The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1854, Page 4

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Nothing exhibits the high prosperity of New York and ot the country at large in a more pointed way fan the increase of newspapers and the growth of Tn Oc- their circulation. We can speak for one. tober, 1552, the circulation of the HgraLn was thirty-seven thousend pr day; in Ostober, 1853, it had increa:ed to fury eight thousand per day~an increase of fen thousand im one year. Duriog the last four months the daily circulation has oftea reached fifty-five thousand per day, ard it is now permanently over an average of fifty-one thousand per day. Our weekly, European, and Sunday circu. lations amount to nearly sicty-five thousand sheets. As the busy season is now bezinning to open, business men and advertisers will please to remem- We could sell and circulate seventy or cigh’y thousand HeraLps “per day if we could only get machinery to print them within certain hours. . Such is the popularity of the HuraLp—such is its rapid progress among an intelligent people, in spite of riva'ry, slanders, falsehoods, combiwations, con. spiracies, and the whole influence of an imbecile President and a corrupt Cabinet at Washington, who ber these useful and important fasts. 2. are indebted fur their places to our labors in 155: Tfie Cunard steamship Africa had not arrived at the time our paper was sent to press this mori . Bhe has now been out nearly sixteen days from Li verpoo! The debate on the Nebraska-Kansas bill will be resumed in the United States Senate to-day. Mr. Weller has the floor, will speak for an hour, and be followed by Gen. Houston. It is unierstood that Gen. Cass, in the course of the wi will express his views upen and give in his adhesion ty the mea sure. There are indications, it is in'‘imated, that the sdministration isagain abou’ shifting ground, and that before the Isp-e of many days we may fiad it bringing all its patronage and influence to bear mgainst the bill. Indeed, our correspondent writes that Mr. Dean, the organ of the Van Buren allies of the President in the House, has retarned to the capital alter a brief visit to his political friends ia this State, and that it has been decided among them to kill, if possidle, Judge Douglas's bill, by au amendment, applying its von-intervention features with regerd to slavery in Territories to the District of Columbia. But as the constitation makes an ex press distinction between the Territories and the Dis- trict, eo far as concerns the action of Congress, it is doubt'ul #hether this movement will meet the ap. probation of a majority of the free soil members. It will, however, no doubt give rise to warm and pro- teacteé discussion, which is, perhaps, what the Vag Burenites are aiming ‘at—they being desirous of staving off the question as long as possible. Upon the whole, appearances indicate that we shall be called upon to record some exciting scenes and spir- ited debates ia Congress before the close of the week. Among the great variety of highly interesting in- telligence with regard to national matters, published this moraing, isa letter from Hom Mike Walsh, in Which he defines his views concerning affairs gener ally, and things in Washington particolary. His Gescription of society in that locality is peculiarly rich and refreshiog. In conuection with his docu- ment we insert letters from our own correspondents, newspaper extracts, &c., all whish contain mach curious and instructive information relative to the Gad:den treaty, the Nebraske bill, the rank and psy of army officers, Presidential appointments, &c. One of cur Washington correspondents furcishes ‘an outline of the operations of the agen‘s engaged in the prosecution of the French spoliations, bills to pay which have caused the waste of much time dur- ing every session of Conzress for a great number of years. A bill of the kind is now pending ia, and will no donbt soon pass, the Senate; but in the House it will probably be defeated, as nearly all measures for the same purpose have been hitherto. A bill is also before the Senate making provision for satisfying the claimants for indemnity ia the cave of the brig Gen Armstrong, which was destroyed by a British officer in the neutral port of Payal, during the last war be tween this country and England. The Nebraska question constituted the theme of two eermons in Boston yesterday. Rey. Mr. Kirk avd Rev. Theodore Parker denounced Judge Doug: Jas’s bill and its author, and the former expressed it ‘as bis opinion that its passage would create a revola- tion. An anti Bedini meeting was held in Philadelphia on Saturday night, at which resolutions eenoaneing the Nuncio in the strongest terms were adopted, and several distinguished Senators were taken roundly to task for having presumed to express their disap Proval of the acts of indignation against Bedini by the people in different parts of the country. See the telegraphic despatch. The lengthy details of the great loss of life by the burning of steamboats in New Orleans, published in yesterday’: paper, has cansed considerabie anxiety in the minds of persons residiag ia this city who had friends travel.ing in the South at the time of the @readful Calamity, and of whose exact whereabouts they sre not informed. Fears are entertained that some of thee travellers may have been among the forty who perished, a few of whom are represeated as haviog been unknown strangers, Advices fiom the city of Mexico to the 4th inst have been received at New Orleans, but our de- spatch says that nothing of sufficient interest had transpired to be worthy of telegraphing. By reference to the brief sketch ofthe proceeding: 4p another colama, it will be seen that a meeting of ghipmasters who have lately re‘araed from ty Chincha Islands was held at the Astor Honse las: Saturday, for the purpose of taking the necessary steps to make knewn to the government at Washing the outrageous treatment to which they w tly subjected by the authorities at Chincha returning bear felt thanks to Admiral Moresby ‘et he British Nuvy. for bis ,enerous motives ia ‘29 nding for them proper respect, these captains ay pear to look upon the conduct of Mr. Clay as un- Viecoming an American Minister, to whom they naturally looked for proper protection, We elsewhere pubiish a full report of the trial aud | conviction in the Court 9f General Sessions of Jere- | miab Lae, for the manslaughter of Wm. Hyer. It | will be recollected that Hyer was killed during 9 ar the corner of Elm and Duane streets, on th of December. The testimony, the summing. of counsel, and the charge of the Recorder to the jury, form a chapter in the history of crime that it . | ishoped will cp:rate a3 @ lasting warniog apon all evilly disposed persons who may happen to read it. Tn accordance with the wisies of the parties inter- ested, we elsewhere insert the notification that the members of the Southern Commercial Convention, which met in Memphis last June, will again assen- ble, in Charleston, on the sexond Monday in April, in accordance with previons arrangemant. Every preparation will be made for their recep.ion by the people of the latter place. A bloody riot took place among the Irish at Port- land, Me , yesterday aftersoon, in which many of the participants were badly beaten. After a desperate fight, the police, assisted by the priests, succeeded in arresting a number of the parties, and thus re- stored qnict. As usual, our columns contain a great amount of impoitant and interesting matter, to which it is not necessary that we should particularly ro’er, for the reason that the headings wills Mfciently enlighten the Teader as to the contents of the different articles. The Missourt Compromtre as a Compact - The Palacy Uxposed—the Senate Gul m Danger We transfi and heavy rto our columns to-day the graye gument of the Wutional Intelli gencer in behalf of the Missouri compromise of 1820, “compact”? between the North aad the South “hardty less formal than the consti- tution itseli.” To this labored argument, founded upon this erroneous assumption, we propose briefly to reply. We shall start from the opposite side of the question: that the Missouri compromise was in itselfan unconstitutional act, involving an as! sumption of power on the part of Congress which it had no authority to exercise. All peers not expressly granted to Congress, or clf™rly implicd, were reserved expressly to the States and the people; and among these reservations is the power of extending, suspeuding or reTuc- ing the boundaries of slavery. Neither direct- ly, nor by any rational implication, except in the District of Columbia, h mnty been invested in Congress over the subject of lavery. The constitution provides that “the ss shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations res- pecting the territory or other property of the United States ;” and to a violent mis- construction of this clause was the couutry indebted for the Missouri compromise. The whole spirit and practical intent of the consti tution are directly opposed to the idea which would involve the power to set up a monarchy a territory, or to spose of” it, with the le, toamonarchy. ‘All necdful rales and tions” simply mean such temporary su- pervision as may be necessary for the protection and good order of the territory until the peo- ple thereof shall have assumed their sovereign action in the capacity of a State; and any act hy Congress restricting or extending.the limits of slavery ina territory is, at best, only fore- stalling the undisputed supremacy of the peo- ple when admitted to the prerogatives of a State government. the Missouri compromise prohibits slavery “forever” north of the line of 36 30; but any State above that line, without a formal repeal of the act of 1820, bas the power to introduce slavery, for no act of Congress can impair the sovereignty of a State over iis local institutions. Neither the ordinance of 1787 nor the Missouri compromise can prohibit Ohio or Iowa from in. troducivg slavery within its borders if it pleases, Such compacts as those of 1787 and 1820 can only be binding upon the States and the people after having been formally and regularly adopted as amendments to the con- stitution; otherwise they are superseded by the constitution, and by the sovereignty of the States and the people. The Missouri compromise was an extra-con- stitutional law, a sectional armistice, resting upon the erroncous example of the ordinance of 1787. It was dictated, on the one hand, by the anti-slavery sentiment of the North, first developed as a political element among the dying embers of the old federal party at the Hartford Convention, and, on the other hand, by the desire on the part of various Southern Presidential candidates and their friends to conciliate the public sentiment of the North, Among these candidates were such men as Clay, Crawford, Jackson and Cal- houn. It was a compromise for the Presi- dency, and the Missouri restriction which was to last “forever oply meant that it was to last till it might become convenient to change it. The tari? act of 1833 was also a compromise between the North and the South as solemn and deliberate as that of 1820, The exorbitant duties of the tariff of 1828 had excited a spirit of insubordination in the South, which had be- come inflamed in South Carolina to the verge of revolution. That State passed a law declar- ing the law of 1828 nullity; and passed other laws tocarry out this nullification by armed resistance, if need be, against the federal gov- ernment. Troops were organized throughout the State, arms and manitions of war were provided; and but for the firmness, united with the discretion, of Gen. Jackson, a civil war would. in all probability, have been the result. The danger was still impending when the tariff of 1833, introduced as a compromise by Mr. Clay, was passed as a compromise by Congress, It provided for a sliding scale of reductions in the duties upon imports from 1833 to 1842, and that from ’42 onward the tariif should rest upon the uniform ad valorem of 20 per cent. Upon introducing this bili into the Senate, My. Clay said, in his speech of Feb. 12, 1833, that The descending graduations by which he proposed” to arrive at the minimum of duties must be gradual. ‘otective principle must be said to be, in some e, relinquished atthe end of eight years and He would admit that his friends dia not get i and the gentiemen on the 1 not obtain all they might desire. It might be true that there would be loss and gain in But how was this loss and gain dis- It is among The distribu- principle of compromise the bottom of our insti- stitation itself. Aniong our countrymen, distribution takes place. tion is founded on the and cone on which tutions, which gave birth to the co: What man, w is entitled to the American statesman, would stanc either House of Congress peace and amity ¢ As to the objection, the want ofa guarantee to there being an ulterior continuance of the duties imposed by the bill, on the expiration of the term which it prescribes, Mr. Clay said. best guarantee will be found in the cir- curmriances under which it would be passed.” With the passage of this compromise civil War was averted, peace was restored, for eveo outh Carolina laid down her arms and acqui- * the esced. Jt wes held that this compromise” was tobe the permanent law of the land, or that nothing should disturb it but the exigency of a foreign war, or the extremest necessities of the government. Yet, as soon as the North came fully into power in Congress, in 1841-42, this solemn. compromise of 1833 was “super- seded by the legislation,” first, of the tempo- rary act of 1841, and secondly, by the regular protective tariff of 1842, with all its exorbitant schedules of specifics, home raluations, and misimums. And yet the South submitted to this exorbitant law, for although the act of ’33 was a compromise, *‘a compact almost as furmal as the constitution iteclf”’ it was still but a law of Congress; and, baviag served its purpose, was set aside. , Mr. Clay was the author of the superseding act, as he was of the original compact, which he had declared to be a binding “treaty of peace and amity.” 3ut the Missouri compact has also served its j purpose. Till the federalists, in their last | despairing struggle at the Hartford Convention, raised the question of slavery as a subject of sectional agitation, by takiog ground against the representation allowed by the constitution to the South of three-fifths of their slaves, no party ever dreamed of making South- ern slavery the subject of Congressional legislation. But from that day the viras dif- fused itself through the North, so that upon the Missouri question in 1820 the Nortnern anti- slavery sentiment was suficiently powerful to dictate the restriction of 36 30. At that day, while, for Presidential coasiderations, all the leading statesmen of the South consented to the arrangement, Mr. Webster was foremost in the North in defending it as a constitutional Jaw, “scarcely logs obligatory upon all parties than the constitution itself.” But again, in the measures of 1850, providing territorial governments for Utah and New Mex- ico, we find Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster aban- donirg the doctrine of the Missouri compro- mise for the simple constitutional conceszion of the legitimate sovereignty of the people in the territories over the question of slavery, as one of their local institutions with which Con- gress had no right to interfere. After an inter- val of thirty years of toleration Mr, Clay de- liberately abandons the Missouri restriction, and Mr. Webster virtually relinquishes his for- mer interpretations of the constitution in his memorable and convincing speech of 1850. The doctrine of intervention was thus practically admitted to be unconstitutional by the father of the Missouri compromise, and by the sur- viving statesmen of that day who co-operated in the Senate in the passage of the acts of non- intervention for Utah and New Mexico. We find. then, that the tariff compromise of 1833, introduced as a permanent compact be- tween the North and the South, was deliber- ately superseded by the North. as possessed of no binding obligations, upon the very first op- portunity, by a system of high protective duties. We find the South consenting to the repeal because the compact was possessed of no legally binding obligations. We are also reminded that Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster, the leading champions of the Missouri compro- mise of 1820, with equal coolness in 1850, opposed the extension of the Missouri line, but united in superseding it in the new territories by the doctrine of non-intervention. And, taking all these proceedings together, the argu- ment of the Wationa/ Intelligencer, of the in- violability of the Missouri compact, like that compact itself, is broken to pieces as a rope of sand. Father Gales is just thirty-four years bebind the age. What the Intelligencer has said of the ter- giversations of the President’s organ on this Nebraska question is more to the point. The Union, the Cabinet, and the President, have been reluctantly forced to go with Douglas, for all the dodging in and out of the Washington organ failed of its purpose—-to create a diver- sion. Still, from the free soil antecedents, in- clinations, partialities, ond obligations of the President and his Cabinet, there is danger to the bill. and this danger is becoming more ma- nifest with every succeeding day. There is no constitutional! objection against the bill. It only proposes the repeal of an unconstitn- tional law; and yet there is danger it will be defeated in the House from administrative in- fluences invisible to the naked eye. If the bill is lost let the South and the friends of Douglas place the responsibility in the right quarter, It can only be lost through the treachery of the administration, The Attempted Robbery of th: Pe»ple of New York. Rob Roy, sallying forth from his mountain glens, and, dagger in hand, stripping the Saxon traveller of wallet and puree, was not a more daring or more impudent highwayman than the gang of politicians who, with their hands on our throats, now demand us to surrender ten mil- lions of dollars into their grasp. In frankness, the gallant Highlander stood immeasurably above the thieves at Albany. He did not tell his victims that their interest required him to rifle their knapsack and search their pockets, He never assured them that they would inevitably be ruined, if they escaped his clutches. He would have scorned the misérable cant about patriotism and public spirit, uader which our modern freebooters cloak their designs, In other respects, Rob Roy and the plunderers at Albany bear a strong resemblance to each other. But their victims stand in a different light The traveller, whom the Scottish bandit pointed out as his prey, was generally alone, incapable of defence, and unused to rade coaflicts on the highland heath: we, on whom the Albany ban dits have fallen with confident swoop, are not quite so helpless. We need not surrender our purse unless we like. No alternative of dirk or claymore is offered us. We must standa lit- tle gbuse, it is true, from the Seward organs; but experience has hardened us to this inflic- tion. We can defeat the robbers, and pursue our way in peace without the shadow of an ap- prehension. No hurt can possibly come either to us or to the State, from our rejecting the pro- pored amendment to the Constitution, and saving ourselves and our children ten millions of dollars. If, therefore, we do submit to tho fa- gitious demand that is made upon us, it can only be from a generous desire on our part to reward the politicians and speculators for their pact deeds. According to the usual rule in such cases, they would pocket aboat one halt of the $10,500,000 which it is proposed to raise, These men, some of them lawyers, some editors, some trading politicians, and some Wall street speculators, would receive from us around sum of five millions and a quarter: for which we and our children would be bound to pay interest at seven per cent per ansum. Now, what have give them a claim on us equal to five millions and a quarter? What debt have we incurred towards them, which it is now proposed to pay in this indirect and disingenuous manner ? They and theirs—whigs and democrats—T'ros Tyriusve—have squandered the canal revenues in past years; and by effecting reductions whgre- of they alone reaped the benefit, have actually deprived the State of the means of carrying out the original and the only sound system of canal policy, viz: that system by which the canals were made to complete themselves by means of their surplus revenue. We wish the people to bear the fact well in mind. Had the gangs of politicians who meet annually at Albany been restrained from altering the rates of toll tor their own corrupt purposes, the canals would have been completed long since, and now would have been paying a handsome re- venne to the State. Look at the difference it would haye made only since 1848:— Tolis as they would Difference -loss these people done to entitle them to this bonus? What public services have been rendered by these politicians, speculators end editors, to Tills achial. have been had there ty the Stale ly levied wen no reductions. fromreduction s $3,355,472 $108,504 3,473,675 94,755 298,8. 595,2' 1,461,272 1,687,810 Total ar ouct lost by the State since 1848. $4,336,479 Thus witbin the last six years the enormous sum of four millions three hundred and thirty. six thousand four hundred and seventy-nin dollars has beeu actually taken from the coffers of the State and put into the pockets of the for- warders and their allies. Whatever was the condition of the canals, there was no necessity for the reduction; for they were sure of having the Western traffic, they had no rival tha: could compete with them, and the rate of toll was bot oppressive or injurious to trade. Under the circumstances, the reductions would have been insanity, had they not been fraud. It was obvious to every man that the canals required to be enlarged and completed. Every body knew that money was required for this purpose. An honest statesman, foreseeing the necessity of undertaking these works, would not only have le‘t the tolls at the original rates, but, if opportunity had offered would have increased them wherever ‘the interests of commerce could have Lorne an increase of burthens. In- stead of this our Legislature has continued year after year to cut them down, and in the last six years slone has thus thrown away a sum nearly equal to one half the cost of the proposed works. Asum of nearly four millions of dollars has been taken out of the public chest, and distri- buted in the form of reductions among the forwarders on the canals and their political friends at Aibany. Shall we reward the men who served us thus with another five millions? If we attempt to complete the canals by any other mode than the original one, if we begia to pateh our constitution, to raise loans, and scatter money among the bloodsuckers at Al- bany, the wisest cannot tell where we shall end, and the youngest can see that we shall merely be placing a premium upon corruption and dishonesty. We have lost four millions and a half since 1838, by allowing these men to man- age our affairs as they pleased. The money is gone and cannot be recovered. We must make the best of it, as a lesson of experience. But, in heaven’s name, let us not follow up this startling consequence of our own carelessness, by throwing other five millions away, and plunging the State into debt. If our haste to see the canals finished would warrant us in in- curring liabilities ourselves, let us not be- queath to our children the fearful curse of direct taxation. If the canals require more money to be spent in enlarging and finishing them, let us re-estab- lish the old rate of tolls. We are sure of the traftic; our competitors cannot divert any sen- sible portion of it from us. Trade is prospe- rous; prices are remunerative; produce is abun- dant. Let us revert to the old system of tolls. Even without any increase of business, the in- crease of tolls would exceed one million and a half per year, and in about six years wouid enable us to spend $10,500,000 on the canals. At the usual rate of increase this sum could be laid by in about four years and a half; and if a couple of millions or so were wanted to com- plete the work before this time they could safely be borrowed. But if we value our State pros- perity, or the honesty of our public men, let us vote one and all against the present infamous ten million scheme. Crry Rerorm.—We see that a stir is being made in certain quarters to oppose the propo- sition now before the Legislature to make the Chief of Police elective. There can be little doubt that ro absurd a proposal will meet the tate it deserves. Should it saecced the next thing will be a proposal to elect our policemen; and not content with this we dare eay enter- prising politicians will be found to advocate the introduction of the elective system into pri- vate houses, and have our cooks and servants elected by the people. But remonstrance against this folly is like bandaging a scratched finger when the vitals of the body politic are attacked by a virulent dis- ease. We want a thorough and radical reform in our city government, not a partial pettifog- ging affair. And it is high time that people should think of it before some great calamity arouse them from their apathy. Last year’s attempt to reform the Corporation turas out a mere delusion. We see no symptoms of any practical improvement in our city government. So far as we have been enabled to judge, they are just treading in the footsteps of their predecessors. Time will set them down at their real value; meanwhile on the only question of practical importance to the public, their conduct has been precisely that imputed to the worst of their predecessors. When the streets were so overloaded with mud and slime that crossing was almost impossible, Arcularius defied the Corporation, the contractors defied him, and between all three, the public was al- lowed to bewire itself as it wished. No real reform can be expected until we be- gin to demolish about nine of the dozen govern- ments under which we live. Under our present charter, we clect annually some twelve men to govern us each in a diiferent way. These men are elected by grog-shop influence and grog-shop politicians; and as soon as they are installed ja office they care no more for the public weal than the Emperor of China. They are all independ- ¢nt of each other, and fight and quarrel during their whole term of office with beautifal unani- mity. This is the real secret of our misgovern- ment, If we mean to alter it, we must begin by restricting “our ecleetive offices to those of mayor, aldermen and councilmen. Let us elect them, and give them the power of appoint ing all the other civic officers. Let those latter hold their situations during good behaviour, and be responsible to the mayor. Under this rystem we might be well governed; all others are fudge. Tus Five Pots Recion or New Yors—Irs Conpition anp Prospects.—The recent efforts on the part of certain persons to ameliorate the condition of the poor in this city have at- tracted and fixed the attention of the public for some time past. With a view to extend the sphere of these efforts two establishments have been set up in that part of the city called the “ Five Points,” and particularly distinguished as the centre and-concentration of poverty, misery, and criminality. With view to en lighten the public upon the nature of these in- stitutions, we recently sent reporters to each of them, in order that we might judge from actual experience, and not from anybody's ipse divit- The result of our reporters’ investigations is given in to-day’s Heraup. It seems that the merit of originating the enterprise on the Five Points belongs to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; but as their agents quarrelled with the Conference about money matters, or something of that sort, rival establishments were set up, and they are now both in operation. They are probably conducted by disinterested individu- als, who are actuated by the best of motives; but, viewing the amount of wickedness and poy- erty in this section of the city, all their efforts are in comparison but as a drop in the bucket. The three or four hundred people under their charge form but a small minority in the awful army of the Five Points from which our cem:- teries and our prisons are daily recruited. Here is a district of the city in which four or five thousand men, women and children manage to vegetate; and it is safe to Say that three-fourths of this number know not when they rise in the morning where they will get a dinner. The district is a plague spot on the city’s escutcheon; to it resort murderers, thieves, prostitutes: vagrants, and beggars, without number. Here. in ill-ventilated rooms, more like the holes wherein the beasts of the field make their dens than human habitations, do these outcasts from eociety live, steal, die and rot. The picture is too horrid for contemplation—the depth of misery too low for description. We find in the po- lice reports so mach of drunkenness, (and crime resulting therefrom.) that we are astonished at the idea of the occurrence of such things in the city of New York, where there is so much philanthropy for the black man and so little for the white man. New York! New York !—the Empire City—-the centre, (as we are told,) of refinement! New York! with hertwo bundred cturches, her eloquent parsons, her great pbilosophers, ber pure patriots—New York! distinguished for everything that is moral, both male and female! And yet there are no such sinks cf iniquity in any of the slave States, about which there isso much “ agitation” now- a-daye, as can easily be found within five blocks of Broadway in the city of New York--the city where everything is free and equal, and where the black man may hold up his head as high as the white man. § Scorcuinc Lerrer rrom Mike Watsn.—We publish this day, from one of the Sunday pa- pers of this city, a very curious, caustic and characteristic letter from the Hon. Mike Walsh, leader of the New York delegation in Congress. According to Mike. everything at Washington is out of gear, and from the loafers on the ave- nue to the spoilsmen in the Cabinet and in Congress, cheating and overreaching, and the various genteel arts of swindling, are the uni- versal game. Mike is evidently at the head of the heap from New York—Cutting is down, Wheeler has been thrown back, Walbridge is in the same fix—even Dean, the mouthpiece of the White House, is eclipsed by Mike. The fact is that Mike holds the same ascendancy among the hardshells at Washington that Captain Rynders holds among the softshells of Tammany Hall. He is their leader and their constitutional ex- pounder, especially in his correspondence with the Sunday newspapers. Mike throws out some terrible foreshadowings on the Nebraska bill; he prediets a general smash up among the Presidential crockery—such an explosion, in fact, as will blow the President, the Cabinet, Douglas, and all concerned, sky high. And we incline to the same opinion, Read Mike’s curi- ous cut-and-thrust letter. Fartvre or tun Crystat Patace.—We notice that the stockholders of the Crystal Palace Company are out of pocket $125,000 by the operation. This is somewhat singular, consid- erivg the favor shown to the enterprise, and the popularity it at one time enjoyed. No other cause can be assigned but the misman- agement of the directors; the first and most striking instance of which was the delay which occurred in the opening. Had the Palace been opened on the lst of May, instead of the 14th of July, it is probable that there would have been a surplus as large as the deficit now is. Coun- try people lost faith in the scheme when it failed to open as announced; and thousands who would have visited it remained quietly at home. We hope it will prove a warning for the future. Public companies like private indi- viduals must keep their word if they want to succeedin life, ga Tun Nationat Democrat says that its circulation is 6,300—but it does not state what j8 its daily circulation, or what is its weekly or_ semi-weekly, Our statement only referred to ts daily circulation. The Celestials in Trouble, Leung Aghew, interpreter of the Tong Hook Tong. dra matic company of Obinere perfo-mers, wishea to make a statement to the people of New York and the neighboring cities, relative to the present position of his fellow artiste’ ard bimeslf, their prospsets of a retara home, aod the appropriation of the ciferent sus subseribed for their relief, At his earnest request we pablish it, Toirty-fve of the Celestials are still inmates of the Almshouse at Ward’ Inland, and, consequertly, supported by the Jom wirsiontre of Emigration, who bave no authority to en gage & parsage for them fn a vessel, but are prepsred to furpish them with provisions if they can getaway. The interpreter, with some others of the party, get casual employ ment in New York. Ieurg Aghew says that they are very anxious to ba farnished with an explicit sta‘emant of acoount for all the sums received daring the time the late subscription list was open, and of ali sums paid for their bsnefit and relief, He states that the Secretary, Mr. Syabach, of the Shaker; eare Hotel, told hm that the total amount was $065, but that the company think as much as between three and feur thourand dollars were handed io. Mr. Sea- bach, he ssys, informed him that all the papers hat been returned to Mr. George Christ, the treasurer, bat he was told by Mr. Christ that Mr. Soabacn had them, From the fact that Mayor Westerrelt, ©. W. Sandford, Mortimer Living stop, and Mr. Christ, formed a finance committee durieg the time, we think there will be no ciffisulty in setiefying the Oelestials on ths score ot a fair balance sheet. That the dramatic company rhould te got home as soon as possible there can be no doubt. To support thirty-five able bodied mem by cherity during thelr lives is ® thing not to be thought of. It wil cost about $4,000 to take them to China and we would suggost that Leu'ug Aghew be furoished vith the aseoan; he Cen'res 80 much, end that ‘he ever charitable people ast about another pecaniary effort for theic removal to the Central Flowery Lavd A letter from the Commissioners of Emigration oe:tides to us that the gréater part of the perforrarra have been on Ward’s liland siccs the 231 “Sean to be teu he the Tong-Hook Tong Dramatic * . Gumyany? ‘The Chincha Isiands. MEBTING AT TEE ASTOR HOUSE. A meeting of shipmasters who have arrived recently from the Chinchas, was held on Satarday, at the Astor Beouse—Csptain 8, A. Fabinsin the chair. After the mest- fog was called to onder, P. W. Penhallow, Eiq., was ap- Pointed » committee of one, with instructisns to take the Beceseary measures to present the grievances of which they complain to the government at Warhingtoe. A Cooument for the signature of merchants and others was read and approved, and the fvllowing resolation adopted:— Resolved, That, whereas we have reason to the letter ex cur gratitade te ‘Admiral’ Moreabye which was sent through our minis‘er, J. Clay, was aot Guly forwarced, the fo copy of the ab.ve mentioned: let ‘er be published in the New York Papers. The following is a copy of the letter referred resolution :— Reha Cmyona Ist To Hxw Britannic Mayesty’s Cuarce DArnatt a ts Sin—The Aberican shipmasters here, feeling them- felves uncer infinite obligations to Acmiral Moresby for his kind attention to their representations, and) hip prompioese in demanding for thom that proper respeot: paid to their fing by the authorities at these tala: beg leave, through you, to touder him their hea:tfell thacks; ard also add the assuranca tuat we shall ever re- tein, with centiments of the liveliest gratitude towards: him, the conviction that by the site of our own banner Briard cd intitle flag—a sure pie¢ ge of pro‘eo:ion for us, much esteem,.we are, tir, ver, cbedient servants, | eilimel easier. ys It is eaid that the conduct of Mr. Clay in this case wild lead to efforts for his removel from his present post. Another meeting is to be held on the 15th, at the same place. ‘TuR FLOUR Traps, Prices, &e —The preseat high price of ficur end breadstuffs generally in the United States, way be attributable as well to a localcaaie an to thy une settled condition of Earopean affairs, It will be Peea iect-y +@ that we gave aceonata jast fal) of tho paratively ehort yield in some o' the principal worat growing S 4 of the almoat tore! jatlareo the crops in portions of Ohio, Virgin's, Psouyivacia nd Marylend. Thie fact, in connection with the foreign de- mand, has caused the price ot four to reach » Giyure which has foupd bat two peralicis sinss tre commons ment of the prevent century, and brough: wieat mp to» Price never before known. There is no doubt, however, but the stock om hand fa the principal sackets temoce ‘han sufficient to meet the actual demants {or Or sump. tion and ¢: port, but it is evidentiy ia‘he hands Of apeas ulators, who seem determined, and are no doubt able, to hold on for a farther rise, or at least to maintain the Present price until the opening of the navigation im the spring, when, whatever may be the etate of af- fairs in Earope, the prices of breadstuffs must experience, if not a sudden, certainly a steady decline. A glance at the markets in some of the principal citier Iset week, gave ue the wholesale prices at which dour was sel.ing in those localities, and whica is exhibited in ome -$10 87 St. Lous., « 11 00 Ciacinnett. + 1000 Now 0 lesan: 9 76 Charleston. 975 Mobdtie.. 10 00 Bavacnah. cacent Es48ss Court Calendar—This Day. Scrauva Covrr—‘ieneral Term.—Nos. 31, 44, 47, 1, 60, 51, 146, 62, 63, 65, 4, 6, 15, 16, 18. Surams Covetr—Cirouit.--Nos. 133, 186, 188, 190, 192, 194, 196, 199 to 203 206, 206 207 y Cae Fimas—Nos, 103, 130, 91, 218, 197, 231, 298 2 Surman Co:rt—Two branches —Nos. 822, 831, 398, 899, 400, 401, 405, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412, 418, 414, 415, 417, 418, 419,420, 422, 428, 574, 4.6, 447. 197, 480, 809, 47, 508, 486, 26a, 842, 268, 285, 227, 76, 97, Malls for Europe. THE NEW YORK HERALDS FOR EUAOPB. The steamebip Franklin, Capt. Wo ton, will Isave thie port to morrow at twelve o'clock. ‘The royal mail steamship Ara\is, Captain Jadkizs, wilt leave Bouton on Wednesday, at 12 o'clock, fur Liverpool, Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the. Nuw Yorx Bxeitp will be received at te following places in Europe:— Lrvxrroot,.John Hunter, Ne 2 Paradixe street, Lonpon,.,. Edwards, Sandford & Oo,, No. 17 Cormhi. Wor. Thomas & Co. No. 19 Cathecige street. Paxm,.....Livingaton, Wells & Co., 8Place de la Bourse. The European mails will close in ths city at a quarter - to three o'clock to morrow aftrravon. ‘The Wasxty Hamar, (printed ta Freac': and Enghisa > will be published at balf past nine o'clock to-rsocrow morning. Single copies, in wrapperr, six,ence, OUR AGENTS IN PARIS, FRANCE. We beg leave to state to our rescers and patroue bo saris, and Europe generally, that Wr. 8. 8. Revell, 37 tae de Ia Banque, Paris, is no ionger connected wit the tmw YoRK Fleuauy. either ar cotrerporsent or agent Mecars Livingsten & Wells, § Place ce la Bourss, are er only agents in Paris, both for edvertivements amd subscripticrs an Wo! 2. Come, then, and dig your fathers up. Who says sot Whe? 4 BOOR MAN, The Bignores Pol. thelast and prettiese:. gfibe polkas Jatt published by NUKACS WaTER3, a3 Most Extraordinary Carlosity Ever Ex- hibited. Do to go ard see the Liliputien King Broadway M a Seip Se Lilliputian King 1s the smallest hu. man being ever known—h Seen ee bagi rho ¢ a weighs less taan six pounds, ang PR trem faced fe cetera! superb - jee tien of livin are all to bs seen ia with the Lilliputis: at the ‘Droutway Moungerie Albert H. Nicolay hold: his Regular semi-weed)y tale of stocks and borde this ¢a; at the Mero! apts’ Exchay For furthers refer to his adverticoment in another column. The Twenty-Five Cent Daguerreotypes are teatest produssions of she pioto- rialartofthe 8 thoy are the cheapest and bost rete ~ Pletores taken a3 onco by the new double Siemere Tw! ever invented. camera, 289 Brosdway, red Beautiful Homesteads for- ollars, pa} 25 by 100 tae OF & jnrite our dors to Mp th SEARLES WO sD. Noe Seoedwey abet HA RLF SD. No. , spe and pamy hievs can be had grptis. om Elegant French and India Wedding and ‘visiting cards, fe pte und privted in the latest style; wed- ding envelopes of iptio: toe latest it hati: fom Paris it 4 dvor es " for?s, te ty, ad x ER! 2 B ‘. Vaientine Entertainments.— Bal will be iteraliy be- Perham’s the present weer # cademy tern * Weard apropriatc ch atactor aud meste vprinte character, and we: aid for the #1okc, to eay nothing of samiscion a, 08 most attra all the price to the exhibit Premium Planos.—T. Gilbert & Co ’s- pianos, with iron frame and circu’st soxle, are the beat most beautiful pian he world. Ts-ie pianos tock. the Premium at the Ne Crystal Palsce jure) and brilliancy of ton ggqusited A foi] sasor ment ju feceived by HORACE WATERS, 2:5 iroadway. solo agent. Immense Reduction tn Winter Clothing. 4 860 Brosdy, materials, at poate a9 $10, $3 ‘m suits, and ei Most Valuable Patent Rights for Sale — The uncersigued ary prepared to ell, on vary 1 ble ten| ie iulty. “Am opportunity for fered, loading «ith certainty to most brilliant results. Apply to I. M. SIN: 1, Mo. Panny ey erly GER & CO., No, 328 ee WhO Wah to sanyiy a er clothteg j or de deviation in prices. _ Th Megha Affect to Despise our Ingena~ y, et ti their exquirite ft and peerless Cannot make 8 ahirt that a 4 Worth Remem! so por has just been opened o7 S00 © Palton street. with an entirely fresh and jeook of clothing, stants to all coasons, out ani ibe best styles, and 11 be sold at ths lowews *. B—all getolee, seareneges it be exactly as ADWARD 7. HA 2, Clothing Eap. rium, Were, a Falwn Wholesale Straw Goods House—To the cubera of saw coode.—A Leland & "iiew onevot she. stocks of 2 Ablg market, © ‘Shey will «1! « = roe, by the onse ovly. Also, t aa Nee NEA DOM LELAND & O0., 171 Posel streets y Fd deera | Sipe any Dal eone- ‘Aan street, aud MES. HAYS 138