The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1854, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 6382, ee MORNING EDITION—MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1854. PRICE TWO CENTs. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. Nov.4rrival of the Africa. Sanby Hook, Feb, 12—11.0’clock P. M. There is no appearnos of the steamship Afrios off this ort. The wiod is light from the ESS, valear. Sermons on the Nebraska Bill. Boston, Feb 12, 1854. Rev. E.N. Kirk, in bis sermon at the Monat Vernon Church this morning, eloquently and pointedly oon- ‘demned the Ne»raska bill. Tae Christian chursh, he Wald, should not cles Ler eyes to the reckless ambition of trading legis)ators, nor cease to pray for thei+ conver: ion to honest and enlightened prinolples He (Mr Kirk) bad given im nis adherion to the compromise of 1850, ‘Chough hardly with a clear conscience, for the sake of the permanent peace and unity of the whole country. ‘The pa age of te Nebrasica bill would, in his optaion, “Sompitiute a revolution, He regretted that the author of ‘the bill should have been borain Naw England, In con- alasion, he inyekeé the prayers of the church for our Tegislators at Wasdington, and eyecially for Sonstor Doogias and Frarkliv Piercs, The Rev. Theocore Parker also made the Nebraska dill ‘the subject of his :noraing discourse, denvaneisg It and ts author with eloquence aud sarcasm. Later from Mexico. “SRBIVAL OF THE STSAMBR TOXAS AT NEW ORLEANS. Naw Ortgans, Fab 11, 1854, By the arrive) of the ateamehip Texas, from Vera Craz “Om the 8th instant, we hive advices from ths ol'y of Mex- feo of tue dthin t. Oar filsa of Papers are barren of mew, The Texas brovght Califoraia papers, received by the “Ramuaay rou but nothieg Iater than received by She steamer Devi+l Webster at this port ceveral days ago, A Sm dey Riot in Portland, “BEVERAL IR(sUM2N VERY BaDLY BEATEN. PortLanp, Feb. 12, 1854. A terrible Irish riot took place in this city this after- ‘oon. Several of the rioters were severely bea‘en, and ON THE FIVE POINTS. CHABITY | Mr, Pease’s House of Industry and the La dies’ Mission House—Visits to Both Instt- tutions, and Reports thereon. It the reader will ake a walk down Broadway to Aa- thony street, and through Anthony, only short distanos, to the juncticn of Cross, Orange and Little Water atrests, he will Snd the sun shining on « great many mors of the Drjustthan the just. He will find squalid aad meso looking tenements, inhabited by psople whose characters correspond with their habitations, Is will find that afer night fall bis passage through tho district {s by no means safe, All sorta of pretences will bs used to lure him iato Places where he is fortunate if he escapes with his lito, He will be importuned for pence on every hand by litile girls clothed with filth and wretohedooss ay with » gare ment, and with hardly avy thing else in the shaps of clothing. Iéle and dirsolute mea lounge about the treets, Oling the air with a stream of profanity aud ob scenity, mingled with the stench of bed liquors and aegar tmoke, Half naked women lean from the window sills, &nd loudly jest with their neighbors, or shower tmpreos: ‘Uons upon them. This classic locality is the resort of neat ly all the thieves, beggars, vagrants and drackards in New York It is the sanctuary to which they fly. Oa the ‘Points’ they will mect with none but auch as they; oa the “Pointe”? they cam sell their booty; on tae ‘ Points)’ they can inéulge ia the lowest acd most excessive debauchery without fear and with: ut restraiot, In spalyzirg the population of this quarter weahsll flad that many bovest poor people are o*!iged to come here eedatter they have come the exer ple is too mach for ther—they are honest and they are hungry—they be come saturated with kravery aod dedauchery Coildran are born here, too—obildren steeped to the lips ia the vices of their parents—childrem whose destiny, if ua- gviced, is the pe: itentiary avd the gallows. Suck ia, in brie’, soristy on the Fire Coiate, It will not be necessary for us to go in’o « description of the Vid Brewery, Farlow’s Court, Murcerer’s Alley, and other equally celebrated anbdivi-ioos of the great sore. To ove ibe eantery has been mpp'ie’ with success, but many ane is probably ki! The police, alded by the priesta, mace covers! arrests, whem they were set upon by the “mob, who made desperate attempts to resoue the prison: ‘aa, but without euccoss. The origin of the riot is not. bnowa. From Phiiadelphia, A@NTT-BRDINI MEE /ING—DISTING #ISHED SENATORS RE- PRIVANDED—FATsL STBAMBOAT AND RAILROAD ACCIDENTS, ATC. FHLapeipata, Feb. 12, 1854 ‘@ large anti Brdinl demonstration came off last evening at the Muscum, at which an adiress was adopted, to be Presented to Senstors Cass, Douglas, Mason. and Everett, condemning their jaidgment upon the recsnt expressions ‘Of public opinion relative to Dedini, as an unwarrantable ‘@ssumption of prerogative, ceclaring that the psople are ‘the judges of their public servants, not the public ser- venis the judges of the people, and asserting that the Derning in effigy was « moet Sppropriate expression of (public opinion townrds a man suspected of conniving at ‘the torture and death of republicans. Strong resolations awero also pasted, including one recommending that a manmorial be circulated, asking government to suspend our diplomatic relations with Rome, in consequence of Ghe course pureved by the Papal government. James Purse, enginver of the steamboat Humboldt, aged ‘Wirty-five years, whilct oiling a portion of the machi- @ery, wasstruck on the head by the cross head lever, fast night, aud die? early this morning. He was formerly “Gngtveer on board the steartug Ajax. He is represented ‘tohave been a very worthy man, and by this calamitys wife and seven chil'ren ore left to deplore his less, A onild, seven years old, son of Jamoa Myers, was killed . yesterday on the Treaton Railroad, near the depot in Kensington. ‘The westher iv clov¢y, m'id, ry and cool. At fire ‘Welock thes evcuing the thermometer stoo’ at 40, baro- Gaster, 20.26; und ths wind was ght from the southeast, with » change fer Le woratat hand. The citisens have Surned ont to ds) in grea! force, andin their best attire, Particalarly the isic vex, who were nover beheld to greater scvaniays. Marine Disasters. “GOHOORERS WENCK&D AND CREWS FROSTBITTEN. Provipenog, Fob. 12, 1854. ‘The echoouer Solirush. of New York, from Boston for ‘Wew Haven, struck on Watobbill reef, on Fridsy night, and immediately flied The craw were saved, but they azo tedly frozsa~ the csptain co badiy that it is feared he ‘will not recover. The schooner Rtileenake, Brown, of and from Bucks, qpor : for Norfoik, with a cargo of laths aud lumber, went @ebore om Bick Island on the 84 Inst., (uring a snow Stovaa, and roon after filled. The crew were saved, but —gomewhat frostbitten The cargo has been landed and gold at auction. The schooner Mes broadeide op the ‘beach, is badly comazed, and cannot probably be got off. 2he in’ good venrel one’ year old, and is supposed to be dopured at the eastward, BCHUOSEX JOHN C. WRLLS SUNK. Pau apecraia, P49 12, 1854 ‘The sehoover John 0. Wells, from New York for Phils 4elphia, was rin ioto yesterday by an unknowa schooner, apd mavk i» seven tathems of wi Tha captain aad Grew were landed at ©. pe May, Nothing saved. . Marke Proviorwos, Feb. 11, 1854 Cotton fe dull, 2n4 prices are irregaler, Th® wool mar- ‘ket remains quirt. a' about the same range of prices. Gales ofthe weFk 54 5(0 ibs. Printing cloths are steady. with po change in price The salen of the wesk reached pleoes. a Crxcmvant, Fab. 11, 1854, Flour bas declined to $6 85 per bb!. Lard bas alw de- lined, the inst sales beiog at Ye. for barrelled Pork in cull. '26C0 bbls. cers have been told for Merch delivery, Bt $13, Morales cf bulk meat, S ht exchangs on New ‘York, balf to three quarters peroert premium. Freighta are Bigh. To Now Orleons, pork 81; flour, 850 To Wheeling, perk, 75: ; flour, 699 dane coat Ciamesrox, Feb Ul, 1854, The sales of cotien to-day amonated to 1,009 bales, qoations rerging from 8% tole. All qualities have @ovniderably declined, Political Intelligence. MDITORIAL OPINIONS ON THR NESRASKA QUESTION. The Milvavkie News, (cational democrat,) takes ground / tn favor of the st Neobraske bill of Senator D uglas, ‘upon the prince’ p! ~~ the people of the States'and > tories are comprtent to regulate their ewn affsirs without outeide Interference, and saya uatil that priaciple is +. q@stabliebed tne question of slavery will nevet be ad- jueted or the uvprofited e warfare between the North and jth termina'e The Narbus N FA, Goeette, mc hopes the Ne Dreska Territorie! bis! of Judge Dougias wilt pans, as it wil enti au for ever ‘isconnect the geveral government trom question of slavery, and make it an sffairto be Teg ulated by th~ pecp'e, as ope of the reserved rights over ‘whieh the U ited ‘tes Uonstitution bas no cogaizsnce. ‘The Newar, N J Afercury, (whig,) svys that i: is ert- dext'y the deagn of the tate ES es toabsorb the North, and that cur interests, prinelples, righta, aol gorecienos, w |l 4): have to give way before the demands + of eiavery, urless we stond up against this new enciosch tmrnt, and preist those meanures of the Syuth which lowe Gireotly to tee cbiiteration of a sacred covenant aad the absorption of every inch of that territory from which alavery was oxcinced by the Missouri -ompromice act. The Lyonr, New York, Gazelle (administration deme- ont in aa yhatie say on Donglas’s Nebraska dil’, hopes that Preaideat Pierce doe: not favor any uch wild sc! for the perpetuation of rlevery. T bow nai¢ers that slaveholders have « riz! Yo nome Jaw for the protection of thelr proparty, bat it gannot favor the abrogation of the Missouri oo upro aise, NEBRASKA MEETING IN DORCHESTER, MASS. A meeting wa» belt im Dorchester o» the 10th tastant, which was composed of citizens opposed to the Nebraska bill, wh» adopted, after @ spirited discussion, ‘Whe following revclations:— |, That we look with alarm and feelings of deep Regret upon ihe mesures now before Cong in rela- ‘ton to the forma ion vf a government for the ferritory of Nebrarke—beca irs they purport to abolish the compro- aise of 1820, Foown as the Missouri compromise, Rerolved, That the vill now before Congress, kaown as ‘the “Douglas bill,’ ie unsound in principle, tending to subvert the commen rights of humanity aod equal jay Wor, and dererves the anqualifitd rebate and determined spporition of an eniichtened community of freerea. Resolved, That such action be now tsken as will enaare afoll and esrrest expression of epiaioa upon this su» jeot by the cit’ tear of this congress! aise in oder ‘that cur hovorabl» Senators and representati Warh- fegton may be reqvestod tense all just, lawfa honor: sble means to prevent the passage of the * bill” hersia fe'erred to. Resolved, That a committes of fifteen be appointell to call a mesticg cf (he citizens of thts distrist, @ithoat dis- tinetion of rrriy. to anemble at Dedham at arly aday ee possible, for ths puroree of adopting auch measures at ‘the eins of the eudjeot may require. , That the comm ittee thus chosen are hereby Teqnested to communicate with all the other towns {a the etizict, and urgs upen the peopie the necersity of « fall ‘and prompt rtiendance at the aforesaid meoting. oh Sct T, Elis, late President of the Ohio and Mianta- , ~~ en elected Mayor of the city of Vin. omnoee, other buiidings remain, and vice. alihongh slightly wohnded, has by no means retired from the field. Ia the centre of the Potots vacsaot space, where the graas struggles to grow, but seems deadened by the moral taint of the vicicity—a— ‘para’? surrounded oy whitewachee paliogs, snd facetionsly cal'ed Paradise equ On one side of the rqusre is the Ladies’ Mission House; st its base isa block of buildings called the Five Points House of Industry. On the other side of the park are ihe equalid buiidinga which we have refer: to abcve. Ove fice day last week we foand ourselves look- ing curiously at Peradiss square; avd our attention was direoted to the brick buildings at its base. We arked a cir'y little bey, “What place ‘a that??? “Why that's Peare’s house, yer fool—don’t yer know that?” Men- teily acknowlecgisg ths force of the young men’s re- marks, thongh still thirking that he might have spared our feelings, we walked up to the maia entraxce of thi FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY. The houses occupied by Mr. Pease and his interesting family are not built in the best manrer. They are of brick, to be suse, and comparatively modern, but they are badly constructed. The pazeages are merrow, the stair casee are of the bresk neck order, and the rooms sre low and small, The want of attention to ventilation in Cistreszing to delicate noses. We entered a passage where our progress was barred by door which was locked on the {owide. After an examination through the wooden bara by the porter, we were permitted to enter. Tt was Saturday, and the floors had just recovered from a severe attack of scrubbing brushes—in fact, their tears at such an indiguity had not been fully dried. We were shown into « plessant parlor on the seocnd floor, and in formed that Mr. Pease would soon approach. Ladies were sew'ng and chatting in the ante room; the air was musical with the cheerful notes of canaries; in fact, every Ubing seemed to wear ® cheerfal, bustling, business like Spprarance, That ac eye wis always hep: to busiaens, wight be seen by @ “ spectra ip” over the mantel, with this inscription:— greece oesocoocoeoooooc COCO ONG ° SIORT STOR AS—TIVE 13 PRECIOUS. ° ° CONTRIBU ION3 FOR THE POOR, o “ocecoocoocoecoosocoeDODDSS® Could anything be more concensed, and at the same time more suggestive? We should tnivk not. Prott yo Mr Pease appa ad, Mr Pease is the heal and frent of this affair. He was sent herein 1869, a8 the missionary of the Methodist Coofereacs, aad be has re- ma'red since that time. Duriog the month ef his arrival bi ot thres dolitrs aod « half ia obaritie and received nothing—he now spends two thouvsn4 d lara a month and receives more. fhisis cheeriug terti mery to the werapes of Mr. Pease, and the Liberplity of New Yorkers. Mr. P, is a thin, ¢harp faced, sanguine, bilious colored Yonkee. He hi ‘eat deal to pay, ard says itin a loose, hurried, npoonnested, siap-dash wecnfr. He sppesred to us ins great hurry, and « anit of gray clothes; but as we do things quietly, we waited till hie burry bed calmed, and surveyed his wardrobe in order to filup the time, Among @ great many other things that he told us, he aatd that the plan of this insti tution f+ eseentialiy diff-reat from that of the ‘Lacies’ Five Ponte Mission’? on the ground of the Old Brewery. Tn the ‘House of Industry,’’ #l-houch religivus exeroias! prayer meetings and day and Sarday schools et the basis of the wholr coreern is work head, ard the forvishing of employment to those who cennot obtain it els ere, eaoh inme’e of the institution receiving the micimuw of board, lodging, washing, &f, ($1 50 per week.) whether be or she earas avy thing or pot, and receiving every week in cash ths surplus of his earnings over this sum, whatever it may be. After thia eaplaratiop, we surveyed the workshops. Mr. Pease Jed the way, acd darted throavh one door to anctcer—up one flight of etaire—through an entry, into a rcom ani then ont sgaio, as racidly as if he was ran ning sgainst a quarter horee, In one room ware ittie children, stripping willows (or basket withes They did yotseem over bappr nor very clean—tueir shoss ware elout, and their i toge | with few exceptions, without hols’ Many of theee chilsren are sent here by thir pa: rerte fo sobool—they get their education acd their ¢) rer, As many can be accommodated rlesp in the hones. They structed by two female teachers, who receive regu. les. The chiléren a: yout the Pelots in th y hbenvt the Broad re nce pennies from the p cketa of cont by pathetio refereroes to thetr faher's Gsabdiltty from which the paler families will never ro: slong sn there is © coraer grosery.”? other part of ‘he baildiogs we And women engaged 1p braiding straw bats, plain sewing, pbirt making, aod to ‘orth. These people have been ra‘esd up from the brothel axd the gatter. Borsore as they appear repentant they sre rent away to situations as evam tresses or domestic @rvacts. There are some backsliters, and some women who sre lazy—they are ven! off. None of the women worked cheerfully, and they seemed restrained by tae ‘ance of an ov:re It was not at all like many we Fee rupnis, mon were there, cf forty, dowa to with ber objd in il these women wo ked cheeffally y did by Mre Pere. Mr Pease wore applications fur work than he cas i k He inclines to thick that the poor would cease to be crimi pel if they were emplo; The branches of wo; * present carriod on a:4—baking. tailoring, #nd p! ing straw hat bral: ing, shoemak- ng and backetmaking. [he produsia of these labors, a0 far as the vee’s of the iamates are concerned, ars snp- pied to them gratis, Tho: traw hats aod baskets, made chiefly by the young yir's after schcol hours, are Kold to the public, an is also the eurplus of the bread mate The bakery, which oscoptes the ecrner basament of the premiees oa the Poicts, exo ploys three men, and consames fourterm barrels of flour per week, tvroing out about two burdred Icaves por days (be taflor’s aaop wimploys Ara men berides the foreman the shoe shop, eight; aad they are both fully ewployed in makiog sod ri men's and shoescf tbe famates, Toe ple! employ from twenty fre to thirty women avd girl et and straw bat rooms some seventy five more. ‘thin the Jast two months, baekets and s!raw hats na been soli to the amount of aboot $155. These brkache: are onder the immediate supervision of Mr. and Mca Storelake, and Mr. Abbott. Da ing ths month of Decem- ber, thi jount peid in weges for work dove in the ested- Weherent, was $419 70—qhile the reo-lpte forthe uals of work coring the same perind, rere #319 18 Toe tonattora to ‘the institation for the moath of December were 1,510 04 The entire finarcial movement cf the institution, includ ing its ipcidental relief to out door poor, &e, &s. fia adont $3 500 per month—the expanses deing met hy do ‘tions and by the ale of work, aud the def» © whee beirg made up from the geoeral fons of the whole number of famsten varies from ‘onrths woven spd ebildren The day sch°o), which averages 140 seholars, fs andor the superintendence cf Mr. Pas) ed by three Te Miss Bell, Miss Mist Taylor. unday school, which has two hesions « day, oon about the same number of reholars, sad ia wader tendence of Rev, L. Burleigh. Th» Bible class, whioh also meets twies every Sancay hen sisty nm emberm, anc is superinterded by the Rev. 8 0. Mitchell. Rell gious rervice is of courre held every Sanday, and the clergymen of all Christian devominatio: «, foclotiog Catholics ard Uhiverssliste are silowsd to preach, with the gereral reservation that all rermons are to esctew doctrinal pointe, and teach ouly the general Principles of Christian morality Such is the House of Industry on the Five Points. We have given s falhfal ceroription of it and its conductor. His work ix open to criticism, and it will rsootve i: {1 has sls called forth » great deal bf hostility from the Ladies’ Mission, who formerly employed him They ing wealthy by the business, but he ieforme us that he {# now worth jast thirteen handred and treaty five dollars, So lt sppears s question of ve- = racity, The institution depe.\de al nost eatirely on the contributions of the chaitable do.*n to & well spread dia aud eroes over, taking y THE LADIES’ FIVE POINTS MISSION. ‘The Ladies’ Five Points Mission, under tke patro: ageof the Ladies’ Homs Mission of the Methodist Uburoa, ia built upon the site of the ‘Oli B.ewery,” epgosite the littis three cornered pateb of ground known in that clas- sic region as ‘Regent's Park,” and sometimes “Parade Square’? The builcing fa a handsome brick stare, twenty-five feet front by forty five deep and fire stories in height. The lot was purchased by the Ladies’ Mtosion for $16,0(0, and the entire duilding, as it stands, enst $26,000, of which $28,000 have been paid by contribu ticns mace exprersly for this object, among them being ore cf $1,000 by the Comrasn Council, Thus far, the cflic'al report of the Mission which bee beenrecently published. Let usnow describe the interior of the establishment as we found it. Upon entering the cfiice, which oscupies « corner of the basement, we found two Indies seated at the desk— Mrs, Skidmore snd Mra. Deuel—-who received as very cor- oially, and immediately acuompanied us through every department of the establishment. Our Orst visit was to the Infant School, held ia the mid- dle bacewent, ard which fs open every day during the usual gchool hours, Here we found seated on comfort abl» berches, ome séven'y little ebildren, from thres to eight years old, all very quiet and ¢emure The teasner war read at a little table im the centre of the room, cut the lessons, and Hstening to the racitation of the girls, who ocoapied a low stool at nee side, je girls, about one-third of the rohool, were placed togetber in one end of the room = Whsa we went ia. Mis Deusd requested the sehool to sing the “ateriauaion song,’? whieh describes the process of washing the hands and face, brushicg the clothes, combing toe hair &e Tha ides of the verses fs no prety that we give them to prict, as they were furaished us in manuscript, by Misi Bind, the tescber:— Raise your hands, it they are clean, By your teacher to ba aren, Har de and facea clean and bright, How they do the hoert celigh: | Ratvo them high, and tarn them slow— Ses, they’re almost white as eno Hold them still. How fair vo vit How the blood ia awee ping through | If you keep sbem bright and clean, Their true color may b: Hold them Tracher, 6 )0u see cack vein? Don’t you see each purple tide, All slong each firger glide? Os! how healthy it mast be For the blood to flow ao free! If for dirt, we would not know Where those pretty veins did flo#, All who come to the Missiva sch cl, They must learn the cleanly rule— Brush their clothes and com) their hair; Waeh both face aud hauda with cars, Sparkle, eparkle, waier pace | Dirty hard I cant endure. Wasbing’s pleasant, I ai Sparkle, spark: P When this song was im, in very good tune and tolora- ble time, save @ burried hitch at the aod of each verse, the little creatures made the appropriate moti COrr sA- ponding to the sense of the portry. Thay reised their ands, turned them round, went through tho action of wasbirg their faces, brushing their clothes, and combing their heir—sli inexact unison wiih the words. aud ail precisely tozetber, like the evolutions of a well drilied company of soldiers. Not one ji:tle hand, voice or eye, wert Sesh A Curing the entive performance, There children, al! comfortably dressed, and very nest ara clean, are, without exception, the ciapring of the abandoned outeasts of the immediate neighborboud, and are clothed and cased for by the mission, Their studies are such as are ted to their years, and tiey cer- taiply are as bright and intelligent ae the ay-raze of chicren of similar a; Severaiof the boys enw were urusually quick ama intelligent, and a numer of the girls were really beautifal. Acjotnirg this apartment is the principal school room, out one bur dred and i ty aobolars of es, from ten to sixteeo years od, g seated at kK, and all engeged in their cyph writing, 0 trested to lume muvsio, vary fasrly eung, and were alloved oy the temshers—Mr, Pees avd Mr. St, John—to examine ihe pupts in their studies They zane appearance aud pro ole sure— q baved, sta iont, and all e pe! fal gratitude of their position aud the good Cflices of the ms#i0a, Whea ever @ boy or girl from the neigh orkood comes regularly ‘to schoo) for a + eek, he or she is farnished with clothing and csted for by the society, Tho average number o: deily sobolare ia both there rooms i¢ 175 to 200. Siace the opening of the mission, over th ee handred of the tcholare have {cund good and permanent places, and not one of them hae tarwed ont dadly Ficm the large school-ro. m, atter inspecting the bath room, the wardrobe, &, +@ passed into the chapel, which occupies he principal portion of the fiat floor It ccptaine peste for five huodred, end isp sin and sic ple io sli ite appointments. Here religious service ia heb every Sabbath, snd the room is freqasr tly occupied dur- ing ibe evenings of the week by preyer ta etirgs, temps &c. The present missionary of | be ealad- rent is tbe Rey. B. M. A We pow v sited the apartm tories of th 9, or ‘ tagementa,”’ osou bailing Pansing sloag formerly ren‘ Murderer’s Aley,’’ a othe old Deno; Thi ad covenatt stsircase fora’ with gas and @ bydrant at every landing The tov s are aivi- ced into tenements, crnsisting each of an eatiog and sitting room and two bedrooms, Thera sre twanty tens- mente in the building, each being rented to a family, at five dollars per montn Of cours, ia cass of sickaes, want of work, or poverty, the rent is mo’ exacted, al comes Ou‘ of the general ‘und, Kvery ‘snemeot showed urmistakesble evitences of clegolinsea imdustry sod cowfert. Tre women, €ath with her baby, too young to be in the school rooms below—sometiaes lying in its wholesome cradic entking its thum, or e*atet io its little rocking ehair in sli the dignity of t ¥o cheerful, busy, contented, bappy, and 0 coatrest to the general concition of virtuons and b rhs miles of the laboving clas, which was qaite rg to think upom vightly. | All cere fami- lier, without exesption, were takea by the Misston (rom ‘the filthy dens and cellars of the P tots, end belonged ty the very lowest and most abandoned cleas of the popala tion thera, Tuey all concuct thrmustlves with atriot pro priety, end are uniformly temperate. Tere har baen bat (ne instance, sine (he establishment of the Home, of « refract ‘ry ichabitant, As msy be ruppored, the Ixbors and cares of the mis- tionary aud bis ageia ante, ae well as the ladies who deqoce ther selves daily to the duties of recriving applications for rehef, visiling destitute families an. superinteading the household arrangements of the estabisoment, ars heavy acd ivcesrant. Daring toe tires pours that we spent in the Home, at lent twenty spplivations for relief at the cflic Williamsburg City Intelligence, Tex Ferny Aucsrs—CALt FOR AN INDIGNATION MEETING -~ 4 large Dumbe: of toe mort influent) te of WA lameborg, aroused by the impovitic d uyor the pubis by the Willisueburg Ferry Company, have tatuod & call fer @ public git to be held at the Odeon oa Wednesday evening, the 16th inst, ‘or the purpose wf ex pressing their reptimvets in regard to ine maeay abaccs existing in the management of this terry; aad also totoke erch ection as may % deemed expedient to effast a re form. Several emicent wpeshers have expreaeed their tu tention to address the meeting, ween y tions facta io ueferex.ce to this compavy, of woich thy paolic are ua- wire, will be made kvo«m There cennot +e the least Coubt that the manveris wh oh ‘bese ferries are mensged if @ great detrimen. ¢ the tatereae of Wiliameburg. © grant to e-tedilen Abe People’s ferry from the foot of Soa h Kieventh etrest, it was though!, would havo s terdeney to cause this ery y t0 correst A88 AY presen: ouraplaine® of, © to afford siople ferry fhollit'es. (¢ apparra r, that thie company are deve-mioed, if possivie te continue the monopoly—thus oo npeliiog the public to pay ¢xorbil rices for inferior senoomoiation. Fr thie parpore, Informed from a raitsble conran, that the grent ewablsh the People’s ferry, tegmher with the water froat at ibe foo of South Eleventh street, has been pnronased by the Willtamsborg Ferry Company, forthe aam cf 81€0 000, which it is underston’ ts rot to > pat iato operation, I+ is eaié that this company (#ho slsim that their racists are barely sufficient lo pay axpaose’) are realizice $160,000 profit per avpum, exclusive of 7 por cent ¢ivicence, Their accommodations are mireradle in every reepect. Toeir boats are of a zrado somowbat be- tween the Troy horse boats aul the Brooklyn ferry oats, bu! oxfortuately greatly inferior to the la‘ter. Tt pow remains for the New York (who bave the jon) to remedy the evile complained of. he power ei.cer to cause boats equal to thore of the Union Ferry Uompnny to be placed on this ferry, or take from them their lea.4, which is believed by many to have bres forfeited. ‘ter. mmon Oourell Personal Intelligence Col § Rarti, the Commisst nor to the Worl’ Feir fr Ken acky and Siaecurl, arrived Im town oa Saturcay, and took rooms at the Moroautile Hotel, in Warren ptreet, ARRIVALS. From Richmond, #o., in stea benow Geo L Austip, Jobn M oh Benry 0 Old, dom M Gomarin, Capt J Freta DP uaylor O Bivree, 1 PL MeGanr, Jébn |, Creams Gievn, James L, Lawrence, GU Mbyo, Alox © Perry, Wn po, K L. Rishardsoa’ Taos ten in the ste From Charleston, in the p Roanoke: ~Wm Cob- mehip Union—Mrs Tams, Mise dy. C Beal Tam’, Mre Ce dy, D Nichols and lm ot, Mr oan. Mr Jobneon, W Ui Vivo o1 Cort Smits, TB Ds Forest, A Bi Batrison, H M MoKenzie, J Dean, P J Jones, DC Harrington, and five in the A woman living in the eastern pert of D, Out, s short time sinoe preserted ber busban: wit! 7 weighed jurt one pound. His first bed wan mace common rized dinner plate. The event has created » (reat ponsation in the Convention city. Trial of Jeremtah Lane for the Mans: laugh: ter of Wilitarw Hycr-Charge of the Court—Verdict of the Jury. COURT OF GEPERAL SE38I0NB. Before Hin Honor Recorder Tillou. Fan, 11.—The Court resumed) its sitting today at 10 o’elock, and proceeded to try thw'case of Jeremieh Inne, for the manslaughter of William Hyer, in December tact, by strikirg him on the head with cart’ rung. The first witness sworn for the jworecution was Riiza- be hb Belman, who deposed that she rerided at the corner of Elm and Dusnsstresta. The deosaned boarded with her; he was a tailor by trace; on the eFening of the 26uy of December last he teck his tea, abous’ six o’slosk; he then weat ont and came in again; went cat three or four times after. when he was carried in inseseible; he was sent to the hospital that aight. Cross ¢xamined—It was about 74 o’clook when decena- ¢dleft the house, and in four or five miauds after he Le bs hay bee iy io Insepeible, leary Wendie, beirg duly »1 deposed—That he at- tended ® bar kept by Mr, fink, on the orthene’ orner of Elm and Duane streets; recollectes row takingtylres im the w#treot, between the hours of 6 snd 7 o'clock in the even ing of 26th of December last; looked through the and caw a party standing om <he nortbeas: corner ® noise and “hollowicg out,” batoould not disti anyth'ng; William Finnigan came into our store, Jooked around as if for eomethiog, and went out again; Jeremiah Lane and some Or beven others were in (so store, # little feliow came into the store and eald ‘Jone out, or Flan) n will be heksi;” the they all raa ove: 7 Lane come in again, looked a ound ane @clud; he bad » sure bauc with some white regs on it; Se did pot get @ clad thers and went ou‘ agsic I then comnenced two shut Op the ptnre, sesiog wAgbtoat | rice; about Gf cen wivutes attor E aloea tie sore the | Pibover came ict the store egain theongb ihe back door | Dr. Agnew, bring duiy eworn, €¢poved—Chat he mades | post mor.ém exeuiioation on the body of William Hyar, amo found that nia death was cawied by ure of tha skal; Ue areh of the ekall wan driven tne upon toe brain Croms exsmined—It would take covsideratis forea to cauee tush ® ‘racture; &® man wight receive such ap iejury by felling directly on the top of uis head Gis ance Of six or eight feet, or from the blow {t could uot have beep caused by a blow from a man’s bond unseaisie mint have dean caused by toe blow of & stone in & wan’s heed; mam muon lower thea the Geceared could have gives the blow with the ascistance of aciab Marg acot Patten, being ouly sworn, doposed—That aha rerided at No, 28 Elm strest, with Mr. wsrwick; on the right thet the cecessed was burt, #bs bad beea tona acquaintance’s house in Di et; ohe came home about eight o’clook; Mr Finnig: in er company; on bec way home there were tive mep"on the midewalk, sud one of them insulted ber; it was om the aortn sida of the street, two doors from the eoraer of Dusue street; did pot know ony of the mes; Finuigan asked the mep what thy meent, bat 1 ould not tell what they reid; a5 Fiuwigan tucced to xo back to her one of them put his ‘oot before him, »sif to trip hua up; Fiprigan turned arourd to bit hiat aed the aan hit him beck, Finnigan slipped of the curbstone, and thea thro others ccmmencea besting him while be was dowa; wit- ners went wto Mr. Corcon’s store tu eee it ay of Fiovigan's tt re god stab Firviga after [ went back saw a man with» sore bend deceased with a cart 1a was about three + ards from them when she raw dec: struck; deceased was not dclog anything when struck; contd not tel: from what di. section the maa with the cart ruog came; be struck J cearoc on the head; did pet eee the man with the sore bend before; raw bis haod wre) pes up with a white rs ‘ot seen that man since to we to recognise him; on receiving "he blow cecearwa fell on the payenent; thea the meu that struck bim threw the cart rapgou_ot his hand, ran down Elm street to Pear; could not & li what wis Gone with the deorased,smew noone thers exoapt Finnigan. Crops-exainiow’—Fianigem was a good di tro men wiih knives in their hands, out éid oof sea say other person with # ciub in his huad except the man who Ptroek Gecea ed, witness was very touch alarmed fre the eatety of Finnigan: coold not tell woether the night wan dark or not; ¢i0 not tell anybody sboul the affair until the pext day, when Fipnigen was arrested: when ue first oaw the wito the wore haod he b “traog 2 he hand; cou'd aot idenci/y hia; ae Leflore to ber bnowiedge; C ule not (e! ; there were other persons tp the crowd who hews bec the seme opp. rincity of seeing (a6 ceceaccd Foonkad a swears that be met Lene, eho said—“' If] hed nota sore hend I weu'd fight them mysel!,”” Decker tuen went over to the opposite’ aide of the stree' there foand [yer lying an dercriggad by all the witnesses. So by this youth's evidence it is ely shown that Lane was not the man that etruck the deceused. The District A:tornsy, N 8. Blunt, then summed up the evidence for the proeeoution. In commencing, ne re ferred to the personal yertarks of tho coumse! qn the other side, as to the courses pursued by bim. He stood there notan an individual with any batred io his heart inst the pricover, but as the puble pros*sutor, whore duty it was to assist the jary in their en- deavor to do justice to tie people of the S¥ate of New York. Never, in the wrole oourre of bir legal career did the learned Matrict Atte th # case paralel to the one in the other tide was engaged—nevor, duriog » period of twenty -fve years,@id he ren ember ao occasion where the counsel for the cefonoe wantonly wacted #o must time, anc £0 as vp larena inquired into the private business of jerers. knew it was the ¢uty of counsel not to ‘or- teke their elients in any difficulty; bat when counsel wil flercely attack the District Attorngy, pry into the fertly affairs of jurors, they weat beyond the bounds of duty anu decomoy, Now, woat sre the facts in this caso? Thie uncfendivg men, Wm Hyer street in the host With scartrury, by » msn with # sore Mead, withoad try provorntion The wowan, Margaret Vstten, sweace ot itn that it ® mao with » Bore bh that struck the ceorased with'tbe deadly we the grocery atore ywears tont che pe fore bane, came in% pin wlors and xo He conelnded his sderes lapgosge of we law, sequit iberguilty ’ CHANGD OF TAR COUNT. Ilie Hokor the Reoorcer then rons and charged the jory as follows — |DULEMEN OF THR JURY:=Tb¢ oxee subm’ tec to your Vaicio: iA ope ef that clas of gcave cases requiriog the sTNeAT oeTe and ety CUMF pestion ta Hh examinglion Magn hes coomrred in thia case, and much comment hes besa 8 Upon the dithouty evovuntersd in empadoe ling « ury, Li te to he rear in # case of 60 752 roempity—cft 6 the fate of the p becc ‘coucemm themtgyes waea the a epiiem on the partol the counsel y biskerings should oosar botereon # Disirlet Attorasy’s duty iv che y crfived by htm He in supposed to ferent between the privoner and the people. Be Pd tO #6 chat the laws ers maintained aud pre He is bouad to sey thet all the truth ia Init pre you. Be is bound to soe that the whove trat’ Fooghi io light, He is beund to noe that a verdict thall be givec; bi e i# to nee that that verdict, if found, is ‘a x one. He is bouad to seo | that proper consuct is mainteined es {fo other | cares, and such as will comport with w care as rolema ac this, It is the dety of the counsel of the prisoner to seo that nothing ehall be omitte? on his part that would add to the bevefit of the prisoner. Bet ip ® case of this ind | wes) know thatia the genersl con!uct of tis conal | there may be moze or lees errors. You, gentlemen, are to be careful in looking at the case, in viewiog the re- | Epox sioie pesition of doth counsel. 'Y ware to be eare- ful, in ¢xeminiog this care, to permit no single thought except that of your solemn Gaty to govern yon. You a-e to alow nothing to snter your minds except trath. You are to ree that no verdiet Ix rendered exoapt your good Upefhancipgs are convinced, and thet tee verciot is mace wanilest to your minds, I kuow noibing ia fast in this land, waioh is more solema, mora honorable, then the cuty of @ juror. Tue ciroumstavcas that surroune the case pave marked it mish solsacity. You find iu thiv case that a fellow being, ia the prime of lite, was suddenly taken to the other world. You fiod » joorg man brevght to tha bar to answer for this hi eed by which this man lot hia life ye sol-mm act, ard one which makes wen use hefore they can coma to sny oovelusion of the guilt or innovence of the preoner The jary are to Judge of the case. It is one of ths blessing of our laws Thar the wost hum noat bigh—the caost obscure as roll es the mort remosiea—ore eash and all, every coe of them entitled to the nate righ:-the same A acministration of justion ) this young maa mow in yrur bance you ‘may regard as pvsravming the same ghts—the eeme privileges as af ho wove the mo erful indivisval in the Ised. The onse waa doen by the District Aicrnyy from mansl im the first Cegree to mavslaughier ia the third de agree. It is cefred in law aa tho taking of the life 0 a fellow being uulwfully, but witout any ceaign to take away life I: iy defined ip the Revised Statutes ag follows (c@1 12, p i—"The E-liiog of anoth: heat of passion wilbout & desiga to efeot a ry weapon in any case except Ailing of apother is hereia de tia Lhe excnssols, shail bo 13? 18 che pena © watisfastin, it appenw re # thet ft wil co unas degree, ams own ae khe bad; coule mot tellwh» peted up the eart Tuer, Mever Kew the privoarrto her kuoaledgs Avugustos Decker, ding duly eworn, depo-ei—Tnat he lived at No. 63 Duane street sud resided wi a bis feather; ven Blteen yoare of age recollected the bight ths decran ed was struck; witness was in bis bar, when some of their boarders came iv, and enid there was @ riot 1m tha atrent; it waa ade o'clock; went out and beard some o} the boarcera msying |b was no! right to Aigat; back oni told hia father; on going = vat sew Jeremiah Lace, with a sore oand, whe seic if he hed not sore hand he would fight nim sions; aman the» came over and said thers vas 8 maa fiaboed; witnens thea went to the corser avd saw Mr. Fiyer the ceoeases, lying in {the gutter, near Mr. Fink's store; witneer then went home; afier that I want of errand, and on my way back went up to Mr. Hyer'a 50m; Fujed tere but s rbort time, and oa my way down pasring throvgh the store, saw Jerem.an Lans; witin bald romething to bim but could not recolivet w ‘ j Bome one elfo spoke, but be couid not tell what was rome one said, © Who is it? Jeremish Lave replied tha: be wished the man was dead, and raid he would lil to Sgbt witness, who eid nothing more, and went home ries Springer, being sworn, deyored—Chat he lived corner of Elo and Onate sirests; on then gh of wim the house reading @ book; on hearing hed out of the window, and kaw roms mon op the northesst corser; weat down stairs then sad heard some Germans cursing Finuigen. saw ® man with band aod Finnigaa go ia'o Fink few & an Coming (ut of the stove with tumbdl rot reecgniso bim; one tambier was thro sn a: somsbouy, and the other ‘ell oat of bis hand; witvess thea wort aad raw William Byer lyivg ic the gutter, wish a large paviag stone beside bis head. witness tben went home, and after getting hie het and coat want oa! sgaiv, an naw two man lokieg at Hyer with s Jantorn; they tock hia up and cerriec him up stairs to bi and iaid him oo the fluor; wituess thea went cown Here the evidence for th The coupeel fu the some length. rN then summed up the evi Said toat there war a vast deal aa mere ordias- soner at the dar f tating the li’e of ons id it was their duty to ing aire strict. ure they woult—in’o all the circum stevces connected with aleged homiede. The prisoner atthe Tar was charged with kitting Willicm Hy-r oa the sO hef Decem er last, Tho District Attorney told the Jury yesterony that he woald not prars for @ veidict vey bigher than wansleaghtor ia the aeoond de gre; out thanks to his Jenieney, this iorniog reraid trat {* warm case Of monslacghter in the third de- gree only Gat I tr gentlemen of the jary, thet will prove to yeu tha’ Jeremiah Lene is no: guilty of meorlaurbier im avy cegree I firmly believe taxt the people bere have ror made out tuch # cave ag abou Id put the privouet upom his defenee, There wad a0 ovi euce at alto ¥ errant s conviction for manslaughter ia any de- gree. If thes birest row bad amounted to » riot tha Dis trict Attormey would bave bewn hound to indist th= paacr @ unoffending William Hyer, for every eatariot ia by law regardod a4 river. The I's riot Att rney eaye that the deceansd was a quist, penceacle end industrious man; but you have noeridencs of that fact. The winesa, Margaret Patten, waid tnat on ber setup home, at the corner of Elo amd Duaue traoie, she Wad groesy inewited. That William Hyer was lu (bet crowe noo but the All ceeiag Eye gan teil. Whother be ceerased wan among thore mea rho thus indecently xpeeed ‘heir perrous to that girl neither I or the District Aviorvey esm tell, Tt te for you, gentlemen, to rey whers be wee There ia however every probavliity that he was there, He went out just after bie toa, and was foun? vhsre while thin ontrage was made, and he met evd, Leay hoosetly that he deavrved exh, though sudden it might baye ber 4 tell you how Wil Sasiness {0 make a4 perfro: 5 ow He may explain to you his p: bef think it hii ry cate of pouriye cot leon’! thick he hat [think he often gees too far and doas not do his daty ty 10 do a>, cube shoud In every casmof this kind the public prove ater is bound to acquit the man if he cao; in no such care ebovid be toewvict the prisover Avi, slested to cfliee oy you and I, and if he doer not do his dnty as he cheal’, ] am sare be never will be elested to oflice agaio. Now, who ieWeremian Lave? A poor, frisndlew, and al- m stucknown man. If the sound of the Distrist Attor- oles bad riren fn favor ay tt has been against the 7, it would have been far nobler in bi roine would Dave rounded sweater io th Uber ‘he oratory of Demeathon: he evidence im «bis case in one aw the prironer strikes to you, Tire question you h Lane, it seems fr He went int the ears of She. but, according to Wen- i The theory that will sovgbt to be extablisned by the District Attorney 1», bat Lene fa’ to get @ club, got the tumblers, ai eoid be would make it all right in the morufag.”’ Now, if the jn y Osh reaeorably @xiract the theory that tho v6 cen ed wee killed by Jeremia> Line, you candi so. But n form any other hypotreia in favor of the pri- vr, it ie your bigher éaty todo Margaret Patten wre the oply one who 4 the ¢e ed atruk and abe écee not even seoogoixe the prisoner, She was shamefal- Jy inewited by & party of there Germans, wao oot oniy ia- vlted ker by exporting their naked p they made a mow Finrigan, who wa bniven Yet not one ol committed & murder, might hare have been aserected or in ‘icted, even for assault and battery Why not one of there forty persooa who were arouad bought upoo the staud? No, than’ ope acolt thet wantin that waid. Why was not the owner of the cart fr tbe rong war taken produced here as a witoes? Inetriet Attorney bas the people at bia back. have produced him bere if he thought proper. Margaret Patten sweare under the solemn ranction of her oath, thst she never maw Lane uotil today. The boy Decker stancen of the caro s of December | On the avening he 2608 1. the deceased, a roung man a taitor by he corre: of Bim end Daane wtresta, &, wen! CuSis front of the house, came in eealu, and vent outegsia, sna eas broaghs beck ta fenstble, earrisc up pialre, where his lanclady end: too all that eke cou! for hia. Prom then removed to tha horpits! ani there he diad, I: appsara from the teatimory of the dootor that tue d-ceared tad @ wourd ee vy one. cn the arch of tne rkall, de prersing the brain; and from th» time he entered ths borpitel be was wot evasaious of his situation un'il he died. It appaars, therefore, be could give no accoust of the cause of bir death It alio apgeara, by the tostimony ! of Merge et Patten, that cm the pa: evening rhe was coming bone from the honse of an scqueintance with friend of her’s named Finnigan, and on the coroer of Elm aud Doane ctreets four or five persons were standing on tha sidewalk, and that one of in grossiy inrulted her. Finn!gan tucked hark and asked them what they meant: ga on bis turning to ge back one of them went before im and placed bis foot in front o3 Finnigan #0 as to trip bin up ‘th mpeon tan ed found to stiike him, whan back ard the who patty set upon him and M, sudtwoct them, it corms drew knives aod bed bim. Thin part cf the case presea's @ shocking feature 18 ls to be regret #1 it at persona should be par mitted fo commit euch éligrroeful scia with impunity. Atallevenia, she ren tos store to nme if'she conli get ore ci Fingigen’s trieweu to belp rim; but, not Matiog any there, she returned to the scenes of ‘the distardanca, where che Faw aman sith a tart rung im his hand, strikes Ard the men with the cart rang Thea écwn the ed bad a nore hend, pho esid: that was all she saw. comes the tes iwony of Henry Wendell; he app. have kuown the prisoner, and koew him’ by tae al Fox, or Jerry Fox, He iells you that Fox caus voral timer to hia store that night and firet before the docensed wes killed, He telis you o! 28 tells Jou that ome one tovk away roms tunblers out of hiv store, sme that apoo inquiring tor thom the prison. ¢r said be took them, and would make it ail right; he tails you tbat the prisoner hac # eore hend; he tslla you of his aching for aciah which he did not give bim, Tae pri ner is thos identified as being nt the scene of the alfray orsound it The olerk ‘eils you thet when pe came to open the store dcor he found thst the body of the da- charac war pO clon to it that he could scarcely open i ¢ the little boy tells you ‘hat he saw the body of th» ceneed the: @aino, In render ag your verdic: sgainst the secured younre to be satisfied that the prisoser was guilty of the killing of the deosaaed., As regards charad ter, there is no Coubt of bia good character except no fer a8 (be ci cumstances of (bia careextend, L+fore you can find a verdict of guilty you must be poritive ia yourown minds thet the privoner committed the homicide; that he cemm tted it with an unlawful and dangerous weapon; that he cid eo without any provocation o- devig: 4 he did ec mmit the act, it wfl come within the class of man- sleughter tra Ibave read for you namely, manslanghter in tbe third degree. in regard to the proof, all reasonable Conbte—not mere id’e thoughts, but rouad and reason- able devbtr—you mun? give tothe benefit of tha prisoner. To jodgt'g of tho ease you must be carefrl to have on one Dard the Jaws ¢ hand you ere pot to lst i deceacec weigh in lookirg at amy doubts that may appear in favor of the prisorer, Toe proof that you ara to be governed by fx that irrerpeotive of all fesling of all sym ef of the relatives of the pathy, Youn wly loo¥ at your duty ~yon must dest wih the feo #8 they are demonstrated befors you Ths crime cf which the privoner stands ancuacd cf that clare that recke bigh im erimioe) jarisprudence., Itis o'ten the case ip crimitel asta where violense 14 commit «0 on pertoun, thatfom mirscnlous elrcumstances the acensed ere beenare the fojary doos mot revult in ceath And we all know that whera a person is bronght tothe ber cf jortice charges with crima, ones Ist the proof be firevly established, and it is (he daty of jurors to seo tral the Jaws are carried out; and onoe let {t be proved that the nce nes of t @ prironer he evte blished, ro matrer what may be your yiivate feolings, aed youare bound to render ® ver ich in of tne accased With these remarks, gentlemen, I leave the case in your hands, VERDICT OF THB JURY. The jury ‘hen retired to their room, whore, after con +1 erteg and del berating for mors than tw» hours, they came into court rnd rendered @ verdict of guilty agaiant ibe pricemer, woo was then remanded for sentence, uatil cext Friday. Coroners’ Mexparn —Aw Jarane Kivi roner Hilv n yesterday held an inquest at No 234 Staoton street, n the bocy of as {nfent on nd nice months old, naned Catharine Derenug, #bore death was cnumed by its rolber inflictitg blo vs on ite head with a hatohet, there by fracturing ‘he rkoll 7 the wife of Phillip Itrebug, the Coroner's Jur bis w fe wae very derp indent hom for nearly len eye past. bat Cay, acc ou bi* retara he foued nis ebild She had pot spoken to Ho left the hoare at about chopped abous the Lead, ari emtly Cone by bis wits with abatcbet About seven weeks ago he aya ho felt certain bie wife wee tmars, She then threstened to mull the child sive fo kill ber hoaberd and then herself Since that time rhe hav been able to attend to her domestic da- ten, Dr dedy of cree piaors—one frae the tep of the Chie iejury it by com preesic the skull The jary rendered the following verdiet:— That deceased came to her death by compress of the ekall from blows inflicted chet In tee bands of her mother, Anca Maria, #7, Febrosry 10, 1564, at No. 232 Stanton street. fr, we believe enid Anca Maria Derchug to be in- “The mother was committed ult of a medical investigatic Finvell made ® post mortem examination of the , and fonud (he skall fractared io three ¢ over the righ) oar, and the osber om oad, exteecing to the left temple. From the opinion th ath was produced of the brain -eaured by the fractures of to for these loses, prison to await the re: | for this AL MATTERS, ~~ OUR WASSINGTON LETTERS, The Missouri Compromise and the Nebraska Question. Intention to Kill the Bl by an Amendmente THE HON. MKE WALSH TO HIS CONSTITUENTS, | &e., &. &, TELEGRAPBHIO, THE VAN BURENITES AND THK NsBEAMKA BILL AMENIMENT TO BS OFFERED, TO avYLY 17s PHa- TURKS TO THE DISTRIC’ OF COLUMS14—TAMMANY HALL WOSOLUTIVNS MANUFACTURED LN Wa-HING- TUN—GBN. CASS; ETO. Wasemarox, Feb; 12, 1854, Mr, Dean kas returned from New York, aod is under stood to be tho bearer of the ultin, (um of the Van Ba- rer: 'te1 as regards the Nedraska bill He is ssid to have discovered that all ris frieads in New York Kinderhook, and Albavy, are »pposed to this bill, and will only rest setinine wpon ite being amended so a: to make itd prowi- sions with rexpeet to slavery qenersl in their bearing apom ali the Territoriew of the United States, The principle of jebraska bill, as it mow reads, ie the practical Cenis) of the eonrtitational right of Com: zislate upoa ths subject ¢f slarezyim the Tare . If this princtpls be correct, then it is conte :de@ that mlavery in the Distric: of Columbia is nnoonstitu. tonal, beqause it exists wholly and entirely by a direct law of Cingrees. The amendment which will bs gered to the bill will simply extend the priociple to the District | of Colombia, amd thus repeal or sbrogate all “incom- nistent”? lacs, and conseqaently free all slsves in thie istrict or ‘erritory, They held this to be @ logical se quence, from whieh there Ja a0 escape, The North, they aevert vill vow for the amendment, besanse it will bem proper abcli hmeu! of slavery, and for the reason that right avd justise require the enforeewent of the principle ‘cver all Territories if ft fs 4 osrrect ene as applied to amy, If such an amengmest oarries, then {t is easy to see the Youth will ins body vote against the bill, and’ the North mill generously asuist thom, But the Vam Burenites forget that the constitution mekes an exception in the case of the Distric} of Uolambt—, With recerd to the Territories, 211 that can be foand ia the constitution reecgaizing the power of the ‘oderal govern- ment over them, (5 thy clause authorisiog Congress te make needful rules and reguiatioas renpeoting. the terri- tory and other property cf the Uvited States, and alse the geveral power over the public lands, Inthe case of the District of Columbia bowever, the constitution de« clares:—' Zhe Cong ess shall have power to exerctse exclusiva legislation in all cases whatrocver over such District.” The cower ii hore exprercly given, and it may upset the pre posed amendment It te clear tha: the Distrist of Colum. bia dows not stand in the same position as a more Terrie tory. The change which has come over certain Nertherm members within # few Cays, ts observable on evory hand. The Nebresbs vill, in its present shape, i# openly dex bounced, apd mesabers are now heard ridiculing the ad- mioiriration, who « week ego would bave considered suck course as high trenson, Notwithstanding the a-ticles In the Union jor of Jucge Donglan’s bill, itis by me mesos certain but what the administration ia on the eve of tacking egain, ard cpsrly coming out against the menaure. Anfor the reoant resclations paged by the Central Committee of Tammany Hall, they were drawm up in thie clly muc\pent on by Jobe L, O'Scllivan, reveatiy mominated Gearge to Perivgel, to Johm Van Buren, Fowler, amd Geebrace, to bave thew acted upon as public opinion tm New York Cochrane’ is in their favor, Fowler and the Prioce ¢ercuves them, Meantime O'Sullivam geta his sd General Cars will spesk Ca ing the woek on the Ne enrke Dill whilst he wll giro in oie adhesion to the + priaciples it contain, he will at the same time ¢xpreas bia convicti that tke ietroduction of the measure wae ll timed. Our Washington Co respondence. Wasuinron, Feb. 10, 1854. The Gadsden Treaty—The Tehwantepec and Sloo Grants— The Action of the Senate. We are all sgog here to know the identity of the man that nominated Frank Pierca, and also to find out the signification of those mysterious letters P.P.G. The expositions in the Trap touching the Gadsden treaty, so called, has had the beneficta) effect of opening the eyes and clesring the under standings of Senators, and the confirmation or rati- fication of the affair, reluctantly submitted to the Senate, is highly problematical. The history of some of the elements of this business would prove curious, instructive, and interesting. M is well known that the assignees of Garay, Hargous & Co., after much difficulty succeeded in obtaining some six hundred thousand dollars from the same com- mi+sion which gave George A. Gardoer over a half milion. This was done through the in‘laence, agency, and pecaliar exertions of Daniel Webster. one Merch and Edward Cartis But this reasun sbie smount, it would avpear, is by no means aa isfactory to such wealthy men a3 the present owners of the Garay grant. Like Oliver Twist they ask for more. The Senator, Benjamin, from Louisiana, has a large interest fn this matter; but un‘ortunately clongs to the whigs. Hence, after the demise of the gedl.ke Webster, the parties cast about to find the proper influences to operate upon “our Presi- dent” and upon his constitutional advisers, with a view to favor the Garsy and Tehuantepec scheme and 00) the Sloo grant. It is said thatafter raking over New England, and especially the sovereign State of New Hampshire, tne right bowers of the President in the persons of a Col. Whipple, Captain George, and some other persons of credit aud renown,were found, who were extenrively “sweewsed” in advance with promises of any contingent remaiaders that might toereafier come tate existence. From the fact that the Covckl rg arrangement, which secured the righta and interests of Sloo and associates, has not beem submitted to Senators, we cannot but infer that the influence of the aforesaid gentlemen must be mount at the Whive House and the Department of State. Whether or not F-—, P. P. G., bas been em- ployed by either of the parties in interest, it is jast at prevent quite impossible to ascertain. But when itis considered that Arnold Harris, one of the proprietors of the Union, and owner jointly of toe Pacific steamers, is the principle man in the Sloo enterprise, it may seem be gi that an in- fluence sofficient to counterbalance Whipple, George & Co. could not be bronght to bear. Nevertheless, and notwithstanding the Pres'dent and Goveraor Marcy aud Cushing seem to frown upon tue opera- tions ef Sloo, Horris, Sykes & Co., they are, never- theless, provecuting the work with the greatest ener~ wy and indnstry; and it may be that before the Gada den treaty shail be ratified @ plank road will bs com- pleted across Tehuantepec, “all despite my Lord fe Cardival.” - Wasurmator, Feb. 10, 1854. The French Spcliotion But—The Efforts to Get it Through Congress. The agents engaged in prosecuting the French Spoliation bill are again at work. The principal man in the concern is Mr. Sullivan, formerly a con- tractor for paper with the departments, but of late years engaged in impressing upon members of Con- grees the propriety of pissing the Spoliatioa bill, his principal argument being good dinners and plenty of wine.” His fee and that of Mr. Caustin, another agent, is about three hundred thousand dollars—to say nothing of the cash down already received for the dinners, &c. The great argument med by the friends of the Jon of | bill ia, that it will relieve the necessities of a large number of indigent females who lost their all by the French; and another reasom aged in the repre entation that the government of ve been France the Uni ‘and that it is only common honesty pow to pay over to the claim