The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1854, Page 4

railroad employes, tor up th track, and exhibited their points for the Marshal and the authority with which he was invested. | ‘Two men were arrested ‘n Boston on Wednesday evening on suspicion of forgery—checks for variow, | amounts on different New York banks having been eee SA @8 GORDON BENNETT | PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ‘ PPE NM. W. CORNNS ‘oy yOLTEN AMD WAMBAT O78 tn cdvance TERMS ach te ctvaney.. ae | . que we RLY MAL 1m ry Salida ay om per ac correspondent seems to be of the | int Py & gat Srstate and os baw vert Oe opinion that the Pennsylvania State wor).s will be | ALL CETTE oy san for Suoncr’s Home, oy with Ader | eventually gold, and the proceeds applied to the re ee ce eon nen centsining tmpor. | duction of the State debt. He quotes the bill. hav- Pie m=. ae oar al the work; of eed, walk ing this object in view, recently int’ odaced in the Beldtcraliy pax for. Br OUN Fon Laie uerraneamD | Legislature. n fontiovls , Pasusons 051 Following close u20n the oen7uncement that some sixty persons perivhed by tae burning of the stermer EVENING telegraphic despatch stating that four negroes were bumed to desth by the destruction of the steamboat Ragle, while on her wey from Columbus to Apala- chico'a,on Monday. The South appears to be fast regaining notoriety for horrible steam boat calor k has gone by of Jate Shet has from the sinking, exploding or burning of vessels. A‘large amount of property has been destroyed, andthe labors ef planters materially interfered with, by recent freeke's inthe South. A despatch from Guattanocoga states that the Tennessee river was BOWEN TRRATRE, Sowery—Usoue Tom's Ganrn. BROADWAY THEATERS, Brosdway—Bore or Tux Fa- way AVARACT OF THE GARGEE. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers sirety-Mivsuxwen Wionr's Daxam Owere as. WaTIONsL TEBAT! Chatham rire} Aftern»on— Merrie Kary. Sventag- Uroue Tom's Canim. BVALLACK'S THRATRE Brosdway—Wrart or For Fors PRETTY Pirce oF Businngs, CAN MUSRUM—Aterno ening anew Hassan~ um TuuNE Tow TRYING Jon Jonms’ Coumr> BROADWAY MENAGENIE—Qramzen Twins are WP | rig rising, the whole country overflowed, aud AN OPARA HOt 472 Deoade | Mat place etmost inaccessivie except by boats. ee ee AN Seamer) Wikecsaus | Que hundred thousand dollars have been sub- scribed to the stock of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad by ten Philadelphia merchants. Among the reports of judicial proceedings pub lithed in this morning's payer is a romantic case of claiming the custody of her child in the I uré; decision in the U. 8. Circuit Ceurt in a case growing out of the Methodist Episcopal Chmech difficulty; the case of Heilbrona ia the U. 8. ct Court ; investigation of a charge of revolt at Woors wie sre 5 4's Minstrel Niall, ¢44 Broad we way-Eemnorrm i mwrn die BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, SF Brentway—-Bver- Baye Pmovies Cpere TRourm BANVA8 DN GEORGHA wae Bory bast Wh crontwar~ Panonama er ATA DELY ay—Pannan’s Grrr ite rt qaarwnons oF TAS GEVER X1nE MisKon, cea by the U. 8 Commissioner ; an imporlwat de- MOPS OBAPEL, 718 Stondway—Jowgs Paxrocoors. sion in Admiralty, &c. " a of d- RY AN GSLLEKY OF CHERISTIAN ART—4S breed- We elsewhere pablish & fall repor! of the proceed: wer logs of the Committee of Counciituen to whom was referred the ion to curtail the sise of the } Central Park. | & The sanexed is 2 summary of @ portionof the con tents of to-day’s iuside peges:—Letiers irom Quebes New Yerk, Friday, Pebruary propos’ Mails tor Hurope. JOR NAW YORK WRSKLY GERLLD. vearsali'p At ancia, Capt Wert | gn@ Curacoa; Prohibitory liquor law of Maryland; ow torn are 'w, for Livar pooh grand elopement, detection and ungowning of a pare ne ‘von of" | minister at Aloany; interesting habeas corps case, . be following placr and descent upon rondo rooms at Cincinnati; will of Judab Touro; Comptroller's report on salaries; Boaréd of Education; commercial, political, theatri- cal and miscellaneous news, &c. | Whe Nebraska Question and the City Press printed in Freagh and Kngtisb,) There can no longer be any doubt that the alf-past nim o’eloek to morrow | Nebraska controversy is about to revive the in wrappers, Bixpence. | agitation which the passage of the fatal Missouri compromise first aroused. And, as the last OUR AGENTS IN PARTIE, FRANCE. z t : We beg leave to eto our readers and patriar in | flicker of a dying lamp seems to derive unusnal Paris a ecally, that Mr. BAL R 1 | brilliancy from the approach of death, so the Bue de | 1 is no longer connected Saw Yorn Sugary ¢!ther a# correspondent or prospect of the final close of the quarrel appears sate to lend new virulence to the disputants aud Messrs Livingston & Wells, 8 Pince de la Bourae, are | | Seats out ot iin Sus Pasta, boty (Ge advostlvemsente aud’ | 26080 ROTA y tothe debate. As usual of late Babsorip ; years, the first combatants in the field are the ; Rane members of the New York press. In their re- The News. cen aie 4 aos ‘The Cunard steamer Arabia had mot arrived at | *Ponsible position as leaders of public opinion Halifax at midnight. She will bring one week's | OP this continent, and joint rulers with Cun- ater news, and is row in her thirteenth day. gress of the American Union, the enlightcned The debate on the Nebraska-Kansas bill will be | journalists of this city are busily engaged in resumed in the United States Senate to-day—Mr. | forming ihe public mind in accordance with the Chase having the floor. Our correspondent writes | dictates of their own reason or feelings. The that the Senators in favor of the measure are to hold | jy) ux cotemporaries have broken ground caucus this morning, when it will probably be against Senator Douglas's project. The Tri- Secided Miss 'nit more tian one (de two gentlemen” |/>, 7° gaanila it with ita naual illogical violence: sdall reply to the opposition speeches of Messrs. the Times is very severe on the measure: tae Seed ch ee ee Ld etl Journal of Commerce expressed & taint censure eonstitational principles of the bill being alread pee : eat 4 ; at first and then relapsed into silence “affright. firmly established inthe minds of the Union ’ s 7 they deem protracted debate on the subject utterly | ed at the sound itself had made:” the Post was unusually lively and facetious upon the “Little useless. A vote may perbaps be reached before the Giant: the Express, tired of stealing matiers close of the week, and consequently the, Con- gressional reports for the next two days will be | and ideas from the Herarp, began to steal from the Tribune; and, finally, to pass over a hbst of read with great e'tention by all classes. minor journals, the Courier and Enquirer By-the way, on reference to the proceedings of che ational hee at es Instivute last frankly espoused the anti-slavery cause. It iy ‘i Ii be seen e e com 4 belhacrioe a dtdl ch eguntie a creer Auth tira not # little remarkable that the years 184 to 1850 witnessed a precisely similar movement the mark, by fully endorsing the bill of Judge I on the part of the New York press, in rel. las. According to our report, there was some nove! ty and coriosity in the general debate among th io hard shells, but the adoption of the resolution | to the Wilmot proviso controversy. It affords crowns ell. Now let ns hear from Tammany Hall. | us some satisfaction to recollect that on Now let us hear from John Van Buren. | that cccasion the New Yorx Hersrp Little business of particular importance was trans- | was the only journal which from the acted in Congress yesterday. In the Senate, the Printing Commitice reported adversely to the estab lishment of a national printing office, as proposed by Mr. Bayard. So it appears that Senators are io favor of allowing the work to drag on in the misera- ble old-fashioned style, notwithstanding the recom- mendations of practical well-informed men in all parts ofthe country. Resolutions were adopted ask- ing the President to furn'sh official information re- | specting the Sandwich Islands and the Koszta af- | fair. It is understood that the President has in pos- | fession correspondence concerning the latter mat ter which will set at rest the various newspaper in- | sinnations against the conduct of Mr. Prown, the American dragoman, and Mr. Marsb, the American Minister at Constantinople. A debate concerning Mr. Phelps’ right to a seat wound up the day's busi- nese, first, spoke out boldly on the side of the cou.ti- tutional rights of the South, and singly advo- cated the course which our assembled represen- tatives finally adopted and the country unani- mously ratified. All our cotemporaries wre carried away by the fanatical excitement st m- | ulated by Martin Van Buren and his adberents, and supported by William H. Seward and his clique. Foremost among those journals wh'ch demanded fresh violations of the constitution was the Courier & Enquirer, then, as now, under ihe charge of an assistant editor in the absence of the principal proprietor and conductor. Its course, as our readers will remember, damaged eter, injured its popularity and endan- gered its standing: and the chief proprictor. va short consultation respecting the mail ob | seeing the course affairs were taking on his re_ stroctions by the rioters at Erie, the House took up | turn, had no other alternative than to apologise the Delicieney bill, and made appropriations for | to bis supporters and reverse the course of his Custom Houses, viz: Forty thousand dollars for | journal, to his own and his depyty’s grievous the one at Louisville, one hondred thousand for St. | mortifieation. The gentleman who succeeded Louis, and twelve thousand dollars for one at Wil the latter at the helm of our cotemporary nice aa psc bod cee Ye the Mint | seems to have derived little profit from the les- ‘was received, containing some very interesting sta” Part + ‘ tistics relative to the coinage and deposits atthe | £005 he appears bent on acquiring his experience principal mint and various branches during the past | in person, and unless we are mistaken, be will be gratified ere long. year, a comprehensive synopsis of which is giveu It is not to be expected that any influential wnder the proper head. Both branches of our Legislature are hard at work | clase of the community will allow such artigles upon the probibitory liquor bill, and in order that our | ag that in Wednesday’s Courier to go forth to the world as the expression of their real senti- readers may the tore fully understand the matter, ments. ft is well enough for a few literary we have devoted much space to the recent debates men to argue that, because the unconstitution- in each house. Mr. Dickinson's resolutions protest ist thy 07 3 t + * ee eee eo ality of the Missouri compromise was not brought prominently before the public during Donugias’s Nebraska-Kansas bill was postponed yes the thirty years following its enactment, there. terday, «0 as to give a national democratic Sena tor an opportunity of being heard. The Assembly fore it was not regarded as unconstitutional by thore best qualified to judge: but the thinking spent most of the forénoon session on the contested peat for Jefferson county. Those interested in the Broadway railroad project are referred to the bil | minds of the community will draw a very recently introduced by Mr. Conkling, which is quoted | different inference from the fact. In the first place, whether our public men were really silent on the point or no, the main questions—was in fall by our special correspondent the law constitutional’ Had Congress the We are informed that no less than eleven vessels are fitting ont in different ports of Cuba for the power to probibit slavery in new States—-would not be affected one iota by the fact. A thou- Coast of Africa, the object being to load and retara with negroes: clso, that seven vessels have sailed within six or eight weeks from Baltimore, Boston ond New York, with the direct intention of being | S*Nd causes may bave operated to restrain employed as slavers. expressions .ef opinion on the subject. As in According to our intelligence from Brie, th 1820. private ambition induced Clay, Calhoun were strong indications the other day of a conflict | Crawford, and Jackson to lend their support to a law they disapproved, in order to gain the favor of the North: so at dater periods similar motives may very probably, and really did jo between the State'and local authorities, despite the protestations of Governor Bigler that his sympa thies were on the side of the rioters, It appears that on Wednesday, by order of the Mayor, tho ra‘l- road track was torn up where it had been laid down | 22M instane 8 impose a like restraint on their om the day previous. This movement was disap- successors in public life. Nor were they all proved of by the Governor, and, amid the most do. | filent. One of the number ai all events, Mr. sided demonstrations of opposition on the par of | Calhoun, has left on record aa empbwtic cou- the people, the rails were relaid. On the evna | demnation of the compromise of 1820. Be- night the Governor undertook to connes! the roxy sides, from 1820 to the present day, the que: bat waa compelled to desist in consoriuense of t} tion has never fairly come up before the veo- peso edd pt (sisson dana ie ple: and eines ag ih ha ve elarly; but in consequence of there being no con. rather qg0ght-00. Sven aes ee pelt ce: nection, passengers and freight must change cars as | ced, Mr. Senator Donglas did move in the Erie; so that, after all, the rioters have carried their | “@8te to prolong the line 36.30 to the Pacific, point, notwithstanding the efforts of the United | ®4 declare it the boundary between slave and { tatesend State officers, the Governor and his aida, | ‘ee labor. This injndicious proposition was se the contrary. Onr special correspondent has | fortunately negatived in the House. It was #9 9 Fall ncoouns of the operaygns of she mod ou | predicated on an vuwieg desire on the part of indeed | the evil. Hence the notion of prolonging the | consistent proviso in the Texas boundary law. Georgia, at New Orlea'ss, lest Saturday, we have a | Pp ry rized dy loss of life | affirm gnd consolidate 2 vrong policy than bol,ly to reverse it and return toa sound one. 'Sne Senate well knew the unconstitutionality of the Missouri law ; andif the debates within its walls at that time he referred to, it will be found that Senators were not slow to express this opinion. Still, with the symptoms of a tre- mendous convulsion springing into life around them, neither Senator Douglas nor any one else had the courage to grapple with the difficulty in front, or strike at the root of line to the Pacific; and hence the strangely in- | Men, at that day, had not confidence enough in the strength of the Union sentiment to say openly that Congress had no right to proseribo slavery. The Courier denies that the ‘mws of 1950 | disturbed the compromise of 1820 Weonuse forsooth “it was in no speec'a in Congress so | pretended at the time.” What reasoning! ds i it not as clear as day that the former establish- | vd the right of new States, te choose for them- delegated that right to Congress? Is this not the establishment of two antagonistic princi- pl In the face of such a palpable contra- diction need we inquire whether other people noticed it three or four years ago? Is it not enongh «hat any child can see it now? But these are but the outworks of the Cou- rier’s position. Wee fee) for the absent propric- | tor of that journal when he reads such a sen- tence as this, “It cannot be too well uader- stood that the North, though it is not abolition, is anti-elavery in sentiment. It was so at the time of the formation of the constitu- | tion,” &e., &e tion was framed? South than the would therefore be abandoned ? ! slavery existed in Todiana, Minols and Obio till about the time of the Missouri compromise, and framed her State constitution, she expressly de- clared that all the slaves then within her bor- ders should be slaves till their death—notwith- standing the superior cheapness of tree labor ! Here unge evidence of the anti-slavery sen- timent of the North in olden times. What shall we understand by the North being “anti-slavery in sentiment, though not aboli- tion,” at the present day? If“ abolition” meens avy thing at all, if means practical and political anti-slavery in action. When therefore the Courier talks of this section of the country being * anti-slavery, but not abolition,” it means in plain English that the North hates slavery. but dares not or does not choose to say so, or act upon the sentiment. What sort of bypo- crisy is thie, to be professed by a pablic journal ! “The North” says the Courier * is anti- slavery in sentiment.” Of course it is: so are we all North, South, East and West. We all regard Jabor or slavery, for they are on~ and the same thing, as a thing hateful, part of the primeval curse inflicted on man. W: geneous with the whfe race, has gradually become subject: and to the laborer it is un- doubtedly a curse. Ours is a system of hired labor, lasting for a time only instead of a whole life; recompensed with specific wages, and not with a perpetual guaranty of the wants of life; terminated at will, and not necessarily attend. ed with any personal attachment between mas ter and slave. borer. perhaps more than Southern. fruits as well as their direct characteristi strongest reprobation from enlightened mon, most misery, the most hardship among the la- borers. In this view, we have no hesitation in declaring that our Northern slavery ought 1: be and must be far more hateful than the sys- tem of labor employed in the South. Furthermore, if the Courier means to say that the North is so imbued with the fanatical prejudices of the clique into which it seems lately to have fallen, as to peril the Union for the sake of interfering with Southern slavery, we most emphatically assure our cotemporary that he is wrong. We North- erners talk much and write more. We read novels like Mrs. Stowe’s, and sre qnite shocked with stories of Southern Legrees and infallible Uncle Tome, But when it comes to the practical carrying out of these theories, we are not quite so ready to move as the Van Bu rens and the Sewards and their organs are pleased to suppose. We have our railroad in- terest to protect; our shipping investments to guard; our cotton cargoes to secure; our agri- cultural prospects to look out for. We know perfectly well, when we think over these mat- ters, that any approach to disunion wonld not only injure all these various interests, but would diminish the value of most kinds of North- ern property one-half, and knock our stocks and securities down to zero. On the whole, there fore, we think, after having enjoyed a good out- cry for a few months, that we will allow the South to continue to labor in their fashion, pro- vided they let us mbor in ours. This is the real character of the anti-slavery seatiment of the North. The locum tenens of the Courier might study it with profit, Tuw Supreme Court on Monoponies —In its recent decision upon the Morse patent, the Su- preme Court of the United States decided ad- versely to the eighth claim of the Morse com- pany, which was— For the exglasive tse of the motive power of electro magnetism for the purpose of making signs or letters at avy distances. This covered the whole grant; but its rejec- tion extinguishes the Morse company’s claims to an absolute monopoly. Steam, water, air and electricity, cannot very well be allowed as a monopoly to any company, The Supreme Cort has seta good example. Let us hope that :* will be followed by Congress on the snbject of the extension of other patent mono polles, beg Wwoing with Coli’s pistole, eelvez in relation to slav-sry, while the latter j Let us devote a moment’s examination to this precious sentiment. Let us inquire in the first place what evidence we have of the anti-slavery sentiment of the North at the time the constitu- Is it the clause of the cousti- tution granting representation in Congress to slave property—a greater concession to the most ultra Southern man demand to-day? Is it the slow and reluctant discovery by the North that slave-la- bor was more expensive than free, and must Is it the glaring fact thai notwithstanding the ordinance of 1787, that when the last admitted of these States This also, is a curse to the la He is anti-slavery, inasmuch as he would like to live without the severe toil to which he is now driven. In this sense, the North is undoubtedly anti-slavery: but the slavery to which it is opposed is Northern as well as, and At all events, if the various kinds of labor or slavery existing in the world are to be judged by their incidental that species of slavery will mect with the which breeds the most vice, the most crime, the Tue Rexierovs Wak ON THE FY yy poryrs—A religious war has broken out gmong the rival missionary societies of the F .y¢ Points ofa very violent, anti-Christian, ar 4 somewhat amusing character. So far has ‘che controversy extend. ed, that some of our daily cotemporaries are taking sides in the quarrel, and are giving it the precedence yer the Nebraska question. The Express {s arrayed on the side of the Methodist lo4ies, and the Times is the cham- pion of the recanting Mr. Pease, whe has turned ‘Presbyterian, and has ect up an opposition es- tablishment te that of the Methodist ladies, the forinders of his original enterprise. As far as'we understand ‘the case, Mr. Pease was first set up in the Old Brewery dy the la- dies of the Methodist Home Missionary Society. The experiment prospere@. Money came flow- ing in abundantly. A large and elegant build- ing was raised on the site of the Old Brewery, and set apart for the reclamation and ametlio- ration, religiously and socially, of the miserable outcasts of that horrible locality of crime and wretchedness. Thencame the split. Mr. Pease either abdicated, like Napoleon, or was turned adrift, like Louis Philippe, we don’t exactly know which. At all events, the pre sent imbroglio at the Five Points is the result of his having gone over to the soft shell Presbyterians, am set up a philanthropic institution in opposition to that of the Methodist ladies, by whom he was first brought into public favor. Now the rival es- tablishments are wrangling like conflictiog politicians over the spoils. Menifestoes and counter manifestoes are issned; so that he- tween the representations on the one side and the statements on the other it is impossible Xo tell which is right and whichis wrong. We rather think that both parties are wrong, for while they are quarrelling ever the plunier the devil is regaining his ascendaucy in Far- low’s Court. The merits of this religious exposition are about the same as those which broke up the Baltimore Convention of 1848, and sent the Van Buren free soilers packing off with the Wilmot proviso to the Buffalo platform. Tho animus of the matter is the spoils. The Mes ihodist ladies, abandoned by Mr. Pease. have been struggling on in their good work without him. But Mr. Pease, under his new alliance with the Presbyterian Church, and backed up by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the New York Tribune, the Times, W. WW. Seward, and the “Hot Corn” society of the Five Points, has been too mach for the Methodist ladies, and bas been getting the bulk’ of the dividends as well as the glory. The “Hot Corn’ war rages, therefore, as vio- Jently as did the fight among the spoilemen on the discharge of Collector Bronson. nal ladies in this missionary cause among our local heathen have appointed another clergy- man; and their original clergyman has gone over to another society of ladies, commanding more puffery, more powerful allies, and more of the sinews of war. than the Methodist pio- neers. But it seems to be the rule that the original movers in any great discovery, inveu- tion, or enterprise, must give way to alier in- terlopers, who carry off the glory or the profits. Thus Columbus was cheated out of America, end thus Fitch was tricked out of his applica- tion of steam to navigation; and thus the modest Methodists, it appears, are to be crowded out of the Five Points by the powerful Presby- terians. How much money has been collected between have cur system of slavery, the South | the two societies wo are not informed. Per- theirs. Theirs is a system of hereditary | haps as much as fitty thousand dollars, of which labor, to which & cgrtain race, not hoimo- | there appears to be no doubt that Mr. Pease, under the influence of Ward Beecher, Uncle Tom, the Zridune, the Times, and the * Hot Corn” associations, has carried off the lion’s share. How much of this, in hot eorn or cold victuals, has been distributed—how much in “old clo’,” blankets, and fuel.) how much in Bibles, how much in Solon Robinson’s “ Hot Corn” rebash of Ned Buntlize’s abominations, we don’t know, and it may be none of our busi- ness to inquire. We are describing the wai as it stands—this war between Methodists end Presbyterians, ladies and clergymen, and clergy- men and ladies, and rival daily journals—the Catholic organ of Archbishop Hughes, mean- time, fighting them all, with the desperation of a Turk and the unction of a Jesuit. Now, we should like to have an exposition of this'whole business, from beginning to end, from some well informed and impartial historian Capt. Rynders, who has thrown such a flood of light upon the Missouri compromise question, or John Van Buren, who remains in the dark on that subject. might perhaps be able to enlighten us and the public upon this Five Points controversy. They know that Tammany Hall bas always depended upon the locality— they know the necessities existing there for missionary enterprise; aud though they may not be aw fait in the nice distinctiogs between Methodist benevolence and Presbyterian phi. lanthropy, they know all about the spoils, which is the main question. Between the Tribune, the Times, the Express, and: the Freeman’s Journal, we are completely befogged. Will not some benevolent and impartial person step forward and clear up the mystery. We have had enough of * Hot Corn” charity; now let us know the exact merits of this religious quar- rel over,the plunder. Let us have the truth. and the statistics ot the spoils. Gey. Scorr ayp Tur LieuTENant-Genera- suir.—- We perceive that the Cabinet organ and its echoes throughout the country continne their dirty flings at the bill passed by the United States Senate, anl now before the House, giving to Gen. Scott the title of Lien- tenant-General, with some little addition to his salary, which, in his official position, is insuffi cient for his comfortable support. The meanness, the paltry and dirty meanness, of party politicians and party scavengers, was never more strikingly exhibited than in this case. Gen, Taylor’s well known fable of Asop applies to these miserable party haeks most ap- propriately. Against a patriot who has served his country, to the satisfaction of the people, bat who may possibly stand in the way of the scurvy schemes of these wolfish politicians, they can always find some clap-trap excuse of constitutionality, economy, bad precedent, or some such threadbare rubbish of knavish dema- gogues. But we do not exactly understand these inu- endoes and side thrusts of the Washington Union against this bill. The Union is doubtless supposed, by its provincial echoes, and by the spoilsmen of the House, to speak “ by authori- ty.” This is what we desire to know. Does it give General Scott the cold shoulder “by au- therity?” It cannot be possible—it passes be- lief. Gen. Scott is now in his ol4 age, and after a long life of faithfal and efficient military ser- vices, crownivg ous arms with yigtoy and our country with glory in the battlefields of Cana- da and Mexico, it cannot be that Gen. Pierce entertains any such mean and detestable spirit of opposition to this bill before Congress as that most despicable spirit of meanness exhibit- ed by the Cabinet organ and its partisan jack- als, forever howling on the track of the spoils. We say it cannot be thet the President of the United States shares ia this despicable spirit of party hostility. He owes too much of gratitude to Gen. Scott to be guilty of such treachery as this, The military reputation which General Pierce brought home from Mexico was largely ‘due to the kind attentions and consideration of Gen. Scott. The old chief's report, we under- stand, of the battle of Cherubusco, as far as it related to the part performed by his subordi- nates, including General Pierce, was adopt- in their own handwriting. The victory was General-in-chief was too magnanimous to be rigidly exact in his discriminations, and he gave the stamp of his own signature to their own testimony of them- selves, as a good soldier reposing fully in the devotion of his subordinates is apt to do, It is not possible, therefore, that General Pierce, since promoted officially above his generous old ed from their own testimeny, and achieved, and the commander—itis not possible, we say, that he can,be a party to this mean partisan opposition of ‘his organ at Washington and its servile echoes No; notwithstanding the recent free soil disclosures touching the an- tecedents of Gen. Pierce of 1848, we cannot be- lieve that he has forgotten the events of 1817 in different quarters. in the valley of Mexico. We hope and trust, therefore, that the Presi- dent will change the music of his Washington organ on this bill for the benefit of General Scott. The spoilsmen of the House will under- stand, then, how the land lies; and the starv- ling country ‘echoes of the Union, ready for any turn by which they may gain a few pennies worth of pap, will take their cue accordingly. Aword from the President will pass the bill— But the injury will recoil from his old commander with anything Mark his silence may defeat it. but advantage to the administration. that. ruffian officials of Austria. tion at hand. The origi. |, and strong. It is the true card. ing phrase, “nowhere.” We trust that the Boscd o Aldermen will on Monday next adopt the report of the Supervisorr, allceating the various oonrts in places con- “Lf itis to bo done, let it be dose quickly,” without seversi hours rhodomontade de- venient to the City Hall, bate cn matter that admits of no delay. Justice de mands that our Judges #x0u/d bh and the Jegal bueicesa of the ot Courts for weeks to come Tho United States Marvba!, Mr. Biller, has left town for Washington, to urge personally upoa the government tho necessity of proviciog accommodation for the United Stater courts and offices of this Clstrict, and intends, we are inform'd, ta gugzest the propriety of renting Colambia Tt is dericable that all tre law College for that purpose. courts should be within moderate range of each © lawyers have frequectly to goat a moment's mot! one ocurt to aso\ har; bat ae thers is wo balld og a to the old ruins oa sable of effor’ing the seay um required by the United Sta es suthoriticy Columbia College the neerest so* the best thet com be taken for that purpose. Police Intelligence. Arrest of a Hulel Thief—A Bold Riblery.—Yesterdey offer Hamlin. of the Taird ward police, sriested a Ger- man of genteel appearance calting himself Chi Wolf, chaiged with stealiog an overoost from the Tev.ig Honee, the oroperty of Mr Joveph A. Eldy, in the pocket of which was bond smi mor'gage for $18,500, togetiur with three promissory notes. to che smouot of $13,00) more. Mr, Ed¢y, on the evening of the 26th ult, return e6 to bis hotel, took off his overccat and latd itnesr by him while he remained res“ing. After reading — short time, when he loored for his coat, it wae gous, Search de, tutno clue could te ace t.i-ed of its whero The losa of the property was adve , Bn y (he above pained officer obtained information t had bero pawnedat Jackson's pewaoffice, eet, where it wea fonsd Subsequently the bop in inca street, ory noted were recover €4, but the (ocd and morgage Lai been destroyed by the }riscner in the presenes ot a Mr. Broich, ‘was taken before Justice Bogart, who committed hi: to pilon for triad. Reb'ing his Employer ~ Captain Stevenson, of the $< teenth ward, ® few cays azo arrested a young min nine- f teen 1 . camied Joueh Little, charged with stealing from ployer several gol ver watches, together with other ar‘isies of jewel ned in all at #370, the property of Mr. Josepy Friend, of N Fighth avenue The accused, it seems by the evidar cs, was induced by an scqueintance to stesl ihe propsrty. who then persvaced bit to run away; they botl lett the city together, aod on erriving at Ucica the young mea induced Little to let him have the custody of the proper- ty. He did ro, and econ after he ran e way, Isavirg Little without a cent to pay his expecses Captain Stevenson ctught Little in Utica, nud brought him hack to this city for trie], and yesterday Jostice Sinart commit'e) him to ths Tomba 10 await the actionof the Court of Sessions. A Riot and Violent Assault on the Polica ~At about two o'clock yesterdey moraing the police of tae Fourteenth ward were called to quell a distarbanes wnich took place between rome drunken people at No. 42 ?rinos atest. Offeere Gailsgher ard Tmaions endeavored to restore quiet by remonstratiag with them; but they refused to obey the police, and the officers fousd it neoavvary to take one or two into custody; aplas they wers proceeding to tion hoase with the prisoners, some ton or fiftven of the gong fell upon the two offi-ers aod deat them a9. verely, Galiagher war beaten adont the head, and Tim mons was krocked down in'o an ares, end one of the rioters, named Gilmore, threw ® stone, icflictiog a severe wound on his bead ibe alann brought to the offivers’ vid other peiicemen, acd the following persous wers ar. rested :—Thomas Kiley, John Rilsy, James Donalan, Bridget Kirean, and Jono © Gilmore All were held to answer for a riot, and Gilmore was required to foo bel to ancwer th* charge ofa felonfous assault on Loe villser Justice Wood committed all the parties to prison, iu ds. fault of bail. Case of Henry M. Ober.—It appears by the copy orzer publisbed below and delivered us by Mr. Heary M Oder, prrsor ally, that be has oeen discharged on fall nearing c! the case presented against hin, from the arcest for all ed forgery on Rc bert M. Masterson, on the ground thst probable ground sppeared to custain the charge. Mr Ober aererta bis entire innocenes of the charge, and his readiness for any further invest , and, at the proper time, bo will vindicate most fully his chatacter:— Before the Hon. Thomas W. ae Justin of the Supreme Court the State of New York.-- rd on the return to tLe erstorari Eeq., Rooper of the cit , certiorari and teturn, Jesved berria to and after readirg ti ti annexed, and the for the prisoner, Attorne’ Henry: "Obee, 1 do hereby order sd cieoas tbat the , roby at tho Bary M. Ober be, aid is hereby, discharged from bis imprisonment. T. W. CLERKS. Now York February let. 1854 The Two Hicks Admited to Bait ~ In the case of William H. and Georgs Hicks, charged with embezzlement, Jurtice Bogert yesterday admitied thom to bail in the eum of $5000. Mr D rison, of the firm of Herrison & son, doing business in the Bowery, became the required se: curity. Jersey City Intelligence Bvnsos County Crrovir Court —Tae Goart of Orer and journec uatil Monday next et ten Termicer having Cirenit tisin version J Haine, end in oconpied with the cara of Daniel A. Baldwin Scudaer aud for the pleigtiff and a. L Jor Miller of Jereey City, for defen cond vets the ruit Go behalf of t are ct inevein thin scit, It ‘the remainder cf the werk, A Lorciany.—During Weduesdsy night the one of Mr Jemes Swatharet, in the vicinity of the starch {eotory, wee entered by burglars, who carried off about $75 worth of ¢othing ‘ SrRALisG —A pumber of pett: theftshave of Iate been commicied = Pigeties and pouttey houses are planieret Fiteent mercy, and back yards vigllautly explored for ty, . 8 cours curing Smuove Acaineyt 4 workman named George Barns, om ployed at the Adirondac Steal Works, was by a belt attached to agrindatone, which he was adjartion open ® pulley, and en reveraly braised that hin recorery io rather coubtfnl. Be had performed Uefore ihe engine ¢rmid be stopped ind he redoued, Srroncer, THAN THE Koszta Cask.—We hope that Secretary Marcy will not hesitate in mak- | ing a good case out of the case of the Rev. Mr. Richmond, treated like a pickpocket among the Mr. Richmond is a bona fide American citizen. The case is much stronger than the Koszta case, and ought to bring out a much stronger letter than the Boszta letter, albeit there is no political elec- Let the Premier come out bold Court AccomMopaTioN.—The law courte are soattere! bere and there and every where, aod come, to use & # port a ‘‘Iceal hebitation,”” will be at a stand still if the Bomrd of Aldermcm must display their forensic powers, and debate tbe ouDject of the location of the er, a8 fro ent adation , we think the thief City Intelligence, ACCIEENT ON THE BUDSON RIVER RAILROAD. Yesterday, tredown train from Albany was thrown of the track about five miles from Peekskill, at bal! past twelve o'clock P. M, by which accident several passem- gers met with = miracuious ecope, The socident is at- tributable to the gross carelecsness or ignoraace of & watehman in charge of the ros’ at the spotof the cataa- trophe, He should bave switched for the down train, in- of which he switched for the up train, thas jeopard: {ning the lives of allon board the iain When the oars came to this spot the locomotive was thrown off the track with euch violence that the two forwaid cars were liy smashed to pieces, Thess cera were filled with bogs sheep, numbers of which weae killed No haman liver {rom the cara upon s high leds of too ms ‘ conductor of the trala tamedia ‘ale sent es heeekill ie to convey the passengers to New York. ‘The most strany@ incideo: in this whole affair is, that the engioe sent for at Porkskili to assist the disabled train on its way from Peeks sill, was tteelt thrown: erie tuck Ditors qerivisg SUNG free MPa dent, and likewise from the wianianagement of a switch, It sppeace the between and tho eo’ the can i after the train hae e6 down, it Was &r 10 (or aD Mp The awitch- , not hearing of the aocideut, did not re- it for exira engine Cown from Pe ksbill, which was also thrown off the track, thorgh with no serlousipjury. At the tine of te catastrophe, there was the greatest con- farion among the passengers. The shock betog very vio- Tent, {8 wes sapponed at oret that mambers had beer, killed Esch hed @ marrow escape. Crry Ration CoLuision—A Can Orr THE TRAGK.—Yeater- Gay afternoon a strange occurrence was witnessed one cf the city rsilroacs, which was @ collision and off the track. ‘was coming do curve at the ‘h such vel that it rao eff the track and Farag into the rear of oar No. 37 the Bixth avenve line, which crorsed it im froat on downward trip. The rear platform of the Sixth car was eutirely carries avay and its Robert Mitchell, who was stau iog upon the gn nl him ly, though not danger ig ine eesaee confusion, yet Several of 4 ear the time, was jammed through the window ea one of the Sor, dere Notwit! Cental, ro far as could be onserved, Nakrow Escary FROM DROWNING —A few evenings an ola mao, uamed Joba Cavanagh, fell off the stern one of the South ferry boata, while e1 ‘the this ride; but nobody ciscovering his dangereus situation, the poor man bad to paddle his through the water and fragments of floating foe, until reached the Cock at Whiteball. he held on by lage wail, driven into on- of the spiles, for twen| minutes, crying the whole tim~ for help; but no one rived until the Hawilton avenue ‘erry boat Montauk, her 11 o’clook irip, entered the clip; and the deok ha hearing the cries of the drowoiog man, repaired with ibis apeed to the unfortunate indtrigash, who, at this ¢, was well nigh exhausted. William Henry Ki one of the deck havds, immectately let himself down the water’s edge, heldirg on by the at lece of the dock, oe bling the drowning man to eateb holdef his feet, uvtil a boat from Whi eheli slip arrived, being a celey of acme three minutes, Me. Kellys position ‘was not a very euviable on, fur ne Ceclared to us he was fo tired ha could rot havewald 07 one minute louger, and hid not the boat arrived he would have been obliged to Jet go his hold ou the stiiug piece, and share the came. fate with Mr. Oavauach, So oxn-us’ed was he that when the boat did arrive he jell down icto the bottom of it like a log ef wood. The sufferer, beirg then rescued, was con- veyed, in a state or ineensibility to his resi¢ence in Brook. lyn, inchagecf Mr Keliy ho next dey the con of Mr, Cav auard preseoted the gallant esouer of his father with $50, $20 of whic he gave to Joun Winters, the ether deck hard on the ferry boat, sn. S10 to the pilot Robert Gcodisy. who s)] n:ci-ted in reeculog Mr. Oavansgh from watery grave. ‘Tak SurFRRERS HY THe PRAM. SzReET FreR.—It 4 pleasing to bee the kympathy excited in vedalf of the aufforera by the late fire in wireet. Toe police returse of y: tercay sy A gentleman, giving hu name age “Sailor,” coiled vpon Lieutenant Snodgra-s, of the First ward po- lice, with whom he déposites 9 five Collar bill for the re- lief of the mest needy of thove ,ersoas turned from thelr homes by the Gre ia Pear) stivet, moar tae Battery, om Sundsy miiving last, AMeny ef chose poor people are stil inhabiting the burned premises which uffsred the best shelter, they having no tetter places to go. Dona- tions of money, clothing, provisioua &s.. left with Lieu- tenant Snodgiess, will be p opeily distributed, , PRaSENTATION 10 Ex Auprwaen Wxscey Suirn — Ex-Alder- men Worley Smith, of the Ki-venth ward, walle in the act of enteriag 1he font door of his residenge a few days rince, was met by Capt. Squires: and t Lieute tendance at the sta- 6 eomewhat surprised request, end on arriving met bys pumber of his friends at- tached to the police department, and was presented by Capt. S, im their behalf, with magnificent silver pitcher, npos which was tn f lowing inseriptiva:— Presente? t» our late Alderman, Wesley Smith, by the Polico of the Kloventh ward. an token of respect for hie onerous hearted conduct in stiu.ulating us to our duty, and ing ever feret:at in rerun: rating us for OU, senriaee Jaourry, Isbt The EX Alderman, on reoviving the gift, thanked bis late constituents, and invited them t» his hones, 7 hich they vieited last evening, snd were han‘somely entertaiued. Donirg the coures of the evexing ho preseated ap at iiver star to Lient, W. D. Crat-. of the Eieveataward, a9 token of his evteem fcr the: Tr MERCANTILE LABRARY ASS0CI A110: the present course befo.e this w: Aclvered to-night, at Hope Chase}, P, Shanton, of ‘ernerseo. Toe ubject the United States,” with whica ¢ very fan ilier, having made it his @ study from the position he irene ot the ‘Committee on Naval Af- ‘aire,’ wh eb place he bas filed for four years in th Houte He is now chairman of the ‘Qudleure Comat, tee’bof the same aedy Ae has lovg Iebored to xtreagthom our pary, so) moke {t the strovg right arm of our ma. ston? deferee, ne it shoul ba Mir Stantou ts a ypalar speater ard no doubt bis leoture to night will be well worth hesrirg ‘Tre Nowsuern Dirrznsany ~The fellowing is the rey Of thie cispersary for the ronatbh of Taunary, ies Whole nur oer of patients 1 280; attended at their houses: 424, at thy Cispecssry $15, 575 of which wera males aed 664 fomslen—or there there were from ireland 636, Uaited States, 625; England, 51; Scotland, 11; Germany, 24, and other countres, 12. There were ured or relieved 916, Gied, 8; sent to hospital, 12; vaccinated, 265, and remsin- ing under cars. 38. the whcls number of prescriptions: put up curing the month wa: 2.508; greatest number in: one cay 187, tbe least €4—avoraging 108 per day. Frets.—A file was discovered yesterday back basement of hone 0 ston Tereets soca a 124 boercing house. The damege was tri- at 165 Attor- i ge i a8 ie pats of Police, who requested hi tion heure, The ex-Alorra oe third eetare of Another fire occurred yestercay morning, ney street in a cabinet-meker's shop im the basement, feptonee to bave caught from the stove. The loes wad. ir Hing. > Wecnesday night a fire brove cutin the basement of 8 Nassan street, ocoupied by Francie Alexander, vibes aro ree $200, yar by insurance. out half-past tem o’alock Inat = the five building No. 293 Bowery, between ni fod Fleet streets, the lower part of which was ocoupled by Messrs, Healer & Brooke, provision dealers, and the third, fourth and filth stories by X. M Ferris, mannfaetarer of church acd paricr ergaur, and importer and macufactarer of Organ pipes, was Ciscovered to be on fire, The fire origi+ bated in the third story, avd, although the firemen were: Promptly on the spot anc in riropg foros, owiog to the combnatibe nature of the matertals, the three apper stories wrre econ envelopes ta Mames, whiah al hopes of raving the buildiog sod cirosted the attention of the firemen to raving thove adjoining. The amouct of Mr. Fertie’s lora we could n rtsin, but it must have been considerable, ae there wa: a large quantity of work in the factory rncomp'eted, AccipEnTs.—Mishael Kating, Gfty years of » jester= cay, while intoxicated, fell “hrosgh the new enteiaed nie gr ate Gown to the cellar, Ha wag severely injured, and it is supposed fractured hie sping, He was teken to the New York! Hospital, bs Bryan Conley, alad, wes severely injart play at the foot of Harrison street, North Srinrean ‘am + ve ae upon bim. Hs wa: taken tothe New York lor pi 5 Deserring aN Ixvant—Mary Murphy, an J-ish airl, tineween seas ke Was arrerted for am attempt to ebandon her ch! jour weeks old, ia one of the Eghth Avenue stager, by concealing it onder the straw at the bottom of the stage. She was taken before Justi e rt and beld tor esaminetion oe Marine Affairs. ComMance oy Bostoy.—Tke ioliowing table exhibite the: mamber of ariivals aud elesrances at Boston, far tho- month of January :— St Shis Barks. B igs, Schrs. Tokal, ; eames Shine. Bari Th 18 20 49 29 st Foielgn... 2 1; Comtwise.26 ML) at 88 SL a Totsl...26 99 8685 OT Ot the above, 1 ship 8 barks, 18 brigs, and 8"yshoohers were British; 1 bark Rusa'ac; | schooner O:denburg, amd ‘the remainder wore American Steamers, Ships. Barts. Digs. Schr Slope. Mat Foreign... 3 6 23 6L 81 123. Coastwise.24 18 40 cy 86 0 208" er ee - o- 63 95 ny co 55 ‘8. 17 brig’, amd 12 schoomtrs wore brig Belgian; 1 schoo Oldenburg, and the recaicder were Am eee A Mandemus Against Comptroller Flagg, COMPELLING HIM 70 PAY—THB MATTER, NOW SKTTLED. Some ebort time the Supreme Ocu for the removal cf offal bones, &¢., yy Comptroller Flagg, requiriag bim to show era's why he- refused to pay the sald contractor his demands for ser~ vices rendered The answer put in by Mr, Flagg a hs my oy bi the Court isaued: snetber mandamus, positive fo its character, ordering the Com pireller to pay the demands of Mr, Rayholas, Mr. Deputy Sherif was placed im poasession of” the legal documents am’, novompanied by. te served them on Mr Flaeg. wit. so edd{tionsl item on am excoution for cost, smounting to $447, This bill of corte, Me. Fisgg st oves drew his cheek for, and the 811,500 eleimec by Mc. Reynolds, Mc, Flagg said, “Make ont your bili aed i'll pay you’ qT Till’s ‘7s amovuved to ons dollar and six emnto— ents for tLe Sberilf, and Afty cents Daputy Val- tee recelyed fir A fat business this Sheriff's Office. ANOTHER HABEAS CORPUS IN THE ALDERMAN @TUR+ TRVANT CASE. e ’ Yester¢ay afternoon the Shertif was served with aa- pf wg hen ee ia — of Alderman med by Junége mailer w to be twelv9 9’¢losk this day, we , .