The New York Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. SN BENNETT, PRIETO R JAMES GORD DITOR ASD OPFICE K. W. CORNFR OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. FOL pers, solicited /-v erally provid ar Oe 4 NO NOTICE taken of anonyrun wetuem those rejected van Mo. 10 Velume XXII 4MUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Hroatway—Tos Som oF tux Nun. tse NIBLO'R GARTEN, Rroadway--Tromt Rore Fear—la Bovguerabe—Kan Groua. DSOWERY THEATRE, Bowery--Tux Devit's Hoxsa—l0. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1887. The Revolution tn Virginia—Governor Wise Waking up at Last. The old State of Virginia, the mother of States, and once tte leader of the confederacy, bas reached a crisis in her history which is exciting the greatest concern not only among her own people but in ber sivter Statics, The operation of peculiar lows has prevented her keeping pace with her neighbors in the march of progress, population, and plenty, Partly because the sys- tem of labor used in that State im not ag profits- ble now as it was a centery since, partly from injuoicious agricultaral ystems, and partly from varions local causes, Virginia has begun to go backward, in spite of an accumulation of natural advantages which are bardly paralleled in the world. The phenomenon has awakened the at- tentron of several shrewd men in this part of the country, and commercial corporations have been formed for the purpose of bringing to bear new ‘TRTON'R NEW THEATER, Broadway, opposite Bond st, homeo «sp JTLuET—Ruras ov tux Hors, WALLa E'S THEATRE, Brosdway.--Rices—Oremar Boumer. LAURA ERENE® THEATEM, Bros¢way—Narcre amp ur—V ciuerr. BARNUM'S AMERICAN Broadway—-Afterncon, A Botany ror 48 iO, OR THE GLOMIOCS Mrvonity. Bree ng- Nercawow BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, 1, 1857, Tho News, ‘The Now Jersey Central Railroad bridge over the Muscovetcong, at Bloomsburg, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. Passengers and me-chan- dise will, however, comtinne to be forwarded over the road witb but a brief delay in going round the break. The bridge will te replaced in about a fort night, antil which time no coal from the Lehigh can be forwaded The accident will, of course, cause no mteruption to the business on the Delaware, Lackawana and Western road, as the bridge is above the jonction, By the arrival of the schooner Eolus, Captain Conger, at this port yesterday, we have news from Turks Islands to the 29th ult. With regard to the salt érop, the Roya! Standard of the 25th says:—— During the past week we have hid a few showers, but the paps are again making. A small | quantity has been gathere! et ‘his cay, and should the present @me weather cop ‘nue we shall soon have a general refifiag. 16,500 bu: iiels have been expor’ed from Hest Besbor ance our last, and the pans there are in excclleps emmdition. The quantity on hand is about 150,000 basimels. The rcling prices are nine to ten cents, with an export duty of a half cent.” Rain bad fallen in great abundance at Inagua, caus- ing mock damage to the salt ponds. The American schocner Falmouth, from St. Domingo, was wreoked at Little Inegus. Her cargo wae saved, and subse- quently sold at Mathewtown. ‘We have details of the news from the city of Mexico to the 20th and fron Vera Craz to the 23d operative aud agricultaral systems upon the im- poverished lands in several sections of the State. One of theee companies was incorporated by our Legislature during ita last session; and we have published several manifestos from Mr. Eli Thayer, who appears to be the leading man among these echemers, briefly developing the sound god prao- tical aims which he and his assoclates propose to themselves, ; , But a knowledge of the fects, and concern for the future are not con@ned to Northern mon, Gov. Wise of Virginia, in speech recently deli- vered betore the Mechanics’ Institute of Rich- mond, and published in Satarday’s Heraxp, di- lated at length upon the undue backwardness of the mechanical arts in Virginia, proposing vari- ous remedies, among others a Coilege of Mecha nica And in the ietter from him which we pub- lish elsewhere, he takes occasion, apropos of a propored line of steamers from Norfolk to Havre, to enter more elaborately into the subject, to discuss the causes which have producei the de- cline of Virginia, to propose various remedies ia the shape of railroads, and foreign seaports, and finally to predict, under God’s blessing and an uncommon share of good fortane, a glorious des- tiny tor the State of which he is Govervor. Thus Gov. Wise arrives, in a roundabout way, snd with much amplification and rhetoric, at the same conglusion aa Mr. Eli Thayer, namely that Virginia requires help badly. Practically he stands on the same ground as the Magsachusetts and New York emigrant societies; the only diffe- rences between them are that he uses fice lan- guage, while they talk ina homely strain, and that be propores hundreds of mites of railway, State aid to steamers, and a general combination of merchants to sustain a French line, while Eli Thayer and his friends go in sl@ply for “subsoil ploughs.” On the main principle they are agreed. ult, On Thursday and Friday of Holy Weck the eccleeisstical authorities at the capital attempted an inewrestion, bat they were promptly put down bythe police. The archbishop, the bishop of the diocess, and six or seven of the more prominent priests who were engaged io the outbreak were arrested and placed in confinement. A decree of banishment was subsequently issued against these | persons, but the penalty was remitted so fur as | concerned the archbishop, who is a man of ad- vanced age. He was imprisoned in hia palace to | await furtber orders. In Tacubaya and Puebla | similar demonstrations of insubordination had taken | place. The body of the murdered female recently found near Newbarg has not yet been identified, and without rendering a verdict the Coroner's jury met on Saturday and adjourned to the 16th ins‘. The bedy f still kept in the vault, where it will remain a8 long as recognisavie, unlers sooner identified, | Eisewhere is given & summary of the various ru- | mora aud theories in regard to the murder. It is | expected that the Governor will offer a reward for the discovery of the perpetrators of this terrible | ceed. | Board of Supervisors, which adjourned fast | ‘Brconsequence of their want of knowledge a: | to how they should proceed in the present unsettlet | state of municipal affairs, have been specially sum. | moned by the Mayor to meet this (Monday) even | ing, at 4 o'clock. There ls something new coming. | The religious anniversaries commence3 lat even- ing with preliminary sermons in several of the charches. The weather was Celightful, and conse- quently the meetings were well attended. The | Union Theological Soc ety, the New York Bible Gooiety, the American and Poreiga Christian Union, | the American Home Missionary Society, the Ameri- can Fewale Guardian bociety, and the Society for | the Eéucation of Colored Girls met last eveniog. We give reports of the proceedings in today's paper. ] The annexed table shows the tempera‘ure of the atmoephere in this city during the pas, week, the | range of the barometer, the variation of the wind currents, ond the state of the weather a) three pe rieds during exch day, viz: at 9 A.M. aid 5 and 2 o'clock P. M.:— 94. # TM ANA Satarday—Morning, clocdy aud light rain; afternoon, (beery rein; nigbt, heavy rain. Sundry—Moruing, clondy and warm; afternoon, cloudy ight, clo Tuesday —Morning, tht, oh ady. cdr etay Mornin, , light rain; allernoon, clear and | warm, taght, clear apd mooniight. ‘ay—Moroing, ciear and warm, afternoon, clear nd wars, Bight, clear and moonlight. Friday —Morning, pleasant, afernoon, pleasant; night, olrer nm moonlight. Pearrtyy—Morning, pewant. ‘The sales of couen on Saturday were confined to about 1,800 bale, based mainly on middling uplands at 13%¢., nd Nev Orleans midlings a Myc ele Buyers sand palle © wore lndiepowe! to come freely together, and the markt was io that com‘iton in whieh @ further con- eecaion iv prices woul! probably lewd to increased activity (no eae. Flow wot agus scure, and closed at an af wance of Ife. 8 Dc. por larrel Wheat con Uneed frm, but the bch pricee demanded checked | eales. A cargo of Canndian club wold mt $1 68 Corn wee ‘rm, with sales of Western mixed at Sic. 0 88o., vom: fontbern yellow at 50. and Southern white at fe Rye was held (irmiy 06 970. Pork waa rather | with sales of now mens at $23 090 40 | dugars wee Gem, with sales ooulned at 600 hina. | «ovado, with 60 do. Porto Ri oro on private terme. Coffee was quiet, but the curket wa firm Pretchte were inactive and engage. wrente ligh ‘To Mverpool about 600 @ 700 bales of cotton sere orgny Od ab De. Od. per bala Cubs m Kiseas vou Tae Frumcerers—We see that © filbmeter of the name of Howard is on a tour thronch tie Southern States, making «preches to induce en ‘gration to Kansaa The movement is any nore readily than before, We suggest that ‘tall the filibusters, North and South, should go to Kansas aod bave a reservation, in which they might fight out wil their battles without injury to may excep! themselves Make @ ring and give a fintors a chan It must be very gratifying to Mr. Thayer to find himself sustained by so high an authority asthe Governor of Virginia, in opposition to the caterwaalings of the Southern journals. Ho, no doubt, likes rallways and steamers as well as Governor Wise, and, though in the manifestoes we have read, he seems to consider “subsoil | ploughs” a more immediate necessity, when the proper time comes, after the immigration of his people to their new Virginian home, he would probably be prepared to go as far as any South- ern man in helping to eatablish a Southern line to Europe, or railroads to the West. For the pre- | sent, we are inclined to think that Virginia stands more in need of what be offers than of the improvements so grandly proposed by Governor Wise. A great foreign seaport canoot be built up with a few strokes of the pen, or even a few legislative acta. Virginia may vote any aid or guarantee she pleases to « Norfolk and Havre line of steamers; unless there is the trade for them, » free, natural, and profitable trade, they will not suceced, and the enterprise will be a | losing business to tho State and to every ono | concerned. At the present time, we greatly doubt whether such a trade exists Virginia neither takes foreign goods enough, nor exports domestic prodace enough to warrant the estab- lisbment of such a lige. When Mr. Eli Thayer and his “subsoil ploughs’ have been at work 8& certain number of years and his exam- ple has been followed in other parts of the State, then, no doubt, steamboat lines will be started, and railroads built, wad colleges established, and taxes raised, to the heart's con- | tent of Governor Wise, But hitherto, experience tells us that a great sevport isthe necesary catlet to o rich and teeming back couotey; that you can no more create it without such a coun tty than you can create a well disciplined army withon drill. Gov. Wise’s letter, however, is an able one, | and will repay perusal. It was not written with- out @ thought of the important election of mem- bers of Congress and a State Legislatare which is to toke place on tae 26th inst. The course of politics having utterly discomfited the Know No- thinge and old whigs, the democrats are now the only party in the State. They are divided, if we are to believe their newspapers, on various local and political iesucs of secondary moment; | or Hunter sball be the next United States Sena- tor. The letter on the French steamers may be - | thas read a4 a deadly underhead stab at the | chances of Mr. Hui AFatat Oumsstos.— For « wonder, the Sunday papers of yesterday omitted their usual torrent of abore for the Henacp and ite editor. This singu- lar omission made the papers very dull, and the trade wae slack with the newsboys. They were not, however, unfortunate enough to have any | papers left on band, aa they always inquire be fore purchasing if there is “anything about Ben- nett,” and graduate their purchases accordingly. What would become of the Sundey and coantry papers without the Heracp to steal from and Bennett to sbuse we really cannot imajsine, Taurtow Wren iv tim Merrorors.-We tee hy some of the black republican papers that the Legielatare passed a law last sersion, for the benefit of some philosophers who desire to get up an organ of that party in this city, aa if it had not nov more organs than are good for its health. The law authorizes the establishment of ® newspaper on the stockjobhing principle. It is fifty thousand dollars, and Thurlow Weed is to be the editor. Now, Weed ia great man in Albany, and, until kicked out, was quite inflaen- tial in the lobby at Washington; bat he will find that hocurpocusing verdant representatives ard conducting ® newspaper in this metropolie are entirely diferent matters. Robert J. Walker, who bed ever s many bundred thousand dollary {o set up an organ for the unterrified domocracy, found that there were too many stops in the way; and Mr. Walker never made the first pipe. Hoe can tell Mr. Weed that s great man ina emall village lke Waahiogton or Albany is not at all respected, or even thought of, by the irreverent borror of organs a: d organ grindors of all kiads; using the lest named iudivicuals to sweep the streets, Lot Wood take warcing in time. ‘The Administration of Justice in New VYork— impunity of Crime and its Causes.’ The Lurdell trial, which for the lust fow works bas excited so much speculation, is at an end, snd we shall now probably outy bear of it as one of thore mysterious events which for generations furnish suoject for wonder aad awe to fireside listeners. We questioa whethor tho causes célebres of avy country make mentioa of any care more singular or memorable, When we consider the unparalleled boldness and f-ar- leeanese of the deed, the little apparent effort re- sorted to to escape detection, and the mystery ia which it coutinues involved —notwithstaoding three protracted investi gations—it will be regarded either a8 one of the most successful orimes or a3 one of the most lamentable failures of justice on record. With the verdict of the jary we have no fault to find It was etriotly in accordance with the evidence presented to them. Regarding that evidence in all its lege) bearings, we ere bouod to arrive with toe jury at the conolusion that of any. direot participation {n this murder ; ‘snd’ the te the position the law temporarily degraded % will resame her place amongst her peers of Bond street and the fashionables of Saratoga Springs, and it is probable that the celebrity attached to her by this trial, so far from injuring, will enhance the social sac- cesses of herself and daughters. New York socie- ty is co aingwiarly constituted that we must be prepared for a'l such startling inconsistencies, Passing from the immediate results of this ac- quittal to the parties concerned, to the more im- portant interests involved in it, we are compelled toray that the management of the caee furnishes & melancholy commentary on the manner in which justice is administered in New York. With the exception of the condact of the presiding yudge— which is deserving of all praise for its even tem- per, impartiality and decision—we do not recollect any important criminal case which has presented such a display of imbecility and inefficiency on the part of the legal persons employed. The prose- cution seemed afraid of proving too much, whilst the defence, on the other hand, was weakened by itsefforte atexaggeration. After the strong state- ments made by the District Attorney in his open- ing speech, more was expected from the evidence for the prosecution than was disclosed in the tes- timony taken before the Coroner. Instead of the promieed developements, we find to our amaze- ment that not only is there nothing new to add to the. sritenen canine: ie scowl tt Saks much that was previously considered important ja withheld, The testimony of Farrell, the ovi- denoe regarding the purobase of the dagger, and the testimony of Dr. Blaisdell, are all shut oat from the record. Omissions like these of course furnished an arm of strength to the defence, and contributed in no small degree to a triumph which the little ekill arrayed on that sids might have failed in obtaining. It is impossible to read the opening statement of Mr. Hall, and to compare it wich the evidence presented in support of it, without arriving at the conclusion that the case for the prosecution was either got up at a haud- gallop or prepared with a oarelessness which only finds its parallel in the usual mode of trans acting business in the District Attorney's office. We believe it to bea fact that at the present momeat there are from fifteen hundred to two | thousand indictmenta, the accumulation of the | last three years, lying perdu in that office, the parties criminated enjoying all the time full im- | munity from the penalties attached to their offences. Is it surprising that in such a state of | things our city should. within the last few years, have been mede the theatre of half a dozen atco- | | cious murders, and that the sutoors of them | should have been allowed to escape punishment? | Ought we to wonder that our streets are | infested by armed bullies and rowdice, who | pistol unoffending parties, or that respecta- bie citizens should occasionally be made away with by the midnight assassin, leaving no traces of their fate? We may feel wound- ed by and resent the commentaries of the Kuropean press wt toe inefficiency of our judicial | eysiem, but we caanot alter the character of | these facta. As long ss prosecutions are con- dneted in the loose, bungling and inefficient man- | ber in whica this Bardell trial has been managed | a8 long as crime is suffered to thrive with im- | punity, and defaalters and s#indlers are permit- ted to flourish and ive bouored in our midst, 60 | long must we be content to bear with patience the remaaks and neers of others, and submit, as | best we can, to the more serious conssquences of our own sins of omission. it is to be regretted that #o recently after this | topic being hutdled to the disadvantage of our in- ' stitutions by the Muropean journals, a case so im- may bemade by all concerned —by the comsrmy, by their settlers, and by the State in which thoy mey rete, Such is the practical opening of a new epood in this coontry’s history—-an epoch warking the prog'esive diversion of the great stream of Eu- repean and Norttere ewigretion from the West tothe border stave States of the Soath. And all eensble men in those States will say, let them come, and welcome, What say the Virginia fire- eaters nowt Maladmintetration of Justice. The Courrier des Kiats Unis, in translating and reviewing some remarks wbioh we made the other day on this head, considers that we exaggerated the part properly chargeable on individuals, and under-catymated the law's share in impeding the due administ:ation of justice The Courrier seca defects enough in our jadicial system to account for the frequent failures of justice, and desires to ascribe the usual escape of the guilty to the de- fect of our jury laws, and tothe geoerally coa- fused condition of onr ccimimal code. 8 ‘This is the criticism of a Frenchman bred w- der the influence of rhe Code, Napoleon, and ac:u%- tomed to the French jary system, according to Which » majority of the: jurory may. render the { verdict in opposition to the sontimeat of the mi- | nority. We do not propose to deny altogether the justice of the strictures. The old rule of Bag- lieh law tequiriog unanimity on the part of jurors to ensure conviction was framed in a large and liberal gpirit ; it was designed to accamula’e dif- ficulty in the way of the conviction of an inuo- cent maa. When it was coupled, as is still the case to some extent in England, with the other rule which debarred the jcrors from food, drink, light or fire till they had rendered their verdiot, it was perhaps less absurd thaa it now seems; for, though, in one point of view, thes rules inwred the victory to the jurors whose powers of endurance were the greatest, in another, they militated agaipat differences of opinion, aad facilitated a epeedy deliverance. In this country, the common eense of the age long aloce dd awsy with the latter of the two rules, leaving the former—the one which requires uoanimity oa the part of the jury to convict—to plague and pester us, aad lead to afailure of justice through a difference of opinion among the jurors in ove half our impor- | tant casea, No doubt such laws as these help to aggravate the faults of our admiaistration of justice. But there are as bad faults as these in the ad- ministration of justice in this country, with which the laws have nothing to do. We have laws against almost every conceivable orime under the eun, but when crimes are committed, it Is eud- den}y discovered that our laws will not apply, or cannot be stretched to fit the case. People are indicted, ; and sometimes they are only threatened with indictment; but as to trial, that is a very different affair. They are only brought to trial, and really held to answer for their mis- deeds, in certain rare cases, and under a peculiar combination of favorable circumstances. Jus- thee, it seems, is in no hurry at all to deal with those who outrage her. District Attorneys have & clamic aversion to falsify the poet's adage about the “lame foot.”’ When people are tried, a new List of diffloulties present themselves, The room for teokntcal ob- jeotions is immense, and the failure of justice through this cause is considerable. But this would be much less than it is, were the bench and the bar animated by a better spirit. It fs due to Judge Davies to eay that his conduct of | the case just cloeed may be quoted as a model for Judges to imitate; bow few such cases there are on record! It is not long since one of oar highest crtminal Judges actuelly undertook to dictate to the jury, in @ criminal case, what their view of the facts must be. Counsel are not back- ward in the same tendency. While prosecuting Officers frequently fail as well from excess as from want of zeal, prisoners’ counsel have adopt- ed a@ recklessness of behavior that is not only injurious to the interests of justice, but abso- lutely ruinous to the character of the profvssion- All parties seem to have forgotten that the sound administration of justice and the maintenance of one of the most importaut branches of civil society depend on theie remembranoe of the great principles which It is their profession to illus- trate; and the consequence is tho lamentable condition of things which the Courrier and our- selves deplore. Newsrarex Counesroxpencs as Unvsrstoop sy Coontry Eprrors.—The county newspapers seem to live upon the literary refuse of New York, if we are to judge from the quantity of the stuff which they inflict upon their readers. Instead of encoaraging original talent in their respective localities. they take into their pay, as New York correspondeata, the veriest set of literary loafers that any metropolitea city has produced. These latter gentry earn a precarious livelihood by retailing to the country journals sll the low scandal and gowlp which they pick up in their daily associations, which, we need scarcely add, are not always of the most de- portant as this Burdell trial should, by official careleesnes#, be permitted to furnixh a corrobora- tion of their strictures. Wecan only account for Mr. Hall's conduct by the fact that he has been 80 | much occupied with the clique, who, in their | secret midnight «ittingwat the Astor House ard Albany, have been concocting measures to de- | prive the people of New York of their constitu- tional rights, that he has had no time left to at- | tend to the duties of his offica, ‘Tux Awenican Extonant Aip axp Howmerean Comrast Fouty Oxoaszmn-—This company is no longer @ projected speculative or:ranization. It is « “fixed fact.” It is chartered, and, as our readers have already been informed, on Thursday last, within a half an hour from the opening of the books, every cent of the required capital for active operations ($200,000) waa subscribed. | The company was then formally orgenized, and elected Hon. Eli Thayer as thir President, and John C. Underwood, of Virgiuia, aa their Secre- tary, de. The moet promising feature of the occasion waa the taking, on the spot, of 866,000 worth of stook by three citizens of Virginia and fifty more 5,000 Lage | 10 be set up with a capital of one handred and | shares by another Virginian, now a resident of thie State. This looks very much like going to business In earnes'. Thus the greatest enter- prises in the history of mankind often appear aa but among the accidents reeulting from the most distant causes. This Soutcern emigration and homestead movement, for example, is but one of the accidents consequent upen the passage of the Kanrae-Nebraske bill. That bill waggested the policy of an otganized Northern emigration sys tom to make Kansaa a free State, The resulta from those experiments heve dislosed tho fact that throagh an organizes company, in the pur- chase of the cheap lands of > Southern States, by wholesale, and in the di.position of them to people of the city of New York, who have a | actual settlers in small farms, millions of money cent or reputable character. The bars of the hotels, the coulises of the theatres, the billiard ealoona, or the houses of rendezvous In Mercer street, are, generally speaking, the sources from whence their sketches of New York life are drawn. When the realities to be found ia euch places fail in prurient interest, they donotecruple to draw on their imaginations for their facts New York, heaven knows, ls bed enough, in the particular phases in which the as people are alone ecquainted with it, without having its better wocial aspects disfigured acd distorted after this fashion. If we are to be pelted with filth by anonymons ecribblers in our own midst, it is bat right that the real characters and motives of these persons ehculd be exposed. As ® general rule, the correspondents of the country journals are persons who are anable to earn # livelihood in any legitimate or regular way, aod who take to this occapation in the hope of eking out # ecant subsistence by pandering to the depraved tastes of others. Hence the matti- tude of lying and sourriions stories which find their way back to as through the columos of our country exchangea. Sometimes these contriba- tiona are made the direct instrumen‘s of private malice or the means of levying money from perrons whoee characters are awatled. More frequently, however, it Is the ready swe waich artioles of this character meet with which consti- tutes the inducement with the writer. Ooca- sionally it happens that they are the productions of amateur ecribblers, who desire no greater re- ward than to see themalvee in print, of pethape to recute the éirte to the New York theatres by their position as corres. pordenta. In all there cases the facilities held out by country editors are equally mis- chievous, They create a large class of literary triflera, who, once they have indulged their va- nity in this way, are unable to fall back apon | wider fleid in the Police De = — any honorable or useful cceupat‘on, whMhyt the in- far nee exereiecd by their productions cannot but Lave a most demoraliziug eect on the pub. mind, ‘There ie another class of contributors to the county journals, fur the encouragewent of whom the latter are much to blame. We altude to lady co: reepor.dents, whose time would be far better employed in attending to their howecholds, making their husbands’ shirts, or darning their ttockings, We kvow numerous instances ia sbych these literary proclivities on the part of fem>les bave proved the ruin of families Where * woman tabcs to journalism as a pursuit, she is as cestain to neglect all ber other daties as ehe is to fail in te object of her ambition, Fema'es are by nature unfitted for the press as a profes- sion. They are too excitable and impulsive, and Jac the judgment necessary to coateol their temperaments, They are, besides, careless as to facte, dealing generally in vague assertions aod erroneous decuctions, derived from rumor or their own hastily formed impressions, Ludicrous examples of theee tevdencies are to be found ia tte New York correspondence of some of the New Orleans papers, which, faue de mieux, aro written by females, The paryersions of well known and commonly accredited facts, the ten- Aency to idle gossip, the rash and potitive jadg- ments, the personality and bitterness. which exbibit, are sufficient evidence of the sex and in- experience of the writers, If country edi‘orsare desirous of rivalliog influence and respectability of the metzopoli- tay Journals they must discard all such smali fry ax theee. As wosala before, a littie generous encouregement to talent in their own neighbor- hoode would render them indepetdent of foreiga eid. If, however, they cannot find better pabu- lum for their renders than the garbage of our metropolitan Grub street, we wou'd strongly counsel them to abandon the ungrateful mission which they bave upde1iaken. THE LATEST NEWS. Attempted Walker Meeting at Baltimore. Batusorn, May 10, 1357. A meeting to devise means to aid the cause of Walker in Nicaragua was called for inst evening, but mobody at- tended except the reporters and 1 few others, conaequeni- ly the room was not opened nor gas wasted. The Southern Mail. Wasnwoton, May 10. 1857. ‘The New Oricaua malls of the 4th inst. have beer re- ceived. The newspapers contain nothing important, The Southemer at Charleston, Caarumeron, May 9, 1857. ‘The United States mail steamship Southerner, Captain Murray, from New York, arrived here at 4 o'clock this morning. ‘Lhe Warren Statue, Boston, May 10, 1867. General Scott has accepted ap invitation to be prevent on the 17th of June at the inauguration of the Warrea statue on Bunker Hull. Proviogmes, May 9, 1897. dub sang abs eats " Oer cotton market baa been , of , sales of the weck 42,900 pounds. o Ue. week 76,100 pieces, about 60/000 of which are to be made. Orvis Centrat Raunoad ov New Jenagr, Kiaanamiroat, May 10, 1857. ‘The bridge over the Musconetoong at Bloomsburg was deetroyed by fire last night, about 11 o'clock. Arrangements have bece made to take passengors around the break by ompibutes, cansing a delay of twenty minutes only, Also provisions have been made to receive and forward merchantine and freight as neal. No coal witl be taken from the Lehigh unt) the bridge is replaced, which will take two weeks. No interruption to the business from the Delaware, Lackawane anc Weeatern Railroad, the bridge veing above the junction. JOHN 0, STEARNS, Superintendent, The Polke Question, ANOTHER PRIVATE MERTING OF THE NEW COMMIS- SIONBAS—-THRY CONCLUDE TO WAIT FOR THE JU- DICIAL W AGON—SW ARMING OF POLITIOAL PAUPERA AM KLBEMOSYNARY POLICE ASYLUM ANTICIPATED “THR PXOPOAKD SCPERINTENDENT— MATSELL RE TIRING TO [OWA—HIS PROSPECTS AS A MILLION- AIRK—A COMPROMIKE NEUTHAL SUCORS6OM PRO POSED—THEK AUTHORITY OF THE OLD BOARD RE COGKISED BY GOVKENOR KING, ETC. The new Board of Police Commiasionora held a private meeting on Saturday, at about 10 o'clock in the forenooa. ‘They had under cousideration the oxpedieney of aay fur- thor action upon matiors calcuisted to affect the proper and efficient discharge of the potice duties of the city be- fore their right 60 to interfere la cloarly warraated by tho Gal decision of the courts on the coustitudonality of the now law, Tt appears tha! they havo now concluded not to attempt 0 ertablizh an imlependent syetem before the decivion of the Court of Appeals shall be rendered. The additional popular odium they must bring upon themselves, and the ubneceerary mischief they would canse to the public bual- ness, has pretty well detormined them to do merely a sort of amateur business tn their oficial capacity, for the sake of the experiemce and for protecting themselves against the chance of a decision beiug mace in their favor by the court. Numbers of applications continue to pour tn “ap. on them, which are all duly dkd away agsinst the day when they may have a chance to eater practically upon their labors. All tbe distinguished campaignuors of the clube of inst fall, who neglected tholr avocations to the ruin or lore of their means of sub-istnoce in the ex Citing pursuit of politics, are swarming in buigey crowds ‘and clamorous around the Commissioners. The idea ia current that the police department { on tae point of being turned ivto an eleemorynary asylum for broken down Diack republican political panpers, and #0 all the lantere. bearers and bill tickers, nn the culportours generally who did service in tho election of Jobo A King, Lave red, asfora slaughter in the City Mall ecilara: docks ‘bor martershipa are now forsaken, sad the ‘partment and ite anticipated dis Memberment by the Albany Commiscroners, is the chief carrice in sighs $f tae hongry evarme. regard to the appoinumett of m superintendent, no- thing defuite has been reached. It is understood, how. ever, that (he commissioners have approached Panda nd than the sicge they lald to Judge W! Saturday they beld some consuitadene with Chief im relating to taking an experienced practical man from the police department to ruccoel the chief, and keop the and has al without any obstruction from change. ‘ar. Maaasth his means ip certain Weetern lands located that Mate, to which Congress gave te late extoasive ge Mr. Mateoil will, throug a this connection proba. ly become & millionaire shortly, like others of the pablo men who bave entered the same det. His Durham bulla ‘and Southdown mution are alrea'y in & prosperoas plenty apon a litte principality Bowe, hin Sacady woreaive sesording ly vaca Prment post, with. the next month. ,. will come just st the time peas ts expected to decide finally he new law, and it enforces upow ew board the necosity of a new Of a police chief, whichever may prove suc- ceeeful in the pending suit, ‘The old board is, it seems, anxious that no charge should be made until Mateoll re. trea, and the decivion on the Iaw has been rendered, but the new board prefers to make an niment now, even they must make it coutingont aoa the ovent of the de- cision. It is understood that Mr Mateell coincides with the new commiesion #o far, and ia working towards coma amicable compromise which will reconetie the contict, by eeouring the coment of all the selection of an officiont officer gucosed him nnd command the public confidence. Bich aselection would doubtless be made fron among the fmemders of the prosent dopwrtmert, and who Sate of New York, made thoir reqn sition for terfore in Ure Seguine’s Point riot, and quisition net to the members of tho new commission, bat fo the of4 board. This fact, by the way, a rant ano roticeable, Musical and Dramatic Matters, ‘The Opera season at Niblo's Garden closed on Prieg viebt Tt lorminated—as Opera seasons usually do—wam it was just beginning to be brilliant. The company om- mences a short searon of wh weeks at the Philsdelpm Acwdemy this evening. Before Madame de Game eaves the country—certainiy an wgratefai oue eo ae ax she Ip concorned—it ie to be hoped that she @ sing again in Now York. We hear that a series of representations of the Germ Opera will shortly be given at the Academy, under @ mapagement of bir, Marrball. of the Broadway theata, Madame Johannsen will be the prima donna, On Wednesday afternoon thero will bo an intercstiy concert at the Academy, by the pupile of the Bllad Ag lum. Several entirely hew compositions will be given. Madame Florentine Swpacecke, the celebrated planta will gives grand concert at Niblo’s Saloon, on Thureda evening, the 14th inst, She will be sesigied by Mer Emma Gillingham Bostwick; Mr. Aptomas, the harpaa Mr. Mollenhauer, the ,vielinist, and Mr. Timm—al ¢ whom have in the kindest manner volunteored their ext vioea, The friends of this highly accomplished tm (Madame Szpaczeks) have arranged this concort to canal her to prosecute her professional duties as a mune teacher, relieved of the pecuniary difficulties now prow ing upon ber energies. Sho is « Poliah oxilo, with a lan family, and several geetiemen of wealth and positions whose families ber services have been appreciated, @ interesting themselves in her behalf, We trust the Cort will prove « cubstantial evideace of the &ppreciam of the public, Madame de Withorst will give hor first subscription @ Cort on Saturday next, at Niblo’s, The greater part ete Places tiave already been taken, and all the wealth, tate and beauty of the cy will be reprdsented at the conoe, ‘Since wo stated recently that there’ was & lamomas eoarcity of English tenors on’ this, cldé of the Alles, they have become as plenty as blackberries. The mp prominent now among us is Mr. Jacopl, a native of @ city, who has had gratifying successes at tho allan @ Loudon opera houses. He bas not yot been announced to af here. In Boston, Mr. Ole Bull announces thata new tema Mr. Harrison by name, a native of the modern Athea- will make his début at the concerts of the great violia, Another American tenor, a native of Cincinnati, bas ta prosecuting bis studice here, usder the benign guidanat maestro Manrocohl. fo we are not in such a great for tenogs, after all. ‘The past wcok has not been a very brilliant one af theatres, nor were tbe events of the week strikingly g, teresting. Mr. Edwim Booth has been ewoceseful at By ton's. His Richilieu ts considered the best pecformami of the week. Portions of the fourth act wore given wit 60 much fire and effect as to call down repeated rounds: applause from a very critical house. Mr, Booth, beta be can attain the posi iow at which he aims, will have learn to atrengthen and elaborate the parts of bis perfor ances which are now weak. The public expects com thing more than one oF two flashes of lighsning illuminast a levol plain. At the Beoapway Taxarum Mr. Gaylor’s play, “The & of the Night,’ hae beon go secceesful that the manager « pounces it for every night tili further notice. Mr. Loraly plays Bea Lici in this piece to-night, At Bunros’s Tuzarsa, Mr. Edwin Booth commences @ wecond week of bis engagement, playing Romeo to t Juliet of Mias E. L. Davenpart. The aftorpiece will be d successful farce, “ The Rules of the Bouse.’’ At Laura Kxxne's Timatam two new pieces are ¢ nounced for tonight. The frst is a drama by Mr. B Conway, callod “ Nature and Art,’ and the afterptead “Variety,’’ one of the musical bariettas for which @ house Is celebrated. Mies Keone pisys in the first pleer At Wattacn’s Trmaran, Mr. Wallack commonces 9 spring engagement to-night, and inaugurates the ocean by the production of Mias Mitford's tragndy “ Rico? Mr. Wallack (a tn tip-top condition, and wilt, deubil, play 6 brilliagt engagement. : A’ Nasto'y Gazvan the Ravels give a ballet with Me Robert, nnd one of their best pantomimes, _ At the Rownay Tusaras a new bippodramatic epects in four acts, by Mr. Johm Brougham, called “The Dow Horse, or The Curse of Ambition,” is announced, with ove act drama, “102."" At the Musmom, “Neighbor Jackwood"’ baa preg highly eucreseful, and it will be given every night @ week. Tum Covoren Ormau.—At Wood's Misctrels, this evemis, “Dark Deeds” and several favorite interludes are @ nounced. At Buckley's, a new piece, “Mizslssippt Stone boats and Missiseippl Niggors,’’ is announced. At Br; ‘ant’s, Mechanica’ Hall, pleaty of pew songs and the “ Hlephant Camille.’* Inam.—Mr. K. L. Davenport olosed his ongagement @ tho Brondway on Baturday. We hear that he intonda rm visitlag Europe very shortly, and that be will havea far well benefit at the Academy om faturday sem It should be s great one, Mr. Jobn Broughas leaves the city this week. After playing some eagag: mente in Philadelphia and other small towns, be intends | visit London, where he will play an engagement. Mr. J. Florence play at Drew's National theaire, Philadelphia this week’ They will play im this city, probabiy at We lnck’s, during the eammer, In Cincinnati on Friday te Mr. Thalberg gave a concert. Miss J. M. Davenport playing at Wood's theatre, and Mr. Bouroioaait Roberteom at the Navional. The Board of of Boston lately adoped an ordinence compelling theaires to close at alt past oinven P.M worthy Censors should ase “La Dane ans Comelias” am another play, which has just boon produced at the Me tional in their city, which ia eaid to be worse, and the, probably would shut np the theatrer altogether. A met actor made his debut at Wood's theare, Si. Louis, # Saturday, of whioh event the Democrat gives na xocoum@ ts thore he is to receive the considerable bantering, and some gee on the part of the two |, which t& mp teed MeVicker pot om a serious fae Septet qevamtee ch eo nares ¢ ‘Misa Avonia Jonea has been playing at Albany, The Preanes of that city praise her very hig'!y. Mme. do la Grange gives ® coneert in Cincinnati eo the 18th May, E g ? “ i ? ! E i it il E =| : & 5 1 ii ii i 3 af ri oH i Hi 23 #E te i s e j i i ri i I i 8 7 be Est ei i Ff ie i FE 553 fret bid should be but this war not The fret eer wan £10 000, Mr. KT. draith bil ti . i ws if HH figit jh; 3} rH i ii