The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1859, Page 2

2 CRIME IN THE METROPOLIS. Eaghtern Pir ons in the Tombs on Charges ef Murcer, Remickie and Arsou=A Visit to the Condemned Cells, &e. The puiober «f | crsons now confined in the Tombs on ehergo of su: der, howicide and argon, is unusually large, aod prevents a picture ef crime truly lamentable. Already #ree of the prvoners have been convisted of the capital efimce, and two of the number are under eentenco of death. Recently ovr reporter paid a yisit to the city prison, where, brough the politeness of the warden and the keepers, he was ehowa the various persons now con- fimed there en charge of murder, arson and homicide. Phe first person that attracted our notico on the murderer’s corridor was JAMES STEPHENS, eenvicted of the murder of nis wife, Sophia, by adminis- tering to ber ar‘enic. The prisoner, it will be recollected, js now ander Fevtente of death, tha execution to take eect on the 2th proximo, He is daily visited by bis, sister and cihor relatives, who bold out tho Rope ‘that a now trial will soon be granted hia, The Siephens case is ao fresh in the memory of eur readers that a recapitulation of the facts at, this stage is entirely unnecessary. It is but afow weeks ago einoe he was tried, convicted and sentenced to be executed. ‘The prisoner bears his situation with more Shan ordinary firmpess, doggedly refasing to be moved by fie near approach of the fatal day, and evincing a deter- mination to protest his innocence to the last, An applica. thon for a writ of error and stay of proceedings was made yesterday in bebalf of Stephens, and a decision on the motion will be rendered in a day or two, QUIMBO APPO, The Chinaman convicted of the murder of Mrs. Mary Wietsher, at No. 47 Oliver street, on the 8th ultimo, occu- Pies one of the condemned cel ‘The prisoner has not yet een wentenced, but it is probable that his case will come up before the Court of Oyer and Terminer at an early day. | Appo’s case is @ peculiar one, and has already excited the sympathy of many icicential persons in his behalf. The priaoner’s wife was an intemperate woman and fond of Keeping company coutrary to his express desire. Findmg her intoxicated on his return home om the evening the Sth of March, he sommenced to abuso her. A number of women, | inmates of the hous waa to the rescue of Mrs. Appo, whea the prisoner, in a moment of pazeion, picked a dagger off the bureau and gtabbed Mrs. Fletcher, killing her almost instautty, The | prisoner then fled, but was soon afterwards arrested and eommitied tothe Tombs. The jury, in convicting Appo, recommenced him to the mercy of the Court, and already s majority of that body, together with the District At- forney, have signed a petition for a commutation of the @entence. The probability Is that the poor Celestial’s life will be epared, and that he will spend the remainder of hain days in Siug Sing. JAMES SHEPHERD. Tho prisoner was convicted of arson in the first degree, fm having eet fire to bis dwelling house and burned up his wife. Shepherd oceupied a frame house in the uppor part of the istand, which was insured. On the 22d of Septem- ber, 1857, he was committed on charge of argon. Me was tried, convicted and sentenced to be executed em the Sth of February. A stay of proceedings was ebtained by his counsel, and an effort was made to got a Rew trial. The matter is still in the Courts, and whea is ‘Will be finally adjudicated upon no one seems to know. At one time the prisoner pretended to be insane, but find- | fag the ruse did not work as well as he expectad, ho | mbandoned it. MICHAEL FLYNN te ebarged with the murder of Freeman Cutting on tho | Beh of December Ina, aw house of ifame in Ronserelt | , by stabbing him in the nock with a dirk knife. Ta his ease, the Disirict Attorney thought proper to accept a | ‘ea of manslaughter in the third degree, but the prisoner @actined to accept the offer ot the Slate, and put himsolf ‘am trial for his life. The jury found him guilty of man- Mlanghter in the first degree, and the proYability now is | hat be will be gent 10 Sing Jing for ten or fifveon years, Tae Prisoner was rather unlucky in not accepting the offer of the District Attorney, as he might have got off with two @m three years imprisonment, Now the misimum punisb- ment ts ten years, and it may be extended for the term of bets natural life. WM. EDDY MOORE. ‘Te prisoner is charged with the cruel murde- of John Vam Wart, on the 20th of March, at No. 41 Worth streat. ‘Mme prisoner married a former mistress of Van Wart’s, ‘and lived with her quite happily until the deceased re Summed from sea and renewed his acqmaintancs with the weman. Jealousy then wok possession of soul, aod be determined to avenge himself upon the author of his misery. Meeting with Van Wart one night in a drinking Place in Worth street he assaulted him with a knife. ‘The wound proved fatal, and the prizoner was arrested on 9 eharge of wilful murder, HENRY KAMAK, ALIAS CHEAP JOHN, ® charged with arson in the first degree, in setting fire | fe the premises No. 133 Chatham strect, for the purpose @f obtaining tho insurance money. The prisoner was Blsced on trial abont a week aco, but the jury failed te agree apd were discharged Sioce then the Recorder has | signified his willingness to slow the prisoner @ go at | Jarge upon bail, and fixed the amount at $2,500. The evidence egainst the privoner is purely circumstan- (ial, and it is very doubtful if be will ever be convicted. JOHN D. PPROMER, | Ie this case the prisoner is charged with the murder of | Gharles J. Sturges, at No. 26 Bowery, on the 25th of March. The prisoner kept a coffee and cake saloon at the | sbove number. Sturges ensered the kitchen, where sho Prisoner was at work, and commenced ekylarking, whe Pfromer ordered him out. Not complying with the de. | mand, the proprietor snatched up a revolver and repeated Whe order. Still Sturges refused to leave the premises, ‘when the prisoner fired nt him, inficting a mortal wound. Jie not likely that the prisoner will be convicted of mur- er, as there apyears to have been much provocation for the fatal assault. | JEAN BOSQUET, | ‘better known by the appellation of ‘Monkey Man,” | wecupies a cell next door to Stephens. The Prisoner murdered an Italian named Martin de San. among the number the deceased, | | Of the rame school, the marvel of which is, thi NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1859.—TRIPLE SHEET. eavse death in afew hours after. The evidence against the prisoner ia very slight, and the probability is that be Will be acquitted. JOHN M'DONALD, THE FRATRICIDE. ‘The latest addition to the number of persons charged with marder is John McDonald, the fratricide, Tae pri- soner choked his brother Michae! to death at No. 04 Barter street, on Friday morning, and upon an investigation by the Coroner was commitied te await the action of the Grand Jury. The prisoner admits the killing, but says is Was unintentiona! NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE IN AMERICA, Sean itn , Its Pioneer and Leader—James Gerdon Bennett and the New Yerk Press. (From the New York Leader, April 23.) Did you ever look over the oolicction of the Historical Society? Among its many curiosities there is nothing more curious (han its collection of eld newspapers, those brief abstracts and chroaicles of the times, a5 Hamlet calla the poor stage players, discourse as gravely as he may of the intelligence of any given speech of modern history bim paint ag vividly as he may the manners, the morals, the toue of thought, of politics, of business, of all that concorns the prosperity of the time— allow us to rummage among the newspapers of the period he describes, and we straightforward put to the tost the fidelity of his views, and the accuracy of his facts. What sort of people must our grandfathers, nay, veo our fathers have been, to have been contented for their daily allowance of current information with such small and ill eerved morsels ae were doled out to them In the journalsof their days? Surely it is not for us to impugn the intebigence of our ancestors, We are constantiy pointing to their wisdom and pradence as mod for our own imitstion, and lamenting the do- parture of thoee good old times when people were #0 much wiser, and, it gisdom be akia to goolness, so mach better, than in our degenerate days. Bat it puzzles us vast'y, when comparing a cewspaper of the present time with one of no earlier & period than thirty years ago, to reconcile t parent contradiction of 80 much wisdom and iptelbgence, and so little to satiefy tt, ia the oommu- nications of the duily prees. Dear, good old Johnny Lang, sagest of paragraphists, most eoiema conbter on the state of the weather—we had no pbilorophical Merriam then, to turn the thermomoter into bistery—what a miracle of burronuess was presented in the pages of the Gazette, albeit crammed with adver- | tiscments, each tn its proper place, according to the strict old fashioned notions of propriety. Seldom venturing upon an editorial of more than agquare, decause it like businees, and when moved to expatiste in an article of the fourth of column, with what solemnity were those representations given to the world! True, shoee “ pithy paragraphs,” while thay had the Soul of wit, #0 far as brevity ia concerned, could hard- ly boast of that soul ir apy other respect, and wore not Alweys intellicible, except to the initiated, who by dint of daily study had become accustomed to theiz philosophical intricacies of expression. Whether at the flag staifon the Batiery, where Peter Bayard in hia juvemiity ministered to the werchant priaces, who from ibat point of observa- tion took a telescopic view of vessels arriving aud depart. ing—or in the late boura of the evening meeting your com- mercial pairons in your office in Hanover square, and gravely 6 scoursing on the state of the markets and the } lave artivale—there was ever over you the same piactdity | of dulness, the same equanimity of coubt. A gilded bust | Of Franklin aderped the entravce of your news room. It | was in the days when Hulleck first egsayed to please the } town with nis playful Croakers,” and the wicked wag wrete of you:— ‘Tade Fraok'in's bust from off tlry door, and place thine own head there: thereby ivtimating that as the bust of Franklin was carved | from a block of wood, the substitution of your own ia its | place would not be inappropriate, In the course of years | Doctor William Turner, a son of your partner and a gen- tieman of education, came into your office az an elitorial | assistant. The ambitious young Doctor had an aspiration | common to young editors, of a.ctug his vocabulary in your columns, and of editorializing in somewhat bolier form | and at greater length than had characterize! your owa important Iucubrations, But the poor Doctor’s ambition | was nipped in the bud. “Pithy paragraphs, Doctor,” said the veacrable Lang: “they look like business, and editori- ais crowd out advertisements,” and the aspiring Doctor was compelied to circumecribe his articies to the dimen- sions of a squareor two. The same rule was afterwards prescribed t Robert Lang, the son of the veteran editor, and he, though a man of some disposition to aprightliness, was equally tamed down to the brevity of dullness, which had become the inexorable rule of the Gazette. Honest John Lang! It was the great fire that pros- trated bim, ag he feated that it had prostrated the com- mercial prosperity of his dearly beloved city; and the “pithy parsgraphs,”” all of his own invention, soon know no more the cunning hand that had indited them. Ho ftood upon the verge of ® period of douvly quickensd | activity of progreus,to keep ap with which his siow m: | sured eteps were unequai, and bis senses already begin- | ning to get giddy with the whirl, he passed away, amodel | of honesty and simplicity, a gentleman of the olf school, | 20 “content to dwell in aecresies forever,” that anvihing | beyond the pale of consecrated duliceas seemed to him an | impropriety. But iook again upow the columns of the Gazette, What | achange where we had looked upon change as an impos. | sibility. Kaiterials balf a column—ney, come of them ex- | teuding to even a column in length, sparkling with life, Pointed with antithesis, caucy'sometimes, and often witty, | though the effort at wita trifle too apparent, and the emart- ness somewhat Strained, And all this in tae doar, good, stupid old Gazette. types would nave rebelled at their new juxtaposition. ‘The thonght of the G@uzetle becoming a sprightly paper ‘Was na stariling ag the idea of Watts’ psalus interleaved with Moore’s meiodies, ay the church organ bursting forta in Yankee Doodle, a3 a merry Aadrew in the puipit, as a jest at a tvneral. It was Daniele, formerly of the Courier and Enquirer, who entertained us with this daily dish of “ smartness.” But it could not iast. All this new sort of thing was very well in ita place, but the sentimeat was equaily pervading tuat the old Gazdte was uot the Place for it. “It entertained no old subscribers, for it was | not in their line of thought. It gained no new ones, for by this time a new epirit had began to animate the press, | to compete with which the newly awakened vigor of the Gazette was but as child’s play. Tt had to die, whether under the burden of the xravities of Laog, or the gaivties of Daniels. And so it died and passed away, not in such garb of rolemnity as it would bave worn under the minie- | tration of the elder Lang, but it passed away in motley, its gravities subsiding into ill-wdapted jeats, and its jests unheeded. We have selected the Gazette as a type of many papers an inteliigent community they could bave lived #0 long. The old Mercantile Advertiser, unter the direction of the Messrs. Butler, was a journal of somewhat the same de- scription. In its latter days, under the management of stipendiary editors, it gave occasional flickers of nerve and stronger light. But there was apparent in its columns the same struggle between dull respectability and capri- cious cleverness. When it was forced to employ talent it employed talent of a very ordinary grade, and before it wag compelled to engage editorial assistance, approaching the taste and demands of the public, it was ‘probably too poor to give adequate compensation to all writers. [a truth, its proprietor could have had no appreciation of such talent, even if it had been obtained. They had stood still too long while the world was moving around them, and their eiforte—such ag they wero—to bring up the paper to the new grade, came too late. They had pt | engaged, while far on its déwnward course, a man, if we recollect aright, by the name of Tyson, to do its editorial jobs; but he made a biundering piece of work, and whether he was dismissed before the paper became defunct, or whether they became do- funct together, matters li Extreme duineas hail only been exchanged for extreme foolishness, and between ite chronic aiiment and its new malady it died and made no fez, at No. 17 Baxter street, on the night of December 26, by stabbing him in the breast with a dirk knife. Boaquet waked De Santez to treat him, when the latter refused, ‘and applied some opprobrious epithet to the prisoner. De Santez s00n left the premises, but was followed by the Prisoner, and sgsassinated before he had scarce reached She sidewalk. Bosquet is a mont revolting looking speci- ‘men of humanity, and is by nature a vicious creature, Some persons think him insane, but he manages to con ‘verse quite sensibly with any one gifted with the know- Bedge of his native language. JOUN AND ELLEN LYNCH. ‘The prisoners are charged with the murder of a saflor, ‘Wamed William F. Baker, in the month of February last, A family quarre! lod to the tragedy, The male prisoner and ‘She deceased were brothers.{n-law, and lived in the same Meoure together. They had some difficulty together, when Agnch drew a knife and stabbed his adversary to the heart. The wife of the prisoner was committed by the Doroner as an accessory after the fact, and occupies the Same cell with her husband, JOHN AND JAMBS GLASS. ‘The prigoners are charged with the marder of Wilhelm Decker and Richard Owens, at No. 2i Elm street, on Batarday night, the 16th of January, ‘The prisoners, aftor Semmitting sundry acts of violence in Decker’s house, re- fweated to the street, when they fired at the proprietor frough the hall door, killing him, A third shot was then @ischarged at Mr. Owens, which caused instant death. ‘The Glasses cacaped, but were subsequently captured, ‘rough the exertions of Captain Dowling, of the Sixth Precinct. James Giass has been convicted of manslaughter fe the first degree for killing Mr. Decker, but his brother Joba bas yet to go through the ordeal of a trial. #AMES LOFTUS, JOHN QUINLAN AND JAMBS HIGGINS ‘are indicted for being participators in the Elm street smarders and aiders and abettors in the crime. The prison ‘ers were with the brothers Glaeson tho night in ques- fen, but how far they were implicated in the marders haan not fully transpired, The accused have been confined (inee the 18th of January. Loftus is the present constable @f the Sixth ward, and is not more than twenty-one years age. These prisoners will not be put on trial until the ‘Glass brothers are first disposed of. ELIZABETH THOMPSON. ‘This prisoner. it js alleged, caused the death of her husband John Thompson by cutting him in the temple with an axe or broken tumbler. The partice Mved on bad terms with each other, and were continually quarrelling and intoxicated, The prisoner’s dangbtor, a girl about eighteen years old, is the chief witness for She prosecution. Mrs. Thompson was committed to the ‘Tombs on Sunday last. THOMAS DOTY stands charged with having caused the death of a wo. man named Bridget Kennedy, on Monday night, the 2ist ‘of March, by beating her and inflicting euch injuries as to sign. | Or the Daily Advertiser it is bee to aay that while ite | editor (Dwight) handled a pen of eome power, aad ite | working manager (Townsend) did @ vast deal of business | in the way of floanciering, it dragged along at the pace of | its old schoo! rivale, antil it slipped out of being. It de- | clined like the others we have montioned, simply because it was too inert to employ the proper restoratives to pro- | long its existence, or if the remedy was ever attempted to be applied, which we believe it was not, it came too | the Cmurter and Enquirer was boasting about those | days, and not without eome reason, of ite great enterprise and ite large expeusiture. Passing over everything that ig Personal about the paper, it is but just to say ‘hajy mingled ‘with @ great deal of boasting and pretension, it exhibited more enterprise than any of ite rivais, that clever pens tar- nished its editorials, and as it boldly claimed ite position as & journal of the first rank, it maintained that position. With its own news echooner—a mighty enterprise in those Gaye—and with other accessories loudly vaunted, ita lofty pretengions were in part, at Jeast, sustained, and its boast. ings of influence and circulation were, to a considerable extent, well founded. Let it have all the credit to which it is entitled, ot being as far ahoud of its cotemporaries in enterprise then, ag it is behind them now, Its reporters, foreign letter writers, and other adjuncts, were at least an improvement cn the slow and easy sysiem of ite elders in the field, and there are many points of enterprise con- = with it not unworthy @ place in she history of jour- ism. Our brief and imperfect sketch brings to our notice, in the order of time, the establishment of a prees which more than any other in the history of American newspapers, bas quickened journalism into grester activity, enlisted a com petition of talent of the highest grade, kept accurate | pace with the hurried movements of the age, and givea | direction to ite aims and impulses. It is true that the Sun newspaper was the firet in the field of the penny press, and not less true that in its day and befove (pm stool | Came thronging in, of great and not undeserved influence, But in ite general scope and tenor it was comparatively local and circumscribed, and on one point, to which the eyes of so many in this bank note world are turned—the Subject of floance and the money market—ae and unsatifactory as any of ite brethren in the dull old achool, It was in the Hxxatn, a little one cent paper, that there firet appeared a daily series of articles on tno Babject of the money market, #0 filled with details well arranged, 60 clear jn ita views, 20 wearching in its inquiries, that the eyes of business men were immediately turned’ to them, as containing a far greater amount of information than could be elsewhere obtained, accompanied with com. ments) made with a bokiness and sagacity to which the financial articles of other papers were almost atrangers, It was this feature, more than any other, which gave im. mediately to the HERALD & business character amonget business men, and which was the foundation of its repu- tion upon asecure basis, It had ite fortuac to push and to make, its circulation to extend as beet it could; but in | thie one point it seized at once and tenaciously held the public attention. We mean no disparage. ment to the present money articles of other journais, nor presume to question their general ability. ‘Let an; among them, even of the poorest, be compared witl the beet of the daily Snancial newspaper articles of five | and twenty years ago, and their great superiority ie at once made manifest. The quickeniag impale to thie im- provement was given by the financial articles of the Hera from almost firet day of its appearance, Other journais, as they have #uccessively appeared, have Deen compelled to emulate the falnese, at least, if not the Bocuracy, of thie Hxkatn money articles; and tis depart. ment of journaliem, e@ long shuflied off, or most impor- fectly filled, has enlisted the labors of mem of the highest degree of shrewdness amd capacity. ‘© higher commendation can be given to Mr. Bennott’s One would have thought that the very | extraordinary adaptability of talent, than the statement ‘that this work was, atthe commencement of his paper, 21] and exclusively bis own, To have attended to tae other departments of bis paper, almost aloue and unaided, impreseing upon all be wroie the very image and saper- Berpt.on of bis style, would have been enough to occupy the whole attention of almost any other man, however uked in sit that pertaing to the conduct of a paper. But to have added to this the daily labor of digging deep into the mysteries of Wali street, and sounding, ag with a ptam- met, the bidden depths, and explaining the rocks avd ehoals und quickeands of those dangerous wate:s—never perplexed nor confused, but grasping every fact within reach and deducing theories which were always read with avidity, if not with proit—argues @ versatility of talent of which few dare to boast the possesion, Yet this was the eelf-imposed task of Mr. Bennets, when, with a capital hot +qual to one day’s receipts of the BeraLp, he started big adventurous bark upon the waters of public opinion. We repeat that he made his firat great mark by his Wall street articles, and that he gave to this species of report- ing 9 lift, a dash, @ boldness, that put the Wali street re- porters of other journals upon their mettle, and com- pelled them, in the spirit of competition, to employ a bigher order of talent ia this dopartment, until the daily ne wepapers’ finaneral reports of our day, compared with those of twenty years ago, are as light to darkases. For this improvement, more than to any maa living, the pub- dic Owes its acknowledgments to Jamea Gordon Bennett. la the early period of the establishment of the Rersip, wheo it was necessary to make a bold effort to attract the attention of ihe public, it may be Charged that many of its articles, whilé they amused by ‘their wit, were censured for their personaiay, that bis overdaring pen attacked too rudely many habits of thought which the world was nowilling to distrust, that Be dweit with too glaring colors upon scenes which should be touched in au undertone, and that many ot hts efforts, while too much directed to make thougitless spect tors laugh, were calculated to make the judicious grieve. Sach ‘was the sccuration, and the reply comes ag quickly, if not ag ratefactorily a8 the charge. He knew one thing whict he had learned by heart in hig experience as aa editor, toat the reuding public will pardon almost any fault in a writer but duinces. To succeed, he must trast catch the Hiention, for, right or wrong, boldness and ra- mbined with talent, will attract, He was deter- hat his paper ebould be reat, even if to read was to condemn it, Around him were the sleepy journals of the elder school, maintaining the propriety of Ueir 8 matic dullness. His paper was at once read, assailed, denounced, condemned, but still read, and with constantly increasing attention. Sul, in those days, though iis mo- Ley articles gave it a wide Circulation an cial men, they gave it no return in the w ments. 8 to his * forty dollar sudseri that sum were entitled under the oid ri tise to an amount about equal to the cost of their composition, there were pone such upon list; and in tho ead it proved to his advantage that he was not cacumbered by aay pa- wonage of that description, As to the paper being @ commercial one, iu the senze in which Lang’s Gazette was a commercial paper, it beionged to no such restricted cixss. But look at the LkKALD now — ifs thousaads of new advertisements a day, paid for, and At no starveling rater, contributed, not by the so-called commercial classes alone, but by every hind aud d of humanity that wishes to make known its multifarious wants, Sober prose ak geem these long annyaacem therr exemp)ifcation of the vast and varied in f ey represent—the restless, struggling, active world arcond og, witb all the added wauts which accompany tho highest etale of civilization—they give the amplest scope to the magiation, while dwelling on the reesurces wud tho extraoroinary prosperity of our great metropolis, They are pictures on a Smaii scale exch, but with a mighty ag- gregate, of the activity of our city. Let them be entapared ‘with the pumber of advertisemenis in the Loadgn Times, and it is easy in this way to judge how closely, na business point of view, we are treading on the heels of the great commercia! capital of the Ola World. In other words, the Birnatp ie a picture of New York, a picture of its prosperity, it life, its vity, its enormons and cay increasing wealth, aud its daily acceterated ¢ towards the bighest point of greatness, And the re- potion that this yast reservoir of information Want alone of matters local to our city, bus of intelligence furnished by its agents and correspondents from almost every quar- ter of the world, and seat to every quarter of the globe where civilization reaches—ia but aan ex- emplification of the genius, industry and energy of one man, it unaided founder, its gole owner, its director and proprietor—cannot fail to awaken feelings of respect tor ‘the cepacity which has created and directed it. Ditleriog as we may from its views, oppoved as we may be to its conductor, there it is, something which we may affect to depreciate, but which, in spite of ourselves we are com- pelled to admire, Most of vs baye been compelled to laugh over the wit of the jate Major Noah, and none can dewy his aptaes and cleverness in the days of bis editorial supremacy. But ag we have ail of us laughed over ths Jce Miller jokes which Joe Miller never wrote or ut- tered, fo have we chuckled over scorea of pleasantries of M. BM. Noah which were the offspring of Mr. Bennett's brain, Agtociated with Noah as a contributor years prior to the establishment of the HeRaLn, in the fulness of strength of that veteran editor, and dowg his fall share ia preeenting w daily offering of good things to toe reading pablic, the pleaeantries of Bennett were received py the credulous multitude as the jokesof Noab. fad circum- stances compelled Mr. Beuneit to remain in the subordi- position in which he was then placed, he might havo ged throvgh life like a cart borge in the traces, with & compensation jnst anove the point of respectable starva- tion. He might all his hfe have sown the eeeds of plea- fapiry and good humor, of which others would have reap- €0 the harvest, and happy for him were the ctroumstanc: which forced bim upon his own resources, to win, if he ‘was worthy, reputation for bimself, or to lob 1 if un- worthy. It was not until he was thrown entirety upon himeeir, with no encompering adviaers about hin to hamper him with their ollicious counsels, that he really secmed to be aware of the energy that wasin him. In his enterprise of the establishment of the Herat every probability of success was, from the very nature of the undertaking, strongly against bim, and though to deserve guccees is not always to command it, in his instance de. sert and success were linked together. We will not here meddle with his polities or his opt- niche, ‘ibey are his own, and it is enough to say, thas whetber right or wrong, he expresses them with @ fear- Jees independence that no one can question, as to the absurdity of bis bemg bired to support or oppose any set of opinions, it is enough to unswer thas the very strengih of his positicn before the public enables him to support or oppere whatever party, whetever opinions he pleases, To willingly bind bimseif to the shackles of party woald ‘be an act of self-stuititication for which there would ye no excuze, an exbibition which, at his time of life, he would hardly care to make; and we have no early expec. tations of seeing bim place himself in this adicrous pre- dicament. We believe sincerely that from habit, asao- ciation and conviction he ig a democrat, but whether he will support every man or every measure that wraps itwelf in the convenient cloak of democracy, is a qnes- tion to which he hag already given answers easily understood, There ig no party that affects to despise him; thut would not, if it could, secure his good will, ana'the support of his press. There is no set of men, of whatever party, that docs mct regard that press as a fixed ‘stitution of the country, rather more permancnt than any city charjer which {g at the mercy of any Legislature, or t y State constitution equally at the mercy of any band of tmkering reformers, To almost everything in this world there is allotted a brief perioa of reat, but there ia no reet to the daily press; and in regard to the Hrratp, even the Sabbath of repose, which ig enjoyed by its cotemporaries, comes not to it. It is actually and truiv the only daily paper in the coun- try, every other press claiming that titie falling short of it by fifty two omissions. More than thia, it is the only Sunday paper published which has the slightest preten- sions to the character of a uewspaper. With no dispa- Tagement to the very clever Sunday prees—another iaati- tution which habiijbas aimost made a necessity among us— and acmilting as we do the amount of talont exbidited in ite columns, it bas utterly failed to fil the demand for a knowledge of the immediate doings of this busy world, which nine-tenths of the saints, and allof the sinners desire to receive even on the Sabbath. But up to the last syNable of the immediately recorded time the transactions and the news of the previous twenty- four hours are spread in ali their fulneas in ius Sanday emissions, and the Monday emistions of all the rest of the eo-called dailies are but in part what had appsar- ed in the columns of the Hensrp. If the slow coach jour- nale of the old and sleepy school lagged behind their more adventurous modern rivals, so co the rest of their more energetic successors lag betiind the Herat in pausing to tuke their Sunday’s breathing time—that paper realizing, in one sense, that idea of the “perpetual motion” which bag so long puzzled the brains of inventors and projectors. We hear much now.a-cays of representative men—and we ure the phrase in its more narrow sense, as applied to thore who attend hp ogi affairs in our Legislative halls— dat if the prees be the organ of public opinion, surely ite conductors are the true representative men of the times. ‘The duties of their repreventation are not confined to legia- lation in {ts narrow sense, but extend to all that favors, vides or reflects the gemeral opinion of the masses, verything that concerns every department of human in- dustry, and every phase of human life, is within ite phere of action. “Parties change, and the representa- tive man of the hour passer away with the party. He is senerally the Jeader of one opinion, the echo of one idea, the mouthpiece of the dominant theory which brought his P dil into power. The strutting hero of the changing drama passes away with the whistle of the scene shifter, and the audience only wonders what farce will come next, But the repreeentative man of the prere—whore constituents are the whole reading world if be be true and equal to hie duties, will make himeelf heard und felt beyond the limit of the fleeting moment, The voice of the orator, in another forum, is quickly hugh- €d, and even if his eloquence be printed and scattered far And wide, it js but one great effort, while each and every day, avd 80 long as he pleases, and in every variety of illustration united to the changing hour, ybe representa- tive man of the preas may force his views even upon un- yolling minds and compel them to give him their atten- The two most commanding men in this position are un- doubtediy James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley, and without drawing comparisons to the wivantage or the de- triment of either, it is enough to say that in each of them there is an idiosyncracy which gives them auch prominent- oo traits as to attract and fix them in the pub- lic mind, and fasten its attention npon any position they May choose to assume. It ip difficult to conceive two persons more unlike in thought and action, and when it me stated that each has mace for himself a fixed poal- tion in the public mind, from which it will not be averted! all other similarity ends, We wish only to speak of them in this connection as cotemporaries in the new wide-awake tchool of journaligm, compared with the drowsy ayatem of their predecessors. Set us remark, besides, that thelr merits in the conduct of their journals are not to be at- tributed to those starting givings-out which characterize what ia called the wensation school, such a8 distingaleh fome of our modern divines, who do not hesitate wo play their antics in the pulpit, rather than not attract an an- dience. If they have been bolder than was the wont of the presses of an earlier date, it was becaury thoy had the tagacity to perceive that the public was prepaced for this boldnere and directacea. Having ‘aid thos mach of them in this connestion~- having brought them together ‘an this occasion only,’ 8 the play bills eay—iet us divorce the connection at once, for it is impoenible to exoress any \dea more Indicrou than that of Bonnett and Greoley under the « feat accomplished but once by Bonner, of ln who placed the two worthies side by side in him gallery, to the newly added wonderment of bia * who for mitiion of readers, And since we have in this =way—almost unconsciously tw oursclven— drawn into ovr avAicle the name of Bonner, let us may of him tbat he also, by hia energy and foresight has inau- gurated a pew éra in the history of literary weeklies, and by measures ‘as fair aa they were bold, forced his paper into a@cisco)sucd upparateiled in literary bistory. are examples +. ch should not be lost sight of in the adventa- rous field of , olities or of letters, but honorably emulated; however, wid this eaving clanse, that to succeed as sach men brye ee eeded, requires a combination of qualities rarely found, ‘There was once an adventarous youth who fought to drive the chariot of the gun, and the eld poeus have told us the story of bis fate. When Napoleon entered upon bis career of conquests nothing so puzzled the generals of the old school as his moce of fighting, contrary to all the established rules of military science, and they proved to a demoustratioa that every time he won a victory he ought to have been beat- en-—-the gaid victory having been won contrary Ww all laws and usages in such caseé made and provided. He took fortresses at once by storm, when it was his duty to to- ‘vest them and sit down to a comfortable six months siege, when the garrison, having resi¢ted a8 long as it was proper and becoming for & garrison to resist, then surrendered at digcretion—tho honor between victors and vanquished being equally divided. In reading the histories of mavy of these siey © aro almost foreed to the conclusion tuat fighting was * (Ling done by coutract, each party biadiog itself honorably to the other not to do any more miscaief than wus absolutely necessary. Napoleon took it ato his head that fighting was a thing to be done in earnest. While his enemies were deliberating in tho good old Legit! mate way, he was acting; and wuea army upon army sent against him were scattercd—-whou divisions advaaving for 60-operation were intercepted and cut to pievea—when the veteran officers of many bard fought wars on the oul siow pion were Gefeated or made prisoners, doubly great was ‘the ine gnation that all these consammations were ovsained by amere youth in the practice anda mere trye in the service of war. In the new era of journa! in which Mr. Bennett was the jeader, equally great was the indigna- tion of the veterans of the press that he shonld dash dead in Buch reckiess style, utierly regardiess of the re- spectable conventiocalities which formed the very atnos- hese in which they lived and moved and bad their betag. 8 failure was certain, for tue public was not to be taken by storm in thie wild way, sor roused from its sleepy pro- prieves by such fast movements, It ‘u some myeierious way he first obtained pons of any item of imporiant news, they first questioned ite authenticity, and when proved to be authentic, they wore couvinced ‘that he must have retorted to some ualawful meas (o obtain it. The only mystery and unlawful meaos being the exercise of constant vigilance, and, whex neces tary, of paying reundly—eore of m quick return of prodt —tor any thformation of importance in advance of other papere. On the arrival of a foreign yessel the newepapers were ecarce looked over and the matter arranged for the press by the slow papers, before the cry of “ Exira HERALD!” was heard at thelr very Office doors, and the pews of their forthcoming sheets forestalled by this med- Cling adventurer, who would insiet in cratuming the public maw with newer ag fast as it was hungry. Is it strange that the people, who had 80 long been ridden is those glow conveyanora, should begin to tuke to the fast vebicles as they came slong? Is it not more strange that the slow coach system lasted 80 long in a fast age ? To James Gordon Bennett, then, the public owes its warmest thanks in taking the lead in the improvement of the American pressin energy, activity, and every quatity that gives interest to a daily paper. fle excited a comps tition in this respect the fruits of which were a gain to the pablic which it canuot too highly appreciate. o doubly estimate this improvement let ua place the newspapers of New York alongside the press of other cities of the Union. Even they bave somewhat improve! in life ani energy; but when compared with the Heatp of our own city how meagre and barren do they appear. It is scarce more than thirty years ago since it was tauntingly asked by the Edinburg Keview—‘Who reads an American book!” Let us not extend this article by alluding to tho floarish- ing condition of our literature, But if it was then asked who reads an American book, with how much more pro priety could it bave been asked, who reads aa American bewepaper? The newspaper press of Great Britain has vastly iinproved since that day, but it bears not a shadow of comparison to the improvements which bave takeo place in our own daily press, It may now be placed side by side with that of England, without the slightest fear of suflering by the comparison. It may be our province, before long, to institute closer comparisons between the press of the two countries, showing their peculiarities and estimating their separate merits. Of the daily Rewspaper press of New York we may weil say, that, as citizens, we foel proud of its supe- riority, and thet we cannot too much thank ite indefatiga- ble conductors in making it every way worthy of the Empire City. We have no harsh criticism on its faults, for they are trifling indeed when compared with its ‘commandjny merits. Indelibly connected with its history, not onis identified with the improvements which bave given it ite supremacy of position, bet the pioneer and jeader in ali those movements; commencing bis sagacious and bold career almost without capital, ac’ persevering until he has established an institution yielaing consiaat weulth, standing on the safe basis of cash. Realizing the truth of Jobn Randolph’s discovery of the philosopher's stone, “Fay as you go,” the occasional shattering vf the credit syetem of the country passed by him as barmlessly as a summer wind, Democratic in all bis principles aud ten. dencies, but spurning the slavish shackles of mere party, censuring and approving as he chooses, censured by turns by all diversities of factions, because he will not become factious, his paper is more read, taiked about, Purchased and paid for than any other journal in the land. The Indians of New York State. OUR BATAVIA CORRESPONDENCE. Baravia, N.-Y., April 15, 1859, Toawanda Indians—Their First Council under the Relief Treaty of 1857—Prospect for the Future Improvement of this Band of Senecas, dc. It is tolerably well known to the public, especially to hat portion claiming residence in Western New York, ‘hat a controversy has long been pending between that Portion of the Seneca Indians known as the ‘Tonawanda band” anda band of epecuiators known as the “Ogden Company,” involviog the title and possession of 12,800 acres of land, lying mainly in the county of Genesee, and distinguished ag the “Tonawanda reservation.” As the ‘merits of that controversy have horetofore been pretty fully detailed through the columns of your valuable paper, it would be uecless to go over them again at this time. It fg sufficient to say that the friends of those Indians, and the Indians themselves, considered that they had been anything but fairly and honorably dealt with in treaties that had been heretofore forced upon them, by which the Preemption to their lands was claimed to have passed into the hands of the Ogden Company, and efforts were made to right the wrong that had thus been committed ‘upon this remnant of a once powerful confederacy. These efforts in behalf of the Indiang resulted in the consummation of a treaty, at the Tonawanda Roserya- tion, on the 6th day of November, 1857, between Cnarles E, Mix, on behalf of the United States and the said Tona. wanda band, by which they relinquished their righte to certain lands heretofore given them in Kansas, and the rights growing out of the same, by the treaties of 1838 and 1842, except certain reservations as to moneys to be paid by the said “Ogden Company;” and in consideration of said relinquishments on the part of the Indians the United States were to pay them $256,000 in casn. Out of this last mentioned sum it is the purpose of the Indians to purchage back such portions of the Reserya- tion—not Jesa thar 6,500 acres—as it may be advisable for them to do; and the balance—sfter said purchase—of the $256,000 to be invested in stocks for the beneilt of the Tonawanda band of Indians. A council ot the Indians was yesterday held at Tona- wanda, composed of the chief, head men and warriors, for the purpose of consummating certain matters on their part necessary to the {ical carrying out of said treaty. The ‘council was very fully attend. ed, and its proceedings witnessed by many of the white Settlers on and adjacent to the Reservation. Its proceed- ings were conducted with great order and regularits y and ina spirit of entire harmony. Ia thie respect, and (n ite genera) tone and character, it might be imitated by the ‘whites with great propriety. The council appoint the necessary attorneys and agent to carry out the provisions of the treaty on their part, and adjourned. ‘Thus, after a long and well contested struggle on both sidee, aro the troubles and difficulties whicn have beset the path of these Indians drawing to # close; and it cannot bat be conceded that a happier and brighter day is to dawn upon them: for it may be said with entire propriety that the treaty of 1857 is a commendable exception to thore generally mace on the part of the government with the red men. ‘It is characterized by justice and humanity, cesentiais which should form the ground work of ail treation with these men. The deep interest that is felt for these Indiana in this part of the State has induced me to write you. . The Last Will and Testament of the Late Wiliam Ladd, [From the Portland (Me.) argos, April 26 } Among the decisions announced in tho Supreme Judicial Court ou Wednesday last, and publivhed in our issue of Pte bad one of see Oe bo en thy American Peace ioty—respectin, will and testament of the lato William Ladd, of Minot, By this will the testator, after making some email le} cies to bis nephews, nieces and friends, bequeathed to his wife the sum of $60 per month, to be paid to her daring her life time. The rest of his estate, after leaving ample funds for the payment of the monthly allowance to the widow, was devised to John Tappan et als., ig trust for the caure of pence, to be paid over by them {o the Ex:cu- tive Committee of the American Peace Society for the time Be Auother item of the will provides that the amount of property reserved for his wife shall also be expended in the cause of pence in ten years after her death, ‘ a will was dated July 9, 1839, Captain Ladd died in Mra, Ladd, widow of the testator, died in December, 1866, and the trustees named in the will, John Tappan et al., there afterwards filed their bill in equity against Thomas Amory Deblois, administrator de bonis non oa the estate of Captain Ladd, praying the Justices of the Su. preme Judicial Court to decree that the said defendant shonld pay over to them “all the goods, ertate and effects Of the estate of the said William Ladd, which remained after the death of his wife, and all the proceeds of said estate to and for the uses and purposes set forth in his the raid Ladd’s last will.” ® The hearing in this case came off at the Jaw torm of the Bupreme Judicial Court in July last. The decison of the Court was ansounced on Wednesday lact, that the plain tiff should recover the balance of property in the hands of the administrator, By this decision the Amorican Peaco Society will re coiven handsome. jerncy—the amount of progerty in the dands of the adminiswator being about $12,000, from which ie to be deducted ¢he expenses of the law sult, Gomxa To THE Goud Minee.—“At noon yester- day,” says the Izavenworth (Kansas) Ledger, of the 19th inst, ‘we counted thirty-six wagons on Main atroet, betwoen Delaware and Choclaw, all louded and bound for Pike's Peak.” | THE PARAGUAY TREATY. Our New Relations with south America— Opening of the Great Rivers to American Commerce, &., &e., Our Asuncion Correspondence. Fiag Su Foxtos, Agcxcion, Paraguay, feb, 12, 1869. The Satisfactory Results of the Paraguay Expedition—The Indecisive Character of Former Negotiations—Captain Page in Td Favor with the Paraguayan Govermment for Releasing American Citisene—Lopes's Former Intracta- Ddility— Commissioner Fitzpatrick and his Luckless Com- mission—The Argument of ‘the Cannon—The Bowlin Treaty a Triumph—Lpitome of the Demands on Lopez— The Pendleton Treaty Thrown Overbvard—Advantages of the New Troaty—Free Navigation of the Rivers—The Treaty to be in Furce Ten Years— Lopes's Son to be Specia Brovoy to Washington—Lopes's Resistance to the Orapany’s! Claims—Oversight of the Company—Sterling Friendship & Brazil and the Confederatim—Pleasing Emotion: of the Paraguoyans—Regoicings at the Return of Peace~ Prdure Prospects of Paraguay Relieved from Despotiim— Lopes's Presents Returned—The Part Played by the Secre- tary of Legation, &c., dc. The fruits of the Paraguay commission are a treaty of friendship, navigation and ecommerce, a convention agreed upon for the flaal setilement of disagreements, rectema- tions, and all the diMsulties lately created between tho United States and Paraguay ; a declaration rendering tho waters of Paraguay ana their confinenta freo to the navi- gation of all vessels of the United States of America, and finally the explanations and apologies duo to our govero- ment for ingults to the flag and injuries done to American citizens. All this bas been accomplisbed in the brief space of three weeks ; and now thatthe political aky is at last serene, and the burthen of expectation and anxiety joyously removed from the hearts of these simple and do- cile people, I avail myself of tho leisure moments to discuss with you the wiole gubject as classed above. In the first place, I may say with eafsty that our past nego- tiations with Paragnay have been of a character so woak and blundering as to be disgracefal to the country, Our earliest representative was the actual minister to the Ar- gentine Confederation, Mr, Pendleton, who, accompanying Sir Charles Hotham, the British Eavoy, to this place, con- cluded on the 4th of March, 1853, a treaty with Presideot Lopez, in which the constitutioaal name of our country does notonce occur. Indeed, it almost seems to have been rtudiovsly avoided. Tho treaty was very properly re- jected by the Senate, the title of United States of North America being regarded as a barbarism, With this amendment of the Senate, it was cent out to Captain Page, all necessary powers and accompanying doon. ments being conferred upon that officer for its exchange. At this tims, however, Captain Page waa in the enjoy- ment of the perfect ill will of the supreme government of Paraguay, on account of his baving, a short period pre. vious, rescued a number of American ciliz ens residing in the country from the tyrannical oppression, if not poril- ous hold, of its ruler; and his official communications were consequently returned under the plea that they Were not written in the Spanish language. It was ovi- dent that the Paraguayan government has gained courage and ingolence from the indecision and imbecility of a cer- tain commander of the Brazil squadron, and an even lows creditable representative at Buenos Ayres, With usual tact, however, on the part of Prosideat Lopez, the State Department was immediately informed that a minister plenipotentiary wouid be acceptable to his government, for the purpose of settling the pending difficulties existing between us, at which invitation Mr. B. Fitzpatrick had the honor of being appointed on a mission nearly similar to that of Judge Bowlin, and took with him to Asuncion the luckless treaty that had so long been waiting to be exchanged. It was then utterly rejacted by the obstinate and intractable Lopez, his excuse for ridding himself of ite alight obligations being that he objected to the amendments. At the same time he offered to negotiate anew with the American Commissioner, Here, then, occurred a most extraordinary conflict of opinion. Mr, Marcy’s letter informed the Paraguay gov- ernment that the distinguished citizen of the United: States, Richard Fitzpatrick, was empowered to act upon all ques- tone then at issue between the two governments; but the Gistinguished citizen baving a much bumbler opinion of the powers vested in him, and nothaving read his instruc. tions with sufficient care, declared that his presonce in Asuncion was only for the purpose of exchanging the above mentioned unfortunate treaty, and which treaty the most excellent President of Paragusy uot being willing to ox. change, Commissioner Fitzpatrick permitted his corres. Pondence Lo be insolently clozed as it had becn begun, and returned to the United States. Finally, President Buchanar, whilst brecthing life into all our foreign relations, did pot overicok the negligent and disreputable state of our affairs with Paraguay, nor fail to recommend a proper course of action thereon to Congress, A competent mt- nister and a respectable naval force galvanized and im. proved the Pendleton treaty, which, in its preseat and More important shapo, is a triumph a& unoxpectod as it in difficult to obtain. The Bowlin treaty is framed upon the most liberal basis, and embraces privileges of which the mos: intimate and friendly relasions can alone permit, and which have nover before been acquired by any Power, uvleen T except the Brazilian. The Commissioner, in pur: suing ® course at once frank, firm and courteous, has achieved more than our government ever anticipated, and far more than the republics of Spanish America ever thought possible under the existing circumstances, The demands were explicit, the terms simple, Tae whole subject is embraced in the following ultima :— Firat—An apology for the attack upou the Water Witch from Fort Itapiru, being a vessel purcly engaged in scien- fife pursuits, for’the benefit of mankind, and particularly for that of the riparian States ong the waters of tho Rio ¢e la Plata, with an indemnity to the family of the seaman who was killed on board at that time, Second—An apology for the offensive manner in which Commander e’a proposition for an exchange of the rauitications of the Pendleton treaty was received, and for the insolent rejection, upoa the grounds alleged, of the fame treaty at the time when Mr. Fitzpatrick was special Commissioner to Paraguay. Third—A suitable indemaity to the United States and Paraguay Navigation Company for the losses and damages incurred by them in consequence of the treatment to which the individuals of that company were subjected by the government of Paraguay. Fourth—-The ratifcation of the United Senates amend ments of We treaty of the 4th of March, 1863, or in liew thercof anew treaty of friendship, commerce and navigu- tion, embracing the usual liberal Principles between friendly nations, with the privilege of continuing sciepti- fic explorations throughout the Fe oad system of rivers flowing through the valley of La » to develope their Me: Preeident of Pa fe © President of Paraguay preferring to negotiate a Dew treaty, and let the old Pendleton Ceaventien be oa ried in oblivion, Judge Bowlin hastened acquiesce in that wish, for the reason that he hoped to enlarge the pri- vileges granted six yoars back, though Lopez may have thought that by this procecding he might restrict sult More its terms. That fight we have won. The Commis- Sioner’s propoaition was that in matters of commercethe treaty should resemble that ge eg in 1853 with Gen. Urquiza; and aa the President of, the Argentine Confedera- ‘ion was present at the time, the concession was made to S certain extent. By the Pendleton treaty American ves- sels were not permitted to proceed beyond Asuncion, un- less the President should think fit to extend his favor in this respect to any particular individual; by the Bowlin treaty all the waters of Paraguay are free to our flag, though but one national vessel is allowed at a timo in each: river. Ihave no doubt but that Urquize was the means of our procuring this new and rare Privilege, though in case of necessity, for the sake of humanity and civiliza- tion, I believe we would have been justified in forcing it atthe cannon’s mouth, to let in the wholesome atmos- phere of the outer wurld Into the long pent up and fotid little world of Paraguay. Howover, without being bulli- cose or bomoastic, it is guflicient to gay that much has been obtained in thus securing the froe navigation of theae upper waters, he next important advantage 18, the extension of the time during which the treaty is to remain in force aod ‘Tuo Pendioton troaty was liraited to six yours &e. effect. the present one is extended to ten years, and to roma indetinitely in effost until one of the other party shall Bive m year’s notice of a d-sire to abrogate iis terms, These and other points having been settled, the ques- ton aroge as to where the treaty should be exchanged. President Lopez, who hag been accustomed to have under his eye every operation of his government and to conduct all ite business personally, would at first Soarcely listen to the proposition of exchanging the treaty at Washing- ton, and on the other hand he was sorely puzzled to dnd & man to whom he would be willing to trust such a mis- sion, particularly as it will embrace other matters of cou- fidence and importance. Judge Bowlin pressed the point, Stating that we had gent several representatives to Para. guay for the purpose of framing and exchanging treatios, wud that it was now tho desire of his government that President Lopez should rect the courtesy, As usual, the President eventually yielded. His choice has fallen upon bis youngest son, Beniquo Lopez, who. though scarcely of age, is perhaps the most quick wittord And intelligent of the family. He will proceed to Wash- ington next fall, and after breathing the pure air of the United States, will return, it is to be hoped, with new and Tegenerated ideas for the good of his country. Finally, the treaty binds Proaident Lape to concede to the United Stator all and any favors and privileges that May be granted, now or hereafter, to the most favored nation, of courre, entirely separate from the aan hag dts tee ‘eaty. It refera solely to the Indemnity claimed by the fuffering United States and Paragus: Navin! jon Company, and embraces a mutual agreement for the final rettioment. of there claims, T shall rejoice to Bee every doliar of the sum demanded ~ to this company ; for, without disci ing whether their calculations be Jast or not, it im a good substitute for the more forcibie lesson we had thonght to teach this petty deapot of a young repulic and inflicter of Bree ‘Wrongs and injuries opon all classes of her people, thas proved as bitter a dose bombshell. Any quant! ty of money he possesses in golden oances and silyor dol. Jaren, the reprerentati which i# the papor trash which, through the mysterious influence of the supreme govorn ‘Ment, 18 More acceptable to a Paraguayan in all matters o Purchase then the glittering coin itself; but the odious Claim, growing more odious with each thought of the im- mortalized Hopkins, he long and stoutly fought. To the Commissioner's pecuniary demand, he replied with the re- Peated denunciations which you will have read in the Ss manario, of the ingratitude Of the general agent, whom he hed treated with such especial marks of favor, aad like whom there was po other man in Par: juay. Such a de mand be was net willing to satisfy, “fie baa $10,000 to the Frenchman, and accompanied an insult with the gift; but the American Sgure overreached hie sense of jase tice, and gave him courage to resist Would not the most excellent tr, Commissioner two or three hon- Gred thovsand dollars and bring to a close discussion? So quoth Lopez one fine morning; but t= Commiseioner bad not she power to accept. te gensrons offer, and 0 resorted to his instructions, according wo which an agreement was concluded. Tue ‘cian is to be. referred vo Commission, composed of a representative wo ‘be chosen by each of the two Bovernments, and a» third one to be matually agreed upon. In case an arbitrator of this last character cannot be found, I stioutd not be sur- prised if either the Prussian or Russian Minister at Wash. ington should bave the honor of giving the ‘casting vot. At this be & poor consolation to gentiemen in Ne York and Providence, there is now no remedy for it. Why did. they not furnish Judge Bowlin with private instractions to. meet the offer that was made him by President Lopes? Would they have preferred taking the sum above mon- Uoned rather than wait some two or three years ioager for aX uncertain larger amount? [f 80, I regret toat they should have commitsed the error in vot Prepariag for sia contingency, The convention binds both parties to sud- mit to the decision of this Commission, which will vake» Place ome time next wivter duriug thy sitting of Con gree, und it is probable that nearly a year will be allowed. for the payment of the money. ‘In thia connec ion, yous may reat asfured that the frendship of the peror of Brazil aud General Urquiza was evinced in a Sabstuntied manner. Supposing that Lopez would not be able to enfler ibe pecuniary logs demanded of hin, I have no doubb, but that they offerea to meet, from Weir own coffers. any default, Indeed, it is probable tbat Sr. Amtrat hat tustructions to pay the whole atoount rather than permit 8 war to prow out of (bat queetion, wuich might give usm. show Of the advantages enjoyed by the Brusilian Emyire. aroonget ail these litte States, if not onable us to-associate. with her in the territorial absorption ebe ts enceeesfally carrying ob alovg her entire western and southern fron tier. Preeitent Lopez has not, however, accepted any such proposition, aad seems determmed to pay, frou his own pocket, whatever may be eventually required of him. The declaration io which Lhave referred was parpono- ly framed to admit Captain Page's exploring expedition in~ to whatever waters that officer migat see fit to visit, Im this respect I believe it to be satisfactory, The apology for firivg into the Water Witeh T understand to be ample and satisfactory. Lopez did not wisn bo visite the offence upon the head of the commanding vilicor at apiru, since he was acting in obedience to a general or~ der, hot has recognized the error of so infamous 4n act. The indemnity to the family of Chaney, the quarter = master who war killed on the occasion, is sufficient, por~ haps, to give them # comfortable support. Lam happy be fay that the President evinced every desire w provide imy this way for the family of the uuforiunete man. Proper and suflicient explanations were olfered at the game hime tor the discourteaus treatment to Cominander Page when he proposed to ratify the treaty, ag well a3 for" the Ingolent correspondence addressed to Ur. Fitzpatrick, ‘The peaceful aua happy settioment of all these uiffisule ties seems to ininse & new Life amongst the prople of Asvncon. The timid, who had feared to eounwnanre,. even by a word of welcome, the American visitors, hove thrown off thetr reserve and gtadiy fraterniza with thoie xew friends, The estrangemeut which they lad beon: long taught to feel for us, on socouat of the abuses in ine Semanario, wes reudily converted into an open and generous exhibition of friendship so soon ag the sooth. ing avd complimentary Jangaage of the same all powerluk organ had cbenged from its former fierceness ava malig nity. The Pregivent sev the example, when, understandiog: * thas we were to remain but a few days loager in his capi- tal, by wvitiog the Commissioner and Adinira}, witty Ube officers, to take an entbusiastic and most friendly leave of bm, and from that time the beautiful Futon was crowded tbe day jong with adiofring visivers, whist black eyes, shedding their lustre from beneath lang, dark laauers thet some men would travel 6,000 miles wo see, sbot confident glances amongst the giltterimg throng of the: Falton’s atid Water Witch’s officers. Upon the occasiom. of cur final reception by President Lopez, another formal discourse took place betwoen Judge wowiizy and bimeelf, than which nothing could exceed tne cordial and feeling septiinenta contained inewch, After some een~ versation, the President raised his weighty frame from eat. ap easy armcbair, taade several difllcult steps towards the. Commissioner, and finally succeeded in preseing bim to his spacious breaet. ‘The embrace was cordially returned, though, from the disparity in size, it seemed a ludi- crous performance. ¢ difficulty on the part of the Pre- sident to raiee himself to an elevation of six fect seemed only equalled by a want of length of arm on the part of the Coromistioner to encornpass his vastfricnd. Thirty American officers entered tne Paraguay Cabildoon that day—a sight novor before witnessed in Asanvion—and, next besioged the drawing room of Madame Lopez, a full, round, wholezome looking person, aud a fit match, as an occupant of #pace in the world, for ber illustrious hug- band, Serenades, bonfires, filuminations, flreworks, aud the government Lunda, proclaimed the joyfal tidings of peace with the American Usiou. The booming cannon have been shaking the frail houses with the reverbera- tions of their report, whilst the Ze Deumof the churche has united its autheim to the shouls of thanksgiviag and. festivity. It is a bappy day for Asaacion, if we could! but remain bere for a short time, the best aud moss oor- dial feeling would soon exist between all classes and cur~ selves, You will see by the latest issnes of the Semanario that Lopez has made the best of a'bad cause, No insult bav- ing been offered him or hig government elther on tae part of Commissioner Bowlin or Flag Officer Shubrick, he hae eagerly availed himeelt of the opportunity to let. enongha be known to show that his dignity and bis honor have net. been impaired. Amidst the happiest felicitations in ther renewal of good feeling between the Uaited States anc! Paraguay, be stil prociaims himsolt to the people of Para- y the magnate as before, in no wike diminished frares | his lofty estate. A speciai nario was iesued for this: purpose, im which the joyous President, delighted to be able to take the language of atuan who bas appareutly Jost. but little d'gnity,, gives vent to the same style of magaiiicent. effusion that always issues from thia supreme government. It is 8 weakness pitiful but pardonable, and if the jackaas Semanario is made to wear the lion’s skin it can do um no harm, The time most come when the President of Paroguay ehal! no longer monopolize the timber, the yerba growth, and half the products of the country. Thought, Conscience, speech must yet find an untrammoelled freetoms in this benighted land, and the influences of Yauco frie. tion will eventually accomplish it. Loper’s seray {8 an ty- rannical and infameus ag it 13 possible to be; but let tt re- ceive several sack shocks as the Paraguay Expeditien, and? civilization will soon spread its unmeasured bene Phroughont the most fertile and lovely country of tho La lata. Our thanks are due to his Excellency President Lopes for the handeome gift of yerba (Paraguay tea) with which. he proposed to bonor ug ou the eve of our departure, though there were constitutional objections to accopting: his generosity. A large quantity of this yerba had been: fent aboard the Fulton and the Water Witch—about a thousand pounds of it being intended for both the comme. _ sioner and the Admiral, one-third as much for tue secre~ taries, and a Jarge ees for the officers and crews of” the two vessels. It has been ordered off to-day. The Provision in the constitution which forbids persons hold~ ing offices of trust and profit under the government from, accepting medals, titles, and presents ff @ foreign Power, bas been eatisfactorily explained, and captain Of the port will receive the arrobas in return. It was Lopez’s desire, no doubt, to introduce by this means into: the United States the wholesome and nutritious ton of” Paraguay, which, although the universal beverage of thig whole country, would perhaps prove an unsuccrssfal ex- Periment elsewhere; or he may have beon quite as well Scquainted with the constitution as ourselves, and known. Bite his ‘btn Hy! whole growth of which throughout. jusy is so) vernment according to prices Axed. by, Ue auer—wouid not be accepted. fo will conclude by saying to you confidentially, that im the general success of the Pare contmieeia, tn the: judicious conduct of the negotiation, and the happy issues on each age of discussion, no little credit is duo to oar friend who wears the clerical coat and silver buttons—the pie of ig 1 — = Samuel futuro success appiness. woo him representative of United States near na republic. = bug The Joy of by soe at the Peacetal Termi- nation’ of his Mificultics—His Gratitude ta. President Urquize and the Braziitan Mints He Acknowledges the Kenetits from the it of the American Squadron, &e., &c. [From the Maraguay Semanario xtra oficial ‘organ of es) 2), Jan, 9. It has come to the knowledge of the éditore of the Sema- nario, that to-morrow, Tuesday, the lst of February, there: will remove from among us his kxcellency the President ef ‘the Argentine Uonfederation, Don Justo José do Urquiga, With his respected lady, Donna Dolares Acosta and one is younger sons, with bis staff, composed of Dr. Benjatatn Vietorica, Colonel Ricardo Lopez Jordan, aid-de-camp te- Hie Excellency, Dr. Juan José Alvarez, Honorary Preben- dary, &e., Dr. “Angel Maria Donado, in Chief of the Army, and Private Physician to His ‘cellency; Don. Juan Coronado, First Officer of the Department of fthe Secretary of War; Colonel Juan}N. Serrano, aid-de-camp te His Excellency; Lieutenant-Colonet Don’ (Juan Ramen Nadal, ; aid-de-camp to His Excellency; twelve orderiies “ tha! [apn xs efore the departure of his Excell the President tho Confederation nothing is more just han that the orgne, and exponent of the gontiments of the government of the republic, and of its peacefal fohabitants, should consecrate in it columns @ public testimony of gratitude to the Presi- dent of the Argentine Confederation for the kind and emi. nent services which, with so much disinterestedness and abnegation, he has font to the country, endeavoring with all sincerity that the questions which are agitated between the government of Paraguay-and that of the United Staves might havo a friendly and eatis- factory arrangement. This powerful Mediation is so much’ more to be gratefully remembered, tnaemuch: as Ss appears to us that the President of the Con- federation, notwithstanding the serious matters which re. quired his presence in the country over which he worthily presides, has hot wished to abeent himself from among us without carrying with him the Pleasing and secure conviction that the differences which unfortunately divide, in a certain sense, the government of the republic and that of the United States will enter into the peaceful fleid ot diacusrion, in order that the result might correspond in every respect with the intentions of peaceful sottle- ment which havo brought to our government the Prenident of the Confederation, the most illvstrions and excellent Senor Jose Joaquin Tomas de Ama. ra}, special resident Minister of bis Majesty the Emperor of Brazil; and his Excellency General and Sena tor Don Tomas Guido, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pignipotentiary of tho Argentine Confederation, Yerterday, in our ordinary number of the Smanerin, we would have been able to express the opinion of ont sincere acknowledgments; buteervices so greet and disin- terested deserve a npecial testimony of gratitude which Corresponds nnd harmonizes with tho faithful demonstra. tione of peace on the part of the jiinstrions Taediator, who can depart from out gol with the fall security of having left among us the most flatioring remembrances, Services of this nawre can nover be effaced. Only solfiah fouls ean covtemplate with Indifference the noble actions of our brethren. Tong Hive, then, in this flattoring. por- foasion, all the political and diplomatic entities that have grouped themeeiver around our government to interpore their good offices with the object of causing the jussice of par caure tre ascend in the eyes of the representative of the fovernment of the Union In conkequence the Paraguayan le and the govern. ment which presides ever it, are this day penetrated