The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. BRYLCE K. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. | TERMP cash in advance i | RHE DAILY HERALD 2 conta per sop OT per re FUE WSESLY HAR AD every Sane doc tf or 38. por annum; the Durspe Bera te toy part of Great Britain, and 96 so any port ef the Continent doth to baclude poetace. . with 4 all TTERS ail for Subecri, Kons, or ee aN ee Oy itr the yectage mii be deducted frow eon sifted - " MODLUNTANY CORRESPC DENCE, containing, tee, eaten, wolicied Sreme pe Den, Tenses (oa RESPORDERTS cr NBS Warren 20 SAL ALE PERS A AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATR®, Bowery—Urcue Tom's Carry, My voune Wire 16mT’s DReAM. OADWAY icf TRE Broad BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambore streot—A Prerry Pines ov Business—A Mrpaummer Nigwr’s Darn. street —A fterncon— muy Poury as vr Fiars. ASERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Tirr, Brening— Gaunven’s Procanes Tix Pucno BROADWAY MENAGERIN—Sraurce T aers, Srnancrn— LEN axv Win OBRISTY’S SMERICAN OF: HOUSE, 472 Broad .g—Ermiorian Metopigs sy Cuarsts'* MinerR ELS, Ls— ‘ood’ Minstrel Hall, $44 Broné RYLEY WOOD'S HINST Way RTMIOVIAN OKLEY’S OPERA WOUSE, 082 Brondway-Boce '@ Beniorian Orena T BANVARD'S ¢ Eroadwey—Faxone ws ay nf Gory Ca BDENIEF CA —Dry and Brening WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway fornirr’s Couns+ large rivers not set down on any 5 The compa- By crossed the Iethmus of Darien in eighteen hours, and from the tenor of their report there appears little doubt of the feasibility of constructing the proposed canal, although such an undertaking will meet with many obstacles, both from the broken nature of the country and the hos- tility of the Indiazs, particularly on the Atlantic side, where they are reported to be arming with the intention of making a desperate resistance to the encroachments of the whites. New discoveries have been made of «xtensive beds of precious metals, and of quarries of fine marble, in Chili, So far as ap- pearances are concerned the miners of that count are ina most flourishing condition; bnt the P pne. rality of the people there, as in nearly every other of éxcitement by political and religiou’y fegds, in consequence of which @ majority of the m sre likely to remain poor and miserable until they ‘are enlight- ened hy the Americans end men who are faxt taking up their abode among ‘them. The in- habitants of Val io have & gm much pleased with the announc th ey are hereafter to be supplied with North Ameri ggp ive at the mte of nd, which ° g cheaper than they can m 1} ent r cents per pr gure frozen snow [ro etter from files of Aus- 18 ch of November. The news, is varied and interesting. ing the oceu- ia by the French, and the New Cal od prob: conse mces of that act on the convict 8 of Enel. ad and her policy toward the Poly islands. A Sydney cor nt of the tr’ gus reports the a ment of the gnty by the British. Active re making to colonize the banks drive & tre Ae along the sides of the newly exp! Murray 0 ser. A very exciting sailing match BIONOR BLITZ—Srevvesaxt Insrirure, 665 Breed way. ACADEMY HALL, 563 Brosdvey—Peanam’s Gre Ex prgurione OF THE © * eRROR Jongs’ PASTosoerE. BOPE OBAPEL, 75h wey BRYAN GALLERY OF CHRISTIAN ART—Mal Broad S54. ‘Tas Waacty BrRain, contaicing s com Moe week's iniell gence 9.0 be published ot nine o'clock thiv rxorniug epitome of oro ali quarters of the world, Price Pepence, To be had st the coupler i wrappers a The News. ivate advices are in town, brought frvorable news for peace, from ho latest despatches Petersburg, that the Czar is » aad it We lear by the Paci Rossia. It is jec from Vienna end St. disposed t0 renew nego'iations in some form Was upp sed that something tangible wou 1 from the modifted tone of the Grar. Strong efforts have of coarse been made to effect a peaceful solution ofthe difficulty between Turkey and Rus hopes of the friends of peace, these despatches may have been written. But as they come from good an- thority, we deem it our duty to state that such advi @es have been received. The news from Washingt Muany features of great ia York readers. Our co is morning con’ rest, particularly to > po writes that t momizatiou of John O'Sullivan as Charge to Porta yal, was transmitted to the Senate on Thursday, and met wiih strong opposition from Mr. Brodhead Gen. Cass, it is auderstood, will sugport the appolnt- Tuent, and is is consequently thought that it will tonfirmed. The famous Gadsden easy was sont to the Senate yesterday: but that bed@y declined to so imto executive session, with the view ef ordering it t be printed, despite the urgent solicitation o! Rask, who is warmly in fs By way of a preliminary proseediug, t Sor the rous scheme of aud Pacifis Railroad Cong Vernmert to expend tw barren, uninhabilable desert, cure them e route for a road action of the Senate on ¢ fill both the pocke Santa Anna and a number of American railroa poli A number of p Senate yesterday the Nebraska question was ren moan Smith finished the epe2ch Sn the day previous. he declared, notwi proposed repe. had no sympathy Sgitetors, and had « 3 o spe jans. ate Wills er which the co In ing at the President takea Jobn Van Burea and bis free soil Dosom. From the frequent bursts of | Guced by Mr. S. it will ce seen that hi Boller morggof the eomical than argawmentative order. Mr. Weller naviag secured the fivor, th body adjourned till Monday. Au atiempt was made in the House of Represen Yatives to resnecitate the Deticiency Appropriation bill which was killed on the day previous; bat after & spirited debate the proposition failed by a vo ahity-five to one hundred and thirty -four—nearly fo fe ore. Mr. Houston, the chairman of the Com tee of Ways and Means, thereupon to report a new bill, to wh There now seems no other Son to pursue than to resi sked permission ction was male. alternative for OIr. Hons is position at the head ieb obje of the committtee, thus following the e ple of ministers in the British Parliament, who always vaeste when their schemes are voted down. The re appointment of Mr. H. to his ola mexcement of the session, @ication that the post,at the com, was considered as an in appropriations wo! ° economical order, but events have proved Mhey sre not in congsnance with tho viows of a large majority of his time actaally compeers. But why was so me ted iy the Honse in amending <ha bill, when it must have been apparent that it woul! 4n the endive defeated? Yesterday being the lat day of the se:sion pia 20 a recess unt'l T) ineas was transacted in 0 ogislatare Bevera) bills y reported, aw ch we noti.te three or foar in which our citizens are interested, viz ; to aid the Deaf aod Dumb Institation, for a penay savings bank, to_ameud the } Lita lay, and to tox the stock of insuran Benate ordered the bill for the temp ment of the canals to a third reading, and the tem perance bill to s select com to be reported fomplete, alter which the measnre is to romain the special order until disposed of, Quite an exciting iscussien took place in the Assembly relative to the Contest for the seat from the third district of this city. The committee app inted to inves e matter reported that Mr. P. H. McGuire, | demo crat, was entitled to the seat, « member, Mr. D. W. Clark, free soil vacate. The report was made the special « Friday next. Both houses adj urned till nex’ Wed ng at seven o’cloc \ otion will be held for the chanics’ e aus’ ar for are nicl ‘the « nstitntion, so asto provid pletion of the oi In order that anals, ters may the more fully u tand the present condition « State works, and thereby thorough!y prepare them welyes to take ; this important ¢ ¥ would recommen I e port of the late st y a t other part of this paper, EY “eaenden has bee ) ¢ ait States Senate by the Maix re. § We today publish lengthy x interesting intelligence fr s a joring Darien Ship C 3 political, reli zious, commerc: nd general news f hill, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Bouador, Peru, N gua, kc. By the ‘nstructive and entertaining le of Mr. Nelson, detailing the exp'orations made by the officers of the D: ship Virago, it wilit a.at the party have disscvered the ex wten« saisariye pinin hitherto nakworn, Aue Waleres an Q ija,and, ia the j taken p! ace on the waters of Port \nillip, bel the AW erican schooner Pride of the Sea—built by Georfe Steere—and tie Haclish yacht Lela, in which the 1 listanced ‘aptain Forde, U. § of § died of fever in Melbourne on the yber. A party ricwws had contracted with, the corpora, Melboarne for cleaning aud watering sof that city, from which we presume that Yew Yorkers, who are aware what @ sinecure such speculators enjoy at home. A number of United States newsboys had landed in Melbourne, and created quite a jealousy amongst the newspaper folk by their eager business habits. The last trade reports and-fold circulars are glven. Advices from Kingston, Jamaica, to the 28th ult, announce that the House of Assembly and Board of Council were in cession. On the 24th ultimo the Hon Porteus called the attention of the latter nt “ Emancipado” erder of the Cap- General of Cuba, and urged that the labor mar- of Jamaica should be rep'enished by a goverit® t importation of the negroes freed thereby, It was resolved thata deputation from the Board should wait npon the Governor of Jamaica, and request him to put himself in communication with the English Consul af Havana on the subject, with a view to as_ certain how far advantage could be taken of the African liberation policy of Spain. In a communication from the Comptroller to the d of Aldermen, that functionary recommends & rev of the ordinances prescribing the powers and duties of several departments. The Comptroller states that several heads of depaitraents have been in the habit of lodging the public money received by them in banks, and placing the interest to their own credit, instead of to the credit of the coanty. The retormers will doubtless look to this. everend Aaniuel Osgood delivered a lecture ng before the members of the Mercantile oclution, upon “Our Old Men aud Oar en.” The reverend lecturer had a very ence. Chapin delivered a lecture last even. 2 of J Haropdeo, but owing to the want of room, we ore compelled to omit reporis of his and two or three other lestures which we have body to the recer tai: M uiype. if possiole we shall poblied ull of them t> morrow. teleg bic despatches contain various ao- of maritime avd railroad accidents, political, 1 news. whica, as well a3 other interesting matter, ener te we p articular reference. ‘amship Africa is nearly due at days later advices from Europe. teenth day. The Spotivaen at Washington and Albsny, We draw particular attention to the very ible and incid report of Mr. Engineer McAl- pine on our works of internal improvement in general and the proposed canal enlargement in particular. A perasal of ibis excellent docu- ment cannot fail io convince every one that had the enlightened policy pursued by De Witt Clinton and his contemporaries been steadily followed up t9 the present day, the New York ld by this time have furnished not | only ample means for their own enlargement and completion, but a surplus fand over asd above all charges. Tad the tolls been kept at the rates that ted some years ago, they would now be pourirg several millions into the State treasury, and instead of promising to become adrain upon the public would have } Prov te government with all the } money it requ The reduction of the tolls henefited no one but the forwarders. The pub- li ved no advantage from it made no sensible alteration in the price of produce; | and as, according to Mr. McAlpine, the rail- roads could not compete with the canals for the carriage of bulky articles, it conferred no benefit on the State. The traffic would have heentbe seme, if there had been no diminution ided our of the tolls. It was done simply in order to put } P | money into the pock of the forwarders who } were in league with the politicians and chemers at Albany: and the consequence now i that ¥ are called ny millions and a bef ke up the deficit cansed by thelr reduction to raise to mak ave op more than on xe of tt ion sketched re spoilsmen at Washington. Our at,‘ons on the subject of the public plunder nthe we,v ofpatent renewals, railroad and other oek-jobb,'ng echemes and slices of the surplus nue, hs ve enabled us to fix the sum for which politi cians are now scrambling at some- like fivee hundred millions of dollars, It com th at the prospect of 0 much plan. imagination and excited the ty of our State politicians at Albany irelly enough think that if the lobby mombers and knayes at Washington have five milli to divide between them, the + Alban. ¥ ought at least to contrive arly pittan t ate Legislature has nc to gra nt, no public lands to a rev enue to spread before n'y thing they can d¢ or the he people a for the Aceord- the and co. ning for- oes the do reve thine would a der has fired th & of ten or some be revenues fying ingly we amendment passed las 1 hat in band to the people with a request millions of money to complete the pri- tunes of the speculators, contraesors obbers at Albany, ting the canals. di hos beep generally ortimated that when partof South America, are kept in # perpet’ gs) state | pavl’c moneys 5 men as these, about ¢ ne half is usually pocketed by the comtracte ¢;, speculators, politicians, members of the ” Legislature and editors favora- ble to the £C’ emo, This estimate is # liberal one, perbap 4 too jiberal to the State; it would be well f yy ugif the public wo ks always got halfth’ , amounts voted to them. With this expe- rier ¢¢ fresh in their minds, the people of this s | thr ough the hands of such utate will be called upon next Wednesday to say whether or no they will sanction a new loan of $10,000,000, or in other words whether they will put $5,000,000 of money into the pockets of the politiclans, spolls- men, editors and others who are interest- ed in carrying through the amendment. If the people think these parties deserve @ reward from the public for their devotiomto party in- terests and private speculations, let them have it by all means; though perbaps it would be more straightforward to call things by their names, and vote five millions of hard cash directly to the operators. It must not be sup- posed that we are exaggerating the case. Most of our readers recollect the beautiful division which was made of the nine millions formerly voted for the enlargement of the canals, and rescued by the Court of Appeals from the jaws of the speculators and spoilsmen who were to have had such a pretty it cen- been entirely nt editors or per tage thereon.” Nor has forgotten that some of the proprieters of the New York Daily Tunes ured in the list of the would-be sharers in that slice ofthe spoils. It is well to bear these reminiscences in mind as we read the apologies now published by our Seward cotemporaries for the proposed amendment, The mést charitable can hardly belp thinking that many of the defenders of the scheme have as good reasons fer their present as they had for their former course. In point of fact, the canal system of this State is thoroughly understood by every one, and it will not be as easy to throw dust in the eyes of the public as these newspaper editors believe. The present plan of enlargement was adopted by the people after mature delibera- tion, and the bulk of our citizens are still as firmly convinced as they ever were that it is the only sound, proper and judicious one. If, with the glorious trafic now carried on between the seaboard and the West, with the splendid business of which the canal enlargement party hoast so loudly, the New York canals cannot provide a fund for their own completion, as pro- vided by the constitution, then they de not de- serve to be completed. Had they belonged te private individuals, we have not the smallest doubt that they would by this time have far- nished ample means for their enlargement and completion. They haye not done soe, simply he- cause the wire pullers at Aloany did not desire that they should; as they would then have had no opportunity of plundering the State of four or #¥e millions of dollars, These plunderers ought now to be taught that the people will not be deluded any longer. The old system recognized by the constitution is the only safe one. We must adhere to it; and, while we give to the politicians at Albany due credit for having matured a echeme which certainly leaves the most impudent of the Washington operations far in the shade, we must use tbe power we have re- tained in our own hands to prevent these spoils- men robbing us of five millions of dollars. What ts this Legislature which calls upon us toineyr afresh debt of $10,000,000? In all our experience we never remember to have seen a more utterly worthless and abandoned set of politicians assembled together. Men sent to the Legislature by corruption, by mis- take, by every means and every influence ex- cept that of character, integrity or talent: the outgrowth of fhuatical agitation, aad the apos- tles of every absurd ism that unrestrained license of opinion ever begat: blind preach- ers of teetotalism, craxy apologists fer women’s rights, lunatics born so, and lunatics made so by spiritualism: such are the individuals who represent us at Albany, and propose to run us in debt ten millions more. Shall we vote to plunge ourselves.and our children into debt to raise money for such men as these—for legisla- tors like Mr. Leigh, who has distinguished him- self eo signally by his base. vulgar and ridicu- lous attack on the barroom of the St. Nicholas Hotel—one of the best and most magnificent hotels in this or any other country ? The people will answer. We say, let the canals complete the canals. If they are pro- perly managed, and let alone by schemers and spoilsmen, they can do it, Pepiic Orixioy 1% THis MeTRoPoLs oN TIE Nenraska Qurstion.-Upon evary great ques- tion for the last fifteen years, since the indepen- dent press became a power in the land, the position assumed by the leading journals of this metropolis, whose circulation gives them the largest access to the public mind, has in- variably foreshadowed the ultimate action of Congress. The politica! revolution resulting in the election of General Harrison, the annexa- tion of Texas, the war with Mexico, and the com- promise measures of 1850, which were reapect- ively the great issues of their day, were cach and all first foreshadowed by the metropolitan press of New York. How stands the question now with regard to Nebraska! We are as yet only upon the threshold of the agitation of this subject; but the position of our daily city journals of the Boglish language already indicates the success of the bill of Mr. Douglas. From the best re- turns that we can command of the aggregate circulation of our English dailies for the Ne braska bill and against it, they foot up as fol lows:— For the Nebri Higa g Sun. sees 83,000 JournalofCommerce 6,000 . ‘70 Ageregate circulation for Nebrarka......,., Do, co, against the bill. Majority for Nobr: Add doubtfal te opps Aud the exoers for the bil! fe ati! . 43,990 st to take The Heraip, as usual, was the £ ground upon this great question, and- that position upon the subject which faraishes the reasons, the propriety, and the certainty of the passage of the bill. It is but two or three weeks since this momentous issue was sprung upon the country ; but instantly the independ- ent preas hit upon the conclusion, as indicated inder pretence wf | in the failure of the Tabernacle meeting, and the rapid progresa of the bill in the Senate. The Senate Webate shows that more pro- gress has been made in iwo weeke in fhe diecuesion of this subject, than wasygn? Ac in two years upon the measures of 1850: the dis cussion of these measures, however, jad pre- pared the Senate and the country for a clear understanding of this matter, av d al) the cou- stitutional pointe involved in it. But in 1850, as in 1854, the Wall street jovarnals were first among the opposition. The Courier and En- quirer, however, in the former case, after dis- charging its antl-slavery editor, and after mak- ing an apology to the public, wheeled into line on the side of the adjustment. And so will it have toda before this present controversy is ended. Whe Journal of Commerce, which was also among the anti-slavery pleaders in the out- set of the agitation of 1849-'50, has, on this oc- casion, taken Time by the forelock, folowing prudently in the wake of the Herarp. We have no doubt of the passage of this bill, no more doubt than we have, upon the setting of the sun, that {t will rise the next day, and so continue to do till the day of judgment. beyond which it iy not necessary now to go. We do not derive our conclusions from the press of New York, but we" say that our metropolitan daily press gives in the aggregate the earliest foreshadowing of the drift of public opinion and Congressional action. In thus reflecting public opinion, the independent press, especially, bas, The Troubles of Criticism—Another Appea! from an Actor. Ip cur notice of the performance of ‘'\A Midsummer Night's Dream”? at the Broadway, we alluded to Mr. Daviige, who personated Bottom, iu the following terme — In the comic onderplot, the areat cheraster, ar avery era sows iv Bottom the weaver, It waa’ taken by Davidge on Monday, and a great cee! of talent ainpiages ip therenc ering. Still i" in impesstble to endorre him aa Boitem not] first, he learns bin gent thoréughly, aad meoodly, his grotesque ssltion and comic oxcismations approach e little nearer to nature Mr. Davidge ic act salisfed with thir, and writer ae thy. Sere Frexvary 8, 1854 10 THE BDITOR OF THB UBRAL Fm—An article ia thie day’s tsao of the HARALD, pur, poring to be a eriticlm on Wii’ eammer Night's Dream at the Broadway theatre, Coes me the favor ingeaiour ly to qualify some little praise it would bestow om my - soration of the eberacter of Botom, by asserting tha: wos in perfeot im the text. Wt» the opinios that you or may entertain cf my poor abil tere 1am called upon to eur to advaree conviction that you are right any censor of the pi y im the various oba’ 1a, of coures I have voibiog Jinnst presume them to be given with tus 1am wroug; bat! do} jog im perfect in the w to state in wnat part or portion of the plsy you discover ed the Celinquerey. 1 rm ever ready to sami the disia, se wellar ine snd do pot raffer my eq) slightest cosree by etiber barge jike the ene | very questionable ¥ Waiting your the freedom of the press io other other brinou of act, imity to be raffiec in tue *jadice or convistion; bat & jon would enh, am, tir, yours, ob» WM. DaVIDGE. P S._foth Mr. Berry and Mr. Weight, the psompser, bear testimony to my position in this matter. We sre quite willing to comply with Mr, Davidge’s re quent, and to point out “in what part or portion of the play” we ‘‘dissovered his delixquency.” it wae gone of late years, exercised, and will continue to exercise, a great power over the politicians, spoilemen, and Presidentia! cliques, and aspir- auts of the country. It is a power which acts upon many even of the old fogies, with the force of an electrical battery, galvanizing them into new life, and urging them into the progres- sive spirit of the age. Turn Scarter Lerrer AGais—-Mr. Gat- prairn’s SrareMEn?.—We publish elsewhere in this paper the statement of Mr. Benjamin Gal- braith, in reply to the last publication of Mr. John Cochrane upon the free soil Scarlet letter of General Pierce of 1848. The memory of Mr. Cochrane, we suspect, will be munch refreshed by the reading of this statement. It is perfect ly conclusive. Mr. Galbraith adheres to the original facts of his conversations with the Sur- veyor of the Port. He re-affirms that Mr. Coch- rane did admit that he had seen the letter “not a great while since,’ that he would look it up, and that it did sympathise with the Van Buren free soilers of 1848 If it were necessary, we could produce two other witnesses to sustain the testimony of Mr. Galbraith; but we con- sider his statement a complete settler of the matter at issue. But to satisfy the public ex- , and to settle the question beyond all caviliing, why does not the President per- mit Mr. Cochrane to put his hand in his breeches pocket and bring out, that letter—that myste- rious letter—that Scarlet letter—to,the light of day. Till that is done the public judgment must be that it’is a free soil Van Bu- ren Buffalo platiorm letter, which, if brought out, would establish the nomination and the election of General Pierce as a fraud upon his party, and a frand upon the country. The non- appearance of the letter, or its sudden disap pearance, is enough. and betrays those free soil proclivities and associations, on the part of General Pierce, which may yet result in treach- ery from the White House on the Nebraska «question, unless the South and the friends of Douglas are shrewd and vigilant. Let the South look to the White House and the Cabi- net with a jealous eye. till this Scarlet letter is ! brought out. Why not give us the letter? Tus IstrMvs or Dartex—Imrortanr News.— We publish to-day an interesting letter from Rebert Nelson, of the British surveying expe- Gition, detailed from the ship of war Virago, on the Pacific side, to make an exploration across the Isthmus ef Darien, with the view of ascertaining the advantages or disadvantages of that isthmus for the excavation of a ship ca- nal between the two oceans. The report goes very far to sustain the representations of Dr- Black, which resulted in the despatch a few weeks since of the sloop of war Cyane by our government, for an official survey of the route indicated between the bay of San Miguel! on the Pacific, and the bay of New Caledonia on the Atlantic side. From the reports of the British surveying party, it appears that the party crossed the country until they got within about eight miles of the Atlantic. of which ocean they had an excellent view. They encountered a plain‘ot seme twenty-two miles in length, and in no part of it did they find the elevation greater than fifty feet above the level of the sea. Ifthis report ie confirmed by Lieut. Strain, of the Cyane surveying corps, and by the French expedition detailed for the same pur- pose to the same quarter, then is the question of the route for the great interoceanic canal between the Atlantic and Pacific a “fixed fact.” That it will be confirmed we have no reason to doubt. We shall wait, however. with great in- terest the more thorough exploration which will unquestionably be made of the whole route, irom end to end, by our own expedition. Work vor Decayen Poriticians.-We learn that 5..B. Hart, Eeq., and others have been appointed a sub-committee, by the National Democratic Committee at the Stuyvesant Institute, and in- structed to solicit subscriptions for a weekly journal that has suffered much in the hardshell cause, and is even now in the jaws of death. Mtr. E. B. Hart was once a member of Congress, He figured subsequently as a candidate fur the Navy Agency. but having been unsuccessful in the endeavor, he seems to hive turned his at- tention to the calling of a newsboy. We are glad to see that a respectable business is at length opened for decayed politicians; a voca- tion which will keep them out of mischief and beggary, and may at the same time prove con- genial to their old tastes. It pleases us so much that if Mr. Hart will call on us, we don’t mind proving our friendship for the national democracy, by trying to obtain for him a route of the Henavn, or if this cannot be had, the early sale of some of our extras. This, we im- agine will be more permanent and profitable than canvassing for his present employers. Excicsive News Acain.—We published ex- clusively, the other day, the text of the copy- right treaty pending before the United States Senate. Why do not our cotemporaries, who raised such a clamor against our first exclusive report of that Mexican treaty, why do they not come out and pronounce this copyright treaty algo a hoax? Supreme Court=General Term. Hon. Jucges alitcheli, Roosevelt aad Morris, present, THE EXTRADITION CASE. Frn 10.—Jn the Matter of Alexander Hailbronm. ~Thia cane, which co: ip ROW on application on behals of the accused for ‘rant under the State law, (Revised Statutes, coc. 80, Pp. %,) to prevent Mis removal ont of the Siate, called on 0.4 ut was agaio postponed, The ergument is fixed for Wednesday next. Geverso: Crosby, of Maine, war ified instan', aod y, Sia quali om the 8b rally in bis part in the Sith set (shakspeare’a version), which he hat not studied suff'ciestiy, aad cid not know by Beart, It waw particularly in the dislogus between Pyramous and Toisve, which Ur, Davids could never have got through without the assistance of the prompter, 1t was particularly is the verees beginning ‘'0 grim looked night!” when spectators in the orchestra heard the prompter better than Mr. Davidge seemed todo, It was particularly in another portion of the same scene, when Mr. Davidge stopped short entirely, haviog forgotien hi: part, and the whole house Inughed at his pre tioament. It was likewise particularly in the roosee whete Mr. Da ridge as Bottom, being transformed into an ass, acd not aware of bis own transformation, commiited the uapar- donable soleciem of brayiog, and thus showed his very Buperficls] acquaintance with,Shekepeare’s meauing, It was Hkewise particularly in act IIT , scene 1, (Shakspeare’s version,) when Mr. Davidge bluncered in his dialogue with the fairies, and required assistance both from the performers on ihe stege and the prompter. Whea in reforence to these crying feults we simply ovserved thet Mr. Davicge had not ‘learned bis part thoroughly’ wo submit that we dealt with dim with a leniency in which we were not as critica entirely justified. Weare the more inclined to regret it, af @ comperiscn between Mr. Da- vidge’s Bottom and that of Mr. Burton was perhaps due to the public, and would have erabied us to point out in afew words how very fer the former was from mhat migbt Lave been expeeted from a leading comedian ats metropolitanjtheat Liqvor AGENCY OF New Bepvorp.—The liquor agent of New Bedford bas jaat pudlished bis quarterly report of the work done in bis department for the three monthe ending on the 254 cf Jaguary. Tae following figures show the resuit:— Purchased, Sold On hand, Bravdy, gallons reset | C 199 278 Row, eee LBB 956 683 Gn, do » BT 283 280 Wine, do. 108 61 225 Ciaret wine, do. 6 9 12 Atochal, do... » 9 180 121 Threa mothe busiress..... 2,211 1,788. 1,582 One thourand coven hundred end eighty-eight galions of liquor, or about one boudred and thirty-five thousand doses, as appears by the above, were'sold in New Bedford during three months for medicinal purposes, exclusive of ale and.porter, which are not included in the table, but which bore their proportion in amount gold to the other medicines, New Bedford must be a very unhealthy placs. Marine Affairs, Qoick Passact.—The new clipper ship Rad Jacket, oom_ manded by Capt. Asa Eldridge, late of the steam yacht North Star, whose arrival at Liverpool waa raporte? ia the Erglish papers on the 26th ult, is #tated by letter to heve arrived up to Itverpool on the 4th, having made the pareage from city to city in the astonishing short time of thirteen deye snd ose hour sande hel! She lef: here on the morning of the 10th January, ard arrived at the Bell Buoyfon the 22d—twelve daye—without the lov of a rope yarn, She is a fine verse) of 2,434 toas register, built by Mr. Geo. Thomas, of Rockland, and is on her first voyage, and not yetooppered. She is owned by Secomb & Tay lor, of Boston, and was despatched heuce by Mr. Wm. T..Dagau. The liverpoo! Courier thue notices her performance :— Yesterdey, the spl‘ndid new Amerioin clipper Red Jacket, Captain Eldridge, (Jat of the Liverpool packet Rorciva,) arrived here from New York, after having made the unprecedented run (for # sailing vessel) of thirteen days cue hoor sad twenty-five minutes. 9 isoue of ‘the handsomest vearela we ever beheld, po!sessicg, with the greatest aya of model immense strength and carrying capacity. sorted give her log:— ‘i files Wednerdsy, 1ith Jan, 103 Wel 18th 319 Thursdsy, 12th 150 Thursday, #413 265 Friday, 20¢ 81. BIL Saturday, 2 342 217 Sanday 22d. 300 Pn 7 934, .. on Ris main brace was spliced’, on the strength of fone itteea mites, bein Fun in twenty-four hoara by anything adoats hee eVeE Mreps. Pauses & Mvavev, Falton Iron Works, foot of Cherry street, East river, have just commenced a gine of 64-inch cylinder and 8 feet stroke, for a steam- ship of 900 tons burden, mow buildieg at the yard of Mr. Wm. H. Webb, and intended for the island of Cava. Axornmm Munmsovs Craw.—During the & partof the crew (eight) cf the ship Jennis W. Paine, Capt Robert Nortom, which vessel recently arrived ia our harbor from New York, having become matinous and refused to perform duty, the Conrul of the United States at thie port has twice visited the vessel for the purpose cf exemisziog into their complaints. The result of the matter, we Jearp, is, that yesterday the eight disorderly men were or iered to be placed in {rous, and kept «0 uatil they express their willingness to porform their duty.— Panama Star, Jan 24. The Loss of the San Francisco. THE NOBIB CONDUCT OF CAPT. STAUFFER. Belew we give the modest letter of Capt. Stauffer, to the consignees of the packet ship Antarstic, which speaks for itself, The letter of Messrs, Zersga & Oo. also shows that Capt. Watkins had gone to London, to confer with the American Minister in reference to the best means of providing for the return of the United States troops en) others to the United States :— Liveapoor, Jan, 24, 1854 Mosse. Zenrca & Co. :—I beg to inform you of the arri- val cf the Antarctic in the r.ver om the 253 fost, where { 2m com pelied to remain until the 28th, owieg to the tides Oo the 3@ inst., in Iat 20 40, Jon 62 foll ia with rtea elip Sam Francisco snd took from her 4 Ber, two oflicers, three lieutsuante, and aor antre? and ninety United States government troop1, which de. tained me sbout fifty-four hours. Your obd’t ser: (Signe?) GEO, ©, STAUFFER, Ship A TO THE BDITOR OF THR NRW YORK HERALD, New York, Feb. 10, 1s54. Will you please publish the above letter we received by Pacific, from Capt Sta being al! the information he gives us for hie noble pait in the rescue of the unfortu nate pee ‘3 of the San Fransisco, by which {t would rs hes is modesty ie only ejaalod by his intrepidiry goed brert ‘We Jeara further from our correspoadente, Metis. A Deonistoun & Co., that Capt. Watkins has gose to Ionion, to cee the Amerionn Minister in regard to provid! x the unfortuna‘e, In the meantims, a!l the parties re- main oa board the Antarctic. at Cay or two Avy comments you make wil >¢ appreciate! b; your obedient venta, 7eaegA & 00, sf val Intelligence. ‘The frigate St. Lawrence remained at Callas Jav, 12, a!) weil. ‘The surveying stesmer Corwin, detailed to make a sur- vey of the Florida reefs, put ints Savannah 5in inst., from tis port, short of coal, having been celayed by rtrong head winds, She would leave agaia immodiately afior cealing. The United States store ship Relief, now at New York, is to tal stores to toe Brasilrquadron, Tho fiicera have been orvered to her, viz :—Liant. ding, Stephen ©. Rowsg; Acting Master, Samus P, Coster; Prseed Midvhipmen, James § Troratoa, Waltar Qoeen, ant David B Harmony; snd Pasied Asaisthet Sar- , James B. Gould, Board of Supervisors, Els hovor the Recoroer in the chair, Fro 9 —The minutes of the last meeting were readand approved, nd THE CORONERS’ BILLA, The report of the committee in favor of psyiag the bills of the four Coroners, amounting to $4,206 8734, aad also $326, the bills in the same scsonute for post mortem examinations, was adopted, and the accounts ordered to be paid ; mlao in favor of paying Joho Ives, late Cor mor,’ for fees in devending the ease of Tityam va, the Coroner, for false imprisonment, $260—orderad to be paid. PAYMENT POR DRYANDING A FUGITIVE SLAVE. The report of the committee in favor of paying BE. D. Culver $809 expenses incurred in Yefending proseca- tion of one Boland, claimed Ct adopted The committes "repartee. elves ‘fea Till from the Biocmingdale Asylum, for want of proper authentication. Acjourned to Monday pext, ‘The Scarlet Letter Again-Mr. Galbraith: Statem' 70 SHR BDITOR OF THE XBW YORE ERAALD. Mr, Forron—My statemect of the conversations betwee, m) self and Aix.Co.hrane, resprctiag “tat Scarlet Letter,’ appears to be quite uspale'edle to thet gentleman, anc’ haa elicited from him some remarks whiok bs, dondtleas: intended shoul] pass for # contradiction of the truth 0, my statement,” but which are, in fast, a very clamsy at tempt to blink the question, #ad crawl out of the diem ma inwhich he is confessed?!) ixod. My statement (rath, the whole truth, and uothieg but the trath. have nothing to afd thereto or subtract therefrom; states exactly what took plocs at my two iaterviewa wit Mr. Cochrane, and I now repeat it: I aaw Mr. soon after this, and I arked him if he had the letter wb was written by Frauklia Porse, ia 1848, to the mus! held in New York in that vamo year, for the purpose’ ratifyicg and confiemiog tho proosediogs which hed lat takea place in the Usice or Buflelo couveation, and nominations which were there made, ia bie possession. Mr, Cochrane esid hs had the letter referred to then askcal bica if be would give it to me, snd he esid he wenid if he could Gad it, but that it wae some] time rince he caw it, and that be hardly keew where it] war, bat that he woald look for it ad send it to me.) Not having sevelved it, Loa Mr. Cochraue again, and he| told me bs hs¢ not yet found It, ‘for,’ said he, ‘I have eon moving my ofilee from Wail street to Trieity Bulid-| irar ranged, but 4] amiure J have it, and will fod it for you; tae % not al great whilesince; Tepeneda voll yy papers, and in that rou) papers there I found this identical Ltler, writien by 4 s Pierce to the ratification merting in 1848.7 J then saked him ag to its contents, and be said be did Rot reovilect very dittivetiy, bul 0 far as Ae recollected & wos a general approval of the course that had been pursued, and tie nominaiwns made al she Uliea of Buyfale Convenor) tn 1848 “] then s9}¢4 him why it had potneen read and publish, ed at the time or immedia. ly stu the mesting. He mid he did not koow, but he exppocsd it wan decanse! the officers of the meeting, avd he particularly wentioned| Judge Wele bury, considered Franklin Pierce aman of s Litile note or injluence at rat time that to read or publith @ Inter of his would do 10 gord to tum whatever, and henee Ui.) reason of it being thrown aside, along with a mumnber of others, as entirely worthless, wotil ho became President of tb6 Uni ted Statew.’” To this Mr Cochrace, aller & yaat amount of redomoa- tade, which be mistakes for wit, saysine uv aluraith’s statement shall be fairly and fully ene, vnirne that Istated to Mr Galbraith that I had the: letter referred to. Ite aatrue that Mr, Gsibraith called on me » second: ‘tim Ic is untrue that I said J ain eure I have it, aud will fine. it Us : ie is untros that I said I eaw it not agreat while since, It is uotiue that I raid that I opened @ roll of papers, and in that oll of papers there I foand this identical let- ter, writiea by Fraukln Pierce to the ratifoation mesting: 1848. It is falee thot I said the letter, #0 Be he ue Erescllocten wae @ genera) approval of the to a 2 pur- ued, a the Rominatons madeat the Utica or Bi onvention in 1848. TT infaive that Benjamin Galbraith asked me why the letter had not ree d and publisheiat the time, or immediately afer the meecing. Tria felee that I said I cid not know, but supposed Ht was because the officera of the meeting, particularly Jucge Waterbury, considered Franklin Pieroe es & man ef go little rote or influence at that time that to read or puolith a» letter of his would do no good to them what ever, and hence the reason cf its being thrown asi along with a number >of ctters, as entirely worthless, until he bscame Piesident of th» Usited States. T did fey that @ letier was received from Genera} Pierce; that it must be song my papers. 1 did evy that I recoulect havivg reem £0me years ago & rol! of papers, which on op:uing I disoovered were letters. | received at the meeting of 1848, bus I cid not examine them, but put them away, aud had aot aince deen able to. find them 4 1 wan aware when Gorerel Pieree’s letter war reosived: that the Boffaic Convention bed not been held. I was: also aware that Judge Wal+rvary was not an officer of the- meeting of 1848, and yot d+: jemin Galbraith representa me af uncertain of the Brat fact and sare of the Isst.’” And thir, in the opizion of Mr, Cochrane, is rainLY and FULLY encounteriog my statement. It showe what his no~ tiocs cf fai-mess are; why, Le bas mot ventured to deny the trath in sulslance and (fet of » single sentence in all my statement, but bas connues himvelf to denying that I give his precise words, Tais bnic.eplitting and trifling with truth is just what may be expected from @ wen of Mr, Cochraze’s calibre. “Tt is untrue | said J had the latter,” saya Mr, Coohrane avd &'most in the #sme diesta he acute "7 did saye loiter war received; i mui be among my papers.” Oh! Mr Ccobrane, it in your practice st ths bar yoo bad canght ao adverse witness fret denying bo bade letter, suc. ceat acmitting i mu! be among nis papots, bow would you bave Gecisined on.nis odious pre ‘ion? And whst thell be said of y u, who wet out%o fairly aac Tully exeounter my siateneuts, attempting to slieKd yorr- Fel by Olatiogn ehing be! ween raying Jhave ead J mus! hare? Boteil Mr Coohrace’s fair and full encow ‘Ubie or a sicailar character ; {o-, not content w' picable eqairrestion, he hes garbled my statements, por Vertes their obvious and legiiimaie meaulog, aud ines appealed to facta capab'e of proof aliunde to confrm hie allegations. ‘io te folse,”’ writes Me. C chrane, “ that] wald tuat the tetier, co far as I recoNestod, was a go approval of the course that bad been pureurd, Sad the nominations mace, at the Utisa or Bullaly convention ia 1845 ” Here bia full apt feir eccoantering amounts to this, and thia only: that he cenies eazieg Utioa or Balfal and then, to lerd force to niscenial, he says, “I wat re when General Pierce's le ter was received that the felo convention bad oct heen held ;” and from this be wishes it to be ieferreo that 1b was impovsible he should say Utica or Buffalo, tiesmach as the Baffalo convention bad not bork hei; he safely deny hesaid Utica or Buflslo this simple reason: that I do mot charge him with baviog ao said. I was desirous that my statement should be strictly correct, and not being quite certain which was the cox vention referred to by Mr. Gon. yare, but being certain it was either Uties or Baffalo, 1, to prevent any rousteke, alleged it was one or the other— Uties or Bnflalo; nobody of common sense would read my statement otherwise. ‘« Tt ib false,”’ continues Mr. Cochrane, ‘that I said 7 ¢id not know, but euppored it was becease the officers of the meeting, p:rticularly Judge Waterbury.” Thisienotmy statement; my statement {s, and particulerly Jucge does not hesitate to aiter the sense of my statement tc euit bis care by omittiog the word and Now, my atate- ment ie, that the officers of the jury —it Coes mot asset that he, sn cficer at thet meeting. fore, is entitled to the fall th benefit Geny ing anallegation of hisown fabrication. Whet more is necesrary to expone th eae? Does he not, in of the 26th of January, l referred to Judge Water- bury as the person who would | boned recollect the contents of the Istter 1” Cochrane says: ‘It is un- true that Hr, Galbraith called on me a seoomdtime.” Ae he bi nother part of nic letter mace @ cistinetion be- fo, end s@ my fret interview i, his denial probably is ing to him ia. thet masoar ‘wae wot a call upen To those acyuainted with both my good against Mr. Coohrace’s for saythiog; but stranjers car. only ja’ge from the probabilities of the two stories which in most ecti'led to beiiet Mr. Cochrane, as @ lewyer, has learned bow to dodge, He knows that when it is hoprless to succeed on the rea} issue \t iw politic to raise e felee one, He knows the rea] issue in this esee is, what sra the contents of ‘tha: Scarle Leiter.” Aube finde it inconvenient to be pressed on that isene, he would fain raise a falee issue apon what he raid, or whet !ca'd—upoo snything, in fact, but the rea? one. Vhat Scarie Letler bas been traced to Johm Coah- rave; he bar copfsirea to haying had it among his papers; he doen nat chow it to be lost or destroyed, aad he thruste Himself forward as a witners as to itacontests, Yet i atve him credit for betng learned in the law sufisient to know that the proper evidence cf the contents of * (ial Scarlet Zier”? is the letier iteelf; that the letter itself, as it im the best, 10 it is the only evidence of its contents: and all the letters that Joho Cochrane bsa ever written, or mey write, willnever be sn equivalent for the Scarl/? Letter of General Pierce to (he ratification meeting oc 1848, approviog of thelr mex and measures, Jt is among bie paperz, and it must bs produced. Reapectfaily, you ‘tie DENT AMIN GAT BRAalte, City Inte ligence, Try Weather AND THE & UD Hears —The weather yester- day war quite mild, formed 0 agteeabls contrast ormy Weenerdey. Tho mad still remaios in qusa- nite ruMcient to remind us of neglect of duty ome srt of the street contracters. Broadway yesterday wes ornamented with mud graves which some facetious. . persona bad heaped up and comolated with headstones and ¢ Oa one near Bleecker treet was displayed: ters on a white gcoundwork, ''Alss, poor srdon another weakneas of Mr, Coctrane’s ha “How sleep the brave who sf thal country’s garbage ud nit the surprise upon m with acme ththe mud the g: more perfect, It ia fortus city cam be used to amuse ea well ag anmoy our citizens. Frvrreno ix tHe Post Orrice,—What’s the trouble ir the New York Post Office? What ia causing the present flatteriog among the clerks? Every 000 is afcaid of get- tirg acong’. Why bas Mc. Wash. Jenkian resigned bi ‘ation as Secretary? Half = dozen clerks ware din. wiassed on Thursday Inst. Gas Postmaster Ganeral Campbell exdered retroachment in both mea god wmeney f or are theee removals tuerely of & political nature? Hi mony more are to be turne’ out? Who are thoy, and umber who ena egally be dis- thaa reoelye their sales ries, who have been forced on Fowler by political parti- sang, O i ae them, Isanc, aud employ working men rt Secner Soctery.—The “Bly Tuesday, and rome o! the bi srorn ip, Catherine market was in citement when the carriage containing “ peared in its vicinity, A Vio1ant Assavit ny A Morin UPON HER Crip —-A Ger- man womsn Bawed Maria Dashen, residing in Stantoe sireet, nesr avenue A, yesterday made a most te u witha assault upon her child, four eae of ogy » inflicting » very dsngeroua if not fatal wound u, ber bead. The women was arrested sud taken to prisom, 18 is bere hes is ne, Byt litle bopes aro .