The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1854, Page 4

a NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, ‘WEPIGE 8. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. mean, HERALD 2 cents E e. copy—$7 per annu WEEKLY HERALD vvery Saturdey. af 6 ‘con BoE ey Brer bc TB w n at he an Vetume XIX, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowecy—Tue Gaxester—My Seermn 'K A: x. WAY STHEATRE, Broadway—Mamcer—Brr- ony ER. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Srexp rie Prsver—Love, Law, axp Puvsto, WATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham stroot—Afternoon snd Sivering—Uncix Tom's Cane eae THBASRE,Deesdwer— Wuo Sreaus Punst RISeN AND PaLxce——Rovon Diawonn. AMBRICAN MUSEUM—Afterncon and Evenisg—Tas Ou Dixweny. BROADWAY MEN. TE—Lauuirurian King—Max- wows Lavy xp Living TRAINED ANIMALS. OBRISTY'S AMERICAN OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broad- wet branetas Mousutes Sv Gnaisre's ineea ars ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Minstrel Hell, 444 Broad- woy—Ermo7rax MinstRELer. BUCKLEY S OPERA HOUSE, 59 Broadway—Bvox- nav’s Erwioreay Oren Taoure. SIGNOR BSLITZ—Opxown, Williamsburg. ‘SY. NIOMOLAS EXHIBITION ROOM, 4% Broadwar— @anraaie MinetRELe 1x Ti Nuono Exreataumests. BANVABD’S GEORAMA, 5% Broadway—Panonama or wun Hory Lanv. BBENISH GALLERY, 53 Broadway—Day and Night. BRYAN GALLERY OF CHRISTIAN ART—843 Broad- way. WHOLE WORLD—3Si7 and Evening. Wew York, Wednesday, March 29, 1654. 4d 379 Broadway—Afternoon @trculation of the Daily Herald for the last Week. The News. The steamship Africa arrived at this port yester- @ay morning, bringing advices“from London and Paris to the 10th, and Liverpodl to the 11th instant. The reported capture of Kalefat by the Russians— as announced by 2 London paper previous to the sailing of the Pacific—is contradicted, and shown to have been a mere invention. We have nothing of importance from the seat of war. The Russian fleet was still at anchor at Sebastopol. It was ex- pected that the British Baltic fleet, commanded by Sir Charles Napier, would sail from Spithead on the 2th instant—or early on Sunday the 12th—after the ships had been reviewed by Queen Victoria. Military and neval armaments were being carried on both in England and France with unabated vigor. In the latter country the Senate had confirmed the action of the Legislative Assembly, authorizing the Emperor to contracta loan of 25,000,000 of francs, Some apprehension was entertained as to the ulti- mate position of Prussia, and her defection from the policy ofthe Allied Powers was looked upon as not improbable. Senor Isturitz, Spanish Minister in London, had been recalled, and asort of political coldness had occurred between the cabinets of the two countries. It was said that Mr. Soulé was making great diplo- matic headway at Madrid. We publish a report of the disasters which lately befel the American ships Robert Kelly of New York, and Pantheon of Boston. The Africa’s news had the effect of depressing the prices of the leading articles of American produce in our market yesterday. Flour declined 18 a 25 cents per barrel, and common State closed at $7 44 a $750. Corn fell off about one cent per bushel. Pork was lower, iness having sold in small lots at $15 12 a$15 25. Cotton also declined one-eighth a one- fourth cent per pound. Great excitement still prevails in Washington re- specting the difficulty between Messrs. Cutting and Breckenridge, and all sorts of rumors are afloat as to the ultimate intentions of the parties and their friends. It is reported that Mr. C. yesterday chal- lenged Mr. B., that the latter had accepted, that the geconds were arranging the preliminaries, and that a hostile meeting would probably take place this morning. The former gentleman was in his seat during the day, but Mr. B. was absent, and the lat- est telegraphic item declares that he had left for Kentucky, hi g been called home by sickness in his family. We regret to state that the general opinion in Washington seems to be that the affuir will certainly end in a duel. ‘The transactions in the United States Senate yes- terday may be summed up in a very few words. The committee appointed at the last session to in- vestigate the claims presented under the Mexican treaty, made a report, which was ordered to be printed. The Deficiency bill was taken up, and Mr. Gwin withdrew the amendment offered by the Fi- nance Committee for the appropriation of a quarter million of dollars for a site for 2 Custom House at Ban Francisco. The amendment requiring invalid pensioners to furnish evidence of their continued disability every two years, and prohibiting the pay- ment of invalid pensions to persons holding civil salaried offices, was debated till two o'clock, and then the body went into executive session, which lasted two hours. The Senate is understood to have been engaged for the last two days in secret session on the Gads- den treaty, which is now believed to be losing caste, notwithstanding that it is backed by the ad- ministration and its organ. From the tenor of our despatch we should infer that Senators are at last beginning to understand and properly appreciate the machinations of Santa Anna and his emissaries for the establishment of his empire upon a firm foot- The bill authorizing the construction of six steam, frigates, being the special order, was the chief fea- tare of in(erest in the House of Representatives yes- terday. Mr. Bocock, Chairman of the Naval Com- mittee, spoke in behalf of the measure, and was followed on the same side in a strong, patriotic and argumentative speech by Mr. Lyon, of Lyonsdale Mr. L. declared his intention of offering an amend- ment providing for the construction of twelve first class steam frigates. In view of the important events now tranepiring throughout the world, when the strength of almost every other nation is drawn up in hostile array, it is necessary that our maritime force should not only be greatly enlarged, but the whole system thoroughly re-organized and placed upon a footing adequate to cope with any power that might be arrayed against us. England at this moment has four hundred and sixty-eight, and France three hundred and twenty-two vessels of war,while we have only the pitiful number of seven- ty-two. In the early part of the day the General Appropriation bill was nominally under considera- tion in Committee of the Whole, but Mr. Yates oc- cupied the time in speaking against the Nebraska bill. It is whiepered in Washington that some of the Southerners, indignant at the Northern free soil op- position to the Nebraska qhestion, are devising means whereby they can most effectually and so- verely retaliate. The parties who are amusing themeelves by burning and hanging Douglas in effigy, may soon expect to find a now clement of agitation, in such a strong movement for a modifi cation of the tariff aa will rather astonish them, Secretary Guthrie recently transmitted o commu nication to the House respecting his new mode of purchasing public stock at fixed prices, instead o the current market price ; but/aa it gontains little information in addition to what was firnished in ly annval report, we have not deemed ft of sufficien interest to publish, to sion of more im: portant and instructive matter. €x« The letters eleewhere published from Havana, re- ceived via Charkston, contain a variety of interest- ing information respecting the release of the steam- ship Black Warrior, the landing of more negroes, the movements of British and American vessels of war, &c, The Cuban journals continue to ignore the | | outrage committed upon the B. W.; nevertheless, it ' is evident that upon gober second thought the Span- of the + ish officials found they had carried things a little too far, from the fact that the Captain-General an- nulled the decree of the tribunal eonfiacating the cargo of cotton aad fining the vessel sixty-two thou- sand dollars. He was sstisfied with a bond for six thousand dollars, and at the same time advised that memorial be pre} ared, which he promised to for- ward to the Queen, who, he had no doubt, weuld remit the fine altogether. On the other hand, a despatch from Washington states that ‘the adminis- tration expects a spcedy return of Minister Soulé with an unfavorable answer to the demand upon Spain for ample remuneration for the outrage. Anvextraordinary numberof bills were finally dis- posed of in our State Legislature yesterday. Among the important measures passed hy the Senate were the bills to reduce the expense of opening and lay- ing out streets and parks in this city, and repealing the Jones! Wood park act. Quite an animated dis- cussion took place with regard to the reference of the last named bill, on its being sent to the Assem- | bly. The proposition for the incorporation of ‘the German Terners’ Association was defeated after an | exciting débate, in the course of which it was al- leged thatthe application was made asa body of Germans,not as American citizens; that the Turn- ers composed a secret organization, and from their recent opposition to the Nebraska bill, as well ag their action on other matters, it was evident that they-were exerting themselves to gain a political balance of power, which might eventually operate most disastrously with regard to the affiirs of this nation. It thus appears that the Turners are repu- diated in toto, notwithstanding they have sided with a majority of the members of the Assembly in rela- tion to the great question which is now agitating the country from one end of the Union to the other. For the details of the Legislative proceedings, as well as several items in relation to the curious movements now transpiring at the capital, see the telegraphic columns, Unusual excitement prevailed during the muni- cipal election which took place at New Orleans last Monday. Three men were killed at the polls. No better evidence is wanting of the wild, hazard- ous speculative fever which lately raged among cer- tain classes of dealers, than in the fact that bread- stuffs and merchandise which were some months ago shipped to California. at an enormous expense, are now on their return to this port. It is said that the clipper ship Bald Eagle, bound from San Francisco to New York, has an assorted cargo, the freight on which will amount to about fifteen thousand dollars, consisting chiefly of flour, green hides, hardware, dry goods, old iron, copper, &c. The freight on the flour was engaged at 874 cents per barrel. It origi- nally cost from $3 50 to $5 per barrel to transfer this flour from this port to San Francisco. From Texas we have the startling announcement that Fort Belknap was at last accounts surrounded by four hundred Indians. There were only sixteen men in the garrison, all of whom, it is feared, have been massacred. Great preparations are making by the Governor, Legislature, and civic and military societies of Mas- sachuselts, for the funeral of Jonathan Harrington, the survivor of the battle of Lexington, who died at the latter place on Sunday, aged ninety-six years. Hon. Dabney §. Carr, formerly American Minister to Constantinople, died at Charlottesville, Va., on Fridaylast. We understand that the boatmen on the Lehigh andon the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania Canal, employed in the transportation of coal, struck yesterday for an increase in the rates. Coal is very scarce at Newark, and in many of the small towns along the line none can be had. Should the strike continue any time, serious inconvenfence must en- sue, although from the near approach of spring it is not likely that this city will be sensibly affected by the movement. Arrangements have been made for the conveyance of a monthly mail, by sailing vessels, between this cityand Australia, The first mail will be despatched on the 25th of next month. % Up tothe hour of sending this sheet to press there had been no abatement of the high and piercingly cold wind which has prevailed for the last two weeks. ‘The inhabitants of southern latitudes may form some idea of the extreme severity of the season in this re- gion when we inform them that a man was yester- day found frozen to death on Island Beach, some thirty miles below the city. The Foreign News—Position of England. The Africa’s mails add but little to what we knew before about the progress of the Turkish war, On one side—in Asia—military opera- tions have been suspended by the frost: on the other—on the Danube—no material change in the relative position of the hostile armies ap- pears to have taken place. A similar inaction prevailed on the Black Sea. The Russian fleet still lay off Sebastopol; and orders had been given to the cruisers not to attack British or French vessels, though, of course, they were at liberty to defe.d themselves if attacked. This contingency seems unlikely t@occur, as the al- lied fleets still ride peacefully side by side in Beicos Bay. Nor has any event altered the complexion of affairs in Western Eu- rope. The Legislative Assembly of France have voted the two hundred and fifty million loan without a dissentient voice: and military and naval preparations are proceeding vigor- ously. In England, but one voice is heard and that in favor of the war, The Baltic fleet was to sail on the 12th for some point unknown; and # second division was to follow shortly after- wards, Troops are embarking daily for the seat of war. The meesenger despatched to the Czar with the ultimatum of France and England, re- quiring him to evacuate the Principalities be- fore 30th April, left Vienna for St. Petersburg on the 7th; having failed to secure the co-opera- tion of Austria or Prussia. Both the Germanic Powers seem resolutely bent on preserving, for the present at least, an armed neutrality: being ob y prepared to espouse the cause of Russia as soon as the fortune of war leans to the side of the Czar. Thus far, it may he said that the intelligence by the Africa contains nothing new. Accaretul perugal of the London papers, however, brings to light one item of news which is worth notic- ing. A treaty is being negotiated by the Brit- ish government with Chevalier Watson Webb of this city, on behalf of the United States, for the suppression of privateering by vessels of either nation. It has been generally supposed hitherto that our representative at the court of St. James was Mr. Bachanan, and not the Chevalier Webb; this seems, however, to be nothing but a popular fallacy, end that the lat- ter, with a disinterestedness which reflects un- dying eredit on his name, has consented to dis- charge the duties of American Minister without receiving any portion of the emoluments at- tached to the office. We trast we shall not he ecensed of wishing to depreciate the ori he is making, if we add that the inpendous profits he expecta to reali from the Virginia land specul » whieh ook him to Europe naturally render him iadif. ferent to a paltry $9,000 a year. Rising above petty considerations of dollars, and flushed with the conquest of Lord Clarendon’s intima- oy, and Lord Palmereton’s regard, the Cheva- | lier Webb has even forgiven the Times for the flagellation he endured at its handssomemonths since, and pourshis genial philanthropy into its columns. Our friends from the country may perhaps wonder at the ease and success with , Which the Chevalier passes himself off as the ; plenipotentiary of the American people; but in a country where e tailors from Tooley | street were permitted to style themselves “We, | the people of England,” the Chevalier Watson | Webb muy well epeak out as “I, the people of America.” His right is asgood as that of the | knights of the needle; his object quite as meri- | tortous as theirs, and his motives as pure. | Qakere are men in England, one would sup- | pose, such for instance ‘ts Lord Palmerston , himself, who are not so easily duped by tailors or editors. But very obvious reasons impeded ‘tthe free action of their judgment in this in- stance. We do not now learn for the first time that the Britich ministry have so little confi- dence in the ,ustice of their own cause, and are so solicitous about our sympathy that they were exceedingly anxiousthat a public meeting | in this city should approve their course against | Russia. That news is stale; and'when ithas been duly weighed, no one can wonder that even the good will of Chevalier Webb should have been deemed worth courting. The leaders of the British ministry may or may not see through the amiable vanity of the Chevalier; they might understand him .as well as we do, and still go to the trouble of purchasing the influence of his journal with a little civility. We say that they might do so: but we are ot clear that the bargain would bea good one. The Chevalier for instance agrees to put a stop to privateering; and in recompense for this gracious offer, a variety of British jour- nals are vastly complimentary on one subject. The tailors-of Tooley street}hardly went so far as this; and herein we think they showed themselves wiser than the Chevalier Webb. For,.as some of the British journals appear to have taken up the notion seriously, and as there is some talk of a formal application being made by the British government, it may beas well to put them in possession of the sen- timents of the American people on the point. The United States will not enter into any bar- gain of the kind with any foreign nation. Whatsoever laws we deem sound and wise, we shall pass; and that without regard or refer- ence to laws in force in foreign countries on the subject. Should the British government request us to /oin them in preventing privateer- ing, it will be the third request of the kind that has come from that quarter and will most assuredly meet with the same answor as the pre- vious ones. When Great Britain requested us to pass a law conjointly with her for the sup- pression of the slave trade, we refused to do so; disapproving of the traffic, we declared it pi- racy, but made no inquiry as to the course pursued by foreign Powers. Again, when Great Britain solicited us to join herself and France in maintaining Cuba in its present con- dition, we declined the offer: our neutrality laws were in the statute book, and to our mind were a sufficient protection for the trembling Cubans. So now, if Great Britain begs us to join her in proscribing privateering, we shall refuse : our lews prohibit the practice, and we do not deem it necessary to enter into further ulations on the subject. Had the Chevalier Webb made as close a study of. our statutes at large as he is doing of Burke’s Peerage, he would have found in the third volume ample consolation for his British friends. England will learn before long, that whatever protestations Virginia land speculators may ut- ter over Lord Clarendon’s mahogany, the Uni- ted States government will take no part or lot in the coming war. We shall not join Russia; but we shall not, directly or indirectly, involve ourselves in the embarrassments in which Great Britain is placed. So far as popular sentiment in this country is concerned, we are inclined to think that when it has had time to shape itself, it will not lean to the side of the Western Pow- ers. We have in this country a large number of foreign refugees and exiles who are bitterly opposed to the existing governments of Europe, and whose sympathies lie entirely with the democratic masses of that continent. To these, intelligence of the defeat of the Allied Powers, and of a‘prospect of a popular rising in Eng- land, Germany or France, would be the most grateful news in the world. It is not improba- ble that these men may lead public sentiment to avery considerable degree. Should the time come—as it probably will—when democratic aepirations rise to fever heat tn France, and the British people rebel against increased taxation, the sympathies of republican America will not be, on that day, with the combined sovereigns. Prooress oF THE Sewarp-MircuEL Pxiot.— We are enabled to state that the plot for thein- vasion of Canada by the Irish, under the gui- dance of Jchn Mitchel, and the advice of Wil- liam H. Seward, goes on bravely. Froma cor- respondent’s letter, published yesterday in a Wall street cotemporary, we gather the import- ant fact that Mr. Caleb Lyon, member of Con- gress, refuses to tell what he knows on the sub- ject. Not very long ago, Mr. Lyon was at the headquarters of Prince Gortschakoff, on the Dniester, and itis conjectured by certain parties that he then and there made arrangements with Russia for a supply of money to carry on the fails, More improbable things than some such arrangement have been heard of before this. When William H. Seward undertakes a scheme, he is not the man to neglect any opportunity of driving it forward ; and the Russians would be quite ready to aid and assist in a movement to harrass Great Britain in that quarter. Still, notwithstanding this additional infor- mation, there are many features of this Irish invasion respecting which we should like to be enlightened, We should like to know what arms have been prepared for the party, and where they are at present—also whether, and if yes, what quantity of vitriol bottles are in readiness 5 aleo, whether the point at which the invading army will cross the frontier will be the same as that selected for the same pur- pore by the Irish volunteers of 1812, Know- ing, as we do, the main principles on which the movement is based, viz.: William H, Seward’s anxiety to counterpoise Cuba by an agitation for the conquest of Canada, and his ill-con- cealed desire to sever the North from the South and unite the former with the British Provinces, on the one side, and the hatred of John Mitchel and the Irish for Great fritain on the other— it is only natural that we should wish for equal- ly precise intelligence with regard to the de- 8 and plan of the expedition, We trnat hat Mr. Seward will permit his or, to devel- ope fo much of his plan as may be consietont with ite success and the public weal, Irieh invasion, when the Irish Directory fund | The Affrey fe me Howse—Mr. Cut/ing and + Breckenridge. Monday’s delate in the House of Represen- tatives will have been real with regret by right minded men throughout the country. It is under any circumstarces unpleasant to : see two leading men exhi’,it themselves in the attitude of gladiators e:gazed in personal con- flict, apparently for the amusement of specta- tors; the occurresiwte bec: mes doubly deplora- ble when the cheracter of the encounter leaves room for apprehensions that it may not end where it began. When the responsibility of such spectacles can be rightly charged upon ome of the ‘actors, Le ought to be-censured the more severely in proportion to the respect he had previously commanded. In this view, we are impelled to say that in our opinion the conduct of Mr. Brecke.ridze of Kentucky in his attack upon Mr. Cutting was wholly inex- cusable. Let us look at the facts, Mr. Cutting, approving heartily the prin- ciple of the Nebraska ill, and objecting only to trifling matters of detail, moved that it be referred to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. Whether or no tlis cours: was the best calcu- lated to ensure the speedy passaze of the bill, we have not now to inquire; it certainly was the best plan that could be devised for providing for its thorough discussion, and was moreover more consonant with sound parliamentary usage than the adoption of the course recommended by Mr. Breckenridge would have been. Opin- ions may differ with respect to the policy and the wisdom of the motion; but after Mr, Cut- ting’s speech, we cannot see that any member of the House had the right to impute to him hostile feelings towards the bill. Such an imputation would seem to us to savor of injustice as well as discourtesy. The motion was oarried. Two days ofter- wards, Mr. Breckenridge suddenly discovers that Mr. Cutting’s course was treacherous, that he had embraced the bill with one hand while he stabbed it with the other. He says so in terms, we regret to say, quite inconsistent with the gentlemanly forbearance which ought to characterize Congressional discussion. Mr. Cutting’s reply was proper and suitable. Mr. Breckenridge was not satisfied. One interrup- tion, made in language which any man of spirit would certainly consider insulting, was followed by another, less indecorous perhaps, but hardly less annoying to a heated speaker. Mr. Cytting yielded the floor to his angry an- tagonist, and again his personal conduct and motives were rudely assailed. Finally, to wind up the ecene, for the use of an expression unquestionably less severe than many which had fallen from Mr. Breckenridge, the latter rose and cried: “ The gentleman says what is false, and he knows it!”’ Mr. Breckenridge is,we believe, a man Of talent and worth. He has already achieved a high reputation as a Congressional leader : and pro- mises to rise still higher. He has learnt one secret of success in public life. Hehas another to learn—and that is the respect that is due to his equals. It must have been very mortify- ing to him to hear the whole House laugh when Mr. Cutting disclosed the secrets of his election; it will be more mortifying still to reflect that he—who contended so nobly for the first rank in the House, and the mantle of Clay— has been the first to set theexample of coarse language and ungentlemanly brawling. We have no wish tocast in the teeth of country poli- ticians the manifold assistance they are in the habit of deriving from New York: but we think that at all events those who look to us for aid in the time of their need ought not to act as though the fruits of our generosity had rendered them our superiors. We know not what opinion Congress may form on the sub- ject; but here, among those who are in every way disposed to do justice to Mr. Breckenridge, there is but one sentiment regarding the utter impropriety of his course. It is suggested—and not without a strong show of probability—that his attack upon Mr. Cutting was made at the suggestion of the Pre- sident. Those who know Mr. Pierce best think it very likely that he resorted to a mean scheme of this kind in order to curry favor with the South; and, on the whole, we cannot but admit that the antecedents of the President render such asurmise extremely plausible. He is just the man to truckle to the South by feigning deep wrath at the postponement of the bill; and to gratify the Northern freesoilers by at- tempting to injure anational democrat. Should this turn out to be the true secret of the affair, the part played by Mr. Breckenridge will lower his character in the estimation of all high- minded men. Tur New Porice Brt—More “Spectra” Leaistation.--There is a little honesty left in New York, and, thanks to the interests of self- preservation and the conservatism of property holders, the bill providing that the Chief of Police should be elected by popular vote failed to become a law. But the Assembly could not be satisfied with leaving well enough alone, and the following sections were adopted as a substi- tute for the whole bill :— Section 1.—The Chief of Police in the city and county of New York shail be appointed by the Mayor of said elt ; and with the Board of Commissioners, consisting of the yor, Recorder and City Judge, and shall hold his office during the pleasure of the Mayors Section 2.—In case a vacancy shall occur in the office ot Chief of Police, by reason of death, resignation or oth- erwise, the Mayor shall fill the vacancy until a successor shall Le appointed. All members of the police except the said Chief of Police shall hold their offices during good behavior: Section 3.—This act shall take effect immediately. This is the strongest case of ‘special plead- ing” that we have ever seen, even from New York politicians. The lobby members first de- sired to get the election of Chief of Police into the hands of the people, (i. e.—primary meetings of rummies and rowdics,) that he might be a willing tool in their hands, and thus they could secure the aid of the nine hundred men under his command at any time when they saw fit to use them. What was the result of this bold move in the political game? The whole people of New York city rose en masse against the proposition—moved to opposition by the im- minent danger in which their lives and property would be placed in case the election of the Chief of Police should pass into the hands of dema- gogues. The Assembly did not dare to pass the bill; but the lobby members, though overthrown, were not vanquished, and in the substitute they introduce a clause which will tend, perhaps, to give them the same influence over the Ch If the first section of the billis carefully ex- amined it will be seen that the Chief is to be appointed by the Commissioners, but he is to hold “during the pleasure of the Mayor.’’ ‘There isone power to appoint him, and another to remove him! If the Mayor rhould he a ceamp, and the Chief a realy tool, the Commirsioners have no power in the mat ter, The Mayor can secure his re-election | the means of the Chief, and the Chief, haying this hold over the Mayor, may be the greatess | his offi y villain Chat ever went anhung, yet still he may keep his place! Should the Chief be honest and réfase to obey the Mayor the Chief is ‘tated at once and a more pliant tool is intro- duced. And here the second section becomes inter- esting. It states “the Mayor shall fill the va- cancy till a successor shall be appointed.” Now, | the Mayor is Chairman of the Board of Com- | at micsioners, he nominates the candidates for Chief, and he can refuse to nominate as long as | his caprice dictates. It will also be seen by the second section that “all members of the police, except the Chief of Police, shall hold their offices during good be- haviour.” It isnot, therefore, required that the Chief of Police ehall be 2 man of good cha- racter, but only the other members. A rowdy fellow, in all probability, as Chief, wouid suit the fancy and interests of the party much bet- ter. As the law now stands, the Chief of Police issubject to the same rules and regulations as any member of the department. The Senate must see the great faults in these two sections, and we trust that the bill, as it comes from the House, will be allowed to lie on the table. Weare governed too much. The Legislature is continually engaged in passing “special”? acts for the city of New York. We have so many laws now that none of them are obeyed. If the country members will only shut their eyes and ears when they see a pothouse politician from this borough the city of New York will get on very well. Her greatest de- sire is to be let alone. Tue Connecricur Erection—AnotHEer Blow at THe ApMINisTRaTion.—The annual election for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Legis- lature of the State of Connecticut, is to take place next Monday. The Legislature chosen at this election will be called upon to fill the seat in the United States Senate now occupied by the Hon. Truman Smith. The great issue in the election is the Nebraska bill, for whieh Senator Toucey voted, and the action of the State will be considered as either supporting or condemning his conduct, as the result may be. Under this view of the subject—and it is the only correct one—it would be supposed that the democratic papers in the State would place the issue plainly before the people, and by their decision let it stand or fall. Such is not the case. The leading administration journal at Hartford does not give the bill its support, and it endeavors to persuade the people that it is not an issue in the election. The readers of the Heraxp will see that this is a feeble imitation of the truckling, fawning, dodging policy, adopted in New Hampshire, and they will also remember that by these means General Pierce received a severe whipping from the electors of his own State—‘“ the star that never sets’”— the “Granite State,” where the democrats always count on a working majority of four thousand at the lowest estimate. Who can doubt that a similar fate awaits the administration party in Connecticut? And who will fail to attribute such defeat to the true causes—a want of confidence in the “ Pre- sident of their choice” by the democratic party, and a feeling of loathing and disgust at the conduct of President and Cabinet by every well- informed national democrat in the State. Marine Affairs. ‘Tue Steamsnip Civy oF GLascow.—This vessel, which sailed from Liverpool on the 1st instant for Philadelphia, had not arrived up ton late hour last night. She is pow in her twenty-cighth day, and those interested in her are becoming anxious at the unusual length of time she has deen out. Wedo not anticipate that any accident has oc- curred. The heavy westerly winds which have prevailed for some time back have most likely retarded her, and caus- ed her to run out of coal, so that she is depending upon her ails 1o reach port. There are a great many other vessels overdue from Europe, which, with the City of Glasgow, will doubtless make their appearance as soon as a favorable change of the wind occurs. She has 320 passengers and a large and very valuable cargo of silks and other fine goods. Smr Burpine at Keyport, (N.J.)—Keyport has of late obtained a great deal of notoriety asa ship building village, where s number of mechanics are employed daily in constructing steamboats and schooners. Messrs. B. C. Terry & Co. have on the stocks three first class ferry boats for one of the Boston ferry companies, and two steam- boats, of a goodly size, for Wilson Small, of this city, which are building under the directions of Joseph E. Coffee. The keels of two first class steamboats will be laid next week for a firm in Cuba. Several sloops and lighters are also being constructed at this thriving little village. Stmamenre Unto, ror CuaRtgstoy.—This steamer will take her departure at twelve o'clock to-day, and pas- sengers who have taken tickets for the James Adger can transfer them and embark in the first named vessel if they desire to do so, as the latter will not leave until Saturday, at 4 o'clock P. M. New York Horricurtvrat Socrery.—A meeting of the members of the New York Horticultural Society was held last night at the Astor House, to decide on the list of Trizes to be awarded at the approaching spring exhibi- tion. The exhibition will be opened at Barnum’s Muse- um, on Monday, May 1, and will close on Saturday, the 6th. The prizes will consist of silver cups, silver and bronze medals, diplomas, and money, the value of the highest premium not exceeding twenty dollars. The fol- lowing are the names of the different kinds of plants, fruit, and vegetables which will be exhibited:—Hothouse plants, greenhouse plants, pelagorniums, azaleas, calceo- larias, fuchsias, cineraries, ferns, coniferaes, pansies, roses, cacti, verbenas, carnations, petunias, gloxinias, ericas, orchids, cut flowers, bouquets, baskets, straw- berries, cauliflowers, asparagus, tomatoes, cucumbers, rhubarb, seakale, lettuce and radishes. Strike of the Ship Carpenters—Mass Meeting. The shipwrights, caulkers, and sparmakers, who are now on a strike for $3 per diem, held a mass meeting in Gouverneur street, yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock. There were present about five hundred, who were very enthusiastic in supporting their claims toa better re- muneration for their labor. Mr. John Few was called to the chair, who briefly addressed the mecting upon the question which had brought them together. Mr. Peyton Herbert was appointed secretary. Benjamin Foster was then loudly called for by the multitude, in obedience to which this gentleman appeared and addressed them. He spoke of the rise in the various necessaries of life, in rents and real estate, and thought that the rise in labor should keep pace with these. This gentleman was loudly applauded throughout his discourse. ‘A resolution was then passed pointing a committee of twelve to meet, in conjunction with the merchants, at the Exchange, in Wall street, to-day, at 91; o’clock, A.M., to consider the matter of increasing the wages of ship- wrights, caulkers, and sparmakers. The meeting then adjaurned to meet In the evening at the Seventh jard Hotel, in Madison strect. EVENING MEETING, At 7 o’clock in the evening, pursuant to the motion of adjournment in the afternoon, a large company assem- bled at the Seventh Ward Hotel. There were assembled at an carly hour about five hundred of these honest, hard-handed mechanics, all intent upon an increase of ay. TXiter the appointment of necessary officers, resolu- tions were adopted, expressive of tho routiment of the trade in regard to their wages. Several speeches follow. -od, after which the meeting adjourne:), dhe amount demanded by the strikers iy $3 p rise of fifty cents over their prosont pay. an unreascnable demand, considering that t! meckanies only average three ¢ week the year round. ‘ihe strike Just, andglt persisted in firmly guecersful. Let the honest laborer be justly for bis services. Court Ferree Count—C to 9€8, 370, 977 Unitep Sate: on. tenda: ‘oult. 2 District Courr Mérebants’ Police night watehmen Mernished, for wa i) . btoves, factorion, &e., f tarpaulin, at 00 meent to wpy park of ti ek, FULLBE & Pine’ street. ~-Roxponstbt« antive, Bowery teiek howe site meees nasal use and lot 2 streot—Briek house and lot, 66 Broome street, Third avenue’ arKe , Roar Fifty fourth street. third street, near lots on Sevonty-fifth street, a ane street! 7 oo ‘avenue, Fourth avense between 11Ith and 112th Mith stre te Lith str near lots on 112th street, near Fe e three story brick steres ‘assau street, between Ann r lot om Rang aguas avenue, street " house and lot 129 East Nincteonth street” Toone, street—-A threo story house and lot on Twenty. fox Bear Ninth avenue. Varick street Brick beoro nea tae Varick street, Rivington strect—Bri Bo Rivingte Gocrak strects Tichen or eine Con erty indisputable. For 4 full particulars, apply to e auctioneer, No. 4 Brot Hair Dye ts still the Leading article, by all acknow’ to be the bost dye extant fox Bortectly coloring the hair the moment it is applied. of thousands in ail parts of the world mit the only reliable dye known, Sold at BATCH! 233 Broadway Notice,—Steamship Jas. Adger, for Charles. ton.—In consequence of the repairs uot being finished om rahe will bo detained until Saturdays pril Will leave at4 o'elock, P. Passengers by this steamer will be tr: ship Union, t0 leave at 12 o'clock this d “Phe Eagle suffers Little Birds to 8! Js net careful what they mean thereby; me- ‘air for the remarkable superiority of his daguerreotype pictures. ROOT'S great free gallery is st Novos Brokdvay, Erst floor, upstairs. Perfect plotures made in any weat! - Anson’s xreotypes, Large Size, for fifey cents, twice the aise of ext ocr: made or atey’ oon lored, and in & nice morocco tage, 1ined with velvet a e for 50 ce: rant these pictures 32 eleewhere. nidret 546.—It is no Wonder That Peop'e are Sur= ced at seeing THOMLSON’S fifty cont {Serine for they are put in a fire caxo twive as lar ce © before: ofiered, and colored complete, oftentimes that cost from two to threo dollars els: way. Knapp’s Daguerreotypes—A perfect Like= ness, including a fine case, as low es 59 cents. larger ones im Beaportions feraily nd children ag |APP’S old an n 8) and Prince Streets, within ¢ St, Nicholas, Metropolitan, Presoott and at 546 Broadway, enst side.’ one hundred for their 4 Olypes, THOMPSON'S siete for their da, yo es. rT ti ing, Old bachelors Ibok out. sie Betwee' half's block of Collamore of the most b Gurney, Lawrence, Brady, Root—Each claim the first premium for the best dagucrrootypes exhi- bited at the Crystal Palace. 546 Broadway, desiring that contention should be given to those who were ofequat rank, withheld those fine ize fifty cent daguerreotypes, which surpass many sold at five dollazs. Spring Furniture Sales.—A. H. Nicolay & CO. respectfully remind their friends and the public that Shey are no: ads to undertake and give their personal at- tention of household. ture at the residences of their spacious lesrooms, No. 169 Broad- way. all continue tobe rempl, energetic, and fale im. our charges, devoting our best en to the interest of friends intrusting their Pomeee to a Beebe & Co., Fashionable Hatters, 156 Broads le tra! and summer fashion for gentlemen’s hats ang A Card.—Spri oi sible prices. ah articles guaranteed to be gxactly as re orveented. # DT. ACKETT, 4 EDWA' 4 __ Clothing Emporium, 106 Fulton street. Peter Roberts & Co., 375 Broadway, have just received ali tock of Malt h i ‘ dpet rege nage ogo Malten acetone Black A Card. nit of the New and EB \y Up-Town Commercial Emporium.—Mesers, O'BRI DINGEE wonld reepoctfully. inform their friendeand, the up-town public, that they will open their new. cstablish- ment, Nos. 204’ and 206 Sixth avenue, near Fourteenth street, on Thursday next, Mareh 30, with a choioo selection of the richest fabrics of both this and foreign markets that: wae over exhibited in this city. The proprietors, encouraged: by their nig inercase of busi et} finding their pre~ o small to do just: ir customers and make a proper exposition of the! commenced some nine months ago, under their sole supervision, to erect a b ing which should meet their wants, the demands of the nd their growing trade, now present to th public & ‘ore, which, for its architcetural beauty aud syste- japtation of its inner arrangements is not hy any other establishment in the United Statos, ‘Tho store compris enticy, floors, running ninety foat deep by. , ba each floor devoted to « partioular kind First Dopartment—Bilks, grona fF oods, linens and damasks, lawns, embroi- sive ent.) white ds, dec. Tenawis, (of @ y Straw go Depertment—-Vel st 4 three-ply, ingrain and sepe TES mats, £e. Fourth Department—Mattiaz, jouquer: cilcloth:, Englis! pre bbe a oa aI f every etyle h Yepartment is presided over by “ent Politeness and attontion, who will show Bnd cheefull men of their tom: err de rocky and i \s o buy againet their inelfaation. and the ons price system strictly adhered to. O'BRIEN & DINGEE, 204 and 206 Sixth avenue, near Fourteenth street. DERSON, No. Bowers, ect = ni , No. for 34., 4s. and be: figured flor ite otis 2S cada 180, window shades. ve " carpet at 128, 4s., and Iée., per yard, ens “OM! velvet Ser! oem and Ollcl &e., &e—Me-- GRORTY, 142 Broadway, t Purchasers that hie stock of these goods, fureigaraa de mestic, trand asurably in ori richness of q iqueness in style similar goods imported or purchased in Am Freckles, E: Hons, d&e. > rupt oa cam be, ofectually removed by using Eli W. Vondersmith's et roses an ts ‘Wecan refer to more than had frecklosand pimpton ro. y using B. W. Vondersmith's extract der Havers, camphor, dc. 's cortal for inds.and lips, Prepare! and old by B. W. VON- 1H, Bowery drug store, No. 158, above Broome s¥. Thirteen Witnesses of Unquestioned In- 0 testified positively that Walter Hunt's needle were judicially disregarded deemed to be nay ti to prove the jadi- d this ee ere WAS no te ay were mistaken. Was this not substi ciaf will instead of evidence! Other courts may not -con- sider unimpeached and most respectable testimony inoredi- .. ® certain cure ble. In the mei , that we sell the best sewing ma- chines is a certain fact, and the single-threaded machinez— most perfect of all—without Gzostion of our right. I. M. SINGER & Si Cristadoro’s Hair Dye. to use the words of Dryden, ‘flushed with a pw: le grace.” Sowuch for using quack dyes, instead of a scient: - ration, certain to produce a natural brown or blacks ahd kot to calcine the hair. Sold and applied at No. 6 Astor House; weeks by Graham’: g voy? It will not stain or injure the kin. r bottle. Scat to any part of the country. R. . GRAHAM, 15 Ai if, 44 South Third street, Philadelphia. Bene: the Mi Crust some A still stranger sight: I saws bare, with flowing hair by Barker's grease- Price 25 cents. Headquarters, BARKER 439 Broadway. Moldavia Cream.—This Superb Compound, , for sti igneasoy nd b neliving the hair, prepared only by W. BA ELOR, at his celebrated hair dye eet a 238 Broadway. jatchelor’s hair dye sold . Nine private room: Warning to the Public.—It was not to be - expected that @ medicine in such universal demand Morso’s Invigorating Cordial would escape the attemti those unserupulous persons who live vy conn they cannot create. But the toll which i taking from merit is in this cave go heavy that ed, the proprietor of that eclebrated prepavati to call especial attention to it. ould ap- sands who owe life and healt’ to Dr, Morse’e invaluable discovery, and the mulutudes who, encouraged Ly their testimony, may he about to resort to the Invigorat: ing Cordial, that there if a spurious article in the market, noxious in its character, and pernicions in its edicine will’ renovate the enfecbled aystem, ure every tive wers, calm Loth bodily and montal irrita impart a recuperative iple to the whole ; while the tendency of t a wrapper, hoftt Dr. Morse’s invio ©. H. Ring, proprieter,” are blown in the cla: each cover is a promisrory note for “five mill, for twelve. a ow ecordial is put up hizbly Price, three dollars per bottle; two fur hve 3. 3.’ Proprietor, 192 Broadway. Sold by druggists throughout the United States and Canada, Fits! Fite! Fitst—Dr. Hart’s Vegetable gileptic pills are warranted the Next and only real reme m o cork and label, 1 cordial, 'd that oo. the world ns dance, neuralgia, and all affection .” Price $2 por box, or two boxes for $3. Sent by mail, post paid, to all parts of the United States. Allorders, with the maney. enclosed, mast be al- dressed to Dr. 8. HART, No. 47 West Broadway. Every Day Introduces some Gratefal Tndi- Yidoal, with » cortiieato of the wonderful cures GOU- RAUD'S mediented soap bas p din cason of salt m, Hotches, pimples, seroful I rough and ohafed Ling.’ Ladies with frockled and spotted skins will find Gon raud’s coap the host they ev ed. Equatly famed is the poudre subtile for uprooth from low fi part ofthe body, Tiquid rouge, hair restorativer, and var ‘ at the old established depot, 67 Walker stroct, first store from Broadway. tii sh Instant Relief for Violent Colds and coughe.—Dr. MeClintock’s pectoral «yrup has fully wis tained the repatation istinguishod Profesor by its feets in th and chronic eof the bung in this city have tertified their deli tat nt efrots. night only Prize Medal hy tho Industria! ra ations onto truss, sot fo o upture, variety of bandage.