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+ NEW YORK WERALD. SANES GOM {Oy BERNETT, OB AFD EDITOR. Byncd YF. 0" ogy op NassaU a¥D FULTCN 288 Po eh leo ———_ ——__ 7 — Bo. 152 A¥ (BEMENTE TOMOAROW EVSSING. 2 MI CY WUSIO Fourteenth wreeh—Tnati4N OvER OWN .mBUAL— BRN API. BOAIWAT THEATRE Brosowar—-Love, o% THE een © OWES 2NT yam Anuar wo BuzsaKns. W'KLO'S GARDEN. Broadwsy—Youra BEncure on Tem rene Rore—Ten Rioreanny Marcus, .) BOWERY FEEATAR Sowery—Qtumio Lexy Me Five Burnes. SUBLON'S THEAPOR, Cascoters sree Paxts anp Low- pon Ore Boon. WALLACK’S THEATRE Srcadway- A MonsrvG Cau Yoce won-tas— Sew Yeas Gar LAURA KEBRWS VARIETIES. Brocdwav—Janz Brae, pas Gaver oF Lowoon- iv Taaws Two ty MAKE « BARGAIN’ BACADWAY VARIETIES, 472 Sroadway—Poor Paicop De reopise—By ras Wood & Mansy JuvERILE Combi ans, @OODS MINSTRELS, 644 Broatway—Ermorun Min- mes—Ten Wiscurvou MoxKcy. BUCKLEY'S EALL, £39 Srosdway —Dionama oF THE Bat eee of SuNKre Mus, ConrLacnaTION OF CuantesTown, 40, DUSRRLDOEF GALLERY, 497 Bros¢way—Varvasia Sampmres ary S14TvaKt—UinrrEpo oF Bess, be, THis EVENING OIVY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, §3roadway—GeaxD @orceit ron Cab» Bewoman’s SeNEvi7. ACRED New York, Sunday, Jane 1, 1856. The News. A meeting similar to that which took place in ‘whe Broadway Tabernacle on Friday evening was held in the Brooklyn City Hall last night. The Mayor of Brooklyn presided, and any number of speeches were delivered, all of which had more re- ference to the question of slavery than the object for which the meeting had been convened. There were congregated inside and outside the City Hall st least three thousand persons, about two thousand of whom were assembled on and around the steps, where another meeting was held. A report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere. According to our special despatch from Cincinnati, up to last evening the New York hard shells were still inflexibly opposed to any compromise with the softs. However, there is no foreseeing what a day, and especially the Sabbath day, may bring forth, when the political juggiers put their heads together. It is said that Mr. Crampton has arrivea in this city, and is at present the guest of ex-Con- sol Barclay. It is believed he will proceed to Burope in the steamer which sails from Bo+ won on Wednesday next, accompanied by Con- suis Barciay and Mathews. The Toronto Globe, on the contrary, states that Mr. Crampton is to await the orders of bis government in that city, and adds,“ any idea that war will grow out of his dis- miseal can only be mentioned t2 be ridiculed.” Hon. James K. Paulding, Gen. Jackson’s Secre. tary of the Navy, in a letter upon Central American affairs, addressed to Gen. Quitman, aud published in yesterday's Union, emerges from his retirement at Hyde Park into a full blown filibustero. The fol. Jowing will serve as a specimen of the temper of his <communication:—“In my opinion, during the whole of his administration of the foreign affairs of the United States, Mr. Webster was little better than a pliant tool of the policy of Great Britain, to which every leading Eastern federalist has always been more cr less subservient.” The steamship Fulton left this port for Havre last evening, and anchored at Quarantine, whence she sailed at five o'clock this morning on her voyage. She carries out two hundred and forty-six passengers and nearly half a million in specie. A few minutes after leaving her dock an accident hap- pened to one of the condensers, whereby the chief engineer was so badly scalded as to render it neces sary to convey him vo the City Hospital for treat- ment. No other per:on was hurt. After a thorough examination it was ascertained that the damage to the machinery was but trivial. The steamship Empire City arrived at this port yesterday, with Havana dates to the 26th ulty The United States steamer Susquehanna was in port. Her officers stated that she would leave on the game afternoon for Key West, joining there the steamer Fulton and sloops Saratoga and Cyane, and thence proceed to San Juan. The Merrimac was hourly looked for at Havana. She would also pro- ceed to San Juan. Commodore Paulding, im the Potomac, had not yet turued up. The ship sd. Lemont was at Havana, not so much damaged 1), ber late accident at Cardenas as was at first sup- posed. There is no political or commercial news of importance. The Courrier des Etats Unis says that its pri- vate correspondence from Nicaragua conveys the in- formation that Gen. Walker was, at the last dates, in a desperate situation—that he had been forced to evacuate Granada, his capital, and take refuge in the mountains, short of men, munitions, and pro- visions ; and that the denouement of the enterprise in the shape of the destruction of the ephemeral power of the filibusters , therefore, more proba- ble and nearer than ever. In connection with the budget of Kansas news published to-day we givea rt of the debate in the Massachusetts House of Representatives on the resolution to extend material aid to the free State cause in the Territory. It was at first proposed to appropriate ten thousand dollars for this object, bat the select committee to whom the subject was re- ferred increased the sum to twenty thousand dol- lars. The proposition passed to a third reading on Friday, and the final vote was to have been taken yesterday. Weare not, however, informed as to the result. A precedent for this movement in Massa- chusetts is found in the action of the Legislature of Georgia, at an early period of the border troubles, when a bill appropriating fifty thousand aid pro-slavery emigration to Kansas was forwardin the Assembly, warmly discussed finally rejected, forty-three members voting for it to 'y-three against it. Hon. John M. Niles, Postmaster General « Mr. Van Buren’s administration, died at Hart yesterday, in the « ninth year of his age. ‘The report of the Inspector for the past we k exhibits a condition of the city’s health which is in the highest degree satisfactory. During the period referred to only 257 deaths occurred; {7 men 43 women, 115 boys and 82 girls, showing a de- wrease of 35 on the mortality of the week p: ‘The total bas not reached 80 low a figure sine Of the whole number 5 died of apoplexy, 4 of © gestion of the lungs, 51 of consumption, 6 of inf mation of the lungs, 4 of diarrhoea, 4 of dysentery 4 of disease of the heart, 4 of inflammation of the brain, 6 of smallpox, 14 of dropsy in the head, 27 of convulsions, (infantile,) 16 of croup, 16 of scarlet fever, 2 of hooping cough, 23 of marasmos, (infan tile,) and 4 of measle There were also 7 prema vad 13 deaths from tnre births, 25 cases of stillborn violence, the latter inclading 2 2 burned or scalded. The dises follows:—Bones, joints, &c., 2; brain and generative organs, 5; heart and bi lungs, throat, &c., 86; old age, 1 eruptive fevers, 2°; stillborn and p $2; stomach, bowels and other dis organs uncertain seat and meral fevers, 20; unknown, 1. | The nativit 21 natives of the United | States, 42 of Irela of England and the balance of v ea, | of cotton wert y to a fair without change in p Common grades -and skin, & mature births, f Germany ous Enropean made yester es. ex'e of flour 9 pout 64c. per bbl. lower, while diam and upper giades were steady, with moderate sal Wheat was dull for inferior and common lots, while | prime qualities firm, with a wide range of | prices. Corn was at 58c.a 62c. for sound yellow | avd white in shipping order. Pork was irregular with sales of mess at $16 25091850. Lara was active and firm at 1c. a 11}c. for prime ‘m bbls. and NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1856. the most enlightened and the most virtuous of | The Progress ef Scmoralisation—Cenven- Poeperism er@ Religion in New Yerk— Abuses of tha Law_— Practice under the Code. for prime in kegs 12c. was refased, Sugars con-| By the recent official report of the Secretary tinved firm, with fair sales. Coffee, was quiet and prices unchanged. Freights to “mglish ports were firmer, with more offering. C.rain was engaged at 54d. in ships’ bage, and fiqar at is. 10)d. a 2s, for Liverpool. ‘Whe Dismiss of Mr, Csampton. ‘This is still the talk of the city aud the great topie in the press. We publish elsewhere two ‘erticies on the mbject, one frem the British organ, the Albion, the other from the organ of Louis Napoleon’s government in this city. The former will be found 0 bo sensible, straight forward, and moderate; the latter foolich, equivocating and enappish. Tae Bri- tich writer justifies Mr. Marcy, or at least seea no fault in his conduct, aud very properly ar- gues that this ‘'personal difficulty” will not be “expanded into s uational iaconvenience.” The Frenchmao—and it must be borne in mind that be writes from Washington, and spesks as if be were uncommonly at home in the em- baesy—seeme to exhaust ing-nnfty in endea yoring to torture the acts of the administra- tion and those of Mr. Crampton into a groand for a rupture between the two countries, There is nothing he does not insinuate that could irritate the feelings of the parties to the dispute. He neither stops at fabrication, nor equivocation: the most simple acts are colored into enormous events; the most civil speech into furious language. Altogether it is very clear that the purpose of this writer is tocreate or widen the rupture between this country and England. Ard we are bound to say that we believe that is the object of the French embasey. Not on grounds personal to M. de Sartiges, who has taken pains to have his efforts at peace- making duly chronicled in his organ; but be- cause the more late events in France and els2- where are studied, the plainer appears the detire of the Emperor of the French to do us a mischiet if he can. The longer he lives, the less able does he find himeelf to combat the stream of democracy that is constantly de- riving fresh strength from this country; and though he has in his pay in this city a man whose business it is to read the American pa- pers, and report which should be stopped in the Post Office, he cannot unfortunately find a functionary competent to perform a similar function for men’s hearts, That he should under these circumstances desire the injury of the United States, is but natural; that his Minister should have been directed to further that object by the fomentation of a quarrel between England and this country, is, atter a)l, only according to precedent. It was M. de Lavalette’s business to foment a quarrel between Russia and Turkey: that he did so well that the net result of his labora was the Russian war with its finale leaving the Bona- parte dynasty the first in Europe. It looks very much as though Monsieur de Sartiges had been intrusted with a similar mission on this side the water. TeacuING THE YounG Ipea How to Sxoor.— We perceive that Charles King, LL. D., Presi- dent of Columbia College, made a speech at the Sumner meeting at the Tabernacle, cen- suring, as might be expected, the conduct of Brooks st Washington, but praising, in the highest degree, Greeley and Webb as the mo- del editors of the age. Greeley has frequentgy pplied to one of his cont2mporaries, who was Vice President of the same meeting, the epi- thets “You lie, you villain, you lie,” and to ancther the title of “little villain.” Editor Webb, with all bis present piety and religion, has neverthelees during his life set the exam- ple at least half a dozen times of assaulting acd bludgeoning his contemporaries merely for expressing a difference of opinion with him Does the President of Columbia College pre- sent these men as models for his pupils? Is the political arena a fit place for the head of @ classical school to exhibit excitement to such an extent as to lead people to question the soundness of his reason? or iu the event of the election of the republican candidate, are favors expected from that quarter which wiil make a vacancy in the presidency of Colum- bia College? Two New Srates CominG txto THE Uston.— Kansas and Deseret both appear to be pre- pering to knock at the doors of Congress for admission. But how differently do they present themselves as euppliants! Kansas comes for- ward with bowie knives, rifles and land jobbers, with hands stained with blood, mur. der and arson, and fresh {rom the conflicts between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery s+: | tlers. On the other hand, Deserst, which is peopled by the Mormons, who, for their re- ligious opinione, were driven out of Missouri, banished from Illinois, and driven beyond the Rocky Mountains, has gradually and quietly, without trouble or conflict, and by the efforts of its own energy and industry alone, grown into an important community: and after peace- ably adopting a new constitution, its delegates are now on their way to Washington to claim ite admission into the Union. Aud yet Dese- ret, althongh presenting such an example of industry, sobriety and piety, will no doubt he set down by the present Congress as an im™ ral, dangerous and wicked community, wiii Kansas will be fought for, quarrelled about, and probably admitted to acopartnership with the rest of the State: THE Poritans aNp Tuk HvugueNots.—The de- scendants of the Huguenots of South Carolina are holding meetings and voting canes to Mr. Brooks, as areward for his recent rather unpar- liamentary conduct at Washington. The Pari- tane of Maseachusettaare on the other tack, and are about appropriating $20,000 to carry on the civil war, and togend on, if necessary, a body- guard to Washington for Mr. Sumner, If all these men at Washington, and many of the edi- tors throughout the country, would only act like gentlemen, and exercise a little more cour- teey in their intercourse with each other, such scenes and doings iid be rendered unneces- sary, and the people of Europe would not be compelied to say, ‘See how the American ra- publicans are wash r dirty linen before the civilized worl Mayor Woon Backrso Ovr or mis Revorws — | In a very curious article the Journal Com: | + publishey Certain facts relative to inepe | tore. which would ecem to indicate that from come reason or other Mayor Wood is backing | out of his reforms and returning into the old | tracks of his predecessors. We also perceive that, for some purpose of hia own, he has re- cently appointed three or four of the most no. torious anti-slavery editors in the city to infla ential and profitable positions under a new law mf a Corporation, What is the meaning of al} thie? of Btate it appears that more than two hun- dred thousand panpers have beem during the last year a obarge on the treasury of this State; and with our present population, every seven teen persons are compelled by law, indirectly, to eupport one peuper. The amount of this tax for pauperiem is for this year, one million three hundred and seventy-nine thousand dol- lars. In fifteen years more there will be one pauper for every five persons, and the expense of supporting them will be nearly seven mil- lione of dollars per annum. Again: We have just passed through a season of anniversaries, celebrated with as impoeing a digplay of figures, rhetoric and eloquence as it is in the power of numer. ous and wealthy associations of men t¢ make, in which the forlorn condition and moral degradation of men and races acros3 the seas have been set forth in the most vivid manner, in order to spur on the lagging cha- rity of the public to greater and more decided exertion. A vast corps of colporteurs, preact- ers, eecretaries, boards, managers, men, wome? and children live by the very organization cf these benevolent schemes. Printers, p1> lishere, papermakers grow sleek and rich 02 this outlay of humanity, and no one objects to it, since the ends are so worthy of attainment. Thus we have the great and growing evil of pauperism beginning to press itself on the public attention, a subject that our political economists cannot long leave untouched; and we have religious instruction doing its work on the most gigantic scale, and with a promse of the most eplendid reaults But what niod will lay aside the study of theee great subjscts— the increase of pauperiem with the incrase of religion—to lock at some of the evile of our social condition, existing under a code of laws the supposed triumph of prosperity, of learn- ing and of religion? Who will shov how much of our pauperism is owing to these very laws, and how much of our intensest misery is ap- parently beyond the reach of religious conso- lation? What Howard is there who vill visit and openly denounce the prisons in chis city and State, where on the merest prevnces and the most shallow and interested testimony parties may be deprived of their personal li- berty for months and years, unabe to regain it, in many cases at all, unless a merciless at- torney has been bribed to haste: and conclude his proceedings? Who will expose that infamow doctrine of contempte, which lies only in the imagination of pettifoggers, and of which tle eutomaton Judges who sign the orders for arest, are often totally ignorant? Who will expsse the nefa- rious charges made by the marehas and petty officers of the courts for attending a debtor to his house to bid his wife and clildren fare- well, or to have an interview with his own lawyer, if he be able to fee one? Who will ex- pose the prison chargee, where for the coarsest food, and the privilege of sitting among the servants, white and black, in tae kitchen or scullery, a larger sum per week is demanded than is paid at the Astor and St. Nicholas? Who will tell us of the bribes daily paid to officials for even the commonest civilities, or the mtse- ty they cause if those bribes are not paid? Who will point out the enormous amount of coats now legally demanded by lawyers, the extra allowances granted them by the Judges, and the delays which money procures, to ac- cumoulate still more money? Where is the honest Anglo-Saxon who will stand up for the right of trial by jury, now almost forgotten in the more convenient prac- tice of the chambers, where everything is tried by affidavit; where criminality and imprison- ment are ordered on ex parte testimony, and where the bewildered victims of the Code find imprisonment for debt and the foulest dis- honor on their character awaiting them, on the complaint of an enemy, and at the flat of one man? Would it not be a theme worthy of the attention of some enlightened jurist if some of these abuses of the law were pointed out to the public, in the hope of procuring a reform? We fear that the hurry and bustle of the times we live in; the universal grasping at money; the corruptions visible in our national, state and city legislation; the unblushing efforts to seek place and office of men known to be perfectly infamous in private character, and the all absorbing political questions of the day, are too much for individual bene- volence, learning and integrity to encounter in a struggle for the poor or the unfortunate’ Before the introduction of the Code, the fee bill was supposed to be too large and too op plessive. Many attempts were made from year to year to amend it; but as the State Le- gislature was ever well eupplied with profes- sional members, their acuteness was always more than match for unlettered honesty, and so the fee bill, like the Code, has been growing worse; and he is but a dull practitioner who cannot double the debt of a defendant before he is through with his case. Humanity for years clamored against the doctrine of imprisonment for debt. Its barba- rity was admitted. A law abolishing it was finally paesed, but not without a severe strug- gle against it by men who were then creditors, and have since by thousands gone into bank- ruptcy themeelves. But the repeal was really a cheat anda deception. Imprisonment for debt exists in its worst form. The Code hasia- genicusly distinguished by new subtleties, be- tween civil contracts and civil contracts of the nature of torts. They have declared certain acts wrong on their face, no matter what explanation can be given of the transactions. A commission mer- chant who does not clore his account with his consignor on the instant, may be arrested on an affidavit of # roguieh customer, backed up by aroguish attorney. An express company, a common carrier, ® Carman who lingers in crossing a street, may be held in tort, arrested and put in jail; andif the attorney does not choose to hasten his proceedings, the defendant may be detained there for months, and there is no help for it, if there be no money ready to open the blind eyes of the insensible goddess. The new Code has let in a flood of ignorant practitioners who can barely draw an aflidavit and make a complaint, who use the whole pow- er, moral, legal and political, of « sove- reign State, by the purchase of a seal and the signature of a judge; and who, by the magic of their ungrammatical and illegi- ble scrawls, are immediately attended by the whole train of magistrates, sheriffs, bailiffs, uries,as if he were a god, who obediently rad, and quickly execute his vengeance. This prodigious power the dirtiest and meanest pettifogger wields as well as the profoundest, counsellors. And so the law has, in o vast number of forms, become, through the subtlety of designing men and the operations of an artful code, a most illegal and a most tyranni- cal instrument. We think it is high time for wise and good men and patriots to see if there are not evils of us and around us, which throw distant and picturesque suffering in the shade. Let them eee if the abuses of the law at our own doors are not as worthy of their attention asthe moral condition of the Caffres or the abrtract rights of squatter sovereigns. Let them look at the rapid increase of overshadowing pauperiam on the one hand, and the sentimental mistakes of relfgious feeling on the other, and then tura to the nnremedied abuses of the law, and the new system of practice ander the Code, which almost ignores the existence of a civil contract ors civil remedy, or to the new reign of «ar- rante, attachments, contempts, interrogatories, acd to that infamous interpretation of commer- cial transactions as « mere system of falee pre- tences and stupendous frauds. Hicuer Sararmes—A Srrike iv Hicu Piaces- —We understand that a strike for higher sala- ries was made this month at the pious anni. versaries by a number of clergymen, and that an effort, which only partially fatled, was got up to increase the emoluments of the whole clerical body throughout the country. The movement must be viewed in a two-fold light. On one side, where clergymen officiating io pariehes long since established, continue to re- ceive the stipend that was paid to their prede- cessor forty er fifty years ago, they evidently deserve higher pay; for the cost of living has notoriously doubled within the last half centu- ry, or even a lees period. It is due to the cre- dit and the character of congregations that they should come forward and’ anticipate the action of their pastors on this delicate subjest. But, on the other hand, it is not to be con- cealed that clerical assistance, like physic, or legal advice, or boots, is a commodity which, in the absence of statutory restrictions, is pretty certain to find its level, and command a price regulated by supply and demand. If everybody was willing to make boots, we might be shod for a mere song; and if every second man wa3 @ good doctor, physic would really be a drug The misfortune is, that while there are really in every community not more shoemakers or more old doctors (there are always plenty of young ones, who starve,) than are required, the pecu- liar attractions of a life in the ministry create @ dieproportionate supply of young clergymen. Young men of more imagination than cold reason; of sedate habits, and of fondness for reading; of sedentary dispositions and but little energy—and there are a good many such—fiock into the church as their natural home. Many do so no doubt from the best and purest of motives; still they do so in larger numbers than worldly prudence would sug- gest, or the demands of the piously inclined can justify. We have, in fact, asuperabun- dance of clergy of one stripe or other, and the conse- quence is that the article is unduly cheapened. Our advice is, therefore, that a large selec- tion from the theological students of the vari- ous eburches and sects be directed to turn their attention to other callings. Carpenters ‘re much wanted out West; so are masons; and so are skilful farmers. Steamboat and ship- builders are never amiss anywhere; and though of couree it is less grand to make a boat or a ship than a forty minute discourse on justifica- tion by faith, the former are not bad things in their way. If this rule be applied, we shall soon hear no more of poor clergy. A few years of strict application, and we should see crack preachers fetching fancy prices at auc- tion. A Jxessg ror Jesse GREEN.—We have re- ceived a letter from Mr. Thomas Greene, pro- prietor of the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, Virginis, complaining of the insertion of the communication signed “ Jesse Green,” which appeared in our columns a few weeks since. He states that this signatare is s fictitious one, and that the purpose of the writer was to damage the springs in public es- timation. He gives the following account of the motives of the persevering hostility with which this object has been pursued. About two years ago the writer of the anonymous communication referred to—a peddler of pamphlets and newspapers-- applied to him for permission to spend the summer at the springs, at a price below the usual charges. Mr. Green declined, saying that he should apply to the superintendent, with whose control he could not interfere. He continued to importune Mr. Green on the sub- ject, until the latter had to be rather perempto- ry in hismanner to get rid of him. Notwith- standipg this rebuff, he told the superintendent that Mr. Green had made a special contract with him, by which he was to pay a very mode- raterum, and in further recompense was to supply the visiters with pamphlets, news- papers, &c., by sale. Succeeding in imposing on the superintendent by thia story, he re- mained long enough to run upa bill of $73. When Mr. Green was informed of this fact he gave dircctions that he should be expelled from the csiablishment, and that his baggage should be retained for the amount of his bill. It wae found to consist, in part, of paintings and prints, the publication or sale of which wasa direct violation of the criminal laws of the State. ters, in some of which he boasted of his fertili- ty of invention in fabricating plausible false- hoods to the injury of the springs. Winding Mr. Green’s contempt for his threats produced no effect, he last summer set afloat a report that the smallpox had broken out at the springs, and that they consequently had been closed for the eummer. This rumor was thoughtlessly poticed in two papers of extensive circulation, which, bowever, subsequently corrected the falecbocd as for as practicable, as soon as they discovered the malignant origin of it. His next effort was to announce or cause to be an- ncuneed, through one of the New York papers, that the disease at these springs was not the smallpox, but the plague, or something worse. His last ersay was the artfally concocted letter signed ‘Jesse Green.” When we received this communication it etruck us as so extraordinary that we treated it in a spirit of badinage. ments are concerned Mr. Green has but little tocomplain of. We are rejoiced to find from his statement that the injurious reports circu- lated against his establishment have no more serious foundation than the efforts of private malice. Any evil effects resulting from them will be counteracted by the present rtatement. So far as our com- | Stimulated to revenge by this exposure | the fellow wrote a series of threatening let- tens, dic.— Party Prauds. The Federal Union owns sizteen hundred mil- lion acres of public lands By the action of the national legislature we may set down the appusl appropriations or gifte, directly and in- directly, at about twenty-five millions. We have undertaken to extend the protection of the government to all the Indian tribes of this Part of the continent. We have etarted in this work by recognizing them as constituting vari- ous independent nations, have treated with them as such, purchased their lands, and have cove- nanted to pay them annuities, to provide them with agricultural implements, to send them re- Nigious missionaries, mechanics and doctors, The net reeult of our Indian policy is found ia the fact that the aborigines have been reduced from # condition of comparative independence ard comfort to bands of dranken, thieving de- pendents, relying upon the federal authorities to provide them with the means of living. It ie manifest from this simple statement that vhe Indian Department of the government is one of vast patronage, and it is equally mani- fest to those who know anything of the details of its business—who know that it ie in trath a fountain of corruption—a rendezvous of politi- cians—a source of endless peculations, extend- ing ite influence necesearily to the army, which is little more than an institution of our Indian policy—that itis a means of legislative and national demoralization. Congress is the trustee of the people, with power to make “needful rules and regulations” for the sale of the public lands. That body hes not virtue and integrity enough to execute euch a trust faithfully. We have now before the Senate a bill re- modelling the patent laws, obviously with a view of converting that industrial inetitution into an instrument of demoralization, like the Land and Indian offices. We have our-Custom House system—our Coast Survey, now grown into o permanent and enJarging tax upon the public treasury-- our Territorial or colonial administration—our public printing, a fountain of endless intrigues and corruption—our army and navy, increas- ing only in expenditures—and, to sum up the whole, we have seen the expenses of the gov- ernment tripled witbin the last twenty years. It only remains to point to the fact that as these sources of peculation and fraud have been opened and enlarged, so have all the departments of the public administration be- come more and more degraded and demoral- ized. They have become the property, indeed, of politicians ; they constitute the vital power of parties; they stimulate men to acts of dis- honesty, and so accustom the well disposed to scenes of moral delinjuency aa to make them unmindful of the decline of the administration in all that constitutes good and wholesome government. We have, then, in this view of our affairs, the inner machinery of the spoils system—the propelling power of parties; and this is the work of a republic resting its authority upon the alleged basis of popular opinion. This is the government established by the people, ex- cluding the fatal heresies known to the mo- narchical system—the union of religion and politics, the old pension policy of England and the continental States—but adopting errcrs equally, and even more, destructive of public morals and official integrity. And to what else than party, and the cursed machinery and ambition of politicians, are we to look for this state of affairs? Is corruption a neceseary element of all governments? Can we hope for perpetuity, and thus go oa in the work of national degeneracy? After we have established a written con- stitution, and been signally blessed by its fruits—a constitution made to restrict and cripple intrigues and managers, to pro- tect the masees from their mercenary designs, retaining in the people the governing power— was it neccesary that we should organise system of conventions, which in their opera- tions should transfer that power to the lead- ers? What is the difference between mo- narchy of leading men and a republic of lead- ing men? How is an ambitious man in the United States better and more patriotic than elsewhere? Are speculators and trimmers not alike every where? Do leeches refuse to suck the blood of good men? Do the people con- cede that they cannot govern without the dic- tation of conventious? If this be so, let us say no more about popular sovereignty, popular instincts, and the blessings of a free system. But more: What have conventions done for usthat we should install them as our guides, that we should make them the interpreters of the constitution, and permit them to exercise for us the actual governing power? By their aid have we grown better? Is our administra- tion purer and wiser? Have they kept down our expenditures? Have they maintained in- ternal harmony? Have they secured the bless- ings of union, fraternal concord and good neighborhood amongst all the people? Then what mean our expenditures of over sixty millions a year in times of profound peace, with no increase of the army or navy? Why sre we dinned with the hoarse and angry strifes of border feuds and civil wars? Why are we driven to the verge of disunion by the leaders chosen by conventions? Are such men our best governors? Are they more patriotic than the people? Arrival of Mr. Crampton. We understand that John F, Crampton, who has re. cently been dismiseed from the post of Minister from Great Bri\sin to the government of the United States, by President Pierce, arrived in this city late on Frid.; right, and put up at the private regldence of ex-Consu! Barclay, in Bond street. Mr. Crampton was aware of his fate for some time before he received his passpor!, and bad made all bis arrangements to leave as s00n as it was ly announced, It is understood that Mr. Lumley, ecretary of Legation, will remain in Washington, without, however, attendiog to any governmental busi- ness. Mr. Crampton will leave for Evgland in the steamship Cavada, which s. ils from Boston on Wednerday, the 4th instant, and will be accompanied by Anthony Barclay, Eee Consul of the port of New York, and George B, Mathew, Feq., Iate Consul of Philadelphia, It is sup. pored that Charles Rowerof!, Eeq., late Consul at Cinein- nati, will also sail on that day, shou'd he be able to fintsh up his business in time, The dismissed officials will of course be anxious to report themselves to their govern- ment at as early adate as possible, and learn Io what light their conduct has been viewed. it bas not yet transpired who will take charge of the New York Consulate in ence of Mr. Barclay, Naval Intelligence. The United Staten storesh!p Supply, Lieut. D. D. Por- ter commanding, arrived at this port yesterday, 28th inst., from New Orleans. The following is @ list of ber Cfiicers:—Ifeutenant Commanding, D. D. Porter; Master and Executive Officer, Thoman Boney; Paced Aeristant Surgeon, 8. S. Eligler; Passed Midehipmen, Robert F. Lewin, I. Howard Newman, and Joveph 1), Blake; Cap tain’s Clerk, G, Harris Heap. PHD LATPSEST NUWs. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, The Democratic Gathering at Cincinnat!.. AN ABMY OF DELB@ATES—RIVERS OF WHISEEY— BANDS OF MUBIO- THB HARD SHELLS INTRACPABLE: —THE BUCHANAN MEN JUBILANT, ETC. Crvcivnati, May Sb—9:39 P. M, Delegates continue to arrive in large members. The ‘rains this evening bring eght hundred passengers, with the report of a thousand more en route from Baltimore. ‘The Pennsylvanians have « military band, which blows for ‘‘ Old Buck,” of course. The city is full of dust, dele- gates and whiskey. The run on Catawba champagne surpasses belief, ‘The New York hard delegation had an official meeting st noon to-day, and re affirmed its intention to listen to no compromises with the softs. They say Buchanan stock is up to-day; but the South, except Louisiana, atill insists on Pierce or Douglas. No Northern man, except the three above mentioned will he heard of by the South in its present temper. The Buchanan men have taken the town by storm; but they also have boasted too much. There is a rumor that they have secured tickets for persons to applaud the first vote given to Buchanan, Ohio will vote for him, and change to Douglas; Maine votes for Buchanan; New Hamshire will onJy change from Pierce to vote for Doug'as in case’ a Northern man is nominated for the first office, Mr. Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, is mentioned for the View Presidency. There are numerous lobby arrivals to-day. The Douglas men lay low asyet. A great deal of ialk, but not ‘‘mueh cider” so far. Krom Washington. PAYMENT OF THE TEXAS DEBT—MR. SUMNER’S CON- DITION. ‘Wasmvcrox, May 31, 1856. The payment of the Texas creditors will not com- mence at the Treasury Department until Monday, in con- sequence of the first of June falling on Sunday. Aconsultation of physicians was held at ten o’clock this mornirg, in regard to the state of Mr, Sumner’s. health. Wo person whatever is yet admitted to see him, abeolute repose beir g necessary for him. He was rather more comfortable Jast night. Excitement at Syracuse. MABS CONVENTION TO CONSIDER THE LATE EVENT AT WASHINGTON AND KANSAS, SyYRacuss, May 31, 1856, ‘A great mass County Convention assembled in this city to-day, to consider the late asseult committed at Washington, upon the person of Senator Sum- ner, of Massachusetts, by Mr. Brooke, of South Carolina, and also the events that have recently occurred in Kansas. Peter Outwater presided. Speeches were made and resolutions passed s‘rongly de- nunciatory of the assault upon Mr. Sumner, and the course puraued by the federal government and the ‘border ruffians,” in regard to Kansas. The iaiigna- tion of the people here with reference to both of these. topics is unbounded. Men of all parties feel alike con- cerning them. Delegate to the Anti-Fillmore Convention, Bostoy, May 31, 1856. The anti-Fillmorites of the Fourth district elected John Newell delegate to the National Convention, to assemble in New York on the 12th of June. Missouri! Congressional Nominations, Cmcaco, May 81, 1856, John S, Phelps has been nomina‘ed for Congress in the- Sixth Missour! district by the democrats; J. M Wines by the Americans, and P. B. Lawrence, by the Bentonites, Death of the Hon. John M. Niles. Harrrorp, May 31, 1856, The Hon. John M. Niles, formerly Senator in Congreas from this State, and {Postmaster General under President Van Buren, died in this city this afternoox, in the sixty- ninth year of bis age. Marriage ot Mr Larry, ct the Boston Theatre, Boston, May 31, 1856. Mr. Thomas Berry, manager cf the Boston theatre, and formerly manager of the Broadway theatre, New York, was married, this evening, to the talented and amiable Miss Clara Biddles, a member of the’stock company. Snow Storms at the Eastward. Boston, May S?; 1856. At Bangor, Waterville and Danville, this morning, it was snowing, and the weather was very cold. Canal and Lake Navigation. ALnANY, May 81, 1856. The Canal Auditor is advised, of a breakon the Cham- plain canal, which occurred near Covel, on the 29th or 20th inst, Two hun¢red feet of heavy bank on a sixteen mile level was carried away. It will take at least one week to repair the break. Navigation on seetion Two of the Chenango canal has been obstrusted ever since the opeping of the canal, caused by the non-removal of a sacd bar. There isa break in the Genessee Valley canal above Portage, which was occasioned by repairs being made by the con!ractor. Osweco, May 31, 1856, The firat vesee! of a fleet which left here in the apring for Chicago has returnei. She reports other vessels ap near by. Weather cold and clear. ALBANY, May 31, 1856. Six thousand bushe’s of canal oats sold to-day at 38¢. per bushel. x Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PruLaDELPHa, May 31, 1866, Stocks firm—Peansylvania State Fives, 83; Railroad, 44: ; Lo \d Railroad, 133,; Morris 13%; Peonsylvania Rallroad ya bai - Political Gossip. In the Massachusetts House of Representatives on the 26th inst. » resolution was introduced instructing the Adjutant General of the State to furnish each of their Senators and representatives in Congress two of Colt’s six barrel revolvers. The Macon, Ga., Citizen has the best authority for as- sertiog that neither Hon. Howell Cobb, Hon. A. H. Stephens, nor the Hon. R. Toombs will aesept the demo. cratic nomination for the Vice Presidency, if tendered to them. The delegates to Cincinnati from Florida were not in- structed by the State Convention, but it is reported that they are unanimous in favor’of Buchanan. The Bosten Ohronide suggests that if Franklin Pierce is nominated by the Cincinnati Convention, Preston 8, Brooks be put upon the ticket with him for Vice Presi- dent. Judge John S. Brien has declined the honor of being » Know Nothing Presidential elector in Tennessee. He is. in favor of Fi/lmore and Donelson, nevertheless. The Savannah Republican ssys that although in the calculations concerning the Cineinzati nomination Geor- gia is set down for Buchanan, yet there are many indica- tions that her vote will be cast for Douglas. Hon. Robert H. Ludlow, of Westchester, has been select- ed as national democratic delegate to the Cincinnati Con- vention from the Ninth Congressional distriet of thie to fill a vacancy in that district, Washington Intelligencer urges the eld line whigs distinet orgenization, and to appoint delegates toa National Convention, A Fremont Club was organized at Boonville, N. Y., on the 25th inst, Resolutions were passed favorable to the nomination of Colonel John Charles Fremont for the Pre- sidency. Governor Jones, of Tennessee, who ia an old line whig. says he is waiting for the result of the Cincinnat Convention before he determines what course he wil. take. The penny Pierce organ in Washington says that the approaching contest in Cincinnati is to be fought fairly and squarely upon the principles and measures of the administration. In some quarters it {s thought that the practices of the administration may be also in- troduced, The Albany /egisler, the soft shell Know Nothing or- gim, says Flilmore will be the worse beaten man that ever bad the misfortune to be placed behind the distance pole ims political race, and his prospects are growing ‘worse and worse every day, Hon, James B, Clay addressed an old line whig meet- ing in Frankfort, Ky., om the 24th inst, The Chiesgo Democrat, Wentworth’s paper, says if the hard delegates are refused admission to the Cincianati Convention, Filimore stands the beet chance of carrying New York. On the other hand, if the softs are ad. mitted, and a slavery extension platform adopted—as it will be—then look out for the success of the anti Nebras- ke candidate, particularly ff Fremont is nominated. BROADWAY THEATRE.—There wae an overflowing house Inst evening at this theatre, as a farewell benefit to Barney Williams and his wile, prior to their departure tor Europe.

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