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SunDau Oispatcl).
Sunday Morning, July 18, 1847.
A Route on the Sunday Paters for Sale—Consist
ing of 525 subscribers, in the sth and sth wards, alonj
the river. Apply to William Powell, Ct Willett st. •
To Readers and Correspondents.— There are many
worth j* and excellent charities in the city of New York
and yet our oiler, made last week, to give one hundrei
dollar, to the Fireman’s Fund, the Asylum for the
Blind, the Samaritan Society, or the Catholic Hal
Orphan Asylum, has not boon accepted; as it was made
conditional upon its being proved that any other papet
of our class had within thousands of our circulation.
That offer is still open. It is ”blufl‘,”if you please;
but it seems to us the most convenient way of satisfy
ing the business community of a fact, which, it is then
interest, and ours, should bo known—the great'fact,
that this paper, by its industry, euterprize, and outlay
of cash and talent, has placed itself, firmly and securely
at the head of the New York weekly press.
We would call particular attention to our Paris Cor
respondence. The letter of this week, contains some
strange developments.
"_The First False Step” is concluded; it has had an
extraordinary run; and will be issued in a few days in
a handsome volume.
Next week we shall publish a very brilliant sketch ol
the domestic life, habits and amusements, of Napoleon
and his court It is entitled "Malmaison; asketch ol
the times of the Empire, translated from the French ol
Marco-de-St. Hilaire, Aid-de-Camp to Bonaparte.” We
have never read a more interesting account of the
private life of the Grand Emperor, of Josephine, and
the brilliant circle by which they were surrounded.
This article has been translated for us, by a gentleman
of this city, and has never appeared before in our
language.
Thankful for past favors and successes, we shall spare
no exertions to merit a continuance and increase ol
them; and we have made such arrangements, as will
enable us to supply the demand for our paper; an ob
ject, which, of late, we have not always been able to
accomplish.
ICZ* Advertisers are informed that in order to get ofl
our edition, we shall be obliged to go to press at an
early hour on Saturday evening. Our friends should
hand in their favors by Saturday morning at the latest.
Advertisements which come in during the day and
evening, we are frequently compelled to leave out.
Practical Amalgamation.—We have had it
impressed upon us, for some weeks past, to write
a few words, upon this delicate, but very important
subject.
There seems to exist a conspiracy, in this coun
try and England, to destry, not only the American
Republic, and our glorious Union, but the very
race to which we bel ng. Indeed, the grand ob
ject for which the Abolitionists of the United
States and their English allies are laboring, is to
bring the negro race of Africa into direct union
with the Anglo-Saxon race, and so destroy forevei
the purity of the latter. To this unnatural and de
testable end, all the efforts of Abolitionism are di
rected-
That the black races should endeavor to improve
their blood, by mingling it with a purer current, is
not strange. It seems to be an instinct of nature;
and we find, in the works of various travellers and
voyagers, this reason given for acts which have
been attributed to mere licentiousness. In the
East Indian islands, in the South Seas, and all
around the coast of Africa, whatever may be the
jealousy of the natives towards each other, it
seems to be entirely suspended in regard to their
white visitors, and such connexions are looked
upon as a favor and an honor. We need not go
out of our own city, nor walk beyond Anthony
street, West Broadway, or Laurens street, to find
a thousand evidences of this seeming instinct of
the colored races.
But if it be natural, and, to them, desirable, for
the negro race to seek such an improvement, how
horribly revolting is the idea of debasing and de
stroying our own beautiful,, energetic and intellec
tual race by any such admixture! Yet this idea is
entertained—is propagated, by the Abolitionists on
both sides of the Atlantic, and every effort they are
making tends directly to this result.
Yes, every effort. What prevents amalgamation,
but the prejudice existing in the white race against
the black I—and. it is against this prejudice they
are forever declaiming. This“ wicked prejudice,”
they call it—this “ holy antipathy,” we say, im
planted by Nature, for the preservation' of our
race.
Thus Gerrett Smith is giving away thousands of
acres of land to negroes, in order to make them
desirable matches for poor white girls, in whom
this antipathy has been broken down by the preach
ing of Abolition fanatics.
Thus we find Garrison and Phillips taking ne
groes by the hand, living.with them on terms of
social equality, and with their wives and daugh
ters walking arm and arm with them in the street,
and eating with them at the same table. ' Matri
mony is the next thing in order!
Thus the British line of “Nigger” steamers, with
this end steadily in view, has decided upon carry
ing negroes in the first cabin, and compelling the
white passengers to eat with them on terms of
equality. This latest outrage is more than an in
sult—it seems intended to help on the greatest in
jury that could be inflicted upon our country and
our race.
We need not enlarge upon the calamity, the hid,
ecus, suicidal wrong of practical amalgamation.
It stands out in naked horror. Its natural repul
siveness would be sufficient ever to protect our
race, were there no influences at work to under
mine the instincts of nature. But when we recall
the scenes of the May anniversaries in this city,
the prospect, we say, without meaning to jest, looks
dark before us.
If, then, there were no other argument to urge
against Abolitionism, on both sides of the Atlantic,
this one is all sufficient 1 Its efforts tend to break
down the Heaven-implanted antipathies of the
white race to the black, and so to debase and
eventually destroy the former.
We have stated this matter as delicately as was
consistent with the proper expression of our opi
nions ; in a scientific, and even in a popular point
of view, we might have entered more largely into
its consideration. But we prefer to leave it to the
calm reflection of every reader; and if any man
wishes for an additional incentive to thought, let
him look at his fair sister, his beloved child, or at
his possible posterity, and contemplate the horrors
which these fanatics are endeavoring to bring upon
them.
(KJ* A Mr. Lorenzo Sabine, ofEastport, Maine,
has published a volume entitled—“ The American
Loyalists; or Biographical Sketches of Adherents to
the British Crown in the War of the Revolution—
Alphabetically arranged." The work may be a va
luable addition to history, although its importance
does not strike us; but if we came of the tory
stock we should not be at all obliged to Mr. Sabine
for putting our names in his “ alphabetical arrange
ment.” True charity must frown on every at
tempt to rescue from oblivion the names of those
who took sides with the oppressor against their
native land. To repeat them is to curse. It was
not a time, when blind obedience to a king was
held a duty. Neither in England nor in the colo
nies, was there a man who believed, or who pre
tended to believe, in the divine right of kings.
That idea exploded when the axe fell upon the
neck of Charlies the First, more than a hundred
year before the American revolution. And if these
colonies owed no allegiance to a king, they cer
tainly owed none to a parliament in which they
not allowed a representation. The colonies, thus
posit'oned, had a right tosetupfor themselves and
become a nation, eve n though the king and parlia
ment had not sought to tax and oppress them.
That they did seek to tax and oppress them, only
made the right apparent, and its assertion and
maintenance a necessity.
We protest against Mr. Sabine,- or any other
apologist for the tories, attempting to' excuse their
treason to their country by ascribing it to a ro
mantic sentiment of loyalty to their k.mg. They
were actuated by no such sentiment. .The tories
of the revolution were influenced by m ercenary
motives, or by cowardly fears, or both. T.hey ad
hered to the crown, either with the hope of re-ward
or frem a dread of punishment. Had the chaiices
at tire outset been in favor of the patriot side, in
stead of against it, there would have been no cant
about loyalty to a man as an apology tor treason to
their countrymen. We repeat that no attempt
should be made to drag them from that oblivion
which mercifully envelops them:
*' Let silence settle on their names—
Forgotten, all I
Who shrunk, when lit on every hill the flames—
A nation’s call.
On every heart which held allegiance own.
Not to a kingly head, not to a tinsel crown ;
But to themselves, who struck the oppressor down.”
Mr. Sabine’s book will, we doubt not, meet with
a ready sale in the province of New Brunswick ;
the settlers of which were these same tories, for
whose sufferings in the cause of royalty, Mr. Sa
bine has endeavored to awaken sympathy to which
they are not entitled.
(KJ-The steamboat Roger Williams leaves the
foot of Robinson street every Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday morning, as a day boat, to Albany.
She is a new and elegant boatq and one of the
very fastest on our waters; while. Captain De
groot, her gentlemanly commander, is still more
worthy of commendation than his handsome
craft. Our friends, who are bound northerly,
cannot be better accommodated than on board
the Roger Williams. The fa re is but fifty cents,
and aside from Captain De; .’root’s well known
abilities as a commander, the public are indebted
to him for the reduction, he being the first to put
it down. We refer our readers for the hour of
starting and the different landings, to the adver
tisement in another column.
Justice to Ireland.—What must be the condi
tion of a country, where “justice” comes in the
shape of a poor law? We hope that we do not
despise the poor “because of his povertybut we
certainly detest poverty, and would have every one
despise, dread, and guard against it. Poverty is a
dreadful misfortune, but we are ’not sure that
wealth is a greater one; and he was an honest
man whose prayer was, “ Give me neither poverty
nor riches!” We would like to shake hands with
that fellow.
A widow lady in Ohio committed’suicide
by cutting her throat with a pair of scissors—a
pretty difficult undertaking. When a person is
mad enough to commit suicide, we are not to be
astonished at any odd way chowen to accomjlishtt.
Calvary Church.—The Courier and Enquirer
copies the first article which appeared in the Dis
patch, relating to the difficulty growing out of the
rejection of pews in the Rev. Mr. Southard’s
church, and intimates that the forty gentlemen
who advanced the money for the erection of the
edifice, are willing “to relinquish to the church”
a portion of the privileges guarantied by their
compact with the vestry.
It seems from the admission of Colonel Webb,
who is one of the “forty,” that besides the first
choice of pews, the associates were to pay a
’round-rent of only twenty dollars each. So that
for the best pews in the sanctuary, pews bought at
i low price in consideration of payment in ad
vance, the associates were to pay only a nominal
ground rent! We do not wonder that the ad
mirers of Mr. Southard were indignant at such an
arrangement. Why, from Colonel Webb’s own
showing, these forty associates have loaned their
money at a rate of interest, which the Jews them
selves (hard dealers as they are, and loving nothing
which bears the name of Calvary) would have
been ashamed to exact from the hard pressed and
embarrassed vestry.
First, they obtained the best pews for SSOO each
—pews which, put up at auction, would bring
SIOOO; —then the ground-rent, perpetually fixed at
twenty dollars, when every man of them knows
that the ground-rent of those pews would be cheap
at one hundred and fifty. Colonel Webb, how
ever, says that the forty associates are willing to
relinquish this part of the contract, and pay a fair
ground-rent; “the surrender of the pews is a se
condary matter.” Perhaps it is best to take the
offer, (although we do not regard the surrender of
the pews a “ secondary matter,”) for unless the
law against usury can be brought to bear on the
“forty thieves,” as they are termed, the right in a
legal point of view is on their side. The vestry ol
Calvary church agreed to pay the pound of flesh,
and the Shylocks may exact it, taking care how
ever to shed no blood.
Altogether, this one of the most extraordinary
cases that ever came under our notice, and of im
portance enough to justify the attention we have
given it.
We have not a syllable to say against elegant
ind fashionable churches, but we do say that those
who desire to figure in them ought to pay the mar
ket price for such luxuries, and not resort to the
pitiful meannesses which have been displayed in
this case. An establishment like that of Calvary,
md w’ith a rector of the learning and eloquence of
Mr. Southard, needs all the money that can be
raised to support it; and if the pews which the as
sociates paid only twenty thousand for, will bring
fifty thousand at auction, the Church is swindled
out of thirty thousand; or if, at twenty dollars
ground rent, these forty pews will pay only eight
hundred dollars towards the rector’s salary, when
if they were let to the highest bidder, they would
pay four thousand, why then the associates swindle
Mr. Southard out of three thousand two hundred
dollars, which is no trifle even to the most popular
and best paid clergyman.
The whole matter is in a nutshell. The asso
ciates took advantage of the necessities of the
vestry, to drive a bargain which would have dis
graced a Yankee horse-jockey. If they stand upon
their compact—refuse to yield—they will justly
draw upon them the contempt of the entire religious
community. Neither the fury of our blackguard
correspondent, whose communication we pub
lished in our last, and who, struck with sudden
contrition, it is to be hoped, confessed himself one
of “forty thieves,” —nor the ingenuity of the Cou
rier in explaining, can avert this result.
(KJ- We had nearly forgotten that such a man
and such a consul as C. Edwards Lester was in ex
istence, when we were reminded of the fact, at
a little dinner party, a few days since. One of
the gentlemen present was speaking of Genoa,
and Lecter’s name occurred.
“ Did you make the acquaintance of our Consul
at Genoa ?”—we asked.
“ I should like to see the American who has
visited Genoa during Lester’s residence there,
who managed to avoid making the acquaintance,”
was the reply.
The gentleman did not give a very gratifying
account of Lester, or of the estimation in which
he was held at Genoa. Speaking of Lester’s
literary undertakings, he said that Power, though
to blame for having anything to say to such a
mountebank, was much to be pitied. All Italy
laughed at him. C. Edwards Lester’s translations
from the Italian, about which he made so much
noise a year ago, were made by a poor Pole in Les
ter’s office, tvho was paid the munificent salary of
twenty five cents a fay. Lester never translated a
sentence, nor wrote a line of the books which he
put forth a year ago, with his name. The books
were prepared for the press by the Pole, Who is a
thorough Italian and English scholar. This fact
can be substantiated by affidavits if necessary.
Pretty good for our Consul at Genoa, but here is
something better. It will be remembered that
little more than a year ago Lester wanted Congress
to buy a collection of old, rare and valuable books,
which he said were in Genoa, and could be had
for thirty thousand dollars. Well, this “ old, rare
and valuable collection” was the remains of a
library belonging to a priest—a library once valua
ble, but which had been ravished by English add
French travellers, until scarcely a work was left
worth the taking. “ The priest,” added our infor
mant, “ would be glad to sell the entire lot for less
than five thousand dollars. Lester wanted dur gov
ernment to do the handsome thing and give some
body thirty thousand.
If what we have heard is true, this C. Edwards
Lester manages the business of his consulate
wretchedly, and is in fact a disgrace to the govern
ment he represents. Captains of vessels which
have visited Genoa, during his administration,
make serious charges against him, charges which
should be investigated by the Secretary of State.
Weknow that there is astronginfluence at Wash
ington, which has thus far kept him in his place,
but the credit of the country abroad is of more
importance than any claims which Lester may
have on any distinguished politician. We know
that Lester would have been recalled two years
ago, biitfor the urgent intercession in his behalf of
a Senator from one of the new States.
(KJ* A “Taylor medal,” with a notice already
prepared for insertion in our editorial columns,
has been sent us. As we generally write our own
editorials, we decline to insert the one so kindly
furnished us by the manufacturer of the Taylor
medal; but we have no objections to give the sub
stance of it. The notice was intended to make us
say that “the most beautiful likeness of General
Taylor which we have ever yet seen, has just been
published in a medal.” . We wont say so, because
the meet beautiful likeness is that published by
Long & Brothers, No. 32 Ann street. The notice
proceeds to state our opinion. “ The head on the
medal referred to is said by those who are familiar
with the original, to be more correct as a likeness
than any of the prints which have been published.”
Now as we never heard anybody “ familiar with
the original” say any such a thing, it can’t be ex
pected that we should say we had; moreover we
don’t believe that anybody “familiar with the
original” ever saw the medal, much less expressed
an opinion in favor of the accuracy of the likeness.
But this is our own private opinion, publicly stated,
without evidence to back it. We then say that
the medal “is far the most convenient form for
popular circulation as it can be carried in the
pocket,” and that “a more acceptable ; pocket
piece cannot be found.” Now as -we don’t be
lieve it honest to pass spurious coin, and as we
have some little respect for the old hero, we de
cline to aid in the attempt to put little bits of
worthless brass, with his face stamped upon them,
in “ popular circulation.” To conclude our notice,
if any person wants the medal for a “pocket
piece,” it can be procured “ at the publishers, No.
4 La Farge Buildings, comer of Broadway and
Reade street.”
Medical Morality.—The doctors are pluming
themselves 011 the result of some recent statistical
enqiririC- 8 in France. It appears from a return of
prisoners, given in the Parisian Moniteur, that
from 1828 to’ 1838 there were in France 41,679 male
prisoners, age'd above twenty-five, under criminal
charges. Of tl'.’eee there were 33 priests, 33 bar
risters, 9 attorneys, 75 notaries, and not one medi
cal man. This, however, is easily accounted for.
All the crimes committed by the Doctors, are in
their regular business, and are perpetrated accord
ing to law.
(KJ-Aman advertises in’ the Sun for fifty girls
at the “comer of Front sti’eet and the Bowery.”
We should like to see him ge t them.
A Wife that is a Wife.—hArs. Fremont, wife
of the gallant western explorer, and daughter of
Senator Benton, has started on ajeumey of eigh
teen hundred miles across the prairies, to meet her
husband, attended by the western hunter, Kit
Carson.
(KJ- The English papers are talking of “ the cruel
and cowardly bombardment of Vera Cruz, by the
Americans.” It is but a few years since these
same papers recorded the unprovoked butchery of
some twenty thousand Chinese, in the Opium war,
and then insulted Sod by a national thanksgiving!
(KJ- It is proposed to give Mons. Vattemare, the
enthusiastic advocate of national literary ex
changes, the freedom of the country, or at least a
free passage over it by all our lines of communica
tion. He deserves this, and besides this some
more substantial token of respect and gratitude.
The French are, after all, the people for sustained
enthusiasm and continuous effort.
Baftisn. of Henry Clay.—We were led into
error in regard to the form, though not the fact of
Mr. Clay’s: reopnt baptism. Mr. Clay, being the
son of a Blaptist clergyman, was not sprinkledin
his infancy, but the rite was administered, in this
way, in his own parlor, and not by immersion, as
stated.
(KJ- Can it be that the Academy of Me
dicine has formally resolved to admit no man to a
fellowship who has ever read Gil Blas, which con
tains the history of Doctor Sangrado ?
Madame Anna Bishop.—The arrival of this vo
calist in America is an event of so much interest
to the musical world, that we shall be expected to
notice it in a manner, in some proportion to its
importance.
Madame Anna Bishop was born in London.
Her maiden name was Reviere. At an early age
she became pupil in the Royal Academy of Music,
founded by that illustrious amateur, Lord Burg
hursh, the present Earl of Westmoreland. This
institution was placed under the general direction
of Mr. Bochsa, the composer and harpist, who was
also the director of her Majesty’s Opera House.
The extraordinary talents of Miss Reviere, the
present Madame Bishop, recommended her to the
especial patronage of Lord Burghursh, and to the
particular attention of Mr. Bochsa; and she did
credit to their patronage and instructions, for in
1838, she appeared with great success as premiere
cantatfice, in the Ancient and Philharmonic con
certs, and the great musical festivals of that pe
riod. Up to this time she had studied only the
classic music of Handel, Hayden, Mozart and
Beethoven; but that study, doubtless, laid the foun
dation of her present excellence and fame.
At this period, by the advice of her friends and
instructor, Madame Bishop, (for in the mean time
she had married Mr., now Sir Henry Bishop,)
turned her attention to the more modem and dra
matic music of the Italian school. Her progress
was so rapid, that in a single year she achieved a
most splendid triumph. It was at a grand morning
concert, given by Mr. Bochsa, at the Italian Opera,
July 5,1839; and never, in England, and seldom
in the world, has there been such a concentration
of talent, all of which enhanced the triumph of our
youthful prima donna.
It was a fearful ordeal. Madame Bishop sang on
the same stage with Grisi, with Pauline Viardo,
with Garcia, with Persiani—and Rubini, Tambu
rini and Lablache also assisted. Thalberg and
Dohler presided at the piano-forte; while Bochsa,
he whose musical career had commenced by play
ing before Napoleon, sat, the king of harpists, en
joying his young pupil’s triumphs and his own.
Shortly after this success, so brilliant and so
complete, Madame Anna Bishop began that pro
fessional tour, which has extended over the civil
ized portion of the eastern continent, and which is
now to recommence in our own fresh western he
misphere. This tour has been of nearly eight years
duration, and it is one so remarkablein thehistory
of art, as to be worthy of a particular description,
which, from having seen some of its monuments
and trophies, we are the better enabled to give.
Madame Bishop, preceded by the prestige of her
London triumph, arrived at Copenhagen, the capi
tal of Denmark, in October, 1839; where she gave,
in rapid succession, ten concerts at the Theatre
Royal, and nine soirees at her own magnificent
hotel, which afterwards became the palace of the
hereditary Prince of Denmark. These concerts
and soirees were attended by the king, queen and
court, and were in everyway successful.
Leaving Copenhagen, she arrived in Stockholm,
the capital of Sweden, in January, 1840; where
she was the successful competitor of Jenny Lind,
who, as the latest novelty, is now turning the head
of London; and where she had the especial patron
age of the royal amateur and composer/Prince
Oscar, now the king of Sweden.
Passing through the Swedish provinces, Ma
dame Bishop arrived at St. Petersburgh, the capital
of the Russian empire, in May, 1840. Here she
gave, first, three concerts en costume, at the Grand
Theatre, sang at the fete of the Emperor, gave six
soirees at the palace of Prince Yousopoff, at fifty
francs a ticket, and received at the private enter
tainments of the Russian nobility six hundred
roubles for a song.
Passing through the Russian provinces, Ma
dame Bishop gave concerts at Dorpat, at Riga, and
at Mittau; and at the celebrated city of Moscow
she gave eight concerts, and with three days’
study gave an entire act of Robert le Diable in the
Russian language.
Leaving Moscow, in June, 1841, Madame Bishop
repaired to Nigny Novogorod, and thence to Ka
san, the capital of Tartary, where the Governor
placed the palace, and in the true Russian style, two
of his aids-de-camp, at her disposal. At Odessa,
the great Russian sea-port on the Black Sea, she
gave five concerts, after which, the same success
es attended her in Yassi, Moldavia, in Lemburgh,
whence she proceeded to Krakovia, to Brunn,
and arrived in Vienna, the capital of Austria, in
March, 1842. having made a tour of so many thou
sands of miles, through so many countries, seldom
visited by European aitistes, and everywhere
achieving more triumphs than we can find space to
record.
In April, 1842, the British Ambassador at the
Court of Vienna, gave a grand concert to intro
duce Madame Bishop to the Austrian nobility, and
she gave concerts in all the chief cities of the em
pire. At Munich, the king of Bavaria, a most mu
nificent patron of the arts, wrote the programme of
her first concert with his own hand.
Passing through Germany, in 1842, Madame
Bishop traversed the Tyrol, and entered Italy at
Verona, m January, 1843, where after giving con
certs at Padua, Venice, Florence, Rome, etc., she
opened a new career at Naples.
Let us glance back at this magnificent tour,
through which we have rapidly followed her. In
a little more than three years she gave two hundred
and sixty concerts. Her closing song at Copen
hagen, was in the Danish language; at Stockholm
she electrified the people with the national songs
of Sweden; with a wonderful facility she over
came the difficulties of the Russian and Polish
languages, and in Germany, she sang Lucrezia
Borgia in German. She had already acquired the
French, and was a mistress of the Italian. In all
these places she had given concerts en costume,
singing each morceau, each song, in character. In
every concert she was the great attraction, her
only assistant being her musical instructor, the
accomplished harpist, Bochsa. As may be sup
posed, such triumphs were not without their tro
phies. Besides the immense sums of money, re
ceived in all this period, the sovereigns and princes
of the North loaded her with the most magnificent
jewels; and her diamonds, rubies, turquoises,
pearls, and other jewelry and bijouterie, are of the
most costly and magnificent description.
At Naples, in 1843, Madame Anna Bishop com
menced her career by giving costume concerts at
the Grand Teatro San Carlo. At the express de
sire of the King of Naples, she was engaged as
prima donna assdluta di cartello, of the Royal
Theatres of San Carlo and Fondo—without excep
tion the first musical position in the world. That
Madame Bisnop was equal to this position—that
she encountered its perils and sustained its duties
triumphantly, is evinced by the number and the
periods of her engagements. Her first engagement
was for five months—her second for nine, her
third for three, and her last for ten months, which
expired on the 9th of September, 1845; This was
in Italy, where the prima donna is generally
changed every year—but where Madame Bishop
was engaged for twenty seven months consecutive
ly, the greatest triumph ever achieved by any
artiste since the days of Calbran and Ronzi. Dur
ing this remarkable engagement, Madame Bishop
sang three hundred and twenty-seven times in
twenty operas, embracing the chefs d’ceuvres of mo
dern art. She sang sixty-five times in La Fidan
zata Carso, twenty-eight in Lucia, thirty-six in
Verdi’s I due Foscari, and fifty times in La Can
tatrice Villane. In the part of Desdemona in
Otello, she was the successor of Malibran, and this
was one of her greatest successes. At Rome, she
appeared for fifteen consecutive nights in Lucia,
and was called out twenty-five times in one even
ing—a circumstance that gives us an idea of Italian
enthusiasm, and of the genius which could thus
excite it.
Before leaving Italy, the scene of these splendid
and almost unexampled successes, Madame Bishop
sang at Palermo, in Sonnambula, in the presence
of the sovereigns of Russia and Naples, after which
she returned to England, passing through Switzer
land, Belgium and Holland. The great artistic
tour, which we have sketched thus rapidly, was
closed in the old world by an engagement at Drury
Lane, and concerts in the British provinces. In
America a similar career is about to commence;
and we have no doubt that the laurels this
charming cantatrice will gather in the new world
will be- as cherished as those she brings with her
from the old.
We have had an opportunity to see and hear
Madame Bishop, and we are no longer astonished
at her success. She possesses every quality to
command it. Less than ten years before the pub
lic, she must still be some years on the bright side
of thirty. With an apparent mixture of the Saxon
and Roman blood, she has the voluptuous contour
of English beauty, combined with the glossy raven
hair, and the black, expressive eyes of the South.
Seldom have we seen high physical and intellec
tual beauty in a more lovely combination. Look
at her expressive face, and her speaking eyes, and
she impresses youwith anideaof the highest order
of talent: look upon her form, and you would think
some masterpiece of Titian or Correggio, of Prax
iteles or Canova, had warmed to life. In a word,
Madame Bishop possesses every personal advan
tage that an artiste could desire, so that while her
accomplishments enchant, her beauty enthralls us.
Let it not be supposed, however, that personal
beauty, great as it truly is, is the secret of her suc
cess. On the contrary, her vocal abilities are
quite sufficient to account for all the triumphs of
her career. Of those, it remains for us to give
some description.
Madame Anna Bishop’s voice is a pure soprano,
of the delicately veiled quality, so admired in
Italy,and termed soprano sfogato. Its proper com
pass is from F on the first space to E flat, on the
third line above, but Madame Bishop easily reach
es a few notes above and below this compass, and
without difficulty runs through two octaves. We
have already spoken of the solid foundation of her
musical education. Upon the film basis of a pure
voice, excellent method, perfect enunciation, and
an ear whose accuracy never fails, there has been
raised a superstructure which combines all the
brilliant embellishments, the voluptuous graces,and
the profuse floriture of the Italian school. We
have never heard a more accurate articulation,
a truer intonation; never a shake at once so per-
fect, so rapid and so well sustained ; while her
chromatic runs are miracles of finished execu
tion.
To compare Madame Bishop with the vocalists ,
who have preceded her, or who are now amongst
us, she has more power than Tedesco; more warm
abandon than Pico; a more peifect method and 1
execution than Bafili’pr Raihieri; a more gor- I
geous floriture of embellishments than Fleuri-Joli, 1
or Cinti Damareau; she is in our opinion the best
dramatic singer we have ever heard. Those whose
musical recollections go back somewhat farther
than ours, say she is the best sufee Malibran; but
had we heard the latter, we are by no means con
fident that we should have made this exception in
her favor.
We had nearly forgotten to mention the occa
sion, which enabled us to form an opinion of this
brilliant star, just rising on our hemisphere. It was
at a private soiree, at Madame Bishop’s residence,
in Broadway, where she hadinvited a party of the
cognoscenti—artistes, amateurs and critics. Ma
dame Bishop, otherwise plainly costumed, proper
ly wore some of the souvenirs and trophies of her
transatlantic triumphs. The diamond cross of
Russia was suspended by a turquoise necklace
of Austria, while her arms bore bracelets, which
had been clasped upon them by the hands of Roy
alty.
“Rich and rare were the gems she wore,”
but we were much more dazzled by the beauty
which—
" Needs not the aid of foreign ornament,”
and the art, which threw its radiant charm over
splendor and beauty.
At this soiree Madame Bishop, accompanied on
the piano-forte by her venerable instructor—so
proud of his pupil, and so grateful for the praises
she drew forth—gave us two operatic morceaux, an
English song, and a French chanson, which were
received with the most unanimous and decided
approbation, by as discriminating an audience, for
its numbers, as could have been selected. Our
owm ears assured us of Madam Bishop’s talent; we
had before our eyes, in nearly every language in
Europe, the evidences of that career of success,
which we have briefly noticed; and which, we
are confident, is only as yet commenced.
Madame Bishop will remain in America but one
year; her stay being limited by European engage
ments. If possible, she will appear either in Ita
lianor English opera—otherwise, she will give a se
nes of those magnificent concerts en costume, which
were so successful in Europe.
The Ship Fever.—That shallow, but preten
tious humbug, the New York Academy of Medi
cine, has at last made a formal report on the ship
fever, signed by a whole regiment of M. D’s—who
have taken this opportunity to get themselves ad
vertised in the newspapers without paying for it.
We shall stand none of this “smouching,” and
shall not give their names unless paid for it, but
the following is the amount of the report.
They find, by looking in the City Inspector’s re
ports, which are published w’eekly, that the whole
number of deaths from typhoid and typhus fever,
from Jan. 2, to June 26, were 570, and sagely con
clude :
1. That although there has been a decided in
crease in the number of cases of typhus or ship
fever in our city during the present season,as com
pared with other seasons, such increase is only in
proportion to the increased emigration of the pre
sent year, and the bad condition of the emigrants.
2. That the disease is confined almost exclu
sively to emigrants, and those who are in direct
and consatnt attendance upon such of them as are
sick.
3. That no danger need be apprehended of the
disease becoming epidemic; and that, with a due
regard to cleanliness and ventilation, our citi
zens have no cause whatever for alarm on the sub
ject.
We submit to our readers whether we did not
more than a month ago, give a more satisfactory
account of this disease.
General. Gaines’ Plan to End the War.—
Doubtless, if the old hero Gen. Gaines could have
his way of doing things, the war with Mexico
would be brought to an end in short order. Col.
Benton thinks no small beer or hard cider of him
self, and the people of Missouri are firm in the be
lief that had he been appointed Lieutenant Gene
ral, we should have conquered a peace sometime
ago. We don’t know what Gen. Scott thinks of
the military capacity of Mr. Benton, but he has ex
pressed his opinion of Gen. Gaines in terms which
it would not be polite for us to repeat—but, for all
this, we shall give the old veteran of Fort Erie full
credit for all his plans and projects.
According to Gen. Gaines, the elements of mo
dern warfare are not cannon and mortars, shot and
shell, gunpowder and the bayonet; they are steam
boats and locomotives, railroads and river booms, :
spades and pickaxes.
According to his theory,in order to promptly end
the Mexican war, we must commence a railroad '
at Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, and cany I
it to Monterey, in New Leon, or California, we
don’t know which; but that, perhaps, is not ma
terial. Next, a heap of big iron steamers, for
floating batteries, are to be built at Cincinnati and
Pittsburgh, ready to send down to New Orleans
the first high water. When every thing is ready,
we must fire up the steamers and start off the lo
cemotives.
And what then? Really, the curious reader
must apply to Gen. Gaines for further particulars;
for we have not the remotest idea of what he in
tends to do with either railroad or steamboats, or
what they can do towards conquering a peace.
In the meantime both Scott and Taylor are get
ting along very well without them.
The Irish Relief Committee.—There is a
very general desire to have the report of the Irish
Relief Committee—the self-elected almoners of
the liberal benefactions of the City and State of
New York, and we butgive expression to the pub
lic will, in calling upon the Wall street Committee
to state, under oath and with the usual formalities,
Ist. The amount of money received by the com
mittee for the relief of Ireland.
2d. The amount of bread stuffs purchased; the
date of each purchase; the price paid; of whom
bought ?
3d. The names of the vessels employed in trans
porting this relief to Ireland; the names of the par
ties aiming such vessels,or chartering them; whether
any, and if so, how many, of the vessels so em
ployed had been before condemned as unsea
worthy ?
4th. Whether any offers to transport provisions
in first class and seaworthy vessels, entirely with
out charge, either to the committee or the English
government, were rejected, and if so, for what
reason ?
The Committee will, we think, be grateful to us
for putting the questions they are expected to an
swer, in the directest shape. We have only to add,
that we will publish their report with pleasure, and
that if they do not see fit to make one, we shall
ourselves assume the responsibility, and to the
best of our capacity prepare a report, which may
not, however, prove as satisfactory to the Commit
tee as one of their own manufacture.
General Scott in Mexico.—The New Or
leans Delta, on the sixth of July, published a
“ full and particular ” account of the celebration of
the Fourth, by the American and Mexican armies
in the Halls of the Montezumas. We do not know
that the Delta has engaged a clairvoyant reporter;
but the event described is not improbable. Gen.
Scott, at last accounts, was being strongly rein
forced, and the march to Mexico, from the point
of latest advice, is comparatively free from ob
stacles.
The distance from Puebla to Mexico is less than
ninety miles —the road is through a plain, except
at Rio Frio, but thia pass of which much has been
said, is not as formidable ashas been represented.
There is no chapparal to conceal the enemy, the
forest assuming a character suited to a temperate
climate, and we are assured by a gentleman fami
liar with the pass, that it presents very little ob
stacle to our advance. Once on the top of the
mountain, twenty miles distant, the city extends
out as it were on a map. Lake and village, house
and castle, are all distinctly marked, while the
gorgeous mountains that surround it, give it the
air of an enchanted city, it is so beautiful in its re
pose. It was from this mountain pass that Cortez
and his followers surveyed the ancient Mexico,
and in their wonder and delight at the prospect,
fell on their faces with joy. We can readily ima
gine that our brave troops, like those of Cortez, a
mere handful, when they behold the “Halls of the
Montezumas” for the first time, will at least raise
a shout, the echoes of which will linger as a fu
neral knell on the departed sovereignty of the pre
sent degenerate inhabitants.
(KJ- The review of Melville’s Omoo in the last
number of the Whig Review, was written by Mr.
Peck, now an attache of the Courier. We believe
he is the Mr. Peck who read Jo. Smith’s bible,
was converted to Mormonism, went to Nauvoo,
and gave in his adhesion to the faith, and was ap
pointed military secretary to General Jo. Smith,
commander of the Nauvoo Legion. In this capa
city he wrote all of Jo.’s letters, on matters spirit
ual as well as well as temporal, and was regarded
as a very useful personage. When Jo. was killed
in the jail at Warsaw, Mr. Peck, or Professor
Peck, as he was called, disappeared from among
the faithful, many of whom supposed that he had
been translated, as was pious Elijah of old. Pro
fessor Peck was educated at Yale, and it is very
likely that he took the back track, on the departure
of the prophet, laid low and kept snug for a few
years, only just now reappearing in public.—
The honest Mormons will be sorry to hear that
Mr. Peck, instead of being in the company of the
martyred Jo, is writing silly articles for the Whig
Review.
(KJ* We notice the revival of the Grand Royal
Arch Chapter of Free Masons, for the State of
North Carolina. The officers are—Alfred Martin,
of Wilmington, G. H.P.; Isaac Northrop, of Wil
mington, D. G. H. P.; Charles N. Webb, of Hali
fax, G. K.; A. P. Repiton, of Wilmington, G. T.;
L. C. Pender, of Tarborough, G. S.; Rev. T. G.
Lowe, of Tarborough, G. C.; and James T. Mil
ler, of Wilmington, G. M.
A Contrast. —The French mail steamers are
named Union, New York, Philadelphia, Missouri;
the English Cunard or “nigger line,” as they are
commonly called, are named Britannia, Cambria,
Caledonia, and Hibernia. France loves and
honors America; England hates and insults us. J’
Important News.
Arrival of the Britannia.
Fourteen Days Later from Europe.
The Britannia arrived at Boston yesterday, after
a passage ot thirteen days, bringing dates to the
4th instant. Thenumberof negro cabin passengers
is not stated.
Cotton has advanced 3-8 d since the last steamer.
Bread stuffs have declined. The prices at Liver
pool were, Western Flour, 345.; New Orleans and
Ohio, 315.; Indian Meal, 20a215.
The money market steady; prospects of the
crops, very promising.
No change in provisions.
Fever is terribly prevalent in Liverpool, and
eight Catholic clergymen have fallen victims to its
infection.
The Sarah Sands met with an accident to her
machinery, and put'into Cork.
Father Mathew has been granted a pension of
£3OO a year, from the crown.
The Bogue forts, below Canton, were captured,
and completely destroyed by the British land and
naval forces on the 26th of April; 876 pieces of
artillery were seized and spiked in thirty six
hours.
In consequence of the above news, cotton went
up a cent a pound in the New York market, and
flour fell off a dollar. Just before the news got in
there was a speculative advance of twenty five
cents a barrel!
Important from Mexico.
We have news from Puebla to the 30th of June.
General Scott was at Puebla, waiting for rein
forcements under Generals Pillow and Cadwalla
der.
There are no reliable indications of any over
tures for peace, which will prevent General Scott
from marching to Mexico.
Great, but inefficient, preparations were making
to defend the capital.
The health of Vera Cruz continues good, beyond
all expectation.
The greatest trouble the Mexicans are now
giving is in stealing the horses and mules of the
army.
Mr. Kendall thinks matters are approaching a
crisis, the result of which, however, he does not
venture to predict.
Commodore Perry, with a force of marines and
sailors, has taken Tobasco, with some fighting,
not severe enough to amount to much.
A War Fast.—ln ancient times, when the
Jews met with reverses, in their almost incessant
wars, they concluded that the Almighty was angry,
and they made a solemnfast, humbling themselves
in sackcloth and ashes; but when, by such means
the wrath of God was appeased, and they were
enabled to conquer their enemies, their mourning
was turned into joy, and they celebrated the event
with all festivity!
The Presbyterians of the United States appear
to look upon the whole matter in another light.
By the Providence of the Ruler of nations, we are
engaged in a war; God has continually crowned
our arms with victory; and yet this denomina
tion has just held a solemn fast, in consequence.
Either the Jews were wrong; or, the Presbyte
rians are; and since the conduct of the former
appears to us the more reasonable, we cannot help
thinking that a very great blunder has been com
mitted by the latter.
What are Presbyterians fasting for? Do they
mourn, because General Taylor was not defeated
on the Rio Grande, nor repulsed at Monterey, nor
cut to pieces at Buena Vista ? Do they lament that
General Kearney was not cut oft’ in New Mexico
or California? That the brave and indomitable
Colonel Doniphan was victorious at Sacramento ?
Are they sorrowful because General Scott lost no
more men before Vera Cruz, or that his brave
army was not hurled back from the heights of
Cerro Gordo?
In Heaven’s high name, tell us then, what you
are fasting for ? Why are you mocking the Al
mighty with these hypocritical grimaces ? What
wicked infidelity in you to doubt the wisdom of his
Providence!
Pretty patriots! to mourn over your country’s
victories! Fine citizens! to hold up our brave
soldiers as meriting the execrations of men, and
the curse of God! Such, if it mean anything, is
the signification of your fast.
We gave our politics-dabbling clergy some good
advice last week. If they would not see their
churches deserted by every good citizen, they will
do well to heed it. We wrote very calmly then —
we write with some indignation now, but with a
feeling fully warranted we think, by the extraordi
nary conduct we have witnessed and described.
The following communication is doubtless writ
ten in a better temper than our editorials; but these
pestilent fanatics of the pulpit and the press, would
weary the patience of Job, himself. If we have
ruffled the reader’s temper, he may calm himself
by reading the cooler counsels of “ Old Connecti
cut.”
To the Editors of the Sunday Dispatch:
It has long been a matter of surprise to me that
opinions, similar to those in your paper of the 4th
inst, under the heading, “ Politics in the Pulpit,”
have not found their way to the press. With you
and in common with my countrymen, I stand rea
dy to vindicate the goodfeitures of the church, to
speak its praises and feel rejoiced at the inculca
tion among the rising generation of great moral
truths, the tendency ana design of which, are, to
make men more clearly see and more justly ad
minister to every one their due; and more highly
to appreciate the pure and holy religion of Jesus
Christ, and look through al to the one eternal God
in hope.
But while these motives rule us, it cannot have
escaped observation, that there is a leaning to
wards and itching for (almost unconsciously it may
be) civil power. It is evidenced by the boldness
with which the pulp.t stands ready to try and sen
tence acts of legislatures both state and national—
It is more clearly evidenced by the engrafting up
on our new constitution the “ eligibility of minis
ters of the Gospel, to political place power, and
emolument.” Whence came this? Was it put
there without being sought for ? And if sought
for, by whose desire was it ingeniously embodied
in our constitution ? Is there indeed, then, in spite
of all that has been saidagiinst even any incipient
stages of union or consolidation of civil power
with ecclesiastical, a wish to have the two act
conjointly with the danger of absorption by one,
and which one by no means doubtful ? Does Pro
testantism seek it ? Who then ? Those who res
pect their own and their country’s best interest,
may yet have reason to regret the assumption of
which your article so just y complains.
But while the pulpit has in so many instances la
bored to prove our own country in the wrong,
and of consequence our enemies in the right, what
have some of our daily journals been doing?
Have they not published to the world with appar
ent self-satisfaction, the straits and difficulties to
which our army has been reduced from time to
time; and foretold the certainty with which they
must be cut off, merely to gratify a feeling against
an administration which they had no share in
making? Have not their misrepresentations pre
vented enlistments, and the advance of reinforce
ments at the most critical of our army operations in
Mexico? Could they have done more to discredit
our government in the eyes of nations with whom
we were at peace or at war ? Has it not seemed
to give them pleasure when they thought they had
convinced our enemies that the very nationalcoun
cil was distracted, divided, weak, imbecile, un
just and vile, more feeble and puerile than that of
Mexico herself? Was this calculated to hasten a
peace and save the lives and treasure of our bro
thers and country ? ~ ,
But I sicken when I consider that there are
those, otherwise just and sensible, but who place
a higher value on political pelf than on the duty
they owe their country in such a time as this. To
this mean and ungenerous course, there are, how
ever, noble exceptions*
The Hon. Henry Clay, while he thought the war
might have been avoided ; in the fullness of his
American heart, and thinking of his awn country
first, bid our army God speed in its career of duty
and’almost regretted, aged as he was, there was
not some comer in the army for him*
I have only to add my entire confidence in the
ability of our national authority, to bring an honor
able and satisfactory peace out of their measures,
and at all events, consider it my duty to support
my mm in preference to the government of our
enemies, directly or indirectly.
Your obedient servant,
Old Connecticut.
* This is substantially what he said at the New Eng
land dinner, in New Orleans last December, according
to the reported speech.
The Young Men’s Whig Committee.—We do
not like to meddle in family quarrels and therefore
decline to publish any one of a score of communi
cations received with reference to the hasty elec
tion of a new chairman of the Young Men’s Whig
Committee, in the place of Mr. Tomlinson resign
ed. If the Abolitionists and Greeleyites in the
Committee obtained by unfair means a victory over
the Conservative Whigs, it will do them no good.
As we understand it, the Conservatives, which
term includes all the anti-fanatics of the party, are
two to one over their opponents in this city. These
Conservatives neither denounce the war, nor in
voke the vengeance of Heaven on our troops, nor
pray for Mexico—when it is clear she is past pray
ing for. They are a very respectable people, and we
are not at all surprised that sometimes they feel
ashamed of the company they keep. We under
stand that some of the boldest of them are about
to join the come-outers.
[KJ* Mr. Sheridan, of the British Legation, who
died at Paris, a short time since, of intemperate
habits, acquired, he said, by drinking mint juleps
at Washington, was attended in his last moments
by his sister, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and Madame
Doche, an actress, whose attachment for him was
unbounded. Quite a romance! A Sheridan—an
English poetess, a French actress, and the Ameri
can Mint Juleps. These latter have much to an
swer for.
(KJ* The English are quite mad with Jenny
Lind; that’s certain. The best description we
have seen of her singing, says— “ She trills away
in a glorious hullabaloo ofadithering squall, when
she gradually dies off, tapering off, fining down to
a sort of whisper.”
(K> Dr. Turner’s pamphlet,entitled the Triumphs
of “ Young Physic,” has been republished in Lon
don, where the Chrono-Thermal system is making
quite an excitement among the faculty.
(KJ- A new play is now being performed at one
of the theatres of Paris, founded on “ Typee;” the
author of which they call the Rev Herman Melville.
If the “ whig reviewer” see this, he will feel worse
than ever.
(Dossip.
Invasion, of New Jersey.—The preparations
which have been making for several weeks, forthe
invasion of the neighboring state of New Jersey,
by the temperance army, are at last completed, and
we are'informed that the descent will be made to
morrow, in such force, as will enable the invading
army to make a strong impression upon the
enemy.
Hoboken has been wisely chosen as the point of
attack; and the forces will be landed by Commo
dore Stevens’ fleet of steamers, in the same style
as was the army of Gen. Scott, near Vera Cruz.—
The forces of King Alcohol, with strong batteries
of “Jersey lightning,” are very advantageously
posted, in the defiles and mountain passes, which
lead to the interior, and we have no doubt that an
animated fire will be kept up at all these batteries:
as many of them are commanded by foreign engi
neers, who serve their artillery with much spirit.
But as the temperance army will make a grand
rally, and have its great guns all ready, we may ex
pect a brilliant action, if not the capture of this
strong fortress. General Me Carty will supply the
invading army with several mortars ©f ice cream,
and a full force of soda and ginger pop light artil
lery. There is a strong root beer battery near the
Sybil’s cave, but if the heights are taken possession
of, this position can be turned without losing more
than the corks of the bottles; and even that will
depend upon the state of the weather.
We intend to be on the spot, and as near as is
consistent with our safety to the field of action, and
have chartered the Chinese Junk for the voyage,
and to carry dispatches.
We have only one caution to give to the Tem
perance army. There are two or three of their
great guns that always seem to hang fire, and are
liable to burst; and some others always go ofl
half-cocked, so that it is unsafe to load them.
Our readers will doubtless await with much anx
iety the result of this invasion of a sister republic,
where this temperance army goes, the friends of
the people, and the foes only of the tyrants that op
press them.
A year ago, we took occasion to call the at
tention of the public to our neighbor Fanshaw’s
, unrivalled steam and hot air baths, located on the
: corner of Ann street and Nassau—pointing out the
convenience of the arrangement, by which every
' passer-by received a full blast of scalding steam, or
, a volume of air hot enough to do no discredit to
that subterranean place, where,as some of the wise
men teach, the mercury is always above 212 Q . We
’ are happy to say that the apparatus is in fine work
ing order this season, and that the recipients of its
j benefits are more numerous than ever. Some
, complain that they get more than their share of
, steam, which saturates their clothes and produces
r the most lively sensation on their skin,while others
’ say that Mr. Fanshaw is too extravagant with his
hot air. Both classes pass the place invoking bles
. sings, as hot as his steam, on the head of this phi
lanthropist.
s£> We call upon our “gentle profession,” as
I Mr. Chandler terms the editorial, to do something
■ for the old goose quills, relapsed into second gos-
■ ling-hood, which continue to wag feebly, worn as
■ they are to the stump, and incapable of doing
r farther good service. It pains us to see one of
> these
“ sages in the mind’s eclipse,
whose words were spells of light,
But falter now on stammering lips—*
r drewl over paper, which should be beneath the
I fingers of younger men—to hear the idiotic
r laugh, the frequent exclamations—“ When I was
t a boy”—“O, yes, I remember twenty years ago—
’ ’twasjust after Adam’s election”—“Yes, yes, I
' saw Mr. Jefferson there”—“Bless me so it was—
• well, dear me—my memoiy is beginning to fail—
> but Mr. Madison told me so” and such like wash
- ings from the fallen storehouse of memory—which
f benevolent type-setters call reminiscences. There
should be an asylum for the worn out writers, into
i which they might retire, and write their reminis-
• cences with a stick in the sand.
OG" Dr. Judson, and his new wife, the ci-devant
Fanny Forrester, had no sooner arrived in India,
} than their house was set on fire, all their property
consumed, and they strictly prohibited from
J making any proselytes.
If Mr. and Mrs. Judson will return to New York,
we will undertake to point out to them a missiona
ry field, in the heart of this metropolis, quite as
needy and much more promising than any they can
I find in Burmah. If they prefer blacks to whites,
even in that respect their taste can be entirely
suited. Allowing one soul to be as valuable as
another, these foreign missionary operations are a
criminal waste of time, money and exertion.
The complaints against our city authorities
seem to us to increase in number, in bitterness and
in intensity. We cut the following energetic piece
of rebellion and high treason to the Mayor and
' corporation in one of our dailies:
The most flagrant injustice is allowed and tole
rated—the utmost discomfort is imposed upon the
people—every sense of every citizen is daily offend
ed —and of every class of evils, growing out of
sheer neglect of the diUy-of-commissioners, in
spectors, overseers and police, “ the cry is still
1 they come”—yet the easy, good natured, uncom
plaining people, must “grin and bear it.”
How these Aidermen can stand such broadsides
we can’t conceive. Do they sleep o’ nights *? can
they have appetites and digestions q . Or can they
i say with Brutus, that these things pass them by as
the idle wind, which they regard not'?
A Strong Team —Since Mr. Chandler has re
-1 tired irom the editorial fraternity,the Philadelphia
Gazette has been united with the North American
under the title of “ North American and United
States Gazette.” North American Gazette would
be a better title. Besides, Messrs. Graham and Me
Michael,the editorial corps consists of Hon. Robt.
T. Conrad, in the political department; Dr. Robert
M.. Bird, in the literary and scientific; James S.
Wallace, Esq., in the news and Miscellaneous De
partment; and G. G. Foster, Esq., ex “City
Items,” of the Tribune, and ex-editor of Yankee
Doodle, in the local and artistic department.
This is a pretty strong team; but if we chose
to marshal our forces on paper, we could make
full as strong a display, in numbers ifnoi inability;
as we have never less than six regular paid contri
butors.
(Xz" We shook hands yesterday with one of the
heroes of Monterey and Buena Vista—George F.
Coachman, a son of the Ann street auctioneer.
George cannot be more than twenty years of age,
but he has seen service, and rendered service too,
under one of the greatest Captains of the age, and
in two of the most glorious battles which our
annals record. Being in Ohio fourteen months
ago, young Coachman volunteered in one of the
regiments of that state —a regiment which at the
storming of Monterey lost one out of every five oj
its men. Just before the battle of Buena Vista, he
was sent sent on to Saltillo from Monterey, in a
party of twenty escorting a wagon train, and
arrived in time to participate in that desperate
fight. He has come back without a scratch to
gladden the heart of a mother, who for a whole
year, has hardly dared to hope that she would
ever look upon her son again.
Mr. Whitney, the man who modestly asks
the government to give him a trifle over 100,000
miles of land, has again been floored. At the
Chicago Convention, his plan for building a rail
. road to Oregon was voted down, while the plan of
Mr. George Wilkes, one of the editors of the Po
lice Gazette, was unanimously approved. If the
road is built, the government must build it. Any
legislator who should seriously advocate Whit
ney’s plan on the floor of Congress, would find his
speech a ready passport for him into any mad
house in the land.
A Worthy Act.—Christy’s Minstrels, who
lately gave a very successful series of concerts at
the American Hotel, Buffalo, generously gave the
clear proceeds of one evening’s entertainment, to
the widow and orphans of the late Charles A. Wil
son, commercial reporter. Charity, to objects so
truly worthy, will not be forgotten.
The Common Council has called upon Dr.
Reese to know his authority for removing Dr.
Livingston from one of the Alms House Hospitals.
We suspect that the doctor would rather exercise
his authority, than give an account of it to the
Common Council. How about that promise of a
homceopathetic ward, in return for a little political
influence *?
A young shoemaker, of Quincy, Massachu
setts, has gone out to England, to teach the be
nighted Islanders how to make pegged boots and
shoes; an art and mystery of which the English
are profoundly ignorant. That’s right; and we are
glad to see that something is to be done for the
poor soles, after awl!
Scott, in his July Mirror of Fashion, in
forms us that fancy colors for gentlemen’s coats
are gaining favor. So they should ; for a whole
nation of black coats presents quite too lugubrious
a spectacle. Our national colors are blue, red,
and white. What does Scott say to a blue coat,
red vest, and white pantaloons, for a national cos
tume q .
We shall have a very singular development
to make, next week, about the “Belle of Nassau
street.”
HoforConer Island:—The American Eagle
will run to this delighful place to-day, leaving pier
No. 1 North River, at 7 o’clock, 10,1 and 4. See
advertisement.—
(Xz* We learn from the Tribune, that a gentle
man named McGregor, a native of New Hamp
shire, is attached to the editorial department of
that paper.
A Cherokee Officer.—Adjutant Ross, of the
Arkansas regiment, who distinguished himself by
his gallantry at Buena Vista, is a Cherokee In
dian.
(JO Three counties in England have a popula
tion of they are. Lancaster, Middlesex
auk Yorkshire.
police Recorder.
Mary Fox.—We are informed that a sister of
the man Hare was removed by him from a board- o
mg school in this city, about the time of his elope- v
ment with Mary Fox, and, from recent develop- i
ments, there is reason to believe that she is with V
them. In this way, two young girls being together, t
recognition of the one advertised and described s
would be more difficult. <
From an interview had with Mr, Fox, the father ;
of the abducted child, in relation to this matter, i
and from her youth and inexperience, we are of I
opinion that she has been deluded by false repre- <
sentations, and intimidated from returning home 1
by the fear of rebuke and punishment. Alas, the
hearts of her parents, near to breaking, yearn only
to embrace their child again. A love, which
youthful indiscretion cannot weaken, a protection
which only parents can give, await her return to
that home which her absence has darkened with
despair, and to which her presence alone can bring
happiness and peace.
i An advertisement, in which Mary Fox and her
supposed female companion are described, will be
, found in another column.
Served Him Right—A young gentleman of
this city, one of that large class who mistakingly
' suppose.that fine clothes, good food and all the
other necessaries and luxuries oi life can as easily
be obtained by dexterous skight-of-hand, as vulgar
labor—met with an unpleasant adventure a day or
two ago. He had “ done” a shoemaker out of two
' pairs of boots, telling him to “ send his bill to the
’ store.” It was a regular shave, and the shoe
maker made up his mind to have satisfaction. A
day or two afterwards he met the chevalier in the
r street.
- “ Ah,” cried the chevalier, supposing the shoe
' maker was about to dun him—“that little bill of
yours. I’ll call in a day or two and fix it.”
“Don’t speak of the bill,” said the shoemaker,
’ bowing with the greatest respect and deference—
‘ “whenever it is convenient. But lam getting up
a very fine style of summer boots, which I think
you’ll like—if you would allow me to make you a
. pair.”
B Sharpy’s eyes glistened. Anotherpair of boots!
e What a verdant shoemaker!
e “Well,” he said condescendingly, “ I suppose I
must patronise you. If they could be done by next
r Saturday afternoon.”
0 “ They shall be, sir. Will you do me the favor
e to call and try them on ! I’ll have them ready by
e three o’clock.”
Saturday afternoon came, and a little after three
s o’clock, our chevalier entered the shoemaker’s
e shop. The shoemaker bowed respectfully and
,f produced the boots. The right one was tried on.
s It fitted like a glove. The shoemaker insisted on
s trying on the left. Nothing could be more satis
s factory.
“ They do you great credit—indeed they do —
’pon honor”—drawled Sharpy.
The shoemaker drew off the new boots, and
then by a sudden movement possessed himself of
s the ones which his customer had worn into the
g shop. Sharpy stood barefooted and petrified,
i- “Now my fine fellow,” exclaimed the shoe
a maker, his respectful manner disappearing with
g the boots, which were thrown over the counter, —
'I “ pay me for the two pairs of boots you have al
ready had, or walk home barefooted.”
Sharpy expostulated, threatened, entreated —but
all to no purpose. The shoemaker was as insen
e sible to appeal as his lapstone, Gradually a crowd
c collected round the door, to whom the shoemaker
s explained the circumstances of the case amid loud
- cheers and hearty laughter. A policeman was
I obliged to disperse the crowd, but the sharpy con-
- tinued for hours to be the object of the most pro-
- voking curiosity. When night came, he rushed
■ out of the shop and literally/ooted it home.
b The act of the shoemaker was illegal, but an
e honest man can hardly censure it, when it is re
-0 membered that thousands of men toil from sunrise
i- to sunset, only to be robbed of the rewards of their
labor, by a parcel of lazy, dissipated scamps, who
t infest the town and cheat everybody who trusts
them. The verdict of the public on this sharper’s
case, or any other of a similar character, must be
a —“served him right.”
More Legal Suasion.—Mr. Green, the reform
, ed gambler, assisted by some foolish but well
•- meaning people in Pennsylvania, has procured the
s passage of a law, by the legislature of that State,
II making gambling a felony, punishable by impri
'> sonment in the State Prison.
f By this act, it is declared not only that this Green
s is an unpunished felon, but that every man in
1 Penn., who has ever made a bet, bought a lottery
ticket, won a chicken in a raffle, or entered into
s any kind of speculation, depending npon chance
j for gain or loss, is a felon, and ought to be in the
, penitentiary. The men who have sold stocks on
j time—the fair ladies who have got up lotteries for
charitable purposes-the ardent politicians whohave
betted hats and boots on an election —the sporting
e men who have backed a favorite nag at a trotting
- match, are all felons, deserving, as the legislature
I has deliberately declared, incarceration with
1 thieves, robbers, and homicides.
There is no getting away from this. If gambling
is a felonious crime this year, it was no less so
8 last. The preaching of this Green has not altered
1 the moral character of these transactions, and the
f Legislature, in passing this law, has simply de
-3 dared a great mass of the citizens of Pennsylvania,
of all classes and of both sexes, to be criminals and
felons!
a This is, doubtless, a great slander —but this is
j not the worst. Such a law is destined to be a dead
j letter on the statute book, and all such enactments
j tend to bring into contempt such well founded and
c beneficial laws as are necessary to society. No
man should ever take his seat in a legislative body,
t without having carefully studied the philosophy of
legislation—for the legislator, as Rousseau has well
. remarked, is the most dignified character in the
? state.
. (jCJ-There is very little use in our getting Mex
icannews so rapidly; since we never know what
, reliance'to put upon one account, until we get the
. next, and so on, indefinitely.
> The Knm Salvage Company.—There is an at.
" tempt made in the Journal of Commerce to screen
the impudent rascals engaged in this swindle, by
; which credulous fools have been cheated out of a
. large sum of money, from public indignation.
We charge, without any fear of what the knaves
, may say or do, that this plan, in its inception and
, execution, was a fraud, a bold, bare-faced scheme
1 of rascality, and we do not care whether the “ re
r spectable” Smiths and Thompsons engaged in it,
3 and who have made money out of it, like the name
; we apply to them or not. They are rascals who
• should now be wearing the livery of felons, and
j undergoing felon punishment within the walls of
; the prison at Sing Sing.
i Our advice to the shallow fools who took stock
1 in this company, is to go before the Grand Jury,
> and have these “respectable” knaves indicted,
j There is evidence enough to convict them—if evi-
> dence will convict in our courts, when criminals
i use their ill-gotten wealth to protect them from
punishment.
The company cannot shew by historical docu
‘ ments or traditionary evidence that Kidd’s pirati
-1 calcraft ever went up the North river. On the
: contrary, the accounts best entitled to credit say
that in attempting to come through the Kilns she
wedt ashore on Staten Island, and was there burnt.
The old gun, which was exhibited in Wall street,
! was never in the North river more than twenty
' four hours. It was sent from this city, dropped
into the river after dark, fished up the next morn
' ing and brought to the office of the company, in
Wall street.
The gold and silver, said to have been brought
, up on the augurs from the wreck, never formed a
i portion of Kidd’s treasure.
. All this was a part of the scoundrelly plan, origi
, noted by somebody to swindle the public. Now
who are the guilty parties I Where shall we com
, mence the search ! Why manifestly with the men
who have managed the company’s affairs since
1844, and who now attempt to make people believe,
• through the Journal of Commerce, that they are
1 “more sinned against than sinning.” Well, if
■ they are, let them point out the sinners. They can
' do it, if they are innocent.
• Does any reasonable man suppose that an honest
1 company, with plenty of money at their disposal,
I would have been three whole years in building a
coffer-dam around that old hulk in the North
. river 1 Why there are thousands of men in this
. city, who would contract to build the dam and
| pump out the water in six months—and yet the
i company tell us that they are yet at work, thus far
. having accomplished nothing! If rogues, after the
> successful perpetration of crime, are to be per
mitted to look demure and cry “ wolf,” (“ more
sinned against than sinning,”) why Recorder
• Scott had better move himself, and the ph arapher-
> nalia of his court, into the Dead-House, instead of
: keeping his office next door to it, as he does now.
> We are not without the hope that these knaves
> will be brought to justice. If they go unwhipped,
> the felons in Sing Sing may cry aloud against the
■ foul injustice of which they are the victims.
Jg-Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler, in one of her
t books of travels, gives the following description of
-a certain city:
“ The quality of everything I looked at was veiy
indifferent, the prices enormous; and the sho;>-
, keepers, with an audacity and dishonesty incon
' ceivable to a stranger, invariably take halt the ori
r ginal price they demand for everything. The filth
' and stench of the streets give one an imaginary
fever as one drives through them. I wonderthese
people don’t have the plague every year in this
. city.”
Much as the last lines may look like it, we as
f sure our readers that Mrs. Butler does not refer to
the city ofNew York, but to Rome; which it is a
great comfort to hear, is a great deal more filthy.
■ With a few improvements, easily made, New York
' would be quite a model of neatness.
0G- The Chinese junk cannot be boarded to-day,
and the visitors to Castle Garden will have to be
' satisfied with a good view of her, from the battle-
• meats. To-morrow, and through the week, she
will receive visitors on board.
&lje Wrama. I
John Fisher, the comedian, for years a member I
of the Park Company, and one who never tired P
with the audience —whose face, the more familiar ,
it grew,the better it was liked and the more warmly '
was it welcomed —an actor of that nice discriinina- j
tion which marks the true artist, who renders his
author faithfully and fully, and is never guilty of
exaggeration merely to draw the plaudits of the ,
gallery—this good actor and worthy man died on ;
Monday last, and was on Wednesday committed to 1
that house, which, to quote the words of the grave
digger in Hamlet, words which Fisher always ut
tered solemnly and with uplifted cap,
“ lasts till doomsday.”
Early last winter Mr. Fisher had a severe fall, by
which he suffered internal injuries; notwith
standing which, he attended to his professional
duties, neglecting, until too late, the remedies to
which he should have immediately resorted, and
aggravating his complaint by exposure and exer
tion, when he should have sought repose. He was
forty-nine years of age, and leaves a wife and two
children. Whenhe wasfirst confined to his house
a benefit was given to him, which yielded about
five hundred dollars, an amount which could have
hardly sufficed for the expenses attending his ill
ness. We hope that early in the coming season,
the management of the Park will set apart a night
for the benefit of his family, and we feel sure that
the profession of which he was an honored mem
ber, and the public to whose entertainment he so
long and so well contributed, will respond to the
call, and evince their respect for their departed
friend and servant by making a handsome provi
sion for his widow and children.
Of the theatres proper, there are only two now
O p en _the Bowery and Chatham. Both of these
establishments are well ventilated, and when it is
not too hot for comfort anywhere, the visiters may
pass a pleasant evening in the enjoyment of most
excellent entertainments.
The dramatic incidents of the week are unin
' teresting. Castle Garden has been well attended
—the cool breezes from the bay and the light
• trifles which are so well served up by Walcott,
Holland, Miss Clarke, and other members of the
! Vaudeville Company—being the attraction of each
evening at that place. The attraction of the day
: is the Chinese Junk, which has a large company
1 of celestial comedians on board, whose perform
ances amuse immense crowds. The only com
: plaint we hear of the Chinese players is, that their
’ wardrobe is so scantily supplied, that but a single
garment, commonly called a breech-clout, can be
' allowed to each man.
! The Park Theatre will open for the season on
I the night of Monday, the 2d of August.
The French ballet corps, said to be quite equal,
1 if not superior to the Ravels, commence an engage
’ ment at Palmo’s to-morrow evening. The pro
gramme will be found in another column. There
' will of course be a laige attendance, as it is said
that the ladies of the corps are models of grace
I and beauty.
The American Museum has got every curiosity
‘ in town except the Chinese Junk, and a fine model
of that. A list of the attractions would swell to
’ such a long catalogue that we are compelled to re
-1 fer to the advertisement.
Vauxhall opens on Monday evening with new
■ and varied attractions, consisting of automaton
figures, dancing and singing. Perhaps the best
1 feature is that at the end of the advertisement.
John Dunn, Esq., comedian, and Henry Marks,
I Esq., violinist, gave a very successful melange en
r tertainment, atNewark, onFriday evening, which
I they have been desired to repeat on Monday even
’ ing, which they will do with additional eclat.
' These are thorough artistes, and our New Jersey
' neighbors cannot help liking them.
I The Ravels commenced an engagement at the
Boston Athenteum, on Thursday evening last.
1 Mrs. Judah is at the Boston Museum.
The Viennoise Children are giving entertain
ments at the City Hall m Lowell.
' Raymond & Waring are exhibiting one portion
' of their menagerie in Salem, and another in Louis
’ ville.
1 Sands, Lent & Co.’s men and horses are per
‘ forming in Bangor; they go from there to Port
land.
Elder G. J. Adams, of Boston, appeared at the
[ theatre in Portland on the 13th inst., in the char
. acter of Richard 111.
Gen. Tom Thumb commences his levees in
. Albany to-morrow evening. Miss C. Wemyss is
playing at the Museum.
[ Anderson, the tragedian, Conner and Miss
, Clara Ellis are playing at the Buffalo Theatre.
, Dan Marble was announced to appear in Detroit
, on Thursday evening last.
. Mary Taylor and Chippendale are playing to
> crowded houses at the theatre in St. Louis. Miss
, Julia Dean commences an engagement there some
r time during this week.
. The National Theatre in Cincinnati was to re
, open on Thursday evening last, with Murdoch in
r the character of Hotspur.
Jas. Wallaek, sen., was playing in Montreal on
3 the 14th inst.
The Way it was Done.—Shall we tell that funny
* story! On the whole we will. Allopathy wanted
’ an office —that of resident physician at Ballyhoo.
' Hommopathyhad some influence with the appoint
; ing powers. “ Now,” said Allopathy to Homoeo
pathy, “ if you will use your influence in my favor
’ and I get the appointment, I will give you a Ward
' m the Hospital to experiment in.” “ Honor
bright!” demanded Homoeopathy, a little doubt
-5 inglyly. “ Honor bright,” responded Allopathy.
‘ “Agreed then.” Homoeopathy set to work, and
’ the result was, that Allopathy was appointed resi
' dent physician. But when reminded of his promise
’ by Homoeopathy,Allopathy looked grave, appeared
’ forgetful, and at last said that the thing could not
be done. For, argued Allopathy to himself, if Ho
' mcEopathy administers small doses—that will de
' crease the consumption of medicine and my per
centage on the supply. Besides it is not prudent to
’ allow the enemy, (Homoeopathy) any opportuni
£ ties. The Academy has as much now as it can
'■ do to keep its footing in the world. What with
young physic, little physic, and no physic, old phy
sic is in a bad way. Our correspondent will see
t that it would not be prudent to make the charge in
, the direct way. Everybody will understand what
t we have written.
Young’s History of Mexico. —Under our regu
! lar head last week, we noticed the complete His
l tory of Mexico, by Dr. Young, just published by a
: house in Cincinnati, and by J. W. Redfield, of
' Clinton Hall. A further examination of this book
i has satisfied us that it has been worked out from
! the best materials with great fidelity. Commen
cing with the traditions of the Aztec race,
i and the conquest by Cortez, the history comes
I down, expanding regularly, as the events
come nearer, until we find a full history of
the Texas revolution, annexation, and the events
, of the present war, down to and including
the fall of San Juan de Ulloa. The arrangement
■ and plan of the work is all that could be desired,
i and the style are clear, terse and vigorous.
1 SitAKSPERE and his Friends. —A short time
since, there tell into our hands a Paris copy of this
historical romance, aud we thought then and
think still, that it was one of the most delighful
’ books we eVer read; a book worthy of its subject;
which is the strongest praise it is possible to give
it. The scene is in London and at the Court of
Elizabeth. The characters are, the Virgin Queen,
' Raleigh, Essex, and the great Bard himself, his
choice companions, and the most sweet lady of
‘ his love. The style is of the times—nearly that in
which the Bible is written, and with which we
1 were, therefore, probably the more delighted. It
is the best of the series of three Shakspere novels,
now publishing in a very haads.ojne style, by Bur
' gess, Stringer, and company.
Jg- Who went up to the foot of 19th street, to
see the Chinese Junk I Who put that advettise
ment in the Sun ! Lastly, who made the sixpen
ces on that remarkable occasion! People don’t
mind being humbugged: but they do like to have
some sight for their money. It may have been
some comfort, ho wever, to have seen the elephant.
JO Our music-loving readers must not forget
the sacred concert this evening at Castle Garden.
Dodsworth’s band will give some of the gems of
Haydn and Rossini.
(JO It is but doing justice to eternal nature, to
say that Hoboken never looked lovelier than now
—and justice to the good people “ over-there,” to
say that they are doing every thing to make the
place delightful. The ferry boats are excellent,
and those which run from Canal and Ninefeeth
streets direct to the Elysian Fields, are a new in
ducement to economical voyagers. The wor
snippers of nature should get on their knees to Ho
boken.
The Brazillian Slaves.—Judge Daly has de
cided in favor of the Brazillian captain, remanding
the negroes. The Abolitionists, never tired of
mischief, will probably make another effort.
The famous “ razor strop man,” has been
bound over in the sum of SSOO, to keep the peace,
by the mayor of Philadelphia.
JG- The nicest Fourth of July toast we have seen
this year, was the following, given at a celebration
in'Ohio, by J. L. Baker: “ Our country-women—
may their BitEAST-works ever afford a shelter to the
American iNFANT-ryl”
OG" It is said that Hunter’s Iron Steam Frigate
Alleghany, is ordered to the Mediterranean. This
Hunter is not “the hero of Alvarado.”
A writer in the “ American Mail” is down
on Commodore Perry, with over a page of that
paper- He calls him a “ greatbear,’’which would
sound better in Latin. We give the Mailer it
for a good foreign correspondence, and care u y ,
written leaders.
0G- Some idea offfiT manner in which the
works of Paul de Kock have been butchered mthe
American translations may be gathered from the
fact that his last work, “fAmant de la Lune," is ,
advertised in London, m ten volumes.
Coral Nrwo.
Penalty for opening a Fire Hydrant.—A
person named William Taylor was taken in cus
tody, on Friday morning, by Officer McCord of
the sth Ward, for opening the hydrant corner of
West and v estry streets. He was taken to the
Hulls of Justice, fined $25, and committed in de
fault of payment.
Inhumanity.—Officer J. F. Smith, of the 6th
District, arrested, on Friday last, a man named
Hugh McCollum, for cruelly beating his horse.
He was taken to the Tombs and held to answer
for the misdemeanor.
Determined to Die. —On Friday, ayoungman
named James McCullum, aided by Officer Thorn
of the 11th Ward, rescued a woman from drown
ing, at the foot of 10th street, E. R. Her name is
Sarah Tripp, and it appears that she jumped off the
dock for the purpose of committiug suicide. This
is her fifth or sixth trial at self-destruction, in all
of which she has been foiled by timely discovery.
Taken to the Station House and cared for.
A perfect Samson.—The returns for the 11th
District state that, about 4 o’clock yesterday mom
tug, Policeman Mallany picked up a bay horse,
about 14 Yhands high! We shall give Officer Mal
lany a wide berth m future, unless his disposition
is excellent.
Starring Case.—Officer Smith, of the 18th
Ward, arrested on Friday night, at 9 o’clock, one
Patrick Murphy for stabbing a man named Ed
ward Stephens. The violence was perpetrated in
the store of P. McGivney, corner of 26th street
and 2d Avenue. Murphy was sent to the Police
Court, Jefferson Market.
Unmitigated Rascality —On Friday last, a
hard vyorking female, a vest maker, residing at
230 Division street, sent her little son to one ot her
employers down town for some work, which was
furnished in the shape of three valuable vest pat
terns, of black embroidered cassimere, worth some
$lB. The lad had progressed back as far as Tam
many Hall, when he was met by a short Irish
woman, who asked the child to go some trifling
errand, (for which she promised 2s. 6d.) and mean
while she would hold his bundle. The boy went
on a bootless job, since the person he was sent for
could not be found, and, on his return, both wo
man and bundle had disappeared. It is a real
villany, since the loss will fall upon one who is
poorly able to bear it.
Petit Larcenies.—Phillip Drake was arrested
on Friday noon by officer Cockley of the Fourth
Ward for stealing two coats from Gustavus Burk
head, No. 6 Broad street. Sent to the Tombs.
A Dishonest Son.—Officers Curry and Beam,
of the third districts arrested at 6 o’clock yester
-1 day morning, two young men, by the names of
■ Frederick Tucker and James Sawyer, on a charge
-of stealing $205 from Mr. Abraham Sawyer, of
Albany. Mr. Sawyer is the father ot one of the
parties, and on searching the runaways, $lO of the
’ money was found in the possession of James. Af-
• ter he was locked up, he stated that the balance of
; the money was under a bed in his father’s house,
’ at Albany, and, a telegraphic measage having been
: sent on immediately, it was ascertained that the
money was there safe. Both the piisoners were
t taken to the Tombs and locked up.
Effects of a Spree.—At the time of the Pre
sident’s visit to our city, an individual who states
’ that he is a merchant-tailor in Boston, while look
‘ ing about to,see the lions, by some means got into
■ the 7th district station-house for a night’s lodging.
» On being searched, a valuable gold watch and
. chain were found upon his person, which were
duly taken care of, and, in the morning, placed
J again in his possession together with some excel
lent advice, in regard to general sobriety and strict
T temperance while in New York, in particular.
But our Yankee tailor knew the ropes, and didn’t
' care a square inch of cabbage for all such cau-
> tions; and, as a consequence, waked the next
morning, at his boarding-house in the York Hotel,
minus the patent-lever, in place of which he ac
knowledged, however, to a most magnificent head-
’ ache! Our hero could fish up no circumstance in
j his misty memory as to his whereabouts on the
previous evening, and was forced to return to Bos-
L ton without the time-piece. Yesterday, however,
he came again to Gotham, and, with the assistance
( of officer Bloom, succeeded in recovering the arti
cle in a grocery store somewhere in South street,
where the knight of the shears had himself left it
1 for safe keeping. He took the evening boat for
• Yankee land, perfectly satisfied with his experi
ments in the matter of New York lions. He came
’ very near seeing the elephant!
Coroner’s Office. —The Coroner held an in
quest on Friday, at the house of Henry Johnson,
' comer of Eighty-sixth street and Eighth avenue,
on the body of an infant eight months old. The
child, as the mother swears, is illegitimate, and
that Johnson is the father, and the inquest states,
that it came to its death by a violence inflicted
wilfully by some persons unknown. Its arm was
l broken, one of its ribs, the jaw bone, and the cla
vicle ’ Its mother had always treated it kindly,
and there was no evidence to fix the foul deed
upon any one.
Death from Mal-Practice.—Coroner Walters
■ also held jin inquest yesterday, on the body of Ti
mothy Litchfield, a native of England, aged 55
; years, living at No. 63 Laight street. Verdict
death from want of proper medical attendance.
The deceased was ill of fever, and being a Miller
ite of the “ Snow” school, was induced to take, as
! his physician, one Dr. Gibbs who came with the
, recommendation of the “ Prophet ” and soon died;
Splendors of Royalty.—We published not
’ long since, the affecting intelligence, that Queen
Victoria, in consideration of the famine that is
t hurrying two millions of her Irish subjects to an
untimely grave, had ordered all the inmates of the
’ royal palace to be put upon a short allowance of
5 coarse bread, which beneficent example was fol
: lowed by many of the nobility and fashionable
clubs. We give below an account from the Court
Journal, of some of the dresses worn at the recent
celebration of Her Majesty’s birth day. Fancy
these ladies, loaded with brilliants and saphires,
eating “ seconds” bread, for the benefit of starving
Ireland.
The Queen wore a train of gold embroidered
satin, of British manufacture, trimmed with honey
suckles and tulle, and ornamented with diamonds.
The petticoat was of white satin, trimmed with
gold blonde and tulle. Her Majesty’s headdress
was formed of feathers and a wreath of honey
' suckles, ornamented with diamonds.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent wore
a train of white satin brocaded with blue flowers
‘ of Spitalfields manufacture, trimmed with valuable
point lace, and splendidly ornamented in front
■ with bouquets of diamonds. The petticoat was of
white satin, brocaded with blue, and was also
I trimmed with fine point lace. The stoipacher was
of diamonds. Her Royal Highness’s head dress
• was formed of black velvet and feathers, with
! point lace lanpets; and a superb tiara of diamonds.
[ Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
wore an elegant train of moire antique, trimmed
■ with Brussels point lace. The stomacher was of
■ brilliants and' sapphires. The petticoat was of
. white silk, with a deep flounce of Brussels point
r lace. The necklace was of diamonds and sap
-1 phires. Her Royal Highness’s head dress was
> formed of feathers, lappets, and a very magnificent
- tiara of brilliants.
L The costumes of the ladies were very splendid.
The Duchess of Buccleuch wore a magnificent
1 diamond girdle. The Duchess of Bedford, the
- Countess ot Shrewsbury, the Marehioness of Lon
; donderry, and the Marchioness of Ailesbury wore
dresses of great beauty and richness, profusely
ornamented with diamonds and other precious
t stones. The Countess of Dundonald wore a trail;
of green and silver, woven into a fabric of great
beauty, and having a very rich effect. The Coun-
- tess of Rosse wore a most superb suite of emeralds.
Lady Bruce wore a very beautiful lace dress. The
Countess of Dartmouth was distinguished for a
1 very elegant costume and a fine suite of diamonds,
f While all was splendor and festivity at the pa
-1 lace—what was going on among the people*? While
1 the drones of the great hive were at this gay ca
rousal, where were the poor workers, who toil and
’ pay for all ? Let the following passage, from the
correspondence of the Dublin Packet answer. It
f is of the fever, which follows ip the
( wake:
“ The lives of the clergy and medical men are
hourly periled in the discharge of their onerous du
ties. The pestilential disease which you have so
frequently described, and raised your warning
voice against, is making giant strides in this and
the adjoining barony. Hnman corpses are commonly
. passing through this populous town tied to the backs
of asses, the head hanging at one side and the feet at
5 the opposite side of the quadruped, attended not
I unfrequently by one poor emaciated individual
[ carrying a spade, who places the dead a little be
low the surface. Women are often seen covering their
1 dead infants ivith earth gathered with their hands.
■ What will become of us when the warm weather
f shall set in God only knows.” This frightful re
cord is from the fertile county of Leitrim, from
’ whence so little complaint of scarcity was heard
5 till an adsvapced period of the faniine jn
f counties.
i We exhibit this contrast, not to excite horror ?
■ but to inspire patriotism.
The French citizens of New York will cele
brate the glorious three days of July, by an appro
priate fete at Hoboken. As the French military
joined heartily in our celebration of the Fourth,
we must find some way to return the compliment.
0O We have had during the past week two ex,
hibitions of abolition fanaticism; one in this city
the other at the Falls of Niagara. In the former
case a writ of habeas corpus was sued out, in fayp£
of three Brazilian slaves. They were well fed,
well clothed, and kindly treated, and one of them
declared that force alone should separate her from
her protectors. The Abolitionists sought to take
these negroes from a position of comfort and hap
; piness, that in a few months they might sink
into the degraded mass of the Five Points.
At Niagara Falls, a party of free negroes rushed
upon the railroad cars, and endeavored tp forcibly
drag from them a frightened female slave; who
was perfectly contented with her situation. It is
not strange that the same night these unruly and
lawless blacks had their houses torn down about
their ears, by a violation of the laws similar to that
they had sei the example of.
OCF W e have an editor in this city who saw
Noah’s Aik launched, and gave a full report in his
next paper. We believe that Capt. Noah returned
the compliment, by sending him a basket of cham l *
pagne wine, from his first vintage at the foot of
Mount Ararat. He published regular accounts of
the Trojan war, received by special express, and
gave Achilles some first rate notices. As may be
naturally supposed, this antediluvian editor looks
down with sublime contempt upon the less patri
archal scribblers who are his present contempo
raries. ,
(0. Some people never can be suited. Certain
parties are grumbling r.ow at the female hospital on
Blackwell’s Island. It must be tnere, or some
where else, or nowhere! What would they have !
Rather what would they do with the patients!
Shall we cut their heads off; or leave them to die!
The Hospital at Blackwell’s Island must evidently
answer, until we can make some better arrange
ment.
Jt> The firemen ofNew York have been honor J
ed, during the past week, by a visit of a fire engine
company from Boston, who have been entertained,
as we learn, greatly to their satisfaction, and
creditably to our own department. .
[gr- The New Hat Company, Garbanati, manager,
have established a branch of their house, at No. IS BoW’
ery, three doors from Pell st. The east side of the town
people, will bo aure to to there for hats.