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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-25

The PoLTIcAL TRMMERs or THE DAY.
We have now before the nation three
great political trimmers, to wit: Governor
Walker, of Kansas; Governor Wise. of Viz
GINA, and Senator Douglas, of Illinois. We
find them on the Kansas question trimming
lodging and turning half way between the ad-
ministration and half way between the opposi-
ton. Governor Walker takes the pains to 90
beyond his instructions, and assumes TO act in
q legislative capacity, in order TO tickle the
anti-slavery sentiment at the North. Governor
Wise goes further, and uses his official position
as medium through which he assumes to speak
for the State Of Virginia. Senator Douglas
deserts the cause for which he has already suf-
fered political msrtyrdom and attempts to
make little political capital by the meanest
trimming and coquetting with the black repub-
licans.
If these gentlemen examine the records they
will find that no trimming, vaciliating, waver
ing politician ever achieved success. The
wing party in England was nesty of trim
mers. Where is il now? The party of the same
name in the United States was broken down by
~ -
and its leaders asoertained, too late, that the
political trimmer is despised alike by the party
which he deserts and the organization to which
he lends feeble and uncertain assistance.
From Halifax down TO Douglas there has never
been a trimmer who aided in the least degree
either the party which he pretended to support,
OF who ever gained any lasting benefit for himself.
n "a lc,I Cor . Ar ~
cupicd by these trimmers while the last Presi-
Dental contest was going on. Governor Wise
solemnly declared that if the opposition candi-
date, Colonel Fremont, was elected and ever
attempted TO take his seat, the Old Dominion
would rise in rebelion--its valiant mi.
litia, with Keitt, of South Carolina. would
march TO the capital and overthrow the
federal government. According to Wise. the
opposition candidate was "a traitor 20 his conn.
try, and those who supported him were equally
guilty. Governor Walker and Senator Douglas
held and promulgated the same opinions Mr.
Douglas sent his friends TO Cincinnati TO claim
for him the Presidential nomination from the
South, the Senator from Illinois claiming TO be
the iirmcst advocate Of the border ruliaps Mr.
Douglas received the Southern votes simply
upon that ground. but was beaten by Mr.. Blu.
chanan because he united the vote of The dele.
gates from the whole Union.
The election over, and Mr.. Buchanan quietly
seated in the Presidential chair, Governor
Walker IL sent TO Kansas to make peace. In
stead of that he trims between both parties
bidding for The next Presidency Political
snslls 10 the Territory became bopelessly in
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PUBLIC OPINION IN THE RURAL DrsTRrCrs-
THE ROBERTSON CONSPIRACY Case" Compare.
sons are odoriferous," as Mrs. Malaprop says;
but as our country contemporaries are fond Of
indulging in them, we are once in a while in
duced TO follow their example People whose
business takes them into the rural districts.
where the petriarchal virtues are supposed to
flourish, and where church going three times a
day il considered an essential condition of ones
worldly respectability, must have been shocked
at the view which is there taken Of New York
morals. According TO the shining lights of the
pulpit and press In those favored parts, our
city is Gomorrah and its inhabitants 1T sub
jects for the Divine vengeance. A New Yorker
thrown into such society cannot help feeling
like a reprobate excluded from all chances of
salvation, and be usually returns home with
considerably diminished sense of his metropoli.
tan superiority. If he be craven. hearted.
he takes TO Dr. Chccver's and the
missionary societies: II on the contrary, be
lacks the seeds of repentance, he cndeavors to
recover bis equanimity and the tone of his sto-
mach on sherry and bitters. interpreted by oc-
casional visits to a theatre or gambling saloon
New York, We candidly admit is a very i'm
moral place, and is people, ID general, harden
Cd sinners; but there is one thing to be said in
their favor: They arc consistent in their wick.
odness. ard do not add to their moral offences
that Of hypocrisy. In world made up of SO
many contradictions this sbould count for some
thing, and We are unwilling 10 lose the benefit
of The smallest saving virtue that we pos
-oes Aud &C., when out rural contemporaries
draw eVEparnOns unfavoraDie " Jul moral
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they will be developed when her
commercial science and mechanical skill shall
have the avenues Of industry opened to them
in the East, are to be deferred until men of
less exclusive policy than Palmerston are at the
helm.
One might have supposed that the brilliant
contrast which is afforded by the disgrace of
England's arms under her aristocratic leaders
in the Crimea, and the glory that has accrued
to them under her yeoman chiefs in India
would have given her statesmen some hint Of
the new policy in civil affairs that should be
inaugurated there. But such it seems is not the
case. Abuses are to be preserved because they
have grown hoary with time, and reforms are
not to be inaugurated because they are not of
piece with the errors Of old. Palmerston's
India bill, so far as we are informed of it's pro-
visions by the late advices, is nothing more
than the same old mule with new halter. The
appointments for India are merely to be taken
out of the hands of selfish set of directors and
vested in peer of the realm.
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DEPARTMENT or STATE,
RrOOkiyp CITY News.

CAr1rE or BCRGGAR.-An attempt made about
one O'Clock on Saturday night TO the lace and EN-
brodery store Of Beour Muller, the OF Fu
ton and Clinton streets. Mr. Belfour detected man
opening third story window and Immediately cried
out for the police Sergeant Smith and officer Lewis
Brokaw, OF the First precinct police, bsng IN inc
top of the arbor tho OF the house Ocer Brokaw
reached the place whore the fellow was and taking
him through the window, brought him down into the
trect Sergeant Smith went round ia front TO prevent
others if any there were from escaping The name of
tho man arrested s John Mason When taken 10 the sta
ION bouse Young man named Patrick OShea came in IN
uaure after him, and being identified as having been In
Masons company the night previous he also taken
into custody on srspicon and both were locked up %
answer
Srtcpr ny TAXING ARsEaIc-Coroner Smell held an in
quest saturday upon the body Of John W. Thackersy
at 30. So OrnrFe street, who sed abou, two O'Clock on
that day from the effects Of arsenic and laudanu Is
left his home about four O'Clock the afternoon previous
aud procuring some arscnc at drug Court street,
near Dean and vial Of auanum another place. pro-
cecdCd 10 new building IN 10 Kab avenue aud swaf-
lowed both fearing as he said Afterwards that one would
not have the effect he desired. On returning home he
told his wife, who Immediately sent for two physicians
They applied remedies, but without producing any effect,
aud he fingered until the afternoon OF the next dsy when
he expired. " aPpears that three years since bs
sustained an injury about the head which has at times
since MAJ the effect Of making him Tightly in Imagination
There Is no doubt that he aborpg under one OF those
hs when ne committed the deed The verdict of the Jury
was that be died from the effects Of arsenic administered
by his hand
BROoSl'N CRY MORTALITY The total number OF deaths
W ITook'yn lat week was no. NJ which, 81 rere tn,ss
men, and Is sirls
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of the proceedings and carried the case to the Court
of Appeals at Albany, where, upon q hearing of the
points raised and the exceptions taken by counsel,
the verdict of the Court below was reversed and
new trial granted. This is certainly an extra
ordinary one, and presented difficulties that required
great perseverance and ingenuity to overcome;
counsel had to contend against weighty tide Of
crcumstsntal evidence and the great force of popu
lar prejudice The prisoner has already had two
lengthy trials; on the first the jury failed to agree
but on the second trial he was found guilty II was
upon exceptions taken at the last trial that the
Court OF Appeals pass and we shall witness, what is
happily very rare occurrence here, man being
tried third time on capital charge. The opinion
of the Court of Appeals is important as affecting the
qualification of jurors and the weight to be given
to the previous good character of an accused party
The Police Commissioners on Saturday did nothing
in public session but dispose of few charges against
policemen. What took place in secret session was
not disclosed. 1t is rumored, though with what
foundation cannot state, that the Board will not
press their Recommendation to the Legislature to
enact law preventing discharges from station
houses between sunset and sunrise.
John McDade. of 81 James street, was yesterday
committed to prison to await the result Of nves-
tigation into the causes which led to the fire on his
premises on Saturday night last, full account of
which will be found elsewhere.
The value of foreign goods entered at the port of
Boston for the week ending the 22d instant was
500 POI, showing an increase over the same week
in 1857 of 1929. The principal mportations
were dry goods sugar and molasses iron and steel,
groceries and linseed.
The annexed table shows the temperature of
the atmosphere in this city during the past week.
the range of the barometer, the variation of wind
currents, and the state of the weather, at three
periods during each day, viz: at A. NJ, and and
o O'clock p M -
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-25
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Sat. 6 % asl 4sl 29 eS 49 W. l3Olll44N W i3SO 60
sun. III 80 80 90 W SO3 20 N W $50 S9la2N W IS
Mon ls 80 44l3ll W. $50 4435 n W $50 49iSiN W iSVi
Tues l9 1851 W. SO 81 GIN W l3O Balm w I3OI
Wed. 20 80 5lj 1851 n 3O.5il37i N. i306l32 n l3O|
Thur 2l 80 70l3Sl S W. 30 SS42 ". l3O63l36 W l32l
FRI. 22 50 SO 34i NE. M IS 3lI NE l309SIa NE l2Dl
Sat. !23I3 Isl 90 "a NE |


Saurday-Morning fog and heavy rain afternoon clear
sunday-Mornirg, cloudy; afternoon, clear and cool;
night, clear.
Monday-overcast all cay.
Tuesday-Morning CLOUDY afternoon, cloudy, with very
light snow.
wednesday-Mornng, cloudy; afternoon clear and
pleasant
Thursday-Cear and pleasant all day; night, bright
moonlight
Fridsy-Morning, clear afternoon and night clear
cold
Saturday-Mornng, clear and cold.
The cotton market less buoyant Saturday, while
the sales embraced about 600 bales closing about &c
decline and brokers quoted the depression equal
about from the in the fore part of the
week Not much change be expected In the present
aspect Of the market until further received from
Europe The giving way In prices, at the South, has
tended To weaken the market bore The flour market was
inactive and prices less buoyant, while they
closed without quotable change The sales were mode
rate Wheat was firm for prime lots, which scarce
smAh sae Of choice North Carolina white re-
ported at 81 40. Corn less active with sses of
yellow and white at CSC. SIC. CSC. Prime dry
white held at zoe. There was q speculative move
ment in pork, and including sales yesterday and the pre-
vious afternoon they amounted 10 about 800 bbls in
GLIDING purchases for export to Calorns closing
con, Cumberland cut were sold about 71ic. Lard
hrmer. Sales of sugars limited 10 200 BOO hhds
New Orleans, and sales Of 800 bags were made from
Hong Kong the latter at SC. a6ac. Freight engage
ments were moderate. - Liverpool about 5000 bbls
-four taken at 2s when, 6,4d. in bulk
Rates for other goods were unchanged.
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CORPORATION FRAUDs-THE LIGHT BREAKING
IN UPoN Us.-When the committee of the Com
mon Council appointed some time since to in.
vestigate the frauds Of eight millions alleged to
have been committed in the city expenditure,
made their report, doubt was thrown not only
on the correctness of their conclusions, but also
on the motives by which they were actuated. 1t
will be recollected that the late Board of Alder
men, influenced by these or other considerations
less disinterested, refused an additional appro-
priation to enable the committee to pursue their
inquiries. Thus all further action in this i'm
portant matter appeared to be quashcd.
The facts brought TO light by the evidence of
Mr.. Flagg, in his examination before the com.
mittee appointed to investigate the frauds
charged TO have been committed in the Comp
troller's department, show that the statements
made in the report of the first committee had a
substantial foundation. Under the very nose
of the Comptroller, the officer charged TO check
and overhaul the Corporation accounts.
IL appears that clerk was enabled to
commit deialcaions to the extent, il is asserted,
of upwards of t@o hundred thousand dollars.
The Comptroller's books were kept by this per-
son, and there is no knowing as yet TO
what extent they will afford proofs of his
operations They are in process Of being ex-
amned, and when the committee meet again
next Friday il is expected that we shall have
some fresh facts of the same agreeable character
to add to the mass Of evidence that is daily
accommodating against the present system Of cor
porate administration.
IL is certain that if frauds Of such extent can
be perpetrated with IMMUNITY in the Comptrol-
ler's office, there must be similar pickings and
stealings going on in all the other departments.
Where there is no efficient system of account
ability such things will always happen and it
is not 10 he supposed that where the depart.
ments are independent of sch other and subject
to no one responsible head there can be much
canton or scrupulousnc-s on the part of
individuals as to the manner in which they help
themselves. We believe tina, II the whole of
the city expenditure for the last dozen years
could b. ovorhauled, the statements of the
original committee would be found to fall short
of the facts.
The appointment Of a standing committee on
frauds will not help us in this matter. That
committee has none Of the elements Of an i'm
partial or vigilant body, and its only purpose
is we believe, to defeat any attempt at . more
searching inquiry.
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reputation, tits not surprising that we should
occasionally be induced to remind them of their
own backslidings, and to ask them, in all
humility, if we possess no quality that is de-
serving their imitation.
For example: Although crime and depravity
may occasionally flourish amongst us. it must,
we think, be conceded that the public opinion
of New York rarely or never sides actively with
criminals or with persons subjected to criminal
accusations. When our clergy are charged
with debauching other mems wives, we do not
throng the church of the delinquent to express
our sympathy with his outraged feelings at be-
ing made amenable to the law for so vulgar an
offence. Neither are we in the habit of in
vading the sanctity of q judicial decision by Of
fering at once to the accuser and to the accused
the tribute of public demonstration. The ac-
count published in our colsms to-day of the
serenades given to Mr.. Robertson and DR.. Bieg-
ler after the conclusion of the trial of the for
mer at Rochester, presents singular example
of these inconsistencies, and offers a new,
and, to us, incomprehensible phase of the condi-
ton of the public morals in the country districts.
1t seems as if the Rochester people, taking the
lead in revolution of all the old and orthodox
ideas, were determined not only to transcend
New York in the refinements of wickedness, but
to set the example of whole community re-
joicing in sin. To this point, thank Heaven,
we Gothamites have not as yet arrived; and our
country contemporaries are at liberty to abuse
us as much as they please, 30 long as they do
not lay to our charge an active public sentiment
of so startling character.
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DEATHS OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONs.-Our
columns to-day present an unusual number of
obituaries-all of them of persons who have left
the impress of their talents upon the age.
Amongst them the diplomatic and military pro-
LESSONS and the tragic art have each repre-
sentative. 1t is seldom that it falls to the lot
of the journalist to record in single page the
deaths of SO many eminent persons, all of whom
are destined to cut prominent figure in histo-
ry. First amongst them, for the recent glory
which attaches to his exploits, we have to men,
ton that of the gallant Sir Henry Havelock,
the saviour of the British empire in India, and
next, by singular coincidence, that Of Marshal
Radetsky, the saviour of the Austrian empire in
Italy. No military leader ever achieved SO
much in so short time as Sir Henry Havelock
and certainly no man ever did more for
the honor and glory of the British
arms His reputation has been acquired
without the stain of single weak
ness or cruelty-his being one of those
evenly balanced minds which seems never to
have been carried away by excess of zeal Not
SO his military compeer Radetsky. Although
he rendered important services to his sovereign,
he was betrayed by his devotion to him into the
commission of barbarites which must ever de-
tract from his reputation as gallant soldier.
The death of Redschid Pacha, one of the
ablest and most enlightened men in Turkey and
who was instrumental in carrying through the
reforms originated in the reign of the late Sultan
Mahmoud, and confirmed and extended by the
Haiti Sheriff of Gulhane, will create general
regret. The Christian population of that empire,
and the cause of religious liberation in general,
loses in him sincere and active friend.
In the long expected demise of Rachel, the
greatest Of living tragedians, the arts lose
genius that we may never hope to behold again.
To her speciality of gifts may be applied the
well known observation of Lord Dudley:-"She
has rendered past glory doubtful and future
glory impossible
Whilst most of these great minds and bril-
liant talents lived long enough to enjoy the
rewards to which their merits and the gratitude
of their compatriots entitled them, it is painful
to reflect that poor Havelock was cut off just
as the fruits of a long and painful career were
placed within his grasp. 1t is to be hoped that
the niggardly spirit in which these honors were
dealt out to the dead hero by his sovereign will
relax into more generous appreciation of his
services by the bestowal Of a peerage upon his
son.
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Remarks.


Captain Merritt OF the schooner Tallahassee from ssaI
the oh Instant informs the New Orleans True Delta that
the port OF Ssa under blockade and hs arrival
of the barber they would allow him 10 enter nj first,
but on his insisting 10 10 he permitted 10 pass
ON the Cd instant Spanish of brig arrived Oh
the harbor when the fleet made sail and her,
firing shots her bow for her heave TO- She did
not notice them, but Immediately set her ensign and
when The beet saw they back 10 The hsrbor. sbs
remained OF the barbor until the 9th when she lef
change OF COVER nnfen had taken place Yucalan,
and ID. Martin Tranaser had been elected Governor.
Peace negotiations were progressing and hopes
entertained that the revolution would be at end in
fortnight
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Fire In Waterbury.

WATERBURY, Jan. "a, 1858.
fire broke out last night in the Brakesee Building In
this city, destroying property 10 the amount OF about
$4,000. The loss fully covered by insurance in Hart
ford
The Methodist church. adjoining caught dre and atone
time was in imminent danger but the ere subdued.
The church was considerably damaged by water The
fire is supposed to be the work of an incendisry.
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The Amin Bey Fraud.

From the Albany Journal, Jan. q
Under this title story has been going the rounds 10
the effect that the Turkish Envoy, ANN Bey who re
ceved much attention from Mr. Webster and other officers
of the government at Washington, In 1851, was an ion
poster, and not accredited representative geatle
in this city, formerly connected with the American
legation at Constannople has furnished Us with an Ell
irac, Of letter from the Secretary Of State which effect
ually dsposes Of the story
DEPARTMENT STATE,
WASHINGTON, Jan. is, 1858.
SRin answer to that portion Of your letter Of the 9Th
instant, which relates 10 the mission OF Amin Bey 10
United states as the authorized agent OF the Turkish
government have 10 say that the correspondence Of
American Legation at Constantnope sufficiently deter
mines the character OF that Official, which, indeed, has
never for moment been doubted by the department he
was received by government in his official cspacity,
honored as guest during long sojourn passed in visit
ing various portions OF the country, and his return
nome letter was transmitted from his Highness Rcd
schid Pasha, the Grand vzer expressing the Sutan's
grathcaon at the friendly which his agent had
been received by the government Of the United states.
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan - the Grand vizer,
sees IN the brilliant, reception which has been given 70
Amin Bey, anew proof Of the friendship OF the American
governmen, for the Sublime Porte and he has directed
me to express the great pleasure II has given him.
LEWIS CASS.
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TIKI GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH.
Arrest OF CoSlnterfeiters.

WEsr1sID Mass, Jan. "a, 1855
Two men, named Chaplin and Watkins were arrested
here yesterday by United States Marshal Warren for
counterfeng United States CON- He found Of the
bogus coin on Watkins, and galvanc battery and sone
competition metal at Chapins house The wives OF Cha
pin and Watkins were arrested Worcester Friday,
for passing the coin made The two were committed
to Springfield jail 70 await examination
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Capture OF q Murderer.

ALBANY, Jan. "a, 1853.
We learn from the Franklin, VT, Tisor, that Stroud,
who murdered his wife and two children in westfeid,
Mass few weeks ago, was IL believed arrested
brought. into Roxbury Delaware county w. on Saturday