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NEW YORtA HERALD.
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PROl'RJ /nOB AND EDITOR.
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W /iO'Z'K'E t"km nf an any**, out comfiiunicatiowt. We do
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if - I'KK TISEMENTS mcwtd every day.
foMrme XIX Mo. *4.
amusements tuis evening.
BCrtVERY THEATRE, Bowm)--Uhclb To*'! Cabis.
BROADWAY Til* ATRE, Bro*d*?y- Lauie* Beware?
A MuML'HJtStl SUHt'l Dueam.
BURTON'S TJttATRE. ChAmt>?r*-rtre?t? A MimvmmbK
Mioiit S UttCAM St*lOl'? tAUltlr.
TI ATT OVAL THEATRE, CWh?m utrtet? AfUrBOOB,
Ian i e Katv ? Evening, Uncle Ton j I'Aiia.
WALLAHS THEATRJB? Brfadway? Love ro? Lovb
XOVE AM) Ml tllili.
AMERICAN ML'SEl'M-AfMrnoon, Si* lltMWl <bw
"CmiME? Evening, The Oi.n Bucwebv.
BROAOWAV MENA'l'W I*? Luj.iruTiA.il kitn-lii
?wth Lady am> Living THtmtn Amma u
CHRISTY'S AMERICAN Ol'ERA UOfSE. 4W Broad
" wmj? Ltiuuimav MbmiuiKi bv I'llttlftTY'n Uimi-ktmi.
WOOD'S MINSTR-9' S. Wuod'e Miustrel BUU,4?4 Broad
4 ??>? ErMiork AW Mi.i hjuy.
nr< klfy s ofWra norsE xso *r<>n<*wr? Bi-cc
ui i Eimiuj aaw ftt?A Taours.
BANVARD'S Of/'RAMA, MM Broad
/hk IIoli Land.
RllENISU GAl. -ERY, 503 Broadway? D?y *nd Night.
t SIGNOR BLl'fj ? Stuvvbsaxt Iwi"r*tjf*, W9 liroad
WAT.
, BRYAN GAULERY OF CHRISTIAN ? ART? S43 BrdBd
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WHOLE Wf RI.D? 377 ??d 37? BwlTiy^tracon
r Bad Evening.
New Vork, Tuesday, MiwSi 7,' IVH,
Auollur .Hcctlii" In :lhv' Park.
AH citterns in fuvor of cfcoun street* i:re requested
H> meet at four o'clock tl?is afw.rnoon in f~ont of \ks
City Hall, to hear the report of the committee ?f -
pointed at yetterUay'H mwtitir . The present di.-i
graceful condition of oar ci}y calls for itnmetlif e
action on the part ef our (Vi rile; at*; all who !*ke
an intercH in the objocts for ivliinh I h ^ meoting4ian
been convened ni-e itivftr^ to attend, 'it ia proponed,
in view of t!ic culj?abl? ?<wlige'K? <>*hibited-by the
proper authorities, to appoint -a cuauoittee of two
from each ward wh??* duty it al?a!l be to takt the
subject into cousidcratioo ami- <teviae mean* for the
proper cleansing of thr KtreetH Let every otic who
can, alembic in the Park tliis afternoon.
The Hi?m.
Three steamers are f?Uy duo with later ^rtclli
gcnce from Enrope, viz. : the Alps, at -Boston, 'With
news to the 18th ult.; the Atlantic, at this port,
with dates to the 22d,aad-the'Asia, at Halifax, with
advices to the 26th. One of the latter vessels will
mofct likely bring the answer -of tbe Czar to tin; let
ter written him by Louis NApoJ eon. The ominous
aspect of a flairs at last accounts causes additional
information to be looked for with great anxiety.
The cause of the noiv arrival of the steamship
Black Warrior, from Mobile via Havana, is accounted
Ibr in a despatch from Charleston. It appears that
the B. W. has been seized at Havana for tin allege I
violation of the Spauis-h xeveuue laws, having a
quantity of cotton on board not included in the mani
fest. The American se.Wiaer John S. Gittings,
bound for New Orleans, had aiso been seized. We
have referred to this affair in .an editorial article.
The advices from Havana are to the 1st instant ;
bit with the exception of .the announcement of jjie
f miation of a body of eight iundred civil guards,
there wan nothing new.
The news from Washington today will be road
with great interest by all who . have been watching
the progress of events in -Shat.crty. The House of
Representatives adopted a resolution yesterday,
authorizing the Judiciacy Committee to send for
persons and papers, in order that they may inquire
into the propriety of ^directing tbe commencement
of legal proceedings against any person* who may
have received money paid oat of the Treasury on
the Gardner claim. The trial of John Charles Gard
ner will be commenced noxt we?k- The District
Attorney and Mr. Kendall have been appointed to
adminif.ter upon his brother's estate.
The Free Farm bill was debated .and slightly
. amended in Committee of the Whole, and after
wards passed the House by one hundred and woven
yeas to seventy-two nays ? socio fifty-eight members
being absent or not voting. This bill proposes to give
all free white citizens who are the heads of fami-les,
or are over twenty-one years of age, one hundred
and si.xty acres of wild land, upon condition that
the recipient fhall reside upon and cultivate said
land fur a period of five years. It is a little strange
that in the course of their generous philanthropy
mme of the Buncombe members did not propose to
dear, fence, break up, eneut buildings upon, and
Stock these farms, in order to give the now landlord
a fair start with his neighbors who have
paid for their ground and other property. How
ever, it is not by any means ocrtain that this bill
will succeed in the Senate, it being, with the excep
tion otthe clause ruling out the negroes, very simi
lar to a measure killed by that body at the previous
session. The majority of Senators, notwithstand
their tremendous grants to railroad speculators, are
believed to lutve a more nice appreciation of the
propriety <rf doing justice to all the States, and look
upon thc.jybliu domain as a grand joint stock con
cern, belonging to the whole people, and not to a
poition thev-of who may desire to obtain property
without duly paying for their share. Two measures,
proposing to/uj ersede this wholewl; gift arrange
ment, a:e now pending in the Senate? one intro
duced by Mr. J< ties, <?f Tencssee, and the other by
Mr. Walker, tbt chicf of the laud EPfortner party
Let us await the iction of the Senate thereon.
The House wj'l spend the next thfe>c /Jays in dis
cuioiiig Ttrritoii I bills, but the Nebraska- Kansas
question will n<t come up ior comiitleration this
week. The Senat? was not in sesoion >c.stcrd.iy.
A despatch (run Washington states that there i t J
little hope ior the coo-ltmation of the Gadsden trea
ty by the. Senate. itueudnf bencfltting tbe propo
sition, tl* 1'rcstdentV amendments, it ui thought, 1
add to i tec merits. 8* ita Anna places entirely too
high un es&nntc upon h* barren lands and wild In- j
.dians, partita larly, when* here is some pro- poet that
we shall eveu^jaliy get b<s') at trifling cost, through
the mediation %f Col. Walku- and his filibusters. j
Tliomm Devjr Reilly, OO ft/ f the exiled I.ii?h pa- '
triots, died in Wellington, ?t apoplexy, on Sunday
rfvenii^.
Roguos appear U be quite iU 4#mndant In Wash- j
Jngton, ccimj ared with the numtar o.' inhabitants,
as in this city. On Sunday night they set fire to
the house of Mr. Concoian, the banket , and also de
stroyed the beautiful block of marble a?*nt by the
Pope of Rome for the Washington monument.
The members of our State Legislature ar.e beam
ing to hurry along the work quite rapidly.- The
Henate was engaged most of yesterday iif dis
enscting the prohibitory liquor I, ill in f\, m
mittee of the Whole. At the close of th?'
debate, tbe bill was reported to the Senate
when H wm arranged, in order to admit of I
further amendments, that the leport should not t*
agreed to at present. This will g re the member* I
an opportunity to wast* much mote into on the
bill, and thus, if potpiHe, defeat It by ] > -rvi-ina
i Ihc Assembly tiau/sac. V'l ?? uquh .ahy large i
?asoobt of business for Holiday. the new ' >
bifls pending n that body are two by Mr. Leigh, '
jtk regulating the fees of the New York County
LTtrk.and the other providing for the more effectual
mppre anion of gambling and the sale of lottery tickets
mil lottery policies in this city. The action upon
the latter measure will be looked for with great inter,
est at this t me, when all sorts of he most stupen
dous lottery schemes, even supeisediug in boldness
the famous Art Union affair, are da;ly springing into
existence. Th;s mportant bill is a tached to the
very interesting despa eh from our special corres
pondent. It wi 1 be seen that it is quite dissimilar
from a simi ar proposition brought before the
Senate a t week.
Hon. Asa Fow'er, the ate aw partner o" Presi
dent Pierce, presided and ma le a speech at an anti
Nebraska meeting at Concord yesterday.
Seme inter st ng deta a of the European news
brought by the Nashv lie are pub! shed to-day. We
likew so give a 1 st of the names of the thirteen
American sailors belonging to thy Japan fleet who
were lost ina typhoon? with Lieutenant Mathews?
in October I s , in the Ch nese watc s. We arc in
formed that the Governor-General of Netherlands
India had pardoned Mr. C. M. Graham, first officer
of the American s hooner Flirt, who had been
sentaiml to tw? lve years imprisonment tor high
treamm. He was concerned with CapV. Gibson,
whose ill-treatment by the Dntcli authority at
Sumatra s now th s i.ect of diplomatic negotia
tion. We dearn from Naugte.ki, Japan, that the
Rum an Admiral had p seated the letter of the 1
Czar to the nobles of the empire much after the 1
same s'y!e in wli:ch Coixmodore Perry handed in
Mr. Filfmore's, and that, on the 15*.h of December,
he, lit; the Commodore, w;is quir tly waiti^j for a
fcply. i
There is a despatch 'rom Par*, dated o'clook '
Wednesday afternoon , the l.lth-ilt., statin:; that La j
Prt rir of that city -nf that dry gave the following
intelligence:? "We /hasten te verify the prodigious
impression which tfae letter his Majff-.ty the Em
peror Napoleon FI. to the Emperor of R issia ha*
.?produced iuPari*. France therein iwsognizes the
assertion of natfrnal dignity and the vntiments Of
justice. We aw?dt the response of tt* Czar. If ?cr
adviefs a:e orn-eet, it h s alreaty reached OLe
government. ^Ve are e??n assured that it hajr'de
ceived the hopes of the friends < f peace. Then
I nince will be obliged to leave to H e fate of ? rms
what might have been decided by reason." If this
be true, the news by the Atlanta , now fully due,
will be of the highest importance
liewfl by the Nashville dep-essed tho narket
for blond stuffs. Flour fell off about 12 cents per
barrel; common brands of State closed at $775, and
Indian coin, (white and yellow fJoutliern,) o^d at
P4c. a 85c., what was qaiet, without much change,
though prices fuvored purchasers.
By tho arrival of the British bark Stanley we have
received Kits of Nassau papers to the 22d ult. They
contain ? no news of interest te Now York reader.?.
; The Home of Assembly was engaged in diseasing a
1 bill to consolidate the duties on imports, the tonnage
. duty, and certain other imposts. A }>etition had
! been received, signed by a large number of the Ba
hama Inlanders, protesting against the proposed im
position ?*r fifteen per ccnt ad v,dorcm on all British
manufactured goods.
j A venerable citizen of Baltimore, Jacob Albert,
j died on Sunday night. II is estate is estimated to be
I worth two millions of dollars
Hie universal 6xpifcssiun of indignation at the
sickening condition of the Btrecte, and the
holding of a public meeting to devise means for
removing the fillh that embarrasses us at every
footstep, seem to have aroused the members of our
municipal legislature to a^ense of their duty in the
emergency. Exciting, protected, and very inter
esting debates took place on the subjoct among the
A Idei men and Councihiien last evening, as will be j
seen by the detailed reports in another column. A i
resolution authorizing the Bjard of Health to
require the streets to be cleaned immedi
ately, paused both boards. A large amount
of other business was also transacted. In the
Board of AJdermen, the new ordinance introduced
by Ahleiman Blunt, in favor of paying the
members of the Fire Department, was laid upon the
table on motion to that effect. A resolution was
i carried by which the Board for the fnture will meet
thiee times a- week. A variety of other interesting
! measures were passed upon, for the particulars of
! which we mu?t refer the reader to our reports in !
another column. We publish in our special report !
the ordinance for cleaning the streets and that
j in relation to the Fire Department, already re
j ferredto. J
i
Twenty-four of the pews in the church of the
. Messiah, (Unitarian,) Broadway, were sold at public
auction yesterday. They realized the sum of thirteen
thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars.
To-day's inside poges contain a report of the
coroner's inquest upon the body of an unknown
man found murdered under very mysterious clrcum
1 stances; continuation of the examination conocrning
the burning of howes in Brooklyn ; statement of
j Mr. Busteed re ative to the Restell case; a variety of
| commercial and miscellaneous matters an extraor
! dinary number of advertisements, Ac.
The Gardner WaiuL? Committee of Instiga
tion OrdernU-Ciirlouj Pact*.
By reference to the proceedings is the House
| of Representatives at Washington, yesterday,
| it will be Keen that that body has promptly or
i dcrcd the appointment of a committee of inves
: tigation into the unreveaied mysteries of the
Gardner fraud, with power to send for persons
and papers. This is right. Let the movement
| be followed up till every recipient from and
participant in this crime ? every one of high or
low degree ? is known, and his agency in the
! IVaud or in the spoils.
The closing tragedy of this Gardner trial,
when taken In connection with the gigantic
dimensions of the fraud perpetrated upon the
Treasury, and the distinguished parties impli
' catcd in it, ignoruntly <.r culpably, has given
' to this case a peculiar interest, which naturally
! escitM the public curiosity to have all the in
(i rraation we can give them upon the subject.
In looking, therefore, over the reports of the
first trifcl in 185S, ard the evidence submitted,
; we are (Wtoliiflhed th&t any jury not profoundly
j ignorant or straug< ly prejudiced in the prison
ers favor, could have come out of the ca-e
j with a division of nine for his acquittal to three
f r bis conviction. Take, for example, a specimen
1 of the evidence submitted against George A.
Gardner. Bio Vor !e is the district in which
his mine wasiccated. Wj extract from the
pric fifing* of ^'te trial 01 the 2(ith of April,
lh53 >?
Rio ^MR, Oft,. 10, 1851.
To nut Kikmi Ccvmi riiwi A latum *T imsCrrv. ?
! J. Cliirk'i > cltUcu of tho United States,
and tcinporfttfljr In thi < elty. apj-ear before yon. ?ml in
the rmst lo*#! manner and any thir my brother Dr.
i toi| A. tjari'ner, workxl luin-- it the [.lace called
I nru nUln?, in U e llti.i.-t.iti mountain* anil l.uown by
l.< i rnnr of Trln'.'lad I'Qlofkn and .-'?n .!**.. He ?pcnt in
them b large rajiHil.wbieh h*1 had to aim. Ion on account
?'t lis. vinp it" n e; 'led by TV tile of th" ttmt article of a
dec r< ? ol ;K/' i<vii <vT October, 1S4i'>. which vus issued by.
1 1n (r'.vi mnwnt oi tkja Han A* i> I* toherappoaed, not
< nh wu s the a] I;?l ikvi'k o<l Jo.*', but a Iso vf.ra the pro
f ? '? 1 U li must Lave rtsul.ed tlnrefrom; and u?w, In or.
iic r to make Mm rfpht* puerail In art r republic it noo<,s
..i) iJik ; tlit vriu<ciici< tfcat way b* presented <m?ni I bo
r\f ? iin'! .t),^ ii t ythi? n laffre |e 'ho ei.id njiut s, their
rorkl*ij; i'itncitig<Fiitab{}al||iicnt*. iVa^st'nfr mlite, ajule
TBI' " t<-i y i. u.l Mi ,.o? if il iy Im' i elation# ol my
') ><??! (t ?he< I u ihfy J,o r ii?l in'erft.teil in llila claim i
efflltr dlwll.v dt it lOcily nnd okcttv tbtjr U eg^'ntt I
or i uK.ors o'l tl.e ? ; rri'l the sttid-leporifloa* be
? i" tain i . h :uru roe tlx original 'r, r the purpose which
ii i y rait mi blot In r J, tl ere Core, nnnest you to order
I m I n li, hen uhp i, Is jar. J. < UABliSf* AKDKBR.
B)o Vi i.n* t)ct. 10, 1861.
V 1 al Ibe petiiioner a?l>* ennn I lie Hunt because what
_? ? i ri f itiiil in his petith n is no, tr ie, because net/ ber in
I n^.tiiaflla nor in all this deparlment are Ware, nor have
, & i V? r t< en, any tnlm ??. much le -t any of the impor
tant ii rs mnpiiti i'e Lai i# Intended tt1 b<i r^iireaeot# I;
. bor Inn Mr. t.eor^e A t an-nerever b i n ? B'-vb a:
n i.'i >n tin * jti r I- die ' ion. hi : as a on in I di.ebir
u lie j?<. w - jhat bf ratild^d hue, Hjy?*p>il- oulbot
m allude*} to la fala*. Ia conaaqaence, lot these writing!
m returned to him, with tb? pnmt Iwrw, and warn
iim in future to hare more reapecl to the judicial au
thority that 1 exerciae than to attempt to surprlae me
"?d make me an accomplice in a fraud bucU aa ia now
attempted to be made. (Signed.)
dMiNOK DOMINGO CHAVTS,
J. Bu?, Scribe. Kirat Jurgaro, Rio Verda.
The following ie the brief but signifl ant tele
graphi report of th ? proceedings in this trial
of April 18, 1853:?
TK8TIMONY OF COL. ABBOTT.
Washington, April 18, 1853.
In the Gardner caae, to-day waa occupied in the exa
mination of Col. ?. W. Abbott, who accompanied Dr.
Gaidner and Capt. Slocum to Mcxico, in November laat.
He deacribed bia journey to Laguinillaa, Inn *Uit to the
mines in that region," identified the mining deed, &o.,
substantially corroborating the teattmony of Capt. Slo
curt. lie identified the letter he wrote to the comia
aionera in answer to their adverti ing an offer of a re-,
ward for the minea; also their reply and hia rejoinder ?
raid hia object waa to get the reward, aud in the cour
of the crosH-exaralnatia* it turned out that Gardner ? jid
not personally point out hia minea, ti&auie he hid I ten
inttrucitd by Am counsel to hold no communication wUk , the
ccmm \MtUmert.
It appears that the cool self-possessior , and
unexampled hardihood of the ill-fatcl cr.m
nal wan equal to all ens-gen ies. Mr. Brad
ley, as the counsel for the defence, brop.ght for
ward, in hie opening (statement of the case, the
fallowing letter from E*. Gardner to "Mr. Fen
dall, the ?istrkt Attorney at V a?I lington at
that tin*;? hot**, ?> <*?y 17 > 1854- ,
m. vr?? V?bk WSKKLY HHLtU>i of t,ul ftt"
HKAII ^H^The NIWJ^K WWKLT ~ ^ tome, and
inHt?nt.'<?uUinK ? wp^ ? *tremoly chltl.acter_tu?
of a Plicate uatute, W vi^ honor ?n ^ ^
main toringof a the charitable par- I
mj Mexico ?.f* r?,? as if the
! anew of u?WFmong?^, is styled a iorg.rj, |
te.rm contained no offence degraded as to make
j Mm sorry to VoXTln^werTl at home would I
*f* the base origin of I
And return to the United States, to vindicate iny charac
ter and pro***.-. against my calumniators; but
I ? mature rrfletftton, and at the suggestion of ?J.?ents,
i I wis iiiduc*<ir -o take the present course of addressing
voJ iSSSta that. if an investigation has taken place
fc tore ?ou, you will W the kindnew to inform me inv
1 .uidUUly olvtherebult, and, if nectary, I wdl proceed
without ?M?y to the United States to clear ny?eU < it all
nuwpicton ?nd to confound my aocuwr*. My funds are
all in the United Kate* and at the disposal
nunt, ohoold the courta of my country decide against
"toOTMw, I would remark ti?t wtat has imduced
I me to wmVe light of this matteT is tlie entire faisity and
utter n^-.rdity of the statement I have seen in the
I Hnu i n B rqu" ft ing that you will .ttend t? my request
! assooi^H convenient, and address me under oorwto
George -Feubi.'dy, K*. of this cltjM
your <* dient servant, A. (jinunia
! 1*. K. iKNiuii, Ksq.. U. S. Attorney, &c.
I The article to which Gardner here refers, we
presume is the following oxtfract of a telegraphic
I ciei-pitch. which we copy from our files, beating
! ('u'* UfAffflWOrov, Julv 2, 1851.
i The attention of the IWWnt has been called to the
! rumor of the fraud alleged to have
Gardner in forging the evi<tan<re upon which his rtaim
! for nearly half a million dollars wms allowed, and to-day
1 a Cabinet meeting was held to deliberate upon it.
j Tlie government as yet ;)y>ss<v?es no ovidenee that a
i fraud w-us committed. fl.e fact" so far. are ^ '11^
stilted tliat Gardner liefore leaving for Kurope, declared
I to a gentleman in New Ytrk, who liad formerly lived in
' Mexico that all his were forgeries, and intimated
, that his counsel knew the- were ; that he hadb?sncom
celled to give up nearly?all tbe proceeds of hia award,
i except $80,000, to men vto? wereforeed on hiin as agents?
i Corwin, Corcoran, Curtis, Lally. and Thom^n? and
thftt as they had squeezed him a little too hard be did not
? care lii,w toon the matter wa* exposed.
; Edward Curtis hearing 1 his at once wrote to tl.e 1 re.l
dent demanding an investigation, and he has eome on here
to follow it up. 1 doubtexceedingly whether Gardner ever
made any kZ statements ; it is wU, dilferent from his
! character here; and if l?e did, the high character of the
| gentU men ? hom he has Attempted to as weUaa
! Mr. Curtis's prompt action, stamps that portion with
falsehood. If Gardner's evidei.ee is a forgery, it lathe
bent got up I ever hca.nl of. I liaTO aeun the idenee
and it gives a plain and apparent!/ truthful "count of
his proceedings; its minuteness alone throwing any
! drit Gardner's claim is fraudulent, so was that allowed to
J. 11. Wears for a less amount, and proved, >y the same
witnesses ?s Gardner's. The public may rest ass'ired that
the President will probe tlie matter to the bottom, and
every member of the Cabinet here is equally ,
that the truth should bo arrived at. It is also said that
Gurdr.er staled that a number of the Mexican Jegation as
sisted him in getting up the evidence. The Attorney
Gt uerul hus adopted preliminary steps to trace tlie m.i
tor out ; but it is clear that f>m.; competent l^f''"
sent to Mexico before the truth can be satW*ctorily
1 axplhincd.
The final verdict of the jury presents a strange
and mel ncholy contrast to the coolness wit.i
which this report of the Hkkalu wa-; treated by
poor Giirdncr in London ; but the de?p^toh it
self is another ,-triking illu tration of the fac>
thut when there is any great peculation or de
falcation to be detected, the New YorkHbbalp
is apt to be the fir=t upon the track of the guilty
parties.
How this fraud first leaked out is still soune
wl at involved in mystery ; but as far as we are
informed upon the subjoct, it was in ihis way .
: Mr. Edward Curtis was one of Gardner's -coun
! sel; and with Mr. Webster, was, also, we learn,
j of the counsel for II argons & Co., upon a claim
j for some two hundred thousand dollars, more or
less. Frt m Gardner the fee of Mr. Curtis is
stated to have been $20,000, from Hargoas k
Co., something more. Hon. Thomas Corwin, as
a Senator, had secured an interest, amounting
to $80,000, as reported, in tbe Gardner claim,
which interest, upon his transfer to the Treasu
ry Department, after stme negotiations in his ,
behalf by other parties, he sold out, as under
stood, to George Law, for $60,000 or $70,000,
hard cash.
Mr. Corwin, as Secretary of the Treasury,
promptly paid over the whole amount of the i
Gardner claim; but there was a hitch in the
Hargi us award. A certain Mr. Vogs, of Mex
ico. as an agent of that government, and as one
of the firm of Hargnus A Co., had failed, it ap
pears. in the payment to the United States of
a former indemnity of $100,000 or so, due from
Mexico, and fir meeting whieh the money
had been advanced to Voss from the Mex
ican treasury. Mr. Corwin is said, therefore, j
to have demanded this deduction from the
Horgous award. But Komc of the parties inter
ested threatening, if this was insisted upon, to
blow up the Gardner claim, the story goes that
Mr. Corwin, for the sake of p aco and h.?rmony ,
forked over the whole amount of the nargous ,
award, leaving the unsettled Vow indemnity
outstanding among the bad bills of the Treasury .
Unfortunately, in the meantime Mr. Curtis had
broadly hinted the Gardner fraud to President ;
Fillmore, and from that moment an investigation .
was inevitable. Mr. Fillmore at once instituted ,
measures to ferret out the truth, and to his active
honesty, be it said, is the country mainly in
debted for the final conviction of at least one of
the guilty parties. Shall the others escape?
A committee of Congress has exonerated Mr.
Corwin from all knowledge of *tbe frtudulent
ch: rtcter of the claim; but conceding the point j
that in this business Messrs. Corwin, General |
Waddy Thompson, Major Lally, and all con
cerned, w ere " all honorable men." the question
recurs, win t is it th y intend to do with their
share of the spoils? * Will they keep it. or re
fund it to the Treasury, where it belongs'.' Let
the investigation proceed.
FirsT Appeal to tiif. Peopt.k. ? The New
Hi.ni|ifl ire elections of the 14tli, will be the
t'rft opportunity for a direct appeal to the
per pie on the Nebraska hill; yet the adminis
tration nn<l its special organs nt Washington
and C> rcrrd. are doing their brut to dodge the
re Fpoi> ihility , l'ke Clayton and Everett. There
is no life in Irying. however. The question 1
nuist be met. '1 he administration, among all j
parties at Washington. is pet down for the hill.
I < t it no Le considered in New Hampshire. If I
f cl rnska can't pave ti e President among the
ranite h'Hp. lie is past praying for. Let the
(f ue ho fairly tried ? no blinking, no skulking,
B ) (lodging the plain question. i
Tfee Defeat* ? ft, tw>|, w ttt
kcuka BUI.
Now Satur ay** votfe has close 1 the
career of . the Kansaa-N braaka bill in the Senate,
it is cu> /ioua to trace the progress of the debate
which /tag occupied the time of that body for
the 1p ^ thirty-four days- In the first place, we
noti< je that the intro Auction of thiB measure, at
a t' .me when the only disturbing elements in our
nP <tional politics were the growing distrust of
t' he administration and the spreading conviction '
that the country had been duped at the last !
Presidential election, succeeded, in a marvel
lously brief period, in overthrowing all the old
party associations, and effacing the remaining
landmarks of our political parties. It is
entirely impossible to conciliate the vote on the
final passage with the notion that political men |
in this country are divided into, or distin- |
guif-hed as whigs and democrats; and as the im
portance that has been attached to the measure
entitles it to take rank as one of those legisla
tive acts which give birth to parties, the sooner
the old names are forgotten, the clearer shall
we see through the political fog. Of the twen
ty-nine ayes registered in favor of ordering the j
bill to a third reading, ten were from Northern
men; and all the noes were from the North. '
The South voted in a boly for the bill. On the
final vote, two Southern Senators were induced
to vote with the twelve Northern oppo- '
nentB of the bill; but both Houston and i
Bell based their opposition on the ground :
of its being unjust to the Indians, and '
apparently concurred in the constitutional
arguments of Douglas and his supporters. Of
the remaining twelve opponents of the bill, at
least five were thorough abolitionists who would
assail slavery in Virginia, if the rules of the
Senate permitted it. Of the seven others
j three were whigs, and four democrats. The
Northern vote in favor of the final passage of
the bill was 14, all democrats; the Southern
vote 23, of whom 14 were democrats, and 9
wbigs. These figure? show pretty clearly that
with respect to this measure the old party ties
were forgotten, and the Senate naturally divid
ed itself into the constitutional party, for the
bill; the opposition 'party on varioas grounds,
against the bill; and the dodgers, who lacked
courage to vote for <or against. The strength
of these three parties, as shown by the final
vote, stands as follows :
Constitutional party... 37
Opposition, comprising free-soiierg, abolitionists, Ate... 14
Dodgers - ?. 6
Sick and absent, (of nhom four would have joined tlie
constitutional party and one the opposition,) 5
Total ~ 02
These figures may serve as an index to the
future course ofdhe Senate.
During the ^discussion, as much eloquence,
intellectual power, moral courage and moral
cowardice have been developed in the Senate
as it ever displayed. Many of the speeches that
have been made in the month of February will
compare with any that have been heard in
Congress during this century. But, strange
to cay, several of those which displayed the
greatest intellectual power and oratorical
ability, were delivered by men who did not
possess the moral courage to vote on either
side. Mr. Clayton for instance reviewed the
constitutional -question in a easterly manner, i
and gave a very appreciable accession of
strength to the side of the bill ; but when the
matter came to the test, he had not the courage
to give it his personal support by his vote. So
Mr. Everett delivered an eloquent and fervid
burst of declamation against dispossessing the
Indians of their birthright ; but his courage
failed him when he attempted to grasp the con
stitutional question, and he eluded it altogether,
following the example of Mr. Clayton, and re
fusing to vote on either side. Others endeavor
ed to . conciliate both parties by pursuing a
middle course and speaking on both sides
while they voted on one. Whatever may be
thought of the plea for the Indians put in by
Senators Bell and Houston, their position on
the constitutional question is with the sup
porters and not with the opponents of the bill :
and should other questions arise involving the
same principle and unclogged by collateral
points respecting the Indian rights, these Sena
tors would probably be found among the con
sti tutional party.
Another anomaly presented in the course of
the debate has been the singular unwillingness
or incapacity displayed by men of very re
spectable intellectual powers, to discuss the
constitutional principle involved in the bill.
Most of the Southern speakers took that ground,
and dismissed collateral points ; but as a gene
ral rule, the Northern whigs cither shirked the
constitutional question entirely, or discussed
It fn a superficial unstatesmanlike manner.
The bulk of the speakers against the bill quib
bled on the constitutional point, and seemed
anxious to get it out of the way as soon as possi
ble in order to revert to more popular themes.
Messrs. Seward, Sumner, Chase and their follow
ers based their opposition to the bill on the im
morality of slavery. They refused to sanction the
organization of Kansas according to the consti
tutional rule, because they said that involunta
ry servitude was a moral wrong, a human wrong.
But whether slavery be a human wrong in any
degree, or not, the constitution recognizes it,
and expressly authorises it as one of the ele
ments of political power. So long as that con
stitution remains intact, the recognition pos
sesses binding power, and wc cannot refuse to
be bound by it without assailing the constitu
tion ittelf. It would be more frank and honest
for Seward and Sumner to follow ont their doc
trines to their natural limits and to imitate j
Theodore Parker in striking at the root of tbe
slavery institution in the original compact be
tween the States. Their present position lacks
manliness ; they strike with one hand, and affect
to shield with the other; though, to aa unbiassed
ohservi r, it is clear as daylight that their aim
in opposing the Kansaa-Nebraska bill was to
revolutionize the country and not to seek a
constitutional arrangement or adjustment of
the difficulty.
The debate in the House will probably elicit
some new view s on the subject. The fresh and
youthful talent which is assembled in the pre
sent Congress will Hud ample scope for its exer
cise in the momentous measure that is now laid
before the House. We trust thai the members
will benefit by the example of the Senato, and
will eschew nil foreign considerations to grapple
with the constitution question only. If they
adhere to this rule, they may eclipse the debate
in the Senate, and earn lusting fame.
Murine AflTnlr*.
I.arcb KntlD of Tm. ? Tlic nliip Middlesex, arrived jct
tcrilny from Liverpool, experienced henry weather, ami
n?* for (1t? daya in the ic<\ from Int. 61, Ion. 47, to lat.
4?, Ion fil, during which *ho passed through thrfH; hun
dred mile* of Ice, and thirty Iceberg-i wer? counted at
one time from the tmwI. The Middlesex had her false
slim nn<1 a jortion of the main st<m earriml away whilo
l<nM>!ng through it, and the vessel would hare been cut
through but for th<" precaution of Biing ioiu > boiler troa
Op tor l ow. I
wnnteg ff?wa bw o?ta.
Whilst General Pezuela is playing the toady
to British agents and British visiters in Cuba,
he never neglects an opportunity of manifesting
his dislike to, and hampering every interest
connected with, this country. In this he is
eclipsing the vindictive examples of his prede
cessors, though we doubt not he is acting in ac
cordance with his instructions from the home
government.
Every one recollects the impediments thrown
in the way of our commerce after the first in
vasion of Cuba by Lopez, and the interference
by the Cuban authorities with our lines of mail
communication touching at Havana. After
Lopez's second invasion they directed moat of
their hostility against the New Orleans line, !
and it was only after considerable trouble and <
the exerci e of a great deal of tact that George j
Law succeeded in getting the matter partially |
settled.
For some reason or other which in as yet un- i
explained, and which in the regular course of
Cuban policy is likely to remain no, the Cup- j
tain General has recently taken it into his head
to aggravate these petty persecutions in the '
case of the Black Warrior, by directing her
cargo to be overhauled on her last voyage. It
consisted principally of cotton, shipped at
Mobile for New Tork, no portion of it being
consigned for Havana. No attempt has ever i
before been made to inspect the cargoes of
American steamers calling at that port, and the <
agents of the vessel are wholly at a loss to ac
count for the motives of thl^nusual and vexa
tious proceeding. Whatever^ they may be, it
would only be waste of time to endeavor to
penetrate them. It is time, however, to put a
stop to the exercise of this wanton tyranny,
which is evidently dictated more by a desire
to offer petty annoyances und obstructions to
our commerce than by any well founded
grounds of political necessity.
The Cuban authorities have plaoed themselves
in a position of such complete diplomatic isola
tion that there is no use in endoavoring to seek
explanations or to obtain redress from them for
this unjustifiable abuse of their power. They
would only play the old game of referring us
to the home government, which would again
refer us back to them, thus keeping the ball
on the bop, and dodging inquiry until perhaps
ttie Captain General's term of office would ex
pire, when the whole affair would be lost sight
of. or set down on the list of his official sins.
It is time, we say, that such an anomalous and
vexatious state of things should be put an end
to by forcing the Spanish government to re
ceive a regular diplomatic agent from us at
-Cuba, in order to watch over and protect the
interests of American citizens and commerce
in that quarter. Failing in this act of justice,
eo indispensable to harmonious relations be
tween the United States and Cuba, we may be
driven to the alternative of a forcible fulfilment
of the policy of " manifest destiny." We must
cither have friendly intercourse with the island
or the island itself.
Newspaper Fabrications. ? It is part of the
system on which the New York Tribune is con
ducted to sustain its favorite theories by facts
if they can be bad, and if they cannot, by fab
rications. Thus, seeking, a few days since, to
arouse a fanatical excitement against slavery,
it gave currency to an imaginary tale of negro
burning at Natchez. It narrated the occurrence
with the utmost circumstantiality, told how
many slaves were present at the auto da ft, des
cribed the attitude of the white spectators, and
used the whole as a text for a furious onslaught
on Southern institutions. As soon as the anec
dote reached the scene of the alleged occur
rence, its falsity was at once exposed. No ne
gro had ever been burnt there, no gathering
had taken place ; the whole affair, from begin
ning to end, with all its tragic episodes and de
tails, was a wanton fabrication. From the
length of time which elapsed between the de
tection of the forgery and the appearance of a
retractation in the Tribune, as well as from the
sneaking manner in which that retractation was
made, most people will be strongly inclined to
think that the Tribune knew the story was
false when it pul)li.-hed it, and only told the
truth when it became impossible to prolong the
imposture.
It was on precisely the same principle that
the same journal, anxious to make it appear
that the North was hostile to the Nebraska bill,
contained the following paragraph a few days
since : ?
There wan a strong effort made on the 14th to stare off
the anti-Nebraaka rrftolntions in the Indiana legislature.
To effect this a strong appeal was made to the political pre
judices of the members; but the effort not only proved
abortive but drew out several democratic members in j
strong denunciations of Senator Douglas. One of them,
Mr. Kemmington, said that "the name of Stephen A. j
Douglas would appear in future history among pollti {
cians as that of Benedict Arnold among the soldl-rs."
Another, Mr. Pcott, called npon any ono "who knew any ,
good of Douglas ? of any important service lie had run
dered the country, to state it." The debate was pro- j
tracted and exciting; bnt the original anti Nebraska re
solutions were Anally ordered to a third reading. Having
"sown the wind," It is bat proper that Douglas should
"reap the whirlwind."
Everybody out of the Tribune office, and we
suspect, most of those in it, know very well
that the Indiana Legislature has not been in
seFfdon this winter, and that no such occurrence
as that narrated in the above extract could have
taken place. It suited the purpose of that jour
nal. however, to make it appear that the North
was unanimous against Nebraska, and being
short of facts, the writer for the Tribune sup
plied the deficiency with the above fabrication.
We could mention well nigh a dozen such
forgeries, of which the Tribune has been clear
ly convicted with in the last five or six years :
beginning with the battle of Slicvegammon,
the Wilkesbarre tragedy, the meeting in North
Carolina, Ac. But men's memories reqnire no
assistance from us, and the facts of the Tribune
are now as well understood as its theories.
I Fires and Firemen. ? The Aldermen last j
I evening laid on the table Alderman Blunt's j
project of an ordinance organizing a body of j
I paid firemen. As they raised no objection to I
| the action of the Board of llealth in the matter .|
of the street cleaning, we arc inclined to treat j
Ihem with more indulgence than they would
I otherwise have obtained at our hands, and wo j
will not do more, at this time, than express a
regret that Mr. Blunt's very judicious sugges
tion should not have been taken up and referred
to a committee or diseased at the time it was j
presented. We trust tlmt some spirited Alder- i
man will call it up next week and take the
sense of the Ponrd on its merits. Last Satur
: day night two hundred and seventy-five lliou
, sand dollars or thereabouts of property were
| destroy* d by another lire. Theflres in the city
during (he month of January consumed over
j one million worth of property. At the rate we
have commenced the y< ar pome six millions
worth will be destroyed lieforo December 1854.
We l.ave not the smallest doubt that the major
I ity of the contingrations wliVli go to swell tlii.s
1 cnomvus lif-t will le due to incendiarism. is'vt >
y
as the matter is pressing, will we aerapla to at
sert that the inoendiarieamay be found, in nin
instances out of ten, among the vagabonds win
hang about fire engines, and are always the flrs
to offer assistance at fires. These fellows ar
not in the habit of working from pure philao
thropy. They are ragged, drunken and vlciou* -
they spend more money than hardworking me
chanics, though they have no home, and no fan*
ily to support. Wheaee come their means o
subsistence, unless incendiarism and pillage bj
classed among their ordinary resources? W
have not a shadow of hesitation in stating thin
a comparison of New York and other large cititf
will give rise to a presumption, so strong as t| /
be almost irresistible, that a majority of till
lires which weekly desolate our city are thl
work of incendiaries ? that our system of volurf
tary firemen facilitates their nefarious scheme
? aud that nothing but an alteration of this ay*
tern, and the substitution of one under whic
the firemen would be an organized and paid b<
dy would remedy the evil.
Clkam.no the Streets. ? After allowing th
city to rival the filthiest pigsty e in the countr -
for full a fortnight, the Mayor has at lengt?
summoned courage to call the Board of Healt '
together. The Aldermen and Councilmen la;
evening empowered them to act, and th*
meet this afternoon with closed doors t
usual, to take counsel on the section <
the law, which authorises them " to giv
all such directions, and adopt all su<^
| measures as in their judgment may be nece
I sary for cleansing and purifying all such buil?
ings, lots and other places, (meaning places ?.
any description within the city,) and to do <(
cause to be done everything in relation ther^t'
which in their opinion may be proper to pr
; serve the health of the city."
If there be a single member of the Board <
Health who doubts that under this law t)
streets may now be clcaned by the Board, 1
deserves that his door be forever closed up wi
mud. It is so clear that in a week or so h
I
| weather will be upon us, and that crowds
? immigrants will be congregated at every ct
' ner in the lower part of the city, that from )
; other body than a municipal corporation in Nt
, York should we anticipate any hesitation or t
lay in purifying the streets from the heaps
mud, garbage and filth which now choke thes
but after the experience of the past three mont
we are almost prepared for anything. Office
who, in the face of a law which prevented t
streets being cleaned by the ordinary meai *
I entirely neglected the obvious resource of
I appeal to the Board of Health until the pr;,
! forced them to act, are very likely to find soi
pretext for nullifying that resource now that
; has been found. Whether they do or no, t
; people of New York will now take notice tb
if the streets still remain in their present sta
the fault will be with the members of the Boa
of Health, and they ought not to be suffered
transgress with impunity.
We say that the law prevents the immedia
cleaning of the streets by the only means i
which the Comptroller is authorized to pa
Between our " reform " charter and the fraud
lent contracts made last year, the Corporatl
now finds itself obliged to go through the whe
work of dividing the city and advertising t
fresh contracts for cleaning the streets. XI <
operation will not be completed before the J K
of April, and till then Ihe mud must rema
where it is, unless the Board of Health orders
to be removed. We need not lay stress on t
absurdity of the laws which place ns in i}, i
dilemma. It is one of the first fruits of t^'j
legislative tinkering that has been going on
Albany for the last ten or twenty years. I 1
stead of endeavoring to induce the masses t
vote at civic elections aud choose honest ai
able Aldermen, the clique of individuals wl
have taken our municipal matters under the
special supervision have rushed to the Legisl ?
ture whenever a corrupt Alderman turned u ?
and procured a law to prevent the recurrent * 5
of his offence. Far better and more senslb 1
would it have been to repeal all these amende
and counter-amended charters, and revert t. '
the old system of twenty years ago, und<
which the Mayor, Aldermen and Councilor
were empowered to discharge their duty wit)
out fetters, and absurd restrictions ; and 1
secure their integrity and efficiency by talrir
the business of their selection out of the ham
of the grogshop politicians and ward bullie
We shall be driven to this at last. f ?
Editoks Wanted at Washington. ? Why do*
not the United States send on its Sergeant-a
: arms for certain editors in New York, suppose
to bo guilty of violating the secrecy of the & t
mite, in the publication of the Gadsden treaty*^
There are some of us here who want to go <
Washington to see how it looks, provided tb J
government will pay the fare. And we wai i
to see how they are getting on with the N<* '
braska question in the House, and Colt's paten ;
and various other things. Let the Senate
therefore, without further delay send on thei
officcr with a writ of hubeas corpus. We migt .
be usful on the Nebraska question. Who know*
Value of Church Property in Mew YorU. j
S1I.B OF l'EWS IN TnR CI1UKCH OF TUB ICKSSIAh
UKOADWAY.
A wile of several pews in the Church of the Messial
(Unitarian,) the Her. Samuel Osgood, pastor, took plat
in that building yesterday afternoon.
There were a number of gcntlemon present, among)
?whom were the Hon. Aenrge Bancroft and Thomas Tile |
ton, Esq. The President of tho Society read the tern <
ef sale, aud the pews were afterwards put up at a fin
Tain at ion price, and bid for on a premium advance. T1
following table exhibits the result of the sale
Xo.ofl'tH). J 'urchater. taluasion. l'rtmium. Vn'a I
7 .. Mr. 8. I). \ an fciiitick .... $?>00
19. . l:octor Loner ?>60
*i3. .Mr. W. J. Smith 450
48. .Mr. B. .1. HotlTafid SOO
64. .Mr. U. W. t oi lies 9f>0
Cfi. Vir. Jus. Rryce 850
f.6..Mr. J. A. 1 ore ROO
72. .Her. S. Osgood 250
73. .Pnstor's 1 ow
7ft. .Mr. Y\. U. ltay 200
70.. Mr. P. Miller 200
82.. Hon. Geo. flanCTOft 700
84. .Mr. feguire BfiO
90.. Mr. \\. I). Cromwell SOO
303.. Mr. Kd. l,udi< w 8tH>
109.. Mr. C. IV Halstoad 000
110.. Mr. ? Green way 660
111.. Mr. O. K. Cook *'"0
112. .Mr. C. Timing #*0
116. . Mr. H. A. Johnson 100
1^6.. Mr. R. l.en<h 4&?
ISO. .Mr. J. W. Newton 550
167. .Mr. 8. J- OarUrtier .'!00
101. .Mr. T. A. lulaue 175
181. .Mr. B. Heath 400
Total *13,826
SUty-ohe i ewe. which wore marked as for sale, r?
inainul untold. The aterago price of each was (lie
pretty much tu-j wine .i s that given for those which wet
disposed of. 'Ilii nms lilrstoii Kaip, said he would giv
a donation of $600 to bring ttft tlie fund sale.
A meet ii jr ot the trust) rs was held last evening.
?5
Par.
Par.
10
10
Par.
Par.
Par
Par.
Par
26
Par.
Par
10
Par.
11
Par.
Par.
Pnr
Par.
Tar.
Par.
Par.
Par.
?71 $13,39
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8
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. 25,
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('My Politic*.
MH.TINO <K I If ?? TOt'NO VI.n'H DEMOCRATIC BEPI'I!
LtVAN OKNKKAL COMMITTBK.
A meeting of thl* ('< lui'iiit'-t wa* held Uat ni,;ht lit th<
' tiij vo- ii >< i Ir.t'lt , t ?? Hii ii' vi. |ir.'M'nt a Urh" majorl
ty of tin irii mli' ro 01 the o? mm', tee. ' ^
H <? (< II. . ? ; i ' v ? n ti in i >1 ? - 1 < :i lopt-l -
Ilrfohcl Iriitt ? ?U II iati< i urtv *tow with thf *r*T#*
coucfrn tliy ?p[ ?r< nt alt mptcd intervention of ??m* '