The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-16

which an inssructing and gratifying debate aross,
a., rom il we learned that tho fares are really de-
fined and limited BY ordinances, and the proposed
increase was almost entirely confined to those for
short distances. was adopted by vote Of thirteen
to three, the grounds being the general strike for an
increase of uneration for all capital and labor,
andthe present high rates of rent labor and the re-
quired food for men and horses. We are in favor OF
a fair remunera ion 80 all people, but really the
hackmen, who get wha. ever exorbitant price they
demand scarcely to require such parental con-
sideration from TIE city fathers.
In the Board Of Assistant Aldermen last evening,
a spitited cross FIRE in debate took place between
Assistant Alderman Hunt and Assistant Alderman
Ring, respecting the leasing Of building in Ann
street The beard adjourned to O'Clock on Non
day next.
The Special Committee of the Board Of Asss-
tants appointed to investigate the condition and de-
wise plan for the relief OF the surviving New York
Volunteers, met yesterday afternoon in the City
Library, and heard a statement from Sergeant
Peel, a member Of their body. The lacts which he
laid before the committee were of most painful
character, and we hope will urge upon the Common
Council the adoption of some measures for their re-
lief let us take of our own poor before enter
ing upon voyages benevolence to the most out Of
the way places, in which twoithfrds of the money
subscribed are lost in useless expenses. The sim
cerity of such charity may ~c be questioned, par
ticularly when there are within reach SO many OBJ
ieets on which it could be better bestowed. report
of the meeting will be found in another column.
Father Gavazz last evening delivered the last lee
ture of his course at Metropolitan Hall, on the sub
ject of Italy He reviewed the present condition Of
that unfortunate country, and contended that the
only hope Of regeneratiDg his native cline was to
overthrow papacy. resolution was proposed and
carried unanimously, calling upon the reverend
father to deliver another Of lectures in this
city, which he expressed his willingness to do, 80
soon as he had fulfilled his engagement at Baltimon
The new Jewish Synagogue Of the congregation
of "Rodoph Sholom' lately built in Clinton street.
in this city, consecrated yesterday with great
pomp and ceremony, by the Hebrew priests and eld
ers. There was thronged attendance, and the
eyes of the fair maidens of Judah beamed brilliantly
with the fervor of aGEed faith.
The walters held second meeting last evening, in
Grand street Hail, to take the necessary measures
for the formation Of benevolent and protective Sc
ciety. There were between seven and eight hun
dred present, and the proceedings were conducted
with the utmost harmony. About four hundred
dollars in the form Of initiation fees received
and favorable reports Of the progress Of their move
ment for advanced~ages were made from the pf1n-
cipa hotels in the city, and large number Of eating
houses, saloons, &C. The proceedings will be found
reported in another part of to-day's paper.
The morocco fnishers and shavers Of New York
Brooklyn, and Newark held On important trade
meeting last night. An advanced scale Of prices for
piece work, and rate of wages per week, was agreed
upon. It will begubmtted to the bosses to-day.
Landlords and tenants are referred to the proceed
ings in the Supreme Court for important decision
in the case of Hyatt vs. Barr. Judge Roosevelt, af-
ter consulting with two of his colleagues, declares
that IAN injunction cannot be granted to stay
pend proceedings under the statute for recovering
summary possession OF houses or lands"
An investigation was held yesterday, before the
police court, against three young men charged with
burglary. The evidence is very curious, and the cen
fession Of one of the accused parties shows remark
able state of affairs. The full particulars will be
found in the Police Intelligence.
Anti-sIavery literature Revival OF the Abc-
Htion Agitation--Thc Prospect for Is56-PoA-
cy OF the Administration.
The publication Of Uncle Toms Cabin has
opened o new and inexhaustible vein, for the
abolition agitators, in the realm of fiction and
the success of Mrs. Stoves romance SURPRISING
the astonishing run of Robinson Crusoe, has al
ready brought host of needy and philanthro-
pic imitators into the field. The remarkable
avidity with which the adventures of Uncle
Tom have been seized upon and devoured by
the credulous lovers of the marvellous. on both
sides of the sea has been sufficient to tempt the
cupidity of experimental novelists to enlarge
upon the horrors of Southern slavery, so that
they too. may turn an honest penny from tie
superabundance Of negro philanthropy which
has been found to exist in the world
Mrs. Fl. B. Stowe, herself from the unexpect-
ed hit of her first deliberate essay in this line
Of her literary labors, has been induced to issue
her i" Key to Uncle Toms Cabin which opens
the door and dscloses to our mortal vision such
scenes Of horror, atrocity and heartess cruelty
in Southern slavery, as are without parallel
in the most chilling atrocities OF the Romans,
the Spaniards in South America. the Turks. or
the piratical Beys of Algiers. This Key" we
may reasonably expect, will open the innermost
recesses of the domestic institutions of the South,
while all that abolition ingenuity, fanatcism,
demagoguism and malice can do to invest those
Institutions with barbarity, disgust. and dis
grace, will in due season be done, to revive
again the anti-slavery crisis of 1850.
In this view of the subject we apprehend
the people Of the South may prepare for more
ferocious systematic and desperate warfare
upon the slavery question than anything
which they have heretofore experienced from
the wrath of the abolitionists. Heretofore,
the war upon Southern slavery has been
more largely directed against its political
tendencies and influences in the legislation of
Congress than against its imaginary enormities
as social and domestic institution. But here
after, the criminal records of the South, their
statistics their newspaper reports, their neigh
borhood traditions their current stories and
rumOrG nj murupra Cutrapps and crupl-