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No-tv York, Sunday, May Ml, 1834,
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AFFALRJ IN WASHINGTON..
We learu frcm Washington that, probably in view
of the unsettled state of our relations with Spain,
the Secretary of the Navy has issued an orJer di
recting that all vessels of war on the point of de
parture shall be delayed. It is not unlikely that in
formation reached the State Department by the Er[
ropa of a character to convince the administration
that the course hitherto pursued towards Spa ||
will neither result in credit to our country nor in
the settlement of the pending difficulties. Porto
Bico presents at the present moment a favorable
point of attack, as the force upon that Island has
been reduced consids^bly in order to increase th. t
of Cuba. The recall of the Japan squadron and fclie
recent order of the Navy Department would be re
garded as ominous if emanating from an adminis
tration distinguished for anything but its imbe
cility.
Contrary to general expectation, the Hous<]
Representatives adjourned yesterday afternoon, at
three o'clock, on motion of Col. Richardson. JJ
twelve o'clock the debate on-the merits of the N J
braska bill was closed by a brief but spirited appeal
from tbe leader of tbe majority, counselling the
friends of the measure neither to ask nor receive
quarter from their opponents, and to vote down all
amendments. For three Lours did the factious mi .
nority present amendment after amendment; but
every proposition was voted down, with scarcely a
syllabic of reply from the majority. After a brief
interval, which will doubtless be spent in intriguing
on both sides, tbe struggle will recommence; aud if
the friends of the bill have sufficient stamina to eu
ilure the fatigue of a forty-eight hours session they
will at noon on Wednesday?the hour agreed upon
lor taking up tire Pacific Railroad bill?liud them
selves at the point from which they started. It is
possible, however, that some sort of a compromise
will be effected; and the substitute of .Mr. Getting,
to which ue have heretofore alluded, if presented at
the proper moment, may afford a platfom upon
which men of all shades of o; iuion, excepting 01
course the extreme ultrai-ts, can unite. It is time
this matter was dispo ed of. If the members of the
present Congress are afraid to meet the question,
let it be postponed, and the regular busiues- goon.
ABOLITIONISM IN THE C'Hi ilCHKS.
We regret to ec, by the proceelings of the Pro
testant Episcopal Convi ntion, lately in session at
Philadelphia, that the fcil spirit of abolitionism ir
gaining rapidly among the clergy of that denomina
tion. On Thursday a proposition to rescind the
rales whereby the African churches of that dioceas
are declared not entitled to .send delegates to a con
vention, or interfere with the general government
of the Church, was warmly debated, the clergymen
taking the affirmative of the question in nearly every
instance. I'pon the vote the motion to rescind was
lost by a majority of nine churches. Among the
ministers there was a majority of forty for repeal.
It would seem natural to suppose that the long liti
gat ions and quarrels that have resulted to the Metho
dists and others sects that have split upon the rock
of slavery, would have served to deter the Episco
palians from encountering a similar danger, but we
fear they, also, are fast becoming demoralized by a
mistaken philanthropy.
The Methodist Church in this region seems to be
thoroughly impregnated with the political heresy of
anti-slavery, as appears from the resolutions re
ported by a committee of the Conference held in
this city, which we publish elsewhere.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
In another part of our paper will be found a docu
ment entitled a Memorial from the Central Demo
cratic Polish Committee of London to the President
of the United State*, which we presume has merely
assumed this important caption in order to call more
general attention to its contents, as no clearly de
fined objects are set forth as the motives of this
V ecial dedication. As an trjwi of the causes th .t
liavc retarded the regeneration of Poland, ami of
the grounds upon which tbe hopes of the democratic
party are founded of its near consummation, this
document will lie read with interest. It shows that
the former is owing in a great measure to the want
of great centres of population, the consequent
difficulty of communication between the widely
strewn villages, but more especially to the marked
Reparation that exists between the people and the
nobles. This separation is not only one of interests'
but also of habits, prejudices, affections, and, in
most of the provinces, of dialect aud language.
The only sentiment tiiat unites them is i ive o?
country: but that is so differently conceived that tbe
proper moment for rising will never be the sim >
for both clas-es. unless it be imposed upon
them by European event*. After demonstrating
that these causes are disappearing fast, owing to
tbe results of the revolution of 1*48 and the good
ellbcts on the minds of the Polish |>eople of tlie ad
mission of the serfs of Gallieia to the national rep
resentation, it proceeds to draw the conclusion that
the independent nationality of Poland is the one
gn at condition necessnry to prevent Russia from
putting itself at the head of the Grcco-Sclavonian
world by the conquest of Constantinople, or of es
tablishing the Pausclavonian empire, of which the
possession is otherwise assured to it.
A young gentleman of education and standing in
his native island of 8t. Domingo, and whose name
is appended to his remarks, appeals to the American
people, through our columns?against the erroneous
opinions entertained in this country respecting the
Dominicans and their young republic. Seiior
Gautnr came to the United States about two
months ago, in order to study the laws and institu
tions of this republic; bnt the alarming intelligence
of hostilities with Hayti hastened his retnrn home.
Before leaving he claimed for the Dominicans the
hearing which we cheerfully accord him.
matters in the city.
According to the report of the City Inspector
ibere were but 394 deaths in this city during the
wtek ending 20th inst. Of the whole number 139
were children under ten years of age, anil 58 Inmate*
of tl e various penal and other institutions, leaving
only 103 for our immense adult pop elation. There
were 88 victims of consumption, 13 of congestive
diseases, 11 of diarrhoea, 26 of dropsy, 7 of-ly-en
tery, 19 of fever of different types, 62 of Inflamma
tory complaints, 14 of smallpox, S5 of convulsion*
(infantile), 12 of croup, 17 of marasmus (inuutile),
22 cases of stillborn, and 8 premature births are re
ported. 281 ?were natives of the United States, G7 of
Ireland, 8 of England, 21 of Germany, 3 of Sootlau.l,
and 3 of France.
Mr. Fillmore left the city yesterday morning for
hia home in Buffalo, from which lit; has licen absent
several months. During that time he has made a
tour throughout the South and Southwest, where he
was received with the most flattering testimonials of
esteem.
In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, Judge
Woodruff delivered a lengthy opinion n the case of
the Ten Governors against Josiah Pcrhuin, of "Gift
Enterprise" notoriety. A motion of defendant's
counsel to discharge the order of arrest was denied
by the Court.
MlSCELLANEOl'9.
The United States steamer Fulton has arrived at
Charleston from Norfolk. It is understood tliat Gen.
Gadsden takes passage in her for Vera Cruz, on bis
wny to the citycf Mexico with the treaty. Our last
advices from Mexico mentioned that Santa Anna
was shortly expected at the capital, and the meet
ing of the plcnipotentia y and his Serene Highness
will doubtless be a ioyful one. Should not the gal
lant General be rewarded for his successful efforts
in procuring the "sinews of war?" The Order of the
Golden Fleece, if within the gift of the Dictator,
would not he inappropriate.
We give in another column our usual weekly sum
mary of religions intelligence. It is stated that Dr.
Smith, of Virginia, and Dr. Pierce, of Georgia, will
be appointed bishops of the Methodist Church
South.
The ship Sophia Walker sailed from Hampton
Roads on Friday for Liberia, via Savannah, with two
hundred and thirteen emigrants.
The steamer Ottawa, from Liverpool for Quebec,
put into Portland on Friday in consequence of the
river St. Lawrence being closed by ice. She was de
tained four days in the ice off Cape Race.
We give elsewhere additional items in regard to
the croj)s, from papers received from different parts
of the country. Those in the North and West gene
rally repreccnt the wheat crop as presenting an un
commonly fine appearance, but in the South it will
undoubtedly fail to a great extent.
ON THE INSIDE PAGES
May he found letters from our correspondent at
Dublin, descriptive of the condition of Ireland;
a tabular statement of the number and force of the
Russian fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas; an a:
curate description of Odessa, rceeni'y bombarded
by the Anglo-French fleet; articles from foreign
journals on the Clreek insurrection, and the Indus
trial Exhibition of Fiance; London and Paris fash
ions; history of the Russians in California; observa
tions on Western Wisconsin; a letter from Arch
bishop H jghcs relative to the recent speech of
General Cass upon religious toleration; theatrical,
commercial, and tinaiwial intelligence, advertise
ments, Ac., Ac.
Hoiultiras?Gen. Bnrrstntlln's Important fllt
sloit?.Overtures of Annexation.
The telegraphic despatch which we publish
this morning from Washington, relative to the
mission of Don Jose Barrundia, from Honduras
to the United States, involves a subject of the
highest possible importance to that country
and our own?to the interests of our commerce,
to our strength upon the seas, aud to the exten
sion of our institutions, our laws and our con
stitution over the transitory republics ami
foreign dependencies wh'ch lie between us and
the Isthmus ofl)arien.
It appears that Gen. Bamndia is charged
from the secret instructions ot the Legislature
of Honduras, in their recent proceedings at the
capital of the State. Comayaguu. with nothing
less than the momentous proposition of imme
diate and absolute annexation to the United
States of the independent State of which he is
the representative. lie comes to make the
voluntary offer, " without money aud without
price,'' of another commonwealth, groat in re
sources. commanding in its commercial posi
tion. to the magniticcnt constellation of our
federal Union. The immediate aDd the ulti
mate advantages suggested by the acceptance
of this proposition, must l>e apparent at a glance,
to our intelligent reader*. Let.us briefly illus
trate the more prominent consequences and
bearings of the annexation of Honduras.
The State or republic of Honduras lies on
the south side of the gulf of that name, with
the State of Nicaragua to the south and Guate
mala on the west. Of its superficial extent we
have no accurate data. It is probably equal
in size to the State of Ohio, without including
the territory on the Atlantic coast occupied by
England as a sort of mahogany and logwood
cutting colony, and which, we presume, is not
included in the projit of Senor Barrundia. It
has a population of 350,001), and its exports in
1835 were, according to McCnlloch, $749,000.
From the extreme fertility of the soil, audits
varied tropical productions, under our govern
ment these exports might be readily increased
to eight or ten millions per annum, to say no
thing of the mineral riches of the country.
With the acquisition of Honduras, therefore, we
should gain this nmount of commerce, and the
trsllic in exchange for it. We should also gain
an important commercial nnd naval position in
the gulf, commanding the Caribbean scapnd
the western outlet into it of the Gulf of Mexico.
In a political view we should acquire the nu
cleus for the rapid, yet peaceful, absorption of
all tbe Central American States to the south
and the west, and of the Mexican States to
the northward. ]\c should thus be taking
Mexico in tbe front and in the rear; aud the
I eneflcial effects of Anglo Saxon enterprise and
our benign political institutions, would soon
operntc on l>otli sides to bring the distracted
t-nd helpless Mexican ouii.es into our Union,
like a flock of sheep following their leader over
a I rcan in the fence, into a rich and unlimited
pe fur". The remaining States of Ccntrnl
America would undoubtedly follow rapidly in
the movement of Honduras; and thus, without
war. nnd without Gadsden trenties, the key will
l e furnished by Gen. Barrundia, for the annex
ation. reclamation and developement of the
whole of that vast region extending from the
Rio Grande to New Granada. Thus a line of
policy is suggested by which we may secure
the speedy aud absolute possession of all the
isthmus intor-ocoanie passages, from Tehuante
I*e to I'nnamn. and all the ports, keys, islands,
bays. Ac.. on both sides, along several thousand
miles of sea const.
Since the annexation of Texas and the incor
poration of California among the States of our
I nion. there can be no doubt that among the
intelligent classes of the people of Mexico and
Central America, there hag been a growing de
sire for annexation.pari passu with the progress
and prosperity of Texas and California under
our institutions, and from the go-ahead, enter
prising character of our people. The influence
of these examples has extended even to the
Sandw ich Islands; and hence the offer, a year
or two since, from the government of King
Kamehameha. for tbe annexation of those
islands, gr"at and ?roall. volcanoes and all, to I
tl i. Un'ted Stute* Thirty yean ago, however,
1b< ro was a shntlai1 offer from San Salvador,
? i of the Ontral American States; bat at
11 tit day of-slow couches and vailing vessels,
th tl ii,g wat- considered too Quixotic for a
mom- nt s serious consideration.
A n w i.poch has succeeded. Steam, elec
liic tilcgrapfes, practical annexation, Texas
ai.d Cnlitornia, have hurried us into the full
enter of progress and "maalfest destiny"
Tin proposition from Honduras, which would
In vt 1 een scouted as a preposterous monstros
ity twenty or thirty years ago, assumes now
tin practical ahupe of an ordinary bu-iness
transaction. There is nothing alarming in it,
n. thing novel, nothing Quixotic? The thing is
In pi rlect keeping with the spirit of the age.
We might have had the whole of Mexico
in 1848; but Nicholas P. Trlst declined to
ti ke it. His mind was incapable, per
brps. of grasping so much ; or peradventure he
shrank from the prize as too large for our
capacities of digestion. We are over that
squcamishuess now. The public mind, in ad
vance of cur politicians and diplomets, is fully
prepared for any amount of annexation, North
and South. M hat objection can there be to
Honduras? If the South are satisfied, what
i valid remonstrance can come from the North?
Honduras is a rich country?richer, perhaps,
even than Cuba itself, in its natural products
at.d futility. Under our hands it would soon
Lccomc a great commercial country. More
over, it is a free State, and will come in as a
free State ; and, in this view, it ought to be
come an especial object among Northern men
'o accomplish the work of annexation as an
? fifset to Cuba. The South will doubtless be
satisfied to take Cuba as an equivalent. What
system of labor Honduras, in the Union, may
ultimately adopt in the developemeot of her
tropical products, it is not necessary now to
inquire. Site is a free State, and as such will
propose to be admitted ; and thus there can he
no free soil objection to her admission, in the
all-absorbing test of the negro question.
The only national obstacle, we apprehend,
to the annexation of Honduras, will be found
in the administration. It has hardly the capa
city to seize the .comprehensive advantages
which would be gained by such a measure?
hardly the moral courage, independence or de
cision of character to risk it. But there may
yet te men in Congress, and in the country,
with .something of the political foresight and
experience of Clay, Webster and Calhoun?men
capable of looking, not only a half a century
behind them, but a half a century ahead, and
upon them will devolve the duty of enforcing
a deliberate consideration of the overtures of
annexation, when they shall be presented from
Honduras.
Let Gen. Barrondia lay these overtures before
the President, and as he will probably submit
them to Congress without unnecessary delay,
together with all the responsibility on the sub
ject, it is quite possible that Honduras may
make a sensation in the world before the end
of the present session. If we can afford to pay
ten millions of dollars for a margin of the de
serts of Mexico, surely wc can aflford to accept,
as a free gift, the rich and productive State of
Honduras. K/
Nebraska?Tiie Administration, and the
Democracy.?Things are in a funny quandary
at Washington. Nebraska is a wonderful and
curious concern. It is made a test for the hard
shells, while the free soil soft shells are privi
leged to do as they please. They have the spoils
and the privileges, and they use both very
freely. Benjamin F. Butler, John A. Dix, and
others of the Van Buren soft shell faction,
will probably go over to Seward at the next
Presidential election?Butler having given
notice to that effect. Shouldn't wonder if John
Cochrane, (with the scarlet letter in his pocket,)
Swackliamer, and a host of others, are in the
fame boat. Captain John Tyler was a lucky
man. Though deserted by both parties, his of
llce-holdcrs stuck to him to the very last.
They got up an independent Baltimore Con
vention and nomination for him; but the Cap
tain was too modest to run. Now, even the of
fice-holders are abandoning General Pierce,
while they arc getting fat on the spoils, wfiat
ungrateful wretches ! Nebraska docs him no
good. Many who support the bill put in a
proviso against the administration. Between
the hards and the vofts it is like the jackass be
tween the two bundles of hay. both removed
beyond his reach.
But what arc the hards about ? The other
day we had a lively speech from Mike Walsh
for the bill, and another from Wheeler against
the bill; but both were equally hostile to the i
administration. How are the hards of the |
Bowery to go, with such conflicting sentiments 1
on Nebraska, coupled with such harmony of :
opinion against the President, Marcy, Cushing j
and Company, among our hards in Congress ?
If the question is not settled soon we shall '
have all the Bowery hard shells?pairing off j
upon Nebraska, and perhaps pealing off their
jackets for a settlement of the vexed question
of popular sovereignty according to the ancient
usage of the territorial squatters. The Bowery j
hards are getting ugly on the subject, and if j
their representatives at Washington cannot
settle upon the principles of the Nebraska bill,
"the boys" will fight it out among themselves.
They can't stand this Congressional tomfoolery j
much longer?that's flat. They still expect i
something of Mr. Cutting. But where is Mr. j
Cutting with his amendment? We are anxious j
to heat1.
A Word to IIoiskhoi.df.rp.?The streets are
filled with dust, garbage and filth of every de
scription. Broadway is relapsing into its old
condition; and the other streets defy descrip
tion. Every shower of rain fills them with
mud. In a few days, the heat will convert all
this into one putrid mass, exhaling disease and
malaria. It Is useless to turn for relief to the
Corporation. That body is now more utterly
incapable and useless than it has ever been.
Bud us were its predecessors, the Council
elected on the reform ticket is certainly the
worst we ever had. In view of these facts, and
of the imminent danger of cholera or some pes
tilential disease being engendered by the foul
condition of the streets, we call upon house
holders throughout the city to organize th*m
**c1v?h into provisional governments, and to
have their streets cleaned by private arrange
ment. Half a dollar a week will be sufficient
to enable the whole city to be kept clean, and
every man can afford to pay this. Whether he
can or no, in fact, he lias no choice, now; un
less he is content to run the risk of a plague
springing up among us. Let no one say one
word of appeals to the municipal authorities.
Such resorts are waste of breath and waste of
time. We have no government, and if we
want clean streets, we must clean them our
selves.
Faahiokablb Excesses and their Results?
Tollies *f Young New Yore.?It la the duty j
of every gentleman to make himself, in appear- j
ance, as agreeable an objeet as possible. Suck
are the words put in the mouth af an effete
London baronet by one ?f our modern play
wrights. There is a great deal of sound philo
sophy in them, because a great many men and
women are so constituted, mentally, that the
adornment-of their persons is the ealy subject
which claims their attention. The invention ef
new modes keeps them busy, and they thereby
etcape the .machinations of the devil, who, if we
believe the old writers, is ever at the elbow of
the idler.
The women are the never-failing targets at
which Slovene discharge their arrows, when in-,
veighing upon extravagance in dress. Yet we
-doubt not that these same writers do enjoy a
promenade in Broadway?that they believe,
with Shelley, that '-a thing of beauty is a joy
forever," and that they would he very much
disgusted with women-kind if the lair prome
naders upon our great avenue were dressed with
Quaker simplicity, or attired in the robes of
neutral colors which the sumptuary law of the
liberal minded gentlemen who settled the Ply
mouth colony obliged the Puritan women to
wear.
That extravagance ia dress is carried to an
excese which sometimes becomes criminal, is a
truism, and nobody will attempt to disgaise
the fact. Men as well as women are guilty in
this matter. The descendant of a man remark
able for his simplicity in attire, writes from
Paris that his gloves eost him five hundred dol
lars per annum. * Boots d la mode are titted to
aristocratic feet for ten dollars. One style of
cravat is sold at seven dollars; waistcoats from
twelve to eighteen dollars; and there is one
extraordinary pair of trousers in Broadway,
the pattern of which is so strikiug that it cost
eighteen dollars to buy them. The last
style of dress coat, the skirts approximating the
heels, and the hip buttons placed between the
shoulder blades, is made by a fashionable tailor
for forty dollars, from his Paris pattern, ?' im
ported expressly for this house." Add to
these, jewelled shirt buttons, diamond vest
buttons, nnd other fashionable bijouterie, and
it will be seen that a distingui male outfit for
a concert or ball often requires a draft of not
less than a thousand upon the " governor,"
whose mind is relieved by the axiom laid down
at the outset of this article, and who thinks
that his hopeful son may, by his intense ad
miration of the brilliant style in which he has
been gotten np, be so enwrapped in egotism
that he will forget everything else but his dear
Bclf, and thereby be kept out of mischief.
The woman of fashion is governed by the
same law. Her life has three epochs: her hus
band, her children, and the opening of the
fashions for the seasons. Generally, the last
has the ilrmest hold upon licr mind. The mil
liners, the mantua-makers, and the journalists,
are her aiders and abettors. How many bright
eyes will sparkle at the following description
of a ?* love of a dress," the last emanation from
the Quarticr Saint nonor6:?
Dresses of silk, with three flounce* ef diflTesent color*,
agt DOTeltie*, and will enjoy great favor during the com
ing Reason. Tbero are many in preparation, having a
pattern worked at the edge of each Rkirt. A robe of this
desciiption ha* three skirts, ono over the other, with an
interval of six or eight inches. The lowest is emerald
green, the middle one of paler green, and the third a
lelt gray color. The lmdy is of the felt gray color, high
and plain, and has a frill down the breaU, of Alenoon'a
lace, in the centre of which are placed three brooches of
emeralds, surrounded with pearl*. The sleeves are dou
ble pagoda, the under one light green, the upper felt
gray, oud only reaching to the elbow. This sleeve U
?lit np behind, and trimmed with 1 nee, and Is fastened
by three emerald buttons, surrounded by pearls.
Embroidery, luce, pearls, emeralds, three co
lors of silk?very line and inexpensive, no
doubt, until the bills come in. The sacred
ground wbere bonnets or hats arc invented
should not be approached by impious feet,
"What charms, what conjurations, and what
mighty magic" it must require to get np such
an extraordinary affair as that which now rests
between the occiput and the spinal column of
Broadway belle! If we may believe some im
pertinent writers, the mania for extravagance
is carried to the furthest recesses of the toilet;
and from some interesting petticoat statistics it
appears that several hundred poor heathens
might be furnished with Bibles, moral pocket
handkerchiefs and flannel ?liirts. with the money
that one fashionable lady expends upon those
portions of her attire which are never seen by
vulgar eyes, except upon rainy days.
The great cause of all this extravagance is to
be found in the great wealth and unbounded
prosperity of the country. First, we were poor,
industrious, never-tiring. The men were unre
fined. but vigorous; the women shouldered the
musket, swutig the axe, and brought up their
children in the way they should go; and they
did not walk therein. The Puritan mothers
were moulded by the iron will of the Puritan
fathers; they were as stern, as bigoted, as cor
scicntious. as firm, and as strict, as their hus
bands. They insisted upon being martyrs; to
them the strait and narrow path of duty was
lined with roses?the crown of thorns was a
wreath of laurel. Their descendants have rush
ed to the opposite extreme, and they have yi t
to learn that the excess of luxury is not the
excess cf refinement. Many great nations ha\ e
fallen beneath the enervating influence of lux
ury degraded to debauchery; but we do n? |
think this republic is in danger of being made a
similar example at present.
In disenpsing this subject, it would be wrong
to overlook the fact that refinement in dress
makes work, and work which is well paid, for
thousands of worthy and industrious men and
women, nnd that the importation of articles of
luxury forms one of the most important items
iq our city's prosperity.
We must also rememl?er the ugly fact, that
man and woman ore imitative beings. Every
little circle has its bean and its belle, and Mr.
Brown, who is a clerk on five hundred dol
lars a year, imitates Mr. Fitz-Smythe,
who is of an old Knickerbocker family, nnd
whose rent roll is twenty-thousand a year. Mr.
Brown steals from bis employer, and his rela
tives are made miserable, all on account of a
new trowsers pattern. Miss Jones, who finds it
very hard to resist temptation, to be happy and
to be virtuous on twenty shillings a week when
board rtiql washing cost sixteen, sells herself to
the devil in the shape of a young man who will
give her a bonnet and a brocade like that which
the well-to-do father of Miss Dash presented to
her on her last birth day, a l'act which Miss
I)afh bos been very carcf\il to circulate in the
most thorough style all over the neighborhood.
There is no necessity for particulars regarding
the fate of Miss Jones.
In summing np this case, it is doubtful to see
where the burden of proof and evidence rc.-ts.
i It is, however, an incontrovertible fact, that
j most men admire a well-dressed woman, and
that the barber and the tailor go far to recom
mend a man in the aye* of a woman. Such be
ing the faahioa bids flu* to be a perma
sent institutes. It in strange bow rapidly this
monarch follows the footsteps of civilization.
For example, the common school system in Cali
fornia is not yet thoroughly organized, bat we
are informed from a reliable source that the
milliners of San Francisco have organized each
an admirable plan, that the Paris modes are re
ceived there almost as soon as they are dis
played in Broadway. With snch activity on
the part of fashion's ministers, coupled with
the most abject submission on the part of her
j subjects, her reign must be as enduring as
the great globe itself, and the remains of fash
ion plates will undoubtedly be plainly dis
cernible in that " wreck of matter and crush of
worlds" which will include all mortal things,
when old Atlas gets aweary of his burden, and
hurls us from his shoulders.
The Price or an Editor.?In another
column will be found an amusing account
of a swindle recently practised on the pro
prietor of a diorama in London. At the
opening of his exhibition, a gentleman called
on the proprietor, gave his name and address,
stated that he was a critic engaged on the
Times, promised a favorable notice and conclud
ed by borrowing two guineas. The exhibitor
fancied he had procured praise cheap; and ac
cordingly bought the Times regularly day
after day in the hope of seeing his visiter's pro
mise fulfilled. No notice of the diorama ap
pearing, however, he called at the Times office,
and there learnt, to his utter horror, that no
such person as his quondam visiter was connect
ed with the establishment. A complaint against
an unknown defendant before the London police
court was the lame conclusion to the farce.
We make no doubt that such farces are euact
ed here often enough. Every now and then, a
manager civilly requests us to do him the favor
of looking through the long list of names which
are inscribed on his free list "on account of the
New York Herald," and learns that half or
three-fourths of the people whom he has been
admitting gratuitously to please us are not
only unconnected with this journal, but are even
unknown to us by name. Then again, once in
a while, an inexperienced manager or actor fan
cies that by handing a few dollars to Mr. This
or Mr. That, who "manages" the newspapers,
or "dictates to" the Herald, his fortune
is made. We presume that a good many
friends of ours have gone through this little
delusion, and are convinced of the folly of
such investments by this time: though we
cannot expect that others yet to come
will avoid the same snare. There will al
ways be fools enough in the world to keep
olive the theory that a leading newspaper sells
its opinions for money. There are, we doubt
not, sensible experienced men in this city,
who honestly believe that the leading New
York journals are open to the highest bidder,
and may be hired to praise or hired to blame,
at a regular tariff price. This mistake arises
from a general misapprehension of the newspa
per business, and we cannot expect to see it
thoroughly cured for many years to come. The
daily journal, as an institution, has only exist
ed some nineteen years in this country, and
has only existed in its present shape some eight
or ten. People took ten years to understand
the theory of a newspaper independent of
party} we ought, considering the general cor
ruption of the world at large, to allow them at
least as much to learn the nature of the honest
journal. When it shall bo comprehended by
the masses, men will cease to fancy that papers
can be bought to swear that black is white, be
cause they will see that such policy would ruin
them in a twelvemonth. And managers, ac
tors, authors, schemers and others who now
seek fame and glory at cheap rates by bribing
hangers on to the press, will then save their
trouble and their cash.
The Board of Excihe?Rum Selling in
New York.?It would appear that the old
adage relative to good reiolutions and the in
teresting road which they pave remains as
true as ever. The Board of Councilmen mode
several excellent resolutions relative to the
renewal of licenses for liquor selling. The
licenses expired on the first of May, and the
Councilmen were profuse in promises to the
Temperance Alliance, and others, for the
coming year. The whole license system was
to be overhauled; licenses to sell liquors were
no longer to be granted to. "corner" groceries;
rowdyism on the Sabbath was to be greatly
diminished, by the shutting up of the rum shops,
and the main cause of all the abuses which
the city has suffered?the Sunday fights, rows,
and so forth?was to be so far restricted that
the effects would be comparatively mild. The
monster was to be scotched, if not killed.
These, like other promises of the reformed
Common Council, have made for thAiselves
thin air, into which they have vanished. We
find that the Board of Excise, of which the
Councilmen and the Aldermen are ex officio
members, have commenced granting li
censes to nearly all the applicants, the
only qualification required being that the per
sons licensed shall be voters in the wards where
their mm holes are kept. One Councilman
granted licenses indiscriminately, and the others
were not much less profligate. In one ward,
where there are not many hotels or victualling
establishments, one hundred and fourteen licen
ses were granted; of course the majority of
them must have been for tippling shops. And
these things were done by men who were elect
ed to the poets which they now disgrace under
the strongest pledges in favor of temperance and
reform. They have been actively engaged in
bartering their pledges in the hope of obtaining
sufficient influence with the grog-shop politi
cians.
The only recourse for the people of New
York, in this predicament, is to take proper
precautionary measures to prevent the repeti
tion of such humbug. Let good men nominate
themselves for offices?sweep away all the ma
chinery of primary elections, and nominating
conventions?and then we may hope that the
work of municipal reform will be commenced in
earnest.
The Opera In America.
THE ACADKMT OF MrSIC?THF, NKW OrKRA HOUSE
IN rOUMMWH STREET?NEGOTIATIONS FOR A
LK8SKK, AC., AC.
The establishment of the Italian npora In America a* a
permanent institution, promised to be attended hy serious
difficulties. Tbe Inst attempt was made by certain of
onr wealthy citizen*, who, two years Since, secured a
chsrter, were incorporated as the " Academy of Music,"
and proceeded to erect a coatly building In Fourteenth
street snd Irving place, which building will be ready for
occupancy by tbe first of November.
For some time past the directors of ?tlie Opera House
hsve lieen endeavoring to obtain a suitable lessee
for 11. They first advertised in the English and con
tinental papers, without saceess. They also despatch
ed an agent to Europe to elTeet the same pnrpoae.
It is stated that he too was unsuccessful. The reasons
for this difficulty appear to bo these:?
The company have erected a buQdlng called the '-Aca
demy of Music,''with "stock scenery " for six operas
The ether huwdret thousand expensive appliances m
mrj for a Brat da. a theatre and opera hoaae mus
furnished by the leeeee, at a cost of not less than
thonaand dollara. The stockholders alao hare the t
to demand af the manager two hundred and fifty reae
aeata (the beat in the houae) on each and every ?
that a performance ia given, and the rent of the hou
thirty thouaand dollara per aeaaon.
The reserving of placea for atockholdera waa the g
objection to the Aator Plate Opera. No theatre in
world could exiat under the weight of auch a l
Even the granting of free admissions to stockhol
(without aeata) baa killed two or three theatree in
country?the old Boston theatre, and the Holliday at
theatre, in Baltimore, are t xamples. The atockhol
of the Aator Place houae never occupied their eeati
leaa there waa a great attraction. On the extra nig
when the vulgar were admitted, the ariatocratie I
presented a beggarly aeeount of empty boxes.
Mr. Hackett some time since, announced that he
closed au engagement with Mario and Griai, and %t
came time he opened negotiation! with the directo
the Academy of MubIc, for the lease of the Opera Ho
Considerable time waa spent in negotiations, which
fruitless, as Mr. Hackett desired the stockholders t
sist in fitting up the houae, and he alao objected t<
reservation of seats. It is slated that the director
fered the lease to Mr. Hackett at a reduction of St
upon the rent.
Mr. Hackett, it ia said, Intends to inaugurate the
hall on the site of the Lafarge House, with Griai
Mario. Mr. I'llman ia now in Europe negotiating I
i company to support Madame Sontag. She will (
| Niblo's.
i The friends of Max Maretzek have secured for
the lease ol the new Opera House, if he choose to acce]
The lease has been drawn out in his name and sen
him. It ie huddled with the conditions as above
down, and the rental amounts to $30,000. Mr. Mi
ccmrn
zek was at Berlin at the last acctmnts, and it now
mains to bo seen whether or not ho will aooopt the
of this lease with these conditions. It is consider*
very doubtful matter by well-informed people.
Maretzek is a good manager?the best we have ever
in New York. Messrs. Kipp & Brown, the stage
prietora, are security for Maretzek as far as his ret
concerned.
The above Is believed to be a correct statement of
case, as far as the negotiations have progressed. It
be seen that the dulness in musical matters during
season is to be amply compensated for by the activii
the next.
Maritime Disasters.
LATER FROM TOE VESSELS ASHORE.
The steamtug Achilles, Capt. Reynolds, came up frcfl
the wreck of the ship Montezuma, yesterday morniiT
bringing up Capt. De Couroy, the crew, and 410 pass!
gers. The ship is full of water, and her back is brokj
The Achilles placed anchors out ahead for her before i
came up.
The steam tug Huntress, Capt. Phillips, also came up I
quarantine early yesterday afternoon, from the ship W|
La) ton, ashore at Squan beach, and brought up all ll
passengers. The ship lies easy, and it is thought will [
got off soon.
The Bremen bark Coriolan, ashore on Squan Be*J
remained tight at last accounts; but it was feared si
would not be got off. The passengers had been all safq
landed. Three steamers were sent to her assistance
Friday; but tbey could not approach. One ot them rl
turned yesterday morning, but was again despatch!
with fresh means of assistance.
EFFECTS OF A HURRICANE?RETURN OF A DISABL1
VESSEL.
The clipper ship Sultan, Berry, of Boston, from Liv<
pool, arrived yeaterday, reports that on the 18th ult.,
lat. 48 10, Ion. 84 16, in a hurricane from the west, h
all three topgallant masts, royal masts, yards, sails,*r
ging, and everything attached; foretopmast head, yal
and sail, jibboom, jib and jib atays, maintopsail, mail
topmast, staysail, foretopmast staysail, all blown awa|
Sprung fcremast, washed away flgnrehead, started
water rails, he.; rigging, bulwarks and rails badly cat ai|
chafed by broken spars, heavy seaa breaking over
ahip, causing her to leak badly; also disabling several
the seamen and captain. Saw large quantities of ice
the Banks, being nearly five days in it. Also pass*
large quantities of spars of every description, mast
yards, Ac.
The bark Hnntington, hence for Montevideo 19th Inst
returned last evening, In consequence of being run in
off Fire Island by the ship Gray Eagle, carrying away tt
H 'a main rigging, main yard, starboard quarter; ah
cutting her down to the water's edge. Could not leal
what damage the ship received.
ICEBERGS IN THE ATLANTIC?NARROW ESCAPE OF a|
AMERICAN SHIP..
The ship Josephine, arrived from Bristol, E., yes to
ddy, was completely surrounded with icebergs from loi
42 13 to 4*1 85, accompanied with a thick fog, at
narrowly escaped destruction On the 2d inst., whi
becalmed, an iceberg drifted foul of the ship, renderin
it necessary to get out the boats and fend her off. Whil
n collision, the iceberg was hanging over the ship'
] oynl mastheads. The vessel, however, fortunately ei
caped from her precarious position without damage.
The Bremen bark Charlotte, arrived yesterday morij
ing from Bremen, was among the ice for four days, nea
the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Saw one island si
miles long, and acverml hundred feet high. The Breme
brie Oban, also arrived yesterday from Bremen, fell i
with large quantities of Ice on the Banks, and was fo
four days surroundtd by it. The Oldenburg brig Neplui
arrived yesterday, also reports large quantities or ic
from lat 46 to 48.
SHIP WM. A. COOPER AND THE BRIG BANNER.
Naw York, May 2d, 1864.
J. G. Bknnktt, Esq ?
Having heard or a report being circulated of my re
fusing to take off master and crew of British brig Ban
ner, of Windsor, N. 8., from Liverpool, on my passage t
New York, I would here state snoh a report is untrue,
did speak such a vessel, and laid by her eight hours, fo
the purpose of rendering assistance; the brig havini
fourteen passengers, besides her complement of m?n
The captain wanted mo to relieve bim of the passengers
not wishing to abandon his vessel himself, the bri|
making no water, and in good condition, with exceptloi
of loss of foremast. The proposition, considering m;
having about three hundred inula on hoard, waa Impoa
sible for me to accept, under the circumstance!; tb
captain then thanked me for my kindness, and we parte*
company.
This is a true report, and if yoh will give It a place ii
your paper, vou will gTeatly oblige, Yours respectfully
JOlltf LANDIK1N, Master ship Win. A. Cooper.
TnE rescue of tiie crew or the n irriet augusta|
New York, May 20,1814.
Mr. J. G. Bennett:?
Dear Sir?I cannot leave New York without express!
ing through )our widely circulated Journal my grati
tola || "
de to Capt. B. G. Williams, of the ship Heidelberg, o
New Orleans, for rescuing myself, wife and crew of th<
ship Harriet Augusta, of Richmond, loaded with rcUroar
iron, from Cork, bound to New York, while in a sinking
condition, the ship going down in one hour after leaving
her, we saving nothing but what we stood in. The kind
ncss and care bestowed upon ua while on board his ship
will ever remain dear in the memory of hia obliged friend
ISAAC TROTT and others.
Ship Harriet Augusta, Richmond.
Marine Aflfclm.
1.1 roe Arrival or Emigrants.?The nnmher of emi
g-anta arrived in this city daring the last three days
has been v. ry large. They are from nearly every part o
Europe, and embarked at the following porta:?
Number arrived on Thursday, as previously
published 18,47}
Arritrd on Friday.
From Liverpool Steamship Europe 87
Ship Silas Greenman .... 429
From London Ship London 478
Ship Hendrik Hudson ... 400
Ship New England 2A6
From Newport Ship Isca 32"
From Havre Ship O. F. Fatten 419
Ship Robert I'arker 361
Ship Plymouth ROD
From Hamburg Ship Geo Canning 333
Bark Elbe 228
From Gottenburg.... Bark Virginia 20
From Bremen Bark Norms 160
Bark Wieland 191
From Antwerp Bark Stanislaus. 267
Brig Orlelino 121
Brig Express 128
Total ?4,179
Jrrimi on Saturday.
From IJverpocl Ship Shannon 374
From Havre Ship CemtUus 374
Ship statesman 397
Ship (Inward 416
Ship Northern Bella 349
From Bremen Bark Charlotte 147
BrlgOshu HO
Bark New York Packet.. 138
Brig G. Duck wits 122
% llrig Linden 1"3
Schr. Speculator 87
From Pi nrance Brig Organ 84
From Antwerp Brig Neptune 94
Ship Chatharine 288
Ship Fanny 233
From Hamburg Phip 178
Brig Schiller 112
Frr m Limerick 9?h r. flea nor 79
From Bristol Bark Mary Ann Peters.... 180
From Hull Hark Rots 184
From Newpoit Hark Ganges 18
Total ?4.085
Total arrivals for three days 20,714
HxrAiiTCRB or the Washington ?The U. 8 mill steam
ship Washington sailed yeaterday for Bremen via South'
smpton, with 184 passengers
For California.?'The mail steamship Gsorge [!hw. ill
Asplnwall, and the steamship Star of t.he West, for Sal
Juan, Nicaragua, left yesterday afternoon with a >src?
lumber of paasmgeri hound to California.