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MORNING NEWS. BY JOHN M. COOPER. W. T. THOMPSON, EDITOR. TERMS l DAILY PAPER $4 0<) ] TRIWEEKLY $3 00 All Now Advertisements appear in both papers. THE DEAD. BY 1IEKBY ALFORD. The dead alone aro great I While heavenl; plants abide on hearth, The soil la one of dewless dearth ; Bnt when they die, a morning shower Comes down and malms their memorios flower Whith odors sweet, the’ late. The dead alone are fair: While they are with us strange lines play Before onr eyes and chase away Coda's light; bat let them pale and die And swell the stores of memory.— There is no envy there. The dead alone are dear! While they are here, long shadows fall From onr own forma and darken all: Bnt when they leave ns, all the shado Is round onr own footsteps made, And a thoy are bright and clear, The dead alone are bleat I When tbay are here clonde mar the day, And bitter snowfalls nip thoir May ; Bnt when their tempest aime is done, Tbe light and heat of Heaven's own sun Broods on their land of rest. England in a •‘Corner'’—The Now York Minorspeculatcs that “tho present anomalous state of th s Colton market must convince every intelligent mind that Wall street will be able to eontro 1 the price of Cotton for tho next six months. The stuck of American Cotton now on hand in England is less than it has been for many years; and it is pretty satisfactorily demon strated that the crop will not exceed 2,200.000 bales. Notwithstanding the present bareness of tho foreign market, urders came out by the Canada, restricting buyers to ten and eleven conts per pound for fair Cotton, while tho arti cle is selling quick at 14 cents. Of course, those orders will ho returned unanswered;] and then there will follow such u cotton mania among tbe English manufacturers as has not been witness ed in the last twenty years. \l “We shall,therefore, look for heavy and un limited orders, both from consumers and specu lators in England, to arrive hero about the mid dle of February. And then what will be the price of Cotton? This question we will r.ot ven. ture to answer: but simply express tho opinion that oven the most sanguine speculator of Wall street has not “chalked up" the staple to a high er price than it is destined to rise between this and the vernal equinox. The groat abundance ot money on both sides of tho water, not only enables the Americans to hold Cotton, but also t enables the English to buy at any price which £ our merchants may demand. Hence we con clude that John Bull, tho greatest of all ‘cotton lords,’ is, fcrouce in his life, pretty fairly ‘corn ered.’ ” Torture in Switzerland.—A strangexircum- stance h'm, just taken place at Hcrisau, tho cap ital of Inner Aprenzell, in Switzerland, showing how much in these countries of old liberties, civilization is behindhand in some matters. > _ A young girl of 19, somo months back ns- sassinated her rival. Her lover was arrested with her, and, as she accused him of the crime, both were put to the torture. Tho girl yielded to the pain, and confessed her crime; the young man held firm in his denial; the former was condemned to death, and on the 7th of this month was decapitated with tho sword in the market-place of Hcrisau. This fact is ^itself a startling one, but the del ails are just as strange. For two hours the woman was able to struggle against four individuals charged with tho exe cution. After the first hour, tho strength of the womn was still so great that tbe men wore obliged to desist. The authorities were then consulted, but they declared that justice ought to follow its course. Tho struggle than recom menced with greater intensity, and despair seemed to have redoubled the woman’s force. At the end of another hour, she was at last bound by tho hair to a stake, ond the sword of the executioner then carried the sentence into effect. Sugar Culture in Florida.—Prior to the late Indian war, there were some twenty large sugar plantation in operation, along the Atlan tic coast South of St. Augustine. These were entirely destroyed by the Indians. They can now be purchased at almost tho prices of wild lands—from three to ten dollars per acre. Col. Marshal! the, present season, has a crop of two hundred bogheads of sugar, worked with but 25 hands, upon one of these old grown up autations (Dunlawton) upon which he has een but three years. At present prices his crop is worth ton thousand dollars, and he has been engaged the past season in erecting bis machinery for its manufacture. These’ Sugar lands are all situated upon or very near to navi gable streams, in close proximity to tho Ocean and presenting every facility for transpoting. 7%e French People are prolific in novelties, as the following scheme will show : A young girl, warranted to be well educated, well born, and virtuous; and with a dowry of 200,000 franerf $4vj000) has been offered as the prin cipal prize in a recent lottery at Paris. The prospctus’announcoa that the money, payable °nj$r marriage to the fortunate drawer, is de- S ozit'ed lind registered at a certain public of- Ce,'sphere its certification is open to those in terested. Responsible persons give warranty, for as much as can bo reasonably warrantable in a young lady’s beauty, et cetera; and, when all the tickets are sold, she will be introduced to subscribers at a bill given previous to tl.e draw ing. What seems stranger still, at a first glance, is that ladies and married men are invited, equally with bachelors, to take tickets in this remarkable lottery. The consistency of this is explainer! by the frequent examples of prizes drawn by those who have no use for them, and who part with them at a sacrifice. Jt is pro vided also, by the programme, that the young lady can refuse the match by relinquishing the whale of the dowry, if 1. 'r repugnance to tho drawer should be insuperable. Naval.—The U. 8. store-ship Erie, 16 days from Geuoa, with invalids from the United States, arrived at.Chbnltw 15th of De- •ember, and iwn* day for her deatSOMfilMS- r'r " Dreadful Carnage.—Three hundred and fifty thousand slain !—A war of extermination lias been commenced iu>ningt the Norwegian rats in the seweas of Paris. In a few days 350,- 000 wero destroyed ; and the number was ex pected to reach 600.000. Two glovers of Grenoble, who had contracted to take all the skins at the rate of 100 francs per 1,000, are becoming alarmed, as they only anticipated etting about 100,000, ^A London leather rosier contracted for some of them. Another North We.it Expedition.—Reports are rife snys a late english paper, that an ex pedition, to be promoted and set on foot by private enterprise, is to bo got up, and the di rection of it to bo given to the votern Sir John Ross, who still boasts of his capability of with standing tho rigors of an ice campaign. This expedition is to push forward through Barrow’s Straits to Wellington Sound and Melville Is land. THUR8DAY, JANUARY 24, 1850. Legislative—-Tho Bill of Mr. McDougald, taxing foreign bank agencies using banking privileges in this State, as our bank are taxed, was passed by tho Representative branch on Saturday last. Tho Report and resolutions on tho State of the Republic, upon our federal relations is the order of tho day for to-dny. The special order for Friday is tho ndvalo- rem tax measure. The Oratorio this Evening.—Wo desiro to call attention to tho advertisement of the Oratorio, to bo given this evening, in the church of St. John tho Baptist, by Mr. Guilmette, who, it will bo soon, is to be assisted by several lady and gentleman amateurs of our city, who have volunteered their aid on the occasion. The reputation which this gontlemun has al ready acquired us an accomplished and scien tific musician, and as an able director, renders it quite unnecessary for us to speuk in his com mendation os ao artist. The pieces to be per formed to-night, have been carofully selected, and the efficient amateur aid will enable IVir. G. to give them with full effect. We need only mid that tho proceeds of tho evening are to be appropriated to charitable purposes, a circum- staco which should induce a numerous attend ance. CP* The Grand Jury have found a true bill against Professor Webster, charging him with tho murder of Dr. Parkma^u In the examina tion before them several witnesses testified to having seen Dr. Parkmun after his disappear ance. I( Dr. Webster i» innocent of the death of Dr. P-, his caiwo is likely to be greatly pre judiced by tho means employed to operate on public opinion by some of his friends, who have shown more zeal than judgment or scru pulousness in their efforts to serve him. Plin- ny Merrick, Esq., has been retained as the leading counsel for the accused. Cologne Water.—We have seen a very su perior articlo of CologneWnter, equal, it is said, to the better quuliteg of tho French article, which was manufactured by Dr. Wm. Homph- reys, Jr., of this city. Those in the habit of using this delightful perfume will be able to obtain the domestic article of Dr H., ot his Drug Store on tho Bay. Georgetown College.—We mentioned in ourlast that a difficulty had occurred between the students and faculty of this college. We find in the correspondence of the Philadelphia North American an, allusion to tho affair, from which wo learn that the students have, after deliberation in council, consented to return to the institution on the following conditions: 1st—All the students to be received. 2nd— The Swiss Prefect to be discharged, and an American appointed in his place. 3rd—The past to be buried in oblivion. It is said that public opinion in Washington sustains the students, who, it seem9, from some cause or other, wero violently opposed to the Prefect of the College, who is a native o. Switzerland, and who has since left. Important Movement.—A resolution pass ed in the Maryland House of Delegates on Fri day last, authorizing the Attorney General of Maryland to test, before the Supreme Court, if necessary, the power of a Magistrate of New- York city, to discharge from custody a fugitve slave. The cose in point is that of Mr. Lee, of Frederick, who some time since arrested his runaway slave, in New-York, but he was sub sequently dischrged by a (Magistrate, and al lowed to escape. The bill also provides for paying Mr. Lee the expenses incurred in his unsuccessful effort to regain possession of the runaway Hf” The Philadelphia Bulletin learns that Mr. B. F. Brown, the late caucus nominee of tho democrats for Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, and who was reported to have quit Washington in consequence of cer tain disclosures implicating him in the recent frauds upon the government, has returned to Washington City withfsaiisfsctory evidence in his possession of his innocence of the charge brought agaist him. ry The Home Journal says that the Hun garian heroine Apallonia Jagello, resembles Tedesco so much that , they might easily be mistaken, but with less pinguidity and conse quent languor of expression. She will soon set for her portrait, to J. B. Flagg, the accom plished artist. 1ST The English papers state that the Army shortly Is to be reduced 10,000. The Royal Family in Perspective and Prospective.—It is stated in the papers that another little addition to the domestic circle of Queon Victoria is shortly expected, y/ It occurs to- us that this prolific themq'might servo Punch as a subject for illustration.— Had we the designiugof tho picture, wo would represent tho tall ami handsome Prince Albert, with his portly Queen in full costume, followed in lengthened procession by their numerous progeny, begining with the largest and stretch ing down tho line of perspective till lost in tho dim obscure of tho undefined prospective. The Prince should be complacently smoking bis meershaum, while with one hand he pointed to his line. In tho foreground wo would rep resent stalwart John Bull in the attitude of Macbeth, who, with hands thrust deop in his capacious pockets, and cyballs starting from their sockets, ns lie surveyed tho scene, should exclaim— “Why do you shew me this 1 A fourth I Start eyc»! What I will the line stretch out to the crack of doom ? Anotheryet? A seventh ! I'll see no more: And yet the eighth appears; who bears a glass Which shews me many more t" Form Honduras.—Capt. Nickerson, of tho brig September, ut Boston on tho 17th, from Honduras, reports that great excitement pre vailed ut that port, in consequence of the seiz ure of Truxilloand other ports on the cost by the British squadron. It apnears that the whole amount of debt trumped up by tho English of ficial, and for which this summary indemnity was claimed, was only about $400,000. Tho commander of II. M. S. Plumper, after securing $1,200, all tho citizens of Truxillo could raise, in part payment of the claim, set sail for Jamaica, subsequently issuing a proclamation declaring the whole coast in a state of blockade, and warning all vessels to leave. Capt. Nickerson states that tho British re mained in possession of Tiger Island on tho 30th November, and had fortified tho place. The inhabitants of Honduras implicitly re lied upon the United States for protection ngainst British eggression, and tho feeling ill favor of America amouted to enthusiasm. Even annexation was talked of, and tho utmost anxi ety was expressed lest the United States should entertain ill feeling against the State for simpa- tliising with Mexico in tho late war. Tho American Charge, Mr. Squiers, was daily expected at Truxillo, and great results were expected from his intervention. Cnpt. Nickerson brings despatches from Mr. Squiers for our government. England vs. United States.—The Illus trated London News speaks in tho strongest terms of the growth of the United States in population and prosperity, and snys that here after tho Angclo-Saxon race will rulo tho world, not from the banks of tho Thames, but from those of tho Potomac. The writer is of opinion that England will rapidly decline in power and wenltb, in the course of the next half century, and that the transatlantic Republic will as rapidly increase. A New Invention for the Propulsion of Steamboats on Canals by the application of power at the stern has been successfully test ed in Philadelphia. It is called the “single blade propeller,” and was invented by Mr. Alexan der Bond, of Philadelphia. Tho principle is that of the “scull.” Seven feet of water is sufficient entirely to submerge the propeller of a 30 ton boat, and, at tha same time, to afford ample resistance to obtain a speed of eight milos an hour, while the whole propelling sur face is contained in a single blade, thus insuring the most perfect resistance from the water with the least possible amount of surface. This comes up nearly to the alleged Harpcrsferry invention of Mr. King, which, however, unlike the Philadelphia one, has not been tested. Further Reciprocity with England.— The New York Journal of Commerce is calling for additional reciprocty in the port of Con gress to meet the act by which “vessels con- struted in this country may now be legally re gistered in Great Britain, owned by British sub jects, and by which British ship builders, may send ttieir orderis tobe executed in our ship-yards availing themselves directly of our acknowl edged skill and industry; and British capital, always seeking fresh and profitable employment, may now be invested in our carrying trade more directly than heretofore.” Great Britain does not seek a reciprocity of privileges. Her North America Colonies as sert that they can build ships of certain descrip tions, to sell profitable in the United States; and it is supposed thut some of our superior skill might be transferred to the regions of cheaper timber than our own, there to build vessels of a better class than those colonies have hitherto furnished. The competition, supposing the laws to be equalized, is more likely to be one of skill. We call upon Congress to place our merchants in a position to exhibit the full effects of their enterprise, activity, and skill. Tho Journal further says: “As we read the provisions of the British amended navigation laws, it is in the power of the Queen in Council to withdraw her proffered reciprocity from any nations that refuse to re turn it; and it should be amatter of grave con sideration with our legislators, whether they wili risk the profits and advantage now held out to our citizens, in order to support a vicious system of so-called ‘protection’ to native industry.” All that Congress will need, before moving in this matter, is satisfactory evidence that the ad vantages proposed are reciprocal. Poisoned.—Dr. Martin Gay, who died a few diiys since in Boston, stated in conversation with a friend a few days before his death that he attributed his disease to poison contracted froin handling the remains at the Medical Col lege, believed to be those of Dr. Parkman, Dr. Gay Mas of a vigorous constitution, and is first of a family of twelve children who have 'died. Canadian Affairs.—The Quebec papers state that the annexationists will be defeated in the elections now going on in Canada, to fill vacancies in the Legislature. It was rumored at Toronto on the the 17th that a difficulty had occurred between Lord Elgin and his cabinet. His lordship’s '^conditional surrender of the Governor Generalship of Canada, has been ac cepted by the home Government, and ho goes home in the spring. General Lord Saltoun is named as his successor. It is said that the lost despatches from Grout. Britain, wero ad dressed to “tbe person administering the gov ernment of Canada. Affairs in Hati.—Capt. Flowers, of the brig Reindeer, which arrived at Boston on Monday, from Cnpt. Hayticn, Dec. 25, reports as follows to tho Boston papers! “Quiet prevailed throughout lj»e island. The army of the Emperor, that marched with so much pomp to invade St. Domingo, had been ordered back, and the Emperor himself had returned to the capital. The expedition had beon put off to the spring, if not forever. The statements relative to the outrages at Aux Cayes by the black officials, upon an American captain and the American consul, aro believ ed to have been greatly exagorated in regard to the latter gentleman. Coffee was begin ning to come in more plentifully. 55P 3 Colonel Benton’s Texas Compromise Bill, proposes to pay Texas from ton to fifteen millions of dollars for the disputed territory, 130,000 square miles, more or less. More Counterfeits.—Tho Baltimore Sun mentions the appearance in that city of coun terfeit $2 bills upon the Corporation of George town. The paper is course and heavy, but the counterfeit is said to be good. Tho same pa per says that counterfeit $20 bills on the Ches- apeak Bank of thut city, altered from an orig inal genuine plate, are in circulation. Coun terfeit quarter dollars of the emission of 1840 aro also circulating freely in Baltimore. They are made of bismuth, and plated with silver so os to render detection very difficult. Charles T. Botts, who ui9 said will probably be made Attorney General of Califor nia, belonged to Richmond, Va., Hon. J. M. Botts is his brother, we believe. [Correspondence of the Morning News.] New York, Jan. 17, 1850. The trial of tho Astor Place rioters still engrosses the attention of tho community to a great extent. Rynders, Miner, O’Donnell, Johnny Austin, and Walker, were included in the same trial, but yesterday the two latter wero discharged as the evidence did no affect them. John Van Buren, the prisoners coun sel, will try hard to get them clour, but I doubt if he will succeed, Rynders particularly, who ft has been proved procured the printing of the iiifinmatory bills that wo e posted about the city on the day of the riot, and by his own ad missions borrowed money to purchase tickets, and sent a gang to the theatre to create the disturbance. Nothing has yet transpired to implicate Forest, who is strongly suspected, but whatever he did, was done through an agent, and if money was given by him, it can not be shown that he knew for what purpose it was intended. That Rynders got money from that quarter is, however, more than suspeccted, and when Forest was applied to to use his in fluence to prevent the disgraceful scene at the A.stor place, ho refused to interfere. By the bye, it is generally understood that he is now crazy, and I should not be surprised if he be comes tho inmate of a madhouse. He is so changed in appearanco that he it is difficult to recognize him. He has cultivated a mustache, and his face is thin and pale, and he dresses very slovenly. I saw him a few days since, walking through the streets with a large clothes basket in his hand, seemingly quite unconcerned. Mr. Wetmore’s case will soon become the subject of legal investigation, as a suit has been commenced ngainst him in the U. States Circuit Court. They have odd ways of getting a living in this city. A fellow named Paul Wood was ar rested, who has been for sometime living on the fears of his victims. He used to watch houses of assignation, and follow parties home, and then threaten to expose them unless hip demands were complied with. Of course he always succeeded, and once in his power he never gave them up so long as r.hey had a dol lar to give him. Should he expose these par ties now, what a fluttering there would he, even in upper-ten-dom, for there aro fair, frail sinners in that class. A very nice point was decided in the Court of Sessions a few days since, in a trial for ob taining goods under false pretences. Two dashing females would purchase goods and order them to be sent home, and then by some excuse get the person to leave them, when of course, they had to whistle for their money.— But it seems they did not come within tho law, as the parties did not obtain credit on false pretences, so they were discharged ? The beauty and style of the ladies of course did not influence either the Court or tho jury. It is stated that at a party given by one of our aristocratic families a few nights sinee, the refreshments cost $2,000 and that $1,000 were paid for japonicas ! We must not prate about the poverty and misery of New York after that. I’ll bet that that party never gave a dollar in charity. While on the subject, I may as well state that two new features have been intro duced into gay and fashiouable society this winter—soirees are given, from which chilJren are excluded, and soirees de danse, to which none are invited but those who dance ! Tho promised disclosures in tho conspiracy case have not yet transpired. Wo have plen ty of rumors, but no reliable facts. Bennet and the others are still in prison, and bail has beon refused. A melancholy occurrence took place last night, in the bar room of Constitution Hall, Broadway. Some young fellows had been drinking, and became a little excited, when a rustling match was proposed, and a general scufllo ensued, in which one named Rogers was thrown down witli so much violonco as to rupture a blood vessel of the brain. IIo at tempted to stab ono of the company, but was arrested a-d lockod up in a cell, whore he was found next morning dead ! Liquor drinking is a very general source of amusement in this community—wo have 4,524 drinking shop in this city, and of these 760’ are unlicensed, and 2,920 uro open on Sundays, in violation of the ordinance, which the au thorities have tried in vain to enforce. A strong effort is being mode by our citizens- to accomplish a reform, in tho matter of light ing the city. There is at present a gas mo nopoly, which, I think, will ultimately be put down. It is proposed to establish a “Light Department” by the city government, so that; we inuy bo supplied with light in tire snmo manner as the Croton water is furnished, which would he a decidedly more satisfactory and economical plan. CHARLEY MAC. Saturday, Jan. 10. The Astor Place rioters aro still on trial, but I expect the vordict will be rendered to-day. The prisoners have all been acquitted during the trial but Rynders and O’Donnell—the form er was actively engaged in the theatre on the Monday night when the assafoctida and chairs were thrown on tho stage; and tho other pro cured tho printing and pasting of the inflam matory bills on the morning of the 10th May. Mr. John Van Buren summed up the case for the defence, and Mr. Jas. R. Whiting for tho prosecution ; mid this morning, about 11 o’clock, the caso was given to the Jury, after a very clear and impartial charge by the Court. Tho Jury are still out, but I shall keep my let ter open, until the latest moment, for the re sult. Yours, CHARLEY MAC. P- S.—The Jury found a verdict of “not guilty” against both prisoners, to tho surprise and regret of all order loving citizens. Rome—Tho Statuto of Florence has the following letter from Romo of the 17th ;— “We are expecting a change of policy on tho part of the government. It seems that even tho most obstinate are yielding to the dictates of common sense. We learn from Portici, that tho Pope has sent for Cardinal Lnmbrus- chini, and offered him the supreme direction of the State. The Cardinal is reported to have answered, that he had beon minister under Gregory XVI., and that he was opposed to a constitution, but that he was obliged to’confeSs that now it was impossible to refuse it. Dublin, Dec. 27.— The Roman Catholic Primacy.—The Freeman’s Journal states, on the authority of alienor received from Rome, dated tho 14th infat., that the Very Rev. Dr. Cullen, President of the Irish College in tho Holy City, has been appointed successor to tho late Archbishop Crolly, in tho Roman Catholic Primary of Ireland. Archduke John, Vicar of the Empire, resign ed, on tho 20th inst. the Government of Cen tral Germany, to the Plenipotentiaries of Prus sia and Austria. 83^’ The excessive transportation of Rritish convicts into Van Dieman’s Land, is *sirid to have frightened away fifteen thousand free people. The Philadelphia North American from certain data which it exhibits, estimates the present population of the Quaker city at 470,000 souls, of which 40,000 are free persons of color. Horticulture^—R. C. Winthtrop, speaking of the achievements of this “fine art of common life,” says, “It decorates the dwelling of the humblest laborer with undoubted originals, by the oldest masters, and places within his daily view fruit-pieces such as Van Iluysen never painted, and landscapes such as Poussin could only copy/* The Panama Railroad Contractor has arrived at Gorgona,and is making his arrangements for prose cuting his work. Mr. John Lloyd St- phens, the Vico President of the company, received a hearty weloomo from the ex-President of the Repnble, Gen, Mosquera , who >8 said to be devoting all his energies, as a private citizen, to the enterprise. So this great work is now in progress. rW 9 Leopold de Meyer, who created such furore in this country, is said to he completely disabled; no longer able to play the piano, he is now leader of a small provincial military band in Italy. The late Commissary General, Sir Gabriel Wood,hn8 bequeathed the munificent sum of £70,000 for the erection and endowment of a hospital at Green ock, for shipwrecked and distressed mariners. The Bank of Washington, D. C., has made a donation of $100 to the Washington National Monu ment Society . A Transport Ship arrived at Bermuda about the 1st inst ., with some three hundred male convicts,mak ing now about one thusand seven hundred prisoners on the island. The Rochdale Saviegs Bank swindle is under in vestigation, in England. About £70,000 are missing, and are supposed to have beon sent to American and secreted. The births in London for the week ending De cember 15, were 1,309, the deaths 1,002. t Perfumed pocket almanacs are now carried by the Parisian ladies. 1-”^° Snuff has been smuggled into England in the shape of oil cake. Th® Catholics in England now have 627 chap els, 880priests,13 monasteries, 41 coavents, 11 colleges* and 250 schools. tdP Kreosote is said to be an effectual cure for burns. V-&* Anotherediton of the poems of W. C. Bryant, has been published in England. One-fourth of tho revenue in Great Britain, is derived from taxas on drink and drinking. Proctically, one-quarter of the French phyji w cians are only homoepathists. The population of Belgium is 4,337,196. Every acre maintains three men., Jiy It is rnmored that Jenny Lind is eoraing to this country with Mr. Balfe* i-jp In all condensing steam engines, it is said the phenomenon of freezing is occasionally observed.