The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1854, Page 4

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Though he regretted that the subject had been brought up, and that he was compelled to make known his posi tion thereupon, he nevertheless should vote for the bill, This was expected, the General having already committed himself in the celebrated Nicholson letter, and in resent speches, to the effect that the Missouri act is unconstitutional, and should be declared null and void. Mr. Cooper followed in opposition, taking the old track of Seward, Chase and company, that the passage of the measure would produce greater reprobation and excitement than the adoption of any other act. Mr. Brodhead replied to his colleague, and declared that the bill was perfectly in accord ance with the sentimen's uttered by him (Mr. B.) eight years ago. In the course of the day Mr. Chase presented an informal ameudment, providing for the election of a Governor and other public officers and members of the Territorial Legislature. The free soilers throughout the Northern States fre unceasing in their endeavors to create an excite: ‘ment on the Nebraska question; but despite all their efforts a great, an overwhelming majority of the people appear to look upon the bill pending ia Con- gress as an act justly due to the good sense of the inhabitants of the Territories, and one that is calculated to sustain them in their rights as independent freemen who are capable of choosing such laws as will best subserve their own intereste. Not satisfied with sending some ewenty or thirty remonstrances against the abroga- tion of the Missouri compromise act te the Senate yesterday, the free soilera also transmitted petitions for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, the aboli- tion of slavery in the District of Columbia, and the amendment of all laws taking slaves in payment for @ebts. These documents, which were duly received ‘and tabled, show upon their face how much faith may be placed in the aseertions of various leading free soilers in and out of Congress, that they are willing to abide by the compromises of 1850. Railroad speculators ‘did a prosperous busine:s yesterday. No less than eight bills, granting lands for as many railroad projects in the South and West, passed the Senate. While the members of the new States were in a good humor with their success, Mr. Dawson moved that the bill granting land to all the States for the support of the indigent, insane, deaf, dumb and blind, be taken up. This was agreed to, and after a short debate the subject was postponed. A substitute for the bill rewarding the San Francisco rescuers was informally presented. It provides that gold, silver and bronze medals, with suitable devi-es, shall be given to those who participated in the humane duty instead of rewards in money. How unfavorably the action of Congress concerning this matter appears when compared with the course pursued by the British government in similar casea. The House of Representatives, after a short con- snitation, postponed the election of a printer in the place of the late General Armstrong till to-morrow. Mauch anxiety prevails as to the result of this election, it being understood that a direct attempt will be made to overslangh the administration candidates, of whom there are several, and elect a new maa, who is not objectionable to either the soft or hard shelis or any other faction. Should this movement be consummated, it is believed that there will be a @ecided change in the tone of the vacillating govern- ment. Mr. Florence, we observe, has proposed to abolish the system of maintaining party organs at the expense of the nation by the establishment of & government printing office. An unsuccessful effort was made in the House to avoid the necessity of sending the bill for the con" struction of six first class steam frigates, which passed the Senate unanimously, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion failed by ninety one yeas to forty-eight nays—it requiring two-thirds of those present to suspend the rules. The measure, there fore, goes to the bottom of the long calendar of bi'l ‘to be acted on in committee, and may not be reached for months, notwithstandivg the immediate urgency for placing our naval power in @ condition to meet any emergency that may arise. With a war pending ‘in Barope, and an open acknowledgment on the part of England and France that they will not hesitate to set at deflance the Monros doetrive with regard to intervention in the affairs of this continent, we find forty-eight Congressmen unwilling that the proper steps mal be taken to effectually protect both our national honor and our maritime commerce. That a majority of the mom bers really appreciate the necessity of strengthe ring the navy is evident from the vote on the foregoing question, as well as by the adoption of a resolution requesting information as to whether, and if 80, how many of the steamships employed in the ovean mail service can be eonverted into men-of-war? Sefior Gallegos, the delegate from Now Moxico sylears 0 be in wonble jal argnnd, Tue didlouity . yesterday made that he be aHowed an istterpreter, as | be did not understand a single word that was spoken | in the House. Objection was mede, spparectly on | the ground that he was not worse oif—pariivularly | at certain times when the body ts in an uproar of | confusion—-than a majority df those who really do understand the English language. We haves great variety of very interesting mis- celaneous items from Washington,to-day. The Senate as confirmed two or three unimportant con- sulships, but those at Havana and London remain unfilled. Indeed, itis intimated that the adminis- ‘tration’ is holdiog back these berths as bribes to gain ‘votes for those measures favored by the President andjthe Cabinet. The Supreme Court has decided in favor (f the legality of the late Mr. McDonogh’s will. Ex-Senator Tallmadge presided at the Spiritual Con- vention; but the session was private, and nothing has transpired as to the wonders performed aud the revelations made. ‘A large number of bills of considerable importance to the interests of this city were passed and other- wise disposed of by the Legislature yesterday. ‘Among those introduced in the Senate, was one to repeal the charter of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail- road Company. The Senate spent most of the day in discussing and amending the temperance bill. tm to bis right to a seat having et last deem decided { jurrings will confirm both in their position ofan- in his favor by the proper committee, a mition was | tagoniem; peace is The clause providing compensation for complainants and informers was struck out—consequently com- plainants and informers will have no other than a high moral duty to incite them to exertion. The Assembly adjourned at an early hour, in consequence of the death of Mr. Monfort, whig member from Datchess county. A despatch from Louisville positively denies that Hon. J. J. Crittenden has declared against the Ne- braska bill. The storm on Saturday night did considerable damage to canal, railroad and other property ‘in the vicinity of Easton, Pa. It was also very severe in some parts of the South, both in the interior and along the coast. Some vessels were slightly damaged and others detained. The steamers for this port were unable to leave Charleston and Savannah till Sunday morning. Quite an interesting debate took place in the Board of Councilmen last evening, relative to a bill lately introduced in the State Assembly, which pro- poses to create a permanent Board of Commissioners of Estimates and A:sessmenta for opening streets, &c, Resolutions were adopted objecting to the pas- sage of any such law, and authorizing the appoint- ment of a committee of five members to proceed to Albany and protest against the intervention of the Legislature in matters properly belonging to the Al- dermen and Councilmen. A large amount of routine business having been disposed of, the Board ad" journed till next Monday. It was an agreeable surprise, last evening, to find that for once the Aldermen waived the pleasure of listening to their own eloquence, and in lieu thereof transacted a large amount of business. Numerous papers from the Board of Councilmen were passed upon in a rapid and most satisfactory manner. The nomination of George G. Glazier in the place of Mr. Arcularias, was received by the Board, and re- ferred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices. We trust that, with past examples before them, the Board will thoroughly examine the qualifications of this gentleman before they confirm his appointment to the office of Cor sioner of Streets. A meeting of sonle two hundred members of the fire department took place last evening, in the cham- ber of the Board of Alderman, to discuss the new or- ‘dinance on the subject of separating that department from the Common Council. The meeting unani- mously resolved to recommend the committee to re:, port favorably on the ordinance to the Board. We give a sketch of the proceedings in another colamn. The late Elliott Creason bequeathed one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars for charitable ob- jects in Philadelphia. Besides many columns of advertisements, to-day’s inside pages contain a report of the proceedings of the Trial relative to the Police Uniform; Police In- telligence, including an account of the riot on thee Five Points, and the stabbing affray in Twenty seventh street; Communication conserning’the vacant Police Judgeship; Political and Miscellaneous Letters from Connecticut, Albany and Virginia; The extea- sion of Telegraphs to Aftica; Commercial, Theatri cal and Local Intelligence, &c. ‘The Nebraska Bill In the House. As the crisis approaches, the symptoms of Cabinet disaffection thicken. Common report already ascribes to the President the design of disclaiming the Nebraska bill as an administra- tion measure; and no one seems to believe that either the Union or its masters are in earnest in the support they have hitherto afforded to Senator Douglas's project. To us it seems a matter of very little consequence, so far as the permanent interests of the country are concern- ed, how the Cabinet prompts, or how the House votes. Whether the Nebraska bill is or is not passed at this session of Congress, the question it involves will not be floally settled till the people pronounce their verdict upon it at the polls. The action of this session of Congress may alter the shape it will assume in going to “the people. In the one case, we should be called upon to ratify the repeal of an unconstitutional law; in the other, to censure the faint-hearted- ness of our representatives for having failed to effect that repeal. But in whatever form the question may be put, we may rest assured that it will arise, and that no final action will be taken upon it until the people have spoken out at the polls. The debates and votes in the Senate and House of Representatives are the mere written complaints, pleas and replications Lecessary to make up the issue: no jadgment can be rendered till the country has been em- pannelled as a special jury, and the case tried upon its merits before them. We view therefore with less concern than we should otherwise have felt, the manceuvres by which Mr. Pierce and his Cabinet are at- tempting to conciliate their ambition with their principles. Pushing the bill forward with one hand which is-seen, while they draw it back- ward with the other which is concealed, the President and his advisers may possibly con- gratulate themselves on playing an exceedingly adroit game so fur as they are themselves con- cerned; but they cannot, one way or the other. affect the practical interests at stake. One needs only to look at the magnitude of the principle involved, and the spirit evinced by the combatants on each side, to convince oneself beyond doubt or question that the courge pursued by the Congress now sitting at Wash- ington will exercise no material influence on the final adjudication of the power of Congress over slavery in new States or Territories. They may vote down the Nebraska bill, or place on record their formal disapproval of the Missoari compromise; neither position can be regarded as part of our national policy, until an appeal has been taken thereon, and the popular sen tence registered. We, for one, rejoice that Nebraska has raised the question of Congressional non-intervention in a direct tangible shape. We have never ceased to warn the American people that so long as there existed a loophole through which the slavery controversy might be iutrodueed into Congress, just so long would strife, eoo- tentions, and bad feelings embitter our national councils, I: is sheer madness to expect that the abolitionists will be cured of their fanati cism, or that the Sonth will yield her rights ua cr the preseute of menageor insult} Continua! short of a the- rough exclusion of the topic from the legisle- tive halls at Washington. Every fresh acqui- sition of territory will arouse the quarrel anew. Should an opportunity of annexing Cuba, or | part of Mexico, or Canada, or any other terri- tory ocour, the old slavery battle will have to be fought over again, and as the dangers of, these battles increase in proportion to their frequency, they might not unreasonably come to be deemed grave if not fatal objections to any new acquisitions of territory at all. Thus this slavery controversy—if we allow it to ex- ist any Jonger—may prove at last an insupera- ble barrier to the due extension of the re- public, end the natural fulfilment of our mani- fest destiny. These considerations bid us rejoice that, at this early stage of our national career, when no distracting causes.can operate to divert men’s minds from the principle at Issue, and no foreign or domestic embarrassments complicate the difficulty—the question whether or no Con- grees shall have any voice in prescribing the institutions of new States or Territories, should have arisen fairly, frankly, and plainly. We are glad that it should have come up in such o shape that men can vote upon it understand- ingly, without misapprehension, fear, or favor. as we care not a rush for the private mo- which may have been instrumental in the introduction of the measure, so we are utterly indifferent to its effects on individual politi- cians, and look only to the beneficial results which will flow from the final decision of the people on a question “fraught with infinite im- portance to the country at large. That decision may possibly be adverse to the views thie journal has uniformly advocated. It may, ip the opinion of thoae who coincide with us, involve @ tacit breach or an open violation of the constitution under which we live. Ifso, the triumph of the anti-slavery party will not rest here. If the fanatics, among whose lead- ers Garrison, Seward, Giddings and Gerrit Smith stand conspicuous, succeed in drawing away from the side of constitutional loyalty a sufficient proportion of the people t defeat the repeal of the Missouri compromise, they will certainly not be content with that victory. The advantage they will have gained will be merely as a stepping stone to other more signal attempts on the rights of their fellow citi- zen:. Having excluded slavery from new Territories they will next assail it in the old States. Men who upheld the unconstitional Missouri compromise will not scruple to trample the constitution itself under foot. If, by exaggerated pictures of the horrors of slave- ry, they can persuade a majority in the North to sustain them in the present controversy, they will next ask of that majority to send an abolition President to Congress, and amend the constitution so as to insist on the abolition of slavery in the South. The men of the North, thus appealed to, will then find themselves in an awkward dilemma. They will either be com- pelled to retrace their footsteps and abandon their leaders—a most unlikely and distasteful proceeding—or they will see the necessity of exerting the power they now possess to elect such @ man as Seward or Garrison to the Presi- dency, and assail slavery in its stronghold. This is where the arguments of the anti-Ne- braska advocates necessarily lead. This isthe consummation which the opponents of the measure are confidently expecting. A con summation so disastrous that the most vivid fancy cannot presume to portray its horrors. Dis- union and war, at the outset. The total anni- hilation of all our projects of national great- ness. A relapse from the condition of one of the greatest Powers on the earth into that of two and perhaps more petty, shattered, dislo- cated States, possibly crippled by intestine feuds, and animated—not by our present ex- panded gonoroue spirit of enterprise—but by a petty provincial jealousy one of each other. The destruction of all the manufactures and all the foreign trade of the North. A tre- mendous decline in real estate and other repre- sentatives of value. A prostration of oar foreign credit. An irreparable fall in our home finances, our banking institutions, our stocks. The obliteration, forever, of the glorious names of American citizen, and United States. Such is the tuture the opponents of the Ne- braska bill are preparing for us! Ovr Forsren Pouicy on Costume—FLAGRANT Vioation or Ixstrucrions.—The confidential disclosures from the State Department, touch- ing the difficulties experienced by some of our diplomats in enforcing the Franklin-Marcy costume upon the courts of Europe, and the unscrupulous violation of their instructions by others of our diplomatic corps, were very as- tonishing to everybody. But -the Premier omitted the case of Edwin De Leon, our new Congul-General to Egypt, whose case, as a fla- grant violation, out-and-out, of the letter and spirit of Marcy’s circulars of June last, is the most astounding case of all. In Sunday’s Heratp, in a letter from a cor- respondent “up the Nile,” we published a des- cription of Mr. De Leon’s official reception by the Viceroy of Egypt. He was dressed in state—he rode to the Viceroy’s palace ina state carriage, he was received in the most perfect style of oriental magnificence, he returned to his hotel ina style so stately and royal as to sur- prise the Egyptians—he kept up the pageant in a corresponding style for several days;and the only plea put in for his justification is, that all the Consuls-General of all the other great powers do so, and the United States, to maintain their prestige at Cairo, must do the same thing. Now this thing should not be allowed to pass. The law laid down in the circulars of June last should be enforced until superseded or abro- gated by some new arrangement, just as the Missouri compromise has been declared by Judge Douglas to be “ superseded by the prin- ciples of the legislation of 1850.” But till it is superseded, the law should be enforced. In- structions, and a suit of clothes from the State Department of the exact fabrics, stripe and cut prescribed in the circulars of June last, should be sent out by the next steamer to De Leon; and an accompanying protest should also be sent to Abbas Pacha against classing this re- public of the United States of America and the morarchical powers of Europe, upon the same footing, in the matter of coats and breeches. What can be achieved in behalf of republican principles in Egypt, we should like to know, if cur representative there can’t be distinguished by his dress trom the Imperial Consul of Louis Napoleon or the British Consul General? Nothing at all. We call upon the Seoretary of State to enforce the law, and we shall stick to him while there is a patch upon his breeches. Carry out or*répeal the law... Let us have something definite in our foreign policy, even if it is confined to oid glo’, ‘The Angio French Conspiracy Against the It fe well, before our take root on the Eastern question with either side, that we endeavor to ascertain whether we have not some more direct and immediate interest in the pending European combinations, than that cwhich we feel as common lovers of liberty and enemies of despotism.” We believe that the United States are, in point of fact, as directly concerned in watching and if need be in inter- vening in the progress of affairs in Europe as any nation on that continent. Not from any stake in the fate of Turkey, which may perish or thrive without affecting us in any way; but simply because the power which is now being arrayed against the projects of the Ozar may to-morrow be wielded against us. Because that prospect is no longer @ mere conjectural possi- bility, but has been converted by the published correspondence of one British minister and the published speech of another into an imminent and threatening probability. The language used by Lord Clarendon in the House of Lords places it beyond a doubt that the present British Ministry intend to carry out to the let- ter the significant intimation given by Lord John Russell in his correspondence with Mr. Everett. They intend, after having settled the affairs of the East to their satisfaction, to turn their attention to Cuba, and to make use of their alliance to prevent the accomplishment of any scheme by which that island might fall into our hands. The evidence of this intention is too clear to admit of dispute. “ What steps it may be due to our national credit to adopt in order to banish the notion of any such conspiracy from the minds of the French Emperor and his English allies, is mat. ter for tuture discussion. For the present, the discovery ought at least to suggest a fresh ex- amination of the Eastern question. If England and France openly own to a design of imperti- nent interference in the affairs of this continent, the presumption is that they are acting on the same unwarrantable principle in the East. If we separate the Eastern question from the treaties, and the u/timata, and the protocols and the hundred petty disputes which have arigen incidentally in the course of the contro- versy, it will be found to be neither more nor lees than a religious quarrel. The hereditary feud between the worshipper of Christ and the followers of Mahomet; is at the bottom of the whole. Whatever may be the personal motives of the Czar, the agent that is swaying the Rus- sian people towards war is religious zeal; and in like manner if the Turks are fighting for their homes they are contending still more fiercely for their faith. The Greek Church in the East now stands in a position very analo- gous to that occupied by the Latin Church in the West eight or nine centuries ago. Then in Gaul, Germany and Spain, as ‘now on the con- fines of Asia, a conflict arose between the hu- manizing and civilizing influence of Christiani- ty and the dark superstitious spirit of Moslem- ism. That conflict lasted for upwards of a cen- tury; and more than once during its existence, the issue was doubtful. Christianity triumphed at last. The Moors were driven from Spain, and the red cross was carried even to the walls of the Saracen ports in Asia. From that day to the present, Mahomedanism has been unknown in Western Europe; and the consequence of its extirpation has been the unparalleled pro- gress of the Christian nations of that clime in power, wealth and civilization. The beginning of the struggle between the Czar and the Sul- tan looks very much like a repetition of the same contest. Moslemism still holds one of the noblest countries in Europe. It is an invader there, and has erected its mosques on the site where the temples of Christ’s church once stood. Centuries have passed oveasince it re- treated to Turkey as its last foothold: and dur- ing the whole of this time the wild races in Russia have been gradually growing in power and intelligence under the influence of thé doctrines of the Greek Church. They now occupy a position very similar to that of the people of Western Europe in the tenth century. Proximity of situation and frequent border disputes have brought these two antagonistic elements into direct collision. And the war that is growing out of this colli- sion is like those between the Crusaders and the Saracens and Moors, simply a contest be- tween Christianity anéMoslemism, civilization and superstition. It is on the side of @ie latter that England and France are found. These two Christian na tions are seen on this momentous occasion, em- bracing the cause of Mahomedanism and super- stition, and laboring sturdily to prevent the flow of Christianity and civilization into Tur- key. If they succeed, the cause of human pro- gress may be delayed for centuries. Is it fitting that we should follow their exam- ple, and allow a jealous animosity against a single man to delude us into a course 80 incon- sistent with our mission among nations? And can we not, if we are satisfied that the cause of civilization is the cause of the Greek Church, discover some means of evincing our real feel- ings in a practical manner? Henorsu at Sea.—It has been our pleasing duty to record within the last few months, in connection with the maritime disasters that are unfortunately so prevalent at this season of the year, numerous instances of self-devotion and heroism that reflect honor upon the profes- sion of the sailor. The circumstances of the loss of the San Francisco placed in bold relief the conduct of a number of individuals, whose exertions in the cause of humanity have since been rewarded, not only by civic ovations, but by more substantial tokens of public approval. The importance and magihitude of the calamity, and the fact of there being such a number of United States troops on board that ill-fated vessel, naturally attracted to the conduct of those parties the full measure of attention that it deserved; and when we find similar actions passed over in silence, merely because they afford no opportunity for the display ®f osten- tatious generosity, it becomes our duty as jour- nalists to endeavor to remedy the indifference mauifested towards them by placing them fully in evidence before the public. We published a few days since an account of the loss of the ship Columbiana, of New York. and also of the British brig Frederick, and of the rescue of their crews by the packet ship Cor- nelius Grinnell, Captain Fletcher. In that statement but slender justice was done to the conduct of the men belonging to the latter ves- sel, who nobly volunteered at the risk of their lives to take off the crew of the Columbiana. From information gathered from Capt. Fletcher, we find an opportunity of repairing the omissions of the brief narrative that first reached us, and of giving full credit to the parties who so nobly distinguished themselves upon that occasion, The Captain states that when he discovered the Colombiana to be in distress he bore down to ber, and found her in a sinking condition, but still likely to float some hours longer if nothing more gave way. On rounding under the wreck’s lee, he saw it was next to certain de- struction to lower a boat, although the boat- swain, Béward Bupting, gallantly:offered to go in her. He therefore hove the ship to under bare poles, in order that he might not drift out ‘of sight of the wreck. A light was then set in’ bath ships, and they lay in sight of each other all night. When morning dawned he bore down to the wreck again, but was prevented from giving “her any assistance by a violent hail squall’ that no boat could have withstood. About three o’clock in the afternoon the weather moderated a little, when he passed to the wind- ward of the wreck and hove to, in order that he might be able to run down and rescue his boat's crew in case of their getting swamped. A boat was then lowered, and the following men volun- teered to go in her:—Hdward Bunting, boat- swain; Sturins Purdy, seaman, (formerly a captain in the British merchant service;) James Smith, John Kesley, and William Hughes, sea- men. The boat, fortunately, proved staunch and seaworthy, and, although they had a con- siderable distance to row, the men reached the wreck in safety, and succeeded in getting on board about one-half of the Columbiana’s crew by hauling them through the water. The same operation was successfully performed a second time, and the remainder of the crew of the sink ing vessel was safely transferred to the Corne- lius Grinnell. This gallant feat was effected under every possible difficulty and disadvan- tage, night setting rapidly in, and the gale in- creasing in fury. Three days afterwards Captain Fletcher fell in with another vessel in the same condition (the British brig Frederick,) and Bunting and his gallant shipmates again distinguished them- | selves by their readiness to volunteer upon the same eervice of danger. The captain and crew of the disabled vessel were safely taken off from the wreck. Acts like these deserve some more substan- tial token of public approval than a passing commentary in the press. If it were right to award honors and. rewards to the saviours of the sufferers by the San Francisco, it is equally incumbent upon us to show the gallant sailors of the Cornelius Grinnell that their conduct is not the less appreciated because the circum- stances attending the disasters that called it forth have created less excitement in the public mind. We think that some immediate steps should be taken to manifest that feeling, and to give to these brave fellows some solid evi- dence of it. Asuggestion of Captain Fletcher’s seems to us a8 good a mode as any of carrying out this idea. He proposes that a fund should be raised for their benefit, the interest of which they should be entitled to draw during their lives, As each life drops off the lapsing in- terest should go to swell the portions of the survivors. After their deaths the capital fund might either be made the basis of some general system of rewards of a similar character, or be transferred to one of our local institutions. There is the germ of a philanthropic project in this idea.’ Will the puling sentimentalists who twaddle about imaginary social evils assist to carry it out? Avnoruer Great Stare Paper in Eupryo.— Weare intormed that the protest of the English and French Ministers near our government, against the apprehended policy of Russia of engaging American vessels for privateering operations against the commerce of England and France, is all the talk at Washington; but we are also informed that the answer of Se- cretary Marcy to the said protest “has not yet transpired.” We have only to say that from the gravity of the complaint made, from the importance of the question involved, as a question of national po and of international law, we shall look in due time for a tremendous State paper from Secretary Marcy on this subject. We are in no hurry for it—those Russian privateers are not yet on the stocks, and the Nebraska question just now overshadows everything else. Let our Premier take his time, consult thoroughly the law of nations as laid down by Vattel, Grotius, Puffendorff, and Bynkershoek, consult our shipbuilders, especially Commodore Vanderbilt, of the North Star, consult all the Russian agents in the country, and consult most particularly the policy of England and France upon American affairs; and then he may set himself down and rattle off a letter which will eclipse the Koszta letter, or cast even those splendid circulars upon diplomatic cos- tume into the back ground. Give the Premier time, and we shall have a great document on Russo-American privateering. Porice Untrorm.—Judge Roosevelt’s deci- sion, which we give in another column, settles the question whether the police are or are not to be uniformed. John Shea, a police- man, refused to obey the orders respecting uni- form, and contended that the Commissioners had no right to control the costume of the police. Judge Roosevelt very properly decides that they had. Independently of the legal rea- sons adduced by the learned Judge in support of his view, it must be evident to all that a uni- form is likely to,effect more toward increasing the efficiency of the police than any other re- form that could be suggested. We may rest assured that fewer robberies and fewer assaults will be committed, now that no coward police- man can ekulk out of view. Plain clothes were & mask under which the grossest derelictions 0 duty could be committed with impunity. The only question now remaining op:n is whether the appointment of the Chief of Police shall rest with the Commissioners, or be trans ferred to the Mayor and Aldermen, or finally as some insame demagogues seem to wish, be handed over to the grog-house politicians. The sooner it is disposed of the better. A Cau vron Joun M. Craytoy.—General Amos P. Granger has caused a letter to be pub lished, which he has addressed to Senator Clay- ton, of Delaware, upon the Nebraska question. General Granger asks him, ‘What are yoa about todo? Do you intend to violate a com- pact more sacred than the constitution itself?” And he says, too, if not misinformed, that Mr. Clayton “is to record his vote in favor of the Nebraska bill.” And we should not be sur- prised if he did, nor astonished if he didn’t. Mr. Clayton spoke almost by the week upon, the affairs of Central America ; but thus far he has remained remarkably silent and circum- spect upon Nebraska, But the vote, in a day or two, will probably define his position. Gen- eral Granger says the whole thing is but “o miserable raiile for the Presidency.” Perhaps it is; we shall soon.see whether the ex-Secre- tary of State has: any investment in the capi- tal stock of Donglas and the administration, or Otherwise. We fncline to think that ever tinge tbe fall of General Taylor's Cabinet, Mr, We have received the Senate report and ao- companying bill, making # conditiona grant, of the right of way and two million acre of the | dy, tor the construction of an undergroun tele~ > graph of two wires, from some pointon the Missiasippi or Missouri river to San Fracisoo- the company to have regular working tations at intervals of every one hundred mile along’) the entire route—the land warrants or the two million acres of land not to be issuettill the telegraph is completed, and then in casider- ation ot eight thousand words per montion the line, without eharge to the government, srever, ! Charges, otherwise, not to exceed ten dobrs for- ten words from end to end of the line—adition- al words seventy-five cents each. Newi frm San Francisco in one hour’s time would le ae of the desideratum now required by thepres. 4 a DEATH OF LIRUTENANT JOHN MATTHEWS, U.S By the latest accounts from Commodore Perrypf te Japanese squadron, we have intelligence of the dathor ‘Lisut. John Matthews, of the steam frigate Sueaeha- nab, who, together with several seamen, is suido hae deen lost in a boat belonging to the equadroa; bute fe- | ¥ ther particulars of the enc event aregiven. Liet. Ma. , thews was a rative of this State, He entered ito te service Feb 22, 1828, and in May, 1844, received 1s wa- rant as Passed MVebipnan. Oa the breaking outof tr By heer daca hor Gre, was in of 1} all of whick places Tent tattoos dinguish im self. Io ‘attack upon the Castle of San Juan d’ba ye Vixen and Spitfire, ho, in with the.te vena saa ee raeeel yalogiumsfeom hism- o a masder ard associates. The service has Turtafeeno ord‘nary loss in the desth of this and pro young officer, «! as will be seem by reference the | avy list, out of fifteen yours standing in the mavyas an extensive circle of friends, who antisipated for ha} Jong career of honorabie service. ‘The Nebraska Bilt Again | MEETING OF GERMAN CITIZENS. A meeting of Germans, principally residents of Blom ingdale, was held leet night in Thirty second strest,»e | tween Sixth and Seventh avenues, to express their view, 5 in relation to the Nebraska bill. The following is the en): of the meeting :-— ‘ Pape iy eee oni Nxmeiska BiLt.—All Germas Lael are Monday, To. arab hal part sovea ine eventing, at ana oa Mr. Ys brewery, Thirty second street, between Bisth and Seventh arenter, to take the Nebraska bill inte considera ion. » Joseph Berbier, Jacob Sshumacw, Peter Maller, Peter Biegea, Jos, Muller, Charles Lopso, Holts. | Although the hour appointed for the meeting was halt. |’ Past seven o'clock, it was meat nine before it was organ | ined, Whea cur reporter arrive he found about forty } os asem| ttocssncling? ‘the saloon, engaged in drinking lage: * After the meeting adjourned. ‘Tas Steamentr Camscanr Ciry sailed yesterday for New, Orleana via Havana, with fifty nine passengers and $100,090 | in specie oa freight. ' QuIPBUILDING OM THR MaRR@MACK —Daring past year nineteen vessels, of different sises, were built | bo dertle woot ed cage Ba Bhed co ‘The following are | D, Opies snd others, Now York, ee | Twmemh fr ‘Yacht Osean Bride, 60 tos, by Lowell & Sons, Salle’ .f for D, Childs and others, Lyon. others. and rok Pagosa 816 tons, by 8 McKay ef Amesbury, own Shi; Star, 900 Joba Ourrier, for iP tons, by Moses WN, Barger, 45 tons, by E. P. Lunt, for Benja- Cateye cote tes | Schooner Tekos, 160 toma, by Joseph Coffia and owned ¢ "chooser Willam H. Fitts, 68 William SR wen. aan a, ate ~ tons, by George W. Jackmas, Jr., Eascoaee festy, 40 tons, by D. Lowell, Salisbury, and. Ship Jobn N. Cushing, 650 tons, by John Currier, for- J.N. and Wan, Ouhig? ama oem 3 1,4 Jobe: 2,200 for eben je rw cto 9 pha acht Daniel ©. Baker, 60 tons, by Daniel Lowell, Sali 1,400 toma, by Ourrler & To: Se rer 00. . o fone, pias Rise, , by man, ;JF.; “Abip Volant, 900 tens, by John Oursler, for Capt, Mica jeh Lunt end the builder. Schooner Fearles, 140 tons, by Manson & Fornal-, owned in Plymoath. It will be seen that Messrs. Currier & Townsend are the greatest builders, ba launched mearty half the ton- bag raed Prospect mow is that there be more building in 1854 than in any previous Newburyport Herald, ry 3 2) the | ged . Theodore Mr. DeVoe, made a jew remarks; tee adjourned to Jufferscn market, to view the p! for themeeives. New York Hoxticcrtvra, Socmry.—Aa Conversational meeting of ibis was heli an F : tt i ming at their rooms, No. 600 » There ms slim sttendacce of members. hour 1 converation, the mentiag organized, Knapp inthe chair. There beieg no reports teen to be read, Mr. Mead proceeded to read a brief essay on the Azsles =The essay gave little iaformation in re- (eb Se mst Bence referred rms to the taste in this coungry ey and —— of 2 6 exid, was a genus of plants aatural order Brice,” Tho and alro indigenons to the vorthera nent; it was remarkable for the beaut ite flowers. The genus wae esteemed i aa the same as the rbododendros. Me tit mot am- Ukely that this beautifal flower would get ral favor with both practical and ametear hortioaturists. The essayist thonght that the lovers of hortle fe part Hi ecnoertra‘e designed pow buikorsd, plers, ferry houses, machias shops, aac Joreay Olty. to erect # ¢0 0% bu Tiicgs upon the present ferry and depot pre- wires; alto to widen the een a cut, so that thers oan be two accitional tracks laid throwgh the cnt, with otreightened carves, Other work ‘be dome, and alto- gether the expense will reach mt least $600,000, As soar es the permit the work will Thetr object is to sccommodate the Dusiness of the railroads which Prntic. MerrixG —-Thia evening ». ‘wil be held, at the Firat Refrmed ‘ean © of the Thier Campers, acy reading tn the Lepilatery a 9 shrab was e mative — |