The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1853, Page 4

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Considerable excitement having been cocasioned in this city by the arrest of a person for street preaching, we to-day give 2 full and impartial history of the causes which led to the recent disturbance in the Eleventh ward, togetber with some account of the party classified as the “ Know-Nothings ;” also, the proclemation of the Mayor defining the !aw with regard te religious gatherings, the letter eddreszed by Bishop Hughes to the Catholic clergy and laity, and a report of the meeting he'd at Manhattan Hall last evening, for the purpose of discussing the sub- ject which has been the couse of so much agitation. ‘The matters mentioned in the foregoing sentence ‘will be found exceedingly iaterestiog, particularly to those who are not thoroughly enlightened as to the manner in which the machinery to accomplish cer- tain purpores is managed in this city. Read and reflect. A large meeting of commercial men, ship owners and others, was yesterday held in the Merchants’ Exchange for the purpose of devising measures to preserve and protect our harbor from the encroach- ments continoally made upon it by interested par- ties to the great detriment.cf the maritime com- merce of this port. The proceedings of the assem biage, together with the memorial agreed upon for presentation to the Legislature, are given in detail in another column. Both branches of Congress haying adjourned from Thursday til! Mondsy we of course received but lit- tle news from that city yester A telegraphic Gespatch informs us that at am ng of the Naval Committee of the House it has been determined to report a bill at.on early day appropriating three millions of dollara for the constrnetion of six steam frigates in accordance with the recommendations of the Secretary of the Navy. This is traly commenda- ble. Neither of the Texas Senators bas yet arrived. Gen. Rusk is said te be busily engaged at home in Stien iirg to the Pacific Railroad project, in which #0 many New Yorkers and centiemen from other States, embracing statesmen, military officers, finan- ciers, and men of ail professions, are so deeply inter- ested. Theextractselsewhere given from the cor- respondence of different journals will afford the reader some idea of what is transpiring at the na- tional capital. Much resting European inteiligence, in addition ‘to that already published, is furnished in the letters ofour London and Paris correspondents. They are worthy an attentive perusal by all who are desirous of becoming conversant, as far as possible, with the complicated state of affuirs in the Old World. The foreign advices brought by the Asia appear to have had no material effect upon the price of cot ton in this or other cities. Breadstafls and provi- sions, however, yesterday favored buyers in the eaily part of the day, but flour afterwards rallied and closed firmiy at si advance upon the rates of the day previous. The financiers in Wall street, it will be seen by our monetary review, were sadly affected by the European news. At the opening the market was crowded with stocks of nearly every description, which were freely offered at a decline. The bears are in the ascendancy and likely to re- wain £0 for some time to com The bark Gertrude, which cleared from this port for Liverpool on the inst , was towed into Phila- delphia yesterday. eported to have encoun- tered a severe gale on the 10th inst., which cast her om her beam ends and compelled her officers to throw overboard fitty tons of flour andcora. She Jeaks badly apd will have to discharge her cargo for repal The brig Palo Alto, on ber way from Matanzas for Toston, was recently sunk 1 Cape Florida, by coming in contact with a I'rench bark. The P. A. was loaded with molagees and insured in Charleston, where she belonged, for $5 000 A diffionity having eccurred at Maysville, Ky. between Mr. Collins, the editor of the Eagle, and Mr. Luther Dobyns, the former shot the latter yes terday. The wounded man is not expected to re cover. Three boys haye been arrested in Pittsburg on puspicion of having murdered a man named Caraon who was found stabbed in several places, and ina dying condition, on Monongabela bridge, at a late hour on Thureday night The steam boiler in a large cordage manufactory exploded in Roxbury, Mass., last Thursday afternoon, and totally demolished the building. The fireman was fatally and a boy badly scalded, but all the other workmen fortanately eseaped injury. ‘The Cunard steamship dock at East Boston is un- dergoing enlargement for the purpose of admitting the largest vessels belonging to that line. The Ara- bia, which bas hitherto come to New York, is adver tired for Boston on her next trip. The Hon. John P. Hale delivered a lecture on popular education last evening in the Union Chureh, Fourth street, before a very fair audience. This is the first of a series of lectures to be given in the fame place on various scientific and intellectual sab jects. For want of space we must postpone its publication. Among otwer curiona « jay iy the 8 interesting local iafor- the proceedings mation given t yort oF in the Canada ba t, ine'ading the state mew 3 Raciva a . a nery tase hae now Leen closed 1 coum tmmenced summing up. or bing of impor'anee transpired in the Bonrd have out attempted to carry out # design which has long been nurtured in the breasts of a cl'sque, self-styled the “codfish aristocracy.” "fbat design is to overthrow a journal whose independence of clique, and party, and set— whose outspoken boldsess and unswerving fidelity to the cause of the people have long been a'thorn in their side. They have labored long and zealously to traduce our private cha- racter; they now think that our independence can be impaired by pecuniary losses. They failed in the first scheme; for the louder they clamored the larger became our popular sup- port. They will fail in the second; for the greater the price we pay for freedom of the press the more shall we cherish it. We re- ceived the right to tell the truth from our pre- decessors, who obtained it from the people of ‘this commonwealth. We hold it now in trust, as the leading journal of this country, and it shall not be violated or wrested from our grasp 20 long as we have life and means to defend it. It is not at all surprising that simultancous- ly with the verdict fining us ten thousand dol- lare for telling the truth about Mr. Fry’s opera an attempt should have been made to crush freedom of speech in this city. Liberty of the press and liberty of speech are modifications of the same principle—the enemies of the one naturally desire to seppress the other. Ac- cordingly, while the jury were condemning us, the police of this city, under orders from the constituted authorities, were arresting the Rev. Mr. Parsons for preaching Protestant doctrine in a private enclosure in thiscity, Mr. Parsons had done no wrong, committed no crime; the only ground for ‘his arrest was an apprehen- sion that some turbulent men who differed from him in opinion might create a disturb- ance; and to prevent their rioting he was) arrested. Immediately afterwards an archi-episcopal rescript, (published elsewhere,) Aldermen last evening. The Board of Assistants disposed of a number of documents. They adopted resolutions authorizing the erection of & new sta- tion house for the Eighteenth ward police, and re quiring the Eighth Avenue Railroad Company to ron a carevery twenty minutes from Fifty-first to Fifty ninth street. Quite an exciting race between three well matche 4 horses came off over the Union Course last Thurs’ ay afternoon, as will be seen by the descriptionof the e fuir in another column. Trotting baving almast entirely superseded racing in this section of the eouutry of late years a contest of this kind is avery accsptable treat to the old lovers of the turf. A jury ing been empannelled iy, the Court of General Sessions yesterday, seven¥ sen persons were placed upon trial charged with haying been con. cerned in the riot in the Ninth we rd on the Fourth of July last. The case having ’jeen opened for the prosecution and the first wity ,ess placed apon the stand all further proceedinge, were postponed till Monday, in consequence ‘of the coldness of the court room. See the report elsewhere. Judge Mitchell will to-da y deliver the decision in the extradtion case of Ale sander Heilboun, claimed by Great Britain asa fug itive from justice, on the charge of forgery. Dist sict Attorney ©’Conor has been directed by the Pr esident to see that our treaty stipulations with Eng) and, concerning the rendition of fugitives, are fultil’ ed, Besides @ great var’ iety of other entertaining mat- ter to which we lw ve no room to refer particularly our insi¢e pages ‘contain reports of the monthly neeting of the Azaerican Geological and Statistical rsary of the City Tract Bot A these documents contain mach mat- Society. ter of interert to the general reader. Liberty of @pecch and Liberty of the Press, We have not thought it werth while to no- tiee the course pursued by the Times in pub- lisking a gesbled report of the Fry libel suit, theagh asseredly such unfairness as the pub- lication of the evidence impugning Revoil’s ekaracter, and the suppression of the testimony in rebuttal, called for severe censure. It is Ukely that the injustice arese as much from the inefficiency of the Times’ reporting staff.as from the petty malice of its editor; and neither the one nor fe other of these canses calls for any particular comment. We may, perhaps, how- ever, be justified in devoting a few lines to an article which appeared in that print yesterday. Our claim for equal justice is therein denied on the grovnd that our course-has been “unprinci- pled” and “ruffianly.” and thet we are ourselves an“ outlaw.” It is a new principle of law that want of principle, or lack of any other virtue, deprives a man of bis legakzights in a court of justice. But if it did, where are the proefs of our rufianism? By what ect did we become an outlaw? The editor of the Times may be ex- cused os well for his ignorance ef the law. as for his ignorance of the world; but when viper years shall have endowed -him with a larger experience, he will learn that no man can oc- eupy the position we have filled for a whole generation without becoming a target for ca- lumny.and malice; and that the mere repetition of unproven groundless slanders—the reiteration of such opithets as “ruffian” andj‘outlaw”—prove nothing unless they are based on substantial no- torious facts. Those facts have yet to come.te light. Until they do weconfidently appeal to the community tosay whether the management of the Henan, during the last cighteen years, has been less courteous, less humene, less manly, than that of its cotemporaries, or not; and we find the answer already recorded in the notori- ous fuct that we have received a share of pub- lie patronage three times greater than that of our maligners. The historian of journalism would not be at a loss to discover instances of brutality and ruffianism in the eolumns of the New York press during {this period; but he would need to look elsewhere than in the Herap. In real trath, the attempts of the Times and Trivune to show why we should be debarred from our claims to justice at the hands of a jury are too transparent to require much attention. Say what they will, the public sees plainly enongh that they only desire to injure us in order to benefit themselves; and it alse sees that the principle for which we are contending is nothing less than the great groundwork of our liberties—freedom of speech, We care very little for ten thousand dollars; but we do care for our inalienable right of speaking the truth. at all times, at all hazards, on all subjects. That right is secured to us by the constitution ofthe United States and the constitution of New York, and in defence thereof we will com- bat to the last day of our life and the last cent of our property. In common with every un- prejudiced man, we regard the Fry verdict as a violation of the liberty of the press in this community. Contemptible twaddlers, who never dare to express a bold opinion on any subject, and whe spend their lives in endeavors to shirk responsibility and be all things to all men, may talk about the necessity of restraints on the free exercise of thought : it was such as these who burnt Protestants at the stake three centuries ago. We claim that truth should be unfettered; and that in one country at least on this earth thought and speech should be free. We are told that we entertained a personal animosity towards Mr. Fry. Why, we never said anything at all about him to signify until wa artists came to [mplore cur protection against his vindictive malice. We never had any opinion about him one way or the other, directions to the. Catholics of this city on the sub- ject ef their conduct and demeanor. His Grace certainly advises them to avoid street-preachers; butit is impossible not to see that the whole tener of his reeoript conveys a direct disappro- val of the liberty of speech claimed by Mr. Parsons and assured to us all by the constitu- tion, It is very unusual in this tree country, where all religions are alike, aud where no civil authority whatever is entrusted to the clergy, for a controversialist to be arrested, or an ecclesiastic to assume the temporal power of a potentate, a pope, or a popular chief Taken in conjunction with the Fry verdict, these events seem to us ominous symptoms of a growing tyranny in our midst. We shall resist them from the outset; and it behoves all who value the noblest blessing we enjoy to stand up manfully by our side. ‘Tne News rrout Evrore.—Prospecrs or Na- POLEON IIT.—As.we expected, our London cor- respondence brings us ample confirmation of our-statements with regard to an alliance be- tween Great Britain and France forgthe purpose of protecting Turkey. We are informed that the Czar has been notified of their intention, and acertain period of time has been granted him to withdraw his troops from the Principali- ties, under the alternative of a war with the Western{ Powers. The most noteworthy fact in the whole affair is the surprising skill with which Napoleon ITI. has played his game. With all his genius his uncle was never able to secure the friendship of England. He saw its valueas clearly as his nephew; and the “ Memorial from St. Helena,” tells how earnestly and per- severingly he strove to overcome the prejadice which a stupid monarch snd a bigoted aristo- cracy entertained against him, It was not till every source had failed him that he abandoned the struggle, and gave the reins to the heredi- tary enmity of the French against their neigh- bors “d’outer Manche.” Neither Louis XVIII. nor Charles X. ever enjoyed enough leisure to occupy their thoughts with foreign Powers Under Louis Philippe, Thiers—who, though a respectable orator and a brilliant writer, is no statesman—soon managed to revive the old hatred against England—and he fell. Guizot had more taci; he long endeavored to over- come the national prejudice and cement an “entente cordiale” between the two Powers. Unfortunately, Louis Philippe’s am- bition was shortsighted, The glittering bait of a Spanish marriage was too tempting to be re- fused, and for it he bartered the friendship of England. He fell. Louis Napoleon followed; and though he rose to power amid euch a storm of invective from the British press as even his uncle never encountered, he succeeded by ad- dress and management in triumphing over pre- judice, and finally acquired an influence in the British councils even greater than that of the Queen of England. The treaty, whose execution we chronicled some days ago, (it will probably come to the knowledge of our cotem- poraries before long.) is entirely his work. Whatever reasons Austria and Prussia may have for sympathisiog with Russia, it is hardly possible that they can decline the invitation tendered them by France ani England. If they do, they do it at the risk of a war against their own subjects, and a general crusade by the masses of central Europe against the esta- blished despotisms. Whatever policy they ¢ | bat it is notorious thet in their verdict they until that amiable and much-injared woman Madame Truffi came to beg us to insert a card in reply to the slanders of his hired pe Mr. Manrice Strakosch swears that we s “we would finish him; but, 01 second thoughts, he cannot recollect whether our ex- pression was not something entircly ditt It is hard tosay, from Mr. Strako:ch’s evir what he does recollect or what he does not~ adopt, the complications of the war are pretty sure to render it 2 matter of some interest to those engaged to know what are the sentiments ofthe other great maritime Power—the United States of America. So far as the popular sentiment In this coun- t. | try has come to light, it would seem that our ice, | sympathies are on the side of Turkey—s fact which may be ascribed to the indirect conse- the only pe n which he testifies with quence of the interest we took in the Tlun- thing like clearness are his ignorance of garian war. Should new combinations compel lish at the time of his visit to us, and} ys to take an active part in the con- his desire to see the Herarn destroyed. As | test, the popular sentiment would probably to ‘finishing’? Mr. Fry, or any other opera- tic manager, so absurd an idea never en- tered our head; and we cannot conccive how twelve sane men could have been induced tobelieve it had. We certainly did entertain strong doubts of Mr. Fry’s success; and after his artists came to us for protection we were very profoundly impressed with a belief in his rebel against any other intervention than an espousal of the cause of the Porte. Tlow far correct poley would dictate a like course is very questionable. The protec- tion of Turkey involves the maintenance of Ma- hometanism, with all its obsolete rules and barbarous practices, against the rules and prin- ciples of Christianity, It is very doubtful incompeteney to mansge an opera. ‘Those | whether the extirpation of Mahometanism iu doubts and that belief we expressed in various | Europe. and the substitution of even such a form ways, and in different language, in the twelve | of Christianity as that proposed by the French articles charged to be libellous; and we will maintain to the last that we were not only stifled and suthorized, but bound and re d thus to express an honest conviction statements we made been untrue out 0 ment would “have been just. As it is, Church, would not be more conducive to the cause of human progress than the eneourage- ment of the Moslem faith, Whether the United States should or should not take any part in the coming struggle is a question of vital moment, involving vast conse- fact we alleged has been substantiated | qnences to humanity, and coveriug conturies of pr ard it stands on record time. It is well that we begin to think over it, re cor for g truths which and in doing so that we divest our minds of were be © state all prejadice and passion, and look only to the Ww t putation on the } ty ] net results of our action on the great cause of or integrity « ¢ jury which condemned as; | the advance of civilization and the benefit of humanity. issues from Archbishop Hughes, giving general ' ‘Werds of Advice to the Common Council Elect. Every member elect of the next Board of Aldermen who shall take his seat on the first day of January next will be a new member of the Board, and, with few exceptions, all the members of both sections of the Common Coun- cil then to take office are persons who have never been members of either chamber before. It is to be presumed, from the fact of their election, that they are not only honest, but 60 far intelligent and talented, that, by the em- ployment of proper‘care and industry, they will be, when they take office, if they are not now, competent. Yet it may be our province to make some suggestions to the members elect that may lead to a useful course of action, and give rise to a training of mind, by study and reflection, that will tend to prevent the commis- sion of many errors. A full knowledge of their duties and their powers is essential to their use- ful and correct official conduct. Without care- ful reading and examination this knowledge cannot be acquired—without a serious sense of responsibility and without great attention it cannot be properly applied. The late amendments to the charter of the city probably would not have been ne- cessary, had members rigidly, uprightly, and intelligibly done their duty. The law of April, 1849, would never have been required had members of the Common Council done their duty conformably with the charter of 1830—a charter which all will now acknowledge as being. in reality, a wise and good one, and al- tered by the subsequert laws only because of its violations, and not for its demerits—a char- ter which embodied all that was valuable in the preceding charters granted tothe city. Had the violators of that charter been held to a strict account for their conduct, no further laws would have been necessary, and the increased defects and their consequences, which the law of 1849 created, would not this day have been the sub- ject, as they now are, of deep regret—the cause of irreparable injury. Nearly four years have passed since the law of 1849 went into effect; for half of that period the whigs have had possession, and for the re- maining two years the democrats will have had possession of the Common Couneil, and the va- rious elective public offices have been about equally divided among persons of those two political parties. It will be conceded that under both of these administrations the intent of the law of 1849 has not been realized. It was designed by the establishment of the department for executive duties, that those du- ties should no longer be fulfilled by members of the Common Council—that each duty should be performed with economy and efficiency—that the taxes should be lightened, the public debt diminished, the -city preserved in health, in cleanliness, in good order and quiet. Behold the result !—the debt augmented—the taxes fearfully increased—the duties of public officers are in many respects, indeed in most cases, negligently, inefficiently, if at all, execu- ted. Executive acts have been, and are per- formed by the members of the Common Council, and to restrain the officers of the city from do- ing those things which they ought not to do, and to compel them to do what they ought to do. severe and stringent laws have been passed, Have these wrongs proceeded froma bad rystem, or from bad and imcompetent men ? To answer this, a further experiment is now to be tried. A new modification of part of the system of city government has gone into effect under the administration of men, many of whom claim to be reformers. Are they now, or will they be, after they shall be in office be competent to perform the task—will they doso? What are their powers? As members of the Common Council, they are to legislate for the municipal government or the city, They are to make such lawful ordinances as the good order, health, comfort, and security of the people and their rights demand. To understand this well, it will be useful to read carefully, and digest the Donnegan and the Montgomery charters, and the laws con. firming them, which will be found in Chancellor Kent's notes ; the charters of 1830 and 1849; the last laws amending the charter, and the laws of the State rclative to the city, (last edition of the Revised Statutes,) also the revised ordinances, and those general ordinances adopted since then. To ascertain thus the organization of the city and the county government, the various departments within it as now established, and the duties and powers of the various officers thereof; to secure their due administration ; to ascertain the condition of the city as to finances, property, cleanliness, arrangement, population and general order; whether its laws are dde- quate for the public security, and are duly en- forced ; what evils exist, and what improve- ments are demanded requiring city legislation. They are ex-officio ofticers and members of the Board of Health, and the Aldermen are members of the Board of Supervisors, of a Board of Appointment of certain officers, and also conservators of the peace. Their several powers and duties in these various offices are important, and the necessity of aecertaining them previous to their taking office, is clear. ‘The members elect take office with an inten- tion of reforming abuses, of securing an eco- nomical, honest, and efficient administration Their first steps, if right or wrong, will materi- ally affect their subsequent proceedings. Let them, by mutual intercourse, endeavor to understand the peeuliar ability of one another, and select the most eligible in each Board for their President; let the members of every com- mittee be placed where their abilities shall be best applied. Avoid hasty legislation. Let a ull statement or balance sheet of things, “as they are” by reports from the various depart- ments, be made; let every important proposition be referred and carefully examined, and the facts and authorities be ascertained by such committee in full meeting; let their reports in all cases, when practicable and appropriate, state the facts and be accompanied by the afti- davit, vouchers or authorities which support them, so that their reasoning and conclusions be well founded; let their reports be carefully con- sidered by each member, and let every vote be given understandingly, and with grave atten- tion, If industry, vigilance, attention, and anxiety to acquire a knowledge of their powers and duties, and of the subjects on which they act be employed, these, in conjunction with ability, fidelity, and integrity, in the use of those powers, and performance of those duties, will, no doubt, accomplish the end for which the members have been elected. Je rr A Naw Exrxpirion?—Oar Kay Went correspon lent Informa ue that @ small side wheel toamor, rout wants, panned that elty and went out by the Sand Key Channel om the 90th wlt, She had flying at ber pook Lone Star flag. Are the flibustors engaged im puc'Ler descent ppon the Queen ef the Antiller? Position of the President and his Party. ‘The varions parties in Congress are rapidly defining their position. Beverly Tucker's elec- tion has built a firm platform for the opposition. The programme of the Cabinet is before us in their acts, their appointments, their manifes- toes, and their entire policy. What is that pro- gramme? On what platform do they stand? We know where the party stood during the canvass of 1852. By whatever means, or with whatever understanding, General Pierce was nominated by the Baltimore Convention, no one can mistake the ground on which he was presented to the people and elected. The tone of the press, which was a faithful index of pub- lic sentiment, was as plainasnoonday. He was brought forward as the Compromise candidate, and it was by the strength of the Union eenti- ment, and that only, that he triumphed over General Scott, one of the greatest captains and noblest patriots this country ever produced. The most obtuse mind could not fail to perceive that he stood pledged to the support of the Compromise, and against free soilism and free soilers. Now that the first seal is opened and the President’s policy has begun to be developed, the momentous inquiry is again suggested: where does the administration party stand? Not on the platform which served them during the canvass, for that has been publicly repudi- ated, and the Baltimore Convention, by the con- feesion of its own leaders, is declared to have been a monstrous, outrageous, and impudent swindle on public sentiment. We must seck them elsewhere. We find them admitting to their arms traitors of every dye, appointing free soilers to office, and attempting to subvert the independence of the States by intsrfering in their elections, We find them everywhere tuk- ing part with the open foes of the Union, and singing peans over the defeats of the fathers of the Compromise. We find one member violat- ing courtesy and trampling on the indepen- dence of public officers, in order to secure a share of Custom House spoils for the free soilers; while his colleague is so anxious to strengthen the Southern rights party in Mississippi that he docs not hesitate to brand the Massachusetts coalitions—which he himself originated—as traitorous and disloyal. We find the whole Cabinet directing their organ to revile the Com- promise; and increasing their favors to its edi- tor in proportion to his faithlessness to the country. Finally, we find the President and the whole administration insisting on the promo- tion of a man like Forney to an office of-honor and trust. This is the platform on which General Pierce and his party now stand. They openly ayow that the Baltimore Convention was a cheat and a juggle on the honest democracy of the United States. It is impossible to continue to draw a line between the President and his Cabinet; the former is now fully identified with the juggle, and the administration isa unit. We can only hope that they will stick together, and, locked fast in each other’s embrace, will be precipitated by public sentiment into the obscurity of private life. It is related of an old Governor of this State—honest Governor Yates —who was nominated and elected by a juggle similar to that which placed General Pierce in the Presidential chair, though on a smaller scale, that on relinquishing his office he exclaimed—*I went into power as Governor of New York by the unanimous yote ef the citizens, and I went out by an equally unani- mous sentence.” The President will do well to treasure up the sentiment for future use. His administration of the government of this country has never been surpassed, if it has ever been equalled in errors, impolicy, and folly. His appointments, both foreign and domestic, have been abominable; it is hard to say which have been the worst. The course pursued by his Cabinet would have called a powerful oppo- sition into existence among the most apathetic people in the world. The brilliant views and Promises of his Inaugural have dwindled down to nothing in his message to Congress; no fea- tures are common to both but schoolboy rhe- toric, and the bullying flourishes of a country lawyer. His government seems to care for no- thing but enjoying a monopoly of the spolls, and perpetuating the power they are abusing, by the same means as they used to obtain it—a succession of tricks and juggles. This is the fruit of the Baltimore Conven- Fricut Amone tue Sroot Piazon Democ- Racy—The Washington Union denounces thé: New Yorx Herarp as the leading organ of the opposition to the administration, and in- dulges ina whole column of melancholy fore-* bodipgs based upon the election of Beverly Tucker as printer to the Senate. But notwith- standing this fright, this unexpected cause for alarm, and these gloomy apprehensions of the future, the Union intends to stick to the admi~ nistration to the bitter end, satisfied, as it is, that this is only the beginning of the campaign, The Union calls itself the organ of the de- mocratic party, and it is going to defend ang vindicate the democratic party against all ca- alitions, till it is fairly re-established under the administration. Unfortunately, however, thig ‘ party of the Cabinet organ is the spoils democracy—the stool pigeon democracy—the Van Buren free soil coalition democracy, and not the real, old Simon Pure, national, hard shell democratic party. That party—the real democratic party of the country—is the very head and front of the opposition to the Cabinet, the Cabinet organ, and the pie-bald free soik tion. This is the legacy of that august body to which we entrusted the most important politi- cal duty than can devolve upon American citi- zens. Is it not time, then, to trace conventions to their origin, and to inquire whether it would not be wise to throw them into the same lumber room as the old caucuses ? Their whole history shows them to have heen, in general, assemblies of bands of conspir- ators, who met for the sole purpose of grasping the spoils, and were, at all times, ready to cheat the public if that were necessary to gain their object. The Baltimore Convention succeeded. It cheated the people, and the conspirators di- vided the spoils. If, instead of the democrats, the whigs had sueceeded in carrying in their candidate, the result would have been the same. Why should we perpetuate such a dis” graceful system? Would it not be far better to rise up together and abolish conventions, as, twenty-five years ago, we abolished the caucus system, than to continue to maintain a state of things which fosters corruption among our pab- lie meu, and plunges ihe country into all the horrors of misgovernment? There are at this moment in the United States eight, ten, or fif teen distinguished men, all of whom have claims to the office of President. Why should they not all enter the field, and leave it to the House to decide between the three most successful candi- dates? Whatever other advantages such a sys tem wou'd possess, it would at least free the country from the elevation of tenth rate men to the White House, and such disgraceful expo- sures as the last few weeks have witnessed. Meanwhile, Beverley Tucker’s election shows what a strong feeling is abroad on the subject of the glaring repudiation of the Baltimore platform by the Cabinet. We see around us symptoms of an abiding indignation at the unmitigated swindle which has been practised on the country by the leaders of the Democratic Convention, and which the recent developements of the administration and its organs have brought to light. It devolves on the members of Congress to follow the exam- ple of the Senate, and to seize the first op- portunity of laying bare the whole transaction. in all its naked deformity, before the American people. The Mitchel Banquet. ‘ones is te bo the Chairman of the din ‘The tiokots, which are limited, vr eplily, and those who wish to re the right admission, ought to make ¢peecy application, We it np cv ntemplation to provide the Indies with refresh tents, though it ie pot Fo ret down in the programme, Mr. Charles ner (o John Mitebel, goirg Cabinet party; and the organ itself will dis- cover this important fact by and by, if it hag not found it out already, The Union chuckles over the imaginary ale surdity of a national party, supported by suclt leading free soilers a8 Messrs, Chase, Hale and Seward. But we say again, that if these mem repent of their past sins, and recant their free soil and abolition heresies and plant themselves upon the platform of sound national Union prin“ ciples, let them come in. But we say also, that in coming into the national Union party they must expect to serve a reasonable term of probation.in the ranks, with the musket upom their shoulders, before they can expect to be placed among the old, faithful officers of the line. They will not be advanced, like the trai- tors of the Buffalo platform, to the highest offices, as the purchase money of their repent- ance, But still, we are glad to see these signg of returning reason and repentance among suck men as Seward, Wade, Chase and Sumner. Let them persevere in the good work thus com menced. Let them cast away all their free soil, heresies, and unite themselves cordially, ig their acts and in their principles, with the na< tional democracy—the anti-spoils, anti-abolition democracy--the real hard shell constitutional democracy—and the country will rejoice. But whatever these men may do, the revolu- tion will go on. We have entered within the threshold of the operations for the great cam paign of 1856, And the signs of the times may well startle the administration. The ground: work of an extensive and methodical plan of opposition to this administration is without parallel in its early developement, But the case of the election of Duff Green as printer ta the Senate in 1827 did not more distinctly fore« shadow the downfall of John Quincy Adams and his Cabinet coalition than does this election of Tucker indicate the same fate to the Cabinet ca- alition of General Pierce. The Jeremiads of the Union now, like the long melancholy lamen tations of the ational Intelligencer in the case of Green, are very nearly the same; for the Intelligencer, in’27, only betrayed the same reasonable apprehensions of a successful revolé that are now betrayed by the Union. The work will go on; and, by the year 1856 t may perbaps be developed into a great reac- {ion in favor of General Scott, or in a free cans vass for the Presidency betore the people, un- _ trammelled by the trickery and thimble-rigging | of these Baltimore conventions, in which event — the election of the next President will devolve upon the House of Representatives. In view of this contingency, the uext elections of members _ of Congress, in 185455, will show the drift of he popular current, from Maine to Texas. But the subject grows upon us as we advanee, It is too vast and comprehensive in its mighty national bearings for a single hearing. We drop it for the present, only, therefore, to recur to it again and again, from day to day, with the progressive signs of the times, ° Axcubisuor Hocues at Favir.—We are sorry to say, that in his published letter to his flock in this city, our amiable, talented, and worthy Archbishop Hughes has done a weak and incon- siderate thing. It is a manifesto which will tend rather to inflame bad passions than to con: ciliate good feeling among our diversified popu- ation. This letter, in fact, is scarcely less ing judicious, at this time, than was the venerable archbishop’s address on the school question in Carroll Hall, a few years ago. The people of this city had outlived the remembrance of that occasion ; but this missive, calling upom the Catholics to be prepared for the defence of their churches and convents, as if a revolution were anticipated, revives all the unwelcome recollections of the school controversy, at the very time when a spirit of quiet forbearance ig most needed. No rational man, we venture to say, supposes that there is any real necessity for this warlike advice from our respectea Archbishop. That such a fanatical, dangerous and lawless conspiracy as this, which might be inferred from his letter, now exists in this city, it is simply impossible to believe. We regret to say, at all events, that the letter will rather excite alarm than restore quiet and harmony, We agree entirely with the Archbishop’s ad- vice concerning street preaching. Let those who do not like it stay away. Free speech and a free press are the corner stones of our Ameri- can constitutional rights and liberties, and nothing should be done to impair their rightful action, nor to render them ineflicient and pow- erless in the protection of the rights of all. Greetey Turnep Minttary Tacricray.— Grecley, in his military reviews of the hostile operations between the Turks and Russians on the Danube, finds fault with the tactics of the leaders on both sides. His profound knowledge of military science, obtained from the pages of the pictorial life of General Scott, doubtless enables him to do this with the readiness of an old soldier. If the war is to be further pro- lovged, we should think that both sides may be induced, from these warlike reviews of Greeley, to engage him in directing the movements of their respective armics. Only imagine the Turks storming an empty fortification, with that old white coat at the top of the ladder! Frospway Titarn® —Mr Cullios haw appeared in sever ral Irish charactors during the werk, Mr, Collins affoota the “Irish gootleman” style of play, and delighta in the representing of young fellows who have ran through their fortune, and baviog nothing left buts tenor voioa, aprile cf plaid trowsors, a case of duclling piatola, and e goodly Inheritance of debts, net thouselves up to catol some heiress, in which endeavor they generally Auccoet, alf the young wornen felling violoatly in love with then atonce. Mr. Ccllina haa been ra‘her successful in thie sort of thing; he has « gentlemanly apporrauce, dresses nd if bis brogus is terperfect, it Is very gentleman. ly as fax agit goes, He sings with teste, but his yoleo iu noitner fo strong, 60 sweet, nor ro foil an it onde wae, SUI, Mr, Coline fs an agreeable actor, and his light,