The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. @PFICE WN. W. CORNER OP FULTON AND NASEAU STS. TERM THR O41. 1HE W) pean Edition #4 per am d $6 to any part of the venpor- pBarmisrsineiy ured will erTREe We de soninmous communications with neasness, cheapness, and rs THIS EVENING. PAE, Bowory—Uncue Tox's Ornin. tus Bowery BROADWAY THEATRS, Broadway—Hors ov rue Pas wiy ATAR ACT OF THE GaNors BURTON'S THRATRE. Chambers stroet—Ovn Besr So- emery PARKIN AND LONDON TREATAB, Chatham streot—Afternoon— Svowng—Uxere Tom's Canin, NATIONAL Tarrie Kary WALLACK’S THFATRE, Brosdway--Bacurzon ov Bars A Perry Pisce ox Business—Conioscrins oF Eirenarene AMERICAN Afternoon—Tox Tuume Tay- mGit ON. Syepiag~ Toor THuny Money BROADWAY MENAGSSIE—Stamrse Twrxe anv Winn ABTS. OEMISTY'S way Bviiors ANR ax Wood's winsrress way—ErHiorian hinsrudLsy BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 639 Droatway—Brow BAN VARD'S GEDRAMA, 696 Brondway—Psnonawa or wwe Hory La cas ROLNISH GAT TURY, 663 Grosdway~Day aud Rvening BIGNOR BLITZ ¥vesaxt IveviTwre, 659 Broad way ACADEMY HALL 653 E WIBTIONN OF THE -RVEN MILE Pennan’s Grr fs ROR. MOPE CHAPEL, 718 Broad ay—Joxes’ Pantoacote, TAN GALLE CHRIBTIAN ART—L4s Broad New York, Monday, J. The News. ec Niagara, with } at, had reached E The Collins steamer Atlant’ ort with dates to the 11th Both these vess ave doubtless been retarded in their voyage by wnpropitioas weather. The Cam bria, which arrived yesterday, was twer The Cunard stca vices to the 7th ix late hour lust nig! is fally due this in making the voyage from Southampton, fax. Bome days ago one of our Washington corr connection with inf and yar teamer Texas to pondents mentioned, i ms items of Mexican news brought by th Oslean:, that sealed despatches had been ree from California to the 30th u but their con were unknown. An agent of Adams’ express is s to have come through to Acapulco and Vera C with important papers. It is rumored another Pacific steamer has been lost, but that the passengers and property were saved; also, that two San Francis- co banking honses had failed. The papers spoken of ashaying been brought by the express agent may have related to the of tae Lower California filibu:- ters, who are reported to have been entirely des royed by the Mexicans, with the exception of the leader, Capt. Walker, who contrived to escape. The cor- rectness of th mors wfll be settled hy the arri- val of the steamers nearly due from San Jua Aspinwall, with advices from San Francis: Ist instant. We learn from Washington that the Nebraska Territorial bill underwent a long discussion in Ca Dinet meeting last Saturday afternoon, and that all the members, except Meesra. Davis and Dobbin, opposed the proposed amendment abrogating the Miszourij compromise act as applicd to territories. Itisunderstood that the result of the deliberation Was an agreement that an amendment should be offered providing that the rights of persons and pro- perty in the new territory shali be governed by the restrictions and limitations imposed by the coustitu- to the tion of the United States, and the acts giving gov; | ernments to be adjusted by a decision of the Supreme Court. On the other hand, it is siated that the Honse Committee on Territories intend to report a Dill dividing Nebraska into two and western, which will in express terms repeal the Mistouri compromise bears upon the domain in question, This is simply 9 proposition to form 9 free and a s'ave territory, aud will, it is as- ferted, place the matier squarely before Congress, without mystification or dodging. It ntimated that Secretary Davis is quite dis appointed because, contrary to the instructions which he is reported to have written ¢ for Mr. Gads the new treaty docs much Mex i ired. The project srives us efor a railroad, via Col. Cooke's n track, th desert and gene- rally untillable country hereas Col. Davis wished torecure all the territory that contains the battle fields in which be fought during the Mexican cam- paign. For a variety of ‘on relative to this treaty, bills before Congress, patent legislation, management of nation political move- ments, &c., the reader i ferred to the various in. teresting letters, &c , published under the Washing ton head. In our columns this morning will be found the par. ticulars of three more disastrous and destructive con- flagrations. Verily, the fire-king has raged through- out the United States daring the present month to an extent probably never before known in the same space of time. Numerous have been the causes aesigned for the origin of large fires, and various are De so far as it le den, rs. aud | rritories, eastera | | the measures which have been presented for their future prevention, but the following list of fires @uring the present month will show how fallacions itis to attempt to assign general causes for fires which are in the main incidental, or to stay the de- vouring element by theory or deliberation. the construction of buildings, and a well o' fire department are all which is x even theze sre weak when battling following is the list:— Care ia Place Lows Pilar A—Baliimere..... $20,000 10~Brookira B=Lafayer'e, fod., 80000 1 fs, Gs y 0 avanny 200,000 t 100 600 ir Mis Judge Irwin, of the United States Court a burg, has decided that the charges preferred ag Meyor King and Mr. Lowry, of Erie, cant under the present process, but that the ¢ charged agairet them are indiclable under the a October, 1531, Mr. H. H. Day has written a communication which we publish elsewhere, in reply to the charges preferred against by Mr, Dickerson, caunsel for Mr. Colt, coocerning the application of the latter for an extension of his patent. We have received a copy of the Diario de Pe aamuco of the 19th of Decemt» wing three weeks later from that province. It ains, however, no intelligence from Rio Janciro beyond what we bay already received. 0 columss today contain a rer ’ teresting letters from our CuBan fre h may be» the nows t trove of in the date of t vious advices. Woe baye commented u ey pert of the intelligence thus communicated in a ecitcrial art ‘The lw intelligence appears to bay inj arted great enjmation to the New Orleans cotton market. Our deepatches show that a large amount of the stock on hind chanzed owners in the middle 7 The decreased receipts in the staple, &s ecmpared with those of last year at this time, are down at five hundred and eighty-five thousand What has becorge of the Pope's Nuncio? A de- spatch from Baltimore denies that he is in that city. can it be possible that he left our shores in the Dalt!s on Saturday, the denials to the contrary not wit! standing ? The Rey. Dr. Nott delivered an able discourse last evening, atthe Dutch Reformed Church, Fifth ave- nue, corner of Twenty-first street, upon the * !mmor- tality of the Soul’ There were probably between two and three thousznd persons present. The crowded state of our columns prevents par- ticular reference to mach importaut and interestiag matter. We would, however, direct atteution to the correspondence from Puerto Cabello, Vera Craz nd ston; Review of Dr. Abbott's Collection of Dgyptian Antiquities a! the Stuyvesant Institute; Communication entitled Messrs. Cassali, Gavazzi & Co.; Mexican and Texss 8; opini of the news- paper press ¢ Cabinet, &c. President Pierce's Free Soil Letters and pinions—The Case Plainly Stated. The information which we have published disclosing the free soil letters and opinions of General Pierce from 1848 to 1851, appears to have created a considerable sensation at Wash- 1commotion in the White House fluttering among the stool-pigeon cracy of both houses of Congress. A ¢ to our telegraphic advices, the Pre authorized a New York member of the ¢ to say, if necessary. that our charge con- er of General Pierce to the cor- responding committee of the New York Van Buren Buffalo free soil party of 1848 is a false- hood, And the said member, it also appears, has been authorized to challenge the predue- tion ofany such leiter. The Washington Union, too, v xistence of any e soil letters as those charged npoa Gen. Pierce by the Henann; and indignantly Js for the letters themselves, as if such things d for the asking. due respect to the Preside we repeat our orkginal charge: that in the car paign of 1848 he did write a letter to free soil committee of correspondence of tb State, expr his sy with Van Buren, his parti: his cause. The fact is 803; and no denial ot neral Pierce will shake our authoritative statements abject iroe that in onr ed there were 2 ington, no and some dlous cerning the le flatly denies the e euch fi are always to be But with all hy ns and upon the s specificati as first few immaterial g the charge; but these hall now proceed to rectify from the same yuted and conciveive authority to which we are indebted for the facts as set forth in our That authority is John Coch- wesent surveyor of the port of New Yor pointed hy Gen. Pierce—the same John Cochrane to whom, as ehairraan of the Utica Van Buren free soil committee of correspon- £18. the letter of Gen. Pierce in yucs- tion was addressed ; and the rame letter wh’ sh Judge Weterbury, John Van Buren and others, have had the privilege of reading. The history of this wonderful letter is a» fol- and the aforesaid John Cochrane, chair- sittee aforesaid, is our authori- —Afier the It is presey mis: ot atfectin first indictment vane, the } dence of lows man of the com ty for the facts as herein set down secession of the Van Buren delegates from the Democratic Netional Convention at Balti- more, in 1848, they returned to New York, and assem! fn an spendent Statdvonvention at Utica, they nominated Martin Van Buren es their candidate for the Presidency, and set up a platform looking to a coalition in the election with ali the free soil and abolition elements ef the North, from Lloyd Garrison, and his in- fidel abolition gang of Boston, to Gerrit Smith Giddings and Fred. Douglass, and their allies of both sexes and all colors, from a dead white toa pure shining black. This Utica conven ticn also appointed a cominittee of correspond- ence, With Jchn Cochrane as their chairman. committee, accordingly, with an eye to ess, began to cast about them for such co- operation or sympathy as they might pick up the various distinguished or influential amon known to have been identified with the fortu of the Van Buren dynasty through thick and thin. Letters were addressed toa number of such persons in different localities; and among others a iriendly partisan letter was written to Gen. e. at Concord, then recently returned from the Mexican war. In response to these numerous letters a number of replies were re- ceived by the committee, and among other reply from Gen. Franklin Pierce, sympath concurring full, Van Buren and his York. That is the letter cf our indictment- that isthe letter which admits of denial, and concerning which we challenge a cross-ex- amination of Judge Waterbury, John Vaa Bu- ren, but especially John Cochrane But the movement originating at Utica was consummated at Buffalo. The nomination of Martin Van Buren was reaffirmed—the platform of the campaign was formally set up on the four props of free soil, free speech, frec farms, and free men, And this platform was free to and all the multifarious pie-bald abolition and fanatical cliques, coteries and factions of the North, rallied upon it to the sup- port of Martin Van Buren and his New York and New Hampshire free soil democratic adhe rents proper, including, among a host of others, Judge Cambreleng, Gen. John A, Dix, Seth M G Gen. Franklin Pierce and John Cochrane. Such, we believe, is substantially the history of the abolition letter of Gen. Pierce to the committee of the Utica convention, and such the practical result of that convention ia the more ing abolition nomination of Martin y in all the movements of in New ce soil partisan all comers; 1 en at Buffalo. The letter of Gen. Pierce, we repeat, was addressed to Jobo Cochrane, chairman of the Utica commtttre of correspondence, the present survey ew York, and our authority for our general ond our specifica upon the subject, al John Cochrane ris this all. We have every reason to re- ert as our firm belief that between the years 1818 and 1851 Gen. Pierce wrote a number of other Van Buren free soil letters, particularly to a distir olitician of New England, now deceased. These letters are now most probably among the political papers and cor udence of deceased, in the poesession of his heirs and assigns; but it is possible that we or of the port may yet e the opportu of spreadin some of them before the public. We donbt not that they are as fully expressive of the sympa. hy and concurrence of Gen. Pier with | to Jobn € | But well known that after his bhbnaded cico Gen. Pieree re-opened h cel Concord, and that from that tim down to 1850 the New Hampehire Patriot, and the Legislature of that State, continued to agi- tate the Wilmot proviso, and resist the com- promise polley of Henry Clay, Mr. Webster’ Gen, Cease, and other patriotic men of both par- tcsin Congress. During all this interval the Patrict was nothing more or less than the spe- cia! organ _of Gen. Pierce; and through this channel he virtually controlled and dirceted the action of the Van Buren majority of the Le- gislature It may (be impossible to prove aay direct egency_on his part, in the free soil policy of his organ—it may be difficult to establish bis complicity, according to Jaw, in the Wilmot proviso, and anti-compromise proceedings of bis party in the State"Assembly; but his command- ing position, hoth in regard to the Patriot and the Assembly, warrant no Sother conclusion than this :{that he was the active leader behind the scencs of the; protracted opposition of the New Ilumprhire,democracy to} the compromise policy of, Henry Clay.J In ,this "conclusion we are confirmed by that letterto John Cochrane— by those letters to’ the aforesaid distinguished New England politician, since deceased—by the free soil,and secession cvalition’set up in the Cabinet,Zand by the general Cabinet, Congres- sional aud lobby coalitionzat Washington tor ihe five hundred millions cf the public pluader io the utter, repudiation of the saving prin- ciples of, the {compromise, and_the Baltimore platform. We challenge a denial of the facts we have stated and arefutation of the conclusious to which we havejarrived. Our authority ia the premises is beyond dispnte. The particular le'ter of this,indietment was written to John Cozhrane—he is our authority: to him we refer for ile,proof, and, to Judge Waterbury, and John Ven Buren and others who have seen the pr-cicus doeument. Under such revelations well may the compromise democrats of Con- grees hold up theirhands in’ amazement. Aad wh, Because_they prove that the Baltimore democratic nomination was a base fraud upon the party, and a fraudulentjimposition upon the honest and confiding Union loving American people,{ who, rallied to the election of General Pierce as,the chosen,champion of the compro- mise measures,'and ‘the constitution. In this view we lock upon’ bis nemination and his elec- tion as"the results [ofthe most dexterous yet the most"impudent’andunblushing fraud ever perpetratedfupon the"country. The tree is producing its legitimate fruits, In the end’fihe guilty parties will be cov- ered with (lastingZdirgrace and the country with shome and (dismay, if we may judge from the} beginning. (The attempt to cover up) thefdeceptions of 752, with the iree soil and secession’ Cabinet (coalition of 53 has failed, ang will, still more signally fail of its object. A coalition so] unnatural and mon- strous mnst cyentually excite the pity and dis- gust of every_bonest man in the land. Mean: time, it canjonly,!be productive of corruption, mischict and confusion.” It has already effected the treachery of the, South to their Uni State rightstallies? of the’North. There longer any rafety to Southern institution: from Northern eupport. The barriers against the fell spirit of abolitionism are broken down as the first national consequence of the election of a free soilgPresident.¢.The next movement will be a fusion’[from all parties and fi in the NorthZagainst,the exteasion of slavery. inony shape,and at allhazards. The Nebraska question has sounded,tbe alarm! The meeting at the Tabernacle will be the opening, per- hape, of the final struggle upon the slavery ques- tion; and it may only be terminated in a disso- lution of the Union. Truly have we fallen upon evil times, but the worst is yet to come. tions Net Results of the Word's Falx. Well, the World’s'Fair is over, the juries are perfuncti officio, the awards are pulsished, and the whole performance has ended. We can now look at itfas a whole, from the birth of the echeme, whenjpeople“talked of rivalling the monster ExhibitionjofZ1851, to the final dénou- ment, os contained in the lists of the fortunate exhibitors. Thoughjgit is announced that the Crystal Palace will’still,he kept open as a show, like one of the great bazaars of the East. it can no longer claim any; odor of natiouality, and differs only in size from the emporiums which enterprising hatters or spirited barbers have erected on Broadway. So fur as the press is concerned, therefore, thls is the proper time to pronounce its reguiescat, and to accompany it with encomium or regret, as the past career of the defunct may,seem to require. We say re- gret, for censure’ would seem a hard term to apply to individuals;whotsimed at rivalling an enterprise which had exhausted the energies of one of the greatest mouarchical governments in the world ; and who, whatever errors and faults they may haye committed, are still genersNy guiltless of any design’to promote private gain under the mask of zeal,for the public good. We put this point prominently forward as one of the few bright traits in the history of the Exhibition. The managers decided at the out- set that no individualjsubscription should ex- ceed $5,000, There may have been men among the originators to whom’a handsome advance on this par value might ‘have been an object; but no one familiar with the business public of New York can read over;the names of the direc- tors.and leading shareholders withoutperceiving that even a rise of 100 per cont would have hardly recompensed them for their trouble, and would have very inadequately repaid the odium necessarily attaching to a stock specula- tion on sucha basis, This we say in justice to the prime movers of the Exhibition. It is the last compliment we shall have occasion to pay them. The company was no sooner formed thin the stock took rank among the “ fancies.” it sold at 175 before the pillars were erected. As we cannot believe that three or four thousand dol- lars would have induced the directors to dis grace themselves ly lending their names to the enterprise and then selling out, we are bound to suppose that those who took advantage of ibis large rise in the stoek were the smaller shareholders. We regret that the directors did not find means to check theiravaricious propen- sities, and prevent the Great Exhibition from taking the same ‘evel asa fancy mining com- pany. The opening was announced for May. To- wards ihe close of April ,exhibitors flocked hither from Europe and nearly all parts of the we many of them having sent on their con- tributions beforchand. To our knowledge num- bers of foreigners were here on Ist May, waiting for the opening, and spending their. money in lis at expensive hotels. Some of them left in disgust; others remain and spent ten ‘ weeks in idleness. cost whigh ap- 8 frightful to one accustomed to the hotel res on the continent of Europe. At length, on 14th July, the ceremony of inauguration took place. Need we again deseribe a ceremony whose leading features were food for merriment and shame? The disorderly throng—the absence of any- thing like arrangement or provision for guests— the unfinished bnildings and endless rows of halfopened boxes the disgraceful ecene of a President dragged perforce through a crowd by policemen—and, finally, the very undig- nified specimens of rhetorie which were sup- poted to inaugurate the oceasion—to disinter such reminiscences were too thankless a task, nor shall we delay ou the dinner. No company of firemen inviting their friends to celebrate their captain’s birthday would have ditplayed so little tact in the selection of their guests, in their reception at table, or in the management of those little details which are essential to the success of a banquet. But let this pass. In the middle of July the Exhibition opened. There were few or no paintings, a small show of sculpture, very few objects of art of any kind; the departments of machinery aud manufactures were about half completed, and avery large proportion of the building was either entirely empty or filled with packing cases. Hence numbers of people from the country, who bad come to see the Exhibition, witncrsing this scrry show after a ten weeks extension of time for preparations, returned home thoroughly disappointed, and proclaimed the enterprise a failure. The press throughout the country gave utterance to severe strictures on the management. Under these inflictions the stock feli below par. As time wore on, however, the defective departments were grad- ually filled up. Every facility was afforded to enterprising storekeepers to puff them- selves and their wares. Space which ought to have Leen devoted to objects of art was resigned to fantastic adver- tisements of barbers and hatters. The picture gallery was opened at last, and covered rather more space than eny French gallery except the Louvre. It contained about eight hundred paintings. about fifty of whieh were worth more than the frame. Soon afterwards the visiter noticed a new feature in the Exhibition. He was pestered on every side with offers of wares for sale. The Crystal Palace was eonverted into a jarge store, at which you could buy any- thing, iroma segar to a steam engine. This was the preface to the conclusion. In December the juries were summoned. Men of intelligence were invited simultaneously with men who did not know a tea caddy from a steam boiler; and many, many names, whose verdict on the articles exhibited would have been worth knowing, were entirely neglected. Vague rumors of corruption among the juries have been prevalent enough. Had the jurors been properly selected these injurious reports would never have arisen. Charges of ignorance have been advanced against certain of the juries, and we have every reason ‘o believe them well founded, In some intanecs it would seem that chance 1 their verdict; in others a silly wich i or a contributor whose life ar whose positio. was meritorious induced them to reward an chjcct utterly unworthy of rable mention; in others again, the reporis of sub-committees were rejected by the com- mittees without the assignation of any ground, and really without any other possible motive than mere eaprice. No one who is familiar with the respective merit and standing of cur own artists. manufacturers and other con- tributors, can fail to see how very false a view of their respective. claims to public patronage is presented by the list of awards. Fortunately, the number of the medals will complete the work which the character of the Juvies began, and will deprive the distinctioa of all abiding value. A judicious sense of economy dictated the substitution of silver and bronze for gold; and of the former metals some 1,300 medals were struck, about 590 of which have been awarded to citizens of the United States. When we reflect that 590 individuals or chjee's in this country have received the palm of excellence, it will be quite as rare to find a manufaetarer without a medal—to say nothing of honorable mentions—as it was und_r Louis Philippe to find a Frenchman withont t!.2 ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Shrewd men of business will say ae little about their prizes as they possibly can. So ends the New York Exhibition—a failure we regret to say, from beginning toend. A failure certainly so far as practical results were concerned with regard to the improvement of our national industry, and in every way un- worthy of the national name; and so great a failure asa private speculation that none but thoee directly interested in bolstering up the stock will buy it even at seventy per cent dis- count. It must be a lesson for the future. Wno Epits tie Express?—Mr. Cunard has called upon us, and tells us that he really has nothing to do with the editing of the Express ; that Mr. Brooks wrote to him for information on the subject of the revenue laws, and that he ac- cordingly furnished him with the statements and arguments which the Express had the im- pudent folly to accuse us of stealing from its col- umns. Having prepared this statement, Mr. Cunard, being probably anxious that the mem- “bers of Congress and politicians at Washington should sce it as well as the four or five thou- sand readers of the Express in Wall street, en- closed us a duplicate ; and it was this of which the latter coolly claimed to be the author. We have reason to believe that the Ewpress is gen- erally edited on this system. It is not only glad to receive voluntary alms from any one who may think fit to make it a donation of ideas, articles or reports, but, like those active ripples who travel over half the city in their day, begging vociferously at every corner, and pestering passers-by with their importunate cries for charity, the Express is constantly on the alert to solicit gratuituous assistance from any one who might feel inclined to write it a leading article or two. It relies on this sort of contributions to make by ite gh columns ; so long asthey cost nothing the Express sel- dom boggles much about principles. A remark- ably judicious and economical way of conduct- ing @ newspaper. Mantis Kostza tunoven a Camera, — The discarded patriot has been engaged by the pro- prietors of a daguerreotype saloon in this city. They intend to teach him their art gratis, and when he shall have become perfected in it they will give him a set of apparatus, with which he can travel through the country. We would re- commend him to set up his camera in Washing- ton, and give a group representing all the peo- ple whom he has raised to fame—Marcy, the President, Commander Ingraham, and all the | members f Congress who voted for the medal As these gentlemen bre each indebted to him for a greater or less amount of glory they can- not refuse bim o sitting; and as the people would Ike to sce all the heroes in one grand group, the pockets of the artist might be sud- denly replenished. We trust that Kostza will not fail to agt ppou this idea, Dr. Bedini and his Assailants, An American gentleman, travelling not.long since in Germany with his wife, fell in with an Austrian who spoke English fluently, and ap- peared @ gentlemanly and agreeable com- panion, The American shortly afterwards dis- covered thut his new acqua!ntance was no other than the celebrated General Haynan; and as his name and history were st that time very prominently before the public he could not re- sist the opportunity ofendeavoring to clear up doubts he had respecting the stories that were in circulation about the General. So, with many apologies for his rudeness, he asked him, in a straightforward way, “General, did you really ever order a lady tohe flogged?” id raid the General, drawing himself up to bi height, “I have pressed the hand of a great many pretty women, and the lips of a few; but, on wy honor, I never ever knew of a lady heing beaten till after the atrocity had occurred.” There was that in Haynaun’s tone which hardly permitted a doubt of his sincerity. We think the anecdote may be studied pro- fitably by many of those who are now accusing Dr. Bediai of putting to death thirty odd Ital- ians and flaying Ugo Bassi. It is impossible that we can ascertain the real facts of the case. They occurred in a distant country, and the witnesses, both for the prosecution and for the defence, cannot be heard or examined here. Hitherto the accusation rests entirely on the evidence of Gavazzi, whose violent antipathy to the Church of Rome and general character ought to lead us to reevive his unsapported assertions with great cantion. A corres- pondent in this day’s paper entirely disbe lieves the story, and alludes to Bedini having established bis innocence in an article published some time ego in the Henatp, We toink it would be as difficult for him to prove his inno- cence as for his accusers to prove his guilt: and as the law presumes every man to be free from crime until a case is made out against him. we hardly see why he need go to the trouble of try- ing to exculpste bimselt. For our part, we are free to confers that the charges which have been made against Dr. Bedini seem to us entirely improbable and quite inconsistent with his cheracter and calling. At all events, whatever may be urged in their support, it is clear that we have nothing to do with them; an’ that, coming here as the representative of a temporal sovereign, he is entitled to respect and fair treatment at our hands, Had he been notori- ously stained with crimes of the dye of those laid to his charge it might have been a ques. tion whether public sentiment would have jus- tifled the President in receiving him as the en- voy of the Pope. But now that he has been re- ceived and recognized by the head of our gov- ernment, we owe it to ourselves as a people toforbear from any acts of violence towards him, and to resist the efforts which foreign re- fugees are making to organize a crusade against him, It would seem from our correspondent’s let- ter that he was invited to act as umpire be- tween the clergy and laity of the diocess of Buffalo in the dispute respecting their church property. He decided, of course, in favor of the clerical litigants, and the laity refused to be bound by his decision. Thé Legate of the Pope seems to us a very unsuitable person to fill such an office; and we think Dr. Ledini would have consulted his own character and interesis better by declining the office of umpire, if it was really spontaneously offered tohim. The courts-of justice are the proper umpires in questions of real property; and what- ever free will the disputants at Buffalo may have exercised in the matter, the public at large will always suspect that their request was not the real authority under which the Legate acted. It is every day becoming more neces- sary to deal cautiously with these questions of Catholic church property. The Catholic Church now owns in the diocess of Buffalo property worth probably some three millions of dollars, and perbaps four to five millions worth in the dioceses of New York. Under the present sys- tem the control of these large estates is in the hands of clerical officers appointed by a foreign potentate. Now this is diametrically contrary to the spirit of our institutions and the feelings of our people. We object to grant to any for- eign monarch the power of controlling so large a stake in this country. The proper persons to control the Catholic church property are the clergy and laity combined. If either class ought to be excluded from its control it should be the former, and not the latter. This sentiment is steadily gaining ground, and ere long the prob- Jem, both as regards Buffalo and New York, will have to be solved by the Supreme Court of the United States. Till then all interference by Legates or other foreign nominees will only do mischief. InterestiNG Prom Havana.—By the arrival of the Crescent City we have letters frum our Havana correspondents to the 15th inst. The three American seamen who were incar- cerated in the Moro are still in confinement. The American acting Consul visits them fre- quently; but nothing has yet been done with regard to them by the Captain-General or the other authorities. They are probably waiting for the action of our government. The arrival of Archbishop Hughes has occa- sioned considerable religious and social excite- ment on the island. He has received a great deal of attention, of which he is very fond of talking and making a parade. The Captain- General called upon him, and the Archbishop returned his visit. He had also officiated at high mass at the cathedral. His health is im- proving. We also learn that the great stir made about the liberation of the emancipados does not amount to much. It is all humanity upon paper. The emancipado state of liberty is much worse than slavery. Ia the one case, it is slavery and no work—in the other, it is work and slavery. It is generally believed that the new Captain. General has been selected and sent oft by the exercise of British influence in Madrid, and that his policy will be directgd by British influence in Havana. The French and British Ministere—Lord Howden and the “Mafquis de Turgot—had probably a great share in his appointment; and the policy of the new Go nor will probably exhibit as marked a hostility to the United States as in the case of his prede- cessor. As yet it has been thought desirable to avoid anything like decided action, except where the exercise of British influence is con- cerned. In the meantime, it will be seen by the letter cf one of our correspondents that the govera- ment are taking all the necessary prec wution- ery measures to enforce their treaty with Eag- land. Troops are befog moved from place to place, and fortifications repaired and examined, with a view to intimidate the population. Generel Pezucla has, it appears, furnished ug ae A with another opportunity for the application of the Koezta doctrine, by seizing and throwing into prison a Creole gentleman named Rieces, naturalized citizen of the United States, wha recently returned to Cuba to transact somg business that would have only detained him a few weeks. In reply to the remonstrance the American Consul he was coolly told not ta trouble himself about the matter, The Falaces of New York—The Saint Nichoins Hotel. yd The merchants «f New York are wnrparing in theta Oatley, and bo long ea whey display go much liberality and tase tn the inv wiment of their eapital, there is nef fear that Philadelphia or any other city, will have any clsim to the title of the commercial mo‘ropolis. Fastern, Southern, or Wertern trader cau God every: thing that he derire: in New York, and of better quality than anywhere else. Dees he wish to astonish his wita with @ splendid “broods,” he may select it from @ stock worth a mi lion in a building which cost half mil» lion more, Does he destre to replenish bis Library we invite him to sn inepection of an establichment in which thiee quariers cf & milliem mie invested, He msy select « cismond ring from the fines? assortment cf bijoulerie la the world, He is meseured fog his boots or troure:s by an artist im full dress, and he map appear in the costume of « “ lion’? of the Boulevards deo Italien, before the glows has diraypeared from the origi ral germent, the Craf: of which is displayed to his gaze, For the evening he has cix theatres and an endless variety of other amurewests. Is he eontemplstivs or philoso. phical—there ere lectures for him. Is he desirsas to ine dulge in works of ait—‘bere are galleries of palatings, Ty he tronblet wih emvui—Rortoa will remove it. Doag he love excitemeot~ Broadway, in wet weather, will giva him plenty of it, Does he decire aa opinie at alow rate let him bear the cebates ia the Common Wvaneil, a ho inclined to,‘ha,Germen ‘ohool of abstrase #peculs tion let him werk out the problem which’ we sl! try ta solve, and ascertain when we chall haves rexponnible city government. We do not continue the catalogue, beesuse it would occupy tco much apace, and the work is, perhaps, acper. fluons, Bat we have no: provided the geatleman with food,raiment au lebelter. Esting issmamusementia which he canin¢u'ge ate ra‘es, from soup and black bread inCha. tham street at four cents, to a dinner at four dollars in 9. restaurant Francais. He may, however, be accompanied by his wife, and then it becomes a grave questicn in cab- inet courcil as to which hotel offers the strongsst in. dneements to ladies. It has long been & maxim with shrewd hotel keepere that if they bave the ladies og their ride it is of no cons+qnence what the men think, Mr. Howard, late of the Irving House, made a handsome fortune by paying sttention to this precept, aod his ex. azople kas been imitated and improved upon by others. We were never more forcibly imprensect with the fores of the maxim above nied than in # recent etroll through the spendid corridors and luxurious draving rooms of ths Saint Nishol+a; Hotel, We seemed in anothar atmoephert—or,rather, brestaing » mix'ure of atmorpberes, a cherming intorieation of the ferres. Tne occasion waa the anniversary of the opening: of the es'abli-hment, which event took place on the 6th Jarwary, 1853, The proprietors had realized a handsome profit on their giest investment, aud they resolved to oe9 Jebrate the even! by reunion of their guests aad frien‘s, Some six hundzed persons in attendavoe, and the north wing of the house prerented a raagiiificent appear: auce. Ladice io {wii dress, promenade’ the corridors. theirempire fairly acknowlecgea, thr y seemed to bein the element for which taey were crevted, Little family grcups were clustered ia the drawivg room, rome at the piano, otters engaged in copversation—perbaps flirtation, All appeared to bein the fuloess of joy, An hour afters wards the rame company were ia the: salon de danse, & splendid hell, wortby in every respect of the brilliant company whicn cccupied it. Here, for two hours, there were polkas, quadrilles, waltzes, promenaces for converé tation, ete, when the bend gave the signal for supper, The company pissed out of the hall to the banqueting rocm, where they ast down to a supper which was supe- rior to anything of the kind we have ever seen before. Tho room seemed avast panorama of wealth and beauty. Every delicacy that could be desired was providec—wines of the most celicate flavor flowed in limpid streams—tho conversation was brilliant—the ladies amiable—the gen- tlemen gallant—the aitaches of the house performad thair dut'er without the slightest confusion or breach of order, and, after two hours hed been delightfully spent at table, the compasy sgain brtook thomeelves to the pleazures of the dance, uxiil three o’cluck, when they had gradually dispersed. The reader will naturally conclude that a hotel where anything of this sort conld be so well done would bean extraordinary establishment. It is; and we proceed to recount some particalars concerning it. The St. Nicholss Hotel, Broadway, near Spring street, was first opened to the public on the ¢th of January, 1858, The buildings are of white marble and freestone, and, with the Jand, will cost, when finished, eleven hun: dred thousand dollars. It is leased by John P. T:eadwell, John Acker, Peter Acker, and Virgil Whitcomd, who form ® copartzersbip uncer the name and style of Treadwell, Acker &Co, The buildings are 275 fest front on Broad- way, and the same on the rear, Mercer stres?, with q @epth of 200 feet. The hotel can accommodate « larger number of persons than any other in New York, There are row three hundred and eighty four reoms, each cf which can accommodate two persons. When the house ia complete the number of rooma will be six hua: dred, and one thousand persons can be easily accommo. dated. Two new wiogs will shortly be thrown open, The northwest wing, on Spring street, has one hundred rooms, tach eighteen feet square. It will be ready for oocu- peuts in about two weeks. The south wing io titted with roots in suites, splendidly furnished. Tais will bs ready sbont the S0:b preximo. The furniture for this house hes cost, #0 far, $20,000; it will rum up to $300,000, Tho mirrors cort $20,010, The gas fixtures, which are very beautiful, o st $27,000. There are one thousand four hundred burners, including reveral magnificent chande- lers, The expense attencent wpon carrying on the house is about $1,000 per day. At present the arrivals number three bundred per day, but ic the summer there have been from five hundred to six hundred per day, Tho number of servants now employed is two hun- dred and thirty; and in the busy season they will ba reinforced by one hundred more. The house is heated throughout by steam pipes, and there is a regular patro) Gay and night to guard against fire, In ease fire should break out in any part of the house, it would be at once extinguished, as water and hose in any quantity are al- ways ready, There are fire steam engines employed im various kinds of labor in the house. The boiler is away from the house, in s vault axder Mercer street, We have thus briefly given the notable points about this establishment, which unquestionably stands at the head of its clacs ia York, or in the world, Bat per> haps the most rewarkavie foacace about it is, that, not- withstanding its extent, ite menage is ae quiet ae that of a private bouretold. Discipline and order reign supreme, and the guests are never annoyed by blum- Gering cr noisy servants. ‘We are glad to see that the propiistors hare adopted a noiseless system at the dinner table. Onoe there was no order observed in the serving of courses, At the Tremont House, Boston, several years sinos, the system of drilling waiters a la militaire was commenced. The servants en- tered the room in solemn fi'eand tramped down the pas- sages between the tables. The head waiter touched a bell—snd down came the dishes on the table with acrash Wp a volley of musketry, This sort of thing, when reé pea‘ed balfs dosen times in the course of a dinner, is dis* treesing to weak nerves, and is not p'easant to any body. It was necessary, however, st that time; it wae the foan- dation of e ryrtem which has since been perfected. Some hotels adbere to itetill, but we are glad to see that it is done away with atthe St Nichoiss, Here we have the ler without the noise, The waiters are gloved, and they move about on carpeted walka, so that there is no in- tecruption to conversstion through any noise made [by them. The cinner is served on short tables—very oon. venient for parties of fifteen or twenty. It is unneces: sary to praize the table, or the wines at this hotel. They are in keeping with the magnificence of the remainder o: the establishment, As we have above stated, the St. Nicholas {a the favorite hotel for the ladies, for the very excellent reason that it was cesigned for thetr socom- raodation. ‘While we bare such botels as that described above, the stranger who finda bimself within the gates of Manhattar will be sure to be well pleaccd, and tae attractions of other cities will be held ont to him in vain. Thus, New h merchants unex oeiled, shops which cannot be equalled, and hotels which exceed tm magnificence macy royal residences, will go on cunguering and fiaaily to con~ quer all rivals, and become the greatest commercial city ia the world From Port av Prixct.—Osptain Barton, of the brig Joseph, informs an that Port aa Prince contiaued very sickly on the Ist inet, Mr, Thurston, mate of the Ut, of yellow fever,