The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1855, Page 4

% 4 . tion—A Leg om Both ‘sides of the Fence. We transfer to our c¢;cammis this morning two articles from the adm‘nistration organ at Wash- ington, one excusing to some extent the con- SNEW YORK HERALD. JaMES GORDON BENNET®, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. erccorepeh ache Sie cere — W.OORNES OF KASSAU AND FULAOKETS | Gort of the Missourians in the late Kansas ME cee EDS. troubles, ond the other in defence of Governor Bae RE ERED Fe ro fritz | Reeder. Thus the position of the administra SenuiE ey Great sie or $5 to any nee tion is at length defined on this — = red Subscriptions or lio. Ft is astride of the fence, @ leg on mg eps tl bade FF either side, with such excuses and professions = tant Ta Fifi connesroNDENce, goto ie rin Biterty gf ‘any Jor. RALOUR FORMIGN CORRESPON- 78 ARE LARLY REQUESTED TO BEAL ALL yncane pices SENT U8. eng @o not return thoserejected. te the South as must be made, bat slyly patting Governor Reeder on the back at the same time, ‘and sending bim back to Kansas as having faithfully entered upon the true Territorial free soil policy of Pierce, Marcy, Oushing, W Clelland, Campbell and Foruey. | The Cabinet organ’s manifesto upon this bu- siners isa very transparent piece of shuffling and dodging. After cogitating for several weeks upon the demands mad>upon'the admin- istration from all quarters for au exposition of its policy, views aud intentions in reference to the affairs of Kaneas, we are favored at length with the feeble and sickly article in questioa, We have au admission that the original provo- cations to the late extraordinary disturbances in Kansas came from the abolition and free soil copspiratore—that rhese provocations, con- sidering the peculiar situation of the Missouri- ans, were naturally calculated to excite them to active and even desperate means of retaliation; but, ssys the mouthpiece of Mr. Pierce, ‘we do not maintain [mark you, they do not maintain] that the measures resorted to by the Missouriaus were legal or justifiable— we deprecate them deeply.” Finally, we are told that, the abolitionists having committed the firet offence, the conduct of the Missourians, who are charged with obstructing the right of suffrage, should be judged with corresponding leniency. The pith and substance of these official views, as far as they go, appear to us as haviog been appropriated from the editorial columne of this journal. But the maio point is studiously avoided. The question is not so much what the administration thinks, but what it intends to do. The leaning of the first article we quote from “the organ” to-day is the leg on the South side of tne fence, and is evidently in- tended as an electioneering trick for the benetit of Mr. Wise in Virginia; bat the second article is the leg on the North side of the fence, and is just as evidently designed to ticklethe fancy of the free coil democracy of Pennsylvania and the free soil squatters of Kansas, But is or is not the policy of Reeder ond his land speculators to be sustained ? Is it the policy of Mr. Pierce to make Kansas a free soil or a slaveholding State? A single confession, one way or the other, woald be worth all this beating about the bush of the last twelve months. Considering the straits of Mr. Wise, it would be cruel, perhaps, to insist upon a plain statement this side of the Vir- 8 on Thursd»y, and as, from all appearances, there wili be nothing further to be lost or gained after that day, we have the right to expect that on Friday or Saturday next the President will issue to the people of Kansas a proclamation, set- ‘Weg forth distinctly and positively his official policy and purposes coucerning the adminisira- tion of the affairs of the Tercitory. Why not? He has issued one or two procla- mations against the Cuban and Lower Califor- nia filibusters. Why not, then, favor us with ®@ proclamation concerning Kansas, where the docirine of “squatter sovereiguty” is in immi- nent peril of degenerating into a civil war between Northern and Southern filibusters? The President is sworn to support the eonsti- tution, and he is bound to execate the lawa, Does he iniend to shirk his duty in relation to Kausas, end leave it to the Missourians and the Maseachusetts anti-slavery emigrants to regulate the affairs of the Territory as be- tween two hostile armies? Or dees he in- tend to exercise the supervision with which he is charged in conciliating and pacifying the existing troubles among the Northern and Southern equatters? The aiternative of peace, or the hazards of a frontier civil war, depend upon his answer and his action in reference to this simple question. We are seriously apprehensive, however, that Mr. Pierce has neither the honesty nor the moral courage to show his band upon this Kaness difficulty. We are fearful that he will permit these border troubles to run oa into tcenes of violence and bloodshed, which will precpitate opon us the most malignant and dengerous sectional agitation. His whole course upon this Territorial issue haa been 80 ma)ked with treachery and deception that it is to be feared he will persist in the game at all hazards. When the repeal of the Missouri Comprowise was first broached in Congress, Mr. Pierce was “ dead against it.’ The Wash- ington Union deprecated it seriously and earnestly. But finding that the Sooth would support him in the measure, the repeal became an administration hobby, and was carried through as ah administration movement. Then, again, to make al) right inthe North, their besutiful Kansas plot for the totai exclusion of the South from these vew Territories was bit upon and adopted. Governor Reeder and bis affiliated free soil Jand speculators and emigration rocieties were placed over Kan- sas, a Southern Territory from its soil, productions, climate, and especially from its contiguity to Missouri and Arkansas, At the same time, to keep up « deceptive show of fair dealing to the South, a Southern Governor was placed over Nebraska, which, from its ex- treme northerly position, climate and prodac- tions, can never be anything else thana tree State. From this treacherous device to the South we have bed the first fruits io the late Kansas elections. It is Mr. Pierce that is goilty of the firet provocations to the Missourians. It is very evident that the policy of Reeder and his asso ciate Kitchen Cabinet and free soil land specu lators, is the €xclusion of the slaveholiers from the Territory. And why? For the simple rea son, in dollars and cents, that a dealer in lands will make more money in selling tem in small lots to free soil settlers than in those large tracts which Southern squatters, with their gangs of ten, twenty, thirty or fifty slaves, will require. Governor Reeder, in behalf of him- self and associates, is understood to have made extensive purchases of the best lands from the Indians ond half breeds in Konsas. These lands will be very profitable if he can succeed in ee- toblishing upon them villages and colonies of free soil equatters, retailing his domains to them in forty, eighty and coe hundred and tweuty sere farms, reserving, at the same time, some of the best town lots and mill sites to himeelf for larger profits in the fa- ture, when the country shall have be AMUSEMENTS THIS Tals EVENING. hf OF MUSIC, , Fourteenth at.—Luora vr Lam Pecmsairit THEATRE, RE, Brosdway—Ornstio—Lay app GenTLeman. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—La Prnovse—Seven ‘Paarrs riers, RTON’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Urran Tax acurs Twantt aut thx Wonus's 4 STase. BEACK'S THEATRE, RE, Brosdway—Fast Man—Inish Murs s atanaaeat THEATRE, Broadwey—Tux Merny @aves oy Winnson—My Nusonnon’s Wire. ausR! MUSEUM—Atternoon—utss roo Muow~ segues on Taxes ar Svoning—sons or THE RervDiio vor Notuire. WOOD'S MINSTRELS—Mechanics’ Hall—472 Broadway. ss BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 689 Broadway—Buox- se’s Brwiorias Orsna Trovre. OHINESE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 539 Broadway—Pano- mama oF Bunors awp Sizce oF Semasroron. PRBAM'S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, 663 Broad- weg Ban poriaw Orsra Trovrs. Mew York, Monday, May 31, 1855. Malis for the Pacific. HE NEW YORK ABRALD-CALIFORNIA EDITION. ‘The United States mai) steamehip Illinois will leave this port this afternoon at two v’elock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California ana other parts of the Pacific, will close at qpe o’clook. 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The contents of the European edition of the Hamatp Wi embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at ‘the office during the previous week, and to the hour of ‘padlication. The government of the Dominican republis has aecently got into a difficalty with the British Consul there, and though indisputably in the right, it had ‘to succumb to the brute forse by which it was m2. maced. The factsaretiese: At tie latter end of March last a conspiracy to ovsrthrow the govern- ment exhibited itecif, and was suppressed. The heeds of the conspiracy took refage in the Baglish Cousulate, and were there protected. The govers. ment demanded the surrender of taese culprits, on ‘the grousd that the Consul had no righ; of asylam, or even if he bad, that it did not apply to such a case methat. Bat the Consul insisted, and procured some British men-of-war to maintain his pretensions, ‘which were that the government should faraish the refugees with passports to leave the islaud. A Qcuneil of Ministers was held, aud the matver was referred to the Consuitative Seaate for its advice. ‘The Senste upheld the ground taken by ths govern- ment, that the Consul had no right of asylum, and fhat even if he bad, i: could not apply to this case; ‘but counselled that, as the pessports had been soil. @ited in the name of the Queen of Eaglaud, the government should combine policy with mercy, and grant them. The sdvice was follo red; the pasa- perts were delivered, and the mslefactors left the island, protected vill their departure by the officious Oonsul, who thus set at defiance and ignored every principle of international law. We give elsewhere tuapslations of the official docaments on the sabjsct. Tre weather cleared up finely yesterday, after a @ontinucd and violent rain storm of thirty hours’ duration. The afterscoon was sucpy and pleasant, ad the streets were c-owded with charch goers. Towards night, however, it agao became cloudy, and until midnight the ram at intervals fell iv tor- wente, At this rate there is no fear of a d:ought this summer. The steamsiip Hermana, for Southampton and Bremen, which was compelied to anchor at Qaaran- time om Saiurdésy, on aczount of the storm, pro- eveded on her voysge at seven o’vlock yesterday morning. The Ariel, for Havre, and the United Seates, for San Juan, Nicaragua, were no’ detained, but went to sea on Saturday. The rules of practice adopted by the Court of C'aims are pobdiiebed in auother column. I; has been stated that te court will no’ bs ready to re- Geive cases noti) the 12th of Jaly; bat our corres: pondent si Washirgton pronounces this an erron The court ie now open for the recey‘ion of busiagss, and Judge Huctingdon, the obief clerk, is ia con stant attendacce a his office to reseive and docket eases, alihongh the preparatory business may not be perfectd so that argoments can be hesrd for aoms time. Our correspondents gives some important imformation respecting the operation of the rules adopted, which may be of seivice to claimants or their agents. Oar Oasracas correspondent, writing on the 26th aht., states that tie Venezuelan Congress had con- ferred di tatorial powers npon President Monagas imorder to weet the anticiyated war with New Gra nade. Itappeara that the government of New Gra mda hes declared in favor of squatter sovereignty and annexation, and some of the provinces of Vene- zwelasre also inclined to adopt the dostrine. Exgiveer-in-chief Martin bas retarned to Wash- ington from a tour of inspection of the machinery it progress for the eix new steam frigates. Hs re- porte evr, thing going on well and as rapidiy as eonld be wished. The Merrimac, at Boston, will be wendy for sea by the last of September, and the Minnesota, at the Washington Navy Yard, will be the bext one launched. We understacd ‘hat the Agricuitural Borsan whieb has been att-ched to the Patent Office, is to be discontinved in a weck or two, tne appropriation for it being exbausted. Most of the clerks have been already transferred or dismissed. We publish in another co'nma a terse ard pungent nddrees te the demccrata of Virginia, by Gao. N. Sanders, on Seaatr R. M. T. Hunter's recently avewed “ higher jaw” prin iples. Read 1. ‘The value of (oreiga goods imported into the port of Boston, for the week ending Saturday, was $713,876. The sales of cotton om Satarday reached about 4,000 beles, at an advance of jc. @ je. per Ib, Flour was irreguisr, but in the main rather firmer than before the rews. Indian corn was higher, and wale (f sbi und yellow were made at $1 14 for the former, snd at $116 a $1 17 for the letter. Wheat ond rye were nominal, Pork was rather easier, while other provirions were firm. About 44200 to 1,500 bales of compressed ontton were for Liverpool at 5-324 ; uncompressed was at 9-16d., and, lot of Ses Island was taken at 9321. ‘The Administration and the Kansas Quer | come more ia el€CtiOn; DUt &8 LUBY cIcVetun comes of TAM YACKMOU ‘This cay PA SOS densely populated. be the sum and substance of the free sollism of Governor Reeder and his Kitchen Cabinet associates ; but it is quite enough to identify them heartily with the free soll and Massachu- setts emigration societies, The political prin ciples of s land speculator may be pretty safe- Jy summed up in dollars and cents. It is the policy of the Massachusetts free soil propaganda to make Kansas an anti-slavery State of the Masachueetts type ; it is the inte- rest of Governor Reeder to second the move- ments; and the principles of speculating poli- ticians are invariably governed by their Wall street valuation in hard cash. The case, then, is pretty clear. This apology of the cabinet organ in behalfof the Missourians is a hambug and a trick. Governor Reeder, after visiting the White House, returns to Kansas with his family. Hie acts are approved ; his policy is, spproved ; otherwise he would be superseded n bis office. “The administration thus becomes an active ally, tbrough Reeder, Forney & Co., of Mr. Thayer and his Massachusetts anti- Javery crusaders. They are all engaged, some as dupes, some as fanatics, some as dema- pogues, come as disunien traitors, and some as Jand speculators, in the same cause, which is to crowd out the people of the South from Kansas, and to meke it a fiee soil colony and an aboli- tion State. What, then, is the policy of the Southern people, especially of the States most interest- ed? They have nothing to expect of Mr. Pierce. He is committed to the other side. Their only alternative is to fight this free soil conspi- racy with its own weapons, in the organization of emigration societies, and in the shipment of detachments of Lona fide Southern squattersin numbers. tuffcient to hold the Territory. In the meantime, after the Virginia election, let a Southern committee be appointed to wait upon Mr. Pierce for a definite understanding upon the subject. Perhaps they may bring him out. Who knows? Ivrorntant CrimmaL Truits ABEAD—A very important aad curious series of criminal trials, growing out of the famous burning of the Martha Washington on the Westera waters, some three or four years ago, will take place in this city in the course of a few months. It will be recollected that a few years agoa series of triuls took place in some of the Western States, principally in Ohio, grounded on charges made against a number of individuals who had been indicted by the criminal author- ities there for setting fire'to the steamboat Martha Washington, and thereby defrauding a number of insurance companies in all the large Atlantic cities, and some other cities of the West. The indictments recently found here grew out of the frauds perpetrated by toe same parties on the insurance companies of this city; and the trials which may come on ina few montha will of course go over the whole ground, and develop all the facts connected with the burning of the Martha Washington steamer, and the mode and system by which the persons implicated in these charges conduct their affairs. It seems that there was an association or gang of well-educated, talented, skilfal, uo- principled men, which has been for several years past engaged in various criminal conspi- racies and depredations upon the public, East West and. North. Some of their erimical enterprises were detected in Canada, and a few years ago many of the parties were there indicted. Most of them obtained bail for large amounts, and we have understood they ab- sconded from Canada, forfeiting their bail bonds to the amount of eight, ten, or twelve thousand dollars. ‘The next exploit that we hear of their being engaged in was the famous one of the barniag ct Martha Washington. In this enterprise numervus insurance companies of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinuati, and perbaps e)sewhere, were defrauded of vast sums of money uvder pretence of insurance for goods affected to have been shipped on the Martha Washington, but which, according to the deve- lopements in the courts at the West, turned out to be nothing but rubbish, bricks and other euch raw materials. The trials consequent upon thst crime bave occupied the criminal courts in Ohio and other Western S:ates for se- veral years, and on thes trials the judges and jorors have been overawed, and the new-pap-r press threatened with libel suits, and acted on by every species of coercion, And thus, after several years, this ingenious association of dep- redators bas succeeded in getting rid of the charges made against them in all the courts of those regions. Unfortunstely tor them, however, one of their most skilful but indiscreet associates, Kissane, n order to raise money to defray the expenses of defending themselves against these charges, perpetrated. with the aid of two others, forge rics on the Chemical and Exchange banks of this city, and on the Ohio Life and Tras: Com pany, to the aggregate amount of twenty or thirty thousand dollars They escaped detec- tiow at the time, were paid the money, and have, by tbis time, spent the most of it, Bat they were at length caught, brought back to New York, and one of the chief of the gang, Kiseane, was tried and convicted, aad sent to Staie prigon in this State. This trial of one of the associates brought the whole gang, consisting of eight, ten or twelve persoue, to this . During that time the insurance companies and their agents made som: move- ments to briag them all to justice, applied to the criminal anthorities, bad the rest of them indieted for fraud, and have now succeeded in getting nearly the whoie of them in prison in this city, with » prospect of putting & termina tion bo their nefarious depredations for all fatare time. We alo understand that the insurance companies of Boston, Philadelphia and Balti- more, who are interested in the matter, are en- gaged in procuring indictments against thesame parties in their respective cities; so that there is every prospect of justice, ample acd suffi- cient, being dealt out to these parties, aow that they have fallen into the hands of the deter- mined and deliberate exeentors of the law ia the Atlantic cities, where judges and jurors, courts and counsel, can neither be overawed, frightencd, corrupted nor intimidated, as they have been of late yeats in Ohio and other Western States. Tne Lats Ratws.—We have had some five rainy days of Jate, and are glad to see that they have extended as far west as Kansas. We are thus aseured, unless all good sigos should fuil, o/ an abundant wheat crop. We presume, too, that there spring showers have not been con- fined to the North, but have extended to the ex- treme South, where they appear to have been euffering the misfortunes of an extraordinary GIAReH BAOY Wau the great bread staple of the South, there is still time fors great erop, With liberal rains through the summer, which will very likely be the case. With a general prospect, therefore, for good crops and good markets, we may fully look forward to weather safely through the drawbacks of Se- bastopol and the Baltic. Nothing else, how- ever, than abundaut rains and plentiful crops will relieve us of this still existigg pressure, and the chances of semething worse to eome. Let our farmers and planters throughout the country exert therpselves for a large supply of cotton, breadstuffs and provisions of all kinds and we shall be on the safe side, peace or war. It is an uvhealthy state of things when specu lators in San Francisco find the exportation of flour to New York a profitable basiness, Pnusorrtes or tas Kyow Noramas. —We notice that the administration journals at Wasbington and Richmond are working vigor- ously to persuade the public that the Americaa party of the Nerth is infected with abolitionist privcipies, This is intended to tell upoa the pending election in Virginia ; ene ot the moss important which has taken place fur years, and which must not only exercise a great io- fluence ou the Presidential eleetion next year, but operate powerfally on the political move- ments of the country during the next few years. We need hardly-repeat that the assertion is wholly, impudently untrue. The Kaow Nothiags of the great Northern States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and their neighbors, are sound on the slavery question; as has beeu proved by the published expression of their sentiments on several occasions, and especially by the proceedings of the late State Convention at Syracuse. It isa gratuitous calumny to state that any integral portion of the American party in these great States has the least affinity with or sympathy for the Northern abolitionists. It is true that @ portion of the party in Maceachusetts and New Hampshire have been led astiay by the force of popular fanaticism, and allied themselves with the freesoilers of New England. But by so doing they have sever- ed the bond of union between them and the other councils of the party, and will be formally repudiated at the proper time. It muat be remembered, likewise, that all the Kaow No- things of New England do not belong to the abolitionist party, Very many, not only in Maseachusetts but in New Hampshire, are ready to rally round Governor Gardner, and form the nucleus of an American party on a national basis. And the prospect is that, when the American party has been fally organized in the great Northern States, and the councils placed in communication with each other, these na- tional Know Nothiogs of New Eagland will coalesce with their neighbors, and the abolition- ists, isolated and repudiated, will throw off the disguise they are now fraudulently endea- voring to assume. Of one thing the South may be sure: the American party is the only Northern party which rests on national principles gnd a consti- tutional basis; and what the South wants of the Union must be expected trom it, and from it slone. Mr. Pierce has shattered the demo- cratic party into fragments. A like service has been rendered to the whigs by Mr. Seward. Neither the one nor the other is in any such condition or discipline as would enable it to undertake a campaign in the North with reason- able hopes of success. The only reliance of the South must be in the great constitutional American party in the North. Saam Nomrmations FOR THE Prestpency.— The newspapers in different parts of the coun- try have lately been engaged, to a considerable extent, in discussing certain sham nominations for the Presidency. Persons who pass for wits in the ragal districts and small towns have amused themselves by placing the names of their butts before the public, and within the past three or four weeks we have noticed that several of these silly and ridiculous nomina- tions have been taken up and discussed by jour- nals from which more grave and serious treat- ment of soimportant a subject might have been expected, There was one of these nominations,made in Boston, a sbort time ago, by a set of queer fellows in that vicinity, and this canard has been taken up by several respectable newepapers in Massachusetts and New York, We aliude te the sham nomination of George Washington Frost Mellen. Mr. Mel- Jen was once a respectable and thriviog drug- gist, and was reputed to be skilfal in his call. ing. He was carried away by the abolition harapgues of Garrison and others of the same gang, aod his mind became unsettled. He thinks he has a “call” to make speeches on apy and every occasion, and became so great a bore that even the abolitionists could not swallow him. He was cast out of the fold, and has since wandered about from place to place, declaiming on all sorts of subjects in the most incoherent, dieconnected and ubsurd style. He has been for years the butt of some of the fast young-men about Boston, who might have found better employment than in tormenting and deceiving a poor half crazed egotist, who has not brains enough to see that he is being fooled. Again, within the last week or two we have noticed in some of the country papers, another tham nomination, got up by the issuing of a Mung correspondence addreseed to Horace Greeley, and purporting to have been signed by the editors of several of the city journals. Then again we have seen the nomination, by several pupere, of the notorious Hiss, who has just been expelled from the Mussachueetts Legislature. For Vice-Fresident is suggested the equally notorious Mrs, Patterson, whose bill for the oc- cupancy of one bed at the City Hotel in Lowell was paid by the puritanical, moral, anciently virtuous and strictly respectable Common- wealih of Massachusetts. For this bill the Trea- turer of the Commonwealth has a receipt, and it will probably be filed away in the ar- chives of the State Honse as a testimonial the honor and morality of Massachusetts uw givers. Some curieus inquirer, centuries hence, may find itside by side with the original charter of Plymouth Colony, the Puritan arti- cles of confederation, or an election sermon by Cotton Mather. In such compaay it will be a rich literary curiosity. There sham or boyus nominations would do no great harm, considered only as attempts at wit, and if not carried too far might @mause a few tilly people; but they should have been received at Washington ia such ® manner as to reason the public out of the idea of them. The Wa- tional Intelligencer thinks it censurable aad Oisreputable for newspapers to make sporti this manner of the highest office in th» gift of the republic. We think 50, too, The Wasbington Sentinel, while pursuiag the same line of conduct, endeavors to make out a case to excuse itself for the harm it has al- ready done. The truthof the matter is, that theee sham nominations are got up and sustain- ed by the jourcals of the-old parties, and the worn out politicians, in consequence of the re- cent very important movement by the Pennsy!- vania Legislature, which resulted in the nomi- nation of George Law. That movement was sometoing new and fresh in politics—it has al- ready been received with peculiar favor—the time seems to be eminently fitted for such a movement, which threateas the ruia ‘of the old parties ard the old politicians. The Washington Sentinel, the Alnavy Atlas, the Commercial Advertiser of Buffalo, the Evening Post of this city, and the Boston Post, were all thrown into conyulsions by the effect of this new movement in favor of the new man, George Law. These old rogues thought to turn it off with a laugh, and it was to counteract its wide- spreading popularity with the people that they made and encouraged such sham nominations as those of Frost Mellen, Greeley, Mrz. Patter- sen and Joseph Hiss, the soape-goat of the pu- ritanical Bay State Legislature. But all these old fogies will fiod themselves mistaken on this occasion: the movemeat which originated in the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture is becoming more serious every day—it cannot be laughed off or coughed down. All the efforts to arrest its progress by the old poli- ticians will give it greater strength, and it wi!l roll on throughout the Union, inaugurating & new political revolution. Ho! ror Kansas.—The free soilers at Boston, roused by the news of the ecenes which seem to have frightened Governer Reeder from his post in Kansas, are subscribing money freely, it is said, for the purchase of arms to arm the free set- tiers from the North who intend to make Kan sas their home. Of course they have a perfect Tight to do what they will with their money ; and if the Boston emigrants feel that they need arms to protect their persons against the ter- rible fellows in Missouri and the South, no one objects to their taking them. Trae, the result is likely to be an increased excitement at the South, and not impossibly serious troubles in the new Territory. But that is their concern- We hope, at least, if they send out arms, that they will send men to use them—men who will act more and talk less: that they will send such men as Greeley, Garrison, Wendell Phil- lips, and others whom the North could well spare, and who would thus be afforded an op- portunity of proviog their sincerity by fightiog for their principles. They have beat the dram long time ; it is time they took to the musket. Crusnep aT Last—One Joseph Hiss, as the friend of Mre. Patterson and Sister Mary Joseph is now called in the orders of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, seems to bein the position of the gentleman who was crushed and didn’t know it. He has been ejected from the House by resolution, snubbed by the Speaker. and put out by the Sergeant-at-Arms, and he lately appealed to the Supreme Court, where he was extinguished by Chief Justice Shaw. Mr. Hiss thought to bring his whole case be- fore a legal tribunal by getting arrested for debt, and then applying for a writ of habeas corpus. Exemption from arrest on civil process is one of the privileges of the four hundred and odd gentlemen who make up the “collective wisdom ” of the old Bay State. Mr. Hiss claims that he is etill a member, and it would bave been competent for the Court to hear all the testimony relative to his expulsion from the House. The House refused tosuspend the rules to hearit, and only gave Mr. Hiss leave to present anything which might bear against the facts stated in the report of the Investigating Committee. But Mr. Hiss refused to be crushed without iavoly- ing his confreres in the same rain which has overtaken him. He wished to prove that many other members of the Legislature are, like him- telf, fond of the world, the flesh and the devil, especially when they appear in the form of a pretty woman, with the progressive ideas on matrimony advocated by the Tribune and Brigham Young. But Chief Justice Shaw re- faced to hear the motion unless an affidavit was sworn to prove that the arrest was not a put- up affair, and the scandel mongers of the mo- dern Athens were deprived of their anticipated bonne bouche. It is now alleged that Mr. Hiss is persecuted by the abolition majority of the House because he is a democratic Know No- thing with national principles. Let him try again! Manacine THE Press —Articles have appeared in various journals of late, on the subject of the management of the press. Gentlemen have been mentioned as engaged by this or that Mabager to manage the press; and the press itself has come to be regarded as a very intelll- gent though docile anima!, which only needs a judicious application of ‘whip, spur and rein, to perform all the antics which may be desired. How thismay be with others we know not. Our experience is that gentlemen who under- take to manage the press invariably misman- age it, ond that managers of theatres and places of public amusement had far better, for their own interests, leave the press to manage itself It is quite capable of doing so; and an alliance which is founded on corruption, private friead- . thip or terrorism—the only stock in trade of these managers of the press—can hardly be ex- pected to be lasting. More OPeRA aT THE ACADEMY.—Our readers will #90 that the La Grange artists are to sing in “Lucia di Lammermoor,” ai the Academy of Music. We under- stand that they are engaged for two months, under the direction of Mr. Jacobsobm. There should bes fine house th’s evening, the artists being of the highest order of mezit Tus StaTEN Isuany FERny.—We have not waited long to perceive tne wisdom of the Mayor’s veto of the sale f the Staten Island Ferry privilege. Though the print- ed notices of the Ferry Company state that their boats Ih ply every hour between six and seven from the nd to the city, one boat was takon off yesterday morning, and the trips, instead of being hourly, wire only made every two hours. The consequence was, that many residents of the island who usually visit the city cm Bundsy, and often drive four and five miles to the landing, and a still greater number of residents of the city who go to the island on their only leisure day, had the pleasure of waiting & whole hour in the rain—undey auch sbelter as the means of this unspeakably parsimo. sious company enable them to provide—that is to aay, under a few ill-jointed planks. It is certainly in the power of the Corporation to prevent such impositions; and whatever ix done in the matter of the slips, nome gvarantee rhould be offered to the public that the boats will leave regularly at the hours fixed—unless insur. mountable obstacles should prevent them—and thet they shail not in future be detained until the forrymas ter conceives he has a safficient number of passengers peg A By ww av foo the whos on thin more neces Gator ahaa ot yeaterd day yd awuainopagrian THE LATEST NEWS BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The Liquor ‘Qucetion in Boston, Boston, May 20, 1855. Considerable amusement wes crested in the streets to- day by different bandbille, conspicuously posted im all parts of the city—one calling » meeting of ali the friends of constitutional rights and personal liberty, to assem. ble in Faneuil Hall, to-morrow evening ; and the other appealing to all the friends of raw, riot and pauperirm, todothe same. It is thought that the demonstration = of the liquor dealers will pot amount to much. ‘The Court of Claims, Wasnivotoy, May 20, 1855. The Court of Ciaims is now ready to receive eases from claimants, not, however, to be docketed befure the 12th of July, nor acted apcn till October. Large fire at etersburg, Va, Rrowxoxn; Va,, May 29, 1855. A fire broke out in Petersburg, Va., this morning, and be stores of Wm Ingraham, 8. © Donnan, and Samucd A. Browne, were burftea down, The loss is estimated at $20,000, Ivgraham has been srrested, charged with Deing the incentisry. Fatal allroad Accident, ‘SyRacusk, May 20, 1865. Geo. Eliicott, d brakemas on the freight tra'n going West at two o’clock this moraing, fell between the ears and had both bis Jegs cut off below the knes, besides being otherwise seriously injured. He died in twe hours after the accident. ty LoS ERLE Sarees Be + Arrival of the Southern Mall, Batrimors, May 20, 1855. The Southern mail, as late as due, has arrived, witles New Orleans pepers of Monday last, but we find nothing of intexest in them, Markets. YROVIDENCE, May 19, 1855. The sales of cotton in our market for © peat weeks have been small, at frm prices. In wool, prices coc: tinue about the aame, with « very light stock, ‘The sales. amount to 24,200 lbs, Printing elotas—The mariet has. been active, and closes at 340. advance for most styles, with an upward tendency. Sales 165,500 pieces. Naval Intelligence. We stated in our impression of the 15th inst., that. Lieut. G. H. Scott, of the United States steamer Michi~ gan, had been court martisled at Erie, instead ef which it appears that Lieut. Scott preferred some time lact winter charges agains’ Assist . Datheches ahi were cecurtingty ‘nvenesed oy A as ee nding of the “Ne ‘court tu ctuph on thak nent 8 barges and specifi are n none of tne cl and 8) sations are aabnlegtonily Leone beyona the fact teed First As- sistant Engineer, jese 8. Rutherford, is in the habit of aes 100 freely and loosely of the acts of h's wee soe probably from ignorance of what wo proper oper ‘leeiptine. ‘They are also of opinion that the evi- lence cuaree repepe sg G. H Scott from all coliu- sion or impropri urchase of are ati any for the use of the tes steamer mesa do not consider Pita goes proceedings in necessary. But for the penser, ot ae board the berg they woulc respectfully eels to the honorable secretary of the Navy that First As-- sistant Engineer Rutherford should be detached and ordered on other duty. The Court hereupon jourasd, sine die. JAS. M. MeINTU3H, Capt. and Prea’t. ¥. D, Rernowps, Purser and Judge Advocate, Coroner’s Inquest, Farat Fart.—An inquest was held by Coroner Hilton. on the body of Margaret Ehmer, a woman abou: 25 years of age, who came to her death by compression of the brain, brought about by a fall received while in an in- toxicated condition. The husbend of the deceased was arrested on suspicion of having caused the violence, bus on the inquest it was shown, pecs a doubt, tnat tho- deceased fell while intoxicated, and striking’ her eg the ground, recesived a severe wound, from which dled. The jury, im rendering a verdict, wholly ex- ted the husband from any blame im the matter, accordingly he was tesharyed from arrest. Jersey City News. Scwoon CurtpRen.—A Seon taken by order of the Board of Ecucation, has le bvem completed, me shows that there are 6,435 children in in Jersey elty, be- ‘tween five and eighteen years of a First werd, 1,191; Second ward, 857; Third ward, 1,7: Fourth ward, 1,662. Abend: Calendar—Phis Day. 8 OisrRicr CouRT.—Nos, 7, 20, 28, 35, 34, ‘Unirep &: 16, 48, $0, 89, 66. Courr— Term.—Non-enumerated mo- tions and Nos. 14, 88, 98 99, 87, 22, 25, 104, 266, 8, 23, teat woe j , 22, 25, 104, 266, 8, Supnant Covrt—Circult.—Noa 1278, 1970, 8743, 908. 168, 110. 200, 999, 42, GOL, aa ie pono st 4 4 568, son 2—.- Nos. 637, 104, 233, aid, 848, 846, 877, 401, 452, 673, 520, £88, 8,640, sat a, 888 8, 8, "€23. SLL, 316, 817, 819, 886, S94, rot Ber, ate 989, et 203, 688, aan 906, ne, 116, 6 sta io, 0, , 988, 45, in o, ane orien pig ear Se eet eetaes? aders should bear in mind that tho sbing attribute of a centleman is a iiae- ow, in order to beO. K in this respect, it is o he "loader? of the hag trade 53S: foun a = ai are Phy etl Beebe & Co.’s Assortment cf Summer Hate tor xentlemen is now complete, comprising,» variety of the ‘bries: most ¢esirable styles and their Rocky Mountain silvery beaver hat this season is se gt ae ‘elegant, Sabri pean beer tae ePrice styles and colors. 166 Broadway. bd ‘ Kepenscheta corr in the | 136 ¢ ‘At the Merebante’, Exchange, For far | particulars toc Wvertisement, in another column. | fogues can bo obtained at tho offise, No: il Brond street. | Holmes’ United States Patent Double cue. | Ze, | ras. ter size, $15; — rize, $1 Knapp’s Daguerrcoty pes. —Gallery sntize to 477 Broadway, between Broome and Grand streots, in every style, large size, colored, case included. 4 $1; equal, af’ not better, than others charge 82 Great Plano and Melodeon fe Ntolan eve of ELY & MUNGBE: vine dopted the reduced prices, papa as, gna marie tan be had of Ur War ae A Lote 'prowe han they oan he found elsewh Me ere. ow Not Ended.—Notwithat : HORACE WATERS mt nena tho reform party, and is sigeven Neen price tha oven : Bis headquarters are to be ae: Biooklyn, May 1805 —Piof, H, Vitatts. Pr nest ty Moar: Gert ager apap ogra bok They should be repeated are many of our own fellow citi of uch tonioe a9. are comprise Partloularly attractive; an © upon ® Course of ence “cary Ward Bescher, Froderiok A. Farley, Franois Vin fom Richard 8. Storrs, Ta) lor, James Haimphrey, Bong. ein the shove iovitation, Prot tcberh Brooklyn. Tho Aes leeture wilt be dor om te hope That you wi on wilt 1 pity tty tats, Min the Ghapel of Paste Wells, kargo & Co.'s rei ‘Our Sxpeened isore on \ by ilecragess route per stea oa? in charge Me Sere teaee DN. BARNEY, Provident, Oflive ot « Svowis Baw Soe eee mania