The New York Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JaMES GORVON BENXETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, ‘OFFICE WoW. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 6TP. DWAY THEATRE, " BROADWA TRE, Brondway—Pacsrus, of rus NIBLO’S MARDEN, Broadway—Tigat Rove Frars— Fiona anv Zernva—Tun Coorens—Hoaganias Livestiese mant—ltaiiax Baicanns, BOWERY THEATRE RBowery—Lanr of Lroxs—Wi- fow's Victim—Mountain Devin. BusTors THEATRE. Broadway, opposiie Bond ~-Homiet—Pre OLockmaken's Hav. ene ° WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus Best Dar— Riourts or Man, LAURA KEENTR me THRATRE Proatwar—A Binp 1x iv Woxrn Two in tas Bosa—Vanierr BARNUN'S AMEBIUAN MUBBUM. Sroaaway—Afnernooa No. ox tux Guokious Minogrry—Awar witu Ms.ascuorr, Eveving—Tre StRancER. GRO CHRISTY AD WOOD'R MINSTRELS, 444 Broad. way—Bruiorias Extrktaisusnts—Tus Moun, BUCKLEY'S SERENADERA 68 Broadway—Ouinese BYECTACLY OF ALAUDIN—N¥GKO BONGS, de, MECHANIC HALL, 673 Bruadway—Nacee Mavopims, tc. Gusssrweeax Resvinas—sy Bsvasrs Minrrasia. Sew York, Monday, May ‘The News. ‘The new Police bill is daily found to contain more ‘and more opportunity for developing its defeat. The action of the new Commissioners ag to commissions and dismiasals exhibits them in a very bad hobble. ‘Mateell’s interview with the new deputy on Saturday apparently resulted in a sort of draw game. The position of the officials aud partisans of the uew Board is detailed elsewhere, and scme of the points of the money question in connection will be found instructive to those who would build their fortunes on this basis, The police of the Ninth ward, Brooklyn, hada difficulty with their Captain on Saturday evening, and broke out in revolt against him, in consequence of his adhesion to the new law. The polize of #! first district were ordered out to quell the riot, bu! when they arrived there they found no one there but the,doorman. They could not, therefore, distinguish themseives, There was no furiher outbreak yester day. The American schooner Charles Hill, Captain Smith, from Mayaguez to San Domingo, ran into a Dominican packet, which crossed her bows, daring March. Captain Smith is now in jail in San Domin- go in default of payment of a fine of $3,000 for “wilful damage” to the Dominican vessel. He has abandosed his schooner to the government, and a correspondent in San Domingo City calls loud'y our the Cabinet at Washington for redress. We have Bermada papers to the lith inst. They contain nothing of interest. The whaling bark Sea- flower, which put in at St. Georges for supplies, had sent home two lots of oil, and made sail on a cruise on the 15th. The value of foreign goods imported at the port ‘of Boston during the week ending 22d inst., amoanted to $796,707. The importa of the corres. ponding week in 1856 amounted to $1,038,780. A large and attentive audience assembled at the | Madison square Presbyterian church last evening | Muntctpal Rights of the Olty of New York as Secured by the Dongan and Montgome- rie Charters, ‘The authority of the Dongan and Montgomerie charters being expreeely recognized by the Legis- Jature in the amended chérter passed last winter, and since tacitly acknowledged in some of the steps which their nominees have taken to assert the respective jurisdietions a:sigoed to them, it becomes important to inquire what are the pre- cise rights conferred by thore ancient charters, and how far the pretensions of the Legislature conflict with them. By the first and eecond sections of the Dongan charter, the property of the City Hall and all other buildings which the Corporation had erected and might choose to erect, on Manhattan Island, for the use and convenience of the citizens, is vested in them and their successors forever, with full right of control over the same. By the thirty- seventh section of the Montgomerie charter these rights are further ratified and extended —the pro- perty of the five market houses, the great dock, and of all the ferries then or at any time to be estabiisied round Manhattan Island, with a va riety of other privileges and royalties being se- cured to them in addition. By the eccond section ot the Dongan charter the Corporation of New York and their aucces- sore are invested with the power of making, lay- ing out, ordering, amending and repairing all strecta, Janes, alleys, highways, water courses, ferrivs and bridges, in and throughout the said city of New York and Manhattan Island: pro- vided always that this license be not extended or construed to extend to the taking away of any person’s or persons’ right or property without his, her or their consent, or by some known law of the said province. By section 16 of the Mont- gomerie charter this right is further ratified and | confirmed. By the tenth section of the Dongan charter the | Mayor of the city ef New York, and his succes- | sors, is vested with the exclusive right of giving and granting licenses annually, under the public seal of the said city, to all tavern keepers, ina | keepers, ordinary keepers and victuallers—the money to be received from the sale of such li- cenees to be used and applied to the public use of the said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the said city of New York, and their succes- sore, without any account thereof to be rendered, made or done to the colonial authorities. The twenty-third section of the Montgomerie charter grants to the Mayor, Aldermen and Com- monalty of New York, and their successors, forever, full power and authority to erect and build, or ap- propriate eny other buildings already built for one or more bridewell or bridewells, house or houses of correction; workhouse or workhouses, jail or jails, together with full power to the said Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen, or any one of them, to NEW. YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1857. tact until the Court of Appeals decides upon their merits that we are called inoendiaries and revolutioniste. The charge would apply just as correctly to the man who resists by force an ille- gal process to dispossess him of his property. Suppose, for instance, that the Legislature were to take it into its bead to send down commission- ers to the Tribune office to turn Horace Greeley into the street, on the ground that the journal under his management propagated too many “isms,” and that the great Fourierite philoeopher himself did not cultivate sufficiently the decent conventionalities of drees, would any one blame the Tribune man for extruding from his premises the legislative agents until he had a legal deci- siou as to the justice of their pretensions? Such, in point of fact, is the position of the city authorities and their supporters at the present moment. They feel that a most tyrannical and unjustifie- ble attempt is being made to rob them of the tights which have been secured to them by their ancient charters. And they would be unworthy of the name of freemen and American citizens were they passively to submit to it. Cases of the Retired Naval Oficers—Llegal , Action of the New Courts of Inquiry. We were the first to denounce the unjust, op- pressive and unconstitational provisions of the act constituting the Naval Retiring Board, and we regret to be compelled to assume the same priority in condemning the construction put by the new Naval Courts of Inquiry on the intent and meaning of the act passed to remedy the un- fortunate results of that measure. It would seem, indeed, as if all the efforts to introduce reform into this branch of the public service were des- tined only to render the existiag condition of things worse, and to excite general discontent and diagust amongst its members. Up to the Present moment the only feature in connection with the new courts which appears to have given satiefaction to the retired officers and their friends is the length of time consumed in their inquiries, They have been sitting now nearly five months, and as yet they have disposed of only four or five cases. What acommentary upon the indecent precipitation of the Naval Retiring Board, which in the course of two or three weeks decided the fate of no less than 217 officers! It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the de- termination evinced by the public to secure fair play for the officers whose professional character and conduct form the subjects of inquiry, official vestigation, step in to defeat the objects aimed at. This, too, in defiance of all the principles and rules of law, of all recorded naval and mili- tary decisions, and of the plain dictates of jus- tice and humanity. The policy of the principle that no man shall be twice punished for the same offence requires no enforcement at our hands. It take up and arrest, or to order to be taken up and arrested, all rogues, vagabonds, astrag- glers, &¢.,and to imprison the same. This clause also vests them with the power of appointing a to witness the ordinstion to the Christian ministry keeper or keepers of all auch places of confine- | of Mr. James G. Dwight, aon of the Rev. Dr. Dwight, | of Constantinople. Mr. Dwight was born ia Turkey, } and speaks the Turkish language fiuently. He | intends devoting himself to the missionary cause, and to the promotion of education in Turkey in furtherance of this object. There isa movement on foot to raise funds for the establishment of a proper ° educational institution at Constantiaople Mechanics’ Hall was thronged yesterday by per- sons curious to wituess the proceedings of the spirl- tualists, who are mow boiding a convention at that place. Several interesting communications from the philosophical spirits, whose peculiar vocation it is to reform this wicked generation, were read and com- mentei upon. We give @ full report elsewhere “Love is the theme of the minstrel all over the world,” says an old song, and love and woman seem to form the bulk of the stock in trade of the inhabi tants of the spirit land. Some extraordinary reve Istions are looked for to-day in the convention. Apropos of spirits—To show how superstitions — cling to mankind, a case which recently occurred in | Ohio isin point. A man leased house in Marion | county for s year. He occupied it for a few weeks, then moved out. The owner sued for the rent, and the case came on in the county court, the plea of the defence Leing that the house was haunted. The de. | fendant won his case, the jury deeming the evidence | enfficient to show that the house was infested by | ghosts. We publish in another column an article explain” ing the cause of the terrivle destitution and starva tion of the inhabitants of the northern part of | Michigan, accounts of which have already appear: ed in the Henarp. The immediate cause of the | suffering ix attributed to a blunder of the Department | of the Interior, but moch of it is doubtless due to | the inexperience and lack of forethought on the | part of the se‘tlers themselves. Instructions were on Saturday transmitted from the General Land Office to the Land Offices at Doni phan and Lecompton, Kansas Territory, respecting the receipt at the sale of Indian trust lands in June and July next of the transfer drafts on New York: | These drafts have been supplied by the Treasury | Department to the Assistant Treasurer at St. Louis, Mo., and are in sums of’ $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 ana $20,000 cach. Persons desirous of depositing their moneys at St. Louis can obtain those drafts, to be | used in the purchase of the lands in question. The premium on the drafts is not less than one-eighth per cent The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind, the currents, and the state of the weather at three pe- | riods during each day, viz: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— - 4] F115) a4 W [sass] ow [ao a) N. [50.8146] 8. B14 218. 50. slag NB [eo]? 09 49] N. 120.88] ON Laalo 25 61 Nl zulsols. wr bash 768. WI oe Wo | / RIM ARER zaak eee coon ja Morning, cloudy and drizi; clear , night, cleat y iy rain; afternoon, ‘Gunday—Morning, ciear. wernoon, ¢' fo Monday—Morning, cloudy and covl, aiterkoon, clear clear -—Morning, cloudy and high w nd, 1) t oy rain, aight, rain selgeraess Wodnesday—Morning, rain, afernovn, cloudy, night, coun. Thursday—Morning, cloudy, afernoon, cioudy. n.ght, el —Morning, clear afternoon, clear, night, clear -—Morning, clear , The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 1,200 tontes, based upon middling uplands at 14c. and middling New Orieans at 14140. A private telegraphic despaich | received yesterday from New Orleans, reported middling | cotton firm at ldc., and freights at Sd. The falling of in | receipts at ail the Sou hern ports was put down at 604,000 bales, Flour was in fair demand yesterday, with more doing, while the prices of some grades were firmer. Wheat was without change for the lower and mediam Eades, while choice qua ities were scarce and firm. The pales embraced Missouri red at $1 €9, and prime rite do. At 81 99 nod Hitinow eprine at $1 60. firm. With aaies of Weetor at ie, 9 oF n orn ope mir and yellow at oF et weoer, claret « with a downward te Pork ww wilh ae And wninspected do. fr wha! at ® re quiet and firm. Colles was reported. Freights ‘ar ant engagements moderat | proceedings in regard to this city, guilty of glar- ment. The thirty-second section of the Montgomerie | charter enjoins and commands the Sheriff, Com- mon Clerk, Chamberlain, Marshal, Jail Keepers, High Constable, Petty Constables, and all other eubordinate officers of and in the said city now chosen, elected, constituted or appointed, or that may hereafter be chosen, elected, constituted or appointed, to be obeisant and obedient to and at- teud upon the said Mayor, Recorder and Alder- men of the said city, and every or any of them, at all times hereafter, according to the duty or obligation of their respective offices and places, and to execute all and every the commands, pre- cepts, warrants and processes to them respective- ly directed and issued, and given out and to be issued and given out by them, the said Mayor, Recerder, Aldermen, or any one of them. We have only selected those clauses which bear directly upon the points at issue. We might, if it was necessary, proceed to show that, with the exception of a criminal jurisdiction, no charter ever granted to a municipality has ac- corded fuller or more absolute powers of self- government than those conferred by these instru- ments on the city of New York. We are, therefore, justified in contending that the Legislature is, by its recent enactments and | ing and unjustifiable usurpation of our chartered rights. Viet, by taking out of the hands of the Corporation the control over the plans and ex- penditures for the construction of the new City | Hall, which, a# we have shown, are expressly | vested in the city authorities. | Secondly, by the efforts of their nominees to | obtain portession of the police station houses, which have been built by the Corporation with the money of the city, aud are consequently in- alienable from their control. Thirdly, by the appointment of Commission- er for the laying out of the Central Park and the expenditure of the moneys taiseed fiom the city for that purpose— the charge and control of all euch improvements | within the limits of Manhattaa Island being, as | we have shown, already vested in the Corporation | of New York. Fourthly, by the appointment of Commission. ers for the grant of excise licenses withia our city, the exclusive right to grant such licenses | being conferred by the Dougan charter on the | Major. Fitthly, by the appoiatment of Police Commis. sionere, with express powers to interfere with the existing police organization of New York, to supersede the legally appointed officers of the department, and to excite insubordination and rebellion against the Mayor and Corporation, who, by our ancient charters, are exclusively vested with the control and direction of that bod, charters—a point which cannot be seriously coa- tested—each and every one of these acts on the t of the Legislature, is a clear infraction of isting righte. Its nominees, by the timidity tal proceedings in regard to the police ste tions, seem themselves impressed with this conviction, They have advertised for ten- ders for new station houses; thereby tacitly recognizing the right of the Corporation to the enjoyment and control of its own pro- perty—a stretch of condescension which they are not likely to be guilty of if they had the conscione- hess of a strong case. The ingenious device bv which the Legislature endeavored ta er» ‘ provisions of the Montgomerie cha il to the police, by nnitins * ; measure of I** Seton eee cemsity wich they felt « v, « eouthet with the pro- v ument. That they have not ag 80 only places in a clearer 4 uine aavatestable light the rights conferred Wy t It is for seeking t@ @imintain these rights ia- | against the promotion of the officers of the mess | who had declined associating with Captain Ialli- If there be any force and validity in these | is so firmly established in the legal code of every country which pretends to any sort lecent equity in its crimival jurisprudence tha! \t would be superfluous for us to calarge upoa it, Ia | military legislation this princip!> has been ac- | knowleged by express enactments, and is sanc- | tioned by numeroas decisions. Ia the mili- | tary code there is even a rule which pro- hibits the introduction as evidence of any of- fence committed more than two years previously. ‘The justice and expediency of such a restriction are obvious. Under a despotic regime like that of the military eervize, no man would be safe unless some limits were opposed to the power of his su- periors, If is, theretore, properly ruled that an officer's whole career is not to be thus unreason- ably exposed to the malice and vindictiveness of his enemies. In their mode of conducting the present inves- tigation the new courts have entirely ignored these principles. They receive evidence of any and every offence committed and punished within apy indefinite period during an officer’s term of service. This isa manifest violation of duty on their part; for no instructions that they may have received ought to override the rules that should guide them in the discharge of their semi-judicial functions. Whatever may be Mr. Cashing’s or Mr. Dobbin’s construction of the act under which they sit, they are not bound by that construction to infringe the rales of law and the plain inten- tion of Congress. Their perseverance in such a course will only, as in the case of the Naval Re- tiring Board, bring their decisions into contempt and insure their reversal. They may rest assured, moreover, that @ departure from principle and a too blind obedince to the views of others will react to their own dis- advantage. They should bear in mind the fate of Col. Newman, whose case is recorded in the London edition of James’ Court Martials. That officer put Captain Halliday a second time on trial for an offence for wh'ch he had been pre- viously punished. The court refused to entertain the charge, and on a report of the proceedings sing forwarded to the War Office, the King (George IV.) ordered the immediate dismissal of the Colonel from his command, with a prohibition day on account of this charge. If, as we believe, the members of the new courte are acting under a mistaken impression of | the obligations imposed upon them by the in- | structions of Messrs, Cushing and Dobbn, it is in- | cumbent on the present Secretary to rectify at once the errors of his predecessors and to re- instruct them as to their duties. They should be directed to ignore ‘altogether the dicta of those perverseness should in this, as in the former in- | necessary have rendered the other indispensable. ‘Wages must be increased, or those dependent on their daily, weekly or monthly etipends will find themselves impoverished by the exorbitantly high prices that reign in our market, While we are thus going on in New York, oar friends in California and other parts of the country are reducing the price of labor, This anomaly would seem somewhat remarkable; but it is owing to the fact that in those plages they have got through with their expansion and their forced trade system, while here we are in the very midst of that evil. To show that this is so, we have only to point to the fact that while pro- visions are ranging at famine prices, while the wages of artisans and all classes of laborers are being increased, and while the community gene- rally echoes back the cry of hard times, we are expending immense sums of money in building eplendid warehouses, charches, edifices for trade, nd mansions for the rich. No less than ten millions of dollars are being expended this year in New York in enterprises of this sort, and probably six or eight millions of that sum have been borrowed at high rates of interest from foreign capitatista, banks, insurance companies, and wherever else it could be procured. It is very likely that fally two-thirds of these build- ings will pass out of the hands of their proprie- tors within the next five years—that the present owners, now urged forward by the great expan- tion of the times, will within that period burst up, and that the splendid edifices which they are building will go to the hammer. During the last thirty years we have seen three or four of these periods of’ expausion. We recollect when it was the mania among the mer- cantile classes of this city to raise splendid stores in Pearl street, which was at that lime the great centre of trade. Then the rage for that location subsided, and the lower part of Broad- way came into favor. Now the fashion is pass- ing up Broadway, and touching at the cross streetsa—Park place, Murray, Chambers, Duane, Canal, and others; and all along this route splen- did marble and iron palaces are being erected. In the whole of this movement individuals will undoubtedly be the losers in the long run. | Most of those who are now sinking all their capital and credit in rearing these proud struc- tures will probably sce them pass out of their hands in a few years. But nevertheless the city gains by these enterprises, and the couatry at large derives a greater propulsion from these | periodioal commercial expansions than it would, probably, under any other system. It is with the country as with an army—in every great victory the killed and wounded must be very numerous, ‘but those who survive the battle uninjured are prepared to go on conquering and to conquer. There are advantages, even in hard times. Tureats oF Buoop anp Crvu, War.—The philosophers and peace men of the Tribune, in one of their recent benevolent articles, threaten the organization in this city of a Vigilance Com- mittee, with all the incidents of hanging and quartering, if Mayor Wood and the Corporation continue to hold on to the police stations and to the preservation of the police property belonging to the city of New York. The nincompoops of the other organ also threaten in the same strain, calling on the Governor to call out the military to arreet the Mayor and Common Council for se- dition, and to have them tried for obstructing the execution of the laws. We understand that, in obedience to these mandates, which proceed | from a recent conclave of the original Astor House conspirators, Gov. King is about to come down from Albany to take into consideration the propriety and fitness of these belligerent propo- sitions. What will he do? What course of ac- tion will “all the blood of all the Kings” take? What act will he perpetrate? Will he issue a proclamation declaring the city of New York in astate of insurrection? Will he proclaim mar- tial law in force? Will he arrest and imprison the Mayor and delinquent Aldermen and Coun- cilmen? Will he stop the prees, establish a censor. ship, lay out the Central Park by his Commis- sioners, and also by his Commissioners build the new City Hall, without reference to the charters and municipal rights of this old and valiant city? What do ail these threatenings amount to, if some of them be not carried into execution? The failure to execute some of these blustering bravados will only cover the whole proceedings of the midnight conspirators of the Astor House last winter with ridicule and opprobriam, scorn and contempt. We do not believe that Superintendent Tall- madge, who isa sensible man in a wrong posi- tion, will permit himself to be used by these Hot- spurs in any other way than according to the strict letter of the law. He very politely asked to him the police property and the police stations, The immortal George declared that he had no control over anything connected with his estab lishment but the breeches he stood in and the boots on his feet—that the whole of that potice property was, under the act of the Legislature, vested in the Mayor and Commonalty of the city of New York, and that he could not deliver it over. Superintendent Tallmadge, finding this, has acknowledged the authority of the Dongan comprising his whole force. Whatever the | functionaries, so far as they conflict with the | principles of military law and the rules of evi- | | dence, and to take a just and impartial view of | the intent and meaning of the act under whieh | | they sit, Its object is not to full back upon old | | offences with a view to vindication and twice re- peated punishment. It secks only to take cog nizance of facta occurring within such a recent period as will afford evidence of permanent in- efficiency from whatever canse it may arise. | Were it to take the wide range which their pre- sent instructions give to it, there is not an officer in the serviee who would be safe, Harp Tres.—There is a universal cry among | all clasees of persons with moderate incomes of the exorbitant prices of provisions in this city, and of the consequent difficulty of defraying the current household expenses. All the necessaries of life range here at prices something like 100 per centover what they were fifteen years ago. The hotel keepers have been driven to the neces ‘ty of cither closing their establishments, dimin- ishing their outlay, or increasing their tariff of pr'ces. They have chosen the lattor alternative; | and now, when the new rates go into operation, we will have the first class hotels charging three dollars, the second class two dollars, and the third class a dollar and a balf per day. This ne- cessary movement on their part ie about to be fol- lowed by a general movement among all classes of mechanica, workmen, clerks and other em- ployée for a rise in the rate of wages. The same circumstances which have rendered the one move | Governor may do, pipe-layer Commissioners may think, or the or the organs may threaten, Superintendent Tallmadge will sim- ply maintain bis present position, quietly the Court of Appeals, in tho firm confidence that, should that Court decide in his favor, the Mayor and Corporation will g¢ ve up all their pretensions ; and determined, on bis part, if the decision should be against him, to back out with his usual grace and politeness, and surrender the whole power over the police to the Mayor and tion. ‘There is, therefore, no danger of anarchy, revo- lution, blood, riota, mobs, burglaries or burnings, notwitbetanding the inviting card of Oakey Hall, the District Attorney. We have two police sys cily of New York, under the authority of the Mayor and Corporation, who, backed by the old charters and the new charter of 1857, cannot be deprived of their authority; and we have the other police, appointed by Gov. King, under a echeme concocted in the Astor House last winter hy the midnight conapirators who are bungering and thirsting after the fleshpots of Rgypt—so that, in fact, we are doubly protected. But these hungry conspirators will have to walt a little time before they have any chance of ap- peasing the cravings of their mature, This is a fair statement of the case, Ustox Moveateyt iv DELAWARE.—A movement is on foot fo Delaware to organise 6 Valea Consitutional party for Uo campaign \u 1860, Mr. Mateell—the immortal George—to hand over | and Montgomerie charters, has abandoned his | demand, and has very wisely advertised for | houses and stations for his five policemen, | aad paticntly waiting for the decision of | tema in operation. We have the police of the | THE LATEST NEWS. Affaire in W: 5 THR NAVAL COURTS MAKTIAL AND THE FORSIGN ‘MISSIONS. Wasaixcrom, May 24, 1857. ‘The Naval Courts of Inquiry and the applications for fo- reign missions attract the most attenticn hore just now. There are three naval courts in session. Commodore Boarman, and Lio: tenants Bartlett and Carter are on trial. I nouce that your reporter gives all the testimony in favor | of Lieut, Bartlet:—very little, or noue, of thet against him. ‘The charges against Lieut. B, wore published in the Con- gressional report in hiscase. It appears from the evidence, that while engaged in the service of the United States he entered into mercantile business in San Francisco, and I believe bad bis name up over the door of a store; that he did what naval and army offisers have always contidered discredit tm epeculation and trade; that he peddied im shawls, books, aud other small matters; that he dabbled in bis mors accounts to the scandal of himself and messmates; that while in command of a government vessel he became rich, returned to New York rich, visited Burope, and made quite @ display in Paris as a wealthy Californian and aval officer; that while in Europe acting in some official capacity, he made overcharges in his ac- counts, which were disallowed at the Treasury Depart- ment. All this appeared im evidence before the Senate and were of course disereditable to an officer. His case is mill on and will not be concluded ti Thursday. The pro- ceedings of these courts, as they are made public, should be impartially given to the werid. T understand that Lord Napier and Count Sartiges have ‘beth received letters from their governmonts relative to the dispute of the United States with New Granada, England and France sustains the position the United States have taken. Death of Dr. Chas. 8. Frailey. Wasmotoy, May 24, 1857. Dr. Charles 8. Frailey, who occupied a high and respon- eibie position in the Department of the Interior, and was former ly chief clerk in the Land office, died this morning. He was Past Grand Master of the Masons of the District, and was known to the Masomic fraternity of the whole country. Whe Bunker Hill Celebration. Boston, May 24, 1857. Gov. King, of New York, John P. Kennedy, of Balti- more, and other distinguished gentlemen, have accepted invitations to be present at the Bunker Hill Celebration on the 17th of June. The Columbian Guards, of Columbus, Ohio, the Providence Light Iotantry, and other military companies from various sections will be present on tho occasion. The Southern Maill—Scuttling of the Bark Prompt. Wasinnctoy, May 24, 1857. New Orleans mails of Monday last have been received. ‘The papers of that city contain nothing of interest. We have Mobile dates of tho 19th inst, ‘The bark Prompt, from Mobile for Baltimore, with acargo of cotton, was struck by lightning outside of the bar, and the cotton taking fire, she put back into the bay, whore she was scuttled. The amount of the damage ts unknown. Fire in Willsburg, C! jung Co. Wuisscec, May 23, 1857. @| A fire broke out in the hotel of R. Platt, at Wilisburg, Chemung county, between 3 and 4 o’clock this morning, and destroyed the hotel and a grocery sore and dwelling adjoining it. The progress of the flames was so rapid that the inmates of the hotel barely escaped by jumping out of the wiadows. The loss is about $10,000; partially insured. Suicide of a Farmer. Gosay, May 23, 1857. A wealthy and respectable farmer, named William Drew, residing near Edenville, Orange county, commitied suicide last night, by cutting his throat with a razor. No cause is assigned for the act, though deceased bad been ‘tm poor health for two or three days before it. Brig Jenny Lind Ashore. Bostoy, May 24, 1867. ‘The brig Jenny Lind, for Boston, from Philadelphia, ‘went ashore last night on Chatham Bars, but will be got off after discharging her cargo. Markets. Oswnao, May, 23—6 P. M. Flour—Demand for Montreal aud-the Kastern trade; sales 400 bbis., at $6. $7 for Oswego brands. Wheat firm: #ales 10,000 bushels, at $1 35 for Chicago spring and $1 38 for Mi'waukie club. Freights lc. a 2c. lower on wheat to New York. Lake imports to-day—5,800 bbls. of flour, 55,000 bushels wheat, 6,700 bushels corn. Canal exports— 30,000 bushels wheat. Crxcrywati, May 23, 1857. Flour has an advancing teadency and is scarce. There have been some small sales at $7 26. Provisions unset- tled, and holders asking a material advance on present prices. Pork, in dry salt, fresh, 9\c.; shoulders, 114c.; 1, 10}6¢. for shoulders; sides, packed, 123¢c.; mesa pork, $248 $25. Whiskey buoyant at 30%c. Provinaycn, May 23, 1857. Cotton dull, with moderate sales at full'prices. ’ Wool— Sales of the week, 56,800 Ib». Printing cloths—Market steady ; sales of the week, 62,400 pieces. —_—___—_— Phe Sugar Trade of New York. LARGE ARRIVALS OF BUGAR AND MOLASSES—IMPOR- TATIONS DURING FOUR DAYS. The great extent of the trade in sugar and molasses which is carried on between New York and the sugar pro- ducing districts of the world may be somewhat accurately estimated by a knowledge of the fact—evidenced by the marine reports of the Hxearn—that during four days end- ing on Saturday last, 25d inst., as many as fifty-four vos- sels arrived in this port laden with cargoes of molasses and sugar alone, ‘This must have caused an abundant supply in the hands of traders. We annex a table showing the arrivals during one day, (Friday last,) in which the name of each vessel, the name of her port of departure, and the quantity of each article ‘on board are specified :-— CARGOES OF BUGAR AND MOLASSES ARRIVED IN NEW YORK ON FRIDAY, MAY 22, Seino Port of Name of Vewl. | Departure Mol's,| Total Hhds.'| thas. Sugar, Ahds. Re so © Bark Architect .... B’k Emma F Chase! ‘Ship Sea Lion Brig Pioneer Bark Andes From this it appears thatas much aa eight thousand nine hundred and twenty. three bogsheads of sugar and molasses were landed in New York in one day. Yacrmc.—Wo find there wii be quite an addition to the New York Yacht Club Sqaadron this season of somo five or six yachts that are built o building, which will in crease their number to near fly. There has been launch- od at Newburg a fret clacs cutter yneht from Mr. Thomas ©. Marvil’s yard, who is celebrated for building fast ves. sols, for Captain H. Robinson; she is, we believo, called the Victoria. We understand sho is intended to ‘com pete for the palm with Mr. T. M. Waterbury’s crack yacht, the Julia, which is much tha fastest yacht in the fleet. She is one of the last yachts built by the late much lemented George Steers, ard presumed to be even much fheter than tho far-renowned yacht America, also built by him We are pleased to see this taste for nautical recreation and amust ment increase; and it is to be expected from eo great ‘a commercial city as New York. Look in Rngland, where they have twelve yacht clubs, and near five bundred sail of yachts, though more than ono fifth are under twonty tooa, a number over threo hundred, The following are the ne mes of the differemt clubs and their Commodores: — 1. The Royal Yacht Squadren,...om. Marquis of Don- 2. The Royal Cork Yacht Clab.... “ Marquis of Thomand, 5. The Royal Fastern Yacht Clad. Duke of Bucclongh, 4. The Royal Harwich Yacht Cub. “ Hon. T. H. a> 6. The Royai Kingston Yacht Cmb, “ Marque of Conyng- The Royal Morey Yacht Cla K. G. ‘The Royal Victoris Yacht Clad. “ Hon. T. W. Fleming. . The Royal Westorn Yacht Club. “ Rar! of Rdgecombe, The Royal Yorkshire Yacht SqOAAFOM. cece ee veces . © Doles of Ravand Under the patrosage of her most gractons Majesty Queen ietoria. “Late Farl of Yarborough. ss A pumber of the first noblemen in the kingdom ere mombers and yacht omners, and It is quite the fom for « gentleman to beioug to a club aud the owner of @ yacht Affaire tn Ban OUR 84 DOMINGO Co. 84x Domugo, Apall 21, 1867. Collision of American and Dowinicdn Veseels—Arret f the American Captain—Hs Sentence and Abandonment of his Schooner—A Cail an the United Statos Cabinet. We have an excetlent case on acconnt of the interference of this government with as. They abuse the Yankees bere with impunity, aad this is an excelient chance for re- reas, Tt appears that some seven weeks since the American schooner Charles Hills, Ceptain Smith, bousd from Maya- guez for this port, during tie night came ir collision with the Dominican packet schooner and stove her badly. The American schooner casne in bere,ead when ready for sea was refused @ pass and the capiain summoned to: appear before a court. He was sentenced to pay tht eum of $5,300 for “wilfully running into aud damaging’ the Do- minican packet.’’ Now, every one knows that the cazthim was right, boing on the starboard tack and on a wind\.wiereas the other bad bis larboard tack aboard and frvnr the wind; therefore: he should bave kept off and not crossed’tike bows of thie American This any Marine Court wouid'allow, but hero he was condemned without sentenced ‘The American schooner Charles Hill, Captain Albert Smith, bad come in collision with the Dominican Schooner named the Nineteenth of March; and the Charies ‘Hill havizg run into San Domingo was detained, and the Captain sentenced to pay $3,100 for wilfully running into and damaging the Dominiown packet, We find the follow- ing docaments, in reforence to the case, published under the head of “official; THE UNITED STATES COMMERCIAL AGENT TO THE MIN{STER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Commmrciat Aounct or Ta Unrrep Srarss, Dowtyao, March 13, 1857. Saas Dominican sathorities, and which iste toad ths way to proceedings for illegal and nnjust detention. Tam, sir, &e. JONATHAN ELLIOTT. To the Minister of Forcign Affsirs ofthe Dominioan Repub- THE DOMINICA MINISTER OF FOREIGN APPAIRS TO ‘THE AMERICAN COMMERCIAL AGENT. Mr. Aczyt—My government has been ignorant of your returo and entering on the discharge of your functions, Entrurted ad interim to Mr. Jaco’ Pereyra on acconnt of your not having notified my government thereof in an official manner. Nevertholess, on receiving your note of the 18th, accompanied by the protest of Capt. Smyth, I have brought it te the notice of the government, for the Pritis proper for me to sed that if the Captain had only it is proper for me to say tras invited, is more than probable: that thal” questa ‘was invited, it is more 10 would have bad a solution as speedy as it would have beem. peaceable, but being obstinate in his refusal, it Re Cessary to submit the matter to the common be decided vy them in conformity with the laws. I also believe that it would have been more effectual for him to show before the tribunal, which had charge of the the be Proceedings and of which the complains, copa o pia that being tmperdaty exawined they declared null. Iam, &. San Domuxco, March 16, 1857. M.’ DELMONTE. THE, UNITED STATES COMMERCIAL AGENF TO THE DOMINICAN MINI@TER OP FORRIGN APPAIBS. anna nad barrie the first instance, ef as grant jgment against Albers Smith of the American pe nay Re fi fer injury done to the Dominican packet 19th of March, ina collision, amounting, with cost, to some $3,160, and from whiok ae cat een eats now now, and beg of you to inform ‘schooner Charice Hill and. is crew the Wile detaived or wi or its voyage prevented in this bo the injury and loss of its owners, until such time as the captain Judgment, or until have complied with the the same shall have been exacted? JONATHAN ELLIOTT. ‘To THK Minister OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. THE DOMINICAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN APPAIRG TO THE AMERICAN COMMEKCIAL AGENN. Domioo, March 27, 1867. Sm—I havo the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your official note of this day, in which, afer assuring me ‘that Capt. Smith will not avail himself of the resource of appeal which the laws permit him to do, you ask to be in- formed whether his voyage, or that of his crew, will be vk yg before the execution of the sentence of the ti- yu Tassure you that the government has no other action over matters submitted to the tricunals than the interest of baving the laws fullilled, or distribut tially, without meddling in any magmer in decrees or their execution, Therefore, the tribunal alone is able to answer the queslion submitted by you, in determing whether it will accept bail. Iam, kc. ' FELIX M. DELMONTE, To Tie ComMeERcIAL AGENT OF TIE UsrTED STATES. HE COMMERCIAL AGENT DEMANDS RESTITUTION, BT. Comaxnczat. AGENCY ov Tite UNTTED StaTRs, April 17, 1857. notice yesterday that Mr. American echoover Chas. Hill, of Portemouth, was to be condemned on the 18th to two years imprisonmont in the public prison of this olty, against which sentence and pr I solemaly pro- teste ‘as unjust. © accusation against the Captain for having wilfully = the Dominican packet “19th of March i irra- jonal. The schooner Charles Hill has been anchored hero six weeks, and as it has not been copper fastened, it Is se much injured that it will require a large outlay to re pair it. Consequently, as commercial agent of the United States, Task in the name and on the belief of the owners or ship” pers of the said veasel the sum of $5,000 from the govern- ment of the Dominican republic, to be paid or eecured be- fore the 224 inst., and also the freedom of the vessel and ite crew to depart hence on that date.+ The undersigned regrets extremely the occurrence of this thing, and his being forced to this disagreeable duty, and takes this occasion to express 10 the honorable Minka ter, &c,, JONATHAN ELLIOTT. THE MINISTER'S REPLY. Mr. Acrat—My government has seen with extreme re- gret your note of 17th inst., substantially affirming thas the proceeding aguinst Captain Albert Sauith, who through recklesenews, megligence, or some other unfavorable Cause, ran into and injared the Dominican packet, is um- reasonable, and that the detention of the vessel is, ia your Judgment, equal to a loss of $600. Neither the fact itself nor the consequent detention of the versel can be unreasonable without acknowledging @ theory fatal to ail nations, Ist. That wrongs committed a6 sea do not constitute crime nor carry responsibility for the losees occasioned; and 2d, That the republic has no jorte- diction to teke cognizance of these acta. In reference to the first it does vot even admit of diseas- tion, and the secon: ins the first, because in d jurisdiction to the republic, it must be denied to overy government, and therefore there being no juriadiction any- where in the world to decide these conirovers es w establish impunity. If the act had taken place on the coasts of the republic, if in ove of her porte both vessels rode for the first time since the event, ard the aggrieved party presented. its for- mal complaint, it is evident that the jurisdiction is in thie repoblic sod in no other, and that the government im having submitted the question to the tribunals ims done wrong to no one. To disregard, as Capiain Smith has disregarded, the right of appeal—to resort to the extraordinary course of inter- national resources—and that against the gevernment whic invited bim several times to the frankest settlement, is to reveal the desire of recurring to force, and mot to the means which universal reason has accepted and sanctioned. Such a fatal precedent being permitied, it would be impas- sible for the civil power to decide questions betweed two foreigners. If the act in queation had occurred between an Amertons and an English versel, the American Captain denying the urisdicticn, and the lish captain demasding justice, ow could he evade international di ? Ino way, because the one would bo described as abuse of power or the other a denial of justice After these observations you will admit that your d- mand Is not founded in reason, ae re that iT pretensions ere not acoptable, an’ enlightenment and rectitude of the government of the United States for the approval of ita moderate and just Proceedings in the present quettion. ‘Sam Domingo, April 21, 1857. The commercial agent of fhe Uritod States, in agcther letter of April 23, notified the Minister that at nsom that day the schooner Charles Hit! would be abandonsd:te the authorities. ‘Sin:—It was brought to m: Albert Smith, captain of tho Political Inteliigence. Nor to nx Cavcit.—Hon, Androw Ewing was nocinated for Congress in the Eighth district of Tennawos. Tt te ‘ald tha} the nomiration was @ trick concocted by Gor. Jobnson to keep Ewing from coming before the Legistatare as candidate for a seat in the U. 8. Sonate, Bat Fwing, ia not to be canght, and comspquently deokues the nomi nation. Canatine tie Wan reo Arnica.—On tho. 208h Inat., saz the Wilmington, Delaware, Democrat, Wililaze Lioyd Gar. rison, the notorious nigger worshipper, biasphemer apt disunionist, lectured at the Odd 7" seaanrexan on his old hobby—negro slavery. large, and consisted mostly of brokon-diewn abolitionists, with sparse apriakling of woman, Yoys nod niggers. Price of admittance, ton cents. Rervmicas CoxverTion x Maze; —The republivan party of Maine will bold their State Conveation in Raygor on the 26th of Jae, The call states that the cauzes which led to the formation of the republican party exist now in full force, and mecessitate {ts contimmance. If Kansas should be admitted into the Union a froe State tomorrow, the reasons for the existence of the ropubiioan party would not cenee or be ditsinished. The repeal of the Mi compromise, the raid on Kanans, the establishment of the Cincinnati platform, the Dred Scott decision, and the pre- rent course of Buchanan’ administration, clearly prove that our national policy hae boon revarsed—that the erigt- nal purposes of the government are not regarded by the party (a power,