The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1854, Page 4

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IGNOR BLITZ, Commencran Hatt, Jersey City. New York, Uriday, April 7, 1854. Mrculation of the New York Herald for the Week ending April 1, 1854. The News. By telegraph from New Orleans we have a bri synopsis of two weeks later intelligence from Cali- Yornia and the Pacific coast, the most important item of which is the highly gratifying announce- ment that the members of the Darien surveying party under Lieut Strain are all safe, No particv- jars are given, but we shall doubtless have the de- tails to-morrow or the day after by the arrival of the Isthmus steamers nearly due at this port. The rainy season is represented as having been unusu- ally severe in California, and owing to the great de- pression in commercial affairs many failures were anticipated. Gold, however, seems to be quite as abundant as ever. The George Law and Star of the West, which left the Isthmus for New York on the 3lst ult., had nearly two millions of doliars on freight, and an express agency at Sacramento is said to have recently forwarded nine bandred pounds of gold dust for shipment to the At- lantic States. The latest news from the Lower Cal- Wornia filibusters is the reverse of flattering to their prospects. Col. Walker was still President of the republic, but his men are reported to be continually deserting his standard. Our special advices from Washington respecting the proceedings of the Senate on the Gadsden treaty are singularly interesting. It appears that this curious abortion, and all concerned in have been ARES ANE MENA 2 MA ALE OSE report of Ue p eceed ngs ‘s the continu Connecticut, have made 2 clean sweep of i They hase e’ec'ed the'r caudioa ments to Be poat gard, °F the 7% ao9 soi Be Zeducled from | 4 ty | sures. 0 run through the gauntlet of a most merciless discus- sion, and that upon the removal of the injunction of secresy we may expect such a series of revelations and scathing commentaries upon the condvet of the administration, and the speculators who have led the administration by the nose, as will astonish the country. We are prepared for thi. We e seen quite enough to be prepared for anything, how- ever disastrous to the interests of the treasury and of the administration. It appears to be firmly re- solved upon rendering itself utterly obnoxious to the country, for every measure which it has adopted as a favorite bantling has thus far been ignominiously strangled by Congress. Very well. Let us have all the promised revelations upon the Gadsden treaty, and let them be published in a pamphlet in counee- | tion with the correspondence on the Gardner claim. | They will thus be useful for fature reference. Petitions in opposition to the Homestead and N braska bills, and in favor of religious freedom abr were presented in the United States Senate yester- day. Two or three bills were passed, including the House measure granting a pension to the widow of Gen. Leavenworth. A batch of correspondence was | received relative to the imprisonment of Martin Koszta in Smyrna. The documents, it is reported, | furnish no new light on the subject. After an ex- ecutive session the body adjourned. During the early part of the day th Representatives considered the bill authorizing a contract to be made for carrying the mails between New Orleans and San Francisco. Mr. Churchwell explained that the object of this measure was to | place the Post Office Department on a footing with individual enterprise and the express lines. Mr. Wn. Smith, of Virginia, who was some years ago connected with mail contracts, and is understood to know something about the necessity of making extra exertions for the prompt delivery of the mails, and the importance of extra pay therefor, strongly vocated this bill as being in consonance with t spirit of the age. On going into Committee, Mr. | Preston spoke in favor of the Nebraska bill, and was followed by Gervit Smith in one of his stereotyped abolition tirades against the constitution, the laws and the opinions of a majority of the people of this country. The voluminous correspondence respecting the Spanish outrages on Americans in Cuba was opened in the House yesterday, and found to embrace the detailed particulars of some fifteen or sixteen differ- ent cases in which our citizens have been wantonly and unjustly imprisoned and deprived of their pro: perty, our flag insulted, our mails overhauled, and existing treaties openly violated and set at deflance. The correspondence rons back for a period of nin teen years, and if Congressmen do not find it suf ciently strong to make outa case against Spain it will be a wonderful exemplification of forbearance under disagreeable circumstances. The President, it is said, soon expects to receive an answer from ie House of | | Ds the Spanish government, positively refusing to accede to the demands made with regard to the Black Warrior affair, together with information that England and France have despatched strong fleets to reinforce their squadrons in the West® Indies, thus carrying out the terms of their secret treaty to uphold the Spenish, dynasty over Cuba. In the meantime, what will be done to strengthen our equadron in that quarter, The Japanese expedition has absorbed a large portion of our naval force; sea- men cannot be procured at the present rates of com- pensation to man the vessels lying idle ‘n our ports, and nothing is being done to immediately remedy theevil and prepare for the threatening struggle by our imbecile administration. All eyes gre upon Con- grese—what will they do? Notwithstanding t ” the shape of lobby influence, which is a great draw- back to the progress of business, both branches of the Legislature are disposing of bil!s ata very rapid rate. A great many were passed yesterday ding several relating to important ma city and Long Ivland. The Police bill eh Cer be ee Laws I Wall be Immense outside pressure in » inch ora to this ige fire dhe Serie, aac Lege: — i agreed to the Holy Pla» s of Palestine, to Turkey now? | men who, under the leadership of John Mitche!, ‘v0 | Mere nomin.1 dependencies, sub ect to En. land, | addled their heeds over schemes fr invading { eyortially hay nab to vi v York i i lonseqner cray ¢ t { oice ¢ r bined Jom of the iv A variety of very iuteresting in- | ed by our correspon lent vended t the acts thus fa passed at this se The whys 9! Rhode Island, Like their brevavon ia for Goy by hy haa teed of the Le ure By w of Phiatelph’a W have received remarkably spicy piece of {n‘ellizence om Hayti. lt appeas tia! 4 threatening émewre bas ‘ sprang up bi veen his sable Majesty, Faustin the First, and ‘he naval o//c.rs 0! his brot peror Napokon. On tho 5th ult. Paus!i audience to Admiral | uquesne, whereupon th mitted a letter, declaring tha! unless tain g nds wee com Lcd with the forces would in two days resort to course this proceeding th Ir , Port au Prince, but the whole of his cal state of confusion Emperor fearlessly scouted aied for the alternative, and tly rejected the proposition, The finale o} ‘or the time being, was that the French saluted the Haytien flag. » give a brief sketch of the suffi John Haben, an American a imprisonment by n refaset va Pr the Majesty's dom'n‘ons, into a xcitement; bat tl ile threat, } ngs the excitement throughe It is very interesting. The Eastern demand ivr flour yesterda reduction in freights, tended to sustain prices da better feeling for good to fancy Ohio and 5 brands. Corn ruled in favor of pur- Cotton continued unsettled, though there was more doing. Very little was taken for export. A case of summary precesding was decided yes- terday by Judge Green, of the Firt District Court, which is important to landlords and tenants, amd exhibits a very opyress've act on the part of a landlord. Besides many columns of advertisements and much interesting general reading, to-day’s ‘inside pages contain a report of a very entertaining lecture de- livered by Prof. Bartlett before the Historical So- ciety, on “The Forms of Nature and Animal Life in the Interior portion of North America.” Much anxiety is manifested to receive the Eu- ropa’s news, which many believe will bring a formal de ion of war on the part of England and France against Russia. + the country some months ago. The War In Europe—The Beginning of the End. The recent publication of the extraordinary secret conver:ations between the Emperor Ni- cholas and Sir George H. Seymour, touching manifest destiny” of the Turkish empire, ers certain and inevitable the fearful ulti- matum of a universal, complicated and bloody war in Europe. The Rubicon is crossed, and France and England are entering into a conflict which though it may not last as long, will in all hu- probability result in more numerous and more radical changes in the boundaries and po- litical systems of ‘the Central and Western Powers of Europe, than were achieved during the twenty-live years of the wars of the first French revolution. ‘The first inquiry sugge-ted to the mind, in view of this terrible dramx before us, is, what is to be the termination of this deadly struggle among the European Powers? Prima facie, the general conclusion will be that Russia, hemmed in upon the Black Sea and the Baltic by the fleets of England and France, and cut off from the support of Prussia and Austria, while a nucleus of French and British are to give discipline and effi- to the Turkish forees—the gene- ral impression will be, that Russia must, in the end, succumb, and accept the terms of peace which the Western Powers may be pleatel to dictate as their ultimatum. This, however, is but a superficial judgment of the probable issue of the gran? impending strug- gle. The political p of Europe may be changed from tl line to tLe mouths of the ube, irom the Scheldt to the Appenines— d ties and kingdcms and principalities may disappear like grass before a consuming fire, religions systems and traditions, social institu- tions and distinctions, old and venerable as the castles of the feudal ages, may be engulphed in the heyrors cf another Reign of Terror, and yet Russia may come cut of the smoke and ruins of the conflict intact in her western bounda- | vies, sole cecupant of the Turkish dom‘nioas in Europe, and with the summer residence of her Czar looking out upon his long desired haven of the Golden Horn. The English journals lay claim t amount of v ava eli-denial and gene- tue, integrity, rosity oa the part of their Cabinet in refusing to accede to the tempting overtures of the Czar for the division of tie spoils of the dying . But it may, well be questioned whether, in this self-eomplacent refusal to co- operate. with the Czar in the appropriation of the plunder, Englond is entitld to any credit whatever on the ground of a lofty and disin- terestei_ magnanimity. Policy is te full ex- planation of her generous forbearance in regard toTurkey. Suppose she had entered into the proposed secret alliirce with Nicholas upon the basis of an understanding “as between gentlemen”: the first step to the reduction of Turkey to the terms involved would have in- stantly aroused the resistance of France. The French steam navy, built expressly with the view of meeting the possible contingency of a rupture with England, would find little difficul- ty in landing, in a single night, fifty or a bun- dred thousand men upon her shores, and less difficulty in exciting ane Irish rebellion, and in fornishing the insurgents with arms and muni- tionsof war. The acceptance of the Czar's pro- posals wiull have invilve?, ia a word, the al- ternative (f a war with France. This contin- gcney, in giving full employment to the fleets and armies of Englan?, would leave the Czar in the untispute occupation of the Turkish dominions. The Czar, in his eagerness for the prize, overreached himself. He has shown his hand, and England, in refasiag bis alliance, has only consulte! her interest in a coalition with her more immediate and combustible neighbor. What is the position of towards Turkey? At this very moment it is substantial ort of protection proposed by the Emperor Nicholas, Turkey this day is otectorate of England ¢ > England ond Russia. Her traction, her indepenier ct, but little better than gland and France ten n oint occupation of They may divi her with issue ¥ s if the partitic t his y p-cicnsicrs, What are Dgypt, aad Casdia, aud gely in the ascenJant im boch branches | oF the Russion emp‘re, | of Isla 1 | the bloodiest batth | In this complicated and deadly struggle it is my. | my with the consent of France, without fuither Canada, an! sending an expedition to Ireland. trouble, The Sultan is but th» dependent of | That the fact diel sed had really taken place, hie western alli His fate is in their hands; ; and if they expe! the Czar from his territories, they must divide them upon the plan of Nicho- las, or continu their protect on ov rt e Sultan ‘as the viecroy of Englind end France, The fate of Turkey is sealed, She cannot he aban- | doned by her present allies without being ab- | sorbed by Russia, Henceforth she must form a dependeney of France and Ea.0"4, or a part p 'D “uy event, the reign om ts oxt net and Christianity, for the 4° ™ | future, is pre /ominant in the East. As between the Cross and the Crescent, the sirugzle is al- yeady decided. The politic.1 iseues of this continental cqa- test, however, are the questi ns in hand. War begins. Tie fleets of England and France scour the Russians from the Black Sea and the , Baltic. The armies of France 72d England im- pari a terrible ecergy to the resistance of the Turks upon the, Danube. The flame spreads: Prussia and A astria are irres'stibly draw. into the general sirife. All the great Powers are involved; and the murderous missiles and en- | gines of war invented during the last forty 's Gf peace, m.ke the wholesale slaughter and and sea more appalling than s of the fiercest barbarians. ye destraction on la yet undetermined whether Austria and Prussia will side with their ancicnt ally, the Czar, or with France, their ancient and hereditary ene- But, side as they mey, they only change the seat of war to their own dominions, without impairing the vigor or the unity of Russia. The prospect is that they will be compelled ulti- mately to join the Czar,in which case they will leave the bulk of his armies free for the occupa- tion of the Turkish dominions in Europe and Asia. But there i» to be a third great party in this Continental war, which appears to have been entirely overlooked in the estimates of the French and English journals. It is the revolu- tionary party—the party of the socialists and republicans of France, Germany, Italy and Hungary, to say nothing of those of the British islands. These revolutionary elements are dormant ; but they are only slumbering and smouldering, like the hidden fires of a living vol- cano, Europe may provoke an eruption compared with which that of 1848 will appear a compara tively harmless explosion. We see that in Prussia, for example, there is an ominous dif- ference of opinion between the court and the cabinet on the one hand, and the people on éh+ other, upon the question of neutrality. Uu- and Hungary, the popular elements of revolu- tion are but waiting the signal of a fight be- tween their masters, to spring to arms against them all. alition into the estimate, is it not idle to count upon the defeat of Russia in this grand and complicated imbroglio, and the re-establishment of the balance of power upon the new pro- gramme of Lord Clarendon? Far more proba- ble is it that while the Central and Western powers of Europe shall issue from the exhaust- ing struggle, subject to the balance of power o the revolutionary alliance of their subjects, the Czar will be found the lord paramount over the smoking ruins of Turkey. Nothing but a permanent cohesion between England and France can prevent this consummation; and the history of the last five hundred years af- fords no sort of guarantee that the present fra- ternal alliance between the French and Eng- lish can be of any lengthened duration. The two powers united in the first attempt to colo- nize the East Indies, but they soon quarrelled over the spoils, hostilities followed, and the French were expelled, leaving to England the whole of those magnificent dominions—So now, even if successful against the Czar, the issue may be reversed in his favor, ina rupture between the two protecting powers upon the partition of the plunder. Thus, from past history, existing facts and present indicaticns, the prospects are that Rus- sia will finally succeed in falling heir to the “sick man’s” estates, after his death shall have been duly celebrated. The other probable con- tingencies of the war may ie partly con‘ec- tured, as we have attempted to show, from the parties, the ccmplexities, the tremendous agencies, and the radical issuesinvolved. Upon the verge of a continental earthquake which threatens to shake the thrones, the dynasties, the traditions, and the religious and political systems of a thousand years, into ruins, the fate of Turkey Lecomes but an incident in the com- prehensive issue. Russia is the front figure of the tournament, and in the end she may emerge the only champion unscathed from the general melee. We ere now only at the beginaing of the end. Canada and Caba, While the great Powers of Europe are ne- gotiating «nd preparing to fig.t about Turkey and the disposal of the remains of the fallen Oriental Empire, the United States, the ruling Power of this continent, are discussing the ultimate disposal and destiny of Canada and Cuba, the one a depen- dency of great Britain, the other of Spain. Se- veral Canadian journals have referred to the recent startling developements made by the organs of William H. Seward and John Mitchel, with respect to the projected Irish invasion of Canada: some with great seriousnesss, others with sarcasm and ridicule. In point of fact, the proposal of John Mitchel and his Seward ally to invade and conquer Canada with a band of Irish Volunteers is {ust as rational and as questionably as in Prussia, so in Austria, Italy | Cuba, on the contrary, we have reason to Coubt ; but for John Mitchel | and his Irish friends to fancy they were going | toshake t e spheres, and conquer provinces, or | for Will'am H. Seward and his organs to rub | their hans gle fully over the prospect of gain- ing move abolition allies, and fresh accessions of free soil strength, through the aid of i ‘poor creatures, is really On a par with “vacong Panza’s fancying he was governor of y tieurish- ing island. The analogy, by "ue way, might be drawn still closer; for, as wa understand, it was settled by the doughty cov“ederates that, in order to satisfy both the Iyish and the aboli- tion wing of the army, John Mitchel should be Governor of the conquered Province of Cana- da and Henry J. Raymond Lieutenant Gover- nor. itis to b@ regretted, for the sake of our Canadian neighbors and the world at large, that these Swo illustrious personages will not have an Opportunity of displaying their public usefulness in the capacities aforesaid ; but no } man can struggle against destiny, and the Irish must bottle up their valor. It will be some consilation to Mr. Mitchel that Canada ng him, the Governorship of Coney Island is vacant; and though the emolaments are not equal to those of an Alabama plantation, the henor is far greater. The wish of his heart, cherished fondly between a sigh over Ireland's wrongs, and a snarl at Anglo-Saxon perfidy, was for a gang of fat negroes to drive ; it can- not be realized there, for the negroes one meets on Coney Island are rare and generally lean. But if the negroes are not fat, the clams are ; and for the present, the illustrious Irish pa- trict must content himself with the ownership of the bivalves instead of the bipeds. Our Canadian contemporaries have done us some injustice in coupling our name with the movement. We merely recorded the fact of the existence of the conspiracy and the coalition between Mr. Mitchel and Mr. Seward : so far as our own opinion went, we never regardesP.he matter otherwise than asa bagatelle. We are, itis true, very desirous that steps should be taken for the transfer of Cuba to this country; but that desire does not imply a similar wish as regards Canada. The two cases are widely and essentially different; and the points of differ- ence are so important that it may be well to The first shock of arms in the heart of | menticn them for the information of those who now confound the two colonial dependencies. The only motive that could induce us to pos- sess ourselves of Canada is a political one--a desire that our northern boundary should be the perennial snows and impenetrable forests of the north. To a nation devoted to peace, this consideration is a mere abstraction. we desire to pos- sess on grounds commercial, and military as well as political. All classes are alike interested in its annexatien. Cuba, in the hands of a foreign power, incessantly threatens Taking this widespread revolutionary co- | our southernand transcontinental trade : Cana- da, in case of war, would be so difficult to guard that it eould never become a dangerous neigh- bor, Cuba shuts out our exports by its abomi- nable tariff; Canada takes all we can send her aud makes yearly alterations in her tariff to suit us. In Cuba flour is $16 50 a barrel, thus diminishing our exports of the article thither : from Canada we take more flour than we send, and find inreturn an excellent market for. va- riety of our manufactures, The people of Ca- nada are happy, contented, and free under the British rule: the Creoles are only kept down by bayonets. The Canadians lose no opportu- nity of rendering the intercourse between them and us closer, more intimate and more friendly; the Cuban authorities lose no opportunity of showing their desire to break off their inter- course with us altogether, by insulting our flag and molesting our vessels. In one word, Cana- da is as good a customer, and a better friend than she could be were she annexed ; Cuba is the worst customer and the most direct enemy wehave. Here are reasons enough to wish for the annexation of the one without the other. There is yet another reason why a project for adding Cuba to the Union is more sensible than a scheme for annexing Canada. Te the last it would be utterly ridiculous to expect Great Bri- tain to consent; whereas her objections to the for- mer could certainly be overcome. A day is surely at hand when British statesmen will be convinced of the emptiness of the notions about balances of power on this continent; or will learn at least, that no balance can be worth anything where the scales are uneven, and that no power in this country can equipoise the United States, By the time this obvious truth has begun to make its way into the British mind. another of equal moment will be entertained by the mercantile community of England. British merchants and manufacturers will by that time have begun to see that Cuba, under the stars and stripes, would consume about ten times the amount of British goods and manufactures she now does; and in return would send to England a mach larger quantity of sugar, tobacco, and molasses, They see that a new trade would be opened for British ships. In short, they would reap all the advantages which the opening of a rich country, now comparatively closed to trade, could not but confer on one of the leading com- mercial nations of the world. These ideas will find their way sooner or later into John Bull's head; and then he will be the first to second our designe on Cuba. Toe Fire TeLecrarn or New Your.—A plan was proposed about two years ago, in the Common Council, for the establishment of a telegraph at the City Hall, by which that build- ing could be brought in direct communication with all parts of the city. It was proposed to make it the grand centre from which telegraphic wires should radiate to the various station sensible as the motion made the other day in | houses, eo that in case of fires, riots, or dis- Congress by Mr. Campbell the free soiler for turbances of any kind, immediate information opening negotiations with the Queea of Eng- | thereof could be :ent to the Chief of Police, or land with a view of ascertaining at what figure | his deputies. As the plan was approve: of very she would seli Canada, Ther: is no doubt generally it was adopted, and an appropriation among the fanatic. abolitionists of the North | made to carry it into effect. Like all other a strong disposition to favor any scheme or projects, however, for the benefit of the city, harbor any fallacious notion that may seem | the work has been retarded for ticarly two charged with injury to the South. These would advocate the annexation of Canada—not because they desire to extend the territory of the Union— but simply from the fact that they cee in it the prospect of a large accession of strength to their party, and a chance of introdue’ng into the confederacy two or more mombers, irreconcil- ably and inex:rably hostile to Southern institu- tionsand Southern interests. They believe and rightly too—that Canada would go any lengths with them in their war upon the Sox ad hence their covetousness of te northern shore of the lakes and St. Lawrence. No less potent a motive could have induced a respectable jour- nal to give publicity, seriously, to the idle plot and disvempered fancies ui tue beudsul of Leisn- years, and we believe that up to the present time it remains in an unfinished state. Com- munication has been established with the residence of the Chief of Police and the majority of the station houses; but little if any benefit has resulted to the Tire Department from what has been thus far accomplished. It was intended to increase the efficiency of that body by the rapid communi- cation of intelligence from one fire district to an- other, and to prevent as much as possible the an- noyance to which true firemen are subjected from the frequency of false alarms. In accomplish- ing this desirable result it has not heen so sue- ceseful as we had anticipated, and in comparison with the system in operon .o Suswn may be regarded as a failure. There ¢he iclegraphic machines, instead of being, “kept in the station houses, are enclosed in Song hoxes, and posted at the most available points throughout the city, under the gnarge of policemen who are always in the, vicinity. By this means imme- diate infor mation of a fire, in any locality, can be giv’. to all the.fire companies at the same ‘ir The moment a fire is discovered the policeman, who is always to be found near the telegraphic post, is informed of ; it, when he sets the machine in operation, and instantly every fire bell in the city an- nounced the number of the distrigt in which it is to be found. The bells are rung by the tele- graph simultaneously and without the agency of the ringer, whose services are entirely dis- pened with. It is true they are not so large as our fire bells ; they are more numerous, but not so well suited to the system as our bells | and towers would be. In the case of a false alarm the companies on their way to ihe scene of the supposed fire are notified of it by a particular signal, and thus a great deal of un- necessary trouble is prevented. If the fire has been suppressed, immediately after itstliscove- ry, the firemen who are on their way can also be informed of it in the same manner. Occa- sionally, we are told, mistakes occur from the derangement of the machines, but as a general thing the plan has been very successful. We trust some such system will be adopted in New York, if, as we suspect, that which we have adopted is found inadequate to the purpose. | | | | | \ TuurLow Weep’s Lasr Jos.—Thurlow Weed is a cunning man where his own interest is concerned. While the Legislature at Albany, and the lookers on around that venerable body were furious with excitement about the Maine law and the Governor's veto, and the destruc- tive tendencies of alcohol, Thurlow very quietly slipped through both houses a special act, creat- | ing a job for himself which will be worth, at least, $30,000 or $40,000 to him. With the pre- vious jobs realized under the whig ascendancy, he has probably realized from the coffers of the State, during the last few years, a sum not less than $400,000. What has the State to show for this large amount of money? We have had favorable seasons of anti-slavery excitement, of anti-masonic excitement, of anti-rent excite- ment, of anti-alcohol excitement; all these pro- ducing public disturbances, troubles, émeutes, riots, rows, murders, and manslaughters. Who wouldn’t be a public printer, with the liberty of making half a million in a few years? Help for Russia—Curious Movement. We have been informed of a curious and extraordinary movement for the benefit of Russia, which contemplates nothing more nor less than the destruction of the allied fleets in the Baltic. It will be recollected that on the last outward irip of the steamship Baltic ex-Alderman Weeley Smith, Jr., of this city, accompanied M. Grum- wald, a Russian officer, bound for St. Petersburg, osten- sibly with the view of fulfilling a contract for supplying the imperial government with $300,000 worth of ship timber. We now learn that some ten or twelve other Americans went out with Mr. Smith, and that they are associated in a secret contract with Russia for the de- struction of the British and French fleet in the Baltic, (should they approach sufficiently near any Russian port for the purpose,) by means of Taylor's submarine armor and Colt’s submarine battery. The plan, we understand, is thie —A portable torpedo, of sufficient power to sink @ man-of-war, is to be carried under the water by a man encased in submarine armor. He fastens the battery to the bottom of the ship, and returns to the shore, when, by means of an electrical wire, the battery is fired, and the ship is blown up. It is said that this Submarine Armor and Battery Company are to receive one hundred thousand poundf sterling if sue- cessful in clearing out the allied squadron; and they are otherwise to receive @ stipulated sum for every hostile ‘vessel destroyed. ‘We give the report for what itis worth. There may be something in it. The modus operandi of the subiarine armor and battery is calculated to be tremendously de- structive, if the ships for whose benefit this terrible experiment is intended are only sufficiently accommo- dating to run near enough to the shore and wait long enough to give the man in the submarine armor a fair trial. This we should think, for the sake of proving the efficiency of these submarine inventions as coast and harbor defences, the Briti-h and French fleets ought to allow. The Submarine Armor and Torpedo Company only ask a fair trial. Why not let them have it? Strect Cleaning. INTERESTING STATISTICS—AMOUNT OF FILTH RE- MOVED. We give below a tabular statement of the progress of the work of cleaning the streets up to the first day of April. We have heretofore published a statement of the work done from the eighth day of March up to the twen- ty-second day of the same month. With the annexed, it appears that during the three weeks of purification one hundred and fifty thougand loads of dirt, filth, garbage, and ashes,were removed from our streets under the orders of the Board of Health. As the work is now to be trans- ferred by Mr. Downing, the City Inspector, to Mr. Glasier, the new Commissioner of Streets, who is hereafter to be held responsible for their condition, the following state- ment is a final one as far as the Board of Health is concerned:— SratemenT roR THE Two Werxs Enpinc on SaTuRDAY, = Arai 1, 1854. = Fd 39 bey 2 7 es § & = H g2 sty a en: ze 8h : 3 3 : sie : ri : a F f i ne : 8 oe De Re : ig ; z : ary : ig Ee ee ey Tet w, 2éwo. Ist wo. 2d. we, Vet aw, 2d wo. 2d. 47° 46° 178% 17335 “3,440 495. 5,872 M14 BO 76 1,085 361 2.284 27% 106% G9 14S B57 2isi8 TL 86" 46 11493 29 3,727 » 2D 6935 69 2155 440 3,237 36 52 ws” 182% 1.646 806 4281 46 22 M6 74K 2.013 —* 4.235 2 28 ss 156 1,003 ay 400 S.308 + 8 107 13th 1/968 538 3,582 : 1 Th 4483 11885 ‘443 415 3:18 ae 1757833 8.836 $43. 6,999 30 26 102% C6 00 oe —# 52 S26 1a" 36" 1.600 824 404 2,514 56 BG 234% 20734 1,258 349 228 BM Be ae 06 OT oR FS aL : BAR MN BIT a7 1.0K 1 AT 91105 403°" 05 4,258 1,851 by 89 41 42054 120% 4,000 4,000 8000 we st Be 2000 200 4,000 SOM 86x34 2413¢ 3.987 4,01 9,255, + 95100 B78 1082 3986 OSL US Lie 7,699 + 4 9 4 4 1184 1,000 —* —* 28h Total. .. 960 248 8,987%4 4, 083 29,056 8,907 8,890 94,000 * Asties ineluded with the street dirt, The Crystal Palace. WHAT BARNUM IS DOING FOR IT. We have previously alluded to the present melancholy condition of the Crystal Palace. The stock has depre- ciated more than fifty per cent, and the association is in- debted to various persons in the sum of one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Mr. P.T. Barnum has been elected President of the ‘Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of afl Nations.”’ Mr. Barnum has not yet accepted that trust, but he says that he will do so in case that one hundred thousand dollars worth of tickets are taken in advance. His plan is to secure this eum of money, and he is willing to be responsible for the balance ($70,000.) He has no doubt that by the infusien of a little vigor and business tact into the management of the Exhibition, it will more than pay this debt. In case this sum ($100,000) is subscribed, Mr. Barnum intends that the Crystal Palace shall be made a permanent institwe | tion. He states that he has the offer of a large amount of statuary and paintings, and that the manufacturers, both at home and abroad, will be glad to put in their goods, in case they are assured that anybody will come to see them Providing the one hundred thousand dollars is raised, Mr. Barnum intend: ments with the steamboat and rai bring passenge:s here on exeursion ticko he thinks that he will be able to attract a greater number of people to New York than ever came before, Of course this will benefit the be the shopkeepers, and it is frum these gentle men that he expects te has | cireular to them, in whieh he pays MU ordinary admission tickets to the Crystal Palace be | lief subscribed for by thore interested, to the amount of igtion will be relieved from its imme- ments. In this event | would devote my rgies to the enterprise, and have no it more persons could be attracted to New York visited it before in a single season. An au- ent or myself will take the liberty of giving you au eerly call in relation to this subject, and I trast you will be ready to respond in sueh a manner ag wit ours, 2 om permonentty to this city an establish- inept that must, if property conducted, add material: to the prosperity of ee ttaes) 3 m Th¢ authorized agent’ above referred to is My, Bare ium himself. He was at work all day yesterday, andthe proceeds are given in a list which is published herewith, He has bustled about hotels, shops, and all public places, and has received orders for tickets in all amounts, from ten thousand dollars worth down to five dollars worth, le will not accept the presiiency of the association until this amount fs secured, because he would be responsible for its debts, and he desires something to fall back upon, Now, he does not own a dollar's worth of the stock, He also desires the stockholder to invest more money in the concern, The Palace is now open, and the receipts aver- age one hundred and fifty dollars perdiem. Mr Barnum has issued a circular to the stockholders, in which he Baye If ordinary admission tickets to the Crystal Palace be subscribed for by those interested, to the amount of $100,000, the association will be relieved from its immedi- ate emberrassments. In this event 1 would devote my whole time and energies to the enterprise, aud haye no doubt that more persons could be attracted to New York than ever visited it before in a single season. The stock would then not only he worth, but would probably command par prices, and, as no persons are, im fact, 60 deeply interested in the success of this enterprise as the stockholders, I propose that you, as well as every other stockholder, shall agree to purchase tickets in advance to- the extent of at least ten per centon the amount of stock you own, I hope you willlose no time in apprisiag me, af the American Museur, of the amount of tickets you will take, for Tussure you that every hour's delay adds to the difticulty in bringing this enterprise iato new life and vigor. The following is a full List of the subseribers up to last evening. The whole amount subsertbed is seventy-three - thousand eight hundred and ten dollars:— Sixth Avenue R.R..$10,000 John . Genin $100,000, th diate embai whole time and doubt ¢ than {000 + Barnum’s Museum,, 5,000 — Miles... . | 20 ‘Astor House — McElrath pan Irving House F. Colton... a 10 St. Nicholas Hotel 5,000 J.B. Wickersham... 100 Metropolitan Hotel... 5,000 J.B. Whitman,..... 50 Lovejoy’s Hotel 6,000 Robt. Dent... - 8 New York Hotel 6,000 Geo. A. Thorne . *@ Florence Hotel 000 E. M. Voorhie: 2: Merchants’ Hot 3,000 Union Mutuak r= A anceCo., Philadel’a 200 James Lawrie Py |. W. Mead: 5) H. 5 1j. 5 'T. 8. Stebbins, jew D, J. Tenney.. +. 1,000 Gi House. 2,000 London and Liverpool J. Foreman.. 50 Insurance Co. 200 Judsom’s Hotel. + 200 Alfred Pell... . 100 Patten’s Hotel: . - &» Duncan, Sherman & Dey Street Hotel..... 200 Cr. 1,000 a Total te erereceee eee ee eee eee, 978,810 City Intelligenee. EXTLOSION OF PERCUSSION CAPS—SEVERAL’ PER- SONS INJUBED. Between five and six o'clock on Wednesday evening an. “explosion took place, occasioned by percussion caps, at the manufactory of Frederick Mcssenivan, No. 67 Ant” street, which injured two females and s man, employes in the establishment. It appears that some loose powder was accidentally left around the loading machine, which ignited and exploded the percussion caps, injuring Aga McCullough, Ann Goulding and Alexander Celler. The two females were severely injured, and were conveyed to the New York Hospital, for medical aid. THE Case or Yrutow Fever.—The censure of the offi- cers of the New York Quarantine by the Coroner's jury, for allowing the steamer Empire City to come up to t city on Tuesday last with a case of yellow fever on board, potterday brought Dr. Fay, the deputy physician at the Quarantine, before Mayor Westervelt, to explain matters. The statement of the case is simply this:—All vessels e: cepting steamers are closely examined by the physicians in person at the Quarantine before they are allowed to Pass to the city. Steamers are not subjected to this rigid scrutiny, inasmuch as they have physicians and surgeons on board, whose duty it is to know if any contagious dis- ase is in the vessel, and to report itto the authorities at the Quarantine. To save delay to steamships, the word of their physicians is generally taken as sufficient, and the yessel allowed to proceed. This was the case with the Empire City on Tues: at the Quarantine, Dr. Fi a to the usual inquiries was told by the ship's doctor that there was no disease on board, and the vessel passed on. On arriving in the city one of her passengers, Sebastian Gebbard, was taken to 54 Chrystie street, where, on Wed- nesday, he died, of what the Coroner’s jury decided to be yellow fever, and shown at the inquest fo have boen contracted on board the steamship Empire City, while on her way from New Orleans te thiseity. ‘These facts be- coming known at the Quarantine, yesterday Dr. Fay came to the city and had an interview with the Mayor about the matter. The Doctor decided to go before the Grand Jury and make a complaint against the captain and phy- sician of the Empire City. on the ground of falsely re- Forting the condition of this vessel to the authorities at the Quarantine on Tuesday last. ‘The Grand Jury having edjourned till Monday next, the complaint to be made in thin case is deferred til then. Tae DaktTMOOR PRISONERS—ANNUAL MEBTING.—The am niversary meeting of the small band now remaining of the Dartmoor prisoners was held last evening, at the stone, Division street. ‘The event was celebrated by a small supper party, given by the host, Mr. Atwood. Kight or ten only of the old veterans were present; but they all looked hale and hearty, and seem Tikely to wit- ness many more of those pleasant little gatherings. The chair was taken dy Me. Lewis Cloves, who an ex- tended account of the imprisonment and sufferings of this brave band, of whom they were the only survivors. Among the toasts offered on the occasion were the fol- jowing:— Our Country—In the advance of time may hor glory increase; and if at aay time she be corgpellod vo resort armas, may it always be in the cuuse of ustlee, The Hrnaxp and othors of the press who have so liberally and disinterestedly advocated our cause, ‘Our absent and deceased friends. O07 Sueethiearts and Wiver—Wives they aro, sweethearts ey were, Our Army and Navy—May the services of either neveg bo forgotten ly our country. e party separated at an early hour. ity Polities. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN GENERAL COMMITTEE. The regular monthly meeting of the members of this body was held last evening, in their rooms, Stuyvesant. Tnstitute, Richard Schell in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting being rend and ap- proved, on motion a committee of three was appoint- ed to draft resolutions expressing their views on the late conduct of the administration in decapitating some of the very best democrats in the Custom House. The committee were absent about twenty minutes, and on re- turning to the room made the following report, which was read by one of the committee, and, aiter some slight debate, adopted almost unanimously :— Resolved, That in the recent removal of democrats from office by the federal officers attached to the Custom House of this port, the national democracy roe renewal * of the Present faithlons mpt by the decoitfal admi- nitration to “crush out” cvery expression of individual opinion; to render citizons of a free and sovereign State eubmitelve to the dictation of a central power, and to de- rade het independent electors to the base positions of mis, le di overnment, t white we rogret this act of tl of of yi ws nk t] it tho seal is ni moved from the Ii ruck from the of 80 many reliable and fearioss democeats, who h long beheld, in impatient sileace, the degraded position the present administration, hut’ whose voices and hands now join with their democratic trethren in the honest de- Bun(iation of an apoctate executive and his compliant oa- net. Resolved, That the rerult of the recent clections in New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut is to be attrib ted tothe loss of the confidence of the democracy in the fidelity of the President to those great principles which achieved hi lee’ |. and to the unpeincipled conduct of Lis “ spoils cabin that while we regret the loss of tl States from the triumphant (iets of 1852, we must view the sacrifice with that stern convivtion « justice which actuated the Roman judze in condemnin’ his own fon. Resolved, That we recognize in the recent action of the democracy of California, and te bold protest of her domo. cratio islators ageinst federal interference with State mother pulention of thut democratic heat which unison from ocean t» ocean: and, in tho langn of their address to the democracy of that Stato, we toe forced to conclude that the course pursued to the demoe. cy of this State is an experiment of encroavtiment, thi eneral view of which is to d and federnt control, and make the conte eRe? sas ower Musto country, through the vulgaz intiuence pt spoils’ Me Resolved, That in the contcmplated choice of David C.° Broderick, our late fellow citiren, as the stamdard bearer of the denor of California, we hail the elevation of « erving nations! demoora re in ‘actical works spirit of our ions, which approc i rowards the: industry of the hum! return of Da- yid C. Brederie! in i California in the United States Senate, the national dem racy of the Calon yi have a resolute ally, and his adopted Mate secure s ed, That the nationsl democracy of this city and Y Approve of and sustain the course of the Hon, Fran- cis B. Cutting, and other democratic representatives ig Congtora, jn tha the administration to force the Nebraska bi out discussion, by a preconcerted pl ‘attempted intlmida- tion; and that tive will. Marine Affairs. Sup Burepina at WItLtAMSHURG.—The following vessels are in course of construction at the yard of Mr. . Stack, foot of North Second street, Williamsburg;—@ bark of 289 tons, for Maitland, Phelps & Co.; a bark of 183 tons, for Mr. H. Delafield; a hermaphrodite brig of 172 tone, for H. K. Corning; a three masted sehooner for Mr. Wm. B. Whitehead—sho is 140 feet long, 30 feet beam, 12 fect hold and 480 tons burthen, to be launched the 10th of May; for Mossrs. Wakeman, Dimon & Co., a three masted schooner, 140 feet long, 32 feet boam, 183g feot deep and 400 ton en, to be launched 20th April; a bark of 289 tons, M. M. Freeraan & Co., to be launched the-26th of Ju , At Megera. Lawgence & Foulks? yard, foot of North Fifth gteeet, the following. vessels aro in eourw of eonsteue- tica— As boat for tie Noewie aad W eS Steamboat Company, 316 feet long, 22 feet oam, 19 foot ee