The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1854, Page 4

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HALL, 444 Bros¢wey—Brarorzay ‘Miseraetsy—Buacerra or Urour Tom's Canty. BUCKLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, 589 Broadway—Dvcx- Pe. ‘eer's Brmorian Ovens TH To the Public. Bho New York Hunst> has now the largert circulation f any daily jouroal ix Europe or America. ‘The Daily Hrracp circulates noarly stety thousand shoots per day. ‘The Weekly editions—publiched on Setarday and Sun- @ay—rench a cireniation of nearly seventy thousand whests per week. The aggregate issuc of ‘the Hmnacn establishment is theenty millions of sheets per annum. The News. FROM WASHINGTON. Our special despatches from the national capital are very interesting—read them. In the Senate yesterday a memorial from the New York Common Council against thetepeal of the existing law relating te the assay office in this city was presented. The bill reorganizing the navy was taken up, and Mr. Mallory offered a sub- stitute, which was adopted. We presume the sub- stitute to be the bill reported to the House on Sa- turday, and which appearedin yesterday’s Heracp. It pasted a third reading, and will probably be put upon its passage to-day. Mr. Seward delivered his views on the Indigent Insane Land bill and the President’s veto message. He bore down hard upon the Executive, pronouncing the message ‘‘desultory, Wogical, and confused.” The Senator paid 2 weti- deserved tribute of praise to the indefatigable Miss Dix, through whose perseverance this philanthropic measure passed both houses of Congress. A very fall report of Mr, Seward’s remarks is given under the appropriate bead. The House suffered a severe infliction yesterday, which was borne with heroic fortitude. We allude to the personal explanations of Messrs. Charchwell and Campbell, an account of which is given in the report of the proceedings. It requires the “glass eyes” that scurvy politicians are supposed to wear to discover the point of interest at issue in these windy wordy wars; and to such as happen to be possessed of the aforesaid metaphoric crystalline optical invention we commend an attentive study of the discussion. The subject of Mike Walsh’s right to a seat in the House, which is disputed on the ground of ineligibility in not being a natural- ized citizen of the United States, was again brought up. The Chairman of the Committee on Elections presented the papers of George W. Isaacs and others contesting the seat of Mr. Walsh, and de- nouncing that gentleman, which were read. Mr. Ewing, a member of the committee, explained the character of the testimony that had come be- fore him relative to the matter, and also the con- duct of the committee. The opposition was be- lieved to have originated in resentment, and he deemed it unworthy a moment's serious attention. The cemmittee was relieved from any further con- sideration of the subject. The report on the tariff modifications, and also a report from the minority efthe Ways and Means Committee, were referred to the Committee of the Whole. A resolution changing the time for the meeting of Congress from the first Monday in December to the first Monday in November was adopted. NEWS FROM EUROPE Is hourly expected by the steamship Union, She left Havre on the 7th instant, and is, therefore, fally due at this port. The pending war in Europe has brought to notice several terrific engines for demolishing line of bat- tle ships and fortifications, and destroying entire armies of soldiers, but they are “ nowhere” com- pared with the recent invention of a New Yorker whose memorial was presented yesterday to the Se- mate. Heclaimsto be the inventor ofa battering ram of such prodigious force that thirteen of them are capable of defending our entire coast, from the Passamaquoddy to the Rio @rande. AFF AIgg IN THE CITY. The General Sessions court toom was crowded yes- terday by spectators of the examination before Judge Beebe of the persons arrested on Sunday charged with disturbing the peace at the religions meeting in the Park. Nine of the prisoners were re- quired to find bail in the sum of three hundred dol- lars to appear for trial in July, and two of them were discharged after a reprimand by the Court, The Judge cautioned all persons against ereating rows on Sunday, and assured those present that if they disturbed the peace and quiet of the city they would be punished to the full extent of the law. The Board of Counctimen met last evening, and transacted considerable routine business. A resolu- tion that the captains of police enforce the ordi- nance in relation to throwing garbage, &c., in the Streets, was adopted. THE LAW COURTS. The temporary injunction which restrained Mr- Glazier, the Commissioner of Streets and Lamps, from entering into contracts with certain parties for cleaning the Firat, Second, Third an@Fourth Wards has been dissolved by Judge Roosevelt, and that de- cision fully concurred in by Judge Clerke. We may now, perhaps, bave clean streets, and all the present impurities of our city thoroughfares can be removed before they conduce to the spread of pestilence and contagion. Judge Roosevelt also delivered a very interesting @ecision in a habeas corpus case relative to the cus- tody of a boy, in which he remarks that the rural @uties of milking cows and fetching water are more ‘wholesome and less demoralizing than attendinz bar and cleaning tumblers in a city grog shop. Several decisions were rendered in the general term of the Supreme Court yesterday. ’ The Day and Goodyear india rubber suit for in- fringement of patent, which has occupied the U. 8. District Court for four or five weeks past, still “drags ~ its slow length along,” and is likely to be terminated <within the next fortnight. In the second part of the Common Pleas a divorce vase between Mr. and Mrs, Walker, on the ground of s dultery, was commenced yesterday. The trial will be sontinued to-day. We give a report of the case in another column. LATER FORM HAVANA, - Our corxespondence from Havana, which will be f. und in a1. other part of today’s paper, informs us that o good .tcal of disappointment has been cre- ated amongst 1.¢ people of Cuba by the President's prociemation aga west filibustering expeditions. It is evident from the’ general tone of these advices thot the feeling of the population generally is strongly in fayor of an: “¢X4tion, and that it would require but emall encourag “eat and support from this country to convert th.“ sentiment into aa ceased to hope that the President and his Cabinet will endeavor to give effect to their wishes. It will require even stronger injury and provocation than we have as yet received, before the tame and meek spirited individuals who compose our present admin- istration will be induced to vindica‘e the out- raged dignity and interests of their country. #t is unnecessary to add that the Spanish officials and their organ, the Diario, are pleased beyond measure AFFAIRS IN VENEZUELA. We have received from Caracas a copy of the journal of the debates in the House of Representa- tives of the 17th uhimo. A law on the ownership of mines was then under the consideration of that body. One section of this law is worthy of notice. By it the Executive gives to the owner a perpetual right in his mine, allowing him to sell or otherwise dispose of itas he may think fit, and this can be done without the necessity of any previous authori- the Know Nothings through the a eney of the True National Democrat. This is the old game of carrying water upon bot) shoulders, invariably reeulting in the loss of both backets when the trick is detected. In the meantim», we find that the hag shells have been acting with remarkable caution, lest they give a mortal offence to the Know No- things; while we under-tand it is the fxed pur- pose of the free soil soft shells, at the very next meeting of their sachems in Tammany Hall, to kick their little anti-Irish Catholi Democrat out of the wigwam, to declare war against the Know Nothings, and to reaffirm the undying devotion of Tammany Hall ta the Nebraska Dill, the doctrines of the const¥tntien, its prin- ciples of civil and religious Uiberty, and the in- alienable rights of “our @doptell fellow-citi- zens.” When this is dome, the 2 24 shells can zation from the Executive. The law is a liberal, and will do doubt be a popular one, ‘Tne @1d Native Americansand the New Party orthe Know Nothings—Polidicat Prospects Politicians of all parties, at this crisis, will rend with peculiar interest the instructive his- terical chapter which we publish this morning, touching the rise, progress, and temporary suc- cesses of the late outside political organization known a6 the Native American party. From the remains of this party, and from the ruins of its narrow platform, the new and seeret political seciety called the Know Nothings, has suddenly risen into life, exhibiting-such signs of unity, strength and vitality, as ¢o alarm and disgust all the orthodox political hucksters, of botk ‘the whig and democratic parties, through- out ‘the country, Anything, therefore, calcu- lated to enlighten the inquiving mind, in re- about four hundred thousand sheets per week, or over | gard to the prospective strength and future movements of this mysterious fraternity of the Kmow Nothings, will doubtless be studied with ali that care and deliberation to which the gravi- ty of the subject isjustly entitled. To this end, in «connection with our chapter of facts and statis- tics, compiled from the political elections of the Jast twenty years, concerning the Native Ameri- can faction, some passing observations upon the late developements respecting the Kuow No things, and upon the existing demoralization and disruption of the late national whig party, and the late overwhelming and united democratic party, may be useful. It is manifest that, from the scattered fragments of both these old, corrupt, effete and disjointed parties, the Know Nothings expect to organize a new party, capable of controlling the balance of power in all our future elections of any moment, and of effecting a complete revolution in the party po- lities of the country in the grand campaign of 1856, Let us consult, then, for a moment, the state of things which surrounds us, and the drift of passing events. ‘The first announcement to the public of the existence of this secret society of the Know Nothings was, we believe, on the occasion of the Ninth ward riot of last July, and the dis- closure was made in the inquiry into the causes which led to that outbreak. Subsequently, some unexpected results in our November mu- nicipal elections, admonished all concerned that the Know Nothings were a regularly organized Political association. Meantime, the inflammato- ry anti-Catholic harangues of Gavazzi; the visit of the Pope’s Nuncio, Bedini, to our shores, and the scenes of disorder and violence’ which his presence excited in different parts of the country, resulted in establishing the full conviction in the public mind that hostility to the Catholic Church, and particularly to all alien born Catholics, was the great cardi- nal principle of this new political order of the Know Nothings. If further proof were want- ing upon this point, the great procession on Broadway of the “Order of United Americans,” on the 22d of February last, and the subsequent street preaching excitements, to say nothing of the Know Nothing organs recently established in this city, Boston, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, have abundantly furnished the evidence re- quired. The political objects of this mysterious party being thus satisfactorily ascertained, their secrets yet undisclosed are of but trifling importance. They are probably limited to the signs and cabalistic phrases of recognition es- tablished among themselves, for the purpose of excluding all uninitiated interlopers from their mectings, their plans, and political arrange- inents for our forthcoming and future elections. That the Know Nothings are a united and Celiberative political body is conclusively proved in the nice distinctions which mark the results of the late municipal elections in Néw Orleans, Washington, and Philadelphia. That they count upon larger, more decisive, and comprehensive victories than these late achieve- ments, is evident from the vaunting and vain- glorious exultations of their newspaper organs Their continued existence as a political body, and the extent of their successes, will materi- ally depend upon the reconstruction of the dis- located factions and fragments of the late pre- dominant factions of the Union. The Kuow Nothings have thus far been acting with the whigs, and the increase of the whig vote re- sulting from their co-operation betrays some accessions from the democratic side of the house, This may have resulted wholly from the- un- popularity of the administration with the party which brought it into power; or partly from individual weariness with old party ties, or from anti-Catholic prejudices, or other limited and local causes. But the facts are, that while the administration has continued thus far to manage a refractory Congress, its whole influ- ence has been thrown away upon the municipal elections of Washington und Philadelphia. The late results in these cities, though scarcely to be designated as whig victories, are undoubted democratic and administration defeats, and the Know Nothings are clearly responsible for the consequences. Accordingly, there has been a lively “hue and cry’’ raised among the organs of the “ ter- rified democracy”—for they are no longer un- terrified, North or South. The Washington Union denounces this interpolation of the Know Nothings into our democratic politics with considerable alarm, and with much of pa- triotic detestation and abhorrence. Other democratic papers join in the echo, while the little adaministration free soil soft shell organ of this city stigmatizes the Irish Catholics as little better than a nest of besotted traitors, con- spiring with the Jesuits and the Pope of Rome for the destruetion of the liberties of the coun- try. We have inquired of the Cabinet organ at Washington to know if these democratic ay- saults upon the Irish Cathofies were “ by an- thority;” but to this reasonable demand we have had no response. The Cabinet oi¢an neither admits nor denies “the soft impeacis- ment,” from which we are left free to coaclude that the policy of the administration ia to hold fast to “our adopted citizens,” thr ugh thy Washingtoa Union, and to curry favor with no longer refrain from taking equally strong ground in beheaf of our adopted citizens, for the hards, without psp or spoils, are not in a condition tesacrifice their ‘Irish Catholic sup- porters. In a word, wa may safely assume that, with or witheut the-administration, and whether the democrats raay continue cut up in- to sectional or local fagtiens, or whether the bulk of them mey be reunited into a new na- diate the Knew Nothings, North and South, political alliances elsewhere, Nothings-very gingerly. The SewR Know Nothings ; let them pass on. Their road and that of W. sion which Seward and his Northern free soil whig presses.and leaders are after, is 4 fusion with all the Northern anti-slavery, socinlistic, and infidel factions of the day, for a combined onslaught upon the South, and to the end of fa- cilitatigg a violent disruption of the Union. Be- sides, the Seward party ceunt too largely ypon the anti-slavery prejudices of a large .projor- tion of our European born electors, to sacriice promise and other anti-slavery measures. power for a time in some of our principal cities. Their operations may extend to the larger towns of the interior ; but we apprehend that, from the lack of materials in the rural districts, there is little danger of this Know Nothing Society forming any national organi- zation capable of mischief. In the event of a loose und miscellaneous scrab race for the next Presidency, they may, with John M. Clayton as their candidate, poll a respectable scattering vote; but even this will depend apon the conti- nuance of the present distractions and divisions among the discordant elements of the late whig and democratic parties. There is some immediate importance to be attached to the Know Nothings in reference to our coming fall elections. Between whigs and democrats, hard shells and soft shells, Nebraska and anti-Nebraska men, Maine law men and lagerbier men, the Know Nothings may po bly succeed in the election of a large number of their favorites, selected from the Various opposing factions. And thusit is impossible to tell whether the November elections will result in a Legislature prejudicial to the grog shops, or to Judge Douglas, or the Irish Catholics. Beyond this we suspect that the history of the late Native American faction will be substan- tially the history of the Know Nothings. Mexico anp THE TrEATY.—The recent arri- vals from Mexico have not been fruitful in news from that extinct republic and empire in embryo. much importance ever transpires, when the peo- ple in the vast rural districts are husy with men and provisions, caused Santa Anna to re- treat from the South,thoroughly disgusted with his want of success. But as he had anticipated returning as a victor, his triumphal entry into the capital was prepared for him, and had to come offaccording to the programme, although he cut but a sorry figure in the performance as & conqueror, when he brought no spoils or prisoners, and left nearly all his army in the hands of theenemy. His rival, Gen. Alvarez, is also at this time without an army, for his fol- lowers haye turned their swords into hoes, and are now bury intheircornfields. In other parts of Mexico the same state of things prevails, nor will it be broken till late in the autumn, when the harvests are gathered with which to feed an army at a time when no work in the fields is re- quired. Santa Anna has therefore a respite for a few months from revolutions, unless some are im- provised in the cities. In the meantime, he can turn his attention to the Gadsden treaty and other measures, whereby he may hope to raise funds for the fall and winter campaigns, It does not appear that as yet he has rejected the treaty, nor even proposed an amendment, but a rumor has prevailed that he has suggested a modification, which, taken with the fact of the recent arrival of Senor Rafael at Washington as bearer of despatches from him, may indicate an intention of that nature. Senor Rafael is one of those ubiquitous characters, as well as universal geniuses, whom Santa Anna would de- light to employ, if not to honor or enrich. The Senor is an editor of the monarchical paper in Mexico—half for the church, half for Sant aAnna, aud another half for himself, which latter portion is equal to the two former. He is also Mex- ic Consul here in New York, also contractor and .<mpresario of steamboats on the la‘es in the valley f Mexico, and ditto for the purclisse 0 tional and homegenedus party, they will repu- and ‘eave them perfeetty free to seek for their Most of the whig papers handlg igo Kaow . organs ‘are an exception. Greeley protests that he knows nothing about these very smysterious but that he still knows enough to give them a wide margin and H. Seward lie in opposite directions. He has been too many years industriously hob-nobbing with Archbishop Hughes, he has been too ear- nestly engaged ‘in all sorts of expedients to con- ciliate the Irish Catholics, to think, fora mo- ment, of accepting the favers of the Know Nothings upon any terms. Oh,no! The fa- them for the doubtful forces of Native Ameri- canism. We have, then, no prospect of a con- junction of the Know Nothings with the futur: Seward party of the North, which will probably include all the Northern whigs, upon the direct question of a restoration of the Missouri com- " What will the whigs of the Southdo? We have seen some intimations thrown out in Southern democratic journals that may, per- haps, unite their fortunes with the Know Nothings. On the contrary the whigs of the South are more likely, upon a broad liberal Uniun platform, apart from the administration, to unite their fortunes with the Southern demo- erate against the Holy Aljiance of the Northern anti-slavery party. So that, neither North nor South, can we perceive any prospect of a junc- tion of the Know Nothings and their contracted principles of political action, with any great controlling national or sectional party. The prospect is that the Know Notbings, like the Native American party, will hold the balance of In fact, at this season of the year, nothing of their crops. The rains, as well as the loss of busters may not as yet be informed. On the whole the Senor is aclever fellow, well posted in all that is going forward in the Spanish and Mexican empires, and ready to write, talk or act, in Spanish, French or English, with equal zeal and fluency for his mistress, Queen Isabella the Immaculate, or his master, Don Antenio the Victorious, As he has been nobly rewarded by the one with a ribbon, it is to be hoped he will be richly recompensed by the other with an autograph. He is an ex- cellent representative from the Mexican kitchen cabinet; therefore we are rejoiced to find him exercising his appropriate functions at Wash- ington, vice Senor Atocha, recalled. Senor Rafael comes, of course, to give Gene- ral Almonte the latest news from the Mexican palace and court circle, and also the finishing touches to the Gadsden treaty. There is no doubt he comes charged like a magnetic tele- graph with important information to the Mexi- can Minister about the everlasting abortion, which, although it has had its brains knocked out hy the Senate, will not die in the common course of nature. Now what is this information is the question. It is surely an amendment— only a little amendment—for a few more mil- lions, which the United States would not feel, and Santa Anna would, most gratefully. In the meantime, General Gadsden will be well received in Mexico, courted, caressed, flattered, treated to brandy, and humbugged. The real negotiation will be at Washington, and we wish some of our correspondents in that virtuous city to apprise us of the result without delay. There is the point, and we know no place where metal is more attractive. But beware of Senor Ratael. You can get nothing out of him. Mr. Bocock’s Navy wBiLt.—We published yesterday the bill lately introduced into the House of Representatives for the re- organization of the navy. Our readers will thus have had an opportunity for judgment upon the merits of the measure for themselves. At the,present epoch, when our foreign rela- tions may at any time involve us in the entan- glements of the European imbroglio, to eay nothing of the prospect. of a war with Spain, nothing is more imperatively called for, from the exposure of our commerce and seaboard to foreign spoliations, than a well disciplined and efficient navy. This Mr. Bocock proposes to give us, It is hardly necessary to recapitulate the details of the bill. Next in importance to the provision for an increase of the seamen and marines to the number of three thousand men, is the increase of pay which it is proposed to give them, and without which none but very indifferent men could be raised. The creation of a new grade of “flag officers’’ is also appro- priate to the re-organization of the service. The object of having a grade of officers term- ed “flag officers,” is with a view of distin- guishing by law the commanders of squadrons —a distinction which isnow dependent on cour- tesy—and because it gives them a higher rank, when meeting foreign fleets, than the title of Commodore would give them. This will put an end to a good deal of ill-feeling, which is now sometimes felt in such cases, by the simi- larity of the name of our highest grade of na- val officers with the comparatively inferior rank which officers bearing the same title hold in other services. The reduction of the number of officers, so as to get rid of the drones, must be fully appreciated by any one who will take the trouble to look at the present navy register. More than half the officers are recorded as “ waiting orders”— nearly three-fourths of the higher grades— whilst captains are recorded as having been last at sea twenty years ago. To break up this rotten system we have in the bill before us the establishment of a Board of Reform, a retired list; and in all cases materially reduced pay when on leave pf absence. The declara- tion that promotion shall not depend upon date of commission exclusively is proper as far as it goes, but it should be worded in such a way as to make merit in all cases the sole test of pro- motion. In any of the professions of civil life a man depends upon his talents and industry for success. In this country {there should be no attempt to build up an aristocracy, unless that of brains and merit. But, above all things, let us avoid an aristocracy of age and old fogy- ism. We have tried it in our navy, and its pre- sent condition is the legitimate result. It is provided in the bill that there shall be an increase of seamen and marines to the amount of three thousand men, and induce- ments are held out for good conduct and re-en- listment, by mesns of meritorious discharges and the payment of wages during the interval between the discharge and re-enlistment. The regular pay of the seamen and petty officers is also increased. A provision is inserted by which the President will have the power to select from such boys as are employed in the navy, and receive good conduct certificates, not more than five annually, and commission them as midshipmen, to be educated at the Naval Academy, We, of course, have only glanced at afew of the principal points of the measure, and refer the public to a perusal of the bill itself, which, notwithstanding its length, will no doubt com- mand attention. We hope the measure will be pressed to a conclusion without delay. Public opinion is unanimous in condemnation of the present organization of the navy, and will hail with satisfaction any measure which will infuse into it some of the enterprise, spirit, and pro- gress which have become the characteristic features of the American people. Let us have an efficient navy—expel the drones—hold out inducements to the meritorious—or the ery will soon prevail with irresistible force, abolish the effete institution altogether, break up the hulks, and let the merchant service provide its own police. Political In Oe Samuel 4. Purviance, Esq., of Butler county, has been Bominated by the whigs of the Twenty-second district of Pennaylvania, as their candidate for Congrors. The Vermont Democratic State Convention will meet at Montpelier on Wednesday next, 21st inst. Hon, Augustus Drum has been re-nominated fer Con- ‘ess by the democrats of the Westmoreland district of Pennsylvania, comprising the counties of Westmoreiand, Armstrong and Indiana. ‘The nomination was made by « direct vote of the party, resulting in a majority of 1,651 Votes for Dram, over Judge Todd, the administration candidate, ‘The Fall River Monitor (whig) is in favor of the ‘*break- ing up of party lines, and the formation of a party anti- Nebraska and anti.slavery in charactor, for the purpose of checking the inroads of the slave power, repealing the fugisive slave law, and bringing back the nation to the true policy of its founders.” “Know Notiixcs.”’—Tho Banner of Liberty, published at Libertytown, Frederick county, Md,, says:—'Wo un- dersiand a society of this kind was organized {np this place on Tuesday last. Of its principles, or anything further concerning it, wo “know nothing.”> This order appeara to be yery mysteriously working its every noo 1 corner, and carry ever ing before It, Wo di ROW What suocoip ‘tended Vem hese,” arte and officers in Spain for the supply of Em- peror Antonio Primero’s army in the magnani- mous republic. Ashe sports aribbon order athis button-hile, conceded to him by Isabella the Immaculate, he does a little foreign business on Spanich account, of which the ferocious fili- Clty Intelligence. Cuo'n4.—There were two cases of cholera yesterday reposted to the Almshouse, one being an aged Irish wo- mtn, who died in the earty part of the day, at 103 Seven- teenth street, and the other John Fitzgerald, who died at No. 6 Batavia street. The latter case was reported to the Almshouse Commissioner before death hai teen place, by Dr. O'Donnell, who closed his report by saying ‘Fitz- gerald has no one to take care of him, and it would be a great charity to remove him from the filth whici now surrounds him.” Orders for his removal and relief were immediately sent to the sick man, but he died before they could be of any avail. These were the only cases of yesterday. Excisx.—The Board gave the first day to the Twenty- firet ward, yesterday. Alderman Mott and both the Councilmen’ were present during the entire day, and granted forty one Hoences. In the company of epplicanta ‘Were four temperance advocates, who much annoyed the commissioners in the discharge of their dattes, by con- stantl igor | objections, challenging applicants, &c, They did but little good to the temperance cause. Nsw Mar Rocrs.—The Post Office Department has entered into a contract with the Norwich and New Lon- don Steamboat Company to carry the mail six times a week on that route. The mails are now forwarded by the boats, and the new route has proved to bea very great accummodation to the public. New York Horricvutrorat Soorery.—A conversational of this society was held last night at their rooms, Neo to6 Broadway, the appointed subject being “Fruits on Eshibition.” There were present as large a company as usual, and upon the tables wore displayed various kinds of fruits, strawberries, apples, &c., which all ex. and discussed and commented upon till the hour of adjournment. The specimens on exhibition were very fine indeed. Mr. Wa. 8. Drx, late of the United States ‘legation at Quito, is to lecture at the Livrary Hall, Newark, N. J., on the War in the East and on the Andes, on the eve- nings of the 21st and 23d of this month. Mr. Dix deliv- ers these lectures in compliance with a numerously sign- ed requisition of the inhabitants of Newark. Tue inter. ent excited by the subjects of which they treat, and t able manner in which they were handled before the Smithsonian Institute, having procured for him unsolici- ted, this compliment, ‘Tex Bic CyixpEe.—The description came too late for publication in the Herat. PRogect FoR 4 Nationat. TRADES Umion.—Last evening a meeting of delegates from the trades societies, con Reeted with the building line, was held in Spriog Street Hall, to organize a ‘‘Natioual Trades Union.” About a delegates were present, representing the plaster- err ters, stone cutters, plumbers, and bricklay ers. Mr. Daniel Walford was called to’ the chair pro tem., and the following officers were elected :-—Danicl Walford, President ; Richard Rutter, Vice-President ; W. D. Gregg, Sec and H. T. Rexstraw, freasurer. On motion, it was resolved that each society send $2 to Pay expenses. ‘The meeting then adjourned. AccIDENT on THE Hupsow River RATRoAD.—An accident occurred about two o’clock on Sunday morning, on the Hudson River Railroad, near Rhinebeck. It appears that two freight trains laden with cuttle, left Albany on Saturday night for this city, one a little ahead of the other. ‘The rst stopped near Rhinebeck, without giving notice to the other, which coming along at full speed broke into the hindermost curs, smashing its engine. Several cars were also destroyed, and a number of cat- tle killed; but fortunately none of the men were injured. AccrwgsT.—Isanc May, a boy, whose parents reside at 140 Bowery, was on Sunday evening playing with a loaded pistol at 238 Rivington street, where he had gone to see some friends, when it was accidentally discharged, and the contents lodged in one of his legs. . He was dan- gerously wounded, and sent immediately to the hospital, where he now lies in a somewhat critical condition, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Sm—You stated in the Herarp on Monday morning that I was clerk inthe Chatham square Post Office. I am a letter carrier there, and that is all. JOSEPH KNIGHT. Municipal Affairs. BOARD OF COUNCILMEN. Mowpay, June 19, 1854. YETITIONS REFERRED. Petition of Jacob Dexheimer and others, for Croton water pipes in Tenth avenue, from Forty-fourth to Forty- seventh street. Of Jacob Harsen and others, for the opening of Eleventh avenue. Of ©. Bl and others, for the regulation of Forty-seventh street, between Broadway and Eighth avenue. Of James C. Rutherford, for remission of assessments. Of Daniel McPherson and others, against the use of pier foot of Stanton street for dumping night soil. Of John Smith and others, for the extension of Broome street through to Canal street. RESOLUTIONS. , Resolution to repair sidewalks south side of Hudson ce. Pio build culvert on Thirty-third street, between Sixth and Bighth avenues. By Councilman Coxover—That the Mayor be request- ¢d to direct the captains of police to strictly enforce the ordinance in relation to throwing coal ashes, garbage and rubbish in the streets and gutters of the city. Adopted. ‘That the Street Commissioner be directed to answer forthwith the resolution adopted some time since in rela tion to resolution of contract in gracing seventieth street, between Tenth avenue and the Hudson river. Adopted. Thata part of the old almshouse in the Park be torn down. Withdrawn. By Councilman Coxover—That the Commissioner of Streets and Lamps be requested to report to this Board what lime he has bought, by whose authority, and if contracted for subsequent to advertisement, agreeable to the c! r of 1853. Adopted. The Board then went into committee of the whole on the various matters referred to that body. : About half-past eight o’clock the committee rose, and the Board adjourned almost immediately afte.wards ubtil Wednesday evening next. Police Intelligence. Grand dagpeey — Gtorge Twist was yesterday arrested on a charge ®f stealing silver plate of the value of $250, the property of Mrs. Sophia Goodman, of 294 sixth atreet. He was taken before Justice Stuart, by whom he was held A ry ae : ‘Bigamy.—Susan Hu’ |, & woman of a very awaniby hue of countenance, rather good looking, about thirty years of age, was yesterday arrested by ofi- cer Rue, of the lower police court, on a charge of having intermarried with Henry W. Smith, teacher of a public school in this city, her former husband being alive. She was taken before Justice Osborn, when it was deposed that on the 26th of April, 1853, she was married to Mr. Smith by a clergyman—her first husband, Cornelius L. Hubbard, being still alive—he having been seen within the last three months. Mrs. Smith states her first hus- band was a convict, and had been sent to the State prison for counterfeiting. She was committed by Justice Oa- born for examination. Her bail was fixed at $8,000. The on dit is, that she has had six husbands, two of whom were black men. Passing an Altered Bill.—Yesterday a young man named be Smith, of Buffalo, was arrested by officer Connor, of the Thirteenth ward, under the following matances:—Smith went into a gentleman’s furnish ing store in Grand street, kept by Mr. John Cromwoll, and selected some hosiery, and tendered in payment a five dollar billon the Bank of Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, Michigan. This bill Mr. Cromwell declined to take, telling Smith that “he believed it to be spurious. He said he bad no other money sbout him and left the store, and went to a porter house at the cornér of Grand and Clinton streets, where he called for a drink, and of- fered the same bill'in payment, Mz. Cromwell ‘suspect: ing that it was not in mistake the bill had been offered, followed him, and seeing him offer it at the bai, informed officer O’counor. He was taken before Justice Wood, when he pretended to be deaf, and eaid that in order to got his answer it would be: necestary to write down the uestions. He then said he had received the bill in change from conductor on his way to this city from Buffalo. The bill, on examination, proved to be a good one dollar bill bungiingly altered into s five dollar bill. The man was then taken into a back room and searched, when seven dollars in gdod beg! yl found in his wallet, and in bin hat, seoreted in the lining, of the altered balls was found. He was held for examination by Justice An Old Delinquent.—Henry Mollhoff, who was indicted by the Grand Jury at the last sessions, for grand larceny, and managed to escape from the Une of Se nt Da- vis, of the Court of Sessions, was found again in his old haunts in the Seventeenth ward. He was, late on Mon- day evening, arrested by officers Lockwood and Morii: mer, of thé Seventeenth ward, ona charge of having snatched from the fob of Mr. George W. Meyer, who re sides at 102 Fast Sixteenth street, a gold watch of the value of $35, and also a portemonnate containing soe valuable papers. The robbery was committed at Hobo- ken. On his arrest the portemonnaic and the pa ‘were found in his possession. He waa taken before Jus: tice Wood, and committed to prison both on the charge made against him, and also upon the indictment for grand larceny pending in the Court of Sessions. Personal Inte mn Hon. E. Poeve, South Carolina; Hon. M. Lecon, Miss. ; Huéson E. Bridge, Prosidont of the Pacitic Railroad, Mobile; Colonel Nulog Johnson, San Francisco; Colonei J. Palmer, Florida, were among the arrivals yesterday at the Metropolitan Hotel. Count Pinalver (one of the mort distinguished plantara Cuba) and ‘m. R. Smith Havana; Hon. and Alabama; Dr. Freipas and lady, Havana; Hon. jashburn, M. C., Wisconsin; Lieut. Tilfourd, U. 8. arinh Onle and Pept thie sliteale yes terday at tis! were amongs| ar yesterday a‘ the St. Nicholas. vay General H. Walbridge, Washington, D. C.; Professor ©. A. Goodrich, New Haven; Col. Silas mont; Capt. J.J. B. Wright, U. 8. a. M. esbarre, were amongst the arrivals yesterday louse. Hon. Mr. Gwinn, U. 8. Senator, California; M. 8. Stot- gon and family, Movite; HE Squier, South Saroiine; Gov. Price, New Jersey; Judge jicago; 5.M. Botts, Va., arrived yestorda; Hon. L.’M. Harris, Yrederick: » VE; nardo, Bogota, N. G.; Alvin Adame (of the famous ex- ress line of Adams and Co.), Boston; Col. Richard De kreiber, 8. C.; C. A. Gordon, U.S, Army, arrived yester- day at the Proscott House. ARRIVALS, fami Cow From Now Orleai City— Ca Brown ‘and servant; as dy, Miss Prescotc, ‘A Kodir, Wm Hall Rowan, John Rasolla Jeane. T ‘ea, Mrs Bon: F Arnold, Indy, two children and servant, G Bes- Indy and two childres lend, lady and two obil- hter; Mrs G Garretson ant, John Dana, C80 2, Mra C'Pores, A Hénregues, Count Jose Tet, Indy. child and two servants, and one husdred ty more, Chiem Moteriten, in bark Z D—J L Rogers, W 0 Hall, i a lebal, tom Key West, in schr Riise Catharine—Mre J Parker And fog childzem, Mga T hosp, Mrs Stephenson. ‘The Roya) mai) suqmship Niagara, Oaptain Leitch, wil leave Boston, on Wednesday, # 12 o’elock, for Liverpool, The European mails will close‘ this city st quarter to three o’elock thin afternoon. ‘The Weexy Hens, (printed tn Pench and English,) will be published at half-past nime o’slock this merning. Single copies in wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Youre Hunatp will be received at the tollowing placee in Europe :— Livxxroot,.Jobn Bunter, No. 2 Paradise street. Lomvow.....Edwards, Sandford & Co., No. 17 Gurnhill. ~ Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catherine street. Pazw......Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de le Bourse. Mails for the Pacific. HE NEW YORE HERALD—CALIFORNIA EDITION. The United States mail steamship George Law, Captain Hartetein, will leave this port this afternoon, at two s’elock, for Aspinwall. The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific Will close at one o'clock. The New Youx Wamuty Hxnatp, California edition, con- taining the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at ten o’clock in the morning. It wil! Frere pg rere sada in Congress on Ouba and Sungie copies aixpence. Agents will please send in their orders as early as possible. Court Calendar—This Day. ‘Usrrgp Srargs District Covt.—Nos, 48, 20, 38, 21, 46, 27, 42, 17, 60, 51, 68, 16, 17, 68, 47. Surtamus Court—Special Term.—Demurrers Nos. 1% and Nos. 1, 8, 28, 86, 72, 80. Suraeuz Covrt—Cireuit.—Nos. 458, 470, 495, 667, 413, 506, 524, 819, 579, 680, 585. Be es 1070, 1 Part Common Pigas—Part I.—Nos. 796, 850, 861, 823, 519, 60, 811, 912, 918, 407, 915, 908. T.—The causes will be called in Part I. Sormuon cour (1wo brauchos).—Nos, 964, 063, 962, 1877, 211, 189, 1098, 1180, 1145, 82, 81, 803, 1148, 1152, 1160, 1162, 1140, 1142, 1174, 1178, 1192, ‘1194,’ 1190, 1198, 678,'107, 187, 667, 862, 1093,'1113, 710, 779, 819, 798, 6, 968, 267, 130, 180, 565, 980, 2, 164, 930," 790, 885, 882, (82, 20, b37, $40, 686, ‘908, 208, 727,” 686, 781, 840, 469, 1004, 744, 608, bad, 474, 978, 8: 3 1026, 726. , 354, Don’t leave for the Count uring portraits of you rid’s Fair premium revxcopes, crayons, &o Anson’s Daguerreotypes. cente, colored, and in without first and family at ROOT'S way. Perfoot er, jwmLarge Size for 50 nige caso lined with velvet, twice ar large as ctbers are making, for fifty cents. and equa: to those that ie charged $2 for elsewhere. Remember AN- SON'S, 589 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel. Reese & Co., No. 289 Broadway offer their lendid works of the daguerreotype art to the poople for cents, ae usual, without regard to the delusive reports of rivalry of any Kiod. Enoushenid. | Give us a Good morning, Professors Roose and Holmes, Meade Brothers’ Daguerr # for June — This month is one of the mort favorable in the year for the Production of davuerreotypes. Our splendid ssloons are cool ‘And airy. anc filled with beth old an in'in any weath Artiste and Astor n'daily. othe erreoty pes. Co., 8X5 Broadway. formerly 290) in the original and only compar y by thet nams in this city. We hope the poblic Will not be bumbugged by imitators with names similar to our own, as we baveno connection with any other concern. Cumeo-Daguerreoty pes, by Chas. H. WIl- Trae tOn. Gallery in Brookiyn, 249 Fulton atrest, oppo- tite Clinton. Genin’s Summer Hat.—Straws not only show which way the wind blows, but indionte the state ot the thormometer. oy ry %, fords a widen 2. ‘The prices wil! be found exceedingly moderate. GENIN, No. 214 Broadway, opposite 8t. Paul's Church, Wide Aw: to take—Fairy Mountain beave fa tow,” and the stock of bats to be fo voll adapted for summer wear. @ may a well say, are 12k Fulton street;and 638 Broadway. All whose ambition is of the right sort shouid get a Knox hat; to their friends report, and indues them to go likewise, ‘Vegetable Vegetable Hats !—Latest eyhorn, Cantcn, and fur cash, by ATKIN: shope, light as sepbyr, cool and lus ultra”? of elegance in des! ure. They can te obtained en. Way, ard at Genin’s Bazaar, Broadway. Those Gentlemen it wish to Fit them- selves to a cool and ger il gratify their wishos by culling at White's, the hatter’ sf the day, 212 Broadway, corner of Fulton where are to be seen sl! the modern styles of hat, Sppropriate for the warm weather. WAITE, Hatt vw arner of Falton. Fashion —Hall, There is tobe an Extensive Sale of some of the best peat property ever offered at auction, on 1 June W, atthe Merchants’ Exchauge, New York, jock, comprising four hundred and itty lota, sita- the streets opposite Carroll Park. Maps are ready fice of J. Cole & Son, No. 43 Fulton si reet, Brook- 18 Nassau street, New York. Only tiful Co —A for a Beautiful Country Resi- t opportunity to get clear of poving enor. mo d securing # healthy homestead. build- ing lots 100 feet square, in the flourishin, age of Lake. land. and 100 farms, will be divi , June 30 Eni deed for four building lots 25 by 100° feot, or a farm of from two to twenty acres A few subscri- bers only wanted to close the books. Apply immediately toc HAS. WOOD, 208 Broadway, where maps and pam- phlets can be had gratis. ‘Nassau * yyatem, Bractised there ie the fsirest m: It cuts off chaffering, by giving tho lo dof last. Bear it in Mind, that the Purple Window opjosite the Broadway theatre is the headquarters of Grote st the prince of oe eereee in the metropolis ve bim a cali if you re other gontlomen’s furnishing goods.) ChmenM™ OF ARY Furnishing Goods Green’s Celebrated ghirs establishment, No.1 A r don, @ fine assorts w Great Excitement Opposite the Metropolitan. Hotel. JOKN MADDEN, 657 and 573 Brondway, will opo2 this morning one case of goods containing 249 ladies droid¢red muslin sacks he Al The Rush continucs for Summer Clothes, at DRUMGOLD & PR 12 Fulton street. The, patronized by all cli Hand poor, ond every ars to go away Hi It fs, without doxbt, an excel- font place to trade ‘Worth Remembering._Summer Clothing of every deseriptio: he best manner. of superior gales, ‘ow ret t the lowest. uy ce B.—Perfect sat guaral DW, im, 106 Fulton street, HACKETT, Clothin Sewing Machines.—Eight Distinct Patents. on sewing machines are owned by Singor & Co. No machine of any value can bo made withoat infringing onone or more . We have prosecuted the priacipal manu- seoute all who use infringing otified not to buy these infringing inferior quality. and will saujeot the cwnere to suits for damsges. I. Wi. SINGER & CO, No. 853 Kroadway. Fine Arts.—Elegant Ol Paintin; of the mort recberehe class, semprising some of the mont nenutilal mens ool. Particular att ie Q af ki astory; it con ollection will he fo y are to at auction, ‘Tuesday eve ings, June 19 end 20, tho Sti fete, by ALBERT M. NICOLAY & Co., At Wall strees. 1s Sell Reresrettlg A tere His stook ta the largest in the United Staten and: of superior quality. Violin Learned in Twelve Lessons; pg tought im classes or at their residence, by WM. ROB SON, professor of the violin, and inventor of the pacent d-stop finger board. Koome, 181 Broadway. Baths, Tickets for $1).— swimming baths are now bx) 1@ foot o! ‘anal , North rivor,) from ci look Fa isp tnd Brown's ‘end Ty Swimm! Radinesu Superb Compound the hair, at his celebrated hair dye Batehelor’s heir dye sola Moldavia bene ycreet emg tone an oc and wie ped applied ‘ans! Fans! Fansi—If the Ladics Wish to. fa‘chit immediately om Tattie: ‘Spuntsh. akudst wood | on Tattle. Spanish. 4 ic, Ao, wr plondia assorimont, st TULTLR'S om: Any aby wed cparcunL lied. "Wine roome, porium, Mite—Mits—Mlcs,—eeter Roberts & Co., 375. Bronoway, have Forpives a large sveek of rich black Ince prices an lie at excoedingly rior quality Ae further eupply of Ms jacon,