The New York Herald Newspaper, May 15, 1854, Page 4

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Our system is such that ‘the matter can thus be managed-es satisfactorily as if fhe advertiser were here in person. Whe News. The Washington brings us ‘the details of another painful shipwreck. On the 3d of the present month the emigrant ship Winchester, of Boston, bound to that port from Liverpool, foundered at sea, after ex- periencing for many days the effects of a ‘severe storm. The gale carried away her fore, main, and mizen masts, and swept three-seamen from the rig- ging, who were immediately drowned. At this critical period the steamship Washington, from Southampton for New York, bore down on the dis- tressed vessel, and after lying by her for nearly two @ays Captain Fitch sent one of-his officers with four men, in his largest life boat, to endeavor to take off the sufferers. They neared the vessel, and had almost reached her side when the boat ‘was capsized, and the crew of the sinking ship bad to haul their deliverers on the deck of the Winchester, which they reached in a very ex- hbausted state. After repeated-efforts the Washing- ton took off four hundred and forty-five passengers, together with over thirty men of the crew. But four lives were lost by this distressing disaster. Pull details of the disaster, with copious extracts from the logs of the ship Winchester and steamer Washington, will be found in our columns of to-day. The officers of the Washington. deserve much praise for their conduct. We give acceunts furnished by some of them, which were written immediately after the Winchester went down. The steamship Atlantic, with four days later news , from Europe, is now in her twelfth day out from Liverpool. Her detention is undoubtedly owing to ‘the dense fogs that have prevailed for the past forty- eight hours. As it is probable that by her we may receive intelligence of decisivé movements of the allied fleets, her arrival is awaited with anxiety. Our latest news from Washington may bo found under the telegraphic head. The cartest on the Nebraska question was kept up yesteyCay with the same spirit as characterized the proceedings in the House the two previous days. The anti-Nebraska whige held a caucus, as did also the avti-Nebraska @emocrats, and both resolved to persist iathe dogged Opposition to the majority they have heretofore maintained. The whig wing have pledged support to such.members of the party as prefer joining ther revolutigaary faction to aiding in the adeption of the principle involved, and an address is to be issue] from the pen of Mr. Benton to shield the reeusants if poseible from the indignation they will most assuredly incur in the event of their apostacy. The friends of the bill hold a caucus this morning, and we cannot deubt but they will concert measures to sesist successfully the plans of the enemies of the peace of the Union. The proceedings in the House during the coming week will possess an unusual interest. We give on the inside pages some interesting articles taken from European journals, among which are a list of French vessels of war composing the Baltic and Black Sea fleets, and the squadron in the Mediterranean; a circular of the Russian governmert relative to the Greek insurrection; the debate in the House of Lords on the operations of the British fleet in the Black Sea; the French reply to the Russian Declaration; Mr. Buchanan on ’Change, kc. News respecting the depredations of the Indians in Texas, and later intelligence from Northern Mexico, may also be found. Mr. Fillmore arrived at Baltimore yesterday, accompanied by Mr. Kennedy. Arrangements have been made for a public reception to-day. An anti-Nebraska meeting was held at New Haven Saturday, but we have no reliable information as to ite character and numbers. The Imlay Mills, a large flouring establishment at Hartford, was entirely destroyod by fire yesterday. Loss $30,000—insured for $25,000. At Baltimore physical suffering and mora! darkness in eur ridt, and attempt to evangelize the cannidats of New | Zealand, or the degrated natives of Sorthern | rica, have long Leen and will ever continue to be | tt subjects for the sa'iris'. The most active sup- porters of (he ‘aiter ore the 'alies; and those who have had the curiosity, or heen compelled in the course of profers' na! business, to frequent the annual gatherings of flrese pious sonls, will readily bear witness to the fact that the sace of Lady Sowerby Cream'ys {8 increasing e! a rate truly alarming. But we miss the “Spirit Rappers” this year, and a’so the “Women's Rights” women. ‘Phere is an hiatus in the fun and’folly of the anni- | sersary week. The Singapore Bi-Monthly ‘Circular, dated to March 16th, has reached us. From it we tind that the imports of gold and gold-test during a fortnight ending on that day consisted of 1,103 buncals re- ceived\from the Archipelago, and of 1,573 ounces from Melbourne. Large supplies of Australian were stillon hand. The rates reported are $29 to $204 for bars and $27} to $28 per buncal for du-t. Ex” ports, as-nbove, were 1,264 bunca’s, and 200 ounces” Siiell Cuba be African or American? If the Spanish government fancies that either the arrogance of its language towards the Uni- ted States or its expected alliance with Great Britein will induce the people of this country to abate one jot or tittle of their pretensions in reference to commercial rights or international intercourse, the Spanish government is most egregiously mistaken. And if Captain-General Pezuela or any other Governor of Cuba believes that he can go on providing quietly for the emancipation ef the slaves in Cuba, and throw- ing all the obstacleshe can in the way of Amer- can commeree, Captain-General Pezuela com- mits as grossa blunder as it is possible for him to do. Throughout the whole of this business one grave misapprehension has lain at the bottom of Spanish policy, and from this error others, such as these we mention, are quite likely to "They cannot come from Eazland fot ® single | The British privateer would neces:itat: the imme- diate repeal of our laws on the sub,ect, and in a month the scas would be scoured by Ameri- can vessels with letters of marque from Russia. Great Britain would lose more at this game than we could: or at all events, she would lose far mcre than she could by our obtaining pos- session of Cuba. So with France. Neither na- | tion could afford to make an enemy of us just | now, as they certainly would do, if they lent | Spain aid or assistance. Upon Spanish priva- | teers we-must o unt asa matter of course; but are we to be deterred from extending our terri- | tory, strengthening the Union, and making the | United States respected abroad for fear of | Spanish sailors? We think very few Ameri- cans will answer in the affirmative. | ‘The problem might be solved easily, speedily, and successfully if ‘the present administration were capable of ceping with -the situation. If | we had for President a man of nerve or ability, | the whole difficulty would not ‘last six months. The treatment of ‘our ambassador would termi- nate negotiation, and action would take ite place. But what can you’ expect from such a | man‘as Pierce? ‘The News from China—Progress of the Re- volution. ‘The correspondence from China, published in our columns to-day, will be found to present a more complete and elaborate view of the pre- sent state of political and’commercial affairs in that country than is usually conveyed through that hurried and imperfect medium. So little is known here of the origin and progress of the extraordinary movement which threatens the existence of the reigning dynasty, that one of our correspondents, whose long residence in China has rendered him. intimately acquainted with the events that have led to it, has justly Nebraska Bill—Policy and Duty of the House Majority. ‘Our readers will have seen, from our Wash- of — $50,000. A few years ago, we recollect that | at the rear of the City Hall, where hundreds the amounts aseessed as personal property to half-clad, half-starved, sick and infirm mo certain millionairesin South street, rangedonly | are congregated in groups on the side’ ington telegraphic advices, as published in yet | rom $15,000 to $20,000, whilst it was known | patiently an | piningly awaiting the tardy p terday’s Heraxp, that the majority of the House | they had invested in their establishments from | cess of relief or the order for admission to son were reduced on Saturday | $150,000 ta $300,000 each. If the directors of | of the hospitals on the island. It was but Jast to an armistice with the minority upon the | the panks with which these parties were doing | few weeks since that one of the clerks employ Nebraska bill. It had been the expectation and | pysiness had rated them at so low a figure, they | at this branch of the department fell a victim the fixed purpose of the majority to bring the | would no doubt have been excessively indig- | disease contracted from emigrants while in bill to a final vote before Tuesday, should require a continuous session night and day, Sunday included, upon the principle, as laid dewn by Mr. Webster, that ‘ there are no Sabbaths in revolutionary times.’ The ad- journment, therefore, on Friday night, wasa point gained by the minority, and the early ad- journment on Saturday over to twelve o'clock this day, was a still more important concession of the armistice extorted from the majority. The leaders, in behalf of the bill, have rested this armistice upon the probabilities of a satisfac- tory compromise with the minority against the meeting of the House at twelve o’clock to-day— such @ compromise as will secure the early pas- sage of the Nebraska bill without a return to the disorganizing scenes of Thursday and Friday nights. We have not been disposed, however, to entertain much confidence in any such arrangements, when the issue be- tween the parties involves all the contin- gencies of a thorough-going political revo- lution. The temper of the anti-Nebraska coalition in the House, as exhibited in the long seseion of Thursday and Friday, the tone of the anti-slavery organs of this city, ging the destruction of the Capitol itself as prefer- able to the submission of the minority to the passage of the bill, and the drift of the speeches of the Saturday meeting in the Park, afford no satisfactory indications of the compromise an- ticipated by Mr. Richardson. Frankly, we have to say to the House Chairman on Territories, arise, The Spanish government cannot getrid | deemed that a clear and succinct account of that the ground lost in any contest by the ma- Swale le at th t : ‘ of the idea that we are all filibusteros here. It themrmight prove acceptable at the presen jority is thus much gained by the minority ; has been #0 often said in England, Spain and | moment. ‘The works ofthe Jesuits, the Protes- | 414 that where the majority, with the power in Cuba that this country is exercised by filibuste- d 4 that it would not be surprising | agents who have written upon China, are $0 | 4 gay of truce to the enemy for a suspension of ro propensities, if the Sartorius ministry among others believed it. So mach has been written on the Lopez expe- A been taken to | of our own countrymen—a man of a high order | 41 ujtimate defeat of the mmjority when they dition and such infinite pains have identify the outlaws who were concerned in that affair with the government and people of this country, that many Spaniards may very honestly attribute to the latter designs, views tant missionaries, and the English diplomatic tinged with the coloring of their respective prejudices, that we are glad toreceive from one of intelligence and great powers of observation —a dispassionate and reliable statement of events, in which, looking to the probable effect ‘which they will have upon our their hands to carry out their object, send over hostilities for a day or two, in expectation of a compromise, there is danger, more or less, of least expect it. We are hardly prepared to believe that the outside revolutionary agitation, especially in this neighborhood, during the past week, has and priaciples which, as we all know here, are | OWD intercourse with that country, we | peq any depressing influence upon the nerves of confined toa very small and comparatively in- significant class of the community. It is quite possible that the rulers of Spain may believe Cuba with or without the sanction of our own us than the Cubans do in their island. The delusion rests of course on the exaggerated British journals, on the impotent prosecutions of the#flibusteros here, and above all, on the indisereet language of men who, like Mr. Soulé, sought to make a name by pandering to naturally feel a deep interest. It will be seen from the general tenor of these «accounts, that nothing but our own limits to the advantages that are to be derived respondents, and place our diplomatic and con- sular agents on such a footing as will enable or any other foreign influences that may be exercised in that quarter. One of the measures most pressingly called for is the establishment ofaline of steamers between San Francisco Mr. Richardson and the majority. We presume that he and they feel perfectly secure, and are only desirous of conciliating the minority as that we are all of us ready for adescent upon | blunders and want of foresight will impose | far’ gg possible to the inevitable result of the passage of the bill, and the repeal of the Mis- government ; and that nothing would be likely | from the cultivation of a friendly understand- | ¢ 0174 }ine of demarcation—that unconstitutional to astonish them more than the discovery that | 2 withthe Chinese, and our government will | j:ne between the North and the South, in reality we count no more filibusteros among | 40 well to profit by the suggestions of our cor- through the Territories—in all of which the citizens of all the States have an equal right of inheritance. We suppose that Mr. accounts which have been published in the them to maintain their ground against British | pichardson prefers to mollify rather than exas- perate the minority upon Nebraska, in view of other subjects of Western importance yet to be considered. But where a great constitutional principle is the question, there should be no a dishonest sentiment among certain classes of | #04 the principal Chinese ports, the rapidly in- | trafficking and trading with a factious minority the populace. And as no attempt to set them right, coming from this quarter, would be like- ly to .meet with success, we see nothing for Spain.but to pay the penalty of her mistake. Senor Calderon de la Barca, who knew bet- ter, was overruled in the council when he at- creasing demands of the growing commercial intercourse between those places rendering it a matter of immediate and urgent necessity. Some idea of its importance may be formed from the fact that at the date of these advices, freights were fetching almost any price, whilst opposed to the supremacy of the fundamental law. *Having the principle in their bill, and the power at their command to enforce it, the ma- jority should not stoop to compromises with factious agitators. They should, after having given a liberal margin for debate—which has tempted to draw a line of distinction between | the Tage for emigration was so great that near- | yon done—push the bill forward to a vote, re- the lawless designs of buccaneers and the firm demands of a strong and honest nation. The Queen snd her ministry treated the latter as " if | Position of the belligerent parties since our last though they were dealing with the former. wu Lopez tad been the petitioner, and the usur- pation of Cuba his olject, the reply could not have been different. Part of this negotiation on the part of Spain is blunder, and part intigue. Spain blunders when she attempts to interpret our position, us when ske enacts decrea: under the dictation of England, and stealthily pursues her African- ization scheme. The one will be as costly as the other in.the end. There are.people who ask what cause of com- plaint we have against Spain. The friends of Havana, are very actively engaged in circulat- plaint exists. Poer Mr. Pierce is terribly fright- ened that he will be forced into a position where the defects of his dead and his heart will be conspicuous, and he, too, would give worlds to close the altercation at once. He cannot shir‘ the danger, however. Even if none of the twenty outrages enumerated in the documents recently laid before Congress had been commit- ted, the policy now fairly inaugurated by Spain with regard to the emancipation of the slaves in Cuba affords ample ground of quarrel. It would be suicidal on our part to tolerate the erection of a free negro State in so rich and fertile an island as Cuba, within a few miles of our Southern frontier. No prudent govern- ment in our place could consent to such a scheme for a moment. Yet it is now fairly set on foot and commenced. On the very day on which the American courier left Madrid wit! the despatches for our government, Lord How- den’s decrees are published; and no sooner have yesterday a lumber yard and four warehouses were consumed. Loss $40,000—insurance $23,000, In another column will be found an interesting Jetter from the Sandwich Islands, giving an account of theprogress of the annexation question and of an extraordinary proceeding on the part of Mr. Per- rin, the French. commissioner, consequent upon the publication of certain opinions attributed to Mr. Armstrong, one of the members of the Cabinet. It appears that Mr. Perrin has formally demanded the dismissal of Mr. Armstrong, and has threatened to ask for his passports and return to France if this re- quisition be not complied with. It remains to be seen whether our government will permit the French to dictate to the islanders on a question on which they have a right to exercise a free choice, and in which this country naturally feels an interest. Wepublish to-day reports of the anniversaries o¢ the New York Sunday School Society of the M. ©. Church and the Society for the Amelioration c Condition of the Jews. These close the anniversary week in New York, which is always an occasion of great interest to nearly all classes of the com- manity. In accordance with our usual custom, we bave published full accounts of the proceedings of each society; and on looking over our files we find that we have given between forty and fifty columns to these reports. From these all who are interested in the movements of the various societies of a reli gious, benevolent, or political character, have been informed of their doings during the past year, an’ of their plans for the future. In a pecu niary point of view, the past season has proved a decidedly favorable one to the religious institu tions generally, which we opine is more attributable to the anexampled material prosperity of the country than the prevalence of spiritual grace in our nidst, The objects songht to be attained by many of these societies are in the highest degree com gucocabe; but the efforts of those that pags by the they reached Havana, than the Captain-Gen- eral declares it lawful to search estates for ne- groes illegally detained. It has already been shown that the effect of the system of registers will be to swell the number of free negroes to a very large*number: and, as the decrees are worded, this number must be constantly in- creasing from the legal manumission of slaves whose registers have been lost or destroyed. Under ten years operation of the decrees, the free negro population of Cuba will be able to control the Island in case of emergency. In h | Mary report of the R ly 12,000 .persons were waiting for opportu- nities to.embark for California. No material alteration has occurred in the accounts. ‘The fact that the insurgents are everywhere able .te hold their ground, would seem to argue that they command the sympa- thies of the population. Shanghae is still in possession of the Triad or small sword*society, although Samqua, the imperialist leader, has our motives, our character. She tries to cheat | Teceived -» reinforcement of 5,000 men. His troops will not fight without money, and as it is stated that .his means are completely ex- hansted and that the imperial treasury is empty, wre may soon.expect to hear of them abandon- ing him altogether. The description given of the* manner in which the siege is conducted re- ists hi We been.peppering away at the city for fire out of range and without the least atten- tion to ; tim, they will, of course, carry on this childisa game for an indefinite period. And yet it wiiW hhartlly be believed that directly opposite @hanghae there is a fort with two guns, .one of which has, been pro- nounced by’ our officers to be..of suffi- cient calibres to reduce the city in.a few days, if proy wly managed. Thae-ping-wang, the leader of the rebels, is said to be now in possession of three-fourths of the empire; and it is further sta Wad, thet the population of Can- ton and other southern districts, are. only waiting for Peki. tg to fall into his hands to, de- clare their adhes tom to him. Some well an- thenticated deta He respecting his present history are to be fc wod in the letter of one of our correspondents, #8 also in the annual sam- tv. Mr. Roberts, which ywill be read with interest b, ¥ all who regard this great disturbance in the old Waditionary notions aid | dusiness and wealth of such a lar; habits of this singular people as an evidence | in, wo that we are fast arriving at the epoch when Christianity will be the 1 wéversal creed of the world. No account had as yet by a received of Com- modore Perry’s reception a#t Jeddo. It was generally believed at Shang! we that the results of the Russian mission were , tisher greatly ex- aggerated or wholly untrue. | The arrival of the , Susquehanna, which was daily « ‘pected, vou, however, dispel all doubt on this? point. Necessawy Iurrovement ty toe Bowery—It gardless of the outside pressure or inside in- trigues to defeat it, come from what quarter they may. Perhaps we may be informed from Mr. Rich- ardeon to-day, of some agreement with the mi- nority for the final closing of the debate upon Nebraska—perhaps not. In any event, let the bill be passed. Its passage has become neces- sary to silence the anti-slavery agitators, in putting them to the test of obedience to the law.’ It is also manifest that until this bone of contention is removed out of Congress, there can. be nothing done in the practical business of the session. Let the bill be passed; let the regular appropriations follow; and let us see if something good does not succeed, upon the Homestead bill, Bennett’s the administration, especially, while the organ | Min @ one ‘forcibly of the. modes of warfare | tang pill, and the various stockjobbing, land- at Washington is prating about blockading | Purs: “4 in the, primitive ages. The imperial- robbing, railroad schemes pending before the two houses. We are inclined to suspect that ing the notion that no legitimate ground of com- | the Ia: € fiare:months: but as they take care to | Nepracka, if carried successfully through with- out delay, will operate most admirably in de- stroying the numerous coalitions of land specu- tors, through the defeat of their unconstitu- tional projects and monopolies. Best of all, we anticipate the total breaking up, root and branch, rank and file, North and South, East and West, of the two old rotten, demoralized, and effete whig and democratic parties, upon this constitutional rock of the Nebraska bill, and a reconstruction of parties and of the administration, more in consonance with the spirit of the age than the present dis- ordered state of things, Let the bill be passed. Tue Wants or Ovr Crry Porviationx—Sve- GEsTions FoR Street IMprovemMENts.—There is perhaps no city in the world that presents stranger anomalies in its local arrangements and government than that in which our lot has been cast. The centralization of nearly all the ‘ge community, may almost say,a single line of street, eould not fail to give rise to numberless evils an‘ inconveniences which are not felt in other great cities. They will ultimately produce the Same congestion which is experienced in the humen system, and which, if not relieved in‘ time, prevents the cirenlation to the extremities of the vital fluid. Whilst Broadway is fattened and pawpered into plethora, the remainder of the city is deprived of those natural supplies which should keep it in healthy activity. The inevitable tendency of this lecal pecu- view of so menacing a danger, our obvieus | is stated tdmt the question of paving ‘the Bowery ligrity, is to keep rents perpetually on the rise, course would at first appear to be to demand with the Russ pavement is to come ,up in the and to enable landlords to impose what terms from Spain some security against the ultimate | Board of Aldermen this evening. It is to be they please upon their tenants. Out of Broad- Africanization of Cuba. But what security | desided whether or not Russ & Reed shall be » way or its immediate vicinity, there is no busi- would suffice in such acase? Would England in whose hands Spain now is, be a party to any arrangement for the maintenance and perpetu- ation of slave labor? Even if Spain gave the pledges we required, what guarantee have we that they would be fulfilled? Spain's history for the last half century has been little else but a succession of broken pledges and perjured men. In a word, we can conceive no other safeguard for the United States but a definite emancipation of Cuba from the control of both Spain and England. Ifany one ean devise a bet- ter plan than this, we should be glad to hear of it. The same class which would continue to px claim against the adoption of a firm policy witi: Spain until Cuba was actually organized as a free negro State, are in great trouble about the privateers they say that Spain would let loose op our shipping. Now, weask these men where the privateers they dread are to come from? compelled to surrender their contract, which Mr. Flagg, the Comptroller, has in his 1 .#ses- sion. ness te be done, and therefore men muet pay for effice or warehouse accommodation whatever It will be recollected that the Sup teme | is exacted of them. The proprietors of stores Court granted a writ of mendamus orde, ‘ing | and houses are, however, pushing matters rather Mr. Flagg to pay them the amount due for wo.%& | 100 far, for if rents continue to rieo in the same done. He defied the power of ¢hat Court, re~ fused obedience to its mandate, and said that he would not pay unless Russ & Reed surren- dered the balance of their contract—threaten- ing otherwise to carry the mandamus to the Court of Appeals. These gentlemen cous not wait two years longer for their money, and were compelled to surrender, the document to the Comptroller. The Board of Aldermen aré to consider the subject to-night, and we shall ratio as they have done for the last few years, there is no business or profession that will be able to pay such an enormous per centage in “he shape of rent. Owing to the same cause, ta:,"ation is kept up toa much higher point than there*jvould be any occasion for if the trade and wealth ©f the city were more equally diffused over its urface. Those who can best afford to pay taxes .«e precisely those who manage to escape them, Our wealthiest merchants carry credit. though it | nant, and considered it an imputation on their | discharge of those duties which the Tribu would fain make believe are the especial pe It is time that some effective remedy should | formance of the Commissioners themselves. be applied to these abuses. New avenues and The whole population of our city have a de streets must be opened to relieve Broadway | interest in the matter now pending before from its overcharged traffic, to diffuse the busi- | Court of Common Pleas. As the warm weath ness of the city more equally over its surface, approaches we cannot be too cautious, nor ha and to prevent persons who derive their in- | our streets and thoroughfares too pure or comes from trade carried on in New York from | from infection. God knows, our municip) shirking their fair share of taxation. The pro- government is careless enough, and the Cor perty interest will, we know, fight tooth and | missioners of Emigration should not desire nail to oppose every meagure calculated to de- | add to the dangers occasioned by a want preciate their monopoly; but their opposition | cleanliness; but as they have done s0, a jul must be beaten down. If ten years ago the Corporation had made a fresh and proper sur- vey of the whole island, and endeavored to adapt the old quarters of the city to the re- quirements of its rapidly-increasing trade and population, Brooklyn and Williamsburg would not have been aggrandized at its expense, and made cities of instead of suburbs. The interest of the property holders in Broadway is, however, so strong that it has hitherto succeeded in defeating every comprehensive plan suggested for remedying the evils we have pointed out. Some short time since, a project called for by the people living up town, and which would have been a great improvement and relief— namely, that of widening Church street on the westerly side, where the blocks are large and the property of but small selling value—was re- jected by the committee of the Common Coun- cil, on the ground that the owners of lots were opposed to it, and that their opposition was conclusive. Why, if such pleas as this were to be admitted, the city would remain stationary, and no street improvements would ever be ef- fected. No man who desires his property to be taken at a valuation ever admits it, for he knows that by clamoring loudly against it he will get a heavier amount of compensation. It is time, we repeat, to put an end to this trifting with the public interests for the accom- modation of those of a few selfish individuals. Let the public taxation, in the first place, be arranged on a different basis, and let all mer- chants and traders pay for licenses upon the amount of goods sold in their establishments, as in Philadelphia. We shall then not have merchants trading in New York, and spending their incomes in Brooklyn, Williamsburg, or New Jersey, without contributing to the taxa- tion of the city. In the next place, let such new streets be made, or such old ones be widened and extended, as will afford relief to the redundant traffic and business of Broadway. An immediate way of accomplishing this would be to widen and extend Church and West streets—to bring the tracks down the latter— to carry Beekman street through the Park—to widen Robinson street and let the college grounds also form a street—to put city rail- roads on all the avenues, and require them to run cars night and day to the extreme ends of judiciary has stepped in between them and rights of the citizens of the Fifth ward, notwit standing the rhodomontade and mock phil thropy of the false philosopher of the organ iems. In the motion as respects the premis in Canal street, the Court decided that the was no ground for continuing the injunction. Tne Lare Suirwkecks on our Coas CaLy vron Conoress.—The last cries for hel of the unfortunate passengers of the chip Po hatan, have hardly died away, when their and the circumstances attendant seem to ha entirely faded from the public mind. In viewing the circumstances and the case of Powhatan, there can be no doubt that may lives might have been saved had there been proper watch upon the shore, or any sign system by which persons could have been su moned to the spot. The attention of Congress has already be called to the condition of the Jersey coast, ai three life-boats have been placed on Barneg beach. It is well known that these boats ha proved highly valuable. It is now necessa that some steps should be taken during summer months to increase their value, ay the attention of Congress is directed to the fa lowing facts :— Barnegat beach is eighteen miles in leng and in the winter months it is almost entire! deserted. The consequence is, that when ship goes ashore she may, go to pieces, and a the passengers may be lost, before any on near the shore is aware of the fact that she in distress. The disaster to the Powhata might have been averted if there had been an means by which to notify persons at five or ta miles distance. Government should have fou station houses on the beach, and two men co: stantly on the look-out at each station hous When either of these look-outs see a ship distress they should be authorized to call th attention of the surrounding inbabitan' to the fact, by the firing of a canno and in cases of great peril to lif¢ the firing might be sustained until th stout Jerseymen had all been notified of th fact that there was a call upon their courag They are ‘never backward in rendering assis ance in cases of this kind. Proper signi would bring plenty of help in an hour, and the city, at intervals of fifteen minutes—and to grant the Hudson River Railroad the privilege they seck, to run city cars, with the condition that they shall lay a third track up to Tubby Hook depot, or to the end of the island. If these suggestions be carried out, the facilities of living and enjoyment will be multiplied a thousand fold in our city, and the value of the earnings and comforts of the laboring classes largely enhanced. Tne ComMIssIONERS OF EMIGRATION AND THB Heatn or tHE City.—It is all important for the health of our city to provide against every possible chance of the introduction of conta- gious diseases by emigrants, and the Commis- sioners of Emigration should be foremost in the preventive:movement. But how are they act- ing? They are at present before the courts of law as respondents, to show cause why an in- junction should not be issued to restrain them from opening a house to receive emigrants in Franklin street, or at the corner of Canal and Centre streets, the inhabitants of the ward being impressed with the natural fears that such a receptacle, located among private residences and places of business, would be a perfect nui- sance, and would be calculated to cause the spread of eruptive and contagious diseases, with which a majority of the poor emigrants are more or less affected. The Commissioners of Emigration, however, fied in the mock philanthropy of the Tribune a writer to defend them from the severe public censure which they have received for endeavor- ing to locate a lodging house for emigrants in the very heart of our business streets. The Tribune, with its usual disregard for. truth, charged Judge Ingraham with having granted an injunction restraining the Commissioners from having an office to transact their business in Franklin street or at the corner ef Canal and Centre streets. This is not so, The injunction only restraine them from jeopardizing the lives of the inhabitants of those streets, by allowing to be congregated there infected emigrants. The perversion of this fact, however, created for the Tribune writer an opportunity to in- dulge in unmerited and innocuous abuse of the learned Judge. We have all of us sympathy for those poor creatures who are cast penniless and famine stricken on our shores, and the benevelence of our laws has made ample provision for them under such circumstances ; but the right is pre- served to our citizens that the emigrants shall be provided for in such a manner as not to en- danger the lives or health of the inhabitants. another hour the lifeboats may be launche and ply from ship to shore. There is as muc necessity for this paid watch as there is f lighthouse keepers, and we trust that som humane member of Congress will agitate th subject. The expense will be trifling, comp: to the benefits which may ensue. A new life boat and apparatus are needed at Barnega Inlet. Should Congress refuse to take cognizance o this matter, we have no doubt that the fund might be raised by private subscription. Bul if the facts are properly set forth in a memori: tobe signed by the New York shippers and th citizens of New Jersey, we have no doubt that Congress will make the proper appropriation| and that Barnegat beach will cease to be sepulchre, and become a place of refuge. Sreampoat Travetiina in New Yor Duy ING THE Summer Seasoy.—Summer is close ai hand—the season for excursions down the bay, up the Hudson, through the Sound—when th merchant, the mechanic and the artist are alike driven by the heat of a scorching July sun ou of the city, to seek some cool retreat in the country, where they can for a while breathe the pure air of heaven. Thousands, of course, wil! avail themselves of the many opportunities af- forded them by the various steamboat lines ply- ing up the Hudson, touching between here and Troy, to Fort Hamilton, Glen Cove, Ced: Grove, Keyport, Shrewsbury, Staten and Coney Islands, to inhale the sweet fragrance of na- ture’s garden, and to hear the joyous singing of the little birds. Although disasters dire, coupled with terri- ble loss of life and property, some years ago. created a panic among the inhabitants of New York, causing them to denounce the entire sys- sem of steamboat travelling as unsafe and un- worthy of patronage, much to the pecuniary benefit of railroad companies, still the present season promises to be one of unusual success to the proprietors, and one of safety, convenience, and economy to the good folks of Gotham. The Henry Clay and Reindeer catastrophes, which threw so many families into the deepest mourning and distress, produced, as all know, a strong feeling of unpopularity against steam- boat travelling on the Hudson, and to such an extent, too, that the Legislature were obliged to pass stringent laws providing for the more effectual safety of passengers against acoidents by fire, collision, or explosion, before the usual ratio of persons could be induced to venture on ® voyage to Albany. The fearful lesson The Tribune asserts that the Commissioners | taught the several steamboat owners by the sa- Perform their duties without fee or reward, | crifice of so many hundred lives, has had, we and expose themselves to the diseases of the | are glad to say, a good effect, steamboats never emigrants out of pure benevolence, and, there- | being managed with so much care as they are fore, we suppose, would infer that they may | at present; and the public are beginning fo- with impunity expose to infection the people of | have increased confidence in this mode of con- thie great city. veyance. In fact, the confidence of the public. Lét us see to what extent the Commissioners | in any line or mode of travelling increases in of Emigration expose themselves, and how, in | proportion to the decrease of accident, their unbounded philanthropy, they provide But this comparative immunity from serious. for newly arrived emigrants. They have a | accidents during the past year, should not have- weil paid secretary and vice president, who per- | the effect of making thosé connected with form all the duties, whilst the Commissioners | steamboats less vigilant or carefal jn guarding themselves meet some three or four timesa | against accidents whereby loss of life might year—in a cowfortable office, faraway from the | ensue. For although there is no mode of tra- receiving house—to examaine into the accounts | velling during the summer season 60 convenient,, of their officers, aud provide for the payment | economical, or so pleasant, as that by steamboat, of their salaries, still, if any further accidents of magnitude take We reiterate our fmerly expressed opinion, | place, produced as they are either by careless- that the receiving hov.wee for emigrants should | ness or cupidity, the public will, or ought, for- see what the Board will do in the matter. We | on theirtrade in Broadway and live like princes | beon the borders of thé Fiver, at some place | ever,as a body, abandon all ideas of patronizing want the Bowery paved with the Russ, or some | in Brooklyn, thas @ither avoiding altogether | convenient to where they are landed. Then | conveyances other pavement as good and as durable as that. the payment of taxo.* ©" personal property, or by water. We see no reason why the eye would not be offeaded and the heart | accidents attended with loss of life should We are all tired of the old colb}e stone masonry | perhaps getting return ¢d.for a sum of $5,000, | sickened with euch scenes %@ are daily wit-| take place. There is no more favorite way of when they are employ Wg Gash capital of | neseed at thoreceiving house in y'bambere stroct, | travelling, no business so profitable or vast iq in our principal streets, a