The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1854, Page 4

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WHOLE WORLD, 877 and 379 Broadway—Asternoon snd Brening. ‘OLLO Rooms. , Monday, May 8, 1854. ©ixculation of the New York Herald, for the week ending May 6, 1854, May 1 53,520 Mondey, Tuesday, 152,200 Wednesday, « 3 +51,240 Phursday, 4 +51,480 Fridoy, 5 Roturday Bay Superintendent of the Printing Department. ‘The News. Our intelligence from Washington is important, ‘The recent news from Madvid regarding the Black Warrior difficulty has aroused the administration at Jast, and it is expected that before the lapse of many days a message of a highly belligerent character concerning our relations with Spain vali ke trans- mitted to Congress. Our readers will re@Mect that ‘on the 27th ult., on the receipt of intelligence from | advantage over ur, that he will be in a position Europe that the Black Warrior affair had been satis- factorily arranged and full reparation made for that ‘outrage, we exposed the utter improbability of the statement, and cautioned the public against giving eredence to such ramora, however plausible they might appear. The last steamer brought in- formation confirming in every respect our view of the subject. The supporters of the Nebraska bill held a caucus last night, and agreed ‘to oppose all amendments save striking out the Qlayton clanre. We have given our views of the present aspect of this question in another column. It is said that some of the opponents of the bill have agreed to dssist in bringing it up. The rumored co alition between Marcy and the New York national democrats is creating a wonderful sensation. Gener- al Almorite, the Mexican Minister, has despatel ‘two messengers to Santa Anna, with copies ‘treaty,-and a government steamer is waiting at Nor- folk to-oarry Gen. Gadsden, with the treaty itself, to Vera Graz. The pomp and circumstance attending the ateumption of imperial dignities, and the war withthe rebellious Alvarez, to say nothing of the costly pageantries to celebrate the bloodless victo- ries won, have pretty efectuatly exhausted Santa Anna’s exchequer, and it is stated that he has in ad- vance pawned three millions of the ten guaranteed by the treaty. There is, therefare, no doubt of his acceptance of the terms. But we shall ascertain with greater certainty how acceptable the aforesaid “Ytem of ten millions may be:to Congress when the scrutiny of Col. Benton's investigating committee pon various trifling matters connected with this negotiation js made public. This morning we continuc the publication of the important paper on the rights of neutrals cora- menced yesterday. By an attentive perusal the reader may obtain a knowledge of the history of this subject, which is at this time one of the utmost in- terest ix view of the part our country may be called upon to take in support of its riglits in the warnew pending. Letters from our corvespendents at Washison, Arvaioma, Va., and Boston; articles on the iuexi- ean debt; operations on the Danube; commercia! and financial intelligence; and many other matters ef interest, may be found on the inside pages. The new Baptist church in Twenty-third ateet was dedicated yester: and several sermons preached on the occasion. We give elsewhere a numb r of extracts from pa- pers in various sections of the country which will further indicate the prospects of the coming crap Allagme that the season is unusually backward, and in some localities it isrepzesented to be a month behind; but we cannot sec that the crops will be materially affected thereby,.ond we think the ex- tracts fully warrant the prediction that the oom!ng autumn will produce to the farmer an abundant har- vest. We publish to-day an important and elaborate de cision of Judge Hoffman on. demurrer to e com: plaint in the case of the New York Insurance Com pany against the Board of Supervisors and the Re. ceiver of Taxes, on au application for exe from taxation upon the reduced emount of one hue @red thousand dollars. The religious anniversaries may now be sail te eve commenced in earnest, and we this morning present elsewhere reports of the proceedings of those meetings heldyyosterday. The annual sermon be- fox the New Yerk Dible Society, by the Rev. W.W, Holloway, was ,mainly upon the duty of Christians to G culate the Scripture fluence the Bible must one day exert in the wo! fixtures of the c the meeting rn Forejcn Mission Societ journment to the Church of the Pilgrims, where, ow ing to tHe latenesscf the hour, the exerc dimited to an announcement of the condition of th» fands.cug ‘he re-delivery of a sermon by DrCheever. The balawes sheet ofthe society exhibits the sum of $26,544 @ on hand. The anniversary of the Fe. male Society of the Howe for the F dies yas ce- lebrat Ipmns were sung and speeches wer made on the ¢ccasion. “he annual sermon en be- half of the Ammr.ican Home Missionary Society was delivered hy Rev. Henry Svy'th, of Marietta Colle ge io, in the Churah of the 3": n The Rey. Wil Cartis dej*vered the ral address t Society of Euqgiry of the n Theolog minary, in the Presbyterian @mrch corner ¢ teenth street and Seyon' Tt was a } talented dinenrse, showing the mind of no matter wiresher degrade: 'y he or eal ened by scionee.2nd pheosoph va religion, and was not at pase unles with that founded @n the Kible. Thea + before the Am ry woe delivered a in Third avenue, between cond streets, Brooklyn Jin q Weequence ¢ high wind that prevail sh wt time communicated to the adjoining y“hich were destroyed. A lamber yard. of the fire, was greatly timated at over $ ?, ed th @ leeward The Jow 1 ° "The influence: an! pre udices that have been | brought to bear on the discussion of the great question whic’) is now convulsing Europe to its centre, will .xcite a smile of ridicule and con- tempt in .h future reader o; the history of our times. Removed from the sphere of their operation, !e will be enabled to judge dis- passionat ly of the real motives and designs of The actors cn the scen> ; ani he will have this | to compar. his deductions with the evidence of | actual result’. It is curious enough that in | all the co.tioversy to which t.e Eastern ques- | tion has given rise, te antecedents of one | Power si ould have been so closely overhauled, | whilst those of the most formidable of her ad- | versarics, who has been playing the part of a | politics! Tartuffe throughout the whole of this polemic, and justifying a course of action favorable io her own interests, on high moral | and chivalrous grounds, should have been en- | tirely overlooked, The people of Europe have | been 80 engrossed by a consideration of the | dangerous consequences likely to result from a | Russian occu; ation of Constantinople, that they have forgotten to inquire if it be the probable interest or object of any other government to obtain possecsion of that coveted prize.. Let us endcavor to repair the omission by placing before them a series of facts, illustrative of the stealthy, but sure aud steady, progress of Great Britain in the path of universal dominion, and of the right which she has to ery “ wolf”? when she sees another about to seize the prey upon which she has cast a longing eye. It is now about two centuries and a halfsince an association of London traders laid the foun- dations of that vast empire which, from modest factories in Calcutta, Madras, and Surat, has gradually pushed and extended its limits, un- til they comprise at the present momeat an area of upwards of 1,200,000 square miles of territo- ry, with acoast line of about 3,200 miles. The Portuguese had been suffered to monopo- lize, for nearly a century, the fruits of their great discovery of the ronte to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the Dutch had already begun to display their flag in the Eastern sea before the attention of the English was turned in that direction. The voyages of Stephens, Drake, and Cavendish, the first English ex- plorers of the Indian Oceaa. had, of course, at- tracted notice; but it was not until the cap- ture of some Portuguese East Indiamen, with rich freights, by Burroughs and Drake, that the cupidity of the English merchants was thor- ougbly aroused, and that the commercial com pany was formed to which we have just allud- ed. Its beginnings were humble and gave but small promise of the vast results which they have since Its inal capital amounted at first to only abont £370,000; but is sum only a portion was paid up, as e stockholders could net be induced to come forward to defray the cost of the first expedition, This difficulty led te the forma- tion of a subordinate association, com- posed of those who were willing to pay, and it was by this body ‘that, for the first fifteen years’ term of the company’s cherter, its operations were conducted. The results of the first expedition, though fitted out attained. no on a small scale, were so encoureging that the enterprise was, year after year, actively prose- cuted, and in 1612 the company obtained from the court at Delhi. number *of important pri- vileges, and amongst others that of establishing afactory at Surat, which became the principal British station in the west of India until the acquisition of Bombay. Thue, to use a figurative expression, was the small end of the wedge of .British influence and interference introduced in the internal aflairs of India. The Portugucee, tle Dutch, and the French, struggled hard to resist its further extension; but, like all other nations who come into collision with the Anglo-Saxon race, they were eventually compelled to suc- cumb to the superior energy and perseverance of their rivals, It was during the reign of Aurungzebe that the Britich Mast India Com- (pany first departed from the purely commer- peizl principles that regulated ‘heir association, ‘and begon to take part in the disputes and cwars of the native princes. . Restricted to the limits of the old native towns of Calcutta, Madros, Surat, and the island of Bombay, their operations had scarcely atizacied the notico much less the jealousy, of the Mastern govern- ments, and it was only when they sent a mili- tary force into the field to assiet the Emperor. against the Portuguese and others of his ene- mice, that their real power became felt. Their factories had become fortresses, and with their eormercial they had united amifiitary as well as newal organization. Subsequent mismanage- ynent.and recklessness on the part ef Sir Joho Child, brought upon them. hewever, the ven- geanoe of the Emperor, and bnt for the } accident of the death of the officor sent a t th em. it is questionable whether they yonld not have been expelled from the sevtlemente, Their incorporation with the new. eharte cammpapy formed in London in 1707, led to i t improvement in their organization. andnew lite ‘as and vigor j into the » of the ser means by wi thenceforward infused, met only ning body, but iato all branches re. The subsequent history 9} h British supremacy was Wished in India is too well known to render it siccessary to recapitulate its successive stages. &affice it to say, that fraud, stratagem, and ferce respectively contributed to the gratifica- tien of that thirst for universal dominion, whieh, after appropriating the richest kingdoms of Southern Asia, is now steadily advanging step by step towards;be same objects on its south eastern and western extremities, Of <he manuer ‘n which the dut'es of gov- erumea! have been fulfilled towards .the vast population that have beem thus broug'it, under y.of Great Britain, the facts are ¢ xraceful chat they will form an indolible Wot oit the hietery of her rte. Not to speak.of the organized gapine aad extortion whieh send the swa lis. home to ewell the ranks ¢f the moneyed aristo y the ere iy penniless adventyrers I} the offices in the Company's gi al resulis may be thus briefly summed Notwithstandinggbat the greater portion ¢ es inclwled in the three P; yeen in her go: on for noarly th quarters of a century, their maral, social, al condition has remained almost The commerce of those xich distri little or no preg ir inhabi- tants, we are told, pay in taxes half as mach as is ecllected in Great Britain aad [veiwad, and yet annually consume no more than oae shil- lings worth of British goods per head, or one fourteenth part of the value taken by Obili and La Plato; their entire roads receive no greater utley tian is spent upon the streets an: ways of one pf she large Englich ¢ the terr't cles hee fostering care of the Board of Directors at the rate of fifteen miles in fifteen years, and on the education of their population the magnificent sum of three farthings per family is annually disbursed. This description aleo applies, with more or less force, to the results of her rule in her North American, West Indian, and Australian colonies. The course pursued by the British in China presents so exact a paraKel to that which mark- | ed their encroachments in India, that it is im- possible not to arrive at the conclusion that their object is either to possess themselves of some of its richest provinces or to establish over the whole of the empire a protectorate which will secure to them exclusive commercial advan- | tages to the prejudice of other nations. They have obtained a firm footing in the Chinese territories, and from their settlement of Hong Kong it will be seen that they will soon begin | to dictate terms to the two great parties which are now struggling for ascendancy in the Ce- lestial empire. That the origin of the revolution which bids , fair to overthrow the reigning dynasty i , traceable to British influence, must be appare yt to every one who has noted the progress of events in China for the last twelve mon’ js, English missionaries have evidently been the prime instigators in the movement; but , 4}. though a semi-religious character has for «yt reason been given to it, there can be no prt of mistake as to the political motives that! prot sot it on foot. The unequivocal manner i gw the sympathies of the British agents gga pei- dents in Hong Kong and Canton are’ gypressedt in favor of the revolutionists, renders 4 eyjdent that they are only waiting for ai0. gerable'op- portunity to carry out to its fill posults.the policy that won them India, an¢ get may ‘yet win them China and Turkey, for ie” ge also Great Britain has obtained a foothold, Yes ! the protectorate of Turkr g by Pngiand and France is now an establis) @& fact. With all the purism of the former, ? gi her affected repugnance to the propositions fF the Czar, che is now in the fruition of what" gns been long a favorite object of her ambitior ,~the security of the route to her Indian poss’ gions. ‘Fo attain this she would at any tir @ ‘have breved the risks that she is now incur sing; but a decent pretence was wanting to ju’ ify any movement towards it, until the encr’ yschmentsief Russia opportunely farnished it. Now that she has set foot onthe soil of ' furkey, she will keep it firmly planted there ¥ in the anality of protector as long as she has -a copart- ner, in the quality of @wner and mistress as soon as she has quar’ feted with or amicably disposed of her ally, ynd killed off -by a slow process “the sick ma 9” whom she has under. taken to cure. Her jéreot interests-as connect- ed with Egypt and bh er thirst of universal domi- nion, rénder these « sents more than probable. Undismayed by thr ; spectacle of the ill-govern- ed and suffering » gasses that she has already brought under he y eway, she will consummate her conquests by the addition of the whole or part of the Ott: jman éerritories to. her Asiatic poseessions. Ur itil the day of her decadence sets in, she wi fl never appreciate the great moral lesson c¢ veyed in the reply of the poor Hindoo suppl’ ant to the Ghaznavide conqueror Mabmoud. ( )n cowplaining to him that her son had lost, his life by robbers, in a remote part of hisn¢ svly acquired territories, the Sultan answered th atit was impossible for him to enforce the laws in such a distant corner of his king- dom. “Why, then,” spixitedly replied the bereaved mother, “do you take countties that you canmot govern, and for the protection of which you must be answerableat the day of judgment!” Arratrs Iv Mexico.—Late advices from Mex- ico are even more contradictory than usual. By one account we hear of illuminations and great rejoicings in the capital,.in honor of the victory won by his “Serene Highness” over the rebels at Coquilla. Another version of the story is that Santa Anna, with five thousand men un- der his command, attacked the enemy, eight hundred strong,(a small detachment under Villa- real.) which retreated in admirable order before ugh superior numbers, with the loss of only a single man. The news of the “victory,” it will be observed. is received altogether through the erio Official, the government organ in Mex- 0, From all other sources of information, denied. It seems to be oan established fact that the country along the Pac coast, south of the capital, is in an organized state. of insurrec- ticn, ly to rise the moment that success ve crowned the arms of Alvarez, The ctof that wary chief is not to risk a | pitched battle, but rather to tempt Santa Anna wrsue him into the wild, meuataigous dis- where, with an inferior foree, he can ad- eously keep upa guerilla warfare, and, th little Joss to if, gradually eripple rez, and cessfully executed by his ally. When it is remembered that the government trocps are comp vely unacquainted with the country—that during the summer months disease will thin their ranks—that the!health ofthe Dictator himself is declining, avd that his purse is empty—it must be confessed that even the news of a victory, were it true, affords no ground for belief that the insurrection has been suppressed. Our conviction is that the direst anarchy and confusion will be the result of this Mexican rebellion. We do not think that the cause of liberty or republicanism will be advanced one whit, whichever party is vietorious. Experience has proved that, in their present state, at least, the Spanish American people are totally unfit for self-government. The hope that they ever will improve grows faint, and fainter every year. They were the first tocolo- nize the New World, awd, during the three hundred years that freedom was within their grasp, if perhaps they seized it for a moment, they were unable togetain it. They are now, for the most part, as ignorant of the fundamen- tal principles of constitutional government as their forefathers were uager the dominion of Ferdinand. Throughout tiis continent, dynas ty after dynasty is swept away, and desolation and ruin trac’ he progress of each new gcon- vulsion-—liberty, never. One government is substituted for another, and the last is generall¥ worse than the first. Republics, se are called, struggle into existence, but they die out immediately, or live a laughing-stock to the civilized world. The past history and present condition of every Spanish-American State, without one solitary exception, are given in the word, disorder. pre a cee OTS of rages is as necessary 45 eomptcte the educa- | ordering five 4arge loaves of his bread to be | tion of a statesman, as , the study of any branc» | brought to him, took out the Back, coarse of polit‘eal se'enee, ‘Prond and isslated, the | crumb, an@ forecd him to swallow the whole Spanish has never mingled with other rpe>s. | of it, ‘The knave was carried out roaring like |) jimself the system of despotism, religious or meagre as they are, the alleged victory is flatly | fee, The -kirmish of Coquilla, and the re- | treat of Vi al with the view.ef joining the main body, are presumptive evidence that the whole a: was previously planned hy Alva- The consequence— -tyeyitable—siares us fi the | | face to-day. ‘The 7 oharacteristic: of the people | have remained t ge same for centuries, both in | Burope ond / gmerica. While othér nations | have pr gret jed, they have remainea stationary | —unchange’ 4 gnd'unchangable. ‘Fhey lack one thing need’ j@}, without which republican institu- tions can’ peyer flourish. Theydack individual- ism—sel /reliance—that which enables a man to feel hin elf a .man—to depend solely upon his Own €? grtions for success in all that he under- takes. | The Spaniard depends on any one but him: f—on‘his chieftain, his king, his priest; for the time ‘being he will obey each one in SW session, with the blindest superstition or b' gotry. “He thus unavoidably brings upon political, that ensues. A republic can never be composed of such materials. It is for’ these reasons, taking Mexico as aa example, that it will matter little in the end whether the arms of Santa Anna or Alvarez prove victorious in the present struggle. The eause of liberty will not be advanced by either. The chances are now that the ten millions of sdollars which the dictator will receive from the Enited States government, will enable him to gain adherents to whom gold is an overpower- ing argument. He may even proclaim the long expected empire, and, by selling from time to time large slices of his territory, matme to , Sustain for a while his authority, and realize his ambitious views by bribery and fear. As to Mexico, she will one day become a genuine republic, but not until the tide of emi- gration rolls thitherward from Saxondom. € RESURRECTION OF THE Nepraska BiLu.—A» attempt is to be made to bring up the Nebrask. bill to-day for discussion, and hope: are en- tertained that the supporters of the bill will gather in sufficient strength to push it before the fourteen bills which now stand ahead of it on the list. We doubt the realization of these hopes. These fourteen bills will each muster a and it will require no ordinary organization to defeat them all. To us it seems very likely that much noise will be made about the resus- citation of the bill by the Cabinet, while Mr. Pierce and Marey privately contrive to defeat it. The administration will endeavor to take all the credit they can for their devotion to the principle of non-intervention and the interests of the South; but if they have the smallest opportunity—and these fourteen bills are sure to afford them one—they are sure to intrigue with the North to have the bill killed for this session at least. Having dope this they will throw the odium of its failure: on .the national democrats or the whigs. We have no faith in a settlement of the Ne- braska question during this session of Congress. We arrive at this conclusion beth from a kaow- ledge of the character of its chief supporters and from our general experience of the history of such measures, It will suit the Cabinet and Douglas better that the Nebraska question should be open till the next Presidential clec- tion, than that it should be determined during this session of Congress. It has not fulfilled its object yet. These slavery controversies are almost without exception mere political tricks, got up for a special purpose, and with a definite aim. The people at large have opinions for or against slavery and its exten- sion; but politicians have none. They use it as an instrument and as nothing more. The politicians of the last generation used it, when Missouri applied for admissian as a State : and four out of five of the Presidential candidates of that day being Southern men, looking for Northern support, the Missouri compromise was passed violating the constitution so as to favor the North. Thirty-four years afterwards, a batch of Northern candidates, looking for Southern support, take the field ; and they pro- pose to undo the work of their predecessors, with precisely the same object and the same views as were entertained by them. Both sets of men wanted to use and did use in a measure the slavery controversy as a tool for the pro- motion of their own personal ambition. The supporters of the Nebraska bill have this advan- tage over the fathers of the Missouri compro- mise, that the latter violated while the former seek to vindicate the constitution. But in all other respects the two manceuvres are of the same stamp. So far from believing that this Congress will settle the Nebraska question, we are almost in- clined to doubt whether it will ever be decided within the halls of Congress. Let public opin- ion continue to move in the direction it is now pursuing, and no Congress will be able to cut such a Gordian knot without endangering the stability of the Union. A mode of averting such crises is provided by the constitution; and that is the assembling of a national convention | for the purpose of amending the eonstitution, | or supplying its deficiencies. As our territories | fil up, and applications for organization multi- ply on our hands, a necessity will be constantly * felt for the enactment of some well understood | rule, which might prevent politicians from using this slavery question whenever their own interests require a popular agitation. Such a rule, amending the constitution, would neces- sarily be the work of a national convention and would probably obtain the necessary rati- fication by three-fourths of the States. We think it not unlikely that we may come to this at last, Tne Price or Bre ie fluctuations } in the size of the baker’s loaf form one of the most fruitful sources of complaint with the thrifty housekeeper, Tie rise in the price of flour immediately cause sensible diminution in the dimensions of the loaf; but it is a subject of common ri that a decline in the former article i followed by a proportionate increase In the size of the latter. The advantages arising from the fluctuations in the flour market are therefore all one-sided. A late letter from Ryzeroum gives on amusing account of the manner in which these things are regulated in Turkey. A contractor whose tender had been accepted for the supply of the army with bread, sent in an article very much inferior to the quality stipulated for in his contract. Haireddin Pacha summoned the contractor before him, and ex- postulated with him on his breach of faith. He admitted that the breed was bad, aud promised | to remedy it on the fellowing day. Tho mor- yew came, with the same black, gritty loaves, aid no improvement. The ‘Pacha sent again > pretty substantial phalanx of special friends, | } litical a bull, and swelled to nearty double his usual size. It is well for some of the New York bakers and milkmen that Haireddin Pacha is not in military occupation here. Potyeauy i Uran.—It would have been well for Congress to have débated the bill for granting lands to actual settlers in the Mormon territory with more seriousness than was dis- played en Thursday and Friday last. It is foolish to jest on such subjects when the grow- ing importance of the Mormons is daily render- ing them a more formidable reality in our midst. The point which came before Congress was whether polygamists should participate in the benefits of the act or not. The committee reported for their exclusion; Mr. Bernhisel of Utah moved an amendment repealing the clause by which they were excluded; and the House, without joining issue directly on the motion, tacitly concurred in it by throwing the | bill overboard for the present. It is clear that the matter will not rest here. The Mormons will return to Congress with fresh requests for lands, and it will be well for us to be prepared with an opinion beforehand. Polygamy will not find a single apologist here. We are all so firmly convinced of its wrong that we have made it a criminal offence, We believe it not only to be contrary to true religion and sound morality, but to be subver- sive of social order and inimical to national ogress. Holding these opinions, we are en- titled to take all lawful means to prevent introduction into this State. But we have no right to impose our opinions on the people of any other State or Territory peculiarly within the purview of State legisla- tion. No power to control or interfere with them has been delegated to the federal authority, and, under the constitution, Congress is no bet- ter qualified than the New York Legislature to shall have. We may regret our want of means to check what we consider a grievous evil; but the benefits of the Union are obviously accom- panied by conditions, one of which is that we shall concede to our partners in the confederacy the same freedom of thought and action that ‘we enjoy ourselves. The measure reported by the committee, excluding from the beneiits of the act any individual who has more than one wife, was clearly unconstitutional. On the other hand, Congress has a right to donate lands to the Mormons for settlement, or not, as it pleases, No law, duty or obligation were refused, and no Surveyor General ap- pointed. The only evil result of that course would be that a check would be given to the developement of a new and a fertile region of country. Mormon progress would be arrested for a time at least. Whether it would be sound policy to arrest it,in the hope that time will convince the Mormons of the obvious folly of their present system in relation to marriage, and induce-them to mddity at least this feature of their erced, Congress must decide. We think it would. Evrorean Travet.—The present disturbed condition of political affairs in Europe seems to have a favorable influence on the influx of Americans. The number of departures of tour- ists from New York this season, promises to be greater than ever. The three steamers which sailed last week, carried out four hundred and eighty-one passengers. The English steamer Asia had one hundred and eighty-five; the Col- lins steamship Arctic had two hundred and five, and the Union, which sailed on Saturday for Havre. had ninety. It seems probable that there will be more Americans in Europe during this summer than ever before, and that timid Europeans will flock here in corresponding crowds. Tur Carson Lxacus—A New Mone or Rats- InG THE Wixp.—We have had so many experi- ments made upon the purse strings of the pub- lic, under one pretence or another—religious, philanthropic and political—that even the fol- lowing document, eminently remarkable as it is for ts impudence, fails to excite in us any feel- ing of astonishment. We give it, without cur- tailment, for the amusement of our readers:— CIRCULAR OF THE COMMITTEE OF ORGANIZATION OF THE CARSON LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The undersigned, the Committee of organization of the Carson League of the city of New York, issue this circular to the friends of temperance therein, We propose to severtain the amount of capital in the city which its proprictors will submit to an assessment, to raise funds sufficient to prosecute and utterly annili- late all rum eelling in our city. We have concluded, upon due consideration, that $25,000 wisely expended to that end, will close up the {illicit rem holes in the efty. We therefore desire tempe- rance men to signify to the Carron League the amount of property on which t ey are willing to be assessed as aforesaid. Four hundred and fifty millions of dollars of city capital are now assessed not less than sixty cents on the hundred dollars, to cherish the rum trafficand spread its outrages. | We propose that the friends of temperance submit fifty millions of their property to an assessment of 50 cents only on the $1,000--an assessment which will raise the sum of twenty five thousand dollars, and by means of the League close up the dram shops and put an end to their enormous taxation and wrongs, and embody a power which shal! take the government of the ety from the rum power and put itinto the hands of the tem- perance power. We do not propose to commence opera- tions until the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is raised and in the treasurer’s hands. Then we expect the Leagne to emjloy some twenty or more police uzents whose business it shall be to search out the criminals and witnesses to convict them, and pursue them with all the rigor of justic x. Carsou’s experience in this State has proved what every man’s judgment forosecs—that this measure,intel- lgentiy snd vigorously pursuol by brave and self-oritc- ing menand Women, will accomplish the object. Experi- ence elso teaches, that, in our ardor to abolish the li- quor trafic, it is not expedient to begin the war nntil ite sinews are feenre in the hands of oar treasurer, and we can know that our agents will be sustaired. Wo there- fore give notice to all the good and true men and women of the city, that we have taken a spacious room, No. 9 in the Appleton building, 346 Broadway, where wo invite them to go and signify the amount on which they will bo feressed to tnake out the sum above stated, and we urge them to do it without delay,that the operations may com- mence soon. A Carson 6 paper is also established in this city, which will show the constitution and practical workings of the League in nineteen counties in this State, Its name is the Carson League. Ite office is $46 Broadway. HORACE GREELEY, WM. MU MAHON T. ARWIT, . ¢. NORTH. ‘Tropore McNawes, Treasurer. This notable project is of a piece with the Kossuth, Kinkel, and other schemes for raising the wind, by which the public have been suc- cessively gulled for some years past. In this way $40,000 were raised by “the friends of Ireland” for the purpose of assisting the pro- jected revolution in that country, bat none of the money went to the purpose for which it was intended. A portion of it was, it is true, ex- pended in aiding the escape of the leaders of that movement from Van Dieman’s Land; but of the disposition of the remaider of the fand we have no account. Kossuth succeeded, un- der a similar pretence, in raising the sum of $100,000, part of which went to the purchase of for ‘be baker, who a second time promised that the next day's bread should be better. This scene was repeated three days in succession, and on the third day the bread was no better. old muskets and saddles, Professor Kinkel also collected a large sum for revolutionary purposes; but the last we heard of it was that it had been invested in a lager-bier brewery in We are of those who believe that the study | The Pacha thea sent for the contractor, and, | England, This mew egheme has an advantage inthis Union. The relations of the sexes and | the condition of marriage are subjects which fall | prescribe the number of wives which a Mormon | would be violated if the prayer of the Mormons | I | over its predecessors, jnasmuch as it appeals to the philanthropic a8 well as the political sym- pathies of the public. Divested of the flimsy covering with which it is cloaked, the real object of its promoters is, however, nothing more than the raising of a fund for the support of an idle train of presi- dents, secretaries, and clerks, who are unfitted for any other occupation. Despite of the pro- Posed organization, the trade of the ramshops will flourish as briskly as ever. If those op- posed to it are really desirous to abate its evils, they must adopt some more effective and common sense mode of carrying out their objects than that of voluntary taxation. ‘Mr. WaLtack.—This capital actor appears at his own theatre in this city to-night, for the first time this sea- son. He plays Benedick, in Shakspere’s comedy ‘Much’ Ado About Nothing.”” Mr. Wallack will have « fine audience to welcome him on his return to. the stage. 1 ce Sone Destructive Fire at Gowanus. ¢ Between 1 and 2 0’clock on Sunday morning a deatruc-- tive fire occurred on Third avenue, between Twenty-first. and Twenty-second streets, Gowanus, (Righth ward, | Brooklyn.) The flames were discovered breaking forth from a large frame structure, owned by Mrs. Maria L. Mitchell, and cecupied by W. & E. Myzies as a leather dressing establishment, and Adams & Cross, as @ sarsa- | parilla manufactory. The flames spread rapidly in consequence of the preva- | lence of a high wind, and soon communicated to a two story frame dwelling house on the north side, also owned by Mrs. Mitchell, aud occupied by Nathasiel Chamberlain and George Conklin. ‘hence the fire spread to the lum- ber yard of Abrabam Manee. A small frame house on the south sive of the factory, owned by George Grove, and occupied as a barber shop, by a German, also caught, and the whole range of bui with the ma- a stock, furniture, i. were a . The lumber in the yard of Mr. Manee wae greatly | damaged, but the shop, which stood | pace grit wind blowuy the firefrem it) en Me ‘The firemen from the city arrived on the ad in time to save the houses on the opposite of the | avenue from destruction. They in it it dan- ger for a time, the wind forcing the flames tly fowards them. | The losses and insurances are about as follows:— Mrs. Maria Miteheff, on the fas and house, about $5,000; insured for $2,200, in the States Ansurance Company, West Pottedem, N. Y. Messrs. Myricks’ lose amounts to between $4,000 and $5,000; fnsuired for about $1,000, in the Van Renssclaer | Company, Lansingburg, N. ¥. Vessrs.’ Adams & Crts sustained a Toss of about $1,000; | insured for $500, in the United States Insurance Com? pany, West Potted YY. rat $1,200; insured for $800,"in a Mr. Grove lost Brooklyn company. Mr. Mance was damaged to the extent of about $1,000; fully insured in the Atlantic ete, of eae. esses. Chamberisin & Coneklia fost about 1,500, upon which there was no insurance. RECAPITULATION. Insurances. | Maria 1. Mitchent 92,200 | W. & E, Myrick 1,000 | Adams & Cross ‘500 | George Groves, 800 Abrobam Man 1,000 Chamberlain & C no Totals. ses.iss os'ss psn oosetiares $15,200 $5,000 ‘The fire caused a great ligt, which {lluminated ‘the neighborhood and the bay for a t distance round about. It is not known how it o1 ited. Personal Intelligence. a Wy ri Ccceaeny aor ha oe Gray, hegre iG brenner, Hon. A. Dewitt, Hon, J. A. Hovey, M. .’s,Wash- ington ;' Capt. 8. A. Brooks, ; | Kentucky; Judge Brannet, Texas; Rev. P, Kent, London, | England; Cept. Rawdon, ‘British army; A. , Eaq., | St: Anthony's Falls; M. Corisan, Bnglands "B. 8. Flekl Alabam: Pure} . A. arrived al the St. Nicholas. >” i a ad Mr. Buncur, New York; A. White, Boston; W. R. Reynolds, Tonieville; J. Goldie, Edinburg; W. Porkeom, Glicgow, arrived yesterday at the if. Weshington; Hon. J. W. Bell, Tion. Amos Kendall, Maryland; J. R. Curtis, Hyde Park; N. W. Savage, St: Louis; James Oliver, England Louisville; M. G. 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