The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-07


Three steamers are fsly due with later safte
gence from Europe, viz the Alps, at Boston, with
news to the 18th ult.; the Atlantic, at this port
with dates to the 22d, aadthe,Asa, at Halifax with
advices to the 25th. One Of the latter vessels will
most likely bring the answer of the Gar to the let
ter written him by Louis Napoleon. The ominous
aspect of affairs at last accounts causes additional
information to be looked for with great anxiety.
The cause of the nonarrival of the steamship
Black Warrior, from Mobile via Havana is accounted
for in despatch from Charleston. 1t appears that
The B. W. has been seized at Havana for an allcgel
violation of the Spanish revenue laws, having
quantity of cotton on board included in the mani
fest. The American schooner John 5. Cuttings
bound for New Orleans, had also been seized We
have referred to this affair in an editorial article.
The advces from Havana are to the LIST instant
brt with the exception of the announcement of ahe
f,rmation Of a body of eight hundred civil guards,
there was nothing new.
The news from Washington to-day will be read
with great interest by all who have been watching
the progress of events in that city. The House of
Representatives adopted a resolution yesterday,
authorizing the Judiciary Committee to send for
persons and papers, in order that they may inquire
into the propriety of directing the commencement
have received money paid out Of the Treasury on
the Gardner claim The trial of John Charles Gard
ner will be commenced next week. The District
Attorney and Mr.. Fendall have been appointed to
administer upon his brothers estate.
The Free Farm bill was debated and slightly
amended in Committee OF the Whole, and after
wards passed the House by one hundred and seven
yeas to seventytwo nays-sope tifty-eighS members
NJ h;a
all free white citizens who are the heads Of families.
or are over twenty-one years Of age, one hundred
and sixty acres of wild land, upon condition that
the recipient shall reside upon and cultivate said
land for period of five years. 1t is little strange
that in the course of their generous philanthropy
some Of the Buncombe members did not propose to
clear, fence, break up, erect buildings upon, and
stock these farms, in order to give the landlord
O fair start with his neighbors who have
paid for their ground and other property. How
ever, it is not by any means certain that this bill
viii succeed in the Senate it being, with the excep-
tion Of the clause ruling out the negroes, very SINH
lar to measure killed by that body at the previous
session. The majority of Senator's, notwithstand-
their tremendous grants to railroad Spectators are
believed to have more nice appreciation of the
proprietyscf doing justice to all the States and look
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Germ belonging to the whole people, and not to a
portion theleof who may desire to obtain property
without duly paying for their share. Two measures
proposing to surersede this wholesale gift arrange
ment, arc now pending in The senate--one intro
duced by Mr.. Jones, of Tennessee, and the other by
Mr.. Walker, tbs chief of the land reformer party
Let us await the action of the Senate thereon
The House will spend the next thrse days in dis
m ~ Na1~a
question will not come mp Tor consideration this
week. The Senate was not in session yesterday.
A despatch from Washington states that there Il
little hope for the confirmation Of the Gadsden trea
ty by the Senate nslead Of bencdtting the propo
siton, tis, Presidents amendments, it is thought,
add TO It's cumerts. So Ita Anna places entirely too
high estimate upon his barren lands and wild In
dians partiGlarly wheD5here is some prospect that
we shall eveusually get bob at traing cost through
the mediation tf Col. Wake and his filibusters.
Thomas Devir Reilly, onscf the exied Luish pa
triots, died in Washington, Of apoplexy, on Sunday
evening.
Rogues appear t. be quite as abundant in Wash.
ington, compared with the num5s Of inhabitants,
as In this city. On Sunday night they set fire to
the house Mr.. Concornn, the banker, and also de-
stroyed the beautiful block of marble Aent by the
Pope OF Rome for the Washington monum ent.
The members OF our State Legislature are begin
ing 10 hurry along the work quite rapidly. The
Senate was engaged most Of yesterday ir dis
cussing the prohibitory liquor bill in CT IN
mittee of the Whole At the close OF tn
lebate, the bill was reported 70 the Senate. ),
when II was arranged, in order to admit Of i
urther amendments, that the report should not be
agreed to at present. This viii give the members
N opportunity 70 waste much more time on the
bill, aud thus, if possible, defeat IL by rfcfnstina
on The Assembly transacted an unusually large