The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1854, Page 4

NEW YyRK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, r ND EDITOR. 7 AMERRKLY HERALD every mum, the European Bdition ‘an- | Tah aor 8 rer orm iain and 9 to amy part ef Oe Cont on ‘to dn clude postage. Wo. 72. | ~ gMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. .. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Tus Gamesren—Jack ‘Suxvrame. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Bautur—Tae Two Bvizanne. BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Tue Laxcens —OvRn Best Socrnry NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—Afternoon and = Froning, Uxoue Tom's Casix WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdwey—Fawvr Hranr Wivah Won Wan base Hain ot Lav, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afterncon and Evening, Tux Baswsay. BROADWAY MENAGERIE—Lituirvrian Kivo—Mam- morn Lavy anv Living Taaiven Animas. GHRISTY’S AMERICAN OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broad- way—Rrusorian MaLooins sy Cunisry’s Mineraas. BLY. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 59) Brondway—Buox- uav's Bruiorzay Orxaa Taours. $f. NICHOLAS EXHIBITION ROOM, 49 Broadway— @amracie Minot exis ix THEIR Neond Exrenrainmeyts. BANVARD’S GEORAMA, 506 Broadway—Panonama oF wun Hoy Lap. RHBNISH GALLERY, 563 Broadway—Day and Night. SIGNOR BLITZ—Brooxuyn Inetiruts. BRYAN GALLERY OF CHRISTIAN ART—843 Broad- way. WHOLE WORLD—87 and 379 Brosdway—Afternoon and Evening. e average per diem, 63 ‘Weekly and Sunday edition: Aggregate for the week.. Advertisements, 123¢ ten’ Do. Y: ‘30 centa:per line in the weekly editions. ‘Fhe Ni Despite the conflicting character of the des- “patches from Concord, at is supposed the election in Mew Hampshire yesterday resulted in the success of the administration party. It cannot be denied, however, that notwitkstanding the prestige of gov- ‘ernment patronage that was brought to bear at the polls, there has bees:a great and startling decline in ‘the popularity of te administration, even though it be the native State of the President himself, Concord hhas dwindled downto seventy majority, Gen. Pierce’s own ward leading~off in the defection. According ‘to the latest despatch, the Senate-was doubtful, but i it was believed that in the popular branch of the Le- gislature the administration\,perty would have a working majority. Sixteen months ago our Presi- Gent carried New‘Hamywhire by eix thousand major- ity; now, if Baker, the Pierce .eundidate for Gover nor, has six. hundred :aajority, €1e democracy will | be fortunate and content. Such is the result of the policy pursued by Pierce andihis:Cabinet. A large portion-of our space is again necessarily devoted to the proceadings..of mectings and the | othe: ‘ood’s Minstrel Hall, 444 Bread Disastcr is folowing disaster upon this covatinent with a celerity thet may well cause the stor;cest heart, to u.il. Pcople ave being killed of by fifties and hundreds, by explosions, wrecks, floods, fires, and cuts, at a rate that is frightful to contem- plate. Sinee the dawning of the present year we have beon called upon ‘to record the terribly fatal Ss-cicy and deploruble suffering on board the San ucieco, the fireworks explosion at Ravenswood, hoiler explosion at Haitford, the steamer ex- i | Jiesion at St. the kea:trending calami- ties by the g of steamers at New Or- | lexus ané on the Southern rivers, the sinking | of the i h on Lake Nicaragua, together with vous shipwrecks and railroad and other awful entailing the loss of probably eight ornine hundred lives; and yet the horrible catalogue is in- complete. A despatch from Louisville contains the | frightful announcement that the steamboat Caroline | took fire on White river, on_the 5th instant, and was Durned to the water's edge. The boat was densely | crowded with passengers, some, forty or fifty of | whom e’ther perished in the flames or were drowned. \ of the Martha Washington conspirators at Helena, Arkansas, near the place of the con sion of the dreadful deed of which they are accused. As was anticipated would be the case, the goy- horities had scarcely turned their backs upon the railroad rioters at Erie, Pa., ere the latter reassembled to put a stop to the running of cars di- rectly through the place, despite the exhortations of the Sheriff'und various peaceably disposed citizers, ‘The steamship George Law arrived yesterday, | with late and interesting news from Mexico, the Darien Surveying Expedition, Nicaragua, Ecuador, New Granada, Dominica and Jamaica, full details of which are published in another page. bs Besides many columns of advertisements which cannot fail to afford a vast fund of instructive, en- tertaining, useful and amusing information to every reader, no matter what may be his vocation or posi- tion in life, to-day’s inside pages contain a report of the proceedings of the indignation meeting held by the passengers on board the Star of the West with regard to the awful calamity on Lake Nicaragua, which suddenly deprived them of twenty-four of their travelling companions ; also, the trial in the United States District Court of four seamen charged with revolt@n board the ship Defiance ; a variety of Commercial and Theatrical intelligence, &c. i | | i | ——- ae “phe Anti-Slavery Meeting Last Night, John Van Buren’s meeting at the Tabernacle last night was a very pleasant good hu:mored affair, The Van Buren leaders judiciously kept themselves inthe background, and thrust for- | ward gentlemen whore personal and social standing was .probably supposed %o atone for their lack -of publie experienct and political | also received the following letter from the Col- ‘manner in whith leading men in this State aq elsewhere are giving in their adhesion “ the Nebraska bill. Mr. Charles O’Conor ‘fas alrea- dy cleared himself from all suspicion of being opposed to the measure, or privy to the medi- tated secession of the Van Burenites. Mr. Bronson ably defines his position, and noticés—quiteun- necessarily we think—a contemptible trick by whieh an obscure party print in this city had attempted to misrepresent him. We have lector of this port, in which he disavows all sympathy with the anti-slavery opponents of Nebrarka, and claims credit for having gone out of his way to support the measure :— New York, March 15, 1854. Tanks bpm pete _ Siz—I deem per to request you to say in your paper, that the Gatmaes whish bes been, 18 therein, thut she Collector of thia port, among others, has been secretly engaged in defeating the territorial bills intro- uced by tenator Douglas, is, so far as I am concerned, | entirely incorrect. Qn the contrary, 1 have not beer inactive in support of the bill. I procured the letter’ of Senator Douglas to the Ws ton Patriot, in defence o¢ himself and the bill, to be published in several paper in this city and im the country. I have also written se" gral | articles, under the signature of “Genesee,” which have been published in several newspapers in the counter developement of both Russia aad Turkey. The | natural struggle of Europe broke out‘in 1787, 1830, and 1848. Actuated Ly an id:ntity of in- tereats and hereditary geociations, the different governments assisted each other % quell the revolutionary outiveaks that occurred in that year, and matters have again resumed their ordinary course, It is only ® temporary truce, however, letv.een democracy and despotiam— atruce that any embarras:ing complication of events wil) at once put an end to. In adv’ sncing as a pretext for intervention in the afl'ire of Turkey, the visionary political neces¥-ity termed the “balance of power,” the Eur jpean governments only seek to cloak their Tes", objects. There is no such thing as the «" balance of power ;”’ it isa nonentity, o snare and a delusion—in fact, a convertible term for the “ monopoly of power.”’ It is, in other words, merely an attempt to impart the coloring of international law and moral right to an effort to repress the struggles of a great original prin- ciple, which is inherent in the nature of man, and which is ever bearing him forward in the Feeney pn jane gt Dg aeaniey ont ythat 1 march of improvement. The balance of power panne ce ety upon * yey ued aecs, means, literally, the fetters by which the revo- whether or soft—whether from the ; Pet shaine. North, the East or the West—can stand, It pag lutionary principle has been chained down for platiorm, erected by our fathers at the birt) of the imt ‘which the great battles of thy Jeqersey tion, and uj against the advocates of assumed and unl’ aited powers have always been fought and won. Itis t¥ © platform of strict construction, upon which the constitution has been hitherto saved, and the Union of the Stat cs preserved. ery respectfully, your ol Very renpectfully, your ob? pocrrant Thus the mist is clearing av yay, and men’s positions are looming clearly into view. To- morrow’s meeting will shed + till further light on the matter. The chivalr¢e us spirits who are talking of disturbing the 4 armony of that as- sembly will do well to rey ember that Captain Rynders will be in attew dance with the “Old Guard.” ” New Era in the ?iitstory of Nations. The siruggle in wa’ ich o quasi religious dis- pute between Russia ‘and Turkey is about to in- volve several, and. peria;s the whole, of the ‘European powers, ¥s lcoked upon by reflective -minds as embracig higher aad weightier con- siderations than #re probably apparent to those whose passions av.d interests are engaged in it. Ht presents all the evidences of one of those painful throes in which civilization seeks to burst through ‘the barriers opposed to its pro- gress by political selfishness. It is, in fact, neither -more nor less than the beginning of a great social and political movement, the precise action and limits of which it would defy the notoriety. The audience was composed of the regular enti-gavery partisans ‘who have ex- tended a steMéy .patronage lo the lectures of Beecher,“aarrison, Phillips, aaa Theodore Par- | ker ; and as usual betrayed ite character-hy re- maining silent aud inattentive when the consti- tution was mentioned, while it applauded vo- ciferoucly every onslaugktupen slavery, aud every ¢lander upon the South. There was little in thearguments that requires any special an- -swer-et-this late day in the campaign. Those who have followed-the debate in the Senate, and the contvoversy in the press, will derive ‘but little fresh information from €he speeches which are given elsewhere. Mr. King repeated all the old. commonplaces. abaat liberty, which ought movements of the people. in diffrent {parts of the country with spgard tothe .action fof Congress on the Nebraske-Kansas bill. . Raving given a very full report of the speeches made and .resolutions adopted atthe Van Burenite or free soil gathering at the Tabernacle, and:cemmented uponthe samen an edi- torial article, it is unnecessary te. add the.teto in this paragraph. By telegraph we learn that a similar meeting was simeltaneously held in*Philad tlphia, at which the Mayor-of that city presided. 1 the State -Benate of Ohio,.which recently elected M.t. Pagh 8 successor to-Mr. Chase in the United States Senate, yesterday tabled a resolution remonsi rating against the Nebraska bill. While upon the a tWject, Jet us not forget the letters of Judge Bronx m, in which he takes high ground in faver of the Do uglas bill—one of these Jetters is incorporated into ‘and the other appended to the report of the Tabern acle - Meeting. The Nebraska question was also the cause of c 1 siderable excitement in the halls of Congress yeste €- | @ay. The great remonstrance, about two hundre @ feet in length, signed by some three thousand New * England preachers, and addressed to the Senate and House of Representatives, was duly received and placed in the hands of the leading Massachusetts whigs for presentation in the bodies to which they respectively belong. Objection was raised to the document in the House, and after a brief .consulta- tion it was recalled from the hall. Not so, however, in the Senate. There Judge Douglas called for the reading of the petition; which request having been complied with, one of the most exciting and bitier debates sprang up that has taken place in the Senate chamber this session. Messrs. Douglas, Mason, But- Jer and others were stingingly severe iu their caustic @enunciations of those ministers of the gospel who have descended from the pulpit to mingle in the dirty pool of party politics; Messrs. Houston, Eve- rett and Seward defended the course of these gentle- men, who in their petition were alleged by their op- ponents to have invoked the vengeance of the Al- mighty for the action of the Senate on a political Measure. The discussion consumed nearly the en- tire session, and was conducted in a spirit that mot well fail to create a deep impression ine section of the Uuion. The House finally killed the Senate's Wisconsin Railroad Land bill yesterday, by the small majority of four or five votes. This is the second railroad bill from the Senate that has been defeated within « few days. The latter body will perhaps retaliate throwing overboard the House Free Farm bill which was at first looked dpon with a cousiderable degree of favor. The Black Warrior affair continues the all-absorbing topic of conversation, notwithstanding that no des- nite information has been received relative to what course the administration at Washington will adopt in the case. The last despatch from our correspond ent states that the documents received by the specia mersengef who came over in the Jsubel are very volu- minous, and engrossed the attention of the entire Cabinet yesterday. It is supposed that the President will tranemit a message to Congress npon the subject ; to-day, and that he will recommend the adoption of such prompt and vigorous measures as the nature of the affairdemands. Read the letter from our Havana correspondent, together with the abstract of the port aegulations of Havana. An unnsually large number of bills were passed and otherwise acted on in the State Senate yester- day; but the only matter of special interest to thix city was the adoption pf the measure creating the Seventh Judicial district and the reference of the Dill for the consolidation of the Common School mots, a8 reported by the Board of Education. The contreversy respecting the seat for the Kighteenth Senatorial district, claimed by Mr. Blakely, whig, and Mr, Storing, democrat, was vettied by the resigna- tion of the former and the admission of the latter gentleman. This is the third and last cave of the kind that has been disposed of during the present session of the Legislature. The Assembly was occu- pied most of the day in debating the Sackett’s Har- bor and Saratoga Railroad project. Ovr corres- pondent, for whose letter we have no room to-day, informs us that lobbyites are increasing to a wonder fui extent, and working with a vigor that might well put to binsh the slow-and-easy wiseacres whom they ax pect to and will prolubly sneceed in bringing over ty their way of thinking vpou most mattis a vine Dees WO imtororted. { } morials poured in byshis time, we think, to be tolerably familiar to.New. Yosk audiences. They took very well, however; and when the speaker. argued that Decause the members of the first Congress, who ought to have understood the constitution, rati- fied:the ordinance of 1787, therefore that law, -and-those framed. on its basis;must be consti- 4utional,-dis hearers were quite of his mind. It would have served little purpose to have ex- ;plained to the admirers of Parker and Garrison that the framers of the constitution were acting under the pressure of very peculiar circum- stances-at the time: that the slavery question had already threatened the dissolution of the infant Union, and :that our fathers, .patriotic men, vere. extremely solicitous that it should not againdicturb their harmony. Thus when Vir- ginia ceded the Northwest. Territory, and, knowing from its. climate and position that ix- voluntary labor was not likely to thrive on its soil,.offered to consecrate it forever to freedom, the.new Congress hastily and nervously adopt- ed the inconsistent ordinance of itspredecessor, Jeaving it to future legislators to remedy the evil when the foundations of the republic shoukl-be more firmly established. That it was t 0 theforbearance, and not to the deliberate s wetion of the South, that that ratification mi tet be.ascribed is evidenced inthe fact that im \ediately afterwards Virginia ratified the ordi Wanee by an act of her. Legislature, but expr: wexly. expunged from the act the section forbid ‘ding slavery. The Southern men, seeing no pri Wtical evil latent in the ordinance of 1787, a % slavery was sure not to enter the Northw ‘t Territory, secepted it rather than | the former to regain.the ground which they had | jeopardi, te the Union as the meeting of last night wo d'bave the North now do. Mr. Cur ‘tis. Noyes proved very satisfactorily | @ mere struggle between persons and dynas- | that previc 6 to the laws of 1820, the whole of the territo, ‘y aoquired from France, including | Nebraska, K ‘wnsas, and Missouri, was constitu- | tionally open doslavery. It was acquired as slave territory "% and could not be free without special legislat, ‘en—-of what constitutionality we shall see prese ttly—to make it so, Well, in course of time } Gsseuri fulfilled the conditions essential to her admission, to whic ‘2 she was undoubtedty enti- tled, was refused k, @ by the North, and on en- deavor made to res, ‘iat her rights to less than those enjoyed by ot Wer States, [t was then first pretended that ( Yongress had power ever the domestic institutic &s-of the people inthe Territories. This of cor Ws rested uponno word in the constitution; but @dlely on thet unforta- nate ordinance of 1787 y, Thich .the conciliatory spirit of the South had .tadneed it fo ratify agaiast its sober judgment. The South svas in fact paying the usual penstlty of injudicions generosity, The North stormed terribly. Meet- ings were held; legitlatures Abveatened ; me- p t.he whole cowmiry was ina din and uprear, till, as often happens in simitar contingencies in private’ life, it was resolved to patch the former wrong by 4 fresh wyong. to cover up the wound whieh 1787 had fifficted upon the constitaiion wii'h a plaster uuder which it might inflame ‘and fa ‘ter unseen. This plaster the compromise ot” 1820, with the unconstitutional proviso that in) territory north of 36 deg. 30 min, slave labor sly ‘ld never be used, Congress might ax legally ha Ve enacted that shovels or wheelbarrows should ever be employed thore. But we cannot further follow Mr. Cartis Noyes, or his successor Mr. Kaufman— who startled us with the intelligence that the Get man meeting a few days ago did know whav they were about, and dida’t suppose they were voting against the Maine law. Our table groans beneath manifold refutations of their storeolyped nonsense. di ir more weetul to potigg tie wiequivoray sdwission as a State, That | kecnest sagacity to fix. There may be some thing wanting to complete the character that we have ascribed to it; but that will, in all probability, be supplied by the necessity that will be sooner or later imposed upon us of bringing Spain to astern reckoning for the outrages committed upon our commerce by the Cuban authorities. No time can be better that long protracted and heavy account. The maritime powers of Europe have too much on their hands to be able to give effect to the secret treaty that exists between them in refe- rence to our future action upon Cuba; and if the President and his Cabinet have only courage enough to act with the decision and prompt- ness that become the government of a great nation, they will soon bring about a so- lution of this Cuban question in the only way in which it can ever be permanently or eatisfactorily solved. The effect of immadi- ate and energetic action would be not merely to obtain full reparation for the wanton insults that have been offered our flag, but te bring the influence of this country to bear on the de cision of the questions that.are about to distract and divide the world, and to place it at once in the position that it is destined to occupy as one of the great controlling pewers of the age. The struggle that has commenced between Russia and Turkey has heen_represented by the journals of Western Europe.as the result of ef- press the weaker, and to wrest from it a part, if not the whole, of its territories. If we divest our minds, however,.of the impression which such appeals to our sympathies are calculated to produce, and examine dispassionately the events which, during the last two centuries, have brought Russia and Turkey into such fre- quent collision, we will find that it is attribut- able rather to the operation of an organic law which governs empires, institutions, creeds, and even human nature itself, than to the ambition of individual rulers. In fact, the present con- test is merely a continuation of that long war of principles which began withthe subjugation of the Roman empire by Christianity, found its Constantinople by Mahommedan invaders, and ‘is now entering upon its third, in the efforts of | lost. We must not suffer ourselves to he deluded into the notion that this is ties, great clementary principles invelved in it, which will continue in full vitaligy as long as there is an opposing influence to thasof Chris- tianity. As well might the Western Powersat- tempt to arrest the ocean in its bed.as to pre- | vent the reflux of Greek civilization into Asia. | It is now the turn of Mahommedanism torecede hefore the banner of Christ, and the creseent will have to give place to the cross, on the .mosque of St. Sophia. What the Greek rulers of the | | those of the North wil regain by their hardi- hood and energy. Even in our own time, Con- stantinople may again become the seat of an- other Byzantine empire, diffusing the light of Christianity and the ‘blessings of civilization throughout the whole continent of Lesser Asia. Such, it appears to us, is the “ manifest desti- ny ” of Russia, as the instrament in the hands of God for the accomplishment of those great designs of which the revolution in China is but the foreshadowing. Who can doubt but that this most remarkable event of modern times is the herald of mighty changes, in which Chris- tianity will ae usual be made the potent agent of civilization? The part that Russia is des- tined to play in this great work of human regene- ration seems to be clearly marked out by the finger of Providener, and the combined efforts of all the Enropean governments cannot pre- vent the fulfilment of that destiny. The inter- vention organized by the Western Powers in this contest between Christianity and Mahom- adapted than the present for the settlement of forts on the part of the stropger power to op- middle term in the expulsion of the Greeks from | Whatever may be its issue, there are | South lost by their vices and their effeminacy, | nearly half a century, and prevented from sweeping away thrones and dynasties in the natural progress of civilization, It is a curious feature in the political history of our times to find this same pretence put forth by the factitious governments of England and France as a justification for their interven- tion in the affairs of the New World. They hope by its means to be able to stem the tor- rent of events which is fast hurrying the people of this continent towards the great destiny that is marked out for them. The secret treaty to secure Cuba to the despotism of Spain, in de- fiance of the policy and interests of this country, is of a precisely similar character to the at- tempt to prevent the reflow of Greek Chris- tianity into the old seats of civilization. If the government at Washington, however, will only at once assume the initiative in this Cuban question, and take their stand upon high and national principles, we shall have nothing to apprehend from the threatened interference of the maritime powers. We hold in our grasp the liberating influences which would let loose the pent up forces of revolution that now lie foaming and seething beneath the apparently calm surface of European society. The sus- pension of our commercial intercourse with England and France, and the stoppage of our exports of breadstuffs, cotton, and tobacco, would in six months lead to popular explosions in both these countries, and scatter to the winds the political schemes by which they hope to give duration to their alliance. Where would then be the balance of power, or even the power to balance? No; the true policy of the European governments is to leave Russia to work out its destinies in Asia, and the people of the United States to fulfil theirs upon the American con- tinent. If they attempt either, or both, it will end in a-terrible revolutionary explosion over all central and western Europe, throwing up a new world and a new society there. ‘Our Relations with Venezucla—The Monagas Administration. We have received an interesting letter from our correspondent in Puerto Cabello, giving an account of the present condi- tion of Venezuela. The rule of the brothers Monagas, which commenced its career with the bloody scene enacted in the House of Representatives on the 24th Jannary, 1848, when the members were fired upon and some of them butchered in the House, at the time when an inquiry had been instituted Into the conduct of the President, Gen. José Tadeo Monagas, seems at last to.be drawing to aclose. His brother and successor in office, José Gregorio Monagas, is surrounded with difficulties of every kind—the former supperters of his family dis- united, his troops unpaid, the name of Monagas rendered odious by repeated acts of rapine and violence, and last, though not least, financial difficulties which surround and press upon the government. It appears that the actual Presi- dent has already proposed as his successor his brother, José Tadeo Monagas, who is either to be the-next candidate for whose benefit the farce of an election isto be gone through, or who is to ‘be proclaimed dictator, or supreme ruler under some other name. In this state of things we really will not venture to gainsay the opinion expressed in the following article, which we copy from the London Times of the 15th February last, ‘that there is no hope but in the possibility of some new revolution.” Here is the article alluded to, which we copy for the information of our readers :— Recent advices from Venezuela give an extraociinary picture of the depravity of the government in every part of its Anancial administration, and plainly show that there is no hope for the bondholders, but in the possi- | bility of some new revolution. ° The ministerial oflces are Spani by the lowest class of adventurers which even a | jh American republic is capable of furnish- ing, and, while the country possesses capabilities for ‘an inexhaustible revenue, the receipts are squandered and anticipated by advances from money-lenders, whose terms are such as might be expected from the allegation that the President and his creatures are in partnership with them. Under these circumstances every reference to the claims of the English creditors is met by the com. mon answer, that the application for payment is felt as an intended dutrage on the honorable sensibilities of the country, while, at the same time, the public organ of the government openly denounces those who would entertain the idea of sending to England in the shape of dividends any portion of the circulating medium, as persons who, from want of patriotism, deserve to be ranked only among criminals. “It is to be regretted,” observes ono writer, more especially as the government have recently sent cmissaries there to endeavor to raise money at any prico.”” ‘To accomplish this, it appears they are to offer to farm the revenues to a-company, or to pledge a portion of Gui- | ava to the French govermment, if they will guarantee a loan. Meanwhile, it was imagined some benefit might be afforded to the cause of the English bondholders by the arrival of her Majesty’s steamer Devastation at the port of Guayra. In letters of the 8th of January it is stated:— | “The arrival of this vessel a fow days since, and the visit | paid by her commander to the British Chargé, under | orders from the Aumiral commanding upon the West In- | dia station, may, perhaps, be attended with some useful since this gentleman will thus be enable! to con- Seymour precise information respect ‘things here, and the total inability of her Majesty's repyfsentative to obtain from its rulers any attention to Ms demande upon them, without the interpo e'tion of an armed foree.’’ The same London paper, of the 21st of Febru- ary, says— A meeting of Venezuelan bondholders took place to-day Mr. J.D. Powles presiding, at which a report was brought forwagd detailing the measures adopted through Mr. W. W. Weiss, the Special Commissioner despatched in May last to Caracas to obtain a settlement of the debi. It was explained that, althongh the exertions made have been supported by the interference of Mr. Bingham, the newly appointed Lnglish Chargé d’AMairs, the government of ‘enezuela have shown no inclination to arrange for a re- fumption of dividends, and that, therefore, in the opiaion of the committee, the only remaining course is to appeal to Lord Clarengion, who, if he shall resolye to act the gpirit of Lord Palmerston’s circular of January, 1848, will won obtain an adjustment. : The following are some of the principal reso- lutions svhich were passed at the above meeting, medanism is, therefore, a false and unnatural | and which we likewise copy from the London position, and will generate come extraordinary | Times of the 21st of February :— and sudden outbreak or revolution within the dominions of the rulers who commit themselves to it. The Western Powers should have held them- selves aloof from a dispute in which neither their fox lings nor their interests were engaged. Bu- rope . md, in faet, nothing to do with the quarrel. it is at Least a thousand years, or thirty genera- sons, in waxange oF le politignl aud ryligious ' we debs kere That this meeti with the utmost disap- pointment, Tareas comes made by the Committee of Spanish a err) ng Bhd agenta ~ Vv x the purpose of inducing government faith with its foreign ereditors, time proved utterly unavailing. ‘That the failure of these endeavors has evident ang want of ability on the part of the ri from qoveriiment of Venezuela 40 meet tis obligations, but it to the pe manee of then.” "Tha, whilp thie indiference ia shown. to tho fornign debt ot the ‘the arrears of inforse) of ite domen- prea “that these facts are not sufficiently known in Europe, | “that it to this tht time has ar- Pate ee to Her ‘* ‘measures enforcing their claims as would be used in any other case ‘of aggreasion on British Dy a forge it ‘evident that, ef State ‘the property of British withholds from them the produce which has solemnity hypothecated to them, the violence and il- legality of the are the same, and its conse. quences alike Z That this mee’ does, therefore, request the Commit- tee of nish American In btn sie fom the tim eg of Gensne na By a'forciga State against the peoperty of British sub- British gov- jects. Now, we have no doabt that the ernment will effectually enforce the claims of Englich creditors, and, indeed, it seems that measures have already been adopted to that éffect. Our citizens, too, have claims against the government of Venezuela, and some of them of quite a seriouseharacter, as they are founded not upon contract or debt, but upon acts of vio- lence and spoliation committed under the Mona- gas administration, and for which they should be made to answer indamages. As an instance of the wrongs that have been lately perpetrated against the property of American citizens in Venezuela, we will say that a highly respecta- ble resident of our city, a native born citizen of these United States, has been subjected. during the last year to the lawless attacks of a band of marauders in Venezuela, who, as is represented, were acting with the knowledge and connivance of the public authorities. At all events, no investigation or punishment has followed the perpetration of the outrages com- mitted. Our fellow countryman owns a sugar estate and also a cattle estate in Venezuela, and in the early part of last year the former was invaded by an armed gang, that took posses- sion of the estate, broke into the dwelling house, drove away the overseer and most of the laborers, killing two of them, destroyed a large amount of property, and suspended the ope- | rations of the estate for a considerable | time, thus causing great damage. His cattle | by another set of armed desperadoes, who drove and carried away about fifteen hundred | head of cattle. Now, for these sins of commis- | sion or omission, what can a civilized govern- | ment offer in extenuation? From information | which we have procured, we know that our | government has been applied to for redress, and we trust thatthe administration at Washington will act promptly and decidedly in-the matter. As far as Venezuela herself is concerned, it may be said that the admininistration of her in- ternal affairs is a matter of which she may be allowed to be the sole judge; but this is true only to a certain extent, for when her govern- ment trespasses upon the rights of citizens of other countries; when it withholds from them their just dues, and even adds insult to injury, it is then high time to look into her internal condition, and to endeavor thus to trace the causes that have produced such remarkable changes in her relations with foreign powers. In this connection we cannot help remarking, as an act of justice due to merit, that when Gen. Paez was in office, such acts as are now the sub- ject of complaint were never heard of. During his administration a portion of the national debt was paid off, the interest of the British bond- j holders was always ready for them in London, | months before it became due, and when that hongst patriot retired from the Presidency in 1843, he left a surplus of nearly three millions | of dollars in the treasury of Venezuela. Tae Buack Warrtor Dirricu.ty.—We pub- lish in another column, the regulations of the custom houses in Cuba for the government of the captains and supercargoes of Spanish and foreign vessels trading with the island. At the first glance it might appear that the Black Warrior had violated the rule, which requires every captain, the moment his vessel anchors in ‘port, to deliver to the custom house officer a manifest, declaring, among other parti- culars, the articles he has on board, or of which hostile as they are to the commercial spirit of the age, the authorities had the right to en- force them, if, by their own act, they had not virtually abolished them. Custom supersedes, in many instances, the requirements exacted by the strict letter of the law; and in the case in question, the custom has long prevailed in Cuba of considering cargo on Woard steamships in transitu as ballast. Indeed, it has been cus- tomary to permit steamships to be entered and cleared previous to their arrival. A blank manifest was given to the captain of the Black | Warrior, and he filled it up in the usual manner. He could not be expected to anticipate such an outrage as the one perpetrated at the hands of even Spanish officials. In attempting to screen themselves under the shadow of an antiquated law, the authorities in Havana have only added a miserable hypocrisy to their original guilt. Niccer Governments.—It is an historical fact that there are now three or four nigger governments in the world, presenting as great a diversity in their institutionsasin their shades of color. We have first the republic of Liberia, on the coast of Africa, which does rather a small business independent of alms and dona- tions’ Next we have at one end of the island of Hay ti the hermaphrodite republic of St. Domin- g0, continually oscillating between democracy and despotism; and at the other an empire, with an Emperor, Empress, and attendant court beauties, all as black as Erebus, Besides these, there are the prospective nigger empire of Ja- maica and the Kingdom of Mosquito, both at present under the protection of Great Britain. All these facts go to prove that the negro race, whether it be pure black or transparent mu- -latto, is imitative in its tendencies, and where it can get a chance, will parody all existing in- stitutions, by organizing empires, kingdoms, and republics of its own. | i Cause anp Errecr.—The reports from the in- estate was also attacked about the same time | [brought forward and strongly supported by the C: sections which were stricken out, have ¢ been added, with the view of making the of Ohief-of Police elective. Every honest who has the true interests of our city at must deprecate this attempt to place one most important offices in our municipal go ment in the hands of corrupt politicians. 8 this bill pase, we will hereafter have little security against lawlessiiess, violence and p cal rowdyism. As our present police has greatly improved since the power has been invested in the Co G of Police, there is no necessity whatever fo proposed change. We therefore call upor legislators to reject the bill, which, as we said, is a mere political scheme, the which would be attended with consequences to the peace and well-being city. - : Tur Proursrrory Liquor Law.—A | have never entertained any very sanguing b of the anticipated results of this measure have been in favor of its passing, in order it might be tested by experience. Wherev. | has been tried it has been attended with fai In Massachusetts the vital clause of the giving the power of seizure, has been decl unconstitutional. In Maine it is openly, lated, and in Vermont a convention has), held, in which it has been declared utterly) less. Notwithstanding these facts, the fai) ite advocates remains unshaken. Let the || | therefore, be passed for their benefit. If | productiye of no other good, it will at | | open their eyes to conviction, and put an | to the agitation that prevails on the subje | Pass aE i ined Barnum ayp THE Crystal Patace—it thought by some that the election of Bar | to the Presidency of the Board of Directo: | the Crystal Palace would have a galvani effect upon the dead stock of that hopeless cern. The shares by a convulsive effost ' up to forty in anticipation of the chang the direction; but since Barnum’s electic, the Presidency they have taken a downy slant, and are now quoted at thirty. Ho’ this? Have the public lost faith in the'ye of the Napoleon of modern showmen, 01 they of opinion that it requires another s talent than that which made capital out of Ji Heth, the mermaid, and the woolly ho resuscitate this abortive speculation. Marine Affairs. ‘Tee Srramsmre Nasnvm.e, Berry, sailed for Southampton, yesterday, with twenty-seven and $364,070 in specie. i LAUNCH OF THE SrRaMeHP CAHAWRA.—Mr. Wm. will launch from his yard, foot of East Nineteenth to-morrow, at'103¢ o’clock, the steamship Oahawba.! is a fine vessel of about 2,200 tons burthen, and was’ to run alternately between this city, Havana and Me with the steamship Black Warrior, lately. —r port of Havana by the Cuban authorities. The will be commanded by Captain Shafeldt, formerly ‘o Black Warrior, wkp superintended her construction. REMARKABLE PsssaGE.—The clipper ship C, New York, Captain Gardner, arrived at this port morning, from San Francisco, in the extraordinary space of 76 daysand 7% hours. We believe this tis never been equalled, the next short one between ports having been also made by the Comot last yej 883 days 18 hours, On the present occasion ‘was 1834 days from her wharf at San Francisto equator; thence to Cape Horn, 22 days; thence equator on this side, 26 days; and arrived with mifles of Sandy Hook in 124; days. She was from pilot 76 days, and was just 76 days 7 hours from the she quitted her wharf at San Francisco until sh chored at the bar. Sandy Hook bore north 220. 18% days from port, when the wind came.out dead ali ind she was 2 days 17 hours getting in from that pois] Turortaxt To Cartarss or Eworant Suurs.—The Hercules, Williams, which arrived yesterday from pool, was boarded by Mr. Halsey, a Custom House of who inflicted a ‘fine of $74 upon the captain for imposed. Captain Williams considers the officer acted illegally, and will lay the case before Mr. Colle Redfield. A Carv.—The Sogn ed our most Jones was wealthy citizen, and son of the late Jones. He married Mary, eldest daughter of the 1” John Mason, whose will has for several years past in litigation in our courts. The family of Mr. J well known in fashionable circles in this city, Saratoga, &c., &e, Mr. Jones was ip the sixtieth his age. \ ‘Tam Maree Law 1% Darnorr.—The clection of Police J+ tice in Detroit last week, was considered » triumph, the opponents of the Maine Liquor law. The issue © made between Justice Bagg, who some time since declat the law unconstitutional, and John J. Leonard, who w son league. Mr. Bagg was elected by three hundred eighty-one majority. Derrorr Fizorion.—Mr. Hyde, the whig Mayor in Detroit, lias succecded in his election by 1, majority. All the other municipal offlees have been ee ee ee ee ' New Egcrion iN Sate, Mass.—Mr. Newcomb, ¢ mayor elect of Salem, Mass., having positively accept the office, a new election will be held to-1 i A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT—A GIRL FATALLY AT PUBLIC SCHOOL NO, 20, IN STREET. Yesterday afternoon Seeman ten tl sane asylums of the diferent States exhibit a marked increase in the number of patients un- der the head of spiritualism. We suspect that the increase is greater than these statistics show, 4f we might judge by the number of those unfor- tunates who have been lately seen wandering about the country; attired in white coats, bat- tered hats, odd boots and shoes, and other dis tinctive marks of the spiritual mania. A Hixt ro Dr, Avporr.—What a pity it is that the proprietor of the Egyptian collection does not follow the example of Mr. Perham, and put up the lares and penates of the Pharaohs ti to public competition in a gift lottery! The | love of gambling and excitement would soon overpower the distaste which the good folks of New York seem toentertain for everything like inatractive mental recreation; and we will an- swer for it that the doctor's interesting gallery | Hquid be srowsed from morning to pighj, = Z ; iH frightful by Shelters then taken hry tree he street. She is ‘are ent for her of the catastrophe the or mae the ilding. were thrown wide 7 ford, of the Tenth war who were early on the were safely landed in state of the excitement wi ef day, ave,