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THE riot IK BOBTON?NEBRA8XA?THE FCLIPHT.
The three prominent events of the past week are
the passage of the Nebraska bill, the annular
eclipse, and the fugitive slave riet in Boston. The
first las been attended with a marvellous btft not
unexpected perturbation of the political elements
generally. The office holders are in an awk ward
fix especially, as the administration, convinced
that the principles or the Nebraska measure are be
coming vast.lv more popular since the settlement
of that question than its most sanguine friends
hoped, is making it the test of political ortho
doxy. We pity the poor fellows, for few could "wheel
about and turn about" with th? celerity of the or
gan at the capital ; and having once lost the cno |
what remained for them but to take the chances.
Already the Collector of this port has rcce'ved or
ders to "dispense with the services" of the unsound
in the custom house; but it is said that ht rebels
against the edict, and Mr. Bodfield will, therefore,
in all probability, be Bronsoutaed for liis contumacy.
Our Postmaster, too. and tlic subordinates of bis
depaitment, hold their places by a very fragile
tenure. Mr. Fowler belongs to the barnburner fac
tion, which was bnt the other day defeated In an at
tempt to choose a Grand Sachem of the wire pullers
of Old Tammany. The influence of that party is
gone. Even John Cochrane is set down as among
the suspected; but he has, happily, rendered such
good rCTviec to the Executive that lie may possibly es
cape the general decapitation. The first of J une will
perhaps witness the liegira of an army of patriots
who have grown eleck at the public crib. They
should join the Nebraska emigration company?
capital $2,J00,000?now organizing by the abo
litionists, and illustrate tlic principle of squatter
scvcreijttity in the unexplored solitudes of that mag
nilicent country. As for the eclipse, with the excep
tion of recording a slight but very agreeable cool
ness of the atmosphere, and a brisk demand for
window glass, with a corresponding activity among
tl.e gla/icrs, we have nothing to say. The fugitive
hkve riot nt Boston now occupies the public miud.
Wc give the fulle-t details of this atlidr on the first
jape, ai d have commented upon it in an editorial
article. T1 e telegraphic despatches contain the
latest information from the soeue of the outrage.
At a late hour last night a large crowd remained
collected about the court house, but the presence of
a strong force of military prevented any hostile de
monstration. The government at Washington has
authorized the Marshal to call upon two companies
of United States troops stationed at Newport. The
Rev. Theodore Parker and Wendell Phillips, two of
the most active promoters of the riot, yesterday ap
plied for a force to protect their residences from an
( apprehended attack of the Irish, who have become
excited to frenzy by the murder of officer Batcbel
der by the mob, and whose death tbey threaten to
avenge.
NEW8 FROM HAVANA.
Our correspondence from Havana describes the
feeling produced by the arrival of the French vessels
of war, amongst the official portion of the popula
tion, as amounting almost to a frenzy of delight.
They now think themselves secure.against all ulte
rior danger from this quarter. The Captain-Genera'
and his lady were busy filing their new visitors,
and treating them, amongst other sights, with the
humane spectacle of a bull fight. The new capita
tion tax turns ont, as usual, to be only another
device to replenish the bankrupt treasury at Mad
rid. It is not unlikely that It will give rise to an
exjdosion amongst the slave holders. We givo the
text of it in full.
ON THE INKinK FAOF.S
May he found letters from Paris, Australia, Chili,
New Granada, Callao, Acapulco, Washington Tenri
tory, Texas, and Albany; an interesting communi
cation concerning the Chincha Islands; news from
the Bahama Islands; the anarchy in Greece; Pales
tine mortgaged to the Rothschilds; synopsis of the
Nebraska Kansas bill; Aflhirs in Washington; im
portant opinion relative to water rights in New
Jersey; fashionable intelligence; court reports;
review ?of new books; commercial and financial
news; theatrical intelligence, Ac., Ac.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The steamship Arctic is now fully due at this port
from Liverpool. Fhc will bring four days later news
from all parts of Europe.
The steamer Detroit, with a cargo of supplies for
the Sault Ste. Marie Canal Company, was run int >
by a brig in Saginaw bay on Friday, aud sunk.
No lives were lost, but the vessel is a total loss.
AFFAIRS IN THE CITY.
There was a rumor In Wall street yesterday that
the city of Cronstadt bad been Ixiuibardcd by the
allied fleet. The report came from the office of the
London A'wn. and it was stated that two mercantile
houses in this cltv had received letters by the steam
ship America in w hich allusion was made to the
circumstance. It was further stated that thro
thousand lives were lost in the conflict, and that fie.
town was either taken or abandoned. Vk e give the
rumor for what it U worth. The arrival of the
Arctic, now due. will cither confirm or show its falsi
ty. There U a vast deal of mung news in Europe
just now.
By the report of the City Inspector it appear
that the whole number of deaths during the week
en ling 27th inst. was 359. beiug 35 less than th
previous week. Of the total number 214 were chil
dron under ten yearn of age, and 52 Inmates of tb ?
public institutions. There were 49 victims of con
fumption, 10 of congestion of the brain, 32 of drop
ey, 9 of debility, 9 of dysentery, 13 of fevers of ran
oi.s kinds, 26 ofinflimmation of the lungs, 21 n
other lung cmplalnts, 1C of marasmus, 23 of con
vUlricas, 14 of croup, 5 of smallpox. 29 ca*es of still
?m, 6 premature births, 1 suicide, 2 fatal carnal
if , and 11 persons drowned, are recorded. 21.
were native" oftbe United States, 70 of Ireland, 12
^ England, 2 of H't*nd. and 22 of Gennair,
thf Weg-ro RMti In Tloaton?Traitor* In
Arm? M?wler or n tv.ltod StatM OOrnr.
Tfa? people ef Nostra are for the third time
in open aruicd opposlt ion to the constitution
ami laws of the United States. Un er the cir
moiHtanceB, it ie proper that the country
should be informed of the fullest i articulars
regarding the disgraceful conduct of the people
who mt&e Buch braggarts of themselves by
calling their ehy a peaceable, law-abi ing com
munity.
Vf e have given in another part c f the paper
all the light which the Boston newspapers and
odr telegraphic correspondents h ,ve been able
to furnish us, and the record is a most horrible
erne. It is a remarkable fact that but three of
the papers have editorial comments upon this
affair, and those comments are of the weakest
sort.
It appears that a slave, named Anthony
Burns, escaped from his master. Mr. Suttle, of
Alexandria, Virginia, and, on Wednesday last,
was arrested in Boston, under the authority of
the act commonly known as the Fugitive Slave
law. He was taken before a United States
Commissioner, Mr. Loring, and two witnesses,
the master and Mr. Brent, of Alexandria, provod
his identity. Mr. Suttle also proved that Burns
was his property. At the request of the slave's
'Counsel?two notorious abolitionists?the ex
amination was ad,ouined until Friday; on Fri
day night an incendiary meeting was held i.t
Faneuil Hall. Mr. Wendell Phillips and Mr.
Theodore Parker, (the last named person is a
minister of the gospel,) counselled the mob to
resist to the death, and highly inflamma
tory resolutions w;ere adopted. The meeting
adjourned to the Court House, where the
slave was confined. One of the doors was
broken in with axes and a buttering ram. The
rioters were beaten back by the United States
Marshal's aids, who were armed with sabres.
The Marshal himself narrowly escaped death,
and James fiatcholder, one of his special depu
ties. was shot dead by one of the abolitionists.
Mr. Batchclder fell a martyr to his devotion to
the constitution and the laws of his country; it
is the hope of every good citaren that his
murderer will not be allowed io go unhung.
The riot was quelled for the tune, but broke
out aguin yesterday morning, when the Com
missioner again adjourned the slave's examina
tion till Monday.
The public sentiment of Massachusetts must
give countenance to these lawless acts, or they
could never happen. The abolitionist party in
Boston cannot muster over a thousand voters,
and there were four or five thousand persons
in the crowd, which was actuated by the same
bigoted spirit of fanaticism* which in ancient
times caused the hanging, branding and banish
ing of Quakers, Anabaptists, and women who
were unfortunate enough to be old and ugly,
and, therefore, were adjudged to be witches.
The whole force of the city of .Boston seems to
have been employed for the rieters, or else it
was entirely inactive. The speakers at the
meeting told the mob that the city authorities
had pledged themselves not to interfere in the
matter; and it was not until after all the mis
chief was done, and Batchelder had been dead
tweltc hours, that the Mayor appeared on the
scene of the murder, which is not three hun
dred ynrds distant from the City Hall.
The conduct of the Commissioner is myste
rious. It certainly exhibited great weakness
on his part. IS ith proper firmness the riot
might have been avoided. He had all the evi
dence required by law at the first examination,
and there could have been no doubt upon his
mind as to these facts First, that Burns was
a fugitive slave ; second, that he was the pro
perty of Mr. Suttle. Why. then, did not Mr.
Commissioner Loring do his duty, and give up
the slave to his master, and provide protection
for slave and master while the latter chose to
remain in Boston, and safe conduct when he
should see fit to leave that city ? That was his
duty; and if he has not -back-bone enough to
do his duty according to his cath of
office, he should resign at onoe.
No, Mr. Commissioner Loring paltered and
i succumbed to and played with the abolition
ists, and they, taking advantage of his weak
ness, first got out a process against the claim
ant of the slave and his witness, by which they
were compelled to give bail in five thousand
dollars to appear and defend a suit brought
against them for conspiracy to kidnap: and
also stirred up all the black and white traitors
in the city to break open the Court House and
shoot down the officers of justice. Thai's
what Mr. Loring has clone, and liiq imbecility
will receive, as it richly merits, the contempt
and derision of the whole country.
The city authorities are likewise highly
reprehensible. It is true that they are not
bound to execute the fugitive slave law, but
they are bound to preserve the peace of the city
at all hazard* The Mayor has at his order two
hundred policemen and two thousand volunteer
soldiers. It sceins strange, too. that the Mayor
and Aldermen should allow an incendiary m?et
.ing to be bolden in that hall, which, two years
ago. was refused to the late Mr. Webster, when
he desired to address his fellow-citizens in de
fence of the compromise measures.
In fact, the only person iu Boston who seems
to be willing to do his duty in the matter, is the
t lute.l States Marshal. Mr. Freeman. So fur
he has kept the slave secure, and he avows his
intention to continue the same surveillance at
all hu/.ard*.
We have stated that this is the third time
that Boston has been in armed opposition to
the federal authorities. The first occasion was
in the case of Shodrach. a slave, who was taken
out o. the Court House hy an armed mob, and
run off to Cnnada. The second was the ccle
bra ted case of Thomas Sims. In this ease the
I* ingenuity of the abolitionists was baffled and
after two weeks of delay Sims was returned
to his master. Several persons were tried for
attempting to rescue these men. but none were
convicted. Although the evidence was clear
against several of the accused, yet no jury could
be found to agree, and thus the abolitionists
were encouraged to the last attempt, the details
of which we give to-day.
Contrast all these facts with the proceedings
of the New York people and the federal au
thorities here, under similar circumstances. Ou
briday three fugitive slaves were found in this
city. They were taken before the proper offi
cer. the necessary proofs were put in. and found
to ?<e valuf; the slaves were surrendered to
the.r masters, andfcthc ra tter was ended.
Tl.ere was no excitement whatever upon the
*ub ect. and not more than half a hundred peo
ple know anything of the matter until thov
were informed of the circumstances by the
newfpaper*. t\0W) there are abolitionists in
New 1 ork, as well as iu Boston, but they do not
dnre to ebow themselves?the popular ro*C3 is
for the Union and the constitution, and the peo
ple are always ready to nphold the law.
It is to be regretted that Boston, with all her
law, all her learning, all her orators, all her
stutesmen, all her common schools, all her
churches, and all her newspapers has not a lit
tle more patriotism and love of c untry Bos
ton is always ready and willing to tok ? South
ern money, but never'ready to acknowledge
Southern rights.
The BpanUh Aaurlcu Republics?Their Re
volutionary Condition?Pernicious Effects
of the Equality and Amalgamation of Races.
A glance at the condition of the Spanish re
poblic%of this continent, ftvm the datj of their
separation from the crown of Spain to the
present day, is suggestive not only of a dark,
bloody and melancholy history, unrelieved by
J any solid advantages, but without any appa
rent prospector hope of redemption for the fu
ture. Assuredly there is fto hope for them ex
cept from the most radical and sweeping changes
, in their political, religious and social institu
tions. Most of these Spanish republics have
been experimenting upon the doctrines of po
pular government for a period exceeding thir
ty years, and they have been steadily retro
grading from bad to worse, until, at this day,
from the Rio Grande southward to the empire
of Brazil, they are (with scarcely an excep
tion) either at war with each other, or in a
state of internal revolution and anarchy. Take,
for cxamplg, the following schedule of our bel
ligerent Spanish sisterhood, from our next door
neighbor down into tl?c very heart of South
America.
The republic of Mexico has found no relief in
the recall of Santa Anna. Her people appear
to have no aspirations for fhe empire which he
proposes to establish over them; and, without
waiting for the subsidies of the Gadsden treaty,
( he is compelled to take the field against the re
volutionary movement of Alvarez, the avowed
object of whic^is to drive the wooden-legged
dictator from the country. But should Santa
Anna be superseded by Alvarez, it is altogether
probable that before the expiration of the year,
Alvarez, in his turn, will be thrown out by a
counter revolution. Thus left to her own re
sources, there is nothing promised to Mexico
bnt the revolutionary tread-mill from one gene
ration to another, as the years roll on.
The next republic south is Guatemala; and
she is amusing herself at present, under the
direction of Gen..Carrcra, with a war against
Honduras. An ultimate design of Santa Anna,
if successful in his Mexican empire, is said to
be the incorporation of the Central American
States into his dominions, and the war of Car
rera against Honduras is supposed to be a part
of the gam?. Perhaps the appeal of Honduras
for annexation to the United States, when lor
mnlly laid before our government, may throw
some light upon this business. Nicaragua, not
withstanding all the labors of our ministers
Mr. Hise. Mr. Squier and Major Borland?is re
visited by her old malady, and is again
enjoying all the excitements and bru
talities of a civil war. Our late news
from San Juan gives a beautiful picture, also,
of the supreme colored authorities of the Mos
quito kingdom. In the republic of New Gra
nada, President Jose Maria Obaudo is con
fronted in every direction by the armed forces
ot Gen. Jose Maria Melo, who claims to lead
the liberty party. The Anglo-Saxons, how
ever. along the isthmus route of Panama a
it appears, have mixed up a considerable sea
soning of the doctrines of socialism and the an
ti-Catholic platform of the know-nothing
pnrty with the general staple of New GranV
dinn politics, which have given a more than
ordinary zest to the prct&ot revolutionary
movements in that country.
The next republic adjoiuing that of Now
Granada is Venezuela. Here Jose G. Mo
nagas, President, and his hopeful brother, have
for some time been alternating in the occupa
tion of the Presidency?first one and then the
other?but invariabiy at the point of the bayo
net, the usual substitute for popular elections
.n all the Spanish States of the Continent. At
present General Paez is in the field against
Monagas, and gs it is perfectly immaterial
which is victor, it is useless to attempt an ex
planation of the causes of the war or
its probable results. Next to Venezuela
we find President Jose Maria Urbina, of
Ecuador, compelled to take up arms against
the presumptuous General Flores, an old
campaigner and a very troublesome cus
tomer to the constituted anthorities of that
republic, when he is excluded from the num
ber. Brazil is quiet, and seems to be compara
tively happy under the rigid discipline of a
despotism. South of Brazil, everything again
is a state of revolution, disorder, anarchy, or
uncertainty, till we reach the Land's Ead of
Patagonia. The gigantic anthropophagi of
that highly interesting country are in the
blessed condition of primitive barbarism. They
plunder and butcher occasionally such ship
wrecked mariners as may fall into their clutch
es; but from none of the few that have escaped
have we ever heard of any revolutionary dis
turbances in Patagonia. The pernicious insti
tutions which the Spaniards have planted in
other places, do not exist there, and hence the
internal condition of Patagonia is that of com
parative tranquillity.
Now, what are the causes of this incapacity
of the Spanish republics to govern themselves?
Vhy these continual wars among them?
these successive revolutions, this calami
tous. degrading, and irretrievable condi
tion of internal anarchy into which they
have fallen? Their executive and legis
lative offices are largely occupied by
men of intelligence and education?their peo
ple (such as they are) are tractable and kindly
disposed. Almost any government which
would give them peace would be satisfactory
to them. But they have been so long the vic
tims of ambitious demagogues; they arc so
steeped in ignorance and superstition; they are
such an incoherent and enervated mass in
themselves, that a revolutionary aspirant can
always muster an army among them, from the
prospects of plunder?in the hope of some
ihangc which may possfttly, in some way, bet
ter their condition. The supremacy of the
Catholic Church in these Spanish-American
States can have but little to do immediately in
their intestine feuds and wars upon each other
for all parties in all these States arc alike at
tached to the church, excepting, perhaps, in
New Granada. The causes of this disordered
state of things lie deeper; and yet the main
cause is visible upon the surface.
Acoording to our declaration of independ
ence, "all men are created equal;'' yet the con
struction of our government, and the social
and political distinctions of our institutions,
discard this axiom M a fundamental error. Our
federal constitution does not recognise this
rincijde of eqaaiitj between the white and
black races; nor in tke practical operations of
our government do wa find the African or
Indian tribes admitted to the same social
and political footing with the white races. The
result has been a distinct, homogeneous, self
sustaining and con t&ntly improving governing
element in our population, to which negroes
and Indians, and all the inferior mixed races,
are subservient. One of the strongest objec
tions of Mr. Webster against the incorporation
of California and New Mexico into our Union,
was that it would infuse into our governing
population of pure European extraction the
piebald Mexican hybrids, resulting from the
miscellaneous intercourse of negroes, Indians
and Spaniards, and all recognized as among the
sovereign Mexican people. But the evils anti
cipated by Mr. Webster from this infusion was
prevented in New Mexico and California by on
American emigration sufficient to overwhelm
the indigenous hybrids, or to hold them in
peaceful subjection. The present delegate from
New Mexico to Congress is of pure Spanish
descent; nor is it likely that a negro, or a mu
latto, or an Indian, will ever be sent from that
Territory as its official representative at
Washington.
But it is to this deterioration of the Spanish
race in Mexico, and in all the Spanish States
south of it to New Granada., from its promis
cuous crossings with negroes and Indians; and it
i, to the practical recognition, more or less, of all
these different varieties of cross-breeds, to the
same political and social level with the pure
white races, in most of the Spanish republics,
that they are indebted for their constant down
ward tendency to anarchy and ultimate extinc
tion. The effects of this promiscuous amalga
mation have operated not only in a general de
terioration of the Mexican population, but they
are strikingly presented^in the census of that
country. Twenty, or $ven thirty years ago,
we believe the aggregate population of the re
public was some seven millions, and from all
the information at hand, we are not aware that
it is greater than seven millions at this day.
Hybrids may be occasionally prolific, but they
are physically and mentally effeminate and
short lived. But we have no space for further
argument. We take this position?that the fun
damental error of the Spanish-American repub
lics, to which all their subsequent misfortunes
and their present hopeless imbecility may be
traocd, is the deterioration of the population by
the amalgamation of the white with inferior
races, and the admission of the hybrids to the
same social and political footing with the un
adulterated whites. We care nothing for statu
tory regulations to the contrary, (if any there
are.) so long as the practical working of popu
lar government in the Spanish States has been
to admit whites and hybrids to a common level
as the sovereign people.
Contrasted with this pernicious system of
equality, we turn to the careful and rigid dis
crimination preserved in the United States,
which excludes both the inferior races of In
dians and negroes, and their hybrids, to the
least discernible infusion of African blood even
in the white man, from equality with the
whites, socially or politically. To this end the
institution of Southern slavery has been the
controlling power. Let Southern slavery be
abolished, and let whites and blocks, and their
miscellaneous offspring, be admitted to the
so me political and social level, and before the
expiration of fifty years we shall have fully
realized (even should we escape the horrors of
St. Domingo) all the evils of the revolutions
and anarchy which have ground poor Mexico
and her Spanish-American neighbors to the
dust. And yet the social and political equality
of the African with the Caucasian is port and
pared of the abolition programme, of which the
Nebraska agitation is but a passing incident.
Let us abide by the safeguards of the constitu
tion.
Naval Reforms?The Medical Defartmex f
?Now that oi# naval service seems likely to
undergo a thorough revision, we deem it use
ful to offer such suggestions as appear likely
to increase the efficiency of its various depart
ments; and in none more than the medical
branch of the service is the work of reform
needed. It is so important that the re
sponsible du'ies entrusted to this class of of
ficers shall be properly aud faithfully dis
charged, that, notwithstanding its dryness, we
may well be excused devoting a portion of our
space to the consideration of the subject.
When a surgeon enters the service he must
be examined by a Board of Naval Surgeons, de
signated by the Secretary of the Navy for that
piirposc. The board reports the relative
merits of the candidates, as shown by the ex
amination. Those of whose qualifications the
board is satisfied, are appointed assistant sur
geons as their services are required. After
serving in the capacity of assistant surgeon for
about five years, they have to submit them
selves to a second examination by a Board of
Naval Surgeons, and if found qualified they
arc designated pasged assistant surgeon;. They
arc then eligible to be promoted to the grade
of surgeon whenever a vacancy occurs.
The assistant "surgeons are generally pains
taking and industrious officers. Their duties
are to Etudy minutely the various modifica
tions of disease, their therapeutic treatment,
the details of medical topography, aud tLe
prognsi of medical science generally. They
are stimulated to do so, in order that they
may be able to pass their second examination.
But the passed assistant surgeon, knowing
that he will be promoted according to his num
ber on the register, stops short in the march of
improvement. Morbid anatomy is neglected,
therapeutics arc forgotten, and medical topogra
phy becomes irksome, and is seldom attended
to, unless it be in compliance with express orders
frcm the department, lie attains the minimum
ionum of his ambition when he receives the
appointment of surgeon : lie knows that he can
attain no higher grade in the service, and that
his pay will be augmented, not by meritorious
conduct, but at stated periods from the date of
his commission. A life of ease is now the ha
ven of his desire, and a useful and formerly in
dustrious officer is by this process converted
into a worshipper of the god of the epigastric
region. Shore duty is his paradise, and syco
phantic intrigues with navnl commandants con
sequently occupies the whole of that time and
attention that might be advantageously devot
ed to the service.
If the Secretary of the Navy would order
every naval surgeon who recqjves leave of ab
sence to prepnrc an ces%y upon the medical to
pography of the place where he resides, and to
forward it at the expiration of his leave, to the
department, for the purpose of being printed in
the leading medical journals of the country, it
would not only be a step towards keeping his
mind employed in the intereet of the profession
to which he belong-, bat It would be the means
of directing hie attention to the steady inves
tigation of scientific troths, in which his pro
gress would be rewarded by a feeling of oon
tentment and satisfaction resulting from their
successful pursuit.
There are, unquestionably, a good many sur
geons in the navy who are possessed of consid
erable professional ability, and who have earn
ed for themselves a reputation for talent and
industry; but they are the exception and not the
rule. The great majority are of a different
stamp, and they could not well be otherwise.
They were admitted into the servioe when an
examination was a mere empty form, and they
have invariably acted upon the principle of
"the more days the more dollars." The Eng
lish navy is now experiencing the embarrassing
effects of similar inattention to this department,
and before we are more seriously exposed to
them we should endeavor at once to apply a re
medy.
The desire which is observed to be rapidly
gaining ground amongst our naval surgeons, to
have themselves permanently attached to shore
duty, is an evil of the most serious magnitude,
and which, we fear, can only be corrected by
legislative means. It re-acts injuriously upon
the interests of the country, in more ways than
one. Those who have not friends powerful
enough to get them appointed to medical du
ties in their own native districts, have, in many
instances, succeeded in worming themselves
into the civil service, where they continue to
jeceivc their sea going pay whilst they are dis
charging, or attempting to discharge, the duties
of the civilian. It is time that 60me effort
should be made to put a stop to suq^ glaring
abuses. ?
The Abolitionists Beginning their Work.
?The abolitionists having failed to carry
out the project of burning down the capitol
at Washington, have commenced their work
of revenge against the passage of the Ne
braska bill by the murder of an officer of the
law connected with the recovery of a fugitive
Blave at Boston. Greeley, it appears, with all
his violence, could not succeed in firing up the
treasonable agitators in New York to the same
pitch of fanatical phrenzy, or probably we
might have had some lawless attempt at the
rescue of the three fugitives sent home to their
masters from this city on Friday last. Doubt
less our Fourierite neighbor regards with envy
the more successful agitation of his abolition
co-laborer, Lloyd Garrison. At the same time,
we perceive the "Jerry rescue " gang at Syra
cuse have been stopping a railroad train iu
search of a fugitive slave. They, too, are evi
dently inflamed with new zeal in their traito
rous work of resisting the laws, since the final
passage of the Nebiaska bill. We trust that
the whole set, from Boston and New York to
Syracuse, as far as they are not indictable for
the scaffold, the penitentiary, or the common
jail, will be permitted and aided by the lovers
of law and order to emigrate to Kansas or Ne
braska. If they desire to be revenged for the
passage of the Nebraska bill, let them meet
the South upon the ground where the battle is
to be fought, and chouse them out of it if they
can.
?
The order and law abiding people of the
North desire to be rid of Garrison, Greeley,
and their whole tribe of seditious agitators, as
soon as possible; but these miscreants cannot
bo permitted to murder, or aid and abet the
murder of an officer of the law with impunity.
They must be punished, or there is no telling
the extent of the murderous and incendiary
acts which may follow. Let an example be
made in the case of the Boston assassins, for
the benefit of their compeers, here, there, and
elsewhere. Greeley was mightily outraged
with the result of the Ward trial in Kentucky.
What has he to say concerning this murder at
Boston of an officer of the law in the discharge
of his duty? Will our ferocious philosopher
stultify himself, or boldly adhere to the policy
of a traitor? Let us know.
Marine Affairs.
Good Pasbage.?The schooner M. If. Freeman, Capt.
Glover, which arrived yesterday from St. Barts, left there
on the 18th inst., at 10 P. M., and on the 24tb inst., at 8
P. M. was forty miles north of Hatteras, with nothing
more than moderate winds. After which she had very
light winds, and was np with Barnegat at 6 A. If., yester
day, and at Sandy Book at 2 P. If.
I irARTVRB or the Atlantic.?The Collins steamship
Atlantic, Capt. West, sailed at her usual hour yesterday,
for Liverpool, with 216 passengers, a full cargo, and
>408,148 in specie.
Tin STEAMf-mr Chi-cent Cm, Capt Windle, left yester
day afternoon for Havana and New Orleans.
Si!ir Montezuma?The following is the latest report
from this vessel, ashore on Long Island :?
Ok Board Suit Montezuma, off Hempstead, 1
May 26, 1864. )
Yesterday wind got in S.S.W., and blew a gale rfea
lr'gh, and breaking over ship from stem to stern. No one
coula get on board to bring off the men, who passed a
\?ry uncomfortable night. Water knee deep on cabin
I'oor. Wind to day N.W., blowing hard; sea going down;
> hip heeling to larboard; pumps probably not be able to
clear the wreck.
Tni Winchester's Passengers.?We learn that the
Governor of Newtoundland has ohartered the British
brig Ann Amelia, to bring to this port forty-nine of the
emigrant )>as?engers who were rescued from ship Winches
ter, and carried into St. Johns, N. F. The Ann Amelia
was to sail on the 16th iust. The authorities at St.
Johns had done everything requisite to make the emi
grants comfortable while there, and furnished them with
a plentiful supply of food and cwthing.?Norton Journal.
May 26.
City Intelligence.
Injunction Against toe Hudson River Railroad?It
will be men by ilie Superior Court proceedings, that
i.t'ge Eloeson yesterday granted an injunction against
the Hudson River Railroad Company, restraining tbera
from making a receiving depot for newly arriwd etni
I rants at the foot of Canal street. It seems that for
revets) days past the streets in that vicinity have been
completely blocked up with the recently arrived eml
uants, availing the plea?uie of the railroad company to
forward tbim ?n their jobrney West. Mr. John F. Tall ?
man and Jaton llapes, of the Collins Ho'el, are the com
) lainaiits, and on the application of Mr. E. P. Clark, their
counsel, the Judge gran d the injunction. The uefcud
snts are ordered to rhow cause on the first day of Jane
why the said injunction shall not bo perpetuaL
Pari Jri.iKN ?We have received a lithographic portrait
of thla great artist, drawn upon stone by F. Puvignon,
trom a daguerreotype by P. Mass The artists have done
their work well, and we"have rarely ?een a more e.Toctlve
and spirited llksweta. As our lady readers are well aware,
Raster Julien lias a line fare and handsome person in
addition to his wonderful talent. In consequence, we
have no doubt that all his admirers will poeseaa them
selves of this "counterfeit presentment. Onr copy U
endorsed "Souvenir de haute affection offert a M. James
Gordon Bennett, par Paul Julian. " New York, Mai
27, 1664.
An Odd Fellow's Wei come?The members of 8tate
Rights I-odge of Odd Fellowship, of this city, gave a fine
entertainment last night at Florence's Hotel, In Welcom
ing back to New York an obi brother ol thla lodge, Juliue
K. Rose. Irom .ean Francisco. Mr. Itnfe left for the Land
of Gold some four years ago, and in Oallfonfla was the
pioneer in Odd Fellowship, being the first to establish
there a lodge of this order. His effort was followed by
{rest success, and there a s now sixtee# lodges In San
rancisco, numterlcg over five thousand men. A party
of about fifty sat down to the dinner last night, and
after full justice had been done to the edibles which
loaded the mbiee, t>e champagne began to burst, and
several eloquent speeches were made, by Mr. Ro?e, George
l'eckham, Robert B. Lyon, Douglas Lefflngwell. Chas. 0.
Richardson, and others. The party adjourned at about
two o'clock, la great gootLhumor.
Mmitarv Visiters ?Th? Cleveland light Infantry and
Cleveland Light Artilbry will visit New York on their
route to Boston, on Wednesday next, wbi:h place they
will visit at the Invitation of the Boston Laneera. They
intend taking supp. r at the Cortlandt Hotel on Wednes
day. end on Thursday proceed to Boston. All honor te
our Western friends.
Supreme Court?Special form.
Before linn. Judge Mitchell.
In the Mallrr of H'u/Minj; Vuant street ?Counsel for
ihe Corporation inored the confirmation of the Couunis
sionere' report of assessment. Mr. Whiting, on the part
of the ownera, opposed the confirmation. Decision sw
erved.
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
A PLUTTEKIK6 HOH TBI OFFICE HOLDERS
Mr. RedfieW and Mr. Fowler to be Removed.
Critical PmHImi of the AatMekraaka ?wi
the PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLIES,
Ac., Ac, Ac.
Washington.
THe EPFBCT Or THE NEBRASKA BILL ON OFFICE
HOLDERS?opponents or thb mrasuuk in aval *
WAT?RESIGNATION OF MB. o'cONOR.
Wakuihotok, May 27, 1864.
We understand it ha? been determined to behead all
offlceholdera who were active ta their opposition to the
Ntbraska bill. Thla will kick up a row, especially In
New York, where the number or faithful U few. The Col
lector, Mr. Redfli-Id, it U true, wrote a letter in favor of
Nebraika; but notwithstanding that evidence lu hie fa
vor he find* himself in trouble. The fact has been com
municated here that eeveral of the Custom House em
ployes opposed the Nebraska bill, openly and secretly,,
and even went so far as to laugh at the leading articles
in the Union?the emanations of the Cabinet Itself, ah ?
least the kitchen portion of it. Mr. Redtteid has been
written to, to remove these men, but he refuses to do so,
and declares that he cannot find any evidence against,
them, notwithstanding the fact that they do not deny
the charges made against them. ,
The Collector being thus in a state of open deSanoe?of
rank rebellion against the administration?it has been
determined to cut the knot by outting off his head.
The Surveyor of your port, Mr. Cochrane, is deemed to
be sound on Nebraska; and having that Scarlet letter in
his breeches pocket, it has been considered advisable to
let him akgpe. Besides, his uncle, the Hon. Garrit
Smith, la fast becoming a good national man, having as
sociated with, and given dinners to, so many Southern
members since he has been In Congress, that he is even
thinking of bnying some negroes; and this national uncle
of his has endorsed Mr. Cochrane.
Mr. Isaac V. Fowler, the 1'ostmaater, is, however, de
cidedly in trouble. His antl-Nebraskalsm will he the
death of him. Put he must go, end most of his elerka
also. The President declares that he only gave him
office upon condition that he would support the adminis
tration through thick and thin; and having violated the
terms of agreement, the office must be vacated.
We give you the determination of to day only. What
change there may be in the wind by Monday it is impos
sible to say. But If the l*resident continues firm?a ra
ther improbable supposition?there will be a turning out
of office-holders on the Qrst of the month perfectly alarm
ing.
It is too had that the poor devils should be made
to suffer for their conduct. They doubtloss endea
vored to be on the same side as the administration, but
did not tack about with sufficient dexterity.
It is known that the President and the administration
were only kept in favor of the Nebraska bill, after they
did commit themselves, by the unceasing efforts of Judge
Douglas and other gentlemen. Rumor has it, that the
Judge had great trouble in keeping the people at the
West end of the avenue from caving in, by using even,
plainer language to them than he used on the donate'
floor.
But Rcdfield and Fowler, and their clerks, had no Judge*
Douglas in New York to stir them up. They have fallen
from grace, and must repent in retlracy their stupidity,
whilst their fortunate successors will do well to keep their
examples before their eyes. .
Beyond passing the Deficiency bill next week, nothing
will be done in Congress. Both Houses will probably ad
journ over on Wednesday till the following Monday, and.
from Monday till Thursday?so as to give a week for re
fitting the two chambers.
Frequent Csbinet meetings have been held with regard
to our relations with Spain. Nothing is decided upon
yet?though it is safe to assume there will be no war, if
a respectable backing out on the part of our administra.
tion can preventTt. The two Commissioners?Dallas and.'
Cobb, who have been suggested by Mr. Mercy to asslstr
Mr. Boole, will probably carry the day.
Aprojxn of these changes: Mr. Charles O'Concr, thct
United States District Attorney for Southern New York,
hss sgain sent his resignation to the President. This if.
the third time he hss mndt an effort to get rid of his of .
flee. It will be difficult for Gen. Tierce to refuse accept
ing this third resignation. If he has a particle of self-re
spect, be must allow Mr. O'Conor to retire to private life.
IleJijflouJ Affairs.
rr>ERBYTER!AN (N. S.) GENERAL ASSEMBLY*.
Pi:iLADELi'iua, May 27, 1851
The Presbyterian (N. S.) General Assombly was occu
pied through the whole of yesterday and to day discuss
ing the report of the committee upon the oducation of
young men for the ministry. The debate is upon the
expediency of Ecclesiastical Hoards in distinction from
the voluntary loolety system. Drs. Allen, Bralnerd and'
Spesr, are the leaders of the young Preebytery, which
includes those in favor of distinct denominational ac
tion. Drs. Bcman, Riddle, and others, are strongly op
posed to the movement. The discussion this morning ?
was very sharp. Rev. Albert Barnes hss the floor for
Monday morning.
A protest was presented against the action of this As
sembly upon the slavery question. It will be read oc >
Monday.
PRESBYTERIAN (O. S.) OJ5NBRAL AS8RBBLY
Buffalo, May 27, 1864.
The Preshyterian (0. S.) General Assembly adopted a
report recommending the transfer of Dr. McGUl to Prince
ton Seminary.
The resolution recommendldfc that appointments to
vacant professorships in seminaries be made by a Board
of Directors instead of the Assembly was . laid on ths
table. !
An overture, asking that churches be formed In oertain
localities where there are no ruling elders, was rejected.
The Assembly adjourned early,In order to visit Niagara
Falls.
The Fugitive Slave Excitement at Syrsense..
Syracuse, May 27, 1864.
The intelligence from Boston creates great excitement
here, and knots of people discussing the subject, are
gathered on all the corner*.
Last night 2,000 memguarded the depot till ten o'eloek
P. M., at which hour the Jerry Rescue tocsin was
sounded, as the train camo down, but the ears were ex
amined in vain for the expected fugitive. It is thought
some adamantine sold the city, to eolipae the eeBpee.
From Use Solatia.
COLLISION OF BTBAMEIU)?THB QUERN'S BIRTHDAY. -
Haiti ho SB, May 27, 1861.
The steamers Governor Graham and Faany batterlee
came in collision on Cape Fear river on Wednesday last,
snd the latter sunk. No ltTes were loet.
G. P. R. James, ihe British Consul at Norfolk, ce'.e
brnted the Queen's birthday on Wednesday by entertain
ing a large party.
I'ollco Intelligence. 9
Charge '/Stealing a Tn.nk ? frompt Arreit.?A Ger
man named Jacob Mier, alias 11 under, was yn*'er<lay ar
rested by Marshal StejibenH, and officer H-ll, of the
Mayor'a office, charged *ith stealing, on the 24?hlnjt.,
a trunk from No. Id Greenwich street, containing silver
ware and wearing apparel, valued at 9122, the property
of A. R. Cook. The officers succeeded In to ling the
whereabouts of the rogue in Orange street, and in his
possession they found the trunk broken open, but the
majority of the property still remaining. When the
officers discovered the property the owner had not
missed it from the premises, and was much surmised
when notified about it. Much credit is dae the officers
for their vigilance in this matter. The prisoner was
taken before the Mayor, who committed him to the Tombs
for trial.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE NEW TORE DKHALD.
Ntw Tor*, Uav 2<?, MM.
Teak Sir :?The report stating that a portion of the
es stolen from our store were sold to a jeweller In
n row is in [Tint incorrect. They w?re merely
offered for sale, and Mr. Gtorge liogera, at the corner of
Chatham street and Trycn row, (who la po doubt the
nereoa alluded to in your leport.) having been previously
furnished with a description of the articles, very prompt
ly (instead of purchasing them, as yonr report allegee,)
gave us information that led to the arreet of the thief,.
and the recovery M the property. We trust you will, In
justice to Mr. Rogers, rive this Immediate lasertiea, and.
oblige, very respectfully, ?
JOHN H WILLIAMS k SON, 316 Pearl street.
The Pitch Testimonial.
The following subscriptions for the testimonial to Cap
tafa fitch and others, hats bean received by tbo trea
surer. Richard Pell, *3 Wall street.
May 27 ?Amount previously advertised. 91,496
ADI'ITIOSAL. '
Rowland k Aspinwall 10O
W. H. Aspinwall 160
J. Little h Co 60
J. 11. Brower 36
Total 91,770
Csaico-DssnrtTrct) pea bjr Chas- H. Wll
1,1 s Ms ON. Gall try la Brooklyn, 'M Paltsa strest. opp>.
sits Cltntoa.
fb the Hatters in the City and Coma try?
A. 1.1 LAND A CO. bass bow la store lbs largest sad
most ccssplsts stock of st-tw bats In ths oily oomprlsiag
evory variety for mva's, hoys, set children's wsar. snttrely
ef tl?t* own msmafsrt'-ro. sad at priest wbich wtti giro
satisfaction. A. l.EI.ANis ? CO , 171 aad 173 I'etrl, and
7< asd 7f)t Pias str.ct *
The Nebraska and loung America Hats?
Far sals at FECK'8 (tors, Prlton opp?,Ua -tin t .treat.
B.etllja.