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THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE, EXJBOPE B Y A N AM E R ICAN. jlgricuUvral Convention...,Debate on the Reduction of the A r » y .. .. O n the PrendmVg Hartiquin Address—iU M eaning....American Literature and English Unieer- aitiet ___ English Parliamentary Debates....England Svallotos the Affront o f Imprisoning her Subjects in Scuth Carolina—Remarks thereon....Death of Words worth, ^c, ^c. Correspondence of The Tribune. P aris , Thursday, May 2,1850 Democracy is again successful. Eugene Sue is elected. The thing was hotly contested.-The Pres ident gave in his adhesion to Leclerc, the Roman Massaere party’s candidate. “ I t was a fine idea to fix upon L eclerc,” said the President; “ it was a tribute to glory, and the French always prefer glory.'’ Therein lies his-blunder. Frenoh nature is human nature; they have proved the fact by this election. The vote stood for Sue 125 ' for Leclerc, 116,462. The final proclaniatic. at the Hotel may possibly vary these figures more or less, slightly, for either of the candidates. The majority is full 8,000. It is not usual for a Government to electioneer like the present one. There is some thing as novel, as stupid, suicidal and insolent in its hearing. M. Carlier, the [prefect appointed by the President, concocts an inflammatory address, which informs the world that if Democracy succeeds Society is at an end. In the quarters of Paris where W ork is most esteemed and W ar least, he shuts up many of the places of public meeting. In the Banlieus, or Suburbs, he shuts them all up under the Democratic Constitution of France—that is to say, in violation of Freedom. Before a politi- “ cal meeting can he held, an election must be im- This boon being granted, a commissary of the police is always in attendance to keep order. If anything he said that that ftmctiona|y does not like, he stops the speaker, and an adverse report closes the place of discussion. Newspapers whose leaders ‘tell’ against the Government, are regu larly seized. Tog;et a spicy article, one must buy a penny paper betimes, otherwise the edition is seized. I read a good article on the Budget in a paper. The edition was seized for it. Great is the force of tradition. Names change suddenly, hut custom wears out slowly. Thus it is that under a Republic monarchical acts and sanctions remain. Europe has been looking on this election. From Downing-st. to the confines of Siberia it has been a subject of interest. Two forces were in the field —the pen and the sword. Leclerc’s whole merit was that he fought against the barricades and had a son killed. Eugene Sue derives his force from literature—^from the dissectioQS of poverty—the philosophy of crime—the exposure of Jesuitism. He began life 'mth old ideas. Gradually his mind developed itself. It now sits under the fig-tree of Humanity. Such a man is fit to he scoffed at by the London Times. Even the London Punch, true to its hruish instincts, said; “ The greatest mys tery of -Paris will he Monsieur Eugene Sue’s election for it”—an ordinary English reading of French character. Narrow the Channel, but wide the separation of the people. An American who will can learn more of France and Frenchmen in a year than an Englishman in a lifetime. All Eng lish prophecies respecting France are false. The very day that Louis Philippe fled ignominiously from France, The Times said that order reigned at Paris, for he was certain to queU the insurrection. Its facts and speculations are eqnallyprofound, and it gets the best writers a t the highest prices. Its Paris Correspondent is paid 610,000 a year: its CbiefEditor, who writes several headers of a leaded column, more or less, a week, is paid nearly $13,000 a year. W ith such prices, it should be accurate. I have always held that Universal Suftrage in j will save it if foreign aggressioi eds here now: it would be destroyed by a force foreign to the people—the ai-my, the officers ; but the soldiers are true. At this last election they stood up to their Democratic guns. The Cavalry have aristocratic notions; they are like the man who keeps a gig. The Foot are out- and-out D emo- cratic: they w2l not bear to be tampered with. Officers have tried to instruct them. They resent it. Their teacher is the penny press. The paper of the most talent now in Paris is the Voix du a penny press. Galignani compliments the Democratic press upon their moderation after victory. How is it that Democracy is so magnani mous when not goaded to despair 1 So was it in February 1848. So is it now; so will It ever be. There are no fears for the future. Certain Ameri- throngh an inverted telescope of liberty. Under Louis PMlippe, every American residentin Paris told m ehe waaecssential to order and progress. Life would not be safe, nor Pro- ty without him. I feel perty without him. I feel more secure than ever. Poverty now has hope: before, it had nothing. Crime, robberies, murders must diminish. Shop- eeping is active, hut building is dull. People are fraid of investments. Let them thank the Roman nvasio The i i n v e s tm e n ts. L« 1 for the difficulty. aassins were present. “ The Catholic Powers” Austria, headsman general; Spain, choked with ___ old dose of blood, and paying the penalty of crime ; Naples, w ith*25,000 patriots now rotting in jail; 36—all werefullyrepresented. TheFrench I phases of this expfcuiwuu, auu n, wm soon, I hope, receive a striking sanction. W e are happy to see the other Catholic powers cooperate a this holy work; and in this common glory we do vu. puuuu p u r s e } w iuie ni xw iue ui tueu* logical press or of action has been unknown always. To confound, her with Rome thus as a Catholic power, is simply false. Catholics predominate in France—certainly amongthe.women. The men as a class are indifferent to aU sects on National grounds. But the work of conspiracy is completed.— sion up to infinitude, thus finally he has gone thither. Affecting was the ceremony of parting between him and the King of Naples. Equaly distinguish- j'hmh ] chroni( of business or bin ed for miracul( blood-boiling, and for beggary; for the custom i lawyers by the year, the he! proverbial for the custom which prevails of hiiing lie\' villanies of so- „ CTaplej the storm of revolution! and his family are the Pope fro and its Sovereign friends of His Ho- his tamily are the cherished friends ot His Ho liness. Noscitur a sociis. Democracy knows its liends ; so does Theocracy. ■ French now are in is in harmony with what is around him. It has an idea behind it, a dying idea, hut atill of sufficient meaning to prevent it from falling into broad, bad -farce. Not so with the French soldier. His reli gion is worn to a stump and powd< Folly atanes in with ner antics to aid irand. bo he downs on his knees, plump in the mud, to receive the ope’ £ blessing. His leaders at the same time reject the does notsij feredbai idience. _ _____ -gnify obe( ______ ___ __ itress : she is all or nothing,” cries M. Monta- ihert, and acting according to this chain-gang doctrine, flat to earth goes the General of the French forces—^whose name marks his gentle blood —and kisses the Pope’s foot. Sprawl and slaver. O Royalty! Get into the very mire. Play the rep tile in soul and body. Imitate the devil. ■The chief crime .of Ireland—that which has starved into poltroonery, taken the blood and cour age out of her so that she is too weak to howl any longer—was a devotion to the Papacy. Hypocrisy at least is none of her sins. But England now, finding that the Papacy is the chief obstacle to De mocracy, has begun to coquet with it. At the pre cise moment when they wererequired, appeared the at in England. Miss Sellon, “ the Mother Superior ” of an order of so called Protestant Sisters of Mercy, is pronounced an angelic being t y the Bishop of Exeter, and if the destruction of Democracy re quires it, the Bench of Bishops are ready to go over clean to the Papacy. This late in-6he day affection for Rome is particularly evidenced in the English papers since the Revolution of February. Mazzini was duly vituperated,and the venerable at tributes of the Pope insisted in the English press. Of a piece with this new English view of Roman things, is the following from an Englishman at Rome. “ Before the arrival of his Holiness the p m y was very little impressed with the solemnity of the ;eremonial, to which they were to play so promii mt a part—but since they have had an opportonit ■ ' ounting to awe, wil 3d by the Prelates, tl icers of state, there has , The men used to pass Ministers and { been a visible r< the caxTiages of the Cardinals without any sigi respect; now all salute as they pass, and pass they do in numbers. The streets are alive with the old-fashioned, massive, gothic structures in which the Princes of the Church take the air. Outside the gates—for when did a dignitary of the Church ever degrade himself by walking within the walls of Rome ?—the causeway is blocked up with venerable rr^nin red stockings, supported on either side by a nretary and a chaplain, and fol lowed by two ofvants in time-hallowed Iveries and tarnished cocked hats.” If the Englishman who wrote this can write doggrel, he should hurry home. Wordsworth is dead, and the laureate's sty is in want of such an animal. Paul was not a little afflicted by the loss of his cloak, and complains in one of his Epistles of Alexander, the coppersmith, who took such a lilting to it. Paul also went afoot. mplains in ppersmith, who took such a lilting to it. Paul also went afoot. If there he anything in the above English painting of Rome, which resembles the ancient simplicity democracy of tlie Apostles, some correspondent Tribune should make it known; for it sur- 'he Englishman of at Gensano, when the Neapolitan escort filed off and the French took their place, the scene was so exciting that that admirable soldier, Colonel de Nom, and the veterans of the chasseurs all cried. The 32d Regiment, which has been for some time quartered at Albano, Frescati and their neighbor hood broke their lines to touch the Pope. General des Villiers, who is likely to succeed General Bar- agnay D’Hilliers in his command, fell down on his knees before his Holiness on the steps of the Lat- eran and kissed his feet with rapture. Certainly,' everything considered, the Pope may congratulate himself on the triumph, and this appears to be the xmiversal feeling; and most especially is he justified in doing so, for it appears that a very formidable spublican party was intended. of the French iors and Foreign Ministers. They had al- heen presented to him on the thres ackno3 doi/en of the diplomatic corps, replied in the nt of his colleagues. “ They had done their duty ; no more than their duty. The protection of the Catholiepowers would never be wanting to the head of the Church. W hen all other ties were broken that of religion remained.” W hether the Ameri- ope went to the Yatican 'eter’s he sent for all the ha jshold of \’ess his the ceremony of St. P eter’s he sent for all the Ena- hassadors and Foreign Ministei ready been presented to him on the thresl the Lateran, hut the Pope wished to expr< )wledgments. M, Martinez de la Rosa, as the - the diplomatic corps, replied it of religion can Charge was present does not app< it is when he might have made a demonstration in ' \ \ man R( .................. IS not b< hargd al the Am authori __ e might have made a favorivor off thehe Romanoman Republicepublic hee didd notot come for- ned. rf is for .merican squadron at 1 irities. Really we shot o t R R h di n come ’ard. That has not been explained. I there bt use for a Chargd at Rome, it is for liberal pur : Naples poses. Lately 1 entertained the lation. The Government, with Louis Napoleon t its head, cannot understand the movement of hemasses. Thatpersonisnowirrevocably wi n the shore of a political dead sea. When leared to take his oath as a Democratic Prei wQcu me puuucian is out me cierx or aomeanc 01 the people. This individual, therefore, supposing his Strasbourg and Boulogne antecedents to be for gotten, showed himself to be utterly unworthy to be a Republican President. By having, too, are- gal household of 184 persons, aid-de-camps, sur geons, gentlemen in waiting—the paraphernalia of his imcle—it shows that he is in a chronic feve become Emperor. These titles and traditional n be battered down before the cooperative faith Cooperation in labor less, the absence of oriental displays. Up time that all such things are destroyed, the ation of lalwr, of simple humanity, prevails, military of militia titles in America, like our ’ery, are a branch of aristocracy. They must cease to exist before Association can be made to ti’iumph. Association must pre-suppose the ex- tinetion of this debris of antiquity. Fashion alone Our militi ire perfect the self-gover the politician. So long as the Union is to be ‘saved’ by a ‘speech,’ an amount of artificial power is conceded to those politicians, which no private aiuB, however illustrious, can claim. When the Agriculture is in a backward state in France, because the sword is not the plowshare. The Minister of that-Department has issued a circular insisting on the organization of agricultural socie ties throughout France. Tell the people, says that servant of a royal master, that the President takes great interest in agriculture, and will not fail to re cognize the merit of those who make imj ments. The Republican idiom take None but the Socialists here can converse ini that inspired tongue. W e have, too, an Agricultural Congress sitting in Paris. The President of the Republic opened it with a speech. “ He was dress ed in the uniform of a General of the National Guard.” The eternal fitness of things, thei har mony of interests, bayonets and proning-hooks, big drums and big pumpkins, eigh^-lour-pounders and prize hogs, fortresses and dairies, are all evidenced by tins mixture of military grandeur and of social manure. Ceres, with epaulettes and feathers, is a right-worshipful goddess, and as such, is adored by the Moderate party of France. Analogy is a nimbus around the head of France : the Republic was inaugurated by the naui-derout sacrifice of Rome. Agi’iculture is exalted by the theory and practice of Ccesaf. This Louis Napoleon is the man who was to be the Washington of France—the first President, and the last. It was necessary to show the people what coarse clay was used to lake a miniature Bonapairte. Otherwise;, Im- a. Damocles-sword, would have mpirove periallsm, like hung over her. As a specimen of the Socialist speeches in the Assembly, let me quote the following from M. Ma- thieu, (dte la Drome): “ Did France fear attack from abroad ? No, for -------- ^^t the various powers were too much ----- lirown situation! fact. Socialism must ideredthis service to the it had spread over E u rope with such rapidity, that it caused every Mon- be allowed to have iend< ^ ISdltj Government to have r t at home, that arch to look to his own States, and never think of attackingFrance. [Laughter.] Hitherto the brave army of F r ^ c e had been only able to give the So cialists their votes—and that they did in the of thehe circularsirculars of thehe Ministerimster ofr W a r 'andnd f o n oi t c of t M o W a r a of the repeated ordering of the men to Africa—bat here after it would be found that the Army would do .................... ..... ' if they I 8th ft* And how c found them ly necessit army of half a million of : war was threatened from any quarter, would that number he sufficient to defend the country ? No! Not a million. W h at would be required would be a levyejt masse. Revolution was a permanent matter in England; [Ob, Oh!] bat it was met with prudence by the Government, and so it never burst into any dangerous explosion. The aristc here gave a quarti rclasses; acoiidac nruu.d he approved of in a.- to. ist proposed that part of the tributed to the poor, how great would be the out cry raised 1 [Movement.] The conduct in France was very different as it appeared anxious not to satisfy but to irritate the people. [No, no!] When it was seen that at one time police agents removed the crowns of honor deposited at the foot of the Column of July; at another, that the sale of journals was prohibited in the streets, [that is Democratic not Reactionary journals,] could it be a matter of surprise that the people should at last grow tired of such conduct and attempt to right their wrongs. [Movement,]ivemei M . D e L a b o r b e —J i ] iRBE—Just try, we are ready for Government. Charles X. h( Louis Phil' preach economy is vulgar, irreligious; it aims at robbery. Another sample of Socialist Assembly “ M. Chi ■eduction of 1 will be the next move of the great Generals remains to be seen. Some neW irritation ipted—but when Barbas begs the people to keep quiet and trust to their votes for re dress, we may look forward with confidence. I krow nothing more triumphantly exhibiting the •ogress of Democracy•acy thanhan thehe noticetice which t t no w icaand Americans are now excitingin Em ms but yesterday, when their defici scof Thunderer—the power wtose remotest rumblings were dreaded by our Provincial neophytes, as they chose to consider themselves. Now this is cha ed. No place in Europe, of the ^ ace in Europe, of the same size as Bos ton, Massachusetts, bearing the quiet relation off thehe capitalapital off onene off thirtyhirty States,tates, makesakes ass o t c o o o t S m a steady and bright contributions to literature. As we are cut oft' from Antiquity by being placed in a new continent, with hardly i past, except the quaint adop) phrases—notthe cer^onial, )iQ^.;^t^^ty by being placed in a It, except the quaint adopUo^s of the names and ases—notthe ceremonial, concubinage nor cruel- ies, of the Jewish Theocracy, it would be quite natural for our scholars to confine themselves to local investigation,—to Indian mounds, American history, and to the intellectual phenomei^ grow ing out of our new conditic is the generous, fecund nat mind, though we are seriously engrosi labors; in the; unprecedented, nnhe« bringing part! of miles close nnprecede of an Emphre railways, auu ten \ five million! twenty-1 , ^ labors than continental Europe, withsi ,—that in Mr. Ticknor’i tome ten lent inveistiga as many,—that in Mr. Ticknor’s recent inve tions into Spanish literature, and similar works ap pear contributions which r ights should (^elong to with an artistic cosmopolitanism seeking strange lands and romantic times for its themes. The theological instruction of America is already better than that of England; so considered by theEnglish themselves, who have examined into the subject. This arises from the demand made for well in structed Clergymen. A demand for the article, [1l produceoduce equalqual efiectfiect ass regardsegards secularecular litera-itera wil pr e e a r s l ture. I use the word secular in its car Every writer must be religious, or he is His jokes even should have that force, j.. they should cai’ry truths with them, and put i reader nearer heaven even by laughter~a better Sprigs of nobility rise in i the army, navy, or church. Thehe Britishritish newsews fromm India is pt ihronicbut! T B n fro J defiles, fresh inpursions; cl Candidates for that butchi with those for the Chardh Both go out together; the itous: ugly chronic butchery in a word. .duated aloi iiu m jnxiiigua,| ivcpv m iw u m u u iu a f u ia crime, having officiated on board a ship that touched at Charleston. Under this contemptuous disregard of the lyrical an-3 prosaicboasts of England that the persons of her subjects, not criminals, are always protected even in the remotest quarters of the Earth—the English mart; they feel the depth of the degradation. But they cannot afford to go to war with America. The thing was tried when Mr. Buchanan was Secretary of State. On this point, the London Standard says much that is true in the following remarks. International Law is a cursed far gest gun: pieces. ohl no purpose against similar outrages on British s jects. The answer he received to his rem strances being that, should Great Britaiu insist on vindicating the rights of her subjects, the United States must declare void, as by giving t#elva months’ notice they had the right to do, the treaty of 181!5. This is very like bullying on the part of the United States, and submission to being bullied on the side of Great Britain; but Lord Palmerston has his reason for such submission—the excellent reason laid by Lord Dnndonald, in his commanica- tion to the Minister of Venezuela. Powerful States, such as the North American States, are to be resigned to the natural consequences of their misdeeds; hr Simated the feeling of t so had the Government of sady,ady, so hadad thehe Government of 3 what their leen re so h t Goveri , pe been ready, and yet see w fate had been! The largest number oi troops would he useless when the people were forced to redress their own wrongs. [Applause on the Lefi The Right did not applaud this sensible speei as regai-ds France. No; General de Grammont “ read a speech on the necessity of keeping up the army to such an amount as would befit the dignity of the country.” General Hautpool, the Minister of W ar, spoke in the same strain. The dignity of France required that soldiers parrying muskets and playing policemen to Cardinals in Red, and against workmen in blue, should be kept up: to preach economy is vulgar, it is not M o d e rateit is rather than submit to such insults; but “ We have lostthe breed of noble bloods;” And it is in vain for us to expect from any of the little generation in which we live the vigor of Bur- leighs, Olivers, or Chathams. Wordsworth is dead. He was born 1770, at Cockermoutb, Cumberland. He was a great master of versification, ignorant of itical economy, of liberal government, and of itic speaking in the would he ask, was the President of the Republic to have aids-de-camp? He considered that the President of the Republic ought to be essentially a civil functionary, and as such he could have no need of a military household. -[Disapprobation.] W hy was he to p ut on a military uniform, as if he held a General’s commission in the French Army ? still in force Inspiration. That was one of the main charms of Byron. Wordsworth was long in acquiring fame; ukimately he had it in abundance. He was kind and courteous. He exercised himself by working in the fields, and had not the literary dyspepsia. saw no rea- son why that law should not be enforced with r spect to the President of the Republic as well as any one else. [Disapprobation.] The M in i s t e r o f W a r could ignity to which he hi iterruption.] For his part, he saw no re that law should not be e Hon. Rei to insult 'the President of the Reput functionary w as in no way connected with the subject of the amendment. As to the uniform which the Head of the State wore—[Loud inter ruption on the Left.] V e ic E s —^What do you mean by the term Head of the State? The M in i s t e r of W a r — I call the Head of the State the person elected to that place by the votes of the country. [Renewed interruption.] As to his wearing a military uniform, it ought to be borne in mind that he is the head of the National Guard —[on the Left, No, no I]—and not only of the Na tional Guard, hut of the Army also. [Noise on the Left.] But whatever m aybe the opinion of hon. gentlemen on the subject, it is surely indeesrou thus to insult the President of the Republic.- [Hear, h e a r!] lately he had it in abundance. He w as kini ■ ous. He exercised himself by working [s, and had not the literary dyspepsia. BV TELEGRAPH TO THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. Canadian Parliament. T otronto , C. W. Monday, May 21. In the Assembly this afternoon, Ministers op posed a motien for the production of papers, re ports and documents, relative to certain bills of last lion, they withdrew. F a tal Afljray. P it t s b u r g h , Tuesday, M ay; frenchman, named Lewis Jaubert, head c Exchange Restaurant, was shot yester ^AF] r General was the 3ad of the various civil hodie M. Charras is right. But tb ing in the military dress of the President. TJ first Napoleon was a soldier; the second must! one too, he thinks. He has taken every occasion to swear by and flatter the Army; he never fai to distribute decorations and scatter fine sayings.- The army may always depend on me, he cries.— That is not the question. It is whether he can de pend on the army. The last election shows he cf not. W h at will be the next move of the gre Generals rema' may*be attem_ people to keep \quiet and trust to their v ised in pioneer ard of toils of npi separated by thousands ler by means of canals, roads. len t, b u t h a d b e e n d ischarged for a previous q u ar- 3l with Jaubert. The latter dared the colored man to fight where they met, but Gaines refused, and was going away, when the Frenchman pur sued him, seized him, and struck him two or three blows. Gaines wrested himself from the hold oi Jaubert and shot him with a pistol. Jaubert then pui'sued Goines half a square with a pistol and shot at him, but missed him. Jaubert, overcome by loss of blood, fell down and immediately expired. The testimony before the Coroner’s Jury goes to show that the colored man was acting in self-defense. Gaines immediately went to the Mayor’s office, gave himself up and was committed to prison to . await a legal investigation. It is thought that he will be brought out on a habeas corpus and admit ted to bail. Jaubert has a wife and child in Phila delphia, who were to leave yesterday morning to jo in h im h e r e . [The wiffi of the unfortunate man was seated in the cars yesterday morning, with her child, in the fond anticipation of joining her husband in the course of a few days—hut how bitter was her dis appointment. A friend received a dispatch froi Pittsburgh informing him of the melancholy termii ation of her husband’s life, and requesting her to remain in Philadelphia for the present. The poor woman appeared to be almost heart-broken, while sl .ves waiting in the Telegraph office for the par ticulars of her husband’s death.—^R ep .] Th}nes in St. Iionis—Overland Emiffratlon. . S t . L ouis , Tuesday, May 21 . The City Register reports the total number of deathi and interments for the week ending Mon day, 20th inst. at 67, of which 26 were children of 5 years and under; of the whole, 9 were cases of cholera, and 1 of small-pox. Three cemeteries re ported; the reports were of minor importance. The steamboat James McLean, wMchleft Coun- cil Bluffs on the 24tb, reports that nearly all the emigrants had crossed to the opposite side of the river, and that hundreds were daily starting for the plains. Emigration Was thinning out part of St. Josephs. filethodlat Conference Adjonmed. B altimore , Tuesday, May 21. ' The Methodist Protestant General Conference has a^oumed sine dis. A Mistake Corrected. L a F ayette , Mondi^r, M sy6,1850. Messrs. Greeley fr McElrath: 1 perceive by your last Weekly Tribune that you give a statement of subscilbers at dilTerent offices in the Union in the least doubt '■man subscribers By referring to your books you will see that my statement is correct. There are lot intentional, lhave which you appear to misrepresent La Fayette. I preiui r. It is not intend fore desire to make the correction. but La Fayette h u sent you the largest list oft to The Tribune of any city in the United States. 1 there- now 1 0 1 Weekly Tribunes coming to this office. I sent expect to send you J eremiah B ehm . ts cautsensi must be religious, or he is nothing. 1 should have that force. As such, yon 9 2 subscribers myself, and another small list.'. Respectfully, Yes, our table did injustice to L a Fayette, owing to our packages for that town being sent fromtwo different Mail-Books. W e arenowsend- ing 1 1 8 Weekly Tribunes by Mail to that office, which is probably more than we mail to any other office W e st of the Oi^io, W e thank our friend for his correction of our mistake. {Ed. Late News from Forts in Cuba. From the Boston Traveller of May 21. it this I ^ lathemas ire wort )r stiff solemnities by which barren minds disguise hemselves and pass for more than they are worth. In regard to the deficiencies of their Universities, the English are beginning to be sensible. A speech, accompanying a motion for ^an inquiry into their condition, depicts the dead-ahve condition of many of the fellowships, distinguished for profound hut impracticably knowledge. I have been surprised at the ignorance of these men on great questions and the modem languages, the key to the know ledge of the age. The Agricultural depression of England, force; the Tories to look to some economics, which, up ti this time, they have scouted. Mr. D’Israeli accord ingly has made a speech on that head, to which Rnssellreplied. Hume pointed out the inconsistency of both parties—and begged them to join him, in Capt. I Id inst. ri e men-of-war •eit was sup- where. As lery are graduated along ■c in the same college, to kill the people o f- 3rt them. tate, seizes upon of the last Administrate . , .hey , . And this is the whole of the matter. But notwithstanding all this, Mr. C r a w f o r d is not relieved from the indelicacy of pressing a claim upon the Government white he was a member of it. In the eyes of some this indelicacy rises to im propriety. The fact exists, characterize it as you will. The Committee distinctly exonerate the other members of the Cabinet from the possiession of anyny knowledgenowledge thathat Mr. C r a w f o r d had a k t Mr. terest in the claim. far as the Report goes, Gtsts suchch ann onee ais So: n all in all respec su a on a we had a right to ex pect from the manliness, impartiality and ability of Mr. B urt .. N o exception can be taken to it. The mat say that itis lad a rigl :en to it. : the int T h e Omnibus vs. T h e P r e s i d e n t 's Plaat>-Flie Galpbln Claim and R«iporfs^ CorrespondeBce of The Tribune. W a s h in gton , Frl^l 83 r, May!?. This is amazing. Who shall say there is no dif ference between the Omnibus and the President’s Plan? or if there be any, that the advantage is with the Omnibus, because it takes care of New- Mexico and the other plan don’t. The Boundary question we have disposed of. It can be settled on its own bottom. But,^a Territo rial Government without the Proviso! W hat comes of it 1 First and foremost a great Northern row. Every man sent to Congress from the Free States will come down here under instructions to put on the Wilmot. Call you this settling the question ? The Wilmot will be put on, or it wop’t. If it is, the South will foam more than ever, and the political storm bellow more loudly than ever. If it is not, the agitations of the North will be deeper, and their demands more exacting and intense than heretofore. Either way, besides an increase of agitation, this result follows: The Whig party is rent asunder. The South will go in one direction and the North in another. ‘ You do not precisely understand or appreciate the party embarrassments or party damage of the case.’ This is odd. 'No man should see them more clearly. They are en tirely apparent to far duller apprehensions, and • they are vivid and substantive to the keen-sighted. But another thing and a greater thing. Give New- Mexico an undisturbed Territorial Government, without the Proviso, of ten years, or fifteen years, and if Slavery can possibly live in New-Mexico, it will he smuggled in. Should we not avoid the pos sibilities of this long apprenticeship ? Let New- Mexibo establish her institutions now, while she is anti-Slavei-y—^not after ten years’ tutelage of a Territorial Government, when she may be pro- Slavery. “ Factious and selfish,” indeed 1 Are not these reasons ? sfrong, valid, substantial, pressing, con clusive? W e do not want to sever and thus de stroy the nationality of the Whig party, if it can Be avoided. W e do not wish to increase political agitation on the Slavery question to no purpose whatever hut to raise a storm to drown purselves. W e do not wish to, increase the chances of New- Mexico’s becoming a Slave State, by doing what Mr. C a l h o u n so earnestly desired, giving “ time to get in.” This is what he wanted; “ Time to get in.” Does not the apprenticeship under a Territo rial Government give it ? This is what we do not want. But is what we do want, “ factious and selfish ?” W h at is it we go for ? First, the imme diate Admission of California. Second, the estab lishment of the Boundary between New-Mexico and Texas. If we choose to do more, there are three things that can be done. First, extend the Post-Office Laws over New-Mexico: Second, es tablish a District Court: Third, put in force your Indian Agency. W ith these simple regulations, New-Mexico will have all she needs. And the President’s plan is here perfected. It is simple, just, wise, beneficent, unexceptionable, tranquiliz- ing, harmonising to all i![ections. It will save the integrity and nationality of the party. a rtp No reasoi themselves. Herer/raiD5nds';'i ©m-o establish i State governmeRl^ i Slavery; and pre pare to defend; heuipdvesti. 1 1 ; heir territory, in the full faith tlj^i.! th^ ut .seeis of the peopleof. i j ‘ ,rally'ioi apport. Ex] Union will r 5 apport. The Gi'eat I 'n « In Hantsville. The Huntsville, Als. Siar ves the oUowing details of the confl:-u. i-itiou in that toWn on the 3d inst. W e have alreadx’ published a brief aecounfc of this fire by telegraph; The fire having originated in the workshop of Mr.- George H. Warwick—in which all the 'articles- were light and coinbustlble—immediately spread with inconceivable faj-'i^iliy'. A brisk South wind too increased its awiui t>ny. The whole row upon that square soon beca-ni: one blazing sheet of flam& —carrying swift dest; iici 101 . in its progress. Iffiei flames soon reached tijo dfi- eiliag and silver-smitb shop of Mr. Thomns rain. These being of wood,^ rere consumed in a few moments. The family ily had:i me to metheir escape and effect smovArl some articles. The flames soon idol r f.!i;-i of Mr. J. D. Cross, :n*il • -om thence to the Cald- • scarcely I the remo’ reached; he i the twosto ry brick i,ou»' well, a’jsotk ef ramc s’nn; AttkisSi me the gn i leemed horror stri-ck trength of tb.-: : a ■jo upied oining. , - ---------- 'ailed, aH. mfusio werwhelmed by the I-lie.oe flames. In vain they ‘f Tb( ■Oi'ig mass of flame grocery-store. Parker and McKenzie’s store. Dr. Wiikioson’s Dentist Shop, the : Office and orher adjacent building® vrapped in fire, during the same moment, indnd changingging sdcorlyorly thehe Bell-Tavernl-Taverj be- wi chan sdc t Bel came in the most inmiTin nt danger. While efforts le Bell—the fire quarters. P rev e i Bell—it p o u r e d ii sting march in other crossing over to the ell—it poured its fiery flames on and on down Jefferson, \Washingtor. imii Homes-sts.—and the hufc cross street leading from ts the ]()j imes-sts.—ana Washington to Jeffei Upon these streets the logs was very great, a little time was allow-e>l for the preservation of Build;' ................ property. Building after building caughl was consumed—amid the y%in regret and the beholders. Subjoined is it fire and hopes of inedis as correct a fist of the buildings lost as we can at preseiit make out. hinsoij’s barber shop. J. Johnson’s and Dr. WiHrinson’s dentist office.— Il-House--The Democrat Office— ss and L. G. Figg’s saddler and silver-smith Thos. Cain’s shop and dwelling—Geo. warehouse, and J. M. Os grocery store and ] The Caldwell-Hosuse-The D- Cross and L. irwick’s lurmture well’s auction and ci Warwick’s fiirmti ton-st. —J. Gaston’s d’ V. Small'i h< Bradford’s l Democra Figg’s saddler s arebouse, and J. M. OaliL lonmJssion house. . Washing-^ Iw c llin.g —Geo. H. Warwick’®.. Mark “ elliag house—^A. B. .Tamei occupant, Mr. Rebmau’s d welling, also Mr. Charlei Jones, B. Ferguson’s and Robert Graham’s. Q the comer. :. Newman’s and J. B. Trottman’s. Ilolmes’-st..—Brittain Franks’ dwelling and Thos H. E ones’; also the elegant house of Mrs. Moore, itegrity and nationally of the p No reason able man can deny it. Nothing in the world is wanting to its complete and triumphant succei and the co: ' .... consequent success of the party, i hereafter, but the mill of the Whigs in Congress h have it successful. Fear not. This we shall havi in due time. The policy is bound to triumph as soon as the remains of the Omnibus can be shoveled off the track. The Administration has hitherto i been acting upon the notion that it is not worth while to shovel a path while the snow is falling The clouds having broken, it is now likely some thing will be done. The Galphin Committee reported to-day. _jly difficulty in this case seems to be that tl_____ ministration is too honest. The heirs' of Galphii had a claim. It was good, or it was not. Con gress passed an act by which it was recognized. . The last Administration recognized it and paid forty-one thousand dollars on it, which was ad- itted to be wflat was due t the interest was due, and they pay it accordingly. All agree a debt was due the hefts of Galphin. The ’ \ ” forty Idition must K i would be a simpler and more common process, perhaps, to cheat them out of the intere,st, but as to the Justice of the proceed ing there can ban hardly he but one opinion. This Amninistration have been so green as to suppose that if the Government owed the debt at all, they owed the whole of it. ‘ And having been backed in the opinion that they did owe it by the action of Congress, who directed the examination and ad justment of the claim, and by the opimon and ac tion of the last Administration, why t paid i t with nearly all of its appurtenances. Wh 1 frame bui ) a smi the Bell Ti Cross-si. —G. W. and a small frame buildi; also bite’s large livery stable :—D. M. Bradford owner; lall frame dwelTing on the corner below e B e ll T a v e rn . Such is a feeble account of the immense distres® sustained by the people of Huntsville by the terri ble fire. A general gloom and darkness seems to if the community. The greatesi iffering is the lot of many of our worthy me- .— ---------- gjj. years have toiled and- 3stled well with po3 itained b ’ ' 'la b o r e d and wrei The lo s s Bust lanicB— m e n w h o been exactly ascertains to be the ami amount of insi mount jsurance by this great fire has not ined. $150,000,however, seems generally believedl ost. The e w'e cannot exactly ascertain; D e s t r u c t iv e F h a cotton shed sii g, a cotton shed situated on the south side of . sr’s south vs^harf, was discovered to he on \ id in a very short time the buildings on both si -About 1^ o’clock this mern- lituated on the south side of Ad- &e, the wharf were in flames. Notwithstanding the most strenuous exertions of the firemen, the fire communicated on the south side to the handsome e of offices on Yanderhort’s wharf, w h i^ were Among the occupants of these 'essrs. J. Robertson, Matthews & on & Co. Menlove & I & Son. Messrs. 1 Pringle, rinthre and in a v ery short time the buildings < of the w h arf w e re in flames. Notwitl exertions of the DU the south side on Yanderhort’s v Among the oc [essrs. J. Robert*on, Refper, Middleton & Co. Menlove & Lesesne, and T. B. Simons & Son. On Adger’s south whi range of offices on'V also destroyed. Among the occupant! offices were Messrs. J. Roberts Mi A. B. De Saussure, )re of Messrs. John- last Bay, was also son. Crews & Brawley, on Ea st Bay, was also destroyed, with a portion of its contents, but for tunately a large portion of their most valuable stock was removed some days since. The amount of cot ton destroyed is about 6,000 bales, and the total loss, including buildings, may he estimated, at firom $200,000 to $500,000, a large portion of wWch is insured. A young gentleman, who was sleeping m one of the stores, was severely burnt in the face and hands in attempting to escape. AppelntmentB toy the Frtosldeitt; ce and camisnt o f the Senate, B y and with the advice and consent c is UNITED STATES T homas S. H all , for the g i n i a . CHARLES h . MARSHALS. easteni district of Yir- i B ingham , for the uouthem district of 'Alabama. \WiLEiAM McduiSTON, for the northern district of Mississippi. H enry F. T allmadge , for the southern district f New York. A nthony E. R oberts , for the eastern district f Pennsylvania. C harles H. K n <x, New-Mexico Gettlnc Tired of Waltlns! IMPORTANT AJDDRKSS FROM HON. HUGH N. SMITH. letter to his constituents, informing them that his mission to the Capital of the Republic has failed, and their right of representation in the General Congress of the nation has been denied tl ---- sro for the district of Michigan. ATTORNEY. \W illiam H. C aperton , for the district of Ken tucky. INat. Intelligencer. officers on board that the L. has ascended, daring her present trip, the great F ather of Waters a few miles further up than a steamer had ever gone Be fore, She went to Steel’s Landing, situated inmie|- diately at the foot of the last descent in the great above the town ^ Si. the Chal‘ron. .t is termed the The L. was on a pleasure excursion fron with a large party on hoard, and thie crihed to’ us by one wh( - jald St. Paul, l scene is des- e of the I engines would carry her against the current, a four-inch hawser was made fast to a cUff of rocks, and, by means of the capstan, a few morp lengths were gained toward the attainment of a fei^ never performed before, and for several mpmeTitg the beautifnl little steamer was forced up the hil- loWs-of the mighty cataract, where boat, bark or birch canoe bad never floated before. The descent ^is described as being like the flight of aa arrow, and [with w l^h tiller wheels and steam had bat littl® gleirto^cu«fo7lhede^^^^^ S ob , aa equal weight in the Senate of the United States with the rapidly p rogreisi^ population and multiplying Free States of the Union. To this aim the rights and in terests, and all the hopes of a rapidly growing and rich prosperity, which beckoned New-Mexico into the Union, ire to be sacrificed. “ The doctrine of the Slaveholding States, in reg^dto their domestic instituflons, is non-intervention: but with re gard to yours, it is instant intervention , to set at nought the prolubition of Slavery which you brought with you in to the Union, ss one of your fundamental laws, and a fixed municipal policy—a policy which, now that you are under Sie shield of the great North American Republic, would in vite into your country the'^intellect, industry, skill, enter prise, and capHsl, not only of the free States of the North, But a portion of that emigration from Europe which is now filling up the agricultural regions of the Mississippi, and the golden mountains, Talleys, and commercial ports of California, with a teeming population. Making the Umk be tween these two great countries, you could not fail to par take of their prosperity, if you could escape that blight which has doomed the fairest portion of our cqntinpnt to a premature decline. “ ThecBnnection witif this government-which you have been encouraged to look forward to ai the beginning of your proeperily and improvement, has had its opening in three years of depredation, miserable misrule ana military despodsm. You are left prostrate that 'Texas may disirtem-' her and divide New-Mexico, and subject her to Southern influence; that negro slavery may bo introduced into the remnant of territory that may not be appropriated to Tex as; and, finally, that the region thus secured to Southern policy may become the stock on which to engraft newcon- lesis from Mexico. To this whole policy I know you He more then won the prize, which wa^ d, and perhaps, it will be many year* larse voice of old St. Anthony is again hushed by the shrill whistle of a steaid engine rigl under his nose. [St Louis Republican. S ilk F actories .—^Yogel, a Swiss silk-manu facturer, has pnrehesed six acre* of land on an angle near the Carey Farm gate, and has com menced preparation* for tbe erection of btnlding* 'for silk factories, where ribbons, vestings, and all kinds of raised silkwork will be manuCactored, e,qual ftj quality and richness, it is said, to imported goods*. W e have had an interview with a gentle maft who has resided rmany years in China, and g iven his atten tio n to th e raisin g and m a n u factoro of silk. Ffom him we learn that the citizens of the U n i t e d S t a te s p a y annually for s ilk goods alone, nfanufactured in foreign countries, about $20,000,000. anufactured in this country, the duly on the N ^ hvill |! OoNYEKTiON.-^CreTi. (?) Ezokiel PolK IB been appointed a Delegate by the Disunion- ts of Htu'ceman Co.
