The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1854, Page 4

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PRIA GALLERY VE CHRISTIAN ART~Ss3 Broad wey. _ New York, Thursday, away 19,1 1854. Malis for the Pactie. THs KEW YORK WOBKLY ARBALD. Pho Gaited States mail steamship Geo ge Law, Captain MeGowan, will leave this port to morrow afternoon, » wo o’sloek, for Axpinwail {ee manile for Californis and other parts of tha Paoits clock. ho New Yous Waxcir Astoing the Ie gence wil be publi t ten viel w4il clone at one o ARALP, Califoraia sition, cor uorrow nurbing Agente will please send i @he New The House of Represeutstives was agaia the scene @f excitement yesterday, in which the cwo Smiths, oO New York aad Alabama, were the most oon- but let us glance at the day’s work A committee of nine was BpievoUus actors ; froin beginning to end @ppowled to conler with @ similar body from the Benate upon a proposition to so amend the constitu. tion, in the maneer of electiug the President and View President, as to abolish the intervention of voting for general eectors by dividing the States dow Sevatoria! and Congressional districts, one elec tor to be voted for in each. A resolution was offered which proposes &© make Postunasters and Collectors elective officers. The Military Academy Appro- priation bill same up and was adopted, not, dowever, before it had been strenuously opposed in a lengthy apeech by Gerrit Smith, which will be found very fully reported, both for. the grati- fication of the members of the Peace Society and the general edification of the public. It will be seen that several attempts were made to throw Mr. 8. off the track, but he managed to adhere to the quesiion and thereby gained his point. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Defici- ecey Appropriation bill, whereupon the other Smith, the gentleman from Alsbama, took the tloor and pro- oeeded to reply to the speech of Mr. Cutting on the Gay previous. Excitement was on tip-toe—every body war anxious to ascertain what new develope: ments were to be mace concerning New York Politics. He was occasionally interrapted by one or two of our Congressmen, but had not arrived at the “ cream of it,” as he expressed it, when his hour ex pired, aud permission for bim to coutinue was not granted. We have commented at length upon this ©ontroverry in an editorial article. Quite a spirited controversy took place between Messrs. Cooper and Wade, in the Seuate, yesterday» respeetivg the railroad war at Erie. By-the way, we are informed that the latter gentleman bas bad an interview with the President upon the subject, and That both he and the Secretary of War consider that there is as yet no necessity for the interference of the general government, although the United States Marshel hes been arrested aud imprisoued while in the performance of his duties. A large number o! Balls were passed—among them one authoriziog this wity to be reimbursed for the expenses incurred in providing for the wants of the First regiment of New York Volunteers in the Mexican war. Most of yester lay seems to have been ocsupied by the New York Legisiatgre in the passage of bills. ‘The Senate passed an sepeoviding for the promo- tien of medical science, and the Assembly, besides attending to various matters im which our citizens are more immediately interested, passed the amend- ments to the State Constitution so as to secure funds im a legitimate way for the enlargement and comple- tion of the cauale. The San Francisco calamity is still the chief theme of conversation and correspondence among ail slamex, and attention is being directed in this and other cities to raising means to relieve the sufferiug @urvivors, and to honor and properly reward their pescuers. The most unbounded praise is heaped upon the noble seamen who se strenuously exerted Shemeelves in behalf of perishing humanity, and particularly upon Oaptains Crighton, Stouffer, and Low. The latter gentleman arrived in ahis city yesterday morning—his vessel, the bark Kilby, having reached Boston on the day previous. He has furnished an interesting letter coneerniog the loss of that {ll-fated steamer, which we publish under an appropriate head, together with @ briet narrative of the boisterous passage of bis own weesel. Bee tue proceedings of the various mectings ef the merchants, in addition to much ether matter fm connection with thie melancholy affair. While wpon the subject it may be as weil to remark thata bil! was yesterday reported in the House of Repre- sentatives which authorizes four months additional galary to be paid to the surviving officers and sol- diers who were on board the 8. F., and six months salary te be paid to the widows and orphans uf thore who were lost. We have news of renewed excitement in Ciacin- nati sgainet Mons. Bedini, the Pope's Nuncio, whose presence in this country, it would seem, bas not been bailed, by at least a portion of our adopted citizens, with any marked demonstrations of delight. Onthe contrary, he has stirred up some of the most bitter feelings and recollections among the German popu- lation of Cincinnati, Wheeling, New Orieans, and Baltimore, where processions have been formed, riots bave occurred, blood has beem shed, and the Nuncio barned in effigy, for the purpose of manifesting their feelings of contempt for Mons. Bediai and his pre- vious transactions, By accounts in another part of today’s Henarp, it will be seen that a large namber of citizens of Cincinnati, on Saturday last, formed another procession, in which were carried banners and devices of the most insulting character, which marched to an open square, where ® large eficy of Bedini was placed upon s platform and set on ‘fire, ami: sorte of groans and noises. Before the pro ceedings were closed the Marshal of the city was felled to the ground with aclub, and another indi vidual was stabbed, but it was alleged that the party who compored the procession could not be held re sponsible (or these acta of violence, as they were peaceably ditposed, and even assisted to procore the arrest of the person who committed the ontrages. After the cffigy was burned the crowd peaceably re tired. The trial of the volicemen of Cincinnati, who were epgaged in the late riot in that eity, is still f piny on, Rill “twill probably be soms ns days before {t is finaly Srought to # close. The evidence dis- closes the exerciee of the most brutal barbarity en the port of th» po ice towards the (ndividuals whom they arreste’, snd we should think, naless some evidence extenrating in ite Character than has yet npprared #bell be produeed, but very few of them will be left in their official eavacity. bere is ne shatement ef the excitement at Brie. The ery of | eaee is ever ané anon flashed across the telegraph wires? but the succeeding mail arsures us there is no peace. This Erie railroad war is, with all its various and contradictory reports and remors, keeping us in about the same state of excitement that the anti-rent war did some years ago. The eubjeet has already oceupied attention in three State Legis- latures— Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York—and yesterday it gave rise to a warm debate in the United States Senate. Of late we find the rioters disguised as women, and committing their depredations egains! law ané@ order; while on the Mheldenerg the law- breakers painted th ces and wore the garb of Indiane. What is to be the result, or on whove ban- ner victory will altiastely perch, must be left for time to determine. Our correkpondents will keep our readers informed of the progress of the war, and record the events as {.ey shall transpire. The last ue*s announces the burning, for the fourth time, of the bridge across Harbor creek by men in petticoats; ard the next itelligence, we presume, will be that the «ame men, in paotaloons, will grant the railroad company permirsion to rebuild it. Bo they go. We have received oar tiles of the Correo del Cara cus, to the 2let December, being eighteen days later intelligence from Venezuela, but they contain no news whatever of avy importance. The atteut on of military men, as well as all others nterested in militia matters, is directed to Brigade Imspector Cocke's statement of the annual review and inspectionef the Seyenth, Eighth and Nioth Regiments, composing the Third Brigade of the First division of the New York State Militia. From the tenor of this report it would appear that there are many obstacles in the way of organizing and main- taining an efficient militia system, some of which way doubtless be traced to legislative enactments, and others to the inattention er want of proper in- formation on the part of certain leading officers. For instance, thes# brigade reports ougst to be made to the Inspector-General, and through him to the Adju. tant-General. Under the prosems arrangements he Inspestor-General is scarcely ever heard or th t of, although he is said to receive for bis services petween twenty-five hundred and toree thousand dollars per annum—being more than the salaries of the Adjutant and Commissary Generals and their assistants combined. He should be required to reside at the State capital, and keep his department fully organized. As now constituted, his office is a complete sinecure, and of no use to the State or its citizen soldiers whatever. The Board of Education met last evening, but be- yond the election of coumistees, litte was doae. This oscapied some three hours. See report. in addition to many colimns of interesting mat- ter, to which we cannot afford space to refer par- ticularly, our papers to-day contain a number of ex ceedingly curious and evter‘aining extracts and Washington letters trom aiff journals with re gard to the Gad editoria opinions of the admiai-wation aod the state of par ties; news from Buenos Ayres, Lexas, and elsewhere; proceedings in the Board of Aldermen; a series of instractive leotares by Drs. Storrs and Bolger, and Rey. Henry Ward Beech; addigional concerning the loss of the chip Staffordshire; yarious telegraphic despatches relating to marine and railroad disasters, celebrations, Kc jen tre xivo; The Free Sott Question in Congress —Sar- prising Diseloaures of Gen. Pieres’s Erce 90 Correspondence and Opinions, The vexed question between the New York national democrats on the ove band, and th administration and the Van Buren free soilers on the other, has at length come up in Con- gress on its merits; and from the opening o the debate in the House we may expect some highly interesting disclosures of political chi- canery, in low quarters and in high quarters. before the discursion is ended, Mr. Cutting and his colleagues, in their on- slaught upon the New York free soil faction show up their party delinquencies without re- serve. As farasit goes this may all be very well; but they do not strike at the root of the evil. Every question of departure from correct principles, moral or political, involves some secret instigations of higher or lower degree. From these secret causes, all great political movements take their lighter or darker shades. A front view of the administration and its com- posite materials of Northern free soilers and Southern secessionists is somewhat perplexing. It is difficult to comprehend the real causes of such an amalgamation when they are invisible and undisclosed. But to make war upon such a coalition, without understanding its salient points of attack, is simply a waste of time. As far as the Van Buren free soilers are concerned, however much we may despise their political heresies. or the looseness of their pria- ciples, there are some points in their history which challenge our admiration for their open frankness and manly boldness. Their defection, as a seharate faction, hushed up in the election of Polk, began secretly and stealthiiy to develope itself during his admin- istration. Bat in the Baltimore Convention of ‘48, they threw offall disguises, and under the lead of John Van Buren, C. C. Cambreleng, John A. Dix, B. F. Butler, John Cochrane and others, they kicked over the Baltimore plat- form, marched eff to Buffalo with drums beat- ing and colors flying, and, fraternizing with Giddings, Gerrits Smith, Fred. Douglass and other abolitionists of all stripes and complex- ions, boldly and plumply planted themselves, with old Martin as their standard bearer, upon the abolition platform of free soil, free speech, and tree men. They kept their black flag boldly fiying in the breeze till the battle was fought, and the Baltimore democratic nominee was laid out cold and stiff among the killed and wounded. They did more—they continued battling for the Wilmot proviso and against the compro- mise measures to the bitter end. Even affer the paseage of those measures, running iato the following summer, John Van Buren, a perfect Paladin in behalf of the black beauties of the South, carried the war beyond the confines of Africa, and in every hole and corner of New England proclaimed war against the Fugitive Slave law, because it was an outrageous in- fringement, in bis eyes, of the bleased constitu- tion of the United States. Now, in all this, whatever may have been the extent of these abolition heresies of John Van Buren and his partisans, and however sbomi- nable and mischievous the doctrines they so recklessly advocated, there is, in the manly candor and the unblushing impudence with which they maintained the war from 1848 to the margin of 1852, something positively sublime, And what if the Prince did confess his sympathy and do battle for the woolly headed, thiok-lipped, long-heeled, odorifereas, black-skinned, suffering damsels of the South, held in bondage? It was all a matter of taste and there is no accounting for tastes in any thing. At all events, from 1848 to 1851 his course waa open, bold, above-hoard, and clear as the record of Giddings himself. Aud equally bold, equally decisive and uncom- promising, were ca eS Davis, M’Donald Quitynan, and their secession party of the South in their principles and intentions. Their doc- trines, it is true. were as odious as those of the abolitioviste; but they brought them out, aad fonght the battle upoo them in open day. We think, therefore, that Mr. Cutting and his colleagues do not render fall justice to the Van Buren free soilera of the North, nor the secessionists of the South it they charge upon them the mischief: of the present Cabinet free soil and secession coalition. The open and avewed enemy, who defines his posi- tion and takes bis stand upon it, is entitled always to some degree of respect and admiration. But there is another element in- volved in this business which Mr. Cutting and his colleagues cannot too strongly condemn It is that mean and dangerous element of treachery. From 1848 to 1852 there were men in the counsels of the democratic party who were with the Van Buren free soilers in prineiple, but who secretly co-operated with their movements instead of manfally avowing their affiliations. And we are now authorized to say that Gen. Pierce, as well as Marcy and Caleb Cushing, stands responsible to the eown- try for these free soil arrangements behind the scenes controlling all their movements upou the stage. And here we have some circumstan- tial evidence to put in from eredible witnesses touching the accountability of Gen. Pierce fn the premises. Our readers will recollect that some time ago we offered a reward of five hundred dollars for a certain free soil letter ot Gen. Pierce, written in 1848, sympathizing with the Van Buren Buf- falo movement. We haye been expecting that letter, and other similar letters from the sane source; and if we are not disappointed we shall soon be enabled to spread a few of them, in black and white, before our readers. Tn the meantime we have aseertained the following facts in the matter:— After the ratification of the Van Buren Buf- falo ticket and platform by the free soilers of this city, in 1848. a committee of cor- respondence was appetated, and from that committee letters were hddressed, in be- half of the Buffalo nominations and free ] principles, to various influential democrats different parts of the country, formerly the political friends of Martin Van Buren, includ- ing General Pierce among the number. Va- rious letters in reply were written to the com- mittee, and among those received was a letter from Gen. Pierce. expressive of his sympathy with the polit fortunes of the Buffalo candidate and his peculiar friends and par- tizans. This letter is now in the posses- sion of John Cochrane, chairman of the afore- said committee of ‘48. At that time the political reputation of Gen. Pierce was purely provincial, and his letter, after a hasty exami- nation by Judge Waterbury, and perhaps some of the committee, was set aside with that batch of the correspondence eonsidered superfluous. Other letters, however, were pub- lished in the Evening Post—one from ©. C- Cambreleng jn particular—as calculated to have some weight and influence in the canvass. We challenge a denial of these facts—we challenge a denial of the letter of Gen. Pierce. Our al- legation is specific. The letter exists—it is among the political archives of John Cochrane; and we expect yet to be able to produce it. and other letters of the same character from therame letter-writer, all sympathizing with the elder Van Buren more or less in his treach erous venture upon the Buffalo platform. We are further advised, that betweea the years 1848 and 1850 an interesting political correspondence took place between General Pierce, at Concord, and a distinguished polisi- oian of New Hampshire, now deceased, having in view the great object cf the restoration of the Van Buren dynasty; and those letters are understood to be among the papers of the de- ceased party. But, again, during the same period of time, the New Hampshire Patriot—the home organ of General Pierce—and the New Hampshire Legislature, under the direction of the Patriot, made ne secret of their hostility to the compromise policy of Messrs. Clay, Cass. Webster, and other statesmen of Congress, while there was achance of successful resist- ance. When resistance had become useless the New Hampshire demoeratic leaders and their orgap, and their party in the State, wheeled into line we admit; but during the brunt of the contest they were with the Van Buren faction, and secretly plotting and working for its resto- ration to power. Such are the surprising disclosures which have come to light concerning the political an- tecedents of General Pierce from 1848 to 1852. They account for the Cabinet coalition which he has adopted of Van Buren free soilers and Southern secessionists—they account for the speech upon which Foss laid such stress in the late campaign—they account for the refusal of General Pierce to answer the inquiries of Capt. Scott. of Virginia, for the fraud of the Bal- timore Convention of 1852, and for the public disappointment in the fruits of the election. Gen. Pierce was bound over to keep the peace with the Van free soilers: and this is the plain and simple solution of the whole mystery. We submit, therefore, that Mr. Cutting and his colleagues ought not to visit the weight of their indignation upon the bold and dashiag rebellion of the Van Burens and their free soil platform of ‘48, but upon the se eret agencies concocting, directing, or en- couraging the conspiracy. It is useless to be wasting ammunition upon the New York free soilers and their delinquencies while they are entrenched behind the President and his Cabinet. It is folly to assail the Cabi- net when the President “shoulders the respon- sibility ;” and it is vain to suppose that the administration can be brought to a distinct understanding and # final settlement short of a full exposure of the obligations of General Pierce resulting from his afiliationa with the Van Buren dynasty. Let Mr. Cutting and his colleagues aid us, then, in looking up the free soil correspondence of General Pierce from 1848 to 1850, or later, Let them strike at tho root of the evil. Call John Cochrane to the stand. Tur Prooress or THe Monern Prorart.— Judge Edmonds, we are told, is performing a sort of triumphal tour through this State, and lecturing on spiritualism with all the fervor of a true believer. His hegira dates from last yeor. Hitherto he has not been particularly successtul, his converts being chiefly old ladies, weak-minded young men, and broken- down politicians. But he must not despair, Mahomet had but seven disciplos for some years atter he discovered the immutable doctrines of the Koran. Judge Edmonds must content him- self with the old ladies and the euperannnated politicians for some time to come. The Roman Cathwlies and the Other Reli- Kloas Sects. Just at this moment, when the columns of the press are filled with accounts of attacks and abuee of Dr. Bedini, the Papal nuncio, it may be interesting to note the progress of Catho- licity in the United States, and to measure the strength of the party whose chief has been so uvceremouiously treated in the West. Forty- five years ago—that is to say, as far back as our accounts go—there were eighty Catholic churches in the only existing diocess in the United States, and only sixty-eight priests to serve them. These figures will surprise most people; but they are taken from the almanac published at Baltimore by Lucas, under the “supervision of the Catholic clergy, and we pre- sume must be correct. Twenty-two years after- wards there were eleven dioceses in the coun- try, with two bundred and thirty churches, and as many priests. These figures were about doubled in the ten years following 1830. In 1840 we find four hundred and fifty-four eburches and four bundred and eighty-two priests. In the next decennial period the pro- avess was even greater. In 1850 they counted 1,073 churches and 1,081 priests. The record of the present year gives seven arch-dioceses, forty-one dioceses, 1,712 churches, and 1,574 priests. Froma statistical statement published in another column we gather that the total number of professing Catholics in the United States is about one million and three-quarters. or one-fifteenth of the total population, This fifteenth is chiefly congregated round four large centres—New York. Baltimore, Cincinnati, and New Orleans. If we allow that the Catholics ot Baltimore are mainly natives, being the de- secendants of the old Catholic settlers of Mary- land, we may fairly assume that the bulk of their co-religionists in the three other large dio- ceses are foreign born. New York and Cin- cinnati absorb most of our Irish emigration; and the New Orleans Catholics must comprise an almost equal proportion of French and Trieh. If the Catholics of the United States have multiplied at the above rates within the last half century there is no reason to doubt that the progress of the Protestant sects has been equally rapid.’ Our whole numbers have been quintrupled since 1800; and if we estimate our population to-day at twenty-six millions it will be seen that a fair maryinis left for the various Pretestant congregations. kt is curious to notice, in tables of religious statistics, how naturally the population of every enlightened country divides itself into three leading classes, distinguished, in general, by the religious rites they practice. Thus, in the United States we find four ruling sects: the @atholics, the Presbyterians, the Methodists, and the Baptists. If, religious doctrine apart, we were to attempt to characterize each of theae by th» spirit which distinguishes it, we should say that there were Catholics who nourished a fondness for art, a love of the bean- tiful, and a tendency to idealize abstractions; those Methodists and Baptists in whom the heart preponderates, who love and hate fiercely¢ who know no medium in the intensity of their feelings, and would be called in the every day jargon of the world sentimentalists ; while there are Presbyterians in whom the intellec- tual organs preponderate, who have ‘“causali- ty” and “comparison” large, and who sacrifice feeling to the calm deductions of reason. In point of fact, as most of eur readers will perceive, on reflection, these three varieties of the human character comprise the whole race of man, Mankind is divided into idealists, sentimentalists and reaeoners; eacl | according to his rank in one of these three ca- tezories, attaches himself to the church which is bused upon that principle. We find it the case here; and the same phenomenon is obsery- able, not only in Europe, but in Asia and many apparently semi-barbarous countries. Whether the common name of the artistic faith be Catho- licity or Buddhism—whether the scutimental- ists are styled Methodists or Puritans—whether the reasoners pursue their deductions to t' broad path of Presbyterianism or stop haifw y in the labyrinth of intidelity—the progress of bee principle is always equally obvious and its effects as clearly discernable. The other tho J sands of sects which inundate the world are mere offshoots from these three great divisions, Sometimes the offshoot prevails, tak»s advan- tage of some temporary defect in its parent creed, and supersedes it. We have countless examples of the fact. And it can never be pre- dieated of any sect at its birth that it will or will not come to be the embodiment of one of these three principles. The same is not true of infidelity in any of its forms. A single glance at the conditions of our mental frame shows conclusively that Atheiste, Deists and other infidels, must always be a small sect. Man re- quires to believe in order to be happy. Beliet is not less essential to his comfort than food. Hence we find that. in apite of all the talent which has been arrayed on the side of infidelity since the days of Voltaire and Bolingbroke the sect has rather receded than advanced. Young men,new to the exercise of freedom of thought, and impa- tient of clerical as ofall other restraint, often as- sume or affect a species of general incredulity in matters of religion. But as age grows on,and the character becomes more fully developed, they, too, feel a craving for that grand comfort—some sort of a belief in things beyond the mind’s grasp—and in nine cages out of ten end in be- coming members of a church. To return to the Catholics: they lived with he other sects in this country on terms of friendly equality and amity until John Hughes bogan to agitate fora cardinal’s hat, some ten years ago. John Hughes and the school ques- tion threw an apple of discord among the va- rious ecclesiastical bodies ; and since then fana- tics like Gavazzi, and indiscreet foreigners like Bedini—who assumes to settle territorial dis- putes here in virtue of a mandate from the Pope—have done not a little to widen the breach. We hope the strong common sense of the community will guard against its being perpetuated. — Tar Exp or Koszra—We understand that the far-famed Martin Koszta is now in this city in a state of utter destitution. An application has been made té us on his behalt by a friend of his for a petty clerkship in our establishment worth five dollars a week. We are sorry to say that we have no vacancies; but surely be- tween Commodore Ingraham, who obtained a medal and ever so much glory, and Mr. Marcy, who procured a ready made reputation as a statesman, solely and entirely out ot Koszta, something might be done for the poor fellow. He has raised two men to a pinnacle of fame they never could have reached without him: is he to be left to starve himself? Who wouldn't be a patriot. The soarlet fover is ‘itreesogly y prevalent in varions parts of Windham county, V Prixce Atoent’s Foreron Intrieves,—“ Do you know, Aunt,” said the Duchess of Bur- gundy to Madame de Maintenon, “ why the queens of England govern better than the kings? It is because when @ woman reigns men govern, and when kings women.” This pertinent, but, for the eccasion on whieh it was uttered, not very flattering aphorism. seems likely to lose its application, if report tpeaks true ef the manner in which Prince Al- bert is abusing the opportunities of his high position, Tired of playing the part of a politi- cal nonentity, he has, it is said, chosen an un- fortunate field for the exercise of his talents, by embarking in intrigues compromising the honor and interests of his adopted country. It is difficult to believe that a man who has hitherto borne himself with so much discretion in the delicate circumstances in which he is placed, should thus at onee boldly throw off the mask and plunge into a course of policy so utterly at variance, not only with public feeling, but with his own previous line of conduct. We witness, however. such strange inconsistencies in the character of public men, that there would be nothing surprising in the fact if the intia- ence of the Prince Consort’s Geran education and early associations were, in a question so yital to the interests of his fatherlaud, te over- power his more r.cently bora English sympa: thies. Although the charge brought against the Prince, of communicating important state secrets to the German courts, is founded on evidence purely cireumstantial, and might as well apply to any member of the cabinet as himself, it seems to be connected and brought home by the well known political partialities of the court. That the temporising policy of the government, and the resignation of Lord Pal- merston, were attributable to the presence of German influence in a high quarter, there can- not be a shadow of doubt. They are not, in fact, explainable on any other ground, seeing that the public feeling of the country had been loudly expressed in favor of more energetic measures. In connecting, therefore, the viola- tion of the secrets of the cabinet with the source from whence this pressure emanated, the public draws a natural and almost inevitable conclusion, The current of Prince Albert’s popniarity has hitherto rua so smoothly that it is a pity that anything should occur to prevent its carrying him easily and comfortably down the stream of time. When »® man can make a reputation,’ as an Irishman would say, merely by the exercise of his negative qualities, we canuot conceive the object of his putting himself to unnecessary trouble to spoil it. In bartering his personal independence for the silken chains of his pre- sent exceptional position he must have known that any attempt to reassert it must bring him into suspicion. When, therefore, be accepted the important post of shoulder-man to the Queen, he should also have accepted, without reservation, the obligations that it imposed, and, confined himself strictly to the duties of his | office. There is no doubt that when Parliament meets some attempt will be made to sift to the bottom the truth of these charges. They are too openly and circumstantially advanced to render it possible for either the Prince or the government to shirk answering them; aud we may accordingly expect some curious dis- closures as to the motives and influences that have been busily at work through ali the per- plexing phases of the war question. If only half what is asserted be true, nothiag can tend more to bring into discredit this mouurchie i! habit of crossing royal stocks with broods of foreign importation. Tue Revenve Laws—Onstrcetions To Stew suirs FROM SmUG@GLING.—The recent seizure of the Cunard propeller—the Alpg—in the waters of this port, on account of detected smuggling by certain attachés or employes of the ship, and other similar cases which have occurred from time to time for some years past, suggest the expediency and necessity of some modifica- tion of the revenue laws upon this subject. The act of 1799 declares that goods unladen from any vessel without a permit from the Collector and Naval Officer shall become for- feit, and may be seized by any officer of the customs ; and where the value shall amount to $400 the vessel shall be subject to like for- feiture and seizure. This is without any refer- ence to the guilt or innocence of the party whose property is forfeited. At the time this act was passed vessels were worth from $4,000 to $8,000, with a crew of five to ten persons. No strong temptation was then held out to evade the revenue laws by a heavy duty upon valuable articles of such trifling bulk that they can be put in the pocket or concealed on the person, such as diamonds, lace, &c. The captain of a vessel could then exercise a complete supervision over the acts of his crew. At the present time steam and sailing vessels are worth from $100,000 to $500,000, with crews of from seventy-five to one hundred and thirty persons, any one of whom has the power of forfeiting the ship by smuggling goods about his person. It is an absolute impogsibility for the owners or captain to prevent it, notwith- sianding all the care and diligence they may use, unless every person was stripped naked every time they left the ship. And, although the Collector and officers of the customs may be perfectly convinced that the owners of the ship and the captain are not only not concerned in the smuggling, but bad on all ocoasions done everything possible to protect the revenue laws, and had given information to the customs on various occasions, which had led to the detection of persons impli- cated, and had themselves offered rewards to any one who would give information, yet they are by law obliged to seize the ship. Such was the ease in the recent seizure of the Alps, upon an allegation that goods found at the Atlantic Hotel, Jersey City, to the value of $1,700, the daty on which would be $300 to $400, were supposed to have been smuggled from that vessel by the steward, notwithstand- ing that the Collector and Surveyor cheerfaily exonerated the owners, agent and captain, of the ship from the slightest knowledge of tho matter, and were aware that they did every- thing in their power to maintain the laws, yet they were put to the inconvenience of giving bonds for $75,000, while the fees for libelling the ehip and giving bonds amounted to $447., The imposition of heavy duties upon articles of great value and small bulk, such as dis- monds, laces, embroideries and watches, is im- politic, tending to demoralisation, and injarious to the hones? trader, and does not protect any branch of manufactures in this country. It is to be hoped that the Committee of Ways and Means of the House or the Senate at Wash- ingten will turn their attention to this suk. ject, dnd eecure euch modifications of the exist-- ing revenue laws as will meet the necessities of aur present gigantic steamships—such modifications as will pretect the treasury against smugglers without subjecting the ves sel to detention, or the company interested to excessive bonds for the trifling peeadilloes of their employes. And if there is to be a revi- sion of the tariff it may be well to inquire whether the abolition of the duties on laces, diamonds, &c., or @ material reduction of the same, would not be the simplest policy, and the best for the suppression of this sort of smuggling. gos! Tre Comic Lirreratcre or New Yorx—Pry Supervisors axp THE Ciry Press.—The Board of Supervisors have just printed their doings, and they give an account of the claims present« ed to them and the sums allowed tor bills against the city during the past year. Though the document is intensely practical, yet we are indebted to it for a considerable amount of amusement. It gives several instances of the cool impudence of the Express, and they are really delicious. For example, the statement of the County Canvassers was sdvertised i several papers—the Heravn’s charge was $56; the Sun, $56; the Journal of Commerce and other of the Wall street papers, $30 and $25, according to their circulation; while the Zz- press, with & circulation not exceeding six thousand, (at the most liberal caleulation,) had the sublime impudence to charge the same price as the Hwravp, and the Supervisors were ver- dant enough to allow it. Now, either wa are very liberal, or else the city was swindled by the Express. one of the “reform” papers. Ag our circulation is fifty thousand, we should have charged $400 for this advertisement, Some journals have a convenient sliding scale of prices for advertising, and would charge the city $56 for the same work that they would be happy to do for # citizen fur $10 or $15, In another place we find that the New York Demokrat, (German,) received $40 for an ad- yertisement, the \Vational Democrat for tha same $35, and the Heraup, $30. The Herarp’s circulation is undoubtedly ten times as mucky as that of either of the other papers ! The report of the Supervisors overruns witk funny things, vide the following extract:— Amount Amount ; of claim. allewed. Bil of Churek Journal, for advertising no- tice of @1eotiod..... 6. ee sese sce seeeee 93000 $1125 Bill of the Mercantile Guide, for the same, 2600 1876 Ned Buntline’s Own, for the 6720 1768 Bill ofthe Amerisan Artisan, for thessme, 2625 1508 Bo) of the Merchants’ cae ba for the 5 3150) 1875 13876 1376 Biilefthe N Y. american, 8008 1875 Bil for the Crysiel Palace, for the same, 2200 1878 and Star, for the ‘ 46250 (1760 2675 oa Bil of ta Day Book, for the Fame, woo 1768 Bill of the ashen and enero for the 176 nas 18 76 5 18 76 Bill of the Asmouvan, for (be se 7 Blot NY. Do\ bman, forthe ame.... 25 00 26 Bilis luterpetions! Jourgal, f° (he same 1625 16 6@ rame ... 768 1875 ai] of veh 8 Mirrer, for the sam 8000 12 50 Billof N Y People’s Organ, for we same 2760 18 76 Bll of Kvering siirror, for the same..... 8260 18 75 Blot N ¥, See Kept for the S.me. 30:00 «18 75 Biot Gi 2600 18 76 Bill of Exp: 2600 13 76 Billet NY Chip; 4625 18 75 bill of the Atlas, for the same % 0 «2000 Till of Empire City, tor the rae .. » 264) 16 Bi] of Eveeing Post, for ths sane - 806: BO Sil of N. Y. Re rmer, for the cams... wo 1a Bill of Daily sam.. 3000 17 os Bil of the Keform, for the 3300 187 Bill cf Home Jour lag ed 6600 18 00 3038 «1250 3200 «18 76 same’... .... % 90 «18 76 Bill of Wall Street 39 62 «20 00 Bill of Reveille and Review, forthe same. 29 50 18 75 Bil of Railroad Journal, for hessme,., 016 16 03 Bil of Tribame, for the same.. 3875 «38 75 Bill of Freeman’s Journal, for theaa ae. 1760 1250 Bill of Sabbath Reeorder, for the same... F 97 1250 Bulof US Argus, for the same........ 3400 «18 75 Who does not admire the impudence of some of these publishers of unknown papers? Who does not regard with astonishment the fact that the journals of which nobody ever before heard are the most unblushing in their demands? They are reformers, too! Pharisees, who make long speeches in the market-place, and bore the people with bad logic and worse grammar in the shape of “appeals” to them! The fact is, they are like a great many other thieves—they desire a monopoly of the business. They are indignant at the Supervisors because their bills are taxed, and, in several instances, made lesa by two-thirds. The table gives a curious ex- posé of the estimate which our City Fathers place upon the city papers. They evidently were not impressed in favor of one obscene sheet, whose bill was cut from $57 20 ta $17 50. The military received a severe blow, as the Service Journal and the Argus were cut down one-half. The Supervisors believe in & joke, and therefore allowed the reasonable bill of the Pick. Religion received a blow when the Church Journal was cut from $30 to $11, but it was made up again in the $2 50 which appears to have been added to the ac- count of the Sabbath Recorder, Our young friend of the Times suffered to the extent of $18. The Reformer, the Reform, the Mirror, the People’s Organ, and other “ reform” papers, t seems, charged too much, and were cut severely. The Clipper, (what is the Clipper, and where is it printed?) charged $46 25, and was allowed $13 75. The modesty of this paper is only equalled by its obacurity. Altogether, we must say that the Super- visors bave given us a very entertaining holi- day book, and by its figures, which cannot indulge in falsification, we are enabled to show our readers the hollowness of earthly things in general and the hypocrisy of New York jour- nalists in particular. The above tables give the clearest indications y to which are the “ black-mail” papers, and we leave our readers to their own reflections. Fioaine in Soncota—Wa see that a school- master in Connecticut, at South Windham, hag been flogging one of his pupils with such vio- lence that internal hemorrhage ensued, and the boy’s life is despaired of. This habit of fogging in schools is a relic of barbarism which ought to have been abolished long ago. In the old scho- lastic institutions of England, where the very name of reform throws the principals into con- vulsions, flogging is still maintained asa noble legacy of former times. In parts of Germany, also, it is believed that boys’ minds are sharp- ened by periodical exooriations of their epider- mis. They Oder matters differently in France, rightly deeming that the road to the intelli« gence of a lad is reached by a shorter cut than the rod. They nurture a feeling of pride in their echolars; and their punishments for idle- ness, or other boyish faults, involve moral dis- grace rather than corporal punishment. Had we done «0, the recent unfortunate incident ig