The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-30
The News.

De read with great deal oil attention by all elases
The FIRST feature that win strike the reader is the
agnal rebuke which the mischievous abolitionsts
received in the United States Senate yesterday
Mr. Seward presented petition for the repeal OF
the fugitive slave law, and moved its reference to
Abe Judiciary Committee, but his motion failed and
the petition was tabled by 80 to III. He, thereupon
presented another petition urging Congress to adopt
measures for the extinction cfsavery. After some de-
bate this document was likewise laid the table
~ the very decisive vote Of 36 to 6. Still not salts
scd Mr. Hale presented petition to repeal the fu-
stive law and moved its reference, but it also met
with the fate Of the others Of like character. Much
tue was spent in discussing these papers, but the
action Of the Senate shows conclusively that all the
sane members utterly opposed to any further
agitation of the subject which has caused so much
anxiety among tina friends Of law and order within
.he last few years.
The Senate yesterday adopted several important
resolutions, among which asking for infor-
nation concerning the contracts reported to have
been entered into with army officers FOR supplying
provisions, Sc. and another directing the Judiciary
Committee TO inquire into the expedieney of max
hg il penal offence for an officer to become
traetor The present Congress makes q great many
Inquiries relative to important matters and, when
the answers come, does nothing. proposition
recently made to debar cabinet officers, congressman,
Sc, from prosecuting claims against the govern
ment but Of late we hear nothing said about it.
New, another very necessary measure has been pro-
posed-a measure which, like the other, would pre-
vent the peoples servants from drawing double
salaries; or, in other words, check Galphinsm, Tin
semmon parance called swindling the government by
Wholesale -andh here the matter will probably rest.
A resolution was adopted authorizing the President
" inquire into the amount Of property belonging to
Spanish citizens reported to have been destroyed by
mob who were exasperated at the result of the Gu
ban expedition If he finds that any property has been
destroyed, he is instructed to indemnify the suf
hrcrs. An appendix should have been made to the
outon, authorizing proceedings for the recovery
Of damages against the State in which the riot took
place States should be held liable for such acts
by the government upon the same principle that
cities and incorporated companies are held RESPONSE
bic for the outbreak of their inhabitants or misde
meanors of their agents.
After a long and tedious debate in the House of
Representatives, yesterday, the Senate bill to effect
discipline in the Navy by reducing rations, solitary
confinement, compelling offenders to wear dishonor-
able badges, &C., defeated by vote of rs to
81 The main objection to the bill was, that it
FAR than the repealed law, which did not
permit the commander of vessel to give deln-
9uent more than twelve strokes with the lash. When
ii was deemed expedient to punish more severely,
ii necessary to hold n court-martial.
The Philadelphia meeting the subject of
tie New York Branch Mint indignation
meeting in the fullest sense of the term. The
htions boldly announce the fact that Philadelph
will retain the mint and the whole mint--the whole
or none and that the Quaker city is to become the
commercial metropolis Of the Union--that they
have all their plans and dried to make il so, and
no mstake--that they intend by-and-by to mono
roliEe the California trade, as they do now the
Echuylkill coal trade; and that New York is
doomed to down peg or two. Nor is this
ali moonshine. Abolitionism is working against
and in favor Of Philadelphia, as our readers will
discover from the facts set forth in our leading art
Gle to-day
Some very interesting proceedings took place in
the Legislature yesterday. In the Senate, pro-
position introduced to abolish the license sys-
tenn for the sale of intoxicating liquors. IF passed.
this will entirely upset the plans Of the Maneacs,
and open free market to the publicans. The only
law that would then operate againet the latter, and
Mat should be strenuously enforced, would be the
law against disorderly houses. Under. this
arrangement, it would be TO the inter-
est Of every landlord to prevent disorder and
drunkenness, and, for this reason, the measure is
calculated to meet with favor. 1t viii be seen that
some excitement has been created by the charge of
The albany Register, against some Of the State
officers, of having received black mail from the
banks in which they made their deposits A reso
lntsn to inquire into the suspicious transaction
adopted. The bill relative to building associations
amended, so that the capital stock shall not be
less than s10, 600.
Several resolutions connected with the canal con-
tTacts were presentedin the Assembly, among them
enc making inquiry relative to reported secret
meeting whichis said to have been held by certain
members Of the late Canal Board, and at which
scheme concocted for awarding the letting in
such manner that the State would be deprived Of
At least half a million of dollars The bill for
bridging the Harlem and Bronx rivers, and several
other streams on the route Of the New York and
New Rochelle Railroad, was takenup The princi-
pal objection 10 this measure was that the Harlem
river was TO be bridged at the Second avenue, in
order to allow the track to be laid and the cars
10 run along said thoroughfare. A majority
Of the New York delegation were opposed TO this
feature, upon the principle that the Harlem river
was a navigsble stream, which the Legislature had
right to bridge; and further, that few, if any, of
her constituents except certain real estate owners,
were in favor Of it, and that the only urgent advo-
Gates Of tie measure were some land Spectators
who wished to bring their property into the market
The bill, Notwithstanding these objections, passed
abe committee Should il eventually pass both
houses, it threatens to give work to the United
States Supreme Court, where it will, doubtless. be
sarried in order to test the right fthe Legislature
10 block up nsyigabIa stream.
Navigation is fairly open on the lakes and
rivors and on the Western canals. We have far
ilef accounts offroshets at the West. In Ohio and
Michigan bridges have been carried away, and q
yssi quantity Of timber foated of on the swollen
streams. At Conneaut. on Lake Erie, a sand bar
bas formed during the late prevalence Of westerly