The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1854, Page 4

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S77 and S79 Brosdway~Aftornocn WGNOR BLITZ, Linnary Haus, Newark New York, Thursday, April Ei, 1854. @trenlation of tue New York Herald for the Week Ing April 8, 1854. Monday, Aj 5 ‘ sevee 50,880 Tuesday, 52\440 Wedn “ 53,160 Thursda “a 51,840 Friday, “ 3 51,360 Saturday, bi 54,720 The News. Two steamers are fully due with later advices @om Europe, viz.,the Hermann, at this port, with news to the 29th ult., and the America, at Halifax, ‘with news to the Ist inst. According te our telegraphic advices from Wash- ‘mgton, to which we refer our readers, in another part of this paper, the Gadsden treaty is in a tran- sition stete. Like the countryman’s breeches, it thas been patched till scarcely a fragment of the riginal material is left. The sum to be given is Reduced to xeyen millions, and the item for the stock-jobbers and speculators is stricken out, both of which are very cruel things, considering the present shortness of funds in the Mexican treasury and in the lobby of the United States Senate. The article relating to the filibusteros has also been ex- punged—the Senate, doubiless, concluding that Col. Walker is done for, without the necessity of any Aiplomacy on the subject. The boundary, too, has also been materially changed—the line, as proposed by the Senate, cutting right throngh Col. Cooke’s Wagon route, and throwing the mostof it back again into Mexico. This makes sad work of the estimates of certain Pacific railroad-jobbers in connection with -this route. What is the treaty worth, emasculated of thirteen millions, and so changed in its bowmdary as to surrender Cooke’s wagon route back again to Santa Anna? We shrewily suspect, however, that of the seven remaining millions, the lobby-jobbers will get their full share should the treaty thus be ratified—perhaps three millions—leaving to Santa Anna four millions to pay for the artillery, the old muskets, and munitions of war furnished by George Law, Ames, the Lawrences, and others, and also to aid him in crushing out Alvarez, Colonel Walker, and the Yucatan Indi: All this, it is supposed, may be done with about four millions of money ju- diciously applied; but then where is Santa Anna to procure funds to meet the incidental expenses of his coronation as Emperor after the fashion of Faus- tin Soulouque? This is a serious drawback. How- ever, the Senate appears to be resolved that Santa Anna shall not perish for the lack of money. Such being the case, and the Dictator being very hard up, it only remains for the Senate to pass the bill for his relief, in some shape or other, as soon as possible. In any shape whatever it will bea curious affair; but the danger of war with Mexico is cheaply avoided if it can be done with ten, fifteen, or twenty millions of dollars. It would ruin us to have another war with Mexico. Let the Senate think of Colonel Waiker and Alvarez. Fortunately our reports of the proceedings in Congress yesterday are remarkably drief, and we are consequently ensbled to devote the space usually occupied by prosy debates to news of an interesting and important character. Among the numerous petitions received in the Senate were some praying that the necessary steps may be taken to colonize and civilize the Puget Sound Indians in Washington Territory. n. Rusk introduced a bill providing that all railroad companies who will transport the mails, troops, and munitions of war, free of,charge, shall be permitted to import iron for the use of ther roads free of duty; and, in additéon, those who lay down double tracks shall be granted six sections of Jand for cach mile of such track. Much other busi- mess was attended to prior to going into executive feasion, to which itis unnecessary to allude in detail. On the opening of the Senate a letter was pre- sented from Hon. Truman Smith, announcing his intention to resign and vacate his seat as Senator for Connecticut on the 24th of next month, He has addressed a card to the people of his State, which we give in another column, in which he states that he is impelled to take this step by the urgency of private business. In the House of Representatives, dr. Colambta Lancaster took his seat as delegate from Washing: ton Territory. After considerable debate the bill for the more speedy and regular transportation of the mails between New Orleans and San Franc! was tabled by a vote of eighty-nine to fifty-nine. Considerable time was spent in committee on the Dill graduating the price of public lands, but no final conclusion was arrived at. Both branches of ov ate Legislatare are vigor. ously at work upon the numerous bills which ac cumulated upon their hands during their protracted and useless debate of the temperance question. From the stillness of the Senate upon the subject within the last few days, it is probable that the ad vocates of teetotalism have given up all hopes of passing a prohibitory liquor law, and intend to sub- mit the question directly to the people through their candidates at the next election. The Aasem- bly has passed the bill repealing the Jones Wood Park act, and that affair may be set down as settled for years to come. The same body also discussed ‘various amendments to the Central Park bill; among them was one to materially razee the dimen- sions of the ground, and another proposing to pur- chase a strip of land so as to extend the park from river to river. The Senate was principally engaged on the bill for the enlargement and completion of the canals, Both houses acted on various bills in which our citizens are generally interested. Congress is not the only legislative body where excitement is occasionally carried to such a pitch as to lead members into serious difficulty, as will be seen by the reports of the proceedings of our mu- nicipal fathers last evening. A quarrel originated jast evening in the Board of Councilmen, between Councilmen Wild and Seely, which ended in a challenge being sent by the former to the latter gentleman. The dread alternative was accepted by Mr. Sealy, and arrangements were made by the se- conds for a hostile meeting at Hoboken to-day. ‘The report of the committee on public health, in favor of paying William E. Reynolds $70,000 for contract work performed by him in removing dead animals and offal from the city, was ordered to a third read- ing, and adopted by a vote of 36 to 20, The National Democratic State Committee met in Albany yesterday, and resolved to issue q gall for a ALD. | July. ministration at Washington were adopted, copies of which are furnished in the despatch from our corree- ponden’s , Our despatches from Charleston relative to the great Southern Commercial Convention have all come tousinabanch, They contain a brief outline of the first three days proceedings. The assemblage was organized by the selection of Senator Dawson, | of Georgia, as President, and large numbers of dele- gates were in attendance from thirteen States. The object of the convention is to secure a railroad to the Pacific, via a Southern route, establish direct lines of communication with Europe, and make ar- rangements for the establishment of commercial and manufacturing operations on an extensive scale. We elsewhere publish a very interesting letter from Colonel Fremont, in which the great explorer of the barren, rugged, and snow-capped mountains, the dense wildernesses and solitary plains, epeaks en- couragingly of the practicability of a central route for a railroad to the Pacific, and mentions large de- posites of iron and coal, both of which will be of in- wleulable advantage to the road. He having tra- versed the line as faras Parawan, Utah Territory, during two of the coldest and severest months ever | experienced in that part of the country, speaks from practi observation. Th’s letter, by-the-way, gives | a flat contradiction to the reports brought by the last steamers from California, to the effect that Col. Fremont and his party had suffered most dreadfully and a large number of the men had died. Although several of his followers were frost-bitten and ex- hausted, he had actually lost but one man. This ntelligence is of course highly gratifying to Colonel Benton and the other advocates of the great gentral ailroad route. The latest intelligence from Mexico announces that fighting was going on between the troops un- der Santa Anna and the revolutionists headed by It is declared that many persons have been killed on both sides, but the accounts are so contradictory that it is impossible to arrive at any ite conclusion as to the exact state of affairs. It is, however, quite apparent that Alvarez has suc- ceeded in raising a most formidable party. He may yet compel the Dictator to once more vacate the country in double quick time. Much excitement and hostility has been engen- dered among the Catholics of Philadelphia in conse- quence of the recent decision by Judge Woodward of a suit between the liberal members of the charch and the Jesuits. An indignation meeting was held last evening, at which strong speeches were made, and the Judge was denounced in English, French, and German. The birthday of the illustrions Henry Clay was cclebrated by a dinner at the Metropolitan Hotel st evening. A graphic sketch of the proceedings, hes, &c., is given in another part of this paper. The preliminary examination of the several par- ties charged with counterfeiting upwards of $3,000 of United States money was commenced yesterday before Mr. Commissioner Nelson, and in the cour. of the investigation a regular organized system of manufacturing base money was developed. It ap- pears that an electro gilder, named May, was pro. mised by one of the accused parties that forty, sixty, or one hundred thousand spurious gold dollars would be furnished him to gild at $45 per $1,000. Ve this day publish an abstract of the result of a very able and important decision of Judge Hoffman, of the Superior Court, perpetually enjoining the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of New York from making an} grant or conveyance of any land under water within Tompkins street, to the north of the centre line of Stuyvesant street, continued to tho centre line of Twenty-third street, and also deciding that the ordinances of 23d of July and 27th of November, 1850, establishing an exterior line on the East river, are illegal and without autho- rity, and that the land under water from and beyond the easterly side of Tompkins street, within the limits of the ordinances, remains in the people of the State of New York. On reference to our report of the proceedings of a special meeting of the Board of Education, held last evening, it will be seen that a large amount of important business was transacted. W. H. Seward and bis Projects—Plan of an Overwhelming Anti-Slavery Party. The present ominous agitation of the Nebras- ka question has developed to the world in va- rious ways the plans and projects of W. H. Sew- ard and his organs and satellites in reference to their future political operations. His recent speeches and letters touching the slavery ques- tion, and the feelers thrown out from time to time by the leading journals in his interest, fur- nish a perfect key to his views, the principles of his party, its organization, and its active po- licy hereafter. It has for sometime been suspected in Wall street, and is at length admitted by several prominent whig journals, that their late national organization, first set on foot under the combined influences of Mr. Clay aud Mr. Calhoun against Gen. Jackson, has lived out its day, and is really defunet—dead and done for, past all re- demption. Starting from this point, W. UH, Seward and his followers propose to erect upon the ruins, and from the loose materials of the late whig party of the North, a new political platform and a new po upon the basis of eternal hostility to the Southern institution of negro slavery. The ground has been delib- erately taken and declaration clearly made, that henceforth the combined Sew- ard organization of the North will occupy a platform of anti-slavery and sectional princi- ples and measures the best calculated to hasten a final separation of the North from the South, and the establishment of an anti-slavery North- ern confederacy in conjunction with the Canadas and the neighboring British provinces. The late speech of Seward in the Senate upon the Nebraska bill was not the speech of a states- man whose heart, and sympathies, and purposes, are with the constitution and the institutions ef the United States. which he has sworn to sup- port. Flis speech to the Senate was, on the other hand, the crafty special pleading of a dexterous agitator, whose respect for the Union and whose faith in the constitution are swal- lowed up in the inordinate ambition of the anointed apostle of the conspirators of “the higher law.’ For twenty odd years, beginning upon the small capital of Morgan the Mason, Seward has been persev: rly juggling with all the outside abominations of the day, until at length, with the aid of the present adminis- tration, his name, bis pretensions, and his par- tisans standing predominant in New York, his organs are boldly disclosing the ultimate pro- gramme of their master. The startling progress of this Nebraska agita- tion has revealed, through the more rabid Seward organs, the still more startling fact that, from the debris of the late Northern whig party, and from 4 conjunction of these fragments with all our outside fanatical factions intent upon mischief, a great Northern sectional party is to be formed, united upon the single cohesive principle of an active crusade against Southern slavery, expresely for the purpose of exasperat- ing the two sectioné into a revolutionary di solution of the Union. The Seward journals in this latitude to this end are speaking out with an emphasis which cannot be mistaken. And while the plans of their coalition are thus foreshadowed, they ere busily supplying the requisite fuel to abolition fanaticism in the the State Convention of the party to meet on the 12th | daily clreulation of all the floating scanmtal of Bong reaclutions condemming the ad- | and falsehoods concerning the “inhuman atro- \ cities of the living Moloch of slavery.” The combuetibles are thus bein: gathered through- out the North for the kigdling of such u fire in 1856 as will burn on till it shall have burnt ont and calcined the last veetiges of the “pecu- liar institution” of the South. The consumma- tion involves the destruction of the Union, and all the horrors of anarchy, and a war of see- | tions, and factions, and races; but what care our negro-loving philanthropists of the North, | so that their end is attained, and the fall measure of their intense malice, envy and ba- | tred, against the Southern slaveholder is filled. | What if the whole black population of the | South is destroyed by fire and sword, 80 that the slaveholder is despoiled and reduced from affluence to destitution! What is the Union to | the abolitionist, what are anarchy and the ' horrors of San Domingo, in comparison with the grand object of despoiling the Soutbern slaveholder, and of reducing him to the level of | his servants! Such is the programme of W. H. Seward and his partisans, as foreshadowed by his leading or- | gans—such the startling and seditious pro- | gramme looming up at length distinctly into view. It contemplates a great Northern party upon a sectional platform, the aliena- | tion and secession of the South, the esta- Dblishment of an overshadowing North- | ern confederacy, absorbing all the adjoining | | British provinces, or the “crushing out’ of Southern slavery by the strong hand of power. This revolutionary programme is but the full developement of the anti-slavery principles pro- mulgated by the last convention of the expiring remnants of the old federal party at Hartford, in 1814, It involves simply the abolition of slavery or the dissolution of the Union, The agitation is upon us—the programme will be followed up, and in due tiie, perhaps before we are well prepared for it, the people of the North will be required to meet the naked question of Union or disunion. Upon this ultimate issue we see that the Sew- ard journals are breaking ground. They have commenced the work deliberately of preparing the Northern mind for a Southern boundary to us, which shall be marked by Mason & Dixon’s line and the Ohio river. The Southern States are to be .a foreign confederacy, and as such they may save their peculiar institution if they can. We shell be exempt from all constitu- tional obligations to sustain it. We shall have washed our hands of Southern slavery for once and forever. But in looking to this contingen- cy there awe some drawbacks of a practical shape—the unanswerable arguments of dollars and cents—which, as a practical business peo- ple, we of the North cannot very well afford io set aside. The division of the Union into two inde- pendent confederacies would instantly work out a mighty revolution in our depots and currents of trade. The South would establish a system of tariffs and exchanges which would secure them a direct trade with Europe. Their im- ports and exports would be carried in their own ships. Manufactures would follow in the track of commerce. New York would rapidly sink into a seaport of secondary importance. Boston and other New England ports would dwindle away into mere provincial towns. Lowell, and Lawrence, and Manchester, and other cotton and woollen manufacturing cities and towns of New England and the North, would be diminished to comparatively deserted villages, for, under a Southern confederacy. Southern consumption would be supplied by Southern factories. The shippers, shipbuilders, the merchants, the manufacturers, the mechan- ies of the North, would be drawn to the South for a tariff upon Northern ships and Northera fabrics would leave to a large proportion of these interests no other alternative than a re- moval to the South. Such would inevitably be the material results of the division of this Union into two confederacies. It would enrich the South and impoverish the North—it would in time adyance Baltimore, Norfolk and Charleston, to the present proportions of Phila- delphia, New York, and Boston, and reduce these great cities of the North to the present secondary importance of Charleston, Savannah and Mobile. In this matter-of-fact view of the future pro- I gramme of Seward and his partisans there is, then, much substantial matter for our serious consideration. The success of Seward’s policy would doubtless be a victory to Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Parker, Henry Ward Beecher, and the Anglo-American abolition coa- lition of Stafford House; but as the death-knell of the Union would be followed by the destruc- tion of the present overwhelming prosperfty of | the North in all our numerous industrial pur- suits, we haye interests stronger than negro philanthropy involved in the Union, and which | bind us to maintain it against all agitators and | traitors who would compass its overthrow. Let the honest Union men of the North awake. The free soil coalition of the admin- istration has given a new impetus to W. IL | Seward, the anti-slavery fanatics, and their se- | ditious designs, Has our free soil Cabinet ut- terly paralyzed the Union sentiment of the North? Is W. Hl. Seward to be our lord para- mount in 1856? Before the expiration of another year we shall be called upon for action. Treason is at work, and there is danger in it, Tue Resetiioy im Mextco.—Troubles have come upon Santa Anna sooner than he expect- ed. Alvarez, the rebel chief, at the head of an army of pintos, seem to be making head sne- cessfully against the government troops. At the date of our last advices, the Dictator had set out in person to fight him, It would appear that Alvarez leads a singular band of soldiers. The bulk of them belong to the elass of Indians called pintos or painted men, from the fact that almost aif of them are afilicted with a cutaneous disease giving a parti-colored aspect to their skin. Some have one white leg, and one blue; others half their face grey, the other half black; others one red hand and one green one; and so on. It is the opinion of those who have lived among the pintos that the peculiarities of their appearance are due in some measure to heredi- tary disease, and might be cured by attention to cleanliness and a proper course of medical treatment. However this be, it seems that the pintos, diseased or hale, fight well enough, and have already beaten one if not two of Santa Anna’s officers. Alvarez’s progress is well worth watching. Should the Senate refuse to confirm the treaty swindle—as there is every reason to hope it may—Santa Anna will find himself in want of funds just at the time he most needs them. The disaffection of the people of the northern pro- vinces would lead them to attempt something more than silent sympathy with slavery ; and there cannot be a doubt that the recent arbi- trary meaenres of the Dictator have alroady arouscd a spirit of revolt in the capital itself. A few successful battles tought by the rebels might Place Alvarcy, at the head of a powerful army, with which hv could drive Sante Anna from Mexico, and assume the reins of power himself. Apprebensicn thie result are al- ready felt in Mexico. Anna’s friends are endeavoring not to cornpromise themselves; and the Church is remaining carefully neutral. Some believe that Caballox would succeed San- ta Anna, in the event of his dethronement : but conquerors are not muc}: im the habit of raising other men to the throes they have made va- cant. A few wecks may effect an entire change in the aspect of our relitions with Mexico. Santa * Corporation Canpipates FOR THE Peytres- TiARY.—Amongst our city news to-day the reader will doubtless be interested in the de- tails of the affair of honor in the Common Council ye:terday, between Messrs: Wild and Seely. They were doubtless exasperated to this bellicoce proceeding by the late warlike example of Messrs. Cutting and Breckenridge. They seem to have forgotten, however, that their conduct may render them liable to the penitentiary. This quarrel between this pre- cious pair of our City Fathers had its origin upon a question of certain important public conveniences upon which one would suppose there could be no possible controversy whatever. The spoils must be running short when such a subject was made a matter for coffee and pis- tols. Wonder if the parties in this case intend repairing to Boston Four Corners, in emulation of Sullivan and Morrissey. Are the police on the gui vive? Marine Affairs. DEPARTURE OF THE EPyre Crry.—The steamship FEm- pire City sailed yesterday afternoon for Havana and New Orleans, with 57 passengers. Loss or Tax Simp Exma Watts.—The ship Emma Watts, of Hallowell, Me., Capt. E. Crabtree, Jr., bound from Havre to Charleston, (she was reported in the Havre papers bound to Havana—destination probably changed,) in ballast, sailed from that port on the 14th February, and encountered on the 11th, 12th and 13th of March, a terrific hurricane, whieh threw the vessel on her beam ends, shifted her ballast, carried away her stanchions, and caused her to spring a leak. The masts were cut away, and the crew remained on the wreck three days, when they were taken off by the Bre. man bark Franzisca, Capt. Raake, and arrived here on the 8th inst. The Emma Watts, when abandoned, was ina sinking condition, She was a fine vessel of 449 tons, built at Bath, Me., in 1845, and ranked A2. She was owned by Capt. L. L. Watts and Geo. A. Dearborn, and valued at $25,000, and was insured for $20,000 as fol- lows:—In the Tremont Mutual Insurance Co., Boston, $10,000 ; Atlantic Insurance Co., Providence, $5,000 ; American Insurance Co., Providence, $5,000. In the re- port of the Franzisca, in our impression of the 9th, the disaster was incorrectly stated as having occurred to the ‘brig Emma Watts, from Hallowell.’? There is no such brig of the name. Capt. Crabtree thus publicly acknowledges his obliga- tions to Capt. Raake— TO CAPT. RAAKE OF THE BREMEN BARK FRANZISCA. Deak Sir:—With feelings of deep gratitude I desire in the most public manner to return my sincere thanks to yeurself, officers and crew, for the noble exertions in rescuing the crew of the ship Emma Watts, which ves- sel was wrecked on the 13th of March last. Also, for the kind and gentlemanly manner in which you treated us during the time we were on board your vessel. Wishin you every success and happiness in your future career, remain most truly yours, F. CRABTREE, Jr., : Master ship Emma Waits. Packer Sar Struck By Licurying.—The packet ship Universe, which arrived at this port yesterday from Liverpool, on the 24th ult., when in lat. 46 23, lon. 37, was struck by lightnipg, which melted the copper at the mast head and also the conductor, after leaving which it passed along the rail, ripping up the copper, and took a piece out of the deck. Every man in the watch on deck at the time was thrown “down with great violence. Both top gallant sheets were burned off, and two large holes made in the mainsail. It was immediately fol- lowed by a severe squall of wind and hail. PARTICULARS OF TR Loss OF THE Sup Russet. SrorGis.— Capt Snow, of the chip Russell Sturgis, before reported lost at sea, reports that on the 24th of February, hay- ing a very’ hewvy sea, found the ship making more than the usual amount of water, but nothing serious. On the Ist of March, the leak increasing so much, was obliged to keep both pumps going, by the labor of ‘the passengers as well as the crew. Onthe 2d, the crew came aft and refused to proceed further westward, when the captain held a consultation with the officers, and agreed to put back next day if the leak continued to increase. On the 8th, all hands were engaged in heaving over the cargo. . M., spoke the bark Rainbow, Capt. Hamlin, from Cardifi for Alexandria, who promised to keep company until we reached the Western Islands, and if possible we were to keep the ship afloat until then, On the 15th, found three fect water in the hold, and next day, in lat 46, lon. 30 31, the leak still increasing, the pumps gave out from constant workmg. All hands then came aft worn out with labor. We then made signals for the bark to take off all hands, The ship Isaac Webb, from New York for Liverpool, was also in sight and bore down and took off all the passengers, .fifty in number, she having superior accommodations.” The bark was without sufficient water or provisions for so large a num- ber. Captain Snow and crew went on board the Rainbow, and she proceeded on her voyage. When the ship was abandoned she had seven feet water in the hold, and was settling fast, ‘The position of the leak could not be as: certained, although every exertion was made by the carpenter and officers to find it. The Jersey City Charter Election. The issue of the charter election in Jersey City on Tuesday has created a good deal of discussion as to the causes which led to results so unexpected. The vote cast for the more prominent public officers is as follows—and this statement will vary but little if any from the official returns of the city canvassers:— ; pe eee MAYOR. Ist, 2d. 3d. 4th. Total. >. &. Manners, (whig) ..216 241 289 258 1,004 A. H. Wallis, (dem.) 117 88 171 «+114 435 Majority forManners.,..,.. 99 158 118 144 619 COLLECTOR. I. Jaquins, (in.whiganddem.).104 266 855 318 1,138 P. C. Dummer, (whig)........140 63 96 55 354 Majority for Jequins........ 64 203 259 263 “779 "ASSESSORS I. Clark, (whig)... 217 952 P.D. Vroom, (dem.) 175 156 G24 Majority for Clark a 48 1, Van Saun, (whig) 215 960 | S. Bridgart, (dem.). 160 541 Majority for Van Saiih.. oD This is the third time that Mayor Manners has been elected. Last year he had 315 majority over Pink. Dar- ing the past year he has sent twenty-one yetoes to the Common Council, and but one of them was overruled by a two-third vote. That one was in reference to the coliee- tor’s fees. ‘The vote for Aldermen stood as follows :— Wards. Whigs. Votes. Democrats. Votes. Maj- 1....J. 8. Davenport... 202 R. B. Kashow... 103 90 J.B. Thompson,. 231 W.T. Rodgers, Jr. 113° 118 2....0. Hf. Lyon + 226 J. Griffith, 10L 125 a 3 2 Wm. H. Horton. & 190 3... 1st 214 4. 228 63 The new Board of Aldermen will come into office on the first Monday in May. The members of the Board will be as follows:—First ward—T. W. James, George 8. Gardner, J. 8. Davenport, J, R. Thompson. Second ward—Justus Sister, J.B. Cleveland, J. H. Lyon, J. G. Rage. Third ward—Jobn H. Low, Wm. White, Selah Hill, Henry A. Greene. Fourth ward—S. R. Tyrrell, George Whitlock, R. R. Rappelyea, William Keeney. Six of the eight Alder: men elect are whigs. The Board will be three-fourths whig. ‘The following is the vote for Chosen Frecholders Wards. Whigs. Votes. is, Votes. Maj. 3 P. D, Vroom. er) mer F. Theriot. 00.0.0... 98 141 2... George E. Gutter .... 77 140 8. A, French... 165 8.. J. 8, Mark G, Lincks A C, M. Hancox . J. B. Shenck... .217 Wm. kp ia ee. Lewis Colby was elected School Superintendent out opposition. There was considerable discussion yesterday in Jerae: City relative to a large number of ‘blue tickets,’ whic! were seen going into the ballot boxes very quietly during the day of election. Upon counting the votes these ‘‘blue tickets ” were found to be numerous; and upon exami- nation the names of the successful candidates are found upon them. Successful and defeated candidates mutu- ally x surprise at the result. The majorities given are entirely beyond expectation. The Daily Telearaph of yesterday sny that ‘some have gravely come to the conclusion that the ‘Know-Nothings’ are around.” If auch is the case, no one appears to know anything about it. Those who oe the result upon them sppear to know nothing about them, yet they cannot etherwise account for the rosult but through their agency. ‘We learn from the New Orleans papers, that the par- ties who recently fought a duel near Mobile, were Mr. Chas. Roman, son of Ex-Governor Roman, and Mr. W. H. Bowlingdy. The Iptter was wounded, 0 with- The Ture. ‘UNION COURSE, L. I.—TROTTING. ‘Tumay, April 11.—Purse $60, mile heats, best three in five, in harness. D. Phifer entered b. m. Belle of Bushwick... 3 1 1 1 R. Tuttle entered b. ¢. Slippery Jim.... - 2823 H. Woodruff entered b. g. Limber Jim....., 1 2 dar. Time, 2:5¢—2:66—2:54—2:55, ‘The above race afforded much amusement, being finely contested throughout. Large amounts of money were won and lost by the respective backers of the nags, ‘Tuttle's entry—Slippery Jim—was the favorite against the field; but after the rst heat the financiers dropped him, and sought other channels to “hedge” and get back their stakes, which they supposed already lost. Very few, however, were successful, and thoy will have to wait until another day, when possibly they may make a more fortunate selection. Limber Jim took the first heat very handily, which, however, proved the extent of his capa- bilities. His second and third heats were so poor that his driver withdrew him before the race terminated. The Bushwick mare acted her part well throughout the race, and performed the last mile in better time than the first. The day was delightful, but the track was heavy from the rain and snow of the night previous. The trotting season may now be said to have fairly set in. Ina few days the purses to be contended for will be advertised, and the entries made public. We understand that, added to the old favorites of the past season, a num- per of very fast and promising new ones are entered, and will contend for the purses given by the proprietorfot ‘the Union Course. Hiram Woodruff’s stables are filled with some first elass nags, while Whelan, Harry Jones, Hoagland, Whelpley, Pfifer, Albert Conklin, and Isaac ‘Woodruff, are all actively engaged jn training horses for the campaign. The Rose of Washington was within the enclosure of the track during the race, looking fine; she is most beautifully developed, and should her owner be fortunate enough to maich her this season the public will have a treat worth witnessing. The coming race between Gray Louis and True John is the absorbing subject of discussion in all the sporting circles, the gray being the favorite. Both horses are in good order and doing well; and should they come to the post as fine as they are at the present writing 2:40 will be beaten, notwithstanding the heavy weights they are to carry. BrRooxiyn, April 9, 1854, To THe Epitor oF tH New York HEeRatp :— Sm—in your paper of the 9th inst., under the head of ‘News,’ you give the particulars of a four mile race at New Orleans, which states that ‘ Lecompte won in 7:26 and 7:38%/, beating Lexington, the winner of the late State stake of twenty thousand dollars. This excels the performance of any other horse on record, being six and a half seconds less than ever accomplished by Fash- ion in her palmy days.” Sir, the above statement is false (you have been wrongly informed) as regards the horse excelling anything on record. The following is a correct copy from the Judge’s return, published in Beli’s Life some years ago :-— 1801, Sept. 19—At Doncaster, match for 500 guineas, weight § st. 7 Ibs. each, four miles. Mr. Johnson’s b. h. Sir Solomon, by Sir Peter, 5 years OMNES ace ce ase hace batateahata ts G. Sheppard) 1 ¥ Sir H. T. Vane’s br. h."Cockfighter, by Overton, 5 years GE: she hes “soa wren Goer 2 Sir Solomon took the lead, was never headed, and beat his antagonist three-fourths of a mile from home, and won by two lengths and a half. The first two miles were run in three minutes, and the whole four in seven minutes and between ten and cleven seconds. This makes Sir Solomon beat Lecompte fifteen seconds. The above isa eorrect copy, which puts Fashion and Le- compte in the shade a little. Since 1801 the racing stud of England ond Ireland have improved. Sir, you would oblige an old sportsman by putting the above in shipshape, and publishingit. SIR SOLOMON. TEDEGRAPHIC. ANOTHER GREAT RACE AT NEW ORLEANS. New Orugans, April 10, 1854. A great three mile race took place yesterday, in three heats, between the Louisiana horse Arrow and Little Flea. Arrow was the winner of the last two heats. The time was as follows:—First heat, 5:333{; second, 5:86; third, 5:4334—being the fastest race ever run. City Intelligence. STRIKE OF THE STEAMSHIP FIREMEN AND COAL PASSERS. A largo meeting of this trade was held last night in White street, in obedience to the following call, which was published in Tuesday’s HeraLp:— GrxeRat Cant.—To steamship firemen and coal passers. ~Arouse | arouse Firemen, now time to take up YOUF cause, “A mass meeting of the steamship and steam- cat firemen and coal passers, will he held on Wednesday evening, April 12, at Capt. Kerrigan’s Headquarters, No. White strect, to take such measures for securing an advance of the wages from $35 to $40 per month for steamship f.re- men, and from $2 to $30 for steamboat firemen and coal iassers, as may he deemed judicious by the meeting. Tl greatly’ increased advance of rents and high price of p Visions render such x couree of imperious necessity at the mt time; and it is earnestly requested that a full re- prosentation of the above named operatives will be present on the occasion, JAMES MACK, President. SAMUEL REAvs, Secretary. Tast night, nt eight o'clock, over three hundred were assembled at No. 22 White street, to carry out the in- fentions of the above advertisement. Mr. Mack was appointed President, and a comnittee of ten were imme- diately appointed to report to the meeting upon the pr priety of striking for a higher rate of wages. The co: mittee retired, and ina few moments returned, report- ing, in favor of an advance of wages, as above set forth. he report was unanimously adopted. It was then unanimously resolved, that at 944-0'clock this morning the trade should assemble at pier No. 4 North river, and march from thence to Canal street, thence to the East river and back to the Battery, visiting all steamers in the way, and enjoining all in the trade to participate in the strike. It was then resolved, that a mecting of this fraternity should be held at Kerrigan's, No. 22 White street, again this evening. This is a hardworking class and are as deserving of an advance of wages as any other trade, and if they act wisely they must get it. ‘The meeting adjourned about 10 o'clock in the evening THE STRIKES—MOST SERIOUS MOVE OF THE DOCTORS. ‘An adjourned meeting of the New York County Medical Society was enlled, by public advertisement, for half past seven o’clock last evening, at the College of Physicians apd Surgeons, in Crosby street. A reporter attended from our office, but no organization took place up to nine o’elock. There were thirteen doctors assembled during the evening, and, as far as we could learn, their object wag to seek to obtain from the Legislature the of a Taw fixing a regular scale of fees for professional ser vices. ‘This proporition seemed to mect with little favor from the majority of the doctors, who prefer to act upon the principle of “free to come and go; but it would seem as if some contemplated to go on “‘strike.”” Every- thing is getting high, and why should not the poor man have a high feed doctor? Surely an unfurnished room cannot compare with a well “crammed” brain. ELECTION OF ASSISTANT ENGINFER.—At an election for Assistant Engineer for the New York Fire Department, held at Fireman’s Hall last evening, the following vote was cast;— Elisha Kingsland 1,473 J. F. Feitner. 1 Noah L. Farnham..,. 1,877 Blank . 19 Edward Esler. » 22 — Total ... ergseeavesey jouesansest ++ 61,802 Giving Mr. Kingsland ‘ majority of 96 votes over Mr. Farnham. The votes of several companies were thrown out by, the Inspectors, some, of which may be received on further consideration, They will not, however, vary the result. CELEBRATION OF Henny Cray's Brrvapay.—The American flag floated yesterday from all our publie buildings, in commemoration of the natal day of Henry Oy. The subject of all this adoration has been for nearly three years Hambering beneeth the willows of Ashland, yet he Bill lives in the hearts of his countrymen. Perhaps no man before his time had such ardent friends while living— perhaps no man was ever more sincerely mourned when dead. The old tune, ‘Here's to you, Harry Clay,”” was chanted yesterday by many lips, and memory with it re- called the scenes of former times, when the admirers of the “Great American Commoner’? delighted to rally round him in political warfare. The Young Guard sat down to a fine dinner last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel, a graphic account of which is published elsewhere. Long live the memory of Henry Clay Heavmi or tie Crry—Tae Firm Warp Agrration.—A second meeting of the Executive Committee appointed by the residents of the Fifth ward who are Sproett to the action of the Emigration Commissioners in introducing a public emigrant office and lodging house into the ward, MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, > AAA p niin Naaane Another Extraordinary Scene in Board of Councilmen, Threatened Duel between Tw of the Members. THE CHALLENGE AND !TS ACCEPTANCE, Alarming State of Affairs Among the Reformers. The Proccedings of the Two Boards, &e., &e., &e. Board of Aidermen—Stated Session. OPFICIAL, Wepw; Prosent—Nathan ©: Ely, Al Wiltiamson, Blunt, Baird, Hottmire, How: Wn. Tucker, Voorhis, Trowbridge, Boardman, Wakeman’! Covert, Kelly, Chauncey, Christy, Lord, Herriek, C. EL} Tucker. Mott, Drake. ‘The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved, By the Prusipent—Petition of Pi it Babcock, for r mission of tax. To Committee on Final By the same—Petition of John White, to have tax correct-| ed.” To Committee on Finance. Hy Alderman Kuve Petition of Stephen Ray and! others, to have repesled the ordinance nding Albany] street through Trinity churchyard. To Committee on| Streets. By Alderman Horrvmy~ Petition of H. T. Livingston for exclusive use of pier 37 North river for steamships of tl mpton, Bremen and Mobile lines, To Committee on| Piers and Slips. KESIGN ATION. Alderman Waxeman—Resignation of A. R. Herrick, mmissioner of Deeds. Accepted. Whereupon Alderman Wakeman presented the folowing | resolution, via. Re: Edwin R, Bogardus be, and he is hereby, appointed ‘Commissioner of Deeds in amd for the city am gounty of New York, in place of . R, Herrick, reelgne Adopted. PO. Of Committee on Fin ne bar in favor of confirmit leases of Docks wetle Gardom, marke! .' Adopted ona division, vi upt, Baird, Hoffmire, How: r Trow!'ridgo, Boartman, Wakema: Kelly, Chatincey, Christy, the Provident, Aldermen Lor: Herrick, C. H. Tucker, Mott, Drako—J3. Of Goinmittee on Finance—In favor of © the Board of Councilmen to mak the claim of John Pettizrow for tho Second avenue. Adopt Idermen Blu Wakeman, Kelly, men Lord, Herric Of Committce o: ‘harves—-In favor of concurring to ro- more obstructions at the foot of Stanton street, Bast river. Concurred in. Majority and minority reports of Committee on Railroads, in relation to the removing of the easterly rails belonging to tho Fighth Avenue Railroad Co., in College, plac tween Chambers and Barclay streets, Laid on the tabi Commitive on Wharvos—In favor of concurring to bulkhead foot of Rivington strest repaired. Concur- ‘ommittec on Markets—In fayor of concurring to apply. Legislature for powor to take lands at, the foot of Fourteenth street, N. R., for market purposes, Laid on the ble, COMMUNICATION, Communication from S. T. Clark, agent, mbérs’of the city governinent to witness a tes Kegulator. RESOLUTION. By Alderman Waxewan—Whereas, on the 19th day of ng 1853, an ordinance was duly passed, directing that the th avenne, from Fifty-ninth to Eighty-second stree! be regulated and graded, un Commiscioner; and for whe work has beem to perform toan d the performance of sai: ed with all possible despatoh. a Baird, Hoffmire, Howard, W. Tuck r Da » Kelly, Chauncey, Christy, Herrick, C,H, Tucker—I2, Nogath Aldermen Williamson, Blunt, Woodward, Trowbridge, Boardman, Lord, Mott—7. FROM BOARD OF COUNCILMEN. Report of Committee on Assessmonts—In favor of oon- fi sundry lists enumerated in minutes of said Board Feb. 27. To Commit ent: Report of Committee on Sew: in sewer in Forty-fourth street, between the North river. To Committee on So lntion—That the old pump on the nortl ty-fourth rtreet, between Ni moved. To Committee on Streots. Resolution—That the Commissioner of Repairs and Sup- lies be directed to causo crosswalks corner of Esscx and itmton streets, to be relaid. To Committee on Report of Committee on Markets—Directing the Commis- sioner of Repairs and Supplies to have the roof of C lnton Market repaired and painted. To Committee on Markets. Report of Committee on Police—In favor of paying, Drs. Thomas, Fitzgerald, Watts, Smith, Van Lier, Carter, Trap hagen, Hopner, Ed- Alderm f wor of building a Tenth avenue "iad ag ms, ‘Kilbourne, Lodge, Brady, nds, Iness, Budd, Marsh, and Wells, for vices. 'To Committeo on Police. Repairs and Supples—Award- Report of Commissioner was held last evening at No. 112 Franklin street. Mr. Gilbert 8. Nixon was appointed Chairman, and Mr. F. Park Secretary of the meeting. The following gentle- men were appointed a Finance Committee, for the put- ose of collecting funds to obtain legal remedies, and to Betray the necessary expenses ineurred in procuring an injunction to restrain the commissioners:—Nathaniel P. Hosack, Wm. Adams, and Wm. Hoffmire. It was resolved that the residents cf the Fifth ward be requested not to y money to others than the above Finance Committee. The committee then adjourned. A STARRING AFFRAY—ESCAPR OF TT “ASSAILANT.—On Tuesday night a man named bape bal "Sg of No. 342 ‘Twelfth street, was dangerously stabi the side with aknife by Michael Conway, while at the corner of An- thony and Centre streets. After inflicting the injury, Conway ran away and escaped. The injured man was taken to the New-York Hospital by the Sixth ward police, Board of Supervisors. His Honor the Recorder in the Chair. Arnit 12.—The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. Acommunication from U. D. French states that, in consequence of a question as to the legality of his’ ap- pointment to the office of Commissioner of Jurors, he hi not deemed it ee he boa Siam 9 cae imposed u; delinquent an faulting jurors ‘during the time nehas ‘een in office,’ and he has not, therefore, received any money whatever for fees or fines imposed during that time. at for fines Lhe’ im nd remaining unpaid e time he asaui the duties of this office he has received in all $1,435; that no fees whatever have been collected from any person; that out of the moneys so received he has paid for expenses of inting, wages of assistants, &e., &c., the sum of $773 Fi; tial thers ace unpaid deroands aghinst lus office for upwards of $70, besides the compensation due to the Com- missioner. INCREASED COMPENSATION TO ASSPSsORS, The report of the Committee on Annual Taxes recom- mended that the pay of the Assessors be increased each, ip consequence of the additional duties, the adyance a , and everything connected with living in.New ork. After a short debate the resolution was adépted, and the Board adjourned to Monday next, at 4 o'clock. On the 7th inst. George W. Symonds, formerly roprie- tor of the Franklin Hotel, who is satin jail awaiting fur- ther trial for in Hu ‘almost in “ his epeaye’ by remsonneg’e Portion of the stone wall of his gel, e for Company No. 48. Con: ing contract for building e vision, vi jermen , Woodward, Win, Tucker, oman, Kelley, Chauncey, Christ; en Lord, Herrick, C. H. Tucker, Mott—I8, ort of Committ Markets—In relation to erecting on stands in the nev ry eroet. * gee ok om eae ground west of West st root. ‘To Report of Committee on Fi e—In favor of donati: ein stern Dispensary $1,000. To Committee on Fi- Report of Committee on Streete—In favor of &e., east side of Sixth avenue, between Thirt; ‘Thirty-reventh streets. To Committee on Str repairing, i erro Report of Committee on Roads—In favor of grading Fifty- third street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues. ‘fo Cou mittee on Roads. Report of Committco on Strects—In favor of flagging west side of Ninth avenue, between Thirty-first and Pairty-so- cond streets. To Committee on Streets, rt of Committee on Stroets—In favor of paving Wall street with fe blocks. ts. eport of Committee on Roads—In favor of Fifty-fifth street, from Sixth to Seventh avenu mittee on Roads. iaces—In favor of in Stuyvesant square. To Com- ds and Places. Report of Committee on Strects—Non-concurring to ‘d contract to John C. Hayes for keeping in repair the streets of the city for one year, On motion the former action of this Board was adherod to on a division: pAfimmaative Aldermen Brown, Williamson, Blunt, Wan. ‘ucker, Trowbridge, Wakeman,’ Chaanee; President, Aldermen Lord, C. H. Tucker, Wott, and Drake Negative—Aldermen Baird, Hoffmire, Howard, Wood- ward, Voorhis, Boardman, Kelly, Herrick—8. On motion, m Committee of Conference, consisting of Al- dermen Blunt, Howard and Wakeman, was appointed to confer with ® similar committes to Le appointed by said joard. Report of Committee on Wharves, &c.—Relative to re- pene of pier 43 North river. To Committee on Wharves, . Communication from Commissioner of Repairs and Sup- liet—Awarding contract for building new earriagefor Hose Jo. 24. To Committee on Repairs and Suppl Reeolution—Amending resolution for regula tieth street, between Fourth and Fifth avenue mittee on Streots. Communcication from the Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies—Awarding contract for building house for use of Hose Co, 2. To Committee on Repairs and Suppli pert of Committee on Streeter In favor of fo Ninth avenues. ing lote To Committee on Resolution—That the pump in Nineteenth stroet, near fac avenue, be removed, To Committee on Repairs and jupplies. ‘esolution—To procure flags and fit up flag room in City Hall. Coneurredin, bd te’ PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS. By Alderman Voonitis—W herens, from t) the past two years, it is feared that the water will be insufficient to meet the dail mand; and whereas it is now too late to ply so'as to. mi any effort effuctive daring the coming summer; and whereas the necessity of husbanding the sup- pls by cutting off all unnecessury use is apparent; therefore : Resolved, That the Croton Aquodnet Board be diracted to limit the supply of water to steam and other boats and river craft to the amount actually necessary for filling the Croton water far the hilige of shipe, to ascertain their eon: roton water for the of ships, \- dition as to leakage, ‘and’to cut oif the supply to all the public fountains during the present ebetelved, Th fended, and that the Croton Aqueduct Board be, are Kereby directed to grant no. permit for the nse of water for such purpore during the current year, To Committee on tion of the ap- subject of eject on the table, which was carri ‘On motion, the Hoard then adjourned until Friday next, Mth instant, at 5 o'clock, P. Ms ot. VALENTINE, Clerk. Our Special Report.} lout AVESUE RAILROAD. mmittes on Railroads re- comm that, a the sul i tof the Bighth avenue track in College place is now in litigation in our courts, it should not be removed until eng! by our courts. The mi- ded that the, company be directed ver experience of pply of Croton v increasing roase th of charge for iterly tracks of the Ei nue rail- between Chambers Barclay done within ter ani were laid on PROPOSED NEW MARKET. The Committee jort that they would not re- commend the tak of 1 at the foot of Fourteenth East ri as it might interfere with th jt recommend a market on roortand Sixteenth streets, Corporation memorialize tl ture for an enactment authorizing the Common C take land for the purpose between Gansevoort teenth streets, North river, The report was laid om the table. ‘REET CONTRACTS, f a resolution from on the r PG ey te A discussion a1 TLLTAM A ry hoped that this Board would ad- here to its former action, and said something about # rob bery on tho city. ‘Aldermen ° if Riox, Vooruis and Howarp repudi- ated the term used by Alderman Will a, and were in favor 0 ice, with the out he was Commissios "yore an Alderman to call hi Jd soon call the Alderman to ac- id it had been attempted to ‘ned tailed the Commissioner of Re ot im Repairs and Supplies Arobler or a thief Bi count. (Laughter. i the Councilmen ng the stroote would bem rov- ° : for eu! sath Pr ae eupacity 1x Fo Wicentinae grasving permive Yor’ private fountal the prevent senon Board of Councilmen—Stated Session. OFPICIAL. Wepweapay, April 12, 1854, Present—Kdwin J. Brown, Beq., President, in the ebair, and fifty-eight members, PETITIONS. for well and pump in 120th Of Jobe O. Higgins and othe ore near Bis! havenue. To Committee on Streets. same ani others, residents of Twelfth ward, asking i ‘