The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1853, Page 4

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Last evening a congratulatory mecting was held by the national democrats of this city, at Metropoli- tan Hall, to rejoice over the result of the late elec- tion. The meeting was addressed by Commodore Btockton, F. B. Cutting, Mr. Carrigan, of Philadel- phia; General Walbridge, member of Congress for ‘the Third district; and Mr. Henry Foster, of Oneida @ounty, in this State. The meeting was very large, and most enthusiastic. A very full report is given. To-day the annual Thanksgiving Festival will be eelebrated in twenty three of the States of this Dnion. We give on our first page the substance of athe proclamations of the Governors of thoze States; but it is only in the old Bay State, where the custom ‘eriginated, that the Executive comes fully up to the mark in this line of literature. Doubtless, this “‘pe- eculiar institutioa” will be celebrated this year as wsual, and in the good old Paritan style. Whole hecatombs of fat tarkeys, and such ‘‘small deer, will be impaled upon spits, and innumerable chic! ens, and things of that sort, will go the way of al! fowls. The American eagle is a gallant bird—he has done our Fourth of July orators good service for the past seventy-eigat years; but today the American tarkey will reign supreme in all—bosoms. Let every: thing be done in order and in moderation; for the Maine law has yet to be passed. Our despatches from Washington give the latest and most reliable information from the Capital. It 38 Teported that Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, will be the administration candidate for Speaker of the House. The forthcoming report of the Postmaster General will show that the present rates of postege have not met the outlay, owing to the extortionate @emands of the raiJroad companies; but the Depart. ment will not recommend any alteration, leaving the whole subject in the hands of Congr The Regents of the Smithsonian Institate have made arrangements for an attractive series of lectures the easning win‘er. Senator Gwin devies being favorable to the New York Pac'fic Railroad bubble. Our readers are re- ferred to the letters of our corresponden‘s ia another part of today’s paper. We have our files of papers and letters by the Union, from Rio Janciro, dited to the 17th of Oc- tober, and from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo to the 24 and 4th of the same month. The Hon. Robert C. Schenck, late United States Minister as the court of Brazil, has returned in the Union. The Emperor expressed himself in very flatterin terms to Mr. Schenck upon the results of his mi Bion, and at the same time received his au Mr. Trousdale, very graciously. Mr. Schenck immediately proceed to W: submit to the government his report rm recent treaties concluded with the Argentine Con- federation relative to the free navigation ot the ri e la Plata. The ConstitaentCongress of the A Confederation was still in session at Sacta Fe. Buenos Ayres was not represented refaced to accept the resiguation Provisional Director. It was thought that Urquiga would be elected President upon the 20th of this month—the day fixed for that important election. ‘The treaties with the United States had been uns- nimously approved of by the Congress. Monte- Video was peaceable; the fever had entirely disap- peared, and the coffee market was still high. Captain Downing, commander of the American squadron on the coast of Brazil, has written a letter in vindication of the conduct of Commodore Coe, who, it will be recollected, was charged with dis honorably surrendering the fleet underhis command then blockading Buenos Ayres—to the enemy. We give the letter elsewhere. fn the trial of John Doseher for the murder of Patrick McNulty, which was concluded in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, the jury rendered a verdict of “Not guilty—justifiable hamivide.” The revenue cutter Jefferson Davis Charleston yesterday dismasted. The steamship America sailed ‘rom Boston for Liverpool yesterday, with sixty-six passengers’ cod nearly half a million of specie. We are momentarily expecting the arrival of news from Europe, and also from California. The new schooner Sovereign of the Seas, with a Cargo of pig iron, coal, and groceries, weat ashore ona reef near Beaver Island, Lake Erie, and will probably prove a total loss. The cargo was insured in the Sun Mutual Insurance Company of this city. For want of space we are compelled to omit the Jeeture, which we have in type, of Mr. W. W. An- @ereon, on the “ Life and Writings of Burns,” and nto later also that of Rev. Henry Giles on “ Books.’’ For the Same reasons the publication of the proceedings of the Hudscn County (N. J.) Bible Soc! is post poned. The thirtieth abniversary of the Hebrew Bene- volent Society took place last evening, at the Chi- nese Assembly Roome. We shall give a fall report to morrow. On dur inside pages may be found the detal the latest news from Mexico: interesting letters from Arkansas and Missouri, Court Reports, Theatri- cal and Musical, Mining, Commercial, and Monetary Intelligaece, &c., Ke. In the classification of members of Congress in yesterday's paper, Mr. Oliver, of the Yates district, ‘was put down asa iree soiler. This was incorrect Judge Oliver is an out-and-out national democrat. The Court of General Sessions adjourned yester- @ay for the term, after having disposed of some two hhandred cases. The greater part of yesterday was occupied by the court in passing sentence on the warious offenders who had been tried avd found guilty of the charges for which they were indicted. ‘These offences comprised the various orders of crime known to our criminal lay-—manglaoghter, highway of robbery, burglary, iarcepy, fergery, &» Levi Weeks, a young man, found guilty ot highway rob- bery, committe) in Third ‘av nue, was sentenced by the court to ten years imprisonment in the State | prison, being the minimauan panishment awarded by | the statute. It dees appear strangely anomalous that a criminal, uwleniably gailtyof wurder, and un- der aggravated <ircumstanves, should escape with | the comparatively trivial punishment of two or three years imprisonment, as we have seen a few days since in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and that oue whose offence was certainly of a lighter grade should ineur suck an unequally severe sentence. However, #ech is but another instance of the glorious uncer- tainty of the law. Assistant Aldermen Baker and McConkey resumed the investigation of the charges made against Ohief Engineer Carson yesterday afternoon. Mr. Abra- ham Van Ness was recalled, and Mr. MeGowan con- tinued his crose-examination, which was not cou- cluded when the committee adjourned the further heariug to Monday next, at 3 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Foster delivered his second lecture on geological agencies, causes of changes and meaus of observation, in the Methodist Episcopal church in Greene street, yesterday evening, and illustrated his remarks by charts and symbols. The audience was not numerous, but those present seemed to be great- ly entertained by the scientitic research of the reve- rend gentleman. The Board of Assistant Aldermen last evening concurred with the Board of Aldermen in appro- priating the old tea room to the use of Mr. Valen- tine, Clerk of the Common Council, for businezs pur- poses; also, in the appropriation of $7,650 for the manufacture of five additional fire engines, to be aided to the present force. The Meeting of Congress-Duties of New Members. A few days hence Congress will again be as- sembled at the Capitol. Two-thirds of its mem- bers will make their début in Congressional life. Many of them, we doubt not, will go to Congress full of bright hopes and honest inten- tions. Not a few will resolve to postpone con- siderations of private ambition to the great duty of serving their country well and truly. Some will resolutely determine to set their faces against the system of corruption which the last few years have naturalized at Wash- ington. Many will congratulate themselves on their earnest desire to perform the business set before them conscientiously, and to op- pose waste of time in fruitless, point- less debate. There will be others, of course, who will go to Washington with mouths and pockets alike gaping--who will in- rist upon occupying whole days in uttering rhodomontade, for no earthly purpose ex- cept to see their names in the newspapers—-who will place their votes in the auctioneer’s hands, to be knocked down to the highest bidder; to whom the good of the country, the national honor, and the interests of their constituents, will be matters of equal indifference ; and who, like the indisereet gentleman whose letter went the rounds of the papers a short while since, will he grateful for their election, solely because it enables them to make so many thousand dol- lars d month. To this latter class, we have nothing to say. The most scathing censure would be lost upon them. They are hardened to contumely, and in every sense beneath no- tice. It is to the former category---the men whose intentions are as yet pure, whose motives are honest and conduct would be upright---that a few remarks on their approach- ing duties And in the first place, we would earnestly warn them against pledging themselves to be bound by the decisions of caucus meetings. It is perhaps necessary in certain cases that private assemblages of members should be held, in order toensnre unity of section among men of like minds; but unanimity gained at the cost of pri- vate freedom of action is really not a gain, but a loss, to the State. No member has a right to make away with his own opinion, or to hand over his conscience to the keeping of others. He issent to Congress to take counsel on the pub- lie business, and is bound by his duty to his coa- stituents to keep himself free to oppose or sup port any measure which he may deem injurious or salutary. It is no excuse for him to say, in defence of a vote which his conscience | disapproves, that he had agreed to fol- | low the bidding of others. He was not elected for any such purpose. It was, in fact. because he was deemed a man of suflicient sense and discretion to be able to judge for himself, that he was sent to Congress. therefore trust that all the new members. should they think fit to attend caucus meetings, will still retain their indefeasible right of pri- yate judgment, and will not hesitate to oppose the measures determined on in caucus, should they deem them detrimental to the real welfare ofthe country. They will do well to follow the example that will be set thém in this respect by Mr. Cutting, who goes to Congress “a free man. with his tongue unfettered, able to speak | of men and things in such terms and sense they deserv At the opening of Congress, the new members will find themselves at sea, without buoy or landmark. It will be quite impossible to at- tach any definite signification to the old party names. We dc any one coal define the words ‘“whig’ or “democrat” at the present | day. Both party appellations have assumed so wide a signification as w trench materially on each other: and moreover, the splits in both are now so vast that the parent faction is over- whelmed and lost sight of in its children, Mem- bers will do well to forget all the old party lines, and to vote as gh no euch bodies as whige and democrats had ever existed. They cannot, in fact, question that conld ¢ two old factions, Whigs and der not help overleaping the barr mingling tumultuonsly te r. da first few days of the . As soon order is restored, members will be found to have silently ranged themselves two o; site factions—the one supporting, the other op- posing the administration. They may assume what names they please: but practically. one will be the Cabinet party, and the other the opposition party. Into one or other of these, all members who do not wish to nentralize thei: own influence will be compelled sooner, or later, tofall. It therefore, of the highest impor- tance that the points of principle that will con- stitute the issne between these two parti should be clearly laid down and thoroughly un- lerstood. They can be inferred from a very brief state- ment of facts. The true position of the Cabi- net must be evolved not from the eaertions of is es ite members, but from its acts. By those acts it must he judged. What are they? it has uniformly acted on the principle that the public offices were the legitimate reward of po- litical services rendered to the party during the election, and has always regarded personal choracter and fitness as secondary and insigni- ficant qualifications for office. It has assumed that a code of rules adopted by a parcel of spoils seekers at Baltimore, and styled the Bal- timore platform, was the canse of Pierce's triumph, and ought to be the guide of his Cabinet; totally forgetting thas his success was due to the moral sentiment of the people on the Comprom'se question, and that that, and that only should be the corner stone of his policy. thas appointed to office freesoilers andabolition- ists, in defiance of principle, pledges and patriot- ism. It has departed from the universal practice of its predecessors, overstepped its own powers, and violated the rights of the States, by interfer- ing openly in State elections. This it has done in four cases. In three out of the four, its inter- ference has been on behalf of traitors. In New York it took part with the Van Buren free soil- ers against the friends of the Union. In Mis- sissippi, it procured the defeat of Gov. Foote, one ol the fathers of the Compromise, and threw the State into the hands of the State rights an- ti-Compromise men. In Georgia, it interfered with a like aim anda like result. It succeeded _in bringing about the rejection of Cobb, and the election of men pledged to McDonald, late Pre- sident of the Nashville Disunion convention, and once secessionist candidate for Governor. The members of Congress who approve these acts and this policy will constitute the Cabinet party. Those who recognise ahigher motive in politics than a hunger for prey—who think that foreign ministers should be selected for their experience, wisdom, and talent—who can- not sanciion the rewarding of avowed foes to the Union—who adhere to the old doctrine for- bidding the federal government to interfere in State elections—.who set their faces alike against Northern abolitionists and Southern secessionists—will comprise the congressional opposition. There is no difficulty in choosing between the two. The first few days of the session will not probably be marked by any event of political significance. It is impossible to predicate any- thing with certainty on the subject of the Speakership. All the candidates in the field belong to the same party, and it is very difi- cult to estimate the chances of each. Personal friendships will probably sway a majority of the votes. A Speaker elected, one of the first questions that will come up will probably be the recent interference of the Cabinet in the State elections. On this debate the position of members will be defined. We shall then be enabled to see how many men are willing to sacrifice the rights of the States from which they come, and how many, faithful to the spirit of the constitution and the traditions of our ancestors, will boldly stand forth and charac- terise the tyranny recently exercised in New York, Massachusetts, Mississippi, aad Georgia, in the terms it deserves. By this time every man will be known. Mr. Foryry anp THE Cierxsnrp.—Letters from Washington positively state that Mr. For- ney will obtain the post of Clerk of the House of Representatives. We cannot believe it; nor shall we cease to proclaim that both thie ramor and that which imputes to the President habits of intimacy with Forney, are vile fabrications, until the fact of his installation proves that we are in the wrong. We are not personally opposed to Mr. For- ney. We believe that he isan amiable mau in private life, enjoying a moderate share of good- will from his fellows. We are given to uader- stand that he is well fitted to discharge the duties of Clerk, and have no reason to doubt the fact. But there are in this matter higher con- siderations than thoughts of private amiability, or even capacity for public station, The honor of the American people is entitled to be con- sidered inall the acts of government. It should, in fact, outweigh every other consideration; and where it stands alone opposed to the claims of official " experience, private amiability, aconvivial turn of mind. and other social r commendations, those who traly love their country*##euld not hesitate an instant in obey- hg its dictates. This doctrine is not the less true kecause it has been of late years disre- garded Bot) asbington and in other parts of the cou: “General Pierce is not exone- rated from the obligations it imposes, because men who have been convicted of grievous offences against morality and honor have still continued to maintain a certain position in po- litical society. On the cotitrany, the very fact that the moral tone of pol circles has de- generated, imperatively ies some ener- getic action on his part, to restore our national character toits former standing. The disregard | paid to the moral principle by the political lead- ersat Washington, is fast breeding a general contempt for our government among respect- able men. Should it continue to prevail, politicians must expect to be excluded from the society of men of honor ; and, whatever talent they may possess, they must look forward boldly to be shunned, as individuals en- gaged in a disreputable calling. Nor is the knowledge of the disgrace confined to our own country. Foreigners as well as Americans are eye-witnesses of the indifference with which moral turpitude is regarded in our political cir- cles, and soon learn to consider the traitasa national characteristic. They do not distin- guish between the cliques who monopolise news- papers and public ollices, and the great mass ot citizens who take no part in politics ; and see- ing that in the former the m graceful con- duct involves neither moral reprobation nor, material injury. they conclude, naturatly enough, that there isa general laxity of pria- ciple and indiffe toright and ng among the people at large. This inference is idly gaining grownd abroad. A stain is being fast. encd on our character as one of the great fomily of nations, and if means are not taken to correct the impre indelibly fixed upon us for ai] time. We know of nothing that would be more likely to strengthen the unfavorable opinion we have mentioned than Mr. Forney’s appoint- ment as Clerk. The President cannot be un- aware of his antecedents. Ife cannot bat know—what everybody else knows—that this man Forney tried to ruin a lady’s character, by endeayoriug to suborn a third party to extort from an actor an admission, while in liquor, that he had been her paramour— that he did this for another man—and that the way in which he did it will leave a strong impression on most people’s minds that he did not undertake the vile task from motives of disinterested friendship. Lest these matters should have escaped the President’s memory, we again republish an extract from Mr, For- ney’s letter to George Roberts, which was put in as evidence on the Forrest trim:— On this evidence, with the other confirmatory proofs, le (Forsest) intends applying to our Legisiature for a divorce. but you are now in a position tener manner he never will forge. The sions of past errors, it will be | you to him asa safe, steady, and in- ‘tellij friend, ano ‘he will never forge whatewr do for him, in this, to him, most vital matter. He su ‘tnstituia intimate relations with him, and either in your or in company, to acimit, as a thing to be proud of, iis connection with Mrs. F. He is fond of a glass, and possibly, in a convivial mood, mig ht become ecmmunicative. No harm will eome to him; he is game too small for Forrest, and ary admission he may make may be tmportant only as aiding an injured man ia getting relieved from a hateful bond. Can you manage this thing, my friend? It will require ekill and caution, and if successful will warmly endear you to Forrest. He ix nearly greny at the idee of being placed in hls present sition. but he will spend half he is worth to be relieved rom it. Thia matter mnst be kept secret. Above all, do not pame me in connection with it, Excuse me for troubling you in regard ‘oit. My ardent attschment to garioas, forrest must be my exeuse. Now, won't you lp to relieve him ? It would help in the matter, probably, to know that John Green, the actor, now in New Orleans, is the warm friend of Forrest. and may know Jamieson well. You can use your own discretion in letting him know the facts, and inveke his aid. Does any well informed man believe for a moment that ifa public officer in England or France had written such a letter, and it had been published, he could have retained his office for a month? Why, in a week the crush- ing weight of public odium would have forced him to resign, and hide himself in some obscure retreat, where contemptuous curses could not reach him. And as to supposing that the British House of Commons or the French Assembly could, under any circumstances, elect to a post of honor or trust an individual who had written such a letter as theabove, the idea is utterly preposterous. Sucha man would have been scouted from society from one end of the coun- try to the other; and a ministry that would have ventured to protect him would have run some risk of sharing his fate. For in England to-day, as it was in France before the Empire, custom requires that a-can- didate for popular faver or public honors should not only be well suited to discharge the duties of his post. but should possess, in all re- spects, an unblemished private character. The highest talents have invariably failed to redeem the lack of the latter requisite. It is asserted that the contrary is the case in Washington. We doubt, without directly denying the asser- tion. We shall decide finally on its truth or falsehood when Forney’s case is disposed of. ' It will serve admirably to test whether or no there be any such thing as regard for moral principle in the capital of the United States. Prorosep Reception or Joun Mircuen, Tue Inwu Exire.—We were presented yesterday with a requisition, signed by a number of poli- tieians throughout the city, and headed by the Mayor, proposing a grand demonstration on the arrival of John Mitchel, the Irish exile, in this city, which is expected to take place a few days hence. If the signatures to that requisition had been composed of respectable persons in private life—honest mechanics, hard-working people, Catholics or Protestants—we should certainly have placed our name among them ; but we can- not consent to have our name disgraced by being placed in a list of the mere politicians of the day—a class of citizens whom we consider to be one of the greatest curses to American so- ciety that canexist. Yet we are in favor of a powerful demonstration for the reception of Jobn Mitchel, as we were in favor of a similar reception to Kossuth, to Meagher, and to other exiles who may occasionally honor us with their presence. It is a very natural sentiment in the American people to feel a sympathy to- wards the popular exiles of other lands. We hope, however, that the respect wuich the peo- ple of this city purpose to pay Jobn Mitchel will not turn his head, as it did that of Kossuth, but rather that it may have the same sober and sensible efivct upon him which we are glad to have observed has always marked the modest career of Thomas Francis Meagher. Loud pro- fessions of democracy and terrible enunciations of sympathy are all very well at certain excite- able periods; but good practical common sense will stand the test of all weathers and all change of public feeling. TrErorarisM—Its Procre Tt is generally’ conceded that the recent elections in New York, Maryland, and Wisconsin, have exhibited a tri- umph in teetotalism. That is to say, amid the confusion of parties in all these States, a majo- rity of both branches of the several legislatures have been elec'ed favorable to the establish- ment of a Maise law, or teetotalism, or tempe- rance. If such are the results of the election, we trust that the several legislatures will pro- ceed at once to pass the measures in question, in order to test their practicability and efficacy, as a social and moral system, in the several Siates mentioned. The prevalence of the tecto- tal cause during the last fewyears, is somewhat remarkable, Undoubtedly there has been, during the last twenty years, a great jncrease of in- temperance in various parts of the Northern States; more, we believe, than in the Southern States. Any radical change that may decrease intemperance, and introduce better habits, would be hailed as something desirable. But of all other places in want of temperance habits, we think that Washington is the worst; and we trust and hope that President Pierce will not overlook the teetotal cause in the several recom- mendations he may put into his message at the opening of the session of Congress. i Curap Eprrors.— Senator Prooks intimates in his amiable way, that George Law could have purchased both the editors of the Evening Post —poet and politician alike--for the sum of ene hundred dollars, but that he did not think the goods, inthe present state of the newspaper market, were worth the money. Perhaps Se- nator Brooks is not far wrong. George Law is a shrewd business man. He knows the value of money, and. no doubt, the price ot editors. If a Lundred dollars he more than the worth of two such distinguished journalists. at the pre- sent era, with all the influx of California and Australia gold,it would seem that editors are the only article that bas not been enhanced 1n value by the recent discovery, and the production of the precious metals, Tur Women at it Acat.—The famous race of human beings who sometimes wear the pet- ticoat, but oftener sport the breeches, called the women’s rights people, intend to holda convention at Rochester. in this State. on the 80th instant. All the great leaders of the cause have signed a document and conyoked the aesembly. They propose to examine again the whole subject of woman’s rights and woman’s wrongs, and the slavery which women have to submit to by the present system of society. They intend to apply to the Legislature next peselon for some action on the part of that body, in the way of granting their political rights. Board of County Canvassers, The board met yesterday at 12 o'clock. Alderman Compron took the chair, and eigat members answered to their names, Alderman Frisiey canvassed the State and County tick- ete of thi inth werd. The Seoond and Third wards wera alro carvassed by their rerpective representatives were noerrors discovered in the returns from either the above wa ds. Alderman Courrox moved that when tre Board adjourn, the adjournment should be to 11 o’clock on Thursday, Alderman StvRTEvANT ht that ge day should be observed; but the law requiring this body te meet from day to day, it was agreed to meet on Thursday at 11 e’clock A. M. Motion, the Board a¢journed. 9 of Barton’s Theatre. vraggenty | _ Thé first representation of Mr. Dion Bourcloault’s new comedy of ‘The Fox Hunt,” cr ‘Don Quixote the Se- cond,” took place last evening at this house. It was ® decided success, which was mainly owing to the spirited dialogue and the clever bon mots distributed throughout the piece. The plot is neither striking nor original. Taura St. Leger, ® romantic young lady, daughter of a Loncon Croesus, (a fresh edition of Dombey,) falls in love with an actor named Haughty. The father, anxious to break off an attachment so galling to his pride, visits Haughty, confesses his design, and throws himself on his mercy. The actor happens to be married and separated from his wife; he has, therefore, but few objections to offer, and consents to visit St. Leger and try to cure the lady of her pasion. He is further strengthened in this purpose by the knowledge that an intimate friend of his —Capt. Reckless, of the dragoons—is really in love with Laura. Searcely bas he entered St. Leger’s drawing- room when he meets—his wife—Mre, Haughty; and a rather embarrassing scene occurs between the two, Meanwhile, Laura has two other lovers on hand. One isa sort of a Chatband—and a very fair copy in some respects —a hypocritical Tartuffe, who has committed all sorts of crimes uncer the name of Silas Croker, and now seeks a competency with the hand of Miss Laura, under the re- ,apectable cognomen of Twining. The ether is the famous Captain Reckless, who, to use his own words, ‘‘has not a guinea in the world—never was out of debt im his life—is going to the devil as fast as the fair sex can carry him, and is altogether the last man in the world that Miss Laura should think of.” Strange to say, both are pursued by the Sheriff's officers—the latter for debt, on a tclersbly clear case of assumpsit—the former for divers crimes, but unfortunately with evidence calculated to ensure a con- vietion. William Links, Junior, of the Bow street police, has, however, sworn to “trap” him; though, as may be seen from the following extract, he is by no means conf dent of success:— {loauitur)—Trap Silas Croker! You doz"t In & worry emrly ther! Five: ven wyer's clerk in Ozford. His first step fs master’s wife, taking with him papars of wally, and amongst ‘em those here cocumeots 0’ youra, My fatlicr, a Bow strect runner, was laid onto him. After three months d, and I’ve got so fond ox him that I must I argutied it, sir, but I seon found 4 Traw he pined for Croker. So I took his sidiwation, and off he started for America arter tho hob- Ject of his affections. Tw» years went by and no news comed; ‘when ono mornin’ I gets # newspaper, containing this here Advertigement:—"Died, at Little. Rock, Arkansas, Willian Link, Senior, of Bow’ street, Lunnon, sincerely’ regrotted by his bereaved friend, Silas’ Croker, by whom s handsome monument recording his m: has been raised to his memory.” Well, sir, | viped avaya tear, and opened the Guv’ncris will, "To show you the troo and constant heart that beat in that old man’s buzzem, what do you think he left me for a legacy——Silas Croker. It so happens, however, that Croker, alias Twining, is at this moment keeper of a wild Indian, whom he exhibits, by way of stimulating the charity of the benevolent and pressing upon them the necessity of exertions for the son- version of the heathen. By some means, Link contrives toassume the costume and take the place of the Indian, and thus insinuates bimeelf into the confidence of Croker. The latter, hearing that St. Leger has £50,000 in his study, sets fire to the house, and makes away with the money, which he ¢neloses in a pocketbook, and, as he fancies, drops in a well, tied toastick. We are totally at 8 lors to explain how or why Link happens at that iden- tical moment to be in the well. But he is there, the pocketbook falls om his nose, and he secures it, Meanwhile the love threads are satisfacto ily unwound. Haughty and his wife have become reconciled, Laura’s romantic heart has been touched by the heroic sacrifices of Captain Reckless, who assumes the disguise of a lackey tobexear her. Old Mr. St, Leger is utterly disgusted at his daughter’s penchant for this second adventurer, when the fire takes place. His house is destroyed, and worse than all, all his fortune—£50,0¢0—disappeara, or is con- sugped in the fire. He isa ruined man. Mabel Haughty tries to console him. Haughty proffers aid: even his petulent daughter Laura flies to his knees and promises duty and afection; but St. Leger, after quoting Dombey, without acknowledgment, for a few instants, is about to relapse into despondene ,.when Link pops his head out of the well. He has the Jeint, and will remedy all, when Croker returns for his pocket book. Link seizes him. But Tartuffe-Chatband is not so easily caught. He accuses Link of being the thief, and calls on him to produce the pocketbook as evidence. St-ange tosay, however. our clerical friend, in his agitation, has mistaken one pocketbook for another, and dropped the wrong one into the well. He is thus canght in his own trap, and carried off by the triumphant Link. Captain Reckless wasries laura, andthe play ends as all such plays should. i a bave alluded in the course of the above sketch to the resemblance botween some of the characters and the berees of wellknown novels. But we have yet a more pissing plagiarism to notice, ‘The story of Haughty and a is teken from tz6 life of a well knowa Eaglish actor, whore name i: is perhaps unnecessary to men- tion.” It was apprepriated by a Trench vau teviliist M. Depnery, we believe—and wrought up comedy, which was preduced et Paris some eizuteea montlis ago, under the title of * Sallivan.”’ “The coinei- cence is unfortunate. Mr. Bourcicault would have over- come the impression it is calculated to produce more readily had Le taken measures to prevent his name being mentioned on the play bills as the author of * Don Used Up,” &e., which, as everyone kr ows were writtes by F: athors. We are gratefal to Mr. Bourcieault fer e-ming here to produce his plays: bat we entreat of him not to remind us too painfu'ly of our ignorance, by allowing such statements to be printed on the bills of his piece. * ‘The dialogue, as we said, is very spirited. We cannot LS better than’ reproduce the following ecene as a samn- le — Per Lrcrn=T have taken the liberty of ealling—s—upon Mordant, without the ceremony of an introduition, ~from mo to vou. o Certain ccleb.ity., You beat a high character for honor, generosity and goodness; an said that had your talente—1—been ¢irected to more respectable objects—a— You would have been an ornament to socisty. Morpaxt—Wae it to regret that you could not honor m> With your acquaintance, that you have favored me with this visit? Sr Leoen—I had another object. Mont Your t ir, isno doubt valuable? Sr, Lecer—How much may you make ina year by your An independence. Good svoning. Pardon the abruptnoss of my question. What A ynlgar person! (Alous.) with you! eniert to you, it would oblige ma. eard that, in America, you actord f you wil f ly stars for ill give you a thousand poun ou the manazer of a theatr, —Do 1 look ike anything of th ing Shout theatres. I never enter such p: Tpubl’c amusements, jalonpase—Xou iudulss perhaps in private theatricals at pore! Sr. Leger—What do you moan, Mr. Mo Monpawt—I moan, sir, thst porse our at aro general cict y—soleran Lufi 7 Worl) wich we ria delight 6! the mouth of cent, avd to ring wnwereifully tho falee cola Of by pocriay. But to business—Hovw ean Leerve you? £4, Lyi R—Why do you think thet the chjset of my ¥ foe? Mokpan If not br. Lecrn—1 hay mak lar, ¢ snms of mo: that country 1 Monpas deprecate ct to deaptse 40 of s0- of ty ead ons otore tl ¥ to © when ® man of your feelings seoks him to dinner. nge map, Mr. Mordant. Monpant—Vory, sir! I’m en bonést one Sr Lxoua—I believe it, and T will implicitly throy self on your honcr, generesity, and goodness, tyour cariiest convenicnce, if you please, ir. Morjant, did you ever read the fable of mouse! ina net was of the vermin, hte Lad aspiring to ¥ marriage the wn > in the relative up iv her, « towhoml oan leay Monpanv=You can there ore caloulate your feolings to a penny, Excellent ben mots abound throughont, and drew own tho house constantly last eveuing, Woe have seldom beard a more amusing comedy Theacting was excellent. Barton wag inimitable as Lirk. Fisher, could hy» but get rid of Be © Costigan” ace would be ali that one could wish. Jordan made no faults, Johnson did the conventional Tartuffe very creditably. Finaliy, the ladies, Miss Robertson and Miw Raynond, expecially the former, earn:d the applause they received, After the curtain fell, Mr, Burton came forward ‘and made a rperch, in which he alluded to the fact of his having produced upwards of a hundred plays from native American authors, and informed the audience that he had rpontaneously paid Mr. Bourcicault tyice the amount he bad arked for bis play. Portrait or Jou Mircugt wy Mr, Bravy.—The agont of Mr, Brady at San Francieco,has sent op, by the last stcam- er, © daguerreotype of John Mitchel, taken at that city, from which Mr, Brady, with his usval spirit, ts about to publisiva lithograph portrait. It is now in the hands of the artist, and willbe out by the time Mr. Mitchel is here. We have seen the daguerreotype, which !s of a highly intellectual cast, and at the same time combining An expression of great firmness, We are assured by those who have ceen the original that it is a good likeness, It therefore, be safely caloulated that a first rate por- trait will be prodnced. Mr. Brady standsat the head of the profession as a dagnerrootypist, and the community are incedted to him for very valuable historical portraits, which would have been lost to the public but for his en- terpriee, Calhoun, Scott, Taylor, Fenimore Cooper, Bucharan, Polk, Pierce, and a host of others, have sat for him, From his daguerreotype of Calhoun the first artists of Europe and this country have produced fine portraits in oil painting. These daguerreotypes, which may be seen at his gallery, speak for themaelves—the superior character and quality of his likenesses have been recognizod by the dest judges, Am exce'lent portrajt of John Mitehel may therefore be anticipated News from South America. SIX DAYS LATER FHOM RIO JANEIRO AND THE AR~ GENTINE RMPUBLIC—ARRIVAL OF THB HON. MR. SCHENCK, The clipper ships Union, Capt. B, Buxton,fand Seaman's Bride, Capt. Mayo, arrived Inst night from Rio Janeiro, By them we have received files of the Jornal do Comu- cio, and letters, to the 17th Ostober, and from Buenoe Ayres and Montevideo to the 2d and 4th of that mcnth. The Hon. Robt. C, Schenck, late American Minister Plent~ potentiary to Brazil, came home inthe Uniom, The many political ané personal friends of Mr. 8. will be pleased to hear of his return safely and in good health to his native lJexd. We understand that Mr. 8. will proosed to Wash- ington in a few days, to make report and explanations to the Presi¢ent and Secretary of State, in relation to the important treaties he has sssisted to conclude with the: Argentine Confederation, securing perpetually the free navigation of the River de la Plata and its great tributaries and against wliich Buenos Ayres has protested. Mr. John Hitchcock, of Newcastle, Me., late first officer, of the ship feaman’s Bride, died on the passage, The Jornal do Comercio, of the 17th October, contains ‘an official account of the ceremonies at the Imperial Pax lace of San Cris‘oval, on tue occasion of our late Minister, Mr. Schenck, taking leave of the court, and the presenta- tion of Mr, Trousdale, the new Minister of the United States, which took place on the 8th ult, The Emperor replies to the two gentlemen are of very imperial brevity. To Mr, Schenck he eaid :— It affords me great pleasure to expreas to you the high appreciation which I have always eate: of tae man- ner in which you have borne yourself during your mission. In answer to Mr. Trousdale, His Majesty said :— I thank much my good friend the President of the Unite¢ Stater, for this new proof of his friendship; and I hope Mr. Trousdale, that your wiksion will contribute as mud) as that of your predecessor has done to strengthen mor and more the relations of good understanding which ha: pily exiet between our two count Senhor Leak the Brazilian Charge d’Affaires to Par gusy, had arrived at Rio on the 15th October, having b@ ordered off by the President of Paraguay, on account! alleged insulting remarks made by him.about that fr¢- tionary. It was not known vhat course the Braziliag0- vernment would take in reference to this quarrel, When the Union sailed, coffee at Rio Janeiro wstlli high, Washed, 61400; superior, 5100 to 5j2/i first - good, 4/900 a 5/600; first regular, 4|700 a 4/80/ second good, 4/500 a 4600; recond ordinary, 4/209 a 4/00. ‘The fever had entirely disappeared, there ot having been a case in the city or harbor for three veks before the Union sailed and but little sickness of ar sort. Our advices from the Argentine Conteder-ion are that the Constituent Congress of the other thirtet provinces— exclusive of Buenos Ayres, which still stad8 out alone—~ was still in session at Santa Fe. They hd refused to ac- cept the resignation of Gen. Urquiza as’rovisional Direc- tor. The election for President and V# President under the new constitution was appointed ¢ take place on the 20th of this mgnth. It was said Urqias would undoubt- edly be elected President, and probply either Senor Caz milloz Senor Zuvaria Vice President Senor Camill was one of the plengotentiaries appointed by Urquiza to conclude the treaties for the free naviga- tion of the rivers; Zuvsria is the President of the Con- stituent Congress. ‘The Congress of tho thirteen provincis bad unani- mously approved the treaties with the Unitd States made by Urquiza. ‘The seat of the confederation has been @tablished for — the present at Parana, which is in the proince of Entre Rios, on the river, opposite Senta Fe. All was quiet at Montevideo, under the previsional gov- ernment established by Gen. Pacheco and hs associates; but President Giro, who had been deposed was still in the harbor, ina French men of-war, oa bard of which he had sought refuge at the revolution in Aigust. City Intelligence. New York Bmx sociery.—lt was M. Rissell Thayer, Esq., of Philagelpbia, who delivered one of ‘he addresvwt before the New York Bible Society on Monlay evenisg. ‘The name of the speaker was incorrectly gvem by our reporter. The students of the Free Academy will play a match at cricket. on the Red Heuse ground, Harlem, on Friday, if the weather permits ‘Tue Crystar PaLace,—We understand this establish. ment will be kept opeu for visiters today. Hu recs whose business wil rot allow them cnter thie place at any other time, will take advantage of this holi- day to pay their respects to this great collertion of the world’s industry, Police Intelligence. THE ALLEGED FORGED D&arT CASE ON THE HAMIL TON EXCHANGE BANK. Before Justice Stuart, Yestercsy tho argument of counsel in the caso of Daniel W. Van Aoruam J’. W. Sawin, and John W. Abell, jointly charged with ‘randulently mating a draft, pur- porting to be mad» by the cashier of the Hamilton Ex- change Bank, Hamilton, Mscison county, New York, for the sum of $5,000, which drift was cashiered by the agent of the Branch Bank of Son‘resl, at Brantfo.d, Capads West—the details of which bave already bevn published —was commenced, Mr. Elwards, coansel for the pro: cution, in his argument to the Court, introduced a num- Ler of’ legal authorities in support of his theory for the Cetention of the defendazts on the charge of forgery. Mr. Clinten, in reply. on the partof the defentants, avd more particularly ia betalf of Mr. Abell, contended thet, in the first place, no forgery existed, as ‘he draft in question was null and void upon’ its face, and therafore no chsrge of forgery crn by predicated upon ‘The Hawilton Exchange Bank individual bank, or- gonized under an act eniitled "An ast to anfthorizs the busi- bess of banking, pasted April 13, 1338.” Tho requirements of that act areapplicabl: to this oak, No distinction is made in that a en individtial bankers and ber of persons assoc suffi- ciectly appears from the p through the whole act. Thus the accond * Whenever any pers ir ciation of per: of binking under the provisicns of the act, & ‘That such person of assoeiation of persons ed, defines the king je ection sixt tion provides that the certdente wiv'r9 the operations of discount ion are to ed on, desig- I deposit of uel asso cai e.” ‘That this ses particular city, town, or tion applies to inivi the 3 the! act of matt! it pril Ib, ¢ banking,” d, amendatory there- fou ehall be shall bo banks of it, 9 of banking of said a ers, sinll be located azrcea'y sate, directed to sixteenth ‘section of the act p fore mentioned, axd not ¢ Granies, remeved from Madison to Greone county, dratt in question, then it had no ‘aor place, At was necessary, after ¢ to file a now certificate, and to nd ss is Very material mat . Adra't nom the “Hamilton Exchange Bank, Ham- Madison comnts,’ was of no more legal utility, or, n law was concerned, of no moro the moon. No princi an that the forgery of » writing which would have been vold if genuine—(that is, if the Paper wasmade by the rercon by whom it purports to be made —is not an indictable oitence, (Pee. vs. Hall, 9 Cow., 793) pect of the case, no crime has been committed Within the juriediction ef the Court. ‘The money for tho Grady wes obtsined in Chand. Uy h d, has been. in Canad ovezpoints, tho offence is ¢ baying been guilty of in hiebchalf establishes two Tn any a Wen. 609.) Independent Abell should be dischar criminal intent. ‘The ovid i st, that the draft: second, that he manner iz which Aboli’e ows clearly that ne frand was in- defendant, Abell—he signing th. hem, or knowing what th m signature was tended on th The argument of Mr. Nelson on the part of Van Aor- nain, is yet to be heard, and the Court took a recess until Saturday for tha: purpese A Charge of Grand Levceny.—Oteer Bogart, of the Tenth ward polies, yesterday arrested a young minealle Peter Doyle, charged with ealing geld stad and $92 in money, f om the possession of Alfred R. Hatfiald, of Wil Tams Vurg. Itseems that while ibe complainant was walking through the Bowery, he had his pocket vicked and on the person of the accused the stad and 305 of the stolen money were found. He acknowledged his guilt,and Justice Wood committed hi 0 prison for triv!. Chary 4 Freud om an Emigrant.—Officer Bell, of the Mayor's office, yesterday arres'ed an emigrant boxrdioe house keeper, Samed Patrick Fsgan, residing at No. 115 Greenwich street, on & warrant issued by Jastice Gogart, herein the accured stands charged, on the oa‘h of Sar garet Foley, # poor Irish woman, with defrauding hor Gut of $13, by selling hor » spurious ticket, purporti to secure ber a passage to 3t. Louis, The money was al the woman had, aud she in now under tLe care of thy Com missioners of Emigration, Eagan is not a licensed forwaider, and had ho right to sell genuine tickots, much jess spuiious ones The magistrate held tho avcased to bail in the sum of $500, to answer the charge. ‘A Charge ofEmbezslement.—Oficer Rue, of the lower Pelee Court, yesterday arrested an elderly min named 3 . Fecontly 2 clerk in the cloth gtora of Georgo No. 78 Wiliam strest,. on a charge of { having embezzicd from the store, the ty of his om ployers, twenty one yest patterns and nine yards of ons: simere, valued in all at $5550, It ts also alleged tha? ving the last eighteen months past, appropriated other gvods to @ considerable amount, The accused was takes bolore Justice Bogart, who com: examination, « Somo few yearr ago the accused was doing quitea flourishing basiness on his own account, Atengt to Sto an Ovjicr—A man named Benjamin Corser, while under the iniiuence of Hquor, on Thursday night, at the National thestre, attempted to stab Ser- jeant MeKevney, with aknife, Corser itneems was very Gleorderly in the theatre, and the oflicer, in the perform. ance of his duty, endeavored to restore order, when the « accused drew a dire knife, and tried to stab tho oilicer ‘The aggressor was captured before he had time to ioflict any injury, avd io the morning taken bofore Justice Bogart, who required laitn to find bail in the sum of $300 toanswer the charge, Corser is waid to be a resident of Newark, New Jersey Obituary. Dr. NatHanren T. SoTurniany, @ member elect of the Texas Home of tives, died at the rancho of I. pam from Browneville, on the 27th ult., pl hore Aytia w !