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CHRISTYS AMERICAN OPERA HOUR, «2 Broad- way—Eruorias MeLooers By'Cuuisry’s Maxsrnas WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Woad's Minstrel Hall, 44 Broad way—Brmorkan MinstTR Endy BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broadway—Bucx- Lay's Bralorran Orewa Teoure. BANVAR xe How | |} HENISH GALLERY, 665 Broadway—Day and Night. D'S GEORAMA “596 Broadway—Panonama oF A SIGN@R BLITZ—Sruvresant Instirure, 569 Broad way URYAN GALLERY OF CHRISTIAN ART—S Broad way . WHOLE WORLD—S77 and 379 Broadway—Afternoon MUD! .SYD!! MUD!!! “Wo the People of New York City. Many sensible people have arrived at the conolw- | sion that some radical change in the municipal gov- -ernment of this city is indispensable. It isa neces- sity. The people have nothing to hope far from the | present city government. It is necessary, then, that | the people should take the matter into their awn hands. It is, therefore, recommended that the peo- ple of. New York do assemble in the Park en Mon- day afternoon, at four o’clock, to consider the pre- sent state-of affairs, aud to take such prefiminary | measures as will lead to a renovation of the city, and | make it as gistinguished for clean and well-lighted streets, as it, now is for liberality, wealth, and com- | merce. Tothe Park! The News. A very full account of all the circumstances con- mected with the fatal steam-boiler explosion in the ear factory of Messrs. Fayle & Gray, of Hartford, Conn., is publishedelsewhere. Our reporters have furnished a description of the building, revised lists of the killed and wounded, the testimony taken at the Coroner's inquest, and a painfully accurate statement of the scene at the ruins. It is thought that the sudden pouring of cold water upon the heated metal of a new boiler, by the deceased engi- meer, McCune, generated an amount of gas which gaused the boiler toexplade. Measures have been taken by the citizens of Hartford for the relief of We wideWs ane UrpHans UE UIE viv Bightecn persons are known to have been killed, and over thirty wounded, either severely or slightly. Oue of our special reporters is still at the scene of the catas- trophe. We elsewhere publish some additional and very interesting particulars concerning the melancholy fate of Dr. Gardner, who was last Friday pro- nounced guilty of perjury, and sentenced to ten | yeers imprisonment in the penitentiary, the pro- nunciation of which startling announcement he survived buta brief period. The general supposi- tion is that he committed suicide by swallowing strychnine; in confirmation of which belief his body | is reported to have so completely altered in appear- ance that his most intimate friends could not | have recognized it. He laid in convulsions for three hours, being conscious at intervals, and declaring that he was innocent of the crime. The cause of his terrible finale was a demand upon the government for $700,000 for the loss of his al- leged silver mines in Mexico;and on which claim he ‘was awarded $428,740. The Doctor's brother, Chas. K. Gardner, is said to be extremely ill. Owing to the great length to which the United #tates Senate protracted its session, we were un- able to procure the closing proceedings in season for a large portion of yesterday’s edition of the Heravp. We to-day publish the continuation of the very warm and exciting debate between Messrs, Douglas, Chase and others, together with the vote on the final passage of the Nebraska-Kansas bill. It is a somewhat singular circumstance that at the hour the vote was taken, (five o'clock in the morn- ing,) the Senate precisely one year before was en- gaged in discussing the measure, which was de- feated, for the organization of the Territory of Nebraska. The House adjourned from Friday till to-morrow, and the Senate till Tuesday. Special attention is directed to the spicy tele- graphic despatch from Washington relative to the Nebraska question; also, to the peculiar letter from the “ Man Wot Nominated Gen. Pierce.” Hon. Geo. E. Pugh has received the caucus nomi. | nation for United States Senator of the demo- cratic members of the Ohio Legislature. He is a | popular young lawyer, a progressive democrat, and | a favorite among the masses. He will succeed Senator Chase, who was elected by a: coalition of democrats and freesoil votes, and whose term ex- pires next March. The steamship Empire City arrived last evening from Aspinwall, with the California mails of the Ist ult., and later news from Central and South America and the British West Indies. The intelligence rela- tive to the progréas of the American, English and Freach Darien Surveying Expeditions, will attract the attention of all who take an interest in the de yelopement of the extraordinary resources of this vast continent Although the different parties seem to agree n the opinion that the route is impractica. Ale for a canal, and the exact object of their mission has proved of no benefit, their notes contain a va- riety of useful and instructive, combined with ro- mantic and curious, information. We have files of Jamaica papers to the 26th ult: Cholera had re-appeared at Kingston. It first showed itself in the Lunatic Asylum, and of a very fatal type. Two or three persons were also taken ill in the public hospital and seventeen deaths had oc- curred in both institutions up to the last date. It Was thought that a sailor from a Halifax vessel had communicated the disease. The “ Responsible Gov- ernment bill” was in Committee of the House of As- sembly. The taxation plan, in force on the Island, and the rate of import duties, will be somewhat af- fected by this measure. The Rey. Samuel Oughton, pastor of a Baptist church, had had serious diffe ences with bis congregation, and the chapel was closed. R.O.Thompeon, an eminent merchant of* Kingston, had died. The weather was very fine. Dates from Belize (Honduras) come to the 1sth ult. Cholera had almost disappeared. bel and San Thomas had been visited by the epidemic. The ngston stenmer which reached from bronght a detachment of Britis Ja:ge eum in gold on freight. Belize nd hada passed a, pif to ‘increase the number ef Notaries — Public ‘znd Commissioners of Deeds in this city— forty «sf the former and seventy-five of the latter. Notic was given of a bill to provide for the tuition and geappott of the indigent blind persons in the nr@ exceedingly suspicious that ali is not Tight respecting the officia! conduc: of the New York Institution. Senators conti- kite demo¢ratic State officers. They have instructed the special committee on the subject to report whether the late Auditor did pay out moneys con- ‘trary tollaw. After a long debate, the original reso- communication. Wedor Thitions for the amendment of ‘the constitution, so as ‘to provide for the punishment of persons found ‘guilty of bribery or being bribed at elections, were \ ordered to be engrossed. ‘The great feature of the day in the Assembly yes- ‘Yerday, was the introéaction of a preamble and reso- | | lution bewailing the adoption of the Nebraska- ‘Kansas bill by the United'States Senate. It is de- claref that the time ‘has come when it is necessary to take action for the preservation of the very exist- ence of freedom itself; and the several States and Territories are, therefore, enjoined to send delegates, | ag many as they have representativesin the nitional Corgress, to a Council of Freedom, to be held in Atbany on the 19th of next April. | ‘In addition to a variety of interesting information owith regard to State ,politics and business in the | Fegislature, our Albany:despatch contains the bill | fer creating a Board ‘of Commissioners for making | estimates and assessments for opening, widening |.and otherwise improving our streets. It was this {smeasure, it will be reeollected, which induced the Common Council to send a special delegation to Albany to protest against any action on the subject, for the reason that they considered the matter as belonging exclusively:to the city fathers. Not being able to arrive at amy definite conclusion as to the exact object of their mission, the Council Com mittee very wisely resolved to return heme yester day afternoon. The committee of the Maryland Senate have una- nimously reported against the proposed prohibitory liquor bill, and there‘is consequently no chance for its passage. Owing to the remarkable procrastina tion of the Legislature of this Stateéupon’the subject the friends of the ‘Maine law are beginning to despair of its adoption at this session. Although it is an admitted fact.on all sides that everything has been said that canbe said with regard to the | matter, the members of the Senate continue to de- bate the question from day to day, apparently for .}. no other purpose than to.avoid taking the-final vote and thus sealing their political fate, for good or evil, for years to come. Instead of imitating the ex- ample of the dodgers.on :the Nebraska question in ithe United States Senate, they should béldly face the music at once. Great excitement was produced in Rome yester day morning, by the discovery of several dissected bodies in the Medical Institute, while the firemen were engaged in extisguishing flames that had been kindled by an unknown female. The people became | greatly amazed, hurling the remains from the win- dows, and threatening the members of the Institute. After much difficulty the police succeeded in res- toring order. A middle aged woman, calling herself Mrs. Har. rison,.whose husband is supposed to have deserted her,-voluntarily starved herself yutil she died, at Hartford yesterday. According to the official repont ef the City In- spector,the total mortality of the past was the same as on the preceding week—being four hundred and cighty-faur—and what is also quite xemarkable, is the announcement that twenty-seven persons died of smallpox'in.each week. Among the chief causes of death we natice that consumption swept of 63, be- ing a decrease of 10; convulsions, 48; croup, 19; congestions, 18; dropsies, 31; fevers, 31 cases, of which 14 were scarlet; inflammations, 50; maras- mus, 24; premature births and still-born, 39. Of the deceased there Were Nauves or we Uniweu States, 315—only nine more than the number of children who died; Ireland, 94; Germany, 40, and England, 15. Advices from Rio Janeiro to January 17, state that coffee was firm, but that the stock had accumu- lated and prices receded. The dense fog in which this section of the coun- try was almost continually enveloped for the forty- cight hours previous to last evening, when the mist disappeared and the sky beeame clear, no doubt greatly retards the arrival of a large number of vessel which are fully due at this port. The screw steamship Glasgow, from Glasgow on the 15th ult., did not arrive till last night. She brought no news whatever, although she left one day after the Andes. The Nashville, from Havre, via Southampton, on the 15th, with one day later European news, had not ar- rived at three o’clock this morning. The Alps,from Liverpool on the 18th ult. for Boston, has been out nearly fifteen days. The Atlantic, with Liverpool and London dates to the 22d, is about due, and the Asia, with advices to the 25th, will be due at Hali- fax to-morrow or the day after. The Atlantic will most likely reach port in season to enable us to pul§ lish her news in to-morrow’s edition. Nebraska and the New Hampshire Election— The Administration Clawing off. On the fourteenth day of this month an elec~ tion comes off in New Hampshire for Governor, Senator, State and County officers. The whigs, seizing hold of the Nebraska question, have taken the field with unusual spirit, and are prosecuting the campaign against the adminis- tration party with an energy which has pro- digiously frightened the Cabinet, the Cabinet organ, and the President ; and so they are back- ing out from Douglas and clawing off from Ne- braska as fast as a terrapin with a coal of fire on his back. The Washington Union of yesterday, after having made Nebraska the shibboleth of the party for a whole fortnight, declares explicitly that it does not regard the support of the Ne- braska bill as a test of democracy, or opposi- tion to that biJl as antagonistic to the adminis- tration, Elegant! Our telegraphic advices sug- gest that this beautiful concession to the free soilers is due to the management of John Van Buren at Washington—that the con- dition of the softs in the House, for voting | for Nicholson as their Printer, was that the administration should formally concede to the free soilers the largest liberty upon the Nebraska question. In other words, according | to our information in the premises, the princi- ple was sold for the spoils, The administration sold out its right, title and interest in Nebraska for the free soil democratic votes of the House for Printer. Our own opinion, however, is that General Pierce knows from experience, the New Hamp- shire democracy are strongly tinctured with free soil principles, and that there is great danger that New Hampshire may be lost should Franklin Pierce prove treacherous to his New Hampshire democratic free soil brethren. In order, therefore, to save the State, he has re- solved, as we believe, upon the other extreme—of treachery to Deuglas, Cass and the South—the very thing which we have all along predicted would be the case. We have repeated this pre- diction from day to day, knowing the hold which the Van Burens, the Cochranes, and the whole Buffalo troupe of negro minstrels, have upon the administration. When you have a man tied to a contract, in black and white, he may be commanded. The New Hampshire election has hur- ried up the fulfillment of our predic The wheels of legislation are still revolving vory slowly, notwithstanding that the last half of the sctsion is fast wilting away. The Senate yesterday twelve-month after the inanguration. Leet the | South be vacrificed—let Douglas be cut adrift, | let Ones go to the dogs, let the Nebraska bill be | tory of the Gardner fraud from its inception sunk tn the Dismal Swamp—say the Cabinet, | to its fatal termination with the violent self- | rather than we should lose New Hampshire. | murder of the criminal in his cell on Friday An: between treachery to the South andtreach- | last, the day of his conviction and sentence. | ery to the New Hampshire free soilers, be it | For the more precise information of our readers, remembered that “s bird in the hand is worth | upon the character and pretensions of Gard- | ‘two in the bush.” And so the Cabinet organ | ner’s claim, we copy from the Henatp of a year sings the song of democratic harmony to the | ago a statement of facts from Hon. Henry May, | ausic of the Evening Post and the Albany At- | the principal of the government -counsel, and | “we Ganpxen Fravn—A Cass ror Cov- | in fires than the proprictorsof houses, ‘We are | sent condition of this unhappy oness.—We gave yesterday « brief running his- thoroughly conviated that a very large propor- | warning them thet if they come to New York tion of our fies arise from this cause. A cure might be expected from greater vigilance on the part of the police, ands more searching inquiry into the cause of each fire bythe civic authorities and insurance offices. ‘Tue Women’s Ricats Movement.—We begin to think we have laughed long enough at the follies of the females who are carrying on the | according to all accounts, is much better fur- | las. Every abolitionist, therefore, as well as every free soiler who votes the democratic ticket, is a “good enough Morgan till after the election.” We are, however, admonished that this new wire of the Cabinet organ is intended for the benefit of the administration in the South. It may be that this Nebraska bill will hang fire in | the House till after the New Hampshire elec- | tion. Inthisexigency, should the election be a decided administration triumph, it is suggested to us that it will be used to bolster up the bill in the House; that the result of the struggle is to be construed as an expression of the people of New Hampshire in favor of the bil, and may be conclusive in getting | it through, ‘Where is no doubt, at all | events, that a democratic defeat in New Hamp- | shire would be regarded in the House as a vote | of the people.against the Nebraska bill; and it is not impossible that, after gaining a victory | from a general amnesty to the free soilers, of the party, to conciliate the South again. "They will have been used, and they may be thrown away. But we adhere to the theory that in this am- nesty to the free soilers, the administration is returning to firat principles—that the object is to betray the -South, and to leave Cass and Douglas fast in the mire. Hear what dulcet -strains the Concord Patriot sings te sweeten ‘the dose to the -old free soil associates ef the President in New Hampshire. Sayé the Patriot, speaking of.a.geod free soil democrat:— cls 8008 that tho Nebraska question, a¢ mow before the <Senate, is supported. about equally, and ‘oppesed about y Thee ‘aud democrats. He knowsnot yet in he bill may finally pass ; and he knows that e unquestioned right to think:as he pleases about this question, .without censure or rebuke from this ‘quarier or that. Thismeasure will not be permitted to divide the members of jhe democratic party, any more than the question of granting 160 acres of Jand to actual settlers. What a distressing and dirty bit of special pleading for free soil votes is this! But we -rather suspect it is dished by the vetes.of the two democratic New Hampshire Senaters for the Nebraska bill. The New Hampshire ¥oters may think as they please, so they only vote the administration ticket. .So thought Messrs. Wil- liams and Norris in voting for Nebraska. What a pleasant compliment is paid to them after having thus voted, in ithe suggestion of the Cabinet organ that they might have voted ac- cording to their own conviations without being turned out of the party! Why this information was not given to tham hefare, we leave to be answered between the South and New Hamp- shire. iF summing up the issues of this new am- nesty to the free soilers on the Nebraska bill, one of two things is certain : It is either an act of treachery to the free seilers er to the South. One party or the other must be betrayed, and they, if expedient, may be formally kicked out | the chief of the first government commissioners despatched to Mexico in search of ‘the mine, af- ter the claim had been allowed and the money paid out of the Treasury. The following is the substance of Mr. May’s opening address to the jury, at the commence- ment of the proceedings against Gardner, in the United States Circuit Court at Washington, on the 11th of March, 1853 :— He described this as the boldest, largest and most suc- cessful scheme of fraud ever perpetrated inst the government. ‘The dignity and respectability of the United ates government, in the eyes of the world, were at stake on the issue.’ He gave a succinct history of the case, and stated what the prosecution expected to prove. Dr. Gardner, in a memorial to the Board of Com- missioners, stated that early in the year 1844 he was largely in mining operations in'the State of San Lule Potod, Mexico, employed five hundred laborers, and had upwards of three hundred thousand dollars invested in mea, buildings, steam engines, horses, mules, and men eateblisimient, hls property baving been despotiog by the 5 ving been desi | Mexican soldiery ; that mid mines were worth half « mil- liom, and would have yielded him fifty thousand dollars per annum. The accused filed with this memorial depo- sitions purporting to come from persons residing in Mexico, going to show that he owned said mine. The issue was on the truth or falsity of these assertions. ‘The United States affirmed, and expected to prove, that every statement in the memorial, and every paper pre- sented by him, was false from beginning to end—pure fiction and invention. Gardner received from tue United States, as the fruits of ‘the fraud, $428,750. The mine was so-vaguely located ‘that it could not be found by the commissioners, although they offered $500 reward for it ; that,persons whose names were furnished as evidence of title eould not be found in Mexico ; that every one of the depositians was made in Washington; the title was manufactured here ; that Dr. Gardner was a poor dentist, and ‘never could have worked such a mime as he de- scribed ; that he was practising dentistry and peddling small wares on the Pacific coast, hundreds or thousands of miles distant, instead ; that the mine, the title, the seals and signatures of public officers in Merico, were all forged. Now, since the verdict of the jury and the sentence of the court, the question arises, would this young man Gardner, or could he, single- handed, have ventured upon a frand of such gigantic dimensions, and requiring the mass and the variety of legal papers, vouchers, re- cords and evidence, ‘which this case called for te:make it even -plausible before the most stupid board of commissioners in the world? No. Had.be possessed the confidence to undertake the.task alone he had:not the legal experience and ‘dknowledge necessary to make out his pa- pers. He was not a lawyer, nor, had he been a lawyer, could he, without the aid of other law- yers, have provided against all the salient points of detection which a fraud so naked and bold required to be guarded. The inference, there- fore, is perfectly rational that Gardner had the aid.ofolder and keener legal heads than his own in making out his case. In addition to this, he had contingent advances of money made him in advance of his award, which, to- gether with the manufacture of his papers, form @ proper subject for a searching investigation by a committee of Congress. . We have been informed that an equally -fla- grant imposition as this of Gardner was per- petrated upen the treasury under an award from the same Board of Commissioners te a certain Dr. Meiere, an adventurer of the same both may he inthe end. If the Nebraska bill is brought io a vote before the New Hampshire CICCUUM UF the Athy the pewiaDIMUtg wee tn creaced that it may be swamped; if the vote is delayed beyond that election, the result of the clection will enable the administration ‘to take either side of the question, as the election may go. Pass the bill before the election, and the administration may be blown up in New Hamp- shire. Delay it till after the election, and the result may be different. We should not be sur- prised were the bill held back, nor at all aston- ished, (provided the election is anti-administra tion,) if then the House were to kill Nebraska by authority. In the meantime, between supporting Ne- braska, cottoning to the South, and juggling with free soilers, the prospect enlarges of swamping the Senate bill, and leaving Doug- las and Cass up to their armpits in the quag- mire, There is open treachery in this free soil amnesty, Let us see how it will work in New Hampshire, and how it will work in the House. What a happy President, in his day, was Capt. John Tylerd Posrron AND Progress oF SPIRITUALISM.— Judge Edmonds is pursuing his triumphant ca- reer in the West as the triumphant apostle of the new spiritual religion. His lectures are well attended, and everywhere a strong desire is evinced by the public to hear and investigate | the doctrines of which the Judge is at least the John the Baptist if not the Mahomet. So far we imagine that he and his co-epiritualists have | every reason to congratulate themselves on the | success of their creed. It has procured them no | ordinary share of notoriety, and as Judge Ed- | monds and those lesser though shining lights, | Mrs. Fish and her daughters, can testify, has | brought them likewise the more substantial | benefit of dollars. In this latter re- | spect, Judge Edmonds and his colaborers | differ from the Apostles, We are not led to believe that Peter or Paul charged an entrance | fee for ,dmission to their lectures on “the Un- known God:” nor does it appear that, beyond the bagatelle of half a dozen wives or so, Ma- homet cleared anything worth mentioning by | his religious mission. We are more practical in these latter days. Brigham Young’sseraglio, | nished with female beauties than Mahomet’s was, and besides, he has excellent farms, a snug house, and a variety of other creature comforts. Mrs. Fish has exchanged a very precarious live: | lihood at Rochester for the best rooms at hotels, and has doubtless a nice balance in some bank- er’s hands. Judge Edmonds goes through the | world presching the advent of his new reli- gion to enraptured audiences at a quar- ter of a dollar a head; and laying by enough in his western tour to live quietly in communion with the spirits of Socrates and Plato for a year or two at least. This is not the only point of difference between Judge Ed- monds and the precursors or apostles of all for- mer sticcessful religions. The Judge seems to have some very inconsistent and unruly mem- bers in his flock. We do not allude to those spiritualisis who are amusing Congress in its idle moments by making Washington, Clay and Calhoun vote on the quostions of the day; they hardly suffer by comparison with the members who vote in person, But when the spirits be- gin to iifringe the banking laws as they did at Chicago the other day, or pick locks as they he has done lecturing th: Gentiles, couldn’t ho tions much sooner than we had ex- pected, The case is pressing. It will not do for the administration to lose New Hampshire a manage to spare time for one short letter to his brethren on that estimable virtue of the old Christian religion—common honesty? school as Gardner, and a friend of his in Mexico. Meiere’s claim was for losses incurred TH UE SLUPP Age af bie weele wt a gnaat qual silver mine, in a part of Mexico where no quicksilver has ever been found. With the aid of Gardner and his allies, however, Meiere obtained an award of $153,000 indemnity. Poor Gapdner is said to have got alarge fee for his services; but, .with the bulk of the money, Meiere decamped again to Mexico, to enjoy it beyond*the reach of the law. He was seen about two years ago by @ gentleman from the United States, and being informed that there was an indictment out against him for his fraud he coolly replied, “Well; I have got the money, catch me if you can; and when you get back to Washington teM Uncle Sam, with my com- pliments, he is a d——d old fool, and may go to the devil.” i Meiere was like Joe Bagstock—he knew “what he was about. Lethim alone. You don’t catch Joey B.” But how are we to account for this fatuity of Gardner in waiting upon bail a three years prosecution except upon this ground: his counsel and agents were among the most prominent men in the country ; they had shared in the spoils; and between his money and their influence he must escape. Upon no other hypothesis can we account for his hardi- hood through all this lengthened and threaten- ing prosecution, Has the man who applied the match been destfoyed, while they who furnished the ammunition and prepared the infernal ma- chine have escaped to reve} in their share of the booty? Let Congress appoint a competent committee of investigation, with power to send of prersons and papers. Public justice, public morality, and public opinion, demand it. Tae Recent German Anti-SLavery Mest- Ira—QurER Proceeptnas.—We suspect that | our excellent friends the Germans, who have | hardly had time to get over the excitement into | which Bedini threw them, did not clearly un- | derstand the object of the meeting at Washing- ton Hall on Friday. We are more than half inclined to believe that they took it for an anti-Maine law meeting. The most prominent banner at the meeting was one inscribed “No | Maine liquor law;”’ and the conduct and de- | meanor of the audience showed clearly that, whatever their opinions on the Nebraska ques- tion, they were dead against any interference with their liquor. The Germans, as a general rule, very wisely let the negro question alone ; while, on the other hand, they are faithfal to their hereditary traditions in the matter of lager bier and grog. If the truth were known, we shrewdly suspect that the resolutions which, in the language of the reporter, were “received with hearty applause and adopted by acclama- tion” were understood by five-sixths present to be a protest against the Maine law. OngantzEp INcenpIARIsM—STartLING Drsc10- surEs IN BrookLyx.—The evidence of Patrick Cavanagh, before the Mayor of Brooklyn, pub- | lished in yesterday’s Herat, throws a good | deal of light on the destruction of property by | fires in that city. Cavanagh swears that he was hired by John McCarty, the owner of two houses | in Brooklyn, to ect fire to them for the purpose of obtaining the amount of the insurance he had effected, and gives a minute description of the means to be employed for the purpose. We fan- cy that similar cases oceur oftener here than in Brooklyn, and recommend our police officers to in helping the householder to carry away his far- niture, are probably more frequently concerned woman’s rights movement in this country. Barely a couple of hundred in number, this de- voted band of ladies have managed to keep public attention riveted upon them for some years, and have degraded the name of Ameri- can woman throughout the world. The good nature of editors and a false feeling of gallan- try among a majority of the rougher sex have suggested a smile where a frown would have been better suited to the case: and the women’s rights advocates, flattered by finding them- selves so conspicuous, and nurturing the grati- fying belief that they were martyrs to the cause of human progress, have grown in bold- ness as time passed over, and are now actually engaged in bearding the Legisla- ture “at Albany. It is time that this delusion should be dispelled. We have never seen a paper or heard a speech from a woman’s rights woman that would have been entitled to the slightest notice had it been uttered by a man; and by far the bulk of the performances ac- creed would have created inextinguishable mer- riment had it been possible to trace their pom- pous absurdities and inflated verbiage to a legi- timate wearer of the breeches. If in fact we were to judge the question by the share of in- the sex. The ladies however have not con- peace, shocked the modesty of their sisters by assuming male garments, and in very many in- sake of their favorite chimera. thing has lasted quite as long as is fit or proper. the subject, but-we do think that these ladies,their families, their sex, and the community at large would be benefitted if means were taken to put a stop to any further exhibitions such as those to which we refer. Of course, in view of the ‘past, but one means of attaining this end can be suggested. The women’s rights advocates must ‘be treated as lunatics, and confined in an asylum. The peculiar form in which the ma- dady has aseailed them entitles them to a sepa- ration from ordinary insane patients: the Le- gislature at Albany should appropriate a special building for their accommodation. A skilful physician would readily devise a course of treat- ment, suited to the features of each case. Some might try the cold water system, with every prospect of success; mental employment might cure others; and many would doubtless improve if a humane delusion were practised on them, leading them to believe that matrimony was not utterly hopeless. Low diet and active exercise in the open air might we think be cerviceable to most: and relief might likewise be Qenerany cape a tevin we wyatime nf annem. pulrory nursing, for which babies could be readily hired in the neighborhood. Under the application of these means, we think these poor creatures might soon be restored to health and sanity. We strongly recommend the subject to the Legislature. They need be under no apprehen- sion as to the cost of the building for the asy lum. For as soon as the female patients were cured, the wards might be converted into an asylum for the reception of male lunatics of the same character, such as abolitionists, spiritu- alists, &c., and would be very likely to remain & permanent institution. Tae Present Conpition oF ovr STREETS.— We appeal to that portion of our citizens who have been able to get the mud out of their eyes to wake up and view the aspect which the city now presents, and also to consider the result of such a state of things which experience teaches us are inevitable. The surface of the island is covered with an alluvial deposit varying in depth from one to six inches. An analysis of this deposit will give a large per centage of vegetable matter, in various stages of decomposition. The pro- cess is rapid—the atmosphere is impregnated by noxious gases—pestilence stalks in our midst—it slays its tens of thousands. The peo- ple bow to what they call the will of ‘Divine Providence.” They forget that this same power has given them the means to prevent the slaughter. No sane man can doubt that our mortality bills are swelled by the nasty condition in which we live—no, vegetate. The men trot about the street with mud up to their knees; the women who are brave enough to venture out find that even long boots will not protect them from the incursions of the same monster, mud. Mud in the parlor—mud in the hall—mud on the sidewalk—mud on the clothes—mud in the eyes—mud in the stage— mud in the cars—mud in the theatres—mud on the breakfast table—mud in the saloons—in fact, a great sea of mud threatens to envelope us all, and send the island of Manhattan to look after the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. We opine that if seven just men were necessary to save us the candidates from City Hall would receive a severe black-mud-balling. The people stand viewing the great lakes of mud—they see daily swampings and adventure* more perilous than those of Captain Cook of Otaheitan memory—and they are idle. What is to be done? Let us see. A meeting was called to be holden in the Park yesterday afternoon, at which time the citizens could agree upon some measures for relief, But such was the state of the weather and the nasty condition of the streets, and even of the Park itself, that nothing like a mass, meeting could be got together on such short notice. It is now proposed that this meeting shall be holden on Monday afternoon, (6th.) We again appeal to the people to use this legiti- mate and constitutional means to obtain their Fighte—to secure clean and well-lighted streets. They may meet and appoint committees of | safety with fall power to act for them. The | mcment these committees go to work the citizens will be in a fair way to bring | about the accomplishment of their desires. tried todo here, we think it is time to call | turn their attentionto the subject. The insu- | The salvation of the city, the health of its citi- Judge Edmonds’ attention to the fact, After | ranceisnot always the object sought hy the in- | zens, and the commerce of its merchants, de- | cendiary: the herds of rowdies who are always pend upon the prompt action of the people at | to be found at fires, and are so exceedingly active | this crisis. We know that Philadelphia mer- | chants have sent circulars to Western and Southern traders, informing them of the pre- credited to the priestesses of the woman’s rights | tellect displayed by the females in this contro- | versy, no one could hesitate in pronouncing our | present social system as by far too liberal to | tented themselves with talking nonsense in words ayard long. They have organized themselvesinto revolutionary committees, gabbled by the hour upon the best means of disturbing the public | stances abandoned husband and children for the | Now this sort of We have no wish éo interfere with the liberty of community, and | to buy goods their lives are in danger. Thig , has already affected our trade, and it is but the | beginning of the end— ‘Thus bad begins, but worse remains behind | It is useless to look to the municipal authori- ties for aid. They are “authorities” without | any authority at all. Nobody has s right to | command anybedy. Everybody is atthe “head |“ of a bureau.” The Mayor can do nothing— _the Aldermen ean do nothing—the reform. Councilmen confine themselves to the discus- sion of points of order and oysters on the half shell—and it seems that our system of govern- ment is artfully contrived to defeat the very ends which it should bring about. This is the plain state of the case, and we say again, it must go to the people—the people— the people! The people are always right when they go to work calmly and deliberately to re- | form great nuisances. When the popular sen- | timent is once aroused it sweeps away all | obstacles, and rushes on like a mighty ourrent,. | cleansing and purifying everything in its | course, . The way having been pointed out, we trust the people will come forward and go to work | atonce. The summer approaches—think of the | cholera—think of fevers—think of your com- | merce—think of the civic honor—and clean the | streets ! / i | i: | | AnrrStavery Movements.—We understand that anew anti-slavery movement is about to be set on foot in this city, and that it will con- | | trive to combine literature with abolition, Senator Cooley we understand is to preside | over the organization, and several literary men have promised their valuable aid, assistance and upport. We understand also that the Hon. John A. Dix has written three letters giving his reasons for opposing the Kansas-Nebraska bill ;| which letters are not to be published until cer-/ tain significant events occur at. Washington.’ | We are at loss to understand this.discretion on | the part of Mr. Dix and his eesrespondents, and) wonder the letters have not yet appeared in} print. Hitherto, the politicians have allowed) themselves to be eclipsed by the social revolu-| tionaries in this Nebraska business ; they have some leeway to make up before they can com- pete with Mra, Stowe, Rev. Theodore Parker; William Lloyd Garrison and Henry Wardi Beecher. ‘ Pustic Lanps.—The lobby of Congress is swarm-; ing with hungry speculators, anxious to get a good slice of Uncle Sam’s vast domain. All sorts of rail- road projects are presented, and various contem- plated improvements made up, for the purpose | getting grants of land ranging from fifteen to thirty miles in width, and from one hundred to one thousand | miles in length, direct from Congress. There are already applicants enough to use up all the public! lands belonging to the government, in every one of! the Western States. These cormorants are not sq! tisfied to let the grants of ‘lands in aid of the con-/ struction of railroads pass through the regular chan- | nels—the State governments—for they know that all the swindling concerns got up merely for obtaining: land would find no favor with the State authorities, ' and the opportunity for making a great haul would ‘be of little value. Their applications are therefore | dirQM to Congress. The right of Congress to grant | public ‘lands direct to railroad companies has very | justly been questioned, and we have not on record @ ' precedent in favor of such grants. The President pret- } ty clearly defined his position on this subject in his last ; eee eee ee ence can be created to cangpeny of Oe ye ore Congress through, we have no doubt the Presi- dent will interpose his veto. If not,the door ia opened for all time, so long as there is an acre of out public domain left for outside speculators to enter ) and help themselves. The proposition now before Congress, to grant all the public lands within the | {mite of the States to the government of each, for | aiding the construction of railroads and other public: > improvements, is the only sound and sensible one. _ Such grants have been made before, and should, in _ Justice to the new States, bemade again. The State _ authorities are the best judges of the character and | ‘importance of any contemplated work, and can there- t fore aid it or not, understendingly. We trast, there- | fore that Congress will place any distribution where _ it justly belongs—in the hands of State legislatares.. Marine Affairs. Tue Stmamsmr Battic, Capt. Comstock, left at twelve o'clock yesterday for Liverpool, with one hundred and sixteen passengers. ‘Tam Srmamemrr Nortaren Liawr, Capt. Churchill, left yesterday for San Juan, Nicaragua, with a large number of passengers bound to California. ‘Tar New Sreamsm Cass Monga, Capt. Forbes, intend-. | ed for the mail service in the Gulf of Mexico, departed yesterday for New Orleans, to take her place in Harris & Morgan’s line. } Quick Tair oF THE PrLorBosT Gxo. Srmmes.—The follow- ing is extracted from « letter dated Om The Geo. Steers arrived cont beer having made the eine from New York in thirteen twenty hours. fe sailed by everything we saw, had t hours = and made the shortest passage on record by long / i. To 1H Eprror or Tar New Yorx Hrrarp— i Tear £1n—Under the head of “Maritime Intelligence’” in your paper of 2d inst., appears a notice to this effect : ‘The revenue cutter Forward was run into at Lewes, Pel., during the storm of 20th ult., steamtug Thun- | derbolt, and was co badly injscee she will have to to Philadelphia for repairs.”’ ‘This statement is totally incorrect, as an account of thé clreumstance will convince you. On the occasion above referred to, the steamtug was lying at anchor about half | a mile to leeward of the cutter. At the eight of the gain, 1 | ' the cutter dragged her anchorand drifted directly ath the steamer’s bow, and the da sustained was en- tirely owing to the carelessness her officers, who me~ glecting to have h er sufficiently moored. ‘ damage would have been influitely greater, and the cutter probs bly sunk but for the exertions of the officers and crew of the Thunderbolt, Aa the notice referred to will have a tendency to reflect the character of the officers of the steamtug, will you please publish this statement in vindieation. Yours, traly, JAS. J. MASON, Master ‘Thunderbolt. Philadelphia, March 3, 1854. parsgraph complained of was extracted from a Philadelphia paper.—bp. N. Y. Henatp.) Court of General Sessions. By the politeness of Mr. John H. Whitmore, the efficient clerk of the City Prison, we give below the calendar of prisoners for General Sessions, for March term: satel A gg Disordesiy has H Foliciting '- se nengers without lidease felling obtcenn prints... 1 Falee pretences. .. 4 Malicious mischief. 1 Burglary 5 1 ler. ; 2 Mantaughter ; it ‘Abandonment ne | +61 Felonious aseaut & bat’ry 2 Common Pleas—General Term. Kelctas ve. Murphy and others DALY, 3 leltas vs. je 5 by the landlord t9 recover the ma of the days from the An insurance effected on the his own name, is not a compliance with the covenant on the part of tenant to keep remises insured for the benefit of the las ‘there being no privity between the landlord and tl tenant, and the insurance effect~ ed by him vot being available to the landlord. ‘Sterne vs. Druker.—Woonnore, J.—Where an execution ras levied on property of « defendant in execution, and & third person, on consideration that the defendant in exe- cution will abandon the levy, promises, by parol, to pay the judgment debt, such promise is void the statute of frauds. Ino declaration upon such promise it is not necessary fo aver that the promise is ih writing. The | Statue of frauds has introduced a ule of evidence and not anew rule of pleading, and a demurrer to auch & declaration on that ground cannot be sustained. | Dartington and Jackson vs. Me —IvaRanaM, J.—A parol promise to pay for work contracted for by a third party, made after the performance of the ‘work, is void. under the statute of frauds. A promise to pay for work and materials ordered by a third perton, which the plain tiff referred to declinés on hfs it, and whi afterwards delivered on the credit of the party Pro- mising, is valid. J.—No notice is Kerr vs. Rice.—InGRranam, J. { the intention to ¢ramine ihe senlguor as a witeess, ee by a sub tenant in