The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT PROPRIKTOR AND EDITOB. Orca ®. W. CORNED OF TULTON AND WAMLAU Pre. ABR EPPA gers AEP ER pers ES Forme | Eiichi tes BROADWAY THEA smiy- CATARACT OF 7 BURTO query Panis ax Lox AL THEAT! etreet—A fernoon— LEATIONAL TERATM cor Ws Ses ‘§ THEATRE Groadway—Wuext or For- eT ATLAOES Pincx O” Buamomas, MUSEUM—Afterno:a—Tom Tuvms- Coot on évoning—Anon Bassan—Tom Tavas-— omeNOM. DO} Beasts. CHRISTY’S AMMRICAN OPERA HOUSE, 472 Bread way -Ormiorraw MeLopres wy CMsRueTY’s MixeTR es. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Minsigol Hall, 464 Broad- way -Brworias MoweTRaier. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSR, 88 Broatway—Buex- aw's Brimoriaw Orxna TROUPE. BANVARD’S GEQRAMA, 0% Broniway--Pawonama or vue Bory Lawn. RBHENISH GALLERY, 663 Groadway—Day and Bvening. BIGNOR BLITZ —orovvesast Lneritwre, 39 Broad wey. 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OUR AGENTS IN PARIS, FRANCE We beg leave to state to our readers and patrous im Parle, and Europe gaserslly, that Mr. B A, Revoll, 17 Rar de is no longer connected with tha ¢r as correspondent or agent > & Welle & Pince de ls Bourse, are Yaris, both for advertisements and s Bergne Par Sew York Aurarn 6! The News. Much of our space is necessarily devoted to-day to the elaborate speech of Senator Douglas on the Nebraska Kansas territorial question, and to the pro- ceedings of the meeting of the opponents to the repeal ot the Missouri compromise, as proposed in that measure. This meeig as held in the Taber- nacle last evening, an dressed by James W. Gerard—who introduced We celebrated Castle Gar- den resolution of 1850 Judge Robert Emmet, and others. Our Washington correspondent writes that Judge Donglas’s remarks were listened to with the most profound attention, by a crowded auditory. In the course of his remarks he applied some very caustic language to the recent operations of leading abolitionists, which had the effect of bringing Sena tor Chace to his feet two or three times, but who ‘was obliged to restrain, to wait for an opportunity to speak, till the Judge bad concluded, as will be seen by the report. We have commented at considerable length on the speech, the meeting and the great question of the day, in a lesding editorial. The resolutions of,the Rhode Island Legislatare, in opposition to the Nebraska bill, were presented to both branches of Congress yesterday. The Senate adopted the House resolution, providing for a joint committee to take into consideration the propriety of so amending the constitution as to do away with the general ticket system in the election of President and Vice-President. It is proposed to vote by Con- gressional and Senatorial districts. No. less taan twenty-seven petitions were presented from Pennsyl- vania, remonstrating against the contemplated re- moval of the Mint from Philadelphia to this city. Asan offset to this movement a bill was introduced and referred to the proper committee, in the House, proposing to carry out the very object which seem* to have so startled and annoyed the inhatj tants of onr sister State; and, in addition. a resolution was adopted instructing the Secretary of the Treasury to report whether the New York assay office is sufficiently capacious for the erection of coinage apparatas? It will thus be seen that Congressmen begin to appreciate the fact that nearly all the gold from California, as well as a large amount from the Australian and other minescomes direct to this city. No wonder the Phil- ade!phians are ftightened. The House adopted a bill authoriz'ng the hiring of rooms in which to hold the United States Courts in this city. The Post Office Committee was instructed to report upon the expediency of purchasing ground and erecting buildings for the accommodation of the Post Office, Courts, &c., in New York and Philadel- phia. A eeries of resolutions, being mainly a reiter- ation of the Monroe doctrine, was referred to the Committee on Foreiga Affairs. They declare that none of the other nations of the earth will be per mitted to interfere in the affairs of this continent, with the intention of subverting generous political sentiments and obliterating independent States, with- @ut physical resistance on our part. A resolution was offered and referred, requesting the President to transmit all official correspondence, not hitherto far- nished, respecting the seizure, imprisonment and compulsory release of Kozsta by the Austrians at Reyna. A variety of other resolutions, bills, &c., ~ were dispoced of, to which it is unnecessary to refer particularly AS i¢ generally the case on Mondays, little basi- Bess was transected in our State Legislature yester- @ay. Notice was given in the Senate of a bill pro- viding for the erection of a bridge over the Hudson at Albany. This would be of incalculable benefit to travellers and forwarders of goods by different lines of railroad. In the Assembly a proposition was made to adjourn from the 10th to the 16th of next month, in order to give members an opportunity to participate in the election to amend the constitution in order to secure the completion of the canals. A resolution was introduced making the very sensible Proposition that no member shall be permitted to speak over five minntes, nor more than twice, on the temperance bill. See the sketch of the proceeding-? under the telegraphic head. We learn from Washington that it is sow proba- ble the President will not transmit the Gadsden treaty to the Senate in its present shape, but, on the contrary, will direct the resumption of negotiations, for the reason that the treaty does not dispose of the Tehuantepec question—which has been a serious matter of dispute between the two nations—and also because Mr. Gadsden's agreement provides that any of our citizens who may have been engaged in ('i- bustering expeditions against Mexico, shall be given up to the latter country. Chief Justice Taney has at last rendered a dei sion in the great telegraphic case of Morse vs, O'Reilly, which bas occupied the attention of tr United States Courts for several years. The fea of the decision are recorded in our Washington ‘the celebrated Algerine or Dorrite ‘and Representatives in the Rhode Island sent a petition to the interference of the national authorities with the intestine troubles of the Provi- treason, as they called it, and a special session of the | General Assembly was called for the purpose of | passing resolutions of censure against te petitioners, who were supporters of what was denominated the freedom to her, his case looks almost hopeless. dence Plantations. The majority of the Legislatare | When he says that Congress has exercised for bécame highly indignant at this high-handed a:tef | sixty-five years the right of designating the in- stitutions of new States, and says so knowing that every State that has been admitted to the Union since 1787 including Vermont, Tennee- veople’s constitution. On the 27th inst. the Senate, | *°¢: Kentucky, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, a8 : vote of fifteen to nine, ordered the resolutioas | #d Alabama, has chosen whether or no it thus passed to be expunged, and directed the Secre- | would tolerate slavery within its limits, what tary of State to draw heavy black lines around each reply can we possibly make ?- He taunts Sena- page of the same, and by writing upon the face of | tar Douglas with not having had the ‘“manli- each page the words ‘‘expunged by order of the | negs” to move to “repeal” the Missouri compro- General Assembly, at their session held by adjourn: | jise, Hea lawyer wants us formally to “re- ment, in January, A. D. 1854.” By telegraph we have accounts of destructive fires in Colchester, Conn., Oswego, Chicago, real. In the former place a large India rubber and Mont- | P@Per peal” a law, which on the face of it is waste mere trash, as rull and void as would be an act of Congress passed at last night’s manufactory was destroyed, and we regret to state | mecting! one of the overseers perished in the flames. Five Reasoning is wasted in reply to such special hundred’ persons were thrown out of work by the | Pleading. We said thatit was meeting of calamity. A large fire a'so occurred in Washington | abolitionists: we will go further and add that on Sunday night. The drug store on the corner of | the arguments were of the true abolitionist Hand and Sixth streets was consumed, together with nine frame houses. The democracy of the Eighth district of Pennsyl- vania have nominated J. Glancy Jones as their can- didate for Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Muhlenberg. stamp. Neither the chairman nor either of the two speakers has ever looked into the question, or studied its bearings. No one left the meet- ing last evening wiser than they went. There was a reason for the silence of the speakers. ‘The great press of important matter this morning, Even they could not have searched the histoty/ prevents us from giving our usual resumé of theatri- cal affairs, as well as a variety of local reports and other reading. We wi!l, however, remark that the theatres were all well filled last night, feen by our advertising columns. the an-; for this evening iuclude uaterial for all tastes. A sketch of the brilliant ball of the Twelfth Regi- ment, given last evening at Niblo’s theatre aod saloons, is crowded out this morning. It will ap- pear to-morrow. The steamship Asia bas now been out nearly seven- of their country, and snatomized the anti- slavery agitation, without being thoroughly\ convinced that opposition to Senator Donglus’ be ed bill is ‘as rank tresson to the coustitution and ents | to the North, as to the South. A candid man, summoned to address the assemblage of last evening, would have had few words to say but words pregnant with meaning. “This Nebraska bill” he might have said “deserves the warm support of every lover of teen days from Liverpool for this port. She will bring | freedom because it gives the finishing blow to three days’ later news. Congressional tyranny over the free States ot Micarriage of the Anti-Sinvery Agitation, | the Union, and definitely establishes the self We fancy that the opponents of Senator Douglas’ Nebraska bill are satisfied by this time that policy, as well as principle. dictates as close an approach to silence and resignation as they can consistently attempt. The aboli- tion meeting of last evening must be regarded control of the latter. It deserves the warm support of every lover of peace because it will crush out the anti-slavery agitation, and after its passage, abolition cannot possibly reappear in Congress. It deserves the warm support of every lover of truth and common sense, be- as atailure even by the warmest supporters of | cause practically it only concedes to the peo- the movemest. We call it an abolition meet- ing, and we do so advisedly; for whatever be the pelitical complexion of the committee which called it and of the presiding officers ple of Nebraska the natural rights ‘of freemen ; rights which, if they are not fit to use, they are certainly unfit to exercise any form of self government whatever.” and speakers who occupied the platform, the | The French Seizure “of New Caicdonia— audience gave unequivocal evidence of its affinity with the leading abolitionists of the North. Thus when the letters from Senators Seward and Chase were mentioned, a burst of applause interrupted the secretary: Ger- rit Smith's adhesion was received with unfeigned enthusiasm; and poor Mr, Gerard was quite chilled by the death- like stillness which followed bis candid avowal that “ he was not an abolitionist.” There were not many traitors assembled ; quite a select cir- cle,considering the efforts which have been made, Movements of Commerce and Civilization in the Paecific—Manifest Destiny. The seizure of the beautiful island of New Caledonia inthe name of Louis Napoleon, the Emperor of the French, has very naturally ex- cited the indignation of Her Britannic Majesty’s loyal journals of Australia. Read the article from the Sydney Herald which we publish this morning. New Caledonia was among the dis- coveries of Captain Cook; but the British gov- ernment neyer having formally occupied it, but having permitted it to remain under the and the auspices under which'the meeting was | sovereignty of the aborigines, it also remained called. If Mr. Gerard had us in the witness fairly, under the law of nations, the lawful prize box. and compelled us in his playful way to | of any civilized Power that might think fit to make a definite estimate of the audience, we appropriate it. John Bull, therefore, has no should gay that the Tabernacle last evening | legal ground of complaint in the premises. He contained about half the number that assembled | may grumble at his own want ot vigilance in within its walls when Lucy Stone last lectured there. Such is the party in New York which reference to the colonial ambition of Napoleon |/ the Third; but it will not help the matter. New intends to coerce Congress into retaining the | Caledonia is gone; and, worst of all, within unconstitutional Missouri compromise in force. The speakers were well chosen. Neither striking distance (nine hundred miles east) of Australia it is to be made, according to the Judge Emmet nor Mr. Gerard are men | Sydney journals, a penal colony for such red whom tions or set rivers on fire. strongly reminded us of the “old Irish gentle- man” renowned in song. He was charmingly good natured, and delightfully uncoascious of the nature of the question before the meeting. He did not seem to know whether the north- west territory had been ceded by Virginia or Massachusetts; and alluded to the “immortal nature designed to head revolu-| republicans, intractable socialists, smugglers, The former | avd other contraband materials, as may be de- clared unworthy the soil of France. But in this and other colonial seizures of Louis Napoleon in the South Pacific Ocean we discover a broader sagacity than the paltry object of penal colonies for unmanageable Frenchmen. The policy of Louis XIV., of re- stricting the expansion of the British colonies ordinance” indifferently as “the ordinaace of | in North America by a cordon of military posts 1787” and the “ordinance of 1797.” Somebody | from the mouth of the Mississippi around to in the body-of the meeting annoyed him dread- fully by asking him whether Congress had not the mouth ot the St. Lawrence, we apprehend, will farnish the true solution to these seizures the right to repeal an unconstitutional or im- | by France of the Marquesas Islands, the So- politic act; the poor old gentleman changed the | ciety Islands, and this last movement upon the subject with a rapidity which astonished his in- terlocutor. Had he not spoken quite so loag, rich island, (as large as Jamaica.) of New Cale- donia. Quite likely, before he stops, his Im- we are sure that his speech would have been | perial Majesty’s naval commander engaged in quite popular; for his grey hairs, venerable head, and pleasant brogue were a safe passport to the favor of a natured andience. His successor Mr. Mr. Gerard, appealed less to human sympathy. this business will annex also the neighboring group of the New Hebrides. Nor should we good | be at all surprised if, in like manner, before his final return to France, he were to appropriate all the unappropriated islands of that prodi- His début was an announcement that he bad } gious and countless archipelago which divides * fired the first gun” at Castle Garden in 1859; and though he forgot to explain how he came to be quelling an anti-slavery agita.ion then the Pacific from the Indian Ocean between Australia and the maite land of Asia. And what for? Let us briefly endeavor to explain. and arousing it now, he referred to that pas- |~* To Captain John Tyler, (may his shadow in- sage in his career with obvious pride. We are sorry that we cannot return him the compli- ment he did us the honor to pay the Heraup. He spoke as gracefully, as readily as usual; but he failed in his attempt to shake off the lawyer, and his logic will hardly bear the test of print. How came James W. Gerard, for in- stance, to deny the right of Congress to repeal crease for the next twenty-five yeara,) to Cap- tain John Tyler belongs the immortal honor of introdueing the new commercial and civilizing epoch of this nineteenth century into the great Pacific Ocean. He it was who threw the Texas Hombshell into Congress —he was the man that accepted the war alternative of annexation, and sentit down post haste to Texas a few the Missouri compromise, on the ground | boure only before Mr. Polk came into the Pre- that it was a compact, in which the North has already received their share of the bargain? We had hoped that sidency. But the messenger was gone, and could not be overtaken—the war followed—the peace followed the war, and the acquisition of a such arguments would have been the mo-| goodsized empire, including Alta California, nopoly of obscure newspapers. Are we to tell a lawyer of Mr. Gerard’s standing that the ad- Then those immense gold fields were discover- ed, emigration set in across the continent, over mission of Missouri with her slave constitation | every pass between Canada and Cape Hora, and Was no more a concession to the South than it was to {he North? That it was either constita- around the continent, by thousands, and from beyond the continent, including thousands and tional or unconstitutional: if the foriter, fens of thousands from China. A new Anglo- then that no section of the country can pretend to have derived any claim to special fee or reward from the fact; if unconstitutional, that it can even less confer any such rights? Saxon State, full armed, like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter, suddenly rose up, to the astonishment of the world, on the shores of the Has | Pacific, and the commerce of all nations blocked Mr. Gerard’s cheek been furrowed in the exer- | up the spacious haven of San Fraaciseo- cise of his profession in order tht he might | Pacific railroads, isthmus railroads, aad ship stand before a public audience, amd talk of a | canals were projected; and steam lines to the solemn law passed by the whole representatives Sandwich Islands and Canton; when, lo! of the people as a petty bargain, such as two another wonder comes to light. Gold is pedlars might contract? Then, again, be he argues that, because the laws of 1850 appli to the territory acquired from Mexico, while discovered in that tremendous island of Australia. John Bull is frantic with the gold fever in his tarn. The bone and sinew of the law of 1820 referred to that purchased from | England are in for it, neck or nothing, for France, therefore the former was not incop- sistent with the latter, to what deplorably shal- low reasoning is he reduced? Are we to have two rules of govesmment, two principles with Australia. “Eureka!” shoat the world-con- quering Anglo-Saxons of California; and “ Bu- reka!” ten thousand miles across the Pacific, is the echo, bold and strong, from the Anglo- respect to new tearitory, two systems of legis- | Saxons of Australia. lation, two eodes ot law, two readings of the constitution’? Is the constitution black in one latitude and white in another? Does it give Between these two salient points of Anglo- Saxon emigration and enterprise, what could be expected as the final result less than a complete Congress powers in one instance, and deny them | revolution of the of state of things broadcast in another? Mr. Gerard himself must see that if Congress was right in saying to California in 1850—" You shalljfchoose for yourself whether or no you will haveslavery”—it must have been wrong in saying in 1820 to the future inhabi- tants of States to be born hereafter north of 36 over the Pacific Ocean, and the rapid conquest of Japan, China, the great Indian Archipelago, and the whole of the eastern flank of venerable Asia, by the Anglo-Saxon race '—what less than the occupation and appropriation of all this mighty and diversified and teeming field tor trade and deg. 50 min.— You shall not choose for your- | civilization between John Bull and Brother self, we will choose for you.” But these are trifles. When Mr. Gerard tells Jonathan? The astounding activity and energy exhibited in the almost miraculous develope- us to our face that California was admitted as | ment of a powerful State in all the elements of & free State, and implies that Congress dictated | Anglo-Saxon strength in California; the same on the same basis of the gold Tue Scanet Lertsr.— Way 1s rr nor Forru- and from the same general elements of emigration, in Auftralia, render the rest of the grand programme perfectly rational and natural in summing up the probable con- sequences of these mighty movements. The expedition of Commodore Perry to Japan; the revolution, on the broad platform of Anglo-Saxon Christianity which is suc- cesstully carrying all before it in China; and the overtures of King Kamehameha, of the Sandwich Islands, to the United States for annexation, may well suggest to such thinkers as Louis Napoleon and Nicho- las a conspiracy between the English and the Yankees for the absorption ot everything in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the entire conti- nent of Asia below the frozen regions of the Russian Tartars. And why not? In what.has been achieved in California and Australia we have the assurance that there is nothing extravagant in what has been projected in the completion of the sublime ion suggested. The contemplated lines of iteamers between San Francisco and China and Japan; between Panama and Australia; the projected ship canal at the Isthmus of Darien; the unmistakeable foreshadowings of ‘‘manitest destiny” in regard to Cuba and Mexico, have eased to be regarded as idle speculations. With the fulfilment of all these projects and expectations what else is to be anticipated than the monopoly between England, Australia, California, and the United States, the complete monopoly of the islands of the Pacific and In- dian Oceans and the trade and civilization of Asia? Providence, it seems, has ordained that that ancient continent, (to which the lead- ing white races of Europe and America may trace their origin in a right line,) shall in her old age be reinvigorated with new life and energy through the Western descendants from Japhet, rendered irresistible in their strength, in their achievements, and in the glory of their intelligence, conquered from the vicissitudes and revolutions of six thousand years. Time and experience, too, have shown that the estab- lishment of the Anglo-Saxon family in any place, but especially upon a virgin soil, is fol- lowed, sooner or later, by the blessings of popu- lar government and a hankering for free trade, and that they are too generous to confine these blessings to themselves. Theirs is no barba- rian policy of Chinese isolation and exclusion. They seek to diffuse their enlightened inustitu- tions and notions of civil and religious liberty atd commercial reciprocities to the uttermost ends of the earth. And they are just the very men to do what they take in hand. Here, then, we have the solution to the seizure of the Marquesas Islands, the Society Islands, and New Caledonia, by Louis Napo- leon. His object is similar to that of the saga- cious Bourbon in his cordon of military posts ound the North American colonies of England. fhe French Emperor is only establishing a line Sof military posts across the Pacific. as a safe- \guard against the threatened monopoly of that ‘ocean between England and the United States. |The same views have actuated the Czar in send- ing one fleet to watch the movements of Com- | modore Perry dtieng the islands of Japan, and a ship of war or two to inquire into the’ ques- tion of annexation at the Sandwich Islands. ’ But if Louis Napoleon thinks proper to turn over all the discoveries of Captain Cook as colo- nies of France, and England is satisfied, so be it. California and Oregan overlook the broad Pacific. Lower California will, in due season, be annexed, and, indeed, the whole of Mexico. ‘ Manifest destiny” then must give these United States the commercial supremacy of the Pacific Ocean, and the world’s traffic. railroad or no railroad. must pass between New York and San Francisco. Their destiny is the same. San Francisco is the daughter of New York—her merchants are from our merchants, her finan- ciers are from Wall street, and the editors of her leading journals are from the office of the New York Heratp. Bound together in golden ties, the two cities have but one origin, one constitution, and one destiny—‘“manifest d2s- tiny.” Louis Napoleon may form a cordon of naval stations all round the Pacific; but with the Anglo-Saxons, and between the salient points of Calitornia and Australia?lie the ele- ments for the final redemption of the Pacific and Indian islands and the old swarming continent of Asia. This is “ manifest destiny.” Tue PRESIDENT AND THE LopBy ON Patent Mo- NoPOLIEs.—We perceive that the organ of the President and the lobby—the Washington Union —has another outburst of pious indignation against the reckless falsifiers who accuse its mas- ter of over sympathy with the applications for renewals of patents. Our readers will recollect that this was the view first adopted by the Union, some weeks back; but, being frightened by our denunciations of its connection with the lobby, it then thought it pradent to wheel round, and insert a communication from the other side of the house. Afterwards, as was to be expected, it appealed triumphantly to this communication as a reply to the charges of the Heratp and other papers. Now it would seem that it had again plucked up courage—the lobby has been very urgent—and the Union once more pleads the cause of the special mo- nopolies with an earnestness quite moving. All this shifting and turning is beneficial in one way. It throws a world of light on that paragraph in the President’s message in which General Pierce said:— i oom mead to Beh favorable consideration the Yomu aont discoveries pay pig clap d tributed mens the apeovensente a the age, Eee the 0 cena , Secaring for themselves Compare this sentence with the article in the Union and examine, by the light of both, the intrigue and jobbery now going on in the lobby of Congress, and it will appear almost beyond adoubt that the phrase in question must have been dictated by the lobby; and that General Pierce must have consented to allow Forney and his clique to put this language in his mouth. The case of the special applications to Con- grees for patent extensions is perfectly clear. The law has provided a mode by which an inventor may reap the reward of labors or good, fortune. H has also provided that, if from any accident, he should have been de- prived of that reward during the usual period of his monopoly, it may be prolonged, and he may enjoy it fora second term. The decision of the matter it leaves to a special officer ap- pointed for the purpose. Now this law may or may not be good. If it is, applications to Con- gress are absurd on their face; if it is not, let it be repealed, not violated. Forney and the band of conspirators who elected him for the pur- pose of having an efficient ally in the House, ought to agitate against the law, instead of at- tempting to carry monopolies through Congress by corruption and deceit. commve?—We still insist on John Cochrane making further searches for the letter which General Pierce wrote. the ratification com mittee of free soilers in 1848, sympathizing with their movement and assuring them of his good will. The public are very anxious to see the actual contents of this famous scarlet letter on free soilism or Van Burenism. The organs of the President consider the statements of John Cochrane and Judge Waterbury as conclusive against the free soil character ascribed to it. But others who have examined the matter with more deliberation and calmness think very dif- ferently. So far as we know, the facts given in our first article on the subject of the letter are substantially correct. We have now in our possession the statements of two independent gentlemen, who conversed with John Cochrane on the subject of that lette# before it was dis- cussed in the newspapers. In his conversation with them we believe that he stated that Gen- eral Pierce’s letter of July to the Ratification Committee, which nominated Martin Van Buren for the Presidency, was frankly and squarely in favor of the movement, and in aise with the views of the committee. This statement was made by John Cochrane without any condition or intention to deceive, and before advices from Washington had, affected his memory. We therefore believe it, and ascribe his second thoughts to the peculiar Lethean influence which Washington seems to exercise on the President as well as himself. Meanwhile—the letter! The Nebraska con- troversy makes it doubly necessary that we should have the letter. Rarroap Proszcts To rie Paciric.—During the past few months we have heard of nothing 80 much as of schemes for railroads to the Pa- cific. Robert J. Walker has his plan, by which he seeks for vast donations of the public lands in order to make his stock marketable in Wall street. Senator Seward has his plan ; and thould it ever emerge from its present condi- tion, we have no doubt that its author, too, will consent to an amendment by which a quantity of public lands will be donated to the project- ore, and the stock set afloat. Besides these Senator Foot and others have likewise their plans, each perfect in its way, for building a railroad to the Pacific. But of all the project- ors, the one who appears to have managed his affairs with the most skill and address seems to have been Mr. Secretary Davis of the War De- partment. It so happens, that while the Presi- dent in his message distinctly intimated an un- willingness on the part of his administration to give aid or assistance to any of these railroad schemes, a foreign treaty costing twenty mil- lions was actually negotiated for the express purpose of securing Davis’ railroad. This treaty seems really to have been made for the use of the railroad and for no other purpose : and the fact shows pretty clearly why aid was refused to the others. The administration had arailroad of their own, through the Mesilla Valley, and while they were giving the cold shoulder to all rival schemes, they were pur- chasing from Santa Anna a right of way for their own at a cost of $20,000,000. Sovruern Potiricrans on Nesraska—We find that some of our cotemporaries state that Sena- tor Badger, of North Carolina, and some other distinguished members of the Senate and Con- gress, are prepared to oppose the repeal of the Missouri compromise. We cunnot believe this, We are unwilling to admit that any Southern man, except those seduced and corrupted by the influence of the spoils, would abandon the cause of the constitution in this the last contest against the slavery agttation, or oppose ® mea- sure framed with a view to restore permanent peace to the country. We expect treachery from those Southern supporters of the Cabinei whose support has been purchased by the corrupt influence of the spoils, as we do from the Cabinet itself; and we intend to watch them both. But the independent representa- tives of the South will be true to themselves and the constitution, however the purchased instruments of General Pierce may falter and equivocate. The Rescuers of the Passengers of the San Francisco. The following amounts have been subscribed in the cities designated, fer the purpose of rewarding the cap tains and crews of the ships Three Bells and Antarctic, and the bark Kilby:— Besides the above sum, they are te have silver tram” pets from the Legislature of the State of New York, me dals from the Marine Society of Boston, geld snuff boxes from the Corporation of the eity of New York, medalsfrom the Massachusetts Humane Society, some appropriate tes timonial from the Board of Trade of Baltimore, which is not yet decided apon, aad, we thiek, something hand some will yet be dome by the national | »giilature a: Washington, which is always tardy in its movementa. MBRTING OF THE CITIZENS OF SYRACUSE—HONOB TO CAPT. CRIGHTON. A meeting of ct:izens was hei: at the Syracuse House, on the 28th inst.. for th parpose of consider! the sab: ject of doing honor to Capt. Robert Crightom, of the ri ish ship Bells, for the nobie part he too! ia rescuing the pa: aad crew of the San Fraacisco ou the occasion of her Iave terrible ¢ master. Jchn D. Norton, Esq., was called to the chair, and John A con mite on 1 ¢60lu ions ‘Sppoin' of Mevere, Thora T. Davis, LW. Har, fy Joseph ? Sabive, whc, opou consultation. reported the (oillow. ioy through their chairmaa, which were wannlD aly A. Robinson, seq, made secretary. acopted:— Whereas the citizens of Syracuss, in common with the'r counteymen, bave read with the deepest interest the hi-tory of the of the passen cers of*the steamer Fransteco, amid he cleastrour storme of December aud January snd have learned ¢f the disinterested and humane, success ful efforte made for their relief— ved. That while wo bear vies) avimoay fale courage of Capt, Watkins, of the 4 a responsibilities aod is, at be Eyer. and devotion of the offivets of tie Ealty ang Asteetees ve desire to exprees, by eo ne enturing memorial, cur preciation of ‘ehivalrio bearing ow ‘ “ighsony of ‘Three Bells im hie persever- A sa resoue our, nob his, countrymen rom danger and deatb. Capt. Crighton, for his 4 to baman- My atioa ta the perils trom which Othe say tor the Bok ne seed ont oountey aad ved. measures be adopted !n be- sce otacen Eee nee at © ‘souvenir of a1 gration te for fers, whieh wut scustryme are . whie! sminy be received as whe tei sute ie i , fer his } ome dari: het with J D, Nortex, John A. Robinson, Tf. vis; & W. Hall, aac W. W. Teal, were constituted » committee to reorive subscriptions, select a suitable testimouisi aad prenent the name to Capt Crigbton. And then the meeting adjourned. THE BOSTON SERVICE OF PLATE. The Boston Atias, 0! the 80:b inst, sa) ot easuce On Satarcay of examining, at the s'ore of Messrs, Oo., the superb service of @ to be pre- the committes, ia behalf of the Boston mer: chante, to Osp'ains Low, Crighton, Siouffer, and Pendie. ‘ton, for their gallant and suecessful services in ressuing the pasrengers and crew of tae iil fated San Francisco, They ere sil of exquisitely tastefal workmanabip, The saiver to Capt. ton, on scribed his memoraole words of comfort: ‘ the taste, correct design, shlfol werkicnaship eetee Sa Seeee The plate con iste of o ealver and pitcher to of the and a vasket io addi:ion for a plate will also be presented to cach of the officers of the San Supreme Court. ib, Mary To iieepelen deaths, » THE CALAMITY AT RAVENSWOOD, —Mr. Sot Sree oe Before Justice Boyd, Acting Coroner. In the case of the horrinle explosion at Ravenswood ‘the Jury yesterday rendered the following ‘ERDICT. v! We fina fe See eee kame, ee George Ellea of Fes oe Se ee Matthew Ryaa and tween the hours of instant, by (Pepe bel ued for the menufecture cf ot a French, situated near ‘Bante Mend Peaved wore a tho tase satiny ry a were a on the facturing o! cartridges in said + We fe Rat atcete f wes for 8 lochol ’ necessary hundred and five hundred poun(s of gunpewder said building Jesspess and neg! ped find that these were ee teen or twenty persons a most of whom were children; was ovly fifteen by twenty-five too small for carrying on ii for besting the balla for yal were very & stove used (or that purpose without aay fenders aimo; that the proprietor, Erasmus from See iid ee ‘person in charge was a female perience properly 10 superintend the employed. (Signe) Ssmuel H. Moore, Foreman, Wm. lit i i E I H. Jackson, Wm. J. Muchmore, M D. E. A. Criasey, Roe H, Smita, Yea. Williston, The mas Calvert. On the rendition of the verdict Justice Boyd deemed 1¢ ‘Immediately after the Jury had rendered their Ooromer Boyd empannelled them again, for the purpose of holding an inquest on the body of Andrew Oarsey, aged eighteen yerrs, a native of Seotland, who died the previous evening from the injuries received at the explo- sion. The same verdiet was rendered. At the conclasion of this melancholy affair the following resolation, eom- plimestary to Justice Boyd, who, it seems, has acted in this matter worthy of the highest praise, was adopted:— We, the persons empanne led to examine into the cause of the explosion in Erasmus F:¢xch’s gua cartridge man- ufactery, which resulted in the death of some fifteen per- 8006 or more, do hereby Ses ion it as our opinion that the Goroner, Jobn L Boyd, is not ovly deserving of our thanks, but of tue public generally, for his unremit exertions to obiain testimony, and his very patient thorough invertigation of the same. . Foreman. E, A. Crisary, Wn, H, Jackson, Wm. F. Muchmore, Wm, Willismion, City Politics, _ At a special meeting of the Young Men’s Democratic. Nationa! Olub, held at Stuyvesant Iostitute, January 30, L. N. Glover Chairman, and James Grogan, Scoretary, the folowing rerolu'ion was adopted:— erkeeelved. That » committes of Ave ‘vite the Hon Frederick P. eee of Teantase, the General Gem’ se this club om such Be Riser ot hi utr Gateet ay tah cape tah mi o1 city, en 52 ome Poy ‘notice of the tlie ama place of Fut The Committee adjoarned to meet Saturday evening, at 1% clock, om which evening Hon. F. P. Stantun is ex- peoted to address theclub. The follo committes was Cleon "Weed D Panena, Job [= pr Glover, i . Parsons, Joba W. Schateldt, Jr. , Merit Rewarded.—The C: Palace Jury, Professor James menwick s+ their hesd. awarded the bighced crise for dazuerrectypes to LOOT, of 363 way. Root’s free caliery open day and evening. Perfoot in acy weather, 2s . A New Book on is about Hiaten ‘st pinere making, for 38 sents, c . tr sits of the le py of ataleg Rooms way. tobe man takin, Alheet i, Mcoinats: Sale of Mocks ane donds, advertised t) ), Jan. been postponed until Yin Fon TaG setseceenee Ecdcnrnaa mati ergy Pa vt Organ for Sale.—A Second-hand Mahog on » with cigat stops, height nine foot, HORACE WaTERS, 533 Broadway. 0s.—The New York Premium Pian a tel Palace have swar ed T. Gilbert & Co. s medal for their wolien res Big see 4 aot Te od ORAOR Wa’ Role Agent, owe the Course of Empire takes. estward &o., in the neatent most: very low naleoss GORDON'S, 84 Saseme stcoot, ‘This te the Last Day.— advise ‘our ESTO worin of tatane tnd building love —iteas' papses of Durabie ——— can al- he lowest prices, ready made or made cL sUGhLin's, corner of Snamvers and seven: wich streets, New York. Also @: rhe by i erin 2,@stton sSdeotiee sant ddomers, r ? Caution to Southern and Western Mer- to vhe importance of Wolfe’ portance of Wolfe’ ‘innePhy Sehnesicts, And ye aay centmiaas aight) wen duly mized with seeeite yored Tagto ou: finer sham that of aiihe it to kmow, while “im! ctoe vena asin thas ‘of Me Wollo's Inte e ould twiteh ater ihe ind! un from the stars of the ting forth virtues of our favorite = Burdsy Times, Jan 20 helpers Twelfth of the crowded state of tice that i have made am jation of my patrous on ¢ Ball.—In acreage mente jor the accommo iontay oventng Janase='= The Seven Mile Mirror will be on exhibition evory oon and evening this week, to "4 ior" in leks Holders ohanee “t " CFS ingle can be procured at ‘conte each i? m aa at i H 1M. SINGER & 0O., 888 Broadway. Highest Premium.—In tained States lettare pet caer mat to manufacture and n see goes ihieg 2 verieh wanted by uscaly. sale machines ade) i Gaylor’s Pa- Defiance Salamander Safes, ent —1 a. pe tps cake manatnotenas Besthepety estate of ee bimes = lane. Perfect Truthfuinees te Nature roan et mis Hatr Dye and for artiown tay Sees a 4s the Chare to whey Cie a * ‘ 7