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New York, Friday, June 30, 1954. Te the Public. ‘The New Youu Henap has now the lazy rest circulation af any daily journal in Europe or Ameria’ ,, he Daily Henatp circulates nearly sixty thousand sheets per day. ‘The Weekly editions—publiabed on Saturday and Sua- @y—reach a circulation of nearly seve sty thousand sheets per week. ‘The aggregate iseue of the Her# :p establishment is shout four hundred thousand sheot 5 per week, or ever Qmenty millions of shoots per annum , The News, FROM WASHIN€ TON ‘The Senate held an executiiy ¢ session yesterday ‘end confirmed the nominations . sent in of officers in ‘the Territories of Nebraska a) 1d Kansas. A resolu- tion to dissolve the injuncté on of secrecy on the @adeden treasy corresponé¢ nce was referred toa committee. Our special despatch cow tains some interesting information regarding the prospects of the reci- procity ‘treaty with the F ritish provinces. The vacant District Attorney ship in this city is an exceedingly lucrative ‘effice, and the struggle for the place has been going on vigorous- ly ever since the «announcement of the ac- ceptance of the sesignation of Mr. O'Conor. A fortnight ago it who stated that Mr. West- brook, member of Congress from the Eleventh district, had been the lucky individual who had re- ceived the appointment, but after that came a very suspicious loll, andnow we learn that a memorial, signed by eighty or ninety members of Congress, has been presented to the President urging the no- mination of Mr. Westbrook, and it is also said that Col. Richardson -has personally interested himself ‘im the matter. - It: may, therefore, be set down asa certain event that Westbrook will be the man. In the Sennte yesterday Mr. Fessenden presented a petition fora repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, signed, as he stated, byall the voters of the town of Milton, New Hampshire, the birthplace of Gen. Pierce. Mr. Sumner presented a similar petition. Both were referred. The bill toestablish a line of mail steamships beiween California and Shanghae, touching at the Saudwich Islands and ports in Japan, was taken up, and Mr. Seward entered into an eloquent exposition of its provisions. His speech is given in the proper place, and should be read at- tentively by all. After an animated debate the bill was ordered to a third reading by a vote of twenty to nineteen, and then laid aside. The bill appropri ating ten million dollars to carry out the stipula- tioms of the Gadsden treaty was rushed through with astonishing celerity, there being but six votes in the negative. A resolution was offered by Mr. Clayton, anc adopted, calling for correspondence be- tween the United States and Great Britain relative te commercial reciprocity with the provinces, the fisheries, and the navigation ofthe St. Lawrence river, the Welland and Ridont canals. In the House, after some remarks by Mr. Faulk- ner, urging the neceasity of speedy legislation on the Army and Navy bills, and an explanation by ur. Mace relative to the charge of fraud brought against Mr. Richardson by an abolition newspaper, during which he ertirely exonerated Mr. R., and testified to his honorable conduct, the bill amend- ing the postage laws was taken up and passed by a vote of one hundred and four to fifty-five. This bill provides for charging on single letters conveyed three thousand miles or less three cents postage. The resolution appointing a day for the final ad journment of Congress coming up, it was proposed to adjourn sine dic on the 3lst of July. This was rejected, as was also the amendment of the Senate for a recess from the 17th of July to the 16th of October. So the House adheres to its resolution to adjourn on the 4th of August. POLITICAL AVPAIRS. The New Hampshire House of Representatives had two bailottings for a United States Senator yes- terday, but without any result. Mr. Wells, the ad- ministration candidate, received one hundred and fifty votes on each trial, falling six and seven be- hind the required number. Mr. Morrisoa had sixty- eight votes on the last ballot, when there were two more votes cast than there were members. This, we presume, is attributable to the ‘drugged liquor” that has been complained of in Concord. In the afternoon the Senate elected John S. Wells Senator for the short term. This, however, has no effect beyond a mere expression of preference, In another column may be found an interesting letter from our intelligent correspondent at Concord regarding the istracted condition of politics and politicians in the Granite State. The Maine Whig State Convention met at Port- Jand yesterday. Nearly six hundred delegates at- tended. Hon. Isaac Reed was nominated for Gov- ernor, and resolutions in favor of the Maine Liquor law and a modification of the Fugitive Slave law were adopted. The expression of opinion against the Nebraska bill was very decided, of course. In ‘this State the whigs will carry the election without @ doubt, there being already three democrats of dif- ferent stripes in nomination for Governor. In Essex county, Vermont, yesterday, the whigs ‘and free soilers nominated a ticket composed of both parties in equal proportions, The convention is represented as having been very harmonious, the principles of both factions being the same. MISCELLANEOUS. A despatch from Independence, Mo., repor!+ the death of Jndge Brown, agent of the Pottowottomie Indians. LATER FROM BERMUDA. Onur files of Bermuda papers to the 12th of the present month have been received. The Hamilton Advertiser of the 12th contains the following re- marks on the fact of the withdrawal of the steamer Curlew from the line between New York and St. ‘Thomas :—* The steam packet Carlew has been sui dealy and in a very uncourteous manner taken otf the New York, Bermude, and St. Thomas ronte, Mr. Canard giving as his reason that the line does not pay. Otherwise than being a disappointment tothe mercante community in the transmission of letters. &e., we shadl not sustain any great loss after all, she Being of no benefit to these islands in any other way, Onr own sailing vessela will now pick up the bene- ita which she hea been carr ving away to enrich yen living in other countries.” The pame paper saya:—“The Bomuda whaling pvr 2086 has ended for the season, and, . “fortunately ean EEE Enneerremmrenanmmennmataall otnMler toa nt mhey of other years, has also proved Jf fugitive slaves are fo be delivered up, | they must be ro delivered up by some one; “4nd | Swaurey—On Wednesday, the 12th of July Unremmcrsting, # nd a failure throughout every es- tablish ent fn U ase jelants. Smith's Teland boats have taken "he greatest number of whales, and ose ofthe princip .| proprietors has informe} os they have hortof paying their expenses.” On Menday, ¥ ,¢ 5th instant, the garrison giz boat, be- longing v , felevd Island, with five oarsmen from the Fifty sixth regiment, mede the circuit of Ber- muda, ‘ \orty miles, in nine hours and five minutes. The Wesleyan Miesionary meetings held during the v veck, we are informed, had been highly interest | ing and satisfactory. | ” Mr. Williams, who arrived at Bermuda aa passen- ® or, in the whaling schooner Flying Arrow, had | " Seen from Inagua six weeks, and reported that a | few days prior to his leaving much rain had fallen, | which wasted the salt then in pap, and some in heap. COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS The delay in the receipt of the p.’s mail, with the near approach of the holidey, tended to check trazsactions in produce generally yesterday. Flour was dull; wheat was inuctive, and corn easier by one or two cents per bushel. Pork has recently experienced a decided decline, | mess having receded to $12 50 a $12 624, and prime to $10 75 @ $11; while beef and lard’ are pretty well maintained at full prices, without much doing in the former. Freights were steady, with light engagements at unchanged rates. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Buropa, with later news from Eu- rope, is now in her thirteenth day. She will proba- bly arrive early this morning. that come one can be noue other theg the enthorities of the State, representimy the | poeple thereof, and entitled to call_ypon each Tut Hexser Srare Cosvsytion—Wue. 17 BE proximo, the huuker national democrats of the State of New Yerk hold their convention at ; Syracuse, the centre of abolitionism. Whether and every one of those people to aid and assist | there was a» object in calling the opponents of them in the dischargg of the dnt imposed upon them by the constitution. Mr. Sumner em- phatically dees that he recognizes no obli- gatfon on him to render such aid or assistance. Could he poshly have said in plainer words that he dows not regard the article we have quoted frewa the constitution to have any bind- ing force or effect—that he intends to disobey and prewoke disobedience to and revolt against the wey constitution he swore to support? What his aim and object were in thus adding perjury to treason, we have shown already. It remains to be seen -whether the display of these ‘qualities will procure him fresh favor among ; the people of the North, and set him in advance cof oron a par with his rival, Mr. Seward. We | have no means of estimating the esteem in which perjury and treason are held among the school of politicians to which they belong. But | we do know that a self-confessed rebel against the constitution is an impudent intruder into a body sworn to support that constitution. Every manin this country is free to hold what opinion he choores, We have no necessary quarrel with any for believing that the constitution is THE POLICEMEN. An account of the meeting held yesterday after- noon of the policemen opposed to the regulations prescribed by the Commissioners ‘is published else- where. The speeches delivered on the occasion will create a sensation scarcely less than’ that which fol- lowed the publication of the instructions of Mr. Marcy on costume to our diplomats abroad. It will be observed, that whie the Secretary of State re- quires our officials in foreign countries not to appear in uniform, the Commissioners of Police insist on our officials at home not appearing in anything else. There is no accounting for these little idiosyn- crasies. The question of costume is.a momentous one, but we had no idea it involved sueh frightful con- pepeice aa are set forth in the speeches allud- ‘The Struggle between the Abolitionist Leaders. At the commencement of the present session of Congress, the leadership of the abolitionist or free soil faction was contested by several champions of the cause, some in the Senate and the House of Representatives, others occupying the humbler position of local demagogues and stump epeakers. Ability and-zeal were equally distributed between both classes: but all the discretion of the party was monopolized by the Senators and members of Congress. The want of this essential quality soon placed Garrison, Greeley and Parker hors de combat; and the struggle was continued between Messrs. Sew- ard, Sumner, Wade, Chase, Giddings and Ger- rit Smith. It was carried on with remarkable vigor and perseverance; each champion had his little army of adherents, whom the fluctuations of fortune elated or depressed. After a few weeks fighting, two of the competitors, Messrs. Chase and Wade, were found too weak to main- tain their position. The former did his best to gain some little notoriety by seeking personal quarrels with his political adversaries; but even pugnacity fails in the long run to secure admiration or tocommand support. Chase re- lapsed into a morbid fit of propriety; and Wade was glad to escape from the pother of agitation. Close upon their heels, one of the most renowned chiefs of the sect, the Ajax of the army, Gerrit Smith, drove his friends to distraction by renouncing some of the essential principles of the party faith. It was even whispered that he dined with Southerners. After this, of course, he was out of the question ; and as he seems to have fore- seen fate, he has prudently anticipated events by resigning his seat. Remained Gid- dings, Seward, and Sumner, all three in fine condition and full of pluck. The two latter made a glorious show on the Nebraska. bill, with speeches which require a winter's leisure to read. Sumner tried to steal a march on his rivals by having it said at Washington that a personal attack was to be made upon him by the Southern members in consequence of his prin- ciples: but Giddings, the immortal Giddings, who has been kicked in and out of Congress for opinion’s sake, and has endured all manner of persecution for the cause, was not the man to stand this. He tore about the capital like a madman, proclaiming that he, Giddings, was the | man to be thrashed ; thit if Southerners wanted a back to pummel, his and not Sumner’s was outstretched for the infliction. It so happened that neither of the two would-be victims was indulged with martyrdom; and little was taken on either side by the motion. Meanwhile, Seward was pressing Sumner hard. His organs had already talked of him as the future President : while Sumner’s name had never been mentioned in conjunction with the office. His popularity had been steadily in- creasing year by year; Sumner had hardly re- covered from the damage his early weakness in the Senate had done him. The confidence of the partisans of the former was unbounded ; the warmest friends of the latter had secret misgivings with respect to his sincerity. It was clear to the most superficial observer, that unless some decisive mark was made by Mr. Sumner, his position in the party would soon be sealed, himself doomed to a subordinate rank, and the victory won by the Senator from New York. To anticipate this became, some weeks back, the sole concern of Mr. Sumner and his friends. Something must be done or said, whereby the latter would be placed before the North in as favorable a position as Mr. Seward; to find out that something has for some time en- grossed their minds, The discovery has been made, the problem solved. The solution will be found in the re- ports of the proceedings of Congress on Monday and Wednesday last. On the first of those days Mr. Sumner declared in the Senate that he re- cognized no obligation upon him to help return to slavery any man; and on Wednesday he again emphatically repeated his assertion that he recognized no obligation imposed by the constitution to return a fugitive slave. If effect was the only thing sought by Mr. Sumner, if he desired nothing but to startle the Senate and the country, we think he may be congratulated onhis success, His most ardent rival will not be likely to follow himin such an incredjble flight of audacity as this. Many men find the courage to perjure themselves; but to blazon forth one’s perjury in such an assem: bly as the United States Senate reqnires a de gree of assurance which approaches the sublime Mr. Sumner swore, on his admission to the Senate, to support the constitution of the United States. That constitution declares tha: “persons held to serv¥fe or labor in one State under the laws thereof escaping into another, shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom ench service or labov shall he due.” not binding on them. But those who do .be- “Leve uch things have no business in the United States Senate. Infidels have no claim to speak in our churches; and if an anti-mason ventures to declaim against masonry in a lodge, having orsworn himeelf to obtain admission therein, he will incontinently be expelled. So Mr. Sumner, who throws off his allegiance to the constitution, deserves to be driven from the Senate chamber. His admission was a fraud on the body and the country; his oath was a de- testable perjury; his expulsion would be an act of justice to himself and a proper evidence of the high character of the assembly he de- grades by his presence. ‘Tae Kansas Eutoration Scneme—Tae OTHER Swe mw Morton.—According to the following statement from the Burlington (Iowa) Tele- graph, the slaveholders are in motion, not only for the re-occupation of Kansas, but of Nebraska likewise :— At St. Louis, a few days since, were a number of gangs of slaves, en route for Nebraska in charge of their owners. Similar statements reapecting the transportation of slaves into Kansas are made by the Independence ee souri) Dri h. There is here and there a simpleton to be yet found, as we are toid, who pretends to argue that slavery will not and cannot go into these Territories. To ail such there is a short answer: The immigration of slaves and slavebolders into Kansas and Nebraska has al- ready begun ! Very well, the two Territories are open to the people of the South and: he North—to slaveholders as well as to abolitionists. The issue of slavery or no slavery in Kansas and Nebraska rests with the people thereof, when they shall come to ask for admission as States into the Union. Meantime, there is no consti- tutional impediment to the Massachusetts emi- gratory scheme—none to the alleged counter- acting scheme of the Missouri slaveholders. Kansas and Nebraska are open for @ fair con- test between slavery and anti-slavery, North and South. If the South lose, we presume they will submit to it with cheerfulness: if they should win, it will be upon a fair notice and a fuil trial. How absurd to talk of a repeal of the repeal- ing clause of the Nebraska bill, when, by the meeting of the next Congress, Kansas and Ne- braska, Oregon and Minnesota may all be knocking for admission as States into the Union! The restoration of the Missouri restric- tion is a ridiculous enterprise. The restriction is done for—the practical issue is in the emigration to Kansas and Nebraska; and if Theodore Par- ker, Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison, Horace Greeley and Company, desire to do anything for the cause of free soil, they ought to go out and settle in Kansas forthwith. Their pre- sence in that Territory would bring them into more immediate contact with the “peculiar institutions” of the South, of which they know. 80 little and assume to know so much. In this way their demagoguism and fanaticism might be tempered into toleration, and they mip’:t thus become quiet and useful citizens. It wouid not be surprising if they should consent, by- and-by, to hold a few slaves themselves, should slavery be catablished in Kansas. At aH events, the occasion should not be thrown away for a fair trial in Kansas and Nebraska between the disorganizing and disunion firebrands of the North and the South, face to face. Let the South give John Mitchel a plantation in Kan- sas, “well stocked with good fat negroes,” and let Horace Greeley establish alongside of him an abolition, woman’s rights, Fourierite pha- lanx, and let the people of the Territory abide by the result, if they think proper. At all events, let the agitators who are going into spasms concerning slavery in Kansas, bundle up and move out there without delay. The sooner the issue upon the great fundamental doctrine of equatter sovereignty is settled the better. There can be no repeal of the sovereignty of the people, Famine 1x Hoty Laxp.—It appears that tl ose fearful visitations of dearth and famine, to which the people of Israel were so frequently subjected in ancient times, are still among the most serious drawbacks to a settled residence in the Holy Land. Recent letters from the ve- nerable city of Hebron, calling upon Sir Moses Montifeore for relief, say that the land of Judea is “consuming its people,” that “the dearth which prevails is unparalleled in the annals of the country. Failing harvests are superseded by drought, so that the faee of the earth is lite- rally scorched, and the wail of the famished multitudes is heard by day and by night, and our streets are thronged with starving children, who vainly implore for food.” Such are the representations of the elders and wardens of the congregations in Hebron, reminding us forcibly of similar recorded mis- fortunes in the history of the patriarchs, pro- phets, judges, and kings of Israel. The rem- nant of Israel, still abiding in the country of David and Solomon, now call for relief against drought and famine. And, we doubt not, that with relief their cry will be answered from our bountiful supplies. The Rev. S. M. Isaacs, 669 Houston street, New York, to this end, will thankfully acknowledge any contributions that may be given to his charge. Wno Pays Tar Rexr?—In the late resolu- tions of ejectment of the Know Not ings from Tammany Hall, it is pretty generally under- stood that the identical man was excommuni- cated who carries the money bag and settles the bills for house room and gas, If such be the case, who pays the rent now? We ask the qnestion in behalf of the clerks of the Castom Howse and Post Office. The Treasurer being ejected, yho peys the rent of Tammany Hall? | the administration in grand council, on thut | particular day, in that particular Jerry rescue. | city, at such an unprecedented early day in the | season, are questions of some import, and solu- tions to which may be given at an earlier day than the State Central Committee anticipate or | | prefer. The business will be to nominate a State ticket—candidates for Governor, Lieute- nant Governor, Canal Commissioner, and State Prison Inspector—in place of Seymour, Church, Fitzhugh and Storms. Efforts are now making to induce D. S. Dickinson to allow his name to be used for the first office, not with any expec- tation, however, of electing him, but merely to save the hundred thousand votes cast for their ticket at the last election. As Mr. D. has given ample demonstration that he is not ambitious for political distinction, (having refused the Presidency when tendered to him by Vir- ginia, and also the Custom House in this city, offered him by President Pierce,) he may consent to the use of his name to call out the hunker strength in opposition to, the softs and free soilers. He is now being interrogated upon the subject, and it is likely that Birdsall will bring his ultimatum inhis pocket, to the convention. Bronson being out of the question, having declined the nomination; and in case Dickinson protests against the use of his name, then the next choice would be: John Vanderbilt. Accommodating as his disposition is, he may be prevailed upon torun. Having taken the lead in the Legislature in bringing about the completion of the canals, itis due to the canal interests that an opportunity should be afforded whereby a testimonial in favor of his course in the Legis- lature might be awarded him. The hunkers may cordially unite upon their State candidates. But can they construct a plat- form upon which they can cordially stand? Is not the Nebraska question an element out of which discord is likely to be produced? The ultra opponents of President Pierce declare that the State convention shall not only denounce the President, but the cine tenants should be rusticated without delay. Country air is good for them. | The same subject is agitating the good people ; of Brooklyn, and we see that the citizens of the Ninth ward are to hold a meeting this eve- ning, for the purpose of taking measures against an innundation of peripatetic pork, with which ' they are threatened. In case the law is not! fully enforced in this city, we would recom- : mend the citizens of the upper wards to pursue | a similar course. The City Inspector has, how- ' ever, manifested a disposition to do his duty in the premises, and we trust that he will not | falter by the wayside. Away with all nuisances. | Tne GADSDEN TREATY AND THE, SENATE.—The Senate at Washington are reported as having gone into executive session yesterday upon the Gadsden treaty! But why this secresy now, the treaty being consummated? Is there no; man in the Senate of sufficient moral courage | and independence to call for the secret cor- reepondence upon this treaty with a view to its publication? Let us know who are the partici- pants in these ten millions of the spoils. Are Senators afraid of treading upon the toes of the Kitchen Cabinet? Have the people no in- terest in the public money? Are both Houses of Congress responsible ouly to the Executive for their acts? Have the members of Congress, like the Executive, made up their minds for re- tirement at the expiration of their present term of office; and are they thus resolved to make the most of it? In behalf of the people, who foot the bills, we should like to know. THe ADMINISTRATION AND THE Nor?H—THE “Arrroacuine State Execrions.—The admin- istration-has recently been called upon to la- ment the overslaughing of the spoils demo- eracy in New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The Northern States which have yet to hold their State elections, are as fol- 2. August 7 a ‘September 6 do. 7 do. 5 do. 7 Maine... do. 11 7 Pennsylvania ...October 10 Michi; do 7 Ohio.... ba a Wisconsin , » do. 7 jo. Is any one of these States sure for the ad- ministration this year? Alas for the spoils— the secessionists and the Buffalo free soilers! Nebraska bill also. These are the men who approve the course of Wheeler, Maurice and Peckham, in voting against the bill, solely on the ground that Pierce was at times apparently in favor of it. A class of such men will be sent to the Seate convention, who will insist upon the passage of amti-Nebraska reso- lutions, in connection with others denunciatory of Pierce, Marcy, and the national administra- tion. Others will be delegates who are in fa- vor of the bill organizing the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and expunging the Mis- souri compromise front the acts of Congress, but opposed to any reference to the matter in the resolutions of theconvention. This is the rock* upon which the hunkers will likely split if the hot heads on either side prevail at Syra- cuse. Let them endorse the bill, reject it, or emother resolutions offered on the one side or the other, and difficulties must ensue. Now, the question arises—and the hunkers, as well as the softs, must meet it—whether it is proper or prudent for them to utter a syllable upon the subject. They must see that,in any event—en- dorsing or condemning the Nebraska bill—a firebrand will be thrown into their ranks; and although it will not greatly increase the soft and free soil vote, it would more than likely produce a dissolution of the hunker or- ganization. The only cohesive power by which the hards have been kept together is hatred of the free soilers and opposition to the national adminis- tration. The canal question and the appoint- ments to office mainly contributed to this feel- ing, though the origin may be traced back as far as the defeat of General Cass and Silas Wright. Whitet they remain in this position, aiming at the annihilation of Pierce, Marcy, and those now in power at Washington, and in maintaining the popular canal policy in this State, the hunkers will be able to occupy ex- alted positions and impregnable ground, as a portion of the new national party of the North, and eventually scatter the softs and free soilers among the whigs, abolitionists, and democrats; but absolutely certain it is, that if the State convention on the twelfth of July allow the introduction and discussion of the Nebraska question, un fait accompli,a disruption and evident destruction of their organization, will immediately occur, and the softs be left in pos- session of a part of the remnants and fragments of the democratic party in the State. It is stated that a union of the hards and softe has been attempted in Oswego. Two or three free soil government officers under Pierce, have all but pledged their support to the nomi- nees of the July convention, in case a union can be effected. The printer of the free soil sheet, who was sent from the Albany mint some eighteen months since to fight the hun- kers, and who is a custom house officer at Oswe- go, was very ardent in his pledges for union, harmony, and hostility to the whigs. William B. Lewis, and half a dozen other hard hunkers, confidedin those free soil professions, and con- sented to enter into the union ranks. The mat- ter was finally referred to the leaders of both sections inthe county, and from the looks of things at present there is reason to expect they will unite in sending delegates to Syracuse in July, knocking for admission into the conven- tion, not for the purpose of exhibiting any fac- tious opposition to the nominations, but to bring in the Nebraska question, which, they imagine, being once kindled, will blow the hards sky-high. With the prospect of this poli- tical pyrotechnic display in view, the conven- tion of the 12th proximo promises to be a very interesting meeting. Tue Hog Nursance.—There is no more fruitful method tu bring about the growth of a large crop of cholera, and other epidemic dis- eases, than the keeping of unclean anixals within the city limits, This fact was demon- strated a long time ago, and we have a law which provides that hogs shall not be kept in the city below Kighty-first street. This law, like many others, has become almost a dead letter ; but there is now eome proxpect that it will be partially, if not strictly, enforced. The City Inspector has ascertained that many pub- lic spirited citizens are engaged in the hog breeding business in the upper wards of the city—a great many were found near Viftieth street, and the owners have been duly indicted. During the last fortnight not a single cur, of high or low degree, has dared to indulge in the luxury of an unrestricted promenade, and the execution of the hog law is just as important to the health and safety of our citizens as that of the dog law. Hog pens are nuisances in the city at any time, but in the summer their por- Where is the uational Gemocracy? Where is the Baltimore platform? Mors Licur Asour tae Know Noratnas.— The movements of this mysterious society con- tinue to attract a large share of public attention and by certain extracts which were published in yesterday’s Heratp, it will be seen that they have extended their line of operations to the Pacific coast. Old Virginia seems impreg- nated with the spirit of nativeism, and .at Nor- folk, on Saturday, the Know Nothings achieved a signal triumph, electing their entire municipal ticket. In Baltimore, Boston, and other At- lantic cities, they are believed to be very strong. ‘The African Lyrical Stage. EDWIN P. CHRISTY’S NEGRO MINSTRELSY—THE OPERA OF BKACK DOUGLAS AT WOOD’8—CIN- DERELLA AT BUCKLEY’®. Now that the supremacy of the children of Ham is, like the restoration of the scattered people of Judea, darkly looming in the future, and that Ethiopian king- doms and republics, beginning with the great Nebraskan Empire, are about to substitute the federal divisions and hard and soft shell party classifications of the American continent, it becomes necessary to watch attentively the Progress of this interesting people in the various arts of civilization, by their superior capacity for which—it is thought by certain ethnologists and philosophers—thoy will ultimately subjugate to thelr rule the rapidly degon erating Anglo-Saxon and Spanish races. We have seon how in Hayti their determined onergy and great military genius have succeeded in crushing out the whites, and establishing ond of the most remarkable empires upeo record—on empire whose conception and inception have suggested servile imitations both in Mexico and France We behold there a court distinguished as mach for its elegance and refined tastes, and liberal but discriminat- ing patronage of the arts, as for its profound acquain- tance with the science of government, and the noble models of legislation which it has produced. If we are desirous of witnessing the results of African spirit and energy in their democratic phase, we have only to turn to Liberia, where we will find a powerful republic, like the Rome of old, growing up amidst swamge and morasses. Seek we to poer curiously into the fature, we may behold Cuba, Jamaica and others of the West India Islands flourishing under the rule of sagacious and enlightened rulers of this once de spised race, and if the philanthropieal and disinterested notions of the abolitionists are realised, we may probably see them lords-paramount on our own soil. Be their destiny what it may, the wonderful plasticity of this ac- complished people will adapt them to it. From the use which they haye made of the opportunities they have already had, it is evident that they can improvise and improve upon every form of political institution known to ancient or modern times. It is the samo in the arts: Eminently classical in their tastes, they have modernized to great advantage the nomenclature of the Romans, and refined upon many of the crude artistical notions of tho Greeks. The propyl and friezes of Haytian palatial ar- chitecture have been pronounced by competent judges as remarkable departures from the stiff mannerism of the Parthenon and other over-estimated models of antiquity. Borrowing what is excellent from the different primitive schools of art, the new, or, as we may term it, Ethi- opian style, may be regarded as eclectic in ite general character. If it presents a peculiarity it is that of a too- prevailing and uniform style of ornamentation. As with the Egyptians the lotus was almost the only floral embellishment made use of, so with the creators of the new school, the palm and the fig leaf constitute the chief decorations of their nude intersticia! spaees. They may be repugnant to our modern notions’ but they are strictly in consonance with those great leading natural principles that have been los} sight of in the corruptions of a gross and material age. In the general blindness which appears to prevail with regard to these facts, it is not surprising hata new school of music, emanating from the same fertile source should be growing up amongst us, of which but little no. tice has been taken by the press, although it is fast de- throning in popularity the works of the great Italian and German composers. From the modest lyrical offu- sions which marked its first rise, negro minatrelsy has takenan ambitious developement, which never rested satisfied until it achieved the palm of operatic success. To Edwin P. Christy may be accorded the merit of origi- |, nating the new school, and of establishing it firmly in popularfavor. Inthe original establishment, after eight years of continuous success, unprecedented, we beieve, in the annals of similar entertainmente, he is still content to rest his claims to public patron- ‘age on the lively little episodes which so vividly iDustrate the grotesque peculiarities of the race from which his portraits are drawn. And well he may. We knew no place of amusement in which an evening can be more agreeably spent, or which more forcibly illustrates the risum tencatis amici of Horace. Those who go there may, with truth, say:— De time is nebber dreary, If the darkey nebber groans; De ladies nebber Wid de rattle of de In the opposition houge (Wood’s,) a successful effort has been made to unite the eccentricitics of these representations with the requirements of the regu- lar drama. Operatic burlesques of sterling comic merit, and presenting the connected interest of a regular story, are nightly played to overflowing audiences, of a higher class than used formerly to attend these places, and who apvear to take as much pleasure in them as in the more ambitious compositions of tho Italian school, And with all the attractions of a first rate company, admircble vocal and inatrumental performers, a well appointed theatre and beautifel scenery, we candidly own, al- though the confession may appear like heresy to some, that we enjoy this variation of our the. atrical pleasures with greater zest than the dull platitudes of what is called —selentifie | music. One of the chief merite of the management of this hopee is the promptitude with which it seizes as EE subjects for its pleasant satire on topi, of ‘terest, such for instance as spiritual a leughs- ble caricature of which is now one of its incipal at tractions. No subject could have been better to bring ou: im broad relief the superstitious foibl of the negro character, and the author of the libretto hastarn- ed to bumorous account the opportunities that it afiord. ed him. The operatic burletta of ‘Black Douglas,” which sveceeds it, is, as will be at once gnessed from its tile, a burlesque on Home’s well known play. Much as it pained us to find turned into effective ri licule the only dramatic effort of our schooldays, hallowed as it was by some pleasant boyish recollestions, on secing the bur- ie | Jerque we were compelled to acknowledge the truth of” the adage, ‘Du sublime au ridicule il n’y @ qu'un pas.’” Let the reader picture to himself the heart-breaking - lamentations of the bereaved mother, uttered through ‘the husky voice of a moustachoed black, whose female / habiliments are worn with a jaunty looseness somewhat ‘at variance with our notions of the grace and dignity of” Home's heroine—a Glenalvon with 2 wig andi, Deard of scarlet wool denoting his sanguine tem. ~ perament, end a Young Norval, (Nebraska Bil | Dovglas,) whose youthful simplicity and artlessneas~ are appropriately typified by all the negro slang ang cunning which George knows how to throw into thes@, characters, and he will have’a fair idee of the ludi- crous effect produced by these contrasts on the minds » of the spectators. Tho choruses im the piece are very effective, and break up the dialogue in the juaintest and { oddest way possible, Judging by the uproarious appro- bation of the audience, and the numbers by which every: ” past of the house was thronged, these pieces seem des~ ~ lined to havea lengthened run. Buckley’s troop is also playing opera, and great ex > pense has been gove to by the proprietor to render ther negro lyrical drama as éffective in spectacle es it is in? musical sentiment. ‘‘Cinderélla”’ has been brought’ oat: | with all the accessories of fine scenery, rich cos- tumeg, and excellent orchestral music. Thia piece hass sroved a great attraction, and nightly draws crowded.» houses. ‘ From this slight sketch it will be seen that the negro: opera has become one of the recognized institutions of the: country. Let the Italian companies look to their laurels. Nimium ne crede colori. . ‘Theatre—Mrs. Macready. ’ Kotzebue’s play, ‘‘The Stranger,’’ was presented at the Bowery theatre last evening, and the part of Mra Haller was played by Mrs. Macready, a lady who formerly re-,, sided in Philadelphia, and who made her début in that. city about two years since. She commenced her first en— gagement in New York at the Bowery, last Monday eve~- ning. Mrs. Macready’s performance of Mrs. Haller was,’ in many respects, excellent; she has a fine, clear voice, and gives the language, as far as pronunciation and ac- centuation go, in undefiled English, a quality whichy might be profitably imitated by many actresses we wot of, The best points that she made last night were these =* at the end of the thied sgh where she discovers. herself to the Countess Wintersen, and in the fifth act, where the stranger tenders to her the jewel box. She acted quietly, and therefore effectively, for it is evident. that she has not yet mastered the art of portraying the- depth of passion in the forcible style which distinguishes: ‘Mes. Farren, Miss Dean, Miss Logan, and others of the- same school. Mrs. Macready’s manner is graceful, easy and refined; and in every instance she showed that she ‘was a well bred women. Her faults are those of a novice; she is rather slow at times, and falls to give that market identification of the character which the audience has a- right to expect from an artiste who is represented to be- a star. In the strong points at the end of the- fourth and fifth acts, she was not equal to. the occasion. She did not make a sufficient degree of dis- tinction between the first and last portions of the play;*| and where she should have been gay, she seemed melan-- choly and thoughtful, thereby denying the trath of ler own Janguage, where she says that she was boginning to. recover her former air of ‘‘ easy gaiety’’ when the sight. ot the child of Count Wintersen recalled to her the~ wemory of her son. That Mrs. Macready has marked talent for the profession which she bas chosen apy to be true; it is also true that she has still something to, learn. Mr. Goodall played the Stranger. He seemed distraig in the part, and though it was a perfect performance, a6 far as the words were concerned, the effect of his ception was considerably msrred by over-strained at, tempts at imitations of the style of certain very pepu-~ lar actors. Mr. Goodali has talent enough to be origi- nal, sscertain points in his last night’s performance clearly proved. The other characters were generally very well sustained. The Baron Steinfort of Mr. R.,| Johnston, the Solomon of Mr. Glenn, and the Francis of Mr. James Dunn, deserve particular mention; andthe piece was, al‘ogether, played much better than it de- served. Hyprorarmic EsrABLisiMENTs.—We have received seve~ yal communications relative to the water cure system, as practised in this country. There are several ostab- ishments where the healing art is dispensed hydropathi- cally; but the best water cure establishment that wo know of is that of Dr. Scheffendecker, Kimberton, Ches-. ter county,,Pa. The Doctor is s worthy follower of the great Presnits, the founder of the hydropathic system of medicine. ‘Tas Orema—Orsvina NiGut.—Castle Garden will be’ opened thie evening, by Max Maretzek, for the perform- ance of the grand apera “Lucia di Lammermoor,”’ one of Donizetti’s most admired productions, being the firs” appearance in America of Maretzek’s now company. Donna Gomez is the Lucia, and Signor Beraldi the Ed- wardo of the night. To properly inaugurate such nt event, Gastle Garden should be crowded this evening. % Marioe Affairs, A Naw Sream DRepoe yor Caaruestox Hinnon.—A storm. Propelling sand dredge for Charleston harbor, of vory large size and power, was lately built in this city, by Wm, Coll; or. She is called the Capt. A. H. Bowman, and is one hundred and seventy-five feet long, and about eighty tons. burthen. She was constructed after the Gosign of J. C. Osgood, who has built a great many of those kind of boate, but adapted only for smooth water. The machinery, which is of a gigantic character, ia the work of Hogg & Delamater. The principle and plan of the vessel are upon an entirely different system to any hitherto used, she being able to dredge effectually during the swell of the sea, while the sortof vessels hitherto in use were only adapted for smooth water. The work will also be: performed at much less expense, as the ten or twenty, scows usually employed, each with a large complemen’ of men, will be entirely dispensed with. In appeara: she looks like an ordinary propeller, with the engine machinery on deck. An idea may be formed of her pg) er and capacity, when it is stated that she can eh: down a depth of forty feet in a bed of sand in the so: and scrape up three tons per minute, or nine tho: tons per week. When her receiver is full, she will steam out into the ocean, and by means of trap doors, deposit her load into the bottom of the sea. The vessel went down the river on a trial trip the other day, and proved very satisfactemy. She leaves to-day for the scene of her Jabors in Charleston harbor, where she is expected to ar- rive in about eight days. Tus Surxer Sur Jossra WaLKer.—Another attempt, on a larger seale, was made on Wednesday afternoon to raige this vessel. When the tide began to ebb, three. large steam pumps were set to work, besiles two dippers, worked by steam. The work went on until the evening, but very little if any impression had been made on the water in the ship. The vessel lics in thirty feet of water,. ‘at the end of the dock, @ little below Roosevelt strect, where she sunk after being burnt at the conflagration: which destroyed the clippers Great Republic and White Equal. Notwithstanding the little encouragement re- sulting in his attempts to raise her, Capt. Bell, the con- tractor, is still sanguine of accomplishing {/. THE CLIPPERS N. B. PALMER AND FLYING CLOUD. New Oxeaxs, June 20, 1854.” TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Reading the Boston Semé- Weekly; Alas of the 10th inst., I saw an account of the ship Flying Cloug’s late passage to San Francisco; and in the remarks, it says:—"* We have upon a former occasion shown how the Flying Cloud once overhauled the clipper N. B. Palmer, run her out of sight in léss than twenty hours, and beat her from the latitude of Rio Janeiro to San» Francisco, twenty-one days.” I was in the ship Flying Cloud on that voyage, and the two ships fell in company in the latitude of tho Rio de la Plata—the Palmer being ahead, having sailed ten ioe after us in the Cloud. wind was light, at dayligh and we had been near Cuba all the night before. ‘During the forenoon the breeze sprang up the northeast, and both ships made sail for a race—the N. B. Palmer outsailing the iy | Cloud, while the wind was ¢: ly ait, ond Capt. Law finding his ship outsailing the Cloud, hove to to speak. The Cloud came up and both masters bid each other success on the passage, and parted fora st at twelve, noon. The Palmer hai two pgiate eatward for n side wind; there Capt. Low missed, for that wan what the Flying Cloud wished for. During the night the wind freshened, so that by four in the the Clond had all weneies caus taken in; a just good day mer ig foreto] in ai with bie 1t shut in with rain before Tont 3 Goud catanliod bat oc morniy, o'clock astern foot of mast stuodsng sail set. nine o’clock, and of course and that is tho way the Flying