The New York Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1854, Page 4

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Hall, 444 Broad. wey —Ersu0Pian BiNsTRALSY BUCKLEY'S OPPRA HOUSE, BY Broadway—Ruow Beye Kriovian OPERA Taoure. BANVAED'S GEORAMA, 596 Urondway—Panonama OF wax Uovy Lan. @AINISH GALLERY, OPBRA BOUSE, 472 Brond- BY CHRISTY 8 MINSTRELS. 663 Atondwsy—Day and Brening. R BLITZ—Arvvvesant Ivsrityrs, 652 Broad we ACADEMY HALL 663 Brosdway—Peanam’s Girr Ex miarri0Ns OF THE -RVEN Vine WinROR, 4OPE CHAPEL, 718 Brosdway—Jones’ Pawroscors. BRIAN GALLERY O£ CHRISTIAN ART—843 2u0 New York, Thursday, Jannary 26, 15 E The Collins steamer Atlantic is now in her fitteenth day from Liverpool, with four days later advices. Bhe has no doubt been detained so much beyond her usual time by the unpropitious weather reported to have been experienced by all vessels that have lately arrived. Merchants, dealers in breadstufis par- ticularly, are very anxious forj her appearance, as will bs teen by both our financial and trade reports, The Cunard steamship Niagara reached Boston about ten o’clock yesterday morning, having been within four or five hours of e'ghteen days in makiag the run from Liverpool, via Halifax. In order to give some idea of the inclemency of the season and the great obstacles to ocean navigation, it is merely necessary to remark that the passage from Halifax occupied the Niagara forty-six hours, the usual time being thirty-two to thirty r hours. On her arrival she was immediately surrounded by custom house officers, on the gui vive for smuggled goods, and no person was permitted to either board or leave the veseel till the baggsge of the passengers had usder gone a thorough int pec’ The unusual activity of the officials was owing to the recent developements of smuggling by persons on board the European steomers coming int» this and other Eastern ports, The sdditional news furnished by the Niagara tends to still farther confirm the almost universal belief that a general war is inevitable. By way of reply to the propositions of peace from the allie Powers, Russia bas ordered her army in the Danu bian provinces to be increased to two huadred aud forty thousand men, and, in addition, has sent out a Yarge number of genbtral officers. The Per: were also preparing for more active and effi service. These extraordinary imilitary operations denote the determination of the Ozar to push mew sores to the utmost ex'remity, despite the appeals and menaces of the Western Powers. There now seems scarcely any other alternative left the latter Bations than to make common cause, join the Turks, and compel their deflant Northern euemy to with- @ra¥ to his own dominions and in turn sue for pr. bims:lf. Mr. Marsh, the late American Minister at Con- stantirople, took leave of the Sultan on the 26th ult. His place was to be filled by Mr. Brown, the new!y appointed Minister. Gold is pouring into England in large quantities from Australia—over a million and three quarters of @ollars having recently been received by three sailing vessels. The total value of gold shipped last year from the single port of Victoria is estimated at thirty-six million dollars. The advices from Sydney are eleven days later, bu’ itis said there was no news. We gather a few interesting items from Melbourne, al though the dates are not so late as those hitherto re ceived via the Isthmus of Panama by nine days The last despatch from Washington states that Becretary Marcy has changed his mind concerai M. Bedini, and that it is now the iutention of t government to pay him all the honors due to an am- bassador. The Nuncio, it is said, will soon leave for Brazil, via the Southern route. Congress was not in session yesterday, both houses having adjourned over in order to give the members an opportunity to attend the funeral of the late Rus- sian Minister. The liquor question has been bronght np for dis- oussion in our Legislature much sooner than was anticipated. Most of yesterday was spent by the Assembly in debating various propos tions connected with the subject, and, judgiag from appearances, the members, now that they are fairly aroused, will enter into the merits and demerits of the Maine law with a spirit that needs no spur. Mr. Dewey yesterday reada minority report, which is said to have been listened to with the greatest attention by a crowded galle ry, in which it is recommended that boards of ¢ shall be elected in every ward and town in the whose duty it shall be to grant licences to sell liquor, for $100 per annum in towns where the population Goes not exceed one thousand, and for $200 in places where the population is two thousand or orer. Dis- tilleries are to be likewise licensed. Any adnl teration of or sale of unwholesome liquors is to be punishable by fine and sonment, as is also the selling of liquor to minors or habitual drankards—the fines to create a trast fund, and to be expended for the benefit of the families of those drunkards to whom the liquor may be sold. This re port was referred to the Committee of the Whole by a vote of fifty-four to forty-one, which tenis toslow that its friends are romewhat in the majority. It was then decided to hold afternoon sessions on the liquor question; after which a ranning debate took place on the matter, for the details of which the reader is referred to the proper report under the telegraphic head. Nothiog of special iaterest trans pired in the Senate. Our Albany correspondent, in addition to mus! entertaining information relative to the movemeu ofthe politicians and wire-pullers there, farnis»e- the outlines of two or three important measures now pending in the Legislature; also the bill proposing to authorise the police judges and their cle:ks to in vestigate the causes and origin of fires in this city al) of which wil! be found very interesting. We observe that the resolution which pasyed oar State Senate the other day, requesting Congres: ¢ provide suitable testimontals for the brave resovors of the people on board the San Francisco, has boe followed by a resolution in the Maryland Le in which it is asked that assistance be rendered we the widows and families of the army officers and soldiers who perished. Congress has already on le oonsideration measures to secure the objects ‘¢ nated in both resolutions, and it is to be hoped tat they will be acted on without unnecessary del .y fpontaneity enhances the valne of a reward beyond everything else. The British government and people pave setan example in matters of this kind that 7 | is worthy of imitation. In the cases of Captains Lud. | low ond Young, who saved the lives of a large num- (JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | ber of Englishmen, there was no higgling as to the J market value of the services performed. mong other things Capt. Young was awarded a d medal by the government, and the letter from the lacy of Capt. Ludlow speage tor itgelf in another colama. Hon. Alfred Iverson, an ultra State righis demo crat, has beeu electei United Stat:s Senator for Georgia, in place of Hon. Wm. C. Dawson, whose term will expire with the present Congress. lly the arrival of the steamer Isabel at Charleston, we have dates from Havana to the 22d instant, at which time the weather was very warm, and winter bad disappeared. The Council of State, among other measures of importance, were discussing the propriety cf introducing free b’acks from Africa. Another New York journal, (French,) has been pro- hibited from Cuba. Three British craisers were on the lcok out for slavers a$ diflerent points, but we do not learn that any such veesels Lave lately made thelr appearance. A locomotive and tender on the Naugatuck rail- road were yesterday thrown off the track, by striking a Jarge lump of ice, thus causing the instaat death, of the engineer, and so severely injuring the fireman that he is not expected to recover. Late advices from Key West inform us that several vessels have recently been lost in that vicinity. In one instance a schooner went down within a few minntes after the persons on board had been taken off by another ver Our special! correspondent keeps us advised of the movements of the people at Erie. The latest des- patch states that the United States Marshal had arrived, and preparations were making to recom- mence laying the railroad track. The rioters were greatly excited, and threatened to again destroy the rails. A large bo'el, and ten or fifteen other buildings, were destroyed by fire at Winchester, Va., on Tues- day night. The loss is estimated at ten or fifteen thousand dollars. The rivers in the South are reported to be greatly swollen by recent heavy storms, and the destruction of a large amount of property is anticipated. Despatches from the East announce that yeater- day was the coldest day of the season, At Mont real the mercury in the thermometer stood at twenty five degrees below zero; in the neighboring towns of Boston it was ten and twelve degrees below, and in the city, at sunrise and sunset, at zero. Only twenty-five persons were present at the annual meeting of the New Evgland Anti- slavery Society, which convened at Boston yesterday. Abo litionism must be at a discount, particularly in cold weather. Another meeting of friends and relatives was held at Hermitage Hall last evening, ia order to preveut if possible the removal of the bodies of the persons who have been in‘erred inthe burial ground in Se coud avenue at Twenty-first street, by the trasteas. Thesame ground of argument was travelled over as upon former eccasions, and the same speakers at- tended. Amidst the natural anxiety which was man ifested, it was curious to hear that even such a grave sub could be turned by the trustees to a money- making speculation ; and that politics, party, pro, fessioral and personal advancement would enter more or less into the consideration of it. We elsewhere publish a graphic report of the grand so/rée given by the proprietors of the Metro- politen Dotel last night, in commemoration of vie opening of their establishment. Among other valuable and instractive information publ'shed to day is a second chapter of the Reminis- cences of John C. Calhoun, by h's private secretary; List and account of the German Newspapers in the United,States; Letter from Para, giving a Brazilian view of American enterprise; Commerce of Califor nia ond Disasters on the Pacific Coast; Hints Con- cerning the Construction of Ocean Steamers; Af. fairs in Louisiana; Governors Ramsay and Gormas end the{Minnesota Indians; a variety of legal, com mercial, theatrical, sporting and miscellaceous news, &c, Santa Anna’s Treaty with G Gadsden— A Mante of Charity, The newspapers of the South are in exstasi concerning Gen. Gadsden’s tri aty with Mes or, rather, Santa Anna’s treaty with Geu Gadsden. The Charleston editors are particu larly well pleased. They rub their hands chuckle over the bargain with boisterous satis faction. They call it a specimen of “ South Carolina diplomacy,” and think that, as a proper compliment to Gen. Gadsden, he ought to be made the first Governor of the new tervi- tory acquired. Then, again, it is thought thot, after having been so signally successful in jer- suading Santa Anna to accept twenty millions of dollars for a patch of the deserts of Sonor s, Gen, Gadsden is toe very man who ought to be placed at the head of our Treasury Department to disburse the money, In fine, there is no assignable limit to the con- gratulations of our South Carolina cotempora- ries. And we can readily excuse them when we see that the Pacific railroad route secured thie treaty must have “its eastern ter- minus at the city of Charleston, crossing the Mississippi river at Memphis, in Tenaes- But we think that the Mobile Register clinches the nail when it says of Gen. Gadsden, that “to talents of a high order, cultivated and refined by education, he adds a keen perception of the springs of human action.” So be does. That ’s the point. That was the “Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.” That “keen perception of the springs of human action” did the business. The Generel had a “keen perception” that Sauta Auna wanted money; aud Santa Anna had a very “keen perception’? that our Minister wanted « certain tract of wild land. Between the pair of them we think that Santa Anna’s perception” was a little the keenest. He first heard the overtures of Gadsden, and thea, dis covering exactly the ‘lay of the land,” he put in his own proposition; and thereupon the high contracting parties, with their mutual know- ledge of the “ springs of human action,” hands, signed the paper, and there was the treaty large as life. Now, having been informed of this treaty be- fore the President, we feel the lively interest in its fate of a godfather to a hopeful boy. Itis a great treaty; for it settles, not only our boundary but various other difficulties and em- On our side we extend the or slavery, as Congress by Fee.” shook dipute, harrassments. of freedom nay determine; we relieve Hargous & Co. Garay & Company, and indemnify them tor the surrender of their claims on the Tehuantepec route. And we leave, thereby, the said route in the undisputed occupation of Sloo & Com- pany, under whose contract, it is understood, the proprietors of the Cabinet organ at Wash- ingion come in for shares to the snug amount of two hundred thousand dollars. We also se- cure the desired southern route through our new territory for the Pacific railroad, and a comparatively open country, in which we may hunt the Apache Indians on horseback which cannot be done amidst the volcanic ob- tructions of the old line of the Gila. For all these blessings and privileges we are to pay the trifling equivalent of only twenty mil five millions to Hargous & Co., nin & Co, and others, leaving iarfepee route to Slso & Company, and or the relief of Santa Anna. ys that “ Charity covereth and this treaty is like thd ancl Mare. a multitude of ein: ‘re of charity, for it covers over a multi- tud’e of Mexican claims, Had it only embraced £0 me additional indemnity to Dr. Gardiner it vould have been absolutely perfect. But, god- father as we are to the bantling, we shall insist upon its christening by the Senate, although it does cover no additional indemnity to Dr. Gardiner. Geo. Gadsden at first put in for the whole of the peninsula of Lower California; but, from a delicate consideration of the claims of Captain Walker, Santa Anna peremptorily refused to listen to that proposal. The last advices from the enterprising Captain give some promise, however, of a separate treaty, by-and- bye, in reference to his republic of Lower California: It appears that, after sustaining a siege in a mud house for a space of two weeks, against a much superior Mexican force, he had made a successful sortie and gained a decided victory, The peninsula, therefore, still remains an open question. Should Captain Walker and his li- berators maintain their republic for a year or £0 we may possibly acquire the country by the Texas process of annexation; but if Captain Walker fails then we. must be content to wait till Santa Anna shall have exhausted his §fteen millions for Cooke’s wagon route. His true policy is to make his wild lands, and rocks and sands, go as far as possible. Hence, like a pru- dent man, and with some respect for the claims of Captain Walker, he will hold onto Lower California, as a sort of contingent fund for fu ture necessities. With these explanations, we think it advisa- ble to recommend Santa Anna’s treaty with Gen. Gadsden to the favorable consideration of the Senate. The lobby will please go to work accordingly, including the Washington Union. We get Cooke’s wagon route, and we can fur- nish the provisions required to prevent the star- vation of men and animals in travelling over it till we build that railroad. We supply San- ta Anna with the means necessary to enable him to set up his empire. He is anxiously wait- ing for the money; and if it is not soon forth- coming he may be driven out of the country, like Arista, and thus the treaty may be lost, and Garay, Hargous, Sloo and all concerned, would be adrift again. Let the treaty be ratified—let us set up his Imperial Majesty—for thereby he will be com- pelled once in every two or three years to sell us another tract of land to meet the expenses of his court. Gen. Gadsden “has a keen per- ception of the mainspring of human action.” It is hard cash. And it is the policy of “mani- fest destiny.” More about Gen. Plerce’s Free Soll Letter — Ughly Interesting Communication trom John Cochrane - The Nall Clinched. We have received the following letter from John Cochrane, Esq., Surveyor of this Port:— Naw York, Jan. 23,1854. Jans G_Brwsert, Eeq— Dear SireI eee by this morning’s Heraup thet Isa referred to &8 sutbority for cactaicn statements waich+> tyre in your ¢ditorial article upoa President Pierce's e¢ Feil andoptnions. You wll perm't me io ex piain tb wtot the suthority you possess from ms oummstacces which warranted my comrauatsa Thiel propore that tae statement mate by m may mone peees to have been yoluxteered, and that the enor you have commitied may by the more easily corres ted. It i eight or ten days since that » gentleman cails: on tao in your behalf, wih tsguictes for a letter which youked prof from other sources General Pieros ha: writen toe Vau Buren ratiscation meeting held ia the Pakineureity in 1848. My reply was, thet Irencm bered Guat ench # lever was received, end thst I tuoagu i. was wuibe — & tt, y tI would vom tor Usen found to bave favured t Toh bim very distinctly that tn + récollestion of { a pressiok was that the Itter © psreonal reminiscences of the gent ; no one,) uncerstocd to have acted with the radios! demoe- recy of ovr State, but disapproved of err anc position Treferred to Jader Waterbitcy a8 (ha pr. oa Who woul) probs biy reoollest mos: cistigetly the gon ter. As I suppoce! tat I choald eusosed I st wasa foaa ton of tin Kea leas oat the several times wiea he have since beard Judge Waer >y ‘haa enent of the contents or thea Ie tor, apd as | expressed my belief in the his memo I am bow nord inel ined ty rely upon bis reso Isetion taan or m nae meeting to which the answar of Geveral Pis co erked, Was @ meeting belsin the rark on ths 18°a Taree Ju’y, 1848, to respons to the nominations of Mas tin Van Buren as'Prenicemt, and Henry Do igs as edent cf the United States, ms‘+ a’ Uvics on th ads ¥ of June, 184%, The Buffalo Convention was held anbse qnexily, on the vib or August 1818. The committsa, of which ] wes chairman, and to which the letior ot Geners! Pierce vas addressed, did not em from the U.ios 5 Dut from the F responeing Com mittee o! the city of New York. ¥. ocr your infocmaats must ave been streugely misiakoo if uacerstandiag from me, a& yours, ‘thet toe repy of General Mierea sympathieed and coueurred fully ic k!! the movements of Vau Buren acd hi free foil pariicacs” [have no such ircolleetion, ard I eould no! have eo expreasad my: ; fer my only impresson of the character of the letter ation with Judge roury.) an newered whea qasetionrd, that Gaasrai kindly p: rances of per osraay, but dian proved of i mn, Tehould add that is exciwsion from the list of letters from promainent and di tioguisher gentlemen, when any the least favors! included, hae siways confirmed my inprestion that Pierce's levier was fecidedly against ax T adéress myrelt to you in ecnid nt relianse that you will correct the ¢rrora of your erticls of aad for that purpose perbapa the bet to taert thie ecmi ucieation in to-morr: Pigaee od.lge me by duivg 80. Yours, r y s4N' COCHRANE We have now the statement, uuder Mr. Coch- rane’s own sign-manual, that a letter was writ- ten by Franklin Pieree to the free soil commit- tee in this city in 1848. That fact is now estab- lished beyond all possible question or doubt. Mr. Cochrane cannot recollect what the contents of that letter were. And we submit that to ex: pect him to recollect them, under the circum- stances, would be altogether unreasonable; nay, more, to disturb his ease and enjoyment in tha lucrative office which, as Surveyor of this Port, he holds under President Pierce, by so severely taxing his memory, and for o purpose sofa’ pleasant to his patron, would be downright cruelty. But, fortunately, there is no occasion for Mr. Cochrane to recollect the contents of that letter. With the facts now betore them the public will he at no loss to conclude what the letter-ton- tained. The letter wos written to a free soil committee here in 1848, at a time when the Concord Patriot, which uniformly reflec! xd Ge- neral Pierce’s political sentiments, was vehe- mently advocating the Wilmot proviso. Three leading free soilers, who happened to be cognizant of that letter—Jobn Cochrane, Isaac V, Fowler, and Nelson J, Waterbury —now hold important and lucrative offices under General Pierce. The letter itself is not forthcoming, while it is perfectly well understood and ad- mitted by leading free soil men in this city that General Pierce was with them in 1848. How happens it that while there is no diflentty in finding the other letters addressed to the com- mittee this one from Gen. Pierce alone is wanting? Had the letter legs, that it has walked away? We have no doubt that Mr. Cochrane has looked for it; he may continue his search, and yet he will not find it, unless, forsooth, he looks in the right place. The Non mi ricordd of the Italian witnesses in the famous case of Queen Caroline will long be remembered; but no failure of memory on the part of his officials will save General Pieree now. As to Mr. Cochrane’s statement of his im- pressions about the contents of the letter, after he has plainly asserted that be does not recol- lect what the letier contained, all this shows his amability, and devotion to the President: while it will avail General Pierce just as much as it would have done had the clever Surveyor stepped out in front of the @ustom House and whistled against the north wind. Let John Cochrane pass. But the Cochrane letter is only a small, a very small part of the evidence, showing that General Pierce was a Wilmot provisoist be- tween 1848 and 1850. We have tracks of many other letters, and we have also the famous anti-slavery speech spoken at New Boston, and reported by Mr. Foss, the accuracy of which hever has been refuted by any competent au- thority. The conclasion is inevitable. The nomination and election of General Pierce were both gross and palpable frauds on the American people. If this conclusion is not correct, produce the letter—the letter—the letter. Free Soil of Distingutshed Politicians Since we commenced to dig up and root out the free soil antecedents of the distinguished political Jeaders of the day,our example has been followed by other journals,and very curious develope- ments have been the result. Among other excava- tions which have led to the discovery of interest- ing relics of antiquity, we may mention those which the Albany .2¢/as has been prosecuting in- to the past career of that distinguised member of Congress, the Hon. Mike Walsh. Our readers will be shocked to learn that Mike, too, was among the traitors. On the 2d February, 1847, the resolutions affirming the Wilmot proviso being before our State Assembly, Mr. Walsh, then a member, rose and delivered one of the most powerful speeches made in favor of the resolu- tions. He was willing. “if by the sacrifice of his life he could relieve every human being from bondage, to Jay it down gladly at that moment. He was oppored to every species of slavery, and so declared himself when at the South.” Our excellent friend Mike added:— I am here to face any question that may come up. And if these reeolutions went for the extermi- nation of slavery, I should most cordially approve of them. Even as it is, I sha!l vote for them. Mike is a very different man to day, as peo- ple know. What he thinks of his former speech we cannot say. At all events, we are pretty sure that he will not summon thirty or forty people to swear that he did not make the speech, as General Pierce did when Foss’s report of his free soil speech was produced. He will be content to let by-gones be by-gones; and will probably have the sense to see that to attempt to argue against facts is sheer folly, and never makes proselytes. This much, at all events, he will have learnt from the Pierce and Foss con- troversy. We are continuing our researches and exca_ vations in our free soil diggings, and shall, from time to time,» sibit to the public the very curious :a07~ eof political antiquity which come into our hands. The task is an in- teresting aite as much so as the excava- tions into 4: ruins of Pompeii or Herculaneum. One fact has been strongly impressed on our mind in the course of our researches. There is hardly a public man in the North, of either the whig or the democratic party, who, at some time or other, has not been infected with the free soil mania. It has been a universal disease —an epidemic like the small pox and the cho- lera, which attack all, and ftom which only a few recover. In view of this fact, we begin to think that reason and common sense ought to induce our public men, politicians, senators: members of Congress, and editors; to agree to rub out the entire political history of the last twenty-five years, and to make a.fresh start in the political world. An opportunity of clearly defining their position is now afforded them by the Nebraskw controversy. They can take sides either for or against the repeal of the Mis souri Compromise, as their inclinations and advi- sers prompt, and from that event they can hence- forth date their political life. Without some such amnesty as this, the discussion will be nothing bat a series of endless recriminations, We have not a doubt that a large number of those Northern men who gave a noisy adhes! on to the compromises of 1850, had been previous'y as deep as John Van Buren himself in the free soil and Wilmot proviso conspiracy. Every- body must be convinced by this time, that dne- ing the period which clapsed between Genera, Pierce’s return from Mexico and the year 1850, he sympathized strongly with the Wilmot pro- viso conspirators, and would have taken a more active part in the conspiracy had his position been more prominent. Now, it turns ont that Mike Walsh was, only seven years ago, an out and out free soiler. If, therefore, we really want to apply ourselves satisfactorily and prac- tically to the discussion of any new question, we must exercise a little practical charity towards each other, and begin the campaign without the heart-burnings or bad feelings aris- ing out of past events or antecedents. In this view, the Washington Union takes up a position in favor of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in the new bill. The WaShington Sentinel takes the same ground, and advocates a precisely similar course. It is intimated that the President is likewise convinced of the pro- priety of repealing the unconstitational pro- viso; time will show how far this is correct, and whether or no he intends to betray the South. If the President really means to insist on the repeal, and act honestly in this design we shall soon ascertain the fact, and give him due credit for the deed. But meanwhile, why have the leaders of Tammany Hall not spoken out? Where are John Van Buren and Captain Rynders! Where is the Stuyvesant Institute Committee? The abolitionists and*tree soilers are already on the move. A call for a tremen- dous meeting to protest against the repeal of the Missouri proviso is being circulated ; and already, we doubt not, the whig committee has received instructions from Seward and the other leaders how to act. Under these circum- stances. delay is fatal. Let us hear from Tam- many Hall! Let us hear from John Van Buren! Let us hear from Captain Rynders! Are they for or against us? ApyertiseMent—Lost on Mist.aip—The two leaders ofthe democratic soft shell party of Tammany Hall—Vrince John Van Buren and Captain Isaiah Rynders. They have not been heard of since the introduction of the Presi- dent’s bill into the Senate for the repeal of the Miseouri compromise. The crisis having come, the presence of the two leaders aforesaid is very much wanted at Tammany Hall. The Prince ig wanted to open the ball in a grand speech on free soil, free epeech, free farms, and free men; and the Captain is wanted to olose up in be- half of free soil, free quarters, tree liquor, and free fight. Any man who can discover the whereabouts of these two distinguished Tam- many sachems of the Latter Day Church will probably secure a considerable reward, by re- porting progress to the kitchen cabinet at Washington. fhe Washington Sentinel on the Confirma- tion of Redfield. The Washington Sentinel is blundering dreadfully about Redfield’s confirmation. A few days ago it determined “to leave Mr. Red- field’s confirmation or rejection to the Senate, where it properly belongs ;” and when called its principles it evinces the most woeful igno- rance of the nature of the contest which that appointment will involve. The only just causes for the rejection of Mr. Redfield would seem to be, accordi g to the Sentinel. tree soil antece- dents of his, or free soil appointments made by him as Collector. Now, every clear-headed man must see that the arguments growing out of Mr. Redficld’s personal antecedents or recent ; conduct are the least important considerations to be taken into account by the Senate. True Mr. Redfield was and is tainted with free soil- ism: true his appointments have borne witness to his proclivities ; but in this respect he is no worse than half of the nominees of the present administration. and to advocate his rejection on these grounds only is to court defeat and to lose sight of the only principle of abiding im portance involved in his case. It matters but little to the country whether or no a single traitor hold office for a time under government; but it is of vital moment that the independent rights of the States should be maintained, and the interference of federal officers in local State politics, as the present Cabinet did by trying to build up the Van- Buren dy- nasty on federal patronage, should be prowpt- ly checked, once and forever. This is the real point involyed in Redfield’s case. The Senate has not only the antecedents of the Collector but those of the Collectorship to exam- ine—not only the character of Redfield but that of the administration to pronounce upon—not so much the character of the man before he was appointed to study as the means employed to make any appointment at all necessary, For if Redfield is confirmed the act wil! involve an approval of Bronson’s dismissal, of Guthrie’s letters, and of the great heresy that the federal Executive may interfere in local State politics and foster a pet faction with its own patronage. All these considerations must be weighed by tbe Senate before they are properly fitted to dis- cuss Mr. Redfield’s merits at all. They must first ask how the office came to be vacant so that it became necessary to appoint any one; and if, in the course of that inquiry, they should discover that the vacancy which they are invited toconfirm Redfield in filling was caused by an arbitrary exercise of federal pow- er, in clear violation of an established though unwritten principle of our government, and that a thoroughly competent officer was dis- missed because he would not brook interference by the federal government between him and his subordinates, then, we take it, the Senate will be entirely absolved from the duty of ask- ing a single question about Mr. Rediicld’s character, They will be bound to declare that the vacancy into which he stepped was wrong- ly created; and that, whatever be bis merits, he is an interloper and usurper, to confirm whom would be to sanction the illegal proscription of his predecessor. It will be their bounden duty to turn to the Executive and say, “ You appointed a Collector for the port of New York when you filled the other offices; his name was before the country for some time. and each of us, in his individual capacity, formed an opinion respecting that ap- pointment: why is not his name here presented to us for confirmation? What has become of Collector Bronson?” This question would bring out the true issue, and we trust it will be put: until it is. time spent in talking or thinking abeut Redfield is time wasted. We can only compare it to the elaborate advocacy of the merits of a will and the claims of alegatee be- fore it is ascertained that the testator is dead— mere speculative, pointless discussion. With the course of the Washington Sentine/ we have nothing to do. We understood that the Senate gave its printing to the proprietor of that paper because it had assumed to be an exponent of sound Union doctrine on many oc- casions, and notably in the case of Judge Bron- son’s removal. The language it held on that occasion, and the severity with which it replied to the Union’s threats on the subject of Red- field’s confirmation, seemed to us its best claim to the enviable position it occupied at Wash- ington. Now it has changed ites note. It abandons the stronghold and makes a sham de- fence on an untenable point. Are we to infer from this that the Senate has itself chopped round before the gentle breezes of administra- ive favor and official corruption? Is the Sen- tinel only the instrument of its masters in changing sides? The vote for printer and the vote on Redfield’s confirmation will be govern- ed by precisely the same principles. Nothing will be changed but the names, Those who voted for Armstrong, in pliant obediente to the will of the Cabinet, will probably give Mr. Marcy a freeh instance of their reliable supple- ness by supporting Redfield. Those who car- ried in Beverley Tucker by a triumphant ma- jority will reject Redfield to a man, unless, aa we said, the prospect of place, money, or other favors, has softened their hearts, and led them to desert their principles. When Beverley Tucker was elected a shout of joy rung through the country at the thought that, spite of almost universal corruption, a spoils-jobbing Executive, and a miserably weak House of Representa- tives, the Senate was true to itself, true to its antecedents, and true to the country. Some weeks have passed since then. The vote on Redfield’s case will show how the heart of the Senate stands now. Tne Missovri Compromise Rereat—A CLEAN Sweerr.—It is well known everywhere by this time that a bill has been introduced into the United States Senate repealing the Missouri compromise. The Senate committee plead the unconstitutionality of that compromise in re- gard to the new territories of Kansas and Ne- braska, and declare it, therefore, null and void. But if Congress pass upon this declaration it will not stop with the new territories proposed to be established. It will open all the territo- ries of the United States to Southerners with their slaves. The passage of the Nebraska bill will be equivalent to an invitation to the South to enter into Minnesota, into all the open coun- try north of Texas, into the territory of Oregon, and the territory of Washington, for the Wil- mot proviso and the Missouri restriction are the same. If one be declared unconstitutional they both fall to the ground. In a word, the Senate bill makes a clean sweep of all past compro- mises, and reopens the whole question and the whole country for a new adjustment upon the broad basis of constitutional equality. Where now (is the music ot Tammany Hall? Those Baltimore and Syracuse resolutions must be modified. Gentlemen, walk up and face the music. Tue Erm Insurrection.— All our news frorg Erie tends to confirm the belief that the Eriang are about to triumph, and riot to prevail def, nitely over law and order. The acquittal o} Lowry and King, the two individuals who had| molested the United States Marshal, and th¢| release of Kirkpatrick and the other rioters: to account for this astounding abandonment of | P ‘ were naturally received with great rejoiciag| by the Evians, Mass meetings bad been held| at Erie and in the neighborhood, and the law4 lees proceedings of the rebels lauded in vocif’ erous terms. Meanwhile, from Harrisburg thie receive encouraging accounts of the prospec, of the bill repealing the Franklin Canal Com pany’s cbarter, and seem to entertain very little Aoubt of its passage. Governor Bigler is quite active, it is enid, in advocating the insurgent] cause at Washington ; aud through bis aid thay insurgents hope to succeed in their nefarioug| purpose without molestation from the United States authorities. In one word, the State of Pennsylvania has openly and frankly espoused the cause of the people of Erie, and there would! be affectation in making further attempts ta discriminate between them. We therefore iook now to the delegation in Congress from the Northeastern and the Novth- western States for a cure for evils which seent to have baffled the President. Their course ig simple, plain and clear. Pennsylvania declareg war upon New York, the Eastern States and the West, and refuses to allow any communica- tion between them through her borders unless she is allowed to levy black-mail us the way. She adopts the insurrection at Eric, and brings all her power to bear to carry out the objects of that Jawless movement. She thus succeeds in intercepting the natural flow of travel between the West and th: Hast, and for a petty object of pr'vate gain inflicts a serious injury on her sister States. The pro- per mode of proceeding under these circum. stances is to convince Pennsylvania that if she places herself in antagonism with the whole country she will herself be the greatest loser, Three simple measures cannot fail to produce this desirable conviction. One is to remove the Mint from Philadelphia to New York, so as to save the expense which importers of gold now * incur for the transmission of dust and bars frong this port to Philadelphia. A second is the re« moval of the present duty on coal. No boon,is more needed by the poorer classes than this, Year after year have we of New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and all the other Northern States, been taxing our selves for the support and protection of coal mines in Pennsylvania. Hundreds of thousandg of dollars are every season extracted from our pockets and poured into those of the Pennsyl+ vanians, solely from our consent to foster this branch of their industry. Now, if this thirty per cent duty were removed we could have ag much coal as we want from Nova Scotia, and of a much better quality, at a less price thar we now pay to Pennsylvania, In like manner the repeal of the duty on iron would be a sen sible benefit to the people of the East and Northwest. It would be quite consistent with the course of our commercial policy, and would confer 6 boon on us that every man would be capable of appreciating. Of course Pennsyl- vania might suffer from these changes; but if she prefers a petty interest of hers at Erie, she cannot complain that the North, West aod East, should follow her example. We expect the dele- gations in Congress to move without delay. Tue Internationa, Coryricur Law.—We see tbat the Senate bas again taken this sub- ject into consideration. Great hopes were roused last year wheu the Senate took up the matter, and there seemed a chance of the stain of piracy being removed from our national es- cutcheon, Time wore on, however, and no- thing was done. Finally, the Senate adjourn- ed, and it was then understood that the pub- lishing influence had been too much for the Senators. The project had been thrown over- board on a legal quibble. Dare we hope that such will not be the case this session? Reason and justice speak plainly enough on the point. The property of an author in his book is as much his as that ofa shoemaker in the results of bis craft, or that of an inventor in his inven- tion; and to say that we ought to be allowed to steal any one of these because the author, shoe- , maker, or inventor happens to be a foreigner, ig too absurd to be sueceptible of retutation. Yet this is the pretension of the publishers —this the pith, marrow, and sinew of Mr. Carey’s arga- ment against an international copyright —thigs the great stickler in the minds of Jast year | Senators. A day will come when the authors of this country will be strong enougb to -com- pel the Senate to protect them from piratical publishers in England: when it does, some on@ will not be wanting to do justice to the memo- ry of those who, from error, timidity, or baser motives, betrayed the cause of literature to- day. Tue Fie DerartMent T ATTACKED, ~Some of, the Sunday papers have been making serious charges against the volunteer branch of our Fire Department, and these charges begin to be worthy of attention when transferred into the daily papers. as they have been, If they are anything like the truth then indeed is there an organized vagaboudism among our volun- teer firemen that should instantly be smoked out. The charges simply amount to this: that there is a regularly organized gang of petty thieves among the volunteer firemen, who make plunder and robbery their special business on” every available occasion. If such things do exist, then, for the safety of the property of our citizens, the proper authorities should ferret out and punish the guilty parties; if they do not exist, then, for the sake of the firemen, tho truth should be officially ascertained. The charges have been made, Let there be an ex- amination. Remintscences or J.C. Canuoun, sy Hig Private Secrerary.—We publish to-day a very interesting paper in continuation of the remin- iscences of the late John C. Calhoun, from the pen of the Rey. Joseph A. Scoville, his private secretary, in which capacity Mr. S. served the distivguished Carolinian, not only during the’ last year or two of his life, down to his death, but also in former years, when Mr. Calhoun was a member of the cabinct, At the present time Scoville is publishing his spicy weekly picto- rial—The Pick—abounding in fun, sentiment, wit and anecdote, with pictures to match, and cheap at three cents, Tur German Press —We give in today’s pa- per two communications from well-informed tources re'ative to the German newspapers ia the United States, The facts detailed will be found very interesting and they suggest to ua many new thoughts upon the subject. We shalt take occasion to express them hereafter. A Dill is before the Peasrylyanis Legislatars au borie- ing contracts for & higher rare of intercat thao tis per cent, and ip feet repealing te exleting crury law, CT