The New York Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1854, Page 4

| gnioumt of business for Monday. Among the new | bills pending n that body are two by Mr. Leigh, | ‘one regulating the fees of the New York County | | Cierk,and the other providing for the more effectual ke. ' suppression of gambling and the sale of lottery tickets | and lottery policies in this city. The ‘action upon | the latter measure will be looked for with great inter. | cory “Goad een" ‘ewe | est at this t'me, when all sorts of he most stupen- uroped Pew part of we | dus lottery schemes, even superseding in boldness NEW YOR'K HERALD. JAMES GO! ¢DON BENNETT, @FFICR X. W. CORT en OF FULTON AND NAREAU TERMS, cashin oon. THE DAILY HH RSLD 2 con THE WEEKL #\ieRice Ber copy, oF 83>» nnm Sum, toon Continent, bo " a ' the famous Art Union affair, are da‘ly springing into ALL LETT tl Subse! with adver- J | Siieaents to paid, tie postage ee ae from existence. This mportant bill is a.tached to the | Mores SPONDENCE, ¢ontaining ¥por-| Very interesting despa ch from our special corres- | SHAE SiR (0m a te ee Comwespoe: Pondent. Tt wil be seen that it is quite dissimilar | ULARLY REQUESTED TO SEAL #UL Lar- Oe ee | from a simiar proposition brought before the iE token of anonymous communications. Wedo Senate at weck. we CIN TING executed with meatnenn, Mepren and | Hon. Asa ded - oe eee bie ae perch. r dent Pierce, presided and made a speech at an anti- fi ~ Khe etal Nebraska meeting at Concord yesterday. No. 64. | Some inter.stng deta s of the European news . = ° | brought by the Nashy le are pub! shed to-day. We eee ee | likew'se give a lst of the names of the thirteen BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Uscue Ton’s Canin. American sailors belonging to the Japan fleet who BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Lavirs Brew ane— | were loxt ina typhoon—with Licutenant Mathews— | in October | s , in the Ch nese wate s. We are in- & Mivsummex Nieur’s Daxan. | formed that the Governor-General of Netherlands BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambersvtreet—A MinsuMMaR RMicur’s Dxeaw—Sexiows Famry. xaid his object was to get | seelBk Pda iy gg megan nay 10 decree, him in future to have more the ‘thority that I exercise than to _—— to and suc! J. Buses, Seribe. The following is the brief but signifi_ant tele- graphic report of the proceedings in thie trial of April 18, 1853:— TESTIMONY OF COL. ABBOTT. WaAsHineTon, April 18, 1853. In the Gardner case, to-day was occupied in the exa- mination of Col. E. W. Abbott, who accompanied Dr. Gardner and Capt. Slocum to Mexico, in November last. He described bis journey to Laguinillas, his visit to the mines in that region, identified the mining deed, &., substantial: ‘ting the testimony of Capt. Slo- cum. He identified the letter he wrote to the comis- , sioners in answer to their adverti ing an offer of @ re-. ward for the mines; also their reply and his rejoinder + the reward; and in the cour 46 tion it turned out that Gardner ¢ sid ‘out his mines, beoause he had | en hold no-communication with , the of the cross. missioners. it appears that the cool self-possessior « and unexampled hardihood ‘of the ill-fatel cr:mi- nal was equal to all e:vergen ies. Mr., Brad- ley, as the ceansel for the defence, brov ght for- ‘The Debate tm the Senate on the Kansas-Ne- NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham streot—Afterncon, Uirtiz Kary—Evening, Unctx Tom's Camis. . “WALLAO®’S THEATRE—Breadway—Love roa Love ove AnD MURDER. eo. AMERICAN MUSEUM-—AMerncon, Six Decnexs oF Evening, Tux Orn BuewEny: BROADWAY MENACBPIE—Linarurian Kavo=Wam- | tesoru Lavy axp Livine Teaisep ANIMALS. | N OPERA HOUSB, 472 Broad we ny CHMISTY’S MINST RECS. CHRISTY'S AMERI “way—Ermioriay Me Wood's Minstrel fai, 444 Broad: | BUCKLEY'S OP#RA HOUSE, 589 Brondyey—Bver- nev's Evworxean @ruxa Taovrs. BANVARD’S GRORAMA, 596 Broadway~/Pawonamauy wun Hoy Lanp. RUENISH GAB LERY, 663 Broadway—Dey end Night. SIGNOR BLI—Sruvvesanr Isertevvte, 669 Eroad- war. 9 . BRYAN GALLERY OF CHRISTEAN -€RT—Sis’ Broad way. WHOLE WORLD—377 and 37% Brantway~ANernoon ? and Bvening. Another Meeting in ‘the’ Park. All citizens in fayor of coun stteets ere ‘requested to meet at four o'clock this afternoon in front of ‘the City Hall, to hear the reportof the committee ap- pointed at yesterday’s mecting. The present: dis- graceful condition of our city calls fer immédiste ‘action on the part of our oople;-and all-who take an interest in the objects for ‘whish the meotinghas Been convened are invited to attend. ‘it is propored, in view of the culpable negligerce-exhibited-by the proper authorities, to appoint. committee of wo ’ from exch ward whose duty ‘it “hall be to-take the | subject into consideration .and-idevise means for the proper cleansing of the streets, Let every onewho can, assemble in the Park:this:afterncon. The Nows. ‘Three steamers are fully due. with later: iatelli- gence from Europe, viz.: the -Alps, at-Boston, with news to the 18th ult.; the Atlantic, at this port, with dates to the 22d,aadtherAsia, at Halifax, vith advices to the 25th. One of.the latter vessels. will most likely bring the answer of the Czar to the let- ter written him by Louis Napoleon. The ‘ominous aspect of affairs at last accounts causes additional information to be looked for.avith great anxiety. The cause of the non-arrival of the steamship Black Warrior, from Mobile-via- Havana, is accounted for in a despatch from Charleston. It appears that the B. W. has been seized at Havana for an allege | violation of the Spanish revenue laws, having a quantity of cotton on board not included in the mani- fest. The American schooner John 8. Gittings, bound for New Orleans, had aiso been seized. We have referred to this affair in.an editorial article. The advices from Havana are to the Ist instant; bet with the exception of the announcement of she formation of a body of eight bundred civil guards, Piere was nothing new. The news from Washington to-day will be read with great interest by all who have been watching the progress of events in sthat.city. _The House of Representatives adopted a resolution yesterday, | authorizing the Judiciany Committee to send for | persons and papers, in order that they may inquire | into the propriety of directing the commencement of legal proceedings against any persons who may have received moncy paid out of the Treasury on the Gardner claim. The trial of John Charles Gard- | ner will be commenced next week. The District Attorney and Mr. Fendall have . been appointed to administer upon his brother's estate. The Free Farm bill was. debated and slightly + amended in Committee of.the Whole, amd after- wards passed the House by one hundred and seven yeas to seventy-two nays—some fifty-eight members being absent or not voting. ‘This bill proposes to give | _ all free white citizens who are: the heads of famites, | or are over twenty-one years of age, one hundred and sixty acres of wild land, upon condition that the recipient shall reside upon and cultivate said and for a period of five years. It is a little strange that in the course of their generous philanthropy geome of the Buncombe members did not propose to lear, fence, break up, enect buildings upon, and stock these farms, in order to give.the new landlord a. fair start with his neighbors who have paid for their ground and ather property. How- ever, it is not by any means gertain that this bill will succeed in the Senate, it being, with the excep- tion of the clause ruling out the negroes, very simi- Jar to 9 measure killed by that body at the previous session. The majority of Senators, notwithstand- their tremendous grants to railroad speculators, are | ion of the | believed to have a more nice appreci propriety? doing justice to all the States, and look upon the prblic domain as a grand joint stock con- cern, belonging to the whole people, and not to a | portion theyeof who may desire to obtain property without duly paying for their share. Two measures, proposing to supersede this wholeaqle gift arrange- ment, are now pending mate—one intro- duced by Mr. Jcnes, of T e, and the other by Mr. Walker, the chief of the land neformer party Let us await the action of the Senate thereon, The House will spend the next theee.days in dis- cussing Territoyipl bills, but the Nebraska-Kansas question will net come up tor consideration this week. The Senate was not in session yesterday. A despatch from Washington states that there is | little hope for the confirmation of the Gadsden trea- | ty by the Senate. ing'ead of benefitting the propo- | sition, th President's amendme t is thought,. | add to its Gemerits. Sp ita Anna places entirely too high an estjmate upon his barren lands and wild In- | dians, particolarly whensiere is some prospect that | we shali evemiualiy get box! at tr ‘ough the mediation ef Col. Walker and his filibusters, Thomas Devjp Reilly, onaef the exiled Lish pa- ‘triots, died in Washington, #f apoplexy, on Sunday | evening, | Rogues appear te he quite as gfsundant in Waeh- | ington, compared with the number of inhabitants, | as in thiscity. On Sunday night they set fire to | the house of Mr. Concoran, the bankes:, and also de- stroyed the beautiful block of marble aent by the Pope of Rome for the Washington monument. The members of our State Legislature ane begin- ing to hurry along the work quite rapidly... The Benate was engaged most of yesterday im dis- oneeing the prohibitory liquor bill in Cum | mittee of the Whole. At the close of thi? debate, the bill was reported to the Senate when it was arranged, in order to adinit of | further amendments, that the report should not be agreed to at present, This will g ye the member an opportunity to waste much more time on the Dill, and thus, if possible, defeat it by provrtstina 2% The Assembly trangacied aa ugusyaliy large | of the American s.hooner Flirt, who had been following Jetter from:Dr. Gardner to “Mr. Fen- | sentenced to twelve years imprisonment for high qall, the District Attorney at Washington at India had pardoned Mr. C. M. Graham, first efficer ward, in his opening statement of the case, the ‘advices are oerreet, it hes already reached: the treason. He wes ‘concerned with Capt. Gibson, at | whose ill-treatment by the Dutch authorities Sumatra s wow thes |,ect of diplomatic negotis- tion. We @earn from Nangas.hi, Japan, that tke | Russ an Admiral had ‘p- seated the letter of the Czar to the nobles of the empire much after'the same style in which Commodore Perry handed in Mr. Filtmore’s, and that,on the 13%h of December, | he, like the Commodore, was quietly waitiay for a teply. ‘There is a despatch from’ Pare, dated 4% o’clook ‘Werinesday afternoon, the 15thealt., stating; that La | ‘Patrie of that city of that-dey gave the following | intelligence:—We ‘hasten te verify the prodigious | impression which the letter ¢f his Majesty the Em: | peror Napoleon ¥'I. to the imperor of Russia has | produced in:Paris, France therein recognizes the | <assertion of national dignity and the: sentiments of | justice. ‘We awnit the reqponse of the Czar. If evr government. “We are ewen assured that it has‘de- ceived the: hepes: of the friends ef peace. «Phen what might have been decided by:reason.” If this ‘be true, the mews by the Atlantic, now fully due, will be of the highest importance. news by the Nashville depressed the market for breadstffs. Flour fell off about 12 ceats per | barrel; common brands of Stateslosed at’ $775, and Indian corn, (white and yellow fiouthern,) olosed at S4c, a 85e., what was quiet,-without much change, though prices favored purchasers. By the arrival of the British bark Stanley-we have received Lles of Nassau papers to the 22d ult. They contain «no news of interest te New York readers. The House of Assembly was engaged in discussing a |. pill to consolidate the dtities on imports, the tonnage | | duty, and certain other imposts. A petition had | been received, signed by a large number of the Ba- | homa Islanders, protesting against ‘the proposed im- | | position ef fifteen per ecnt ad valorem on all British | i manufactured goods. | Avenerable citizen of . Baltimore, Jacob Albert, | main gpring of a-gentieman’s existence. | sree rot ewmmongtss, in styled @ “forgery,” as if the ister and proceéi against ‘ | George Peabody, Esq., of this city, I remain respectfull France will be obliged to leave to the fate of arms | Scorge ody, Se a CAnOHER ly, | presnme is the following extract of .a telegraphic | Mexico, that all his papers were forgeries, and intimated it time:— eet Lowpon, Jaly 17, 1854. ‘DEAR Sin—The Nitw York Weexry HeRaiy, of the Sth instant,‘contains a ropint extremely offensive to ne, and ture, iitvolving honor and character— Py compte ong It is in refer- sicanlaim, which, in the charitable par- term contained no offence Fam sorry to seerour journals so degraded as to make tof any man'# character, and were I at home would % notice it, fer we all understand the base origin of | soch calumnies. “My first impulse on perusing the ar- ticle referred'toeras to take passage in the first steamer and return t6 @le United States, to vindicate my charac- t my calumniators; but on more emature refieetion, and at the suggestion of my friends, 1 was induced™{o take the present course of addressing ‘you, requesting that, if an investigation has taken place before you, you will have the kindness to inform me im- mediately ofthe result, and, if necessary, I will proceed without delay to the United Btates to clear myself of all suspicion end to confound my accusers. My funds are all in the United States and at the disposal of our govern- ment, should the courta of my country decide against me. Tn-condiision, I would remark that what has induced me to make light of this matter is the entire falsity and utter absurdity of the statement I hayo seen in the Herarn. Requesting that you will attend to my request as sootns convenient, and address me under cover to | your obedient servant, Pp. R, Fexpats, Esq., U.S. Attorney, &c. The article to which Gardmer here refers, we despatch, which we copy from our files, bearing date— ‘Wasmmnarox, July 2, 1851. The attention of the President has been called te the rumor of the fraud alleged to have been committed by Gardner in forging the evidanee upon which his claim for nearly half a million dollars was allowed, and to-day a Cabinet meeting was held to deliberate upon it. The government as yet ,posscescs no evidence that a fraud was committed. “The facts so far, are these: It is siated that Gardner before leaving for Rurope, declared toa gentleman in New York, who ‘had formerly\lived in that his counsel knew they were ; that-he had been com- pelled to give up nearly:all the proceeds of his award, except $60,060, tomen wito were foreed on him as agents— Corwin, Coreoran, Curtis, Lally, and ‘Thompeon—and that as they had squeemed him e'little too hard he did not care how soon the matter was cx) . award Curtis hearingsthis, at once wrote to the Presi- dent demanding an investigation, and he has eome on here to follow it up. I doubtexceedingly whether Gardner ever made any such statements; it is wholly diferent from his character here; and if he did, the ty character of the | died on Sunday night. ‘ His-estate is estimated to be «worth two millions of dollars, i The universal expression of. indignation at the | sickening condition -of the strects, and the | holding ef a public meeting -toidevise means for | removing the. filth that embarrasses us at every | footstep, seem to have aroused the members ofour | municipal legislature to a sense of: their duty in the | emergency. Exciting, protracted, and: very inter- | esting debates took place on the subject among the | Aldermen and Councilinen last evening, as will be | seen by the detailed reports in another column. A | resolution authorizing the Board of Health to | require ‘the streets to be cleaned immedi- | ately, passed both boards. A large amount | of other business was also transacted. In the Board. of Aldermen, the new ordinance introduced by Alderman Blunt, in favor of paying the | members of the Fire Department, was laid upon the | table on motion to that effect. A resolution was { | carried by which ‘the Board for the fatare will meet | three times a-week. A variety of other interesting | measures were passed upon, for the particulars of | which we must refer the reader to our reports in another. column. ‘We publish in our special report | the ordinance for cleaning the streets and that in relation to the Fire Department, already ire- | | ferred to. | Twenty-four of the pews in the church of the | Messiah, (Unitarian,) Broadway, were sold at public auction yesterday. They realized the sum ofthirteen | thousand three hundred.and ninety-six dollars. | .To-day’s inside pages contain a report of the | coroner’s inquest uponthe body of an unknown | | man found murdered under very mysterious circam- | stances; continuation of the examination concerning | the burning of houses in Brooklyn ; statement of | | Mr. Busteed re‘ative to the Restell case; a variety of commercia! and miscelluneous matters an extraor- dinary number of advertisements, &c. | ee ee | | Phe Gardner Fraud—Committce of Investiga- | tion Ordered—Curious Facts. By reference to the proceedings in the House of Repreventatiyes at Washington, yesterday, | it will be seen that that bedy has promptly or- | dered the appointment of a committee of inves- | tigation into the unreveaied mysteries of the | Gardner fraud, with power to send for persons | and papers. This is right. Let the movement | ry Department, after some negotiations in his entlemen whom he hasattempted to implicate, as wellas Mir. Curtio’s prompt action, stamps that portion with If Gardner's evidence is a forgery, it is the best got up Tever heard of. I havescen the evidence, and it gives a plain and apparently truthful account of his proceedings; its minuteness alone *threwing any doubt upon it. If Gardner’s claim is fraudulent, so was that allowed to J. H. Mears for a less amount, and provedéby the same | witnesses as Gardner's. ‘The public may rest-assured that | the President will probe the matter to the bottom, and every member of the Cabinet here is equally desirous | that the truth should be arrived at. It is also said that | Gurdner stated that a membor of the Mexicandegation as- sisted him in getting up the evidence. The Attorney Generel has adopted preliminary steps to trace the mit ter out; but it is clear that some competent person must be sent to Mexico before the truth can be satisfactorily explained, The final verdict of the jury presents astrange and mel:ncholy contrast to the coolness witl which this report of:the Hrnaup was treated by poor Gardner in London ; but the despatch it self is another :triking illustration.of the faci that when there is any great peculation or de- falcation to be detected, the New York Heratp is apt to be the first upon the track of the guilty parties. How this fraud first Jeaked out is still come- what involved in mystery; but as far as we are informed upon the subject, it was in this way : ‘Mr. Edward Curtis was one of Gardner’s coun- | sel; and with Mr. Webster, was, aleo, we learn, of the counsel for Hargous & Co., upon a claim for some two hundred thousand dollars, more or Jess. From Gardner the fee of Mr. Curtis is stated to have been $20,000, from Hargous & Co., something more. Hon. Thomas Corwin, as @ Senator, had secured an interest, amounting to $80,000, as reported, in the Gardner claim, | which interest, upon his transfer to the Treasu- | falsehood. behalf by other parties, he sold out, as under- | stood, to George Law, for $60,000 or $70,000, hard cash. | Mr. Corwin, as Secretary of the Treasury, | braska Bill. Now t'pat Satur ay’s vote has close! the career Of , the Kansas-N: braska bill in the Senate, it is cw Aous to trace the progress of the debate which " fas occupied the time of that body for the le st thirty-four days. In the first place, we noti se that the introduction of this measure, at at} me when the only disturbing elementsin our nf Aional politics were the growing distrust of t pe administration and the spreading conviction that the country had been duped at the last Presidential election, succeeded, in a marvel- lously brief period, in overthrowing all the old party associations, and effacing the remaining landmarks of our political parties. It is entirely impossible to conciliate the vote on the final passage with the notion that political men in this country are divided into, or distin- guished as whigs and democrats; and as the im- portance that has been attached to the measure entitles it to take rank as one of those legisla- tive acts which give birth to parties, the sooner the old names are forgotten, the clearer shall we see through the political fog. Of the twen- ty-nine ayes registered in favor of ordering the bill to a third reading, ten were from Northern men; and all the noes were from the North. The South voted in a boly for the bill. On the | final vote, two Southern Senators were induced | to vote with the twelve Northern oppo- | nents of the bill; but both Houston and Bell based their opposition on the ground of its being unjust to the Indians, and apparently concurred in the constitutional arguments of Douglas and his supporters. Of the remaining twelve opponents of the bill, at least five were thorough abolitionists who, would | aseail slavery in Virginia, if the rules of the | Senate permitted it. Of the seven others three were whigs, and four democrats. The | Northern vote in favor of the final passage of the bill was 14, all democrats; the Southern vote 23, of whom 14 were democrats, and 9 whigs. These figure: shew pretty clearly that with respect to this measure the old party ties were forgotten, and the Senate naturatly divid- ed itself into the constitutional party, for the bill; the opposition ‘party on varioes grounds, | ‘against the bill; and the dodgers, who lacked courage to vote for wr against. The strength ‘of these three parties, as shown by the final vote, stands as follow: Constitutional party... ...+00 0+ +02 Opposition, comprising free-soilers, abolition Sick and absent, (of whom four would constitutional party and one the opposition, ) Total ecnid:< csewassncuatitsetars\a hae om ie 02 These figures may serve as-an index to the future course of dhe Senate. During the discussion,.as zauch eloquence, intellectual power, moral courage and moral cowardice haye been develaped in the Senate as it ever displeyed. Many of the speeches that have been made in the month of February will compare with any that .have been heard in Congress during this century. But, strange to say, several of those which displayed the greatest intellectual power and oratorical ability, were delivered by men who did not possess the amoral courage 4o vote on either side. Mr. Cleyton for instance reviewed the constitutional question in a easterly manner, and gave a very appreciable accession of strength to the side of the bill; but when the matter came to the test, he had not the courage to give it his personal support by his vote. So Mr. Everett delivered an eloquent and fervid burst of declamation against dispossessing the Indians of their birthright; but his courage failed him when he attempted to grasp the con- stitutional question, and he eluded it altogether, following the example of Mr. Clayton, and re- fusing to vote on cither side. Othersendeavor- ed to.conciliate both parties by pursuinga middle course and speaking on both sides while they voted on one. Whatever may be thought of the plea for the Indians put in by Senators Bell and Houston, their position on the constitutional question is with the sup- porters and not with the opponents of the bill: and should other questions arise involving the same principle and unclogged by collateral points respecting the Indian rights, these Sena- tors would probably be found among the con- stitutional party. Another anomaly presented in the course of the debate has been the singular unwillingness or incapacity displayed by men of very re- spectable intellectual powers, to discuss the constitutional principle involved in the bill. Most of the Southern speakers took that ground, and dismissed collateral points; but as a gene- tal rule, the Northern whigs either shirked the constitutional question entirely, or discussed | promptly paid over the whole amount of the | i¢ in a superficial unstatesmanlike manner. Gardner claim; but there was a hitch in the | The bulk of the speakers against the bill quib- Hargcus award. A certain Mr. Voss, of Mex- | bied on the constitutional point, and seemed ico, as an agent of that government, and as one | anxious to get it out of the way as soon as possi- of the firm of Hargous & Co., had failed, it ap- | ble in order to revert to more popular themes. pears, in the payment to the United States of Messrs, Seward, Sumner, Chase and their follow- | be followed up till every recipient from and | a former indemnity of $100,000 or so, due from | ers based their opposition to the bill on the im- | participant in this crime—every one of high or | low degree—is known, and his agency in the | fraud or in the spoils. The closing tragedy of this Gardner trial, when taken in connection with the gigantic | dimensions ofthe fraud perpetrated upon the cated in it, ignorantly or culpably, has given | | to this case a peculiar interest, which naturally | excites the publie curiesity to have all the in- | Mexico, and fer meeting whieh the money | had been advanced to Voss from the Mex- | ican treasury. Mr. Corwin is said, therefore, | to have demanded this deduction from the | Hargous award. But some of the parties inter- | ested threatening, if this was insisted upon, to | Mr. Corwin, for the sake of peace and harmony, | forked over the whole amount of the Hargous award, leaving the unsettled Voss indemnity morality of slavery. They refused to sanction the organization of Kansas according to the consti- tutional rule, because they said that involunta- ry servitude was a moral wrong, a human wrong. But whether slavery be a human wrong in any degree, or not, the constitution recognizes it, ‘Treasury, and .the distinguished parties impli- | blow up the Gardner claim, the story goes that | and expressly authorises it as one of the ele- ments of political power. So long as that con- stitution remains intact, the recognition pos- ecrses binding power, and we cannot refuse to fermation we.can give them upon the subject. | outstanding among the bad bills of the Treasury. | be bound by it without assailing the constitu- In looking, therefore, over the reports of the first trial in 1 Unfortunately, in the meantime Mr. Curtis had tion itself. It would be more frank and honest 3, ard the evidence submitted, | broadly hinted the Gardner fraud to President | for Seward and Sumner to follow out their doc- | we are, astonished that any jury not profoundly — Fillmore, and from that moment an investigation | trines to their natural limits and to imitate ignorant or strangely prejudiced in the prison- 1's favor, could have come out of the case | with a division of nine.for his acquittal to the was inevitable. Mr. Fillmore at once instituted measures to ferret out the truth, and to his active | honesty, be it said, is the country mainly in- | Theodore Parker in striking at the root of the slavery institution in the original compact be- tween the States. Their present position lacks f.r hisccnvietion. Take, for example, aspecimen | debted for the final conviction of at least one of manliness; they strike with one hand, and affect of the evidence submitted against George A. Gardaer. Rio Verle is the district in which | his mine wasjccated. We extract from the dings of dhe trial on the 26th of April, Rro Vanoe, Oct. 10, 1851, | be oF ‘THs Crrv.— | ‘itizen of the United States, ear pofore you, and in y ther my brother Dr. corge A. Ga in the place called Laguinilas, ia the Huastoex mountains, and known by rime of Trinidad Dolores and San Jace, He spent in hieh hh» had to abauston on account ine of the frst article of @ 1848, which was issued by. Aw il is to beaapposed, not Jos', but also were the'pro- ed therefrom; and new, in or- il in aur republic, it 4a neces- be presented should be ¢ ‘he said wines, their dragging mills, mule c. They io ey be relations of my of. whether they be ov net interested in thie elnira, <r diree\ly or indivoeily, and whether they be agents 8 of the busis the saidslepositions. be- ; return me the o fe @ purpose whieh y brother. }, therefore, reqnedt you to order because itisjust. J. CHARLES 6 ARDNER. Tio Veapx, Oct. 10, 1861. To me Free Contrrepiona J, J. Charles Gard: What the petitioner aska cannot be done, because what contained in his petition is nox trae, because neither in e.vinilles nor in all this depariment are there, nor have Leve ever been, any mines, much less any of the impor: bee ane! Mognitude that is in represented; her has Mr. George A. Garédn boon kaon as w per in tin’ jurfediction, but ag a surgeonant doctor fow Coys flat he realdgd bere, Tag expulsion thay parties at Washington, is set down for the bill. Nebraska can’t save tle President among the he guilty parties. Shall the others escape? A committee of Congress has exonerated Mr. | Corwin from all knowledge ofthe fraudulent | chereeter of the claim; but conceding the point that in this business Messrs. Corwin, General | Waddy Thompson, Major Lally, and all con- cerned, were “all honorable men,” the question recurs, what is it th y intend to do with their share of the spoils? Will they keep it, or re- fund it to the Treasury, where it belongs? Let the investigation proceed. Fmst Arrean to tne Prorrm—The New Hompshire elections of the 14th, will be the firet eppertunity for a direct appeal to the peeple on the Nebraska bill; yet the adminis- tration and its special organs at Washington and Concord, are doing their best to dodge the responsibility, like Clayton and Everett. There is no use in trying, however. The question mast be met. The administration, among all Let it so be considered in New Hampshire. If ranite hie, he is past praying for. Let the | terday from Liverpool, experienced heavy weat! was for five 46, lon 61, during which she passed through three han- | dred miles of ice, and thirty icebergs were counted at one time from the vessel. stem and a portion of the main stem carried away while | passing through if, and the vessel would have boon cat to shield with the other; though, to an unbiassed observer, it is clear as daylight that their aim in opporing the Kansas-Nebraska bill was to revolutionize the country and not to seck a constitutional arrangement or adjustment of the difficulty. The debate in the House will probably elicit some new views on the subject. The fresh and youthful talent which is assembled in the pre- sent Congress will find ample scope for its exer- cise in the momentous measure that is now laid before the House. We trust that the members will benefit by the example of the Senate, and will eschew all foreign considerations to grapple with the constitution question only. If they adhere to this rule, they may eclipse the debate in the Senate, and earn lasting fame. Marine Affairs. Lance Frecp oF Icr.—The ship Middlesex, arrived yes r, and 8 in the ice, from lat. 51, lon. 47, to lat ‘The Middlesex had her false ssue be fairly tried—no blinking, no skulking, | through but for the orecaution of fixing somo bollor fron no dodging the main question, on her bow. Whilst General Pezuela is playing the toady to British agents and British vieiters in Cuba, he never neglects an opportunity of manifesting his dislike to, and hampering every interest connected with, this country. In this he is eclipsing the vindictive examples of his prede- cescors, though we doubt not he is acting in ac- cordance with his instructions from the home government. Every one recollects the impediments thrown in the way of our commerce after the first in- vasion of Cuba by Lopez, and the interference by the Cuban authorities with our lines of mail communication touching at Havana. After Lopez’s second invasion they directed most of their hostility against the New Orleans line, and it was only after considerable trouble and the exercise of a great deal of tact that George Law succeeded in getting the matter partially settled. For some reason or other which is as yet un- | explained, and which in the regular course of | Cuban policy is likely to remain so, the Cap- tain General has recently taken it into his head | to aggravate these petty persecutions in the | case of the Black Warrior, by directing her cargo to be overhauled on her last voyage. It | consisted principally of cotton, shipped at | Mobile for New York, no portion of it being consigned for Havana. No attempt has ever before been made to inspect the cargoes of | American steamers calling at that port, and the | agents of the vessel are wholly at a loss to ac- | count for the motives of thigynusual and vexa- tious proceeding. Whatever they may be, it would only be waste of time to endeavor to | penetrate them. It is time, however, to put a stop to the exercise of this wanton tyranny, | which is evidently dictated more by a desire | to offer petty annoyances and obstructions to | our commerce than by any well founded | grounds of political necessity. The Cuban authorities have placed themselves in a position of such complete diplomatic isola- | tion that there is no use in endeavoring to seck | this unjustifiable abuse of their power. They would only play the old game of referring us | , to the home government, which would again | refer us back to them, thus keeping the ball onthe hop, and dodging inquiry until perhaps the Captain General’s term of office would ex- pire, when the whole affair would be lost sight of,or set.down on the list of his official sins, It is time, we say, that such an anomalous and vexatious state of things should be put an end ‘to by forcing the Spanish government to re- ceive a regular diplomatic agent from us at ‘Cuba, in order to watch over and protect the interests-of American citizens and commerce in that-quarter. Failing in this act of justice, £0: indispensable to harmonious relations be- | tween the United States and Cuba, we may be | driven to the alternative of a forcible fulfilment of the policy of “manifest destiny.” We must either have friendly intercourse with the island or the island itself. NewsPaPer Fasrications.—lIt is part of the system on which the New York Zvibune iscon- ducted to sustain its favorite theories by facts if they cam be had, and if they cannot, by fab- rications. Thus, seeking, a few days since, to arouse a fanatical excitement against slavery, it gave currency to an imaginary tale of negro burning at Natchez. It narrated the occurrence with the utmost circumstantiality, told how many slaves were present at the auto da fé, des- cribed the attitude of the white spectators, and used the whole as a text for a furious onslaught on Southern institutions. As soon as the anec- dote reached the scene of the alleged occur- rence, its falsity was at once exposed. No ne- gro had ever been burnt there, no gathering had taken place ; the whole affair, from begin- ning to end, with all its tragic episodes and de- tails, was a wanton fabrication. From the length of time which elapsed between the de- tection of the forgery and the appearance of a retractation in the Tvibune, aswell as from the eneaking manner in which that retractation was made, most people will be strongly inclined to think that the Zyibune knew the story was false when it published it, and only told the truth when it became impossible to prolong the impostare. It was on precisely the same principle that the same journal, anxious to make it appear that the North was hostile to the Nebraska bill, contained the following paragraph a few days since :— a ‘There was a strong effort made on the 14th to stave off the anti-Nebraska resolutions in the Indiana isiature. | To effect this a strong appeal was made to the political pre- judices of the members; but the effort not only proved | abortive but drew out sev: democratic members in denunciations of Senator Douglas. One of them, Boviies on om oc hakey % a would aj in future among politi- cians as that of Fenediet Arnold among the soldiers." Another, Mr. Scott, called upon any ono “who knew any | good of Dou any important service he had ren- ered the country, to stato it.” The debate was pro. | tracted and exciting; but the original anti-Nebraska re- solutions were finally ordered to a third . Havi ‘sown the wind,” It is but proper that Douglas shoald “reap the whirlwind.” Everybody out of the Tribune office, and we suspect, most of those in it, know very well that the Indiana Legislature has not been in sersion this winter, and that no such occurrence as that narrated in the above extract could have taken place. It suited the purpose of that jour- nal, however, to make it appear that the North was unanimous against Nebraska, and being short of facts, the writer for the Tribune sup- plied the deficiency with the above fabrication. | We could mention well nigh a dozen such forgeries, of which the Tribune has been clear- ly convicted with in the last five or six years : | beginning with the battle of Slievegammon, the Wilkesbarre tragedy, the meeting in North Carolina, &c. But men’s memories require no assistance from us, and the facts of the Tridune are now as well understood as its theories. Frmrs anp Firewen.—The Aldermen last evening laid on the table Alderman Blunt’s project of an ordinance organizing a body of paid firemen. As they raised no objection to the action of the Board of Health in the matter. them with more indulgence than they would otherwise have obtained at our hands, and we will not do more, at this time, than express a regret that Mr. Blunt’s very judicious sugges- tion should not have been taken up and referred to a committee or discussed at the time it was presented. We trust that some spirited Alder- man will call it up next week and take the | explanations or to obtain redress from them for | of the street cleaning, we are inclined to treat | 2 as the matter is pressing, will we scruple to sert that the incendiariesmay be found, in nin instances out of ten, among the vagabonds wh bang about fire engines, and are always the firs to offer assistance at fires. These fellows ar not in the habit of working from pure philan thropy. They are ragged, drunken and vicious 4 they spend more money than hardworking chanics, though they have no home, and no ily to support. Whenee come their means subsistence, unless incendiarism and pillage classed among their ordinary resources? have not a shadow of hesitation in stating @ comparison of New York and other large citi will give rise to a presumption, so strong as be almost irresistible, that a majority of fires which weekly desolate our city are th work of incendiaries—that our system of voli tary firemen facilitates their nefarious —and that nothing but an alteration of this sy: tem, and the substitution of one under whic. the firemen would be an organized and paid ba dy would remedy the evil. j city to rival the filthiest pigstye in the countr: for full a fortnight, the Mayor has at lengt! summoned courage to call the Board of Healt? together. The Aldermen and Councilmen la: evening empowered them to act, and the meet this afternoon with closed doors ¢ usual, to take counsel on the section ¢ the law, which authorises’ them “to giv all such directions, and adopt all measures as in their judgment may be nece| sary for cleansing and purifying all such buil ings, lots and other places, (meaning places any description within the city,) and todo¢ | cause to be done everything in relation therét} which in their opinion may be proper to p serve the health of the city.’ If there be a single member of the Board « Health who doubts that under this law tl Cuasixe THE Struers.—After allowing | streets may now be cleaned by the Board, | deserves that his door be foreverclosed up wi mud. Itis so clear that im a week or 80h weather will be upon us, and that crowds immigrants will be congregated at every oc ner in the lower part of the city, that from) other body than a municipal corporation in Nc York should we anticipate any hesitation or ¢ | lay in purifying the streets from the heaps) | mud, garbage and filth which now choke the: | but after the experience of the past three mont) | we are almost prepared for anything. Office | who, in the face of a law which prevented t _ streets being cleaned by the ordinary meai > entirely neglected the obvious resource of | appeal to the Board of Health until the prt a forced them to act, are very likely to find sox | | pretext for nullifying that resource now that _ has been found. Whether they do or. no, t people of New York will now take notice th if the streets still remain in their present sta: the fault will be with the members of the Boa’ of Health, and they ought not to be suffered, transgress with impunity. We say that the law prevents the immedia cleaning of the streets by the only means f which the Comptroller is authorized to pa Between our “reform” charter and the fraud lent contracts made last year, the Corporati: now finds itself obliged to go through the whc work of dividing the city and advertising f fresh contracts for cleaning the streets. Tt operation will not be completed before the 15) of April, and till then the mud must rema,’ where it is, unless the Board of Health orders' | to be removed. We need'not lay stress on t abeurdity of the laws which place us in # dilemma. It is one of the first fruits of 4 legislative tinkering that has been going on | Albany for the last ten or twenty years, I| ttead of endeavoring to induce the masses | vote at civic elections and choose honest ar able Aldermen, the clique of individuals wi have taken our municipal matters under the special supervision have ruehed to the Legial! @ ture whenever a corrupt Alderman turned ul and procured a law to prevent the recurren'\ 4 of his offence. Far better and more sensib | j] would it have been to repeal all these amendc. | and counter-amended charters, and revert 1) ¥ the old system of twenty years ago, und which the Mayor, Aldermen and Councilme were empowered to discharge their duty wit) * out fetters, and absurd restrictions; and 1 secure their integrity and efficiency by takin the business of their selection out of the han | of the grogehop politicians and ward bullie, © We shall be driven to this at last, 2 - SSE RSE eS BEE ae ee Eprrons Wantep at Wasuineton.—Why 4d not the United States send on its Sergeant-a’ ; arms for certain editors in New York, suppose _ to be guilty of violating the secrecy of the S. ) nate, in the publication of the Gadsden treaty! ly There are some of us here who want to go Washington to see how it looks, provided th government will pay the fare. And we war to sce how they are getting on with the Nv 4 braska question in the House, and Colt’s paten 4 and various other things. Let the Senat i therefore, without further delay send on thet, officer with a writ of habeas corpus. We migt be usful on the Nebraska question. Who knows Value of Church Property in New Yori, SALE OF PEWS IN THE CHURCH OF THE MESSIAK” BROADWAY. | A sale of several pews in the Church of the Messial (Unitarian,) the Rev. Samucl Osgood, pastor, took plac || in that building yesterday afternoon. ‘There were a number of gentlemen present, amongt whom were the Hon. George Bancroft and Thomas Tile | ton, Esq. The President of the Soclety read the tern of sale, and the pews were afterwards put up at a fixc valuation price, and bid for on a premium advance. TI following table exhibits tho result of the sale :— sense of the Poard on its merits. Last Satur- day night two hundred and seventy-five thou- | sand dollars or thereabouts of property were destroyed by another fire. The fires in the city | | during the month of January consumed over one million worth of property. At-the rate we have commenced the year come #x millions worth will be destroyed before December 1854, | We have not the smallest doubt that the major- ity of the conflagrations which go to swell this enormous list will be due to incendiarism, Noy | Valuation. Premium. $600 $5 660 Par. 400 Par. 800 10 950 10 850 Par. 800 Par. 250 Par. 200 Par. 250 Par. .. Hon. Geo. Bancroft, 700 25 $4..Mr. Seguine., 850 Par. 96..Mr. W. D, Crom 800 Par. Ed. Ludlow. 800 Jo 600 Par. 650 n 550 Par. 600 Par. 400 Par. 450 Par. 560 Par. 00 Par. 176 Par. 400 Par. Total... «+ $18,325 S71 = $13,39 Sixty-one pews, which wore imarked as for sale, re mained uncold, The average price of each was fixe pretty muck fie same as that given for those which wer disposed of. ‘Thomas Tilston Eaq., said he would giv a donation of $600 to bring up the fund sale, A meeting of the trustees was held last evening. City Poltites, MEETING OF TH® YOUNG MEN'S DEMOCRATIC REPUB LICAN GENERAL COMMITTER. A meeting of this Committee was held last night at thy Stuyvesant Institute. ‘There was present a large major! ty of the members of the committee, The following revolutions wore unanimously adopted: Resolved, That t) e democratic pi concern tig apparent att: mptod sngervontion: of #om®