The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDON BENNET? tr PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR QEFICN ¥. W. CORNER OF FULTON AXD MASOAU OFS Fe Ee et tty Seek ens ; ropean: ‘3 per an ‘ef Great Miriitin and #6 to any part ef the to include postage. Subscriptions AEE LETTERS by mor le pestage will be deducted from bee oLUN ESPONDENCE, containing iuipor. | ean pon tn pera ae ew ‘ liberally paid for, SU ueeTap TO #EAL ALL LETTRRE | ato NOTICE taken ef anonymous communisations. We do MES PRINTING ececuted with neatness, cheapmens, and “PV ERTISEMENES renewed every dav. Weldame XiX+...000.. ss ceerereeereees New York, Saturday, Marck 4, 1654. % Mails fer Eurepe. 948 HSW YORK HEEALD—ZoITICON FOR EUROPE. The Collins steamship Baltic, Oept. Comstock, will Deave this port at moon this day for Liverpool. The Buropean wialle will closer at quarter to eleven Welnek this moreing. | Tho Wanrxy Emma (printed ‘tu French and Sxgish) | ‘will be published at half-pett mine o’clook tis sora- ‘ag. Single copies, in wrappers, sixpence. and advertisements for any edition of the Wibw Yorx Him. will be received at the following p’ncer No 61. | ‘Ho 3 Paradive street. ford & Go.» ‘No. 17 Cornhill. Co,, No. 19 Catherine strent. Fans ......Livingster, Wells & Co., 8 Place Ge la Bourae. OUR AGENTS IN PARIS, FRANCE. ‘Wo beg leave to state to our readers and patrons ta Faris, and Europe -cenersily, that Mr. B. H Revoll, 17 ‘Bee de la Banque, Faris, ts ma longer eonmecied with the ‘Mow Youx Huns, either as eorreeponfent or erent. Messrs, Liviugtion & Wells, 8 Place de la Bourse, are our only agents in Paris, both for advertisements and ' gabscriptions. a THE HORRIBLE CONDITION OF THE CITY. A Oall apon the Citizecr of New York ‘The condition of ur city is deploratte, disgrace- al, and abominable. There is not upon this Con- tient, upoa any equivalent surface, such an accu- mmilation of filth sx deluges the ~ttreeta of New York: Our Otty Fathers are deaf to reason and ‘to justice—they hear nothing, they ece nothing, they @o nothing, They are blind ‘to the'fermenting ger- Dage which overwhelms us. The’ time has come for our fellow-sitizens te take their interests’ into fheir own hands. We recommend, therefore, to the people of this metrepolis, without distincticn of wect or party, to assemble in: grand mass meeting | fa the Park, for the purpose of devising ways and means for cleaning our streets from the ‘flood of universal filth which environs us on every side. ‘They can appoint committees’ for the several ‘wards | people of the Union and their rer sresentatives in and Clayton to come up to the ceratch Wl yen j Conareterae ey prem cugade of country. the test vote was taken. was strikingly fre- € publish a variety of very “fteresting intelli- shadowed iu their speeches upon the biJ"y, and gence from ap this morning, jpciadinga repors their trimming and dodging between th ~ North of tes sehen eee at apecial sonnet of and the South. Gen. Cass, however, ‘ yn yester- | 4 4s of women's righ’ on 44 morning, explained his absen’ ye, and re- | Plstform laid down by the. strong-minded party and | the remarks of Miss /,nthony and Mrs. Rose on or with Adver. | the occasion, it is wanecessary to do more than OF othery merely refer to the documents. Many bills were to inquire. acted on in the L2g"lature yesterday, but none of among the dodgers or the ® gsentees a terrible blow would have been give g thereby to the bill We to-day pvolish the bill now pending inthe jp the House may probab! sy help to account for the “sober second thor wght” which brought him to the rescue. special importance qere finally disposed of. Thursday afternoon. As + .rybody will read the Assembly for the more efficient organization of the Police Department of this city, in which every inhsbitant is most deeply interested. It proposes to Whether he did so frcm a Cabine 4 consultation corded his vote like a man fr the bill, therwiee it is, perhaps, D ot our province | The fact that 'pad he remained There are others, a’ ggentees or dodgers, not adduced énrupport of the charge. President \ expense of a frightful agitation throughout the Fillmore was thoroughly alarmed ; and then | country, and pecuniary speculations in tailroad for the first time the saving expedient occurred | grants, land operations, surplus revenue job- of sending down a cottimission to Mexico, tosee | bery, and patent monopolies. They have not whether this great-silver mine existed there or | only wasted our money and rendered our na- inthe moon. Meantime Dr. Gardaer had settled | tional councils a source of sorrow and shame to with his counsel and agents, and leaving the all good men, but have proved that it was pos- bulk of his share of the money in the care of | Corcoran & Riggs and others, had gone with | an outfit of $10,000 on a pleasure excursion to | the London Crystal Palace and the Continent. | On hearing of the charges against him, he gave | notice that he would come back and confront and silence his accusers. He did come back. and was indicted for perjury and forgery upon two separate bills. The President’s com- sible to surpass even the basest of their prede- cessors in corruption and infamy. Such is the record of the first three months of this session of Congress. Let us turn to Mr. Pierce, and see in what light the first year of his official term displays his character and abilities, It would not be risking much to say that on the morning of the 4th of March. 1853, no politi- | sh a ow boards and ematitte and gomie an | 0% the cick list Bat, prepent in good health at | an xecutive department, of which the Mayor shall Washirgton— and s¢ ge of them no doubt were be the President. The new commissioners shall in the Senate char pber, at the time of the vote, Wave sole control of the departmest, and shall ap- or Clore by, in & yme adjoining room—who still point policemen, their captains and other officers, remain among the dodgers. They have thus who are to hold office during good behaviour. The proved themselves very smal! potatoes—the missioners and the Seuate’s commissioners went | cian in these United States possessed a larger down to Mexico to hunt up the mine. Dr | share of personal popularity than Franklin Marshal, who is to serve for six years, is to be re. commended by the Mayor, aed confirmed by the Beard. We have expressed our views concerning this measure in another column. By an arrival at Boston, ixte and somewhat intér- esting informatien has beea received frem Honduras aud otter parts of Centrai America. The inhabi- tants of Truxifio were in a great stete of alarm in | comeequence of successtve shocks ef earthquakes, | which had continued fer several mouths. The'war | was still going on between Hondures and Guatewcle, | and the country was overrun with robbers to the | great detriment of tle mercantile community and | travellers, consequently trade was nearly at-a diand | still. There must be some mistake about tre announce ment that some American vessels of war were soon sroallest of Congressional small potatoes, The Senator who dodges a vote upon such a question as this of the Nebraska bill is o fit subject of public derision. He reminds us of that cunning little wild | duck called the dipper. The Congress. | ional dodger, in fact, is a dipper. He will sit quietly in the water, within point blank range of the sportsman, and watch him load his gun ; but the instant the trigger is pulled the dipper is missing. He goes down, but comes up, after the report, precisely in the same place, as bold as ever. But how this sort of dodging under water is to benefit the dodgers in their Presidential aspirations, North or South, expected to arve for the purpose of making | inquiries relative to the dispute between the bel- | ligerent countries concerning their territorial righte- it is difficult to imagine. Let any of these dodgers be nominated by any party for the suc- Gardner was invited to go along with them; | but he preferred to go upon his own aecount; and, with a friend or two, he found the mine; and his companions so testified on the trial for perjury, a year ago. So dexterously, too, did | the Doctor, his witnessés and his counsel per- | plex the government commissioners and their | counsel and witnesses, in the evidence, that the jury hung upon their verdict—nine being for | an acquittal, and only three for a conviction. | The counsel for the accused—Messrs. Bradley _ and Carlisle—next demanded the immediate | presecution of the indictment for forgery; but the government succeeded in postponing it till another official committee of inspection bad gone down to Mexico to make a thorough search for the great silver mine. Major Morde cai, of the Ordnance Corps, was the chief of this commission, and brought home a conclusive report, supporting the evidence of the preced- ing commissions, that the mine,was a myth, and Pierce. For months previous, he had been | identified with the reigning sentiment of the day—the Union sentimest: and was still re- garded throughout the country as the champion and exponent of the compromise measures. A moderate exercise of diseretion, and a liberal amount of disingenuousness had secured him that false position. He had allowed himself to be presented to the country on a platform diametrieally opposed to the doctrines he had advocated for five years previously; and con- sented throughout the canvass to play the part of an embodied lie. Still, this was a secret on the 4th of March, 1853; and Franklin Pierce was popular. The first blow his popularity received was the announcement of hie Cabinet. It was reasonably expected by those who had sup- ported him on the strength of his supposed ad- herance to the compromise measures, that his A I i eT Tit Gapepen Taeary—Santa Amma, tr Lossy anp THE SenaTs.—According to our pri vate advices from Washington and the elty o Mexico, the Gadsden treaty will be ratified by the Senate. It appears that Santa Anns ha found out that the spoilsmen at Washingtoi are worked on the same high pressure systen. as the spoilsmen of the Mexican capital. Mone} is the open sesame in both places; and if thi = lobby is well supplied with the sinews of wa they will undertake anything, whether it iss for the farther stretching ot India rubber mom- j polies, a railroad land jobbing bill, ors treaty | patent to enable Mr. Colt to manufastare bs for the relief of the Coickasaw Indians, or fo- | b revolving pistols for the British army, a pateit the benefit of Santa Anna. The lobby is ready. for almost anything for s consideration; and their machinery fer active operations is exceedingly complex and beauti- ful. Wine, women. carde, oysters and cham- pagne are among the principal devices; but in all the mysteries of the lobby at Washington, Santa Anna seems to be thoroughly posted up. Better still—he bas engaged the lobby in behalf of the Gadsden treaty, aud the treaty must go through. A million. or two millions, or even three millions, may be well spared eut ef fifteen millions, for the lobby, where the whole sum is at stake, and when a few ready millions are so urgently wanted as to be a matter of life and death. Supposing, therefore, that the lobby at Washington is chartered for this treaty, to the extent of only two millions altogether, how are the Senate to resist it? Take the following schedule, fer example :— FOR THE US4 OF TH® LOBBY. From Gen, Santa Anpa, vs We epi yed in Jol { ; Cabinet would have been selected from those | who had rendered themselves conspicuous by | ing for the ratifi a'ion of the Ge eden tr From Tebuanteseo Uompany, No, 1.. “ “ © Ny 2. “ “ No.8 Before making‘ movement of this kind, even if it were in contemplation, it is most likely our govern ment would consult the eavoy from Honduras, now at Washington. Dates to the 18th ult. from the city of Moxico have been received at New Oricans. With the exception of the announcement of the death of ex-President Herrera, there waa nothing new. On reference to the additional particulars in an- other column, it will be seen that eighteen persons were killed by the explosion of the steam boiler in the car factory at Hertford on Thureday afternoon. Twenty-two others had limbs broken, or were badly bruised and scalded. A coroner’s inquest was held yesterday, but ro definite conclusion can be arrived at from the testimony of the witresses,as to the immediate cause of the horrible calamity. A public meeting was held in Hartford lest night, for the purpose of obtaining means for the relief of the large number of families who were thus suddenly Ceprived of support by the death of husbands and parents. Rowland A. Smith, the baggage master who was ‘bo raise subscriptions for the purpose of remeving the tremendous masses of mud which. blockedo us imevery direction. They eon carta few huadre? fons to the door of the Mayor, and to the doors gach of the members of both boards of the Common Douncil, and the Street Inspovtor, and ell concerned, | 8 a monument to every man o/ them of the article in which they seem so muel:to delight. if thie expedient fails to open their eyes, our fellow-citizens have etill the power to or- ganize a provisional government, and thie ex- pedient will be justifiable when all other Means have failed of relief. The people.cf this city after all are the suprome authority, and when their servants persist in the neglest of their @uty, the masters should take the matter into their ‘own hands. A peaceful revolution appears now to be the only alternative for the rescue of this metropolis from pestilence. Let the people, therefore,.essem- Die this evening in the Park, and begin the work of The News. Onr intelligence from Washington this morning is of a very exciting, varied,and important character. | The jury in the Gardner case, in the Criminal Court, i after deliberating twenty-two hours, yesterday ren- dered a verdict of guilty. Dr. Gardner, who was in custody of the marshal, afterwards dead very sud: | @evly, having, it is supposed, poisoned himself. | We have alluded to this extraordinary affair im an editorial article. The excitement in the United States Senate respecting the Nebraska-Kanses question was, if possible, more intenee than ever yesterday. Two er three unimportant bills on the private calendar | | bing the mail recently arrested at New Haven on a charge of rob- plead guilty yesterday, and was sen- tenced to twenty-seven years imprisonment in the tate prison. At the time of his arrest, it was re- ted that he had been engaged in his nefarious usiness for seycral months, and had probably ab- stracted from the mails upwards of one hundred thousand dollars. This was quick work—the prison er having been captured, tried, convicted and sen” tenced within the space of one week. A delegation of the Commox Council of Washingten City are visitiug us ior the purpose of investiga ting the working of our railroad system. For the sake of their constituents it is hoped they will not take @ fancy to, and on their return recommend, the adoption of our street cleaning regulations, We learn that bids to the amount of two million five hsndred thousand dollars were made for the North Carolina loan of fire hundred thousand dol- ara. The principal bidders were from this city. | The following awards were made, at an average of four and a quarter per cen’ premium:—John Thomp- son, of New York, $235,000; Cammann, Whitehonse | & Co., $125,000; Carpenter, Vermilye and Co» $30,000; J. G. Lash, $25,000; and others. The steamer Nashville, with one day later news | from Europe, had not arrived at the time our pa- per was sent to press this morning. We are informed | that the screw steamship Alps was to sail direct from Liverpool to Boston, consequently it is possi- ble that we ehall receive our next advices to the 221 | ult. by the Collins steamer Atlantic, which will be due here te-morrow or on Monday, or by the Cunard steamer Asia, to the 25th ult., which will touch at Halifax to leave orders for the British Admiral. The Senate Vote on Nebraska-Frightfal Fluttering Amorg the Pigeons. The following is the sectional and party) | analysis of the yote by which the Nebraska bil | in the Senate was ordered to a third reading cession, and the simple cry of “dipper” will do the business for them most completely. Mark the prediction—no Nebraska dipper will be elected President or Vice President in 1856. In a more serious point of view, Messrs. Everett, Clayton, and others, in dodging this Nebraska vote, dodged a grave official and con- stitutional duty. They have been faithless to the constitution, faithless to the States they represent, to the people and to the country. They have set a bad example, a vicious and de- moralizing example of cowardice and disregard of their obligations to the country, which ought to be held up as a perpetual judgment against them before the bar of public opinion. They either believed the bill constitutional or unconstitutional, right or wrong, just or unjust, wise or pernicious, In honor, in honesty— upon every principle of manly integrity to their oath of office and their official obligations —from every consideration of individual can- dor and propriety—from every consideration of public justice, they were bound to vote for the bill or against the bill because of the tremen- dous issues involved in it. In ordinary cases the occasional absence of a Senator may be ex- cused; but where the issue comprehends the question, in all itsmagnitude, of the Union or the dissolution of the Union—where the ques- tion is intended to fix the landmarks of the constitution, it is acrime to dodge the respon- sibility, which ought not to go unpunished. The bill goes to the popular branch of Con- gress next, and from the portentous closing scenes of excitement in the Senate, we may count upon a speedy and most terrific explo- sion in the House. But, stand or fall, let every man face the music. Let us have no more dodging. The Gardner (iatm-Fatal and Terrtbie Ending of the Case. Our telegraphic advices received yesterday from Washington, and elsewhere published in this paper, bring to us the information ofthe sentence of Dr. George A. Gardner to ten years imprisonment at hard labor, in the peniten- tiary of the District of Columbia, upon a ver- dict of his jury, of guilty of forgery in the matter of that magnificent Mexican claim, upon which he recovered from the Treasury of the United States the sum of four hundred and twenty-seven thousand and some hundred and odd dollars. But the fatal and terrible finale of his case followed close upon the Judge’s sentence; for the criminal, a few hours after | was found dead in his cell, doubtless the | result of poison retained about his person the claim a naked fraud. The trial for forgery | their fidelity to that creed. Words can hardly was accordingly opened in December last, and the result is the fearful and terrible denouement recited in the opening of this narrative. the deceased, for complicity in this fraud, he having been throughout the right-hand man of deceased in the management of his claim and his defence. Whether he will forfeit his bail or his liberty is the question now for his decision, The bail of Dr. Gardner during all these prose- ‘cutions was, we believe, the sum of $40,000 of the money of his award. When the deceased was indicted, the govern- ment enjoined for safe keeping—if we are right in our recollections—a sum of about two hun- dred thousand dollars in all, deposited with Corcoran & Riggs, certain banks in New York, and elsewhere—this being the remainder of depict the astonishment and indignation with which the public learnt that the administration | was composed of a New York barnburner, a An indictment has been made out against | whig renegade, a Wilmot provise leader, a red | Jobn ‘Charles Gardner, a younger brother of | hot secessionist, and one or two individuals whose names were entirely new in federal poli- tics. The publication of the names of the members of the Cabinet was a dreadful shock to Mr. Pierce’s friends. Still, they they did not suspect the truth. As time wore on, it glim- mered in every act of the administration. So far from the compromise measures being the teat of eligibility to office, the very men who had opposed them became the goverument fa- vorites througheut the country. Free soilers rose to ® premium in the North; and secession- ists occupied the high places in the South. So thoroughly was this doctrine carried out that a high minded public officer who refused te the award after satisfying counsel, agents, money lenders, and so forth, in the prosecution of the claim. And now we come to consider this branch of the subject. Mr. George Evans, of Maine, was president of the board awarding the claim. His son-in- law, Major Lally, is said to have been one of the counsel or agents of William Gardner, with a fee of $20,000. Edward Curtis, of New York, is also said to have had a fee of $20,000 in the same way. Gen. Waddy Thompson, of §. C., was also of the counsel of Gardner, and he is reported as having pocketed $40,000 for his services. Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs, Washington bankers, are said to have vances made to Gardner, in advance of the decision of the board. What the exact fee of Hon. Thomas Corwin was we have forgotten; but it must ‘have been tremendous, if it brought the cash price of $80,000 from so sound a busi- ness man as George Law. Now the-question arises, will those men re- fund this money to the Treasury—this money of a great fraud—this price of blood—as far as they are responsible? If the cash is not forth- coming from all concerned in this transaction as counsel and agents, Congress should pass a resolution demanding a restitution, or an in- vestigation with power to send for persons and papers far and near. We cannot stop short now, at a thorough developement of this extraordinary case, from the beginning to the end. It is the money of a conspiracy to defraud the government, and it is the price of blood. Every cent, from all parties interested, must be refund- ed, with interest, or stain will attach to their names while they live. received at least $20,000 for contingent ad- | divide the offices under his control among the free soilers was dimissed with insult and con- tumely. In six months Mr. Pierce who would never have received a vote had it not been for his fraudulent endorsation of the compromise had succeeded in planting his administration on a platform whose basis was enmity to the constitution, and disloyalty to the Unien. The case of Judge Bronson was not an iso- latedone. Mr.Pierce took an early opportu- nity of convincing the people that federal in- terference in State elections was s eardinal point in his creed. His Cabinet endeavored to dictate to the States in the Union what local officers they should elect and what local pelicy they should pursue. In New York, Massacha- setts, Mississippi, and Georgia, direct attempts were made by its members to counteract the independent voice of the people, and for the first time since the days of Jefferson, the federal government tried to wrest out of the hands of the States the control of their own affairs. Meanwhile, the disorders ot our homo policy were exceeded by the utter folly which charac- terized the selections of our foreiga ministers. Had the country been ransacked for incapable men Mr. Pierce could hardly have hit upon worse ministers than those now aecredited to foreign courts. It seemed as though some mental defect or moral blemish was a neces- sary qualification for a foreign ambassador. Those who were not notorious for ignorance and general incapacity were conspicuous for degrading habits, or incendiary opinions. As if to complete the task which their intrinsic worthlessness so nearly achieved, the pith of the instructions handed to our foreign corps of diplomatists consisted in directiois respecting | Total... o Divide this sum among sixty lobby members, and assign to each man a Senator to work upon, and each Senator will have to resist all the- | combined influences which can be brought to- | bear upon him with a sum of thirty-three thou- sand three hundred and thirty-three dollars -and thirty-three cents, or surrender at the first fire. Santa Anna’s special agent at Washing- ton, in this business, is said by some to be a keen American filibustero, by others he is sup- | posed to be an ex-member of Congress, and by — others a Frenchmen who pretends to be in the confidence of Louis Napoleon. At all events, there he is, and understands what he has to do- Thus, it appears, Santa Anna has laid his wires in the lobby. On the other haad, we are informed that General Almonte is instructed not to stick upon trifles, but if the treaty is ra- tified with certain amendments, so that the money is sgreed upon, to clinch the bargain, and call upon Secretary Guthrie to send en the firet instalment without delay. Thus the whole thing is cut and dried, and the treaty will go through like a knife. Santa Anna may be despot, he may have a wooden leg or two, but he is a man of business. The lobby ie- almost unanimously in favor of the tréaty. Tue New Porice Bur—A Porrmoat Trick.— We publish in another part of this day’s paper, the details of the bill now betore the Assembly ~ Committee on Cities and Villages, and which was introduced early in the session, under the promising title of “a bill for the better organ- ization of the police of the city of New York.” A more flagitious attempt to perpetuate the reign of party influences in our corporate affairs, has never been disguised under the plea. of reformatory legislation. It is really too bad, that after all our efforts to emancipate our- selves from the abuses that rendered-our police department a disgrace and a bye word amongst civilized communities, endeavors should still be made to interrupt the progress of the imper- fect retorms which we have had such hard struggles to obtain, and to drag us back into the slough of political corruption. Every one knows to what shameful uses the power of ap- pointment formerly vested in. the members of the Board of Aldermen was perverted. It made of this department a mere political machine, in the management of which the public interests. were entirely lost sight of, and the public funds diverted to the most unworthy purposes. The object of the proposed bill is neither more nor leas than to restore to the Al- having been adopted, the body proceeded to the | on Thursday evening :— {to meet the contingency. Thus ends the Excepting the death of poor Gardner, the re- | their coats and breeches. Thus they went dermen the consideration of the bil! engrossed on the previous evening, on which oesasion some twenty members dodged a vote or were absent. Gen. Cass, for one, explained the reason of his absence, and desired it to be understood that he wished to record his vote im favor of the measure on its final passage. The bill was then read a third time, after whish a spirit- ed and protracted debate took place which lasted ~ till after one o'clock this morning. After a short but uninteresting debate on proposed amendments to the free farm bill, the House of Rep- resentatives adjourned till Monday, probably with a view of giving members a little recreation and time to prepare themselves for the warm and exciting ‘work that will coon commence on the Nebraska ques- tion. In the course of the day messages were re- seived from the President transmitting a report from ‘the Attorney General with regard to the enlarge. . ment and modification of the judicial system, and official correspondence between Secretary Marcy and Minister Clay, respecting the progress of negotiations with Peru for an avandonment of her guano monapoly, Mr. C.ay remarks that Peru depends entirely on the funds raised by the sale of guano to pay the interest ‘on her national debt, consequently it is very doubtfa whether she can be induced to either lower the price of the article, sell us one of the Chincha Islands, or make any other arrangement that would tend to Henefit our agriculturists to any great degree. But one of our despatches states that it is not all the eor wespondence that has taken place on the subject ‘The. most important part has been kept back. It is anderstood that the President has instructed Mr. Clay to demand fall indemnity for past offences, and added that, in case of a refusal, the Pacific eqeadron awill be ordered to Peru to enforce satisfaction. We are therefore likely to have lively and exciting times @oring the coming summer, With the fishery troubles in the Atlantic, and the guano troubles in the Pacific, our naval forces will have something to do, and news will be abundant. As was anticipated would be the case, the leading ‘organ of ghe administration yesterday changed its tactics on the Nebraska question, and declared that moither the support nor the opposition of the bill would be regarded as either a test of democracy or antagonistic to the government. This is upon a par with the wavering of tat journal thrsughout the discussion of the subject. The Indians in Nebraska Territory are rapidly preparing to vacate their lands in favor of the white settlers, who are about emigrating to that country in large numbers. By the outlines of the treaty, pub lished in another column, it will be seen that the ‘Omaha tribe have entered into arrangements te sell wight million acres of their land; the Oxtoes have also greed to dispose of between two and three miliion acres, and a delegation of Indians are now in Washington, negotiating for the sale of their @omain. A few years hence, and the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas will be covsred with the @omicils and growing crops of industrious white men, whoy by their votes, will forever se:tle the gretion which le pow po intensely agitating the AGAINST THE BILL Northern Democrais Meosrs, Dodge, of Wis. Haalio, Ms, FOR THE BILL NorUurn Democrats. Mezers. Brodhesd, Pa. Dodge, Iowa. Douglas, El. Gwin, Cal. Jonee, lows. Norr gE. Pettit, Ind. i} as Southern Democrase. Messrs. Adams Misa Independ Mossrs. Chase, Ohio. Atchison. Mo. Brow:, Mise, Sumner, Miss— 2 | Batler, 8.0, -—— iay, Ala, seeereceeseekd | career of & young man scarcely twenty-cight | sult of this trial, as fhe triumph of justice, is a years of age, intelligent, educated, and capable, | matter for public eongratulatien, Hon. Henry under good counsels, of high and honorable | May and Mr. Fendali, the counsel for the gov- achievements, | ernment, have done well. The case was ardu- Our readers are familiar with the history of ons, perplexing, and protracted beyond all pre- this Gardner claim. The treaty of peace of 48. cedent. Mr. May particularly, for the ability, with Mexico, set apart $3,125,000 for the satis- industry, talent and perseverance which he has faction of the claims of American citizens exhibited in this case, from his appointment as against Mexico for damages to their business the chief of the first commission to Mexico to transactions in Mexico on account of the war. the end of the fatal trial, has proved himself | A Board of Commissioners was appointed to equal to the highest demands upon a lawyer adjudicate these claims at Washington, and eonyinced of the justice of his cause. The jury their awards were made final and conclusive. | have done their duty, But that incorruptible Among the claimants under this head was | man, Judge Crawford, is entitled to the highest Dr. George A. Gardner, formerly of this State, merit. He gave the fullest latitude of the law and of a highly respectable family. Hede- to the prisoner upon his trial; but no more, manded halfa million for damages incurredin ye ig a man for these times of corruption the suspension, during the war, of the working at Washington, that same Judge Crawford. ofacertain rich silver mine in the Stateof He has shown himself in all positions the San Luis Potosi, in Mexico, and for the total upright man, and especially in this case, the | | | leners Clayton, Del, (North of Mason | até Dixon); it, Pa ; Everett, Mass; Phelps, Vt; | (tlck) —To'al 4 Southern Wiizs—Mesara Bell, Tenn. ; Mo., (sick); cancer thd Meeajeen RY OHM ee | Mr. Toombs | Pz ependens — Democratic Outide Whig. ¢ Ga.—Totai 1. Total dodgers and absentees from the test vote........91 _-RECAPIEULATION, a| +12 | Southern whigs... Total for the bill.... ,20 Total against it, Mijerity for the measure... Total Noethern vote for the dill, Do, do, agedast it. Northern mojority againet tt. fetal Southe cm vo'e for the bill, Do ¢O sgeiney it none. Total whig vote for the bi 7 do. sgeinst {i Total demosratic vote for 33 » co against Free spilere proper against {t . Total democratic doc gers and absentees. 1 Do wh do. ce, « 8 Independent Union outside whig......++ wil These are curious results, Notwithstanding the dodging and running of the Northern demo- crate, there was of the Northern Senators a ma- jority of two against the bill, Om the other hand, as far as. the Southern vote was riven, it was unanimous for the measure. there being nota solitary vote from the South against it. Bat the most significant feature of the vote is the list which it discloses of the dodgers or absertees, lacking only two of being full one-third of the whole United States Senate. , | dentist; he had acquired the language of the | operations in Mexico, loss of said mine, and all his investments inflexible arbiter of justice. Such @ man at therein. He had resided for many years in — the head of the Treasury would be a terror to Mexico, practising his profession as a travelling | the spoilsmen, great and small. Alas! poor Gardner! He has paid the most country; and from his travels and observations terrible penalty for his crime. But it may be was throughly conversant with its geography tbat this dreadful example will operate for the He bad explored the mining districts of San future, asa salutary check upon others disposed Luis Potosi, Sonora,Guanajuato, Guadalaxara, | to similar practices. We hope so, and hope Queretaro, and other States, and had thus made that every penny of this blood-money of the himselffamiliar with the whole system of mining Gardner claim, with interest thereon, will be refunded to the Treasury without delay. It is After the war he returned to Washington, and the price of blood. Let every man implicated was engaged about year there in making up wash bis hands of it. the papers, indentures and vouchors, in Spanish | and English, of his claim. In this interval | Whe History of a Year—Maron, 1854. he visited Mexico for the purpose of getting | This day the first year of Mr. Pierce's documents and signatures, and other written Presidential term expires. To-morrow Con- testimony. After the presentation of his claim | gress will have been three months in ses and papers, he again visited Mexico, and re- | sion. A retrospect of these two periods is | turned with the additional documentary evi- | replete with interest, and illustrates the char- | dence demanded by the Board of Commission- | actor both of the President and of Congress. ere, An award exceeding $427,000 was al- | Of the latter it is enough just now to say thatit | lowed in his favor by the board, consisting of | has spent the past three months in idle talk, | George Evans, of Maine, Robert T. Paine, of | and corrupt tcheming. So far as practical leg- | North Carolina, and Caleb B. Smith, of Indiana. | islation is concerned, the members had far bet- This decision being final, the money was forth- | ter have been seated round their own firesides forth : one to a duel ; another to a Jew counting house ; a third to a card table; # fourth to the stock exchange ; a fifth to revolutionary con- ciliabules: all engrossed, body and soul, in questions of dress and problems of black velvet, lace and ruffles. Meanwhile, storms gathered silently on our foreign horizon. Our domestic troubles did not rest with vio- lations of State rights, and proscriptions of Union men. The latter measure being carried out thoroughly, the President thought the time ripe for a frank exposition of his designs. He accordingly directed his organ in plain terms to repudiate the compromise which had elected him. This was throwing off the mask with a vengeance: & coup d’état, such as, in France or any other similar nation, might have answer- ed its purpose, and raised Mr. Pierce’s charac- ter. Here it produced a precisely contrary ef- fect. The insincere course of policy pursued by the President in his domestic appointments had given the first stimulus to the old anti-slavery and pro-slavery elements ; and far sooner than again ina more menacing shape -than it had ever assumed. The man who, a free soiler in his heart, had brazened out the canvass under the mask of a compromise advocate, and, with atill bolder audacity, had repudiated that com- promise when he had no longer anything to ex pect from its advocacy, felt but the smallest flatter of embarrassment when the Nebraska bill was introduced. He had execrated slave. | ry, he had extolled “involuntary servitude,” | and he had once more placed himself at the head of the anti-slavery faction; it must have cost him very little indeed to fore- swear himself once more and throw the Presi- dential mantle over the repeal of the Missouri compromise. Five months duplicity and fraud made bim President; other five months of simi- Jar virtues might retain him in the office. So | Franklin Pierce fathered the Kansas-Nebraska bill, to abandon it in its turn as soon as he fan- cies he can do so with safety. with paid over by Thomas Corwin, then Secre- | in their respective States. Negligence has been tary ofthe Treasury. A short time before, on | the least of their faults; posterity shall jadge | leaving the Senate of the United States for the | them more truly by the wilful perversity with | Treasury Department, Mr. Corwin had sold out | which they have thrown out the Deficiency bill, his interest in this vast claim, as one of the | shoved the Navy bills out of the way, and wan. | counsel for Dr. Gardner, for the sum of $80,000, | tonly laid on one side every moasure ot practi- to one George Law, of New York, according to’ cal utility, in order to devote their whole time something farther presently to say. | stead of taking thought on the business for , After the payment of the money to Gardner, | which they were sent to Washington, they have | This branch of the subject challenges a little | a suspicion was raised that the claim was a evenly divided their time between political | inepectio) The failure of Merers, Cass, Everett | rand, Strong cirecmstantial evidence was | speoulations for Presidency carried on at the | Gwrtass, Ohio” "ies M oseal of Lisnover rer With this act his first official year closes. To him the retrospect may be a grateful one. He | is now undoubtedly the most unpopular man in | the United States; and eannot delude himself | into the belief that he has one single dupe left. | But he is still President, enjoys @ fraternal in- | timacy with Forney, is at the head and front of corruption, and can plunge his arm to the all accounts; but upon this point we shall have | to political and pecuniary speculations, In- shonlder into the spoils. He may see no source of regret or shame in the past. | } Fonmion Consus.— A. Rettberg has been officially Mr. Pierce expected, the old controversy arose | patronage of which they were deprived by the system at present in force. The only difference in its mode of ope- ration is, that instead of party influences being brought to bear in « direct’ manner, they will be exercised through circuitous channel. It is, in short, a flimsy compromise between the open corruption of the old police system and the affected purism which the necessities ef the times have imposed upon the new Corporation. When we took up this bill, we confess that we expected to find in it some features of im- provement that would justify fresh legislation» after so brief an experience of the working of the present system. Instead of that, it seeks to emasculate from the latter all that is really valuable and useful, without substituting for it any new principle calculated to carry out the objects which its title professes. One- of the essential conditions of a properly regulated police force is, that its direction and control shall be centralized in as few hands as possible. That object has been attained by divesting the Aldermen of the power of appointment, and confining it to three commissioners of character and responsi- bility—the Mayor, Recorder and City Judge. We are ina position to judge of the value of these reforms from the greater unity and effi- ciency that have been imparted to the system, and the improvement visible in the class of per- sons appointed as officers since these regalations came into force. It-will be a sufficient condem- nation of the new bill to state that it proposes to give the appointment of these commissioners to the Board of Aldermen, in conjunction with the civic officers above named and the Judges of the Superior Court. It is not difficult to foresee what would be the result of such an arrangement. The Aldermen would soon swamp the votes of their colleagues, and carry the election of their own partizans ag commissioners. Through them the whole of the appointments in the police force would be Tendered as subservient to their interests as ever they were under the old régime; and it would not be long before we would be again saddled with the same crying abuses that marked the era of political partizanship in our police administration. If there could be any doubt, after what we have just stated, that this bill is 4 political move, it would be removed by the clause which seeks to effect indirectly what at different times ¢ has been so hardly but ineffectually struggled for by a certain cliqae—namely, the removal of ~~ the present Chief of Police. By one of the clauses it is enacted that that fanctionary shall only hold office until the 10th of Jannary, 1966