The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1857, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE X. W couNEN OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS TERMS, cad in odimaner. FRI DAILY HERALD, 2 conte per copy, $f par anman. | THE WEEKLY HERALD, wory Saturday, at Ohy conte per cops, oF $5, por annum; the Burvpean edition, $4 per annum, ta Part ef Great Bridain, or $5 to any part of te Continent, boc <0. POLUR ANT CORRESPONDENCE, containing important ence, roicited from ony quarter of the workd, if wand will be Whe pod for. BB-IOK POLLIGN CORRESPONDENTS 4 - POCLAntY Requestep TO Skat abt, LETTERS any Packaans Sarvs. NO NOTICE taken ef anonymous correspondence, We do not Potten Gioee repeeted. JORT TING exeouted with neatnc ISEMENTS renewed every day. se, cheapnese aind dew: | No. 132 AMUSKMENTS THIS KVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broacway—Tum Hon o” eux Nisat. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brostway—Traat Ror Fears—Trar MOKOEE—KEd GNOME BOWERY THRATRE, bowery—Muiw oF Ceowser—Tur Devu's Louse. BUETON'S NEW THEATRE, Urosdway, opposite Bond st. Lapr ov Lrom—Rouxs of tax Hose. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rusxzt—I'u Tei Yous Wire. LAUBA KEENE’S TOKATSR, Reosdway—Natvas ano Anr—Vcuierr, — BARNUM'S AMEBICAN MONEUM, Bros¢way—atterncon + nd Sven'ng—Newinor Jacewoon. @XO. CHRISTY AND wooD's MINRTRELS, 444 Brosd- way—Eruorias, Praronmswrs—Wervro. BUCKLEY'S @ERENADERS, 685 Rrondway—Rrmorus PeRrosnsnewe—MUCissirri StraMacs & Mississirri Nace, wong MxLopies An. ovRELS. “SHEET. wexday, May Li, 1957. TRI TES NEW TORK APKALD—SPITION FOR EUHOPE. ‘The Cunard steamship Africa, Capt. Shanon, will leave this port to-day tor Liverpool. Tho Europes maiis will closo in this city (bis moraing, at baif:past vine o'clock. ‘The European exiitioa of (io Hmaa, printed tn French aud English, will be pul { nt pine o'cbak in the morn. | ing. Si pice, to etx conte, tm Darope Toynex—Am. & European Fxproes Co., 61 King William et. Paue— Lo, do. 6 Place de la Bourse, Lavmercot —Do. do. 9 Chapel strect. Laverroot—Joln Bunter, 12 Fxchenge etreci, Fast. Baver--Am. & turepean Exproea Co. , 21 Rue Corneille. ‘The contents of the European edition of the HmkaLp will @mmbine the news received by mail end telegraph at the office during the previous week, and np to the Lour of pubiicawon. ‘the News. ‘There wae tremendous demonstration of the citizens of New York last evening in the City Tall Park, im opposition to thore acta of the recent State Tegislatare by which the rights and privileges of our citizens bave been trampled on. There wece fome‘twetve or fifteen thousand persous present. Meetings were held at, and speeches, made from three siends. Ths Hon. Jobn Kelly, M. C., presided at the principal stand. The resolutions pledge the meeting to oppose by dus process of law “ the grove outrages on the constitutional rights of freenen.” ‘They cenounce the Metropolitan Police act, the Port Wardens bill, the Kxclee uct, the Central Park pili, end the amended charter. They endorse and commend the resistance thus far offered “to thessfabominations” by the Mayor and corporate an- thoritics, and tenders the supportof the meeting to them. Tinally they doclare that these questions will be agitated until “ these tyrannical euactmments are blotted trom the etatute book or purged of their anti-democratic character.” A committee of fire waa gutborized to te appointed by the Chairman to co operate with the city authorities un opposing the obnoxions laws, Chief Justice Oakley, of the Superior Court, died at his residence in this city on Moaday eveniag. ‘The Courts adjourned yesterday in respect to his memory, alter appropriate remarks from the Juiges and the members of the bar. Thomas Caraley, ex- Sibert of this county, expired yesterday at his resi- ence in Carmansville. He lad been il! s long time of consumption. There was nothing done in the Court of Sessions yesterday save the passing of a few s2ntences, ia consequence of the death of Chief Jnstice Oakley, | who bes presided on the bench of the Saperior Court for the last quarter of a century. Judge Rae well and Mr. Fed! made a few appropriate remarks, bot cbeerved tha} they would avail themselves of a more fitting occasion to enumerate the virtuos of the deces: ed. ‘The bill providing for the sale of the main line of the public works of Pennsylvania, the points of whick appeared in the Hem aiy some days siace, has passed }oth branches of the Legislatare, and now awaits the signature of the Governor ty become a low. ‘The Garrisonlan ewlitiouret are holding their an RBivereary mect ng’ the City Assembly Roome- They bad two ba yeslerday, a morning and an evening one. The mornicg mecting was ad dread by Wm. I Garrison, of Boston; Rev. Thee. ¥. H nson, of Worcester, Mass; Parker Pillsbury, of Concoré Hz Robert Purvi (a co. lored man,) of Byberry, Pa.; Miss Lacy Stone aad Wendell Phillipe, of Boston. The sentiments ex- presred by the sneakers appear to be mere oltra than over. Tho receipts of the society for the year were $19,206 65, and of the auxiliary societios ia Masea- chucetts, New York, Penusylrania, Obio and Michi- gran, $15,554 03, making a | of $34,162 66. The total expenditares were $33,079 12. They hare tw more sessions to-day—at 10 A. Mand at 3} P.M ‘The State Colonization Society held their aantver- gary last evening. The coctrinutious to the canse daring the past twelvemonth he ve exceeded those of apy previous year. The American Saaday School Uniow, the New York Infirmary for Widows and Ch'liren, and the Asylum for Incbristes, also held meeting» last evening, full reports of which we give in to-day's paper. ‘The etesmelip Black Warrior has arrived at New Orleans with advices from Havana dated on 24 of May. There was nothing of political importance ‘NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, sions, while buyers wore not disposed to enter the mar het freely without. Both parties weee looklog forward with enxiety for tater news from Europe, now about due at tlis port. Flour, with eame increase of receipts, was ko active, sud closed ot rather easier rates on the lower nediom grades of Stato brands, while tho sales were to a fair extent, Wheat was more active, with sales of Linels prime red at $1 06,and Milwaukie do, at $1 60 Corn was firm and in good demand, with ealee of West- ern mixed at 4, & Be., Southern yellow at fife. a 86c, and Southern white et 8Tc. Pork was frm, with gales of mess at $23.60 end in erall foto at $23 7%, Sagare wero quiet, and ealee were confined to about 000 bids, Cuba muscovado at rates given in spother column. Among the eales of coffee were 2,000 bags St Domingo, reported on private terms, The stock of Kio in this market is eetimated at 63,050 bags, ond including bags end mats, at 07,525. Freights were dull, snd engagements wero made of grain to Liverpool as low as 1c., and Werce beef at Gd.—sald to be for balast— while cotion was taken @t 2s. Od. per bale, becawax a! ‘id., and off at 10. Central America—Lord Palmerston’s Me- nacing Policy=Trouble Brewing. The rejection by Lord Palaerston of the amended Dallas-Clarendon treaty is a9 affair of the highest signidcancy touching the whole sche- dale of our international relations}with Bagland. With every additional scrap of information de- fining the reasons of the British Cabinet for, re- fusing their nesent to the fair and consistent over- ures of our government in reference te Honda- as and the Bay Islands, the more are we con- vinced that this tropical imbrogiio has thas as- sumed a more menacing shape than in any of the many ugly phases through which it has paseed from the beginning. We bave no doubt of the honesty and good faith of Lord Napier in those cheering relations of brotherly love aud commercial co-operation which be anticipated would benceforth mark the diplomacy betweeu Eogland and this great re public. We feel satistied, too, that the broad and liberal commercial views of suca British statesmen a3 Olarcndon, Disraeli, Cobdea and others, comprehend the policy of a cordial peace with the United States, evea to the extent of an absolute abandonment of all British preteusious claims and usurpations of every sort throughoat tae Ceatral American States, But this is not | the policy of Lord Palmerston. He looks apon, thie country, not as @ commercial ailly, but asa powerfal commercial rival, aspiring to ibe commercial and vaval domiaion ot the seas which flank the American isthmus, and also to the absorption or control of all the isthmus trausit passages from Mexico to New Granada. Hie policy is, therefore, to secure a naval cowmercial foothold at every available point along the Central American coasts, not only for tbe purpose of checkmating the suspected de- signs of Brother Jonathan, but for the more posi- tive object of securing to Eagland the possession or control of the American isthmus communica- tions between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceanus. In this Central American policy, the Palmer- ston ministry have only been following the long establiched uniform eystem of England’s en- eroachments, aggressions and annexations in every other part of the world. From her first lodg- ment in the beys and coasts of Hoadaras, in search of logwood and mahogany, dewn to thie day, the ultimate object of possession hae governed all her movements, In the curious aad amusing adventures of Chatfield im the seizure ana abandonment of Tigre island, in the Mosquito Indian protectorate, in the independency of Grey- town, in the Clayton-Balwer treaty, im the war of Costa Rica against Walker, and in this Dallas- Clarendon treaty, this ultimate object of ocoupa- tion and control, commercial and military, of this or that commaading point, has never for a moment been lost sight of by the agente, emis- surics and diplomats of Faglaud. The Claytoa~ Bulwer treaty was but a strategem to gain time; the neutrality of England, as between Walker and Costa Rica, bas been but a mockery; for land, under the rose, has armed, sustained and dircoted this native coulidoa against our filibusters from tho outset. Her liberal charity or’s deserters acd disbanded troops, in them of to Panama and New Orleans, nothing more than a magnificent military stratagem for the extinguisament of “ Yankee ia- fluence” and colovization along the Nicaragua. Traasit route. It the truth were known we choald probably discover, also, that English machina- tions underlie our existing disagreements with New Granada concerniag the Panama transit, At all events we bave seen cnough and suffered enoogh from Engtich diplomacy and duplicity in Central America to eatiefy ws that with Pa'mer- tton this Dallas Ciarendon treaty is intended onlz to be nsed as a cunning device to lull us to sleep; that his rejection of the treaty as amended ut Workington is but a trick to gain time, 60 as to sonre, hete and there, @ more permanent foot ing for ulterior operations. The sherply-defised ieeue of the prohibition of Afrioan slavery in Tlooduras aad the Bay Ielaads, upou which Lord Palmerston has thrown thie treaty back jato the face of Mr. Buchanan, is the issue beyond all others for sn indefinite period of diplomatic juggllog aad obolitien sgitation. In raising such sn isewe in such @ place we detoct ta Lord Palmerston not the honest advocate of a “ happy secord’”’ between hie government and our own, but the invidious enemy of our commorcial ex- | pansion and oar internal peace, We are net surprised, in this connection, at the deep diexppointment of the Palmerston Cabinet with the refusal of our government to join the league of England and France for the reduotioa of China, In standing aloof, however, we may do better than by dancing to the Haglish piper. Ocean and the American Isthmus routes to tho Disrness art Newrort anp Sanatocs.—We Atlantic, readersit incumbent upon Bsgland (0 | se¢ tbat some of the amall journalists at the bold fast in Cen'ral America to every inch of | yLove eamed villages are satfering much ments! MAY 13, 1857.—TRIPLE SHEET. ground ehe claims and to secure, by diplomacy if possible, the sovercign command of at leas! one or two of our I-thmus pas-ages. We have thus nothing to gain by a resumption of uegotia- tions. England will take care that she ix not negotioted out of Central America, but that we shall be cheated aod deceived in any further bar- gains of that d: scription, What, then, is the true policy of our govere- ment? Simply the policy of a tots) abrogation of all our joint stock Central American d:ploma- cy with Engtand, and the repeal of oar aeutratity laws Thus, between English and Aimecican fili- bustering in Central America we shall be Ife perfectly free to pureue in every case that course best adapted to promote our commercial interests ead to extend our naval defences, and to the pe cial ead of defeating the antagonist'c policy aud ambitious and grasping designs of Hagiand. Such, too, we have every reason to believe, is the pelicy which bas been virtually resolved upon by the Cabinet at Washington, We dare say that there will be no further negotiations with Engiaad upon Central American affairs till the meeting of the next Congress, and that then, instead of the reconsideration of the treaty of Dallus and Cla- rendop, we may anticipate the abrogation of the old Clayton-Bulwer treaty and all its appon- dages, Tae Man iy THe Carer Cororno Coat Tornep ur AGary.—A long time ago, when there was a whig party in this city, one of its leaders was called “the man in the claret colored coat.” He was quite a3 notorious, and after the same fasion, a8 the man that smokes in the om- uibns, the man that smote Mr Patterson, or the man with the carpet bag. His party stood up to be kmocked down for about twenty years, and then died of negro-phobia. In the yew of grace 1834, when Mr. Gideon Lee was Mayor of New York, the whig party was yoang and lusty. Its headquarters were at Masonic Hall, in Broad- way, over aguinst the Hospital. The charter election ia that year was unusually exciting. It wasin the height of the bank furore, aol the opposition io the administration of Juckson was exceedingly bitter. The charter election com- menced on the 8:h of April and continued dur- ing three days. The democratic nominee tor the Mayoralty wae Mr. Cornelius W. Lawrence, then a member of Congress, and an active partixan of the administration. The opposition, led by the Blunts, Redwood Fisher, Silas E. Burrows and the man with the claret colored coat, mad: a vigorous attempt to defeat Mr. Lawrence. Taey made @ grand display at Masonic Hall, and pa- raded in the streets a miniature frigate, called the Constitution. Well, singular to say, ou the firet day of the election there was a fight at the Sixth ward poll, in Cross street, and the friends of the man in the claret colored coat were “pro- vented from exercising the dearest privilege of a freeman,” as the maa in the claret colored coat declared voting for Mayor to be. On the next day the unwashed were terrified by the appearance of the Mayor, the District Attorney and tho Sheriff of the county at the polla, and there was no dis- tarbence until the whig frigate Constitution hove in sight. In doubling a cepe on the Five Points she received a shower of stones from the demo- cracy, whem ehe made all sail for Masonic Hall Here, also, on the last day, a serious riot occur- red—nine or ten persoos were wouuded—the Mayor at the head of tho police was defeated and obliged to call out the military, whoa the mob dispersed. While this was going on in Broadway, the man in the claret colored cout and some of his friends made a dotour to Eim street aud captured the State Arsenal The beeper of the arrena!, General Arculsrius, was enjoying an snte-prandial promenade in White sireet, and the gurrison, consisting of Mra General, surrendered at discretion. In the report of Arcalarius to the Assembly we are told that the man in the claret colored coat endeavored to bully Mra. General in order to obtain the key of | the place where the arwe were stored, claiming that ho—the man in claroi—had been seat by the Mayor. The man in claret likewise snubbed the | Alderman of the Sixth, Dennis MeSarthy by name. Not obtaining the key, the rlotery car- tied the place by cecalade, and the man with the elaret colored coot obtained a musket and bayonet, which he flourished ander Mea. Gone- ral’s nove in aa offensive maoner. The rioters distress at our just remarks end accurate de- seription of what is called sooicty at the fushion- able watering places, The tone of these journals is the best evidence of the trath of our remarks. The morality of @ piace must be at a very low standard when the conductors of its preases re- sort to blackguardism for want of argument, and answer the criticisms of a journal by throwing dirt at its conductor, The editor of the Henanp ia, acoording to one of the watering place gazet- tcers, a “base libeller'—he prints nothing but “Jong, gassy, silly leaders, tu'l of base, low, mean, dirty fabrications ;” he is “ biting his own nose off,” and “coming hie usual dodge,” with other elegant expressione couched in the game etyle. Avotber journal talks about “ downright sean- dal end black mailing propensities,’ “blac. bearted and impudent calamnies,” “ contemptu- ous old libeller,” “unmitigated falsehoods,” « sordid and depraved mind,” &o., &c. Such stuff makes our case stronger. It is easy to sce the social condition of the wateriag places by the tone of their presses. But we de- sire to keep these editors to the facts in the case, Our position is, that the fashioasble watering places of this country are monopolized by a set of enobs, whose cisgusting conduct prevents re- apectable people from breathing the same air with them ; that the hotels charge the most exor- bitaat prices and starve their guesta, and that the time when people went to Saratoga or New- port for health or pleasure has long since gone by; that the cummer emigration has thereby been diverted into other channels ; that the num- ber ot Americans at European watering places in- creases with every eucceeding year, and that the increasing facilities of travel in our own country cauge hundreds of delightful resorta to be dis- covered every year. The extension of raliways in the North and West has opeacd a splendid country to the pleasure traveller—a paradise wherein bis sense of the beautiful may be grati- fied at every turn, and where every taste may be excited at a trifling expense. Delicate city bred tadies can pout on the banks of tne Nebraska, explore the head waters of the Miesissippi, paddle their light canoes through the straits of Macki- nack, or rough it upon the crown of the Alle- ghanies. They like it,and it is good for their copstitutions—much better than flirting with sobs or pounding asthmatic pianos We have never denied that a few respectable people may be inveigled into visiting Newport or Seratoga, but they soon become disgusted with the gamblers, snobs, roués, parvenuee and demi- reps that make up the society of those places The arrogance, cupidity and meanness of the tavern keepers and traders (half starved for nine mostbs and gorged for the rest of the year), fia- ishea the work. If the journals of Saratoga and Newport can controvert the above statement of facts, we should be happy to have them doit. But in the meantime their perroral abuse of us will not pre- vent the Hrravp from publishing accurate de- scriptions of the watering places oa they arc, and putting pleasure seekere upon their guard aguizat extortioa, robbery and imposition, Tre Sicxies anp Munrty Arrarm.—We publish in enother columa the reply of Mr. John McLeod Murphy to the last bulletin of Mr. Daniel E. Sicklee, in relation to the fracas between those two gentlemen at Willard’s Hotel, Washington. Mr. Murphy walks into Mr. Sickles without spe- cial coremony, and Mr. Sickles walks into Mr. Murpby by obtaining his dismissal from office through his (Sickles*) iuduence with Mr. Buyhagaa and Mr. Toucey. This latter circumstance affords another in- stance of the melancholy mistakes that have beca made by the present administration in dispensing the federal patronage at (hie point. With the exception, perhaps, of Mr. Scholl, there seems to be a fatality attendant upon all of Mr. Buchanan’: appointments in this city and State. We have every reason to believe that Mr. Murphy, whom we koow to be a worthy and honorable man, was removed from office at the instigation of Sickles; and that the motive of Sickles originated ia the fact that Mr. Murphy happened to favor some person other than Sickles as the democratic can- didate for United States Senutor before the Legis lature last winter. Lf we are rightly informed then formed im military order, and the man in claret assailed the Commisary General. The riot wag soom over, a# the Mayor arrived with the news that the siege of Masonio Hall wos rained and that the city was quiet, In the ro- port of the Commiswary General, the man | in the claret colored coat is distinetly Mr. Sickles made various applications for the ro- moval of Mr. Murphy to the President and the Secretary of the Navy, entirely on porsoaal grounds, and wo are very sorry to seo that Mr. Bochonaa aod Mr. Toucey should have agted uader such unworthy toatigutions, What aze the comscqnences of the recent ai pointed out as the leader of the rioters, Thy ; T= WIMté appolniments (with the exception of Mr, whigs eppointed a commitice, of which WN. B. | Schell) made by the new administration! We | Bluat was chairman, to draw op a statement of | DAVE elrealy a new nnd fatal division in tho the facta The ground takea in this statement | @emoceatic party, aud two geacral committoos, was that the man in tho clarot colored coat and | Tepresenting two distinct organizations, claim his cosdjutors wore actuated by @ pious desire to | Poesstlon of Tammany Hall. Mr. Sickles, while preserve the peace of the city, and seized the | i the Senate last winter, aided aud abetted the Arsenal for the purpose of preveating; (he Broad- | back republicans tn paming those atrocioas way rioters from getting it There is no doubt, however, about the ecizare. ‘Those days are over; but the man ia claret enactments of which the people of this city now complain, and which were intended to place the government of this city in the hands of Thurlow still live, Masonic Hall ix no moro—the whig Weed and bis friends, Mr. Sickles and his friends party no longer existe; but tho maa in the ralsed the excitement at Tammany Hall, aud claret colored coat, though older, is no better: | ought in all the black republican seceders to He is still endeavoring to seize eymetuing oust the Gencral Committee chosen by the domo- other, It is @ monomania, Ilo haa, in con crate at the regular election last year. There is teaneptsing on the inand. Prices of supuey ranged | Tho Chinese government ie favorably inclined to | SusCtioa with Tharlow Weed sad the relics | division and diunion and recrimiaation and vio- lence and fighting among the democracy, on ac- come t town to eve the May moctings, Clergy-] T AT E LATEST NEWS. men, like other peopte, enjoy excitement, and as the plous papers will not let the partons go to the theatre or other places of amusement, they take their fun, as the teototallers take their Li- quor, en famille, We shall no doubt have the Rev. Dr. Betiows alinost as heartily abused as Stephen A. Douglas; each espirant for clerical houore will flesh bis maiden sword on the poor doomed Doctor, while, of coarse, everybody will drive at Douglas, He bas got no friends, is no- body—but @ futare President; so the parsons will not spare him. Crowns of laurel are wanted for the lambs of God. Tus Ixpersnpsxcn ov tux Meraororrtan Purss.—Some of the politicians who have for- gotten that tho world moves object to the spe cice of cessorchip which the journals of New "York have asserted and exercised over the courts of justice. They take tho ground that a court and every officer of it, from the Judge on the bench to the pettifogger at the bar, or the officer at the door, are co holy and sacred things that they must not be touched by the irreverent hand, or even looked at with the ungodly eyo of a mere journalist. Criticism on legal proceedings is denoaneed as profane and shameful. Tho press must be content with printing what the lawyers eay, when they want it printed, and exactly im the form they prefer. As to cavilling at a lawyer's mistekes that is the unforgivable sin, ‘This is the old-fashioaed view of the relative duties of the press ond the bar. The world bas moved @ good deal since this view was correct. Tt answered well enouga in olden times, when a Judge could have a troublesome editor put ia the stocks, or his ears grubbed out by the bang- man. At the present day people expect that a | Lnteresting from W.: THE TERATY KETWHHN GREAT BRITAIN AND HOUDO RAS—THE GOOD OFFICES OF KUSSLA—oRSP APONRD FOR MR. DALLAS—PELIBUSTERS ON WASH M’OULLOUGH ACOKPTS THE GOVERNORSHIP OF -—THB OOEAN MAIL BEKVLOB, BTY., ETC, ‘Wantancron, May 22, 1808, ‘The vegotiadons which for some time past bave bee ponding between the governments of Great Britaim ema Honduras, tn refereaoe to the Bay Lilanda, were comclaged early in March, aad the treaty ratified by Honduras on the %b of that mouth, [is believed hero, amongst the apa nish aad South American legations, that this action of te two governments effectually abrogates the Claytoa-Batrer treaty; and at the eame time opens the way for the fmal arraug:tnent of dispates betweea the cvbincts of the Tubeg Hates and Great Britain. It ia rumored that Mr, Btoeckel has intimated to five government that the good officer of the Rugsian college a8 Pekin will be cheerfully accorded to prepare the way Gyr evcceesful nogotiation by our Minister to China, ‘Tho satisfiction at tho rejection of the Clarendon treuty is evidently Increasing. Despatches will go aut t Min, Dallas by to-taorrow's steamer informing him that a apw negctialious will be crertained at preacnt by this geverme ment. Lord Napler feels deeply tho unpleasant peaiiea he has been placed in. Pierre Soule and Col. Slattor are here frem New @m Jeane conferring with the government in regard to Meare gua. ‘They wey that Walker's ,%uition w pot 60 deapermae a6 bas been stated, It ta hinted that « great Soathem demonstration in his favor ia contemptated, The Sitime- ter commissioners ge to New York e0oa, Fayette McMuilen, mower of Congress, Virginia, ans ‘been appointed Governor of Washington Territory. Letters were received to-day the from private averciasy of Col. McCullough intimating that bo will accept the Qe vernorthip of Utah. The Postmaster General has arranged for the ; of the Occan mail steam service unill Congress cam gray vide for permanent contracts. The Havro line is te te kept up by the N. Y. and Havre. steamship Company Ge one year from first July uext, wi b thir.eca round tripg, amit compensation limited te the gross amount of postage, eam ead inland, they convey. Vanderbilt gets the Bremen fap great daily journal will exercise a jadicious su- pervision over every public man and every public institution, and most assuredly the courts are not excluded from the- range of its survey. On the contrary, there is no place ia the country where the newspaper censor is more useful or more neoded thea in the courts, We have euch imbecile and foolish judges, who doa’t know how evea to keep order in their cour:s; we have 60 many miserable potti- foggers at the bar, ready to sacrifice anything for a few dollars; the administratien of justice is generally co utterly corrupt aud debaeed and scandalous, that were it not for the pressure at times exercised by tho proes it is doabtfat whether justice would ever bo administered at all. Huntington, it may be boldiy sald, would very possibly have escaped bat for the whole- some influence exerted by the prees at tho time, That that influence will eontiaue to be exerted for the good of society, aad in the interest of sound morals, the course of the press in the case of the present District Attorney Hall abundantly proves. This gentiomsa is a politician, and has Political partisans; he is also aa atiable, kiadly intentioned man, and has etrong personal friends in every profession. Yet without exception the city prees denounced his course om the Burdell trial; his partisans and friende being even more sovere upon him than his opponents Not a single journal bas volunteered to defend him, or even abstained from attacking bin. Such e manifestation of independence does the highest credit to the ,mctropolitan press, and abundantly justifies their claim to the commeand- ing position they occupy. Tun Press Wrraocr rar Srarn on Cen- TRALIZaTION.—We publish cleewhere an able arti- cle from the Boston Dai/y Courier,on the munici- pal imbroglio in New York. Similar articles have eppeared in the papers of Philadelphia, Bal- timore, Washington, Richmond, New Oricans aad | other large cities; and it is quite striking to note the uniformity with which they denounce the at- tempt of the late Legislature to disfraachise this city ond introduce centralization imso var insti- tutious as a leading feature. With one accord the large towns and cities throughout the country have awakened to the peril in which we stand and to the formidable na- ture of the attempt that is being made by the republican party, They see, what some of our fellow citizens affect not to see, that the command | andappolntment of the police is avery small matter In comparison with the recognition of the principle that a State Governor can, In virtue of his office, exercise municipal authority ia a city within the State, They seem to bo quite alive to the contegiousnoss of tome usurpatory tendea- cies, and ag much in their own interest a4 ours, to protest against the dangerous innovation. When oor country friends read the imperial miave in which Gov. John A. King ordored aad direoted his nominees, Mecera. Slmeon Drapor aud Company, to regulate the affairs of Richmoud gounty av he wanted, and in defiance of the views of the people of that county, they will probably grow more earnest in thelr rémonatrafioc against the extublichment of a eystem which, if at au encceesful, must put an end to all our munioipal | Liberties thronghout the country. B.icutir Leconetsrant.—~We perceive that the Southern and Western papers are very busy in culling out the worst parts of the Burdell trial, and then abusing the New York journals for reporting it, One of the most ferocious of the Richmond papers, edited by the fire-cating Pryor, has, in the same issue, copieus extracts from the Hesaio's report of the trial, and in auother, » savage editorial against us for report- ing it. “The faut,” soye this fire-eater, “ is deeply tadigated in the framework of Northern society, 4 Hit ly fHIEty z on the samo terms. Captain Inmu, Lioutemant Bartlett and Lieutenant Glgmm- dler were up to-day before the several Naval Cours of Inquiry. Henry P. Smyth, of Missouri, has been appointed Bag neer of the Military Wagou Road ia Nebraska Tereitagy, Ay. Horriok, Clerk to the Finaace Commitice in te Sp nate, has resigned his position in consequence of the gm created vy his communication to tbo Hirai. Colonel L. Marchant, of the British Army, is etopping @ Brown's. Sale of the Pubifc Forts in Peansylvania, Hanmspona, May 22, 3% ‘The bill for the sale of tho main line of public works bay passed both houser, and bcea vent to the Governer Cr Gis signature. Horrible Doublo Murder. Daxvuzs, Pa., May 12, 2002. ‘Thore is much excitemoat here relative to tho death of Catherine Ann Clark by poison, supposed to,bave been sally ministered hy her husband, William Clark. Tho bedy tne been oxhamed, end an analysia is going on by direction of the Coroner. Clark ls in custody. Mra. Twiggs baw also been arrested as @ supposed accomplice of Clark, her busbsnd baving died suddenly threo weeks since anéar elmilar circumstances. Hia body will bo exhumed fer eg~ aminaton, It is euppeved that @ criminal conneotign @m> {sted between her and Clark. Reward fer Arrest of Murderers, Buvrato, May 12, 108%, ‘The Mayor of this city has offered a reward of $560 Gar the arrest of the merdorers of J. 0. Gibsou, who & emp. poved to have been murdered near Clovolaad ebegl Oe mouths ago. ‘Tho Orops tn Misstesippt, dice Lowsvae, May 12, UE, By lato papers from Central Mississippi we learn Gat @ great hail storm bad destroyed all the crops te Gap quarter. A fresbet bad ocourred at Jackson, Tonn., which watthed away parts of tho railroad and several cars. Frou the South, Wasrusatox, May 12, 1888, Tuc bark Dadley reperts seeing on the 24th alt., @ boat with e white poop, asbore at Orango Koy. Alse a trig ‘with painted porta ashore em the Koy. Twe wreskegs ‘wore alengadde the veasols, ‘The steamship Black Warrior from Havana on the 38 inat., bad arrived at Now Orleans. Thero had been haney raims aad Cold weather threugheat the llasd. agape were high. ‘The camer reports the ship Ellee FP. Boker, trem Ga» if, for New Orleans, ashore off Caryw(ort Lights, She was ying casy, aud was probably got off, Onslaught om tw Beston Lottery Depety Roswow, May 12, L882, Twolve lottery ticket depets wore simattancoudly vieBull by the police this afternoon, in six of which tickets of Ge Delaware State lettory were found, and the parties ware arrceted. At Myrick’s eifice, Ne. 40 State strom, over 7,$00 Uckets with wehemes, &0. wore seized. The Geugpat was Very successful. Beston Weekly Dank Siatement, Bowron, May 12, 180%, The following aro the footings of our woekly bank aide ment, compared with thove of Lhe proviows wock:— THE MARION AT CHAULESTON, Cuancorrom, May 12, 1857. The U- 3 mail steamship Marien, Captain Foster, from New York, arrived hore this morniag. ‘Seven persons were arrested by the police, charged wa bulog agile aad dealors in tickets fur Seuthers leemem and & largo amount of stock in that linc was oclaad, THB PLORIPA AT SAVANWAR, Savannam, May 12, 289%, The Coiled States mall rtcamakip Florida asrives RGe8 this merning frame Now York. “4 Arrest oF # Pension Ferger. Lamwwonm, Pa., May 12, ipa, De, R. Vandewwmith, whe was arte. d three charged with penstos frauds, but euosécten —) making Ma coonpe, was again arronted to-day, nad cer Gr Elie dolplia {n the castody of Maraball Joaking, aad few journalists at the North bevo the inire- very Ligh; exchange improving, Gull. The city was healthy, and weather dolight’ar We poblisi @ letter to-day written by one of the crew of ibe United Btates sloop of war Saratoge, at and freights very | our people, In our trade with the Chinamon we heve paid for our teas in epecie or in desirable goods, while the purchases of Kaglish merchante ot his gay young whiz, who their will onia in 'S4, attempted to count of the unfortuaate appointments at tie seize the police establishment of this city,| Custom House; and the row betwora Murphy with the plander annexed, amoanting tow saug and Sickles at Willard’s Hotel, Wathing'ou, will Norfolk, Va., coutaining mneh corapiaint, seeming- have been met by applies of the contraband and ly well founded, of the mauner in which the men | infamous orticle of opium, to the exteat, we are who lately served on board thet vossel in the West | told, of twenty-five millions of dollars per annum. Indies, are treated by the government. Thene sailors Let France and England proseonte their war, aod retarned from the Wert Indies to New York in the | let us maintain the of an indepe Falmoath in 1555, were cured of yellow fever. ae i ro million or so per anpam, But the man ia claret isin biue. He is troubled. There iy um absurd matter called law in the way now, as it was in *34—eome stupid constitution or other made to bother politicians. He is also in terrtble distress soon be renewed ai Tammany Hall, at the Pew- ter Mag, and in every word of this city, with the clenched fista, furious volces and other demoa- strations of the excited democracy, The only chance for harmony and uuion at transferred to the Saratoga and sent back to the ‘Weert Indies, under articles of a speedy Aacharge ‘They have now retarned from Aspinwall, and say at, iretend of a discharge, they are imprisoned on neutrality, and, before the struggle is » year old, our people imay, perchance, find it their true polley to give a helping hand to the Chinese in the supply of steam vessels and all the latest in- board the receiving ship Ponn-ylvania in order to | ventions and most destructive engines of war. be drafted for farther duty, whether they wish! to herve of not. There isa nthe Board of Ten Governors with » democrat, “bus piving the democratic party six members to four opposition. This would of course give *the Gemocracy the entire patronage of this important departnent, which disburees yearly about $900,000, Of which $200,000 ts spent in valarios, ‘The party Seton of the State Legiaiatare is civen as an excase In this policy. a8 indicated in our telegraphic Geepatch from Washington, wo may, perhaps, e- on foot to fill the vacancy | cure a powerful und an active ally or factor in Tussle, and in ber Asiatic ports the markets for S new and most lucrative Chinese trade, should the Anglo-i’rench ficets bloskade and exclude all articics contraband of war from every port, bay, river and inlet of the Chinese seaboard The late Kaglish elections and the lofty ox- for this departare from usages thut bare heretofore | Pectations of the Palmereton Cabinet from this OM ained in this department, We bave news from Brazil Gf Apri. Yellow fever prevailed yun dering the month of Bearly thelr whole erew. The disaase had begun to abate at latest date. projected war ayrninst China, bave piven to the dated at Bahia on let | rejection of the DallasOiarendon treaty » pun- among the ship | genoy and @ degree of importance which other- March, several | wiag this proceeding could not command. Lord Palmerston now substantially confess that Eng- for # Superintendent of Police, Nobody wili | Tammany depends apon the moderation and wis- take the officn The rotund Matsell it | dom of the new Collector—Mr. Schell—when he through bis epeotacles, and will none of it, An- | ‘ket possesion of his office, If be allows the Other gentleman who bas becn District Attorney | sme councils to prevall with him that have been and Judge, one who has a nervousanxiety tohold | FO" erful at Wadbington, and which have already office, gives it up after a severe mental made ® now split, thon it is all over with the de- Nobody will touch it. We adviss the man in the | @0ctacy ot the city and Stata claret colored coat to advertian aS a man to nesume tho rst of te carte Tar Rewtewos Axmveraanins.—The Tract Police, and ran the risk of getting his eal | Sooiety meets this morning, and it is expected That ia really tbe only regource for the man in that a sharp discussion will follow the produo- the claret colored coat, who ie no other than Mr, | U%" of the report of the committee on the elave- Simeon Draper, President of the #o-called Bound |" mater. The sutivlavery people are in of Police Commissioners. He is justnow inaboat | °F strong force, wad the Jndependent has se uncomfortable » position us when he already warned members that the war this time the Arenal, Such is too often the fate of gontas must be to the knife. A dissolation of the so misapplied, clety is predicted in some quarters, while othor a authorities reem to think that once more the New Vocarion.—We perceive by the news | common rense of the members will provall, and Papers that Wm. L. Maroy, formerly Secretary | the Beecher party will be dofeated. The enien ef cotton pweterdny wore conned to shout | Md has no notion of an absolute evacuation of | of State, is now engaged in buying and selling | This anti-slavery quarral, combined with the 1,600 bales, about 700 of which us ta tonite, Homa Central America, nor anything like it; but that | #ocks in Wall atreet——that ls stock jobbing | quanrel on tho theatre, appears to absorb tho Were saveiiied, HloMiors Wore unwilling @ make gow | the prospective trade from Asla scrow tho D'ecifig | Poor Pivroe should come and do likewian principal attention of the clergymen who bere pidity to oppose the current of popalar fceting.” We are also told by the same journal that “ read- cts of delicate and sonsitive organizations shriak, shuddering and appalled, at the contemplation of etch ® feast of horrors; yet there are thousands of the olvcene velucrea of baman kind who acize and devour with groedy avidity these putrid morsela of depravity.” Weil, it eeems to us that the Richmond editor and bis imitators are in the position of a man who bas become surfoiled with oysters, and who tarns about and abuses Downing for furnishing hina with aa unlimited supply of the article. Thero must be a great many obscene vultures and very fow “readers of delicate nnd sensitive organiza- tone” in the community for which our Southern cotemporary caters, when he gives so muoh «pace te “ the poblication of overy transaction in the annals of crime, with all the embellishment that wit and ingenuity can supply to give them west aad piquancy.” We advise our Southora and Western cotce- poraries to parade their virtue aad their vico on alternate dayn The effect of their abuso of the metropolitan press is eormewhat damaged by their frequent drafts upon its columns, without which tarpaulia factory of Burgec: k Coliine in this city, [aw bursed Inet night. Lona $23, aured $16 00 their journals would he entirely stupid. Lngre- | misdonors, as well as in the manifestations which the pam titude, gentlemon, is the meancet of orimes. ,