The New York Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. SAMES GORDON BENNETT mprror BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—lon Go.pen Faruer. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond— Teeiany As It Is—Tue remy WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Hoxcanack—Dr. Duwoxtn. LAURA KEEN®’S THEATRE, Broadway—Lirn’s Taovs- Gup Trpes— Vanier. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Rroadway— Afternoon aN Brotugxs—Trring It On Svening—Sysi.'s we—Leso Me Five Suu.incs NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway—Mun, La Gaancr’s Fane Wait Concent ix Amznica. GEO. CHRISTY 4 WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway— Dovsis Bavven Room. BUCKLEY'S fag aaa Gurr SreamERs anD Missussurri: Nu ‘MEOH4NI08 HALL, 473 Broadway—Sawnvst Acronats— BY Bavanr’s Minstreis. New York, Monday, June 22, 1857. 585 «= Broadway—Missis- OGENS. The News. The new course which the Street Commissioner and the Police Commission difficulties will take this week, will in @ manner turn the tables, the Mayor taking now the lead in charging back on the other side. The evidence of Coroner Perry will be impeached by rebutting testimony going to show the reverse of the matters alleged in his affidavit. In this connection, if not in a more independent form, asin a special indictment, an exposition of a conspiracy ageinst the Mayor will be made out. A revulions is also being manifested by a refusal of the police force to further secede from the Musicipal ranks, whilst numbers of applications are being made for a return of former revolters to the old station houses. The Quarantine Commissioners, it ia said, intend if any trouble occurs ia the removal of the old Qua- rantine to Seguine’s Point, or at Seguine’s Point itself, rendering necessary an unusual guard for protection, to call on revenue cutters to aid them; and if a still stronger resisting force is needed, to summon to their assistance the government mili- tary stationed at the different ports in the harbor. ‘They claim the right to summon this outside aid to assist them under an unrepealed act of Congress peared in 1799. The leading section of the act in question, as also other new matters of interesi con” nected with the Quarantine, will be foaad reported elsewhere. The Excise Commissioners sat on Saturday and Granted seventeen licenses. The petitions of the Astor House, the New York Hotel and the Everett House were received and duly granted; the sum of the fee for their licenses was held for the vote of Mr. Kerr, whose sickness prevented his appearance at the Board. Mr. Haskett positively refuses to sign any license fora greater sum than $30, while Mr Holmes and Mr. Kerr will compare views on this point, and give their decision on the three above eases next week. It is supposed that these houses will be called upon for $250 each. Mr. Kerr's views fre not known yet on this point, but as he is a lide- | ral minded citizen it is thought that be will not in- | Gist upon the maximum. Onur advices from Washington state that the dis. | elosures of the HrmaLp in relation to the move. | ‘ments of Santa Anna have opened the eyes of the | Bdministration jn regard to him. We publish in another column a review of his past history, and an analysis of his late private circular to his friends in Mexico, together with some corroborating revela” tions trom other sources. Through the information we have exclusively laid before the public the whole country has suddenly awakened to a sense of the ] important events that are transpiring around us. We also understand that upon the return of Mr. Bowlin, who is expected to arrive about the lst of July, the President will immediately take active messares for the settlement of the diffi- culty with New Granada. Commodore Vanderbilt and other parties in this city are said to be strongly urging the administration to reopen the Nicaragua transit route. A letter is also said to have been ad- | dressed to the President inquiring whether he would | sanction the fitting out of another expedition for the conquest of Central America by General Walker, but the President bad not intimated his views on | the subject. | Some singular and interesting facts are presented in the statistics of government patronage, given elsewhere. These tables will be found critically exact, presenting things as they arc, and form an admirable basis for equalizing the distribution of government money among the States. They also exhibit the fact that a majority of the States which | voted for Mr. Buchanan are now receiving less than | their fair proportion, while & large mo of those which voted against him are overdra wing. By reference to a late speech of Governor Walker in Topeka, which will be found in another part of today's paper, it will be seen that a war still con- tinves in Ka , but it bas now resolved iteelt, through th f the two Governors, Walker and Robinson, » a wor of words. We published Robinson's message to the free State Legislatare yesterdsy, and we to-day give Walker's speech, which wes made about the same time, thus enabling | our readers to see the platform of both factions. | We give today the main features of the speech delivered by Stephen A. Douglas at Springfield, Ii- pois, on the 12th inst., at the request of the Grand Jury of the Unitea States Court. Judge Douglas, in his remarks, took up the three leading political questions of the day—Kansas, the Dred Scott de cision, and affairs in Utah—and presented his views ppon them in good, plain English. Eleewhere is given an interesting letter from Vir- rinia in relation to the new emigration project of the Hon. Eli Thayer. Tha} gentleman has been spend ing seme time in Virginia and Kentucky, and has addressed several meetings in relation to his plan of industrial invasion. He was well received, and cor intly welcomed by many of the most wealthy and infiventie! citizens of both States, who anited in of his project for developing their immense and mineral resources. Resolutions in Virginia inviting Mr. Thayer and his army of emigrants to invade that country with their ploaghs, their axes and their hammers. The people of Western Virginia fully agree with Mr. ‘Thayer that there is no part of the United States | which is able to make its inhabitants so perfectly independent of all other sections as the valley of the Ohio, abounding as it does with salt, iron, coal, tim: | ber, a fertile soil, healthy climate, and easy commu nication both East and West. A most interesting report of the exercises ob- | nerved at the late examination of students in the Naval Academy of Annapolis, Md, will be found in our peper this morning. The young men were ina high estate of physical training, and displayed an amount of ability end scientific tact in the routine of gun, mortar and howitzer practice creditable alike to themeelves and their instructors. The ele- mentary and practical professional education which they bave received fit each of the graduates for the full discharge of any ¢nty connected with a first commission in that most important branch of onr national ¢efence, the navy. As educated gentlemen, and qgell disciplined and intelligent officers, the students of Annapolis may rank with those of like grece in any country of the world, whilst as pa. triota, it is certain they will never forget the ex- amp'es of their Revolutionary predecessors on deck. A ‘wt of the names of the graduates is given. It is Seid that they are all ordered to China. Our correspondent writing from Demarara under Cate of May 22, etates that the colony was healthy, | comes in with the indirect and irreepons business brisk and the crops exceedingly fair. Gold bas been discovered at Baratal, or Nueve Provi- dencia as it is now called. The amount extracted from the soil is beyond belief. Two men ia one day tound, in large nuggets, thirty-four ounces of gold and another man found a nugget weighing four and a half ounces, and all diggers are succesafal in find- ing from two to four ounces per day, and only at » depth of four and a half feet from the surface. Over NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1857. one here would for a moment listen to each & proposition, " ‘That negotiations of some kind are on foot be- tween President Comonfort and Mr. Forsyth, our Minister in Mexico, we are well advised. Should their character be of such tmportance as to re- quire the immediate attention of Congress, Mr. Buchanan can call that body together in extra ty or unconstitationality of the law. It is clearly unconstitutional. But even if the Court of Ap- prals should, as we do pot anticipate it will, take @ narrow legal view of the provisions of the Con- “stitutiou, and should be of opinion that this law keeps within the letter of that instrumeat, it can- pot fora moment entertain any other opinion than that it is utterly antagonistic to the spirit, one hundred men are now diggirg, and much disor. | ‘on in thirty daye, and bis duty, and a trae | und utterly ut variance with the principles of der prevails among them. It is feared that planters | 'esard for our national policy and the wishes of | .¢if- government which underlie the fabric of this and agriculture will suffer by this new Et Dorado. We have files from Bermuda dated the 10th of June, There was a grand fancy dress ball at government house on the evening of the 3d instant in honor of Queen Victoria’s birthday. The amount of exported to date was, 718,942 pounds of onions; 24,996 barrels of potatoes, and 18,358 boxes of toma- toes. A terrific hail storm visited the city of Washing- ton yesterday afternoon, and caused an immonse destruction of the glass in skylights, conservatories and windows. Trees were stripped of their foliage, and grain, vegetables and shrubbery beaten tothe earth. The storm was about twelve miles in breadth, and extended from the southwest to the northeast. Some of the hailstones were so large as to weigh trom five tosix ounces. It is feared that the crops threughout its course are much injured, if not entire ly ruined. Aefew days ago the mechanics and working men of the Navy Yard preseuted to John MoLeod Mur" phy a beautiful service of plate and a gold watch’ We briefly noticed the presentation at the time, the great press of local matter precluding a detailed report. We this morning give a report ef the pro- ceedings, including the speeches of Hon. John Kelly and Mr. Murpby. The imports of foreign goods at Boston for the week ending the 19th inst. amounted to $588,735 The imports for the same week in 1856 were $614,496, which shows a decrease this year of $25,671. The principal item of import this week was sugar, which is valued at $284,766. 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.:— the country, would combine to induce him to take that step, In euch an event the repeal of our neutrality laws would be a prominent subject of discussion, besides the manner of rendering assistance to: Mexico, and they would, no doubt, be greatly modified, if not totally repealed. Io view of the important events that may spring from this Anglo: Hirpano-Romish alliance, let the politicians prepare fora call from Mexico for arsittance, and an extra session of Congress. Munivipal Rights, The counsel who presented to the Conrt of Ap- prala, last week, arguments for and against the coastitutionality of the Pelice bill imposed on the city by a black republican oligarchy at Albany, did not, it seems to us, present the ques- tion in that broad comprehensive sense in which alone it ought to be regarded. The question, after all, is not what the Constitution of the State of New York does or does not state, in direct, ex- plicit avd definite terms, but rather what is the xeneral scope, intent and meaning of the instru- ment, The question has a wider range than that: It travels beyond the definite and express pro- visons of the Constitution, and even beyond what ‘awyers call the secessary implication to be de- duced from it. The whole general outline of our free republican, democratic institutions should be taken into consideration in weighing and deter- mipving the question whether the control of a Metropolftan police isa thing which properly falls within tho powers of the State Legislature, or whether it does not rather necessarily belong to the municipal authorities. That is the comprehensive question which the Court of Appeals is called upon to answer, Its decision on avy narrower or more restricted premises will not eatisfy the people of this city: If the Court of Appeals should confine itself strictly to a pettifogging interpretation of the >| 94 ue 3 P.M. Ws ning iF ST eT 2 Ry 13) SW O170S Wie, r N. [30.8 [72] N. [65 Mon. is. W.130.39]60] HH Tues.16 N. ie-/30. 22162]. &.]55!0.06 Wed. N. R.[30.29)86(N. F fas peer N. B,130 20/58], FE. {54!0.4 Fr. lis biked lates is Maal tl ae mmuaxs. Saturday—Morning, clear and warm; afternoon, clear; evening, clear. Sunday—Morping, clear aod warm; afternoon, clear; evening, clear. Monday—Morning, clear and warm; afternoon, clear; evening, clear, rar op Sihamaiste and afternoon, overcast; evening, rein. aes and afternoon, canes | evening, iD. ———— and afternoon, overcast; evening, rain iday—Morning, ; afternoon, cloudy; fe \ aeaskepe denies einer, overage aa The cotton market on Saturday continued quite firm, and clored with @ hardening tendency in prices. The sales were confined to 600 a 600 bales. Flour closed with rather more firmness, while sales were made to a fair ex- tent, including some parcels for export. Wheat was heavy for common grades, while choice qualities were scarce. The sales included Milwaubie club at $150, and choice white Indiana at $190. Corn was less bouyant, and sales of Western mixod wore made at 633. a 8ic., with some lots at 85c., closing at the inside figure; and Southern yellow at 89c. a 0c. © was sold at $1188 $1 20. Pork was easier, with sal of mess at $25 00 @ $25 124j. Sugars were quiet, and prices un Changed, Coffee was firm, with light transactions. There was rather more tone in freights to Liver- pool, with more offering, both for that port and for the Contigent. Vessels loading with fleur for Spanisb ports, tn order to secure the benetit of the change in the duties, which have been extended, must carry it alone, by taking an assorted cargo, including floar, the lat- ter is subjected to tho fall amount of duty. Engagements of flour were made both for Barcelona and Gibraltar, at 75 cents per barrel. The New Holy Alliance—Spain, England and the Pope. The combination that is on foot between Rome, Spein and England to replace Santa Aana in power in Mexico, is one of the most important movements now tranepiring on this continent. It is not simply a struggle of the wily ex-Dic- tator to seize again the sweets of power and of | spoil, but he has shrewdly endeavored to place | himself at the head of a great conflict that is | growing up all over Spanish-America between | the Pope and the Romish Church on one elde, | and the liberal reformers and frieuds of consti- tutional government on the other. In this strife. Spain,’as the most Catholie nation, has been in- | duced to take the lead from a motive of flattered vanity and national pride ; and Lord Pal on | je ass tance that can be afforded by the preseace of the British fleet, in pursuit of bie old chimera that he must oppose American progress and the influ- e of American ideas, because he believes they | ntagonistic to the interest« of Eogland. This policy has stimulated him to oppose in every possible way the sucocss of Walker in Nica- ragua. The British fleet was gathered and kept | for many months at Greytown, and every assis. | tance that could be indirectly given was agorded to the Costa Ricans in the capture of the eteemers on the San Juan river, which fs key to the fali of Walker. Now the same fleet is gathering at Havana and Vera Cruz, as vultares gather where the cartion lies. Tbe same policy explains his clogging the simulated return of the Bay | Isands to Honduras, with eo many conditions as to force that republic to decline accepting | them, and which in reality be never had any idea | of giving up. The Dallas-Clarendon treaty was | a chrewd attempt to get our government to re- ' cognize this introdaction of au English protecto- rate into Central America, and he has by no means got over his chagrin at the failare of this | one of his schemes. We have no ides that any better euccess will now attend bis combination with Bpain and the Pope of Rome against the liberal government of Mexico. Should President Comonfort need any aasis- tance to sustain his administration and the estab- lishment of liberal reforms and civil order in Mexico, against the assault of this unboly alli- ance, the true policy of our government, and the natural instincts of our people, will readily afford him all he may require. If the action of the go- vernment should be too slow to meet the exigen- | Cles of the case, he has only to supply the furds | and select his leaders from men of mark and es- | tablished reputation here, and he can have ten thousand fighting men at the tap of the dram Conetitution, and should on that decide the new police law to be no infringement of its restriction, ita decision would only be a temporary settlement of the question. It would then be apparent to the people that the fandamental law of the State was violative of the inherent rights of the coun- ties, towns and cities; and an agitation would spring up which would aim at and inevitably end in an amevdment of the constitution, so far as to establich the inviolability of the rights of municipalities. It is for the Court of Appeals to obviate the necessity of that agitation and that change, by making a decision on the question sub- mitted to them, based not so mach on the mere technical force of the words made use of in the Constitution, as on the spirit which pervades the whole of that instrument, and which animated al:ke the delegates who framed it, and the con-sti} tuents whom they represented in the Convention. It cannot be for a mement questioned or doubted, that the paramount idea in the minds of those who framed the Constitution was vo decen- tralize power as much as possible, and to make the counties, towns, cities and villages of the State independent communities, so far as con- cerned the affairs of their respective local go- vernments. The principle was to make them bear to the central State government a relation al- most identical with the relation borne by the seve- ral States to the Federa! government. That princi- ple has been clearly expressed in the Constitution, and practically acted on. Each county, town, city and village in the State has, ever since—as it had done before—existed as an independent go- vernmental community, electing all its own | offeers, managing its own public affairs, and only | subordinate to the State Legislature in sach general matters as necessarily fell within the powers of, and ceuld only be properly managed | by, that central body. And even if the terms in | which this decentralizing principle was expressed in the Constitution were less definite than they are, it would be hard to see how the supreme tribunal of the State could, in deciding a constitutional question, overlook or ignore that one grand idea of self-government | which looms up conspicuously in every article, | section, and clause of the instrument. The strongest jealousy of, and the noblest solicitude for, the principal rights of cities are not new things. ‘The histories of Italy, Ger- many, France and England furnish us with numerous instances of continuous struggles be- tween the municipalities on the one band, and the central government on the other. But in the State of New York and the United States, the principle of self-government was not confined simply to the large and powerfal cities, but ex- tended itself to the counties, townships, and vil- lages also. The rights of the citizens of Weat- chester and Richmond counties to self-govern- ment are identical with, and equal to, those of the great cities of New York and Brooklyn; | and a violation of, or encroachment on, those tights by the State government is as much a usurpation as if the attempt were made by the Federal government. The only strong point presented in support of the Metropolitan Police act was this—that, taking into view the immense extent of the suburbs of the city of New York, and the fact that the popu- lation, which has grown up from the business of this one city, has spread itself over an area of four counties, a body gf mere municipal police, hav- ingno jurisdiction beyond the limits of the city, would be inefficient to preserve the peace and to | protect this widely extended community from marauders going from one city and county into another. That argument contains much force and truth, though to carry it out to its legitimate extent, it would authorise the Federal government to establish a Metropolitan police here, because the State sovereignty does not extend to Jersey City or Hoboken. It may be, and is, judicious to have a police force with a jurisdicton extending be- yond the municipal limita. But docs that necessi- tate the appointment of Police Commissioners by the Governor and Senate? Not at all. Let the generel features of the Metropolitan Police act be preserved. We have no objection. But let the Commissioners called ints being by it be elected by the people. Let the electors of ready to march and sustain the liberties of our sister republic. The principles involved in the conflict are too great, and the results too mo: mentous, to be neglected for a single moment. The efforts of Mexico to throw off the incubus of charch monopoly and intcetine revolution, and to establish o firm rule that shall equally protect the righta of all, command the deepest eympathics of our people. If Savta Anna and the church party think they can carry out their intant of “a bloody tevelution,” by selling one half of the territery to our government, they deceive themselves, for no New York choose their Commissioners, the elect- ors of Brooklyn theire, and the electors of each of the other counties theirs. If the law had been *o drawn up it would not have elicited any oppo- sition. It was only the high-handed outrage on the elective rights of the people, and the asurpa- tion of those rights by a black republican oli- garcby that drew forth an opposition which never can be quelled until the objectionable law be ab- rogated 0 us it appears that there can be but one ra- tional view entertained ar to the constitutionali- whole republic. Let them pause before they thick of endorsing a Jacobin oligarcby in laying their sacriligious hands on the foundation walls of the grandest monument ever raised to freedom. The Decline of the Bar. Recent events have attracted more than usaa] tention to the decline that is now growing irked in the character and conduct of the New York legal fraternity. For several consecutive generations the bar of New York has been emi- nent not only in the State, but throughout the whole country, the continent, and the world: To be a leading American lawyer was a passport to excellent society in any part of Europe; a great lawyer here wag the peer of the firet intel- lects of France, England and Germany. It was expected of him that he should possess an acute and ingenious mind, polished wit, a high sense of honor, and the mapners of a gentleman; and that expectation was rarely disappointed. Samuel Warren, one of the leading lawyers of England, and the very first of the lawyers at a convivial meeting, has been heard to say that he would rather have a first class American lawyer by his side in a stage coach or a railway than the best conversationalist of England. The Ame- rican, he said, had more varied information, and less prejudice, more geniality aud equal fineness of feeling and nobility of spirit. We are speaking of old times—the times of Daniel Webster, Thomas J. Oakley, Thomas Addis Emmett, Joseph Story, John Wells, John Wheaton, and such like luminaries of the bar or bench. Were Samuel Warren to make the acquaintance of the leading New York barristers of our day, he would be likely to express a very different opinion, or civility would close his mouth. He would require to travel long distance among our lawyers before he found a man whose noble character and gentiemanly bearing and swift in- tellect commanded his respect and admiration. His type of the New York “leader” has ceased to ist. “We have respectable lawyers, certainly. They are staid, conservative old fogies, who never do anything improper, or rash; who walk down to their offices at the same hour every morning, and return with equal punctuality at night; who plead steadily old cases about chests of tea or bills of lading, in a eteady old way, and wont be hurried by clients or judges; and who, when judgment has been rendered in the fifth or sixth year of the suit, collect it leisurely if they can, and present a steady old bill of costs to their aggravated client. These men require a week to make up their minds that two and two make four, and not three or five; and no power short of a threat of instant death would incline them to admit on the spot that the earth revolves round the suo. They have a constitutional aversion to be hurried in any thing; they live slowly, and tireeomely; when they die, their deathbed ecene cannot fail to be a prolonged lingering agony. This is one variety of the New York lawyer of the present day. Theother variety of the species is the modern fast lawyer. Of this type several striking examples will present themselves to the reader's mind, and will be recognized at once. The fast lawyer has no time to read or study. He acquires his law intuitively. He knows that the Judges are too lazy to refer to his authorities though they make a pretence of noting them down; so he quotes 2 Smith 75, or 3 Brown 621, or 29 Robinson, 63, to prove anything which he happens to want proved. His forte is talking. He thiaks if he can make a speech of three hours, he ought to be Chief Jas tice. So he talks in a wild diffusive way; quotes Shakepere, likewise Lord Byron; and says what is uppermost In his mind. If he is closing, he calmly alludes to the fact that the witnesses against him (all persons of undoubted character and respectability) are perjured rascals, whom he intends to send to the Penitentiary; that their fathers were hanged, and their mothers led loose lives; that their children make a living by picking pockets, and that the whole connection is a blot on the face of the community. If he is opening, though he knows he has no evidence, he simply refers to his adversary as a model raifian, who sweats crime, and has committed villanies which surpass any on record either ia the page of history, or the volume of fiction. When he is floored he makes a pun, or threatens to knock his udversary down with his fist. A valuable paper which may damage his case he will not seruple to snatch at; nor will he allow vain prejudices of honor to impede a skilful exercise of trick to carry a particular point. Indeed, to sum up in a few words, the model lawyer of the present day ia ° he will abuse adversaries and witnesses like a very drab; and the only indemnity he gives us for his deficiency of forensic ability is display of pettifogging skill and unprincipled dexterity. This is what, with some few exceptions, the New York lawyer has sunk to. It depends upon the bar to say whether they will go lower still; or whether they shall be forced to adopt some aystem of reform and education that may revive the old standards of legal reputation, character, talents, courtesy and gentlemanly manners. Gone To Ecrors.—The exodus of men, wo- men, children and dollars to Earope this season, is without precedent. For this moath and the next all the steamers will make money. There are about fourteen lines of steamers now crossing the Atlantic, making the enormous number of 586 trips across the ocean in the course of the year, or but little less than two steamers per day. Indeed a regular daily line to Europe is now con- fidently spoken of. The habit of epending the summer months in Europe is to be commended—in the case of those persons whose means can afford the luxury. Four months in Eurepe, in the present day of swift rail- way and steamer travel, enable an American to see England, France, Germany, Switzerland and part of Italy; the trip, for a single individual, would not cost over $800, and a married pair can make it for $2,000, and bring home boxes full of memorials of the journey, and the latest Paris fashions and bijowr. It can of course be per- formed for considerably less if economy be an en common sense becomes more generally diffused, our rich and fashionable people will in- variably desert Saratoga and Newport for Eu- rope; and thus save their money and their morals, improve their mind,- refine their manners, and bring home something that shall be useful to themselves and the country. | York, is ignorant, empty beaded, and illogical ; | Among the eight or ten tyrannical acts passed by the late extraordinary republican Legislatare, there was mone more worthy of condemnation and repudiation than the infamous Port Warden law. It seems to have been expressly framed for taxing the commerce of the city of New York for the benefit of a lot of beggardly politicians of the republican stripe. This law gives the Governor of the State autho- tity to appoint nine Port Wardens for the port of New York, to be known as a “Board of Port Wardens,” &c., and authorizes them to receive from each auctioneer who sells damaged goods one-half per cent on all the sales of such goods made by them, and that without the performance of the slightest necessary duty whatever. The total sales of damaged goods in this city are large, and, assessed at one-half of one per cent, would yield to there nine Port Wardens an aggre. gate sum or ealary of about $54,000 per annum, which is to be equally divided between these sipecure officials, and will average them an annual salary of about $6,000 each, Let us see what service they repder for such large sala- ries. It is this: one of their number personally attends an auction of damaged goods, and at the close gives a certificate of sales for each lot, and charges $3 for each certificate. If there is as many as fourteen lots of daniaged teas in a large sale, there are fourteen separate certificates and a charge of $3 for each. And, some one of their number, also, calis about once a month at an auction store and receives a monthly state- ment from the auctioneer of the amount of dam- aged goods sold and the assessed amount of the Wardens’ tithes of one-half of one per cent. He looks it over and receives a check. the tithes, writes a receipt ia te auctioneer’s book for the amount, and retires—the act of doing which oc- cupies about fifteen or twenty minutes. For instance, the Port Warden enters the auc- tioneer’s office at the end of the month, and, ad- dressing him, says, “Have you your return ready of your month’s sales?” “Yes, sir,” handing it to him, in which is stated each day’s sale, footing up for the month say $100,000, on which the half per cent amounts to $500. The Port Warden looks at it, reads the statement of the auctioneer, receives from him a check for the $500, puts it in his pocket, signsa receipt for the same, and leaves the office—the whole amount of his valuable time occupied being about ten or fiteen minutes to secure the $500. This re- peated each month for a twelvemonth, with the unnecessary looking on at auction sales of dam- aged goods, gives the sum of rervices rendered for the whole year, for the payment of a salary of $6,000! The duties of a Port Warden heretofore were simply to examine the extent of loss sustain- ed by the sale of damaged goods belonging to foreign owners, in order to prove t&e fact of the extent of damage, and give a certificate for the same, which cost about three dollars. In a sale of $100,000 worth there would be likely a small item belonging to foreign owners, for which a certificate would be required. Now the auctioneers are compelled to pay a half per cent on all sales of damaged goods, whether they consist of flour and wheat from Virginia, corn from [Illinois, rye oats or other produce from New Jersey—thus subjecting the unfortunate owners of such pro- perty to a shave of a half per cent, in addition to their other losees. Hence, if breadstaffs or other domestic products come to this market in a sound condition, they go free; but if, unluckily, they are damaged and sold by auction, they must pay ahalf per centduty to the Port Wardens. The auc- tioneers pay into the State Treasury a tax for li- cenees of about $200,000 per annum, which should go into the city Treasury, instead of that of the State. Auction sales of damaged goods were ex- empt from this tax, which exemption was secured by a simple return of the auctioneer. Now, how- ever, this payment of one half of one per cent to the Port Wardens renders the exemption worse than nugatory. The enormous fees received by the Wardens from the auction sales of damaged goods was not all the salary the law designed to give them. The law authorizes them also to act as Ma- rine surveyors, und undertakes to fine owners of vereels one handred dollars for each case in which they shall employ other surveyors, or to fine the surveyors themselves for making a survey, in- stead of that ordered or performed by the aforsaid Port Wardens. The fees charged by these Port Wardens for sach surveys are as follows:— For each surrey on board any vessel on hatchos or For cortiticate of the mame... Dee Before this remarkable law was passed there existed a voluntary association, composed chiefly of worthy old sea captains, kaown as “the Asso- ciation of Marine and underwriters voluntarily employed aud had great confidence in, and who did their work well and charged moderate fees. This law comes in and attempis to crush out this association, and to take their businces from them and gives it to the aforesaid nine Port Wardens; and far- ther declares that if one of these old marine sur- veys thall, in obedience to the wishes of a ship owner or underwriters, survey a vewel, he shall be fined $100 for each offence; and the marine surveyors havé already had five or six suits com- menced against them by these Port Wardens, And, as though their salaries were not . sufficient, the law provides that the fines, or money #0 recover- ed, shall enure to the benefit of the Port War- dens. Some merchants and sea captains who have employed the old Surveyors have also, we understand, had suits commenced against them. The two special Port Wardens on Staten Island are to receive $5 for each vessel they eur- vey. Supposing these nine Port Wardens to do all the business of marine surveyors, and receive fees for the same, and to get their half per cent on auction sales of damaged goods, their united incomes will probably amount to not less than about $90,000 to $108,000 per annum, or to an average of from $10,000 to $12,000 each for their services, which are wholly unnecessary and uncalled for. It was not probably intended by the law that these nine men should appropriate all this $100,- 000 annual income to their own use, but a large portion was intended to go into a black republi- can political fand for electioneering purposes, And who are these nine fortunate officials select ed by Governor King? We give their names as follows:— Minthorne Tompkins, Edgar McMullen, Jobn Butler, Jr. William A. Kilis, 8. Alpheus Smith, William G. King, Edmund B. Seaman, Howard Tibbits, Charles A. Bramhall We understand that the eaperior blood ef the Kings is well represented in the composition of the Board, all of whom were appointed by Gov- ernor King, and are alone responsible to him and removable at his will. One is said to be his bro- ther-in-law; another, William G. King is his nephew, while another is said to be his brother-in- Jaw, and others may be blessed by relationship or veyors,” whom merchants | —— mariage with the “blood of the Kinga” We. only eay, in the language of the Liturgy, fi all such black republican laws against manici liberty, and from the swey of all such Kings ¢ Albany tyrants, “good Lord detiver us.” In conclusion, it may be stated that come tioneers have se far paid the one-half per the amount of sales of damaged goods, protest, and especially so in regard to the sale domestic products, and intend to bring suit the recovery of the money from the State cials, while some by instructions of uaderwri! under advice of counsel, refused to pay at and have had suits commenced against them. there will be no end to the law proceedivgs gro: | ing out of the legisiation of last winter. the era of the present State constitution, pass upon by the people in 1846, there have be eight or ten acts of theirs declared unconstitutional by ¢ Court f Appeals. It is probable that fully eig’ or ten of the laws of the last session alone wi be declared unconstitutional by the same cour 8 soon as they reach the Bench of Judges. Ti old Council of Revision ought to be revived | instruct the present ignorant legislative bodies i their public duties—otherwise society and gi vernment will crumble into ruins and confusio: The Quarantine. ‘The hot weather is upon us, and any mornin we may expect that the living questions whic underlie the quarantine dispute may be calle into practical controversy. The building for: fever hospital at Seguine’s Point has been delay ed by various causea, among which the heav: rains are mentioned as the most decent ; it is no yet roofed, and should a yellow fever ship arriv: to-morrow, the patients would require to be taker tothe old hospital at Tompkinsville, In a fev days, however, it is confidently expected that th delay which has occurred at Seguine’s Point wit be repaired; and the friends of the new Commu- sioners state that they have so thoroughly scared the oystermen that no difficulty need be appre hended from them. \ ‘Thus far, then, the way is clear; and the next Point in the controversy which will arise wili turn upon the main point of the question--is Se guine’s point a fitting location for a quarantine hospital? That question, we apprehend, will be settled in the negative before the close of the season. What motive—beyond the corrupt speculations in real estate which have been made public— influenced the Commissioners in the selectloa of this site, it is difficult to conjecture. It is very difficult to get at; ships cannot approach within @ great distance; the chanael is intricate aad dangerous, the beach shelving. In respect to isolation, it is only one remove better than the present site: there are farm houses, and the resi- dences ef cystermen in the immediate vicinity, and an unbroken row of cottages along the shore might serve, in the case of epidemic, as con- ductors for the poison from the hospital to the thickly settled portions of the island and to the But the most striking characteristic of Se- guine’s Point is the unhealthy nature of that part of the island. Fever and ague, which pre- vails over most of the island at certain seasons, and in a mild form, assumes there a peculiarly aggravated type. It is a permanent resident of the spot; persons not acclimated by a residence of years, suffer almost continuously during the spring, fall and summer from biliods fevers and acute ague. Of late years the disease has grown more severe ; #0 much so that many persons who purchased land there a few years back, are now anxious to part with it. The cause of the malady is as conspicuous as its effects. The ehore is low, marshy and unwholesome. Ia years like the present, the ground is sodden for @ great distance from the beach, and a rank marsh vegetation flourishes for acre upon acre ; when the fierce July heats come to bear upom this, a malarious vapor will be evolved that will be fatal to breathe. Surely it must have occurred to some one of the Commissioners that to plant yellow fever in a spot like this was to give it every chance of becoming endemic. The history of the Norfolk fever, and indeed, all the published ac counts of yellow fever epidemics ia the South, show that the disease need not be severe or con- tinuous if means are taken to deprive it of the food on which it preys. Plant it in a wholesome locality, and it dies out directly; but give it the least foothold on a spot predisposed to fever, and adapted for disease, and it naturally thrives and spreads. This is the danger of the fever hospital at Seguine’s Point. Time is passing eo rapidly that a few days more will have stripped these questions of their direct interest. It may be, and we think there is a strong probability that we shail not be visit- ed by yellow fever at all this year, But should | the gloomy forebodings of the physiciens be realized, it will then be well to remember that the defects of the Seguine’s Point location were pointed out in advance, and that the Commis- sioners were warned to hold their hand, while it was yet time. Should the destroyer come, there will be a terrible account for some one to render. Generat Warxer ww New York — Mora Comrtiments.—General Walker, of Nicaragua, is being lionized in earnest. The theatres, it seems, are waging a fierce rivalry for the honor of his attendance; the magical words on the bills, “General Walker and suite will be present,” having been found to answer as effectively as a new danseuse or a first class dibutante. Other compliments of various kinds are likewise ia store for the valiant, though unsuccessfal Nicar- aguan chief. But we understand that an honor of a still more particular and distinguished kind than any that has yet been tendered to the General, is in reserve for him, and will be duly brought to his know- ledge in the course of a fow days. We allude to the desire of certain gentlemen connected with the city press to pay General Walker the same compliment which they paid to Gov. Kogsuth— namely, to give him a public dinner in the name of the press, with toasts, speeches, Johannisberger, and much flourishing of trumpets, No one will contest the propriety of this graceful acknow- ledgment of General Walker's services to civ- ilization and humanity. On reference to our files we find that among the leading persons who figared at the press din- ner to Gov. Kossuth were the Hon. H. J. Ray- mond, ex-Lieutenant- Governor of the State; the Hon. Horace Greeley, ex-M. C.; Mr. Halleck, of the ./ournal of Commerce; Mr. Bryant, the poet, and other city notabilities. These gentlemen have been so long and so favorably known for their sympathy with patriots of all kinds and colors, and for their readiness to give paternal embraces to every one who had broken the laws of foreign countries, that we are not surprised that they now meditate crowning the eplendid career of General Walker with a briliiant ovation. Such an ocem sion, illustrated by the presence of euch moa, ise