The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1854, Page 4

—_—-- NEW YORK HERALD.}| JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. SYFICE MN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Wodume KEK,...........00..ccerereeeees seeeM@e The | AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—lon—Biack Evzp 8v- gan. BROADWAY THEATRE: Broadway—RicugLizu— Buocxise Events. BURTON’S THEATR: Nicur’s Daxax—Rozi NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—Unoiz§fou’s Can. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—So.prea’s Covar gur—Envxstivx—Kitt on Curs. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon, Nioowo Fauruy— Avansixe Sacnisice—Evening, Tur Oup Bazwsny. BROADWAY MENAGERIE—Liaurrvrian Kive—Man- morn Laoy ann Livine Tease ANIMALS. OHRISTY’S AMERICAN OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broad- way—Erworian MeLouiss sy Cunury’s MinstR as. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Minstrel Hall, 444 Broad- wey—-Erniorzan MinstTReusy. SUCKLEY’S OPERA HOUS! KBiex- unre Reaursas Geena tercra. Cenetey Buen ST. NICHOLAS EXHIBITIO} Campae.. MINSTRELS IN THEIR ROOM, 495 Broadway— ono ENTERTAINMENTS. BANVARD’S GEORAMA, 596 Broadway—Panonaua or wus Hoxy Lanp. REENISH GALLERY, 563 Broadway—Day and Night. MGNOR BLITZ—Brooxrys Inerirute. BRYAN GALLERY oF CHRISTIAN ART—&3 Broad- WHOLE WORLD—97 and 579 Brondway—Afternoen and Evening. New York, Tuesday, March 14, 1854. Circulation of the New York Herald for the Inst Week—The Largest in the World. Ma¥ch ¢—Monday. “ ends: Total....... eects nner srersy* feet average per diem, . Weekly Sie tender ‘editions. -— Aggregate for the week... ++ 332,100 Advertisements, 123; cents per line in the daily. Do. 80 cents per'lime in the weekly editions The News. By the arrival of the Star of the West, fromfien Suan, we learn that a ‘launch containing a large wamber ‘of ‘passengers ‘was recently capsized on Virgin Bay, Lake Nicaragua. Twenty-four persons ‘were drowred, the bodies of nineteen of whom ‘had Deen recovered. They "were returning from ‘Uali- fornia, ‘full details ofvthe melancholy disaster are given elsewhere. The eutrage by the Cuban authorities upon the steamsiip Black Warrior is reported to-have been the cause of another protracted session of the Cabi- wet at Washington yesterday. It is understodd that the : President will. transmit to Congress..a strong meoesage relative to:the affair, accompanied -by nu- merous documents connected with this.and other recent illustrations of Spanish perfidy, as scon asthe papers can be properly arranged. A bearer of des- patches from Havana reached Washingten yester- -@ay afternoon with-edditional particulars. The United States Senate appears to have been -eompletely floodedarith petitions of every: descrip- «tion. yesterday, including, as usual, a large number yemonstrating against the Nebraska bill, asd among vthem one signed by Bishop Wainwright and other clergymen of thiscity. Quite a spirited debate took place relative to the reference of a memorial asking for land to aid in the construction of the contemplat- ed ship canal around the Falls of Niagara. ‘The special committee reported a bill providing for. the construction of arsiiroad from the Mississippi xiver tothe Pacific ocean, an abstract of which measure will be found among the proceedings. Instead of gpecifying any particular route, the committee, pro- pose to grant to:the contractors every alternate sec- tion of land twenty,.miles wide on each side of.the road, and to pay six hundred dollarsper mile for carrying the mails for thirty years. A debate onthe question as to Mr. Phelps’ right to a seat as Senator for Vermont, wound xp the business of the day. The great feature.in'the proceedings of our State Legislature, yesterday, was the tabling of Mr.‘Fe- ‘ters’ resolution calling for the assembling of a Coun- cil of Freedom in Alkany, in order to devise such measures as wi!] effectually prevent the extension of slavery as provided forin the Nebraska-Kansas hill which recently passed the United States Senate. This extraordinary proposition of Mr. Peters re- ceived a very unexpected, but just and eloquent, re- boke at the hands of Mr. Littlejohn, the silver gray .representative from Oswego, who truly designated it as a traitorous attempt to set at defiance the acts of Congress. Various measures relative to affairs in this city underwent con- sideration in both houses: in the course of the day— among them the bill to repeal the Jones Wood Park gct, and-anether in relation to the assessment and collection of taxes. Mr. Putnam moved an amend- ment to the Igtter bill, so as to provide for the taxa- ‘tion of the property of persons doing business in the State, though:they may themselves reside in another State. Those interested will find the opinion of Attorney General Hoffman with regard to the dis- spute concerning the ownership of land under water, appended to the despatch from our special corres- pondent. Secretary Dobbin transmitted a-message to the House of Representatives yesterday, in reply to the resolution of inquiry relative to the adaptability of the various mail steamers to war purposes, in case ofemergency. The Secretary thinks that it would be impracticable to convert them into regular ves- sels of war, but might be useful in transporting troops and maonitions, and also in annoying the @nemy’s commerce as privateersmen. This being the case, it is to be hoped that the House will no longer delay the adoption of such measures as will place our navy on a footing with the first mari- time power in the world. Let the miserable aystem of patching up old hulks, and officering them with worn-out commanders, be ahandoned at once. Pass 8 bill authorizing the construction of half a dozen or more ships of war, besides the six steamcr§ already called for, and give the world to understand that we are able and determined to maintain our rights, not only on this continent, but wherever our flag is unfurled. The last insult put upon us by the Cuban authorities, doubtless with the consent,.and with the connivance, of England and France, cafis aloud for action. ‘The flare-up between certain Western and South- ern gentlemen in the House last Friday, as is gene- rally the case when reason reanmes her sway, caused the expenditure of a great deal of time in personal explanations yesterday morning. A resolution was adopted to so amend the bounty land act as to facili- tate the heirs of deceased soldiers in procuring their rights. The bill to reward the hardy tars who partici- pated in rescuing the San Francisco sufferers under- went o brief discussion. It has been two months since this matter was first reported, and from the progress made it is doubtful whether anything fur- ther will be done with it. Had it been a bill grant- ing four or five million acres of land to some com- pany of railroad speculators it would most likely have been passed long ago; but being merely a bill to reward a few poor but worthy men for noble and praiseworthy conduct, it appears to be looked upon as of no consequence. A bill was reported for the construction of a line of railroad to the Pacific, With the exception that it gives alternate sections of land fifteen miles wide on each side of the road, it is quite similar to the project before the Senate. A debate followed on the new deficiency bill, in the course of which fault was found with the item ap propriating half a million for the Assay office in this city. The steamer Taabe! hasart'ved at Chaztédtba With | for the fre oll cause ive thin a nels acces. dates from Havana to the®thinst. SMe brings si | sion of strength. Seward’s influence Was para- additional part'culars concey ning the seisure of the Black Warrior. A number of the passttigers 6f fhe latter veel cameon in the Isdbel. ft is repurted | that much excitement ¢x’ sts among the natives of Cuba, | robably in conse quence of the prospent of a speedy deliverance frow , Spanish thraldiom, @arough the medium of the lw st gross mourft. ‘The Van Buten party were®ure of the | pecrétiapproval of most of the whig leaders, | and:wt that time the whigs hada‘larger number of*votes than they have ever tad since. fn a@fition to thelr strength ‘d the capital, they possesse1 a bo'y of adherents throagh- against our nation by the officialsof Qaeen Isabella. out the cotntty thet has ‘sever since been Mesere. Adams & € ‘o, have handed us ffies of Mel bourne (Australia) * papers to the 22d’ ‘of December. ‘| They contain the latest gold ‘irculars-and market | quotations, but hr ave little néWs in'addition to that which appeared i, the Henaxy yestefday morhinig. The Supreme Court at Boston’ has decided that | the fourteenth section of the Massaéhusetts Liqnar law, which aut’ aorizes the stiznté an destructionof liquor, is unco’ stitutional. A car co” taining sixtéen. persons was threwn off the tra’ k and dowa an‘embankment en the | New Londg n and Palmer’ Railroad, near ‘North Windbam, | yesterday efterndon. ‘ihe car todged | on the st amp of a tree,’ which ran somipietely | through it . Fifteen of the pdity inside were'njured, | some of t)/aem very severely. Severa | puildings, principally occupied w manu- facturin;/ x establishmertts, were destroyed By fire at Rochest/ er on Sunday. ‘The loss is esitmated at twenty thousand dellars; oméénalf of whickjis insured. The Board of Aldermef’having little ex no busi- ness / ,efore them last: éveaing, spent #ome two or three) hoursin a useless’débate on giving*the contract for 1/ -epairing the street pavements to Mi. John C.H/ ayes. They findlly confirmed the contract for the | term of one year front the date of confirmation. Thi’ » Board of Cenncilmten adopted asresolution re- qw’ iring the Chief Hinginecr to take into consideration th 2propriety of having two or’ mom steam fire en- gi nes constructed forthe lower wards of the city, to b : located in the immediate neighborhood of the , { «ge warehouses, ‘Nhe report of the Committee on | f streets, requiring the removal of the:cars of the Hud- ¥son River Railroad ‘Company frem Hudson and Chambers streeta, aa great obstraction to the busi-- ness people of that community, was adopted without debate. The members of the Board were unusually qaiet last evening, and very few lobbyers were), present; consequently a great deal of ordinary routine business was transacted without any debate cr ranting about reform and retrenchment. q The Committee on Ferries of ¢he Common Coun- “equalle: im numbers. -All the Legisla- tures in the free States were openly in their favor. Mén-of every callimg, in every rank of life proclaimed their adhesion to the Wilmot: provieo. It'had spread‘Ifke an epidemic over the land,.and few indeed were t ¢ veices then upraised in-the North to arrest its pernicious influence. No elemént conducive ie success was wanting to the Wilmot previso - cause. Leaders of acknowl-dyed ability, strong bands | of earnest -partizans-throughout the-Nortb, or thorough organizatien, an active press,-and the prestige of a bold-and, as we said, a triumphant campaign, all séemed to presage a vigorous conflict and a saccessful issue to the struggle. They failed. Spite of all their-advantages, spite of their'‘immense strength inthe North, spiteof the-favor with whick they were re- garded at Washington, spite of-every exertion and-every devise, they failed, inghoriously and tamely, and the compromise meaeures passed. The Van Buren party was stunned by the blow. ‘Fo all appearance it lay dead as a mummy. Some straggling leaders, eager for places « goquiesced” in their sentencé;: others sunic in the -waves of the political oeean to rise no more. Three years have passed over, and the resur- rection'is now taking place. ‘It must be ad- mitted that the horizon is net-quite so bright as it. was for their schemes. . Instead of the houses which looked so favorably, or at least winked at the Wilmot proviso, both the Senate and the House of Representatives are thoroughly democratic, and by no means disposed to wink at:infringements on the constitution. The im- mense vote which the bill -obtained in the Senate indicates how little sympathy the Van Buren freesoilers can expect at Wash- «il met yesterday . afternoon to consider the sub- ject of the opening of a ferry from Desbroasea | ington. The country throughout the North is recent ‘odtmge upon the Black Watrior, the genetall erst of indignation which has followed | Fifteen Thousand Loads of Filth Re- its antidtncement in this commanity, and the procee@iag in the United States Congress for the'repeal of the-neutrality laws, have given a new impulse to the filibustero asseciations, and ‘Should the neutrality laws berepealed, it seems ‘highly probable that organizations preparatory to a great expedition ‘against Cuba will be set on foot along the whole ‘line of coast from New | York to New’Orleans. The Cuban ‘exiles are said to have raised already a sum of one mil- | lion of dellars for the cause; another million | could soon’be reised in this country, if the gov- ernment declared ‘that it would not interfere. In a very'short space of time, ax army of ten | thousand men could be enrolled, just as able | and efficient as that which conqnered the Mexi- | cans; and we have not adoubt that some of the old Mexiean "Generals—General Quitman amongethere—would be ready and willing to accept posts of command. The present time is peculiarly favorable for the execution of any such'decigns. Both France and England are engrossed’ with the prospect of a European war, and neither could lend any assistance to Cuba thét would be of any avail against a well equipped expedition from hence. If our govern- ment resolves to stand neutral, Cuba had better make amends for the Black Warrior outrage ss s@on as she can. Marine Affairs. ‘THE NEW STEAMSHIP KNOXVILLE. According to invitation, a large party of ghe friendsof he Directors of the New Nork and Se Steamship fine, including two of the Russian naval officers, M. Sokoloff and M. Turnstein, assembled at the foot of titreet, New York,:to. Pavonia avenue, Jersey City..| quict and. disinclined to move. Where, six "There was no attendance of the, parties interested, | years ago, every man was favorable to the Wil- Wither for or against.the project, and the committee | mot Proviso, to-day but a spare minority could :adjourned until next Monday. The steamship Washington is nearly due, with four ‘days’ later adviocs from Europe. The Arabia will also be due to-morrow or the day after. The Meeting To-+Night—Strength of the Anti- Nobraska Party. In another column. will be found the call of the Van Buren free soilers for an anti-Nebraska’ meeting this evening at the Tabernacle. We take the document on this.occasion from the special Van Buren organ in this city; and from the editorial remarks therein appended to the gall we gather that the, leading actors in to- night’s performance are, to be Mr. Jonathan I. Coddington, Hon. Benjamin F.. Butler, John A. King, Wm. Curtis Noyes, &. With the excep- tion of the last mentioned gentleman, these anti-Nebraska leaders are not unknown to fame. Mr. King has been: known - as @ federalist of the old school for some years; Messrs. Coddington and Butler were among the most conspicuous of the New York supporters of the Wilmot pro- viso conspiracy, and the secession of 1848, . The rank assigned to these two latter among the speakers, not less than-the general character of the minor lights in the movement, affords a tolerable strong presumption that to-night’s assembly will be in fact the firat step towards 8 reorganization of the Van Buren party on a platform differing in no essential particular from that erected six years ago at Buffalo. Al- lowing for the difference of time, and circum- ‘stance, the tone of the call is precisely similar to that of the documents then circulated by the bolters; the men who isaue it are the same; it is published and endorsed by the same print, ,and courts public favor under the same aus- pices. Could we, in fact, by an effort of the imagination carry ourselves back to the stormy times of 1847 and 1848, the call for to-night’s meeting, with a mere substitution of the words “territory acquired from’ Mexico” for “ Nebraska,” would pass mus- ter without difficulty as one of the insurgent manifestoes of that period. However the other political parties and politigal questions of the day differ from 1847, the analogy between the ground taken by the Van Buren free soilers this evening and that which they assumed six years ago is strikingly manifest. The events of the past are simply repeating themeelves on a amaller scale. The same men, with the same designs, under the same flag, are now trying to do that which, with the same means at their command, they could not do in 1848, Has any- thing occurred since then to give them fresh strength? Js the Van Buren party stronger now than it was then? Is the political and so- cial condition of the republic more favorable to treason new than it was six yearsago? A glance at the facts as they stand recorded in history will supply an answer to the query. In 1845, Texas was annexed to the Union. The Van Buren party committed their first fault in opposing that accession of territory. They did so not so much from a jealousy of the extension of the republic as from an unwilling- ness to increase slave territory in the Union. This unwillingness, had it been a mere senti- ment, confined te the breast of its authors, could have been obnoxious to no censure in a country where thought and opinions are free ; converted into a weapon of political contro- versy, wielded in the national councils, it be- came treasonable, and criminal, and shook the character of the Van Buren clique throughout the land. Soon afterwards, the organization of other Territories, and the acquisition of large tracts of land from Mexico, gave a fresh stimulus to their insubordination. Totally forgetting the original compact between the States, and dis- playing no more regard for the constitution than habitual lawbreakers evince for the crimi- nal code, the Van Buren party launched forth into a direct crusade against the institutions of the Soutv. Like the Quakers who refuse to pay tithes on conscientious grounds in England, these misguided men started from a moral stan- dard of their own fashioning, and, never stop- ping to see what their forefathers had solemnly promised and sworn on their behalf, arrived in due course at a position of open rebellion against the constitution. Just at this time, a confederate of theirs in Pennsylvania, Mr. Wil- mot, embodied their treasonable doctrines in a resolution which formed an apt platform for the rebels, They rallied in a body round the Wil- mot proviso, and fought the campaign under that standard. A party never took the field with more apparent advantage. The election which resulted in the defeat of the regular democratic candidate was a singular triumph for theixcause, Taylor installed at Washington, ghe well-known sympathies of his »2minjstration | be found to coalesce with the,politicians of the Coddington and Butler order. A few meetings of abolitionists, with a stray qwhig thrown in by way of variety—a meeting-of stiffnecked old federalists at Boston, who couldn’t be expected to act otherwise—a few resolutions passed by Legislatures under the contrel of such men as Seward—addresses from benevolent. old ladies, political parsons, and the rump of the old Van Buren party—theve are the only evidences we have of popular sympathy with .their cause. They have now been clamoring for. months, and what impression have they produced? Who is ready now to gacrifice money. ortime or comfort to defeat the Nebraska bill? Is there any sin- gle point of view in which. the Ven Buren party possess as fair-prospects of success as they did in 1848? We can see none. On every side we see evi- dence. of the decline of their power, the dissolu- tion. of their popularity, the paralysis of their efforts. And remembering as-we.all do the ut- ter defeat they met in 1850, when their bolt was open and frank, we cannot hesitate in predict- ing a still more speedy and ignominieus failure to the half-concealed secession which is to be commenced tonight, Poxrrictans AND Provciries.—The hard shell organ in this city opposes the Nebraska meet- ing at Tammany Hall on Thursday, under the plea that co-operation with those who have call- ed it would involve the national democrats in asupport of the federal and State administra- tions. Thisis a miserably pitiful excuse for unprincipled conduct. The meeting is called to endorse a measure to which the national demo- crates profess to be friendly. The principles that will be inculeated from the platform will be those which have hitherto been regarded as the groundwork of the national democratic par- ty. For that party now to say that it will not embrace this opportunity of asserting those principles because others towards whom it has hitherto occupied a position of antagonism like- wise agree to assert them, is to postpone broad considerations of practical importance to petty spite. We are not likely to be charged with partiality to the federal or State administra- tions; but we should have deemed ourselves un- worthy of ever again being read on any topic’ of general interest had we allowed our antipathy to individuals and their policy to interfete with a candid expression of our opinion on a measure of national importance like the Nebraska bill. We have all along believed in fact that the President and his Cabinet were opposed to the bill in their heart, and that the outward support they gave it was a mere feint, calculated to | . tion of suit their own selfish purposes; and we notice daily fresh evidences of this fact, such, for instance, as the cavils of the Richmond En- quirer, which seems to be shifting its ground, and opposing the bill on some petty points of detail. But the position assumed by the administration has not influenced us one hair’s breadth one way or the other in our judg- ment on the Nebraska bill. We have supported it because we approved the principle on which it was based ; and the national democracy would do well to do the same. If they believe thata high constitutional principle is involved in the measure, it would be absolutely disgraceful for them to allow their spite towards a poor crea- ture like Pierce to prevent their giving it all the strength they can bestow. They ought to go to the meeting. If the soft shells are there too, so much the better; But whether these co- operate or no, there can be no excuse for the national democracy standing aloof. If the leaders flinch, they should be replaced. If Mr. Bronson attempts to skulk, and evade the responsibility which the Nebraska bill forces upon him and all other leading politicians, as the anti-slavery organs say he does, he should be put down at once asa man more in love with office than with high constitutional principles. Wuen 1s Tae Marve Law To Go rto Force ? —We see that the politicians at Albany are shuffling again. It is now proposed that the law shall only go into effect on first December next, on the trumpery pretext that the Novem- ber elections should first take place. There is no motive or reason for thus postponing the change. If we are to have a Maine law let us have it at once. Let the law go into effect within ten days after its approval py the Gov- ernor. The tenderness with which the advo- cates of a prohibitory law are now proposing to deal with the sellers of adulterated liquors, poisonous brandy, and equally poisonous whis- key, is quite on a par with their former shuf- fling conduct. They hive not the courage to do the work they were pledged to perform. {Twelfth street, yesterday morning, on board their rew ‘steamship Knoxville, to-take a trip down the Bay im that ‘magnificent craft, preparatory to placing her reguierly on the line. A brighter day could not have ‘been ‘picked out, and the company on board was cheered ‘by the presence of a large number of ladies, to whom the trip appeared to afford infinite delight. ‘The ship was cast loose about ten o’clock, and steamed moderately down the river, around Governor’s Island, and out as far as the'light ship, which point was reached |. about twelve o’clock, when her bow was turned home- wards, and the party was landed at two o’clock, at,pier ‘No. 3 North river, after an exceedingly delightfaluand successful excursion. The Knoxville was‘built by Mr. W. H. Webb, the-con- structor of all the vessels of this line, and isa very sharp lipper-looking vessel. Her motion yesterday was very easy, and by the mamner in which she obeyed her helm, anust be a vessel easy to handle. She is 220 fect tiong on deck, 85 feet bread, 223¢ deep, and of 1,400-tons burden. The machinery was manufactured by Stillman, Allen & Co., of the Novelty Works, who also built the engines of the three other steamérs of the line. Like the Augusta, (one of ber. consorte,) the Knoxville is fitted with an oscillating engine, a peculiar description of engine that is becoming popular among steamship owners, from’the simplicity of its. arrangement in contrast with the site lever and beam engines, its consequent less liability to break, and the amaller space it occupies, without any diminution of the power. Throughout the trip yester- day the machinery. worked with the steadiness of clock- work, without being onee stopped to cool journals, or any other.cause. Without any apparent pushing she made 1634 turns per minute, and would no doubt make more when gut on her mettle. The engine is called ‘Allen’: Oscillator,”’ and is eighty-five inches in diameter, with a stroke of.cight feet. ‘The model of the Knoxville is very handsome. She has very sharp ends, but is very buoyant, and rides over the waves with the ease and grace of a clipper. Her interior fittings and decorations are the same as all her consorts. It is sufficient to assy she is replete with every conve- nience and elegance that can be found on board ship. The saloons and state rooms are lofty and light, and every apartment is well ventilated. The Knoxville is commanded by Captain C. D. Ludlow, Inte of the Alabama. The chief engineer is Mr. Michael Smith. Mr. T. C. Chick, so well known to travellers by this line while serving on the Cherokee, Florida, and the Augusta, is the steward. ‘The vessels of the line comprise the Alabama, Captain Schenck; the Florida, Captain Woodhull; the Augusta, Captain Lyon; and the Knoxville, Captain Ludlow. They semi-weekly trips, the will immediately commence Knoxville advertised leave for Savannah on Wednesday, the 15th instant, on Satur- day, the 11 ‘From the t popularity of her commander, and the warm jums passed upon her formances yest day by soverel eminent men om who are intimate- connected with the steam of our city, the will doubtiess at once become a fa Quick Passacu.—The bark Aura, Capt. Crosby, from Melbourne, Australia, December 23, with merchandise ‘and passengers, made the run from Melbourne to Cape Horn in twenty-nine days, Cape Horn to the line thirty: one days, thence to New York in eighteen days—total seventy. it days. She sailed from New York July 12, and has made round the world in eight Including a detention in Australia of two r:- pipas Jersey City Intelligence. Ne ee te ‘Vurpicr.—Yester- ooeriday, into the cause of the death of Patrick Twomy, who was ek eRe od ‘Thursda: night, on New York and Erie Railroad. ‘The the two witnesses, taken yesterday, is _ that train separated; ther on with the nga the bell rope was in that the detached cars were their demands, resume work. Personal Inte! mee. H. Hi. Ellis, Macon, Ga.; J. C. McHenry, San Francisco; R. H. Hoxley, London; R. Emmet Dixon, Columbus, Ga.; H. L. Pierce, Dorchester, Mass., arrived yesterday at the Prescott. Col. Baker, U. S. Army; D. th, Indiana; C'E. Alex- ander, Oregon; Capt. Edwards, Buffalo; E. 8.’ Taliaferro, ia, were among the arrivals yesterday at the St. Capt. Wm. Mervine, U.S. N.; Col. S.R. Curtis, St. Louis, Mo.; Thos. Allen, Eeq., President Pacific Railroad, Mo.; k ea Hardy, Baltimore; J. K. Macey, Ky., arrived yesterday at tho Metropolitan Hotel. ARRIV. From California and San Jui the Mr A Bolla the steamship Star of n, Major WN Grier, US A, Dr J H White, 1 1 White, @ 2G Many, g ‘mm: i, and indy, te and son, W Lilly 3 I is, Z Hunter, M GH 8, M Hard: ype ep C Carpenter, W Carpente: a a inter, Carpenter'and child, N’ Booth, E Lewin W Goodl § Willinms, Miss $ Conn, $ K ol Parke, ML Stern, T L Hayes, 8 Quine, J Emory,W Peatland, G Dendoe, EAM lady and child, Miss Anthony, GT A Mat P Ful D 3 ustin, MP iat Soi Gioty, ckman, M Gre ‘ A Holem, M C Sandford, J 8 Woodru! Gelman, AE Adam, 1, R Cross, H Fowler, 8 Hi ner, 8 N Long, TS Delarnon, M J Delarnon, Angier ¥ ool, J Ganett and indy, M: |, PS Lawson, J Austin, MB W McMann, L Holts, Wa G RH Cattor, oOrage. ip, Empire City. are isa Chill, and Miss Madamo GN Burill, Miss ‘Mr Blanchard and lady, F lois, P Mazzonhi!l, M. Lo- otlot, B Zax0, G'Stabie, jolt, Jas Forbes, G Gonzales, iavies, JT Bailey, G Garnos THE MUD HARVEST. moved Yesterday. ard the conduet of the alderman and pollee- LOLOL | in enforcing the city ordinance, was held last evening at THE DUST IN BROADWAY, Gieene street Methodist Episcopal church. There was a: gat oa ae tolerably large audience in attendance. ” J ‘The chair was taken by Lawrence Wiseburn, Baq., and> ‘Thomas Edgerly was chosen Secretary. This ia truly the harvest time of mud in our city. of mud beaps—the spring yield—outdoing the richest | results of avy other crop. It is not surprising, however, | that the quantity of mud should be so great as itis, | when we consider that it is the product of a whole winter. The streets, we believe, have not, been touched | \,. by a shovel since some time last fall, and mud and filth, | __ ashes and garbage, have been freezing and thawing, mix- sui ing and increasing, for over three months past, until the present alarming state of filthiness was reached. And even then there was no disposition to act on the part of our public functionaries until the people came to tho reseue, and demanded that the streets should be cleaned. | ‘They are being obeyed, and the mud is fast disappearing. | ore It was impossible for any one to havea truc idea of | whether they y. | umd t dy ‘Was it for- the fmmense amount of filth in the elty before the work | PROT fit WF cae the worship of es, ‘With of reform was commenced. Even the most extravagant ; shops for temples, that the Pi Fathers crossed tho in their belief would have set down the amount far short | stormny ocean \o secure 5 nies pedal, = of what it really is, judging from present appearances. | wie See Lee of tae ieomaeee ang ‘We learn that yesterday something over fifteen thousand | would they stand coolly by and see them ruimed? He cart loads of this putrid mass, which has been stewing | called upon them to stand by every effort eg nerd and reeking with disease under our very nostrils for the | {lt assured that the good ime was coming—ney, , past winter, were carried off the streets to various dump- | “Tie following resolutions were then read -— ing places and. vessels. Those engaged in the work say | _W hercas, it is the undoubted it of freemen to be re , at thisrate ft will require ten days or two weeks to | Sticial contce ef thew at ~ neva evades _— clean thecity. With these facts, we can truly estimate | t¢ semonstrate against apy Sishasoes the amount of filth in the city.#In charity to the | QU sant, tic uerenee fg the Snowe alleen delinquents upon whom the censure for this awful state | consiitvency, anc to applan sustain. them of things shoukd fall, let us mako our calculations from | the Alderman of the Rsgnsh wards nenly sees ne the lowest amoants given. Fifteen thourand loads pe | {7.1\3,0/ te municipal police of aft ward, Bes, . day, for ten:Gays, makes the aggregate amount of mud | thejalbath on the part of the ee ‘whose total in oureity:one hundred and fifty thousand loads. Is not | {niet nnd eenmived se t0 the erect, telat ofthe moeal pot is it i of th \—' this fearful? Isitnot astonishing that in the Empire | ‘en of the vard-—Thenétors, belt Cee ora City-of-our republic, in the metropolis of the Western world, should be permitted to accumulate a mass of mat: | tersufficient almost to dam up the North or East river, | and which invited, in their worst forms, cholera, fevers, | ¥: andiall the contagious diseases known or feared by the followers of Esculapius? Is it mot equally surprising that | wi our citizens have suffered in this way so long as they | have? Is it not one of the greatest evidences | of forbearance on the part of our people that | timid, who saw diseasesweeping around them and festering at their doors, should have long since cried out against | ‘h the growth of'thisifilthy harvest? Was there not reason ‘that the merchant, who saw circulated throughout the country warnings to his custemers to avoid this sink if they valued their lives, should ery out against it? Was there not reasan that all who value happiness, and com- fort, and decency, should not long since have arisen in the might of outraged feelings, and resolved that corrup- ‘tion had done its worst, and should go no further? There ‘wan reason for all this—and that it was not done before, and the hundred thousand loads of mud removed before figuor selling. the additional fifty thousand were added, is simply be- cause New Yorkers, inthe plenitude of their generosity, den. it something more was wanted than talk. Meet- will suffer before they rebel. ings wouldn’t do it but action was the We ‘As the old adage goes, ‘there is no use crying over | in the midst of a revolution. The decree spilled milk;” and since we have foome to this pass, let hopes of redemption. If the work goes on for a few days like yesterday, we shall soon be able to breathe the pure “air, and feel that ‘(Richard is himself again.” In the meantime, we would suggest te Mr. Inspector Downing the propriety of having the principal streets sprinkled— Broadway particularly—or else the greater bulk of our ¢itisens may not live to enjoy;jthat ‘‘ good time coming.”” the mud for removal, but, as.e ‘great good is frequently | ¥ the ter crime was commit -attended by some evil, so this boon granted by nature is pabean see tee weontore were terested wae stuff. ah attended by clouds of dust, which fills our nostrils and nettles stomach, a few brave men like ee ) much to the detriment of our | Ys yi had to take the load. The deliberative men, who never do things in , are sure ‘We understand that most of the cartmen and laborers | the wake and make the victory com; ‘Bhysical organization. engaged in the work of street cleaning have taken ad- vantage of the necessity for their services, and have | m, struck for higher wages. The City Inspector states that eartmen have demanded a rise of about five cents per ‘oad upon the usual and he has been compelled to ; (Mr. Locus Burumcu was then introduced to the meet-- Many of ow streets yesterday were lined with long rows 4.6 He Legan by saying that fora long time past the- most a dead letter. The quiet and sanetity of God’s holy: day was disturbed by the unhallowed influences of the-- greg shop. If these pernicious holes could not be shut on. njected to liquor because it vay aes, be bag objec jecied to it because it was not aleohol; it was pol- roved, ruining on ays, and seme respite should be had on hese grogehops were hi out missiles of death ey witha their preg ina Tuining the, boly> and, damning the soul. tie nt ape eae | doubted right, to exact.» com, for the their places of bi | up thore dens of vic icy oMess, too long | Girry em thete nefarious business with tau unity aribe, should reeelve, the approbation end ‘very loving resident of the ward, best of our abiliti ints On. logaland has been given for yeara? Was there not reason that the | fag pols ore our: fess fi epee. handsome collection taken up. temperance ditty, and recei ‘The PRESIDENT Seu said the it sale of liq the Sab- APYER, e nt uors on: bath was a fearfat thing 0 eon prising fact that an Alderman of the Eleventh ward had’ the city. 1t was no small job to beard in one ward at least, that un take it as fortunate that at length there have come | #10 be suppressed. the Sabbath must be preserved. that read very smoothly ; but where was thé enforee ment? Crime had never met with punishment. The low says that public houses shall not Sabbath to vend liquor, and under that not be a tippling house left streets, but he considered the streets quite ir for drunkards. The moral atmosphere should be 2 ‘The sunshine of Saturday and Sunday has not only dried | before the streets. ‘ James GORDON BENNETT, ‘nance forbidding Sunday liquor selling had been al- ck dwya, which he prayed God might soon come to pass- veice, ‘ smen !”)—at any wan cred to contaminate the ‘these vile Liquids were wore breathing out upon the community. ‘a moral pestilence 2 would permit the these wistcn ead’ watt being: of soeiprema te Eick lr aeein Sety bouad topield ehetiess eT Reeulved, That tke Aldermaa. of the ward, in his ortby feats to ‘compel » due obeerranse of the lawe Y fie Sun red ir places of buriuers on the Sabbath, and f i Resclved, That we will sanction and co-operate in, to fie ny loxalls — action [ond iceny reforms Whe ihe boat interests SE mand. thanks of this mecting are maa ‘te Alderman Tucker for the feibbtat pore e of duty in endeavoring to suppress druak- ‘amb jing aud licentiousness. ‘the resolutions were unanimously ‘The contribution-box was then ited. around and’ ms sang an extremely melancholy ived an encore, then said that Chauncey Schaffer, ee and Und conontedtoreaitaen, neeeraia Erother Bowse then to contemplate. It was a sur- ot up and siarted a movement to put a stop to. Sabbath. It was a bold step for an Alderman to- into consideration the vast rum interest in e, takin; ‘the: old lion in his, e could say there was no wa were in existence. mi ae taxes were complained of ; hat wasthe cause? Rum! It wasa fact great per] in reforms eg ke eee 0 tho Alderman from their ward te follow im . . He called upon . them to and work in this reform. The it made a few closing remarks, and the, eeting adjourned. Mr. 0°Conor and the Nebraska Bill. Y New Yorx, March 13, 1854. accede to their request. it rted yesterday thi Esq. — Srtewaco mars Sad ibors erst fo Soles This is | MY Hass Sinan otis tm Sunday's Simao saton: not so. There are plenty of both to be obtained if the price | that | the | Collector, ba J Postmaster, Charles is paid them they demand. Well, in the present tlme | 0’Conor, &e., are plotting against the Ne- - of rise in provisions and house rents, we are not pre- | Draska bill. pared to say that it is any great erime for the labor- | You have been misinformed. 1 have not, in maay er to strike for an increase of cnpedal n | years, if ever, had any ofany : he example is set by others. Wel ve no doubt that for | kind with any of the persons referred to; neither he orivilege of walking once more over clean pave- | °F otherwise have I opposed the Nebraska bill, I have, ments our citizens will to pay even an unreason- | Veen, and am, decidedly in favor of it. . eble sum if necessary. Cost what it will, give us cleanli- Yours, "” CHAS. O’OONOR. _ ness again. Mr. at present mo- vn ment, let the mud hea Ln ae ie Mails for Europe. * our" your great- | THE NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE, Nanay wile -anst be vanquished at sny sacrifice. ‘The United State iI st hij Meeting of the Committee on Streets. Berry, will leave this port this day at 12 o'clock for- The meeting of thie committee was held yesterday | Southampton and Havre, and the royal mail steamship, afternoon, at the Astor House. Mr. Geo. N. Middlobrook | Andes, Capt. Moodie, will leave Bosten at one o’elock to-- inthe chair. After some remarks from Mr. Andrews, Mr. Galbraith and other gentlemen, in reference necessity of an amendment of the present City Charter, the following resolution was adopted:— Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed, to take into consideration the whole subject of an amend- Fie eee taner bts ebro es ob- of two from each Sorbo yrommmer Do to be clothed with full discretionary power in relation to this subject. morrow for Liverpool. “ ‘The Wasxty Henatn, (printed in French and English, will be published at half-past nine o'clock thisx morning. Single copies, in wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of thes. In accordance with the foregoing, the following gentle-" Nw Youx Hznazp will be received at the following places. J men were appointed :—Zadoc Pratt, E. W. Andrews, Geo. | in N. Middlebrook, Benj. Galbraith, Augustine Snow, las Left ‘and J. A. Hardenbrook. After pointment of dh committee @ vote of thanks was G bees ure ee ang ir room, rai The meeting then adjourned. New Hampshire Election. OPENING OF THE BALL IN 1854. citing contest that has taken place in the Granite State fora number of years. The Nebraska question and the doubtful position of the President have stirred up the most bitter feeling against the administration, not only by the opposition, but by a portion of the democratic party, who look upon the President and his friends as endeavor- ing to dodge the great and absorbing question of the day in the present election. The whigs and free soilers have spared no exertions to force the Nebraska question into | qui the canvass; while the administration party, fearful of its power, have labored just as industriously to impress | William Banta, Canal street, the minds of its adherents that it was not to be consider- | Wooster, is now read; Lo RPO ott gentlemen €d a test of democracy, but that all might go to the polls | nyiPer tat ht weed by pumponand and vote for the democratic ticket, unbiassed by the Douglas doctrines of Territorial organizations, and unfet- tant A Clear Sky souri compromise. The result we will not pretend to pre- | same to ROO’ tered with any fears touching the abrogation of the Mis- dict. A Governor and members of the Legislature are to be elected, on which will devolve the choice of two United States Senators, one of whom will take the place of Moses Panus..,....Livingston, Wells & Oo., 8 Place de la Bourse: of his new just hit that his Prescott Europe — Chien x Lavenroor. John Hunter, No. 2 Paradise street. SP | Loxpom ....Edwards, Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill, ‘Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catherine street... OUR AGENTS IN PARIS, FRANCE. We beg leave to state to our readers and patrons in. &@ Trap to Catch it about as feasible a \OX’S spring style of hi itness and te would af hat le pronounced by ompetent j fe * an to malt hie , the di loudy it, TeaR eee Pose alee’, . 2 Noris, Jr, whose term expires with the present Con- | | ‘The York , gress, in 1855, and the other to fill thevacancy occasioned | doing wo im the picture art, five hundred by the death of Charles G. Atherton, but whose seat is | test’ ct Peasdes Sistas ance now occupied by Jared W. Williams, under an appoint- | Rooms No. W/Broadway. Do you take? ment by the Governor. The State ticket is as follows:— Planofortes.—333 Broadway is one of the Dem. For Governor. Whig. largest depots world, A Nathaniel B. Baker. Jamon Bell. eiroCumguinseet tesuseaetnemiee M4 oe So shee SE io ee Stephen W. y m » | Se A Methodist minister, whose name is Jared Perking, | 1 ere se = ine ti nia. and at ycraslenale or retail, has accepted the nomination for Governor from a portion mes wensedbaed’ ot oy ee 4 of the abolitionists, but the bulk of the party will vote | WATERS. Piasow af grant bargains” HORACE for the whig ‘candidate. Secondhand New Youre Traps Satz oF Booxs Commencen.—The fifty- cobaves two ‘, ninth trade sale of books was commenced yesterday at the | Ta}, secondhan auction rooms of Bangs, Brother & Co. As this isan occa- sion of particular interest to all engaged in the publication or sale of books throughout the United States, there was @ large attendance from all sections of the country. The sale opened about nine o’clock, and continued till six, when it closed for the day; but it will be over two weeks before the whole stock on hand can be disposed of, Melodeons—The Some idea may be formed of the amount of books to be sold from the size of the catalogue, which contains about | tatetiace ee che oye five hundred octavo pages. Among the principal publish- | been member: te at the book ers we notice the names of Appleton, Harper & Bros,, | SM 4 Bowery, Putnam, Stanford & Swords, Dunigan & Brother, of New | Spring. ee. York, and Tieknor & Reed of Boston. Qo., respect ‘The collection of Ivisson & Finney, consisting mainly of choo! and classical works; D. Appleton & Co., and 0. 8. Francis & Co., miseellaneous, was sold yesterday, to- gether with the stock of B. B, Mussey & Co., of Boston. Among the sales were some music invoices, and @ large amount of staple and fancy stationéry. It is impossible, at present, to form an estimate of. the total value of the books which will be disposed of at the present trade sale; but we were informed by the auction- about four hundred thousand dollars, “The estalogme aa- | the lin nounces the intention of Mr. Hart, of Philadelphia, to re- | desir Destrable Real Estate at Auction—We wieh to call the attontion of to the sale to bo mede by ALBERT bi NICOLAY, rininday, At 12 o'clock, at. the Merchants’ Exchange, ter, Mr. Mervin, that the salon last year amounted to | mill property in. the village consiating of & valuable farm Newtown, Long ‘stent oo eof the New York and Railroad, Kightoon, 0 in, lots at the of Navesink, % ellealeuated for roaldences. Also, tl ee an tire from business, and it is said that Mr. 2 of this ig et i er a | Hea kc em Gr eye ing conclu levi wi sd attached. fort cation of his magazine. Séverticemest ka anetber sotums. ma bi