The New York Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1854, Page 12

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T , No ’19 Catherine street. i & Co., 8 Place da La Bou. se. The News. FROM WASELNATON. Inthe Senate yesterday,the bill allowiag the Siate of Maryland interest ou the sum of money avanced to the general government during the war of 1812, passed by a vote of thirty-six to seven. The principal of che debt has been paid long since. The Houce bili changing the time of the meeting of Congress from December to Nove nber, was taken up,and, after come debate, rejected. The ground for the rejection of this measure is, that the elections for members of Congress take place during the month ef November in nearly all the States, and it ia deemed exsentialthat the people’s servants should be at home on such occasions. Inthe House a resolution to terminate debate on the Ten Mili‘on bill at noon to-day, was adopted by ninety-four yeas to fifty-eight nays. This affords an indicatien of the feeling in regard te this mea- sure. The disnssion in Committee of the Whole was carried on with much animation. Mr. Haven made aforcible speech on the refusal of the admixistra- tion party to produce the correspondence had be- ‘tween the governnients oj the two countries. The proceedings were diversified by Mr. Richardson, who took occasion to allude to urecert statement in a Now York deily paper, tothe effect thata frand had been committed by him and others by inserting the Clayton proviae in the Nebraska bill. Our special despatch from the capital is exeeed- ingly interceting. THY WEATHER. Yesterday was one of those burning, sweltering @aysso proliic of sun strokes. The thermometer rose to 87 in the shade, and but for a refreshing shower, which t moderated the intense heat, it would have b perfectly unendurable. Bach weather os this © alarming, when we remember that the cholera is among us, and that ii fs just in weather its effects are most fatal. Let us have the streets thoroughly cleansed, let pienty of lime be sprinkled along the gutters, and Jet all the dead dogs, cats, pigs, cows, horses and offal be removed as soon as possible. The Health Department must wake from their torpor and go earnestly to work, if they would not have our city decimated. AFFAIRS IN TIE CITY. In the Supreme Court yesterduy, Judge Roosevelt presiding, au order was made directing the Sherif to summon ry to hear evidence in the case o/! Mr. Dar alleged lunatic. An interesting report of the proceedings of thi meeting of the Alumni of Columbia College, held yesterday afternoon, relative to the approaching celebration, is unayeidably crowded out. The body of Capt. Jewett, late master of the ship Hendrick Hudson, who was upset while in in a smail boat on Thursday last, and drowned, was recovered yesterday. It was found floating in the East river by two boatmen. A reward of five hundred aud itty dollars had been offered for its recovery. ‘The Coroner held an inquest on the body. Flonr coutinued dull yesterday, without change in prices,with more doing for export. Wheat was dull while corn was one to two cents lower. Freights to Liverpool were firm, and 5,000 a 6,000 bbls. flour were engaged at 2s. per barrel. Cotton was about the rame. Middiing uplands were qnoted at 9Jc. per ib. MI ELL ANEOUS. A telegraphic despatch states that it;was ramored in Boffalo yesterday that a collision had taken place on the Great Western Railroad, in Canada, occa- sioning the death of a number of persons. The report was generally discredited. The recent political excitement in New Hamp- shire bas led to a dreadful state of things. We Yearn that yesterday a committee was appointed by the Legislature to investigate charges made against the coalitionists, of aitempting to bribe members, and of drugging their liquor. To what a state of depray- ity has free soilism and anti-Nebraskaism descended! ye bribery part of the charge might have been “ked at this occ eens, but dro tion 0, . in ise, as it bas on many other g the liquor of an administra- ictal yecrat is a seriows thing, and should be aan aut ized intoe What is to become of the rrparinaee \, the purity of the elective franchise Wo publish cht 0! allnirs is allowed to continue? ei ees shere a biograpical sketch of the distinguished vorn ; oe cholera, at she eity $Htdame Sontag, who died of aexico, on the 18th inst. In the legal intelligencé =™* the eighth day's proceeding P° found » report of case, the interest in which sell Walker divorce increased since the commence men nave greatly tion of witnesses for the defence, the examina- recrimination seem to be the order of Ye ation and oonrt is censely crowded with spectator)" The standing the extreme heat of the weatk'With- amongst the anditors there is a goodly sprinkn "4 ladies. in the Marine Court a verdict of $350 damage was rendered a young man for injuries sastained by the bite of a dog. This should be a wholesome warning to parties owning dogs. Vicious animal: should not be permitted to go abroad, and all descrijy: tions of the canine species should be muzzled at this period of the year. An action for collision was commenced in the United States District Court against the steamboat Empise State. Decisions, which will also be found io our legal intelligence, were rendered in the Su preme and Superior Courte, Revivalof the Slavery Agteationen Cougress dicorganization of the two late national politi- “—The Disunion Question—Vecessity ef & Great Ind-pendent Caton Party. Mr. Rockwell, the new free soit whig Senator ' from Mas-achuretts, ine petition from eitigens of Boston, for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, has re-opened the agitation of the disunion question in the United States Senate. ‘The de- bate upon that petition, the other day, between Messrs. Jones, of Tennessee, Rockwell, and Sumner, of Massachusetts, Butler, of South Garolina, and others, was pretty -well up to | | that pitch of sectional exasperation which cha- | ractized the memorable Congressienal agitation | It was but a few weeks ago that Mr. Jones among the anti-slavery elements of the North ; | and now he has become the veritable Cassandra | of the Senate. The mantle f Gen. Foote, | (late of Mississippi, but now in California,) | appears to have féllen upon’the shoulders of | Mr. Jones. He tells us that +‘ the Union could | not ke preserved one day after the repeal of | the Fugitive Slave law;” but then we are con- soled with the positive assurance that it never will be repealed. The aboitionists, thea, may rave, on; Mr. Charles Sumner, in the face of his «oath to support the constitution. of the United States, may daily repeat the cry that he is not.a dog, that he should execute the fu- gitive law; the anti-slavery societies may over- whelm the Senate with their petitions for re- peal; bat, having the assurance of Mr. Jones that there will be no repeai, upon that point of. assault, at least, the Union is seenre. But untortunately the repeal of the Fugitive Slave taw is but an incidental item in the gene- ral account of this present agitation of the dis- union question, Canses behind the fugitive law, aud behind the Nebraska bill, lie at the bottom of the mischief. The demoralizing spoils party of the administration affords the key to this portentous excitement revived be- tween the North andthe South, The desperate exigencies of the administration demanded some such desperate expedient as the Nebraska bill to zestore .the President and his cabinet their policy and their party, to the lost confidence of the South and of the constitutional Union men of the North. But having in advance demo- ralized and destroyed the unity and the efficiency of the triumphant’ party ef 1852, the adminis- tration is powerless to reunite its scattered fragments, eygn upon the constitutional prin- ciples of the Nebravka bill; and hence the dar- ger to the peace of the country. The danger is not in the Eugitive Slave law, where Mr. Jones -places it; but in the absence of any great national, homogencous, conserva- tive Union party, covering all sections of the | republic. Mr. Jones virtually confesses that between the Southern and Northern whigs the rupture is complete. Ho admits the evil, as far .as his party is concerned. But we have no corresponding confession from Mr, Butler, Mr. Mason, Mr. Petit, or any other Senator of the democratic side, in reference to the broken-backed condition of the ste national democracy. None of them, however, can put in any valid claim as champions of the consti- tutional rights of the South until their own position is a little more satisfactorily defined, Do they belong to that pie-bald dominant demo- cratic party .of which the Charleston Mercury s the organ in South Carolina, the Union the organ at Washington, and of which, too, the New York Evening Post and the Albany .4//as are the leading organs in the great conservative State of New York? The contempt of Mr, But- ley for Charles Sumner smacks of waggery, while the Van Burens are admitted to the or- thodox communion table ; and the wrath of Mr. Pettit against the free soil Senator from Mas- sachusetts is all moonshine, as long as the party of the Buffalo platform are counted among “the Latter Day Saints” of the demo- cratic church. In the teeth of an unholy, in- congruous spoils coalition like this, all profes- sions of constitutional consistency, or of devo- tion to State rights, or to the Union, are but dross in the crucible of public opinion. Neither parties nor partisans can maintain their ground in the profession of Union and constitutional principles, while they are parties to a league with traitors and dissension agitators, through the corrupting agencies of the spoils. The debate in the Senate upon the Boston petition for the repeal of the fugitive law does not touch the real merits of the general issue. it may all be well enough for bold and fearless Senators to seize upon every occasion for the expression of their abhorrence and disgust for the treasonable principles of such men as Sum- ner and Seward. They are fair game, and there is no peril incurred in assailing them This, however, is but a paltry business, when the blows, to be efficient, should be struck in another quarter. Nothing is gained by these continued and violent Senatorial denunciations of Seward and Sumner, traitors to the Union though they may Ie, when the real causes of the mischiefs in hand lie nearer home. It is like a man with a bundle of contraband goods under his arm, crying “stop thief,” in hot pur- suit of a poor devil with nothing in his posses- sfon but a bad name. The Senate of the United States, in the pre- sentation of the Boston petition have discovered that the anti-slavery agitation is revived in the North. Unquestionably this agitation rests upon the seditious principles of Seward, Sum- ner, and their associates in the cause of free soil and abolitionism. Yet, a little more than one thort year ago, the country was quiet, there was no agitation, and no apprehensions of agitation. The people of both sections cherished the delusive idea that the national Union principles upon which Gen. Pierce was elected would be faithfully carried ont—that free soilism and abolition sedition, and all disunionists, whether from the Buffalo plat- form or from the Nashville convention, would be officially repudiated by the administration; and that the course of the executive in his ap- pointments, his policy, and his party, would be inflexibly consistent with the governing Union principles of the election which had brought him into power. Experience has de- molished these extravagant expectations. The administration and its policy and party have heen dictated by a coalition of free soilers and secessionists, Its original adherents upon prin- ciples are outside the camp, and its established honds of cohesion are “ the cohesive power of the public plunder.” nate re is no national whig parly-—there is ;, ational democratic party, upon principles. “©ministration party is limited to the fot the XG neither the Missouri compromise alleeting Sask bill is made the te. t of party tepallaed fad while the Washington Union “ the Know Nothings, the lesser trick Cacharpecabinet are free to denounce the - “without reserve or limitation. At this crisis of» utter demoraliaation and sisting the Northern Holy Alliance; and why, ; then, should they not take the field,end boldly | Tidiculed the idea thet a storm was brewing | cal parties of the country, upon the plausible pretext of the repeal of theMiesouri compromise, | no wonéer the great body of the Northern whizs, ® portion of the Buffalo democracy, and all the outside abolition and seditious factions of the | North, should be moving for a grand combined asrault, in rotid phalanx, against the South. No wonder, we fay; for why should not the anti- | slavery factions seize upon the present golden opportunity? The democratic party is divided and demoralized—the whig party is destroyed —the ‘administration is powerless—there is no | existing national organization capable of re- | throw down the gauntlet of defiance to the Seuth? They are moving, on all sides, to this end—they are kindling up the agitation toa living fire—they are casting their firebrands into the Senate; and-yet the grave and digni- fied members of that learned body limit their methods of resistance to denunciations of Sum- ner and Seward and anmeaning threats of dis- union. This will never do, The evil of the day de- umands more powerful remedies than these. The great necessity of the crisis is a-national, con- stitutional Union.party, consistent.and homoge- neeus, North and South, Senators muy protest and threaten and appeal; but while they are associated with a spoils coalition which recog- pizes an allegiance with Buffalo free soilers and Navhville secessionists, all appeals and warn- ings will be regarded with derision and con- tempt. The danger is uponus, and nothing— from-present appearances—nothing can avert the most tremendous disasters to the safety of the.Union and the,peace of society, North and South, but a great :independent eonstitutional Union party. When Senators and members of the"House at Washington shall have indicated their readiness to -relinquish the epoils and spoilsmen, for some such party organization as this, sve may listen to their discussions of the slavery question witk patience. We-agree with the great Calhoun, that no faitk is to be at. tached to principles which rest upon “ the cohe- sive power of the public plunder.” Srrect FPruru—Tue Porice anp wae Maais- TRATES.—Some days «ince the Hexaip.called the attention of the Chileftof Police te the city ordinance by which the throwing of garbage into the streets is made a misdemeanor, pznish- able ly fine. | The condition of the streets at that sime— particularly in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth wards—called loudly for some interference on the part of the police, a3 could be casily learned by the bouquet (not over .pleacant,) which saluted the olfactory organs of all persons who were unfortunate enough to be ,cbliged to pacs through these avenues. All these facts caused the promulgation of the following ciroular, first iesved in August, 1853 :— If garbage, offal, itp, dirt, manure, cinders, ashes, shells, rubiish. or any cubstance that is detrimental to the public health, be found in any of the public streets, janes or alleya, contrary to law, and the'person or per- sons who placed said garbage, &., as above mentione.!, shall not havedeen arrested or reported by the sergeant or policeman whore duty.it ia to arrest and report said person or persons, and the said sergeant ar policeman has not been gusponded, the captain of police shail be decmed guilty of neglect of duty. By order. JACOB ERVELT, Mayor. G. W. Marsext, Chief of Police. We presume that the police, after the recep- tion of said orders, endeavored todo its duty in the premises; we hope that saxch was the ease, and we trust that it will continue so to be. The policemen have always been abused, and they always will be; but there are many good and faithful men to be found in their ranks. We have one piece of evidence to show that the order to the police has been obeyed. A policeman in the Lighteenth ward arrested a woman who had been caught in the sct of throwing garbage into the street. She was arrested and taken before Mr. Justice Clark, who discharged her with a reprimaud, as ap- pears by the following extract from the Eighteenth ward return, made by the Captain to the Chief of Police:— ARBAGE IN THe StREETS.—Policeman Sher. d Catherine O'Donnell, whom he caught in the aet of throwing garbage into the streets, He con- veyed her betore Justice Clark, who discharged her, »t the rame time telling the officer he had no power to pun- ish her, but would reprimand her. I would suggest the propriety of the appointment of a lawyer to attend the police court, to give instructions to some of the police martstrates in intricate Jaw cases such as the above. The action of Justice Clark in this case forci- ly reminds us of that great jndicial prototype, “Robert Shallow, E-quire, Justice of Peace, and coran and custalorum and ratalorum,” Whose importance was derived solely from his title; and there have been many more such magistrates “any time these three hundred years.” We have had too many instances of the same kind in New York city, and we have no occasion for fictitious similes—our Shallows are real, living, walking, talking, blundering beings, not the airy creations of a poet’s brain, To look for efficiency on the part of the police, with such men on the bench, is simply absurd ; and where there are justices like Clark, there can be no policemen like Sherwood. The law is plain; the policemen will endeavor to execute it. It is important that it should be executed to the letter. The health of the city depends upon it, and there are many people who must be kept clean on compulsion. Aad yet, with all these facts admitted, we find a Justice who has only power to reprimand—not to punish. This is the cause of half our troubles in New York. A policeman makes an arrest, and through the negligence, bias, or ignorance of a justice, the criminal escapes unwhipt of justice. In reference to the matter at present under consideration, however, we hope that the police- men will not relax in their endeavors to pre- vent the aggregation of cholera breeding mat- ter in the public streets. We alsobelieve that all the justices will not be found so liable to err in matters of law and fact, as the gentle- man aforementioned. Ovn Disgrict Arrorxny—Wno 1s THE MAN? —The spoils are still at a premium. They seem to rise in value as the term of the ad- ministration glides away. Among the candi- daice mentioned for the District Attorneyship, left vacant by the resignation of Mr. O’Conor, are’ Mr. Westbrook, Mr. Shepard, Mr. McKeon, Mr, West, and Mr. Busteed. The present assistant District Attorney, Mr. Dun- ning, is also said tobe a hopeful ispirant for the post. We hear of no movement in this connection in behalf of John Van Buren, or we should suppove his chances something bet- ter than the best of them. Mr. Westbrook, it is said, has some claims for the place, in consid- eration of his self-sacrificing vote for the Ne- bracka bill, But this we cannot believe. We toke it that Mr. Westbrook gladly sacrificed himeelf for the constitutional principles of the Nebraska bill, without hope of fee or reward. Nothing like a clear conscience. But the moun. tain is again in labor, Who is to be the mouse? The Spanish Decrees Respecting Cuba. ‘We publis® elsewhere the text of the decrees of the Queen of Spain respecting slavery in Cuba, promulgated in March last, and just laid before the British Parliament. ‘Lord Howden | seems to have regarded them as a triumph for | Pritich interesta. Other commentators, as well | in England as in this country, have inter- | preted them as equivalent to @ commence. | ment of Africanization, or in plainer words, | os on indication of the establishment of | an order of things under which slavery in | Cuba would gredually becom® «xtinct, and a | large free colore’ population be settled on the island. In this persuasion, many statesmen have viewed them with dirtrust and hostility, We all remember the Spanish t re\t o° surren- dering the island to tie blacks rather than sell- ing it to us; with this intimatien fresh in our memory, it is natural tuat we 8 ould at all events watch with some ‘ealousy the introduc- tion of any change in the condition of the slaves now heli by the creole planters. That ealousy is heightened by a knowledge of th» fact that the principles asserted im the decrees have been further consolidated ina treaty just signed by the representative of Great Britain and the Spanish government. The text of tre treaty bas not yet reached us, and we are therefore unable to state posijively whether it contem- plates any actual surrender of Spanish au- thority within the island to a foreign power, or whether it simply looks to the final sup- pression of the slave trade. The latter is the more prebable hypothesis, as the decrees upon which the treaty is based, have no refer- ence to foreign authority in Cuba. But Lord Tiowden’s antecedents, and the past tener of British policy with regard to Cuba are alone sufficient to clothe with suspicion any measures which are prouounced advantageous by the one and consistent with the other. The change tobe wrought by the decrees has been rendered necessary, we are told, by the scarcity of laborers in Cuba, which has hitherto vompelled the illegal prosecution of the slave trade. It being now resolved to suppress that traffic, and toput an end to further importa- tions of slaves, the Spanish government propose to remedy the scarcity of laborers by encour- aging the importation of Spanish, Chinese and Yucatanese colonists, and by compelling the owners of slaves to employ them in agricultu- raldabors. The means by which it is proposed to attain this last mentioned object are complex and varied; ‘they will be found detailed in the exposition of the Spanish minister. Elaborate provisions are made by a special decree for the importation of colonists from Spain, China aud Yucatan, and their employment on an extensive scale is obviously contemplated by the govern- ment. In addition to these, means are taken to provide against the landing of negroes from Africa by registering ail the slaves on the island, and declaring every negro free whose name docs not appear in the registers as a slave. These are, in brief, the leading points of the decrees. The plan of the slave registers has been ex- amined on a former occasion, and its defects shown. It is obvious that, if, as is probable, the British consular authorities are allowed to exercise any supervision over the practical working of the system, cases will constantly occur where the loss, destruction, or fraudulent suppression of the registers will lead to the forced manumission of negroes lawfully held in slavery. It is also likely that no complete re- gister of the entire negro population of the island will ever be perfected; and thus an opportunity will be afforded the British overseers to claim freedom for slaves whose names have been ac- cidcntally or wilfully withheld from the regis. trar, Every practical man will at once per- ceive how difficult it will be to make a com- plete register; this difficulty has doubtless been foreseen by Lord Howden, and is probably one of the advantages he sees in the system. It will undoubtedly help the cause of abolition in a very material degree; and when the Count of San Luis says that it is “not morally possible to abolish slavery” in the island, and at the same time recommends the registering of the slaves, he shows himself to be deficient in judg- ment and foresight. Should his scheme ever be carried into actual effect, he would soon perceive how widely inconsistent his acts have | been with his professions. How far the importation of colonists or coo- lies will supply the deficiency of laborers and compensate for the cessation of the slave trade, time will show. There are many obstacles in the way of the introduction of coolie labor on an extensive scale into Cuba. But whether Spaniards, coolies, or Yucatanese can be had on the terms proposed, or not, we confess that we see very little difference, and certainly no advantage in the substitution of the plan of coolie importation for the old slave trade. For all practical purposes, the colonists provided for by the decrees are to be slaves. They “re- nounce the exercise of all civil rights which are incompatible with the fulfilment of the ob- ligations they incur,” that is to say, all their civil rights whatsoever. They cannot marry without the consent of their master. Their children follow their condition, and their fa- thers exercise no parental power over them in opposition to the power of their master. They may be transferred and sold, like slaves, with this single difference that husband and wife may not be separated from each other or from their children under twelve years of age. They may redeem themselves at certain seasons, it is true; but the conditions are such that it is next to impossible that they could ever be fulfilled. They may acquire property ; but as their mas- ters are authorized to work them twelve hours a day, there is little chance of their being able to do anything of the kind. In case of deser- tion, they may be pursued, caugbt and returned to their masters just as slaves are. They can- not demand means to enable them to return to their own country. They may be punished by fine and imprisonment by their masters, without recourse to the legal tribunals of the country. So far as we can judge, there is thus far no eecential difference between this and many slave codes. The concent on which the contract is originally based, will obviously be a mere nugatory form, where one of the parties is a shrewd slave dealer and the other a poor China- man or coolie. The only practical difference between the colonist and the slave will be that the former, who is a slave for a fixed period, will be dischagged and left to starve and die when he grows old and infirm, while the latter is always provided for at the expense of his master until death relieves him of the burthen. If the cause of humanity, for which Lord How- den professes so much zeal, is served by a change of this nature, our notion of the senti- ment differs widely from his. We have yet to see whether these decrees will be followed by any practical change or not, Until the registering of the slaves beging in earnest, and until shipe actually arrive with | accidents occur all the blame shall attach cargoes of colonista, ddalits of the sincerity of | the latter and none to the #u| the ¢panisf government will always exist, and-|.dererve to tail as this attempt grave suspicions will be extertained in many quarters that the whole business of the decrees is merely another cloak to the prose- cution of the slave trade on a new basis and with renewed vigor. Should we hear, however, of the actual registration having commenced, the duty of our government will be plain and obvious. Every slave that is manumitted under the working of that system and by reason of some omission on the part of his master or some flaw in the register will diminich the value of the island, and endanger our security. The Count of San Luis well observes, that “the scarcity of laborers presses urgently upon the Island of Cuba; agriculture is affected by it; its effects begin to be noticed in commercial transactions; and if it be not opportunely reme- died, the rich treasures which that fertile island contains will soon be diminished if not exhaust- ed.” But his excellency has not devised the proper remedy. Registers and colonists will not help the matter. Royal decrees are Inst upon soradical anevil. The disease is organic, and the cure proposed will, if anything, aggra- vate the case. Had the Spanish minister pos- seseed a more intimate knowledge of the qnes- tion before him, or dealt with it boldly and frankly, he would have stated that so long as the island remained a colonial dependency of Spain, the evil of which he complains would press urgently upon its best interests; and that the proper, the ouly cure for that and the other ills of Cuba was to yield gracefully to fate, and to hand it over to the United States. At some not distant day, the successor of the Connt of San Luis will be forced to hold this language. Nexrrcation iv Connecticut.—Our Eastera neighbors have not altogether come to their senses yet. The honest burghers of Providence gave us come hopes of them when they repent- ed oftheir threat to pars the Fourth of July in fasting and penitence; but the epidemic has not disappeared entirely. It has loomed up quite recently in Connecticut, where the Judiciary Committee have reported to the Assembly a | bill which we publish elsewhere, “for the de- fence of liberty in that State.” The drift of this Dill is to fine and imprison any individual who falsely represents that any person. is or was a slave, and any witness who falsely swears to thesame. Every claim made for the sur- render of a slave isto be deemed “false and malicious;” the claimant being bound to prove the contrary by the direct evidence of at leasi | two witnesses. Of course, under this bill, it would become impossible to execute the Fugi- tive Slave law in Connecticut; this, in fact, is confessed by the authors of the bill to be their object. The common and statutory law of Connecticut was quite sufficient for the defence of liberty, and for the protection of citizens wrongfully claimed as slaves. Had the Judi- ciary Ccmmittee sought nothing beyond se- curing the safety of the citizens of that State aud preventing illegal captures of individuals falsely represented to be slaves, no fresh legis- lation would have been required. The bill we this day print was introduced for the purpose of nullifying and violating the supreme law of the land. Should it pass, Connecticut will place herself in an attitude of open hostility to the Union. This attitude has been long since assumed. by demagogues in every State in the North. Mas- fachusetts has teemed with them for nearly half a century. But it seems as though the honor of making tho first ecrious attack on the constitution was reserved to the State of Con- necticut. We congratulate the citizens of that commonwealth on the position in which their repreeentatives have placed them. Connecticut has always presented a contrast to her neigh- bore. Not many years ago it was penal to kiss one’s wife in the streets of Hartford and New Haven; it is now made penal for a master to claim his slave except under certain condi- tions. The blue laws were simply ridiculous; this bill “for the defence of liberty” is some- thing worse, as Connecticut will find when any measure comes up in Congress in which her in- terests are concerned. INCENDIARISM.—The progress of the examina- tion to which the recent fire at Jennings has given rise throws a good deal of light oa the origin of fires in this city. The witness White alias Boucher seems to be a very shrewd fel- low, and he and his friends appear to be quite familiar with the mode of proceeding in such cases. Seated, as he tells us, on the steps the Hall of Records, he saw the fire at Jen- nings break out, and immediately his compa- nion Lowery observed “I'll bet my life Lyman | beside a woman. Barr eet that place on fire; and if the re- mainder of the evidence is to be believed the | He jumped up and called for a light. gucss was a pretty shrewd one. When the engine came, White “caught hold of the rope and went to the fire,” doubtless with the inten- tion of saving property. The next day, one Snyder met the witness and told him the whole story with a frankness which does more credit to his heart than his head. None of the friends, whose names White gives, scem to | had been accommodated at a disreputable house in Green have been in any way shocked or astonished at the incendiary deed. White speaks of it quite as a matter of course. A few such examinations would clear up the of | Mr, Strok committed an excer of the Rajlroad has failed. * a Necessary Cuances.—When sanity beco general in thi: coubtry, a world of reforms will he effected. One bateh was su gested by a correspondent of ours the oth day, which we beg vo endorse. It was to effect that the scats of our State governmen should be got out of the hermitages where th now are, and Lrought to light, in places whe the Legiclatures would see and feel public timent. For instonce, the capital of this St should be New York; of Pennsylvania, Phil Gelphia; of Maryland, Baltimore; of Ohio, ¢ cianati; and so on. Of course, it ou folluw that New York would be the feden capital, This is » great and really an in ble reform. Bnt reason is not common clou yet to propore it. Mexine Affairs. DesTus AT Sea@@the ship Fastern Queen, arrit terday from Havte with 444 passengers, had. deaths on the passage Navai Luteliigence. N., bas ‘ f Joreph Pryan, Purser, U. 5. N., bas resigned, and B ry Myers, of Georgio, !aving heen appointed in’ his dore Ringgold, € Well in the squads: Tne U. 8. stew from Vera Cruz, ssi adi a Coroner# Inquests, Deata Propucep wy A: a hoy ACCIDENTALLY Sv! pucep —About three ago a German girl, Margaret Warner, ar this city from and went to live wii) rmer, 117 Chrystie er wil board she did not take, a domestic, On iri. she was seized jon. The pills a Beep wal pursing end vemit as exrabled to en given to her b. ship, when she was si serving them for ie ive her be night through. y the symptoms P| ceding day were ren na Wn Garg meédies were used. nt of Mr. Dormer, Mar, i nt. She lingered in ng until Menday night, when for, and the per some time, ‘othe the Coroner's office ret. was delivered state of creat avit died. The ceath w one of malpractice. stituted a most searchin stances connected wiih wos taken, but nothin motest degree surpiel tho time of prescrit the deceased was in ,« ber. The jury, afte: tion, delivered’ the ceased esme to her ¢ after an alorticn and vomiting. The vomiting and abort taken by the decens wa nany person. Mr. 1 the pills was unaware of the s@] he would not have given them ntive and patient invests; ving verdict—“That the ‘hk by puerperal convulsio sed by violent purg find thet the pu 1 Qcie the cfleets of a dose o GUEST UPON y Jewett. of the ehip Heng: iewold, Morgan & Wik corner of South and Ping ship op Thureday lasi i: into hy the Wail street captain was unfortunate whose employment he wi the rene iS his body. vernor’s Island yester by John Alexander, a m living at 243 Water street, and Richard Martin, bi ‘No. Vover strect. It was tuken to Whitehall slip, and t] Corener was notified, Coroner Donnell held an ing upon the body, and a verdict of death by dro’ rendered. Upon she boy were found a gold wat chain, nearly $1 in silver, a gold finger ring, aud t gold sinds “Deceased was a native of Connecticut, twenty-nine years of ape, e circumstance is more m lancholy from 1] e fact 1 ‘was engaged to be mai ina few weeks. Ee has @ numerous circle of frient to mourn his loss, DeATH FROM INTEMFER.ANCE — Coroner Wilhelm yesterd held an inquest, »t 1) venth ward station-ho q the body of Robert He. y, an Englishman, forty goal of age, who fell, at il er of Stanton and Canad atreets, on Monday e , in a fit. He was taken the station boute, where Le di ly was 4, who was of opinion th| on of the brain, produced ¥ intemperance, and so was ihe verdict. "ithe deceas ‘Was of intemperate heiite, aud subject to fits of tremens. He rerided in Philadelphia, and was but ten ity. porarily in this Fara, Fart.—J ‘unos, a native of Trelan thirty-seven years of a, identally fell from his cai on Mondsy fast, end injuries of so severe character ‘thet he died almost immediately. Coron Wilhelm held an fuquest upon the body, and» verdict accidental death, wh the deceased was intoricate ‘wes rendercd. Wellington Dodge, a fireman belon| 7 vat Birbeck, while in the act stepping between the ting rod and frame, for tl purpose of aiping the conuceting rod, on Saturday las} ek b * she raachinery, and receiyd yesterday at the New Yor Jd apon his body by Coron ental death was rendere: A was a native of New York, nineteen years w injuries, Hospital. on, Police Intelligence, Felonious Assault—On Monday night @ difficulty o curred between » man pamed Styles and William Moi when Moran caught upa paving stone and struck hi adversary a fevere Low with it, knocking down and verely injuring him, anc of which injuries he is now cof fined to his bed. Mcran was arrested by officer Kelly, 4 the First ward, and while he was in custody, 9 in named Thoraas Supple, exasperated at the treatmen Styles had received at his hands, and not content wid! the arrest, mace an attack upon the prisoner, and befo the officer could interfere, inanayed to give him a toler ‘ble thrashing. He was taken before jorman Howard of the Sixth ward, who fs acting, during the tempo absence of Justice Osborn, as magistrate at the Tombd by whom he was held to bail in the sumof $300 answer the charge of assault. Moran was locked up, await the result of the injury he has inflicted on Stylo who is said to be in a critical condition. The Iniiialicn.—A resident of Hanapin, Putnam count; Wlinois, came on to New York, havi in the far Weal heard of 118 wonders snd curivsities. putting into hi] wallet rome SCO or $700, Mr. Charles A. Strok dete mined to pay a visit to the Empire city. Oo hin a here, trok took every means of ‘enjoying himseif| and hearirg of the adroitness of the New York light fn gered gentry, wade a strong box out of his stocking, serving in his pocket enough forenrrent use. On Sunda , and early in the da; seduced by the influence of jolly companions, he imbib alitile freely. In the course of the day he imbibed agai slightly, and ended at night in bei ‘oroughly drupl and awoke in the mddle of the night and found himse: This was a novel tion for Mr} Strok. After a moment he collected his thoughts, and the thought of his etocking bank flashed apon is mind! {ia lady compan; produced one fromamatch. The candle was ligpte and Mr. Strok looked to see if his treasure was safe} Beneath the bed he found $55, which he thrust into b stockiog, and felt, as he snp; hs | He agela turned fato bed abd slept awa, and debauch, and did not awake until day had faygi- vanced. When in the act of dressing himself, the By who had accommodated him the Lan ic bin, bps q the room, and seeing the rich stocking, a grab it, and ran off with the contents. lie pursued, but unable to overtake her, and returned and deosed him self and gave notice to the police. Mr. Strok found hi ion wich street, and that his lady companion was nameq Emma Marcella. She was, shortly a! his complaint! met with by officer Welsh, of the First ward, and tabed to the Tombe, together with the complainant, who found too much intoxicated to properly give his evi denc. He was also lucked up. Yesterday he mado deposition in substance as above. He states that th doubt which now overhangs fires in clothing | $600 which was in his stocking is all he wns posseaseda stores. They would likewise afford o pretty bs me conclusive corroboration of the statements we made some time since with respect to the sys- tem of allowing runners to join fire engines, and might illustrate the working of the present fire department in a very striking way. TeMRMINATION oF THE Erte Rariroap Div- Cha Ficunries.—The managers of the Erie Railroad of Eobemin, residing at 225 Houston streot, was acres have at last come to their senses and agreed to discharge none of their engincers for accidents beyond their control. A direct loss of some | fhe one hundred thousand dollars, and a prospect of a much greater one are, we presume, the causes to which this return of sense and burst of honesty are due. Had the railroad engi- neers in this country evinced less esprit de corps, the Evie people would have won 4 | which, during the month of June, bave swarmed in victory at the expense of some poor fellow’s character, who might have been discharged at any time for a mishap which it was not in his power to avert. As it is, the directors of this mammoth concern have been taught that rich and powerful as they are, they cannot yet trample under foot the rights of their em- ploy ée, or erect themselves into a sort of | prolific pears almost cistracted about his loss, and stated wife was with him in the city. Emma Marcell was committed by Aldci:man Howard. to await « further Meyers, « Geriat cxamination. Assault with Intent to Kill.— Je! and Littic Anthony officer Jordan, Sixtl] woman living at the coruer atreete, was arrested yesterday ward, on a charge of Huving violently assaulted Parrirh, of No. 6 Orchard street, cutting her in the fae ond band, with intont, as it is alleged, of doing hor ae! vere bodily injury. She was committed by Ald Howard for trial. “She denies the charge. of Asauiting a Child. —Marous Bunty, © nat! yesterday, on a charge of having assaulted and abu: Hittle girl named Eliza Newbaur, eight years of a whose father livesin tho same house with the priso poor chili fined to her bed from the etfec! i us various times has received from prisoner, He taken before Justice Welsh, and o mitted for further examiuation. City Intelligence. Wire Muirre, Worms, &c.—A short time ago, published in the Herat an article showing the orf mode of living, travelling, &., of the Palmer * public parka. his worm has now had its day, and q ly disappeared, while others of a different speci about to take its place. We have received the foilo commut ication upon the white miller:— Mr. Eprror:—At this moment the white miller to swarm in the catterpillar localities of New Yor) Brooklyn, This beautiful white miller is the it loom in the perpetuation and manufacturo of \4 able black cat’erpillar. At church, on your dinneAg and between your sheets, has he hitched his way. mother miller, will soon in to deposi on the trees which the worm likes bost to feed Rhadamanthine court of justice from which ewe ‘observe it. there can be no appeal. The lesson will be n serviceable not only to the company directly | gest. Set along the walks in our parks, larze ligl concerned, but to all other companies in the North, Sound rules, and thorough superin- tendence will secure safety for passengers without eacrificing the rights of engineers; and attempts to provide before hand that whe Now it is needless to say, those milters aren} juirance. But the plan of destruction allow me to torches as soon as it is dark; extinguish t! ad lant ay the catterpillar trees—the torches will give Light for ‘rina; flarne attracts them, tho mi br Nant the bett How often do we experionee it in oa parlors. The white miller and mosquito seem revel in the light, and they will flutter around the blaz; {hem a bers! dhanee Yoru slogeog.” Jorghes of a