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

TS NEW YORK HERALD.! JAMES GORDON BENNETT. | PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, orrice W- CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS, OSES COE AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. : RE, Broadway—Tue Lavy ov i BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—Tur b My Youso Wire ¢wp My Oup U RTON weeiren — j BOWERY THEATPE, Bowery - Paut Jowes— for Uony. Chatham streot— Afternoon, g, Tux Cum ov Prares. AT! (oir Evenia THEATRE, Brosdway—A Bore Stacks mpen One Roun® THE Com) WALLACK’S vom 4 Hussaxo—Nv ICAN UUSEUM—Afternoon, Tur Honzymdon— WANE has oo Banwan. CHRISTY’S AMERICAN OPERA HOUSR, 472 Bron?- gay—Exwortan MxLopixs ay CuaisTy’s Mimerk 212. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSER, 589 Breadway—Buor anv’s Evmi0-ian Orgna TRoure. BANVAF 0’S GRORAMA, 596 Broadwaz var Houy Larp. RHENI#H GALLERY, 563 Broadway—Dny and Nighi. BRYAN GALLERY OF CHRISTIAN ART—843 Bread- way. WHOLE WORLD—377 and 279 Brondway—'Attersoon wad Eveuing. JANE’S PANTISCOPE—arorsio Rooms. BIGNOR BLITZ, Brooxivn #tcenarom. —Panonamarty New York, Saturday, April 22, 188. One Week's 'Eiistory. ‘The Weexty Hrnratp, containing a complete @ itome of ene week's intelligence from #1! quarters of tue world, ~ wil be published at ten o’ctock this morris. Price, & wrappers, sixpence. ews. Commodore Newton, chief the Home Squadron, arrived at Washington yesterday, and it is said his reiusal to salute the Spanish flag during the exist- ing difficulty between Spain and this ceuntry meets with the unqualified ayproval ofthe government. The Commodore will not proceeé’ to sea until the reply of the Spanish government’ to the demands made upon it concerning the Black Warrior out- rage is received. He has informed tke government of the important fact, derived from a reliable au- thority, that the Captain neral of Cuba holds a royal decree authorizing him to emancipate the slaves on tle island wherever he shall deem it poli- tic so todo. The Cubans of the “ever faithful Isle” regard the resolutions proposed in Congress by Mr. Dean, to suspend the éreaties existing between this country and Spain, as indicative of an approaching crisis; and the prospect of a rupture has filled them with exultation, which exhibits itself on all occa- sions, notwithstanding the efforts of the Spanish officials to repress such manifestations. No- thing of importance relative to the proposed con- vention between Great Britain and the United States has yet reached the Department of State. We present this morning another chapter of the awful shipwreck on the Jersey coast. The letter of our special correspondent descriptive of the scene at Long Beach, where the Powhatan was annihi- ‘The United States Senate was not in session yea" terday. In the House a bill was reported author- izing the Postmaster General te contract for carry- ing 2 semi-menthly mail from New York, PhMadel- phia or Bal@more, and from New Orleans to San Francisco; or a weekly mail, provided the cost shall not exceet $250,000 per annum. What'the public require is a weekly communication with the Pacifi, be the expense what it may, and this city isthe point from which the mail must start. What bat yexation and annoyance would the despatching of mailsfrom such outof the way places as Philadel- | phia and Baltimore produce? The bill to recom- | ‘s THEATRE, Chambers street Tax Texreer pense the discoverer of practica! anastlesia was | laié on the table. The claim of the late Richard W. Meade, amounting to between three and four hun- 4red thousand dollars, for los¢es in mercantile trans- | ctions in Spain some thirty years-ago, was dis ‘\eussed until the adjourymont. } There continued to be‘a good demend for floar for the East and domestic consumption. Nearly all de- | scriptions of the latter qualities anid extra grades be- ) ing in lightsupply, higher prices in some cases were | asked than before the'rceeipt of the European news. | The export demand being extromely limited, the | lower grades of common State brands—such ‘as | Black Rock, &c-~were lower by twelve and a half | to twenty-five cents per barrel. Wheat and corn were unchanged, ‘with more doing. Cotton was a quarter of a cent upon Monéay’s prices, and firm. A private letterfrom Liverpool to a house in this city states that shipmente of cotton have been pretty freely made to Memel, the nearest newtral port to Russieon the Baltic. Sugar was also active, at one-eighth to three-eighths of a cent advance during the week on some kinds of New Orleans. ‘The letter of oux cerrespondent at Shanghae, which we have commented on at length in another to the earnest attention of our readers. Advices from Pernambuco to the 21st ult. ‘have been recetved. ‘Tho markets were unchanged,.and there had been no arrivals from the United States. That dreadful scourge, which seems to have-be- come periodical in certain sections of our country— the cholsra—haa broken out at West Baton Rouge, La. Asccunts from Balize, Honduras, to the 28th ult., state tha the disease still prevailed at that place. : James-Quinn, who killed a woman named Wig- uncongern-and without making any confession. ment About? We-call the attention of the government at Wasbington to the letter which we publish this morning from Shanghae. It is interesting in many particulars, but especially in regard to the intrigues and designs of the English in the Central Flowery Kingdom. It will be remembered that Hon. Humphrey Marshall, our late Minister to China, was takep very roundly to task by our newspapers, some months back, for favoring the Imperial! govern- ment, when every body supposed that, from the republican principles of his own country, he column, is eminently seggestive, and we commend it gins last Jall by splitting her skull with an axe, suffered the extreme penalty of the law at Wilkes- barre,.Pa.. Emulating the bravado of a majority of malefactors of the day, he met his fate with perfect Important from China—What Is Our Govern= ‘Twn Ganspew Treaty Revrved-~—An attempt Is Keing made by the administration, it seems, te "revive the remains‘of the’Gadsden treaty in #he Senate. We ray “the vemains,” for the document rejected by that ody bears only the faintest recemblarce fo the treaty originally presented to the President. The revised treaty proposes to settle the boundary question, to \ abolish the clause of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which has given so much trouble, and to arrange one’or two other points of seme im- portance, involving the payment of an indem- nity ef'seven-miHions of dollars to Mexico. i is possible that en attempt may be made to én- troduce a clause embracing some of the various claims which ‘have heretofore been a bone of contention’ between the governments and people ofthe two céuntries—such as the Garay claim, | the Sloo ela'm, &c. But it is doubtful whether | auch an-adéition to the project would be sanc- ‘tioned by the Senate. Some new treaty may | ‘very probably pass the Senate, and be used by |'the administration as a pretext to enable them to send a new negotiator to Mex'co to make a fresh bergain with Santa Anna. But nothing that can now be done can remove the moral ef- fect of the votes recorded and ‘the opinions pro- nounced by those votes on the conluct of the administration in the past negotiallon. From begtaning to end, in all itsphases and in every form, it was covered with folly and corruption; and the executive has been justly rebuked by the votes of the Senate for its conduct in the matter. Some of the Southern: papers are at- tempting to defend or to. apologise for the Cabi- net on the ground that the opposition to the ratification of the treaty was ‘Northern and of a sectional character; but this is a very weak and futile endeavor to overlook or to set aside the gross folly and corruption which were the prin- cipal reasons for tke opposition made to the treaty both in and out of the Senate. It is very doubtful whether a new negotis- tion would be more -successful than the last. Revolution has set its foot on Mexican soil, and the career of Santa Anna’ has now rexched its crisis. The truth is we ought to make no more treaties with Mexico. ‘We should suspend all negotiations for a time. -The greatest error we made was to exeente the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, when Mexico lay conquered at the feet of the American army. There was thea no government, no central power, no authority in the country and it ought to have been an- nexed to the United States as a Territory and organized accordingly. As a Territory, pro- tected by United States soldiers, Mexico would have advanced with giant strides in civilization, commerce, and enlightenment; and all the ri- dicuteus revolutions and absurd adventures which have since befallen it would have been avoided. It would have risen to prosperity and greatness en a large scale as rapidly as California has done on a small one. All this it lated, possesses a melancholy interest. Messrs. (, | *hould have sided as heartily as possible with | pas lost by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a C. Duncan & Co., consignees of the P., desire per- the revolutionary Chinese republicans. But treaty negotiated on the one side by Mr. Trist, sons holding papers recovered from the lost ship, | our letter from Shanghae explains all.this very | who had no authority from our government to and forwarded by the magistrate at Long Beach, to call at their office, 52 South street. Accounts from Absecom Beach establish the fact that the bodies which have been washed on shore there are those of @ portion of the passengers of the Powhatan. The Underwriter, ashore at Squan Beach, remains as noticed yesterday. Active exertions are being made to get her off, and with every prospeét of success. The ship Saxony, from Boston for Matanzas and Liverpool, went ashore to the southward of Jupiter Inlet, on the coast of Florida, on the 8th inst. When the mate left the vessel, on the 11th inst., she had eleven feet of water in her hold. Several small craft are reported to be ashore on the coast of Florida; but sufficient time has not clapsed since the recent terrible gale for us to receive definite in- formation from that region. The propeller Prince- ton, from Dunkirk for Detroit, was cut through by the ice and sunk off Barcelona. We have received the Cuban correspondence as submitted to Congress. It is embraced in a docu- ment of three hundred and seventy-eight closely printed pages. It goes hack to 1835, and takes in all sorts of insults and annoyances. There are Seventeen aggravated cases in the record, each one a sufficient casvs belli and good cause for the seizure of the island. But in all the letters embraced in this pamphlet there is nothing new; the facts have been published in the Heraup, and the public fully posted up in regard to the outrages committed. We shall, therefore, hold over the whole batch for future consideration. in another part of our paper will be found an in- teresting correspondence between Mr. Kretschman, United States Consul at Palermo; and Prince Satri- ano, Lieutenant-General of his Sicilian Majesty in Sicily, in reference to an outrage committed on the brauch consulate of the United States at G It appears that on the night of the 6th of February the American arms displayed over the entrance of the consulate were wantonly defaced by some mis- chievously disposed person or persons, one of the public lamps which stood opposite to it having been previously removed to prevent detection. Repeated representations having been made on the subject by the Vice Consul to the Intendente at Gergenti, and that fanctionary not having thought proper to pay any attention to them, Mr. Kretseh- man properly toak the matter in hand, and the re- sult has been the correspondence which we publish to-day. It will be seen from the reply of Prince Satriano that, with the exception of the punishment of the offenders, whom his Excellency states the strictest search on the part of the police has failed to discover, the fullest reparation has been made for the outrage. A curious picture of Oriental hab'ts and customs is presented ina letter from one of our Palestine correspondents, which will be found in another column. The writer is a member of an agricul of Americans who haye settled down barhood of Jafia. Letters from London ¢ also given. The jury in the case.of Fenety, tried for arson before Couwrtof Oyer and Termiuer, rendered a verdict of not guilty. We are informed by telegraph of two accidents that inay justly be regarded as novelties in these days of t casualties. The first is that of the explosion of two powder mills, located about five sniles from Rochester, the shock of which was quite porceptible all over that city; the other, the pre- cipitating of a locomotive, express. mail and passen- | be interesting to the public, as showing the gercars, dowh an embankment twenty feet high, near Florence, Pa. At neither of th se occurrences | Chinese down to the sailing of Mr. Marshall was there any person seriously injured, ‘The suit against James Collier, late Collector of the port of San Francisco, to recover certain sums alleged tobe retained by him, is set down for Mon- day next, in the Circuit Court of this city. The Board of Aldermen met last night, and transacted a large amount of business. The Com. Mittee on Streets presented a report adverse to the extension of Albany street through Trinity church- yard, and recommended a resolution repealing tle same. A minority report will be’ presented. The paper was laid on ‘he table for the present. The Board adjourned till the first Monday in May. The Beard of Councilwen met last evening, at six o'clock, when Colonel Sokoloff—a Rassian o: Ncer— General Ward Burnett, wit a large number of members of the Board were presen’. German a: id Trish naturalized citizens, and a fair sprinkling of New York firemen, filled the outside seats, Grooving of the Russ pavement in Broadway, the comparative rents of the Brick Church property in 1781 and 1 54, and the question of city temperance or )niza- pions were the Prominent feavures of the procgedings satisfactorily. It appears that the British agents in China have sympathized with the revolutionists because they have had a great ultimate object in view, and that the American resident merchants and disappointed attachés (of various sorts) took ‘sides with the British because their immediate mercantile in‘erests were_ concerned in the business. Mr. Mar- shall, therefore, was left to pursue his own course, and abide by the consequences. This. however, had nothing to do with his recall, except so far as it may have ex- pedited it. He was, however, bound to give way to come hungry democrat; and there were too many hungry ones to think for a moment of sparing the whig Commissioner to China. His successor is Mr. M’Lane, of Maryland, a promising young man, who has been to Califor- nia,.a fine stump speaker, a pretty sharp Mary- land politician, as far as the little plots of a Congressional district may be concerned, but s0 very amiable in his disposition that we sus- pect he will fallinto the hands of the Philistines the moment he enters upon his diplomatic func- tions. He has a sort of roving commiszion, we believe, and is perhaps instructed, as far as may be perfectly safe, to sympathize, co-ope- rate with, and recognise the revolutionary party, under the delusion that it smacks.some- what of liberal and Christian principles. Our correspondent shows that this is all hum- bug, and that the object of the British emissa- ries in encouraging the revolutionists is to upset the government, with the reasonable expecta- tion that such a state of confusion and anarchy may follow as will leave no other alternative to England than the establishment of a commer- cial protectorate over the whole empire, like that of the East India Company. Hence the busy movements of Sir George Bonham at Shanghae, and thereabouts. If that port does not, on the establishment of peace, fall into the hands of the English, it will not be their fault; nor will it be from any excess of vigilance or sagacity on our part in preventing it. When we consider that cur increasing com- merce in the Pacific since the gold discoveries in California have suggested an enlarged sys- tem of commercial exchanges with China, upon the basis of neighborly reciprocity, and the establishment, to this end, of steam lines between San Francisco and the Chinese sea- ports; and when we consider that the Chinese government and people are more favorably in- clined to the American than to the English “barbarians,” we may well inquire what is our government about? Why was it that Commo- dore Perry refused a ship to our Minister for an official visit to Pekin, with the view ofa valuable treaty with the Emperor? On mo- tion of Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, the House of Representatives have called for the official cor- respondence of Mr. Marshall and others during his sojourn in China. Let us have it. Perhaps it may be useful to Congress. It will certainly exact condition of our relations with the from the country. It will also enable us to form some tangible judgment upon the pros- pects of the mission of Mr. M’Lana. Now is the time to strike. Should this Eu- ropean war be made a short war by the ener- getic movements of England and France, and thould they come out of it triumphantly they have given us to understand that they will next eee to the regulation of the balance of power upon the American continent. And why not the whole Asiatic continent j well? What is to hinder them from cheektay the advance of Russia in the Bast by ap torate over © f they vanquish Russia i this contest? othing except the tact gacity required from our Ambassador to de feat the projects, in the meantime, of British emisearies in China. Let 14, then, see exac ly where we stand. Let us have the correspon dence touching the diplomacy of Mr. Maraliall while inChina, Why not? do anything of the kind, with a mere puppet, on the other, setup by our agents for the pur- pose of executing the treaty. Instead of sending any more negotiators to Mexico, or attempting to execute any more treaties, we had much better place things in the position in which they were at the close of General Scott’s campaign, and take the whole country under our protection for all time. Or- ganized asa Territory of the United States Mexico would soon become one of the richest and most wonderful eountries in the world, and would far outstrip the most sanguine expecta tions that are entertained with regard to our acquisition of Cuba. RE-OPENING OF THE CrystaL PaLace—Bar- NUM IN ALL HIS GLory.—We understand that Barnum is preparing things on a most magnifi- cant scale, and very novel principles, for the re-opening of the Crystal Palace, its conversion into paying enterp and the enhancing of the value of the stock. He has already ro- ceived subscriptions toa nominal amount of $100,000, from hotel keepers, railroad compa- nies, merchants and other men of business in this city ; for which he gives tickets of admis- sion to the Palace to double that sum, at fifty cents per ticket. He has also agreed to adver- tise in each of the daily papers except the Heratp, to the extent of $500, and in each of the Sunday papers to the extent of $5. He has also offered two premiums of $100 each for two odes to be read onthe 4th of May, the day of the re-opening. He likewise intends that there shall be on that day a grand pro- cession to the Palace, in which some two or three thousand firemen in their uniform are to join ; and it is expected that some of the Irish societies, the Know-nothings and the German societies will also join the performance, if they can be prevented from fighting with each other. There is to be in the Palace grand oration, together with several small speeches; and in the evening a concert, at which all the artists in the city are invite to perform or sing gratuitously, for the benefit of Barnum and the association, trusting to future popularity for a recompense. Two or three bands are to be stationed in various parts of the city to play invigorating airs during the day, and to fall back at last ou the Palace. In fact Bar- num’s preparations are on the same scale of magnificence and humbug—for he could not do without that—with which he ushered Jenny Lind into this country. His suec- cess will depend on the tone of the public mind and on the manner in which the details of his programme will be carried out. Barnum is certainly one of the most magnificent showmen this country ever produced, and he intends to make Crystal Palace one of the greatest shows .ever seen here. But the principal object of many who are looking on fuom behind the scenes is that the excitement he will cause will raise the market value of the stock, when they will sell out as was done in the old as- sociation. ee Tue First Frvrts or Gent's Street Ciean- 1x@—We understand that the Mayor and Mr. Glasier have made an humble application to Mr. Genin, begging him to surrender the superintendempy of Broadway into thétr hands, and promising most faithfully to clean it as wellas he has done. They assert that they are willing to do it, shame having taught them at least this; also that they are able to clean it, Mr. G esson having been turned to good accoupt. So, + ume, they are io have a fresh trial. If they fail, they will victed of presumptu ‘ ty: if they suec other streets of ibeir control, are not cleaned ? lemma from whi this is 12 we should like to see the intendent of Streets escay another column, Taz Desravcrion of tre Exrcrant Suir Pow- waran.—Never, pertaps, during any period of the hhineteenth century, has it been our painful lot to chronicle'so great a number of disasters atsea. In qsick succession numerous ship- wrecks have taken place along our coast, and in j many cases, Jike that of the Powhatan on Sun- day last, the loss of life has been frightful #0 | conteniplate. The late northeast gale has ane its work of destruction to the latter. The de- structien of the emigrant packet Powhatan was, as has®een geen by our full and exclusive reports of the disaster, one of the most melancholy catas- trophes that ever happened on our coast. Three hundred emigrants, fullef joy and hope when they left their native land to seek for freedom on this continent, now lie numbered with the dead. Their bodies, together with those of the -captain, officers and crew of the ship, are either in the bottom of the deep, or buried among the gand hills on the sea coast of New Jersey. This great loss of life was occasioned, we be- lieve, toa certain extent, by: the negligence of our government in not providing a sufficient number of station houses along the coast. For many miles along the shore, the sources from which aid could be obtained in case of shipwreck are placed at distances of ten and twelve miles from each other, and it would therefore be im- possible for assistance to be rendered on an ur- gent occasion to the distressed mariner. If the government will not furnish us with a navy, let them at least furnish means for the purpose of increasing the number of those uscful and ne- cessary establishments on the much-@aded shcres of New Jersey. Money might be profitably expended in the erection of such buildings, when we consider the number of lives that might be saved hereafter through their agency. We hope the attention of Con- gress will be called to the matéer, so that a repetition of gich a fearful calamity may not again take place if human foresight can pre- vent it, May Day.—If we mistake not, the approach- ing first of May will prove an unusually busy one, both to landlords and tenants. We ap- prehend that the hegira of ’54 will surpass in the number and extent of its changes that of any previous year. When we take into con- sideration the enormous rents with which our Pavt June s Srcoxp Coxcent.—The youthfal artist has created a perfect furore in musical circles—amateurs, profeesio.als, dilelanti and everybody else; his talent is wonder ful and his improvement still more remarkable. He P as, withal, the modesty which is the companion of trr.e merit. His second concert was given at Niblo’s ca oon, on Thursday evening, and it was attended by as full and fashionable an audience as that which weleomed him on Tuesday evening. Mayseder's grand variations wore given for the second time, upon a single string; the so- coud attempt was even more successful than the first, and the young artist gave the highest proof of genius in overcoming difficulties previously regarded a4 insur- mountable. Another gem of the soirée was a duet for violin and pianoforte,-by Julien and Richard Holman. It was capitally given and was encored, The vocal part of the concert was given by Mine. Commettant and M’ile. Henrietta Behrend. The enthusiasm of the audience at the matchless execution of Julien was unbounded. But an episode occurred yesterday which was more telling in its effects than the applause of the audience on ‘Thursday evening. It was a grand “ variation’? in the form of five one thoussnd dollar bank notes, a gift to the | young musical genius. The following extraordinary let- | ters describe the affair:— Oy New York, April 21, 1854. Master Pav JuiiEN:— Thave heard your delightful music in the concert room, and you have had the kindnoss to play, for mysclt an friends at yy residence. In earlier life I strove to learn the violin, but I abandoned it as too dificult for me. Its | intricacies are unconquerable to all save those who are | inepired. I have heard of the extraordinary perseverance and severe pecuniary trials through which your father has ssed to impart to you, his only child, a musical educa- tre And Ideem the efforis of both father and son highly commendable, and truly worthy of encourage- ment; I, therefore, present you withgfive thousand aol- lars, ich 1 trust SED corsa -] to gd intellee- ical and moral culture. ‘inverely, een ORISON BLUNT. New York, April 21, 1854. My Dear &m:—Mere words, though’ brightly glowing with affection, could not express my grateful emotions for your unexitmpled muniticence. Nor could the most stirring strains I ever expect to conceive reflect the chords ‘ou bave touched inmy heart. I can only assure you that I will be very studious, and fondly cherish you next tomy father and’mother. 1 may soon return to Trance, and if you should ever visit me, Tam sure that my friends would cordially receive you for your substantial kindness to me during my sojourn in a far distant land. Affectionately, P PAUL JULIEN, Alderman Onion Biunr, Warren street, New York. Young Men’s Democratic National Club, ‘This body met last evening at room No. 14 Stuyvesant Institute—the Vice President, Mr. C.G. Gunther, in the chair. Mr. A. C. Morrox offered the following resolutions:— Resolved, That the action of the State Committee of th democracy which recently held its session at Albany, moo with the hearty endorsement of this erganization; that wi with them, resolve, on a deliberate review of the past, fully approve of the notion taken at the Yast fall election je national demo of this State, 4 Pilreliance on thejustice of our cauredud the intell all continue to maintain and vin pite of the proscription we have re ceived from the administration we aided in placing in power, and in the full belief that complete success will ulti- mately reward our labors, a Resolved farther, That our opposition to the administra. tion arices from “its reereancy to democratic expectation,” and from its constant disregard of tho best wishes and in- tenants have been burthened for the last year, andthe great increase in the price of provi- sions, which will itself force many families to seek less expensive quarters, together with other causes almost equally plain, we feel jasti- fied in looking forward to the great moving day with unusual interest. The universal movement attendant upon the first of May, forms one of the peculiar institu- tions of the North. In New York, especially, the day is celebrated with a “pomp and cir- cumstance” which invest it almost with the dignity of a holiday. The crowded strects are still more crowded on that day, ayd the stream of carts and vehicles of all descriptions is quad- rapled—it is the very carnival of draymen— the elysium of active housekeepers, This year, however, our population will be moved by more substantial causes than the mere desire Of change peculiar to the restless and mercurial disposition of our citizens. At present there are good and sufficient reasons for such a change. We believe, in the first place, that the approaching first of May will do much toward solving the debatable question whether the great mass of our respectable ten- ants, composed for the most part of men of mode- rate means,will submit to the growing arrogance and extortion of landlords. We believe that the present year will witness a great change in our population. Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Staten Island, and the neighboring State of New Jersey, and, indeed, every available spot within reach of the city, will receive large ad- ditions from our midst—additions which, in all probability, will prove acquisitions in every point of view. Probably no insignificnnt num- ber will leave th: city altogether, impelled by the extravagant rents demanded for dwelling houses and business accommodations. To be sure, thousands will fill their places; the vast stream of immigration, constantly setting in toward the metropolis, will soon fill the blank; but the question at issue is not to be answered thus. Every man of sense must see that the present system of exorbitant rents cannot last long, that it cann.t be permanently supported, and that a great revulsion is not far off. PHENOMENA oF Prices.—The other day one of the Sunday papers increased its price from three to four cents a number, and it seems to be prospering iy the move. Contemporaneous with this advance in the price of newspapers, and indeed of every other commodity, we find a solitary in:tence of a tendency in the other direction, and that is in the Daguerrean art, Brady, the leading Daguerrcotypist in this city, having just announced that he will for the fu- ture execute likenesses as low as from fifty cents to one dollar each, though, of course, for the larger class of portraits he will continue to charge his usual prices. These little simple facts indicate an anomaly in the current of events which controls prices and values. Generally at the present time, and indeed for some years past, rents, board, provisions, and clothing, and almost every other article have been advancing in price. .Nothing, in short, that enters into the use or consumption of man or woman has, with one single exception, exhibited a downward ten- dency, and that is the instance to which we’ have just referred. Now, what is the cause of this general rise in the price of all other arti- cles, whilst in this case there'is a fall? The ex- tra developement and expansion of the credit system in all its varieties and the rapid growth of the country will fully account for the one fact, whilst the other may be referred to the scientific improvements which have been ef- fected of late years in almost all branches of the arts, and which, by diminishing the cost of production, diminish the price of the article produced. A few years ago the newspaper press exhibit- ed the same downward inclination. Since then, however, it has been prosperous and sue- cessful to an unprecedented degree; it is daily making fresh efforts to increase its va- Ine and effickeney, and is now under the neces- sity, as would appear from the fact above stated, of increasing its prices concurrently with the advance in all otheg articles and commodi- ties, Buf all these disturbances and expansions lead ther re ion and downward We have witnessed two or three cy- to ane react cles of a similar character within the last t) or forty years, and we ¢xpeet another pretty soon, A St. John paper of alate date states that the ice in the rivers of New Brunswick is still three feet thick, and a8 strorg apparently ae it has been during the winter, It that the St, Joh river will not be open for wiboucss belore she vib of Moy, s KUppone J terests of tho party; that we will combat with all the strength of this organization, so shamel violation of de- mocratic faith, satisfied that whatever may be our present Prospects, the people will finally come to the rescue. Resolved, That the recommendation for the etree of a State Convention of the democracy on the I7th of July, meets with our unanimous concurrence. ‘That we will take at convention by eff. that it will present om, with cheerfulness, lace. cient and trusty mon, and feel ass tous able and worthy candidates, w we can devote our cxortions to elovate to Resolved, That we urge upon our brethren, young demo- crats, throughout the State, to thoroughly organize for the campaign betore us; and that we hail with congratulation the organization recently formed at Jamaica, Queons equnty, of the Young Men’s Demoeratic National Club, and also of a similar organization formed at Staten Island, Mr. Morrow said that the resolutions comprised an endorsement of the resolutions adopted at a meeting of the State Committee at Albany, (that committee com- posed-of the tried men of the party,) and after full exa- mination of the facts, resolved to re-endorse the princi- ples adopted last year. We give this our support. We also say that we are hostile to the administration, be- cauge the administration has disappointed democratic institutions. It was expected that the administration would bga national one, conducted on_national princi- les. Such has not been the case. The men at the forth who struck down the party in 48, and the men at the South who were secessionists in *50, have been rewarded with place and power. It must be evident that the administration has proved recreant to dem cratic principles. We also call upon our young demo- cratic friends throughout the State. We support the StateCommittee in the calling of the convention to be held in July. The objection a against this is, that it is tooearly. The speaker would be glad if the national party were now in the field, so that the. people could canvass their merits fully. The resolutions were seconded by Mr. Scueut, and unanimously adopted. ‘The meeting then adjourned. Em! its arrived at this Port on Thursday. There arrived at this port, on Thursday, April 20, 5,491 passengers, as follows:— From Liverpool, per Constitution . 670 oie ‘* Steamer Asia. + 109 Bs « John Bright... . 769 From London,, ‘ American Congress. - 307 “* Florida... . « 470 From Havre, “ A. Gallatin. . » 46 a¢ “ Macedonia . + 265 u “8. G. Hyde + 533 bis “ Howard . 246 aS “ Wabash - 29 “« “ Joseph Hole 1 235 From Antwerp, ‘ Jenny Lind... 2 302 “ “ Cesar (Prussian) .. e bag ‘€ Clementina (Bremen), From Hamburg, “ Humboldt (Hamburg). “ «6 Blize “ N. Or. & Havana, “ Total ........000e The Committee on Markets of the Board of Councilmen, composed of Messrs. Clinton, Cooper, Young, Reed, and Wright, met yesterday in tho City Hall, to hear parties interested in the removal of Catherine and Washington markets. Parties were first heard on the removal of Catherine market. Mr. Guoras W. Fanvy, with a few remarks, presented a very numerously signed petition in favor of removing Catherine market to the foot of Market strect, in prefer- ence to rebuilding it on its present site, for the following reason) First. That at the foot of Catherine street there is no longer any convenient or Proper accommodation for mar- ket boats or for fish cars, which in former years render- ed it pre-eminent over all other markets for fresh fish. Second. The contiguity of the market and ferries, ne- cessarily the terminus of one or more omnibus Toutes, renders the vicinity dangerous to foot passengers. Third. The narrowness of Catherine street, the princi- pal avenue leading to the market and ferrics, renders it at times almost impassable, and lastly the combination of these causes renders the vicinity of Catherine market filthy beyond that of any other market in the city. Mr. Faruy contended that if this market was removed to the foot of Market street, all those objections would be ob- vi . Mr. VaNDYEE was opposed to the removal, and contra- dfcted generally the grounds set forth in the petition of those holding opposite views. He contended that there was plenty of room on the present site of Catherine mar- ket for ali the purposes required. It, had been said that the place was too crowded. He held that a crowded bi was the proper site for a market. Mr. BRUSTER oppored the removal; he said that two- thirds of the business of Catherine market came from the Fourth ward. If this market then was removed, the people from that ward would have to go to Fulton'mar- et. He had never seen any person run over, or any other inconvenience arising from the place being too crowded. All were ready to concede that there should be # better market there. He was not interested in the question one way or the other, but epoko for the re. sidents of the Fourth ward. Several other gentlemen spoke on the subject after Which the committee took up the removal of Washington market. The CuammAn said that the committee had in their Possession numerous petitions asking for the removal of ashington market to the foot of Fourteenth street. The arguments of parties oppored to the removal were, that the people who signed those petitions were speculs. tors, and were not residents of the Third ward. If they wanted a market up town, they should not have it at the expense of the inhabitants of the Third ward, who paid their taxes and assessments a8 well as others. "Washing- ton market they contended, was required for shippin, purposes, and was used for supplying steamships an vessels, and it ought not to be removed from its present o Personal Intell}; '~ Tt was announced the other day that Frederick 8. Beecher had been unanimously confirmed as Secretary of Legation to Central America. It should have beon Frederick A. Beelen. Hon. George A. Pugh, Senator olect in the Congress of the United States, has been in Washington for several days. Mr. Pugh ‘will be a young Senator. He is but thirty-one years of age. Hon. Mr. Ingham, the democratic candidate for Go- vernor of Connecticut at the last election, is in Washing- ton city. 3.6. Williams, Washington; R. M. Griffin, Albany; F. Avery, Ohio; L. 1. Olmetend, Washington; J. Hill, Rich: mond; T. Herriot, South Carolina, arrived yesterday at the Prereott House. 7 Syracuse; C. Cummings, Canada; Benj 8. Abercrombie and family er aed Indy, U. 8. Navy; B Schoonhoven and family, Troy; James ewin and T. B. Fiteh Nosbville, Tenn, ; J rnes. more; Rob't Pro ) opny Wr Galena, 11.; G. B. Robertson, ue Harrison, Kiehmoad, ¥ m Se nar PF. :, A. Abbott, Concor W. Gi burg; R. 8. Serive- ner, Engiand; 1. 0. lo; Capt. A. Hase, Bri- tish, army, were among the arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ARRIVALS. Fream Cardenas, in hark Panchita—Capt Wer Townsend, late of brig bi teu Crus del Padre; John Guisohard, teamon, ef do; Dewits Miller, d Phillips. trew Malage. in bark Loo? Garcia, Yd Pomores, Don OUsG We de ihe Deka, a apelin, ‘The Great Street Cleaning IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE AND FROM GENIN AND THE NEW STREEF ‘SIONER, TO THE PUBLIC. ‘The purification of Broadway from filth and dust wi with ihe gssi-tance of my fellow sufferers, the bus men of (kt thoroughfare, I have been enabled to ac lish, has attracted attention from an unexpected q er—ihe Street Lepartment. The Commissioner of St: and Tamps bas taken the job off my hands, pledging self at ihe teme time to have Broadway cleaned € night, and to keep the lateral streete, ‘and the city g¢ ally, ina clean condition, Presui that the pl will be redeemed, I have surrender the task hans, and will, as soon ss I have leisure to do 40, re| an account of my three weeks stewardship. Mr. Gl letier and my rely therelo will be found below. I fratulate my fellow @!izens on this substantial tria! he first energetie effort of private enterprise bread field of municipal reform has produced a mé ceptable result. Weare promised streets, ar the Department breaks feith with us, we must To! our private laliors, and shame suthority again. «| things can be done as well a8 others”? Sam Pa | and I feel considerable satisfaction im having demons) | ed that the cleaning of Broadway is one of the th that can be done by private enterprise when the serv | of the people are disinclined or incompetent to perl the duties for which they are paid. Ido not here in, to cast any reflection on Mr. tasier, who came intoc in some measure with his bands tied, who, I doubt will carry out the street reform which has been initi. in Broadway. He has voluntarily come forward sumed the responsibility, and I trust that his works! avouch the sincerity of his word. No private citizc | likely to assume the performance of any duty le mately belonging to a public officer unlesa that offic faithless, corrupt, or incay able; but as it has been that the people can and will have clean streets, > the authorities perform their duties in the pre: not, 1 think it very probable that theexperiment | private bureau for streets may be followed up by sin ‘ provisional”’ arrangements of the public service, | less the present incumbents bestir themselves andn some shew of earning their salaries, Private orga: tions, like that which has rendered Broadway acces, to ladies in all weathers, might succeed in galvani | into some semblance of activity a good many dead. | loungers who fatten on the public pay and rendey | quid pro quo therefor. | It will he seen by his letter that Mr. Glasier comme” his task on Monday night. I shall, therefo; re, give. | farewell brooming to Broadway to-night, for ra | modation of the church-goers to-morrow. * JOHN N. Orricz oF CoMMISIONER or STREETS AND Naw York, April 21, 1854 Jon N. Grxiy, Eso. : Dez Sir—I havo just completed my arrangemen carrying out the duties of the ment, and, brief, can a say that I regret there ever has oceasion for the citizens of Broadway to organise place in your hands the duty ef keeping your roughfare clean. Although I cannot be Tes for the acts of others, yet I know my duty is to do, oficial capacity, what you are now doing in your pri eapacity. Iwill checrfully take it off yous hands, | | assure you and the public that all my endeavors sha given to keep not only that great thoroughfare, bu the intersecting streets, as well as the entire city something like proper cleanliness. On andafter Mor Twill clean Broadway every night, and very many of business streets in the lower wards, which can onl. cleaned properly at that time. Yours, truly, w GEO. G. GLAst Commissioner of Streets and Lamp New York, April 21, 185. Gro. G. Giasme, Esqr. at Dear Sir—In reply to your note of this day’s dat _ have only to say, that as I assumed the broom at the | quest of my fellow tradesmen on Broadway, for ourc | mon protection, and for the purpose of showing w, could be accomplished by a little energy and el) ) grease, so T now willingly resign it to legitioate hail under a pledge that it will be effectively wielded. If . cover yourself as strictly with glory in carrying out ood work as Broadway was covered with dust w commenced operations, your utmost ambition ough” be satisfied. Yours truly, J. N. GENIS ral ; City Intelligence. MrErING oF THE PLUMBERS.—An adjourned meetin, the plumberswas held last night at the Union Sha in Fourth avenue, near Fourteenth strget, to take » measures necessary to secure for themselves an adv: of wages. Peter Scott was called to the chair, and W | Craig elected secretary. The main object of the meet was to receive the report of the special committee pointed at the last meeting of the plumbers to cor’ with the employers in regard to the strike. This rey _| was presented, which was in substance that a confere with the employers had been held, and the resolution the meeting demanding $250 per day was laid bef them. The employers at such conference asked for a of the most competent workmen in the trade. This port was accepted, and the demand of the employers || a list of the most competent workmen was unanimov refused. ‘The meeting then adjourned till Tuesday ne | at the same time and place, to hear the final ion the employers in regard to the strike. We trust the « ployers will see the justice of granting this advance | ‘wages, so righteously deserved. Fing.—Yesterday morning, about o’clock, a fire br out in a dwelling house belonging to Mr. Blew, in For sixth street, between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues, : completely destroyed it, together with its contents. loss was cbout $4,500. ACCIDENT ON A RattRoaD.—Francis P. Swards, a nat of Portugal, while attempting to leave the Harlem c: yestercay morning at Harlem, before they had stopp | was ed over and seriously injured. One of his legs \ crushed. } H Brooklyn City Inte’ Me ¥ Frm Waro Wu Nosixatiow crn ae whig primary mecting for the nomination of a cand for Alderman was held at the Brooklyn Hotel, in Huds avenue, last evening, and resulted in the choice of Rui R. Belknap, the late efficient Assistant Captain of t- police force of the Second district. In corsequence some dissatisfaction among the delogates, the minor afterwards nominated Mr. John Leech, but that gent » man bas declined to accept it, considering Captain pers = eoge nominee. The election takes place ‘the 25th inst. Marine Affatrs. TROUBLE ON BoaRD A WHaiBsinp.—Advices from Vas: Western Australia, state that the Whaler Iris, Wee | master, of this port, arrived at that port on the 26th December 1863, A boat from that ship landed the sar | evening, bringing ashore the mate, Mr. Warren Crap of Dartmouth, who had received a gun-shot wound fro the hands of the Captain, who had been observed to | yery unsettled in his mind for several days previou, Soon after the ship anchored the mate went into tl | cabin. Some conversation took place between him ar Capt. Weeks, when the latter took a musket, exclaimin, “7 will shoot you.”?_ The mate endeavored to escape u the companion ladder, but was shot by the Captain i | the wrist of the right hand, nearly severing it from thy, arm, and rendering am) utation neces: . The capt had been kept in the eabin by the erew, wlio did not d to — ony bel gs bat toa fon from coe on dee! 0) arpoons, whal neces, &e.. him. Capt. Halloy,the Government Resident,’ went o board to enquire into the matter, and eee some ( the crew to Ko below and bring Capt. Weeks on deck, bu they declined, saying they ‘guessed the old man woul shoot them if they went below.” Capt. Malloy wen himeelf, and found the man tractable enough, He wa brought on shore, and was in safe keeping.—New Bed | Jord Mercury, April 20. I Common Pleas. : Before Judge Daly and a Jury. ; Apri. 21.—Simcon Sheinfelder, an infant, ec., by hi Guardian, vs. Moses Rosenberger.—Action for an assaul\ on a boy about ten yearsofage. In December, 1853, this boy, when pelting another with snow balls, broke a win: dow in the defeudant’s house, who was the grandfather of the latter youngster. Defendant became excited, pur: sued the offender, and whi oe him. The defendant cn- deavored to prove at the tri that the plaintiff was a bad, mischievous, troublesome youth, but the evidence for and against was contradictory. The Judge, in charging the jury, expressed a strong opinion agalust taking up the time of the court with such trifles. If the boy had mischievously broken the defendant's window, a little chastisement would have donc him mo harm. If, on tue contrary, the assault was unprovoked, or more severe than the'oceasion required, damages should be given in Proportion. Verdict for plaintiif, $20. United States Clreult Court. Before Hon. Jndge Betts. THE CASH OF THE ALLEGED CANADA PORGERINS. Arri: 21.--In the matter of habeas corpus of Daniel W. Van Aetnam, whore extradition has been ordared by the Presient—Mr, Charles Edwards appeared as counsel for the British government, and urged that this court could not revise tlic decision ot the committing magistrate. The Judge said ho did not see any provision in ths act of treaty authorizing the President or Secretary of State to decidé upon the evidence. Mr. Edwards—The Commissioner has decided upon the evidence, and the question here is whether after t) Commissioner has done his duty, and the Secreiary State having cranted the warvant of extradition, the Judge will deem it competent for this court to open the matter. The only question which was before the Commissioner was whether the accused did thiv act charged against him, and it was the duty of the Commissioner to se that there was evidence to sustain the charge. It was hardly intended by the act that this court should disturb the. commitment of the magistrate, or that this court was to try a case according to the laws of Canada. ¢ Judge said that the line of demarkation was not very clear. If he understood the common law, the duty of ‘the revising officer goes no farther than to ascertain if the jurisdiction of the committing magistrate is competent. Mr. Edwards contended that all that was necessary be- fore the Commissioner was to establish a prima facie case. If this court went into the matter it would be try- ing it without the evidence, which may be in the posses-— sion, of the wuthoritien in nother country, that woul joing an injustice to a friendly power. | Mr W.@. Morton dud A. Romaine, on behalf of the accused, contended, at considerable length, there wae evidence to bring this ense within the act of treaty ; that it was competent for this court to go into the testi- mony, aud if it appeared that there was not sufficient te holt the accused, it would be the duty of his Honor to dircharge him. ‘The case was adjonrned to this (Saturday) morning. Obstructing the Malls, THE NEW YORK GERALD. instant, I noticed in an arct ug or obstructing the U. 8. mails,” that complaint Las been made against ‘the policeman on duty at the foot of Cortlandt street.” As Tamthe policeman on duty at that place, I wish to correct the statement of your informant. I had no part in the transaction refer- red to, and wes not applied to by the driver to allow hiro to pass, and did not exchange a word with him on that occasion. CHARLES Woop. April 21, 1864. . The Botanical ¢ at May Ga., and the stores of Messrs, Funeh, Walker, Messett, and others, were com~ fumed by ise on Tuesdey last,