The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1854, Page 4

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ART--S45 Broad. 1 { Ctrevintion of the Dally Berald for the Last Week 13—Monéay March Thie statement, copied from ove beoks, exhibits a @aily circulation larger'by many fhonernds than that possessed by ans-other newspaper im Re-ope or America. The London Times, the largest in Buglend, has a eireu- Jation of about 40,000 daily—the: Pisis Constitutionnel, the greatest journal in France, hv as @-4sily issue of 25,000 or 30,060. Nother journal in ‘the vivilized world ap- prouches the New Yous HERALD Ga ite daily issue among all elasses, ranks, and conditi gme of life, bots in the Tnited States and in: Europe. The Nebraska Bul: anvche House, ‘The Nebraska bill cansae up in the House of Representatives _yester¢ py. which Mr. Cutting, of | bis eity, and Mz. Richaré- son, of IHinois,took a p paninezt part, the bill was referred to the- Commit’ fee-of the Whole and placed on the calendar, by a vete-of-ene hundred and ter to ninety-five. This “& deemed] a virtual defeat of the measure by its o] spaments, and ever by many of its friends, as it is t! ms thrown in the midst of the mass of business bef ore the.Heuse. It will, indeed, require an-offort to bring it cp in time to obtain a vote. at: this session. The opposition are now in | hopes of killing the bill, or staving it off in- @efinitely, But we shail see. A-variety of c:auses led to this result;, the most prominent of which is the.imbecility of the admin- istration to carry any measure through Congress. It iaimpossible to relyupon the President and his Cabinet in any great movement. No one. will trast them. Deticient in moral courage and unfaithful to the principles of those who placed them in effice, they -have split the democratic party into factions; and although they came inte power with a working majority of eighty-four im 'the House of Repreaenta- After yesterday, a resolution was alopted iny Governor ani Legislature to v! under their charge at their earlies Mr. Pinckney was the promoter of his last jank i. The decision of the people upon the aloption of the amended city charter, against uncalled for festivi- ties by the officials of the city, seems to have had no effect upon the Ten Governors. | stitute, letters from Boston and Utica, Court Re- a debate, in | LS ee conflict of Europe, what mu st we think of e hargain Ly which we throw away twenty mii- The letter will of course go the rounds of the Canada papers, and the doctor's dodge will no doubt be sac- cessful. Ata meeting of the Governors of the Al li mshouse ng the it the institutions Pp P convenience, tu S Oar exchange papers from the West and Upper Canada are filled with accounts of destructive fresh- ets. The amount of property swept away is very con- siderable, and the bridges demolished will cause a serious interruption to traffic. The steamship Pacific is now out ‘teen days from Liverpool Her arrival is momentarily ex- pected. The screw steamship Charity, from Greenock, arrived at Portland, Me., yesterday, re- ports having been nine days hemmed in by ice, and it isnot improbable the Pacific may have been de- tained by a like cause. ‘On our inside pages may be found Items and Gos- sipon the Nebraska Question, the Liquor Law in Michigan, Tornado in Alabama, further particulars of the recent gale, proceedings of the Ameriean In- a wl ti si e te ports, Theatrical and Commorcial Intelligence, &e. Our Retations with Mexico, The only practical piece of foreign diploma- ey accomplished by the spresent imbecile admin- istration, with the exception of the successful negotiations touching the official costume of “our Ministers in Eurepe, has been tke project of a treaty negotiated between Mexicoend the United , States by Mr. Gadsden of South Carolina: b g which we agree te give twenty smillions of d @i- lars eut of the United States treasury in re. | turn for a few amillions of warthless acres, of | land on the other side of the Rio Grande. "The | history of this piece of diplomacy is not, Yess remarkable than the character of the tres éy and the terms agreed upon by: the agents of the two contracting Powers. I It is wel! known that the project W as mego- \ tiated with Santa Anna, without any authority from theorgan of the proper depe rimont -at | Washington. He who declared | jimself ithe most astonished man indthe country when he received the democratie-nominatio) » from Balti- more, ‘was again the mest astonished man In the country when he heard that ‘ne had nego- tiated a bargain with “the Dictator of Mexico. Norewere the terms of the treaty: less remaska- ble. Of the twenty-millions to be paid by the Uetied States, ftfteen only were to go towards the repletion of Santa Anna’s treasury; the ba- lance heing appropriated to the payment of Mexican and moonshine claims. Private inte- zests had beea abundantly cared for at first by #1e contracting parties, but these, being not so ousy of adjustment as had been supposed, were ‘waived by Santa Auna who had tee mugh at stake to stick attrifics. The interest he took in the whole negotiation was as deep as might have been imagined from the strails in which he was placed. ‘ For Santa Arna’s position was daily becom- ing more critical. Arista’s government had | been maintained just so long as the annual | tribute from this country lasted. When it | ceased, he fell; and a political and military agi- tation commenced which soon led toa: revolu- | tion. Santa Anna had been brooding abroad | over his past greatness, and nursivg hopes of | Paradise regained. His time had come. He returned, his mouth full of denunciations of the United States, and his pocket of private notes and incipient treaties offensive and defensive with all sorts of European Powers. He was on | the point, he insinuated of forming an alliance with France, England and Spain for the con- solidation of his empire and the repression of the Yankee barbarians of the North. No lan- guage was strong enough to convey his hos- tility to this country. To these schemes he | soon added others for the extension of Mexican | authority over the contiguous provinces of Cen- { | tral America; and entered into a secret nego- | tives, they are unable to -obiain a day for this im- | portant ill. Nothing butthe vital national princi- plevat igsne will save it from utter defeat. ‘The News. Inthe United States Senate yesterday but Httle of intersst transpired. :The joint resolution from the House concerning contracts for the Navy Depart- | th mant was received and referred. The bill for the increase of the pay of the rauk and fill ofthe army was taken up, the ninth section of which gives Senators the power to nominzte candidates for | West Point Academy, and some-discussion was liad upon this point. The psoposition met with con-i- derable opposition, and a motion was made to strike out the section. Resolutions of the Legislature of Diinois in favor of grants of land for a ship canal round the! alls of Niagara were presented. The Senate went into executive session, having under consideration the correspondence beween General Gadsden and tie Mexican Minister of Foreign Rele- tions. In the House of Representatives the morning hour was occupied with the reception of reports from the Committee on Public Lands. On motion of Mr. Richardson, of {ilinois, the Bouse went into Com- | mittee of the Wh@e, for the purpose of disposing of the Nebraska-Kaneas bill, and efter an animated de- bate it was referred to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. No other business was acted on. The letters and despatches of oxr Washington cor- respondents this morning, are unuenally interesting. Nothing of general importance transpired in the Iegislature yesterday. The letter of our Albany correspondent, however, avill be found interesting The final vote in the Assesnbly on the temperance | Dill will probably be taken ¢o-day. Ex-President Pulmore revently dectined a public reception at New Orleans. Havana. We give two more letters frosa correspondents i New Haven, in relation to the late riot in that city between the students of Yale College and a portion | of the town people. The writers, while they have evidently endeayared to give an impartial account, | have, nevertheless failed to eonceal their prejudices, Tn another colunm we give an article from the ‘Toronto Colonist, in relation to the recent report that the Finperor of Russia was preparing to invade the Canadas. It appears that the provincfal papers treat the subject with a great deal of serious con- sideration, and betray their fears hy recommending large additions to the number of British troops sta- tioned in the provinces, The source from whioh sprung all thie excitement, and which seems to have caused 80 much fear and trembling among the Cana: | 1 | dian population, was a dodge on the part of a quac! doctor to advertise his nostrams. It appears tha he became aware that the British government hae ofdered the seizure of alt letters suspected of being intended for Russia, and he accord! wrote 4 letter to the Czar, which contained the programme f operations, as given in the articles from the 'T. | | | © papers, Of covree the letter was seized, read and it author, inst as he intended, promptly arrested. He n before the Quebec acthorities for ex amir and 6n being scare ched, a letter, purport. | rof Russia, wa psed befor ven that task | to be simply an | in h dt ve cote from the h 4 be pro aa accomplished, it was found v P Vater Drv uf. the ' He would embark for | o x + | United States Senate. Should this project be | ratified, he would pocket fifteen millions of | | | | | | farnish tiation with the colonial authorities of Cuba for | the purpose of carrying his projects into execu- | tion to the detriment of our interests, our pros- | pects and our commercial welfare. In the fur- | therance of these views, he destreyed the con- | stitution of Mexico, suppressed the liberty of @ press, reduced all the various States of the | republic to one uniform despotism, appointed military governors, recalled the Jesuits to power, and combined every military with every ecclesiastical element to effect his ambitious de- | signs, and throw obstacles in the way of Ameri- ; can commerce. For many months these views | were generally promulgated as well inthe Mexi- can journals as in the letters of Mexican | correspondents of American newspapers. Santa | Anna, however, soon found that the materials | of a great nation were wanting in the popula- | tion of Mexico. He continued to oppress trade | by every illegal exaction that could raise money, and enable him to proceed with the work of reorganizing his army, and carrying out his plans of ulterior action. But nothing | but failure attended his efforts. Symptoms of | counter agilation began to make their appear- ance, and were but feebly suppressed. At Jength a ray of hope shone upon the Dictator in the approach of Mr. Gadsden with his pro- ject of a new treaty. He saw in the scheme a clear prospect of funds in abundance in return | for a few millions of worthless wild lands. Surrounded with difficulties on every side, and secing the riving tide of the counter revo- | lution about to overwhelm him, Santa Anna | jumped at the chence offered him, and joyfully agreed to the project which is now before the | dallars, be enabled to complete the organiza- tion of his imperial government, extend his empire over Central America, and perhaps carry out the schemes he has so long nurtured in conjunction with Spain and the colonial authorities of Ceba. From the preperations which have | een made at Washington, and the lobby force that is be- ing brought to bear, there seems strong ground for anticipating that the treaty will be ratified hy that body. In full confidence of this event, Santa Anna is making contracts for large sup- plies of munitions war, and is endeavoring to obtain from all qu wrters Spanish officers for his forces. His dream is still the organization ofa grand Mexican army, with which he can weep over Central and South Ame: even possibly threaten the Unit What must we think of the d only fruit is a scheme to supply the means of achieving designs lik funds for the successful exe plans matured in deepest hostility to t! and es, macy wh States and in close concert with the gov ra | 4 ments of Jar of ony urope? Ata time when every dol surplus revonue is absolutely ire quired for the establishment of our footing that will enae vy on a hor which the preject ¢ ¢ the Mexican treaty is framed, So infamov jg 4 dovument, we will ven- The Maine Lt gor Law and the Common | before the Leg’ plature, not becoming a law, the own contro 4, or not to’ ase this authority. repde’ seous, many of which are surmounted by asig sof “General Pieree’s Retreat,” “General Jac) gon's Head Quarters,” or some such device J! rious drinks are sold,:at three cents a glass; | and collected. The keepers of the groceries ‘fore | nately, he is met by two or three of his compan- | be considered an offenee®-he takes a glass; ed stables, reeking with ordure, and are fed al- consists of grassy hay, and «ij has upon cattle is that of astimulant, producing | Levi practised upon the cattle confined i'4 our city stables. They are kept in these de ag till their hoofs, from lack of exercise, grow to an extra- | ordinary length and turn up in the form of a skate, so that it is with difliculty~they can walk, | if they are ever se fortunate 04 to be set at lib- | erty. In the cenrse of the ¢w nty-four hours | one cow will drink about thirty quarts of ewill, aftr 3t has become accustomed to | it, for it requires sometiae before the repug- | | mance whick it entertaias at first to it is over- | cowe. After this, however, is conquered, i: has'that-kind of a craving for it which habitual deunkarés feel for spirituous liquors, and @rinks it with a relish. A few months feed- ing upoa such food generally brings on a dis- | ease ef the most loathsome description; their teeth fiterally rot out of their aws, sometimes | the hair talls off and ulcers break out on differ- | entoarts of their bodies, This description is | not exaggerated, as any person who may have | dhe curiosity to investigate the subject, as we |: heve done, can prove to hi, own satisfaction by | visiting one of the many stables in New York | ~and its vicinity. But this not all; revolting as | -it is our readers will hardly be prepared for | what follows: these cows are milked in the very last stages of their loathsome disease un- til they are no longer able to stand, and then they are held up till the process is performed, though they not unfrequently die one or two | days after. The milk thus obtained forms, as we have said, more than two-thirds of the quantity con- sumed daily in this city. It does not always, however, reach the consumer in this state; a large proportion of it having previously to un- dergo the process of adulteration. This is per- formed by adding a liberal supply of water, after which a compound of chalk, magnesia, | molasses and other ingredients is formed, and mixed with the original liquid. It would be somewhat difficult to determine whether this is an improvement or otherwise upon the pure swill milk. We may add to this, that pigs’ and calves’ brains are occasionally used, to impart a due consistency to the whole. We are thus particular in our description, not for the purpose of gratifying a morbid taste for the horrible, but simply to give a correct and true idea of @ traffic more fatal to human life than that for the suppression of which we demand the enactment of the Maine liquor law. Revolting as the details may appear, they can- not convey an adequate idea of the reality, which must be seen to be fully appreviated. When we consider that a large number of children, and particularly the children of the poor, are fed upon this milk, is it at all remark- able that there shoild be such a fearful mor- tality among them as indicated by the City Inspector’s weekly report. Varieus names, it is true, are given to the diseases ef which they die, but in many cases they are produced by the use of this kind of milk. We have at present no law regulating the sale of this important article ef feed, although the yearly expenditure in New York and its suburbs, for both pure and adulterated milk, is estimated at $5,150,000. The following table, obtained from reliable statistics, gives the total receipts from the sale of beth kinds:— Amount received for pure country milk... Do. for awill milk...... SbeECINCTOES Do. for water, chalk, magnesia, molasses, &c. Here we find that nearly four million of dol- lars are expended annually by our citizens in the purchase of an article of the most deleteri- ions who press him to drink—to refuse would | ous character. In view of this fact is it not im- portant that something should be done by our thus stimulated he.takes another; he becomes | ¢ity authorities for the prevention of the sale of indifferent, forgets his errand, forgets his chil- | adulterated and swill milk? and the City Inspec- dren, and, if too intoxicated to return home and | tor, if he have not already the requisite author- abuse his family, the grocer, at alate hour, | ity, should be empowered to indict the cow stables kicks hin from the store, the police come along. | #8 @ nuisance. The summer is rapidly ap- and the wretched man is dragged off to prison. | proaching, when there will be a large increase Reader, this is no fiction; it is trae—yes, too | in its supply and consumption; and it is, there- true—and the police courts show it daily. If| fore, absolutely necessary .that some such the authorities wish to promote the well being | course should be immediately adopted. Let of the poorer classes they must restrict the sale | the Common Council, then, suspend for a while of intoxicating drinke—abolish it in all gro-| the discussion of unimportant matters, and ceries to begin with—cut off the supply, and | give this vital subject their earnest considera- thus prevent any temptation being placed in | tion; those cow stables must be removed, and the reach of those who are inclined to become | the sales of their poisonous product be pro- temperance men, but who are unable to resist | hibited, under a heavy penalty. Every thing the charms of rum. Ina very little while the | should, be done in the meantime, to encourage good results will appear. It will eventually be | the establishment of pure milk dairies in the much better for the grocers. At present there | city, for ufter all this is the most effectual way is a general complaint by respectable females, | of reaching the evil. Lines of railroads now who absolutely refuse to go to the groceries in | radiate from New York into all parts of the their vicinity because they are generally filled | country, thus affording every facility for its with drunkards, transportation; and as it is a business that re- We therefore call upon the Mayor and Com- | turns large profits, it presents great induce- mon Council to think upon this matter, and not | ments to men of capital to engage in it. At pre- only to think, but to act at once, for the means | sent, we believe milk of the worst description is of reformation are in their hands. It rests | sold at sixcentsa quart; but there area few who with them alone to make this city what it | would be willing to pay two or three cents more should be. Abolish the ready facilities of pro- | for the pure article. We perceive with pleasure curing intoxicating drinks, close all the drink- | that a bill has been introduced by Mr. Cum- ing shops.on the Sabbath, and rest assured we | mings into the Legislature of this State, for the shall have all the temperance law that we re- | incorporation of an association to be called the quire, without the aid of legislative action. New York Pure Milk Company. The capital * Tey a stock is toconsist of seven thousand five hundred | Shares, of twenty-five dollars each, which may | be increased to ten thousand when deemed ne- | cessary. In order to secure the object for . Which the association will be established, they are to lease a farm, or farms, in the vicinity of the city for their cattle, which are to be fed ac- cording to the requirements of their proposed | charter, exclusively on hay, grain, grass, and vegetables, This is a move in the right direc- tion, and if followed up with proper energy it must be successful. There is now an enterprise of the kind in active and profitable operation, and there is room for a dozen more like it. jons to feed our worst ene my on our Soutbera evs? Weakness is * got the tetin fof such y: wickedness, tr Aly, atrocity, more pro- erly convey the ch gracter of the system on wre to kay, WAS neyer before laid before the enate of the Uni ted States. Councl In the event of the Maine ‘Viquor bill now | uthorities o' ; this city hold, ‘as they ever «id, he same pc jwers of reformation within their It is optional with them whether We are , 9) aware of the very pernicious prav- ice of V ending liquor at retail in every grocery tore; * gxi, in addition to the groceries, almost very bkodk of buildings contains a ram eeHing ‘0 ' gotradt attention. In these places, er dens h gy might be termed, ‘the vilest and ‘most in- me.drink of which “is enough to preduce.a-de- Sivium, from which, by:a repetition, erime of the highest magnitude foNows. Now, the Mayor-and the Board of Excise can remedy this evil in-a very short period, if they will only undertake the job. In the first place, ‘they should refuse licenses for the sale of intoxi- ‘eating drinks in:grocery stores and small grog- geries. In the event of their keepers selling liquor without dicense, the ordinance should be enforced, and the fines for each offence imposed and groggeries will then soon discover it to be a losing business, and they will give it up. In addition to this, the Mayor should order every storekeeper to close en the Sabbath— and especially where liquor is ‘sold—and such orders should be enforced by the police. In de- fault of: compliance, collect the fine forthwith; and just as soon as they find the authorities are determined to carry out the law in its full just so soon will they be ready to obey. We are informed by the eyptains of police that thousands of storekeepers would feel grate- ful if such measures as those above mentioned were taken by the Common Council, and the police would also be thankful, as their duties in a short time would be comparatively easy, At present, in many of the wards on the Sab- bath, they have more drunkenness, fighting and disorder to quell then on any other day in the week. Rum is the cause of all this crime; and if the groggeries were closed there would be fewer black eyes and bloody noses on Mon- day morning. No storekeeper would object to resting from his labors on this day, were the rule universally enforced. The stores might be allowed to remain open during a short time in the, morning, for the sale of groceries only. If this. method were adopt- ed, an almost magical effect would be pro- duced throughout the city. And how much bet- ter would the mechanics and laboring men feel! They could venture tothe grocery store for a loaf of bread without the fear-of temptation, and return home sober. But as it is now, the poor man enters the grocery to purchase some provisions with the full idea of immediately re- turning to his family; in the grocery, unfortu- The Adulterated Milk Trafic and its Injus rious Effects—How it Should be Abolished. We have on several occasions alluded to the horrible practice of selling adulterated and swill milk, so prevalent in our city, and recom- mended our authorities to pass an ordinance for its prohibition; but it appears to be one of those many evils with which our city is doomed to be afflicted, and against which the sufferers have no means of redress. It seems almost in- credible, and yet it is a fact, that over three millions of dollars are paid every year in New York for this poisonous stuff, and that thou sands of children die annually from diseases produced by it. We learn that 65,700,000 quarts of impure milk are consumed yearly in this city, while not more than one-half that quantity of pure country milk, and that con- siderably diluted with water, is sold. - To real- ize fully the deleterious effects of this deserip- tion of food upon the human system, and par- ticularly upon the health of young children, who are more seriously affected by it, it Tue New Porsce Bus.—The political jug- gle now before the Legislature, denominated | a new police law, we understand has been set down for the special order of the day on Thurs- day next—to-morrow. It appears that the main features of this bill are designedly to make the Chief of Police elective by the people, and also to create three new officers, to be called “Commissioners of Police.” This whole matter evideu'!y emanates from a political | is necessary to describe the condition of | eligue, who are opposed to the present Chief of the animals from which it is obtained, | Police. Several of the New York delegates are and the process of adulteration to which | adverse to the passage of the law, on the ground it is afterwards subjected before it is | that it again mixes the police department with | distributed over the city. In the first place, then, we must state that there is the greatest difference between city and country fed cows; the former are confined night and day in crowd- politics, the evils of which have been so much deprecated, The captains of police, with the exception of four of them, have sigped a petition calling on the Legislature not to pass the law, they know- most entirely upon swill, while the latter have | ing full well the cisastrous effect it would have the free range of the pasturage, and their food | on the di cipline of the department and the erent kinds of | crime of the city, It is to be hoped that | The effect which swill | ihe majority of the members of the lature under-tand the motives of the | re-pullers at Albany in advocating the this new bill, end will in- on the people of this city any law which would damage ia-tead of benciitiing the pole copei tment, end ploee the chief 1 grain and vegetables. an increase in the quantity of milk, at the ly time that it destri the vitality of the animal, and.renders its flesh extremely iajurious as an artiele of food. Independent of the great evil infted 1 same mesape of not paere ot a fhe communite r entirely Becrmare or THE Movement ror Crry Re- form, by repealing the late charter, has bees voted down by eleven tonine. We regard this asa most auspicious commencement for the ral attention among the enlightened classes of the community, and ere long repeal will he triumphantly carried. The opposition made to the project in the corporation has been cqually ignorant, absurd, anc impracticable. . No lon «sguments are needed to show the futility of every charter and every form of goverumeat For the corruption, venality, folly, imbecility, and negligence which have characterized them in every de- corruption natural to politicians and to human nature. be luid to the charge of the impracticable form of government inflicted upoa us by grog shop politicians, and broken down demagogues from the interior of the State. Look at the root of the matter. The canal system of New York originated and was orga- nized by the great De Witt Clinton. Had his original plan been carried out, the canals might now have been completed on the enlarged plan, the debt nearly effaced from the Staie re- gister, and a revenue might have been accruinz every year to the State. Unfortunately, how ever, a race of narrow-minded, selfish, huckster- ing politicians, sprung up at Albany under th: name of the Albany Regency, and caused all the changes, all the embarrassments, all the obstructions, which have marked the history of our canal policy. These Albany regency poli- | ticians tinkered the constitution every few years in order to suit their seliish schemes, and thus obstructed the completion of the canals. | After years of contests they were finally rooted out. At their defeat, a few straggling planks | from the wreck of the old regency floated down the Hudson as far as New York, and located they have been living for the last eight or ten years. The present charter of this city, and the present system of misgovernment under which we live, originated with them. Benjamin F. Butler is known to be the father of the char- ter, and Azariah Flagg one of the chief agents appointed to carry it into execution—both of them men long known as favorite leaders of the same narrow minded, dilatory obstructive policy which characterized them there. Thanks to ment that is utterly useless and impracticable for the performance of the municipal business. The streets cannot even be swept without in- voking the extra-constitutienal power of the Board of Health. There is no responsibility in any department of the government, and no unity of action. Every bureau and depart- ment mismanages its concerns without refer- ence to any other branch. Under such an absurd system, this city will assuredly be,a few months hence, a prey to pestilence, unless the people wake up and carry out a radical revolution in the form of their government. We must return to one exccutive “head, responsible for every subordinate execu- tive officer, and a legislative body, on the plan of the federal government of the Union. No- thing short of this will suit the emergency. We augur well of the prospect of this much needed reform, when we see that the very first attempt that is made to repeal the present charter was only defeated by a majority of two. Musical Intelligence. Mapame Povcuen1e’s Concert.—The benefit concert got up by the congregation of Calvary Church, for this ami- able and popular artist, comes off to-night, and from the exertions that have been made to give it all the eclat pos- sible, will, we have no doubt, prove a most brilliant and attractive affair. Besides the other artists of eminence who, it will be seen by the programme in this day’s paper, have contributed their services on this interest- ting occasion, Mr. Wallace, the celebrated composer, has also tendered his aid, and his admirers will have an oppertunity of hearing him perform, perhaps for the last time, previous to his contemplated visit to Europe. The programme exhibits an array of talent that would in itself be sufficient to draw a crowded attendance, and the fair members of the congregation, who have labored 80 diligently to render the compliment worthy of their favorite, might safe y have trusted the issue to its merits alone. SYMPATHY For THE MILWAUKIE SLavE RescurRs.—A meet- ing has been called at Syracuse, to be held this evening, for the purpose of embodying the sentiments of sympa- thy of the Jerry rescuers of Syracuse, and conveying an expression of the same to the lawbreakers and mobocracy of Milwaukie. New Hamrsnree Etecrion.—Considerable doubt yet hangs over the political complexion of the members elect to the House of Representatives. The Concord Patriot claims a democratic majority, while some of the New Hamprhire journals contend that the democrats have lost the House. The two parties claim the result as fol- lows:— DEMOCRAT ACCOUNT Democrats. Opposition. WHIG ACCOUNT. 58 Democrats. 148 44 Opposition 157 ive towns to Four towns to hear from. Mr. Baker, the democratic candidate for Governor, is elected by about one thousand majority. The Boston Atlas of yesterday says:— “If all towns to hear from elect democrats, as they may, it cannot reduce the opposition majority below four. Be. sides this, in the democratic ranks are included some ten or twelve of the “Old Guard,” who are hostile to the Concord regency, and will bolt their nominations. Seve- ral of the towns, as Warner, New London, &e., moreover, have instructed their democratic representatives to vote for no ore who is in favor of the Nebraska iniquity. The egency may continue, and probably will, to claim a ma- ority in the House, but they know better. The power has gone from them, as the assembling of the Legislature n June will not fail to show.”? eee I 1 hear from. Tur Dommican Revvnuc.—Some of the papers are cir- culating a very extraordinary report of the state of af- fairs at St. Domingo. It is stated that a plan had been regularly organized for the assassination of President Santana and the consequent overthrow of the existing government. It is said that his Excellency was to be vic- timized at the house of M. Maxime Rayland, the French Consul; that the plot was of French invention and ma- turing; and that many persons of rank who were impli- cated in it had fled for safety on board a French war rel when the treason was discovered, thus avoiding ar- rest. Now all this “blood and thunder” is taken from the columns of an enterprising cotemporary at Washington, and is dated on the 19th of January. Our advices from the Dominican republic are a month later—18th of Febra- ary—and do not mention a word about the grande plot. City Intent, Frrk.—About 10 o’elock on Monday night, a fire broke out in a eabinet maker’s shop, on Broadway, above Yortieth street, kept by a German, named Shighigit, which was entirely destroyed, together with a black smith’s shop, owned by Jobn Carlin, and a dwelling, with a fancy store and a drug shop on the first floor. Were it not for the promptness of the firemen, who were soon upon the spot, the whole block must have been swept away, the wind blowing furiously. A great deal of the furniture of the dwelling house was saved. Loss about $3,000, No insurance. &o—The Connectiont ry The splendid steamers Ci and Granite State have resumed their trip er is now open lity of Hlarvoed to Hartford, Coroners? Paran Fant rroat qnie sts. hn Brady, ten years of in blz: 1 atroot, was on one of the “He was pic ing from | gered until yesterday ing, when hediet from coneasicn of he brain, 7 had gone np the tree ronm.—Alderman Mott’s project fer city re- | struggle. The subject will soon attract gene- | that have been inflicted on this city for the | | last twenty-four years, Police Intel nee fa Arrest of a Gana of Cownt 2— Recovery Spuri- 2 Bilis lh rn officers Jordan and Pollan, of the Sixth ward, arrested two men, calling themselves John | Masters alias Lr. Whitney, and Geo. , charged with yascing end being concerned with others in the ng | of counterfet benk bills. purporting to be genuine, on the Crasiou Penk, Rhwle Island, of the denomination of $76"s npr $20's, also $5 Ui ur} s to be on the Feliste: Hank, Buffalo, New York. The fellowing isa copy of the spurious bill esoccoececs eeces seses ° STATE OF RIODR ISLAND. ° io prerererares prewevies Me o 10. £- Cattle, i Pie Te Ww. 0 Sige Termeerered Finbbeee ° ° o {tttit+4t The Craston Bank will pay t ° o tou’ ten dollars, on demand, to ° © FE Aeor, ¢ B: Wheaton, or bearer. ° O Fesessast Craston, Dec. 1, 1853. Pa o. o o Ww. Ii. A. Arpmren, prtttette+t Caren Conapoy, © ° Cashier! £ sae t Pres’t, o o 10. Setreeieest = 10. o o partment in which the public comfort was coa- i cerned during the last six or eight years, we ' are no doubt indebted in some measure to the | But a large share of these faults must | themselves on our city government, on which | regency. They brought here from Albany, the | them, we have a charter and a form of govern- | for the poryoreof disengaging hia kite, which tad be con e entangled amongst the branches. ' Coroner O'l)oa- | rei ata a Reon th WHA reaklen Y CU he Wee WIE Fae aU dees ‘ ° escoccooccooeco ‘The general appearance of thin bat rather pale. The above named prisoners are evideutly coneerned ith a yung who have been passing the spurious money «nt storekeepers (aroughout the cily, such ae. clothing steres, &e. A bottle of ‘“ulphate de quinine’ Was found on one of the prisoners, and on the other new pair of pantaloons, vests, sh ‘These articles: have, beyond a doubt, been purchased with the counter- feit morey. ring the hotel Davis- came alarmed and ran from the barroom inte the* yard. ‘The officers pursued, and canght him in the wa- ter closet. They also found in the sink a roll of bad mo- ney, consisting of three $20 bills, five $10 bills, and two $6 bills, the former all on the Craston Bank, but the two $5’s are counterfeits on the Hollister Bank, Butfalo, evi- dently thrown there by the prisoner. Jn addition to the above named prisoners, officer Syms, of the Fourth ward, arrested a man calling himself Geor, Carr, charged with passing one of these counterfeit $10- hills on Leopold Meyer, No. 68 Frankfort street, in pay- ment for some portemonnais, The accused parties were taken before Ju tice Osborn, who detained ‘them in cus- ody for examination, The magistrate requests all per- ons Who have. been impeved upon by these counterfeits, | ‘o call at the Police Court, Tombs, and identify the pri | soners. Interfering with a Constable in the Dischasge of his | Duty —Yesterdey a man nated Bartholomew eller, was arrested by constable Nesbitt, of the Sixth ward, chat | with interfering with the officer while in the legal dis- charge of his duty, in the execution of a process issued by Judge O'Conner against Michael Daly, for illegally de- taining the pro verty of a sailor im the premises No, 370 Water street. Weller was taken before Justice who required him to find bail in $200 to answer the- | charge, in default of which he was committed to prison. Arrestof a Fugitive Charged with Forgery.—Yeut day, Rengeaut Bate of tumionee tattes ty | aman named J. Gittleman, charged with being a f from Augusta, State of Georgia, where it is said he charged with forging two, promissory notes in the name of Godfred Kener. It seems that’ Mr. Kener is now in New York, and was at the time the forgery was perpetra- ted. ‘The following letter and telogeaphie Joepdtel sent to Mr. Kener, explain the whole afiair:— La GRascr, Georgia, Wednesday, March 15, 1854. | , dr, Kexer—I understood last night that Gittleman had sold two notes on you, amounting to about $1,200. Thin! | ing there was something wrong aboutit, I went up town | this morning omas Thornton had gnenote for nearly $700, vith a credit, of $173; and Jolin. Douglass had the cther for $000, I told Douglass that you id net owe Gittle: more than one note, so Douglass will him to-day. Gittleman left hero yesterday, and going to Cl harleston. I supposo there will a leave to-day from Charleston, to New York, and Gittle- ‘gets to Ch itive man might get off before Douglass ari a, BO you... had better watch out for him in New York. SALEGRAPIO DESPATOU | TA, Ga., March 16, 1854. Godfred Kener, of Georgia, at C. W. Foster's, 153 Bowery: J. Gittleman on Tuesday last, forged two not ym you, and» sold them for twelve or fourteen hundred d& aad Teft rs, that day for New York; he bought's chock,. 0 8 of W. Lewis, of the Bank of the Teupubli ns New York. Give the bank notice not to pay it, and you help to et him. I expect he left Charleston on the steamer on ‘ednesday evening; be sure to be at th on ber ar- rival, night or day—wateh the railroad train; he sold me & note of $600 on you, and one to Thornton for $665. Get hie check the first thing from him, and spare no money or trouble. to catch Lim. J. DOUGLASS. On the arrival of Gittleman, he was taken into custo- dy, and when searched,j $108 was found on his porson,.. mostly in gold. He was conveyed before Justice Osborne, » who committed him to prison, on the affidavit made by- Mr. Kener, who charges him with forgery. Arrest of a Dishonest Porter.—Officer Lofferts, of the Chief's office, yesterday arrested a man named John Hay- wood, charged with stealing from the store of his em- | ployer, Mr. Jobn F. Dustan, No. 64 Beaver stroot, up- wards of fifty pounis of hydriodate of potash, valued at $872, stolen from time to time. On Monday the accused took'$30 worth of the potash to John Bishop, druggist, No, 11 Broadway, to whom he sold it for $5. Mr. Bithop was arrested, charged with buying the property with a guilty knowledge that the same must have been stolen. Both the thief and the receiver were taken be- fore Justice Bogart, who, on the evidence adduced, re- quired Mr. Bishop fo find bail in thesum of $1,000 to- answer the charge; in default of bail, he was committed. to prison. ‘The thief was also committed to prison in do- fault of bail ing @ Dwelling House.—A German, calling bim- self Henry Pike, Wason Monday arrested by officers Ha. Yenaid Webrter, of the Chief's office, charged with eut. ting through the scuttle of the dwelling house No. 80 James street, and stealing therefrom five silk muslin delaine and merino dresses. The officers aw the inthe Bowery with the bundle of clothing under his arm; he endesvored to escap? from the police, but was again captured, On his person were found pawn tickets. for five new frock coats, and one silver watch, deposited at Simpson’s pawn shops. Owners ato wanted for these articles; apply at the Chief's office, The rogue was com- mitted to priso Mails for Europe. THE NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR BUROPR. The royal mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott, will’ leave this port this day, at 12 o'clock for Liverpool. The European mails will close at half past ten o’elock,. this morning. The Weaxty Henar, (printed in French and English,) will be published at half-past nine o'clock this. morning. Single copies, in wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Suw Yorx Herat will be received at the following places: in Europe :— Livenroo:. . John Hunter, No. 2 Paradise street. Lompor ....Edwards, Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill. ‘Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catherine street . Pam.......Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de la Bourse. OUR AGENTS IN PARIS, FRANCE. We beg leave to state to our readers and patrons in Paris, and Europe generally, that Mr. B. H. Revoil, 17 Bue de 1a Banque, Paris, is no longer connected with thes Sew Yorx Hxnatp, either as correspondent or agent. Messrs. Livingston & Wells, 8 Place de la Bourse, are: our only agents in Paris, both for advertisements and svbscriptions. on the cars on No. 3 Court Calendar—This '. Unrrep Srares District Covet.—Nos. 12, 14,23, 37, 38,. 40 to 44. Surnewe Covrr—Circuit.—Nos.'204, 300, 264, 240, 69, 244, 306, 306, 807, 809, 312 to 316. SUPREME term.—Part First—Nos. 8, 17, 6. Part Becond—Nos. 2, 28, 34, 96, 41, 49, 89, 1, 12,” 33) 50, 59, 8, 27, 98, 71, 75, 78, 80. ScrEgion CouRt—(Two Branches.)—Nos. 303, 588, 186, 618, 622, 633, 636, 76, 42, 385, 589, 504, 616, 687, 649 812, 585, 484, 645, 646, 647, 64712, 649 to 659, 661. Can't Be Beat.—Knox 1s a Gol down every other ufacturer in the city his style of epriny tiealar and fastidious per: thing to ectipoe Kon fu the article tat ae enerally 0 eclipse Knox in the article hat, understood and believed by. the nuajority af ougstftens. fe may be consulted daily at either of his st may, be consulted daily at cither ofhis stores, 688 Broadway, to Take They are all that the most, pase son Heed require—light, graceral, Tit Srould bea hard wayward mood d shift with shifting humor’ ke a glass, with flattoring grimace. ‘They still reflect the ter per of each face.”? Dagucrreotype likeness, to be worth having, should be tus rivit ct tone and exprestion the To get such an o Pair Premium Gallery, Broadway. Ansou’s ; Daguerreoty pes. ne, : fifty cents, colored and in a nice moroceo case, lined with velvet, twice the size of any ever made for fifty cents, and Rirranted equal to those that cost two dollars elsewhere. Remember, ANSON’S, 589 Broadway, opposite the Metro- politan Hotel. Mead Brothers’ Daguerreotype Gallertes, 283 Broadway, contain the largest and most valuable col- lection In this country, Pictures taken in highest per- fection in the art. The only gold modal awarded for Da £Rertectypes was given to usfor the best pictures ever ox od. The New York Daguerreotype Company ore taking portraits of the people for 2b cents, by improve ments in the art unknown outside of this establishment, and hy which 000 pir tures of snperb quality are daily circulated Rooms, 2°49 Bromeway. Wholesale or Retail, of the Latest st improved makers, including J. Gilbert orld’s Fair premium pianos, with or withont the with iron frames ar senles; Haligt & Cam- on (of the old ¢ hed firm of Hallet & Co.); Pinnos styles and «¢ Gihert's boudoir piano aco Waters? pianos; ands © yariety of pianos of other makes, at prives which dety gompetition. Second, }and pianos from $79 to $190, HORACE WATERS, 333 Broadway. Pianos, s, banjor, tamborines, Accordeons, Melodeons, ott ins, bow ate ings, cla andise ageolete. drums, and musioal merol every [tits Also, cieet musio and fustruction books foe every Instroment.” Accordeons, plano, concortinas, melo Gece, utines. and seraphings, tuned and repaired, My & 3, SACOLS, 407 bron New Muste..The Laborer to his Sona? Haiy, Tone, Rove withemey’; Chink of Gold,’ “Genth o"Strcumy? Tivaty Did and Katy Didn't; duet, cary, Hoye, Cheers?" Be DBENY & UUKMU., 2 Bavownayy