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Resolved, That we will unite, hand in hand, with all German-Americans in the revolutionary union of Europe for the advancement of the real progressive policy in America and Europe, and that we desire the Committee of Arrangements of this meeting to frame statutes for the said end, and to do every thing necessary for the promotion of the said revolutionary union.

"Resolved, That we confidently hope that all nations of Europe struggling for liberty, as well as their leaders, according to the principles of solidarity, will consider their end a common one, without interfering with the independence of each nation, and that they rest united in the days of peace and war.

"Resolved, That we express our thanks and sympathy to Governor Kossuth, and to the German agitators, for their noble efforts; that we promise them results, and that the Germans of New-York () and environs will continue to work for the great end of a universal liberation of nations."

Can the men who passed these resolutions be regarded as American citizens?

"Take her up tenderly, lift her with care;
Fashioned so slenderly, moulded so fair."

THE WAY MEN BUILD MARBLE PALACES.The Mariners' Family Industrial Society have just issued a report of the condition of their affairs, from which we have barely room to make a brief extract. In those few words, however, there is a whole volume of sermons. Read, reflect, and, if you can, be patient:

"The Store Committee report that they were able to furnish employment continually to 124 women, who made 9,425 articles. Among the articles manufactured were four thousand and seventy-seven sheets made for Messrs. A. T. Stewart & Co., at one cent each, the Society finding the thread, and consequently, it is said, sustaining pecuniary loss."

Is it thus that the blood and flesh of the wives, widows, and children of "poor Jack" are coined into gold, and will the ladies of our land encourage the heartless cruelty? One cent for making a sheet! The time employed to make a seamed sheet is about three hours. Give ten hours to the day's work, and a woman can make in one week twenty sheets, yielding twenty cents for a week's labor. But let us suppose these sheets are not seamed, but merely hemmed: the time necessary to hem each sheet is about one hour, by which an industrious woman by close application can make ten cents a day, or sixty cents a week. No woman can live ke a human creature on such a sum; if she chance to have two or three helpless children dependent upon her, so much the worse; and the result of such a system of heartless exaction must be pau

perism, theft, prostitution, starvation, or suicide! The picture is awful, and should be contrasted in the public mind with the gorgeous palaces of those who by such means grind the faces and paralyze the souls of the widow and the fatherless.

LIBERTY.-The Political Church having expressed her views on this subject, it may not prove uninteresting to learn their more recent ideas of liberty. The Rambler, a Roman Catholic paper, says:

"Religious liberty, in the sense of a liberty possessed by every man to choose his own religion, is one of the most wicked delusions ever foisted upon this age by the father of all deceit. The very name of liberty, except in the sense of a permission to do certain definite acts, ought to be banished from the domain of religion. It is neither

more nor less than falsehood. No man has a right to choose his religion. None but an atheist can uphold the principles of religious liberty."

The pith of the matter is, that political priests must choose our religion for us; that is to say, if we choose to let them. The Freeman's (?) Journal willingly endorses the extract from the Rambler, and then remarks:

"Civil liberty don't mean you may do as you please; the laws by which we are governed intimate that much. Civil liberty then has its limits. Religious liberty has its limits also. There never was and there never will be religious liberty in the world, as it is understood by 'the noodles,' and the Catholic Church never taught it, and certainly never will recommend it to her children."

"Noodles" is a term of endearment awarded by the "blind leaders of the blind" to all who see sights in the distance as well as close by. The Church defines the liberty we enjoy in this happy land to be mere license, libertinism, and asserts that she will never teach or recommend it, and, on the other hand, that true liberty must be found in a blind submission to her will. Americans, Republicans, will choose for themselves, and take care that the Roman despotic material is not forced upon them.

SCOTT AND THE BULLS.-So eager is the Daily Times to pay homage to the foreigners and their leader, Scott, that, forgetting the proper use of the English language, they commit, in an Irish sense, "Bulls." The paper remarks of Scott, that

"He has led to battle, in defense of American rights, soldiers from every nation, enlisted under the American flag, and has seen them vieing with

each other in the noble strife as to which should serve their country best."

"Their country,"

Let Americans reflect. the country of "soldiers from every nation, enlisted under the American flag," where is it? Has America lost her birthright among nations, her title to the land of her fathers? Do these United States belong to all the world and the rest of mankind? Has it come to that already, that even enlistment as a soldier under pay gives birthright? Can we endorse the nomination of the chieftain who, together with his aids, declares such a stepping-stone to despotism? No, no. Say so in November.

Speaking of the General, the Times remarks further that,

"Side by side, he has led the Irish, the German, and the native American. He has borne full, prompt, and cordial testimony to their equal courage and patriotism, and has branded with the most emphatic reprobation every attempt to claim superior courage or greater fidelity to the cause of their common country for any one over any other class. He knew them all, and knew them only as AMERICANS."

Now, if General Scott had known these foreigners "only as Americans," it would have been well for him to have called them by no other title, and not to have borne testimony to their love of country, when the "patriotism" they displayed was in doing battle for the wages of war as mercenaries— the pay of a foreign land. Were they citizens by adoption, having forsworn the land of their birth, it was but poor evidence of their "love of [this] country" if they could not forswear the Irish and German name also. Out upon such "patriotism," and all generals or commoners who have not the American courage to brand it with merited scorn! If General Scott can gain the political love of the adopted citizens by maintaining in lively prejudice their forsworn country's name, it is well; but at the same time he will gain his own countrymen's open contempt with the forswearing of his political pretensions.

THE DIPLOMATIST WANTED AGAIN.-A little misunderstanding has just arisen between Johnny Bull and Uncle Sam about the codfisheries of the North-east Coast, which some people construe into the symptoms of a war. Everybody looks with confidence, however, to Daniel Webster, as the man to settle the

difficulty. Strange that, however much we may insult and neglect our true statesmen, we turn instictively to them to get us out of our difficulties. Why not set General Scott, or Franklin Pierce to unravel this diplomatic knot? They are the statesmen of the day par excellence.

THE NEW-HAVEN RAILROAD affords us one of the antidotes to the evils of city life in dog-days. Passing as it does through a series of lovely villages strung together by this very road, like a rosary of gardens on the border of Long Island Sound, and reaching from Harlemn to the City of Elms, the comfort-seeking citizen has but to fix his time from half an hour's ride to four hours, and he is sure to be dropped in the right place, say at New-Rochelle, Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Bridgeport, or somewhere along shore where good people, good things, good fishing, and above all, good health abound. There is no route from this city so well provided with choice summer stopping-places as that of the New-Haven Railroad, and at each stoppingplace are to be found choice accommodations.

FOREIGN INFLUENCE AT BOSTON.-Our old friend Marshal Tukey, the Chief of Police of Boston, who refused to recognize a riotous and disorderly Irishman named Barney McGinniskin as one of the police of the city, has been compelled to knock under to the foreign influence in the political atmosphere of the "Cradle of Liberty," and walk out of office. In plain words, Marshal Tukey, against whom his worst enemies could bring no complaint, has been removed because he was a little too

American for the party in power. It is hinted, however, that as the people had no voice in his removal, yet having great confidence in his ability and fidelity, they intend to make him their next Mayor. A good idea that.

PLEASING INCIDENT.-We noticed that on the occasion of the obsequies of Mr. Clay, Tammany Hall was shrouded with the em blems of mourning, and in the midst of the solemn drapery was placed a bust of the distinguished dead. The spirit of party slept over the grave of a common friend.

VALENTINE'S MANUAL.-George P. Putnam & Co., 10 Park Row. This work is well known as a sort of municipal Annual, com

piled by David T. Valentine, Esq., Clerk of the Common Council, under the patronage of the Corporation. The "Manual" was originally issued as a species of "Blue Book," for the purpose of keeping in remembrance the names of the dignitaries of the town; but Mr. Valentine has gradually improved upon the original idea, and his annual offering has at length become the repository of a vast amount of useful information, both historical and statistical, gleaned and gathered in from the most reliable, as well as the most ancient authorities. As an epitome of the history of NewYork there is none more complete than Valentine's Manual, and as a text book for authors on that subject it is invaluable.

THE FREE LAND BILL.-We have received a copy of the speech of the Hon. J. Sutherland, of this State, in opposition to this vile scheme for defrauding the people of their public domain; and it would seem to us that the clear logic, the substantial arguments, and the undeniable statistics produced by the Honorable gentlemen should alone be sufficient to convince all who will harbor conviction, of the injustice and the impropriety of such an act, if not of its absolute unconstitutionality. The whole thing is but a political trick, and Mr. Sutherland is entitled to the thanks of the whole people for his lucid exposition of its deformities.

OLD FOLKS.-There is an old colored woman in Baltimore, named Sukey Wright, who has reached the age of 120 years. Mary A Beecham, a white woman, is 140 years old. She also lives in Baltimore. Mary Cross, a white woman, of South Carolina, is 102 years of age.-Exchange.

Is there not something to envy in the case of these plus centenarians? If the above statement is correct, Mary Beecham, now living at Baltimore, was born twenty-one years before George Washington, and was seventyfour years old at the time of the Declaration of Independence. Threescore years and fourteen before the United States of America became a nation! What a store of memories should be hers! What a field of thought to scan over and condense, if thought and memory remain! Or may we not more readily suppose that this unusual multiplication of years has merged on

"second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing."

PORTRAIT OF A "PATRON."The Waltham Balance, edited by the facetious Falconbridge, tells the following capital joke:

"We were rather amused 'tother day at a statement made by a country publisher, who it appears had a bill to collect', of one of his patrons,' and having to ask the patron several times for 'that little amount,' the patron got mad!

"Blast your paper!' says the patron; 'stop sending it to me and take out my advertisement. I ain't going to be bothered this way about it.'

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Well,' says the publisher, but you ordered us to put your advertisement in, and send the paper. didn't you?'

Well, what of it?" says the patron; ‘I only done it to help the thing along!'

The poor publisher sloped. We hope the Balance may never boast of any such patrons; for such helps along as that would soon unbalance our publisher's pocket-book, and stop the press."

THE SUMMER SOLSTICE is upon us in all its fervor, and it must be a rare attraction that can bring together an audience to sit for three and a half mortal hours, either in a Thespian or any other temple. Besides, the people, those who remain in town, are too busy talking politics to think much of amusement of any kind. The regular corps dramatique of the Broadway Theatre are, in consequence, enjoying a holiday in rustics, studying country customs and habits preparatory to the fall campaign, which promises to be peculiarly brilliant; and in the mean time the French comic opera and vaudeville company, late at Niblo's, acting upon the adage that it is necessary to "make hay while the sun shines," have taken possession of the boards at the Broadway Theatre, and during the last two weeks managed to draw paying houses to their humorous performances. Professor Anderson, the great and justly celebrated Magician, succeeds the French Troupe for a few nights. "Our correspondents" have not advised us when the Broadway will re-open with the legitimate.

At the National Theatre, in Chatham street, Mr. Couldock and Mr. W. G. Jones have literally "weathered" the season, successfully and profitably to the management, though not with crowded audiences. The manager, we perceive, announces an

engagement with "Don Antonio Cordova," a celebrated Spanish magician, from whose wonderful dexterity the public is promised an admirable

treat.

At BARNUM'S MUSEUM, during the warm season, the manager has laid aside the dramatic performances and introduced a series of light and seasonable entertainments, including a series of dissolving views, "optical fireworks," and negro melodies, by the celebrated band known as "White's Serenaders." The living wonders, and the "Happy Family," together with the moving tableaux of

Byron and the Greek Conspirators, are still on exhibition at the Museum.

At and about Castle Garden, the cool breezes of the evening are at a premium, and the entertainments within the Castle should be so if they are not. The charming Rousset family has just concluded a series of most captivating entertainments at this place, and now we have the celebrated Herr Cline, with his surprising feats upon the rope, and Professor Hovey and son, the equilibrists. Those who never saw Castle Garden should know that it is the coolest spot on earth of a hot summer's night.

NEW CHAPTERS.-At a meeting of the Chancery of New-York, held July 12th, a charter was granted on application, for a Chapter to be located at Green Point, L.I., to be known as 66 Montauk Chapter, No. 60." Six or eight years ago Green Point was clothed in the garb of nature, and covered with a mantle of meadow and corn fields; now it is the site of a thriving village, busy with the hum of mechanical industry. Passing the spot a few days since, we noticed a number of ship yards, with several large vessels on the stocks in processs of construction, and numerous indications of a thriving and industrious young city. We are glad to see the American spirit so soon taking root among its people.

AN APPLICATION for a charter for a Chapter to be located in the Eighth Ward, and known

as "Henry Clay Chapter," was received and referred to the usual Committee.

METAMORA CHAPTER.-The Committee having charge of this application reported adverse to the grant. The subject was, however, recommitted.

PROPOSITION FROM THE U. A. M.-A communication was received from Mr. E. H. Rauch, on behalf of forty-one Councils of "United American Mechanics" of Pennsylvania, proposing to convert the said Councils into Chapters of the O. U. A., provided satisfactory arrangements to that effect can be made. The communication was referred to a special Committee.

The Committee to whom was referred the memorial of Mount Vernon Chapter, asking a remission of certain dues, reported in favor of the memorialists, and the report was adopted.

passed through our city to its final resting-place at Ashland, and rested here, at the Governor's Room, City Hall, on the anniversary of our national birthday.

The Common Council of our city have resolved to perform the obsequies to his memory by a military and civic procession, on the 20th of the present month, as a fitting testimonial of the love and respect of a free people for the memory of one of such exalted patriotism, and who has rendered our country such distinguished and valuable service. I make this official announcement, trusting that your honorable body will take such measures for the participation by our patriotic Order in the solemnities of that occasion, as in your wisdom may seem proper. (Signed)

W. W. OSBORN, Grand Sachem, New-York.

After the communication was read, it was Resolved, That this Chancery will unite in its official capacity with the Common Council and our fellow-citizens, in the obsequies to the late Henry Clay, and that the several Chapters under this jurisdiction, and our brethren of other States, be invited to join with us on that occasion.

A Committee, consisting of Chancellors Thomas R. Whitney, Ames C. Page, Asa H. Leonard, G. W. Nurse, and George F. Halsted, was appointed to make the necessary arrange

ments.

THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS. It will be seen by advertisement in our columns, that the Washington Association will make their 7th Annual Excursion on Monday, August 9th, for the benefit of the Widow and Orphans' Fund of Washington Chapter No. 2, O. U. A. This Association was organized by a portion of the members of Washington Chapter, for the purpose of combining rational entertainment with a benevolent object; and we learn that from the proceeds of their annual festivities they have already added some four hundred dollars to that charitable fund, and we can say that their public festivals have heretofore been conducted in a manner that has elicited the admiration of all partakers.

OBSEQUIES OF HENRY CLAY.-On Tuesday, the 20th of July, our city put on the garb of mourning, in memory of that pure and enlightened patriot, Henry Clay. On that occasion all the asperities of party seemed to be forgotten, and the people at large, uniting with the public authorities, confessed the national bereavement. Several hundred public edifices and private dwellings were draped

The line was formed in three divisions, under the direction of Chancellor Whitney, the Grand Marshal, and the several divisions were placed under charge of the following special aids:

The first under the direction of Major A. S. Bowen, assisted by Dr. C. H. Andrus and George V. Pomeroy, Esq.; the second under the direction of John H. Briggs, Esq., assisted by W. B. Ferguson, Esq., and Asa H. Leonard, Esq.; and the third under the direction of Robert J. Luckey, Esq., assisted by George W. Hardenbrook, Esq., and Jesse Oakley, Esq.

Special aids, Frederick M. Butler, Willard H. Smith, Edward B. Brush, and B. Lazalere, Esqrs., were assigned to duty in the Staff. The Order was escorted by the WORTH GUARD, an accomplished corps of citizen soldiery, under the command of Captain William W. Lyon, and the whole were preceded by a cavalcade of thirty-six mounted aids in full regalia, equipped with the saddle-cloth of the Order, and wearing the continental cocked-hats. The appearance of the cavalcade was beautiful and imposing, and, together with the military escort, elicited the admiration of the spectators throughout the route of the procession.

The column was formed in the following order:

1st. The cavalcade of mounted aids, six abreast.