The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1855, Page 4

4 '@ NEW RK HERALD. upicn, and will maintain that harmony of senti- YORK HE le ment which now heppily prevails emong all'tree JAMES GORDON BauneErt, Comoe . SYPION H.W. CORNES OF NASSAU AMD FULTON STS. yesterday, brought Bs the details of the California be Rews which had been annoanctd by #legraph from oe TERMS, cash io ar a Eero Fa Ch? of Great Mtirttain: ana'¥0%0 amy partes the Gon. On LETTERS by Mail fo or with Adver- oe neuen se pahed rovey VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing impor. the used Salman pad on “sa Gun Toasiew Connesron- DENTS ARE PARTICULARLY REQUESTED return those rejected. (PRINTING executes |R TISEMENTS renewed every day. Welume XX., Nor 105 AMUSEMENTS YWIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—-Witras 2. BROADWAY THBATRE, Breadway—@.avraron— ‘hove anv Lanorny. : BOWERY THEATRE, Gowery—Rac Purr or Panis Rouen Diamonn—Bai.or oF Francs. BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Lrcernrsain ‘-Wanrpenine MintrreL—Sracras Buxpecroom. ‘8 THEATRE, Broadway—Tuz Sox: ‘Bow Duacowns. has 4 . AMERICAN MUSEUM--Afterneon—Twx Duwm MAN oF Manonsersn, Evening—Sivive DUTOMMAN, WOOD'S MINSTMELS, Mechantor’ Hall—478 Broadway. BUCKLEDS OPERA HOUSE, 539 Broa¢way—Buon- env s krmer:an Oren Tours. PERHAW’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 663 Broad- ‘way—Ermiorian PrRPORMANOLS. EMPIRE HALL, 666 Broadway—Panonawa ov Eunora 4np Srour or Smasroron. ‘New ‘York, Mondmy, April}, 1855. aeinriniannon: The News. The Englich and French journals continue to o> eupy themeclves with the Cuban question. The Hardon Excminer has @ strong arsicle o2 the seb- ject, sdvocating the emancipation of the negro population on the island, as aleo the active intervon- ~tion of England and France, towprevent the United “oBtates frem seizingwpon it. This, the Examiner ‘eontends, is a necessary step im the programme of “their Western potioy, to which unmiatakeable alla- ‘gions were made last year by Lord Clarendon ia the House 0! Lords. Toe Parta Petrie of the 29th ult. states that the Spanish government had received ‘from M. Cuetto, ts Minister!Plenipotentiary to the United States, the assurance that the Cabinet of ‘Washington esemed dispoced to prevent ang filibus- tering attempte against the island. M. Stiennc Montel, a writer in the Patrie, who seems todevoic hhimeelf specially to American affairs, although ~mothing can exceed the gross ignorance which the deplaye regarding them, furnishes us with an smbitieus articke «n the Caban question to the text of the Ostend correspondence. -He con- ~ eludes it by stating that any at‘emp$ upon our part to take possession of Caba by force, or to-compel Spain to eell it, would: be “a fact umparatelod in the history of civilized nations, and weuld' rest as an indelible stain on tue forehead of the American democracy.” The Courrier du Havre of the 224, hhas the follewing im reference to the news received from Cuba by tke “Baltic:—“Tais intelligence - presents the Spavish colony under an aspec: which, if it be of a trangailicing nature as regards the present, dees not continue the leas menacing as zegarda tae future, Suzh isthe conclusion that is to be formed, even from the reports of the Captain- General himself, which we recently reproduced, for fthe moment the conspiracy is exploded the American expedition which was prepariog in the Southe:n States remeins without an object.” The Las Nevedades o! Madrid mentions aa certain the intelligence that Eagland has offered her mediation im the difference between Spaia and the United Btates. We present our resders to-day w'th a very curious and inveresting docement—the appeal of the Holy Synod of Russia to the Russian people—which has been translated for eur columus from one of the St. Petersburg papers. It was one of the reproaches against the late Czar, since the commencement of the present war, that he was always appealing to the religious fanaticism of his people. The fact of the Emperor Alexander permitting the publication of such adocument.as that to which we refer, proves ‘that the reigning mensrch was not, as was general- ly believed, opposed to bis father’s efforts to call in aid of nie policy the religious prejudices ef hia sab- jects. We have now, both im the emphatic declara- tions ot the nobles and of the priesthood, uuques- thonsble evidence of the popularity of the war with all classes of the Russian people. The case of Dr. Charles A. Peck, an American gevtieman, of this city, recently arrested by th @uban au horities. a: Puerto Principe and thrust imto prison at Havana, is exciting deserved atten. tion. We published yesterday the proveediogs of a ting of his friends, at which resolutions con- demnatory of the acts of the Caban government, and invoking the interposition of President Pierce t0 protect Dr. Pa. k, were adopted, and a committee appointed to concert messures tor holding a public meeting to deliberate upon the condition of our relsiicns with Cuba. A notice appears im our ad- vertising columns for a general meeting of the Ma eonic Fraternity, to be held this eveniog at the Ma- sonics Temple, corner Crosby and Broome -streets, to teke into consideration measures to be adopted for the liberationof Dr. Peck. He wass prominent and worthy member of the ancient aud bonorable Fraterpity, and has been W. M. of a lodge under ‘thie jurisdiction. There shonld be a fall meeting. By an arrival a Phiadelphia we have advices from Porto Cabello (Venezuela) to the 27th ult. Geu. Monsgas, the newly elected President, had faiziy entered upon the duties of his office, bat his earnest promises to effect reforms in the goveramen- ts] departments had in no case been realized. Ia- deed, it was apparent that be intended to pursue hie previous administrative policy and no other, and also to retain in office his former subordinates. Coa- gress continued in session, without having done anything worthy of note. Basiness was quite ac- tive at Porto Cabello, particularly in produce, and coffe was coming in briskly. This article com- manded from $10 25 to $12 50 per quintal, according New Orlesns. It will be seen by the card of Page, Bacon & Co., which we publish, that the banking tater oho is ele iy Se eeennl @ hee of March. The ie postage ill be dotacted from explosiom: had’ although it bore by no means as brisk an aspect as 70 seaL ALL Les. | traders might desire. The Legislature was busy in AND EAGKAGED SENT US. ve communications, We | Wndeavoring to improve the morals of the State by with neatness, cheapness, and | the passage of a prohibitory liquor law, an anti ‘ gambling act, &o., and were also on the point of ds claring the election of Messrs. Denvers and Herbert ‘to Congress void, and ordering « new election hy, Wistricts inst ef by general ticket. A bill wag also before the Legislature to abolish the city ¢,ov- “ernment of San Francisco, and to place theciiy in the bands of trustees. The news wil’, be found in- teresting. We bave by this arrival received Hono- lulu dates to the $d ult., but there is rothing of general importance mextioned. The admirers of the Rev. Mr. Chapin, the eloquent Universalist minister of this city, will thank us, we are sure, for the fall report wiich we give of his sermon preached in the Church of the Divine Unity yesterdsy. "While extendieg an invitation to driak of the waters of life freely, he expressed his abhor- rence cf those other fire waters witich seem at the present moment to occupy more the attention of this community, His effective sermon will no doubt be read with pleasure ané profit. About "3,000 a 4800 bales of cotton were gold Saturday, part after the receipt ot the America’s news. The market closed firm. Middliag uplands were at 94 cente. Flour was steady, with a fair amount of sales. A-small lot of prime white Southern | wheat soll at $279. Corn was firm, with sales on the epot, at $1 07a $1 09, the latter for yellow, and Western mixed, to arrive in June, at 90 cents, Whiskey was fismer, and closed at 3230. a 330. @QJnconstiteMionality ef the Liquor Law. “Now that the law has passed, it istime to-in- quire whether it be constitutional. Not whe- ther it be consistent with the State constitu- tion, as has been the inquiry in several of the “States, but whether it be not @ fiat nullificetion of an act of Congress. Congress imposes a duty of twenty to fifty per cent on the importation of wines and liguors. By that act suck importation is licensed and *autho- rized: end on the strength of it numbers of citizens have betaken themselves to the im- portatien of liquors asa trade. It may safely be said that forty millions of capital are in- vested in the business, and that ten millions out of the whole goes to support the federal government in the shape of a customs duty. Now, the question is whether the State Legis- lature can say to the importers: You, gentle- men, have invested certain moneys, and paid certain taxes to the government in order to receive the right to import merchandise of a particular kind: yet we, in the exercise of our authority, think it not fit you should exer- cise that right, and therefore forbid you to make any uee of the merchandise you have paid so much to the general government for the privilege of importing and selling. Or to the general government: You have relied upon the product of a tax by :you imposed with un- questioned authority on certain merchandise for the support of the State; yet we, in the exercise of our authority, think that such mer- chandise should not be dealt in, and therefore forbid its introduction in spite of your law to authorize its importation and your loss by the failure of the tax. That the law implies bad faith to the former— the importer--and invoives a conflict of juris- diction with the latter—the federal govern- ment—is obvious. A man who has invested half @ million in liquors and paid thereon a hundred or a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the United States for the right of bringing them into the country, cannot certainly be deprived of that right by a local jurisdiction without gross injustice. Nor can the general govern- ment be stripped of one of its most fruitful and most legitimate sources of revenue without a very clear and imperative reason for the act. The people of this country gave certain powers to Congress, and certain other. powers to the States. To the former they gave power to regulate commerce, and in part expressly, in part by implication, took it out of the hands of the States. Accordingly the general govern- ment does regulate commerce by a tariff of duties, which has been discussed and changed too frequently to admit for an instant any question of the absolute power of Congress to pass it. Accordingly, also, the States do not meddle with commerce. All goes on well and satisfactorily on this basis for sixty odd years. But at length men start up and argue that for moral reasons, the regulations made by the general government with regard to commerce are improper and must be altered: and, true enough, a law is passed by several State Legis- latures to prohibit the carrying out of a law of Congress. If this be not nullification, in what does it consist ? The general government could afford to overlook the insignificant cases of Maine or Vermont. If they were to give up trading altogether it is not clear people would know of of it. But if the fiscal laws of the federal gov- ernment sre to be nullified in the city of New York, the treasury will soon perceive the difference, It must not be forgotten, either, that the successful nullification of the tariff*by a Maine law might be used as @ precedent with fatal ef- fect, im case any State, as Pennsylvania, Mas- % grade; hides 16 to 16} cents per pound. Our Correepoudent at Rio Negro informs us in hie letier of the 10th of January, that the two *mall steamers, Tivado and Hualleja, coastracted ‘» New York fcr the Peravian government, are retting at Loreto, they being unfit for avy service The government of Pern, a:cording to the repor of the o ite appointed to accapt said vessels, the price for them to $65,000. Tue £ $85,000 was first agreed apon. We bave received letters from our Quebes cor. reepondent. Oxe presents an analysis of the annua yeport of the Moutreal Board of Trade, giving som intereating statistics of the trade of Montreal, acd of the present position and past progress of com merce generally ia the Province. It seems that tho Beard of Trade suggeet some amendmenis to te reciprocity tresty. The circalar cf Seeretary wore he le expected to parsae, bat those etain nothing either speci! or unusual. atiors of foreign goods into t Boston for the week ending Saturday last, were ca- foed 2% €1,838,080. on of officers of the Tammany night at Tammany Hail. W. sacidates in anotter coloma to the faithial, which con- pewhst remarkable statement o foitaed up sue base of | sachusetts and South Carolina in times past, found iteelf in conflict with the general govern- ment. If a State can exclude one commodity, nullify the tariff in one particular, of coarse it can exclude all, nullify the whole. Wherein then did South Carolina go wrong in 1833? This business will not be cettled without a formal decision of the highest United States Conrt, and the sooner it is taken there the better, Great Traven Nortu anv West.—The trave on our great railroad lines North and West, will evidently, during the present spring, be on agrand svale. We perceive that in one week Jately, on the Illinois Central road, (which con nects with the Mississippi river, and in that way with New Orleans on the South, and with our exeat, through New York lines at its northera terminns, at Chicago,) that there were from seven to eight thousand passengers, and that in one train of thirty cars, drawn by two loco- motives, there were some fifteen hundred pas- sepger-, From these symptoms we should not ¢ surprised if the travel and emigration to the reat Northwest, from the South and East, were ‘o exceed the present year, by twenty, thir:y, or even fifty per cent, the passenger traffic of by previons year in the hietory of the coun- Q we ee ee NEW YORK HERALD, *<QNDAY, APRIL 16, 1855. _ The «Little Villains” Legislature, New. York Bas been notations Gur”. ie whole of the present century f0F Pe" tical pro- fligrey and corruption. Ever sin of Aaron Burr and the inter “© the sdveat of that arch demagogue, down t 44. tt day ; iB present day, Dove the peop? of Nee’ vork state been alfiicted and secure’ qv public leaders of the most into¥er re endurance. Partisan power has, “suing the entire period, been wielded by th.¢ most corrupt and nnprincipled men. "she seffoonstituted leaders of the rhrew'4 Bucktall faction, the dictators of the Clirstonian dynasty, the old Albany Regency, were all men-of the most desperate character and unscrupulous conduct. But all those men, unprineipled and villanous as they were in their day and generation, were saints of purity-—were angels of mercy amongst men—in comparison with the “little villains”. who have wiekled the Legislature for the two past years, and who have had the State adminis- ‘tration in their hands daring that period of time. In‘the iron grasp of their hands they have ‘held the Legislature of eighteen hundred end fifty-five. The people imagined they had elected a majority to the lower branch pos- sessing sufficient courage to perform their pub- ‘lie duties for the welfare of the State. They counted upon a majority pledged against the Albany Central Regency. The peopie ima- eined that the House of Assembly would stand elevated above the influence of dictation ; and accordingty thatnajority placed a man in the Speaker’s chair who was bound by the most sacred and solemn political pledges to carry out the people’s. wishes. But he proved a backslider—he deceived and betrayed the confi- dence reposed in him, and, together with thirty- six others, deserted to the enemy. The names of all theee ba.ksliders were -exposed at the time. What have the “little villains” of this Legis- lature done ? 1, They have elected William H. Seward to the United States Senate; 2. They have passed a Prohibitory Liguor law; 3. They have imposed a direct tax upon the people of fifteen hundred thousand dollars; 4, They have squandered many, many thousands, as gratuities to political favorites, in the annual supply bill. Besides this they have endeavored to destroy our police system in the city of New York, in order that it might be made, as here- tofore, a mighty political engine. They have undertaken to alter the charter of our city, without the authority of our Common Council or the will of the people. They have attempt- ed to cripple the energies, destroy the power, and frustrate the efforts of the Mayor of thie city, in his laudable endeavors to reform some of the thousand evils of magnitude which have long existed in our midst. This Legislature undertook to nullify a solemn law of the Con- gress of the United States; and in one branch the “little villians” labored to open the con- stitution so as to allow negroes to vote at elec- tions and become amehbable to hold office. This model administration, after having bank- rupted the treasury, set about to obtain the ways and means tu replenish it, in order that the funds might again be squandered. The first proposition was to compel the railroads to furnish the quota—supply the deficiency. The locomotives crushed the project at once. Then resort was had to levying taxes upon banks, insurance, and other incorporated companies. This received only five votes in the whole Legislature. An attempt was made to borrow money upon the pledge of the Sinking Fund of the State. And, finally, the whole power of the whig State administration, in the Cabinet, in the executive chamber, in the kitchen, and in the Legislature, was directed towards opening the constitution, and postponing the debt of the State, twenty-eight millions, for the period of thirty years. The election of Seward, the passage of the liquor bill, and the church property law, are the only important measures of the session. These measures, either singly or combined, have been the means of raising the mighty tor- nado now so majestically sweeping over the State of New York. The Regency, by electing Seward, by persisting in his election, and no whig else, have dethroned themselves. That victory was their own overthrow. That success was nothing but destruction and disaster to themselves, BY forcing upon the people an in- temperate prohibitory law many thousands are forever driven from the whig ranks, The “little villians” have run through be- tween four and five hundred bills, and enacted them into laws. Not fifty of them are of the least general importance to the people. The remainder are all for the benefit of those who have been in the lobby all winter. There has scarcely # bill been lost which the lobby de- manded, and they were mostly for claims against the State upon some frivolous pretence or other—the large nunmber of companies incor- -porated, turnpikes, bridges, plank roads, and amendments to former laws, constitute the work accomplished since the first of January. Such a gathering of legislators, reckless, heedless, party-bound as they are, would have remaine@ at the Capitol during the rest of the year, if their per diem was provided. To cap the climax of their labors, it was attempted, before they separated, to present their signa- tures to the Governor, soliciting him to call an extra seseion of the Legislatare, at the latter end of August, “as a public exigency will then exist for redistricting the Senate dis- tricts under the census then taken.’ As to the effect which an extra session will have on the destiny of the whig party, it is a matter of very small moment, as that question is already well settled. It cannot injare it. There never was less talent concentrated in the Assembly chamber. With a Speaker work- ing in opposition to his professions, and a party leader on the floor assuming openly and shame- lesely to direct the “little villains” of the Le- gislature, the men who were sgnt there to attend to the people’s interests bave been led and driven like abject serfs and slaver. THe ADMINISTRATION AND Cupa —It will be seen, from our Washington special despatch of this morning, that the administration has virta- ally backed out again at the sticking point of our controversy with Spaia. There is no plack in our man Pierce; in fact, Col. Polk was a Napoleon compared to him. Wail street, and our old fogy commercial journals, need enter- tain no further alarm. The danger is over. The edministwation bas collapsed like a bag of wind. Don’s mind the binster, bravado. and hue and cry of the Cabinet organs. Disa trick. There will be no war with Spain, if Me. Pieree and Marcy—hb's good Man Friday—can is, perhaps, greater than that of ‘all the free States, outside of our limits, pu’, together. It represents here a capital of at, least fifty mil- lions of dollars, and involves the business and subsistence of from s hv.ndred to a hundred and fifty thousand peop'e. This vast business will be quashed if tis new Hquor law is en- forced. Who can predict the consequences? Out city newspapers implicated in the re- sponsibility of this despotic law, as its advo- cates or apologists, are the Tribune, the Times, the Commercéal Advertiser and the Journal of Commerce. It is from these journals that the combined Kiquor interests have determined to withdraw their advertising custom, and to trans- fer it te a new daily jeurnal, the Vews, which is to come out to-day, the Evening Mirror, the Day Book, and some others, This will be acon- siderable loss to the losers, especially to the Lieutenant Governor’s Maine law organ, which bas been advertising, on liberal terms, all branches of the liquor interest, for the edifica- ‘tion of its temperance subscribers; and it will be quite a plum to the Mirror and Day Book, that are sadly in want of a little additional ready cash business. The consistency of this plan of operations cannot be disputed. To have a newspaper daily preaching temperance, and daily advertising liquor, is, on the contra- ry, a8 bold a humbug as Barnum’s plan of lec- turing up stairs in his Museum on the blessings of prohibition, with a half dozen establish- ments, more or less, in the same building, rented out as grog shops, in full blast under his feet. Let the liquor dealers follow up their game. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The Cabinet and Cuba. ANOTHER BACK OUT OF THE ADMINISTRATION ON THE CUBAN IMBROGLIO. Wasninaton, April 16, 1855. I learn from good authority here, that after two or three,weeks’ deliberations, the Cabinet have detailed Com- modore McCauley to Cuba, with orders amounting almost to nothing at all. He goes upon a fool’s errand, like our diplomats at Ostend, or like the King of France, who, with thirty thousand men marched up the hill only to march down again. True, the Commodore sails to Cuba ‘with despatches to our Consul at Havana; but he is cau- tioned to be extremely careful against getting into a difficulty like that of Captain Hollins, at Greytown. At the same time despatches will be sent out by the Spanish Minister to General Concha, advising him to let Ameri- can steamers pass without molestation hereafter, except in very suspicious cases; and to use all available means for conciliating our.government. In point of fact, Commodore McCauley goes out as a sort of marine police officer, to aid the government of Caba in detecting the filibusters, should they come along. He will have a talk with Concha, and make it all straight, and all past offences will be forgiven upon the ‘verbal explanations expected of the Captain-General. As I was the first to promulgate to the world, through |, the columns of the Hxratp, the warlike movements of the Cabinet on this Cuban imbroglio, upon the heels of Soulé’s return, so itis likely that this will be the first intelligence of Mr. Pierce’s backing out. But you may rely upon my sources of information, as heretofore. All the warlike bluster and gasconade of the Washington ‘Union, and other cabinet organs, is all for Buncombe and deception in the Virginia and other approaching elections. This administration can’t be kicked into a war. Greytown exhausted it. Arrival of tne Southern Mail. Baurimonrg, April 15, 1855. ‘The mail from all points South, as late as due, is re- ceived. ‘Weather at W: ‘Wasuintox, April 16, 10 P.M., 1865. ‘We have had during the day a series of intermittent showers. The thermometer stands at 56 degrees above zerc. It is now clear and fine. Markets. Provipence, April 14, 1855. Cotton has been in active demand during the week, the market closing with a firm feeling. Wool—The stock of both pr and fleece is very light, and the market closes at 8. The sales have amounted to 60,100 pounds, ting cloths—The market has been steady, and the stock of the best grades is light and prices firm. The sales add up 38,800 pieces. City Politics. ANNUAL ELECTION AT TAMMANY RAUL. “Old Tammany” is in the field again. To-night the annual election of Sachems takes place. We have heard from one side; the following is their manifesto ana ticket :-— New You, April 12, 1855. Bnornens:—On Monday evening next, st half past soven ‘venerated walls of * Old tion of the officers of our Present moment there are man; gage the attention of true republi- ‘within our chain of brotherhood to their political duties. Our national fiag has been repeatedly violated upon the ocea: treasury has been brought to the verge of insolvency, the re- sources provided by the prudent forethought of departed pa- triots for its proper uses, have been squandere, Jobers; and the constitutional restrictions ity are threatened with overthrow, and ction and our social intercoure sre honesty and self reepect alike demand that the sitizen shou! look to the public welfare, we ask you to rally at Old Tammany” to maintain her glory. e commend the en- closed ticket to your a support. It is formed upon the baris of union, and will maintain that harmony of sentiment Which now Lappily prevails among all true democrats. Yours truly, in faith and brotherhood. Signed by'one hundred and eighty-cight “ immoztals,”” Annexed is the ticket:— FOR SACHEMS, Lorenzo B. Shepard, Anson J. Herrick, Richard B. Connolly, Thomas Dunlap, Daniel E. Delavan, William 8. Durbrow, William D. Kennedy, Charles H. Ring, John Kelly, Joseph Rose, Andre Froment, Are) Freeman, George 8. Messerve.” FOR TREASURER. FOR SAGAMORE. Wilson Small. Charles Mills. FOR SECRETARY. FOR WISKINKIE. Stephen C. Duryea. R. D, Letter. + s Marine Affairs. ‘Tre Lost 1x THe 8m1P Wat, Laytoy.—The following are the names of the unfortunates swept from the deck of the ship Wm. Layton, lost on the passage from this port to Antwerp:—Wm. Brown, seaman, of Massachuset.+. John Carson, seaman, of England; Eugene White, car’ venter, of Ireland; and Martha Ana Forsyth, stewardess, of North Carolina. It is said the crew were on the wreck seven days and six nights, without eating any- thing except one rat, which they caught swimming about the vessel Recovery or Cart Westoorr.—The Courrivr de la Gi- ronde says Capt. Westcott, of the ship Adams, who was stabbed at Bordeaux by a sailor named Robinson, is | going on favorably; and that though the wound is deep, no doubt is entertained by his medical attendants of bis rayid recovery. al Intelligence, The United Staves frigate Savannah, Com. Salter; and the United States sloop of war Germantown, Capt. Luish, from River Plate, were at Rio Janeiro March 6th, Personal Intelligence. ARRIVALS. ‘o's messenger: Mrs MF kin Lord, GA Lathrop, Nb Sartwell, © Ellory, WJ Ellory. © Coping 8M Phelps, TL Andrews, GE Ackeriy, J Pléts, DB Hinman, A Wighton, D Knox, J Austin, Bliytlo, & ‘arothere, I) Tupper, J Porry, W'8 Dunlap, T Horton J Johnson, J’ Green. Gl, White, A Bishop, W Jones, R Brown, G M Cole, WJ Co W Elkins, WT Honry,J N Smith, E Stone, HW Whitney, N Young, J H Dodge, and others in the steerage. From Liverpool in ship Ameries—John Mosgrave, James Eston. From Liverpool in brig Wenry Leeds Parsons, Mr Palmer and lady The Mastachusetts House of Reprossntatives have or- igating committee to inquire into Josenh flise, Mr. Hier waa the ———ee AND YAOLBSAE TiQUOR IMPORTERS 18 Or. To ) NEW YORK LAW. Over one bundred and fifty gentlemen interested as- hotel or wholesale importers in the Nquor traffic, assembied in the Astor House on Saturday tve- ning last, to take such measures as might be deemed ex- pedient to test the constitutionality of the Probibitory law recently passed by the State Legislature, Mr. Charles A. Stetson called the meeting to order, and nominated Mr. Oliver Whetmore as chairmae. This being carried, Messrs, Thredwell and Cozzens were ap pointed Secretaries, ‘Mr, Sretson announced the object of the meeting. It was to take measures to find out what the rights of the Mquor dealers were, provided they had any rights in the community since the passage of the Prohibitory law. It was deemed advisable to call together all those who were largely interested in this prohibited business, to consult as to the best means of evading the provisions of this obnoxious law, or to have it set aside f declared unconstitutional by the proper legal au- thorities. Mr. S., for one, was satisfied that the provisions of this prohibitory act were not only in viola- tion of the spirit of the constitution, but in direct oppo- sition to its most obvious requirements, To investigate this matter properly it was proposed to raise a fund to ‘test the opinions of the most eminent counsel in the city. Such men as Chag. O’Conor, J. Curtis Noyes, Judge Bronson, James R, Whiting and George Wood had been mentioned. It was thought it would be to get their advice not only individually, but also as‘ board of council, to subscribe toa united opinion as to the un” constitutionality of the law. If the liquor dealers have any constitutional rights it would be well for them to know it, and if their natural rights can be constitution- ally violated it would be well for them to know that also. At the suggestion of Mr. Stetson, a committee of seven ‘was appointed to call on the lawyers mentioned, and ar- Tange matters, so that a favorable expression of opinion could be had from them, It was then decided to fee the following named gentle- men—Chas. O’Conor, J. Curtis Noyes, Greene C. Bron- sop, James R. Whiting, Horace F. Clark, George Wood, J. Prescott Hall, Mr. Pump W. Enos moved that Elias E. Kirkland be added to the list. SrversL Vorces—O, he’s a temperance man. He won’t do. ‘Mr. Sretsox—| ba, a it is understood that no lawyer will eg emplayed he agrees to give an opinion on our aide of ti juestion ? Mr. James ERARD was named as not being averse fo the use of good liquor; whereupon he was added to e Mr, Excs—Gentlemen, we have decided to employ a number of distinguished lawyers; now, in order to se- cure their services 1t will be necessary to have a large fond. We should raise here, to-night, $10,000 at least. After some conversation 1t was decided to open a sul scription list, which was done, Mr. Engs acting treasurer. Mr. Bayaup moved that the Committee of Arrauge- ments that had been appointed, be inst to co-ope- rate with the Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association, and also with the Distillers’, both of which societies are hold- ing meetings nightly. ‘The interest tobe defended was the same, and it was useless for the importers and hotet keepers to hold back from any intercourse with the dealers. ‘This suggestion was adopted. A number of gentlemen then came forward, and sub- scribed sums varying from $600 to $250. It was under- stood at the adjournment of the meeting that over $8,000 bad been ed. Some conversation ensued as to what should be done with the money, in case it was not all used in feeing the lawyers, when it was unanimously decided to employ it in defending the first violation of the obnoxious law that should come up in the courts, finance committee of twen' to collect fond: ne meeting adjourned, to pid nerd this week. Mr. son urged the of the liquor dealers keeping the action of the mee’ secret; but ag Fpl ag ti ige to ext sig me sate: be no objectio blicat proceedings the Herp. 2 THE EFFECTS AND DEFECTS OF THE PRO- HIBITORY LAW. As the time approaches for the expiration of the li- censes, the excitement on the subject of the new law PY ckepb A riniatepmnmmetonns fh 4 * mets Gearirour season, it will deal a blow at the pros continues to increase, especially among the liquor dealers. New facts in relation to the effects of the law are coming to light, and the defects absurd enact- ment, and the injuries it will inflict upon innocent parties, are beginning to be more apparent. It is stated that 3,000,000 bushels of grain are distilled in this city and Brooklyn during the year, three-fourths of which is damaged in transitu from the country, and rendered unfit for any other purpose than distillation. There are also 60,000 hhds. of molasses distilled in the same places, much of which is useless for any other pur- pose, from the fact of its being soured by remaining too long on band. Should the law be enforced, these arti- cles will become valueless. The distilling establishments in this city employ over a thousand men, most of whom have families directly, and a vast number indirectly depending upon them. Seven-eighths of the rum ma- nufactured here goes abroad, and at least one-half of the grain is used for the distillation of alcohol for ma- nufacturing purposes. Now, by the provisions of the new law, it appears, from the second section, that though certain citizens will be alowed to sell liquor and alco. hol, they cannot do so without giving security a year in advance of the'application, A manufacturer of alcohol has sent us a communica- tion on this subject, in which he complains bitterly of this provision of the act. He states that among his customersfare druggists and daguerreotypists, who are compelled to use this liquid daity, and who cannot prosecute their business without it. They will therefore be compelled to violate the law, though they may not wish to do so. Another correspondent thinks the effects of the law ‘will be most injurious on property holders, by reason of the tenants being unable to fulfil their obligations to pay their rent’. He adds:— ‘this will not only affect all the liquor stores that have already been taken (in expectation that sucha law would not pass) but grocers and hotel keepers will be ruined. There is no disguising the fact that the en- forcement of this law will do more to bring about a com- mercial crisis than the stoppaze of the imports of gold from Califorria. There is no question but that importers can sell by the glass or ap; oaher ‘way to whom they please. Rum mea- ufactured in Cuba can be sold here freely, when pre- cisely the same article manufactured here cannot ba sold at all, even through agents. It is well known that much of the foreign brandy imported is American pare spirits shipped to France, there adulterated and resnip- ped as French brandy, the sale of which this law canaot prevent, for the importer pays the United States 100 cent for the right to sell, which no State law can deprive them ot. Whatever may be said to the contrary, it is well known to the trade that domestic liquors are sctually ure and the foreign adulterated. Who will say that New England rum, the pore extract of , or American whiskey double refined, and simply colored with burnt brown sugar, is adulterated liquor? There is something like thirty barrels of alcohol used daily im this city in the manufacture of sarsaparilla. Must these manufac- turers go to this oe agent % bay what they require, im twenty-uve per cent profit, and no dtsset tothe manufacturers!” The widlesle ‘atuggists of New York sell nearly one hundred barrels a day. Must they give up this branch of their business, or take an oath that no respectable merchant can do conscien- tiously, in order to get a license? The fact is, these hypocritical, fanatical country legislators are forcing laws upon this city that they do not understand, and don’t pretend to carry out in their own persons. Did anybody see a temperance legislator on Blackwell visitation of the teu Governors? It this kind of leg tion in forced on the city,a mew State wili be tne result, The following inflammatory handbill was posted up erourd the city yesterday, and attracted no little atten- tica— THE AMERICAN INQUISITION. You who hold your liberties dear, read over the pro- hibitien act, with care and’attention. Se whether you will sanction so monstrous an invagion of persoaal right. It allows arrest upon suspicion. It provides for an army of spies and informers. It distranchises thou- sends of the most estimable citizens, by refusing them a right to ext upon juries. It is an implement by which private malice can be gratified tos fearful ex:ent, It provides for the destraction of an amount of property sufficient to cause an unparalleled amount of bank- rpptcies throughout the ‘te. its evil will be felt in every department of business. It will drive trade from the city, tenants from their stores, hundreds of thousands of men from their employment. Wat mercbant can meet his payment if his stock in trade is destroyed or rendered worthless ? His creditors must take bis house, his furnitare, his all, and dr've hie tamiy in the street to swell the number of pan- re. Jt i8 @ Jaw imposed upon toe psovie by traud. It does not represent their wishes. New York gave 24,901 majority against it. The peoplo of tne State of New York provested against it by a vote of 913,077 and A MAJORITY OF 156,723. Resides, this question was not a direct issue in the lest election. ‘The whig party represented all the Maine all the anti-Nebraska vote, all the Seward ail those adherents of the old’ whig party wao that ticket, no matter wnat it reprevents, RQE PROWIBITORY LIQUOR LAWS, | reciz*' Revs Sate vossampiet tn ts ruinous ‘Therefore, this law does not represent the wishes of the people ot the State, but only the arbitrary intent.on of a small minority of some twenty or thirty thousand to pat shackles over 3,000,000 of people, IT 18 A FRAUD: A blot upon the statute book and unfit for a free people! « Citizens, laws must be obeyed, bat this is a new isan Lawn are made to protect the person and hia property. This provides for the ertraction of the one Hat the ve lation of the other. c pa, there must be imetant action and concert of hee Sracrh of trale. Afver the THE ILLINOIS LIQUOR Law. ' TO THE EDITOR OF THE BeRaLp. 4 g g | ge no’ as “heretofore” granted, been taken in advance ble from sul not bg? of Jaw to encourage evasions of a statute, and eusage ofthe law will, we infer; not be aloved 8 longer Seistence than the first of October. THE OHIO LIQUOR Law. ‘The Columbus Ohio State Journal says.— A single Judge ventured the. 0) that our law was in violation of the constitution, but ie retired from the bench, and his associates, whom the oase came before the Supreme Court, unanimously reversed his decision, and declared the law constitutional. ven in ways last, yy the Sts The opinion above referred to, was weeiees Onieneieetinl ear al “ogiomrr| a le as pretty 01 cor 2. eee the most Nearned | jurists in the State. . Police Intelligence, ALLEGED DISHONESTY OF A DOMESTIC. On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Ellen Halsey, of No. 337 Water street, found, to her astonishment, that her bu- feau drawer had been broken into and rifled of its con- tents, including $250 in bank bills. Suspecting that her domestic, Catharine Swift, was the thief, Mrs, Hal- sey gave information of the robbery at the Fourth ward station house, informing officer Wagan at the time of her suspicion as to Catharize’s Bon It was decided. by the officer to arrest the girl, which he accordingly ala. At first the domestic indignantly denied all cr he funds \@ officer accompanied her to the spot indicated, and , trae enough, was found the missing money safely hia beneath the earth. The prisoner was taken bys Ea Bogart, at the Lower Police Court, who-held hér to bail in the sum of $1,000 to answer. A LITERARY GENTLEMAN IN TROUBLE. A few days ago Walter Moopey, of 58 Barclay street, appeared at the Lower Police Court and made « com- Plaint against a young fellow about 17 years of age, for anatching his watch out of his hand, under the follow- ing circumstances :—Mooney, it seems, while im the public house, corner of Greenwich and Barclay streets, was watched by this young man, who followed. Tim anti betnaa ed the’ street, when he step; vp and asked him what time it was. “Mr. pul + ut his repeater, but time to tell him the our, when the watch was snatched out of his hand by the rascal, who succeeded in off with the valuable, before any alarm could be raised. Yesterday, officer Hamblin, of the Third ward ota a ion of WHOLESALE ARREST OF ALLEGED GAMBLERS. At an early hour on Sunday morning, Captain Norris, the Tenth ward police, along with a squad of men un- his command, made a descent upon the drinking No, 56 Orchard street, kept by a J. Strauss, ith gambling, iL cards f¢ e. playing ¢ is for drinks, suppers and me =~ cle aa ‘Atvong them might be found chant, cle : fessor, man' and a number of tradesmen’ Ail were 1a a Penalty, of course, was quickly paid, and the prisoners jeparted in much better spirits than when making their ingress. SUSPICION OF BURGLARY. A young man named Cornelius Parsons was arrested at an early hour on Saturday morning,by officer Slowey, of the Tenth ward police, on suspicion’ of burglaxy.. "Tae accused had in his sion at the time of his arrest a carpet bag cont ing a lot of ci ’ tools, which were subsequently identified by Mr. of 48 Christie street, an a of a quantity of tools taken from his shop, which he party not deeming it the officer’s business to stop him, showed fight, but was soon mastered—not, pollen until he ussd the policeman rather roughly. The ac- cused was taken before Justice Wood, at the Kasex Market Police Court, who committed him for examina- ALLEGED QARELESS BLASTING. Three men, named Michael Riley, James jRiley and Patrick Kelly, were arrested by offisers.Eazen and Stew- ind the Nineteenth ward ger on the com- plaint of several citizens of that ward, with having carelestly blasted rocks in the neighbor! of Forty- third street and Third avenue on Saturday last. The accused were taken to the Nineteenth ward station house, where they were discharged, it having been shown that the blast was properly covered according to law, and that the occurrence was purely accidental. It was in this case that the house compere. aan was somewhat injured from a rock thrown on from the spot wi there men were blasting. wi City News. Frme.— Saturday night, between nine and ten o'clock, & fire was discovered in the third story of the house 178 Ewen sireet. The occupant, Louis Gaerhardt, had fallen asleep ina chair, and a bundle of clething caught fire with trifling from the candle, The fire was extingu! damage. Errecr or Tux Suxpay Law.—The enfercing of the Sun- Gay Jaw in Williamsburg, in reference to liquor selling, has had the effect of reducing the receipts on the ferries very materially. Om pleasant Sundays the ferry boats were formerly crow with coal dikes’, Germans, who spent a pertion of the day at the beer gardens in the & ward. Now the reetipts ofSuncays are said to be about $200 leys than formerly. -for Sate, A Through Tieket, ama route, steamer Illinois, sails ch. hat store, 212 Broadway. ‘Apply at WHY Williamson Phi phic ite, Brook= Institar lyn—249 Fulton street, opposite Globe Hotel. Old daguer- Feotynes copied to modern styles. Cars from Fulton ferry e door. Photograpnic Pictures, large dize, colored to nature, tor $3. $4 and $5; plain, $1 and $2; daguerrooty, cents; svereoroope pictures $1, taken by HOLMES U. 8. patent doul an, ins.— Tne et Asm fortment of celenrated pinos in the Unjtod States. ‘I’. Gil- bert and Co.’s premium molean pianos; Morace Warers’ mo- dern improveu pianos, and.thoee of a large number of other p dosirable yreort- ni which defy Sompe- h satistoctor afiprr., Persone in the eity Pianos will find itto their advantage to HORACE WATERS, ‘S53 Broadway. Melodeons.—8, D. & H. W, Smith's Melo~ tuned the equal temperament, to which was rocently led the first promium at the National Fair, Washing. 1D. C., can be found only at 338 Broadway.” A liberal discount made for cash. Tne trade supplied on the most liberal terms, HORACE WATERS, The Smithsonian House, as Enlarged, is Row open, corner of Broadway and Houston stroot, on the a K with the Metropolitan Hotel and ¥iblo's 0 plan of lodginy ree neing An pra from 3) Pio day itor inside sine tooma) to ay, accor The new restaurant is looated on in the private rooms, titien, for o basing orders f call on style, the pi Jers will find at tl rior order for respectability, order, neatnnes, attention, comfort and economy. SIDNEY KOPMAN. Mourning Mantillas 0. F, fal attention to ® a c TESS, in Paris, respectfully solicited. Wo have just ressived, in a . & boantifal low of bomberine ans pe Mantilias which we aro