The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1853, Page 4

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Carcus Procecdings at Washington ~The New Piatform of the Cabinet. ‘Yhe vote in caucus on Saturday evening. on Mr. Stagton’s resolations affirming the com- promise measures, éefines the position occupied by the democratic supporters of the Cabinet. They are fully prepared to second the Union in expunging from the Baltimore Platform all those clauses wkich bear any reference to the great’work of Clay, Calhoun, Webster and Cass. Whatever course they may hereafter deem fit to pursue, they are agreed that for the present the compromise must be ignored. Thus gelded, the Baltimore Platform still contains, we pre- same. the doctrine of the party, amd may stil! be regardedas the test of orthodoxy. Such is, at all events, the natural inference from the Jenguage of the Cabinet and the-manifestoes ot ‘ts organs. The fact would heve placed the party ina somewhat anomalous position had the rejection of Mr. Stanton’s motion been the only proceed- ing had in caucus. 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She, like wumerous other vessels overdze at this port, has Probably been detained beyond her time by bolster- ous weather. This will be one of the most busy and exciting days ever witnessei in Washington. The opening of a cession of Congress is invariably the cause of a vast deal of sensation in political circles, but the re- cent extraordinary moyements on the great national chess board—the preference shown by the adminis- tration for free soilers and secessionists over staunch Union men—the open confession of the chief organ that the spirit of the compromises is obsolete and of no further use—the itching of the palms of specula- tors for a fingering of the large amount of money in the treasury, and the scheming for places of trustand emolument by unscrupulous tricksters, have all tended to give the session which commences this day an importance hitherto wholly unapproached. According to our spevial advives considerable indignation was exprezsed among several of the democratic Congressmen yesterday upon ascertaining that they bad been bamboozled with regard to the caucus on Saturday eveniog. It ap- pears that all the arrangements for thwarting any attempt to re-endorse and uphold the compromise measures of 1850, tnd the Baltinore platiorm, or otherwise giving expression and binding the caucus to national principlez, were quietly cut and dried be forehand. It was to upset any movement of this kind that the rules of the House were adopted which require resolutions giving rise to debate to lie over for one day. The re-nomination of Mr. Forney for Clerk scoms to have been particularly obnoxious to many gentlemen—even to some of those who were present at the caucus mee‘ing —and steps were being taken last evening to concentrate the strength of those opposed to Mr. Forney ujon Mr. Meade, for- merly member of Congress from Virginia. Mr, For- ney, being sure of moves to-day, last night gave a grand biow-ovt to his friendsa—among them, Messrs. Edwin Forrest, 2. B. Hart, and Edwin Croswell. Bhonld the Honse sacceed in organizing for the transaction of business to-day, which is a matter of eonsiderabdle doubt, it is pnderstood that the Presi- dent will immediately send in his meseage, in which do wrong, that the government should be eco- nomical, that a national bank is injurious to the country, thatthe United States shores be an asylum for political fugitives, and that the Mexican war was just, could hardly be viewed in any other light than as a mockery. As rational would it be to make him confess that the sun gives ‘light, and that the war of inde- pendence was a righteous ene. Nor does the expargated platform contain any other state- ment of doctrine that could involve a graver discussion. The questions of internal improve- ment apd the tariff were Jaid on the shelf long ago; and all parties have acquiesced in their settlement. Advocates of a distribution of the pabdlic lands among the States may be counted on the fingers; end one would need to adver- tise extensively to find a room full of opponents of the restricted Presidential veto. In one word, strike out from the platform the ninth re- solution and the two following paragraphs which embrace the compromise measures, and nothing remains. The spiritand meaning of the mani- festo are gone. What is left is mere-empty verbiage and effete twaddle. We say, therefore, that if the caucus, having refused to endorse the compromise, had stopped there, the democratic supporters of the Cabinet would have found themselves in the most ab- surd position a party can occupy—-at sea with- outasingle principle to steer by. There would not have been a shred or shadow ef a doctrine whieh they could call their own, and use as a test question, Perhaps they saw this difi- culty, and meant toavoid it. Perhaps they con- scientiously intended to substitute for the com- promise a platform more congenial to their tastes and familiar te their views. However this be, the caucus had no sooner exhausted the platform of all its pith and marrow, than it produced a substitute for the parts expunged. It nominated Forney unanimously, and thus adopted the Forney letter as a plank of its creed. We have not yet received this rider to he platform in the shape in which it will pro- bably appear before the world henceforth; but the following sketch’cannot be far from the re- solutions which are destined to take the place of those hitherto known as the compromise resolutions. We give them side by side. in or- der that people may perceive at a glance the RESOLUTIONS EXPUNGED EROM TSR BALTIMORE PLATFORM. 9. That Congress has no power, under the constite- tion, to interfere with or control the domestic inati- tution of the several States, and that each States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not pro- hibited by the constitution; all efforts of the abo- litionists, or others, made to in¢uee Congrera’to in: slavery, or te take steps ‘in relation thereto, are calculated to lead ‘o the most alarming and Canger- ens consequences: end that ch etiorts have an in table tendezey to di minirh the happiness of the people, and endanger the and permarency of ion, and cught not to be courtenaneed by sny friend of our political testi tutions, Resolved, That the fore- going proporition covers, and was intended to em: brace, the whole subject of slavery agitation in Con- Tens, ANC therefore the de- mccratic party of the Union, standing on this national platform, will abia f known as the ecmpromise menittres event weshall Jay the anxiously looked-for document before our reade:s in the afternoon edition of the ERRALv. We invite a carcful pernsal of the proceedings of last Saturday night's democratic caucus, which we 1¢ publish on our fir-t page, together with the names and politics of the Congressmen elected from the Cifferent States, the letters and despatches from our correspondents, &c. It is important that our read. exe should be posted on passing even's in order that they may be fully prepared jor the curious seeses ‘that will «ndoub‘edly transp ire at the national! capi * tal before the close of the year. The steamship Black Warrior brought. one week's later advices from Havana. The Caban papers, as neual, contain no political news of importance. The actor at the Tacon theatre, who murdered his-wife and afterwards attempted to commi de, was to be garroted as soon aa he had sufficiently recovered: from his wounds to andergo the horrible operation Several persone, charged with executing and ciren- lating counterfeit money, have been arrested in dif- ferent parts of Maine within the last few days. Among thore apprehended is Jabez Upham, the Postmaster and Maine Law Agent at Liberty. We also observe that another Postmester, Wm. Tinney, has been convicted of embezzling letters from the Post Office, by the United Stetes Circuit Court op North Carollna. These things do not apeak very well for the cantion and discrimiration of the appointing powers at Washington. . Politicians, and others who are watching the move ments of the great national issue of the day cannot fail to be interested in the opposite views of the North and South, a3 exhibited in the matter relative to the Southern Agricultural Congress, and the ad- tess of the free democracy to the people of the State of New York. A By the lengthy statement, which we elsewhere pub, lish, concerning the terrible mortality at sea on board the emigrant ships wich arrived here during ofbe: ast smonth, it will be: seen that one thousand ove hupdred and forty-one persons died of cholera settled by the last Congress —the act for reciaiming fogitives from service or laver incluted, which act being Cosigned ‘to carry out an express provision of the constitution, cannot with fidelity thereto be repeated, or 40 changed as to destroy or impair its efficeney. Rerolved, That the ¢emo- cratic party will reeist all attempts at teneving in Congress, or cut of it, the agitation of the slavery nestion, under whatever ape or color the attempt may be made. extent of the change :— RESOLUTIONS TO BE sUusti- TUTED ny caccus, That members of Con- gress have no power, under the eostitution, to inter fere with or ioqu re iato the character of their officers, ‘and that such officers are the sole and proper judges of their own conduct within toe bounds of the criminal code; that all efforts made by men of konor, or others, to interfere with or discredit the system of suborning false evideaco for the par- pose of injuring character, more especially when the person sought to be tra cuced is a dafenceleas wo man, are calculated to lead to the snost alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tenden- ey to diminish the happi- nesé Cf scoundrals, and en- anger the permanency and stability of the stool-pigeon trade,and, therefore, ought not to be cosntenanced by any friend of our political institutions, Resclved, That the fore going proposition covers, and was intended to em- brace, any such caso as Taan writes to a f requesting him to iIn@se acquaintance with a popular actor-—-to ply him with drink, in the hope of incucing him to make falee statements in a convivial mood—and, further, to make use of any ‘such statements as confessions against an innocent woman; and, therefore, the demo- cratic party of the Uaion, standing on this national platform in caucus, will ap prove and susinia any man acting thas, and promote Lita to posts of honor-—even where he sheli have acted thus from po:did hoges of mnisry gaia, and wh skall have evinced throughout am utier resk Jeseness of honor —trese collateral circumstances be ing #0 consisteat with the whole character of the pro ceeling that they caunct be omitted without dewroy ing or impairing its eft ciency. Resolved, Toat the demo: cratic party, ia cancus, wili resist all attempts at’ snp. pressing the stool-pizeon business, under whatever shape or color ths attempts may be made, As there cannot be any material difference between the above resolutions and those wnich will shortly be formally incorporated into the administration platforta, the public are now in ® position to judge of the course the govern- ment is about to pursue. Some time ago, we stated that its policy rested on one principle only—the division of the spoils; it has now two, the protection of the stool-pigeon interest being regularly established as a plank of the platform. On these two great principles, Gen. Pierce’s policy will henceforth be based. In the flood of considerations which such a develope- ment suggests, one is at a loss to know which to seize first ; the country has a claim upon our sympathies, and the poor President, upon whose character all these successive discoveries are telling frightfully, is entitled. to some defence at the hands of thote who still didcriminate be- tween him and his Cabinet and their supporters. PR ATE EL LE ATS SLT SE But, perhaps, the most cbvieas consetjuence of the new resolutions will be their effect upon the noble art of playing stool-pigeon. "The bones ot One-eyed Thompson will rattle with vexation in their grave at the thoughts af what he lost by destroying himself so prematurely; and poor Bristol Bill, whom an inappreciative jury in Vermont have lodged in the peniten- tiary of that State, will think himself accursed, because he allowed himself to be caught before Forney raised the trade to an honorable rank in the world, Distinguished Foreign Visiters and the Ob- Jects of their Visits. The United States has been recently visited by a great number of distinguished foreign visiters, especially from. England and Ireland. Some of these have come with one object and some with another. Among them is Earl Mount- eashel, an Irish nobleman, who, after being through Canada and the Southern States, has just returned to New York, and is staying at the Clarendon Hotel. As we have lately given an account of the life and lineage of the re- publican John Mitchel, a Saxon Irishman, whose favorite maxim used to be, “The life of one peasant is as good as the life of one peer,” it may not be amiss to give some brief account of the birth, extraction and public career of his fellow-countryman, Lord Mountcashel. The Earl of Mowntcashel (Stephen Moore), county Tipperary,and Baron Kilworth of Moore Park, county Cork, in the peerage of Ireland one of the representative Lords, was born 20th of August, 1792, and is, therefore, in his eixty-second year. Te is accompanied by. his son, Lord Kilworth, who is twenty- eight years of age. This family deduces its descent from Thomas de More, one of the Knights who accompanied the Norman Conqueror into England, and who survived the decisive battle of Hastings, in which he hada principal command. About the middle “of the fourteenth century the ancestors of the Earl were seated in the West of England, and in the beginning of Queen Elizabethys reign they pur- chased an estate in Shropshire. They were called the Mores ef Shropshire. In the reign of King James I., Richard Moore emigrated to Treland and fixed his abode at Clonmel. This gentieman left two sons, the elder of whom, Stephen Moore,purchased the estate at Kilworth, county Cork, and settled there. He had the honor of a personal acquaintance with King William, to whom, upon that Prince’s arrival in England, he lent £3.000, which sum was never refunded. He was, however, constituted by his Majesty governor of the county Tipperary and coionel of its militia. His grandson, Stephen Moore, was elevated to the peerage of Ireland in 1764 as Baron Kilworth, of Moore Park, coun- ty Cork, and created Viscount Mounteashel, of the city of Cashel. county Tipperary, in 1766, In 1781 his son Stephen was advanced to an Earldom as Earl of Mountecasbel. He was the grandfather of the present peer, who has a brother a Lieutenant Colonel in the army, and another in holy orders, canon of Windsor, and has several children besides his eldest son. His seats are Moore Park, county Cork, and Galgorme Castle, county Antrim, which are at the opposite extremes of Ireland. We need not trouble the reader with an account of the ar- morial bearings of the family, as these things are at a discount in the United States, but the motto isso good that we may giveit. It is— vis unita fortior—which, translated, means, “power united is the stronger,” or in other words. “union is strength’—a very true and very sensible saying. though expressed in Latin and attached to the arms of a nobleman. Ta personal appearance and dress, Earl Mount- cashel presents a striking contrast to most of the peers of Great Britain and Ireland. He is remarkably plain, ani may be seen at any time clad in something like farmer's dress. He is a great agriculturist, and has also been dis- tinguished as a moral reformer. he has the reputation of being religiously in- clined. He has been connected with agricui- tural societies and cattle shows, and has de- livered some opinions upon tarnips and rota- tion of green crops. In the time of the Irish famine he took some part in the mectings of landlords, who assembled to, devise measures of relief, but accomplished nothing. He was a member of the Irich Council at which John Mitchel played so conspicuous a part on the question of Jand tenures and tenant right. He has made several speeches in the British Parliament. His business in coming to this country is to obtain information of its resources, and institutions, and literature, and arts, and manners, and customs, and either to write a book on the subject, or to make use of the facts Be has collected in Parliament. There appears to be a great anxiety in Eng- land to know all about this country, and there is always particular delight exhibited oa the part of the aristocracy when anything they regard as weak or unworthy comes to view, whilst on the other hand, the working classes, and the democracy of England, glory in all that is good and great in this republic and hail every evidence of the happiness and prosperity of its people as an argument in favor of republican principles. Many years ago Lord Morpeth, now Earl of Carlisle, and Lord Stanley, now Earl of Derby, visited this country, and after peeping into every hole and corner, went home and abused and misrepresented the United States whenever they had a chance, as Dickens, one of their writers, has eince done, The result of this scandal-mongering in public and private was to induce itinerant demagogues, like George Thompson. to come out here to preach up aboli- tion. The British avistocracy and their toadies have got an idea that the only way of ar- resting the progress of American prosperi- ty is to create a deadly feud between North and South on the slavery question, which may, end in separation and the dismemberment of the republic. Hence all these visiters have heen endeavoring to create a spirit of activity against slavery, and forming secret alliances with the abolitionists in this country to make it source of disunion and disruption. And hence the career of Mrs. Stowe in England, which was designed to give a fresh impetus to the anti-slavery sentiment there, and to stir up the fanatics to send out more emissaries to the United States. We perceive thet a rose water aristocratic paper in this city, called the Alvion, which is in the interests of the British government, has denied a state- ment recently made in this journal, that an anti-slavery agitator is on his way hither from England, with the coneurrence of the principal members of the government. We have road the proceedings of the Evangolical Alliance in London, and we know that miasion- aries of mischief are coming out here. That they come with the concurrence of the govern- ment and the concurrence of the oligarchy, We believe who are the governing power of England, there can be just as little doubt as that Mrs. Stowe was Séted by the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Car- lisle, Lady John Russell, and other noble ladies in immediate connection with the Queen and government, and by the majority of the British aristocracy. It is true that this did not amount to a direct endorsement of the treason of the authoress of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but it was very near it, and in effect it was just the same; and it might as well be said that it was not with the concurrence of the government that the Duchess of Sutherland and the other noble ladies of England wrote their notorious letter to the ladies of America. The object of the secret enemies of our institutions in com- ing here from England, or sending out apostles, is to spy our weak points, to exaggerate them, and to misrepresent us when they return; and at the same time to lay be- hind them here the seeds of future anarchy and confusion. ' We ire persuaded that this cannot be Lord Mounteashel’s object, as we are informed it is his intention to settle his son in the United States ; and we learn moreover that he entertains a favorable opinion of our people and their insti- tutions, It is a singular fact that of late many of the Irish aristocracy have come to settle quictly and almost unknown in this country, under the operation of the Incumbered Estates’ Act. But Lord Mounteashel, we understand, being wealthy, his son is attracted here from choice, and not driven by necessity. This is another evidence of a change coming over many of the nobility.and educated classes of the old country in reference to the United States. A few years ago, and this republic could not be named without a turning up of the nose of all the upper tendom of the British empire. But there is another class of English politi cal missionaries who have been coming here recently besides anti-slavery agitators. They do not make any noise, but secretly and silently collect facts and statistics. They take notes for the production of future effects upon a grand scale. They, too, are forming alliances. Their.| rooms, and they as quickly decay. The Wo- purpose is to create and extend the republican sentiment in England. Whether Lord Mount- cashel, who used to be rather. conservative in his political ideas, has since changed his opin- ions, and become one of this secret organiza- tion, we know not. But certain it is that the movement is in operation, and its friends count largely upon the aid of John Mitchel, who has been always a friend of the English deffiocracy> and the mortal foe of the British aristocracy? These propagandists will find here more mate- rials to suit them—more food for a democratic r3 volution at home than the abolitionist agents can find for the purpose of carrying out their views, and we expect to see monarchy and aristocracy overturned in England long before this Union shall be severed and shattered into fragments. These then are the two great pro- blems of the age, as between Great Britain and the United States: the oligarchy of England are in league with the abolitionists of America to demolish the Union and thus arrest the on- ward progress of the country. The English democracy are in covenant with Young Am § rica and Young Ireland to overthrow the throne of England and the aristocratic institu- tions which sustain it, and to establish on their ruins a republic after the model of the United States. Both sides will carry on their opera- tions with vigor; and meantime we shall watch and wait to see which will come off victorious. We rather think we shall bet on democracy and Brother Jonathan, — ~ Moysizvr Toyson Come AcArs—Renewat or THE AnTI-SLAvEeRY Acrration.—We noticed the ether day attempts on tke part of the Sew- ard organs to revive the anti-slavery cry in the North, by publishing extracts from the South- ern journals, containing accounts of crimes and scenes of violence. The same is being followed up with vigor. A union has been effected be- tween the followers of Hale and those of Sew- ard, and the coalition purpose doling out fana- ticism and treason to the public of New York in a series of lectures which are to be given at the Tabernacle. We have received the follow- ing prospectus:— ANTI-SLAVERY LECTURES, AT Tne BROADWAY TABERNACLE, NEW YORK, 1863—'54, ‘ New York Anti-Slavery Society. (anxilisry to’ the American Anti-Slavery Scciety,) believing the present tume to be eminently favorable for a full aud free diseus- sion, in thir city, of the great question of AMERICAN SLAVERY, has made arrargements for a course of anti slavery lee- tures, to be delivered on each s Tuesday eron ing, beginning December 13th, and closiug March 7th, in the Brosdway Tabernacle. lu order that the subject may be presented in all its a pects, political, moral, rocial, and religioue, and with fair- ness towards al earnest minded friends of’ the causa, the Society hss engaged the services of the eminent cham- pi‘ ne of freedow, whose nance, together with the times wher they are severally expected to r, are given below:— 1, Hen, John P. Hale Tuesday evening, Des. 13. Hoa. Joha @. ” re 20, Hon, Joshua “ He ety Mr. ©. Lenox “ “Jan 8 John Jay, Eq “ “810, . Rey. W “ 6 te TR Miss Luey ” «wo Hoa. Horsce “ OO oa Rev, Wm. HF « «Feb. 7 . Wim. Lloyd Garrison, Esq , a ae . Rav, Theodore Parker, « 6 gi «98 Ralph Waldo Em “ March 7. THAMS OF Gentleman's reason ticket, 2 00 Lady’s ” Ma 100 Ove admission for @ gentl % Ore admission for a gentlemen end two Judi to The lectures wiil commence wt 732; duors open at 034 ” M. Tickets for sale at in Broadway; et Fowlers & Wells’, 151 Nassau street; at the cfise of the National Anti-Slavery Stsndard, 142 Nassau strest, up stairs, and at the door of the Tabernacle, cn Tues ‘ay evenings, By order of the Committee of Arrangements, OLIVER JOMN3ON, Chairman, Now Yors, Des. 2, 1263, Of course the staple ingredient in these lec- tures will be abuse of the South and of South- ern morals and society. Every murder com- mitted south of Mason and Dixon’s line will be traced to the effect of slavery; every assault will be shown to flow from the relation between master and slave; every crime in the calendar will be directly imputed to the influence of the domestic institution. The lecturers will be driven into the conclusion that if slavery were eradicated at the South, vice and crime would disappear with it. It will not occur to any of them—or probably to the audience—to test the truth of the view by comparing the moral con- dition of the North with that of the South. People who broadly take such a ground as that occupied by the lecturers above mentioned, and undertake to denounce a whole people, or a whole country, or a whole system of labor, scl- dom condescend to examine statistics. If they did in this instance, they would find that crime is six times more abundant in those States where free labor is established than in those where slave labor Is the labor; and thus the strong point of the lecturers would be refuted. If, moreover, they occasionally deigned to deal in reasoning as well as invective, they would ‘infullibly discover that systems of labor have little or nothing to do with crime; but it were able to expect argument from Garrison and his compeers. Roant is their stock in trade, Let them stick to it, Tue Loppy anv Cot. Forney.—We under- stand that George Law and Edwin Croswell have been actively engaged of late in canvas- sing for Col. Forney. There is nothing surpris- ing in this, Forney’s experience as clerk and lobby agent must have rendered him a most valuable coadjutor to any one who has favors to’ expect from Congress. Moreover, as Clerk of the House he will have many opportunities of hur- rying through appropriation bills, and render- ing other important services to gentlemen in- terested in steamships, contracts, &c. We sup- pose everybody knows George Law—a man of much originality and grasp of mind—the archi- tect of his owa fortune, and an operator who does not allow himself to be much embarrassed by abstract considerations. We are not aware that he baunts any church, though he occasien- ally punishes sinners at Washington in a financial way. Edwin Croswell, on the other hand, is a devout Christian, and a very hard national. He is a great stickler for the politi- cal principles of his party, A strange thing, is it not, to see these two men, so different in al- most every respect as to pass for embodiments of moral extremes, united in their Washington labors ; and that for the purpose of electing the writer ofa stool-pigeon letter to the clerkship of the House? We are further informed that report accuses George Law of having bought up the Heratp. We seldom notice such charges, as we really do not see why we should advertise the silly non- sense, and give it a publicity which its origina- tors could not bestow. But we advise the be- - lievers inthe story to ask George Law himself Musical and Dramatic Matters. ‘The theatres bave not been so well patronized as usua}_ during the past week, with the exception of Burton’s; and ' the reason of the falling off is probably found in the fact that there are not so many strangers in town, and the city theatre goers must have novelties. At the Broadv ay theatre, Miss Davenport has closed the first week of her engsgement. She has appeared as the: Countess, in “Love;’’ Julia, in “The Hunchback; Mari- ana, in ‘ The Wife;”’ Parthenia, in “Ingomar,” and Meeta, in “The Maid of Mariendvrpt.”” All these characters have been sust#ined to the’ satis’action of discriminating au- diences, and in Mariapn ard Meota the actress was par. ticularly successful. The heuses have not been so full ac they would have been ba? pieces lees hackneyed been pre- sented, anc we are glad to ree that this evening a play never before perform:d in Naw York is to be brought out, It is called ‘Adrienne, the Actress,”’ and is founded upon an ineident in the life of M’lle Lesouvereur, and it is said. to be very effective. Miss Davenport plays Adrienne, and Mrr, Abbott, Mr. Barry, Mr. Pope, and others of the com- pany, are included in the cast. This evening at Niblo’s Garden, “The Prophet’ is to be played for the last night but one. , “The Fox Hunt,” by Bourcicault, has drawn full houseo: to Burton’s Theatre, and its representations will be eon- | tinued till further notice. It is to be played this eve- ning, along with ‘ The Tvodles.”” At the Bowery theatre, Mrs. T. S, Hamblia closed her engagement on Saturday evening, with denefit, when. she played Hamlet and Aznes de Vere. She intends to makéa ‘starring four”? to the various cities of the Union The bill at the Bowery this evening ‘has plenty, of nevelty and variety, Mr. Charles Burke commences an engagement. and playstwo comic characters. Mr. J, | R. Scott, Mr. Eddy. aud others appear in the heavier por- tion of the bill. The price of seats inthe first tier re- mains at fifty cents, At Wallack’s theatre, the week’s business has not been fo gocd as usual. No novelties have been pressnted, and the parts in the old pieces lstely represente’ by Mise Laura Keene, have been taken by Mra, Conway. Tho comedy of “The Yoor Gent! man,” and the drama feunded upon ‘Bleak House,’ are announced for this evening. 2 lta trill RP RS ie whether he has bought us, and how much he gave. They will probably be answered to their heart’s content. Ifhe has, we fear he has made ‘an excessively bad bargain. Deciive and Fa. or THE Womens’ Riauts Movement.—It is astonishing how rapidly fa- naticisms, and isms and excitements of all kinds spring up, and how rapidly they decline in this country. They grow up like mush- mens’ Rights movement is a remarkable evi- dence of this. It created a terrible excitement in the beginning; but it has already collapsed. The meeting at Rochester, of which an account will be found in our columns, was a very tame Mr. Blake,{Mr. Thompson, Mr. Lester and Mrs. Conway. have the principal parts. A new comedy is underlined: as to be immediately pro inceds A novel feature is to be introdaced by the manager of the Naticnel theatre :his week. He announces perform- ‘ances every afterncon and evening, Anew local drama, culled “Little Katy, the Hot Corn Girl,” is to be played: this afternoon, aod also on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday af:ernoons. The drama founded upon “Uncle Tom’s | Cabin,” is to be played every evening, and en Wednesday and faturday afternoons. Mrs. G. C. Howard has re- turned to this theatre, and plays Topsey this evening, | At the American Museum, this afternoon and evening, the performances are fo: the benefit of C. W. Clarke, stage manager. The drama of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin” io to be-performed. Jullien has returned to us, and will give concerts at Metropolitan Hall during the coming four weeks, ending affair, and very significant of the approaching digsolution of the pantalettes dynasty that has been growing into importance for the last two or three years. They have practically aban- doned their claim to wear the breeches, for “Bloomers” are. going out of fashion, even with the lady agitators themselves—though we learn there are some of them now figuring at Washington. This ism originally consisted of some two or three hundred men and women, who, discontented and unhappy creatures at home, got up Conventions to pour out their in- dignation on the whole male sex. They de- nounced men as brutes and savages for deny- ing them their rights, and among these rights they claimed the right to be Presidents of the United States. generals in the Army, monthers of Congress, doctors, and every other descrip- tion of officials and professionals; while, at the same time, they contended that the husbands of the lovely aspirants after public honors should be contented to wash and nurse the babies, mend the stockings, and look after the cooking of the dinner, provided they did not live in boarding houses. But it so turned out that at every one of their conventions there were the same actors and the same speeches, and the people, consequontly, have got tired ofthe iarce. They laughed at it for a while, but now demand a new excitement. What the next is to be, Heaven only knows. Powe ayp nis Great PAwnting.—The great nations] painting of Powell is still on exbibi- tion at the Academy of Design in Broadway, and those strangers in the city who have not yet scen it had better hasten to do so, because it is to be removed by the middle or end of the week to New Orleans. The artist has made arrangements with Mr. Morris, who is acquaint- ed with picture exhibitions, to embark in a few days to exhibit this painting in the South, whence he will proceed west, up the Mississippi, to show it in the various cities along that river till he reaches Pitsburg; thence he will return over the mountains, and exhibit at some other cities on his way, before it is finally placed in the Capitol at Washington, for which it was painted by Mr. Powell, pufsuant to the order of Congress. This great work, one of the most striking pieces of art produced in the the present age, has been discussed by newspaper critics in this ciy, of all kinds and all tempers. Some of the small critics of the day, who write for the columns of the Sunday press, have censured it without knowing anything of the subject ; and one magazine, and only one, (Putnam’s.) has condescended to be a common scavenger of the filthy vituperation. It is gratifying, however, that every true lover of art who has beheld and studied the painting, has acknowledged, with- out a single dissenting voice, the high merits of Mr. Powell. We are glad to learn that Mr. Brady, with his usual activity and foresight, has secured copies of the work in daguerreo- type, lest anything should befal it in the con- templated tour. In the meantime, while the picture goes to New Orleans, we understand the painter him self will remain in this city and open a studio for the practice of his art, in the upper part of Broadway. Already he has received numerous orders from wealthy persons, the subjects to be chosen by himself, and the paintings to be finished according to his ideas of original beauty. Mr. Powell is the only artist of emi- nence now in the city, and we have no doubt that his countrymen and the public will extend to him that encouragement and patronage which true genius ought always to command. Brooklyn City Intelligence, Penne Recernion or Joun Mireur. —A pnblio demon- stration, in honor of the patriot Mitchel, is to take place in this city on Thurscay next, the 10th instent, the invi- tation extended by the military and civic associations having been accepted. He also accepted the invite tion of the Brooklyn Common Council, extending to him the hospitalities of the city, and the me day, above named, has been fixed for ocoasion. Drowsy May Fouxp.—The body of Daniel MeDonald, who bas been missing for some days back was picked up in the river at the foot of Irwin street on Saturday ‘The corover was notified to hold an inquest, Scrvosry INCENDIARY Fire, —Betwoen one and two o'clock on Sunday morning a fire broke out in the segar store of Bajou & Sehr ulman, No. 81 Main street, and soon extend- eito the adj ining’ buildiog, oconpied by Bernard Mo- Feeley, 28 a porter house, Several farnition occupied the upper portions of both buildings, Circumstances indi cate that the fire was the work of incendiaries, and two of the osoupants have been arrested on suspicion, Tho buildings, which belonged to the Bowns estate, were completely gatted. and the aggregate lors will probably amount 10 about $4,000, The segar men are insured for $1,000 in the Albany Mutual Insurance Company, which covers their entire loss, The other occupants, it is believed, were not ingured. Duriog the progress of the five, one of the men at work on the brakes of Engine No. 1 was knocked over the dock, but was soon hauled out by bis companions, A row was commenced between two of the fire companien, but was suppressed belore serious conse- guen en ensued, wihagrand bal pare. The first concert, this evening, will be for the benefit of the St. George Protective Emi~ grant Society. The programme abounds in popular music, and the national airs 01 the United States and (Great Bri- tain will be played. Ethiopian Minstrelsy seems as popular as ever in thio city. The three bands, Christy’s, (at 472 Broadway,) Wood's, (at 444 Broadway,) and Buckley’s, (at 639 Broad- way,) are all doing well. The Amphitheatre, 37 Bowery, is now the only place in the city where equestrian entertainments are given. The Persons engaged in this circus are well known, and the entertainments are well conducted, The Broadway Menagerie No. \Q37 Broadway, is now open for the season The Siamese twins are amorg the prominent features of the exhibition. The New York Academy of Music arnounce that they are “ prepared to receive proposals’ for the lease of the new Opera House, Fourteenth street. The stage i8 seventy-five feot in depth, and arranged on the European plan, The house will seat 4,600 persons, and will be ready for occu ation early ia the spring. Males, Pougaud, Lavigne, Borelan, and a Lallet troupe, are pleying at the Charleston theatre. The Southern: Circus is at the same place. Mr. J, H. Hackett is playing at the Nationa! theatre, Cincinnati. Miss Iaurs Keeve is announced to appear at the How- ard Attenwum, Boston, this evening. The Handel and Bayén‘Sccisty gave @ grand concert Jast evening. Sontag, Miss Arns Stone, and Rocco assisted. Mr. Anderson is playing at ihe Walnut Street, theatre, Philad:Jphia. Arew comedy ‘Nationalities,” by 5. 0. Pardey, is being played at the Arch Street theatre. An Tralian opera company, managed by Ardith, egm- Mmence an engagement at the Front Street thostre, Balti- more, this evening. Rose de Vries Taffanelli and Pozzo- lini are the principal members of the troupe. Mc. Forrest is at the Holiday Street Theatre, The Rave’s are at Marshall’s theatre, Washington, Mrs. C. Howard has been playing at Risley’s, ‘Mrs. Barrow, nce Julia Bennett, is playing at the Chica- go Theatre. Mr. and Mrs. Florence are at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Charles Bass ia going to Placide’s Varieties, New Orleans, and Mr. C. K. Mason sails in a few days for Aus- tralia. Mme. le Barone de Berg is giving concerts at Dayton, Ohio. ‘The new play by Alexandor Dumas, entitled ‘'Tae Youth. of Louis the Fourteenth,” is one of the wittiest Dumas ever wrote. It treats, too, of the mozt romantic portion of the- king’s life—his first love, when he was on the point of raising to the throne of France the companion of his childhood, the niece of Cardinal Mazarin, the beautiful Marie Mancini. The analogy between the marriage re- cently contracted by the present Sovereign of !'cance and the marriage contemplated in this play by the youthfu? Louis was the cause for its baing forbidden by the censor- ship, The play, however, is a charming and brilliant Production, introducing the old Cardinal Gialio Mazarin, the Queen-mothor, Anne of Austria; Marie Mancini, Charles the First, Henriette of France, and Moliere. It Jn full of amusing ce/ails, and admirably calculated to be- come popular, There is not one word to change—for tho- play has no double entendre—or = word to make our mo- dest langaags blush. Consecration of a Hebrew Sch ool. SERMON BY REY. H. A. HENRY—DINNER, TOASTS, SPEECHES, BTC. The Shaary Zedeck Hebrew National Schoo! was conse, crated yesterday according to the custom of the Jews. This school is established by the congregation of the Henry street synagogue, and is situated in the yard of the church, The cost of the rchool house was ebout $4,000, which sum was Corated by the generous-hearted of thie congregation. The echool edifice ia built of brick, and in three stories high. There are now ready for the schoo} near two hundred pupils, who will receive in the building: their first lessons to-day. The hour for the commence- ment of the ceremonies of the consecration wse fixed at: two o'clock yesterday afternoon, but it was near four when the exercises were commenced. A large audience aesombled in the church, where « holy meeting was beld | Afto; the reading of the prayers in Hebrew, the minis. — ter of this congregation, the Rev. H, A Henry, deliverod in substance the following sermon:— My dear brethren and friends—Jjf ever I felt the reapox sible position it is upon this solemn occasion upon whic! we are asterabled in holy meeting—a holy meeting ne entirely from the assemblage but from the objsct we hay in view. It has been the custom from time immemorial when any great institution is finished, to ask for it th holy ing, in purity of heart and honesty of purpose We have just finished our schoclhouse, where we oan in struct our children, and “teach the young idea how t shoot.” The subject of Pope r education is oae of the greatest Importanse to us all. According to the opinior of the great English statesman, Lord Brougham, if the people are nct educated they will become the prey of every demagogue who may practice his trade, If tke peo; are not competent to form thei: own opinion, then others will form opinions for them, sot in accordance with the public interest, but according to their own individual and selfish aims, We cannot ind a. text more appropri ste to the present oocasion, than of the proverbs of the great and wise Solomon, th cepted version of which is, “Train up child in'the way he should fo. and when he is old ho will not depart from it.” The knowledgs that these were the words of King: Solomon, epcken through the inspiration of the Divine Creator, is anfficieat for the guide of our people To train: upachilé in the way he should go io feat hes the ways of his Creator from his first youthful tmpulee!. In the history of the encestors of God’s chosen poor’, we Gnd living commentaries upon this saying of the in- tpired monarch. [n the tour of the prosperity of the children of Iernel, they sought the temples of the Tord. In the hour of ‘adversity the faithful Israelite will sought the temples of the Lord. And this far- nishes tue interpretation of the text, that to train up a child in the way he should go, ii to bring bim up, £0 that the temple of bis contejpoce shall always be the temple of his God. Now where shall we obtain the teachings necessary for such @ traintog? I naswer frow ibe Hibe. The Bible is the pioneer of elacation, the tree of knowledge, and ti tree of liberty. I know, my brethren, these remarks sugsest to usm black spot upon the map of our history—I mean the no- glect of the study of the Bible, This is the only dare spot in our history. The cause of the downfall of Jerusa- Jem was owing to the fact. that our people had neglected tomake the study of the Bible lat te (ghia study. But brethren, we have that perse- Cutica is the greet school of reform; and when we look