much needed, sud it was hoped the diff- culty referred to would be obviate! in time to enable the office to go into operation about the first of July, or ag soon as possible thereafter, Merchants engaged in the Canadian trade complained of the Custom House regulations, which, they said, had been recently adopted, compelling them, on receiving. cargoes of Canadian flour, designed for immediate export, to convert the barges containing it into government warg-