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4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1857. NEW YORK HERALD. Orrick x. cbmee oF eres AND FULTON 878 FH AEE HERAED, 2 cents r Ti. WEERLY HERALD, cory Savurdaye wri \Sreai Briiain, or 86 t ary part of the Continents bath © PULTRTARY CORRESPONDENCE, eas:, wolirtieh jan amy quarter of the world. U weed wollte the: Pally paid for, B@rOCK FORRIGN CORKESFONDENTS ALE PAR- ic ant Kegeesren 80 Nhat ad axD Packaces aus ba} ROTICY taken of axouymeus correspondence, We do no erp demand. Wheat was firm, with small sales of com- mon to fair anc choice Southern white, at $1 70 4 81 75 4 $1 63, and red at $1 45, with & small lot of Milwaukie club at $140. Corn was again higher, with sales of Western mixed at Sle., and Southern and Jersey yellow At 800, At the close Western mixed was held af*®2o., and and the latter at Ble, Pork was firmer, with gules on the EO cents per | SPOLAL $25 26 0 $23 60, and for future delivery mt $23. Sugars continued firmer, while, owing to the inolemency of the weather, sales were moderate, Coffee was firm, With moderate sales. Freights were dull and engagements Light and nominal, though closing with some more spirit Manifested on the part of shipowners. we theae 07) Ob PRINTING executed with neatnoss, cheapness and dér | Appeal of the Free State Party of Kansas to a Og) VERTISEMENTS renewed every day. No. 18 Wolaume AMUSFPMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. —— neROARA THEATRE, Brosdway—Tur Son or te ne. NIMLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway—Irauuax Oreai—I: Txo | that, from the important issues involved in this vATOR ROMEST THEATRE, Bowory—Karaaniwe axn Perav- PURTONE NEW THEATRE Broetway, opposite Bond st, Rictamp 11.—Carceing 4 GOvRENOR. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Lester Trstr- MONvAL—Ron Roy—A Decioxng Case—Jensy Lanp—-A Day athe tre WEDDING, LAUR, a ol Aves eres THEATRE, Broadway—Lixt axp Ux. BARNUW'S AMERICAN Ss ONDER IMPriCULTIES—PLBASANT NEIGHBORS, Even- — Gro. AND WOO! wer <inemortax Puaronminems Doves Buoven hoon Pe Four's Conomat, &c. —— MECHANTOS HALL. 472 Broadway—Neoro Mavopres, o,,—fawnusr AckonaTs—By Bavany’s Minsraeis. THIS EVENING. BUCKLEY HALL, 685 Broadway—Granv Sacnep Con- Ouet or Voues ann Instavmenta: Mosic. "(New Vork, Sunday, May 3, 1857. ‘The News. the People of the Unton, We surrender a large proportion of our limited space this morning to the earnest and indignant “ Address to the People of the United States and Kansas Territory, by the late Free State Topeka Convention.” We do 80, because we are satisfied Kansas fmbroglio, this address will command the careful and candid attention of our readers. With the leading features of the bloody history of Kansas, as detailed in this document, the whole country is already familiar ; but the purpose for which these terrible everta are summed up in this instance, gives to them the highest degree of perjury, murder and spolistion, from the pas- sage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill down to the present day, are presented to the American KOCKLEYS SERENADERS, 69S Broadway—Eraiorum | people by the Kansas free State party for one great object : They are given as furnishing « full complete and satisfactory justification for the course of “ masterly inactivity” which the free State party have adopted in reference to the ap- proach'ng June election for delegates to a con- stitutional State convention. And we would bere inquire, can the most hopeful democratic ‘A disagreenbly cold and violent southeast storm | Philanthropist discover, in the style of this ad- prevailed during the whole of yesterday. The | dress or in the historical facts presented, or in steamers Prometheus, for New Orleans ; Jamestown, the use which is made of them, or in the policy for Norfolk; and the Alabama, for Savannah, | thus officially promulgated as the fixed policy of anchored at Quarantine last evening, not deeming it pradent to go tosea. The Fulton, for Havre, and the Edinborg, for Glasgow, both sailed at their usual hoor. The atrike among the conductorsof the freight ‘train on the Baltimore and Ohio railnoed was effec- tually put down yesterday by the authority of the State. The strike resulted in a very s+rious riot on Thursday afternoon. Al! the trains were stopyed by the rioters near Filicott’s mulls, and three were obliged to return to Baitimore. . One train only got through. Several musket shots were fired from the cars, and two of the rioters wounded. ‘Tho etzike was very general, and there was much excitement all along the road. The strike appears to have criginated in consequence of some new reg: lation of the company, to which the conductors were oppoecd. The basiness operations of tne road will pow go on as usual. Judge Davies, of the Supreme Court, has decided that the Corporation is not liable for counsel fees incurred by the committee in the Mateell investiga- tion, on the ground that the attorney to the Corpo- ration elove had charge of all the law business of the Corporation and departments. The fees claimed smomnted to $651. Tho new emigrant law went into operation on Fri- day. To prevent frauds on passengers, as far as pos- sible, a determination hae been come to by the Com- missioners to allow no tickets to be sold except at | the regular offices. The testimony in the cass of Coroner Connery was closed yesterday, the Coroner deciining to proceed @ny further in his defence. ‘The Almehouse Governors appear to be In trouble | on account of the resignation of Mr. Joseph 8. Tay- | jor, one of the members of the Board, and the elec- | the free State Party, any eatisfactory evidences or signs that t2e woret of these Kansas troubles have blowngver No,ao The worst is evi- dentty yet to come. According 4o this free State manifesto there can be ,no tonger any flelusion concerning the action @ thetree State party fn the business of this .Kansas June Alectfon. They will have nothing to do with gédhey protest against it; they repudiate add they give their reasons with a Gegree c@garnestness which cannot possibly be misumderstood.- “The enggestions and recommendations, therefore, thrown out by the acting Governor, Stanton, in his introductory address to the people of Kansas, may be taken as practically amounting to nothing. The June election will be left entirely to the managers and voters of the pro-slavery party. Thus, perfectly free to pursue their own course, this party will most likely elect unanimous pro- slavery convention, and adopt unanimously a pro-elavery State constitution. Having done this, we predict that, without farther ceremony, they will submit their work to Congrem, and ask, upon the faith of it, the admission of Kansas into the Union as a slave State. Up to this point this business will probably go on without much interruption. But with the introduction into Congress of a slave State constitution fer Kansas, thus brought about, we ehall discover precisely where the shoe pinches; and the pinching and the flinch- ing will be peinful in the extreme. It will be a tioa of J. W. P. Van Riper to fill the vacancy. It | democratic Congress, backed by a democratic ad- seems tat some of the members of the Board doubt | the legality of the election of Mr. Van Riper, and | are determined to test its validity, on the ground that proper notice of the election had not been | given—the law requiring twenty-four hoars notice for | a epecial mre‘ing not having been complied with. ‘Tuesday evening last, in a grocery store on the cor ner of Lewis and Stanton streets, by Daniel H. Vierce and Gould Allen, died yesterday at his resi- dence, % Lewis street. Both assailants have been ar- rested, and the Coroner will give the whole subject thorongh investigation. The particulars of the traneaction are given elsewhere, as also an account of the death of another victim of midnight violence, ramed John Sweeny, who, while on his way home on Friday night, was attacked and beaten so cruelly by rome unknown persone in Jacob street that he died on Batarday morning Charles Carpentier, who figured so conspicuously in the extradition case, was one of the passengerson | With @ no-elavery or a pro-lavery constitution; | at regular intervals to take counsel on the affairs the stenmship Fulton, which eailed for Havre yester- | for in either event, once admitted, she will very j day. Tie was accompanied by Mr. De Angelia, one of the Marshal's deputies. CGopfert, the principal witness in the investigation, was also a passenger. The City lnapector reports 452 deaths daring the past week—en increase of 69 as compared with the retumof the week previous. The increase in the nomber of deaths of male edaks is 32,and of boys ‘22; female sdulte bave only increased six, whilst girls shows decrease ot 1. A glance at our com parstive (ables will show what specialities of disease ere most prevalent. The City Inspector and his ceputies were busily at work daring the week exe mining certain localities, with a view to the im- provement of the sanitary condition of the city by a thorough purification, in anticipation of the ap- prosching suramer, which he hopes to eccomplish. ‘The following figures exhibit the number of deaths Goring the past two weeks among adults and chil- Gren, distingnishing the sexes :— Mon Women. Girle. Teal. Week ending April %..6@ 71 86183) 190 Week ending May 2 7 166 9 Among the principal causes of death were the following :— —— Wek A 2 Consumption... . + aa 6 Convulsions (infantile). 2s 2 Tofiam mation of the lungs a at f a 2 2 Dopey in the b ; Ff 4 he head 7 19 wh » Thore were also 6 deaths of apoplexy, 13 of bron- | that the emigrant chitia, 7 of congestion of the lungs, 14 of conges- ministration. The Southern ultras, whose polity is a renewed sectional agitation and a more in- tensely sectional contest for the next Presidency than the fight of last November, will move heaven and earth to secure this premature admission of | Kansas. W. H. Seward and his ultra Northern Joshua Weeks, who was most brutally beaten on | ae pelo pe faction will make a show of resistance, but nothing more. They will be only too glad at se- curing such a definite, positive and terrible issue between the North and the South as will be fur- nished with the admission of Kansas upon the basis of this indicated slave State constitution, under the auspices of a democratic administra- tion, and through the agency of » democratic Congress. Practically, we repeat, as far as the question of slavery in Kansas is concerned, it ix of very little consequence whether she comes into the Union soon become one of the most decided free States in the Union. But the i#me to the present na- tional democratic party, as rallied under Mr. Buchanan's administration, will be the simple issue of life or death—consolidation or annihila- tion. To Mr. Buchanan it matters little whether the party is reorganized or disbanded. He has secured his one term of office, and he asks no more. The party, and the aspirants of the party for the succession, must look out for themselves. In this light we apprebend that, from the present appearances of things in Kansas, the iseue of life or death to the democracy will come up in the next Congress in the shape of a pro-slavery State con- stitution for Kansas, Should Kansas be admitted with this constitution, the issue for 1860 will be made up—should she be refused admission by the votes of flinching Northern democrats, it is quite a8 | pomible that the Southern ultras may secede from the party camp. ‘Thus it is that the crimes, blunders, treacheries, double-dealings and wretched imbecilities of poor Pierce, thus far avoided, evaded, or set aside by Congress, are hurrying along to a decisive and responsible judgment from the party in power. Agreed. The sooner, perhaps, the better. Laxp Srecunarions in THE West.—It seems companies that were got up for the purpose of rescuing Kansas out of the tion of the prain, 6 of disease of the heart, 6 of in’ | hands of the border ruffians are turning ont to be flammatica of the bowels, + of inflammation of the | mere speculative enterprises for operations in Drain, 4 of eryxipelss, 7 prematare births, 25 still | real estate. When the first excitement about born and 15 from violent cduses. The following is © classification of the diseases and the total number of deaths in each class of dis ese Garing the past two weeks: — Apri, May 2 Ponee, jolate, kn oe 6 1 Fireun aad nerver a ‘3 Geweraliy ¢ organs. 7 Heart ami blood ¥ fee. Hikin, fee |, and eruptive fevers y bowels and other digestive teatant general fevers tina ral® eo a 6h “8 wo 1 ponding weeks in 1865 and 1556, was as follow» — Week coding May H bs! . “” ” 2, Debt. The nativity Kansas began, a number of shrewd men bought Up great tracts of land, laid out villages and towns on them, drew mapa, and then went to work to fight about elavery, in order to advertise the land. Stringfellow took one side with #0 much land ; Lane took the other with so much more. aga | What poor Titus got, we do not know; but Reeder and Robinson and Lecompte no doubt did well. They understood the business so well, and advertised their lami so finely that in a short time they had thonaands of purchasers, hoth from 9 | the Northern ani the Southern States, and the first operators have no doubt made ® good thing of it. Stringfellow and Lane, we hear, have just been settling up their mutual accounts; they seem to have gone shares, We hear of scores of other Western land com. table gives 331 natives of the United | panies got up with the help of the politicians in Btates, T9 of Ireland, 19 of Germany, 2 of France, Washington, and under the patronage of the rail- ‘11 of England, and the balance of varions f reign countries. ‘Tue inclemeney of the weather yesterday checked salen @f cotton, which were confined te about 600 bales, with out change (n prices Flour displayed increased activity, PAK Prices Cvmimuid berm, wile & good kom and Kant | Yat slavery Oghi bas ever boon praciised before, ' all the necomary materials, on ac cxtonalve some, | ways. Almost every leading man is in one com. pany or another. Bat we think the Kansas ope. ratore have proved themselves the emartest of the lot ; we doubt whether any so successful trick as Andignation y ‘The Mormon Question, The governorship of Utah has again been ten- dered to Major Ben. McCulloch of Texas, and it is not yet known whether he will accept or not Should he definitely decline, the peace of the country and the very existence of the Salt Lake settlement will impose on the President the duty of appointing & man of equal nerve, courage and sagacity to the old Texan Ranger. For, of all the questions wuich embafrass the statesmen of the country at the present time, ous of the most embarrassing is without doubt the question of Utah, and the Mormons, Whichever way it be examined, it bristles with difficulties, Regarded politically, the Mormons are obvi- ously entitled, under the constitution, to adopt the form of religion and the social usages which suit them best. No authority to interfere with their religious institutions has been committed to the Exeoutive, or to Congress, or to any other por- son, persons, or assembly: they alone bear the responsibility of them, And according to the popular and usual reading of the constitution, whereaoever the Mormons shall have el a population sufficient, and framed a republican in its leading doctrines, the of the United States is bound to vote for their edmiaion to the Union as & sovereign State, Objection may be taken to their polygamy; buf, ac- cording to the dootrine of the Nebraska law, which is the only true and eafe doctrine for the cogntry at large, such an objection as this would be im- pertinent and Congress would have no right to press it. The subject of matrimony is one’ of these domestic questions which the Nebraska law clearly places beyond the pale of Congressional interference. According to the political princi- ples which form the present basis of the policy of the United States government, we are, in strict- ness, bound to admit Utah, with adequate popu- lation and « republican government, without making the least inquiry about her religlous in- stitutions, ‘ Again, most of the assailants of the Mormons treat them as pagans and heathens, and call upon the American people to interfere “as Chris- tians” to put them down. But the men who talk this way do not, as it might seem, enjoy a monopoly of Christianity. The Mormons can quote the Bible with any D. D. of these parts. The only difference between their study and their inferences from the Inspired Record arises from their selecting, a8 their favorie portions of Scrip- tureftfhe Old, while our parsons prefer the New Testament. But all the Christian churches ad- mit that both are of equal authenticity and equal authority. Wherefore it follows that, when the Mormons show us that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the other patriarchs, Solomon, the wisest of men, and David, the man after God's own heart, were inveterate polygamists and kept harems to the extent of their means, our Christian reasoners are necessarily silenced. They are shown, by ananswerable evidence, that the vice which is reproached te the Mormons was prao- tised by God's peouliar people, and, ecemingly, with particular unction by the very men among this people who were the most frequent reci- pients of the divine bounty. Sofar, therefore, as the Holy Bible is concerned, the Mormons are, according to atrict logic, much better qualified to persuade us to take four wives, than we are to Induce them to stick to one. Politically and religiouely then, the Mermooa.| have the whiphand of us, and know it. They know that the safety of the Union will not por- mit us to establish euch a precedent as interfe- rence by Congress with the religious institutions of a Territory or State; and they are awure of the vantege ground which their adversaries give them by appealing to Heaven and the Scriptures to condemn their depravities What tha, are we todo? Shall we confers ourselves incapable of keeping these polygamista out of the Union? We think not. In the firet place, though long usage seems to have given to “may” the force of “must” in the section of the constitution referring to the ad- mission of new States, it docs not appear at all certain that such @ construction of the sentence is warranted. “May” is not the same as “must;”” Congress may well have been endowed with a power, without being charged with a duty. It “may” admit Utah if the interest of the Union would be extended thereby; but it “must” meet of the nation. We suggest to the administration and to the seattered members of Congres to give this point proper thought. If the apprehension of the South—that the Northern men will vote against the admission of every new slave State—renders Congress obda- rate on this head, the only remaining resource of the ndministration will be to act upon the evi- dences of rebellion now before the world. It Is notorious that the United States Court has been despoiled, and the records stolen; for this it is competent for the government to demand and exact satisfaction. Our cotemporry the Rich- mond Enguirer wishes to see the fair “fields of Utah laid waste, and the Mormons bung by hun- dreds.” We are not so comprehensive in our project of subjugation. A sensible, judicious Governor with soldiers enough to constitute him & body guard, would very pomibly achieve the same end by the more pacific agencies of exam- ple, precept, and private management. A split among the Saints would demoliah them all; and if Mr. Buchanan’s Governor be wise—be he who he may—hbe will infallibly produce this split, then undertake wars, and #0 win glory and profit. Tar Pamtwo or Conaness—Tax Cocr p'Erat or Mason Hetas.—Major Heiss, of the new democratic organ at Washington—“The States’’—hos issued & call for 8 convention of de- mocratic journalista, to meet in Washington pre- vious to the assembling of the next Congrem, for the purpose of devising some more honest plan for the execution of the government printing than the present abominably corrupt aystem. Good for the Major. Of course the Major, in this coup d'état, proposes nothing more than to help himself to # slice of thie plunder; but atillwe say, rood for the Major; and for a good reason. This coup d’tat knocks the old rotten eystem of all these Washington party spoils organs in the head, Mr. Buchanan, in dispensing with an Organ, substantially finished the spoila game of ‘the Washington Union; but Major Heirs has done the business for all the apoils organa, for now we begin to see the way clear to the establishment of a national printing office Wendell & Company, however, will be hard to root out. They have » hold upon both the great parties of the country; and out of the apoile combination of the Inst Congress the parties con- cerned have made ® good thing—the share of Wendell alone, as we understand it, out of some three hundred thourand dollars clear, being © cool fifty thoueand. In addition to this, Wendell & Co are fortified by a l+rge printing house, and for the government work, eo that in the matter of bargaining or bidding they have the inside track. Still, we think that this dat of Mojor Heiss will result in a coup de to the corrupt rystem of eubsisting and fattening party organ grinders at Washington from the moneys of the public treasury. Let the Major keep it up. Nothing like agitation. Txx Liquor Improciso.—The people of this State now find themselves divided into three camps on the subject of the laws regulating the |. sale of liquor. One party of men, consisting chiefly of tho members of the late Legislature with a few political adherents, are in favor of the act passed by the late Legislature, allowing cer- tain parties, under severe and unconstitutional reetrictions, to obtain licenses for the sale of spirituous liquors. Another body, consisting of the dealers in liquor, and a pretty large propor- tion of the publio at large, are for having this act nullified, and a new one passed, regulating the traffic in Jiquor on a rational and practical basis. And the third class of individuals, consisting of the rump of the old temperance perty, with a constancy worthy of a nobler object, refuse to abate one jot of their pretensions, and nail theie colors to the mast in favor of total prohibition? This fast party must be counted out of the fight at present going on. They are interesting as an arcwological curiosity; in the whirl of every day practical life, they are bores, and in the way. Let them pass. The other two parties fire unequal in number, The opponents of the Liquor Licenge act greatly outnumber, in this city, its adherents. and they have on their side the municipal authorities and probably the judiciary. In some of the rural coun- ties, where the prohibitory act was en- forced without difficulty, no doubt, the partisans of the present license law outnum- ber its enemies; but in the large cities and the flourishing towns, we imagine it is no- where. The chances are very strongly in favor of its nullification, by the courts, At the same e, the chances are also that the members of the Legislacare representing rural constituencies will, at their next session pass another law that will be equally offensive to our people here. For the real difficulty in this liquor busineas— aa in one or two others—is that we don’t under- stand one another. The people of the rural dis- tricts want no end of prohibitory and coercive enactments. They daren’t trust themselves alone with a loaded pistol, or a gin bottle, or a pretty girl, or a steam hammer without » good stout law to protect them and keep them in bounds. They have a profound sense of their own weakness, and utter helplessness, and are all the time crying out for something to lean against, somebody to support them, eome keeper to look after them. Therefore they like prohibitory laws, and license laws, and blue laws against kissing, and other pleasant little abridgementa of natural liberty. We city folk, on the contrary, can stand « good cai of freedom without making wry faces, We are not much afraid of trusting to ourselves to teach us what is right and what wrong; we don’t need a law to prevent our running our head against a stone wall. We have an idea that we shall take much better care of ourselves than the Legislature can of us; and we would rather, if you please, try todo so, We think we know better what we should eat and what wé“thould drink than John Smith or John Brown of Otsego or Columbia, and we woul! like to see John Smith and John Brown purvey. ing for their own stomache, regulating t) ir own | commisear'si by any quantity of legisiotve acta they please, but leaving us to provile for ours This is we apprehcad the true secret of ail the trouble about liquor laws. The laws wick ed the rural districts very well Gd not eult us, while our laws were net stringent and revere enough for them. Why not admit the fact ina manly, straightforward way, and allow that both partics may have been ight? Why persist in the Procrustean plan of enforcing the same law on people #0 heterogeneous, so divided in habit, sentiments, idvas, and priociplest Why not make the liquor queetion—what it always should have remalned—a municipal matter, sulyect to the municipal laws, and governed by the fancy of the people of the municipality? Then thos who fancied Liqnor laws might have them, and we quiet people in New York, who don’t want to be tied up quite eo tightly, might have 2 sexeible ju- dicious license system of our own making, that we might hope to carry out. Tue Trovnie iw Tax Virco Camr—“Orey Treason.” —In answer to a late Washington let ter in the Hirnax», on tho Wise and Hunter ayuab- ble in the Virginia democratic camp, the Sou, (the now Southern ultra organ of Mr. Pryor at Richmoné,) glories in « sort of democratic inde- pendence, which is the next thing to “flat bur- glary” and open rebellion. Mr. Pryor confesses that the appointment of Mr. Cobb to the Treasury “was to the last degree repugrant to our feelings, and for the same reason that it is disayproved by all Southern men who have not forgotten his enormous treachery in 1850." But Mr. Pryor denies any “malignant purpose against Secretary Cobb,” insemuch sa the South has observed “a discreet silence touching tho payment of that Thompson claim, which the incorruptible Gutb- rie discredited and disallowed.” “Oull you that backing your friends!” Next, with regard to the tmmodiate contest between the Wise and Hunter factions, the South boldly and empbatically declares that “we do not mean to say that we are going to be nentral in any posible contest between Hunter and Wise for a seat in the Senate. Not for a moment. On the contrary, we proclaim in advance of any euch struggle, that we are for Senator Hunter's re-election.” Enough. That will do. There are two factions in the Virginia democratic camp—an ultra Southern faction and a Northern compromise faction—a faction opposed to the Cabinet at Washington and @ faction in favor of that Cabinet. The former is the Hunter faction, and the latter the Wise faction. The organ of the Wise faction is the Fngwirer, and the organ of the Hunter faction (and of the South, par ox- cellence) is the Soh. Thas much is Perhaps, after the Virginia elections of this month we shall know & good deal more. The -qfind, even in Virginia, varies « little with tho pPRPODA Bavewwo cr tae Warenina Piacrs.—We see that the hotel keepers at Saratoga and Newport are making preparations for a vast influx of popu- lation during the hot montha, They need not give themselves so much trouble. People are beginning to find out that fashionable watering places are great humbugs. They are frequented almost exclusively by a set of parvenues, whose sole business it seems to be to dress in the “loud- est” style, make offensive remarks about each other, and generally to practice envy, hatred monies, aad ol sorta uf ungheriteblencds, Sensible and pleagant people avoid these places, and go to come quiet retreat, where they can get something fit to eat, and enjoy a vacation in a rational man- ner, We ehall 6nd this year the artists, authors, literary end professional men, with a strong spice of the business community, comfortably and quietiy located by the sea or mountain side, while the socalled fashionable resorts will be almont entirely deserted. THE LATEST NEWS. News from Washington, Wasnworon, May @, 1467 ‘There are Hoveral hundred! applications for consulships. General Cas informed a friend this morning that the ub Jeet would not be acted upon tll early in June. Lewis 8. Potrtige bas been appointed Marshal for Vor- mont, vice Chain, whose commission has expired. New Orleans papers of Sunday last are to haad, but they contain uo news of interest. Amendments to the Constitution of Pinssa- ohusetts, Bosto, May 2, 1857. The amendments to the constitution, which were voted in tho State Legislature yeeterday, were carried by large aggregate majorities. They ares—- 1. That every voter shall be able to read the conatitution tm the English languags, aud to write hia own name, 2. Limita the House of Representatives to two hundred and forty members, to be elected by diswicts. 8, Provides for the choice of forty Senators tn single districts, Instead of by counties as heretofore. The Strike on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Suppressed. Baxrmoan, May 2, 1867, ‘Thestrike on the Raltimore and Objo Railroad has been suppressed by powder and ball, used la the name of the State. The tonnage operaations will not be impeded afer w-day. Ghe Khersonese Outward Bound. Powmiaxp, May 2, 1867. ‘The steamahip Khersonese railed from here at 8 o'clock this afternoon for Halifax, Newfoundland aad Liverpool Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Protapewina, May 2, 1857. Stocks steady. Pennsylvania 6's, 86%; Morris Canal, 15%; Long Jaland Railroad, 1244; Reading ‘Railroad, 404+ Pevosylyania Railroad, 48 The Matsell Investigation—Tho City not to Pay Counsel Fees. BUPREME COURT—BSPRCIAL TERM. Before Hon. Judge Davies. May 2.—Dania Lawson agk. The Moyor, de., 0f New Fork. —In 1666 the Board of Aldermen of this city reeolved toin etitute an Investigation into the affairs of the Police Depart- ment, and appointed a committee to conduct the investiga- tion. During ite progress several witnesser declined answer- Ing queetions put to them by the commitice, and the com mittee institated legal proceedings to compel them to an- ewer, The Counsel to the Corporation wes not employed or appointed t» conduct these proceedings, but the epecial committee employed such counsel as were agreeable to them for that purpo:e—among others the assignor of the plaintiff, There was no inability on the part of the Counsel to the Corporstion to act in the remises, and he teetified that he should bave acted if he Eos eco ‘applied to for that purpose. The bill of the Plaintiff's assignor, for professional services rendered to the committee, amounts to $681, and to rccover which this sult is brought. Tavims, Justice.—No question is made in this canse ae to ‘the rendition of the service of tae plainui’s assignor, or the reasonableness of he charyes therefor. Tue — rT Oo pect ct che he be made le for im? Section 18 of the charter of 1649 organized an executive te be knows ns the “Law department, Depart ment,” “which shall havechargo of end conduct all the law business of the and of the departments thereof, and ali other law business ip which the ity sball be interested, when 60 ordered by the Corporauon.’ eity charter, therefore, of and conduct,” not By the : Cor ration is “to have charge the 'y a Corperation, These provisions aply to in which the Corporation or any of its departments have any ls business to be transacted. Ip addition to thie, the cour! 13 also to have charge of ant conduct “all other law |) ‘ness tn which tbe city all be interested, when 60 © Ly the Corporation.” ‘The application of tule latter oo, nnd thie reasons for its enactment, are familiar y have had any practical knowleige of the af- ty government. Many suits, proceedings an@ « tapUy institute, in which neither the Corpo- of the departments aro parties. But the « Ve decided may be such as to allect the pro- Jor yor rehia of the Corporation, or of some of {tz officers, 1 coo (> the charter of 1849 such suite were defended © \-o outed by counsel employed by the immediate par- to Wie action, and frequent calls were made upon the '» Weasury for’ their payment, om the groand that the (urporation was interested in the or in ita reeult. The intent of the charter of wee to place all legal bee under the manage. meut of the Corp 1, in the result of which the Corporation might bave any interest, aud for the expense of which it might by any possibility be called oo for payment. It was tn reference to this Cine of Caces that the Counsel to the Corporation was to take charve of and conduct, whenever required 20 to Co by the Corporation, all law brea so in which it had aay interest. It in 7? manifest that it was the intention of the previrions of the charter and the ordinances that all the law bu ines of the Corporation, or of te departments, or in which the Corporation should deem it had any intercat, should be conducted by nnd placed tn the charge of the Counsel to the Corporation. For thee sorvices « apecific iven to that offloer—wuch as was coemed an with all wh fairs of tay And reasonable compensation therefor, These bound to rondor, and raust do (t for the com: penention @wed, It ts in the powor of the Common Goun- Cilonller nd genduale this compensation from time to time in reference w the services rendored: but Lean find no authority for it to withdraw and place in other banda duties which the charter has confided hun, and which 1, hy bis oath of office and every obligation resting upon & pubic officer, |. bound to discharge. After er olaloraiw 5 judgment fo: Encrensed Fees for Civt! Justices, * Among the billa passed by Whe late Legi lature was one to tnercase the foes of the Justices of the Peace, wich is regarded with a @nod dea) of favor by those functionaries. ‘Thore are seven of thom in tht: city, who receive the fol jew of the caso tho Judge gave low ing ealarics — James Green...... 92,009 Parthojomew 0'Con 3,000 William B. Meech . Wm. H. Van © Joba Anderson Anvon Willa, Thos. Pearron ‘These ra'nries are certainly large enough for the work those officials are required to perform, bat it seems the Legislature thong bt otherwise, and have increased the fees which they receive, in addition to thelr salaries, the only effect of which will be to lacrense the expens@of petty Litigation. Tt will be romombered that these can adjudicate only on cases involving sums not over and this is a dircet tax on poor people, who are obliged to go to the-o Courts for justice. The following aro the provisions of this law— fee. 1. The several Juations of the Peace in the State hercaftcr rball be allowed and receive the following fees for the services hereinafter mentioned, in lieu of the frees now allowed by Iaw for such services; for ® summons, filtcen conte, for warrant, attachment, warrant of commit- ment, or transcript of judgment, twenty Ove cents; ad- Joorninsn,, twenty-five cent’; au! including all the ames inserted therein, (en cents; adi an oath, five conta; fling every paper neocerary t be fled, five conte; swearing » jury, twenty five cents; trial of na issue of fact, in case of an and answer, 1 be entering Judgment, five conte; taking vite, ten crate; drawing bond, twenty five cents; aut receiving and entering verdict of jury, twonty cents. See. 2. Whenever a iment thal be rondered in a Court of a Juatics of the , in civil actions, it shall be ‘with the cota of mult; but the whole amount of all the tema of such carta to be included tn the eutry except charges for the attendance of witneaen from an- 5 il £282 328 z of such the entry of Hee. 8. All nets and parte of acta inoonsistent with this act are hereby repenios, except such aa are locally appil cable te this fathinae. Tes tome thnk i led to take po-peas| they shoukd think to retmbilitate their yoy fo much commomicnd within the last few yeare, Out oF the two #panich American repmblice which have opened wuh full confidence their Ey Py A detachment of United States marines arrived tn this city yesterday aflernoon, afternoon, (24,) en route from Washington to Panama, for the corrotte Decatur. ill be reinforeed trom the Brookiys barracn, and wil Jeave for the Weat on Tuesday nort. is rae whore expected arrival we noticed on Wed greg ths de Cabutincl «Soe Se Rely ttous Intelligence, Rev. De. Francts Viaton will preach this evening in the ‘Memortat church, in Hawamond street, cornee of Wavertey Rev. D, 8 Burnet will preach to-day at tho Soventesntm street chapel, immediately wey of Sixth avenuc, at Lojg A.M. and 7% P. M. The discourve at 754 wlil be addreas- ed to young persons. Roy. A. B, Van Zandt, D. D., will deliver a sermon es “The Drama and its relations to Public Morals,” this ove. ing, in the Reformed Dutch church on Ninth strect, moar Broadway. Rey. Charles G. Finney, President of Obertin will preach this evening at the Church of the Purtems, (Dr. Cheever's) Union square. In the ch pel of the Westminster Presbyterian cherch, South Brooklyn, this morning and evening, the paster elect, Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter, will preach. Rov. . L. Harris will preaoh to-day at Acadomy Hist, 665 Broadwey, opposite Bond street, at 10¢ A. M. and af Thy P.M Messrs. Gideon R. Lederer and Ephraim Christian Jews, will hold thoir next mecting for/free is cussions with their non-Christian brethren, on subjess: of “Christianity the only true Judaism,’ this evening, at 106 Centro street, opposite the Tombs. ‘The covgregation formerly acsembling in the Jeffersen Assembly Rooms will henceforward meet in the hall 16g Bowery, Delancey street, where the Gospe!, divested BE the Yeedhlone of oes aah be ast Toniet br. Joh Thomas will lectare this morning. RELIGIONS AND ANNUAL SERMOMS. Suwpar, May 3. sermon will be preached ta the church en Fifth aveauey Rov. M. 8. of the Shang ninin, nee Howe ot 6P. M, . ing at the Mission House in Centre street, at4 P.M Waowmpar, Mar 6. New Yous Irmura Soomrr.—Twenty-Comr@ anniversary at the Asylumat Yorkville, at 13 M. Sumpar, May 10. R.. ia une Caine Baptist church, Twenty dard, niversary iver street; evening. _ American Home Mosvowary Socrsrr.—Anmual sermen Rev. Julian M. Sturtevant, D. D., President of Ilinols lege at Jacksonville, in the Madison square Presbyterian church; evening. Envcarion of Covonm Gmus.—Sermon by Rey. Br. Cheever, in the Church of the Puritans; evening. Cory Bratz Socnery.—Annual meeting at Dr. Alexander’ church, i fth avenue; evening.“ Monvar, ~o— Awnnroan Seaman's Fare Anniversary (a the Fourteenth street Presbyterian church; evening. Union Timovogieal Smamany.—Anniversary inthe Mer cer etreet church; evening. ‘Tomar, May 12 AMFRICAM AND ForuiGn Cxpuisrian ag momery sito oy | yt Gawd Presbyterian church, Broome jatreet; 0. Nuw York Sowpy Scnoot Umon,—General aaniversary {In the Central Preaby church Broome street; eyen- ing. The day versaries will be beid in the vartens churches in differeat parts of the city during the afterasem. New Yorx Covommariow Socwwrr.—Annual meeting, fmorncaN Ant:-Stavmey Soaery.—Twenty fourth ensemt meeting in the Gly Assempiy Rooms; morning and eve- ning. Maxcormix Limart Asocatiow.—Annual meeting af Qinton Hall; evening. ‘Waowmnar, May 18, Ammucan Awt-Scavery Socurry —Tweaty-fourth anaest meee, SP City Assembly Roms; continued at 10.4. M. and Anmerican Frais GoaRpian Soomrr.—Ladica’ meeting af the;Home, at 10 A. M. and 2 P.M. Amauoam Tact Socury.—Anaual business wmectieg 4a Sito ces aA. church at 40.4. New Yous Anr-Sraveny Sscmrr.—dAnsiverery «6 Oly )j evening. Amvaicin Concamoarional Oston.—Aanual the Church of the Puritans, Union equare, at 10 A. Ameucan Hows Muetomany Soonmrr.—Thirty-first Amaf- versary in the Church of the Puritans; evening. ¢ opening services Infirmary, coreer Of Crosby aud Bleecker streets, at 2 P. M. J ‘Twvuapar, May 4. Avucan Baus Socusry.—Anniversary Cheever’s Church, Union square, at 0 A. M. Awraucan Conoracationa: Ustow.—Anaual busing Mmeet.ng in the lecture room of the Church of the Purtians atc P.M; the collation jn the evening at the City Ameashig Avgucaw Texrmnancs Uston.—Aaniversary im Broome treet Central Presbyterian church. iad Aweucan Apoution Sooury.—Public “a Assembiy Rooms at 10 o'clock A. M. peers bed (a Rev. De. Frat, May 16. Asmmuc an BOARD OF Comaosionnna POR FOREIGN Anna! meeting in Dr. Choever's church at 10 A. M. Weowewar, May 27. RE ey ano sd ae street charch, commencing at half-past 104. M., and continuing two daye. ORDIN A’ Mr. Henry Lorch, M.D, late Scmiansy, wee ordained ‘a0 aa street cl |, New Haven, oo Suaday evening, Mr. Losch is @ native of Germany, aud be proposes t labor in Pennsylvania or the West. Mr. Samuel W. Boardman was ordained grogational church in Norwich, Vt, on the same time Rev. A. @. Pease wat dismissed, he having Soe SeRsey watites See pestered ber by, iU heals einse ¥, 1856, ‘The ordination of F. G. Bove, be, President of Outen College, an an Evangelist, took place bath evening, ruary 1, at the Fortutreet church, Honotula, 8. L Mr. 1.N. MeKinney was ordained and installed at Mon tour, Pa., on the 14th uit. Mr. G. W. Palmer was ordained over the Congregational eharch ww Bath, Obio, om the 16th ult. 5 0 march of tie Presbytery of Graboston’ ont 14ts it sad ap Be stallation for Thursday, May 14. Rev. D.C. Millett has call to 3. Thomas church of T™., heave even Lathrop taylor, of Weomreseee, me ombard atreet, west of ck, 80 by 64 foot, with seats for 600, 0 new Unitarian chorch in Mariotis, ‘Oto, la to be dedicated. x! ‘The dedication of the new Prospect charch, in Lanrene- ville, 8. C., took place on the 26th ult i 2 | ef MIRCRLL ANROUR, ‘The charches of New York and its vicinity, + ae