The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1854, Page 4

Accounts of horrible ca’a trophes are acoumulat- ing at an appalliny ».te. A t-lgraphic despatch | from Louieville announces that tse teamer Reindeer | collapsed a flue on t « Ohio river ‘ast Tuesday, and that forty or fifty persons were cither killed or wounded. This is the third awfu! disaster upon the NEW YORK HERALD, OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. AMUSEMENTS THIS E BOWERY TURATRE, Bowery—As You Luxe Ir—Can- Pentex OF Rovan. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadwey—Pizano—Doxes- “wie Eoonoxy. " A MinsuacaR, BURTON'S THEATRE. Chambere strect— Niour’s Davas—A Cowzoy oy Eaxnons, | NATIONAL THEATRE, Chathem street—Unoie Tom's ani gece WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Scnoor or Re- | wonn—Love axp MuRD: | MERICAN | MUS: Bovid $03En Bor—Eve BROADWAY MENAGERIE—Linururian Kero—Man- worw Laoy arp Livine Traisep ANIMALS. OHRISTY’S AMERICAN OPERA HOUSR, 472 Broad- ‘woy—Ermortan MeLoviss ny Cunisty’s Mixer Reis, WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Minstrel Hatt, 444 Broad- waters that we have been called upon to record in as many days. The intelligence elsewhere published, under the caption of Affairs at Albany, will doubtless be read with much attention by our citizens generally. | We give a list of the fifty-six acts which had been passed up to Tuesday evening, and have become jaws. Among thom are many n which our c:tizeas are immediately ‘nterested; but the majority of the bills that have been brought forward with regard to city matters ave as yet undisposed of, and will mest likely become a dead letter among the other Fortunatelya mumber of these measures would te | the reverse of beneficial to the interests of | the metrenclis—among + them the new péiice | bill-and it is therefore hoped dhat-they will not be removed from their present location on | now befire us, ' wey—Eruorvgan MixeTReisy. | the table; but there are others thot really ¢o pos- BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 589 Broa¢way—Buos- | Scés merit, and should be passedes goon as possible. either side, but as the weather was getting milder the Russians were making pr’ ,parations to cross the Danube. The ice on thr; Baltic was breaking up, and a portion of the Russian fleet was about to leave Cronstadt. "(he Pacha of Janina had defeated the Greek insurgents, and the insurrection was in a fair ‘gay of being eup- pressed. Pubite Opinfen—The Mecting To-Night This evening, for the firet time since the Ne- braske, excitement began, will the real voice of New York be heard on the question. All cea- sl@erationsof party and of clique set aside, it ‘Seems more than probable, from the indications that the assembly that wil be gathereit in Tammany Hall te-night will ba Tternoon, Nicoxo Fawny— | business left wufinished at the close of the session, betterexponent, and afford a more faithful yic- ¢ Tux Ou Barweny. | ture New York opinion than-any of the mest- ings that have yet Seen held, or any of the other manifestations‘of public sentimem which hare been issued to the werld. For,examie the anatomy of these addrerses, these meetings, | ®ese resolutions and these memorials agaixst | \the bill, and they ‘will: diseolve’ into'the vericst | tion of the statement that the North was une al- | mously opposed to the bill. In spite of. the | coalition between the whigs and free soi’ rs, in spite of the disguet of New Hampshire, at the contuct of the President, and the gre’ st unpopu- larity of his administration in his r ative State, | the democracy have carried the Gay by alarge | majority. In one of the truest of the Northern | States, the Nebraska bill bas b gen endorsed by | at least 3,000 majority. | Tonight will probably fur aish a second evi- | dence of theJoyalty of the No gthto the constite- ‘ earnest. All those who are in favor of the princi- | ple of Congressional non~' ntervention in the Ter- | ritories will of courge mr ke it apoint of duty to attend. ‘The hards, we. hope, have by ‘this time repented of the hasty decision of some of their leaders, not to take y art in the meeting, lest it should involve them in a quasi support of the aiministratior, They will have seen on ‘réflection thiit the ‘notion was a mere subterfuge under which distoyal ‘men might hide*their disloyalty. We and we presume | fon. We trust that the meet Jng willbe largeand | azv'o Evniorzay Orxna Taours. 8T. NICHOLAS EXHIBITION ROOM, 495 Broadwer— DamrouLe Miner wELS iN THEIR NeGno EXrERTAINMENTS, BANVARD’S GEORAMA, 506 Broadway—Pavonamaor us Hovy Lanp. * RHENISH GALLERY, 563 Broadway—Day and Nigh+. SGNOR BLIFZ—Ba00; BRYAN GALLERY OF CHRISTIAN ART—S43 Broad- WHOLE WORLD—37 and 379 Broadway—Afternoon end Evening. York, Thursday, March 16, 1654. ©treulation of the New York Herald ‘for the last Week—The Largert In the World, 49,920 53,280 52,680 51,840 51,480 53,040 10—Friday 1i—Saturday Average per diem 69,800 382,100 Aggregate for the week Advertisements in the Day Herarp, fifty cents per ‘square of four lines, and 1234 cents per tine ateve that umber. . Advertisements in the WEncry Heratp $0 centa per line. The Senate yesterday passed severa! bills in relation |. to natiarn in Weak and Bredktyn, aniog which | “Posture and sham. “Tice the three meetings we observe one amending the-ehaster of our Fire De- | %t the Tabernacle for:instance. “The first wis partment. ‘The bill relieving'the Secretary of State | called unetor ‘the auspives of -the <Anti-Slave- from the duty of attending to-educational affairs,by | ry Society, end the wires «held through- | the croation of the office of ‘State Super'ntendent of + Schools, was passed by the Senate. This proceeding has been in agitation for several yearsrand seems to have been cut out for the special accommodation ef Mr. Randall,who has hitherto performed the functions of the proposed office, under the eye*of the Sesve- tary. The salary is to be $2,500 per-annum, and¢ he officer is to be elected by Joint baltot, on: the@irst Tuesday of next month, and: every third year there- after. He is to bean ex-sfficio member of the Board of Regents of the University,.and -to appoint«three deputy clerks to visit the schoolsand other -instita- tions of learning throughout’ the State. Some of the members of ourState Senate are still endeavoring to bring to light all kinds of peccadilloes. alleged to have been committed by past and present State officers. Mr. Dickinson ye.terday ‘offered a. resolut'on requesting information from the Governor: upon what ground Mr. Henry Ramsey is.acting as. Engineer and Surveyor; a'so.a-resolution. inquiring what amount of money has been paid to.the Lieu- aut the perfonmanees’by John-Jay. The men invited to.gpesk ‘were, three out -€7 four, abdi- tionists ; and though that hersk epithet aa hardly be anplied to-citizens liked. W. Gerard, he was obviously thrown in by the manage: jn order to give-a»varnish of ae ipectability to the affair. -Moreofa political «ee mplexion Was given to ‘the ecco meeting hy the open pat-: ronageof tho Seward party. wf was a Seward anti-slavery meeting; stamped indelibly with that dharecter, motwithstandix,; the insidiens attampt6f the-wire pullers te.festen the odiunt of the.mevemen*on the mechauics of this city, and do.involvecthem in the disgrace. On that occasion speakers and: letter -avciters were. alt abolitionists; mot~one redeeming name that we remoniber. relievel the monotony of the old fazei- liar Jist.of traitors, Next came ‘he turn of John. Van Buren, andthe defeated mimrity at Tam- tenant Governor. Mr. D. insinuated that.the post, | many Hall, Whey first threatned a regular of the Lieutenant was far more. lucrative than that. | secession to.Mcunt Aventine..anc talked loudly of Governor. The Assembly had under. considera- sage of the Pres The government has at length spoken out.on the outrage committed on our flag by the seizure of the Black Warrior. In the message sent by the Presi- -dent to the: House of Representatives yesterday, he endeavors to take the attitude which the accasicn de- smands; and if he -will only act up to the energy of his declarations, the Cuban question wil be prompt- ay and definitively settled. In this document the President intimates to Spain ‘that if she does not make full atonefhent for past 4nsnlts and injuries to our citizens and commerce, and provide security for her future good behavior, “ehe must abide the consequences, or in other words resign herself to the loss of Cuba. Such, if it means anything, is the construction that is to be placed on its language. Itis in fact,a sort of war message, and, viewed in this light, it seems to have been fa- vorably received by the.House. ‘We have had so much of this sort of bluster, how- ever, from the present administration, that we are afraid that if Congress does not hold them to the text of this document, it will prove to be a mere drutum fulmen. Viewed independently of their previous course, it would appear to indicate on the part of the President and his Cabinet a desire to * consult the interest and save-the honor of the coun- try. We trust that ona question of such national Smportance, this effort atan appearance of energy and decision will not turn out to be merely intended as buncombe to cover the weakness and folly of the administration on other questions. ‘The News. By the arrival of the steamship Arabia at Halifax ‘we have been placed in possession of one week’s later advices from Europe. Having adverted to the Seatures of the war news in another article, we will in this paragraph only remark that this arrival will anse the intelligence nearly due by the Pacific to ‘be looked for with intense anxiety. From Spain we Jearn that a formidable insurrection had broken out ‘among the troops at Saragossa, but that after a fevere conflict with those of their more loyal companions, they were compelled to retreat. Madrid had been placed in a state of siege, and the greatest excitement and consternation pre- vailed; it being believed that Gen. Concha and other distinguished men who have fallen under the dis- tion bills to license and regulate the. New York pilots and boatmen, and to prozaote medical science.. A bil limiting the Camden.and Amboy Bailroad monopoly to fifteen years, has finally passed the New Jersey Legislature. The whigs of Pennsylvania met in .eorvention yesterday and nominated cendidntes for State offices. Judge James Pollock, of Northumberland, they took-occasion to denounce:the Nebraske bill. By telegraph we learn that there is a-prospect that a compromise will be effected . with .regard to the railroad difficulties at Erie. :5t is said that a bill is now pending in the Pennsylvania: Legislatre to authorize the Cleveland and Ashtsbula Company to construct # road from a point west of Erie te con- nect with the Sunbury road at -Meadville. The adoption of sur a measure would :not only prt an end to all the trouble, but teach tke rioteraat Erie € most salutayy lesson by depriving them-cf the apple, pie and peanut trade they might. have . still enjoyed from way passengers, by quietly permitting | people to the express cars,to run directly through their city. -In the Board ef,Aldermen, last evening, Mr. Mott offered a resolution that the interests of the city. re- quire the Legislature to repeal the amanded charter of 1853. After a short, and (for the Aldermen) a spirited debate, the resolution was referred to the Committee on Ordingnces, with instructions to re- port.or Friday next. This, together with an in- of an open airmeeting in the Berk; but some} pradent counsellor—John hinylf perhaps— quietly-knocked.this scheme onthe head by a calenlatien of the independent Zorce théy could command. Wisely fearing t_ exhibit their weakness in daylight, they reselvec to follow the example-of their predecessors, .and to take re- fuge inthe Tahernacle; likeviae to form such is their choice for Governer. . Before adjourning | a coalition with, the Seward pagiy as would ensure .afair show of Vice Presidents. Accord- ingly, the meeting of Tuesdsy wag called. Of the principle possessed by che menagers, and the manner in which they ere attempting to carry their point, the following letter, which is probably only. ane of may similar protests, will afford some criterion :— 10 THE.EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK UERALD. ve rs ee mans, 1854. name &) in your morting as one of the Viee lents of the’ ant Nebraska.pueeting at the Tabernacle. I was-aksent ‘rom the eity when the arrangements Were.made. I amin favor of aHaring the ha ee matters for ee this bi this correction you will ol y "Yoursbedignt Cea, e REATT. But the most amusing feature of theae.mect- ings is the fact that ;the audiences of ali;three have been composed of the same persons. The same familiar faces were seen at all, and we are convinced that at least.seven-eighths of the in- dividuals present on Tpesday were likewise teresting: report of the(Committee on the Williams- | present at the two previous.meetings. They recommending burg Ferry, @ reduction of fares, shonted at the ame points, qpplauded the samy &c.; ande petition of the directors of the Crystal | sentiments, yawned at the same constitutional Palace for.an extension of their lease, will be found @lusions; in fact the John Brown of Tuesday inoar special report, published in another calumn.'| was still the John Brown of the anti-slavery No dusiness wras transacted by the Board of Council- men, in congequence of the absence of a quorum. Henry Carton recovered damages to the amount of $5,750, inthe Supreme Court, yesterday, for in- juries received iy the bursting of a boiler on the and the Seward meetings, and covld do no less. Like the clown in the circus, he loomed out every few minutes with an unmistakable: “ Here we are again!” Charles Metthews or Hudson River Railroad, at Tarrytown, some four- | Buckstone, amazing the public with admirable teen months ago. impersonations of three different parts in the Owing to the continued extraordinary press of | same play, did no more than the anti-slavery advertisements, combined with the almost over | organs claim for their select Tabernacle at- whelming influx of news from all quarters, we are | dience. It might have been said of them a compelled to omit many local reports, letters, edi- torial articles, and other matter prepared for this day’s paper. For the same regson we canyot afford month ago, in the classic language of managers, that the anti-slavery audience having wom Pleasure of her Majesty, were leading the disaffect- | space to refer to much of the important zeading | threadbare the society’s lectures, would appear ed. The reports relative to this outbreak are ex- | with which our columns are overflowing; the differ- | in the farce of “Ant{-Nebraska,” ‘first, in their tremely vague, one-sided and unsatisfactory. The Journals in that country, as in Cuba, are not allowed to publish anything relative to matters concerning the government, without first submitting such mat- ter to the inspection of the authorities. Verily, the @ynasty of Spain seems fast verging towards de- struction; being convulsed with internal discord, and threatened with the dismemberment of the brighest jewel in her crown—Cubo—through the arrogance and high-handed outrages committed by her servants, there seems little hope of her long con- tinuance asa nation, under her present rulers. The market reports from Liverpool are decidedly unfa- vorable to American dealers. Flour was dull and Meclining, and cotton was fluctuating from day to day. ‘The latest returns from New Hampshire confirm the statement published yesterday, that the popu- | larity of Gen. Pierce has sadly declined since he ‘was called to administer the affiirs of the nation. | Ae received a majority of six thousand votes in his | ‘Own State, but now we learti that in ope hundred and twenty-nine towns, a majority of nine hundred and eighty-six has been cast against his favorite candidate for Governor—being a falling offof nearly _Mhree thousand three ‘narea votes. In the same towns one hundred and eleven whigs and one hun @red and six democrats have been elected to the Legislature. What a wonderful revulsion this ex- hibits in public feeling—what a scathing rebuke it is to the administration! The United States Senate transacted very little Dusiness yesterday. The bill to promote the efficien- cy of the army, by creating a retired list of disabled officers on half pay was passed, as was also the bill authorizing the selection of a site for a lighthouse on Cohasset Rocks. Among the petitions presented were several in opposition to the Nebraska bill, and others in favor of the enjoyment of religious free- dom by Americans in foreign lands. A debate re- specting the right of Mr. Phelps to a seat as Sena- tor from Vermont, followed by a short Executive nession, closed the day’s business. A rambling discussion took place in the House, while the new Deficiency Appropriation bill was pending in Committee'of the Whole. Messrs. Bridges and Brooks advocated the strict constitutional prin- ciples laid down in the Nebraska-Kansas bill. ‘Mr. Breckenridge explained the features of the Deficiency bill, stating that its different items pro- posed to appropriate $2,490,000 for the various ob- jects named in the previous measure of the kind agreed to in committee, with the exception of be- tween four and five thousand dollars for marine hospitals and custom houses, which had been trans- ferred to another bill. The item of $530,000 for the purchare of the Assay Office buildings in Wall street, is retained. This retention was objected to by Mosers. Florence and Caskie. The debate was cut short by the reception of the President's Mes sege and accompanying documents relative to the outrage upon the Black Warrior. These paper having been properly disposed of, the House perhaps, by way of indicating what will be done hereafter, took up and immediately passed a bill providing for the distribution of arms in the differ ent States and Territories. ent headings will, however, tend to enlighten the reader as to the nature of the contents, unrivalled character of “The New York Mer- chants”! then in their unequalled part of “The New York Mechanics’! ! and finally, in their One Week Later from Europe—Manifestoes | neyer-to-be-forgotten part of “The Citizens of of the French and Russian Emperors. The principal features of interest in the news brought by the Arabia are the substance of the Czar’s reply to the letter of the French Em- peror, and the speech of the latter on opening the Legislative cession. The tone of the Czar’s letter exhibits a good deal of irritation of feeling, but itis not couched in terms personally discourteous, as was origin- ally stated. It concludes with an emphatic de- claration that the conditions made known to the conference of Vienna are the only bases on which he will consent to treat. The specch of the French Emperor, after re- ferring to the ¢fforts made by the Allied Pow, to avoid a collision, progepds ts say that Ger- many, in distrustful remembrance of the results of her forfier deference to the policy of St. Yetersburg, was now determined to assert her independence of action, and that Austria would enter into the alliance against Russia, and thus give her testimony to the justice of the war. After expatiating on the inisiice of the claims put forth by the Czar wgainst Turkey, it gives as the adzitiohal motive that has decided the action of the Allied Powers, the fact that both France and England .had an equal interest in preventing Russian supremacy from extending tself indefinitely over Constantinople, for to be supreme in Constantinople was to be supreme in the Mediterranean. To protect. this right had been for ages the policy of every national government in France. The speech seems to have created generally a favorable impression. It is stated that the Czar has demanded that Prussia shall close such of her ports as are near his territories against French and English ships, but that Prussia has refused to accede to the demand. It was feared at Stockholm that Russia, in order to give greater weight to its requisitions on Sweden, would send a fleet to that capital. From Vienna we have a statement, to the effect that the Austrian government had decid- ed, in conjunction with the Western Powers, to summon Russia to evacuate the Principalities, and if necessary to employ force to compel her todo so, Another rumor names the 30th of April as the period fixed for the withdrawal of the Russian troops, and adds that a refusal or the non-receipt of an answer by the 20th of March will be regarded as a declaration of war. ‘The news from the seat of war presents no marked feature of interest. The depth of the snow had preyented any decided movement on New York Without Distinction of Party’!!! And, whatever may be said of the abstract mer- its of their performance, we must say that they have sustained these various characters with considerable success and cclat. Besides the meetings we have had clerical petitions, and resolutions from the Legislature, | besides a host of memorials fromthe Mrs. Jelly- | bys of this meridian. The first can carry but | little weight. Ministers of the gospel, than whom no ¢lass is entitled to higher respect so tong as they remain within the legitimate bounds of their calling, are notoriously unfit to | decide political questions. Within the last thousand years, there never has been an in- stance of a priest obtaining political power or | influence; save only in those countries where | the temporal authorities were mere tools in the | hands of the church. Whenever, in Protestant | and free countries, clergymen have invaded the province of politics, theig opinions have not only carried no weight, but they have actually overstepped their rights at the ex- pense of their character. Once or twice, indeed, during periods of unusual excitement, violent churchmen have obtained sufficient influence to carry measures of fanaticism and intolerance; but no sooner did the cober sense of the public return, than their work was undone and them- selves degraded. In this country, at the present age,a general attenrpt of the clergy to dictate to the people’s representatives is a melancholy evidence of the follies which intelligent men will commit when they emerge from their pecu- liar sphere, and, if it have any effect at all, will only lead laymen to watch the conduct of the clerical body with more jealousy than heretofore. Of the resolutions in the Legislature we need add nothing to the statement that it is under the control of William H. Seward. That single fact explains everything. Nor need we spend time on the demonstrations which have been made at Boston in opposition to the Nebraska bill. The attempt to resuscitate the old whig party on this new platform was too transparent to need exposure. Anti-Nebraska has been in Massachussetts a plauk to which the drowning whigs clung with the tenacity of despair: whether it will save them or no remains to be seen; it will at least provide them with what they needed sadly—some sort of principle to steer by. In point of fact there has been in the North but one positive vindication of public feeling on the Nebraska question and that is the New Hampehire election. The triumph of the de- mocracy in that State is a triumphant refuta- every body else ‘who thinks upon-the matter, be- lieve that Franklin Pierce is one of the most shad, and that his administration is a total fail- ure; but what of that? Shall we sacrifice or jeepardise an important principle ‘out.of petty ispite tohim? The hardsmust attend the meet- ing. They can satisfy their consciences by wsoving a resolution expressing their sentiments sregarding the’President and ‘his Cabinet; but to absent themselves would be:inexcusable. ARE THE CaLirornia Mives ‘Fauuine Orr?— ; Some discussion has lately arisen -in:regard to the probable depiction of the gold mines of | California. As yet we are unable ‘to:arrive at | any reliable conclusion in regard to them ; but we must certainly admit that the indications at the present moment are rather unfavorable to the continuance ef their:preductiveness. We have before stated that there was no donbt of the existence of plenty of .gold in the mines; ; but the question has arisen-whether the future cost of procuring it will not overbalance the profit, in which event the best.claims would be speedily abandoned, and the production would depend entirely upen chance. discoveries of new mines, and the luck of roving emigrants. The shipments for the lasi three .or four months have chown a decided ‘falling off, which carties with it a certain weight of reasosing ‘|that there is a diminished production; while on ‘the other hand it is contended that the sea- Leon has been yery unfavorable .to the miners, «ond to this fact is attributable ‘the seeming fall- ing off in the amount of gold. But it must be semembered that the winter is,always adverse to the profitable working of claims, snd it has usually been the case that the mincrs during that time have flocked to San Francisco with thaproduct of their labor of the previous sea- son, for the purpose of making purchases and trangmitting funds to their hemes, hy which meane the actual amouht of gold dust in that city hee been greatly swelled beyond-what is usual,during the months when the miners are seeking.the precious mineral. As an evidence of the above fact, we subjoin a table af the shipmentof gold dust from San Franeisco during the month of February, 1853, whieh month is considered,about the close of the unpropitious reason :— GOLD SHIPPED FROM a ECC IN FEBRUARY, Six million three hundred and thirty-three } thousand dollars left San Francisco for the At- dantic in the month of February, 1853, and all, with the exception of about two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, was landed in this city. Now let us look at the shipments for the same month in 1854; and after a comparison is made gery little consideration will be required to satisfy any one that the mines of California are not as productive as they have been in pre- vious years, and it immediately becomes mani- fest that they are, to a certain extent, giving out, at least so far as individual labor is con- cerned; and we very much question whether the most profitable application of machinery can ever bring them back to their former days of productivencss:— GOLD SHIPPED FROM Ss PEANCINCO, IN FEBRUARY, Ast, steamship Cortes... $806,219 “ «" Columbia. 646,062 16th pe! Brother J 908,026 “ “ California . 978,383 Total February, 1854. . $3,338,600 Jotal February, 1853. + 6,333,047 In January, 1852, the shipments from San Francisco amounted to-$4,014,717, and during the same month in the present year they were $3,382,279, showing @ falling off of $632,438, This, added to the decrease in February, makes the total falling off this year, as compared with 1853, upwards of three. million six hundred thousand dollars. Will the mines give out? GENERAL Pierce anp Genera Scorr—How DO THEY STAND Now?—A year’s occupation of the White House has proved General Pierce to be one of the weakest, most corrupt and imbe- tion. Getieral Scott since his defeat has been living a retired life, and has been every day rising in publio ectimation, whilet ts successful competitor in ‘52 has been as rapidly sinking. As public opinion is now tending, we should not be at all surprised to see the American people indignantly correct the blunder they made in 1852 of placing such an imbecile as Pierce at the head of the government, and consigning such a patriot as Scott to the inaction of pri- vate life. Corporal PUNISHMENT IN 0UR PuBLic ScHooLs. —Unless immediate steps are taken by the Board of Education to abolish the inhuman and uselees practice of flogging in the schools under their jurisdiction, a storm of indignation will be speedily raised about their ears, In our paper of to-day will be found several commu- nications upon the subject, which show that it is carried to the most brutal extremes. We perceive that a resolution offered by Commis- sioner West for the abolition of the practice, was quietly shelved by the Board at their last meeting. They are mistaken, however, if they suppose that the question can be thus summa- rily disposed of. The infliction of corporal punishment in schools is one of the relies of barbarous times, and will no longer be tolera- tedin an age in which more enlightened ideas prevail. _ Tue Finsr Suav.—Several of the papers have ‘been announcing as news that the first shad was taken a couple of days since on Staten [sland, by Captain Simonson. To our certain know- | ledge, the first shad was cooked, eaten, and very imbecile and corrupt Presidents the country ever | cile Presidents, that have ever filled that posi- |- Rkrontep Deratcarton x tHe Orvice or | Mecting of the Committee in the Matter og ‘me Rretster or Deeps.—Several paragraphs dave recently appeared in two or three journals ‘of small circulation, professing to disclose cer- tain defalcations alleged to have taken place in dhe office of the Register of Deeds. These state- aeents have not as yet assumed any authentic | form or censistency, but it is not improbable ‘ that come irregularities have taken place, not only in ‘his, but in many other departments and offices connected with the city. Itis not | possitve that thecorrupt example and atrocious conduct which have characterized our city | government for the last few years, should have attained the height they have done without corrupting and demoralizing almost every branch of its administration. There is no doubt that defaleations to an enormous extent have | taken place in many other departments than | the Register’s office; but, like defaleations in | | banks, they will be concealed by the parties | | interested, and the defaulters themselves up- | | held-as-models of integrity and uprightness. Tue OrystaL Panace In Trouste Acarn.— We.understand that the immortal Baroum has been examining the accounts of the Crystal | Palace, and finds them more Flemish than Flan- ders itsélf. It seems that this redoubtable con- cern has not only sunk $600,000 of capital, but got into debt to the tune of some $100,000 more. Barnum considers it asutterly beyo.ad | redemption—unfit even for purgatory, and will resign the office of President. Sinee General Pierce opened the exhibition, the same wither ng influence which paralyzes the conduct of public affairs in Washington has rapidly com. to.o head in the affairs of the Crystal Palace Association. Agsurp Forrran Poricy.—The President and ihe Senate are preparing to take twenty mil- lions out of the Treasury, and hand it over to | Santa Anna, for the purpose of establishing a | military despotism of the worst kind over the | Mexican people. mous policy was to regulate the coats and | bluster in favor of Koszta, and to abandon blus- ter-on every other question. The third was to j throw away on‘a Mexican usurper twenty mil- lions of solid dollars, which would have been better appropriated to the construction of a steam navy, to enable us to assume an attitude of becoming strength and dignity in presence of the grave events which are about to convulse the world. Dr. Asnorr’s CoLLection or Egyptian Ay- TIQuITIES.—We are glad to perceive that active steps are about being taken to complete the subscription commenced last year for the pur- chase of this valuable collection. A meeting has been convened for Saturday next, at the Stuyvesant Institute, by Dr. Francis, the chair- man of the committee, which all who are inter- ested in. the projgct are invited to attend. We trust that the opportunity will not be allewed to.escape of securing for our city one of the -finest collections of antiquities that has ever ‘been assembled by the unassisted efforts and meass.of a privete individual. Orrice Howpers Suow Your Hanps.—With the greatest affection and respect we call on The first measure of this fa- | breeches of our diplomatists. The next was to | Opening Albany street. The meeting of this committee was held Tuesday | afterneon, in the chamber of the Board of Councilmen, | that of the Aldermen being engaged by the Superior Court. There were present the usual’audience and the | Various counsel in the case. Mr. Tuomas Sroxms, one of the vestrymen of Trinity church, first addressed the committee in opposition to the desecration of Trinity churchyard. ‘The Hon. Judge Exsxr then presented to the committee: several petitions and communications from grein who had relations buried in this churchyard, who pro- tested azainst their peace disturbed. Mr. Wit1am Coxsis Novas then addressed the committee: in suppert of the projected improvement of 0} Al- Dany street. He said he appeared on behalf of Mr. West, Who owned property in this section of the city. He de- nied that any Revolutionary soldiers ‘slumbered in Trinity ch erd. During the American revolution this church’ was tory, and bed no sympathy f a aeakoom vetevons, Trinity chureh had always 0 tefinr) im- prevementin this part of the city, and tactiousty ene in 0} j ovition to the public good. In to the ‘that: hind Leen made at the late Common Couneil by the conn, rel on the other side, he had only to say. that the mere- fret that they passed this measure in opposition to the- | potent, powerful influence of Trinity chureh, was enough. to eatisty him of the integrity of the meagure.. As re- gores the offence of disturbing the dead, be thought that. ‘the interests of the living should triumph over a sickly sentimentality for the dead. This affected for the ead was nothing but a Popish superstition. ‘counsel: continued his discourse to some length, reconsidering mony of the arguments offered by Mr. Sandford in his discourses, and strengthening them by new considera- tions. Mr. Roporrs then addressed the committee in behalf of” property holders in Pine street, opposing the extension of. Albany street. ‘The committee then adjourned. The American Geographical and Statistical. Society. ‘The regular monthly meeting of the membersof this scciety was held last Tuosday at their rooms, in the: University, the Hon, George ©, Bancroft, Fsq., in the chair. A large number of the members were Present, who seemed to take a deep interest in the proceedings. It was apnounced in the morning papers that a paper om the ‘ay colony would be read, but, owing to somo unt een circumstances, it was put of until the next meeting. ‘The lecturer for the evening, Capt. Gibson, vered a was then introduced to the audience, ‘who lecture on the ‘Tadion Archipelago.’? After introducing his lecture by making some rema: relative to the great extent of land pene by the ‘slate comprising the Archipclage, he described a tribe of other South fea Islanders called Ourang-Kubu or Kooboo, who were a wild and barbarous people, covered with hair, and totally unacquainted with the great progress by Europeans in the arts, sciences and manufactures, within the last century. There was, hosald, a great misappli- cation of the worl ourang-otang by the Europeans when applied to apes, baboons, and monkeys, for the alled «ll human beings inferior. to ves ourang-olaugs, or ourang-kubu: or. kool for granted that there were no peoplo-on the face of the earih so devoid of reason and civilization as the oura’ kubu. He then referred in: glowing language to the rich products of Jara, Borneo, Sumatra, Celebes, Philipp’ and Spice islands, whieh o' ‘a: great for- American commerce, enterprise, and iss teak that was one thing that the American le should take into. consider. ion, which was the distrust and hatred with which they are regarded by the Dutch, who endeavored. fide means in their power to harass and annoy the ipping of the United states whenever any visited those island where the Dutch held sway, He did-nob see why the Americans should not be treated as -wellin’ Dutel territory as the Hollanders were in this country by the inhabitants and government of the United States. Itwas their right as American citizens to have free trade with the natives of those islands, and he hoped the time would - soon come when there would be justice shown the Ameri- cans while peacefully trading among those islands. As. it was ut present, the Americans had admission only to: two porta, Batavia and Palembang, and here were obliged 1o go under heavy bail for their good behavior, which was often forteited for no cause whatever by the Dutch authorities. He concluded his remarks by ex- ressing the hope that before long American ‘ships would. seen trading in all the towns along the coasts of the aif ferent islands, and that the American flag might be scen waving in all the little bays and inlets at the Kasterm Archeyelago. City Intelligence, STRIKE OF THE HOUSE CARPENTERS—MASS MEETING. IN THE PARK.- The house carpenters of this city. have struck for- higher wages, and yesterday morning assembled in mass meeting in the Park at 10 o’clock. There were present. about two thousand of these ‘‘ hard-handed’’ mechanics, who were very enthusiastic and unanimous in carrying: out their measures. Mr. B. J. MORRELL was cal accepting this position he maha Pied pec aa 4 Isaac V. Fowler, Postmaster, Nelson J. Water- bury, Assistant Postmaster; and John Coch- rane, Surveyor of the Port, and all the other ringtailed office holders of the administration, te come forth and show their hands on thts Nebraska business to-night at Tammany Hall. They must either come out on this question, or walk out of their offices, to make room for others who can swallow the test. A Fact my Jovrwatisu.—The following note tells its own story -—- James Gorpon Buxyerr, Esq. :— Daur Sin—in over our books for the year we find that we have sold over our counter no than ‘TWO MILLION SEVENTEEN THOUSAND AND KIXTY-81x copfes of the New Yorx Hera! It having struck us that this is something worth reeording, as a of the amazing popularity of your valuabl ir, we have ekg pro- colaget jemneppatnaa! which you can publish if you think fit. Yours, seepectely aus INES, No, 21 Ann street. A New Trick oF THE ANTI-NEBRASKA Mex.—The fol lowing circular has been distributed over the city by the abolitionists, Van Burenites, and other anti-Nebraska men, for the purpose of casting ridicule on the demon- stration in favor of the bill, which will be held this evening at Tammany Hall. The trick, however, is too transparent :— ? parvage ann covey THE NEBRASKA MEETING AT TAMMANY. EKERS, OFFICE HOLDERS, ATTENTION | @ President ‘expects each man to do his * No public patronage” will be bestowed on those who 9) pibetens paves Haas 1, Repuaistion the hres Gomproete and of sll an- tiguated notions of good faith and honor. on-intervention with reaaaltaey slavoholders, whom Gen. Cass says amount to 350,000, 10 live with- out work to govern 20,000,000 of free eit ho live by their own labor. 8. Exclusi the City Hall steps. He stated the objects of the and the necessities which demasiel tier ces ee should ask for a better remuneration of his services. He war loudly applauded. Mr. MasTERSON was then loudly called for, and; on coming forward, was greeted with loud cheers. He bowed be ed — be aera Whe peak to be, and he artivan who was wort of his hiro would receiv: preper equivalent for his labor. Niastoree lise tened to with much attention. 1t was then resolved that the to meet again in the evening Wooster street. Mr. Masterson. was lis- meeting should adjourn at Convention Pt in MEETING AT CONVENTION HALL. In the evening Convention Hall was crowded withthe rik renee La go not less than five bun . . Barrell cal u order. and ~ mee Masterson Was elected Berean = e comm: appointed previously for the purpose, Presented their report, stating what shops in ‘the city would join in the strike, what would not, and tho roa- bay for and seme ius movement. Speeches were made, definin; of the organization, and calling upon all pyery be ed Join their brethren in the strike for wages. At about 10 o'clock in the evening the meeting ad- journed. ei we believe, is the fourth time that this 6 ” suspend work to organize formetnt been compelled to protection as regards wages. Last year they struck for , and their were ac- demand eeventeen shillings per da) beige by employers. ‘on now r only one ise not at au equal to the ig ance my and the various necessaries of life. mands a liigher rent for his houso, borden Libs Terdiman sa ay, mechanic remunerated can better bear this extra preety iwi ee srg by the house carpenters 1 in comparison with the hich things have taken during the last year. -'? "uch ther Mong Anovr Tar Mup.—All the monuments—all the Worst pools of filth—all the most abominable sinks, Gissmncees. Fifteen thousand loads ms phot ay last, make a large pile that lee boxicsaet, away, and the loss of which is clear! ray parts of the city. Ann street =i Ponte pied po r the feed ard, hee tics bnohegh nd tor for wi twenty loads were taken from this small mat think of it—Ann street—not much more than a jon or disfranchise ana | 12 a | lange alley way, ite being only three and Heer ence Way wnroeee faves'vus | Very narrow—containihg more dirt than the whole city note vot ought to contain at any time, if y attended to. But Ann street was in no worse condition than Nassau 4. Approval of Webster's declaration that ‘there is ng North,” and the determination that there never shall be ders, office seekers, the crisis is urgent! The ‘at in the lobbies! The President is in despair! Jude Bronso: them I all the people say Amen, he working men, native 0 people say Amen. , and ado ed, have risen Dp neal t the bill. Our patriot re “Arnold” janged and id, what cuts him far more Ristasly,, clergy deuo is treachery “in the dear people” have forsaken him, and there is nono to do him reverence. pet | ‘The but you im q letter of Collector Redfield! See what gers aan has one, and follow his bright example. Dy al ZiEae PBosiations tsk have come trom Whstingtons ‘all the resolutio HngtOR. MicmiGan Marxz Law.—The Detroit papers are divided n regard to their opinions of the decision of the Supreme Court of Michigan on the constitutionality of the Maine Uquor law. One paper says the Judges have decided it constitutional, and another says they have not. Marine Affairs. Lavxcu.—Yesterday forenoon, between ten and eleven o'clock, the ship J. H. Ryerson, of 1,100 tons, was ‘unched from the shipyard of Mr. Wm. Perine, at Green Point. She was built under the supervision of Capt. H. Post, for E. D. Hurlburt & Co.’s line of Antwerp packets, and is to be commanded by Capt. ?, H. Latham, of this city. Naval In ‘The frigate St. Lawrence, Com ney, the fag ship of the Pacific squadron, and the sloop of war St. Marys, were at Callao Feb, 12.’ The latter arrived on the 0th February, in six days from Valparaiso, to relieve the St-Lawrence, which would sail on the isth for Valpa- rais0. Commander James L. Lardner is detached from the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, and Commander A. H. Foote ordered there jn his place.— Washington Star. The Clergymen and the Nebraska Bill. ‘TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘The list of clergymen published by the Tribune, is so- lected from about seven hundred in New York, Brooklyn, and vicinity. It is alleged by the Tribune and Times that it contains the names of every clergyman of distinction in New York and vicinity. much relished, at the St. Nicholas, about a fort- night ago. Jackson street, East river, is to street, or any other section of the city. It wase where reeking and putrifying with rottenness before ti City go vege took the work of its removal in his hands. In . ort time now we shall walk on clean strects again. ~ Vanprrmit Roox.—This rock, lying off the foot of removed by snb- marine blasting, the contract having been a1 Peter V. Husted and Julius H. Kroehl at $13,675. CavinG IN OF AN EMBANKMENT.—Michael O’Brien, a laborer, yesterday had both his legs broken, by the cav- ing in of an embankment of stones and earth, a filth sticet, near the Sixth avenue, whilst digging a cellar. He was taken to the Bellevue Fat From 4 Caxt.—George Evans, a boy, was yester- day thrown froma wagon in Clinton street, and severely He was taken home by the police. Coroners’ te A MBLANCHOLY Cark OF Suicing.—On Tuesday evening, the police of the Seventeenth ward found an aged man. lying on the sidewalk in Seventh street, near avenue A. He appeared to be insensible and ina dying condition. ‘the police at once conveyed the man to the New York Hospital. Soon after his arrival at the ital, he ex- ired. On his person was found a note of which the folk wing is a copy:— T am » poor man without em port my family, I left behin montha old, and boy ten years Eo At 1e get mot to e ane ive nn) 1 or work. ANTHONY PETZ. ‘4 Hesiding No. 58 Ridge street, yard house, up stairs. ‘The wife of the deceased ‘was at once notified of the- death of her Paige A held rs. band cee {ape ton hoah hen. an inquest uj w in her evidence, slated that het hus. wal native of Prussia, and fifty-four years of age; that she was his third wife; that he had- worked as oe in Chee bie a cnn aeaie weeks past he was out of employ an man, became despondent. ‘About fe mont go his wife that he was afraid he would soon be a. ployment, and should that occur he would put an end his lite. On Monday last, in the morning, the left his house, saying he did not know return. He then one dollar and one dollar and fifty cents wi and the other quarter of a dollar itis Fietz, chased the laudanum with which he ni The jury, on the evidence, & vordict of “death. ros, weikloe; caused by taking Iaudanum.”” ‘The famil anate man are ina state of extreme desti- of this unfori Among the 150 are contained the names of several who ‘condition, we should suppose, is one have long since abéndoned the profession, and are now tution, and tne Consideration of the charitable.” The engaged 8 school teachers, booksellers” agents, and | fymily can Je found at No. 58 Ridge street, in the rear. otherwise. ‘Tam Late Fata BURNING AT THE PuBLIO ScHooL Ex LuD- Axe not the following names, not published among the | j oq sruuxt.—Coroner Wilhelm yesterday held an inquest remonstrants, entitled to rank among the clergymen of | 4+ 1g9 Chrystie street, on the body of Caroline distinction :-— ‘the poor child, thirteen years of age, whose: took. Reformed Dutch. Repiscopat Pi fire in the public school in Ludlow street, on Tuesday, Dr. Mathews, Dr. Taylor, Dr. Spring, the circumstances of which we have already published. Bethune, Seabury, Phillips, She died from the effects of the burns on the same even- Knox, Hawks, Alexander, ing. ‘the evidence before the Coroner did not elicit a Hardenbergh, Muhlenberg, Dickinson, further facts, and the jury returned the following verdict: lisher, Cooke, McElroy, —‘We find that Caroline Leonhard came to her death Van Aiken, Neville, McLo from burns accidentally received by her clothes taking Chanibers, Berrian, Baptist. fire at the Ludlow street school. And we would reeom- Mr. Macauley, Haight, Dr, Cone. | mend it as due to the security of the prpila, that some Cornell, Mr. Hobert, | ting or evard be made to prevent from coming i a } bee & near ihe stove.” van Wert, loughton, ‘toe Recent Fatat Acomest on the Hopson Raven Ratt McKee, Chauncey, Roap.—Richard Adams, the carman who was so shock-