The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-23

requests, the btate viii not be bound TO acquiesoe
in the removal Of the bridge. This controversy
being Of interest only to Pennsylvania and Virgins,
they should be allowed TO fight it out between
themselves.
James MCGOWAN was murdered in Baltimore yes
tcrday morning by his brother-in-law, Allen Akin
SON. The latter struck the other on the head while
asleep with an iron bar Baltimore appears to be
eclipsing even Philadelphia, in the number OF bru
tai deeds nova days.
Accounts of the disastrous effects of the late storm
continue to pour in from all quarters. Floods have
swept off houses barns, live stock, &C., on the banks
Of many OF the large streams in Massachusetts, Penn
pylvana, Virginia, Ohio, and two or three other
States The village of Washington, in Virginia,
was entirely swept away. The loss Of property in
New York is comparatively tritling.
One of our Washington correspondents enables us
to lay before our readers the letter Of instructions
from Secretary Webster TO Com Aulick concern
ing the expedition to Japan. This letter is highly
important, and win well repay perusal.
The National Theatre at Boston was entirely de-
stroyed by fire yesterday morning. The company
Immediately transferred their services to the Fede
raj street Theatre, and performed in the latter
house last evening" with Mrs. Sinclair at their
head
VI foreign advlceS. we ycsteTuay TeccNcu lHtcr
accounts from Baenos Ayres, Montevideo, Rio de
Jancro, Bahia, Para, Pernambuco, Guadalupe,
Martinique, st. Kits, Porto Rico, St. Lucia and
Bermuda. The intelligence from these points will
be found in another column Of this mornings
paper The French islands cvince their loyalty to
| Louis Napoleon with considerable enthusiasm.
| The news of the crops at st. Lucia is rather un-
favorable The accounts from Buenos Ayres indi-
cate peace, and the gradual organization Of the
/ provinces of In Plata q better and moro liberal
| basis. The administration Mt Washington seems to
| have entirely lost sight Of the recent important
| events in that quarter; and while England and
France have sent out joint mission to take advan-
tage circumstances, our government appears de-
termned to trust to luck in the settlement Of affairs
in that quarer-in the opening of the great rivers
of South America to the commerce Of the world.
Will Congress see to this The joint European
mission left for Buenos Ayros on the 10th inst.
The Board of Assistant Aldermen last evening nd
iourned for the session. A large number Of papers
from the other Board referred, and several con-
CURED in Among the latter, tho designations
Of Police Justices and clerks, already reported.
We elsewhere give full report of the speech Of
Kossuth, at Newark, yesterday. Notwithstanding
all his strange man1uvres, it will be observed that
our reporters have managed to follow him up pretty
closely. He will leave for Boston this morning.
1t is expected, by a few sanguinc persons, that
the Northern Light will arrive to-day, with eleven
days later news from California. One or two OK
pcecd her yesterday and lost money in consequence
of her non-arrval. The Pacific was to leave San
Francisco the LIST inst, for San Juan del Sud II
the N l.. shouldarrive the time-from city to city
would be twenty three days-two days and eighteen
hours shorter than the quickest run on record.
The Wing Caucus-Thc Whig Press-Thc
Whig Party, and the Presidency.
The sectional split in the late Congressional Wing
Caucus at Washington, has forced itself upon the
attention Of whig cetemporaries. There is a
good deal Of futtering and squirming among the
lcgitmatists, and some very decided threatening,
clustering. and bravado among the Seward organs
but they all agree that it is ugly piece Of work,
and that if it cannot be patched up, the old, demo-
rallied and widowed wing party is gone to the
dogs. The issue is upon them, and they cannot
evade it but they appear to be consolcd with the
idea that the rupture can be healed, patched up
like the rent in the Governors old breeches, at the
public expense.
Mr.. Webb, of the Courier, who since his return
from Austria has turned his attention very largely
ecclesiastical affairs and the unconsitutionality
of the Maine Liquor law, condescends to enlighten
with his views Of the late caucus, and his policy
upon the subject. In the church, he is but lay
man but in the whig party, he is bishop, (prime
cost So, 675 49, and can therefore "speak MS one
having authority 1t is difficult to make out what
he is driving at for he argues upon the rotary prn
ciple, moving in circle like horse in cider mill
but as nearly as his manifesto can be made out, he
contends: First-That the caucus had no right to
dictate the compromise to the wing National Con-
vcntion. Secondly-That Senator Mangum is q
gentleman and a scholar Thrdly-That Web
ster is the only 6rst-rate for the Pre- sidcn-
cy !; and in the fourth place, venerable
contemporary speaks out like a man, and says,
that he would rather have the wing party de-
feated, eff it can only succeed by the nomination
for the Presidency, of an individual who is not
avowedly the friend of the compromise, and of the
fraternal union between the North and South, which
flows from it." And he winds mp in the true style
Of an orthodox high churchman, with the prayer
and hope that the Wing National Convention will
plant itself upon this platform, and sustain man,
no matter when, where, or by whom nominated,
who is not aro,redly the friend Of the compromise
| measures" Such is the cream and substance Of
Mr. Webb's manifesto. The wing caucus was right
enough in rejecting the compromises; but if the
National Convention fails to do it, he is virtually
pledged to aid in the defeat Of the whg party
This is sheer nonsense Why should not the prn-
ciple apply to the caucus if no trick was intended
Why approve Of the thmble-rig at Washington,
and scout it ct Baltimore But, If Mr.. Webb ex-
poets to rulc,out Scott in the convention, by ruling
in the compromises and Mr. Webster to boot, he is
hopelessly beforged The Northern whig faction
will have Scott nothing, and thoy who are not
satisfied to take him on trust, may leave The
South may be kicked out, but Seward will not be
sacrifccd. The convention will not throw the abo-
itionists overheard to conciliate Southern slave
holders, by a recognition Of the binding obligations
of.he Fugitive Slave law. Never The only leg
Mr. Webb has left to stand upon, is to prepare him
SELF for defeating the wing party.