The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1854, Page 4

aD NEW YORK HEP.aLp. Prvastae ane SAMES GORDOF gueNNErT, PROPRIETOR, any EDITOR eee OFFICE N. W. COTNRBR OF NASSAU AD FULTON 373. ——— i a Volume XIX........ No. 155 =— AMUSEMENTS THIS KVENING. “PARSTLE GARDEV-M JeLuiEN’s Conc BROADWAY TUPATKE Brosdway—My Youne Wire ap My OLD Unpaeces ~Faverve. BOWERY THEATRE. Howery—#acerus —Rrowan IT an Duren- Cnxnoxre Carer. NIBLO'S, ~Beria—Rep dxomm arp Waite Wankion. NATIONAL THEATRE. Chatham strest—Tnm Fare Mavon’s Davourex—Pue Rear Parmy Grant Guano, Broodwe: WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway~A Monsiye Cann —Lrar Yar. AMERICA? MUSHOM—Afterncos—Away Wrrit Mer- A@5CHOLY—ALARMING SACKIFICN ~Evening—RAraxiie, OWRISTY’S AMERICAN OPERA HOUSE, way Ermovian Mxvoi " Ermioriax ABIN, 444 Brosdwe; WOOD'S MINSTREL H re ce Tom's Mixsvartey~BukLerra oF ROCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE 199 Breadwsy—Bvox- aece Ermiorian Ovena ROURE Mails for Furope. Tus NEW FORK TEKALD—BDITION FOR HUROPE. The Canard mail steamship Austria, Ca will leave Boston on Wednesday, at 120’ erpool. 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The wound, ul account of the g it will be found it is said, will not prove fatal. arrest aud the incidents att elsewhere in this day’s paper. FROM WASHINGTON. Both houses of Congress met yesterday, kut no 8 was transacted. The Senate meets on Thursday, the House to-day; but it is doubtful if a sjnorum will be present. ‘The municipal election in Washington yesterday resulted in the choice of Yowers for Mayor an ouncil. Nothings. Attention is directed to our telegraphic despatches from the national capital, and tothe editorial cle in another column, relative to the position of in and Cuba. JERSEY RAILROAD. our affairs with TRE NE The annual mecting of the directors, stockholders and associates of the New Jersey Railroad and Trans- mpany, was celebrated yesterday at the City Hotel, Newark. A very crowded meeting was adopted portation Co assembled, and the members present unanimously the annual report of the directors with the assurance of a reduced charge for public conveyance on the line between New York and Philadelphia, and a declaration of a dividend of ten Our report of the proceed: per cent on the stock. ngs is unavoidably crowded out. ON TRE INSIDE PAGES n Postal Statistics; Horvible Death in Cincinna’ in Englun roreign the farewell addve Wet Point, Quebec Utah; commercial and NEOUS. in Brooklya on Suadey, 1e perce » Who, in conse- sembled, postponed he complaints were read and , Bubject to release on bail Several we: The per bo brought bef quence of 1 the examination. the prisoners commi in the sum of five hundred dollars. gedw discharged, no complaints being preferred against them. It is ascertained that no one was killed in the fiacas, and very few were seriously hurt. The provision stores of Masters & Son and Mr. Hane, at Alexandria, Va., were completely destroy- ed by fire yesterday morning. Loss estimated at fifty thousand dollars. Ten kegs of guhpowder ex- ploded, doing great damage, but fortuuately no per- son was injured. The cotton bleaching establishment of William P. Sayles, at Smithtield, R. 1, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Later advices from Texas and New Mexico report the frequent occurrence of Indian outrages. Some en place between the troops and the savages, in"Which the latter generally got severe fighting has t: the worst of it. AFFAIRS IN THR CITY. The Board of Supervisors held their first mecting for the June session last evening, and passed a resolution to pay cach member of the Board of This may be “reformation,” but it will entail upon the city a The Board of Health, which is com- cilmen (sixty members) and the Health $2 for every attendance. great expense. posed of the © Aldermen (twenty-two members), at $2 each for one meeting in the week, will make $164—and i? they meet twice it will be, according to Cocker $328 per week. The Board of Aldermen transacted a considerable + of routine business last evening. The most | amou! important document brought up was a commanica tion from the Comptroller on the subject of the offal contract, an abstract of which, together —— Towers was supported by the Know- | 3 Ship- 3 Theatrical Notices, incleding were yesterday to have netted its owners from $2 50 to $3 per bar- rel. High prices of flour promise tosome extent to, ' | check domestic consumption, While prime ~st.9 | Genesee flour sells at $1175 a $12 per ‘arrel, or about six cents per pound, corn meal gels at only $387.0 $412 per barrel for the bst, or about two cents per pound——a great dif rence in favor of those understanding how to us% the latter article aa food. The New Anti-Stavery Disunton Programme | Cassius M. Ciay’s Letter. We call the attention of our readers, and es- | pecially of all men attached to the Union and the principles of the constitution, to the violent, ; fanatical and revolutionary letter from Cassiua | | M. Clay to Horace Greeley, which we publish | | this morning. It will be seen that Cassius out- Herod’s Horace, and that in the extremity of i | his wrath, he not only concurs in the generally | | proclaimed abolition programme of “ breaking | | upon the wheel of public opinion ” every North- \ | ern man who voted for the Nebraska bill, but | | that his plan comprehends a still more fearful | | penalty. He proposes also “ to banish them | from the social circle, and disfranchise them practically forever.” He admits that this is hard, but says to his worthy von/rére that “ the race of traitors must die before we can live.” Yet this Mr. Clay, with all his fiery zeal asan anti-slavery fanatic, goes i the merits of the question before him with fe, deliberation and method of a man of business, He proposes ac- tion, and lays down his programme with the di- rectness of an old caropaigner. The first thing to be done is “to punish the traitors’ who voted in Cougress for the obnoxious bill—the next thing is to make “the elections, even for the most inferior oflices, turn upon its re- peal;”’ and the third operation is a fasion of all the anti-slavery elemeuts of the North, includ- r ing ubolitionists proper, the free democracy, whigs and demgcrats, upon the most liberal platiorm of nuion in fraternity, in reference to the next Pres‘dential election. Fourth'y, they are to count the cost—that is, the cost of the Union, and the advantages which the abolition- iste would gaia by driving the South to seces- sion from the Union. Mr. Clay is of the opin- jon that the Scuth could be “whipped in agaiu,” if necessary; but_jf most expedient to the de facto government, they could be permitted to go at large. It has been said that a renegade priest makes the most ferocious heretic—that an anti-slavery Yankee becomes frequently the most inveterate slave driver, and that a converted slaveholder is sure to eclipse in his zeal for negro emanci- pation the most fiery native horn abolitionist. This last case will here apply. Ji was so with Birney—it is sowith Cassius M.Clay. Late a Kentucky laveholder, he now throws Garrison, Parker, Phillips, and Greeley into the shade | wilh his schedule of radical, practical, and vevo- | lutiouary abolition projects. His scheme is me- thodieal and consistent, and compasses the dis- solution of the Union upon the simplest possible plan of operations. Ifhis'recommendations were merely the views of an isolated individual, and unsupported by any conjuncture of circumstance favorable to his designs, we might rationally laugh at this manifesto, as but a tissue of the vagaries of o moon-struck enthusiast. But , | Cassius M. Clay bas a legion of supporters at > | his back and t.e crisis is eminently favorable for such an orgon zation upon the platform he has laid down, as may well alarm the most steadfast believer in the stability of the Uaion. What we see andavhat we know, we cannot conveniently dismiss from our reflections. We see that the old political whig and democratic parties are broken up—that the former is hope- lessly disbanded in the Nortl—that no steps have as yet been taken calculated to effect the reunion of the latter; and that in the meantime the anti-slavery factions all around us are moving towards a powerful and overshadowing disunion pariy, upon purely secti n tional prin- ciples, and for the avowed purpose of arresting the further extension of Southern slavery, be the perils and the consequences what they may. We cee this, from day to day, in the outgivings of the Seward aud democratic free soil jour- nals. We know, too, that Seward is ambitious; | that he has a very active force of adroit politi- cians in his service, and that they look to the present demoralized and disorganized coudition of the late whig and democratic parties asafford- ing the most hopeful opportanity for their champion in 1856. They have announced the fact, and we see that there is a conjuncture of events and circumstances, entanglements and political confusion, at home and abroad, which may well rekindle the hopes of our domostic traitors and our foreign enemies. We bave every reason to apprehend that the programme of political action, as marked out hy ©. M. Clay, will be substantially adopted tn reference to the ensuing Congressional elee- tions of the North, and also in respect to the coming Presidential campaign. Every North- ero man who voted for the Nebraska bill is to be immolated as a sacrifice to the outraged anti. slavery Our popular elections h forth, n to the most insignificant offic to be put to the there is to be issue of hostil > soil and etions. ce low 3 23, are shibboleth of abolitionism; ant a holy alliance upon the singh y to Southern slavery, of all abolition elements, upon Ben hereto- himself re, No matter, a ' 2 to stay the march of § though an epitome ve the syieence aad ‘ a c . eal ho | it may bring upon us all the horrors of disanion, oa om, the investigation les sammor, will be | evolution and civil war. found wader our t « a ’ : Su sticlavery plan of operations Board. A resoluti strating against the bill oe ‘avery pian of ‘operssices now before the Senate fc Assay office of Now York w Th oard passe’ week until the ses in the Board of Councilmen the session wa sumed in receiving petitions and disposing of reso: lations, but the transactions present uo features of interest. A resolution directing the Com rs mit ¥ ies to make inquiries as to the insa ficient accommodation provided by the lessee of th Hoboken ferry was adopted. The fund fer the purchase of testimonials f Captain Fitch and others, rescuers of the passo. gers and crew of the ship Winchester, now amoant to nearly three thousand dollar Three steamships left this port yesterda probably between fifteen handred and two thousar passengers, bound for California. Woe understand that the price of through steerage ticket vessels was but thirty-five dollara, which a nee efflux of emigr. Some important cases, the rine Court, onan action for malic cua @ on the Hen Jaw, will be found in th ral inwelligence. Tan action in the Superior Coart h of achild who fell into» ud by these count for the imm fons pi yng tt mekila, Judge th order er . Fa rt 7 aoy, but vit waa on Ga Th sour fony which came back from Cali ia in the Bald Eagle was soid at $7 50 per barrel, and is sad the plan of the nously adopted cet five nights a enceforth rewly developed thro W. H. V free soilers, and the “free democracy. is the plan of Cassius M. € lay. Of course th Boren Such leading 0} eward, the gathered about their inid- $s with fiendish congritulations © we in the field to of the enemies of confront this grand allian the Union? Nothing. The national whig party and there is no democratic national party in the North capable of doing single-ha: ded against the united free so i and anti Not a solitary whi, of the North voted for the Nebraska bill—a sig nificant ominous item in the caneral esti mate. dm) stor unite the democ ia detanct, lavery forces, The ration is powerle party upon aational anion prine’ples. The free -roil and secession coalt tion of the Cal and th » soll spoil rystem which has eontvolled tho distribution o the publie pl put the aiministration op till ppeafs to us that there is enfficte , » the ) lomy th ' th democrat A to give it the requ site rength vor overwhelming in 1856 all the enemies of the Union, uader wiatever dis- | to know that it is so attacke 1; 4 “oaise, in either section. All that {» weceseary is to make the constitutional principles of the Nebrarka bill, and the progressive and practi- cal national doctrines of the age, the platform of the new organization, Let this be done, and let whigs and democrais, North and South, rally together, and make this next conflict, | with the fell spirit of discord and disuuion, decisive and final. There is no immediate necessity for looking up @ national “union party Presidential candi- date. Gen. Pierce will not be in the way, and Douglas will probably prefer to hold over. But there will be little difficulty in selecting a proper candidate, if the party suggested will only overlook the spoils in the tremendous | issues of principle and publie policy at stake. No party can survive the approaching strug- gle which shall depend upon the nucleus of the present administration; but the democratic party, apart from the administration, has still within its ranks, in both sections, the materials for the nucleus of a great victorious national vnion party in 1856. What say the national dem> ocrats in the South and in the North, and the national democratic leaders in Congress? What say the national whigs? The time is at hand for action. Street Preachers and Riots, Three or four months ago, it was said that a certain set of individuals had resolved to sup- press the right of free speech in this city, and to prevent street mroachers from addressing audiences in any public thoroughfare. The rumcr created considerable ferment, and quite a stirarose among the more excitable clisses of our population. It was freely asserted that the tyranuical movement sprang from our Trish fellow citizens, whose sensibilities, it was urged, could not tel: rate the aspersions usually caat on their faith by the most populaf of these field preachers, This story gained considerable credit, People were not wanting on the one hand to inveigh against the assault made on one of our most valued liberties, in the person of the street preachers; or, on the other, to ex- cuse the outburst of Hibernian warmth aad to durance of such annoyances is part of the price we pay for social freedom and collective safety. The street preacher must not be molested. The whole fabric of our liberties requires this of us, as an essential duty. We trust therefore that, should it require the active employment of every policeman and every soldier in the State, the authorities will maintain the right of free- dcm of speech inviolate. On the other hand, every question of social or political economy has a practical as well as a theoretical aspect, and these often differ widely. Men possess many rights which it would be manifestly inconvenient to exercise at all times; and in civilized communities we all of us tacitly waive a number of rights of our own in order to add to the comfort of the whole social body. Persons who refuse to fol- low this rule, are chuy}s and nuisances, rightly eschewed and disliked by the world. We are inclined to think that of all the nuisances which go at large in the present day, the Pro- testant street preacher is the greatest. He is empbatically a useless being. He never con- verts anybody, never does good to any one, never spreads the knowledge of a single Chris- tian truth, or increases the practice of a single Christian virtue. It is his mission to create quarrels and dissensions wherever he goes. His harangues are senseless diatribes, without argument, force or oratorical merit. He calls the Church of Rome very hard names, and roots ont of stupid old books absurd stories about bad monks and worse nens in for- mer times; just as if his ancestors who lived at the same period were auy better. He has no education, having generally taken to street preaching after failing as a bricklayer or a tailor; end so little natural reason, that his sanity is always a debateable point. He bears the samo relation to the body politic, that the little in- sects called ticks bear to the body physical: burrowing his head into every tender spot, and producing an incessant irritation which even his death does not always allay. An ecclesiastical vagabond, a sort of Christian gipsy, for good, he has been absolutely useless since the days of deprecate the language used by the orators, To the debates which followed, between these two classes of individuals, much of the import- ance now belonging to the societies styled “ Know Nothings,” &c., must be ascribed. The point of the argument was lost for a time, when the most notorious of the street preachers suc- ceeded in addressing a large crowd of people in an open place, without the slightest molesta- tion, Whether from policy or from principle, it was clear that the enemies of free speech were vanquished for the nonce; and content with the triumph, for some weeks the stump orators allowed us to live in peace. It seems, however, that this happy period has now ended; the rage for etreet preaching has been once more aroused, and simultaneously with its resurrection, all the worst passions of its enemies have burst forth afresh. On Sunday last, in the quiet city of Broeklyn, when good people were pondering ever the morning’s sermon and strengthening themeelves for the next week’s work, a dis- graceful fight was going on between the hearers of a street preacher and a band of men who are said to have been Irishmen. This scene, though the most violent that has yet occurred, is by no means the first of the kind that has disturbed our Sunduy rest: on several Sabbaths, of late, similat ecenes have taken place, cnl we are now duly nolified that they will be regularly repeated hereafter in oll probability ona larger and more extensi ule. In one word, rioting, between professors of rival cre who choose the Sunday for their performances, threats to hecome chronic in New York and the vicinity. The fact is very surprising. Our mo! usually so very sensible and practical—é so widely from mobs in other countries, aud so seldom display any of the wild traits of charac- ter which are understood to be peculiar to large bodies of city bred men, that a repetition of the no-Popery riots was, under ordigary circumstances, the last thing in the world one might have expected here. A large mui: ber of trivial causes have combined to produce the phenomenon, The violent preachings of Gavazzi, on the one side, and the bratality displayed by his opponents in Canada and elsewhere on ihe other, were not without effect in arousing a spirit of hostility between Catholics and Protestants. Equally potent was the course pursued by the Roman Catholic press ; which, forgetting the minority oceapied by its coréligionists in this country, and how small advice they are entitled to use in direct- ing our national concerns, assumed a dogmati- cal tone of authority, and actually attempted to revive pretensions which the enlightened mcmbers of the Papal Church have loag since abandoned. The Pope's legate Bedini rather aggravated this folly, and gave a handle toa pareel of infidel Germans and others who sought nothing but on opportunity of abusing Christianity. Riots in Canada, at Cincinnati, at New Orleans, at Baltimore flame. Men were realy for an explosion when the Irish attempted to silence the street preacher Parson there are not wanting symptoms of a similar readiness at the hour we write. Private designs of on in the leaders, fiery intolerance bigotry iu 8 5 and the rauk and file, together with the nataral heat of youth, and the proverbial pugnacity of at least one party amoag wrought matters to pitch that at any moment a dreadtnl conflict may take place, and the scenes of 1844 at Philadelphia may be renewed, the combataats, bave uel Before blood is actually shed it is well that we sce what we are going to iight about, and that we understand what is the law aad what the right of the matter ia question, The right ofany one, duly provided witha license, to preach and harangue an audience ia a public place, ie clear and undoubted; provi that he shall not, by so pre cirenlation through such public place, if it be a thoroughfare inlaw. This ig the 1 find itin the books. We go further and say that the municipal ordinance declaring that a Veonse is requisite in order to authorize astrect preacher to address a crowd, is titutional aud void, heing in direet cootraveution of the n of the United Ste ed oaly ching, impete free , as we consti eg aad of this State: but ¢ iis is of no consequenes at presvat. 1Pis enough for now that no one has a right to mo} ‘nce a licensed strovt preacher, no what thing he may soy; provided, of cour. iat he ehall uot outra public decency tal If, theretor b deem it his duty t lre-8 a crowd 3 such place and to expatiate on th y of M her creed, he bas a right’ to do so; id wie. | ever molent | , fanned the | John Bunyan ; for evil he has been and will be eminently powerful, we fear, to the end of time. Now if it affords our Protestant friends any ratisfaction to indulge gentlemen of this stamp with an audience, they are clearly entitled to do so. It is the constitutional privilege of a citizen to play ridiculous as well as sensible parts. One word only we will say by way of warning. Any blood that may here- after be shed in defence of freedom of speech, brought into question by these street preachers, will lie first at the door of those who sought to violate the law: but at Jeast an equal share of blame will belong to those who provoked the disaster by encouraging so fruitless, senseless, igle a spectacle. Liaw Makers anp Law Breaxers.—What- ever differences of opinion may prevail amongst us on the great political questions that agitate the public mind, there can be none as to the duty of those who occupy places of authority in our general system of government, to af- ford the weight of their example and support to the strict maintenance of the laws of the land. However much men may disapprove of particu- lar features in legislation, it isa recognized pria- ciple in every country, that those in authority are hound to carry out to the letter the obliga- tions that they impose, and only to seek for their repeal through the recognized and legiti- mate channels of petition and remonstrance. If officials were to constitute themselves judges of the morality or expediency of legis- ve measures, it is evident that there would end to all law, and we need not add to all order in society. Jt is therefore with feelings of surprise and indignation that we perceive by the subjoined, card, that five of the Boston Aldermen have thought it uccessary to dissavow all participa- tion in the acts ot the Mayor in connection with the late riots in that city. Having sworn to uphold the constitution and the laws of their country, they traitorously admit that £0 far from having aided that officer to fulfil his duty, they violated the obligations of their oath of office, hy seeking to dissuade him from performing it. Their plea that the acts which they repudiate and condemn came exclusively within the province of the United States authorities, will avail them nothing in the eyes of conscieatious and law- abiding men, They take a miserably nasrow and contracted view of the obligations of their oath of office if they suppose that they absolve them from lending their aid to the enforcement of the authority of the general government, in a matter involving not only constitutional principles, but the peace and safety of their own city. The followigg is the document to which we refer:— ACARD FROM FT Justice to ourselves demand | solved from the implication conveyed in the paragraph mentioned. We not only did notadvise whe Mayor to callout the military to escore the poor fagitive to the slave vessel, hut earnestly entreated bim todo nothing | to implicate the city of Boston in the disgraceful pro. | ceedings. We wore desirous that the States authorities rhould bear tho whole respon turing to slavery a freemen of Massact Mayor ja the only one of the ‘city as we know, who ordered the military of Massachusetts | and the po of Boston to assist fa an act which be longed weclusiy aited States authorities, WILLIAMS, W. WASH o TISDALE R, Boston, A B. MUNROR, Centra Park.—Mr. Dillon, Connsel to the Corporation, has issued a circular, Hy dressed to the owners, lessees, or occupants of lands situated between Fifty-ninth and One Hnndred and, Sixth and the Fifth aud Eighth avenues, in relation to the matter of Jaying ont the pablic park in that locality. The ps t reenis, are summoned to appear befor Jomnissioners of Estimate and Assessment on or before the 15th of daly next, in order that they may produce the evi- dences of their title or interest in the Inud in question. In default of their non-attendame, the various lots unrepresented will be reported to the Supreme Court as belonging to unknown owners, The circular farther requests that all parties will comply with the notice a3 soon as streets, chant, the laborer and the tradesmen alike ex- pect it, and it isright that they should have such a privilege. In a city like ours, destined in all human probability to’become the largest and the wealthiest in the world, it is a misera- ble, short-sighted policy to gramble about a few acres of land, the cost of which will be re- paid a thousand-fold in after years, if the pro- posed scheme be carried out. Is New York to retain forever a purely business aspect? Is there to be no refinement?—is neither art or taste to be displayed in it from one extent to the other? The time may come when it will be found impossible to obtain the land required for a spacious park, and it therefore behooves all whe feel interested in the matter to act en- ergetically now that the subject is mooted. We believe that the day is not far distant when this same park will be looked upon as one of the chief ornaments of the city. The majority favor the undertaking, and we hope that the proceedings before the, Commissioners of Esti- mate and Assessment will be concluded with as little delay as possible. 7, shiesiiricee-reeaige tomate) The Administration and the Cuba Question in a Pecuniary Aspect. Our Washington correspondence this morn- ing discloses the proceedings at the White House last week, when the democratic members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations met the President to consult as to his plans for the future, in the adjustment of the difficulties with Spain. The statement corroborates our view, that the administration, notwithstanding the alarming reports in the cabinet newspapers, were exccedingly peaceably inclined, and had no more intention of recommending extreme measures towards Spain, than they have of turning out the free soilers and abolitionists from office, and thus showing that upon one point, at least, their practice is in keeping with their professions. The commission then isto go to Spain. And it would appear that they are to emulate the conduct of that doughty sovereign, who— With twice ten thousand men, Marched up the bill, and taen—marched down again. They are to return home, and then—and then! Oh, then, we are to have war! The President is to have several millions of dollars at his dis- posal ; either Jeff. Davis or John Forney is to command the forces, and Cuba, like a ripe pear, is to fall into our lap. We must say we admire that idea of placing several millions in the hands of the President. to be uscd at his discretion, without the annoy- ing inconvenience of having to apply to Con- gress for every insignificant million he may want. Much gan be said in its favor. In the first place, it at once furnishes an easy mode by which the surplus gold in the treasury can be disposed of. The Gadsden treaty only ab- stracts ten millions of that surplus, leaving at least twice as much behind, It is true, Mr. Guthrie has made suggestions to reduce the duties on certain articles of import, so as to bring the revenue down; but there is no pros- pect of the recommendation being acted upon this year, and, therefore, some other way of getiing rid of the superfluous cash is absolutely necessary. The plan of giving it to the Presi- dent is positively sublime. It does away with all further trouble.as to the surplus on hand ; it saves the time of Congress quarrelling over mere trifles as to details; and it will enable the President to reward his true friends and obsequions servants. We have no patience with those so-called economists who desire to be advised, in ad- vanee, what disposition is to be made of the public money. They will probably find out in time. Neither have we any respect for the opinions of persons who may think that the government of a country—young, vigorous, abounding in resources, and powerful in all the elements of greatness—sheuld boldly avow what it demands of other nations, and having avowed it, call upon the representatives of the people to sustain, to assist and advise with them. It is quite evident that sach people are Utopian in their ideas, and know not the merits of indirection, indecision, and humbug gene- rally. We cannot be accused of partiality to- wards the present administration, but we would scorn to hesitate in doing them the justice to be- lieve that, upon the points just mentioned, they are adepts, both by experience and from natural taste. We confess we are at a loss to find suitable language to discuss seriously this most impu- dent proposition to place the public money, upon a bald pretence, in the hands of the Presi- dent, uncontrolled by any of those checks which the constitution contemplated in the disposition of the revenue of the country. We are aware that a precedent may be sought to be found in the case of the Northeastern boundary question, but there is in fact no resemblance in the cases. In the Northeastern boundary difficulty, our territory was invaded and our citizen soldiers had muskets in their hands. It was a matter of pressing moment. requiring immediate atten- tion. But how stands the case with regard to Spain? For years she has perpetrated outrages and indignities upon our citizens almost with impunity. At length matters were supposed to have reached a crisis, and our Minister near the Court of Madrid was instructed to demand in- stant redress for all the outrages, and in order to prevent their recurrence, to clothe the Cap- tain General of Cuba, for the fature, with power to negotiate dircetly with onr government’ Our Minister, Mr. Soulé, made these demands for instant redress—and they were instantly re fused. Instead of resenting this refusal, for it admits of no argument that we shoald make no peremptory demands unless we are prepared to insist upon them, another commission is to be sent ont to repeat the demand and to re-echo the threats. This is meve child’s play, utterly humiliating to the country and disgraceful to the administration, if it is possible for it to reach a lower depth than it has already sounded. And yet, with such faets staring us in the face, the President, it appears, intends to ask Congress to place at his disposal an immease sum of money, for fear war may occur in the brief interval which will take place between porsible, as the consummation of this great im- provement, consistent with a proper examina- tion and a due regard to the rights and inter. ests affected, is earnestly desired, Aceniral park will nudoubtedly be a vast improvement, and we do not believe it neces: sary to impress this trath on the minds of our readers. But, improve- besides being au ment, the advantages to be derived from it are such, that all interested in the progress and prosperity of the city should lead their aid aud jlluence to obtain the euccessfal com pletion of the work. The climate of Now York during the pmer months requircs on the groand ef publte health, that th th punishment, It feelings of the prof very galling to the sore of the creed assailed but toleraat ea- should be some place of resort, free from th sickly heat, the noise and the confusion of crowded thoroughfares, The artisan, the mer- the long and the short sessions, It cannot be possible Congress will listen to such a propo- sition, and we douBt exceedingly if the admin- istration, however lost to shame, will have the hardihood to propose it. That it is their pre- sent intention to do so, we are aware, but as it | will require at leastsome name to make the ! proposition, we have room to believe that be- | fore the time arrives, the idea, like Bob Acres’ | courage, will ooze o1 & Ports Miss Teresa Eemomle will ond of ber highly entertaining readings from evening. Among her selections are Hota wug of the Shirt,” some of the boat scenes give the» the poets tt 3! pere, and pieces from Campbell aad 3 celubra yore. from & Naval Intelligence. ‘ihe surveying schooner Legare, Lt. Mafitt, arrived at Charleston Ist inst., last from Tybeo. She was leaking, and would have to go into dock for repaira, i _Jullien’s The concert last evening, at im honor of Mr. Arthur Chappel, tion the arrangement of Jullien’s has been carried out, was attended by a and Mant—the Great Exhibition and American quadrilles psrakes fared to perfection, and the different’ eens |, as they respectively executed the }| pieces allotted to thom, were received with r spplause. The bills announced that this was the last concert which M. Jullien would give in America; but. we believe that the people of New York will have the pleasure of hearing him ogain for several nights, ere he. Jeaves for Europe. Between the first and second parts of the evening’s en tertainment, Arthur Chappel, Esq. and Br. John Joy— the gentlemen to whom the public of thia country are indebted for the musical treat of hearing Jullien and his troupe—were privately presented, by a few friends, ! with two silver pitchers, as a small token of regard, Some twenty gentlemen were present.on the occasion. Appropriate speeches were made, and the health of the two enterprising gentlemen, who leave on Saturday for Europe, was drank in bumpers of champagne. under tour Mvwicrray Execrion in Pamiapeurma.—To-day the first election for city officers under tho act of consolidation will be held in Philadelphia. The officers to ba chosen are to govern the entire city, or what has heretofore ‘Deen known as the city proper and districts, which have 4 deen divided into twenty-four wards, each one of which } is entitled to one Select Councilman and three Common Councilmen, who are to enact the laws for the govern- ment of thecity, There are four tickets in the field, tht following being those for city officers:— Whig Ticket. Democratic Picket. R MAYO! FoI R. Robert T. Conrad. Richard Vaux. FoR Nk. Isaac Hazleburst. William L. Hirst. FOR CO! John N, Henderson. William Badger. YOR COMMISSIONER. Franklin Comly. ‘George C Leidy. American or Know Nothing. Tem pevance. Fok Mayor. Robert I. Conrad. Robert T. Conrad. FOR SOLICITOR. William D. Buker. ~ William D. Baker. FOR k John N. Henderson. John N. Henderson. Adam Much. YOR COMMISSIONER. Adam Mach. Avorwer ComPuixFxt To SENATOR Doverss——The de- mocracy of New York are determined that the distin} guished Senator now in our midst shall receive amy assurances ‘of their esteem for himself, and of their high appreciation of his services to his, country, before he leaves the city. On Saturday last the Young Men’s De- moc) atic Union Club gave him a serenade, and to-night } the Nebraska Committee will give him another, whenig is expected that he will deliver an address on the Nebras- fj ka bill. All the friends of the Union and the constitution jj are invited to assemble in the Park at eleven o'clock to- night,when a procession will be formed, and march up to! the St. Nicholas, in front of which the serenade will beg given, x INSTALLATION OF THE GRAND SACHEM OF THE TamMany So-# comry.—Lart night Elijah F. Purdy, Eaq. was installed] in the office of Grand Sachem of the Columbian Order{f with all the usnsl forms, Amongst the leading members|] present were John Van Buren, Colonel Delaran, Isaac V. 1 Fowler, George 8. Messerve, Father of the Gouncil, Sac! Dunlap, and others. After the ceremonies of installa- tion were concluded, the company adjourned to the sup- | per room to partake of the waters of the Great 9 with the newly inaugurated Grand. Eloquent speeches: were made on the occasion by Messrs. Pardy, Van Buren, |] Fowler, Delavan, O’Keefe, &c. The main topic touched) upon was, of course, the passage of the Nebraska bill. Marine Affairs... went down immediately after in the month of December, 1852, resulting in the loss of four of her crew, was fallen in with yesterday for the first time since the disaster, by the steamtug Titan, Capt. Cummisky. Capt. 0. reports that between nine and ten o’clock yesterday, wher miles 8. E. by E. from the Highlands, he saw the heel @ mast projecting about twelve feet above water. Hé fastened lines to it, and after sometime succeededin de- | taching it from the wreck, and upon examination it proved to be the foremast of the lost pilotboat Yankee. Great strain was applied, bt the hull could not bp moved, the mast breakiug off with all the rigging, blocks, foregaft, &e., atiached. Capt. C. towed it along for some time, but meeting with a ship had to let it go. The wreck Hes in 21 fathoms water. The removal of the: mast may be the means of preventing accident, as it might have seriously damaged any vessel sunning upon it. The mainmast was found, we believe, floating nea there some time back. Derartcre oF CsuiroRNIA STREAMERS —The steamships! Minoia and North Star, for Aspinwall, and the Prome-] theus, for San Juan. left yesterdsy afternoon, with & large number of people for California. Coroner's Inquest. DkATH PRODUCED BY INTEMPRRANCE.—The Coroner yes- terday held an inquest at,No. $20 Hudson street, on the body of John R. Vernon, 27 years of age, a 0 Ireland, who came to his death by congestion of the ij Le cae by intemperance. rtm to that effect. J was rendered, . i" The Fitch @restimontal. | Contributions for the to Captain Fitch and others:— Amount heretofore advertised. Reebe & Co. Britich Royal Mail Steamship Company .. . E. K. Colling............+ Livingston, Crocheron & Co N. L. and G, Griswold..., RICH. BELL, Treasurer, 43 Wall street. Court Calendar- This Day. » Scrreme Courr—@eneral Term.—Nos. 40, 1, 2, 18, 2134, 80, 82, 13, 81, 45, 46. 47, 49, 27, 15, 28, 87. Supreme Court—Circuit and Special Term.—Adjourned to Monday next. Common Pikas—Part 1.—Nos. 481, 404, 693, 675, 701, 102, 761, 766, 775, 796, 709, 807, 811,'800, 854, ‘Common Pritas—Part 2.—Nos. 760, 7 507, 068 O01 SOE 408, OC8 OOt, 650, i y 1,397, 648, 498, 831, 992, 1 th, 1 1/016, 1,048, 1,020, 1,023, 1,024, 1 18, 237, os 1,003, 1 804, 1,000, The First Cherrics—One Hundred of splendid cherries were received vesterd RAD & CO., 136 Wort strat, from Heary Vantiorn: of Rercen Poin’ this vietuity. ae febaite Thrabates eoetercsnebio tree tb wulitable to most faahionstle furnishing conds, ruisable, ca, the shirt estanitahment ual prices. Selling off, by order of the Assignee.--Ladies’ mantitis Mise wane vonsets ‘a \Raneive anima hion abl od straw bonnets being old ‘oft with tve at 361 Broadway, secon ttore from Leonard Table linens and counte: es, from ane= atin damask fizured and snow Aegpiabie ‘ards wide {row four shillings to six abi 4 id Marseilles counterpsnes from $? to St; snow Tap hive twelve Milings to forr ser shi ling BUBDETT'S dry gcods store.301 Grand street, 6 erry Ladies’ Dresses accarately fitted and made in the best style in twen y four hours’ notica, to $5 each: imported French ovr-ets, ladl ‘ «mi reider, fucmibing, Ince end mud p omirelsery 23 @ #631 01 E Trias by applying to J. &e., No. 9 Canal jain and folding bed- hat stands, chairs, &o.; jwaye on hand aad male fron Bedeteads, Murnite, agente, Scasonable Clothing.— Winter has been t . T epring.”’ but we shall be awa mad Saetion sble. +e hed the pleasure of offeriag to ert opal Vhavortan s takon in having sieth ip tb Inge eto plense theip customors, have © € Cow tery exten they ar fy «eh, wh ntben #8 Stage Co ™ tie wt AS he Biamcnd as vtatntog awd os