The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1854, Page 4

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Single copies, in wreppore six ence Senator Douglas’ new Nebraska bill is reported to have thrown a large number of Congressmen into the greatest state of confusion and excitement. Sey- eral caucuses bave been held, but no definite line of action bas been, or probably will be, determined upon, till the generality of the Northern and Western members have ascertained the views of their constit- nents. A spicy debate sprung up in the Senate yes- terday on a motion to take up the new bill, at the conclusion of which it was agreed that the measure sbould be the special order from day to day after Mocday next. Then will commence the struggle, the mighty struggle, for the ascendancy, between the friends of the perpetuity of the Union on theove side and the arch disorganizers on the other It is understocd that the House committee did not report the bill before the Senate for ths resson that the com- mittee differed as to the proposed boundaries of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. A majority of the committee are, however, in favor of the ab- rogation of the Missouri compromise, which is the main point in the issue, and one which some of the free soil representatives bave already announced the'r dete: mination to resist to the utmost. In connection with this matter, we observe that Mr. Dickinson yes- tercay offered a preamble and resolutions in our State Senate, in which the features of Mr. Donglas’ new bill are reprobated, and the New York Con- greeemen are reqnested to vote against it; and in the Assembly a resolution is peading requesting Congress to adhere to the Missouri compromi:. This is snother symptom, a strong and decided symptom, that the slavery agi‘ation is to be renewed that every inch of ground will be stubboraly cou- tested from the top to the bottom, from Maine to Texaz, and from ocean to ocean... We bave carefully examined and commented upon this new moveuent in wn editorial. The official correspondence r¢lative to the position of M. Bedini was not nitted to the United States Senate yesterday, as called for by the resolu- tion of Gen. Cars. A pension for the widow of Gen. Jacob Brown was granted. The I'rench spoliation bill was postponed till Monday week. After a brief discnssion a resolution to throw open the doors upon executive sessions was tabled by 23 to 14. Five or six private bills were passed, and Fridays were set apart for the future consideration of bills of that class. In the House a bill to further reduce and modify the rates of postage was referred. The particular alterations in the present system are not stated. It is to be regretted that reporters are not a little more explicit with regard to measures of this kind, in which the people of the whole country are interest- ed. A joint resolution appropriating five thousand dollars for the Washington aqueduct was referred. The Military Committee reported back the Senate ree lation authorizing the President to confer the ravk of Lieutenant General by brevet, and it was re- ferred to the Committee of the Whole. A spirited debate followed between Messrs. Oliver and Max. well, in which the former made a wholevale attack upon and the lalter defended the President. Mr. Benton pronounced a deautitul’enlogy upon the char- acter of the Jate Mr. Bodisco, the Russian Minister. Both houses adjourned till to-morrow, as a mark of respect to the memory and in arder to enable the members to attend the faneral of the distinguished deceased to day. Our Btate legislators seem t» be progressing very slowly with the important business of the seasion. Thus far the members of both houses have gener- ally contented themselves with concocting and report- ing bills cf no general interest, 5nd when any of them bave ventured to speak it’ has usually been upon measures that were scarcely wortby of five Ginutes debate. However, the slavery question has at last been raked up in the two bodies, and we may consequen'ly expect some strong bancombe speeches inthe course of afew days. As to the temperance issue, tliat is kept in the backgroand, aud it isa matter of doubt whether anything will be done with it during the session. ,Senator Croshy yesterday made a minority reportsim¥which he takes strong ground against a prohibitoryalaw, arguing thet meral reforms must hp without any such aid, and that if it is dificult to-enforce. the present liquor law it would be much more® difficult to effectaaliy out cne of a more stringent character. Ac cording to the report from the State Treasurer, it ap. pears thet Mr Chatfield bad a whig precedent for his conduct with regard to the fees of the Attorney Geveralship. The resolution cauaing the officia! duties of canal officers to cease on the Sabbath was adopted by 15 to 8. The Assembly spent the greater portionof the fay in debatiag a proposition to oxpead twer ty five thousand dollars in repairing the Old State Hall. For details of the proceedings see the regu- Jar report and the despatch of our speejal corres poncent. Our Washington and other despatches, from differ ent parts of the country, contain @ variety of inter esting information relative to the secret agent sew by the government to wacch the operations of Mi. ter G.dsden in Mex‘co, the original caucus 1 tion of Gen. Pierce for the Presid ety of o which, as well as to a va er entert ma'ter, We have & ney Stone deliv rom for particular reference red the seventy sourse of which she re ectnre last teived trumendous even ja whe applause from # very crowded house for abositz Jobn Mitchel. This was sbout the only poiutim her lecture received with any en- thus asm. The news from California which we give in an- other part of today’s Hexanp will be found very in- terestiu ’, although nothing of striking importance had transpir’d in the new Sta‘e during the two weeks previous to the 3lst of December, down to which we have dats, beyond the exciting, andin some cases deplorable incidents which belong to every day life ia that section of the country. The Iodians were continuing their depredatioas in various parts of the interior; but it appears they were mesting with prompt and summary punishment at the hands of the United States officers and troops. We have only room to refer to the news, which will no douot be read with interest. Ty reference to the news from Lower California it will be seen that the Mexican accounts of the overthrow and complete annihilation of the forty- five Glibusters under Captain Walker were incorrec’. At last advices the war was not over; neverthe- less, the bandful of invaders maintained possession of their new seat of goverament, without aid from apy quarter, and upon the arrival of the two hun- dred auxiliaries who left San Francisco on the night of the 12th ult. would most likely be eble to enlarge their area of freedom, and bid defiance to avy oppo sition that could be bronght against them for some time tocome. The brief descriptions of the various battles and skirmishes ia which they have been en- Capt. Walker was stil F cof Lower California, »is time he and his comrades may have an- territory of Sonora. igence elsewhere published from Cen tral America contains many featares of interest, par- ticulerly to politicians, merchants and speculators. The recent suspension of hostilities against Hon- duras by Guatemala bad caused the reduction of the army of the latter country to the peace scale. The refusal of Guatemala to accept the proposed mediation of San Salvador and Nicaragua seems to have offended the priife of the latter governm 2‘; however, it was hoped that all difficulties would be amanged. Several of the most prominent and in tluential men of Nicaragua have been banished for perticipating in the late reyoluticnary movements, among them ex-President Jose Guezrera, and mom: bers of his Cabinet; cozsequently another intestine war may shortly be expected. Fora graphic ‘iis- tory of the troubles between Honduras and Guate- ala, together with sketches of some of the battles, the reader is referred to the letter from our cor- respondent. Papers fiom Selt Lake City to the 12th of Novear ber furnish us with the Mormon account of the mas sacre of Capt. Guanison and his party by tho Indians, Phe savages who committed the horrible deed had gone into winter quarters in New Mexico, but are expected to renew their hostilities ia the spring. Let us hope that the government will take steps to cap- ture and ish the guilay parties, aud also to release from bondage the white females and children who arejbelieved to be held in captivity by the Camanzhes and other tribes roving over the southwestern plains, The Mormons were progressiug admirably; saints were coming in rapidly from all parts of the world; prain, fruit ard provisions were abundant, and the temple was rising. Some missionaries to China had returned, giving as a reason for so doing that they could not make converts without understanding tlie Chinese language, which they found too difficuls to inaste v » have received files of Kingston (Jam.) papers, witb advices from the other portions of the West Indies, to the 12th instant. It was reported in Kingstoo that the Governor intended to dissolve the Tiouse of Assembly immediately after it reassembled, on the 1ith instant. Jamaica was healthy, the veather fine, aud the sugar crop promising. A jot had occurred between some officers, so) diers ané civilions, on the Sth, Upon the same day 's had an encounter at Montego police station was demoliebed, ada policeman so injured that he died from his wounds. sports from Trinidad with regard to the crops , coffee and cocoa, arenot encouraging for the supply of the present year. Chol: ra was ragicg at St. Thomas, and had carried off four hundred and thirty-one persons from the 2° of December to the 21 of the present month, The steamship Atlantic has now been out nearly fourteen days from Liverpool. She will brng four days later news, and will no doubt arrive in season to enable us to publish the same in to-morrow's editon. eerd Genesal Pierce and the Reopening of the Great Antislavery Agitation, The reopening of the agitation of the slavery question in Congress and in the country, fro. the movement in the Senate to organize the two new territories of Kansas and Nebraska, is extending and spreading in all directions with the iost startling rapidity. No man could have dreamed of such a spectacle of reviving sectional excitement and discord one short It was universally believed that the armistice of 1850 would last for several years yet to come—when, lo! the trace is bro- ken off and the war is suddenly reopened along the whole line. Events and facts, and developements. and currents. and counter cur- rents, and cabinet consultations, and executive tribulations, and confusion in Congress, and ex- citement among the people, come crowding in upon us, as wave rolls over wave under the lashings of a heavy gale. Mr. Douglas. after a full conference with the President and the leading democrats of both houses— especially ofthe South—has introduced year ago, his new bill into the Senate, in reference to all that mighty region east of the Rocky Mountains lying above the thir- ty-seventh sgree of north latitude. All that vast country, by the Missouri compromise et of 1820, was closed against Southern sla’ ry forever. Alarmed by our late free soil Givclosures and startled by the evidences of sent daily accumulating against the free soil and secession spoils coalition of the Cabinet, this Senate bill is a bold move by the administration to repair damages, and to re- cover its lost ground in the confidence of the country. But if the President expects that this measure will reunite the party upon the admin: istration, and run the gauntlet of both houses, under the whip and spar of party discipliae, without much difficulty, he hes unfortunately overlooked the dormant elements of another and the most terrible convulsion which this country has ever experienced upon this foarfal aud vital question of slavery. The new bill of Mr. Douglas is somethiag ofa legal quibble, or a constitutional dodge, upoa the ¢ but it substantially attains the object ofarepeal of the Missouri compromise. The legal ground upon whidh this Missouri line is enperseded is right. The Missouri compro- mise was an unconstitutional act—the compro- » measures of 1850, as far as they reafirmed the binding vali of the line of 36 30, were also unconstitutional. All these compromises were but temporary expedients of peace be- tween the two sections ; they were the compr mises of anxious spoilsmen, ambitious politi- clans, and Presidential candidates, for the time teing. They were temporary and superficial touch the root of the question principle of the constitution, atall powers not expressly granted to Con. re reserved to the States and to the peo- ple, was violated in the Missouri compromise and ip the acts of 1860 reaffirming It, and there- (a public sent mis gress fore Mr. Douglas would be right in declaring all such acte, one and all, null and void. But, in founding this new bill upon the com- promises of 1850 the Senate committee and the President seem to have overlooked the fact that these measures reaffirm the Missouri compro- mise in reference to these identical new terri- tories. They cannot rest the policy of thisnew measure upon the finality of the acts of 1850, because in reaffirming the Missouri interdict thore acts reaffirm an unconstitutional law. It will not avail the administration and the com- mittee to shelter themselves behind the mea- sures of 1850 in superseding the act of 1820, The principle of the new bill supersedes both compromives upon the basis of the sovereiga right of the people of the territories to decide he question of slavery or free soil for them- selves. By the acts of 1850 the people of Utah and New Mexico were allowed the determina- tion of their own local policy; but Kausas and Nebraska were specifically tied up again by the Missouri line. Hence, as far as these new ter- vitories are concerned, the new Senate bill is practically a repeat of the late adjustment. Its finality is ended; and the whole issue between slavery and anti-slavery is reopened upon a new platform, Upon this point the bill isa quibble and a dodge, and carries a falsehood upon its face. The finality of the late adjustment, then, being at an end, we repeat that the whole ques- tion of Southern slavery, in all its aspects, in all its hearings, and in all that has been done or may be done, is fully reopened for diseus- sion and agitation. If the finality is termi- nated upon the Missouri compromise the aboli- tionists may claim that there is an end ot the finality of all the other measures of the schedule of 1850, and that, including the Fugi- tive Slave law. they are all open for repeal. Conecquently we shall soon be involved in the reogitation of the whole subject, in every shape and form. fer the Senate have reopcned the whole matter ; and before we are done with it we shall be required to come to a clear, dis- tinet, and final settlement of the whole subject, in all its phases, and upon broader principles than those of a temporary armistice for the next Presidential election. The storm is approaching. The gathering elements of a general convulsion, deeper, and broader, and stronger, than any we have yet euffered, are distinctly visible in the horizon all around us. Corruption and the spoils, as predicted by Mr. Calhoun, are hurrying up the explosion, and the corruptions of the spoils will add tenfold to the violence and ferocity ot this impending struggle. The Union will be shaken to its centre, for the contest will be protracted for years to come. Vain the hope, if such there be—vain the calculation of passing this new bill at the present session. It may be dragooned through the Senate after a hard and desperate resistance; but its in- troduction into the House will be the signal for another revolution among par- ties and factions. The whole chain of all the instincts, jealousies, animosities. traditions, and hereditary antipathics, between the two sections: moral, social, religious, and political, will be revived again into active and embittered re- criminatious. Parties and cliques, and conspir- ing spoilsmen, will be borne down by the revul- sion, and their plans and intrigues for harmony ond the spoils will be swept off like dry reeds mahigh wind. The administration itself, as the storm widens and sharpens in its fury, will be shattered and dismantled, ard left drifting in the Gulf Stream at the mercy of the elements, like the ill-fated San Francisco, Recoiling at length from the very verge of Cisunion and civil war, patriotic men of the North and of the South, from the débris of the administration and the late political parties of the @uy. will come again to the rescue. The North will feel again the blessings which this Union confers upon her in the slave-growa pro- ducts of cotton, sugar, rice, and other staples— the South will return to her allegiance as to the srk of safety. But this reunion will be not upon a temporary compromise or quibbling armistice; but upon a distinct, comprehensive, permenent constitutional adjustment, for once and for all. This adjustment is foreshadowed in thisnew bill, repealing all existing compromises, in fact, and reopening the whole issue upon its exact merits under the constitution. The day tor mixed concessions between abolitionism and the propaganda of slavery has passed by. No more hybrid mulatto compromises will avail—no more schemes of Africanization and {ree soil, share aad share alike, The constitution recognizes no such mixed principles—no such doctrines of African and Anglo Saxon amalgamation. Ours is an Anglo-Saxon constitution in its terms, in its spirit, and in its intentions—in its origin, in its developements, and in its destiny. It is the charter of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors to the people; and it is to the people that it decrees all powers not granted to the federal govern- ment. It has granted no powers to draw lines and parcel out territories between free soilers and slaveholders. All such acts are null and void. Hence the new Senate bill is right ia resting upon the fundamental law, but false ia pleading the finality of the acts of 1850 whea their finality is ended and they are defonet. The new bill is a new adjustment, and opens up the whole question of slavery for a new set- tle ment, upon fixed principles, from the begin- ning to the end. We have the beginning, but the end has yet to come. We must go through this ordeal of a thorough agitation of this subject of Southern slavery and a thorough sifting to the bottom. We can- not escape it. Parties, stateswen, politicians, and the public journals, are taking their posi- tions accordingly. And in the outset the South may perceive the consequences of their treachery to and desertion of their Northern allies iu the greedy scramble for the spoils, In return, they are already betrayed by their free soil confed- erates, Witness the New York Evening Pos: and the Albany .it/as. Witness the first open showing of its hand by the Daily Times. The eccasion has come. It is with Seward to the point of the bayonet. And the Bxpress, with no more subsidies comivg in from Castle Gar- dep, speaks out the trath that is in him upon the treachery of the South. Therefore we say, that from the preeent demoralization of parties at Washington by the spoils—from the free soi) associations of the administration—from the treachery of the South—and from the wide spread elements of abolition in the North, a fear- ful revuision is impending, which before it ter- minates will shake this Union to its tounda- tions, demolish the administration, break up existing parties ond scatter them to the winds, and usher in a new epoch the most marked aud distinct in the history of the republic, The crieis is upon us. Where are the free poi) ad- herents of the administration anc suthera epoilemen bow? Let us hear—let ug hear, Monsicnor Bepiyi in THe SenaTe.—Gene- ral Cass is naturally apprehensive lest the maltreatment to which the Papal Nuncio has been subjected in the West should be avenged upon his son, our Chargé at Rome. His motion for the correspondence led to a de- bate in the Senate, in whieh most of the leading members were drawn out, and many sensible things said. With one exception, all the speak- ers concurred in condemning the outrages to which the Legate’s visit to the West has given rise : with greater or less distinctness all, save Mr. Weller, of California, united in pronounc- ing the Cincinnati riots and the the Baltimore threats to be a disgrace to the character of the American people. Without wishing to dissent from the ground taken by Senators Cass, Mason, Douglas, Butler, or Everett, we must say that Senator Dawson, of Georgia, seems to us to have been the only speaker who really probed the affair to the bottom and told the truth to the country. He was right in stating that the native citizens of the United States have had little or nothing to do with the Bedini disturb- ances, and that the great majority, if not the entirety of the rioters,were individuals of foreign birth. Nothing can be truer than this, and no truth requires mow imperatively to be placed before the public. The people of this country are essentially a law fearing race; they have lived for near a century almost without legal restraint, aud have never shown by their con- cuct that they were uufé for this large share of Hberty. With our foreign population the ease is different. These--mainly Irish and Germans—come here from a soil on which they were little better than serfs, and, finding themselves suddenly elevated to the rank of freemen, they grow dizzy from the change, and not unfrequently lose their balance altogether. Liberty, in their eyes, signities the right of being turlulent, noisy, destructive, and unruly—the privilege of indulging all those vicious propensities which bayonets and po- licemen’s sticks repressed in the land of their birth. They are of two classes: the igno- rant boors, who were constantly in dread of po- lice and soldiery in Europe, and who, strange to the absence of these formidable overseers iu this country, cannot resist the temptation of doing wreng, just to convince themselves of the reality of their freedom: and the philosophic revolutionaries of continental Europe, who. having been expelled from their native home. come here to practise socialism, aud waste their energies in attempts to convince the American people that they would be happier were they to share thé" fruits of their toil with idle theo rists like the philosophers themselves. Both of these classes are always ready to get upariot— more especially if they fancy it will injure one of their old oppressors or annoy a European traveller. Such ar2 the authors of the Bedini disturbances. Now these men would be put down much more rapidly than they are if it were not for two causes, to one of which Mr. Dawson adverted in his speech. In the first place, there exists in this country a contempt- ible desire on the part of politicians to curry favor with our foreign population, in order to secure their vote; and to gain this purpose they will throw a mantle over many faults they condemn, and endeavor to excuse in a for- cigner crimes which they would insist on having punished in a native born citizen, We are ali aware of the sympathy which waz attempted to be roused in this‘city in favor of the Fourth of July rioters; politics had a narrow escape oa that cecasion of defeating the ends of justice entirely. In the second place, the penalty of crime—whore foot is said by poets to be Jarme— secms particularly slow of movement in this country. We are long-suffering to a degree: a parcel of rowdies mey shock our cars and offend against our sense of right for days and weeks before we are sufliciently roused to act. Senator Dawson was quite right also, in stat ing that such occurrences as have taken place at Cincinnati could not bave occurred in Geor- gia. Itisdueto the South to admit the truth of the assertion—an admission that will involve no controversy if our previous statements are admitted. New Orleans alone excepted, South- ern cities are not filled with troops of foreign- ers eliher unfitted for liberty by ignorance or impelled to license by the dictates of a licen- tious philosophy. There are fewer isms and higher law theories at the South than at the North. The true’ American character is per- haps more fairly developed there than in our portion of the country. We hope that the speeches of Senator Dawson and his colleagues will be widely read through- out the country. General Cass’ evidence is surely worth as much as Signor Gavazzi’s; and whether or no Bedini be guilty of the offences laid to his charge it does not befit us to assume the part of executioners, ‘Tur Conprtion oF tite SrreETs—- PRopaRitt- ty or AN Eripemic.—The Board of Aldermen have adopted a resolution calling for the names of the contractors for cleaning the strects. the names of their sureties, Xc., and also requesting the Comptroller to state why the contractors have been paid for duties which they have not performed. When this last question is satisfacto- rily answered we hope the Board will proceed to inquire why the commissioners for opening the streets are paid thirty thousand dollars a year for services they have never performed — why the Counsel of the Corporation receives from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars a year for services not performed, or which he has no right to perform—why we pay eight hundred thousand dollars a year for policemen who ars never scen when they are wauted—and why, in short, the people of New York pay five mil- lions a year for being worse governed than any city, town or village, on_the face of the earth. All the evils and abominations under which New York groans are the direct results of a fragmentary and chaotic theory of government, and the consequent rivalry between all the de partments as to who shall obtain the largest handful of the spoils. The utter want of a re- sponsible head throws “everything into confu- sion and disaster. The axe must be laid at the root of the tree. Meanwhile, the condition of the streets and avenues grow imminently worse and worse. In the lower part of the city, on either side of the Battery. the mud is from three to six inches in depth, and this for miles and miles in extent, without any relief, any exception. This mud is not composed of mere dirt and water. but is made.up from a substratum of common mud, enriched by the slops of the kitchen and sleep- ing rooms of the entire poor German aad Trish population of those localities. They live for the most part in oozy cellars and verminous chambers, utterly destitute of all the “ modera conveniences” which the science of building has rendered so easily obtainable. They are trog- Jody tes—eretins of civilization; and the daily and bourly processes of their existencg are enough to poison and degrade with uoutterable filth a whole city. They are materially incapa- citated from complying wita any one of the or- dinances ‘respecting the disposition of slops, filth, ashes, &c., &c., and have no resource but to throw them into the streets. This is, ofcourse, not so much the fault of the con- tractors or the street department, as of the rich owners of property in that vicinity, who refuse to make such improvements in their buildings as would adapt them to the necessities of modern times. Fifty years ago these houses were the mansions of our aristo- eracy, who were then the “lower” instead of the “upper” ten; and the conveniences of their construction were of course equal to those times, and to the necessities of single families. Now, this whole region has been invaded by trade and emigration, the mansions of our old- time exclusives have been converted into Ger- man beer-shops and emigrant boarding honses, each containing half a dozen families of the filtbiest class of our foreign population, and converting the neighborhood for many square miles into one insufferable morass—the Dismal Swamp of our great metropolis, through which it is impossible to penetrate with safety. This is a truly gigantic evil, and one which demands the immediate attention of the Com- mon Council. Let the Board of Aldermen de- clare all existing contracts void, invest the Chief of Police with absotute power to employ vigorous measures for cleansing and keeping clean the streets, and appoint a commissioa of thorough practical, business men, to it and report on the condition of the dwellings in the lower part of the city. The winter, whose charitable mantle of suow and frost covers up and suffocates millions of poisonous inias- mas, is gliding rapidly away. the warm days of spring will betray the exist- ence of this putrescent corpse beneath rotting pall—the airs of May, instead of heiag laden with balmy and life-giving odors, will bear to the lungs of our million of inhabitants the seeds of some fatal epidemic, which the slightest unfavorable circumstance will de- velope into terrible activity. There is nota moment to be lost; the case is imminent and full of danger. For God’s sake, let our city government forego, even for a few days, their squabbles over the spoils, avd set themselves at work to cleanse and purify the city while the beneficent winter frost still holds in erystaliza- tion the elements which, once dissolved be- neath the breath of epring. will hurl death in ten thousand forms into our city’s midst. Such monstrous violations of nature’s physical laws as at present exist ia our city cannot but be at tended by consequences the most fearful and disastrous. Let us act while it is yet to-day. Soon Supscrirtions on Account or THE SAN Fran- cisco Disaster—We have received several letters from subscribers to the fund for a testi- monial to Captain Crighton and the crew of the Three Bells, complaining of the mauner in which the money has been appropriated, and reflecting severely on the conduct. of the com- mittee. By the report of the last meeting of the merchants’ committee it would appear that a sum of $17,000 or thereabouts had been sub- scribed, and $15,000 paid; and that out of this latter nearly $3,000 had been yoted to the officers of the San Francisco and Lieut. Murray, of the Uiiited States Navy, as follows To Lient Murray, U. 8. N.... $1,000 in olate. John W. Marshal, Engixeer § he BERND - envi n -$500 in money, A gold medal. 20 $1,009 in plate. $250 in money. A gold medal. $100 io money. - A gold medal. ire to ask whether or no these various persons are worthy of reward They did their duty in very trying cireum- stances; and if any one were to start a sub scription to testify the public appreciation of their'conduct we should approve the idea, and have no doubt it would be popular. But it is very clear that the parties who subscribed the various sums disposed of by the merchants’ committee did so from a wish to recom- pense Captain Crighton and the officers of the Three Bells, Antarctic, and Kilby, and not in order to reward the officers of the San Francisco. The public gratitude felt towards Captain Crighton and the other preservers of our countrymen was the true se- cret of the success of the subscription Jist; and to avail oneself of that feeling for the purpose of raising money for other objects is, to use the mildeet term, very injudicious. We wish this matter could be cleared up ina satisfactory woy, so that not the smallest cause for regret should stain the memory of the event. As it now 8.ands great diseatisfaction prevails among the subscribers ; and the sub-engineers, firemen and seamen of the San Francisco, who lost everything they had, complain, justly enough, that if their officers are to be rewarded they should come in for a share also. 0... uy Capt. Watkins, of Sav Francis: First Mate of do..... 9 Joan Mircue. anp His Destivy.—We are sorry to see that John Mitchel is going the way of Kossuth. Kinkel, and many others of the patriots who have come here with gpeat éclat. and fizzled out after a few weeks of glory. A few days ago John Mitchel was the observed of all observers ; now there are “none so poor as do him honor.” The whole press of the country is down upon him and his paper. The former my be considered as tolerably near his extinguiehment; the latter, which began with a cirenlation of some fifty thousand, is said by the other journals to be in a rapid decline. Sic transit gloria mundi. Tre Free Som Lerrer or Prestoent Preece, Owing to the pressure of California, Sonora, Utah, West India, Congressional, and other im- portant news upon our columns, together with other causes, we are compelled to postpone the publication of the letters of Messrs. Cochrane and Waterbury, and other intelligence respeet- ing Gen. Pierce’s letter, till another day. Coroners’ Inquests, Fatat Pxcixe Accipest —Corourr O'Donnel! yeeterday held aa irqueri in the New York Hoapitsl upon the oly Of Peter Dt Wi't, Jr, who was run over on Moa'ay nigh! 0! Broadway end Pearl strest, by Scgion op their way to a fire in Daane sirest tne young men (fed yer orday «f the injuries be received Toe eviterce showed t ich decearet re- celred wae purely the deat. Dr, Agnee that be found a dis‘oestioa of the hip joins, a fras. aries, aod at the rasaption tal he pre-ested ius ap pearance of one rnifering from wrest interaal hi thege. The jusy reiuraed « verdiey Dees aver gat thirty tro yeurs of age, York. IPs raid he has lately rete ene voyage— hav ng been round toe world. man cf high iespectatility Fata. Faut.—Peter Home o, to sorub the deck of tos rh Exat river, lost bin footiog received injuries which rerulted in his death at the reat g. Coroner O’Doanell on the dody yesterday, when she j turaed « verdict of deata from ao rom ® long ras He was a goatle mn-tog por 86 verman, whoa p Soelier, lying 1 tuto the bold, United States Diatrlet Comt. This court wae opened pro forma before Jadga Doria, bat th coorsqaea te of b ing voAbls to arrange tne doo! nO pay ern raved ficm (he jate Gre, adjoaraed until next Tuer ay United States Offices. The Unites States Attoraay, United states Merabal, and the -cmr'y joners, bave bey cov encommodation in Loe Rew COUT, Luvcing fropting Dore street. Anti-Slavery Lecture No, VII. Mies Lucy Stone delivered the seventh anti-slavery leo- ture last evening in the Tsbernscle, before « very large. audience, The building wae literally crammed. Lacy Stone spoke in her usual incoherent manner, wacdering from subject to subject, prodacing no facts, ard uslog aa argument. The mejori y of her sen‘ences, fowery aad imsgicative, were left ucconeluded, for the audience to. iscover their meaning. The following sketch contaiae. Besrly all the substanoe of ber jectare :— Whenever I epesk om this top'e, she said, 1 wish that He who touched Iesish’s beart with hallowed fire would inspire my Mpe. Thia question of slavery, above all others, demands the serious atten'ion of thivking meu ead think- ing women, Since the day that that ill omeasd Duteb yescel landed ite cargo of slaves im Virginia it uaa beem spreading Noth and South, East aad West. I have coem ~ much toat is bitter and rad in my life time, end yet » have never seen aught that cam be compared !o the cup of upm‘ngled sorrow that belongs to the slave Slave. holding is in this Jand ® notorious fact, ani every exer- tion is being made to spread it farther. it ought te be cur business to flow cut whether there is ang way by which it can be rooted out. We know what have been its :upyorts, aod what are atid ite cepperie—they are ths church and the govern- ment. We know that sl-very bas wound ! seif round both these—tr is }ilieg *h wd em gled that they ase dying Earnest min aod earnest womeo are tram- pling cur Jaw row under ( ot when they give tection to the ‘ugitive, I see in the wreok of the prevent goy- eroments gratder aud mors beautiful strusture. When Leay \bat seu glad that rlavery is killing 4overameat ard oburch Ido wot meas to esy that I win all har- mony Fhiuld be destioyed. Slavery bas played such. mireclet wih our more! sense that there is » bliad- ts, such as they sre, Miss Stone diverged here juto the story of Captaio Iv graham, and drew a parallel hotween the condition of Koreis aad that of our slaves. ‘Then ebe travelled into Vn.ceny, and said shat there one pocr iamiy wan denied tas right of reading the Bible and that our sympathies were at once aroned. In this Tepublic there a ® population adding i:Jliion to mil- Jon who are by law prouivited from epol.og out the- sscred dock. © Mrs. Douglase was impcinsaud for esohirg children the “criptures. Way, toa are cue eyen blinded in ene ery and nor inthe otpes— why did we hear the ery cf Hacgary—eed why is our eat" ced to the cry of thoss who wud bays ea ured more than ever Hungary endvrec? Why do peopla hier fora associations for giving liberiy to Karope, and cover dreaaa. that millicos are im want of liberty her? that ro blluds the eyes of people hers thas mie hey can see Oppression thousso is of miles away Uioy do wot eit here? We have beeu bitterly blinded ‘end our cowardice is great. I vant to sayin the ears of Joho Mitebel that there (s no clava of yeople en this broad continent from whom he wit! receive greater contempt than fiom the slaveholders themeelves. (rei appiaure. sud ci ‘Give it to him.) The world sees ihrough miserable policy. When 1 travelled through the South I ever found the siaveholders the frit to ery:—‘ We boow that tlavery is wrong but we +o not koow how to gat rid of it? The slavehi Keers themselves keow the wrong. It dose seem to me that if we Ded only the moral rense and courage, that it would be easy to throttle this obild of” slavery. iteeemato me thot it might be strazgled and buried in & grave ao deep thet it would rever tind s rerur- reotiin But we peed cur race wultiplied—we want men who wiJi,cot stay to ark, ix i! going to pay i dare and conte? We wont men whe will cot ask 18 it fashiomable? The curest here acts ‘trcrg for money and power. Whe'ber it be popular or repopular, we must speak for Uberty, and olaim its birthright Age must n>t be spared when hostile to God's propls T know that a pover is growing wp which will tzks \o {ts atms this sia ant bury: cA fe is real amo farnest—not for the am oe collars avdcents, I would sere children taken snd giver: an antirlavecy litea'ui end in twenty-five years we would bave slave ® d. Who does not koow that when sil ele in forgotten the deete of our chikthood are reeimbered, How inportant row when lite:ty is walkin plea ehculd be fhe fled ini abroad, that these princl- ur youth, I know well that slavery’s Gaya are nurite'ed. “I know that Nberty and not slovery is the Cevticed end of our race. I know that seoler is not the basi« of distisction, Example of truth, and livicg in conformity with tuth and ju.tios, is mead. ed. Ifwe waat liberty we wust pnt on the garments of liberty ard truth, whether it be unpopuler or not. 1 have only to rey, let us join hands, ging ourselves that we will work on, though we are reviled avd misun- Ceretood. The noble-hearted will at our side. We have but to do this, and upcer the weight of this morak er there will grow up the inflaence nested to take. old of the heart of the slaveholder and the common. +enee of the nation. Final Public Meeting of the Friends of Wright, Laniers & Johnson. The Saal public meeting of the friends of there gentle- men, who are interesticrg themeelyes in re establishing this firm in a hotel, was held last night, at the Metro- politan. Cap’sin Ferris wae in the chair, and Wm A D sper, Faq., acted as Secretary. The report of the Buildicg Committee sppoirted ate previous meeting to selest a site for the now hotel, wae. to the effect that seve-si vires had bean offsred to tht ‘ut nore bad yet besa tekou. The coiin ie al het Mr. Philip Burroughs to see Mr Lufarge, apd sonia report during the eveniog what he would dala the pt miner, Mr. Borrovcus then came int> the raeetin: ad ce | ar galled upon he stated that he hed seen Mr. 0. would leave the ground fur s new hotel at $35 (00 grousd that he from him bis final decision. Tent, and wou'd give the vwsterisla oa the ground free, The Orst year’s rent wa: to be paid in aep-rate tastal- mentu within Fix years, Farthecmore. If 8160 C00" to be subscribe? by the friends shuld not be ofticient 11 Mmuel! loan them $50,000. fo action wss taken’ by the meeting upon this repo | nthe committee reo al-e:" echownted to polect 0-06 @ Iscation for re! dis. clere ‘a tee uiliisg @ hotel, or to socapt the 1@ Subscription Committes of & resented port; but the amount alre:dy sabsorived le over $100,- (oop fits the rebuiliiog cf w hotel slincet beyond The meeting adjourned sine dic of Wright, Laniera & (9. rebuild the hotel, he would Obituary. MR. JAMES CHESTERMAN, OF NW YORK. ‘We have to record the death of one of our oldest and most respectable citizens and New York m'Jlionaires, Mr, James Chesterman, who died st his residence in this city, after ® short illcess, on Sanday, 224 inst,, in the ‘7eth year of his age, Mr, Chesterman was a remarkably active men for ore of his advanced years, aad was ene gaged in the active pursuits of monetary jife until within two or three days of his decease. He was a native of Exgland, and came to this country in his youth, being by Occupation a tailor, The Scciety of Merchant Tailora, (in. be early part of this century,) with whom Mr. Crester- man was acsosiated, comprised some of the most enter- prising and succerstul of the business men of the elty, Among them may be named, besides Mr. Chesiermaa, the ‘ate John Mason, whose will bas 40 recently been ‘he oud - ject of controverry in cur courts; John Fidel, Jonas Mayes, Siinuel St. John, Jone Scofeld, Jawes Onkiey, Jacob B:ower, Thomas Stokes, Mr. Hest, Mr. Scoville, and others. We believe Jerse Scofield, who pow resider at Walden, in Orange county, is the only sarvivor ie list of merebant tailors ¥ at of ‘then, en well Aap here who sucteeded them in the trade, were vory sucess iful ity accumulating ‘arge fortones Mr. Chesterman was for many years oze of the most farbiovable amoug the merchant tailors of Now York, He was sls) connected with the Ia'e John Boweodn the im- portation of woollen clotue, under the firm of Bowen & Chestermen. A’, or eboat the same tims, ho blished. tho late concern of Chesterman & Padion, merchant, teilors corner ef Jotn and Nas«su steeets ‘Ay also be- came a partner ia the pate ' Hupter, in Pine etreet, Spears The investmen » extele were rererbatiy eu mentioned his Ia Ke po Naesea ine Jobo streets, besotifel residence Ft earl) hfe, many years ain ‘he ears of bid large eats to Wall si at Jarlem, conficed his at-eation to Which may be e'tim sbdeut (1 @ mi on cf dcilar.. which he leaves toh ef five cr six obildion Mr Cnesteraen eentiemauly address sad courtronus manners, markably active babite Aalonts which have erable which te now lerves to oyment of hiv heira, wax # Swedenborgian in his re igions profeesion, aad ree seteemed by 2, are eirein of parsoval frisads and ao iT u, oent iy. Bis accial qualities. vasa siisclaaae Hon. RobmtM. Charlten, led st bis refi yapnah on the 18ihinet | Tae Savannah Naren aan the ‘ecensed was native of toas city. Woea twenty bt years cld—an eariler age than, robsbly, any one ver attained that cicnity in Georgla—he was ol-ated: Judge of the Sopsrior Courtof the Eastern Cirouit. Taek port Le soc rerigned fer the more arduous and lucrative Jabors of the practioe of his profession He bas bese Mayor of Savapeah, « member of the Georgia Laglalature, ieee eet see aan oy ‘eoancy cconel qv Judge Berrien, ¥ bala. micas of re- Ge possesred thov fiosaciel o acquires large fortune Paterna Biremen and the Police. x ation THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Ct lon was recently calied to amartio's published in the Sunday Mercury of te 16h, Instant written by: Mr. Weuwan, foreman of n fixe company, which, if (rae, certsicly estis for some action from the ‘suthori- ties, or at least should attrast the at of our in- ce companies, for if, as he says are in. ‘the habit of interfering with the firemen in tho dinct cf their duties cestarily be desti case at the La Fai en were prevented from was actuaily on fre. At» time like the present, sur- rounded as we are by the ruiny of so many destructive Coufisgraticnn, it behooves us all to find out to whom we are to jook to for the ralvation of our property, if the firemen are ‘0 be previ nies fom performing t volun- and by dows cuties. There is evidently something here, which perhaps you may be able to- it AC TIZEY. United States Cireult Court, Before Hon. Juige Batea. The Judge ratd that, in consequence of tae clerks ard oMcers being nadie to ar the books and doeuments nines the fire, it would be impoasible to Proceed with ths businecs of (he court this then served between the counsel engaged oe the one whicu was on trial wtea the firs cecarred to revame it 7 snd the jarora ware dia- y motions of pressing tmpeetnon be ec Mt ecounee! at hie private residence, 8. Mark's place. SA (