The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1854, Page 3

TO T9B RDITOR OF THS HERALD. | I like my new quarters very much—far better than | thin, | living at Mr. Maher’s Western Hotel. I have a nice little room, with two windows looking into the | street. I buy my own wood, have a cheerful fire; | ‘and all inside of two dollars per week. A very good natured colored woman fixes my bed and ar- rapges my room. I buy fifty cents worth of | crackers and cheese about once a fortuight. | This, with Jancheons st the hotels, keep me hearty, even did I not dine or take tea with somebody every day. It is unnecessary for me to mention there details; but Ido so in order to show you and the rest of the human family that I am perfeotly independent. But I-am not alone; hun- dreds here live even cheaper than Ido. I know one very gentlemanly man here who only pays tweaty- five dol'ars a year for his room, as he does not have fires in it—is extremely fashionable, goes into mixed society a great deal, and constantly dines out. His crackers and cheese, and herring too, don’t cost him fifty cents a month—then, his lights are cheap, a8 he never leaves a hotel in the evening without prig- ging one or two small pieces of spermaceti. But I am digressing. Still, sixty-twoand a-half cents a | week ischeap living, with a nice room, lights, good | Ginners and suppers, and great respectability. I could live equally cheap, but I must have fires and ‘an extra looking room. I have mixed very little in general society since 1 last wrote. Except a casual interview with Mr Marcy, a call from an eager diplomatic Frenchman, and three visits from Gen. Pierce, I have not seen anybody. I have been around considerable, hearing what was going on, as they say here; but as I knew all the leading facts before I was told them by com- me ii tae ea tai i House. Gen. Pierce e out to ride. I left the mansion, and was sr oa leisurely through the one. when I ear sarees oe pire De: sor onal pally made up his inind to address me. “ Rather a tempting morning, sir,” insinuated the hap ah ig accents, “T noticed you coming from the President’s. Pray, sir, if I may be 80 bold, are you not the Presi- dent's friend? “ Well, [hopeso. Iaman American, aud ought to be friendly with the chief trate.” “ Ah—yex—but—I mean—in fact, I believe I have the very anished honor of addressing ‘ the Man wot nominated [rank Pierce;’” and here the gen- tleman respectfully uncovered. “Tem the indivicual. Pray, who are you, sir?” said I, rather cevere like; for my new acquaintance reminded me very much of one of them wateh- stuffers that I had pointed out to me by a policeman when I came through York. “Really, 1am beyond measure delighted at this par , ‘Which way are you proceeding, Mr. reen T became quite confident that the man hada de- sign upon me, and so I replied—for we had just reached the westerp entrance to the State Depart- ment—" In the opposite-direction to your own.” 4 “‘ Ab, indeed, would ask youup to my room, if “ Your room!” I exclaimed. “ You don’t mean to tell. me that you have gota room in that building, do you?” And I pointed at the State Department houre. ou will do me the very distin; guished con- | ypemeagong with me, I shall have the When I feelin g:— “oa tess you, Sam! ce will wir: you for thie. You have spared my feelings, jon’t want to ever have for an idea in my breast, that you may or can be bought up.” leasure of doing civility of the build- | , eae) AndI don’t w what elas he would have said, for I cut it short, by saying “ Agreed; | but will you tell me your name ?” | lease.” I followed, “ Presently. This way, if and my feet were on the of the first floor. | “ Higher,” said he; and I followed him up a flight of stairs. Heres chap with his hat off opened a door my friend, bowing with awful respect to me as I | yee and 1 was in—Marcy’s own , for sught tT his ew. He shut the door, and put ash ln) ios Cass and elected pees wy — it oe down upon a table covered with 3 yy in, a8 was supposed, pty geld id arm chair, hehe ticians of pare wher hoed to have got rid of ‘was at home: ow,” says he, “ Mr. Green, can | it altogether. But the conventionin Baltimore was Ia Pes yee Lear. selected as not being suspected with being infected “T cannot,” said [. | with the taint. Scott was supposed to be “ Very wi with Seward, and the Union men elected me. Now , then, my dear sir; I am Mr. Mann, mien happy to see you, Mr. Geeen. Dake a seat.’ pe ag ep Reger wel aig * eaid 1 r: “An ss henge gratifying uw) mine, I assure you. How ome vesy excellent lady?” “ Quite well, I thank you. And how is yours, and all the little men ?” “Ha! ha! ha! Capital—just what I expected. We Dae erg, icles auything I can do for , Mr. G. ive me sxtraordinary pleasure e" looking at his rag” gerve you,” I was writing arrangements. I took up a kuife. “Well, the govert ment gives you a nice set of writing mate- , riale,” said I. Ina moment he was upon his feet, and before I eould guess what he was about be had taken a ream | of different kinds of paper out of a drawer, three or foor hundred ee ee pound of beautiful sealipg wax, a splendid four-bladed knife, a dozen | chupke of green ribbon, an ivory paper folder, a port- folio, a pound of wafers, a hundred quills, and a pair @f scissors; and when he had piled ’em all on the table, says me ie there an, else, Mr. Green, I a : can “Whatl do you mean to tell me that all these bx: are body alee, I You would con- + For nol , L assure you. You wi c for everlasting Gratitade by So them.” “ Not a word—they are yours.” He rang ® bell; & messenger entered, “ these things up hand- somely—by the way, I had forzot—inkstand and ink. Here, messenger, add them. Carry the bottle of ink in your hand, and when this gentleman leaves, go with him to his residence, and wa the things.” ‘The m:eeenger took out the thi was amazed. Sabet ae eeeseiny Pog Sines ss present from you. I wi ou for them, + “ Really, Mr. Green, his ig eokind, Don’t wound my feelings. We are ol to furnieh all these th to diplomatic favctionaries, and come un- Ger'that head, I sm confident. You hold a seat of diplomatic confidential relation to the goveroment, or could do so if you chose, which is the same thing. Why, sir, is Governor Marcy”— at this moment a big, six foot, chuckle-headed old chap entered. * Morning, Mann,” said he in a rough voice. “ Good morning, Governor; how do youdo? Al- low me to present you to Mr. Green! the -—’’ ¢ web theh—; Whatis he doing here? How are you “Well, sir; I did not callto see you Mr. Mann invited me in, and I came; and, as [ have business to concovt together, I said I. “ Don’t horry a my account; I am | TE that ee Maes, ie it?” Lasko. “ Yes, that is our Great Secretary. By the way, | Mr, Green you cought to be extuemely ‘ttered.”” | ‘' For what?” | “Why, because Mr. Marcy treated you so extraor- dinazily civil. I don’t know when it has happened | before; he was very polite—for him.” | “« vale a By sca, Mr. Mann, if you call that | politeness, should like to know what you call hog- | “ J do assure Mr. Green, a) my honor, that the Governor rated you with Tuite unusual cour- | ‘Ttdon't make such difference,” sald I, “ for I i “Lam extremely mortified that you can’t be per- suaded to stay longer; but now that you have found the way, pray cali agaiv, and as often as you please. Anything that the Mr. Marcy, or I, can do to capital, we Jnl both. do with 4 -—God bles you!” with such uncalled-for kindness, and that, too, my letter had reached here the very day, in hed rather eg dees I if B : Ht Hii : g a ile # et Fy a ! : : Ht H HE lr at Ui; i i Fi : a) if ‘ 332 ia E ! i z i all mitt i § if z 3 3 F A : BE aH i E E Ht H i i i 35 fr g é ‘WHE aie | and the secessionists aided pment the main and i will give Ucion en the offices in both tione—that will make “Frapk, now, that is all settled. What's out?” “You have been ont, for I have called here four times, and twice I stayed an hour, and each time had a comfortable snooze. Them pair of stairs is apie ‘fan elevation to go up for a President, eh; but I al- feel better for it.” there anything new, Frank?” It is all comprised in one word—t Ne- braska.’ Nebraska at the Capitol, Nebraska at the W hite House, Nebraska in the departments, Nebras- ku in the mails, and d—n me if our females ain’t lo ded with Nebraska. There is but one word every- wrere—it supersedes einige! else. The very wivds- whisper ‘Nebraska.’ Take a seat, Sam, and let's have a quiet talk upon it. You are ho- nest. “Thank you, Mr. President, for that one word. It goes home to the heart. Surrounded as you are by mercenary, unscrupulous, designing, intriguing knaves, I can easily fancy that it must be a great relief to you to have ove friend who Is honest, and who, whatever may befall, will tell you the whole truth, and notbing but the trath.” “Tt is, my dear boy. How about that letter froin your wife, Sam? I wan't to cee that.” “Not to night, Frank. Let’s have a quiet talk this evening about Nebraska.” “D~n Nebraska—” “ Don’t swear, Frank.” “Well, it’s enough to make a saint swear. Have it as you will, then. What do you thiak of this Ne- braska bill and busines:?” ? “You may well say business, for it will be @ pre- cious business before it is through with.’ “« Tt has set everybody mad, think will be the upshot of it 7” “JT will not tell you now. liticians and so called statesmen. But now tell me ow you got so damnably mixed up fa it.” “T was forced into it antennal muis, and I wish he wot it. “a! lain yourself, Frank; would not have been elected President. Now, how can the Hrza) D have got you into trouble ?”” “Well, to convice you, it will be ne ness. “1 wish you would.” “I will; and bere goes: You know, Sam, that whenever that subject of 36 30, or slavery in the Ter- ritories, has been let loose, it has played hell and Tommy with everybody. In 1821, it broke out, after the Missouri arrangement. Monroe, when Pre- sident, Crawford, Jackson, Calhoun, and Adams, were candidates for the succession. The first three were Southern men, and as they and all eu) the anti-slavery feeling reigned paramount the North, they aN quiet; but this question smashed rties into bit Crawford, the eaucus candidate of the democrats, was laid out. Adams was elected. Politicians of both parties were glad to get rid of it, pes it areal until Oregon was obtained from Eng: jan of Oregon, Bays be knew it was unconstit A but he satisfied African slavery would never be carried there. the cursed question was opened again ne oa Wilmot apy! which was drawn up by the Van Barens, to the Buffalo Bac and nomination. which comes the third SUV LK DUCL 1OU 1 “ But bow.was it done? The bill as originally in- Ing of the bastlny and the ! een by Douglas was very harmless—amounted 80. But what does that whig Senator ious |. | of what he was about or not I can’t say, says to him- Southern “ Exactly from Kentucky do? Mr. Dixon, whether consci self, ‘now, I will try the ho of inistrat admit ition men;’ pop goes weazel, and he introduced his smendment, which, flat footed, abol- ished that infernal Missouri - “That was a crowder, wasn'tit? But the Union came cut against Dixon’s proposition, and called him all sorts of things.” r “Bo it.did; but hold on,a moment. We could have backed the thing down, but Stephens, Toombs and other Southern Union gents stool up, and said tary of the. aSministration tad ta supporers'—and and ite uj '—an my Southern frien y cre “ Ab! now 1 ehall learn ail about that Sanday business, of which so much was said in the papers.” Trefused to talk; said it 1d: ‘That be damned——the the deed. Sunday is as matter over. jan’t see what is to be dene? You must show your hand.’ Look at my position, Sam. What had brought seBeesaet A aback. was q better the day the be ‘ood a day as any other to talk this all this about 7 clearly.” jon’t. “T cee ver; “No you wy free soil associations. They sus; made the bold issue to go for the Missouri compromise in an all bands were called in. rank Iam not alone. Nauseous as it is, Cass, Douglas, and all the Presidential aspirants, have to swallow it. We may all make faces, but the dose has to be | o through the Senate like a swallowed. It will rocket. Poor old Cass,I pity him. The chasm papes before bim; but it’s jump or die. He don’t jove it any better thanI do. Douglas himeelf is | hee in his own trap.” “I pity you, Frank, from my heart I do. And how easy all this could bave been avoided, and you at this moment could have been as enug in the Presi- dential chairas a bug ina rag!—yes, for anotner y—if I had got you to | rm. “That's what you always = write my inaugural, I suppose! “Not exactly, Frank; but you had it in your power to have made your own party, and yoar own opposi- | tion” “Well, that is a curious idea.” “Tf you bad have called me on to Concord, as rivate secretary, you would have carried it out.” “Well, —_ it ain’t too late now.” “TI don’t know; but don’t interrupt ne The arene Gummid Pe ‘were to compose your jet, I to myself, whom Ged wills to destroy he first makes mad. Can it B poesible that he intends to destroy my friend ‘ran “Well, that is deeidedly a most deliberate ——.”” “Don’t break in upon me. I thought to myself, if I only bad been at Frank’s elbow, hw nt me for ten now.’ | would have been the result. [ should have 5; a blank shee: of and said:—Frank, per before Beat that has an opposi- that admipiatra' gets on tion, because the opposition d:ives the friends of the administration at a close and compact supp rt. You have been elected alm your choice of who shall be your friends and who shall pe your oppouente. Take a that paver, an four years, and four more if you like.” ost unanimously. You have and write on as you now write, so shall it be for “That is all very nice to talk, Sam; bat how to do “Will you be quiet a minute? You would have it?” said the whigs are killed. I won't select them as my opponents, for they are too weak to | A their opposition, I am elected by the guerdl the country. The tree soilers my triumph, no doubt. They did not make it. Now, then, I will take my Union men North and South. to carry on the government, 860° me tremendous powerfal ” party.’ “flat hold on, Sam. What would have become of free soilers and secessionista?”’ position. would have been farious, and 0) se like damnation—jast what you wanted, they could have united}to have strength enough to werk you harm, for they directly an- tagonistic every other subject; but they would have been enough to have kept your in Phged pam ef Aa have whipped out or met to 9a thioogh for the geod of tee wee ry.” e or eed, you did, Frank. e: You selected for your Cabinet ak a fet of d—d ambitious office plunderers—a secession. What do you It will be awful for yy that d—d Heaarp that ou write letters to; Bennett has got me into this help me out of uu are rather severe. T have heard you say that but for the Heranp you for me be) oe you the entire private history of the Nebraska m Polk signed the bill keeping slavery out jis conscience by his belief that Then came to me in a rash—it was ‘ou found Bennett hid roused the Southern members about that scarlet letter and led me, and wah Nac and of ‘orney Oar. course was a plain one. I went it to satisfy the Southern men. It was . It was an awfal dose to swallow; but “Then follow a good example,and kick out Marcy.” tS ook out for ra rl diplomatic cos- jomes' “Oh,pshaw! with such trash,while + and start- ling events are looming in the pond must be fulfilled. “T have said what I believe; and do what you ean. do what Marcy may, it will be so. ‘The destiny of bith Russia and the United States lies side by side ing b “A ea ineering os _—s er interfering, dom wer » wewill exd her meddling with P= on this side by driving her from this continent.” “Who will do that?” “The South. The first gun—the first ag, lon =the first menace—the merest trifle said or done by England, will raise this continent. The powder is Jaid and dried; England bas only to furnish a spark, and she will be blown out of these latitudes. Aye bad Buchanan come home when he was in- sulted by the English Ministry, he would have come home and found an immense war party ready to choose him chief.” “ And the result?” “Canada and Cuba would have been added, with the other Britieh poeseasions on this continent and neighborhood, and Spanish Porto Rico, A day may briny yy a war with England, and if Marcy under stands his business he has, ere this, assured the Ozar of Russia where we are to be found, and that it will not be where the English flag waves. fo hell with ten thousand Turkies, if sympathy for her is to lead us into alliance with meddling, overbearing Eng- land. As for France, Louis Napoleon's head would not be worth a crown, or any price, if he darei to push Franee into a war with this country on accoun’ of an alliance with England. France can stand con- siderable from a Napoleon, but a war with us would be coming the monkey rather too strong.” “T say, Sam, can’t you send out and get some- ing? Jam thirsty. Don’t go yourself.” “No; I'll jast go to the head of the stairs, call a boy, and send him to the corner for a bottle of Monongahela.” vt — the boy, and while he was gone I con- inued:— “These are rather startling Ideas, are they not, Fravk ¢” “Yea; but I eee their force very clearly. I fo think a war with England would be popular.” “ Tt has to come, and the sooner the better. Ne- braska nor nothing else can save the slavery agita- tion and bring. about a dissolution, unless Bog! lu out, root and branch, West Indies. The and English influence is du, from North America and the nereag the hetes A hpnoinor papeiy oot “ey wry on such an even\ aa speed as le. paticnal debt of a thousan millions Would bea Union blessing. It would keep us united for a thou- | sand years, and we would get rid of English influ- | ence cheap at even that cost.” “Now, Sem, what will be the result of this Ne- braska bill? Will it ve both houses ?” “It ia a terrible political steam horse, with mil- lions of power; when, how, or where it qill brin; up. God only knows; but it will drag all connec! With it to political Hy penetlion, It ia the devil loow; and who will ci him now? Cass, Douglas, Everett, Clayton, democrat or whig, will be ran down by-sit; whether it passes the House or not is of no consequence. The lire has been drawa—the issue made, and it bas got to be met. There is no sbirking it. There it is, black and white—on one side the institution of African slavery, on the other abolition. The leader will be chosen on that one issue. Ifthe Nebraska bill abolishing the Missouri bumbog passes the House, the abolitionists will then open e next Presidential contest upon the ground its 1epeal, and they will have two candidates. Seward will be the Jight colored abolition candidate, and those of a darker shade will select either Wen- dell tes oP or, perbaps, woo'lyheaded las bimeelf. South will of course ‘select a leading Southern man—not one dyed in the wool, be he democrat er whig.”’ “But, Sam, where will the democratic par‘y be all thiswhile #” “Where is it now? There are none who talk of whigs or democrats. Who has brough; all this about? Frank, you sre not alone to blame. Cohe- sive love of plunder and spoils has led other men astray. When you went wrong, and supposed that You,bad honded 5 Quy tuares CR Bolger aoe ton, Hunter, and Sonthern Sena'ors, had have signed the aaron offered by the New York hards, there would have been no fiend named Nebraska rupning a wild muck smong statesmen and leading men. ore true Northern men appealed to Sena- tors. Old Cass said—‘On, no! I don’t want to mike ‘war upon the administration just now.’ Douglas said the same. Southern raw tha: there wece a few morelosves and fishes yet in your gift, and they taid, no, not yet. Even the whig leaders said— Ob! no, wait. And they havegall waited until the wild fierd Nebraska was let loose, and they began to feel his heavy hoofs trampling down a and left; and where now are those true.hearted Northern men who would have stood by you and by ? They are gone. Their arms are fol Their strength is exhausted. You have sucked their life blood, and you can’t give it back to them; and the fiend Nebraska will rush from Maine to Califor nis unchecked and unbridled.” ene’ Sam, you have given a fearfal state of Be. “I think it is avery funny state of things. The next Presidential canvass will be extremely so.” “ Who will be elected?” “Not you—nor Cass, nor Douglas, nor Evsrett, nor Crittenden, nor any one named man. The iasue will be between slavery and its abolishment, and upon that fair and square issue fiee State will be carried for the anti-alavery candi , be it Bill; Seward or Wendell Phillips. The South would sta no chance, and om has brought thipgs to euch an issue.” » “Bat l ‘ay, Sam, if an out-and-out abolitionist was to be elected President, what would the Sou'h do?” “Secede or stand it. You can judge as well as I what they would do,” “ But suppoee two abolition candidates were run in the North—what then ?” “ Then there would be @ scrub race, The three highest, from which the House of Representatives | would have to elect, would be two free soilers and | ment in cotton picker Southern man. And when such a chance is pre- | pot you and me will eee such a state of things in | im ove ‘is city gs was never witnessed in any other, except it was in the throes of a revolution.” “ That whiskey and water ie first rate, Sam. What did you pay for it? “Fifty cents. I bave had a queer proposition made me to-day.” “ What was it?” “ A Frenchman met me down at Brown's Hotel: he was introduced to me by Mr. Sutton, the reporter of the Senate, who said, when he presented the Frenchman, ‘That is the gentleman you want to nee. ‘ Aha, I am vere irra tomake de acquaint- ance of so powerful Monsieur.’ « What can I do for you ?’ ‘ T want to inake de acquaintance of de members of de Vong Connassyzmus de lobby.’ « What do you want? I am the lobby, myself.’ ‘You de Monsieur Lobby, de great Lobby. got one proposition to make to you.’ * Heave abe3d: what is it?’ Rf anon oo Anna, pa Ae en go to Wasbin, 3 you see , and you tell him ‘shall give ta phng two, tree ‘alison dol lara, if ze lobby shall make de Cougress pasa de bil for de Gaézden treety, which shall make me present of twenty million dollar. I am Santas glad to meet avec you.’ ‘Oh, ob, my boy, that’s what you are. Old Savta Arva will give me thre millions when the Gadsden treaty passes? It won’t do. I must have the money down. I should have to spezd a million among my relations, the other members of the lobby family, to get the Senate in working order.’ ‘ And you will no undertake rob nn ‘No, sir-ee. Give my love to Santa Ana, when you write, and tell him I ends meet, until he And then I came ai “Ab, Bam,” said y must fe. Good night.” And now I must close. ‘HB Man wor NominaTep Faank Prenoe. LaMentanee OcousRENoR at C No nnati—Lew- 18 GoLpemirH AccIDENTALLY Drownrp.—About five o'clock thia m Mr. Lewis Goldsmith, wholesale clothier and im; of dry goods, No. 72 Main street, left his Es comer of ‘Third and Elm streets, it is supposed with the inten: tion of crossing over to Covin; to collect rents from some of his tenants in that place. His wife wondered at his absence from ed he was detained on business. — ger called at the store, and informed the river at the foot of Walnut street, just below the ferry landing, and that having Mr. Go card in his pocket it was supposed some information might be obtained at his store. body was seen by the clerk, and to his astonishment’ found to be that of Mr. Lewis From the fact that Mr. G. was mp he mistook the Cham; z : E z i H concerning 2 I : 1 ; 5 i F ig i ¥3 ee named, two hope te will meke both | gets the millions. Good bye.’ | President, “ you will have | your fun, come what will; but i: is now late, and I | Our Washington Correspondence. | Wasureron, Feb. 26, 1854. | President Pierce's Pretended Support of the Ne- | braska Bill—Existing Relations Between the Cabinet and the Anti-Douglas Men—The Public Printing—An Act.ve Canvass and its Comse- | quences—The New York “ Hards” in the Howse— Theatricals in the Cayntal, &c. Your intimations regarding the duplicity of the administration in their pretended support of the Nebraska bill, are perfectly correct, as any person here on the spot can teatify. ‘The personal friends of the President, and Marcy, | Cushing & Co.—such as Paul R. George, Dean, Hughes, and others—are violent in their denuncia- tlons of the bill, and openly avow their determina. | tion of breaking it down. If the President was | sincere in his support of the measure, such language on the part of these men would at least induce al coolness, and prevent them from attending con- | stantly at the White House, and being consulted by its eccupant on every occasio. Such, however, is not the case. The Kitchen Cabinet is stil! in full blast, and Paul, R. George has audience of the President atall hours of the day or night. Sydney Webster and other messengers from the Presidential mansion are continually be. missives to the George and the Dean. Ina w the most intimate continue to exist. What inference, then, can be drawn from such conduct? Is it not plain that the | articles in the administration papers, denouncing the Nebraska bill, the official support given to the Seward organ—the Zimes—and the secret efforts of the President’s bosom friends to defeat the bill, are all a of a acheme to and defeat the wishes of South, and to keep alive the slavery excitement? Mr. Nicholson, the present editor of the Union, is | in great tribulation for tear the House will not elect | him as public printer; and so anxious is he, that he | could not wait. till Gen. Armstrong’s remalns were in the tomb, before begging for the position, and publicly parading en apnoancement that he had entered into an arrangement with the family of the | late printer to divide the profite wita them in case he was succearful. If eens of Congress is to be given out, as a matter of charity, to the most neces- sitous, then should all tne poor make application. We do not believe the announcement was made with the knowledge of General Armstrong’s children, who are well off, but simply asa means of exciting pity, and thus putting money in Mr. Nicholson's fare. If Beverly Tacker is elected priater, then the ‘niom must go down. It is only now sustained by the public pap, and if this istaken away it will be as destitute of means as it now Is of subscribers or influence. Several of the national democrats who represent New York in Congress, have already done good ser- vice inthe cause, and made both it and themselves | per presented if 1791 to the Natloual ‘Assembly, by respected. Messrs. Walbridge, Wheeler and Cuttin, stand high in the esteem of the House, for their bol and mavly conduct in ee the turpitade of the resent administration. Mr. se been bepaffed a good deal, and heralded as a wan of great ability. We in Washington, how- ever, can only judge of his wisdom in the way the owl obtained its a for a similar ee He has not opened his mouth yet. wisdom. The truth is, with the exception of Walbridge, Cutting and Wheeler, the “‘hard’’ delegation of New York is miserably weak. Were it otherwise, more attention would be pald to the party, and better re- sults would have been manifested. But of the three have been jealousy and backbiting on the part of those whom they had» right to look to for support, and hence their efforts have measurably been neutralized by the | defection in their own boucehold. Mise Davenport has been playing an engagement during the past week at the Varieté here. In conse- uence of the number of balls, as well, perhaps, asthe fact that Forrest was playing at the National, her houses were not crewded, but the audieuces were bighly faehionable. Whilst Miss Davenport acta with even more spirit and than ever, we regret to notice she was very badly sup; by Mr. Good- all. This is the more unpardonable, as that gentle- map is talented natorally, and does himself great injustice by his want of study. In nearly every part he bas played with Mies Davenport he has been defi- cient in the text, and aleo in stage business, so much 80 a8 to embarrass Mise Davenport and seriously im- pair the interest of the play. Davenport’s engagement extends for several nights longer. Meantime she receives every at‘en- tion at the bands of ladies and gent'emen here, who ane ww intalliga= os wad ody ike TMG se the} are delighted with her talent in the profession she 80 mooh adorns. America: Gentus List of patents issued from the United State Patent Office for the week ending Febraary 28 1854, each bearing that date:-- 8. B. Bachelor, of Lowville, N. Y.—For improve- met in scythe fastenings. Johu W. Cbitteddon, ani Willlam C. Mead, of pone Indiana—Fox improved machice for splitting pa. Jobp P. Conger, of Newark, N. J.- Fer improve: ment ir salt kilns, Lewis W. Colver, of Louisville, Ky.—For improve: ment in seed planters. Robert W. Davis, of Rodgersville, N. Y.—For im provement in churvs. A. K, Eaton, of New Yors, N. Y.—Foc improve ment in machines for pulverizing ore. Timotby D. Jackeon, of New York, N. Y —For gape in dies for making seamless metal 8 Samuel W. Buliock, of New York, N. Y., assignor to Stillman Allen & Co, of same place—For im- provements in quartz crushers. Michael M. Gray, of Philadelphia, Pa—For im- provement in railroad chair machines, Thos. D. Henson and Geo. Rohr, of Charlestown, | | Va.—Fcr improvement in seed plantera. Wm. Burnett and Jno. Absterdain, of Boston, | | Mass.—For improvement in the use of fusible disks in steam boilers. James Benton, of Newark, N.J.—For improve- ment in zinc white furnaces. Frank G. Johnson, of Brooklyn, N. Y.—For table to hold bank notes when cut, . A. 8. Lyman, of New York, N. Y.—For improve- ment in sir en; Wm. McBride, of Bristolville, Ohio.— For improve- ment in wachines for makivg bed pins. James Pitts, of Laucaster, Mass.—For improve linders. Wy ith Royalston, Mass.—For wed socket for bench hooks. Vm. Sumner, of Worcester, Mass.—For improve- Jozeph Sawyer, of | ment in orgaus. | | Solomon Bell, of Marseilles, Ill —For improvement in harvesters. B.—For im- | George A. Rollins, of Nashua, N. proved tool reat for turning lathes. J.G. Snyder and Joseph Young, of Wheatland township, —For improvement in eced planters Linus Yale, of Newport, N. Y.—For improvement in bank locks. Jacob Zook, of Harrisburg, Pa—For improved carrier for lathes. L, Otter P. Meyer, of Newtown, Conn.—For im- | provement in vulcanizing india robber and other gums, James F. Brodhead, of Rondout, N. Y., assignor to Thomas Ritch, of Napanock, N. Y.—For im yrove- ment in force of saw sets. Stephen P, les, of Boston, Mass. —For im- provement in printing precees. Abijan H«)l and Sylvanus Startevant, of South Paris, Moive —Fur improvement in soow ploughs for talirozos BR ISSURB. Jovas Holmes and Ephraim French, of Lee, Mass. —Fr improved process of manufacturing variegated roving. Patented May 18, 1852. William. F. Ketchum, of Buffalo, N. Y.—For im- ) 2 hana in grass batvesters. Patented Feb. 10, DREIONS, Frederic Starr, cf Rochester, N. Y. for cost iron lega for pianofortes. Frederic Starr, of Rochester, N. Y.—For design For design for cast iron pedal lyre for pianofortes ADDITIONAL 1»PROVEMENT. David Swartz, of Tom’s Brook, Va.—For improve- ment in ploughs, Patented June 22, 1862. VALENTINES AND THE O.wmpe —The old custom of sending amorous mistives to lovers on the 14th of | February, though k sadly degenerated cature, set off with trashy and indecent more batpourin, ‘worthy insulted by vagabond valentines—the selection of some silly ho , 6 no trifle, Mihive ts hetomty en tees felt than the reci misai it tha d plents ere willing ¥ Tagly-~ occured on Inst t up toa certain extent, has late years. - Now vulgar cari- are enuy created tan the reo gontne i 0 affection. Not a fow of OUF moet 18, female as well as male, are annua:ly ce, And this, to the wonder who could thus sting of the senseless acknowled, A case in point | atthe time the number of lunatics was ‘eckbam, of Albany, served to the curable; but they were often placed When | ie does, we may expect a perfect avalanche of | objects of | | clean! | use, wi up and #' ia have a] obtained a Hips. ‘He was born in Ireland in 1816, being now in his thirty. rents from going direct to Toronto. He resided there tweaty years. Part of this time he was a fisherman, living fterwards was & on an island near Toronto. A pesiar,eelling oranges, &c., on the streets, and oar- stant drinker in time, been a poor, miserable some years since, went to Lewiston, where he work- ed; then ran on the worked on the docks at Baffalo and Detroit. At Detroit, by an accident, his bs #9 poor Lunatics at Parts [From Gahynanis Meso: gar Jan 26 J } A report on the situation of lan itica in the asylams | of Paris was ted to the Jouncil General of the Beine at ite session. Ou the 3lst December, number of lunatics under treatment was In all France there were 16,719, which made one in every 2,123 of the total population; but in Paris and the department of the Seine, the propor tion was one in ¢ idiots are rently admitted into becoming a in the country feat bumbers, not being dangerous, are allowed to be at large, and are pond trea ‘ed kindly by averaey. fifty-one years the number of lunatics in Paris and the department of the Seine has increased from 946 to 3,182. number of admissions in the course of 1852 was 1,509. Amongst them were 554 traders, 149 members of libe: rofessions, 26 jculturists, &c. them belonged to Paris, 182 to the it of the Beine, the rest to different parts of France, and 61 to for countries. 1 Enghshman, 21 Belgians, 16 Sardiniazs, 6 Prus- siang, and 5 Germans. The number of persons dis- charged in the course of the year was 849—of cured, 556; and of deaths, 462. The o of deaths id eevee deg eet ie eae ae an cause im was at disease having caused 194 of the Total Al the luna tics of Paris and the department are not treeted in the asylums of Pare; some are maintained in those of the provinces—Biois, Mareville, Cer 4 Ar mentieres, (Nord,) &c., but at the expense of Paris. The of each lunatic day in Paris was Ifr. 60c. for men, and ltr. 20c for women; and in the rovinees it averaged from lfr. to lfr. 25c. The | tal ex of the year was 1,438,432fr. 78c., of which 434,065fr. were disbursed in the asylam of Bicetre, 592,542fr. in chat of La Salpetriere, and the rest in the provinces. Part of the ex; has been repaid by the families of Prefecture of Police, and the roral communes; and avo’her part by foreign governmentsa—amongst | which governments that of Engla:d owes 711fr. 30¢., thet Belgium 6,344fr. 50c., aud that of Pied- mont 2,867fr. 80c. By a law of 1838, two sorts of admissions into Junatic asylums are allowed: one, called “‘vluntary,” is that of non-dap; a8 lunatica on the demand of their famtlies; the se- cond, called ‘ official,” is ordered by the Prefecture of Police, with respect to persons whose maladies are dangerous to themselves or others. Before 1838 the number of official admissions was less than that of volunt: admisssions; from 1833 to 1838, for example ‘he former was 2,521, and the latter 4,242, But from 1838 to 1861, out of 16,716 ad- missions, 4,163 were voluntary and 12,553 official. Of the 1,509 admissions of 1852, 398 were volun- and 1,111 official. Up to the commencement of the nineteenth century, the laws did not occupy themselves with the condition of lunatics. Con- founded with thieves and vagabonds, lunatics were confined in the prisons and hospitals. From a re- le La Rochefoucauld Liancourt, it a2pears that tsi, At that period two wards of the Hotel Dicu were re- three or four together, in the same bed; the more vi- olent were even bound with chains, and the other patients heard all day long their cries, or witnessed painful scenes. The incurables were placed at Bi- cétre, La Salpétriére, and the Petites Maisons (at resent Hospice des Ménages ). The cells ia which ey were confined were only six feet square; light and air were admitted by the door; truckle beds covered with straw and fastened to the walls were all they had tosleep on; and water fell from the walla. In 1792, Dr. Pinel, wards of La Salpétriére put an end to this frightful state of things. The ation of the Conseil Gea- eral des Hospices in 1800 completed his undertak- ing. Since that time the regard due to misfortune, the care which a suffering being requires, and the protection of individual liberty, have been the sole prsciies by which Jegialation relative to lunatics as been guided. The law of the 30th June, 1838, which constitutes the cede on the subject, is thus described in the exposé des motifs ited to the Chamber of Peers:—‘It is a law of police and of | protection with respect to all the citizens—a law — of kindness and of guardianship with respect to the insane, aud a law of public charity with respect to the uvfortunated whose sition and that of their families leaves them with- out rerources.” Since that time, however, mapy improvements have been introduced tato the treatment of the insane. Je egeid and healthy lodgings, with boarded floors, have bsen substitased for the old cells; an iron bedstead, with excellent bedding, a chair anda table form the furniture of each Toons ; the Humber: of physicians hes been in: a of the amnlasan +! over apd ht e patient: ‘has almost been doubled, own room bas been suppressed, and they take their meals in commen in vast refe tories, vomfortab'y fornished. Tbe borrible wooden bowels, in whico food was formerly served up, bave disappeared, aad the patients are served in earthenware vessels ; each bas en iron spoor avd fork.a kn'fe andacup The meals are preceded atid followed by & prayer; at Bicétre the prayers are :bsnted in comm>u by the inte. These prudent inovvation;s, by obligin, e patients to contre! tiemselves in each other’s fagresce, have not a litle contributed to the eatad- hwent of order snd the respect of rues. For merly the clothing allowed was made to last three eae, This, however, wis carrying economy too far. The state in which the clothes were after such Jong service, especial'y those worn by the infirm or the s5ed, who are generally not remarkable for ineses, May be imagined. In 1841 only thir teen franze a year were allowed at La Salpétriére, patient; but at present nearly dvuble the sum is granted, and the clothes are replaced when unfit for hont regord to the length of time they have been worn. ‘ork is the most sslutary and most efficacious means of action that can oe employed in lunatic asylums: it calms when it does not cure, and that constitutes a rensible amelioration. In the two asyloms at Bicétre and La Salpétriére, 1,343 pa- tients work with acuteness which astorishes all visi- ters; in fact, the silence they observe could certainly not be obtained in the workshops of men in sound health of bojy and ming. Moreover, work is for these upforturates a source of profit,and thereby | rocure some little comforts not in- | they are able to | cluded in the ordinary ae if of the establishments. at ats and break the monoto Finally, to amuse the hospital, games, singiag, py of their stay at results, and all physicians advise that they shall be continued. John Howley, the Second Convicted Murder orn Cleveland, Onto [From thr Clevelam3 Pisin eaier, Feb. 28 ] John How'ey is the second man who has been con- victed of ‘murder ip the first degree” tn the county of Cuyahoga. On Wednesday, April 29, 1812, the first case in the Ohio Supreme Court for Cuyahoga wes tried, Judges W. W. Irvin and Ethan Allen on “Women’s Rights,” 474. This was owing to the | ili treated in the streets; whereas | 976 of | laws and usages bicn of the memorislists, is but a relic of s dark benighted age, ev yy and om: the foreigoerswere | t | tutions cf tbe present. It has long beens. of | aux’ous inquiry to the philosopher and the | dreamed of, and to all future time secure to mankind, Sra — fo pe or color, a panacea for all that should. le | spect for social and domestic duties, ties upon which , however, | and which sends so pure # halo around our firesides. patients, the | hysician of Bicétre and after- | tion which becometh women prof with good worke.” & good | dsy toa report of the proceedings wi place in our Chanber of Commerce at ite annnal va on Monday Jast. We have been the more do this from the fact that thore proceedings are portant, not merely in Taro but with | Felerence tothe interests of nd | the questions taken up by Belfast people, that, whatever | ocial eense must The old practice of making the patients dinein their | aecueisa Sodtaoee w hn uae try over which the influence of this community ex- | interests of | and eleven francs at Bicétre, for the clothing of each | benefit accruing | le in every land, must ni create. | fret lance tte great boon whlc fbs gor des- | titute female population of our native land. This Rights in New Jersey. COMMITTEE OF THR NEW JERGEY sBLY, 10 WHOM Was THE PATITION #R “WOMEN’S RIGHTS.” ‘iste The committee to whom was referred the petition tbropist to attain that acme long carry into practical operation the reat end of human pr ; only irhish adequate remedies for existing Sonrietions derive? a past Tecommends and enjoi q as © pro; necessity of « strict “sdberence to those Raia du- the well-being of society depends, ed are the people—where the laws of natare, religion and reason sre held in reverence; folfils ite sanstuary! Surely, such ‘harnony is while tuere are those who writ slavery, our institutions extend with arms to receive all who seek protection or nee@ Tepose. Admitting there are instances of célebrated wo- men, who, inspirei either by circumstances or tha | irresistible restlessness of genius, go forth to oo - emid che theatre aud strife of public life, and a with the world—a few ot whom —women of such well bi labors in poli and perilous psths have not inter- fered wit contrary, have faithfa) care, as though the world had never the labors of their feminine not shake our belief that despite all this the well- earned reputation they enjoyed, they would have been happier had they privacy of domestic life and domestic duty. where each sex renders its = Ae oF in imagimar’ wide-spread duties, and are id domestic and social duties, bat, on the fulfilled with a diligent and wisdom, yet this coatinued enshrined in the In conclusion, an ee committee would express their belief, and with all due deference to the opinions of those whose fair hands penned and endorsed memorial, t iat the strength, glory and futare pros- perity of America depends, and is in the keeping of the wives and mothers of its men. And when the question is asked tonching our ‘‘celebrated women,” § | we may refer with just pride to tuose who have | watched over, moulded, and inspired our “‘celebra- ted men.” With reflections like these, your committee deem it inexpedient at <he present time to recommend the revision oF evactment of any law that would remove | frem the sphere of social di | timed and ordained, afcer the manner in the old time, to “learn in a meek and quiet spirit, with all subjec- ty those who were des fewsing godliness, H. E.woop Larmrra, Jus H. GasKiLh, Jacus M. Msrseiys, Avaveros A. Harpansenc. Davin Riray. The Sewed Muslin Trade of Ireland and the American Tacit [From ine Bsifeat N-wn Latter.) ‘We devote a considerable portion of our space to- nich took Ahem semep lavas every other part of the coun- tends, or may be made to extend. The princi qe topic of discussion referred to the sewed muslin trade, ia connection wth the alteration about to be made inthe United | States tariff. Our reacers are alrealy aware of the euccessful efforts which have been made to include | Irish linens among the articles upon which the im- port duties in the States are either to be entirely abo)isbed or largely modified. At the time when these eftoris were made in our Chamber of Cum- merce, with respect to the linen trade, the interests ot the sewed muslin trade were but incidentally re- ferred to, as being of eecondary importence to the great staple manufacture of this eereess bat, as there bagel Lee is bpm im- portant ch of our country’s industry mi successfully vindicated, as entitled to ite share of the from the present plethora of United States revenue, and as there was still for such vindication, the Chamber resolved to forward its claims, not merely upon the liberality of the United States government, but aan eo We reed add little or nothing to the used on behalf of « branch of industry, te results of which are not only wreiog pooper Se ae to our native country, but attended moral and 807 '9) advantages of inestimable value to our pop".ation. As if by providential design, a trade haq Zapidly sprung up amonget us peculiarly adarved to the cul- ture of habite of — ic indugt; y, when machinery had nearly exMausted aii the previous methods whereby housebcid labor became a\ for na- = wvailable | tional profit. This trade has almost more than atoa- | ed for the banishment of the old oe the crac gt of i poor, msg - of uses, drives in the country, &¢, are allowed. | ae oe ee ae pee, oy. ere experiments have already produced the best | tasteful occupation has rendered hap’ | fortable—homes which, but for it, would have re | mained the abodes of misery, disease and sin. We the lative an and con- re- needle in homes, which @ quiet, ‘con! need not speak of the great mercantile result, wit- beseed in the prosperity of so wany flouri firms, and inthe ample circulation of money among all classes of society, which trade, #0 largely ministering tothe wants and luxuries of ail but hambiest order Brown presiding» It was that of John O’Mick, oth. | trade has had the rare merit of cor erwise called “‘Jobn, the son of O’Mick, alias Beaver, an Indian of the Chippeway tribe,” who, on the 3 of April, 1812, ‘‘at Pipe Creek, town of Wheatsbo- | ro » Cu; shennan with a tomahawk, murder- | t) vid . The took place under a cherry tree, Lear the corner of Water and Su Alfred Kelly prosecuting and Peter Mr. Parkman defending. O’Mick was convicted, and was hnng by Sheriff Samuel 8. Baldwin on the 26th of June, 1512. The beam from which he was hong was afterwards ured in building, and is now in 8 house yet standing in this city. Cuyahoga was at that time composed of a tract of country which pow embraces nine conaties. We may, therefore, assert with trath that this is the first ccnviction for murder in the first one in Cuya- hoga county proper. The case of Howley, aside from this Ce iy is an interestin soo impor. tant ove, involving delicate points of law, and teach- ing forsible iestone to the community. The evidence rem the unfortunate man 1s most conclusive, and the jory heve rendered their verdict of guilty, but it is rot impr per to say that without doubt, is man owes all bis troubles to intem perance. Whiskey made him what he was before he committed the mar- der, and no one knows what influence it had on him when he did commit the deed. We visited Howley in his cell this morning. He was lying in his bunk when we entered, bat soon got before us with the same stupid, sullen, | jotic countenance as before. He seems wo eeennetion ot his fearful condition. We ww facts of his past history from his own hth » He emigrated with his His bative land in his twelfth ‘yeat, he out his pack into the neigh! and for drankard. He hes Toronto lake for some time. Hehas also back hart, he "fe was and he je came to Cleveland ia ; | they are not surpassed b; | country. We might ay similar freland; but we bave sure, that if apy product ati | these, claim an exemption from an import a #8 & e = = i ¢ it tf E z Fs — instruction | with industry, through the medium of thoee benevo- | lent exertiovs which have established it in so mai various and remote districts of Ireland. It has acted, not only as @ talisman against idleness and i rance, but as @ teacher of the princi; of rior streets, | and beauty to minds thoroughly ada) for their itcucock and | reception; for it seems to be the fact that the wo- | Men of the Celtic race have @ nataral aptiinie ivf the production of beautiful embro! , in which y the fema'es ie reat blessing which this has raid enough to show id, on such Ley ~ 3 3 per cent in the United States, or at least a | considerable reduction of that duty, it is the sewed | aan roedratt the hen at we 8 insignifieance, w! appealing t2 the government of a foreign laud, of all arguments based upon the advantages conferred by the trade upon Ives at home, when contrasted with those which it is capable of conferring the United States population, if the be admitted free of duty, or under a that we i i é i | i E i if ‘ i F i int tt? Hi E t : i i se zg | i Te E i i ru i " Hf