The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1854, Page 4

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WOOD'S MINSTREL HALM, 444 Broadway, Ermoriar Minernersy—Borletta of Uncis tow’s Carin BU OKLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, 589 Droadway—Buca kxy’s Brurorian Opena TROUPE. SY NICHOLAS EXHIB or Moscow =f exTRILOQU IN ROOK—-ConrLAGRATION WHOLE WORLD, 87 and {79 Urosdway- Afternoon and vening. JONES'S PANTISOOPE—Aror10 Rooms. York, Wednesday, May 24, 1854. The News. INTELLIGENCE PROM CALIFORNIA. By the arrival of the steamship United States at New Orleans we are in possession of advices from California to the Ist of May. The miners were in the most flourishing condition, and the accounts of the yield of gold more flattering than ever. The markets were dull, prices being generally depressed —fiour was selling at twelve dollars per barrel, The ship Golden Fleece and the bark Walter Claxtea had becn totally wrecked in the harbor of San Fran- cisco. By the explosion of the steamer Gazelle, on the Columbia river, Oregon, twenty-five persons were killed and thirty others dangerously wounded. It will be remembered that the Mexican Conaul at San Francisco had been arrested, charged with violating the neutrality in enlisting men to proceed to Lower California. He has been found guilty, but.recommended to mercy. Mr. Dillon, the French Consul, refused to testify in the ease, and was arrested for his contumacy. He subsequent!y struck his flag, and declared he would not raise it again until ordered by his government. There 4s something very singular in the movements of the French on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Some years since Count Rousset de Boulbon suddeniy appeared in Sonora with a band of Frenchmen, raised his standard, and commenced a sort of free fight with any party that opposed him. He flourished for a time, creating considerable attention in the public mind, but finally faded out. Since then, at inter- vals, we have heard of French iafluences at work all about that region; and we finally find the represen- tative of that nation engaged in filibustering enter- prises, and striving to create the impression that his government authorizes, or will sanction, such con- duct. We observe that the steamship Sonora reached Panama on the Sth inst., after an unexampled run of forty-seven days from New York. The clipper ship Flying Cloud had arrived out from this port in the quickest time yet made between the two places. ‘The steamship Ilinois left Aspinwall on the 17th inst., with the mails, four hundyed passengers, and nearly a million of treasure on freight. She will probably arrive in this city to-day. NEWS PROM MEXICO. By way of New Orleaus we have accounts from Acapulco, brought down by the Panama steamship, ef en important nature. On the 5th inst. Santa Anna summoned the garrison to surrender. Alva- rez, the comman + ed, and sallying out at- tacked Santa Anna’s forces, taking three hundred prisoners. His Serene Highness is reported to have precipitately fled. LORD ELGIN IN WASHINGTON. Our Washington despatch furnishes some infor- mation relative to the visit of Lord Elgin to the capital. It is to conclude a treaty in reference to the fishery question; but he will also press upon the consideration of our government the advantages of reciprocity of trade with the British North Ameri- ussisted can provinces, and in this movement he by Mr. Hinckg, the Canadian Premie Chandler, Commissioner from New ‘This subject has been discussed for the er four years in and out of Congress, under both democratic and whig administrations, but the im- pression still exists that the time has not yet arriv- ed When such a measure would prove advantageous to our trade. APFAIRS IN THE CITY. The Mayor, Jacob A. Westervelt, Esq., has left New York for Washington, on official business re- specting the law that regulates passenger ships. Nathan C. Ely, Esq., President of the Board of Al- dermen, is acting, ex officio, as his locum tenehs. The President of the Board of Aldermen, Nathan C. Ely, Esq., leaves New York on Monday n via Buffalo, to be present at the opening of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad—the last link of the rail train between New York and the Mississippi river. The celebration takes place on the 5th of June, and all the intermediate railway comp s have agreed to pass free the excursioa tickets issued for this important event. Judge Phillips, of the Marine Court, delivered an opinion yesterday upon a claim instituted by a phy- sician against the Corporation for medical services renderesi to patients at a police station, by which it appears that the amended charter does not provide for the payment of essential serv The Judge was, therefore, comp i to deny the claim-— not on equitable but npon legal grounds. ON THE INSIDE PAGES May be found a very interesting speech of Lord Campbell on unauthorized negotiations, American law, and the mission of the friends of peace to Rus- sia; the Second Advent; Later from Texas and BE Paso; the Greek Insurrection; Abduction of a Schoo! Mistress at New Orleans; the Slavery Ques tion in the Troy Annual © ; Court Reporta: Theatrical Notic 4 Commercial In- telligence; Advertisements, Xe. CONGRESSIONAL PRO In the Senate yeste Mr. Toucey, of Con cut, took occasion to deny that the democracy his Sta‘e approved of the revolutionary resolutions recently adopted by the Legislature, as stated by his colleague the day previous. It matters but littl to what extremes of fol holitionists of Cox necticut or any other of the coun’ ceed. The frie regard with chari mented of all fa calling for information conc of the island of Cuba, and the decrees of the Span ish government relative to the same. As the Senate is no donbt well informed through t upon the subject, this 1 ak of importance in between the two countries. senger from ister Franklin on Mond: wit ations of the de ation was adopted ing the slave trade nsmit mation . therefore, sho: 4, now that the Con | bill is out of the way, to be concentrated upon the state of our foreign relations. A resolu was offered instructing the Coumittee on Foreign Affuirs to inquire into the expediency of recognizing the independence of the republic of Dominica; but objection was made by Mr. Chase, the free soil Senator from Ohio, and the | proposition laid over. A bill was reported author- izing the coinage of gold pieces of the value respec- tively of ten and five eagles. The amendments to the Indian Appropr at’on bill reported by the Com- mittee on the Whole were concurred in; but the pro- posal to grant half a million dol a s to the friendly Creeks, in payment for land taken during the war of 1912, was rejected by a decisive vote. Tn the House nothing of interest t anspired. There was a debate on an «ppropriation ‘or con- tinning the works for supplying the ca ital with | water, The House will adjourn on Wednesday next to the following Monday, in order to fit up the hall for the warm weather. MISCELLANEOUS. The politicians at Washington have hardly yet recovered from tht exhaustion consequent upon the Nebraska excitement, when the administration opens its batteries upon Gov. Brown for his course upon the Indigent Insane Land bill. The secret of this hostility is explained by our correspondent. It is announced that Judge Douglas, too, isto be de- nounced by the minions of the Cabinet. The tri- umph of the Nebraska question does not please the free soil and secession advisers of the President ; its defeat was ardently desired, and they are, there- fore, disappointed at the result. So Judge Douglas must be denounced—he has made too mach capital. But this is only the beginning of the perplexities of the politicians. An entire annihilation and recon- struction of parties will inevitably grow out of this state of things, and we await with patience the de- velopements, The anti-Nebraska journals are rabid at thier defeat, but the Union loving portion of the people will hail the settlement of this question as a second Declaration of Independence. The steamship America is now due at Halifax with three days later news from Europe. The tele- graph wires east of Sackville, N. B., were broken last night; but it is probable they will be repaired during to-day, and we will thus be enabled to lay before our readers the news in our next issue, Two firemen were killed, and another seriously injured, at Philadelphia,by the failing of the walls of a building destroyed by fire yesterday. Passage of the Nebraska Bil—The Constita= ton Triumphant—Yhe Great Revolution at Hand. The passage of the Nebraska bill is one of those great events which, in a nation’s history, inaugurate a political revolution, and a new cycle in. political affai It is the triumph of a great principle over temporizing expedients— of the constitution over sectional fanaticism, and of popular sovereignty over the usurpa- tions of Congress. It settles the slavery ques- tion in the Territories upon the broad and com- prehensive basis of the organic law of the re- public—it removes this vexed and harassing sectional issue out of Congress, and delivers it over to the people of the Territories, where it properly belongs. It establishes a precedent of universal application to all future acquisi- tions of territory, North or South, without further agitation or controversy. It is an ad- justment of the trouble upon the only satis- factory foundation; a simple, conclusive and final adjustment. Hereafter, the question of slavery or free soil will be left to the people of every Territory, and to their final judgment, upon their application for admission as sove- reign States into the Union. They will be as free to decide upon the subject for themselves as the sovereign State of New York. Thus is the protracted and fearful struggle upon the question of slavery in the territories of the last seventy years brought to a practi- cal conclusion. It was commenced with the projét of the federal ordinance in 1784, and the corner stone of all succeeding sectional controversies upon the subject was ‘laid down in the establishment of the ordinance of 1787, interdieting slavery “forever” in the territo- ries northwest of the Ohio river, ceded by Vir- ginia to the United States, That ordinance was the work of the rump of the Old Confede- n, anterior to the adoption of the consti- tution. The great blunder, to which all the succeeding blundering interference of Congress in the slavery question is fairly attri‘utable, is the precedent of that ordinance of 1787, not- withstanding the fact that with the adoption of the constitution in 1789, the Old Confederatioa and its loose and incoherent policy, were super- seded by a new order of things. Unfortunate- ly, too, for the peace of the country, after the adoption of the constitution, in several ia- stances, the ordinance of 1787 was re-affirmed and enforced in the territories to which it was applied. fn this way the precedents were fur- nished upon which the treasonable remains of the old federal party, in the Martford Conven- tion, introduced the agitation of the slavery question as an active element into the party politics of the country. That movement of the Hartford Convention scattered the seeds of abolitionism broadcast over the Northern States, as was abundantly developed in the fierce agitation of 1819 and 1820, which resulted in the adoption by Congress of the Missouri compromise. This compromise was a tional bargain forced upon the South by the pressure of the anti-slavery sentiment of the North, and acquiesced in by Southern poli- ticians and statesmen as a matter of policy in view of an approaching Presidential election. It was a temporary armistice, and liable to be broken at the diseretion of either party, as any other compact made in violation of established law The first step in the abandonment of such ins as the Missouri compro- Jongress in the acts of 1850, ories of Utah and New co. And this recurrence to first principles mainly due to the example thrown in upon Congress by the people of California in assum- ing the right, and in exercising the power, to decide upon the question of slavery for them- selves. The Nebraska bill, in following up the policy adopted in reference to Utah and New Mexico, establishes this policy of the sove- reignty of the people over their comestic insti- tutions. It is a substantial declaration by Con- grees that they have no power over slavery, neither in the States, nor in the Territories; but that in the Territories as in the Sta itisa subject which belongs entirely to the people This is the true constitutional doctrine, and t! constitution is a rock upon which the coun the North ond the South, may securely stu Doubtless we shall have agitation and ¢ - ment enough for a season, and a frightful slaughter among the smallfry politicians of the hour; but the Union and the constitution will come out of the “nc and confusion” all the cohesive in the end. e. tronger, and the mor In its immediate efects we ‘dl the passage of the Nebraska bill as an emphatie condemaa and a Int il spoil ted tion ¢ o, the adminia- have rebuked the i d have his Ca 1 the whole fraternity of bis Van Baren Th udgment of Con- gress is deliberate and clear; and in obedience © this mandate of the immediate representa- binet, a iree soil office-hoiders. tives of the American people. it is proper that the executive at Washington should understand the duties of his position and act accordingly. His free soil policy is reproved, his free soil appointmen's are condemned. ‘fhe intendsto abide by the platform o” the Neb aska bill, his course is pl:inly define). He mnst give up his programme of a free soil coalition of spoilsmen as the basis f the dem cratic party. The party in Congress have e ected them. He must re- peal and re’ect all th t he hasdone tostrengthen the free soilers and to weaken the national democrats, and begin |.ia work over again with a reconstruction of his Cabinet of national men, identified with the national and constitutional principl:s of the Nebraska bill, in their ante- cedents, associations, and inclinations. He must reject Marcy, as “weighed in the balince and found wanting,” his anti-slavery confede- rates in the Cabinet, and all the herd of free soil anti-slavery spoilsmen that have crept into office and into power, under cover of the Buffalo and secession coalition of March 4, 1853. The action of Congress upon Nebraska calls for this, and for a thoroug) revolution, from stem to stern, in the policy and in the appointmeats of the administration. The Van Buren anti- slavery faction in the Cabinet, in Congress, and elsewhere, have been excommunicated by actof Congress from the democratic party; and with the signing of the Nebraska bill the Presi- dent should confirm the honesty of the act, by singing also the political death warrant of the America. The by in to en oy anything like freedom of thought and discuscion are the English newspapers, but yet independence. Even the best and most widely questions of vital interest to the country at large, they are trammelled by the various views and pre udices of the purticular sections of the community on which their circulation depends. Any attempt to free them-elves from the nar- row cirele of the influences by which they are shackled, and to give effect to their own un- biassed sentiments, is certain to be followed by imputations of corruption and dishonesty, in many instances but two well founded, for but few have the moral courage to sacrifice their material interests to the advocacy of any par- ticular views at variance wiih those of the par- ties and coteries of which they are the organs, without being assured of some equivalent ad- vantage. * Even the London Times, which monopolizes the largest share of the public favor, owing to the enterprise and ability with which it is con- ducted, has been unable to escape suspicions, which its position ought to have ensured it against ; and the extraordinary revolutioas of opinion that we from time to time witness in the columns of that journal, are to be attributed Marcy, and all the treacherous factionists who cling to his skirts, “To the victors belong the spoils ;” but the national democracy in Con- gress are the victors, and the anti-slavery im- posters should all be turned adrift, from a sense of public duty resulting from the passage of Nebraska. We entertain no very remarkable degree of admiration for either Jefferson Davis or Caleb Cushing, as public men. The one is a seces- sionist, and the other a trimmer. But they have been true and consistent upon Nebraska, and in this view their previous mortal political offences may be charitably overlooked. It would be perfectly justifiable, therefore, and consistent with the Nebraska bill, should a re- construction of the Cabinet be resolved upon, beginning with the expulsion of Marcy—it would be, perhaps, a good move to put Cushing or Davis into the State Department. Either of them, no doubt, at this important crisis, would be more efficient in the management of our forcign relations than Marcy. At all events, the passage of Nebraska is equivalent to the rejection of Marcy by both houses—to an order for a new Cabinet, a new policy, and a new schedule of appointments, comprehending the absolute rejection for the future of all free soil partisans, afliliations, or principles, from first to last. Let thts line of action be adopted—let the administration co-operate with Congress in the introduction of a domestic policy in all things, resting upon the constitutional and national principles of the Nebraska bill, and General Pierce may yet escape the otherwise inevitable fate of being Tylerized and Taylorized and ut- terly abandoned by his party. But let the ad- ministration heartily repent of its errors, con- fess to the judment of Congress, and take a new departure in the right direction in home affairs; and let this be followed up with the right spirit, in regard to Cuba, Honduras, and Mexico; and we shall take a fresh start in the expansion, progress, and prosperity of our country, which will defy all European balances of power upon this continent, and excite ths wonder and admiration even of our enemies. 4 We hail the passage of this Nebraska bill as the harbinger of a great and glorious political revolution, comprehending the purification of the democratic party, the destruction of the alolition agitators of all parties, and possilly (for we are not sure of it) the red:mption of the administration, and the washing it clean of all the stains of its anti-slavery and free coil | afiliations, beginning with the expulsion of Marey. How plain is the path before us guid- ed by the lights of the constitution ! Nepraska AND Porrrrcar Parrims Iw New Yorx.—aAt the present time we have any quan- tity of political parties trimming their wires for the fall election. There are the democratic hard shells, the democratic free soil soft shells, the whig Fillmore silver grays, and the whig Seward woolley heads, the Maine Liquor law party, and the lager bicr party, the free soil party proper, and the know-nothings. The Ne- braska bill will be very apt to break up all these parties and factions, and to muster their mate- rials into two great parties, upon Nebraska abd the slavery questions, Let all hands read over the Nebraska bill, consult the signs of the times, and between the anti-slavery platform and the constitution, prepare to take their po- sitions. The Nebraska bill is passed—a pofiti- cal revolution must follow; old parties will be done away with, new parties will take their places; and this revolution will begin in New York. The Maine law is at a discount—the know-nothings are nowhere. Nebraska swal- lows them all up, like the rod of Aaron. We are in the midst of a revolution. Tur New Yors Crry Detecarioy on tax Ne- mRAska Binr.—Of the six representatives from this city in Congress, five voted for the Nebras- ka Dill and one against it. The five were, Mesers. Cutting, Tweed, Walker, Walbridge, Walsh; and the solitary man in the negative was John Wheeler. Cutting has redeemed him- eelf, and his colleagues in the affirmative have vindicated the conservative constitutional atti- tude of New York city upon the slavery ques- tion. Mr. Wheeler stands alone in his glory. Perhaps he does not expect, desire, or intend to tun again for Congress. If he does, he isagone John Wheeler—he has sacrificed himself, and the “unterrified democracy” will probably call a coroner's inquest upon him wien his present term shall expire. Tity that a man should be so very firm when he is wrong. Tue New Yorn F ® Hotpers —A Lovp Cans ror Justice —The success of the Nebraska bill calls loudly for the tarning out of all the soft shell free soil federal office- holders in this city, beginuing with Messrs, Redfield, Fowler, 8wackhamer, and John Coch- rane—especially Cochrane. In anticipation of this policy we call upon Mr. Cochrane to make a present to us of the “scarlet letter.” We shall preserve it with great and it may ba rubbed to pieces in his breeches pocket. A Crear Track.—Not aw’ not a solitary men of the whigs in the House from the North- ern States, voted for the Nebraska bill. This makes aclear track for the organization of a great Northern anti-slavery party upon the re- mains of the late whig party. Union men of all parties, to the rescue. Prepare for the bat- tle of "56. to no more convincing cause than the serious diminutions in its circulation, effected by its occasional efforts to vindicate its independence. It is not long,since its views with regard to the policy to be adopted towards Russia, brought upon it the charge of having accepted a large bribe from the Emperor to advocate his in- terests—an accusation which, from its ab- surdity, we would have supposed that a jour- nal of its great pecuniary resources might have afforded to treat with the contempt that it merited. There is no doubt that the opinions expressed by the Times were dictated solely by an honest conviction of the perils to which the country was likely to be exposed by the course to which it was urged by the opposition pres , and we will probably yet see the political sa- gacity of its recommendations fully borne out by the results of the hazardous contest in which England has embarked. Be that as it may, “the leading journal” was soon forced to change its tone, by considerations entirely irrespective of the justice and expediency of the questions atissue. It found, as we arecredibly informe } that its alleged Russian tendencies were se- riously affecting its circulation, and having no Russian reserve to fall back upon, as was gene- rally supposed, like a prudent tactician it im- mediately beat a retreat, and has since, with all the zeal of a new convert, distinguished itsél? by the fiery energy of its partisanship on the opposite side. Of the other leading London journals it is hardly necessary to speak. The Chronicle, after having passed from the proprictorship of Sir John Easthope, is now in the hands of Baron Rothschild, and is consequently the faith- ful reflex of the narrow and selfish views of the Stock Exchange; whilst the Post is the organ of the aristocracy, and dare not give expression to an opinion that might jar with the sensitive nerves of the fashionable coteries in May Fair. The Herald is a relic of a bygone age, when bigotry and intolerance were rampant in the land, and is dependent for support on a class now luckily rapidly passing away; and the Daily News, after sinking an enormous capi- tal in its efforts to supplant the Times, only drags on a precarious existence by constituting itself the organ of the European revolutionists, It would be a mockery to talk of the freedom or independence ofany portion of the conti- nentalpress. The French journals, which per- haps formerly carried those conditions to the verge of abuse, are now paying the penalty of their excesses ina mutism as complete as the stillness of the tomb; whitst the same despotic influences chain down and paralyze the liberty of thought and discussion over almost the whole of the continent, In Belgium, which some how or other has come to be regarded by the other continental Powers as a sort of neu- tral ground on which their quarrels may be emptied, may be occasionally seen enunciated through the columns of some journal of small circulation, opinions of a faintly liberal tinge, | timorously expressed, and in most instances dictated by a desire to flatter and conciliate the English government. King Leopold is too adroit a politician and has too difficult a card to play between the opposing interests that threaten to swallow him up, not to permit, for his own sake, a reasonable laxity in this re- spect to the journals under his control. Such is virtually the amount of freedom and independence enjoyed by the newspaper press of Europe. Where nominally free, the Euro- pean journals are in reality as great slaves as under the despotic restrictions that impose penalties for the violation of tyrannical ordi- nances. Can we wonder, then, that all the in- formation that we derive through their medium respecting the incidents of the great struggle in which their respective governments are now engaged, should come to us in such a distorted and perverted shape as to render it difficult, nay, sometimes impossible, to draw correct con- clusions as to the faets which they profess to convey to us? Still less ought we to feel sur- prised that in their ignorance of the real state of public feeling in this country, and of the wide latitude of opinion which it is the con- stitutional privilege of American journalists to enjoy, they should endeavor to reduce us to their own level, by suggesting unworthy and interested motives as the guiding influ- ences of the course taken by the American press on the Eastern question. We have been led to make these remarks by a paragraph in the Emancipation Belge of the Mth of April last, and which has since been extensively copied into the German, French and English journals, “We observe,” says our Belgian contemporary, “in the American press arecent movement in favor of Russia. Nothing astonishes us from that part of the world ; the yenality of the American press is well known. The gold of Mount Ural can find its way to New York as well as the gold of California.” Tt is hardly necessary for us to mike any serious reply to sucha charge. The American press, with a circulation greater than that of the whole of the journals of Europe put to- gether—our own exceeding that of,“ the Thun- derer’’ itself—and increasing rapidly with the unparalleled growth of population, and the great concurrent prosperity of the couatry might well be excused from condescending to defend itself against an imputation at could only have originated in the malice of disap pointment. It may, however, be as well to re- call a few facts that will at once explain the motives of this vengeful sally on the pari of American Press Charged with Venality | our Belgian contemporary. “In the commence- European Journals—Russian Gold " ‘The only journals in Europe that can besaid | they are very far frm realizing our idea of ; leg ig ae ba Lond dahl Laie | stopped at no flattery, the English nobility at ment of the difficulty, England, with « keen appreciation of the advantages to be derived from enlisting the sympathies of the American people on her side, left no means untried to ac- complish that object. The Euglish press, to which heaven knows we are under no great obligations of amicable feeling or courtesy, no condescensions, and English statesmen at no concessions, to induce us to commit ourselves by some formal or informal declarations in favor of their intervention in Turkey, to the moral weight of which they candidly admitted, they attached the highest importance. Although by well directed attentions they won over to their views, a few soft-headed American tourists, they did not succeed in blinding the American peo- ple generally to the real issues involved in the question, and to the dangers to their own inte- rests that lay lurking behind them. We take credit to ourselves for being the first to ex- pose and point out the objects of the coalition; and we have since had the satisfaction of fiad- ing our sentiments endorsed by the great ma- jority of our American cotemporaries, The events that are daily transpiring tend to con- firm and strengthen the opinion that we have so frequently expressed, that any declaration of sympathy on the part of this country in fa- vor of the Western alliance, would render no real service to the cause of liberty. What is now the position of Turkey, since she has placed herself in the hands of the chivalrous defenders who were to extricate her from the state of vas- salage in which she was placed? Instead of one master she has at present several, and she can- not adopt a simple measure of police for the se- curity of her own internal tranquillity, without drawing down the imperial veto of one or other of ber new lords. We have seen how, in the affair of the contemplated expulsion of the sect called the United Greek Christians, she was compelled to yield to the arrogant dictation of the French ambassador; and before the lapse of another twelvemonth we are mach mistaken if this unjustifiable interference with her rights will not be followed by others that will deprive her of the last semblance of sovereignty. But in addition to this novel and striking mode of vindicating the oppressed liberties of the world, we may as well mention another fact which has just come to our knowledge, and which will place this Anglo-French crusade ina still more curious light. We learn from the Independence Belge of the 22a of April, that since the demolition of the forts on the Circassian coast, the slave market at Constan- tinople, which had long been in a lauguishing state, has become quite animated, and slaves who previous to that event could only be pur- chased for thirty and twenty thousand piastres, can now be had for twenty and ten. What a commentary upon the rabid abolitionism of the Englich people, and upon their Pharisaical de- nunciations of the debasing influence of Russian institutions! We think that even in the limits of this ar- ticle, we have stated sufficient to justify the position we have taken on this question, and to vindicate both ourselves and our cotempora- ries from all suspicion of being swayed by mo- tives inconsistent with that true love of liberty and sympathy for the wrongs of oppressed humanity that must ever actuate the American heart. Tur Ceyrran Parx.—New York, the third city in the civilized world, in point of popula- tion, and the second in commercial importance, is sadly deficient in means and appliances to refine, educate and humanize its people. We have no galleries of paintings or sculptures; no public library, and no park. We may have feeble imitations of these things; but New York is rich enough te do better. New York intends to impfove in this respect. The germ of this improvement has appcared in the efforts which are now being made for the permanent establishment of the Central Park, to include seven hundred and fifty acres of Jand in the best portion of the island. Notwith- standing the factious opposition of a petty clique, it is a fact that the work is going forward with spirit. The commissioners, Messrs. Uls- hoeffer, Kent, Bradish, Brady and Towle, have addressed a memorial to the Common Conacil, in which they state that they “have progressed with their labors to an extent which warrants the expectation that the proceedings to acquire the law for this park may be completed within the present year.” The commissioners re- quest that the Common Council will arrest the fulfilment of certain contracts now pending, for work to be performed within the Central Park, such as grading, paving and macadam- izing streets and avenues, until the proceedings in which they are now engaged shall be ter- minated. Jt appears that these contracts con- template the grading and paving of streets within the park, as if no park were intended to be established there. The commissioners very justly say:— To establish a uniform grade within the limits of the Park by filling in and leveiling the land for the purpose of strests and avenues, it will be necessary clther to grace the entire #urface toa level, or, at agreat expease, cause the earth and other materials now being deposited there, to be removed at even a greater expensg than that gow being incurred in placing them there. Your memorialists respectfully submit, that it is most expedient to have the land contemplated to be acquired for the Park m its present condition of nature, plan for its improvement asa perk shall be f mined. The arrangement of this ground as a park will devolve upon your honorable body, or those whom you may ap- point for that purpose, and will no doubt receive the most careful and dehberate consideration. This will be anclaborate and responsible duty, inyolving the most matured examination of the miny plans which will no doubt be proposed tor the purpose. If the contracts referred to are allowed to be com- pleted, a large amount of money will be unnecessarily expended; the surface of the ground will be broken up and destroyed; the notural advantages now possessed for the Park will be lost, and it will be almost impossibte to improve and beautify the ground, so as to accomplish the great end souglit, of having a park which will be, in all respects, commensurate with the wants and worthy the position of our city. Now, the public havea right to demand from the Common Council that the fulfilment of these contracts shall be arrested, for the present, at least. The people want the park, and the people will have it. They also desire that it shall seem natural—not laid out with the pre- cision of a flower garden. Its natural aspect, undulating with hills and hollows, shonid be preserved, and the proposed dimensions of the park shonld not be curtailed. There shovid be wining carriage roads and footpaths, so ar- ranged that the smoke dried citizen could im- agine himself for a short time separated from the din and dust of the city, and enjoying the deli- cious enchantments of rural existence. Sucha park will be an honor to the city, and a souree of never-failing enjoyment to us and our de- seendants, Tux Beorsine or tHe Loya Hown.—The Evening Post opens the anti-slavery howl against the Nebraska bill, and threatens all sorts of dreadful things, Fellow citizens, the music has commenced. Benjamin I. Butler leads off, with W. H. Seward for his ay oe The poets of the Post are among the fiddlers. Who joing in the dango? ‘Tax Lrqvor Licenses—Exerrmv@ Dusares ar THE Mayor's Orrice.—On the first of May, the licenses authorizing six thousand nine hundred and five “proper persons” to sell intoxicating liquors by the glass, expired. The question as to their renewal depends upon the Board of | Excise—the members of which are the Alder- men and Councilmen of each ward. They sit as & board with supreme power, and hear the ap- Plications; afterward rejecting them, holding them over, or granting the licenses,as they may see fit, The law gives them the power to ap-/'( Point such persons as they seefit, to sell liquors} _ ‘as tavern-keepers and victuallers, It is also & condition in the license, that in no such tavern or victualling shops so licensed, shall any liquors sold unless to persons actually lodging in the house, or travellers. Ourcity readers are very well aware of the fact that during the past year this condition has been almost a nul- lity, and that the almost unrestricted extension ' of the license system has been the cause of a! great deal of the rowdyizsm and crime by which the Sabbath bas been desecrated and the city ~ disgraced. | dn consequence of this fact, certain persone} in each ward organized themselves as an alli- ance, and made strong appeals to the Council- men and Aldermen, requesting them to inter. fere in the matter and to grant licenses to bu’ few persons, if, indeed, they should deem it ne cessary to grant any at all. In accordance with the official announcement, as follows, th: Board met on the 1st of May :— TAVERN AND EXCISE LICENSES. Noric8.—All tavern and excise licens2s expire on t! first day of May in each year. licenses will be is. sued at the Mayor’s office, City Hall, between the hot of ten and two o’clock, for the several wards, on the fol: lowing days respectively, viz:— yy Sand y 15 and 16, May 17 and 18. May 19 and 20, May 22 and 23. May 24 and 25. 11—Friday and Saturday, May 26 and 27, 12—Monday and Tuesday, 18—Wednesday and Thursday 14—Friday and Saturda; 15—Monday and Tues ia) Je—Wednesday 17—Friday and Saturday, 18—Monday and Tuesday. 19—Wednesday and Thu: 20—Friday and Saturday, 21—Monday and Tuesday 22—Wednesday and Thursday, All persons desiring license are requested to apply on. the days designateo above for their respective wards, and thereby avoid the penalties of the law. Persons now holding licenses are requested to present them when ap- plying for renewal. Special Notice.— All persons who shall sell or deal it strgng or spirituous liquors, (except importers or distil- lers selling liquors imported or by thom,) ii uantities al five gallons, being any icensed, are subject by law for each offence to the pet the aaditionnt ponishmest, (by adietanzat) “ar tee is pu en! of an imprisonment. By order. Ms n) WM. H. STEPHENS, First Marshal. P' There is a prospect that the number of license: more that were not licensed. That is, the was a drinking shop for every fifty men, wo. men and children in the city of New York, o1 one for every five voters, where they could re fresh themselves after exercising the right of a freeman by blindly voting for a string of peo: ple of whose qualifications they knew nothing. Although we say that there is a prospect o: reform in this matter, let it not be suppose that the change will be a radical one. No; although the number of licenses has been re- duced, yet, as far as the Board of Excise have gone, they have supplied ihe city with a plenti ful crop of murders, rows and fights for in| coming year. In eight wards fifteen hundred licenses have been granted, viz.: in the First,| | 255; in the Second, 89; in the Third, 169; ial | the Fourth, 375; in the Fifth, 150} in the Sixth, 379; in the Seventh, “13; in the -Highth, 253. ‘The Alderman and Councilmen of the Ninth ward have refused to grant any licences atall. Alder man Voorhis says that in two days not one of the liquor sellers in his ward has been able to satis- fy him that the sale of liquor has ever bene- fitted any of the inhabitants of that ward; and: that until that is proven no licenses will be granted. The applicants are highly indignant, and the discussion of the subject at the Mayor's office yesterday was rather a sharp one. It is stated that the liquor sellers in this ward intend to test the question ina court of law. They hold that under the law the Board of Excise are bound to issue licenses, but the board hold that the applicants are not, in their opinion, proper persons. In the Eighth ward, billiard saloons and bowling saloons have also been licensed. This has created a great deal of ex- citement, as it is in direct defiance of the law.’ It is a little singular that the prime mover in| | the granting of these licenses was the candidate of the whig temperance reform party in the district which he was elected to represent. It is to be hoped that the Aldermen and Coun- cilmen of those wards where the license ques- ‘tion is hereafter to be passed upon, will follow) _ the example of the representatives of the Ninth) | ward, and do their duty without regard to con- sequences, ‘Tur Sreanenn’ Crry or Grasdow.—Exeepting from the! # fact that the insideof the abandoned steamer reported in the Franklin’s news as having been seen by an arrival at Cork, resembled in color the City of Glasgow, and that she might have been in that latitude, there is but little ground for hoping that it was the long missing vessel, as | she was a screw steamer, and therefore had no paddle- boxes. It is barely possible that from the distance she was seen, some of her deck works might have been mis- taken for paddle boxes, as probably the vessel furnishing | the report had not heard of the City of Glasgow being missing; but it is more Likely to have been a disabled British West India or South American steamer. Oe Lavxen st Honoxey To.piy.—the clipper ship Tejorea will be launched from the yard of Messrs, isaac C. Smith & Son, at Hoboken, N. J., this day, at 23% o'clock P. M. The Tejorca is a finely modelled ship, 140 fect long, 23 feet beam, and 12 feet depth of hold, and combinca ent. !* rying capacity with qualities for sailing. She is owned in this city, end designed for the South Americon trade. j | | Qurex Vicronra’s Brnvitoay.—Great preparations have | been made throughout the British provinces for the celebration, to-day, of the anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria. } Exncnion or A Kxow Norsixa ry Bosro.—At an elec- | tion for Alderman, held in Boston, on the 224 inst., the Know Nothings succeeded in electing their candidate, A. B. Munroe, although they divided their votes botwoen two men. The following is the vote -— | } Know Nothing. Dem. atenroe. "Camtnon. Woodmas. — Scattering 2,075 651 261 4i Tho whole number of votes cast by the Citizens’ Union 02 i the regular democratic vote was 21. The: forty pas eosttaring ‘votes were for Gilbert Nurse, J. Put nam Bradlee and Lenjamin Heath. The Winchester Rescuers. R OF THEMERALD, ee Ne. 43 Watt Srreer. Please annoance the opening of the subscription for rewarding the captains, officersan{ Crews of the ships Washington, Currituck, Dirego avd others, nud the re ceipt by the Treasurer of the fol¥wing:— Jomes Lenox, Eaq., of Brown Bros. & Co. Denniatoun, Wood & Co Maitland, Lng td Co. Arthur q