The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1853, Page 4

the East, and it is believed that the captain had his N EW YORK HERALD. | yeast proves to have been loaded with stone from | ties of New “rena, and treated with as mach JAMES GORDON BY PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR SFP Cu WW. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASTAU [TSe WETT, | METROPOLITAN BALL—Juisey's Concer. BOWERY TURAIRE, Powery—Cacriu Sprotae~ Os. guct oF IntexeetT GUY MANN BRING. Geondway—Lirwne Tornus axons. BROADWAY THEAT xrss- CATARACT OF T F, Chambers street—Piack axp 1 ToopLss otract—4er0en— tT NIe TNRAT Warre— Yaw wir THe w iarrig Katy. Brn ome CABIN. ¢4DACK'S 722 2, Broedway—Game or Lane | Ore (mm arp New team KERICAN MOSPUM—Afierncen-fiov Conm, Bvealag —Urere Tom's Caw Sramese Twine ava Wito f50aDW4Y MENS Busste. WERY AUP a7 Bowery. Nev nsraias wr FOUMANCES. = ZISTY'S AMERICAN OPERA Hi MeMIOFIAN MELODIES BY CMAISTY 8 ‘s Minstrel Pall, 44 Broad: ar rue MOLY Lan sBRNISH \IGNOR BLITZ—Srvvvesane 'nsrivuTe, WO Seoad way PEMY Hs Grier Rx meereiON OF THE ek Brosdway.—Jowes’ Pavroscorm, MINISTURE—Brosiway, corner oi iew York, Friday, December The News We give this morning some very valuable statis. tics, embracing the number uf accidents waich have ecourred on the various railroads ia this couatry Curing the year just closing, coupled witk tie num ber of + es k jled and wounced; ‘be accidents which have occnrred to ste m vessels, with she pamber of victims ; the fires which have been at. texced with loss of eth the names of these revolutionary fathers who have ceased daring tee year to show their young American progeny how flelds were won in times that tried men’s souls. Ws »iro give the names of the centenarians and the Getinguished persons who have been gathered to their tethers during the precediog twelve months; and the ber of executions which have taken place in the Uuited States. All these events were carefcily noted as they occur red, erd may be regarded as coirect. In the necrelogical list wil be found the names of men emivent in every department of life, the bar, the pulpit, the battle-i-l4, the warship and the counting howe. By cur tables it will be that one hun- dred avd i lirty-eight accidents, which were attended with loss of life, maiming of person and destraction ef property, beve occurred on railroads withia the boundenes of the Usited States, which deorived two hundred ané thirty-four persous of life, and wound- ed, in every imeginable manser, four hundred and Binety-six others. We cannot belp but ask whether this fact is not really too fearful to contemplate or dwell upon? Steamboat accidents have beea less Bumerous, but, as appears, more cestri ve of ha- man Jife, wh’ch is owing to tle great number, Qe hundred and twenty,) who lost their lives er wil fo February last, by the burning of the steamer Icdependence on the shores of the Pacific; the whole number who have thas been hurried into the spirit land is three tan- @red and nineteen, snd one handred and fifty eight persous have suffered injaries by those catastrophes Fires on land have bed their share of vic Dur ng the year there have been sixty fires, at which persons to the number of one bundred aud fourteca Jort their lives. T ye ll be found iuteresting, acd worthy of prese: In addition to the m ing paragraph, we gi tiwe made by the C bing between this ci the uvera loving to t ter ail tables sbo ied to in the preced- ng the exact e rival lines. As almost every 7 is deeply inteiested in this great national, scic aud commerci.] con est, thes+ tables will be fo: invaluable for future reserence. The heavy fall of snow im this part of the coun- try ou Wednesday night, followed as it was by the intense cold of yesterday, woich completely solid.Ced nearly everythivg of a liquid natare, had the effect of bringing mort wheeled vehi to a stand still, The railroad tracks being coated with both mov and ice iu many localities, it was almost impossible for the trains to move, consequently passengers were sorely troubled, and the few matis that arrived here were generally behiod hand. The failure of the ma'l: Low-a-duys, however, ia a matter of but trivial impoitance. The telegraphic wires always keep us posted up concerntng the leading events ia differ- ent parts of the country, hours, days, and some times weeds, in advance of the post, From Boston we learn that the snuw as about eighteen inches deep, and still falliog at seven o'clock las* eveaing. Tce railroad tracks were blocked up, and no steam- boat train liad arrived from or ce varied for this city Guring the day. Is short, we hear of nothing but her aod scow from Portlaad, Me., to Mil- Wiscos+in. United States Sex bad only been in session about twenty micutes yesterday when it | waa found that no quorum was preseat, and the becy was compelled to afjurn. Daring the sit ting, % resclution directing inquiry into the expediency of establicbing an armory ai Hazil- ton, Ind ana, WwaR agreed to; a petition, urving arbiration the setiement of roationsl Gisputes, from the American Peace ty was pre senvicd; also, a petition for a rcuewal of tue patent of Cyrus M.Cormick’s reaping machine; a bill granting Isnd by the wholesale for railroad purpo:es in Ohio, Indiana, Diinvis and Missouri, was presented by Mr. Atchison, and Mr. James introduced a joias rescinticn provioing a sword for the nearest mule relative of the gallent Mojur Ringgold. The Howe ‘was not in sestiow, that body baving adjoumed from Wednesday till co morrow. Bee the last page for telegraphic and other io‘er esting matters from Washington. The State Conveution of Te chers, at Albany ad journed yesterday, ster having adopted a series of yesclutions in which, among other mutters, they op- pose a division of the school moneys for sestariau teaching, and recommend a separation of the oflize of Secretary of State ‘rom that of Superintenden Commen Schoo's. Dr. Noit, the President of Uniou College, last Wednesday paid upwards of six hundred thousand dollars to the trustees of that .nstitutfon. By telegrayh we learn that the c tizens of Cincia- nati essembled in large rombers last eve ving, for the purpose of giving expression to their indigsation against the railroad rioters. Conspicuvus among the spearers was Hon. Phoe, Corsin, Jnte Secretary of the Treasvry. Strong resolutions were adopted cen suring the Erie poopie for their uniawfuk proceed ings, aod condemming the Governor of Pennsylvani for ty mpath zing w th and ecaconrasing the rioters ia their defence of the decrees of the courts, A State Railroad Conveution was he'd in Jackson Michiyon, on Wednesday mpg the resol .tion adopted was one prope rease the capital # is the Port Haron aod Micsigas Railroad to cignt milli ns of dollars, and # er recomme te oiiog «f a0 extra se 0 of roe Legisiatay E eg 8 eng, als Onl pan Mie A Ddoy Mtg the | have been wantonly « wife and child on board. Only five persons are reported to have died of cholera in New Orleans last week. By reference to the levgihy r port of the prot ced. ing: in the extradition case of Alexauder H et}bona, claimed as a fugitive from jastice by Engian ’, it will beeen that the United States Commissioner has | committed the prisoner, notwithstanding bis dis- charge by the ‘Sta’e.court. This action will undoubt- edly lead to @ spirited con‘roversy between the State apd federg] courts, the final result of which will estoblisa& an impertant precedent in the judicial sys tem of yur couxtry. Severel of the members elect to the Legislature visited Ware's Island yesterday by invitation of the Commissioners of Emigration. We leara from tae ue daily average of emigrants on tbe island is forty-five, and that the pre- sect ipmates number sboot twentyseven bun- dred. Between two and three huudred persons reccive temporary relief and lodgisg: week; fvurteen nd have received ment at the Canal street esta¥lishment duriv yesr. Two bundred and eighty three thousaald three hundred aad toirty-tvo grants bave ar- rived during the last twelve months; and $570,312 have been received, and $57 5 disbursed tor their benefit. The total amount p ies for ia- demnities on account of emigrasts, within the year, was $140,000. be Common Council egain met last evening, and S com: pproxching end seems to have rendered the exceedingly anxious to gett gh with mpli-hed. Yoere was no debate worthy of notice in either board. The re port of the Coumittee on Ferries, ia favor of causing the New Jersey Railroad Transportation Company to esta dich a ferry at the fuot of Desbrosves street, was adoptd by the Board of Ald men, as was alsoa resolution, intreduced by Aldermao Tweed, pro- viding fer the erection of sheds in Market slip for the use of persons doing busines in Catherine market, and that $1,000 be appropriated for the purpose. Doth boards adjourned till this eve . As usual, our pages contain as immense variety of ipteresting and important intelligence to which it is impossible to refer in detail. We pr 1 & report of the investigation concersing the Jersey City Bank robbery ; curious breach of pronise case ia New Jersey ; toe preliminary steps for tie arrest of Mr. Perhain, of “ Gift Exhibition” notoriety, for an al- leged intended violation of the lottery Jaws; complete history of a extraordinary K rages on American citizens in New Granada; Let ters from Albany, St. Louis and Key West; repor's relative to the E, Orphans’ Home, and layiag the corner stone of a new Episcopal Chureh, &:. A Consistent Statesman, The case of Frederick Wicche!, a Saxon by birth, who come to this country in 1851, and declared his intention of becoming a citizen; remained here some two years, and then visited Germany on business; was arrested at Leipsic suficred imprisonment and other indignities at the hands of the authorities at Dresden and Bremen, and finally succeeded in making his esespe to this country; will be perused with peculiar interest by the readers of this morn- ing’s Horatp. Independently of the intrinsic attraction ot the narrative of oppression and suflering, Herr Wicchel’s story will claim an attentive hearing from all classes, ou the simple ground that it is a striking paral- lel to the notorious case of Martin Koszta. Wicchel and Koszta stood on precisely the same ground. Both were born for Both came to this country, and their intentions. Both afterwards r Europe, without establishing a dom 2. Both were arrested In foreign countrics, an} suffered hards at the hand of Europeaa despotisms. Here, bowever, the parallc! oads, In the one eese—that of KWezta—the United States interfered, and rescued the exile from the hands of his oppres that of Wiechel--the Unit interfere. In one instance, Mr. Marcy to the world that an exile who had declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States was thenceforth fully entitled to our protection and support. In the other, the same Mr. Marcy gave it as his deliberate opinion that the United States could not interfere on behalf of individuals who had not fulfilled all the formalities essential toa complete naturali- zation. Ye have no wish to throw vexatious ob- stacles in the way of the United States govera- ment. Whatever opposition we may fel bound to offer to their political cuurse will always. we trust, be characterized by tairness and honesty. We lave already proved, that where they deserved praise, from no quarter were they more sure of it than from ourselves. In questions involving abstruse principles of in- ternational law we are peculiarly desirous of dealing generously with the aduinistration Embarrassments springing from legitimate causes we shall be the last to aggravate. But in view of so glaring a contradiction as that in- volved in the cases of Koszta and Wicchel we cannot possibly remein sileut. The policy of the United States government was sent forth to the world in the Koszta letter. That policy luay or may not have been correct. We have our opinions on the point, and when a fitting opportunity occurs shall not be backward in expressing them. But whether justifiable or no, the Marcy policy was asserted and maia- tained with all the authority ofthe President and the Cabinet. Austria was bullied, and England was silenced when she atiempted to postulale. Eerope was formally notified that this country would interpose its whole strength to protect any refugee who, having declared his intention of becoming a United States citi claimed our protection in any quarter of t globe soever. The position was not assumed in Secretary Marcy took days and weelcs He had time to consuls libraries #, and examine digests of preee- dents. Ample leisure was afforded him to weigh the whole consequences of the inauguration of his policy. After duc deliberation, 4 thought, he resolved to write the Koszta letter. The world was astounded, but no resistance was offered, and the first man who openly comes forward to deny the trath of the principles therein propounded, and to controvert the im- portant inference draw from them, is Secretary Marcy himeelf. He is the ovly statesman who ex: has publicly and authoritatively stated that the doctrine on which his own letter was based i untenable and unsound. We leave to the Cabinet organs the task oy explaining so anomalous a proceediag. The Union, we doubt not, will find high flowae cuses for the inconsistency. o is before it we beg to draw its atlant that of its masters. to the case of Williams aud Miller, likewise ¢ | They are both Am appear from the While srities of the auth ican ente revenne to Are contume ha «fy for claiming his just rights as if he eeen the lowest of criminals. Their case #4s been laid before Mr. Maroy, and were it not for the unavoidable inferences from the Wiechel case, we should unhesitatingly predict a prompt vindication of their rights and our national honor. As it is, we know not what to expect. Gon. Pierce’s administration assumed office with the most noisy protestations of regard for the in- terests of Americans travelling abroad. Mr Marey gave utterance to a burst of patriotism on behalf of a ragged Hungarian which shook the whole civilized world. He proclaimed it as the settled resolution of the United States government to throw its mgis over any foreigner who condescended to go through the form of de- claiming his intention to become an American citizen. Yet, when the theory is put to the test, M farey formally declines to act up to his promise, and deliberately repudiates any ob- ligation to protect foreigners who have not been fully naturalized. The discovery would appal us more if it were steney and bad faith ayed by the administration. If Generai ree had not already violated every pledge given in his inangnral—if his government had wot trampled on the sentiment which placed it in power—if he had not instructed his an to throw overboard the material igations of ihe compromizse—if he had not openly repudiated the platform oa ich be was presented to the people—we should view Mr. Marcy’s treachery asa most dangerous symptom for the future. Cominy, es it does. in the train of a long series of simi lar inconsistencies, it can neither surprise nor alarm the people. At most it can oaly be con- strucd as another proof of the faithful ad herence of the Cabinet to the spoils principle —-anctker evidence of the consistent inconsis- tency of the United States government. To men who have violated every pledge, and repudiated every obligation imposed by their rank, the petty disgrace of giving a practical refutation to their own theorics could present but fiw terrors. There is a degree of political cy where irceh acts of dishonesty are sary asa daily dram to the drunkard. Male. de Brinvilliers declared that she could not Lelp poisoning people, the habit had grown upon her to such an extent. Io like manner, the readers of Wiechel’s case will probably con- clude that Mr. Marcy has fostered such a habit of inconsistency aud faithlessness that the opportunity it aYorded him for gratifying his propensities must haye been regarded rather as a boon than a painfil necessity. & New Gory Mives—Great Rvsu to Wasuincton.—We gave yesterday a bird’s eye view of the immense gold mines laid bare ia the city of Washington, and of the gathering of the diggers, and thcir plans for getting out the gold in wholesale quantities. But we discover that in our estimated value of these mines, we were much below the mark. We now learn that the bills introduced in both houses of Congress during the first three weeks of this session, for grants of the public domain to railroads, will absorb the enormous aggre- gate of one hundred and twenty millioas of acres of Jands These grants, being along the ine of the propozed roads, on both sides, will, when givea away as proposed. be raised at cace to the average of at least three dollars an sere, The result will be a grand haul to the land jobbers, if all their schemes are carried out. of three hundred and sixty mil dollars trom the public domain, or, words, from the Treasury of the United States. Phis tremendous pile of gold, added to the ag- stinates ofpatents, steamships, Frenca ons, private claims, miscellaneous con- tracts, and the regular appropriatious, will give us a grand total of the estimated value of the Washington gold mines, if werked to the bottom, of five hundred millions of dollars. Five hundred millions!’ Why, this is equal to the total yield of all the diggings of Califor- nia, of all kinds, for ten years, And yet, the plans and combinations of the miners are such that they calculate to get at the bulk of these five hundred millions during the present ses- sion of Congress! A holy alliance, we under- ttand, as carly as last summer, was organized in thie city among the patent speculators, for the winter campaign at Washington. No doubt ® still more formidable combination bas becn or will be organized among the steamship com- panies; but the most majestic coalition of all may be expected upon the Pacific Railroad, aud the va.icus smaller schemes of the land and stock jobbers in and out of Congress. Five hundred millions awaiting the action of Congress! But with thirty millions surplus in the treasury to start oa, and the prospect of a general war in Europe, which will give us the monopoly of the carrying trade on the high sess—with our flood of immigranis pouring in at the rate of four hundred thou- said a year—with California contributiag her annual fifty millions of the real stu‘f, and Australia a fair eprinkling—with our white set- tlements extending into the depths of the Rocky Mountains—-with our Indian countries asking to become regular territories, and our territcries asking to be admitte 1 as States into the Union—with our filliLustcros crowding hard upon Mexico and Cuba—with King Kameha- meha pleading on his knees for aunexation— with China in ptocess of being opened to the blessings of free trade aud Christianity—with Commodore Perry waiting for an answer to th: President’s progressive letter to the Emperor of Japan, and with a steady and continuing rise in breadstufls pork and whiskey—who’s afraid’? Let the business of working the rich gold mines at Washington proceed. It is the golden age—the very millennium of speculators, land jobbers, stock jobbers and spoilemen, Let the work go on. Washington is the real El Dorado of the day. There are the spoils, and there will be the spoilemen. Briefless lawyers, ex-members of Congress, superannuated gamblers, agents and drammers, and adventurers of every de. seription, will be” hurrying into Con- grees. Men of enterprise, of worldly kaow- ledge and sagacity, will be there, with their families, and the fair sex will not be sufiered to remain neutral while the univer- ral business of the season is gold mining. The true spolsman, like Proteus, ae p38 every iLat may suit bis purpose, aud, like ori- sit, be is everywhere. cason at Washington will be execediagly nabl will b rked by such | the youth and beau‘y there? Under such influences, if you can catch him, | lautry and gold mining, for the spoilsmen will not be idle, even among the butterilies. And who can resist the atmosphere of the ball-room the gay assemblage, ihe bright eyes, the fair forms, the sweet faces, the music, the mag Tt can’t be done. even Benton becomes ge be conciliated, for - “hard” , and Bright may sinile. What a contrast between this facinating des- cription of the working of the gold mines at Washington and thove of California and Austra- lia! The difference between Mahomet’s paradise and the miseries of Ireland is not greater. It is just the difference between » supper of oys- ters and champagne, surrounded by captivating houris, and a cold dinner of salt pork and sea biscuit, in the Dead Man’s diggings, enviroued by yelping Indians. eAnd the contrast between the wealth of the mines at Washington and those of California is just as great—the latter ielding fifty millions a year. aad the former calculated to yield five hundred millions during the present Congress, if worked to the bottom. Such is the grand programine of the spoils- men. Five hundred millions! And ail things, too, indicate their success upon a grand scale. We have a spoils administration aud a spoils Cabinet, wit the chief of spoilsinen at the head of it; and he is always for the spoils. When not in oftice he bas becn among the spoils- men in the lobby, and he will probably end his career among the very thickest of the gold dig- gers at Washington. And the House is in for the spoils; and the old party leaders of the Senate smell the spoils, and are on the track. ‘The mines must and will be worked. The gold is there and must come ont. They may discuss in Congress, the slavery question, the Monroe doctrine, the army, the navy, and anything else; but behind the dust and smoke, and under cover of all the proceedings, speeches, moonshine and clap-trap for Buncombe, the gold diggers will look like beavers after the spoils. In a word, this is to be the great session of the age--the greatest for the spoilsmen and the spoils. Gex. Scorr anp Mareoy’s Caninet Scaven- Gens.—One of Marcy’s cabinet scavengers at Washington—a little penny paper there—states that Gen. Scott, who was so outrageously abused by the New York Henatp duriug the last Presidential canvass, is now overwhelmed by flattery and praises from us. We never abused Gen. Scott. We opposed his election in 1852 on certain political grounds; but that op- position was open, frank, manly, and honorable to both partics alike. We acknowledge the high merits of Gen, Scott as a military chief- tain, as a gentleman, and as amau. We op- posed his election because we were afraid that his triumph would bring into power the Seward free soil intcrest in New York and the North, We acknowledge now that we were in error in that belief, and that the clection of Gen. Pierce has brought about a greater evil in that respect than could even have resulted from a triumph involving the advancement of free soilism un- der the Seward influence. This greater evil is the restoration of the Van Buren free soil dy- nasty in this State. We deny, therefore, that we ever abused, ia any true acceptation of the term, General Scott. Yet we are sorry to say that Gen. Scott, in one essential particular, was abuced in the columas of the New York Herarp; and that abuse, without our knowledge thereof at the time, was written by Willixm L. Marey, in a mean, cowardlike. and skulking man- ner. We allude toa document ealled a mili- tary review or history of Gen. Scott’s career. The d-m-er tic committee at Washington, which had the superintendence of the arrange- ments for Gen. Pierce’s clectiou, applied to us, through their chairman, and wanted us to pub- lish that abusive military review ot Gen. Scott's life. We required to see it first. Mr. Penn, member of Congréss from Louisiana, brought the document in proof sheets to us. We de- clined its publication at the time, on accouut of the injustice doze in it to the military renown of Gen. Scott. Mr. Penn, who was stopping for the time in this city, took the paper away, and again returned in a day or tivo, Fequesting us to publish it, as it came, he said, from one of ihe most distinguished statesmen in the land. We did not then know that he alluded to William L. Marcy, who was at that time secret- ly superintending the publication of the abusive review in question. We looked at the paper again, aud told Mr. Penn that if we published it we thould accompany that publication with an editorial article condemning the spirit and character of the document. Again he took the paper away, not consenting to its being pub- liched on these conditions. In a day or two he returned, for the third time, we believe, and requested us particularly to publish the paper against Gen. Scott, with any remarks we might choose to accompany it with, in order, as he said, that it might find its way amongst this great community—a thing which it could not do in any other form. With great reluctance at the time we consented to let it appear, for we al- ways had a high admiration of certain portions of Gencral Scott's life, particularly of his bril- liaut military career, aud his gentlemanly and honorable demeanor as a man and as a public character. But it was pressed upon us, as we have shown, again and again; and at length we yielded, and published this paper, issued by the democratic committee at Washington, and writ- ten by Wm. L, Marey, the same person who had penned the previous correspondence against General Scott—a fact which was also at that time unknown to us. This is the only abusive article of General Scott that the Henarp contained during the contest of 1852, and this was clandestinely cir- culaied through our columns by the democratic committee, and came secretly and fraudulently from the pen of Wm. L, Marcy, the present Se- cretary of S'ate. We disowned it at the time ; we disown it now ; and cast it back in the teeth of the Seerctary, with all the odium and dis- grace which may attach toit. We were op- posed to Gencral Scott’s elevation at that time, and we are free to admit that we were de- ceived into the support we then gave Gencral Pierce, and have been deceived by his subse- quent conduct and policy. These facts show that thongh General Scott—a frank, opea and noble-hearted man in all his relation of li erred io the last Presidential campaign by his associations, and by his writing and speaking too much, yet he bas nothing of the skuiking he cowardly propen L. Marey, who would sn abusive paper, and cirent isgni throv onr colt . I | Aue + Use, Woicured, Deed iMiyprieuueu by Lis Goede b Lap pieoe Yosewenntivd Gat HUURE LUCURIOUS OF Bale | Chas GutElluL. | as he is in the | Senate, at the soirée he may be subdued by a Tux Broapway Rai.xoan—Incenpiany Ma- wiresto--The excitement upon this topte scems to increase. As we said yesterday, | it forms ihe only subject of couyersation and discussion. There is no doubt on mind of any well informed person as to t sue, The bill will pass. It requires fourteen votes in each braneh of the Common Councih and the grautees say that they have more than that anmber pledged inits favor. The bill will ; Rot be brought up until Saturday night, and j will be the last act of the present Council. | Their term expires at midnight Saturday, and | | the only way to prevent the passage of the bill would be for some one disposed to speak against time until the Jegal period of the ses- | sion had expired. Dut this is hardly y , because the grantees bave been at work | ly with the members of both Boa Alkkinds of inftuenees have been brought to bear upon them, and the leaders of the party in favor of the road are exultant—the opposition is depressed, but determined. This, then, is the state of things at the City Hall, The compacy’s agents are ready to pro- | ceed with the work af once, and it would aston- ish our up-town friends if they should see the cars running in Broadway on the first working day of the new year. In the present position of things such a circumstance is possible. ‘tke principal fact which will impede the cox pany is found in the state of the pavement ia Drondway at the present time. The two or three inches of snow, if the present verg enld weather continues, will become ground into the pavement so as to make it almost imposs!- ble to remove the blocks. If a thaw should come, and then another change in the thermo- meter, producing ice, the work would be stiil more difficult. But the railroad will be com- menced on Saturday night—the laborers’ picks are revdy—the contract for the iron has been signed, sealed and delivered—the cars are in process of erection. The grantees openly say that the Council will not dare to do otherwise than pase the bill. What are the opponents of the road doing? Their plan of operations is not generally known; ia fact, it is rathor doubtful if they are fully determined upon the course which they intend to pursue. There is a rumor, as we write, that they have made preparations to get an injunction to re- strain operations—tbat they have a judge ready to grant said injunction, and officers prepared to serve copies Of it on Saturday night. There is considerable improbability about this state- ment. Upon whom are the copies to be served ? Itis not probable that any of the grantees will put themselves in the way for the especial con- venience of their opponents, and an injunction cannot be served upon thcir servants. The next rumor is that physical force will be resorted to—that the laborers engaged in taking up the pavement will be violently resi: 3 ed. Some one has sent us the following placard which, we suppose, is this morning posted up’ throughout the city. The author or authors of such an incendiary manifesto should be ferreted. out by the autho. ities :— BROADWAY IN RUINS! CITIZRNS TO YOUR Posts! ! A FLAGAANT, SNAMBLESS WRONG 10 B® PERPETRATED | 4 Case Demanding Extraordinary Remedios The gang of speculators, whove late:t alias is tue “Mane batten Railroad Company, bas cetermiued io possess iteelf of Broadway in delianoe of the popular will. ts tion to tear uy the rew aod enormously cortly’Russ pavement, he Battery te Union piace, upon the first working ¢1 the permission of the present corrupt Common Cuunctl is obtained, is boldly announced aad Gah saree is Litt reaae - nd believe thet that as- sent wil iven on Sat of honout Hiasor Wartervelt. “Owen” "he OF the velo MONDAY, JANUARY 2nn, the work of urhailowed deetruction will commenes, Tho new cl y goveromen; ‘naugurated om thet day, caunot legally taterpovm until Wednesday. Before that tine the ruin will bave Leex com i e@ruia which can only ba attributed to motives delibersiely insuitiag to the waols con munity, since nore know beter thas the depredators themseives, that the ertizensof New Youk will aever psr- mit the read to be laid by them, Will the people «f New York meet audacions Will thay e: and mute while this ated? ! ; oalway, the great and rpleadid main avenue of ths cin the pride of the me tropolis ard of the country, converted into a heap of ruins, and rerceved uppasaadle for iontha, io ¥ to gratify the wollis rapecity of thyse confederates ? Shall fracd, corruptioa and venality destroy, Ynot oniy the fair fame of the comusity, but the very eity If oot, the time has come for a bold, unmistakable expression cf popalar fevilag. {he Uouncils, ia making the grant, dare to say that the measure bas the ap 9robe- tion of the masses, “Let cham be persuaded of the coa- tr let them koow that what the Legislature, the Courts, end the Mayor bare at ompted vainly to do, tae Pecplo wre uzaninous to prevent, Ist the confederates Drcught face to foe with the POPULAR SOVERFIGNTY, ON MONDAY | Three thousard myrmitous of the Manhatian Compaoy wilt, if the Coureil capavt he oi suaded from passing the Obuoxious resolution, possess tuemielves of the sirost, and proceed to cesiroy it, Let tha p Aasemble at sme suitable place before Moiday—vsicse, if possiole, the Beare of Aldermen shall geaus the corprrats awsent, acd declare their uowillicgnes: te be so stripped of tacit prope, Lesevery maa be @ jo withstan mye rate 2c fully, out resolu the perpstration uf this lawless insult end wroag Ii ia zoe impossible that such waimen the pert of thy 0% may (verave tle cepedatirs, 1 ger Of }opslar ditarbanoe, ia case the act hs consum wated, may be 8 presented ty t.e Board of Aleriaes as to forbid, even at the eloveuta bur, the zaesage os the grant, LE? TUREE BE A GENERAL RALLY ! And then if the thirg be exsented, all parties will hav fair varaing of the popular wre) they mey cartatuly auticipa e. A HOST OF CLARY: We sincerely trust that there will be no emucte. But, at any rate, the peace of the city must be preserved, and we agaia call upon our chief magistrate to be pre- pared for the worst. A little determination on the part of the Mayor isall that is needed. All peaceful and order-loving citizens—-all persons who are prepared to discharge their duties and obligations, as well as to support and maintain their rights and privileges—will join with the authorities in the endeavor to quell an out- break like that which is now threatened. [tis buta short time since our dignity as cilizeus and our characrer as men were grossly out- raged by a riot in which thirty lives were sacrificed. Let us hope that, with the Astor place tragedy still fresh in their minds, the people of New York will not allow their passions to predominate over those principles of union and concord upon which our govern- mental system is founded. Tae Gir Exuritions—Tuk AUTHORITIES Down Uron TueM.—-The documents in another column will show that the authorities have at last taken hold of the gift exhibitions, be- ginning with Perham and his panorama, and his farm in New Jersey, &c. By order of Judge Woodruff, the Deputy Sheriff, James B. Beusel, proceeded to arrest Perham last evening, with the view of binding him over in $50,000 to answer to the charge of violating the laws concerning lotteries, kc. Steps have been also taken to hold J. Wesley Jones, at Hope Chapel, and Jollie, and Dodworth, to the same ac- countability to the Revised Statutes. Perham, it seems, up to yesterday, had sold cighty thousand tickets at a dollar apiece, cash down. Jones we learn, has sold some nine thousand tickets of his concern. Martie Lacsca ov a Sreammur «Th steamship Vera Crus, for Harris & uc Voce | steamore wi ? of Jaovd A Wertervet & Oo, fe t, Ka porter, ot balf past » | commanded by Cuptate Ja , | Texws, and will uswa thia port DBL aeesaary werk * Joun Mrrewen any Tas ORGANS ov TuE Ap- MINISTRATION: —Ever siace Juba Mitchel ven- turcid to erificise Marey’s letter on the Koazta case. In his speech at the Broadway theatre, the Van Beren journals aud the organs of the al- Ww tration have been pursuing him io full ery, and with as much keenness aud perseyer- ance as ever pack of bounds hunted a fox or a deer, It was peculiarly proper for a foreigner, and especially such a foreigner as Mitchel, to expr¢ss his opinions upon this letter, which met his view just as he set his feet upon oyr fice shores. He had every right to enter his protest against the double- faced. Javus-like. equivocal document, and to- assume that it was not American in its spirit and tendency. It was a humbug, clap-trap, clectioneering paper, intended to catch the Irish aud German vote for the Marcy end Yao Burene faction in the late election in this State. Marcy saw that Captain Ingraham had performed a popular act, and he determined to take the wind out of his suils, by seemiog tostand by him aad Koezta, while at tho same time he lett the letter open toa totally diferent construction, when. ibe election was over and the temporary object was gained or lost. All the points of any value init are stolen from Webster, but so obscured. and complicated with other matters as to de~ prive them ot the perspicuity and force of “the expounder of the Coustitution.” Webster's manifesto was clear and Incid, and had but one obvious meaning. and his arguments were based upon sound principles. This was what became the represcitative of a free republic. But Marcy’s letter was like the ambiguous state pa- pers of European despots, and its counterpart might easily be found among the diplomatic notes of the minister of the Czar. It was a piece of politieal demagoguism unworthy of an American statesmen. Itwas intended to;de- ceive,as can be proved under Marcy’s own hand ; and it argues much for the sagacity of Mitchel that he at once discovered the cheat, and equally for his manly candor that he ex- posed it. The Van Buren organs complain bitterly of his erposé , and utter terrible denunciations ; but they do uot suggest what is to be done with him. They offer no practical proposition to stop his mouth or put down his paper hereafter. Why do they not go to Washington and geta bill passed by Congress to make it «‘ felony” for Jon Mitchel to speak or write anything about Marcy or the government? Let them do this, aud banish him into exile at once. It is true we have no Botany Bay or Van Dieman’s Land tv send him to. But he can be ostra- cised to the upper regions of Salt River, somewhere about its head waters, and kept there iill another agent with a slice from the Irish Directory.is sent to deliver him from captivity, and under the shadow of the star- spangled banner, bring him back in triumph to the great ‘ Empire City” of “ the land of the free and the home of the brave.” BarsaM FoR THE Cabinet SporsmEn.—One of the Cabinet scavengers at Washington saye in its dirty columns that well-informed news- paper men in New York represent the circula- tion of the Hrratp as rapidly declining. The circulation of the Heratp is increasing, and has been increasing during the last year more than it has ever done since the day of its first establishment. Our growth is a natural pro- cess. Like the rivivg of the tide, or the pro- gress of vegetation, it is natural, constant, and inevitable. keeping pace with the growth of our population and of public enlightenment. At this moment two or three daily journals de- pend for their existence on the impossibility or our fast printing presses enabling us to print as maby papers as we could circulate. Ifit werein our power to printa suficient number of copies of the Heratp within certain hours in the morao- ing, we could add ten or fifteen thousand to our present circulation in a few weeks, and take an equal number from the other daily: journale sround us. But, although we have the fastest presses now in existence, there is a physical impossibility in our meeting the-demand for the Heranp. However, we are in hopes that the celebrated inventor, Mr. Hoe— who is now engaged in mak- ing experiments of a very remarkable charac- ter—will be enabled ina short time to.construct for us machinery capable of printing with ease and comfort eighty or a hundred thousand sheets within a certain period of time every merning. Mr. Wilkinson, another ingenious in- ventor in the newspaper prees line, is also en- gaged inasimilar experiment. Several ,par- ties are Jikewise busy with experiments in ste- reotyping, under the conviction that the intro- duction of this system in a modified form might enable a daily journal such as the New Yore Heratp to multiply its power of issue four, five or six times, within a certain number of hours. We trust aud bope that some of those experi- ments may succeed because the demand for a supply of the Herap from an intelligent com- munity is increasing more rapidly than on any former cccasion. It is in vain, therefore, for rival journals, or rival politicians, or broken down epccniators, to lay the flattering unction to their touls that the New York Heratp has seen its best days, We have indeed scen some good days. but we bave not the slightest doubt that with the inerease of population, intelli- gence, ard wealth in teis country, we will yet eve far brighter and better days in our newspa- per exi-tence, sud that in a short time we will circulate a hundred thousand sheets cach morn- ng throughout this community and the civil- zed world. Dry Goons Cierxs Rospine Them Evproy- Eks.— From recent proceedings in the police courts, some very curious developements have heen brought to light, exhibiting what we long since knew was going furward upon an exten- sive scale in this city—the systematic robbery of dry goods merchants and store keepers by the clerks in their employment. So great has been the extent of the plunder, that many firms have been ruined by it and made bankrupt, while they appeared to themselves, and to every- body else, to be doing a very fine businese, Others, who ought to have been making money, still found tvemselves poor, and they could not account for it. No doubt the late disclo- sures in counection with Beck’s establishment will open tue eyes of many of the merchants of New York. According to the testimony pro- duced, not only have the employés in that «en robbing it, but they have been in wilh clerks in other establishments, who been plundering their employers; and it out that an asseciation of these men suized for the purpose of ¢ lug plans of pillage upon an cx t with the habits i t wy if, must have cored evident that tbey were engaged 9