The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1854, Page 4

ae IEE SOE IEEE -evtkT ere a “fected ‘with it. This pest no doul § fo0d t0 ° pr WEW YORK HERALD, | swnsnsec me votre ten om neues ly occurrence. To heve been once vace! mated, | have been of almost yearly ee get ag i a out, as welles among | what extent these diminutions may have bene- JAME* GORDON BENNETT, thoee who have never adopted that pre cautionary fitted trade or the public, the mercantile com- PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. @r7:04 KR. WS CORNER OF FULTON AND NASEAU ets. | belief that one inoccaletion with the kinepox will | able to judge, their effects hay been actually preserve them for ever after from the small pox. imperceptible, and prices have uniformly been TERMS ash im adoance, ~ _ | But this isevidently not the case, for we have of | dictated by accounts from abroad. If, however, FEE iC ASIA s emia mer core ep oxi ovate | late beard of several instances in which adults have the reductions were inoperative in attaining the ity tater oad 6h te Om sort tas | been re-vaccinated with entire snecess, thus proving, | end for which they were outwardly designed, beyond a doubt, that they were previously lisble to | : andthe revenue of #1 catch the abominable disease whenever they might | they were not s0 bed de. xt i ieoune ith i i canals, From 1836 to 1853, the traffic on the ca have come in contact with it—a thing they ran the | ’ FE : 3 868,441 risk of doing every hour in the day. The number | nals increased from 1,310,807 tons to ee a of children who died during the week was three | nearly 300 per cen ts and during 4 a se hundred and forty, being only three less than those | period the tolls only increased from $1,598. ah who were natives of the United States. Of other | %o $3,162,190, somewhat less than 200 countries there were from Ireland, 85; Germany, | per cent. The consequence of this was ob- 87; England, 13; and elsewbere, 15. In order to | vious. The canals failed to supply the show how essential cleanliness, pure air, and proper | pings roquired for their own enlargement care are to health, it is only necessary to statethet | 114 completion, as they would have done if the forty deaths occurred in the Sixth ward, forty Hive oth to inelude poxtiae sstth Adver= ALL LETTERS dy mot for Subecri tiens, or with Ade Bpements, fo be pot ald, or the postage wail be deducted [row mone, remitted. — Velw me XIX. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW Uncte Tom's Camm, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery— — BQOADWAY THEATRE Broad uwy—A Mipsummen Nigur's Dues BORTON’S THEATERS, Chambers strect—A Mivsum- wxn Nigiy's DigAM—TRYING IT ON Domestic Roonds ti Gan stows Camas dhe Reveniosnth, ond tal.st original rate of tolls had been preserved. ‘This aren in the Tweltth in the Seventeenth, and thi rty- ; ki Sone : spoilsmen and politicians WALLACK'S THBATRE, Brosdway -A Paerry Pixos | cient in the Twentieth was exactly what the sp pe 1 8. oy Business Tux Imig AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoen—Happy Mav—Do- wanted; and no sooner is the deficiency ap- parent than they come forward to us with out- By the arrival of the steamship Tsabel at CQ? iarles- | eric Econouy— ing—MAs. Jones’ URTSMIP—THE y e hav eceived 9 vutline of Havana news to | whe Sevispe pee eee ae a Ath tastant On reat athlon of political | Stretehed hand, and beg for ten millions * ; . be Sth instant, ets sie Ni sone: orfor rk which the natural pikoaDway MENAGERIE—Siawxse Twins xn Wit importance. A new se:ret police had been organized, | money to perform a work which th revenues of the State would have performed had they left’ them alone. and it is probable that shall soon heyr of numer- ous arrests of persons suspected of entextaining prin- OURI'sTY’S AMERICAN OPERA HOUSK, 472 Broad- Way—E ruropiay Mevopies wy CMRIsTY's MinarhmLs. WO! oD’S MINSTRELS— Wood's Minstrel Hall, 444 Broad: | ciples in opposition to the ruling powers. The re- Lest we chould be scoused of exaggeration, Wee Remoriax Misernaisr. moval of the audencia from Puert» Principe caused | we beg to draw public attention to the follow- Bi BKLEYS® OPERA HOUSR, 92 Broadway—Bvex- Bev's ; Xrworian Ovens Trovrs, B .NVARD'S GEORAMA, 596 Droadway—Pawonama Ore me Bory arn. + R WENISG GALLERY some excitement there; but the s»nouncement of the iceskip system created little eensation in any t of the island. Sugar was ir demand, and a large business was doing ém that steple, but molasses was (high. Pveights bed somewhat advanced. received files of papers from Costa Rica Sytine ' tothe 2ist ult., bat they are quite aseless, all the | saietne or tus caves Mien arenone "SMF ES | oes from te: aud the other Central American | HOPS CHA States having been published yesterday, in the let ing table, which has been prepared with the veatest care :— its as they would greatest cai have been, had ther Tals actually Lonest s§ Broadway—Day and Evoning Tonnage «1,810,807 Years 18% 7 wGNOR PBLITZ—Srevvesayr Ixetivure, 685 Broad- | 713 Brcadway-—-Jonma’ PAN ALLARY OF ORRISTIAN ART—S43 Broad | ter of our Nicaraguan correspondent. 179,903 The Penneylyania Legislature recently ied an 2/469°817 act annulliag the cherter of the Franklin Canal ie 3 Company, in consequence of which Gov. Bicler has transmitted a long message to the House relative to The steamship Africa, which has been ont nearly | the commonwealth taking possession of the com- 8,020 18 3,69 0 Hfteen days from Liverpool, had not arrived | pany’svailroad. Tae Governor is strongly in favor eee i ri ack at three o'clock this morning. Her news —thre of a break of > at Erie. The compeny has de- 31174) 57 49 4850000 ia | clared its intention of contesting this prooveding be- fore the Supreme Court, and here the matter reste at prese There has been no disturbance at Hrie for some days, and the prospect now is ‘that the riot- ers will remain quiet till after the judigial authorities have rendered their decision. Besides a great variety of interesting matter, to which we have no room to refer perticularly, our pages to-day contain an official statement of the Af fairs ot the New York Crystal Paiace ; fall repert of the sixth day’s proceedings in the 'M ‘y Court of @eys later than that brought by the Paci Wooked for with feelings of the greatest anxiety, particularly "by those of the commercial classes, whose interests are deeply involved in the pro” gress of event# at the Hast. Fortunes are sure to be made ard lost among dealers in breadstuffs, provi- sions and cotton, whatever may be the finale of the Rosso-Turkish difficulty—be it either a general war ‘or peaee, one or the other class must suffer to a eonsiderable extent—and hence the intense uneasi- wees among them. It will be borne in mind that when the Pacific sailed the utmost excitement and | Inquiry; various lectures; the Commercial and Agri- eonfusion existed, in consequence of the numerous | cultural resources of Nova Seetia; commercial, ne- eonflieting rumors resp ag the course that would | ligious, political, theatrical and misceliangous intel- he pursued by the Czar with regard to the move: | ligence, ke. ments of the allied fleets in the Black Sea, and also from the circulation of a report that an action had taken, or was about taking place between said fleets and the Russian naval forces, numbering some forty vessels, with pearly two thousand guns. The ival ofthe Africa will probabiy set all apprehensions at xest concerning these flying stories, In the mean- time, we elsewhere publish severel letters from our London and Paris ¢orrespondents, together with. va- Fious extracte concerning the war question—all which will be found both interesting and instructive. We are enabled to state, from most undoubted authority, that the report in relation to the very large number of deaths, (over fifty in-ell,) among she - 3,162,190 14 It will thus be seen ‘that, bad there been no rednetions of the tolls, the revenue from the ca- nals would now have amounted to nearly five millions of dollars, and long before this would certainly have supplied the money required for their own completion and enlargement, as well as furnishing a surplus to the public treasury. If they have not done so, the fact is simply due to the fraudulént and selfish schemes of the very men who now ask us for ten millions of money. Shall we crown their efforts with suc- cess by giving them the plunder they demand? Shall we recompense their corruption with ho- nor, and reward their peculations with dollars? Shall we make ourselves and our children lia- ble for ten millions of money in order to give a bonue to these political harpies? Unmistakeable symptoms of a negative re- rhe People vs. the Speestators at Albany. The issue in this great case, a8 our readers are aware, is to be tried on Wednesday. It will then be decided whether, in default of patent exteusions, railroad schemes and surplus reve- handed over to the tender mercies of specula- tors. It is hard to say what the verdict wil) | footing which the developement of their business be. There has been no lack of skill or caution | demands, no one will deny. But it were better on the part of politicians. Thescheme has been | and wiser far to alter the existing tolls to the long maturing. For yeara the public pulse has | old rates, and to devote the surplus the canals been felt, the enterprise of the mercantile com- | would then afford to the required works of en- possengere in the Antarctic, isa mistake. Anofficidl | munity tickled, the vanity of the people letter has been received from Lieutenant Winder, the | Hrought to bear on the question. We have been | and expose ourselves to direct taxation in order officer in command of the detachment from the | herjodically reminded of the grandeur of our | to feed the politicians at Albany and the specu- steamer San Francisco taken he reports but twenty one deaths. by this sbix The Licuter canal system, and its fruits upon the great- | lators in Wall street. ness of New York. De Witt Clinton's - letter is dated at Liverpoo! on the 24th of Jannary. A p 2 Recording 40 the Waa f the oat an F¥ ie ghost has been time and again evoked from | General aap ot ger eared on Onleavs, which we publish to-day, the loss of Nfe was | e grave to frown upon the unprincipled pie sa a greater than at first reported. The total number of | faction which steadily opposed the de- ‘Ata meeting of the Demoeratic Republican mands of the speculators and politicians, A desperate attempt was once actually made to wrest the money from us in defiance of law, avd we were only saved by the conscientious firm- ness of the Court of Appeals. Taught by their failure in this instance, the Seward party are how once more approaching the summit of their hopes with cautious tread and wary footstep. To believe them, nothing less than the future prospects of this State hang suspended in the balance. If we do not grant the ten williogs and a half for which these harpies beg, we are ominously warned that foreign channels of trade will carry off the Westera produce, and the whole State will cease to advance. To these rentous vaticinations are added col- umps of wholesome abuse of those who, ourselves, venture to make inquiry before we put our hands in our pockets for ten more mil- lions. persons who perished was about forty, of whom twenty-four were tlaves on board the steamer Charles Belcher. One paesenger on board tha’ vessel became frantic in conseqnence of the loves of his mother and sister, and fatally stabbed himself. A telegraphic despatch informs us that the steam- ship Georgia, which sailed from this port for Aspin” wall on the 6th inst., expertencei a severe gale on the 9th, and was compelled to pu! into Norfolk on FPri- @ay to repair damages. The passengers, who are al gafe, are re; orted to have passed resolutions declar ing it as their belief that the steamer wa: thy before she left this city. f disaster the Unile e3 Mail Steamship Company espatched the I City to Norfolk for the pur- pose of conveying the mails and passengers on the Georgia to Aspinwall. The Empire City was to have sailed for Havaoa and New Orleans to-morrow. Her plece on that route will bo supplied by the Pailadel phia, which will leave on Tuesday. Further accouvts of marine disastera are recorded under the telographic and ship news heads, to which those interested are referred. Fortunately neither Congress nor th Jature were in session yesterday, and y sequently enebled to devote the space nsually o2ca- pied by the proceedings of th bedies to matter of a wore varied and interest aracter to the general reader than the somewhat dry and prosy General Committee, (bard shell,) at the Stuy- verant Institute, on Thursday eveniug last, they resolved, among other things, that “con- sidering the violutiou by the present adminis- tration of the pledges under which it came into power-—its close af np with the ant, eC ry agitators of 1848—its wicked aud reelteas attacks upon the rights of the States—its bold usurpation in using its great central power in controlling the local elections of the sovereign States of New York, Massachusetts and Missis- sippi, and the unscrupulous abuse of its patron- age in removals from and appointments to office, we warn our representatives in Congress against any reliance on the good fuith of the administration in supporting our painciples ngea Wor n hearing of the Nebraska and Kansas. Its frieudship is incon- sistent with iis past conduct, and will be found to be more dangerous than its open hostility.” All this is in exact accordance with the views of this journal, as published from time to time since the late astounding discoveries of the free soil antecedents and associations of Gen. Pierce, including the notorious and mysterious “ Scarlet Letter” of 1818 ‘There is every rea- Let us for a moment forget the threats and imprecations which avarice and dread of failure suggest to the friends of the Joan. Let us look at. the plain acknowledged facts, and taking the figures of Mr. McAlpine’s admirable report, without the deductions drawn from State Legis ure con- @ebates that have of late taken place in the halls of | them, let us see how the case really stands. No | son to fear, from its free soil associations and legislation. The appetites of political readers are, | one denies that our New York canals constitute preclivities, which have so shamelessly been however, properly cared for. They wil uch food for reflection in the letter from our corrrespon- @ent and the numerons extracts we publish from other joorsals relative to mauy of the carious move- ments thal are ly coming to light at the national capital. Governor Seymour has submitted the annual port of the Adjutant-General of the New York State Militia, with the annual report of the State Inspectors, to the House of Assembly at have received a extracted the where. . We to-dey publish the report of United States Mint relative to the deposits, coin and busiress at the principal and y mints, from their commencement to'the pre and particularly during the last year. I one of the noblest works ever projected by man They are & monument of which any country might be proud, and which will hand down the name of De Witt Clinton with honor to the latest posterity. Looking back at this distance of time to the party strife to which the project gave rise, words can hardly express the grati- tude we all feel to their originators, or the indignation which we naturally feel at the Van Buren opposition to the * litch.” Por- tunately for us, the latter was baffled, and De Witt Clinton triumphed. The canals were com- menced. Cautiously and economically at first, so as to ensure an adequate revenue from the tolls. The spirit of De Witt Clinton pervaded the whole enterprise, and the moment the im- mense work was completed, twenty-eight years ago, the fruits of his sagactty were apparent. The canals paid handsomely. Traffic flowed to them unbidden. Wealth and plenty abounded on either bank. A moderate rate of tolls had ablished, and freights were cheap while the receipts of the canals were highly remune- rativ So far New York had every reason to rejoice at the success of the scheme. But the avarice of the specnlators and _poli- ticiang at Albany had been whetted by the profits made on the contracts for building the canals, Most of them had had a share in these contracts, when the canals were completed their vo- ion was gone, and they languished for fresh chances of spoil, so they devised a fresh scheme. They persuaded each other that the tolls were toohigh. Nothing was to be gained for the public by cutting them down, as produce was sure to go to market by way of the canals, and areduction carried out in-the spoils policy of the adminis- tration, that it will play the traitor against the South upon the Nebraska question, before the question is finally settled in the Honse of Representatives. An impression has been created—and within afew days past it bas been rapidly gaining ground—that this Nebraska bill will be defeat- ed in the House by some sort of parliamentary legerdemain, which will be brought to bear upon it, in spite of the previous question, This impression, which was previously vague end unsatisfactory, first assume atangible shape upon the publication of the correspondence between ex-Senator Clemens of Alabama, known to be a political and per- sonal confident of the President, and John Van Baren, whose influence with the Kitchen Cabinet at Washington is seareely less than that of W. H. Seward with the free soil Cabinet of Gen. since the appearance of this correspondence the opposition to the Nebraska bill at Washington, and here in New York. have assumed a bolder and more confident air. as if satisfied of some all-powerfal allies behind the scenes, The Washington Union, the special organ of the President and his Cabinet, is no trae index of the real position of the administration, It only reflects the Southern side of the plotare— it is the South eide organ. The Albany Atlas and the New York Evening Dost, playing a to- tally diferent tune. are, we suspect, tha real exponents of the administration policy for the North. The correspondence between Mr. Cle- re- Prison opy of each, from w interesting particulars give the Director of the any evi dence wes before wanting of the fact, this report would completely set at rest all d n the minds of impartial men of the propriety of establisbiag a mint in thiscity. Itis an undeniable fact that of the fifty-three and nearly one-third millions of dollars in old deposited in the Philadelphia mint last year, al but a fraction came by sea to and passed through this city, to the great inconvenience, expense and toss of time to the owners. It is not the peopie of this city who are actual safferers by this neglect to establish a mint here—it isthe hardy miners belong- ing to the different States of the Union, who are every month arriving here by thousands, and on Janding find themselves compelled to either proceed to our sister city with their gold, or sell it at a great sacrifice to avaricious sharpers, great numbers of Whom have made fortunes within a few yeara by thus purchasing the hard earnings of men whose necessities obliged them to have cash before they could proceed to their homes in distant parts of the country heen ¢ Four hundred and y-elx persons died in this mens and John Van Buren, there is reason to eity during the past week, being au increase of five | 1m canal tolls could hardly aifect the price here. | believe, was endorsed beforehand, if not by ti aver the'mnortality of the prev en days. The | But the amounts relinquished by the State | President himself, by Cushing and Marey in bis principal causes ot death i follows in J would go into the pockets of the forwarders; | behalf, with the view of creating a prvi Bete eGo report of the City Inspector:- Conmmption and an arrangement might ec be made with | current against Douglas, his bil), ; ud his Prete 3 onve 1, of whiab only three were adalta; | these latter to share the pelt thus placed in | dential aspirations, and in favor of the ew pe py, clay fo 7 hues 23 diarrhers | their grasp. It was aceordingly done. The | York free soil administration wing of the met paar nites ough, 10 : = = mreahiersy groggy a8 bet een coaiadinys Party. Such a — conjanction nar, 0% 16, only four adults | Woes ; Cg scted =on jas this between Mr. Clemens and John etilib. 7M, 44 d smallpox, 5 the business principle of “small pr the latter ot | 19 over the previous report, and quick returns,” and if they helped them- ‘euned athe. Me disevee seems to have assnmed an | Selves to small amonnts at a time, they repeat- evden rm %. it having 41 unt 1 the operation frequently. Daring the phere is scarcely g Plock in the gity (aay is ays lo: | fifteen op twenty years, reductions in the tolls nue. the taxable property in this State is to be | sponse are abroad. That the canals must be | Railroad Company, the Hargous Company, the improved as traflic increases, and kept on the | Garay Company, the Sloo Company, anda large largement, than to increase our indebtedness | may think this treaty pays too much for the like | contained in the bill for the government of ing the numerous other demands that will be d something of | ka bill, like a bull in a china shop, is making a Cabinet and | pinet, is in great trouble. It is also rumored Taylor. Hence, we find that | knows where it will all end. Van Buren could hardly be the offspring of any- | Van Buren and Capt. Isaiah Rynders, is set thing less than a deliberate Consultation with the | down for some day next week—certain—bat ruling members of the Kitchen Cabinet. Per epecia! day not named yet. Bets are high in haps that myeterions but all important per-| favor of Rynders. Great excitement among sonage, Paul R, George, could, if so inclined | the lawyers RS LAE BR SIA nS A throw « flood of light upon this interesting question. Perhaps John Cochrane may have another scarlet letter cr two on the subject. and personal, between the administration and Messrs. Clemens and Van Buren, fully just’ the conclusion that their correspondence in some way or other, by authority. But there is another circumstance ¢ with this business worthy of a passi 4 One of our cotemporaries of this ae shicranet while ago vccupied the “const io tional plat- form” upon this Nebraska que’ ron. pnt siace it has secured the pap of the "aoc Office, it has come out indignantly ho*’ .f¢ ¢o the Senate bill: This looks very rouch. as if some offictal ine fvence was at ‘che “gttem of this sudden trans: formation. If the Lecning Post and the Alba. ny Atlas at’a vecreity countenanced by Marcy, Cashing 9 ad the confidential agents of Gencral Pierce, ‘ho knows but that onr worthy Post- master "may be pleased with the same mesic? We reiterate, therefore, that the greatest dan- ty ABnected si measure. Many people labor under te mistaken | munity can best say; so far as we have been | At all events, the intimate relations, political | ae eettion to International another column will be found a circular * ord by five Philadelphia firms, together aith a memorial to the Senate against the propored copyright treaty. After the sam- ple of Pailadetpbia honesty and Philadel- phia public epirit with which the late Erie dis- turbance furnished us, no one can be surprised at bearing that these five Philadelphians are out full Slt against the reeognition of the rights of authors, Four out of the five are unknown to fame, and in this instance their obscurity impaired his reputation. the whole. ger, and perhaps the ouly danger, to the Ne- bra’ ake bill in the House, is treachery from the; administration. If the Cabinct could order t! se election of Forney aud the complete organi- ‘zation of the House from beginning to end—if they could stop the mouth of Mr Cutting. and silence the New York hard shells at every point, by an overwhelming majority--they may surely command a majority upon the Nebraska bill, if they really desire it, But the antecedents of General Pierce, his anti-slavery declarations and resolutions and scarlet letters, from 1816 to 1851, the freesoil elements of his Cabinet, the free soil affiliations here which resulied in the dis missal of Judge Bronson, the Clemens and Van Buren correspondence, and the swaggering tone of the Evening Post and the Albany .4//as, afford the materials for an abiding Mistrast of the good faith of General Pieree and his Cabinet and his Washington organ, in their adhesion to and alleged advocacy of the new Territorial bill before the Senate. The final result may bear out the Democratic Committee of the Stuy- vesant Institute in their declaration that the friendship of the administration in this matter “is inconsistent with its past couduct, and more dangerous than its open hostility.” We shall see. Tue Mexican Treaty 1 THE Senare.—The Gadsden treaty having gone into the Senate, very great interest is naturally felt among all the multifarious cliques and classes of the Washington spoilsmen respecting the chances of itsconfirmation. A tremendous lobby influence will be brought to bear uponit. Gen. Davis, the Secretary of War, Gen, Gadsden, Gen. Al- monte, Gen. Cushing, Gen. Armstrong, to say nothing of Gen. Pierce and Gen. Santa Anna, have the casein their hands. Besides, it is backed up by the New Orleans and Opelousas company of miscellaneous outsiders, Five mil- lions go to the settlement of Mexican claims: and fifteen millions for the purpose of setting up Santa Anna in an empire, after the fashion of Faustin Soulouque. Perhaps the Senate whistle—that we get too small a slice of the deserts of Mexico for twenty millions hard cash; and we shouldn't wonder a bit if the thing were to be rejected. It is at best but a stock- jobbing concern, and involves a useless, and a more than useless squandering of the spoils. The true policy of our government towards ‘anta Anna is to starve him oat. Give him no supplies of money, under any pretence what- ever, and a revolution will make short work of his diciatorsbip. Mexican office holders and office seekers are no better than our own. They will revolt if the spoils are not forthcoming in a reasonable time. Hence. if Santa Aona is left to shift for himself, revolution will soon drive him again out of the country, for the third and last time. With his expulsion the Mexican people, as the last and only alternative of safety, will rise up en masse tor annexation to the United States, in the teeth of the Catholic clergy, the only serious impediment to “ mani- fest destiny” by spontaneous combustion. Viewing the subject in this light, and consider- made upon Guthrie’s surplus this session, and considering also how prosperously Col. Walker is going ahead in Lower California, it is clearly the policy of the Senate to reject the Gadsden treaty and leave the destiny of Mexico to the solution of Col. Walker and the Mexican people, It is folly to be paying twenty millions for that which Col. Walker proposes to do free of charge, Perhaps in a very short time there may be a coup d'état in Spain, and.a new government that will sell out the island of Cuba for a given sum of money. To meet this possible case, we ought to reserve the whole of the treasury sur- plus of thirty millions, and let Santa Anna take care of Mexico and himself if he can. We hope, therefore, that the Senate will overrule the feeding policy of Gen. Davis, Gen. Gadsden and other generals, and compel the administra- tion to fall back upon the policy of saving the trearury surplus to meet the first payment for the island of Cubs. Srantuixa Remors rnom tur Faperan Crry. ~—It is ramered at Washington that the Nebras- terrible smash up among the Presidential erockery—rumored that the President is in trouble, that Marcy is in trouble, and that the entire Cabinet, and especially the Kitchen Ca- that the trouble is manifesting itself in the Senate and in the House, and that God only Some say that there will be a new cast of the Cubinet, upon the hard shell basis, and possibly a new divi- sion of the spoils all round. All this, however, is the natural effect of a great principle when brought to bear upon the discordant materials of a Cabinet and its party whose only bond of cobesion is the “cohesive power of the public plunder.’ We shall have rare sport before the fun is ended. Tue Scartet Letter Founp at Last—Ar- most.—Mr. John Cochrane came very near finding the Scarlet Letter yesterday, at ten minutes past twelve—government time. There was the letter, looking very much like it; but on looking into its contents, it turned out to be a letter recently dated at the White House, giv- ing directions how a bad memory was a good thing—on certain occasions. Try the next pigeon hole, John, Tus Great Constireriona, Maton.—The great match on the constitutional doctrine in the Nebraska question, between Prince John be safely questioned at this distance. Mr. Hart, therefore, we will say, starts with declining to “discuss the question of the rights He then goes on to deny their existence by implication; and to argue against their recognition by law This has been the invariable course of the opponents of iaterna- They dare not say out, ina manly way, that they stand up for robbery, like it, thrive on it, and don’t want to have it abol- ished or suppressed, This would hardly serve their purpose; so they ‘decline to discuss” the broad merits of the question and take some pitty exception to the form in which it is brought up. Mr. Hart, for instance, has gained him a fortune by stealing and pirating the Those conversant with the business can tell how much he made by that ore foray on the modern British essay- A handsome sum, no doubt: and it was only one of his thefts. For ever so many years he has pursued the calling of a literary bigh- wayman; and having. through the imperfections of the law, escaped the penitentiaries and State prisons where other thieves are confined, ranks as acitizen of credit and renown in Philadel- phia. It is now proposed to abolish the system of spoliation and rapine on which he and his fellows have thriven so gloriously; and Mr. Hart courteously “declines to discuss” the question. He continues to steal, and begs the Senate to throw no impediments in the way of his “‘mak- ing his little monish;” but “declines to discuss’ Over his own signature, in a circular widely distributed throughout the country, Mr. A. Hart tells us that he would rather not say whether he thinks stealing right or wrong. Most cautious Hart! of authors.” tional copyright. works of British authors. ists. he merits of theft in the abstract. Most worthy citizen! reasons. Heratp will obviate this difficulty. will an international copyright affect? quired a “legal right” to steal? The vague allusion to “labor and capital” is explained in a following sentence. ‘ The issue directly with Mr. Hart. books” will be injured by the treaty. On the be benefitted by it. Mr. Hart has obviously never heard of Mr. Everett's amendment to the treaty. In his eagerness to preserve his booty, he bas overlooked the fact that if the treaty is ratified, all foreign authors will themselves make arrangements with publishers here to have their works reprinted; and republications will be much more frequent than they now are. Unless foreign authors do this, they will derive no benefit from the treaty; and it is surely not reasoaable to suppose that they will wantonly neglect to avail themselves of a privilege they have so long sought. Under the present sys- tem, no one but the publishers are interested in republishing British works. Under the new one, both authors and publishers would feel a direct interest in encouraging republications; and it can hardly be doubted that more books would be reprinted here, and more work given to the “thousands of our fellow citizens” whose interests Mr. Hart so benevolently ad- vocates. This is the only argument the foes of inter- national copyright ever had; our readers are now able to judge of its value. We do not ex- pect to convince Mr. Hart. The mind of tue author of the circular and memorial now before us is not to be reached by reasoning. He pleads for His bargains and his well-won thrift, Which be cails profit— and you had as well lecture a stone wall as assail him with logic, or appeal to his sense of principle. A fit type of the old race of publish- ers, whoregarded authors as mere slaves, to be hired at a washerwoman’s pittance. and to be thrust back again into their garret when the most had been made of them—who starved some of the noblest men modern times have ever produced, and rattled their carriage wheels.by the burial ground that contained the pauper poet's bones—who built them palaces with the profits of books whose writers lay shivering in an almshouse-—a fit type, say we, and a lineal descendant of such as these. is Mr’ A. Hart of Philadelphia. How to Wrire Lerrers rrom Wasurtnoton.-—- Our cotemporaries have several valuable cor- respondents among them at Washington, who have hit upon a cheap and safe plan for authen- tic news. It isto rehash the editorials and te- legraphic despatches of the Henap. For ex- ample, the Washington correspondent of the Courier, fully waked up to the fact that there is a treaty with Mexico, is beginning his com- mentaries upon the subject from the text of the Hearn of some time ago, We shall probably hear, from the same authority, in the course of a week, that there is some opposition to the treaty in the Senate. eames os wcnik Sie ieave hand ie eostoned drm dollar Dito cue»! ke crm teee for the Feliel of the sulferers by the ieteGre, Yours, respectfally, aid will shicld them from the odium naturally at- taching to dishonesty. The fifth—and probably the prime mover in the matter—is Mr. A. Hart, late partner of HC. Carey, whose recent let- ter on the subject of copyright has so gravely He must answer for With such gentlemen as Messrs, Magarge, Collins, Sherman, and Ducomb, we care not to meddle; they may be highly re- spectable individuals for,aught we know, and possibly have been led into this matter more by stupidity than positive want of principle—but whether they are worth powder and shot may Mr. Hart calls upon the Senate to suspend its action on the copyright business: and for these He has “no definite information as to the character and provisions” of the treaty. Two cents invested in a copy of Wednesday’s He de- mands that questions involving “the legal rights and affecting the labor and capital of our citi- zens” ought to be “the subject of ordinary and open legislative action.” What “legal” rights Does Mr. Hart thnk that because he and others have been suffered to pillage foreigners by the way- side forso many years, they have thereby ac- manufacture of books is a business involving millions of dollars; employing the labor and affording sustenance to thousands of our fellow citizens, whose interests cannot fail to be in- uriously affected” by the proposed treaty. Here «is a statement of fact on which we join We deuy that the ,‘ thousands of our fellow citizens” who “derive sustenance” from “ the manufacture of contrary, we maintain that they cannot fail to y ye tion.” ¥ . ‘hm Srmuom Buick Wavsion laft this port yesterday at noon for Havans acd Mobile, with axty aime passengers and large freight. ‘Tux Packer Sur Constarrins.—A telegraphic despatsh from Botton appeared in yes'erday’s issue, throwing fa, donbdt upon the nafety of the prcket ship Constanting, bound from this port to Liverpool. The Constantine ar- rived at Belfast Lough, Ireland, on the 13th Jam, havieg put im there im distress, ae published in the Husatp of ‘the 8th instant. Amendments to tne Constitution of Rhode The following are the proj amendmentsto the constitution of le Island,which have passed both ranches of the Legislature :— Art. 1 Notegist:y tax sinall hereafter be asvessed, not shall the payment of such tex, nor the performance of military duty, be required ax ® qualifeaticm for voting. Art. 2 Every persou otherwise qualified phall be mitted to vote, « bie a 9 eal be im the si o: town where be x 8: least twenty daj to the time of hia votiog. ees wrevioms Art 3 Itshall not be necessary for the towa or ward. clerks 10 keep sad trang uit tothe General Assem oly listor iy lp of all persons voting ‘or general officers, but the enera) Assembly +hall have power to ubject se they em expetions Leia pardon ing power, exo same extent as such power ral Aseem Art. 6 All persons having the right to vots for Senator and Representatives in the city of,Providencs, ahall have ee iigotto yote in the election of the city council of said, y. Art. 6 Whensver any amendment to the constitution shall have paseed two rapsrate General Aseymblies, ap Bow provided, it shall hecome s part of the constitution of the State, waen ratitird by # majority of the electors. voting thereon at any legal msecing o for the pur- e. Art. 7. Any qualified elector removing from this Sea avd returnieg thereto withio six yeare afier the date ol his removal, shall, {f otherwise quelifed, be entitled to vote tn the where he resides, after a residence of sly morthe therein Art §, Toe Governor, Lieutenant Governor. Se Repreventatives, Secretary of tid at the town, city, urer ball be to be holdeaon the fourth Tuesday in ‘hall be one revsioa of the General As- uslly, goomeactog on the last T in May, at Newport, and ana jouraneat from Apes shall be helden annually at Provicence. Superior Court- General Term, Before a full Bamsh, Fun 1L.—Dserstows — John | Brewer agains! Jihn Tas farm = Report of referes ret aside, with costs oest, unlev the plaintiff stipulates to deduct 8900 oa post saad in which event jacgment is affirmei as to residue Charlote Williams ve New York and Harlem Railroad Comp iny —Inegment affirmed Lewis A Sayre,adm’r vs New York and Harlem Railroad Company. —Jadgment reversed. Report of referee set asice, and complaint diemised, with ut coats to either paity. Lawrence Kennedy vs New York ani Harlem Railroad: Company.— Report set 2¢ 0m payment of tne costa of the referee acd of su nent proceedings. Washington . Nichis vs Benjamin Romaine, Ea.— ereaat reversed. Now ‘rial granted; oosis to adid event. George F Dudler us. Thomas J, Powert.—Ozder sppealed from affirmec, with evate Oakley Beach vs. Win, While, et al —Motion denied with costa. Samuel W. Tallmadge against Richard Upjohn, dc.— Judgment set aside fer irregalaricy, with $10 o08ts, om Plintifl’s atipula ing not to or any levy made by execution on the said judgment, Jadg- ment to be eatered that plaintiff recover amount of ver- dict and the cefendanta receive their costs, Verdict may Vea! a Sgainst corts of defendants, and only balance collects John B. Auchinclos: against Eliphalet North, dic Or» der of sp+cial term, aiicwing Jemurrer, rever: In the Alaiter of ew Alderman S.urtevant.—Aa sppoal froca the cecision of Jadge Bosworth a4 to the question of costs. Decision rere: ved, Supreme Court--Special Term. ~ Berere ton, Jacge Mitenell, Fsr 11.— In theMatur of Catharine street and Willia) Ferries —In this case the Comptroller had obtained an in- jonciion sgsinet Mr. Hicks, restraining him from @ rolia block at pier No. 85, East river, anda motion wae made thin fey to diseolve the injuaction, Several affida- vits of eogiavers as to ths necessity of the solid block were presented to the Court. Decision reserved. Obituary. Wa Foxstar, a distioguishea ioember of the Society of Friends in England, lately vied ata village mear Kaox- ville. Tesn , from # violent cold taken while travelling, Mr. Vorster was one of a deputation of four who came to this country in Ostobder Inst, charged by the London yearly mesticg of the doviety of Friends with the duty ef Gclivering to the President of the United States, to the Goverrors of all the Southern Stat an address whien tbat body hai drawa up on the subject of slavery. Grpron Prior, a roldier of the Revolution, died on the Tat inst, aged about 90 yoers. He marched from Con« uecticus with the French, aud was pressnt at Yorktown = Myron Fires n Cornwallis surrendered, He hoe een & resident ‘arminster township, Buake Pa, for the last thirty or fo:ty years, aa ion of Titnity Churchyard, COPY OF A LETTER FROM HIS HONOR THE RECORDER TO AL* DERMAN FRANCIS, DATED w Yorum, May 23, 1453. one wasting of the Committee of ye Biard tan ralanon te rivity chured yard veti) afer tl 5 Painful to m: te diveover tat ed eftorle Are teckins ee ebr crate that holy gre wn: pope epee Aer f u of almost ever iy of long stan in oUF cit; . ing, too, many of thos who died am tbae ste ale, tie rashes of which eovablished those mighty pri pies and institu tania from whieh flow the happiness, the ns vin ag this country and its ba ple. Va not examined the pep.rs C appiiention, bus abould like to-do so tie momene torent fatale ih ™ exceptions, by the same ere eck au notive pact TSG and 1847. whish, 1 bellevey tm ef hoops te r in ct, wae mal sircetin continustion ¢f Ping street opposite to it, through Trinity ehureb yard-the north se fece \ivehow Vide on Broadway, and 05 foet 5 inches on Trinity place, and to be continued to Greenwicn strect, opposite Aloury ettoet, 50 fees wide. The etreet proposed, oraherly side om oadway, woud approach to wi 40 foot of Thames id) on Breadway, and 21 feet r diagonal line, would street at Greenwich el t. ound. as I underetand, has been emplo} firmed by deed from the ety was scully avout * 16 feot d the ovigtnal cne, by succes ing to the present bave been ured for inter, until im trush the land ly for the whole depta is vow oon. pooed of human ashes, To so.cemplish the di of the applicants is would be neneeney. ‘to remove the remaics of & vast number of per- ee. 1 ero no nivantege In recapitulating the arguments used om, the former cocasione iu this letter, but solioit you to have the Lindos to roaa the mereaze or veto of Mr. Haveneyer, the Mayor in 1516, made on the Lith o of that year, and re- ceived im thi Fepat of the com. ho 224 of March, 1847, ) ‘The truth of the views of that committee arazow, I think, in fome respects realizing, f the graveyards au: cburches end removal ts parts of the city, venerated spots by 00- rived us, tom iarse ex- tex 6, ay be ri ry cre tilatic + More, have rem: ved so rush of the oral infaz ence v hich religious worsiip car i h it, that vice and crime in the lower wards of the cit: one of thei material proventivos. its opponents, but I think : eX: ae , because 1 have in that portion cate tad ie I7td is yeve: of one who J xtant. Wo aie a family of Hugueno!s, Our ancestors. to essape uti a and ppression, fled from comfort aud good oon to the country—when bere it was almost — wil amet Toneliseas and. peveriy, Thay did ks; aed, to worship tho Deity, ace to t would walk oa Satarday might trom Ww Ro- oaan 0 thigeity to their ehureb, and return on Mi yada y orning ay + in Triaity ohurebyard, and Sepaate \heit sehes from the Sook is the case with thou- ‘Une of the tamily ia Peter V Tilyen, who died in 1846, at §l—tho imdiviansi o* thie Vody gmard of Wash- Do, iy is said on the enteamos of the Ame- Fy into this city, at ti of th id British and ria up the A here is now the cor ier of Gx In, whem he hears of to open th» 4 reel * tre spot Bowery. a, solemn it in ite na~ oan it ba, thet» ay consid: j er ntior y can warrant its being bicken into? But rose’ exonge these reo arke; they are invo drawn from mecn thinking «ver the matter. If f you shall have vour meet thore. wtake the grounds of my opposition y reepestfaily yours, 2, Aléormsn Francis. Banvaid's Holy Land will be Opened Once. bis (Sunday) afternoon, at 73s o’elosk, av'she Goorama, These Sa bath eveniug lectures of Mr. Banvard sre vere pepuler. aw crowded houses, Phone paint. ing of the Nile is opened during the week days, with the croat Misciesippi. Preminm Planos.—T, pianos, with iron frame and circular meat boautifal pianos in tae world 7 premium atthe New York Cryrial P: 4nd brillinnoy of tone are 1 eqvalio received by a. y ORACR WATERS, 333 ecliameespene sone New Muste,-«I Paddie Own Canoe;* by, the Bakec jobn U. Bak Sung Drew.” balled, by 80, “Polke, * chor ut by tl pod tvhed ty HORACE W. eaent for T. Gil & Ce. éeon wiih ‘ gang, action by reason of *,