The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1854, Page 4

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Politics seemed to be engrossing the attention of a large class of the eitizens of the new State, and the election of a United States Senator wa; the principal topic for discussion. The loss of the new clipper ship San Francisco, an account of which will be found in an- other column, was deeply deplored, on account of her being an extraordinary fine vessel, and one of the first class of clippers. She survived her name- gake, the ill-fated steamship, but about six weeks. Business at San Francisco was unusually dull, even worse than our previous advices represented it, not- withstanding money had become somewhat easier, in consequence of an increased production of gold dust; and commercial affairs were in a more de- pressed state than had existed at any former period for at least two years past. The production of gold from the mines is evidently becoming more limited, and the shipments are gradually falling off. That there is plenty of gold left in the mountains and along the streams of California, we will not pre- tend to doubt; but the cream has been taken away, and what remains can only be procured by slow and tedious operations, and, at the present high prices ef labor, by unrequited toil. The anticipation of shining veins and weighty nuggets may delude the miner for a season; but when he finds a year spen with an average of less than two dollars a day for his labor, he deserts his claim, and either returns to his home or seeks employment in the cities and towns of his adopted State, where six and cight dollars per day can be more easily earned; and thus ‘the mines experience a depletion of hands, and con sequently a falling off in the amount of gold pro @uced. The time previous to the sailing of the last steamer from San Francisco had been very favomble for mining operations; but as we have not learned the amount of gold shipped, we are unable to judge of the comparative productiveness. According to the last advices from the republic of Sonora, President Walker had despatched his army against the Apache Indians, who have hitherto mur- dered and robbed the whites with perfect impunity. | By this movement he will doubtless enlist the sym- pathies of the majority of the people, who will join , his cause and assist in resisting all attempts of the mother country, Mexico, to regain possession of the territory—she having never been able to defend them against the Indians, or provide them with of- ficers disposed to administer affairs for the benefit of | any other persons than themselves. A threatened | mutiny in the camp of Col. Walker was summarily settled by an order for the disaffected to withdraw immediately. Forty-five thereupon left, and return- ed to California. On reference to the late news from Salt Lake aud ‘the Plains, it will be seen that the Indians of that region are in such a state of excitement as to render it dangerous for emigrants to cross the country. Walker, the noted Utah chief, who was instrumen- tal in murdering Capt. Gunnison and party, having been joined by the Camanches and Apaches, was about to commence hostilities with the Mormons for refusing to supply him with the same number of wives allowed to Gov. Young. Various of the In- dian tribes were at war among themselves; and the prospect is that, unless the government sends out a strong military force, our people will suffer dreads fally during the coming season. The recent gross outrage upon the national honor and maritime commerce of this country, by the Spanish authorities at Cuba, has become the leading feature of conversation not only among the states- men and politicians congregated at Washington, but in private and public assemblies in all parts of the country. But one sentiment pervades, and tha‘ is, that the officials of Spain have persisted in te peating insults and indignities against our flag ‘until it is incumbent on us, as an independent nation of freemen, to adopt such measures as will effectu ally prevent similar occurrences in future. We Jearn that one of the owners of the steamship Black Warrior had an interview with the President yester- day, at which a mass of impertant information was imparted ; a long Cabinet consultation afterwards took place, and the result will probably be that the Pres Cent will transmit a message to Congress, in | which immed ‘ate active and strong measures will be recommended, "Judge Douglas's Nebraska-Kansas bill continues to engross a large share of attention among all classes im every part of the country. While both di- visions of the democratic party in this city are pre- paring to give public expression to their seutiments ‘on the subject, the politicians of New Hampshire are | ‘on the point of doing the same thing throngi the me dium of the ballot box. The letters from oar co pondent, published in another page, contain m: teresting and instructive information concerning the preliminary movements with regard to the election which takes place in that State next Tuesday. Tie whigs and abolitionists there have united in oppos! tion to the Nebraska bill; but the administration par ty, having taken their cue from the organ at W. ington, declare that they do not con sider the subject administration. This isa queer p ece of busine . Auother of those singular epistles from the ‘ Man. Wot Nominated Frank Pierce,” appears in another column. It contains a few common sense hints con- cerning the seizur of the steam r Black Warrior tha’ cannot al ‘o produce an m rsson. As the writer has returned home to attend to elect on mat ters in New Hampsh re, it is probable that we shall | teat either of democracy or of friendship for the | | not hear from h m nthe vicinity of the Wh.te House | for some time. A grand jollificat‘on and genera’ Ilum na‘'on took place in Ph ladelph a last night, ‘nm honor of the legislative act consolidating that city wth its suburbs. The Collector at Pittsburg was knocked down and | robbed, early on Thursday evening, after which the robbers entered the Custom House and carried off a bag containing ten thousand dollars in gold. An extensive la:.d-sl:de has occurred on the Gieat Western Railroad near Dundas, C. W., which it is feared will interrupt travel for over a week. The total number of deaths in this city during the past week was four hundred and fifty-three, being | a decrease upon the previous report of thirty-one. ‘As usual, we find thaf/the larger portion of the mor- tality may be immediately traced to diseases of a consumptive charact Under the head of con- sumption itself we observe 58 deaths no‘ed, being a | decrease of five; convulsions, 35; croup, 20; conges- tion, 21; dropsy, 31; varioys fevers, 25; inflamma- tions, 49; marasmus, 25; premature births and s{ born, 39, and smallpox, 32, being an increase of five. law makers, and people gencrally, do not take some more active steps to rid us of this last namgd abomination, Our merchants and manufac turers are losing much of the Western and South- ern trade owing to the fact that country dealers have the utmost dread of the pestilence, and will not willingly venture where it is known to prevail. The same may be said of all the other large cities on the continent—there is not a single place of note that is not infected with the smallpox. Then, why do not the people unite to totally eradicate the disease from the Iund? Let the good work commence in the city of New York, and the example, as in the case of almost everything else, will be followed by the in- habitants of the other States. Among those who died last week 315 were natives of the United States, being only 16 more than the total number of children; Ireland, 80; Germany, 27, and England 12. The annexed are merely the headings of a portion of the interesting matter published to-day, but to which the crowded state of our columns will not permit us to refer more particularly:—Letters from London; Details of the last day’s proceedings of the Coroner’s Jury in the Gardner Case; Accounts of Fancy Dress Balls in this city and Washington; Review of Dr. Abbott’s Collection of Egyptian Anti- quities; Commercial, Religious, Political, and Mis- cellaneous Intelligence, &c. ‘The Black Warrior Outrage. The mvre we reflect on thisinsulting outrage to our flag and nation, the more clearly we per- ceive, and the more keenly we feel, the neces- sity of adopting prompt aud vigorous measures of redress and vindication. It is time that the authorities of Cuba were taught a lesson that they would not soon forget. Above all, it is time that the hopeless, nerveless imbecility of the administration were redeemed, and our na- tional honor once more restored to its native splendor. If we could count upon the pat- riotism of the House of Representatives so far as to indulge the hope that they would lay aside their squabbles about the spoils long enough to read the details of this impudent and intole- rable aggression, there might be some just ex- pectation that they might be aroused to some sense of their duty in such a conjuncture. But what can we expect from a body which, on re- ceiving the bill from the Senate authorizing the construction of six steam frigates, refuses to suspend its rules to give so important a sub- ject even a consideration? The universal ap- probation of the people, the unanimity of the Senate, and the admitted pressing nature of the subject, could not prevail to procure a suspen- sion, for a single hour, of the paltry and dis- creditable wrangles which have thus far formed the staple of the debates in that house. Mem- bers must finish their wretched party and per- sonal harangues, come what may. What if a national insult has been offered?. What if a vessel, in the employ and under the protection of the government, has been seized without color of law or right? What if public indignation has been aroused to a pitch scarcely equalled by the attack on the Chesapeake? are there not eloquent members who have their conned discourses ready for re- citation? And what a prodigious lossif all this embryo oratory should be smothered by a sub- ject that merely touches our rights and our henor as a nation, not that we are desirous of giving that rhetoric a direction upon those topics! Heaven forefend! “ Action, action,” is all the rhetoric now admissible, or at all tolerable. We are now in that position where our future rank and dignity as the leading power in this hemisphere, demands that we should adopt that sentiment which so well de- fines the duty of a great nation :— “Rightly to be great, Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor is at stake.”” For the argument here we have more than enough to stir our blood. What honor can we have left if we let this outrage pass unrebuked and unavenged? The letter of the consignees, whose spirit and firmness cannot be too highly applauded, demonstrates that this seizure and confiscation are a most wanton violation of pub- lic law and private rights. It indicates more : it proves that the declaration of Lord Claren- don in the House of Lords, a short time since— that France and England were acting in accord and close concert all over the world—has found its way to the Captain-General of Cuba, and has made him bold enough to act in the spirit of that defiance to the world. Now he can count upon the already announced pro- tectorate of France and England, why should he not freely indulge that hostility to ouy flag and commerce of which his predecessors have set him the example, and so far without a note of angry remonstrance ever having reached the cars of Spain? But we believe that even the demagogues who have been elected to the House of Representatives, will quail before the coming Dlast. A large majority will look upon the dis- honor to our stars and stripes as one that must be met with something more vigorous and prac tical than declamation about our “ star-spangled banner” and “the land of the free, and the heme of the brave.’ We have before us a task to execute, which requires the calmness of de- termination and the celerity of execution which belong to the genius of our nation—-or did time. No half-way measures are to asatest of democracy ; consequently they will succeed in carrying the Sta’ majo:%y At lesst such is the purport of la dexpatch ‘vom Concord. In speaking of the p. liar gy: ati istration organ upon thi great que ‘on correspondent iterates that made between t editor of the demo elected House printer he would change his tactics wid declare that the support of the bill was nol @ f: they would only splay of pu i t regt is attempt to i tion which he submit or what action by © inivmamily tive it is greatly regretted that the authorities, | ed ac mepenied. | Now, if we un‘ erstand this resolution, it pro- poses first, a reference to a committee to iuquire | ito and report up mn what all the w rid knows already. lt proposes, secondly, to have that committee report what measures s all be taken to prceure pecuniary indemnity to the owners; | vation of cur neutrality as regaris Spain, so that they may not furt er interfere with the “Jone star” expeditions. Why, this is “roaring | as gently as any sucking dove.’’ The govern- ment in the meanwhile, as it w uld seem, is to open negotiations for t.e sake of quieting the public mind. “Falibus defensoribus, tempus non eget— Non tali auxilio.”” We are, however, gratified to perceive that the House afterwards evinced a disposition to come squarely up t | te mark with regardt t is matter. On Friday a res:lution, calling upon | tle President for inf rmation respecting this | and all other recent outrages by Spanish officials was unanimously ad pted, after which Mr. Dean gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill repealing our neutrality laws, so far as they apply to Spain. Let us hope that Congress will act promptly ad vigor usly aad waste as little | time as possible in t'e discussion of res lutions. |The only resolution required is to resolve that we will be men. This is the resolve we would propose; and we know that it will be adopted by the whole nation as one man, ex- cepting always the abolitionists:— Whereas, the authorities of tho island of Cuba have, without color of law or right, seized the United States steamer Black Warrior, and confiscated or taken posses sien of her cargo—therefore, be it Resolved, That a commissioner be sent forthwith by he President of the United States to Havana, to demand immediate restitution of the said vessel and cargo, with ample indemnity to the parties interested. Kesolved, That in case such restoration and indemnity are not complied with on demand, ‘the President of the United States be, and heis hereby, authorized to issue letters of marque and reprisal to such public armed ves- sels of the United States as he shall judge expedient, against the public or private vessels of Spain, or her sub- jects, orpoth, as he may see fit. This is the way in which, about two hundred years ago, Oliver Crcmwell negotiated with Spain, when she was ten times mre powerful, when, upon scme groundless pretext, a merchant vessel belonging to an English Quaker had beea captured and carried into a Spanish port. The Quaker applied to the “Lord Protector” for redress, and after stating the case, was told by him to return in one week. The Quaker, who little suspected what forcible and prompt re- dress was to be administered to him, according- ly waited upon Oliver, and, to his amazement, was told that a vessel had been sent out with letters of marque and reprisal, aud that three Spanish ships had been brought into the port of London, from the cargoes of which he would receive full indemnity. Spain submitted with- out a show of resistance, and restored the Qua- ker his ship and cargo, with full indemnity. This is the true policy of our government in the pre- sent case. All. that the House of Representa- tives has to doto place itself “ rectus in curia”’ at this time is to pass such a resolve without debate—then to take up the six steam frigate bill of the Senate, and to amend it so that six ships of the line shall also be forthwith con- structed. + There is no fear that the Senate will “hang fire’? on such amendments. That body seems inspired with something of the spirit which ought to pervade the great Council of State. Let the House of Representatives imi- tate its patriotic example. One word as to the issuing of letters of marque and reprisal: It is not a belligerent mea sure, nor is it a casus belli, where it is justified by the refusal of the power who has seized property belonging to the citizens of another power to render just satisfaction. Vattel saysi— Reprisals are used between nation and nation in order to do themselves justice, when they cannot otherwise obtain it. If anation has taken possession of what belongs to another—if she refuses to pay a debt—to repair an injury, or to give adequate satistaction for it—the latter iri) her own advantage il she has recalved ample sutis faction. This is the last remaining effort previous to a commencement of ppen hostilities. Here is the true chart of our policy in this emergency. The conduct of the government in rejecting or adopting it will decide our national character and our sensibility or insensibility to national wrong and insult. The nation will not be satisfied with less vigor. ‘The Spotls System in England. John Bull is slow in arriving at conclusions, but when his eyes are once opened he is ener- getic enough in action. He haslong been com- placently submitting to have his substance de- voured by the locusts who fatten upon the pub- lie plunder, but their insatiable appetite has at last aroused his ire, and he threatens to make a clean sweep of them. We are afraid, however, goes. These social drones are too much ‘at- tached to the milk and honey of the land to be easily shaken off. Cabinet have it, it is said, in contemplation to apply some effectual remedy to the evil of ren- dering the service of the State subservient to party and family interests. Although the Re- form bill did away with some of the more direct and glaring vices of the system, it did not reach the remote and circuitous channels through which the stream of corruption still finds its way. The time has passed, it is true, when my lord’s mistress or my lady’s femme de chambre could distribute government places at will, or when age and personal qualifications could be altogether disregarded in their re- cipients. We no longer witness the anomalies of sucking sinecurists and unbreeched cavalry officers. The common sense of the age and the fotce of ridicule have killed off abuses of which theee may be accepted as the types, and com- pelled corruption to assume the semblance of decency. It,is only the semblance, however, for the original evil is almost as rampant as ever, with this difference—that it is now almost exclusively confined to political objects. The government patronage is, in fact, employed in purchasing up the repre- sentation of the country; or, in other words, each member of the House of Commons who is willing to prostitute himself exchanges his vote for the priviloge of distributing the govern- ment offices in particular district. It is needless to say that each party makes unscra- pulous use of this instrument when it gets into power. The most noteworthy feature of the system is, that those who talk most about their patriotism are the most cager to got their finger in the ‘ pish i 9 » two great dominant parties they have profited largely by its advantages; and they might still have con- tinued to enjoy their share of the spoils, if, with their usnal talent for blundering, they had not gua to breg about their purity. The conse- and thirdly, to repeal our laws for the preser- , that he counts without his host, as the phrase | To speak loss figuratively, Lord Aberdeen’s | quence is that they have got both themzelves | VaxpaLism ar Wasuiveton.—The people and the cystem into trouble. Certain formal | were recently taken by surprise by the news charges of corruption have been preferred in Parliament against some of these imm ulate worthies, and wrich treat is expected from the | Pope for the Washingtoa Mouument, had been disclorures to which they will give rive. The | tu quoque mode of defence will of course be re- | sorted to, so that some valuable lessons may be tionsthat no doubt will’be exchanged upo. the gathered by our spoilsmen from the recrimina- occasion, The jupils of the Van Buren and | Marey schools are as yet but tyros in their vo- | cation, for they recklessly lay themselves opea ! to detection by the clumsiness of their opera- | tions. They have one merit, however, whic the Irish patriots have not—they make no vain professions of their honesty. The grand panacea by which Lord Aberdeen is about to remedy the evils of a system which is now admitte | by all parties to be degrading to the charact.r and injurious to the interests of both the representative and the represeated, carries us far in advance of all previous re- forms. It is, in fact, one of the most striki illustrations of the progress of liberal opinioas in Europe that th: inauguration of the reiga of common sense has as yet alfordsd us. The details of this proect, as we gather them fron the leading ministeria®organ, are as follows :— It is proposed to throw opea upwards of 16,000 salaried places to the general competition of the country. From appointments of great imporiance and pecuniary value, demaading the attainments and worthy the pursuit of the most educated Englishman, down to small posts which might recompense the industry of the head boy in the village school, the door is to be opencd wide to all comers who can prove their superiority before impartial and responsible ex- aminers. Any person who is able to give satis- physical health may, without interest or in- trigue, succeed t6 an honorable position in the service of his country merely by the use of those gifts of talent and educat:on with which nature and fortune may have endowed him. Although the project, as thus d-veloped, has more the air of a metaphysical abstraction than of a practical measure, it yet indicates a de- termination to move in the right direction, and can afford to fall short of its promises without dis- appointing the expectations of any but optimists. Tf it have no other effect than to establish the Claims of merit to recognition, it will be a vast improvement upon a system that wedded the lazy and the incapable to the State for life, and rendered its offices the patrimony of the privileged few. Although in this country the periodical changes in the personnel of our ad- ministration save us from both these evils, it is questionable whether they secure us as efficient a class of public servants as a properly regu- lated system of promotion would do. We have never been able to understand why a system that works so well both in our naval and mili- tary service should not be found applicable, with some modifications, perhaps, to the ma- chinery of .civil government. It was cer- tainly never intended by the framers of our constitution that the public service should be interrupted and its efficiency endangered by these periodical sweepings out of all the in- ferior offices of the State to reward mere dirty partisanship. The tactics of political in- triguers and the cupidity of hungering spoilsmen have, however, converted a wise and sagacious measure of caution into a fruitful source of anxiety and danger. Tae Great Nepraska Movement gt Taw- many Hatt.—We have received the follow- ng circular, which explains itself — TAMMANY HALL. Dewocranic REPUBLICAN GxERAL ComMrtTEE Room, New York, March 7, 1854. Sin—The demoeracy of the city of New York friendly to regular nominations and to the general administration will hold @ mass meeting on the 16th instant, to respond to the great democratic truths of the right and duty of the People of a State or Territory to frame their own form government, and control their own domestic affairs, as contained in the bill now before the Congress of the United States for the o1 ‘ization of the Territo- ries of Nebraska and Kansas. The undersigned, a com- mittee appointed to invite their democratic brethren to attend and address the meeting, respectfully solicit your ati ce for that purpose. The democracy of New York will ever greet with a cordial welcome the support- ers and advocates of progressive and national measures. Come, then, to Old Tammany, and receive the friendly salutations of her warriors and braves. Truly and respectfully, yours, ELIJAH F. PURDY, We understand that Senator Douglas and other distinguished politicians at Washington have been invited toattend and are expected to be present and address the meeting. It is sup- | posed that the ‘hard shell committee will like- wise pass resolutions to concur in a similar meeting, and that such meeting will take place in Tammany Hall. Sanguine politicians thus expect that the reunion of the two factions of the democracy may be effected on the basis of | the’Nebraska bill, and that Old Tammany will once more see them united in brotherhood and harmony under its roof. The movement is of course opposed by John Van Buren, and his clique, privately inspired, it is conjectured, by | President Pierce, and the kitchen Cabinet. The Collector, the Surveyor, the Postmaster, Charles O’Conor, and the other office holders are all secretly plotting against it, conjointly with these influential persons at Washington ; and it does not seem at allimprobable from the symp toms now made public, that the result may be a meeting of bolters in the Park, like the bolt of 1848. The Van Buren free soilers, with their allies, profers to acquiesce in the compromise of 1850, but oppose the bill for the non-intervention of the federal government in the domestic insti- tutions of Nebraska, .They profess not to see that the principle of the Nebraska bill is pre- cisely the same as that of the New Mexico and Utah bills, With euch » platform it is worth while watching to see what they will do. Tae New Hawrsnrre Exvectton.—Elsewhere, two letters from New Hampshire throw a vast deal of light on the coming election in that State. It will beseen that as usual the admin- istration is pursuing its accustomed disingenu- ous crooked policy. It dare not endorse the Nebraska bill, and dare not oppose. The free- soilers take their ground boldly and so do the national democrats with Burke at their head, but the administration party shirk the ques- tion altogether, talk about the want of time to explain the measure to the people, aud are try- ing to wriggle into power anyhow at aay cost. The morale of the whole is a confirmation of the rumored treachery of the Cabinet. At Wachington they pretend to be heart and soul in favor of Nebraska; but a few miles to the north in the granite hills of New Hampshire, “the only President she ever had’ is quite a different man, does not know anything of No- bracka, and assures the soft shell democrats that it is by no means a test question at the election. Can feeble, mean, vacillating policy 1 go farther? jag | factory testimonials of moral character aad | | way to destroy a power whose existence is in- termined that this should never’ have a place | in the monument n dto the memory of the greatest patriot of 1 mes, assembled together that the block of marble, sent from Rome by the Lroken to picces on the night of the 5th inst. and the fragments strewed along the banks of Potomac. But still greater astonishment will, be aroused Ly a perusal of the following extract i from a journal publirhed iu this city by an H Italian refugee who rendered himself particu- ; larly conspicuous in the Bedini disturbance :— [From the Crusader. On Sunday night, the Sti of the present month, was consummated a most just and patriotic act, expressive of the indignation of true patriots at the sending of a block | yurment by the Pope of Rome. The idea of sending stone to tie United States originated with tie Fope’s Secretary of Stats dival Antonelli, than whom a more ferocious villain went urhung. Thi elli is the son of a li man, oud most wert! nf such a parentag Lewis (se, junior, forwarded the precious stone, with letter in proise of the gallows bird who first su of merle for the Was! at the baretaced insult to t) ot. ‘ihe biock thus sent here by a blockhead bore the coat of arms ol iius iX, and ef Rome, and an inseription in Iatin, to the effect that the stone was. testimonial from the Koman peo; ie— and buee. ‘A number of spirited American citizens, vecoming de- lxelwod as palpable 2s it is wicked very quietly ou the evening above mentioned, broke the block into fragments, and strewed them along the banks of the Potomac, as a lesson for intriguing demagogues and }apish Puseyites. Sloulktbis Holiness, or his satel- ites, deem it worth while to s sulting ironical testimonial which bas just been 80 op- portuncly destroyed, we trust that the same fate will meet it immediately on its arrival, and that it will not be suflered to profane Aierican soil so long a8 has that | which afew patriotic citizens have now so summarily dis- pore Sensible and rational men will be amazed at | - he open expression of such sentiments as thes: un this country or this community. «A justifica tion of such an outrage as the destruction 0? the block of Italian marble could only come | from a denizen of that overheated atmosphere | where revolutions are hatched between sundown | and sunrise, and the masses require the constant | prospect of bayonets to live peaceably among | hemselves, No right minded American can | feel ought but shame at such an act of Vandal- | ism. The Pope may have his faults, as many of | his predecessors had theirs ; but there have been | good Popes as well as bad, and to say that we | shall not receive a block of marble because it comes from a Pope is absolutely ludicrous. | The Catholic religion is entitled to respect for its good traits, just as it is obnoxious to cen- sure for its bad ones ; so is Protestantism : who shall strike the balance between them? Both, in their day and generation, have rendered good service to morality, humanity, and civili- zation. The act of the Pope in sending us the block of marble was a compliment which ought to have been properly received and acknow- ledged. We understand that the government intends to offer a reward for the detection of the perpetrators of the outrage. Should any investigation take place, we advise the govern- ment to send to the office of the Crusader, as some one connected with that establishment ap- pears to know more about the matter than the pulfic generally. nda duplicate of that in- How To Manuracture Pusic OPINION AGAINST Nepraska.—The abolitionists, after their at- tempt to manufacture the one hundred fect pe- tition of three thousand residents of Brooklyn by stopping passengers at the Brooklyn ferries, both men and boys, to sign a remoustrance against the Nebraska bill before Congress, have taken steps to manufacture another for the ladies of Brooklyn, by inducing the teachers of emale seminaries to prevail on the children en- trusted to their care to sign a petition to Con- gress against the Dill. Here are teachers entrusted with the moral instruction of the young consistently teach- ing them deception! Do they really in- tend to palm off the signatures of chil- dren of ten and twelve years of age as those of the ladies of Brooklyn? Those entrusted with the education of the young should be possessed of sufficient moral courage to resist the fear of losing the favor of their abolition patrons. How much more in unison with their duties and feelings would it be for them to say to their pupils, this is an incendiary proceeding to destroy the harmony of our happy country. In the formation of the union of these States, in 1789, the various and conflicting interests of our extended country were satisfactorily ar- ranged by a happy compromise—certain powers were delegated to Congress, all others were reserved to the States. Slavery was recognized as property ; Congress never had any power granted to interfere with that subject; each State was to regulate its own affairs. If South Carolina was desirous to become a free State she could do so; and if a majority in Vermont decided to become a slave State she could readily be so. The territory of the United States was property in common until it be- came one of the sovereign States. A citizen of a free State has a perfect right to settle there, with all his property; and of course the citizen of a slave State has the same equal right to re- move thither with all his property. In the formation of said territory into a State a ma- jority of its citizens must decide whether slave labor be admitted or excluded. If slave labor be profitable it will be admitted. If, as in the State of New York, it becomes unprofitable, it will be abolished. - But how was this abolition brought forward? The cultivation of the farms in the North did not require constant labor, as at the South. For months together, after sow- ng the grain, the laborer would not earn his bread ; the owners of slaves in New York then determined to sell them off to the Southern States. After in this manner greftly reducing their numbers, they then—about forty years ago—paseed a law declaring all free born after a fixed day arriving at acertain age. Why not extend the same law to all outlying sister States? When slavery is unprofitable it is certain to be abolished. How absurd it is to suppose that by extending the area of slave territory slavery itself can be thcreased. Where importation of slaves is forbidden by law, and punished as piracy, it cannot increase the birth of slaves. If territory suitable for slave labor could be procured South, the extending the area of territory would cause thither a demand for slaves, and the quantity of slave labor would be diminished by emigration from many States. The vacuum fhus created in labor must be sup- plied by free laborers, thus increasing the free labor vote in the State; and in course of time, the majority amending the constitution of the State, will abolish slavery in prospective. Such is the only mode of abolishing slavery South. Make free labor cheaper than slave labor and the question is settled. The whole movement is European. Its in- a this country are ignorant of whose They ave worked up in their ul course by: the aristocracy of Eng- | land, who are satisfied that there is no other consistent with their own safety. Abraham Voorhies, formerly a citizen of New Jersoy committed suicide at Euclid, Ohic, on the Od inst., by hanging himself in bis barn, } } sary Tue How. Cares Cusuise axp mts Lrteraty Laxors,—Caleb Cushing is a singularman. He is very industrious, has read a little oa many enbjects, and hasa smattering of every trade: on the strength of which he is perpetually writ- ing long documents of no earthly use to any one, and beguiling juvenile newspapers of lim- ited circulation and uslimited space to publish them for his benefit. He is never happy unless he has his name in print somewhere. For how many of these prosy essays ex cathedra he has succeeded in procuring the honors of publica- tion since he became Attorney General we ea- not undertake to say: his Massachesctts let- ters, unkindly abusing his own pet coalitions, | his opinion on the Texas debt, wherein he ad- y.s.d the governmeut to cheat the boadholders, and his letter about land grants are oaly half the lucubrations of this character he has givea to a grateful werld through the medium of oe abolitionist print or other. We beg respectfully to offer hima suggestion or two which may serve his purpose. Why should he not, as the organ of the American government, fulminate in his usual semi-oficial way,a despatch on spiritualism and table moving? Would he use his influence with his private newspaper friends. to procure the pui tion of a discourse oa woman’s rights from his able pen? And could he be induced to treat yet another subject— which he might illustrate from his persoaal bio- graphy—the art of sel@laudation audi paiery,. its value, dangers, expense, and ecoaonical utility? Such a work from one so well ealcu- lated to perform it wish ability, would be inval- luable to aspiring politicians, Potic The Case of dtr. Ku lished the arrest of i telligence. -—A. few days ago we pub- ihew Rutherford, on-aa a “se ‘10m his employers, Irvin & Co., of No. 2 We have recei. ed « letter from Mr. Rutherford, in which he states the charge to be un- i that he never embezuted auy money from his em- ployer. Arrest of a Hotel Thicf—On Thursday night 3 young man, calling himself ‘{livmas Edwards, was arrested by the Second ward police, having been conceatel in one of the lodging rooms at Gunter’s Hotel, In Fulton street, evidently for the purpose of stealing. When his person was tearched, the oflicers found forty skeleton keya, showing the nefarious business of the prisoner. He was taken before the magistrate, who committed him to~ prison for trial. rs Naval Inteiligence. ‘The sloop-of-war Portsmouth sailed from San Francisco « Feb. 3 for San Blas. ‘The sloop-of-war Jamestown arrived at Rio Janeiro Jan. 16 from Montevideo; and the sloop-of-war Germantown, , from Loston, arrived there on the 17th. Political Intelligence. The Governor of Massachusetts has designated Monday, the 3d of April, for the holding of a spectal election the First Congressional district, to fill the vacancy occa- sioned by the resignation of Hon. Zeno Scudder. Domestic boas nacre A negro girl in the employment of Mr. Jennings, of Richmond, s., attonipted on the 28th ult., to poison Mr. J.’s infant, aged only eight months. ’ The sane servant attempted to burn the house a few. nights ago,. but was discovered. - ‘Wm. Webb, aged sixteen, recently ran away from. Louisville with Susan Roby, aged thirteen, and got marri . ‘A servant girl named Ellen Murphy has boen arrested in Buffalo, ona charge of infanticide. She is accused of causing the death of a inale infant, by strangling it, and afterwards throwing ith the cistern. A married woman, named Eliza Ray, died at Albany on: the 8d inst. from the eifects of a dose of arsenic taken on. Wednesday. On the 25th ult. Mr. Brandy, a citizen of Ml, who had been keeping tavern there for several years,.. committed suicide by blowing out his brains with a gun. ‘The weapon was heavily |, and he accomplished. his Purpose by placing the muzzle to his head, near his eye, an en eo the piece with his foot. The act oe in the presence of the members of his- Rev. H. 8. Spencer, a highly respectable clergyman of the Baptist denomination, cofomitted suicide in’ the Ia~ sane Asylum at Uticn, New York, on the goth ult, He: had been in the asyluin some months. - > ‘To the Advertising Public. The season of business is now approaching, and adver- tsing, iu the most widely circulating newspaper, isons of the prime elements of success. In this view we can freely recommend the New Your ‘Hera. as the greatest establishment of the kind on this continent, Itsdaily circulation is at this moment the: argest in the civilized World, olihér in Eutope or Ameri~ ca, being now nearly fifty-five thousand per day, which 8 far beyond that of the London Times. Including its weelly editions, its aggregates may be stated as follows:— AGGREGATE CIRCULATION OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Four hundred thousand double sheets . soe per week, Four hundred thousand dollars worth of white ‘To persons in trade, of ald hinds,, such a channel of circulation is the ready way to success. in life. The HgRaxp’s prices for advertising, considering: the vast circulation of the journal, are more reasonable, though apparently higher, than the rates exacted from the public by any other establishment in New York. From the simple statement of these facts the public can judge for themselves in all advertising matters. Planofortes.—333 Broad: Second-hand Pianos, but not second rate, lower than ean be had at any other howe febeaite, eee sone wishing merchandise of this kind will fd time. HORACE WATERS, 833 Broadway Melodcons.—The a Assortment of Me- lodoons in the oity at $33 Broadway, including th - A ing the exclusive agency for Goodman © Ealdvia! tent organ medoleon: i. W. call o1 ORACE WATERS: All Persons are Warned Against 4S Dromlsory note, drawn by. Aas Pierson nate payable for 1, 1854, on th al Bank of eudorsed by me, as said endorsement has Wiliansbie Fomeag WATERS. HORACE Banvard’s Georama.—Last Sanday Ev. the house was very crowded to hear Mr. Banvard’s Thebarece, ‘and Holy Land, i Pd aud, illustrating the faltilment of pro- ti imate: fa. the lecture willbe repeated. Go and Auction Sales.—Samuel $3.—Oliver B. Goldsmith commences his cheap writi Nionday, 18th inst. Full particu- are in this td sad ‘rimes, or by elroular, at. popergon! ier of Franklin street. Open e never sink so low in Great Sale of Engravi tion of the most beautiful Freneeaa Raglan selected by W. SCHAUS, is now offered at private sale at. the Amerivan Art Union, 4.7 Broadway, and ab the lowest whoiesale prices. The collection is by bar the best ever exhilited. Admission free. ‘Worth Remembe: gorium Lar Just been open Fulton street, with an entirely. atock o: clotiing, adapted to the best sty ies, and wil prices. N. Be Dreeonted. Fashionable Clothin the agsortment and prices fhtiniie Of ALFRED MUN OE & CO., sizes for mon and boys, suilaile for all s fost approved styles, ' No devia Mourning Silks--Jast mourning store, Sol Dvoadway, hetween St. Nicholas g store, No. O51 ‘ aud Metropolitan Hotels ase of mourning plaid silks, {HOLOMEW & WEED. Removal.Smith Lounsbery would re- speetfully inform their fre nd the public that they have shanged their vusiness low late 44% Peart stroot, to 456 (one door below Grand strect.) They ate now to exbibit ring stylos, consisting of velvet tapestry, russel, throo-ply, and ingrain - ee, English aud’ American floor oilcloth, and alk ) ather goods pertaining to tho trade, Goose Gibbie in Boots, a world too wide, ne dercribed in Old Mortality,” did not euta more ladi- BAT ie nd doos bog! woar “4 of a Cy} that has no about it, This ean © predicamont who his thirte of GREEN, 1 Astor House’ A salah 98 ToULd Ng A GusioAty fog the Museum, ee CLC