The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1854, Page 4

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With regard to the Eastern question, the aspect of it is decidedly more perplexing. Asother @ivision of the combined fleet had enterad the Black Bea; but étill the progress of peace negotiation was @entinued by the representatives of the four Powers @t Constantinople, exch of whom had separately re. quested of Redschid Pacha to conclade a peave with Russia, All the diplomats agree in opinion that the Baltan should insist upon the evacuation of the Prin- cipalities as a stne gua non towarda this desirable event. It was still the opinion that the Ozar would mot hear of such @ proposition; but M. de Kisseleff, his representative at Paris, declared that he dié wot consider the entrance of the ships into ‘the Black Sea to amount to an act of actual hostili- ty, and that he will await more decisive instructions from St. Petersburg before he takes any step regard- ing it. M. Drouyn de |’Huys had addressed an inp portant circular—published elsewhere --to the repre sentatives of the French government at the differen: Beropean courts, in which he complains, mildly but firmly, of the official secresy in which the otuer cebine’s shroud their views upon the matter. In anticipation of a war the Emperor Napoleon had deereed an sddition of forty thousand men to the army. In England the question of the propriety of war waffreely discussed by the people and tne press. It is reported from Persia that the differences be- ‘ween the courts of Teheran and Great Britain had Deen satisfactorily settled. An interchange of a better code of commercial roles had taken place between the goverument of Bogland and the Cabinet of the Pope. Pius [X. had addressed an allocation upon the state of the Church to the College of the Sacred Consistory at Rome. The position of the Church in America is alluded to. Queen Isabella of Spain gave birth to a daughter, at Madrid, on the Sth instant. Neville Soule had addressed a letter to the editor of a Bayonne paper im which he corrects some misststements made in- the paper with reference to his duel with the Dake of Alba. News bad been received from India and China. The rebel forces had evacuated Amoy, aud the im- perialists committed dreadful slaughter there. There are very contradictory reports from Burmah. We understand that the Gadsden treaty with Mexico was again discussed at length in Cabinet Meeting yeeterday, but that no desision was arrived atas to whether it should be transmitted to the Benate or not. The matter is in a complete fog— all being doubt and conjecture about it. This treaty te said to have caused intense excitement among the inhabitants of Chihuahua and Sonora. Advices from the city of Mexico to the 7th inst. assert that the leading men of those States declare that they wil) annex themselves to the United States rather than submit to the stipulations. What course the Mexi- ean government would adopt in this emergen¢y was wnknown from the fact that the ministry was still incomplete. ‘The official correspondence relative to the Pope's Nuncio was communicated to the United States Benate yesterday, and will be found in detail under fhe proper head. Nothing further has transpired relative to the course our government intends to pursoe in the case. It is, however, generally under- mood that M. Bedini will be considered in the light fan ambasrador. Fridays being set apart for the mpecial consideration of the private calendar, upoa which no debate whatever is allowed, no business of general interest was transacted in either bouse yes terday. The Senate passed some thirteen and the House twenty-tive private bills, after which both branches adjourned till Monday. The great struggle on the Nebraska bill will com mence inthe Senate on Monday. Daring the in terim the Northern and Western members of Con gress, come of whom are represented as being in the most utter trepidation, will have an opportunity of sacertaining the sentiments of their constituents, and thus prepare themselves to take their stand upon this absorbing theme. Eventhe President and bis Cabinet, according to our last despatch, are alleged to be in a complete quandary as to which side of the question they shall espouse; but they cannot long re- main inactive—they must boldly face the music be- fore many days. It being important that the senti- ments of the leaders of ai] parties—unionists, seces- sionists, and free soilers—should be made known, it may be proper to remark that we have received, and shall to-morrow publish, a letter from Capt. Ryndera, in which he succinetly defines his pdsition on this grave enbject of dividiog Nebraska into two territo ries and giving to the people of the same the liberty of deciding the slavery question among themselves. Both branches of the Legislature are now in ful Dinet on the liquor question. The Senate spent most of yesterday in discussing the prohibition ui but the Assemby, more discreet, traneacts . geyer busivess in the dsy time, and in the evening the members make their speeches on teetotalism. There appears to be a gieat diversity of opinion on the merits of the measure pending in the two houses, ohe trict temperance men declare that aw bot strong enowghb, and object t it on the’ seore, while the leading whigs are op- poset; to its becomiag # law by legislative enact- meat, without submitting it to the vote of the people, for the reason that it might result in the overthrow of their party at the vext eleetion. Under these clr- en yetonces, it is possible that the eonservatives wil) curry the day, by securing the adoption of more moversie act, similar to the one reported by Mr. Crosby a few days ago. The Assembly of this State appears te be com- posed of downright economists; however, of this we thall be more capable of judging at the close of the session. They yesterday strack out the proposition of the Senate, awarding silver speaking trumpets to the captains of the vessels which resoued the suf ferers on board the San Francisco. The merchants of Boston, it will be seen by an article im another column, collected $9,120, which has been divided among the officers and erews of the reseuing ves sola, end the chief men on board the ill fated steamer The steomship United States is reported to have arrived at New Orleans on Wednesday, with the Californ’a meils of the Ist iest. She left the mail! steamer Ohio, for this port, at Aspinwall. Among the items of news furnished by this arrival is the re- port that another revolution bad broken out in Bolivia. The sloop-of war Cyane was about leaving fer Carthegena with the party for exploring the propored canal across the Isthwusof Darien. The Congress of New Granada had levied a tax of ten per cent on the estimated profits ef all vessels arriv- ing atand departing from Aspinwall. By the letters from our special correspondent, and the accompanying telegraphic despatches, it will be seen that the disaffected portion of the people’of Eri sre determined to persist in their opposition to th® railrond, despite the annunciation that the general government intends to enstain the United States Marehal in superintending the repairs to the track. That officer is, however, doing his duty, and should ke be again interfered with it is probable a detach ment of troops will be ordered to the vicinity. The convention of the New England Anti Slavery Society adjourned !ast evening, ater a session of three days. It is represented to have been more thinly attended, and less attractive, than any similar exhibition that ever took place in Boston. The town of Tapula, on the Mississippi, with 8,000 bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday ast. Our market for breadstuffs was somewhat unset- tled yesterday, but at the close prices were decidedly firmer. Some fifteen thousand barrels changed hands, at figures ranging from $9 25 to $10 25, Our telegraphic despatches show that the prices are going wp at a proportionate rate in the various large cities West and South. Stocks at the Exchange are dull and drooping, the daily changes being so small as to be scarcely worthy of record. We notice that the Aseistant Treasurer has reduced the sums of silver change that can be procured at his office, from five to one thousand dollars. ‘This is a little better ; but why not put the change np in fifty and one hun- dred dollar packages, avd thus give tradesmen, who really need it, an opportunity of procuring it? Under the present system, few, except brokers who +ell it at an enormous per cent,can afford to take such a large amount at atime. Onen the doors to sma)] dealers, throw the silver into circulation, and we may be able to dispense with a portion of the bills of doubtful banks, East and West, now in such abundant circulation. Mr. Henry A. Holmes, who has been a resident of Constantinople for the last eighteen years, delivered a lecture last evening im the Tabernacle upon “Tar- key, its Reforms and their Results.” The audience ‘was very sma). Lectures were also delivered last evening, by Dr. Solger on the “Policy of England with regard to the Eastern Question,” and by Rev. Mr. Milburn, on “Young America,” full reports of which are given elsewhere. Gen Gadaden’s Treaty Curious and In- teresting O.sclosures. Having, in advance of the Administration. heen informed of the treaty between Santa Anna and Gen. Gadsden, it may be safely pre- sumed by our readers that we are likely to know how the affair was brought about, aod why it is that we shall have to pay so much money for such a God-forsaken country as th’s proposed new cession from the deserts of Mexico. And as we happen to be in the pos- cession of certain curious facts and disclosures upon these points, and holding, on our part, that the public are fully entitled to the infor- mation, we shall proceed to state it accordingly. First, be it understood that it was not Secre- tary Marcy who furnished the more particular instructions to Gen. Gadsden on his departure to Mexico. Marey’s ignorance of the geogra- phical questions involved rendered him in- competent to give any very valuable hints cr suggestions in the premises. His Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Dudley Mann, was even less qualified for the task. Mexican affairs are not in his line. He is only at home upon questions touching the movements and policy of the red republicans, socia!- ists, and revolutionary propaganda of Europe. It is quite possible that he never heard of Cooke’s wagon route until our an- nouncement of it in connection with this treaty. The Cabinet member who cocked and primed General Gadsden for his negotiations with Santa | Anna, was General Jefferson Davis, of the War Office. His knowledge of the country, from his observations as an officer of the army during the Mexican war, his qualifications for canvass- ing the country with a military eye, and his Southern ultra notions of “ manifest destiny.” rendered him peculiarly well qualified for post- ing up General @adsden—he being a good ‘spe- cimen of South Carolina diplomacy.” It was Secretary Davis, therefore, who framed the precise instructions to General Gadsden, aided, perhaps, by General Cushing, without consultation with Marcy. In fact, it was their policy to avoid him, on account ot his dangerous proclivities for free soil. It iseven doubtful whether General Pierce himself was informed, before the departure of General Gadsden, of the practical suggestions he had received from Gen- eral Davis and General Cushing. The President was certainly behind hand in bis information of the treaty, from which we may reasonably infer that he was actually in ignorance of the precise instructions to his ambassador, These instructions were in accordance with the policy of Gen. Davis, as laid down by him in the debates in the United States Senate in 1847-'48, in reference to the boundary line with Mexico. He was then in favor of making the range of the Sierra Madre. or Mother Mountains the line of the boundary in the centre, and of extending it east and west so as to embrace the Mexican departments of Tamaulipas, (ia part.) on the Gulf of Mexico, the whole of New Leon, (including the city of Monterey.) Coha- huila, Chibuahua, Sonora, the Gulf of Calitor- nia, and the whole of the peninsula of Lower California. This peninsula is some sevea hun- dred miles long, by a width ranging from fifty to one hundred miles, with a chain of volcanic mountains running down through the middle, aud a desert on each side. But as it is flanked on the weet by the Pacific, with several har- hors, end on the east, in its whole extent, by the Galf, (first named after Cortes,) and as the said chain of mountains is sa»posed to be tull of silver and gold, and as the Gulf is said to be almost choked up in some parts with pearl oysters, the loss which we have safered in losing Lower California is simply incalce- lable. The instructions of Gen. Davis embraced this peninsula, and more or less of all the depart ments above described; and the object of this boundary was such a master stroke of “South Carolina diplomacy” as would give us ample margin for the addition of three or four slave States to our glorious Union. For this liberal acquisition of territory we have designated, it wus proposed to pay Santa Anna the liberal equivalent of fifty millions of dollars. Gen. Gadsden laid this magnificent proposition be- fore him. The Dictator, with his thoughts upon the imperial crown, and with both hands in his empty breeches pockets, heard with amaze- ment and delight this substantial manifesta- tion of the friendly inclinations of the United States; and we should, in all probability, have had a treaty giving us two or three hundred thousand square miles of territory for the fifty millions, but for one unfortunate circumstance. At the very moment when Santa Anna was about to close in with the golden arguments of Gen. Gadsden, news arrived of the hostile iava- sion of Lower California by the redoubtable Captain Walker, and his proclamation there of au independent republic. The game was blocked instanter. Till Capt. Walker was dis- posed of, it was out of the question to negotiate about Lower California or the Gulf. Immedi- ate expulsion from Mexico, cr probably # revo- lutionary execution of the Dictator, would have followed the cession of the peninsula upon auy terms, in advance of a settlement with Captain Walker. But Santa Anna’s urgent necessities for cash were so pressing that he was compelled to do something, in spite of Walker, to “raise the wind.” He sold out as much as he could venture to sell, with Capt. Walker in the field; and in getting an acceptance of twenty millions for it, he certafnly made a most excellent bargain. Now, the question arises who are responsible for this fillibustering expedition of Captain Walker, and the consequent defeat of the sub_ lime treaty projét of Gen. Gadsden? The ad- ministration is responsible. Had there been a proper law-abiding and law-enforcing set of ens- tom house officers at San Francisco, Captain Walker’s vessel would have been seized before ieaving that port—or, had there been an active revenue cutter to follow him. or a sloop of-war, he could have been stopped in the act of a hos- tile invasion of the territory of a frféndly na- tion, The President and his Cabinet are respon- sible ; and their culpable negligence concerning the California fillibusteroes is due to the ab sorbing importance of the spoils and the hungry spoilsmen at Washington. But for the utter bankruptcy of the treasury of Santa Anna—hut for the fact that his very life may depend upon a speedy supply of cash, the news of Captain Walker’s expedition would probably have re- sulted in sending Gen. Gadsden packing home again for an apology commensurate with the outrage upon Mexico. But, considering his necessities, Santa Anna has done well in selling the desert tract included within the new line. for twenty millions. What we have acquired is a Southern railroad route to the Pacific: and as the building of this road is said to be @ condition of the treaty, its ratifi- cation will undoubtedly be the consummation of a fair “specimen ef South Carolina diplo- macy.” The grant of the route as a free gift ‘rom Mexico, in this view, would have been a good bargain on her part; for the building of the road will be worth more than fifty millions to the adjoining Mexican provinces. The great idea of Gen. Davis Gen. Cushing, and Gen. Gudeden, however, is this—that the ratification of the treaty shall involve the location of the Pacific railroad. Being bound by the treaty to build the road through the country acquired, we have only to ratify it, and the question is settled in favor of the South. And Robert J. Walker is said to be as deepin the plot as Davis, Cushing, or Gadsden. But, for all fur- ther information, apply to the two Senatorsfrom Texas. With regard to the Tehuantepec route and the conflicting claims of Garay & Company, Sloo & Company, and all concerned, it is u J derstood that the treaty is neutral, and leaves them to settle their disputes among themselves! The five millions set apart for their claims and other claims—amounting in all to some fort t five millions of dollars—will form a beautife 4 bone of contention before the new board of commissioners. Perhaps they may finally lump the matter in half a dozen imperial claim § like those of Dr. Gardner and Dr. Meiere, turning all the small fry under two or three hundred thousand adrift, as cases that pay no bonus to the outside parties concerned. Such is the Gadsden treaty. Will it, can it be ratified? Why not? When officially advised of it, the President is said to have been so high- ly delighted that he would not even permit the news to be first authoritatively published in the Washington Union, but had it sent all the way to the Boston Post. It appears that the Boston Post is the beau ideal of newspapers to General Pieree—the only journal in the civilized world equal to his standard of an administration organ. So the government information of this treaty was sent off to the Boston Post, two copies, at least, of which go as fur south as Washington—one to the White House and the other to the Union office. Well, we shall have @ Mexican treaty, in some shape, any how. If this will not do, General Almonte, at Washington, is authorized to double the amount of land for the same amount of money. But if the President and Senste are not disposed to drive a hard bar- gain, all that is required to make the Gadsden treaty a law of the land, and to locate tue Pa cific railroad, is to ratify this specimen of South Carolina diplomacy as itstands. Hence- forth there is no danger of a war with Mexico. They have discovered that it is easier to cheat the Yankees than to fight them. Give us the treaty. Carrain Rynpers To THE Rescvs —The ad- minietration have found a doughty champion in Smith, of Virginia. The speech he made on Thursday in the House of Representatives will compare with that of any fire-eater in the old French Assembly, for rhodomontade and impu- dent bluster. Not content with falsifying his tory.in order to abuse the Union democrats—not content with “ pointing the finger of scorn” at the trembling followers of Marcy—this Mr. Smith must needs fight private duellos on his own account, and accordingly contriyes to in- sult two of his brother members in the brief space of a few minutes. What the result may be, time will show. Meanwhile, if Mr. Smith continues to play the bully as he has begun, the only fit antagonist for him is Captain Rynders, of Tammany Hall notoriety. We shall reque at Jobn Van Buren to send on the Captain, with « squad of “ everlastings,” to cool this fre-e: pihert ee re-vating The News from BE The news brought by the Atlantic, although highly important, alters but little the com- plexion of Earopean affairs. The intelligence that @ portion of the combined squadron had entered the Black Sea follows, as was to be ex- pected, close upon the official announcement of the instructions forwarded to it. The fact, nevertheless, created a panic upon the Vienna Bourse, and in London and Paris the funds fell considerably in consequence of it. Decisive as appears at first sight the character of this intelligence, and desponding as isin gene- ral the tone of the French and English preas as regards the chance of a pacific solution of the difficulty, there are yet certain features in the news that have reached us that would appear to hold out a hope that the Czar will not push matters to extremities. If, as had been intimated, there had been a serious purpose in his threat to regard this step on the part of England and France as a declaration of war, it is to be pre- sumed that he would have forwarded previous instructions to his representatives in London and Paris, to prepare them for such a contin- gency. Contrary to expectation, however, both the Baron de Brunow and M. de Kisseleff remain at their posts, and the latter is even re- ported to have declared that the movements of the fleets, as noticed and explained in the circu- lar of M. Drouyn de I’Huys, did not appear to him to be hostile, and that he would wait for further instructions from his government. This view of the question seems to be still further confirmed by the arrival in Paris of the Prince Ge Chimay, ona special mission from the King of the Belgians to the French Emperor. Although the nature of the pro- positions of which he is said to be the bearer, has not transpired, the selection of a person of the Prince’s diplomatic talents would seem to indi- cate that they are of an important character. In the absence of more specific information, it is of course impossible to speculate on how far the hopes to which his mission has given rise are well founded ; but, taken in conjunction with the fact of the Russian Ambassadors not having demanded their passports, it would appear as if there was still a disposition on the part of the Czar to avoid the alternative to which his pride and obstinacy were fast pushing matters. That the manifesto of the Danish and Swedish courts, and the negotiations which are said to be pending between those Powers and Prussia, for the maintenance of the rights of neutral Powers in case of war, may have contributed to this pacific tendency in the mind of the Em- peror, is highly probable. It is certain that in his political combinations he had calculated either on active aid from those courts, or onsuch an ostensible neutrality as would have been favorable to his interests. He had some ground for these expectations, from the assistance and encouragement afforded by him to the Danish king during the Schleswig-Holstein war, and from the well known friendly disposition of the reigning house of Swe- den towards Russia. These governments have, however, more wisely consulted the interests of their people than their personal partialitica, whilst at the same time they have adopied the only course which could have contributed to a pacific result. We are surprised to perceive that a different view of the Swedish and Dauish treaty has been taken by a portion of the Paris press. Tbe clause declaring that the commer- cial relations of thé neutral powers are not to be affected except in the case of articles contra band of war, is considered to be an attempt to favor Russia, by carrying on her trade for her, under cover of a Swedish or Danish flag. We confess that this appears to us to be strainiag plain language to a point that a common-sense construction will not admit ot. The declara- tions of the manifesto cannot well be couched in terms more positive or explicit. Although the facts above noticed appear to warrant a conclusion favorable to the pacific view of the question, they are, in seme degree, counterbalanced by the contents of a despatch said to have been received from Vienna, in which, in reply toa demand on the part of Austria as to whether the Ozar would object to a European protectorate over the Christians jn Turkey, the Emperor declared that Russia would permit no other power to meddle in the matter ofthe Greek church. Positive as is the language of this declaration, it does not ex- clude all hope of an arrangement, as it is pos- sible to reconcile the differences at issue with- out having recourse to such a measure. The circular of M. Drouyn de l’Huys, of which we published an abstract on Tuesday, will be found in extenso in another part of our paper. It is a firm, temperate and statesmanlike docu- ment, and presents an able exposé of the tacts and motives that have led to th- decisive course of action resolved upon by the allied govern- ments. Sewarp as ApMINIsTRATION LEADER.—We should think that Mr. Seward’s friends must be tolerably well satisfied with his pre- sent position. Not content with putting in a Legislature exactly to his taste in this State, he now assumes to rule at Washington; and, so far as we can judge, seems to have succeeded tolerably well. There can be no manner of doubt that he was the man who eleeted Tucker and defeated Armstrong in the contest for the printership of the Senate; he did it probably to show the Cabinet his power. This paved the way for a natural alliance between John Van Buren and his clique, as the representatives of the administration in this State, and William H. Seward; and we can entertain no doubt that some such compact was entered into between the two wings of the anti-slavery party. It was part.of the bargain, probably, that Seward should be what Europeans call administration leader in the Senate; and we find him dis- charging the duties of that arduous post with skilland success. His first act was having Red- field confirmed, which he did, says our corre- spondent, after a speech in favor of Bronson. Every one will recognise his old tactics. He spoke against the removal of Judge Bronson, and voted for Redfield, leading an immease majority. Seward is a good bargain for the Cabinet; he will be invaluable before long. Tne CentraL Park.—We see that it is pro- posed to limit the area and grade the grounds intended for the Central Park, and that there is to be a hearing before the committee of the Board of Councilmen on the subject. The most beautiful parks in Europe are those whose eur- faces are allowed te remain as they were made by the hand of nature. This feature is visible in Hyde Park, London, and the great park at Vienna. In the beautiful park at Brussels one of the most beautiful features is a deep valley which divides it in its centre. The French delight in level parks, laid out with stiff, ma- thematical precision. Our Central Park should stand diversified as it; it should not be graded, but laid out in winding carriage roads crose- ing its heights and bollows. Spreap or Osscenz Lirerature—McDowsE.- usm Revivep.—Some twelve or fourteen years ago a man ealling himself the Rev. Mr. McDow- ell appeared in New York, and established a weekly paper, entitled McDowell's Journal. This paper, which was printed under the patron- age of the Magdalen Society, and pretended to be devoted to the cause of reforming women who had lost their virtue, was, in reality, a weekly directory of the houses of prostitution in the city, with the streets and numbers of the houses in full, and @ list of the inmates, with their assumed names, and a catalogue raisonné of their charms—eyes, hair, busts, carriage, age, accomplishments, &c. Mr. McDowell also es- tablished in his own house an “asylum” for re- formed women, which institution was under the protection of the Magdalen Society, who made continual appeals to the public for contribu- tions, and received in this way large sums, to be applied to the support of Mr. McDowell, his newspaper, and his “institution,” and in other ways to carry on the operations of the society. The society also got up a memorial to the Legislature, and published a “Magdalen report.” stating the number of public prostitutes in New York to be from ten to fifleen thousand, and that there were so many kept mistresses and private courtezans in every rank of life, that it was safe to setdownas unchaste every other woman you met in New York. This wholesale and infamous slander upon the women of New York, officially put forth, and bearing several very “respectuble” names, opened the eyes of the public to the whole scheme. Investigations were set on foot; the press took up the affair, and it turned out that the whole plan was a vile imposition—that McDowell's “institution” was ouly a house ot prostitution for his own private use, and that the large sums of money contributed by the public to the supposed “reform,” had been, for the most part, dishonestly squandered. The only New York journal, (just then beginning | to strive fora position among the moral and wealthy classes,) which had steadily puffed and defended McDowell and his operations, was glad tobaek out in a hurry, with the loss of several hunéred of its indignant subscribers. Since then the obscene element of literature has reassumed its usual form of exciting novels, stomies, &c., free from the added atro- city of a hypecritical pretence of morality and reform, save the daily stream of mingled iufi- delity, hypoerisy and licentiousness, trickled through the columns of the New York Tri- tune. Recently, however, the game of McDowell and his “institutios” has been re- vived on a larger scale. A considerable fuud has been raised, real estate purchased, and a handsome building erected, and rented out at a good per centage to a pretty large number of | House of Representatives, “reformed” bad women. The affair has been much more adroitly managed this time than in the case of MeDowell, and nearly the whole press has been inveigled into puffing and ap- plauding it. The Tribune has, of course, taken the lead in the matter, and actually en- gaged @ person to write a series of articles for its own columns, of a similar character to the disgueting and obscene contents of McDowell's Journal. These articles, reeking with the very filth of the lowest dens of debauchery and prostitution, and consisting of a succession of obscene pictures of human depravity of every sort, have been collected and expanded into a large and handsome volume, embellished with fair print and gilded biading, and sold througa- out the country in immense numbers, under the title of “Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York.” We have carefully read this book which originally commenced in the Tribune, is dedicated by the author to “Horace Gree- ley and his co-laborers, editors of the New York Tribune,” and may fairly be considered as an emanation from that establishment, An‘ we conscientiously say, on our faith asan @ and a Christian, that a more atrocious cow- pound of absolute filth and indecency, hollow hypocrfsy, vile English and bad grammar, never issued from the press. We are positively o opinion that it is the duty of the District Attor- ney to indict the author or authors of this book under the statute against the writing or publish- ing of obscene literature. Certainly nothing in the novele of Paul de Kock, or the spurious abominations palmed off as his—and for pub- lishing which a young man was only a few monthe ago arrested and held to bail for a m' § demeanor—can possibly equal, in prurience and obscenity, the contents of this dish of “Hot Corn.” And to justify this opinion we are going to give a condensation of several scenes, taken at random, from its pages:— Chapwer X of this dook deceribes a pywing woman who is indaced by ber rakish hasbanc to snake dresses for the jomaves of & fashivoabie asrignation house She visite the houee, slearly indicated in the book ay that of Mcs. Taylor, tree), to try on @ dress she is meking for *‘ Mies Naonette ? She goes up to the room and finds that Mies Nannette hes a mav with her, he, Lowover, is going to pull off her olsthes to try om the pew crer, bat the cresemaker objects, and the gentie goes down ttaire As Athalis (the dressmaker) fa about going away, sbe recognizes ber husband’s voice in nex room. in conversation with a woman. Going ii in with “as womaea ba broom, she window, amd sees her bun with ugly red hair, with dull voluptuous eyes, thick lips, ugly teeth, a little enud nose, and a gaunt, awkward fignre.”” Subsequently Athalia becomes a voluntary inmate of this house, and is seduced in the re- gular way by one Frank Barkley, the whole process being described in nearly the samc style as that of the heroine of a notorious ob- scene book, which has become a “classic” in its way, and is evidently the model which thé author of “ Hot Corn” has so bunglingly imi- tated. In chapter XIL., the author, after describing how Miss Nannette passed herself off as a young widow, and inveigled a married gentleman to pay a high price for her charms, adds the fol- lowing choice little bit of his own personal ex- perience and observation:— J know—I speak it boldly--a woman now living in this city, in uptown style, upon money obtained from six , every one of whom she had “ons string” at the same time, and some of whom she used to meet at that very house, under just sach 1 say it still more boldly and truly, for “ old sores must be seen to be healed,” that she has thas duped the whole six in one day, &c., &c. In another place we read:— It is no wonder that the first man fell when “tempted of a woman.” Itisidle to talk of our power io Rabcmerng their Larges oediert i r oung cler, n standing, who vis one of ire. - oc regular customsers,) wae en- trapped again. T! io of Athalia’s beauty tu- flamed his already wine-heated blood, and he readily offered Mrs. Laylor a bundred dollars to bring about a succetsful negotiation, &c., dc. This is quite enough, though there is plenty more in the book even more disgusting. Can there be any doubt or discussion as to the true character of such a book? Can any pretext of “reform,” or temperance, or morality, conceal the bald pruriency, the obsoenity, of such stuff? And are we not anthorized to regard with sus- picion and distrust any cause or any institu- tion which adopts such a publication as its own, advertises it from its pulpits, and recom- mendes it in every way to the public? The gravest and most specific charges bave already, in fact, been brought against some of the per: s ® onair, icoks through a bed be sons connected with this enterprise ; but it ig not our intention to accuse individuals. Our object is simply to call the attention ef the pub- lie authorities to this publication, which we candidly believe to bea direct violation of the law against obscene literature, and to protest, in the name of the authors and of the literatare ot America. against the immense sale of works of this description being taken in Europe as a criterion of the character of our literature and literary men. To the moral and religious portion of the community who patronise the New York. Tribune—which paper is the originator of this infamous species of composition, and most of whose editors and contributors are disciples of Fourier, and of a doctrine of whieh indiscriyai- nate sexual intercourse is a prominent dogma— we have only to say, that they are sus and fostering the most deadly and determined enemy of morality and Christianity that the press of any country has ever produced. No head of a family would dare knowingly to - place such a book as “ Hot Cora” upon his part lor table ; and yet it is only a republication from the columns of the Tribune, a paper which, under the guise of a devotion to tem- perance and morality, is daily sowing the seeds of infidelity and licentiousness broadoas- throughout the land. Resrectasce Swrpiiwa.—The “ gift enter- prise” dodge is the finest specimen of cheating that respectable rascality has ever yet turned out. For instance, some decayed or shaky house or individual raises a few hundred dol- Jars,advertises long list of magnificent “gifts,” and sends the circulars and puff of the “ mag- nificent enterprise” all through the country, Of course, all the fools are not dead yet, and shortly money begins to pour in by mail from all quarters. When the game is pretty nearly played out, and the excitement over, some good natured friend is despatched to give a hint to the Ten Governors, or the District Attorney, and the party is warned that he is about vio- lating the anti-lottery law, and had better de- sist. He gets a written “opinion” te that effect, which he shows to all who call upon him to see about the “ gifts;” and the great body of the country subscribers never hear any more ot their dollars, or of the splendid prizes which they hoped to win. The proprietor is very sorry—but what can he do? The laws must be obeyed, you know! So respectable a man as he would never think of violating them! So our respectable man puts the money in his pocket, and the subscribers whistle for their prizes. Ove RepeEMING FeatvRE—PreRcx For Scort. —We are pleased to learn, aswe do from the speech of Mr. Etheridge, delivered in the U. S- day before yester- day, that General Pierce is decidedly in favor of conferring the title of Lieutenant-General on Winfield Scott. “It would be afgratifying spectacle,” says Mr, Etheridge, “to see the President thus acting in accordance with his own wishes, the will of Congress, and that of the army, conferring this mark of respect on him whose youth, vigorous manhood and ma- ture age have been freely given to his country, and who has for half a century borne the ban- ners of the republic so bravely.” So little of late appears which is creditable to President Pierce that we are glad to record everything of that character which does turn up. Tue Scarvet Letrer—That dreadful A, which burned and ate through clethes, and akin and flesh, till the heart itself withered beneath the heat of its shame—that letter which was deemed by our stern forefathers the most scath- ing punishment man could decree against womau’s frailty—is not half so ignominious a brand, it would seem, as the tree soil letter we have nailed on General Pierce’s forehead. The Union may deny and abuse us—other journals may go into pious convulsions over our “ reck- less perversion of the truth’—the President himeelt may out-Douglas Douglas, and claim to be more of a southron than the Virginians themselves—but all this will serve him liftle till the letter is found. Where is the letter? When shall we have it? Is the President still confident in the discretion of his friends? ‘The Italian Opera in New York—LInteresting Developeme:.ts=Niblo’s vs. Irving Place, Our reacers will remember thet not long since we put the question, “What ls Niolo about?” ‘That question will Bow be auswerso, and severe) other int things will be stated. re Mr. Nibloi» busily engaged in enlarging and improving his esta dlishineot; and when the arrangements now going forward shali have been couipioced, the house will seat four or five thousand persons It is the intentinn of Mr. Niblo to open it in the npring, with a frst cisss opera company, and it is very likely that Max Maretzek—the only successful opera maneger in New York—will be age sociated with Mr Niblo, aud will Proceed to Europe for the purpore of exgaging this company, They may induce Jenny Lind to visit us again. She has been résiding ta raral retiremen: mear Dresiea, but has recently sang in one or two ecncerie given ic tue: city. Itis stated the immense foriune whic ws were told she bad made im this country, war very much over state 4, as Barnum con- tinually exaggerates everythi'g beyond the mark of truth, For tots and other rrasoas Jenoy Lind may be induced by Nibloané Mare'ze« to pay us another visit, Atany rat, (ore is smother ¢ eat artiste now siuging ip Paste—Mile Sopie Oruvelli—wio will come hare. Ora. Veli it & German oy birth, @ aoe looking woman, young and fre-l, wilh a splendid volos, Madame Soutag will. sleo reture tv Ney You J aay bo engaged a: Niblo’s, these groa\ artistes, backed oy goud With «me o terors snd o.«1 eudordinat’s, de Niblom.y be enabled to open early iu the apring wiia aa Italiaw opera of the frat claes. In the sullme, the new Opera House organized under ap act «f the Legislatace as the * Acsdemy of Masic,” and decked by some of the new rish’’ people, is making oon+iderable progress, ani It is expected that the building wil be opened with grest eolat avout the begineing cf next summer, Toe proprietors of the Iry- ing place Opera House have besn advertising for « lea- ee, in the principal jourmals of London and Paris; but we have rot, ar yet, heard of any application: ia sonse- quence, Itis very well known that Mr. Hackett, a gen- tleman disticgaished im theatrical circles, has deen for ome time past endeavoring to get the lease of this es- tablishment, aod be the manager of the exslasive fanbionable establishment in Irving place, it scams that Mr. Haebett intends to aasovia’e with him ove of the Frys. We are not sure wheiher # is the music com- poser, whose firs! essays at eorra were not over success ful, or bis brotber, the manager who broke dowa tho Astor place establishment. Use of them, we believe—- perbaps both—is to be connected with this enterprise, For a year past Mr. Hackett nas been endeavoriag to in- duce Grisi aad her Fidus Achates, Mario (ore of the best tenors in Europs) to visit this country. Thus far al) these negotiations have fallen throagh, and there is great doubt her Hackett will ever be able to oreroome Grini’s dread of » sea voyage, snd her herror cf sea sick- ness, sufficiently to induce her te cross the Atlantic, Perhaps, howeve1, be may be wore suscessful ia his nes gotiations next spring, and she may be indace+ to coms, If phe does, she sill be accompanied by Mario ead her train, ‘Thus it would sppear that, while we ars to have tho Italian opera in New York next sommer, we aco also going to have plevty of it ~~ From (he commencement of the reasow tho two establishments will bs in complete competition and rivalry with each other, cresting aa interesting excitement, like « horse race or sid of battle, The ecvantages cf the possession of #kill, teat, aud of previous success, are undoubtedly with Niblo and those associated with him. The position of Niblo’s is ad-