The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1854, Page 4

‘NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ‘SPPICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ore ST 5 LD seery Saturday at # the Reropean Bdition 34 per an tim, and $8 So omy part of the be poet paid or the poatage will be deducted /rom E taken of cnonymous somme reject fi MENTS renewed every dave ory—Uncux Tom's Canim, BROADWAY THRA Brosdway—Domestic Ecoxe- M¥ -CATAKACT OF THE * URTON'S THEATRE, Chambers streot—How ro waxy Harry-@vxk Best Socmyvy Oxe Tuousann Minit WATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—Afternoon snd Byening—Vacix Tom s ( WALLACK’S THEATRE Groadway—Bacueton oF Aurs-Pretry Pisce oy Business— Mone Biuxpens THAN UNE. AMERICAN MUSEU 4—Aft-cnoon—Nop 0’ My Tuumn Bvouing—Youxo Winow—uor @ My Tuvas. BROADWAY MENAGRERIE—fianxse Twos ann Winey 878. CHRISTY’S AMERICAN OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broad Wway—ErioriaN MeLopies BY CHRISTY’S MINSTRELS INS?TRELS, Wood's Minstrol Hall, 444 Broad TAN MINSTRALSY BUCKLE OPEFA HO Bear's Bruoviaw Orena T BR, 639 Bresdway—Buok BANVARD'S GRORAMA, £96 Brondway—-Paxonana or war Hory Last BHENISH GALLERY, 66 Brosdway—Day acd Evening. rv Inevirere, 609 Brond- BIGNOR BLITZ—Srovves way. SCADEMY TALL 63 B: mmr iC ¥ PME ORVE HOPE CHAPES, 718 Br BRYAN GALLERY OF CURISTION ART—S3 Bread ey y—Puruam's Grier Bx KOR. ~Joxre’ Panroscorr, Mails for Europe. THE NEW YORK WEAKLY BERALD. ‘The United States mail ste p Baltic, Capt. Com hook, will lenve this port at Bubsoriptions and adve Mew York Hexsty will be reserved at the follo ving places fe Europe — Layenyoo1—Jobu Kanter, No. 2 Paradise street Loxpox—Edwards, Sau Co., No. 17 Cornhill Wm, Thomas & Co, No. 19 Catherine street, Pamw—Livirgston, Wells & Jo, 8 Pace ds In Bourse, B. H, Hevoil, No. 17 Rae dels Banque, The European wails will close ata quarter to eleves @elock this morning ‘The Weary Hxeawy (printed in French and Euglish) ‘will be published at balf-past nine o’¢iv0k this moro. fing. Bingle copics, in wrappers, sixpence, to-d sy, for Liverpool. for any edition of the The News. By telegraph from Halifax we have @ startling rumor of another awful shipwreck. It is said that the emigrant brig Mary Jane, from London for this port, went ashore near Jedore Ledge, and that out of one hundred and fifty persons on board, only six were saved. The report needs confirmation. According to the report of the proceedings in the House and the despatch from our correspondent, the interest in the question of the democratic warfare of this State is daily becoming more intense. When Mr. Cutting yesterday rose to reply to the remarks ot Mr. Hughes on the day previous, the excitement was so great among the members who clustered arouud him that extra seats had to be brought in for their accommodation. Mr. C. was followed by Mesers. Westbrook, Hiram: Walbridge, who made his maiden speech, and Mr. Perkins, whose address was of a very funny character. All these speakers being from this State, the reporters have given them very fally. Gen. Walbridge, it will be observed, shunned Jocal issues and based his argument on broad na- tional grounds. On referen e to the proceedings in the State Benate yesterday it will be seen that the bill for the suppression of intemperance, though snnounced fs the first business in order, was not called up. Really this looks rather bad for the pros pects of the measure. For the minutes of th proceedings, together with sopies of the proposed usury law, the reply of the Presidents of tho Hudson River and Harlen Railroad Companies to reso! of inquiry, and the list of the appointments of Canal Collectors, &c., see our special despatches and the regular report of the proceedings. The canal appointments are said to be very unsatiafactory to a large number of the whigs, many of whom openly threaten to withdraw their allegiance to the party end join the national democrats, We elsewhere publish another letter from our tions correspondent relative to the railroad difficulties at Erie. All was quiet at last advices, but it was ua known bow long the stroug-minded females, wis had usurped the place of the other sex, would con sent to remain sv. The Pennsylvania State Senate has unanimously passed the bill repealing the char- ter of the Franklin Canal Company, whose line of railroad appears to have been one of the chief causes of trouble All honor is being done to the rescuers of the San Francisco passengers in Boston, as will be seen by the articles in another colamn. Nearly five thousand dollars have been raised in tha} city for presentation to the noble seamen through whose iustrumentality 80 many persons were enabled to return to their friends. In connection with this matter, we observe that resolutions were yesterday introduced into our State Senate, preparatory to tendering the thanks of the Legislature to Captains Crighton, Low aud Stouffer. The crew of the wrecked ship Singapore, from this port for Antwerp, have arrived at Liverpool, N.8., in the British bark Sylph. Albany appears to be overrun with burglars just at this time. On Thursday night, a dry goods store was robbed of some five thousand dollars worth of goods makiog a loss of goods to the value of about eight thousand dollars that have been stolen within the last ten days. The Pope's Nuncio is to leave our shores in the steamship Baltic today. On reference to the traus- lation of an extra issued from the office of a German paper in this city, it will be seen that it is propose to have a grand indignation procession to-day, performance to conclude with the burning of an eftigy on the dock as the steamer is about leaving. Warren Wood, the murderer of Mr. Williams, the pediar, was executed at Catskill yesterday. in his last declaration on \the scaffold, he acknowledged that he shot Mr. W., but, at the same time, declared that some of the witnesses against him perjured themselves. A lively debate came off in the Board of Aldermen last evening, on « resolution directing the Commis. sioner of Streets and Lamps not to enter into any oontract, until further directed, for lighting the streets, piers and wharves from dark till day- light every night in the year, as anthorized by an act of the late Common Council, This propositition was adopted by « vote of eleven to nine. It would thus appear that the Aldermen, by small majority, are disposed to keep our citizens «roping about for a while longer in the dark, per- fectly at the mercy of the lawlass rufiaus who m ay desire to take life or property, and whose « ished outrages, night after night, have so Jon ti graced the records of our city. Will the Coun men concur in thie movement? It is contended with what troth those who read the daily journals well know, that darkness not only encourages soy Bylaw, brutality and robbery, but bas a tendency te jewpardize life and limb by falling into newly dug cellar ways, through rickety gratings, over ‘piles of building materials, and into pitfalls of every description, which are, in eight cases out of left unguarded either by railings or lamos, by les c, paving, and sewer contractors. Board of Councilnen business was somewhat obstructed by the antipathy manifested by the re- f form members. It seemed as thou:h nen took particular delight in opposi that emanated from their political adver- s. A large amount of routine business was acted in both boards, for the detailsof which, as tes, the reader is referred to the reports. ‘The proceedings in some of the local courts yester- day, were of rather more than usual importance, The Court of Gencral Sessions adjourned for the term, after having dispos@d of a large amount of business. In the course of the day the Grand Jury finished their presentment to the Court, accompanied by an interesting nication from the District Attorney concerring the law of bail. It is averred of the chief drawbacks to good order and ministration of justice is the insufficient man- ner in which persons accused of high crimes are ad- uitted to bail, perjury nd forgery being not unfre- quently resorted to for the purpose of procuring what uinated “ straw bail,” in order to shield ac- ersons from the necessity of answering for Jeameanors. Judge Morris, of the Supreme Court, having granted a stay of proceedings in the and though disregarded by the busy spoilsmen will soon startle them with the rush of its heavy breakers egainst the frail bulwarks of the South. Look at the facts of our political history for the last three or four years, A national couveution of the democratic party, professing the largest devotion to the constitution and the rights of the South, driven to the last extremity from the wranglings among the spoilsmen, pitches upon a Presidential candidate who, upon a cross-ex- amination, is proved to be an ally of Martina Van Duren and his partisans in all their aati-slavery movements from 1848 to 1851—a candidate who is precommitted to the New York free soilers and cannot escape. We have made oar specifications, and they are facts which cannot be denied. On the other hand the whigs place their nominee upon substantially the same con- stitutional platform as the other side; but his more active Northern organs ride over his plat- form, “spit upon it and execrate it.” The Union sentiment of the country comes to the rescue, and the democratic candidate triumphs upon ibe principles of which he is held to be the reliable champion. But our late disclosures show that the democratic Bultimore coavea- tion perpetrated a fraud upon the country in the nomination of General Pierce, and that in bis election, as one of their secret partisans, the nn case of the Ninth ward rioters, the Recorder in: | free soi] Van Buren dynasty has been restored formed them that they could depart until again to power. HOME $0 peers, SURVEY MGI SOUURED sts This outrage, this fraud upon public opinion, A most revolting tragedy occarred at Southing: bak was first betrayed in the compositioa of the pre- sent Cabinet, was more fully disclosed in the sub- sequent distribution of the spoils and the im- proved construction of the Baltimore platform by the Cabinet organ, and has been at length completely established in the discovery of the free soil correspondence of General Pierce. running back to the Buffalo platform of 1818, With such antecedents the Cabinet spoils coali- tion of free soilers and secessionists, and the spoils alliance of the Cabinet, Congress and the lobby, cease to be a mystery. They are the consistent results of pre-existing causes and ob- ligations from which there was no safe metuod of escape. Events goon. Time stops for nothing. Mani- fost destiny shapes out its decrees, rain or shine. A revolution takes place. The domi- nant party in New York breaks into pieces Seward slips in between the fragments and re- gains his ascendancy in the State. He rises upon the free soil basis of the administration. The old line democrats of the national Union stamp are set aside, They go to Washington— they are struck down as traitors to the com- mon cause of the spoilsmen, The leading Southern democrats of the House, and the leading democratic organs of the South, from the oneo conservative Richmond Enguirer to the late central organ of red hot se- cessionists—the Charleston .Mercury—are all of the same mind. The true platform of the party is the administration, the Cabinet coali- tion, and the House and the lobby coalition fur the spoils. What care the modern journals and the modern statesmen of the South for aboli- tion agitators, or the slavery question, with five bundred millions of the epoils in the oppo- site scale! Shoot the deserters, whip in the refractory—there must be harmony over the plunder. Weare still drifting onward. The laxity. the foggy looseness and confusion of affairs at Wash- ington, on all questions except the spoils, fore- shadow nothing but evil. The fraud of the late Presidential election is producing its legitimate fruits. We have shown that the monstrous amal- gamation of cliques and parties under this admi- nistration, the painfully ludicrous division of the offices, the rapacious conspiracy for the five hundred millions of the public plunder. are the results of good and sufficient causes. The mis- chief thickens. There isa storm brewing. It is inevitable. A foul atmosphere can only be cleansed by thunder and lightuing. The spoils politicians of the South may echo the taunts of Gerrit Smith in the House against the national Union men of the bedy—the Ca- ton, Conn, last Tkureday morning. A Mr. Fiash, while probably laboring under mental aberration, proceeded to the room of his daughter, an idiot, ayout twenty years of age, and cut her throat with a razr while she lay asleep, after which he per- formed the same horrible operation on h'maelf. Both tied almost immediately. me two hundred boats, having on board a large rof emigrants in a destitute condition, are ing at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Teams were crossing the latter river on the », at St. Lou's, on Thursday. We publieh in another column a@ list of all those rs at the New York Crystal Palace g ave lately awarded medals, or honorably mentioned.’ The reader id it highly interesting. r. Buyard Taylor lectured last evening before the bers of the Mercantile Library Association and audience upon Japan and Choo. This was the first of the second course of lectures deliver- ed under the apspices of this society. Our report is crowded out. In addition to mueh other interesting realing ide pages contain letters from Messrs. Hd- kersou and H.H. Day, relative to Colt’s will ‘ara is greatly overdue at Hatifax, with one week's later Evropean news. rat Pierce's Administration—Its Fatal H!if.ets upon the Country. Ii was a frequent remark of John C. Calhoun, during the last lingering days of his existence, ashe was moved from his bed to bis chair and from his chair to his bed, in his boarding house on Capitol Hill, that. although the com- promise scheme then pending before the Senate would pass, and might be satisfactory to the country fora year or two, no peace, no lasting friendship, no permanent alliance between the North and the South, would be secured. And his reason for this apprehension was, that the corrupting influences of the spoils would so far demoralize the politieal parties of the North and the South that in their squabbles for the public plunder the government and the Union would be finally torn to pieces. ‘‘Corrup tion and the spoils,” said the dying statesman — locking into the future with the clear vision o a prop “corruption and the spoils will be the ruin of this country; and one day its effects will be felt when the grass shall grow in the deserted streets of New York.” : The developements which we have made public concerning the intrigues and frandu- lent devices through which General Pierce as elected, and his administration was brought into power, and which afford the re- quired solution to the free soil and secession tion in the Cabinet, in Congress, and in the Ge cod materials of the administration party through- | pinot organs of the South may ery out out the couniry, are almost enough to impress “peace, peace—but there is no peace!” The the tearful prediction of Mr, Cathoun upon the | anti-slavery factions of the North will seize the mind as the words of inspiration. Looki the past, and casting about us with an e the future. we are startled with the fear that the worst may be realized even before this ge golden opportunity for renewed action—the Northern Union men who have resisted them thus far with success, being trampled down by the South, will leave the field open to the enemy. ne eration shall have passed from the stage* The | All parties in the North will shape themselves, pre mulation of the spoils, the | more or less, to the anti-slavery platform ; and’ univ of corruption which pervades | our Southern friends will only wake up from all par and all cliques at W: i nd the Cabinet, am: the press-gang. among the lobby-forees, and in Congress, seem clearly to indicate that we are entering upos a phaze of political action and demoralization which will soon carry the government and the eduntry into the high road to dissolution and destrustion Nebraska territorial bills have introduced a new apple of discord into the Senate. Mexican treatie@have be n made which can only tend further to involve and complicate the trouble, while the disbursement of the spoils has ripened the spirit of discord in both sections of the Union for the most reckless and desperate agi- tation. Amidst this gloomy prospect we look in vain for relief to the administration, or to the heterogeneous elements supporting it in of Congress. They are banded to- the “cohesive power of public plunder;” they form in the mass, including pa. tent agents, railroad agents, and all other dram mers of the lobby, a mighty and unscrupulous conspiracy for the spoils. amounting to $590,- 000,000. The compromises of the constitution, rights, the rights of the South, the pri which hold this Union together, are all moon- shine with this hungry army of spoilsmen. A single test, fairly made between principles and plunder, in our New York election, has showa that in this State there is still a preponderance of the democratic party in favor of principles, But they are whistled down the wind hy the Cabinet organ and by Congress. If a New York national democrat rises in the House to plead the supremacy of those principles which are the only security of the South, the abolitionists of the North and the spoils statesmen of the South join in the hue and cry to hunt him down. He is despised, he is avoid- ed, he is cut adrift as an enemy of the adminis- tration, and the outside spoilsmen scan him with scorn and derision. The tendency of such a state of things can only be to unlimited cor ruption on all sides, and to all the train of evils and disasters whieh follow in its wake. It will make the whole northern free States. anti slavery in less than tivo years We believe that the present imbroglio and confusion of affairs at Washington, resulting from the spoils coalition in the Cabinet, in Con gress and the lobby, will rapidly produce such srevival of the anti-slavery agitation as we have never yet ventured to dream of in our gloomiest anticipations, The tide is rising now, shington rally- | their dreams of the spoils to meet a com. bined assault upon the institution of slavery which may drive them to the fearful hazards of secession and revolution. Such is the drift of the wind and the tide. Corruption and confusion are th@ natural conse- quences of attempting to establish a fraud upon the country in the election of General Pierce, a free soiler, for President. But the work will go on to the end. This Congress will do nothing but wrangle for the spoils, while all parties, all factions in the North are pre- paring to rush into anti-slavery and conval- sion. The sweeping corruptions involved in the five hundred millions of the public plun- der will swallow up everything. Resistance will be useless till the spoils are secured. But the reaction, when it comes, will be terrible. Hurrying as we are, to a life or death struggle upon the slavery question, we can already rea- lize the full import of Mr. Calhoun’s prophetic declaration, that “corruption and the spoils will be the rain of the country.’ What a con- trast between this picture and the public ex- pectations of a year ago! The roolution of °52 has proved an abortion, and there must be another revolution, be the consequences what they may. Corruption and the spoils will usher it in. State General Gadsden’s Treaty—A Look at the Land-The True Policy of Manttest Des. ny. We have at length authoritative information, which is not denied by the Preside « or the Cabinet organ, of Genoral Gasden’s treaty. According to the terms of this treaty we ac- quire a slip of territory on the south side of the Gila river of some sixty thousand square miles—suflicient for a State one-third larger in its euperficial extent than New York or nearly equal in size to the State of Virginia. We pay for this piece of ground, which includes the dis- puted Mesilla country, twenty millions of dol- lars—-three millions on the ratification, and the rest in regular instalments through a period of fifteen months, excepting five millions reserved to indemnify the Garay Company for the sur- ender of their Tehuantepec claims and other claimants. Weare relieved of the burden of guarding the Mexican frontiers against the In- dians—a duty enjoined upon us by the eleventh article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo—and we have the option of paying down the whole amount of the purchase money at once, if we desire it, which is an unusual privilege. Sancho Panza scorned to look a gift horse in the mouth; but when we pay a round equiva- ‘ent for the animal in hard cash we are entitled to subject him to a close inspection. Let us, then, take a look at this land, and see what we have made of Santa Anna by the bargain. The territory proposed to be ceded to the United States for the said twenty millions, (in- cluding contingents,) lies in the departments of Chibuabua and Sonora, and between El Paso of the Rio Grande on the east and the Gulf of Cali- fornia on the west, being about six hundred miles long and about one hundred and twenty miles wide in the middle, thongh not over fifty miles wide at either end. That is to say, the new line which runs down into Mexico from the Gila river, a hundred and tweaty miles or so ia the centre, runs up st either end to within fifty miles of the present boundary. By this ar- rangement Mexico retains the village of El Taso on the Rio Grande on the east, and elbows us cut of the Gult of California on the west, It appears that Gen. Gadsden had put in a projet for a straight line west to the Gulf of Cualifor- pia, thence down the same to the Pacific. which would give us the whole of the long peninsula between theGulf and the Pacific; but on the 16th of December this was peremptorily refused. On the 17th, however, Santa Anna put in his projet, as described above; and thinking it no doubt a petty good beginning, Gen. Gadsden closed in with the offer, and leit Mexico accordingly to lay the business before our Cabinet and the Senate, in all its important lights and bearings in refer- ence to the interests of Santa Anna and the policy of manifest destiny. From the fact, however, that the projet comes from the other side, we think it should be called Santa Anna’s treaty with Gen. Gadsden, and not Gen. Gads- den’s treaty with Mexico. Now let us eee what this new slip of wild and, nearly as large as the State of Virginia, is practically worth. Our present boundary with Mexico west from the Rio Grande is mainly down the chan- nel of the Gila, nearly the whole course of which is through # labyrinth of barren, yvol- canie mountains, of the most hideous rugged- ness and desolation. South of this river and the mountain chain through which it passes the country is chiefly an elevated table land, plen- tifully sprinkled over with short mountain ridges, isolated peaks and buttes, rising ab- ruptly fromthe plains, but not interfering ma- terially with the general gradient through the whole region for a railroad. The ‘one thing needful,” therefore, which we shall acquire with this new strip of Mexican soil will be an available southern route for the Pacific railroad, through a comparatively open country of lofty table lands and sandy plains, with no mountain bar- riers to cross, no rivers to bridge, no tunnels to cut, no snow, and an easy grade from the fron- tiers of Arkansas, through Texas and New Mexico, via the general direction of Cooke's wagon route, to the Pacific Ocean. This Pacific railroad route is all that we gain and all that was intended to be given with the land. The boundary cuts us off from the rich silver mines of Chihuahua on the east, and from those rich mineral mountains which oversha- dow the Gulf of California in the west. Santa Anna reserves these and the Gulf at the penin- sula of Lower California, but gives us a deep cut, like the segment of a pie, into the heart of the desert of Sonora, (God bless you!) for our Pacific railroad. The country is substantially desert in its character—very much in its geo. graphical aspects like the wilderness travelled over by the Israclites in their march to the Promised Land, though in some parts not quite so destitute of grass and water. When Gen. Kearny, in September, 1846, moved westwerd from the Rio Grande with his army for California, he took the Gila route with his dragoons; but that labyrinth of mountains being impassable for the baggage, Col. Cooke, with the wagon train, was compelled to debouch to the south, and pass round through this com- paratively open country of Santa Anna's new treaty. His report of the route he tra- versed, and subsequent explorations, have e:- tablished the idea that a railroad may be bui't by the same detour without any material na- tural obstruction. But for any other purpose the new territory is only, the addition of some sixty thousand square miles of comparative deserts to the five hundred thousand of the same sort acquired by the treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo. Locking at the map of Col. Cooke’s trail we see streams occasionally; but they run only a short distance before they are lost in the sand. At different camps we read euch notes as these: Water sinks--water by digging—no water— water for fifty animals—dry Jake—no moun- tains visible in these directions (to the south)--lost in the sand (a small river) Black water creek—no water—San Pedro river—deserted rancho—canone (or defile)— Indian villages—next camp no water— and so on—dry run—no water—no wa- ter—small water hole in the rocks—dry creek-—no water—rain water pools--except in the spots and directions indicated the traveller is continually surrounded by isolated moun- tains and short ridges. Such are the notes upon Cooke’s map, and the exceptions to the isolated mountains are only at two points along a journey of some seven hundred miles. Col. Cooke further describes this country as destitute of timber, excepting the stunted pines and cedars on the mountains—as destitute of white inbabitants except one settlement along his route, (Tueson, of five hundred souls,) but abounding in cattle-stealing Indians at the west- ern end, near the Gila. The table lands and lower plains produce a wild grama grass, upon which cattle fatten in winter; but from the summer droughts, and the general absence of living water for the greater part of the year, it is simply out of the question to make either a free State or a slave State out of this territory, as fur as population is concerned, for a century to come. ‘ We must say, then, that if General Gadsden has done well in cancelling the eleventh article of the treaty of 1848, which binds us to protect the Mexican frontiers against our filibustering Indians, and ifhe has done better in purchasing for twenty millions, all told, a really available route for the Pacific railroad, Santa Anna has done still better. yes, a great deal better, than Gadsden. He has sold a tract of wild land of no earthly account to Mexico, mainly without water, without timber, and without people—ex- cept the Apaches—for a good round sum of ready money. The first payment will enable him to set up as Emperor ina style which, though not quite equal to that of Louis Napoleon, will completely eclipse the Emperor of Hayti. The next two or three payments will unable him to master and equip a respectable army, when he can afford to pick a quarrel with General Pierce, make a respectable campaign or two, aad then | sell out, in another Gadeden treaty, a still larger tract of the wild lands of northern Mexico, in- eluding the peningula of Lower California, and all the gold and silver mines therein, and all the pearl fisheries of the Gulf. By this process the Mexican empire may be kept upon its legs for twenty years to come, steadily diminish- ing in size, but, pari passu, steadily improving in its finances—a very import- ant consideration. At this rate, by the time our Southern boundary shall pass within sight of the Mexican capital it will have be- come the proudest imperial city in the world, (the New World,) from the simple process of exchanging wild lands, wild cattle, and wild Indians. for California gold. And the new mines ot gold, silver and copper, which in our next treaty or two we shall acquire, and our practical methods of working them, will en- able us with every succeeding treaty to pay a good many more millions for the next slice: Thus, after all, Gen. Gadsden has furnished the key to the knotty question. of manifest des- tiny. Itis to take a little ata time, and pay as you go. Tt may be objected to, that this ready money to Santa Anna is only for the equipment of his army, which he will turn against us; but what's the odds? Js there not at this mo- ment a bill before Congress for the extension of Colt’s patent, whereby he may be enabled to furnish from his London factory the British army with his revolvers? And if we can af- ford to arm John Bull surely we need not stickle in furnishing the sinews of war to Santa Anna. And what if the country acquired by General Gadsden is merely an elbow in the desert, adapting the boundary to the curve of Cooke’s wagon route? Is not that enough? Does it not give us a compara- tively level route to the Pacific—and, best of all,a perfectly dry route, and through a country where there is no danger of any steamboat op- position or a rival railroad? It does. Let the treaty, then, be ratified, and let us shell out to Santa Anna his share of the five hundred mil- lions of the public plunder. Is not this the true policy of “manifest destiny ?”’ Tue Nepraska Qvestion—Tuex Grovnp- SWELL Risinc.—The following call for a public accidents in fature by di carefully > with voluntary contributors. rable as Mrs Cunard’s services 28 aD €.) gttaché might be, we must decline AVA. selves OF any future assistance he may tat to offer us, and beg to recommend him ofine him- self to the columns ot the Exprey ig well; too, that the public should under pot wa shall not in future publish such CO\;oationg. as his unless they are exclusively 44 yg. Departure of Gen. Wool and GOVt6 ror Caltfornia—Parewell Deje F ne Sts Nicholas, 4mong the pumerovs passengers taken " by the George Law, Captein J. MeGowan, ne ani Pansms, for Sea Freecisco, not the \etine gairked were the gailent Wool—who gees to Oni tc. take the coc wand o( the extreme western divin: the United Stater army—ard that veteran politiciatjgy: ernor and ex Senator Foote, of Mirsissippi, who to the modern Opbir with & view fto make it hing; nent home and the scene of bis future Professionyrs Both of those military and political veterans wentiy. acecmpsnied by xy members of their families, yr. nor Foote’s family will join him nextfall, weg. formed, A number of the parsonal friends of (3. Wool accompsvied bim from his late residenceig city, desirous, no ¢cubt, by thus “seeing the lasi”%\e eld hero, (but for a time, we trnst,) on this aids th, tinent, to testify their appreviation of hia publie q. cations and soc al virtues, wud their attachment person of a valued friend, whom, perohanos, they $ ever cast eyer Upon once micre, As there vere @ large number of General Woo!’s to putting upat she St, Nicholas—at which elegant Hahment the General bad taken his temporary quate who were desircus of having a parting mw t which they would have an opportunhg taking their farewell of the General, the propristet the St. Nicholas, (Messrs. Treadwell & Acker,) with ate consideration got up an impromptu dejeuner, at ty Gen, Wool, Gov. Foote, and some thirty or forty of¢ friends, were present, amougst,whom were ex Oomaty Wright, ex Secretary Walker, Mesere, Vale, Lealio, evboff, &c., and a number of ladis The company down ate little after twelve o’clock M., an¢ after di. sing the elecant repast spread before them several ty wud sentiments were ollered and received with a he oordiality. Mr. ex Comptroller Wright proposed as @ sontimen. Health and happiness atteod the hero of Basna \ in the far ff lacdto which nis pudlio duties call) May be mee: as warm hearts taere as groet him here, Thir toast was reveived with enthusiastie applause, Gea. Wool responded in a few appropriate andy feeling remarks. Gow Foote also proposed some ments sppropriate to the occasion, At ten o’closk P. M the company parted, afer an. mecting. promulgated yesterday, and still in cir- culation for signatures, indicates the rising of charge of farewell salutations, and many aspirations the health, happiness and success of the two distinguia another groundswell upon the slavery ques- tion :-— NO INFRINGEMENT OF PLIGHTED FAITH !—NO VIO LATION OF THE Merchants, mecha SOURT COMPROMISE ! vyited to meet at THE BROADWAY TABRRNACLE, on —— evening, the —— of January against the ie United in the territories lying north of 3 minutes, Walter R. Jones, Altre Jno Brower, Sa A. P. Haleoy, Underhill, 50} & Strong, Chas. 1 Marshall, Adam Norrie, Joreph Hoxie, George N.T Robort Mminett, 8.W. Goodridge € Co. Ebonexsr Plait, Jobn McKesson, ‘Taylor & Merrill, + Thor. Ke Thomas De Witt, B.S Onkiey, JL Eve ith, epber: DAPD, B.@ Vanwisiis J.¥, Butterworth, Olefin Me Orsamus Bushnell, J.B Gartors: Robt Gracie, has. Jobn Haggerty, — D. Codwiso, Geo. N. Lawrence, W. F. Bavemoyer, W. R. Jones, Junr., Robert 8. Minturn, William C. Sturges, Henry Leary & C A X%. Morrisin { Co., Issa N. Kobo. . B. Col ine, R. M. Biatehford, And many others. This indignation at the prospect of carrying slavery, (according to the Nebraska territorial bill of Senator Douglas,) above the Missouri line of 36 30 may be natural enough ; but the parties to this call seem to forget that the Mis- souri compromise line was first invaded by re- fusing the line of 36 30 in the admission of California. The people of the State had de- fined its boundaries down to the thirty-second degree of north ljatitude ; they had excluded the South from the whole of it; and Congress took them in at their word, casting out every attempt at making the line of 36 30—or 36. or 35—the southern boundary of the State. They gave the South not a square inch of Cali- fornia, though one-half of it lies below the Missouri compromise iine. Now, Senator Douglas only proposes to change the saddle to the other horse, by leaving all of Nebraska territory above the line of 36 30 open to the South, and leaving the people of the territory to do as they like in the exclusion or admission of slavery upon the formation of their State constitution hereafter. He proposes to give them the same privilege that was allow- ed to the people of California of deciding the question for themselves, without regard to the Missouri line. His bill is adapted to the com- promises of 1850, which have superseded the Missouri compromise, Well, the trouble is beginning—the issue is the vital iseue of slavery or no slavery—the arf mistice is ended—the bugle sounds to arms. The abolitionists of the North will enter the field united and enthusiastic from having the Cabinet at their back. What will the Congres? sional spoilsmen of the South do in Congresrt That’s the question. ¥. Wuo Wrives tHe Exprress'—Bhe Express isin high feather at the notion that one of its articles has got into the Heraup. It parades the fact ostentatiously before the public, and ob- viously expects an increase of circulation to fol- low so startling a proof of improvement in its editorial columns. Sustained as the Express is, by wholesale piracy from other papers, ‘never buying anything it can steal or beg, and regularly dependent on the Heratp for the bulk of its news—as was seen on the occasion of the San Francisco disaster and the Mexican treaty —we can quite understand the joy with which it fancied we were about to retaliate in kind and give to the Express articles some sort of publicity. Such, however, is not the case. The author of the article which the Express ac- cuses us of stealing from its columns is not the editor ofthe Express, nor any of his aids, but Mr. Edward Cunard, better known in this city as the agent of a line of ocean steamships than asa writer for the press. On Monday last Mr. Cunard, whose employers have been sufferers by the present revenue laws, penned a state- ment of their defects, and] handed it simulta- neously to the Express and Heratp. The for- mer, of course, jumped at the offer of an article which was to cost nothing; and suffering, as usual, under a superabundance of room and a scarcity of matter, published Mr. Cunard’s statement in full the very next morn- ing as, the leading article in the pa- per. It so happened that the Hxratp had at the time news: from Europe, additional details of the San Francisco disaster, accounts of the Erie riots and of the Bedini disturbances, &e., to publish, and Mr. Cunard’s statement laid over till Thursday. It found its way into our paper of that day,.strangely enough, as leaded matter, instead of a communication, as was intended, and hence the coincidence over which the Express glorifies so exultingly. We shall guard againat a regurrence of euch and citizens of New York generally, without distinction of party, who would preserve inviolate the Missouri compromise, are in- to protest roject now pending im the Senate of it tates for the repeal of that section of the M'ssouri act which forever penis slavery degrees and 30 ron & MoNames, te, Chae. P. Riralaud. voyageurs,who at once proceeded to the pier at the foo Warren street, where the steamship George Law lay,- companied by Mr. ex Secretary Walker, ex Comptrot Wright, Mr. Letlia, of Troy, and one or two other frien ‘Their arrival slongside the stezm oat was apparently ¥ noticed amid the bustle and confusion ever atvends open the éeparture of a California beund veseel. Gene Wool and Governor Foote were escorted’on board the + sel by the above named gentlemen, and were at of shown to their staterooms, where they remained in oc parative retirement antil the hour appointed for saili. No demonstration of any moment seemed to indicats ecnsciousness upon the part of the numerous passenge that they were to have such distiagulshed fellow-voyagd with them on their ronte to the auriferous regions of ® extreme West. Some few leading democrats—amont others Augustus Schell, MoMurray, &0., &o.—wentn board to bid God speed to their staunch fellew demostt before starting on their long voyage, An exeeedingly large number left yesterday in bt George Law. Very many of them scemed like Osfor risns on their back, after perhaps a temporay so: jonrn on this cos: ttracted bither either by buinces or pleasure, Then, too, there were many of the fa! sex, accompanied by fathers, husbands, and brothers, the case might be, the majority bound on their spprently first trip acroas the Isthmus. The ladies, as a méter of course, wept freely as they over the biwarks yazing apon the friends who upon the whart waving bandkerohiefs avd making other signs o encou- vegement to their departing friends or relatives. Indeed, many thin young gentlemen also looked vey dsmp about the face; whilst stout, bardy-looking indivduals, to eaponse to some sign and grimace from thei “ehams’” «m the pier, would precipitately cover their countenaa- es with bandanas,o: California blankets, making b- lleve to cry, and would in # moment burst ont in stei- torian horselaughs, to the entire relieh of their con- radea, and the ericent discomfort of the aforecad young ladies and gentlemen. Then, too, evey one was in a dreadiul hurry to on uw ff, bad they lost minute, the piled nhoripan gone off and feftthem behind. Then, too, rays, arte ‘Wegone, and carriages,would get intos seemingly isextri- cable entanglement, amid a choice interchange of com- pliments between their respective Pheetons; and womin with bandboxes, and other feminine @ppurtenaneo Geemed incispeosable by the fair sex when about to travel, would give themselves up an lost, amid the din, eonfuion and tearing about, iateparable from the occasion an¢ the event. Fomehow or another, the ladies would myasg? to tumble up the gazgweys, the carts and carriages would get Joose, the piles of boxss, bales, tranks and cases that leaped the pier tide would be hoisted and stowed awsy, ‘and all would be ready for the word to “Cast away |’ There are bat a few of the peculiarities, or, ss some might term them the connected with em- barbicg upon California bound steamboats; but where such s mumber embark by each vessel they cannot very well te avoided. However, all the passengers and freight were on borrd the Georgs Law at about the usual hour, ‘and she then cast off her moorings, fired s farewell ss- lute, sipped down the stream, and was soon lost sight of in the dense fog which covered the bay, in consequenoe of which bo'h she and the Star of the West were detained below. Had the weather yesterday been lsas unpleasant no doubt s large consourse would have assembled at the Pier to witness the departare of those eminent citizens, General Wool and ex-Governor Foote. Obituary. CHESTER JENNINGS, BSQ. . ; This gentleman, long known to our citizens and travel- ers as the keeper of the late City Hotel imBroad- way, died on Friday morning, 20th inst., at the Astor House. He had been previously ill about twe weeks. On his decease, during his temporary soj2urn here, his Iste :esiderce having been in Connecticut, the fiag of the Astor Houre was hoisted at half mast. Mr. Jennings, who at the time of his death was near vixty years of age, was ® mative of Comnecticut, the family cf the Jennings having been among the early settlers of ‘shag Stave, and of Anglo Saxon origin. The subject of this noties came in his youth to this city in quest of em- ployment, and engaged as one of the servants in the U ty Hotel, then kept by Solomon Gibson. His intelligence and application caused Mr. Gibson to promote him to the wation of head waiter in the dining reom, and afterwards to take charge of the barroom and the oflice of the hotel. Mr. Gibson having left] the establishment and taken the Merchants’ Hotel, in Wall street, about the year 1816, the owners of the City Hotel, the late Ezra Woeks and John Jacob Astor, induced Mr. Jennings to become the lessee and keeper, and under his management the City Hotel soon acquired a high reputation, aod assumed the position of one of the best hotels in the United States, His assistant, Mr, Willard, from bis remarkable tact, courtesy acd profoued memory of msm and things, did much to add to the reputation of the house. Having a0- quired @ ocmpetency, Mr Jennings, who always led ao unmarried life, retired from the botel business and visited Europe; but during his absence financial difficulties occur- red in thiqeountry, and the foriure which he had acquired. by years of industry and application, having been invest- ed in United States Bank and other unfortunate stocks, was mostly swept away. Retarming to the United States, he wae imduced by Mr. Astor to resume the management of the hotel, and uniting with with his former assistant, Mr. Willard, who hed retired ‘also from the business and become a resident of Massa- chusetts, Mr Jenpings again appeared as the landlord of the City Hotel, Jennings & Willard soon regained their former renown as hotel ‘and in about five years, keepers, Wr. Jennings bad repaired »is losses, and both he le Willard ri retired to private life, mate sircle of Mr. Jennings was much esteemed by & friends for bis excellest qusli\ies as a man, sensed @ high sense of honor position was characterized by and integrity, and bis th traits of benerclines and true charity wale adora ature in ite brigatest forms. From his youth he ey ed for the support of his motber and his two sister: he latter being also indebted to him for the means their ecucation @ ceath of Mr. Jennings recalie some of the in the history of the City Hotel, of whieh he was #0 long the landlord That builaiog was ¢: Esra Weeks, in the early ‘was intended, by the ae