The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, BROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON BTS. ——————————————————! Wodume XK... 1. ..ee ce ceeeseeeees eeseneees Mo, 137 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACAPEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth st.-In Trovaroar. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadwey—Ricuarp IIl.— Tae Winns. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—No—3erax Temrra- mione Forust or Boxy BORTON’S THEATRES, Vaun.y—Toopiss. Broadway—Euorements 1” hambers street—Tux Suniovs WALLACK’S THEATRE, Mhexu Lire -Boip oR acoons. METROPOLITAN THBATKE. Broadway—Tux Mucray ‘Wives oy Winvson—Earow Boy. asa) 'SRUM—Atternoon—AvzLe ~BactarLons pAMARICAN iuingGoubes Tanuan How To MAKE Home Harry. WOOD'S MINSTRELS—Mechanics’ Hall—472 Jsrondway. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 589 sav’s Brniorian Orena Taovurs, CHINESE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 589 Broadway—Pano- mama or Evrorx anv Siror or Sxpastoron, PERHAM’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 663 Broad- qag—Brviortan Orena TRovrs. New York, Friday, May 18, 1855. The News. ‘The steamer Baltic, now in her thirteenth dey out from Liverpool, had not made her appearance @ Bandy Hook at one o’clock this morning. The “Personal Liberty bill,’ @ measure practi- eally nullifying the Fugitive Slave law, passed tha ewer branch of the Maseachusetts Legislature yes- ferday, having previously passed the Sanate bya nearly unacimons vote. Its provisions are as strin- gent as treason could make them. ‘We give elsewhere the details of news from Mox- feo to the 6th inst., a brief synopsis of which sp- peared several days sinco under the telegraphic. ‘Fhe intelligence is quite interesting. ‘We pubiish some interesting news from Great Balt Lake in another column. Col Sic, toe bad failed in bringing to punishment the Iodian marderers of Captain Gunnison and patty, solely thronga the @aplicity of the Mormons, who, it appears, take every opportunity to impress upon the minds of the savages the idea that the Mormons and Americans are two distinct people. This is done with ‘he ui terior desiga of forming a league agaioat the Uaited States authorities in case of any attempt by the gov- ernment to abri:ge the power of the Mormon leaders. 4 ia reported that Colonel Steptoe has declined the governorship of Utah Territory, and that Chief Justice Kioney bas been offered the appointment, We publish to-day a very curicus and amusing sapplementary rejoinder on the part of Judgs Ed- monés to the original communica ‘ion which appear ed in cur columns a few weeks since, irom Mr. Ewer, of San Frencisco, in which the latter showed how he had mystified the Judge by a fictitious nerrative of pretended tpiritual revelations. It is bat right to state that when this last Jetter of the Judge’s was writrep be had not seen the second eommonication of Mr. Ewer, which w» published om Tuesday. Had he done so, there is no doubt that his commuuication of to-day would have embraced the points of the latter. The Judge’s former reply to Mr. Ewer contaired, as our readers will recollect, a frank admission that he had been duped, not by the ingenuity of the Istter, but by some tnprogresced and evil disposed spirit, who had assumed the name of the fictitious bero of Mr. Ewer’s romance. In his letter of to day the Judge aseumes quite a different position, having since digeovered evidence to prove that there was in reality such a person as the John F. Lane in question, eho died in Florida some twenty years since, by his own hand. The Judge thinks that he has completely turned the tables on poor Mr. Ewer, for be ma'‘ntains that on subsequent spiritual reve- lations by this same John F. Lave, the latter has stated that he had impressed Ewer to write the letter in question, and that “Ewer was the mere imatroment of his volition. Notwithstanding all Broadway—Buox- this, there are, no donbt, mary benighted minds which wil! persis’ in thirking that the mere coinci @ence of name between Mr. Ewer’s hero and the John F. Lane whose existence is thus established, does vot alter the complexion of the case against the Judge. On this point we do not fee! calied apon to pronounce any opinion, leaving the public to form a jadgment for themseives upon tie Batter. Mr. Thos. Maciean, mate of the American schooner Bay City, writing from Rio Janeiro om March Lats gives a detailed statement of the late overhanling and boarding of tha: vessel by the commander of the British cruiser Bonnills, when off the Brazilian coset on her voyage to San Francisco. The Eag- Hehmsn, supposing the Bay City to be s Rassian prigateer under American colors, fired s gun to @ause her to heave to. This was not done until seven other shots were sent athwart her course, aud ‘the wate states that a delsy in showing our flag was the sole canse of this sharp action on the part of Lieut. Weekes, who was in command of the Boanilla at the time. Our eorreepondents at Havans, writing on the ‘Sth, 9th and 10th inst., farnish a summary of the ‘Mort important events transpiring on the island ot Cubs up to tre lasi date, with an interestiug seport of the movements of the war vessels of the ‘Us ited Stotes, Spain, Eng'and, France and Mexioo, im the troubled waters which surround it. It was reported that Geceral Santa Anns had made a ‘en der of naval aid from Mexico to General Concha in ease of any actual war difficulty between Spain and the United States, and hence the arrival of the Stesmer Sante Annaon the 6thiustant. The guo patie on beard the ships of a portion of Con. MeCauley’s eyusdrong as Key West had so alarmed the Spanien Consu! there that he cent off a spe ial @ourler with Geepatcnes on the subject to the Oap- tan Generel. Militery prepsraticn: of defence were being continted; a> egro cuval'y regiment was aboat te ve formed, acd saspected persone were still being bavished or imprisoned. Rodrtgaz, who betrayed Ptoto, hed sailed for Spain. A new passport rule, with s new deoree relative t) the lacding #f passen- gers from vessele—-botso! which we pubiish-— will be found peculiarly avmoyiog to travellore. If a pars pert be forgotten or lost, tae persoa wanting it 14 Fable In ail cases to & short imprisonment, » peoa- mary fine ard otber trovvle. The Senora Dous Rits Baibin, with some others, are sum noned to appear for trial for the crime of infideneta to the Queen, The executive had determined oot to per wit, under avy pretext, the landing of @olone! Kin- Rey or any cf hie fellow expe: aista ta Cabs, as it won dreaded that the “colonists” in reality medi tated a descont on tha’ island, uoder cover of a Miesregua improvement scheme, Havana was bealtby, and the export trade very active. Governor C'ark visited bis howe at Canandsigaa ome day last week, Toe Repository thas desoribes the reception he met with: — U. t's fest eveniog of his arrival, the Goversor was treated toa ‘chari- vari,’ a serenace of no yory delectatle or: being @ compourd of tin pans, borne, hells, tin whistles, apd other villainous iostruments.” This perform. ance called cut # coucter derson:tratios, and the band of North’s circur, then io the village, geve him @ serenede oD & subsequent right. Bat even this was perverted by the applinee which the crowd seserved for “Hail Colambia,” and other “Sam” | toner. Yesterdsy morning Joseph Hall ws arraigned before the Recorder, in the Courtof Genera! sex slens, on the charge of homizide, for shooting Wil- ‘Wem O'Brien, on tho corner of Graud and Leursas streets, on the evening of the firet day of last Jaou ay. © Thin is the first trial fo: murder fs the Court ef General Sessions in acoirdsnce with the new Jaw, passed at the last session of the Legislature: ‘The prisoner, a young mav, well dressed and of eee es o . ; NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1855. gentleman',y demeanor, was at‘ended by his counsel, The presecution was conducted by the District At- torney in pe'too; who opemed the case with ia ehor« etetement to the jury, setsing forjh the farts of the case. The prisouer was proven to be Zusane by the defence, and the jury retarned a ver- dict of not guilty, on the ground of insavity, For a week poet the City Jadge Sidaey H. Stuart, whose efforts to appreherd Baker have had ao suc cesetul a termpsticn, bas been suffering from a revere attack of pleurisy, brought on by a cold. It has been at times feared that tbe disease wali term nate fatally, and he even now is ina critical state. The news ot Baker’s arrest agitated him not & little, and strict orders have bean given to have him kept in as quiet a state as possible. Hen. Humphrey , Inte United States Commissioner vo China, bas been nominated tor Congress by the Kaow Nothings of the Louisville (Ky. district. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday amounted to about 2,600 bales, the market closing steady. AJ! com mon grades of flour, except Suuthern, which was scarce, declined about 1240. per barrel, while the higher or extra grides were unchanged. Cora sold freely at $1 13 » $1 144, waich was @ trifle ower. Included in the transactions were 5,000 bushels sold for export. Provisions genoral!y con tinued firm. Sugars were steady, with sales of 1,200 @ 1,300 bhda. About 2,000 bales of compressed cotton were engaged for Liveroosl at 5-324., in- claded with which wera 200 bales Sea Isiand at 932d., and 10,000 bushels corn wera engaged at private terms. There was a fair business doiag for Hamburg and Bremen. ‘Whe Seward Anti-Slavery League and the Northern Know dothings—A Plain Case. The important question whether the ap- proaching Presidential election shall be de- cided by the people, or shull be thrown into the House of Representatives at Washington, depends entirely upon the policy of the North- ern Know Nothings. It they boldly follow up the national programme foreshadowed at the late State Councils of this State and New Jersey, they will secure the hearty co-opera- tion of the South, and may command the election of any Presidential ticket which they may choose. If, on the other hand, such mea as Wil-on of Massachusetts, and Chase of Ohio, are permitted to manage the mscninery of the Know Nothings of the Northera States, the resu't must be a divis:on of the Order iuto several sectional factions, a confused and revo- Jutiopary scrub race, and ihe transter of the election to the indescribable elemeats of dis- cord of the next Congress. The Seward organs are sorely perplexed at the evident tendencies of the New York Kaow Nothings to a sound and healthy nutioa- alization. And well may these anti-siavery discrganizers be alarmed. The Americaa party of this State cormprehends aa ag- gregate of over one hundred and eighty-five thousand voters, ready to move togetuer in a solid mass at the tap of the drum, and their numbers are still increasing. Thus, with very few additional votes, they will be able nex’, fall to carry New York against the entire strength, ronk and file, of ail other parties and factions combined. As it is impossible, how- ever, that such a fusion of whigs avd demo- crats, herds and softs, Cabinet +poilsmen aad anti Cabinet outsiders, treesoilers, abolitionis's, liquor and temperanee men, cau be made upon avy terms, it issafe to say that the Koow No- things, from an actual census of their membera, hold now the control of our ness November elec'ion in their hauds, and wid oarry it by an overwhelming plurality. Such, to», will proba- bly be the care in New Jersey and Peonsytva- nia, Bot tet us examine the importance of holding the State of New York, at least toa decisive national platform, satisfactory to the South ond based upon the fundamental law of the constitution end the Union. The whole number of the votes of the electo- ral colieges is 296. Of these the fifteen South ern States have 120, and the sixteen Northero States 176—Northern majority 56. Thus, upoo. an absolute sectional issue, the South is as the mercy of the North. But the vote of the single State of New York is snflicient to turn the teale. A majority of the electoral colleges re quired to elect the President is 149. Ada the vote of New York, 35, to he vote of the fifteen Southern States, 120, and it. gives us 155, or tight vores more than. the required ma- jority. This strikingly exhioits the impor auce of the Empire State in apy Presidential coutest of arectional character. With New York staad ing by the South, State rights, the Union and the constitution, the rest of the Northern States, in a volia body, inciuding gven Pennsylvania, may go for the anti-siavery coalition, and they Will stilt be defeated. Now, we venture to say, from the ascertained strength of the Know Nothinys in Virgioia, in Sonth Carolira, and Mississippi- three States herefofore of the most inveterate Sonthern de mocratic ty pe—that they will only require New York to take a decided position, in order ty carry every Sonthern State ia the Union. Nor can we perceive avy other plan tor an election by the people, considering the free soil procti vities of Mossachusetrs, Ohio, Iediana aod some other States, than the acquisition of the whole South upon a common national Uniou tickes. The conservative Know Nothings of New York, therefore, having this State already secured and being certain of the entire Souta upon any reasonable Union platform, have at this m t the issue of the Presidenti+t election in ther keeping. Let them «ct accordingly in this forthcoming National Council at Phitadelphia, and they may dispense with Massacnusetts Ohio, Iodiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, &¢. and even with their brethren of Penn-yivania, tbovld they prove refractory This accounts for the dissatisfiction of the Seword organs concerning the tate able Kiow Nothing proclamation of Mr. James W. Barker, It is too conservative and constitutional re evit the viens und porpos lion, Their programme ia to sednee the Northern Know Nothinys into the «eti-slavery Holy Alliance, cr torplit this powerful out av- tried and inexperienced Am ricay party upen the slavery question. Hence the declaration of Gereral Wilton, that no party opposed to the ontisiavery agitators can live—hence the corference at the Astor House the other day between Messrs, Wilson, Sumner, Corwin, Chase and Seward. It is indispensable to the success of the anti-elavery movement that the Know Nothings be demoralized or sectionally divided upon this vital question of slavery. Let the Philadelphia National Council, then, decide be- tween a secitions and doubtful alliance with the anti-clavery league, or the ananimous sup- port of the South upon Union principles. The New York delegation to this council will bold the balance of power We believe them to be sound, and we therefore expect the best results in reference to ® great triumphant Union party in 1856. The game is in their hands, and they can love it only through their own folly, ne f the Seward cow Progress in the Medical’ Profession. The public have latterly had presented to them rather a novel feature ia the journalism of the day, in the shape of elaborate scientific treatises on medical subjects appearing in con- secutive chapters in thé advertising and news columns of the daily and weekly newspapers of this city. There articles are from the pea of Dr. Hunter No. 828 Broadway, the well kuewn practitioner in pu'monary and bronchial dis- eases, and are distinguished from the empyrical programmes usually put forth through the same medium, by their thorough acquaintance with the subjects treated of, the simplicity and elear- nees of their language, and the demonstrative force of the arguments employed, With thess qualities to recommend them to our attention, we caunot but welcome the ap- pearance of these articies as heralding an im- portant and beneficial revolution in the tradi- tions aud practice of the medical profession. There.is no pursait in which the spirit of old fogyism has, in spite of the enlightenment of the age, managed more completely to trammel and subdue the human intellect. With a view to unity, like the Remau Catholic Church, it mainteins its hold upou the almost snpersti- tious awe end reverence of iguorantand unrea- soning minds by involving the little of truth that it possesses in technical phraseology, de- rived from classical sources, and consequently incompreheusible to the multitude. But few men delouging to the craft—for tuch more correctly may be designated the medical profession—have had courage toeman- cipate themselves from the code of conven- tional as well as collegiate regulations which bas been built up for its protection, Like the novitiate of the Egyptian priesthood, its mysteries and its privileges could only become accessible by a preseribed track, aud after a long, and often paivful probation. There has been hitherto no short cut to professivnal suc- cess and fame recognized within its canons, Apy mun departing from the beaten road laid dowa tor his guidance has beea invariably treated as an outcast, and stigmatised as a quack, The result has heen, that whilst the medical profession has been reduced to a clore monopoly, it has extended bat little its sphere of knowledge, snd has consequevtly conferred less benefits upon the human race thanit might otherwise have done, One of the barriers by which the profession has endeavored to fence itself around, has been the probibition or discouragement teld out to all attempts on the part of its members to enter into direct communica‘ion with the public, A medical man may addr-ss himself through the medium of a book, avd under the cover of technicalities to his own profession, but he must not appeal to the common sense ard vatural intelligence ot the uninitiated mem- bers of the community, lest the arcana of the healing art thould cease to be, like the Eleusy- niap mysteries, ap exclusive and profitable posression. The effect of this jealous and nar- row minded system on philanthropic and high spirited men may readiiy be conceived. They have had to chafe in sileni indignation nnder restraints, the direct bearing of which has been to protect the privileges of the senior members of the profession, and keep down and discour- age as much as possible all evidences of rising talent. We are rejoiced to find that one man, and that a practitioner, whose professional merits and skill cannot for a moment be questioned, has had the moral courage to break through the trammels imposed upon him by tae old routine of his art. Dr. Hunter wisely, and in time, arrived at the conclusion that if such scquirements as he possessed were worth spything, the more extensive the circulation he gave to the results of -his resesrches ond -+xperience the greater the benefits he would not only confer upon himself but upon the community. Be- tween ihe limited publicity afforded bim by the usual professions] resource of book publication and that offered by the newspapers i) is not surprising that be chose the latter. I: present- ed the advantages of rapidity, comprehensive- ness and popularity, objects which to a man ambitious of fame in his profession, were the Teadiest and surest «lements of success. To appreciate the results of Dr. Hunter’s ex- per mest we must refer back to the history of his cereer. After graduating at one of the great UniversitieS in Europe and takiog de grees at other Enaropean colleges, this gentleman established himeelf in New York in the year 1851; but, according to the usual practice of medicsi men be carctully avoided making himself ka:wn to the public through the mecium of advertise ments, During the fiest two years of his resi- derce here, he spared no + fforts to introduce into pnbiic favor bie pecoliar method of treat ing pulmonary ad throat diseases, Pind ing but little encouragement, he went to Washington where be would also be met with but little success out for the accident of afriend woo bad become acquainted with bis system, induciag him to publish an elabe article in exp snation of it in one of the newspapers of that © The elfect of this publication was immediately to brivg th: Doctor patients, acd to evadle him to exhibit on a Jerger seule the suceesetul resulty of bis mode of treatment. The repatation whieh hr equired in this way procured bin pressing tu Vilations 10 return to New York, which, al thongb ansking a handsome income in Wash ingtoo, he was af jast induced odo. On set thng down here again, he commenced the pul liextion in chapters, in all the daily and weekly joormals of our ing titi treonts » Which ie hereby giving at once bis views @ circulation amongst up- wares of 500,000 renders. The results, io a pro- fessional point of view, have exceeded bis moa sanguine CXpectations, Whilst in Washington aller a single poblication of bis system, he sacd ceered in getting @ practice of some eight or en thonsend doliars a year, here, in less than ‘wo years, after extending his sphere of pub- Vecity in the manner indicated, he has alreaily acquired nearly two thousand patients from all parts of the country, 2nd a practice which may be estimated at little short of $150,000a year. His expenditure to the newspapers in the way of publicity alone amounts annually to between $30,000 and $40,000. In all this, as we have eaid before, there is not the slightest element of quackery. We bave bad perronal experience of the happy re- on throat and chest di had prepared some years bet: sults of the Doctor’s mode of treatment, aud oun vouch for its success. Owing to the sev re drudgery incident to our pursuits, and that tendency to bronchial diseases with which the pecaliarity of our climate afflicts such a larze proportion of our population, we haye been for several years past from «: affection, which all the medical remedies that. we had formerly applied failed to cure. We can traly say that we have found. more relief and greater hope of ultimately getting rid of the malady from Dr. Huater’s mode ot treat- ment than from that of avy other medical man | to whom we had previously submitted our case: The lesson afforded by this brief sketch of | Dr. Hunter’s career is calculated to be usefal to the medical profession. Here is a man who, chained down by the conventional prejudices and usages of his medical brethren, might have toiled on for half bis life without arriving at the results to which his acquirements entitled him to aspire. It cost him an effort of moral courage, and no doubt a sacrifice of some pro- fessional pride, to emancipate himself from the thraldom of associations in which they bound him. By having sufficient independence of character to shake loose these. ties, and devote bis talents to the general good of the commu- nity, he has, within an unprecedented!y short space of time, won the highest prizes within the reach of a medieal practitioner. Hoxor to Wom Honor ts Dus—Georcs Law anp THE GrapgsHot.—In the tumult of excitement correquent upoa the capture and return of Baker, much commendation has been bestowed upon the police of the city for their vigilance and enterprise in the matter, and erpecially for their ssgacity and promptness in fitting out and de:patching the Grapeshot on the expedition which has resulted so success fully. It is proper that the public should be advised of the truth, and know whose judg- ment guided the preparation and whose liber- ality provided for the expenses of the expedi- tion Mr. Law was called upon by parties desirous of effegting the arrest of Baker, tor a steamship to go in pursuit. He had no steamer, and ad- vised the parties that even if one could be pro- cured it was not desirable to do so—that a fast sailing vessel was the proper craft to employ— and offered to place the Grapeshot at the dis porition of the authorities, for the purpose, without charge, if they chose to fit her out and employ her. Some days afterwards Mr. Law was invited by Judge Stuart to meet him at the Mayor’s office, and there meeting him and the Mayor together, he at Judge S:uart’s in- stance renewed the offer. Atter hearing from Mr. Law an estimate of the expenses of the ex- pedition, at $1,500 or $2,000, the Mayor stated that his authority only extended to the expen diture of $250, and he declined to act upon Judge Stuart’s tuggest: on that the Common Council or Board of Supervisors would ratity any engage- ment he should make for the expenses of the voy- age, and it seemed to the “authorities” inevitable that the project of pursuit must be abandoned. At this point Mr. Law said to them, that if they deemed thespursuit desirable, and were anxious to prosecute it, they need not be restrained by the exyense—he would himself advance all the Sunds necersary to carry out the enterprise in the most efficient manner, and would have the Graperhot ready for eea by the evening of ihe next day. At this time a captata and crew were yet to be engaged, ballast put in the ship, aud two months provisions laid in. All this was accomplished—a steamer wasemployed to tow ber out of the harbor, and every bill paid by Mr. Law. We have the authority of the Mayor for saying that the city has not paid one dollar in the matter. The revult of theex- pedition ie known. It isa fuli illustration of the ragacity and energy that directed its de- tails. The public will jadge whether the spirit and liberality of a private citizen which enable the ministers of justice to reach into another hemi-phere avd another zone and seize a fuyi- tive offeuder, are not worthy of some acknow- ledgment. The quatities displayed by the owner of the Grapeshot oa this occasion ate precisely those which should be lo.ked for, bat which unfortunately are pot always to be found, in the executive of this great country. Cot Kiwney—A Mistake IN THE Paint.— The little kitchen organ at Washington, which appears to be the official paper of Col. Kinney & Co, in speaking of the reported matrimonial engagement of Col. Kinney to a belle of the Fiith avenue, says :— We fancy sbat Col. Kinney must have been noettled deyond expression at this last but parhaps not silliest of. the hirney expecition Roorbacks. Fer there bappeas to be in Texas a lady who some years ago took “for better or for worse.” “+ the name and forture of Col. Kinney”. ghier of Judge Wend, late ‘ous to her marriage to Col al, and accomplished belle” of Galveston, Houston, Austin, &c. A gentleman attached to the original Kioney expedition, assures us that this is so, and sug- gests that we bave heen misled by some indi- vidual whose only object is to break up this proposed Kinney expedition to Nicaragua. Knowing rothivg ourselves of Col. Kinney, ex- cept that be wasa fine looking, brave, enter- prising and gallant man, we were, of course, prepared to believe in the reported captare of a belle’of the Fifth avenue by the dashing Texan. But the fact that there isa Mrs. Kin- ney in Texas, who isa beautiful and a highly accomolehed lady, only strengthens our opinion that Kaveas is the true field for the frontier experience and activity of such a man us Colonel Kinney. If any man can restore peace between Gov. Reeder and the free soil squatters on the one hand, and the Governor's Mirsouri “border ruffians’ on the other, and turn it toa good account, Col. Kinney is tne Ds Tux Wasutncton Monument—ANoTHER AP- YEAL—The Board of Managers of the Washing- ton Natioual Monument Society have published an address to the people of the United States, asking for fands to assist in the work now io progress on the banks of the Potomac. Seven years of time, and two hundred and thirty thousand dollars in money, have already been consumed in this work, and it is not yet one- third completed. A further sam of one million of dollars is required. Thos stands the matter at ibe present time. The eociety’s affairs have been conducted in very slow way heretofore. The managers have been quite as dilatory as the gentlemen baving charge of the erection of the Bupker Hilt Monument. They required seventeen years to build a plain granite shaft, which was no great affair after wil. The people gew disgusted with such mismanagement, and it is pot singular that they hesitate about putting their hands into their pock+ts to sustain it. Give them a guarantee that the monument will be finisbed, and the money will soon be forth- coming. Young America bas now 8 voice ia the councils of the Washington Society--a new Board of Managers was elected for the ourrent year, in February last, and the poople expect eometbing from them. With an entirely nev set of executive officers, the society should show some signs of life. A Wesreey Pozr Hicuty Excrrep Kaxsas Question — Vinca Testiwony.— Prentice, the poet of the Louisville Journal, evidently in a state of active hostility to the Maine Liquor law, says :— ‘The New York HeRatp accuses us directly of being an abclitiouist, op the ground of our denunciation of the Missouri invasion of Kansss. The editor of the HERALD, if not tife greatest liar in the country, has been for many years the mort notorious ons. He hay been kicked so otvem for his lies, that, althougl he is raid to have be- rich, we realy douvt whether he has not received ore kicks than coppers.’”’ If every slanderous lie be bas uttered wer a cool of fire upon his back, he would be bured un er as huge a mountain of fire as ever bis father the cevil was, * If thore terrible fellows called by the Govern. or of Kaneas the “border raffians.” are more ferocious than this excited poet of Louisville, Jet all peaceable men keep to the windward. Hard names and coarse epithets, however, do not mend the case for our Lonisviile cotempo- rary. We have said that in taking sides with Reeder and his free soil lund speculators against the Southern squatters in Kansas, Prentice is playing into the hands of the aboli- tionists. He cannot answer tha charge. He flies into a paseion, and betrays both the weak- ness of his position and his dirty instincts in bis vulgar abuse. For the edification of this Louisville poet, we commend-to bis attention the article, which we give elsewhere in these columns, from the Richmond (Va.) Exam:ner, a democratic paper anxiously laboring for the election of Mr. Wise. But the Examiner cannot stomach the defence set up for Governor Reeder by the Washington Union, which is substantially the defence of the Louisville Journal. On the covtrary, the Examiner indignant)y repudiates the Union as pert of the Kansas abolition alliance of Gar- rison, Greeley, Reeder, Forney & Co., which is all that we have charged against our excited cotemporary at Louisville. The free soil con- spiracy of Reeder & Co. is the party, and Kaa- eas is the place for Prentice. He is out of his latitude in Kentucky. Posrronep Agatn.—-The exodus of Colonel Kinney’s ermy for Nicaragua ani a market has been further postponed, it is said, for one weck. The peaceful immigrants are growing belligerent. They have been in town two or three weeks, at an expense of two or three dol- lers a day, to say nothing of revolvers, India rubber boots, and other tropical luxuries, whieh are expensive. Most of these gentlemen are suffering under ‘financial pressure,’ and if they do not sail for San Juan pretty soon they mey be subjected to the terrible alternative of upromantic labor here. Let them try to civi- lize New York. Tue Lanp Rerormers Turnep up AGAIN.— We bave received acircular setting forth the important fact that “ the tenth National Indus- trial Congress” will assemble at Cleveland,Ohio, in June. Females may sit in this Congress, which bas had ten annual sessions without doing apy great harm or good to anybody. Its main object is anything but industrial, as its leaders advocate the distribution of the public lands, free to all, without money and witnout labor. Such echemes always look ridiculous by the tide of facts and figures. Congress has passed laws giving almost everybody a quarter s:c- tion of land. What becomes of it? Do the “old soldiers,” their widows or minor chil- dren, locate or settle on it? Nothing of the sort. It is sold for fifty cents an acre, and passes into the hands of the very speculators whom the circular béfore us so bitterly ana- thematises. What is got without labor is little thought of, and if the views of the vote-your- eelf-a farm party (if there is such a party now) were to be carried out, it would be anice thing for John Thompson and other Wall-street speculators in land-warrants, but of no special advantage to any body else. Indeed, we are bot sorure that the whole affair is not gotten up by the land speculators at the Weet. Operatic Affairs, The “Trovatere” of Verdi will be given to-night, for the last time, at the Academy of Music. We sre assured from competent authority that Signora Steftsuene hag entirely recovered her health, her illness being but tem- porary, and caused by an imprudent walk under the hot tun of Wednesday last. The example of Signor Briguoli, who carefully excladed tbe sun from his apartments, and remained in them all of the day above mentioned, is 00d, which ell artists might imitate to their own profit and for the penefit of the managers. The vocal organs very easily deranged by any change im thi phere, and artists cannot be too careful. We ¢isappointed twice mth the “Trovatore” through the ill- ners of the prima donna. It is to be hoped that the Bostonians will fare better. We bave received the following communication from br. Hackett, in reply to a rumor noticed in our paper of yestereay:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Feverring to the following sentence in your issue of this morning, under the bead of “Opera Movements,” vite Op Monday last one of the Frys made advances to some of the members of the rew company, on the part of Mr Hackett, but they roferred him to Mr. Ullinan. - ] would remark that no person bas been authorized by me‘o make any ruch “advances,” and furthermore, would observe toat, for ral weeks past, I have not even teen either “one of the Frys,” except when Mr. E. P. Fry entered this theatre among the French vaude- ville audience Jast Saturday evening, and exchanged with me merely @ passing recognition. Yours, respect- fully, AS. H. HACKETT. The negotiations between Mr. Jacobsobn and the di- reetors of the Academy remain in statu quo, in conse- quence of the illness of Mr. Phalen, one of the Directing Committee, Whether the Academy will take the artiste of the Lagrange troupe on their own account, or whether ¥r Jacobrobn will be enabled to make arrangements to take the Academy on his, during the absence of its own trouge in Eostom, seems now to be the only point to be tettled. ‘ . Moerine Affatrs. TaiAL TRIP OF THE STEAMSHIP ARAGO.—The Arago, a new steamer for the Havre line, made a preNminary trial trip on Wednesdsy and Thureda: 9 returned Thurs. day noon, She iss beautifully me: dand staunchly built vessel of, 2,200 tons, government m+asurment, (8,200 carpenter’s,) and wae built by Messrs. Westervelt & ops, under the superintendence of Capt. W. Skiddy, ber cerigner. The engines of the Arago, which are from the Novelty Works, (Stillman, Allen & Co.) are two “oncillators,’’ of 65 inches diameter, and 10 feet stroke. The performance of the engines and boilers on the trip war very ratisfasiory, and gave promise of a good de pree of tperd and great permanence in the machinery. The inte reet rg frature of the trial the introduction of the “drag lipk’” to couple the two ¢8, in the place of the centre sbaft, which has so often failed in double eng'nen, #ni occasioned expensive repairs. The drag ink coopection bas been lovg ured with entire spcceas on otber forms of engic 4 iv connection with the ty and diectness of action of that form of engine. The Arego is 200 feet long, 44 3 feet beam, 31}¢ feet depth ot hold, apd hes accommodations for 260 passengers. Her ccmmander is Capt. D. Lines, late of the steamsbip Hum- delat, She is advertised to sail for Havre on the 2d of Jane, where abe will doubtless excite great attention Mortimer Livingston, Eaq., is the agent of the line, ‘Tue Stave Bera HoRaTIO.—This vessel, which was found adrift and taken into Key West, with every ap- pearance of having been used slaver, has been con. dened. Our Key West correspondent says she had lente? @ cargo of 450 saves on the coast of Cuba, 240 of whom, however, were taken by the British cruisers when the brig was sbandened and cut adrift. We have already published the fact of one of the c:ew of the Ho- ratio having been lately arrested at Baltimore, at the of Capt. J. Maguire, the late commander of the upon the charge of seizing the vessel aad unlaw- using ber as 4 slaver, in defiance of his authority. Tux SteamsmP Granada sailed yesterday afternoon, for Eavans and New Orlesns, ELATEST NEWS — en BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TFLEGRAPHS, perio! BS: bs Non-Arrival of the Baltic, Saxpy Hoo, May 18—1 A) M. ‘The sieamebip Baltic, now in ber thirteenth day from tpool, hes not yet been signalized off this polat, The: ‘ther ie clesr and fine. Li News Items trom Washington, . WashinGron, May 17, 1865. Siark B, Taylor, of this city, has been appointed Mes. senger of the Court of Claims, Judges Gilebrist and Searborough have left, but will return on the 12th of July, when the Court will sit two weeks to receive applications for docketing, and then adjourn to October. Judge Blachford remains The Renrene Court room at the Capitol will be temporarily used. ‘The total applications for Jand warrants are 85,200. Tease P. Keed, flour merchant of Georgetown, was drowned Jast night while returning from au exeursion. From Boston. INJUNCTION AGAINST AN INSUSANCE COMPANY—TEE> PRPSOWAL LISERTY BILL—TBE HIs8 CaSH. ” Boston, May 17, 1855, In the Supreme Court, this morning, a hearing was bad for an. injunsiion asked for by the Insurance Commissioners against the Pagple’s Mutual Insurance, Company of Boston. It is alleged that the officers of the company are brothers, whose interest in the concern is a Polisy of insurance for $200 worth of clothing; that they, to pay off the liabilities of the company, have wade an assessment of $260,000, on which they have- received $6,000, nearly all of which they have them- selves received in the form of salaries; that demande Rye the com ci¢ed to hear eviden. charges on honday next when if true, an ipjunc ion would be granted. iy The dill known as the Personal Liberty bill, eontsining certain stringent regulations im regard to tue Fugitive: Slave law, was taken up in the House to-day, and am amendment adopted forbidding any State officers from.| holéing the office ot United,*tates Commissioner. A mo- tiop to strike out of the dill the seotion which incapaci- tates any attorney who acts for a siave claimant from. practising in the S courts, was rejected by a large majority. The bill was then passed. Yeas, 220; mays, 43. It was before passed in the Senate, only three voting. in the negative, ‘The case of Joseph Hiss, arrested yesterday: for debt, was brought before the Supreme Court this forenoon, and, on motion of the plaiatif’s counsel, the writ of habeas corpus was dismissed. This proceeding ia saia to beve originated on the ground that Judge Shaw would require a sworn affidavit that the whole case wan genu- ine, and not trumped up for purposes otherwise than the collection of adebt. This is probably the last public appearance of Joreph Hiss, Know Nothing Congressional Nomination. Lovrsvitim, May 17, 1855. The Know Nothing Convention, now in session here, has vominated Hkmphrey Marshall late United States Commissioner to China, as their candidate tor Ropresen- tative to Congress from this district. Episcopal Convention... PHILADELPHIA, May 17, 1855. In the Episcopal Convention to day 8 committee wis appointed to inquire into the expediency of dividing the a ‘and the appointment of an Assistant Bishop, as recommended in the pastoral charge of Bishop Potter. Railroad Thieves Ayrested., SPRINGFIELD, May 17, 1855, Eight employés on the Western road, in this city, were arrested to-day for stealing from the freight cars. ‘The officers are in search of others. Great Fire at Evansvilie, fa, Lovisvinix, May 16, 1855. A large fire occurred at Evansville, Indiana, this morn- ing, destroying sixteen valuable buildings.” The total} lors is extimated at about $100,000, the greater part of| which is covered by insurance. Markets. PHILADELPHIA BTOCK BOARD. PHILADELPHIA, May 17, 1855. Stocks are dull and money easy. Reading, 43%; Mor-| tis canel, 185 Long Islund, 15%; Pennsylvania Rail- road, 4834; Penney)vania State fives, 8614. BALTIMORE QATTLE MARKET. Batzimore, May 17, 1855. beef cattle offered to-day. Market dull, in prices; forty head lect over; the ba- Prices ranging from $10 60 to $13 50 net. Hogs have advanced from 25 to 50 cente, with sales at $7 a $7 75 per hundred. New ORLEANS, 16, 1855, Cotton unchanged and firm; sales 3,000 bales. Sugar 130. 8 5%e, Molasses 2630. Yellow corn is held at] $108 a $1 06, City Politics, MEETING OF THB COUNCIL OF SACHEMS—THB : JU-| NIOB SOFT SHKLLS TRIUMPHANT. The Sackems, being unable to effect an election of of-| ficers at their meeting Jost Saturday evening, met again last night, in Tammany Hall, to renew the eontest. There was considerable teeling manifested bstween the} contending partier, the struggle being between the ola| fogies anc the younger branch of the sot shell family, who are desirous of filling their places After ballot even times vainly to elect a “Futher of the Counc, the twelith was had with the following resuit:— Wiliam D. Kennedy... Laniei F, Delavan Anson Herrick, An election was then following result:— James B. Hetherington. Bleak .esee eee ceeees Total...... Hetherington For Grand Sache gone into for Scribe, with the} + IL Sheppasa icased estea for the denscorec; 8 ip a triam) oul . The Counell then a¢journed. ba “f wlayor’s Office. MAD DOGS—HYDROPBOBIA. “Of late complaints egainst rabid dogs have been quite numerous, comprising nearly the whole business at the Msyor’s office. An unusual degree of fear seems to pre- vai’ this summer respecting the canine rice, which is owing in @ great measure to the number of cases of death recently by bydrophobia, brought on by bites from. mad dogs. On Wednesday, two or three cases ef this Cescripticn were reported, and yesterday two fresh com~ plaints were made in addition to the following letver ad- Cressed to the Mayor:— New Yorx, May 16, 1855, To His HoxonpFenxaxno Woon, Mavon cr New Youe— Sin—In view of the warm weather now approaching, I fel to your Hoxor's attention to a vory di w 0x0 wnich, I believe, hes very nearly proved th number of dogs who aro ‘tioelar!, itn the bonne , but before I could anislied. Ever since, ti shudder at the ht of th narrowly ereaped, | comain, N ¥ sre Bt the invitation of Morse, Livingsoon hk Grosbern pumber ef stepped on boar Satellite, tits morning, we the foot of Mal nese te operation of Fonde & Lyon's new ty Mr. Fonde, of which they are age A a, tr ‘A delightful Gowanus Cove, we exhibition took pli tter ing. wan orsanized b ot Major it. Pk ; ot Major H. ae Chairman, and Starbuck, denretary, ov (On motion of P. J 18 Vote of thanks was ten= rere, Livingston & Crocneron, agents, and Mr. ee, for their courtesy in this Moustrating of their machinery for dredging parposors Berry Wells. Eeq., tendered the following revo~ h was unenimonsly adopted and sizned :— ervigned vel essra. Livingstom & ite with the steam: & Lyons, st although working under 4, 18 Of Most Katirfactory character, The og: the pow roby being most off @ arrangement of the machinery is such movement can be immedia'ely obtained, if obs met with Th yet in an. incipien® pi 16 85 TO~ Peed en tocveee 10 doubt, ph | of goad wi le (a. "Tee the opinion. of the, tubsertbere Cone in bec! alue is obtained, advantages creat tl ‘urrn: jerry J. A da Co.; Frederick Avery, Ci W. Donohue, W Gleeson, Sore} PH lacy, E. Lee Jones, M. D., ale, The Kn Taste —Few persons beara name of KNOX, the ct he hatter 8b Fi ‘alton, rity in ei made, and the style wuexosp: | Ww brat his trade Mr. rerpect. His hate /are w tiopable, a Beebe & Co.’s Assortment of Summer comprisir, and ttbrions Uhele™ received trom Feria. 1a a lar, beaver felt bate, of the Broadway. - lew si fae aad }80, a atylon