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

NEW YORK HERALD. ——e—e——— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, SYFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 878. REP arre sar tect a be F-yy FA Gnd $5 te any part ¢f the AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. CASTLE GARDEN—M. Juzsiem’s Concente. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway—Lapy or Lyons — Box axp Cox—Manninn anv Serrieo. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Sarvaton Rosa—Pa- BN TS AND GUARDIANS. WIBLO’S, Broadway BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Mropy Asuoxe —Kive's Garpenen—Poor Pittscoppy—Tue Lavomsxa Hives NATIONAL THEA’ Curmz—bLAcksuiTu Oy ANTWER WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Wiro Osts— ‘Who Srraxs First, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Afternoon—Tuz Rose or Brr- oa Vale—Evening—AnwA. OR THE CHILD OF THE RECK. GERISTY'S A CAN OPERA HOUSE, 472 Broad- wey—Eruroriax sy Cuniery’s MineTReie. ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 444 Broadway, Ermoriax Mmverneisy—Burietts of Uscim Tom's Canin, BUOKLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, 089 Broadway—Buox avv's Exmorran Ovens Tuovure. ‘BP. NICHOLAS EXHIBITION ROOM—Cowriacna rI0" or Moscow —V¥ evTRiLoguiem. WHOLE WORLD, 877 and 579 Brosdway—Afternoon and Breang. Eve—MEDINA. ie strcet—Srers To JONES'S PANTISCOPE—Arorx0 Rooxe. New York, Friday, May 19, 1854. The News. Our despatch from Washington contains infor- mation concerning the Minister from Hondaras who is shortly expected. We have alluded to this matter in an editorial article. The most important item of political intelligence this morning is the announcement of the resigna- tion of Senator Everett. Ill health is the cause aa- signed for this step. Hon. Rafus Choate has resign- ed the office of Attorney General of Massachusetts, and it is not improbable he may be selected to fill the post vacated by Mr. Everett. In the Senate yesterday the consideration of the proposition to print the debates in some of the drowsy journals of the capital was resumed, and, to the credit of that body be it said, the entire trio of organs was thrown overboard incontinently. The Daily Globe has been settled upon, by a sort of eompromise, as the vehicle’for conveying the politi- cal essays delivered in the Senate to the public. We trust the three disappointed editors and their imi- tors will derive some comfort from the severe ani- madversions of Mr. Toombs. A memorial of Senor Atocha for the allowance of a claim rejected by the late Board of Commissioners on Mexican claims was presented. The merits of this case have been already considered by a select committee. Mr. Douglas intends offering a substitute for the bill a’+ ready before the Senate reorganizing the judiciary system. In the House yesterday a message was received from the President, transmitting the correspondence between our government and those of Earopean eountries relative to the rights of neutrals. The first letter is from the British Minister, and conveys the hope that the resolution come to by his govern- ment and that of France will be received with satis- faction by the United States, and also that the citi- zens of this country will abstain from any measure opposed to a strict neutrality. Qur readerfare al- ready acquainted with the orders in council of the British government on this subject. Mr. Marcy, in reply, expresses the gratification of his government at even the quatified sanction, by the two Powers, of the principle that free ships make free goods, and stotes that it would have been enbanced if Yhe rule announced would be observed, not only in the present war, but in ¢yerv fetsre war, that it might Miaceforth become an established principle of international law. He proposes to unite with the other maritime Powers in a dec! jon to that effect, end assures the British Minister that, while observing the strictest neutrality govern- ment will claim the full enjoyment o: te. ‘The correspondence likewise embraces a le the Secretary of State to our Minister to Rassia, in regard to the course this government will pursue in the existing war, and desires him to ascertain the views of the Czar as to the proposed un- @erstanding between the maritime nation? wn the subject of the rights of neutrals on the basis proposed by the United States. ‘The committee having in charge the subject of employing officers of the army in superintending the construction of public works reported. The conclusions arrived at are said to be favorable to the restoration of civilians to that description of public service. The discussion on the Nebraska pill was continued. Mr. Peckham, one of the national democrats from this State, defined his position to- wards the administration. His remarks were justly severe. The arrival of the Europa, with later news from Enrope, may be expected during the day. She is now over due. The details of the news recently received from Mexico are published this morning, and will be found exceedingly interesting. The accounts as to Santa Anna's position are conflicting, but the most authentic agree that it is extremely critical. It is quite evident that Alvarez has out-mancuvred his antagonist, intercepted his correspondence, and cut off bis supplies. Insurrections were constantly breaking out in the States, and the appointment of a@new executive was discussed even in the capital. The statement of the success of the troops sent against Acapulco is disbelieved, and by many re- garded asa fabrication. Two vesse's of war had been sent to blockade that port, which is confirma- tory of the report brought by the steamship George Law about a week since. Every element of revo- Jution seems to be in fall activity in the dominions of his Serene Highness; but whether any change can better the condition of that distracted country Brecedented; and to the Jast cause may perhaps be: t- tributed the stranding of the packet ship Montezuma, from Liverpool for this port, on Wednesday een ng, on Fire Island beach. She had four hundred emi- ! grant paseengere on board, all of whom it was thought could be safely landed. The ship William morning. She had nearly five hundred passengers on board. We do not apprehend any loss of life will result from these casualties, as ajsistance will probably reach the ships before any un‘avorable change in the weather takes place. There is are- port that the bark Copiolan is ashore at Squan beach, but we have no particulars. Several other vessels are supposed to have gone on shore during the fogs that have recently prevailed. A brief telegraphic despatch received last night, and published this morning, informs us of the cap- sizing and destruction of the suspension bridge at Wheeling, Virginia, by the storm of Wednesday evening, which appears to have been exceedingly vi- sion bridge wae swung acroes the main arm of the island being crossed by an ordinary bridge upon piers. If we are not mistaken, the length of this suspension bridge between the main shore at Wheeling and the island was some twelve hundred feet, and was hung at an elevation of one hundred feet or more above low water, to en- able the steamers to pass under with their smoke stacks. But notwithstanding this elevation the bridge was indicted by the Pennsylvanians interes!- ed in the trade of Pitteburg as a nuisance, and the result was along trial before the United States £0 The courts, we believe, pronounced judz- ment against the bridge; but we presume the matter must have been subsequently accommodated be- tween the litigants, for the bridge bas continued, under a stay of execution, until the storm which is reported to have blown it over and thrown it down. A memorial was circulated on ‘Change for signa- tures yesterday, praying Congress to alter the law fixing seven days for discharging vessels, and re- ducing the time to six. Considerable interest’ was manifested yesterday at the Police Court respecting the anticipated de- velopements to be made during the investiga- tion of witnesses in the “ Know-Nothing” af- fair. Justice Osborn, in consequence of the large number of persons present, held the examination in the Court of Sessions room. The evidence of Mr. Ferris was the only one taken, which amounted to but very dittle, as he could not identify the persons whom ke saw take eway the trunk. Other witnesses are to be examined this afternoon. A report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere, together with an aceount of some of the ceremonies of the myste rions Order. The New York Herald—Progress of American Journalism, The proprietor of the Henanp contemplates leaving the country within a few weeks, for Europe, for the purpose of effecting arrange- ments with correspondents at the various points of interest during the war. The improvements which are now in progress in the organization of the foreign department of this journal are of 80 extensive a nature that it may perhaps be worth while to mention a few of them in this place. The war in Europe is naturally the first topic which excitesinterest. Unfortunately for newspapers, the war is scattered over so large &n extent of country that whole army of cor- respondents is required to keep trace of the belligerents. One is short allowance for the Baltic; and two are indispensable for the opera- tions on the Danube, even supposing thew to be no further extended than they now are. When the allied army breaks up the camp at Gallipoli, another of the staff must be detached o follow their movements, The Black Sea will occupy the whole attention of another; and the Layton, of and for this port from Antwerp, also | . | went ashore, near Sqaan Inlet, early yesterday olent over a vast extent of country. This suspen- | Ohio river at Wheeling, that branch of the | river flowing around the other side of the | | either in the frontier of Hindostan by the Asiatic iribes in the interest of Russia, hav: attracted to that quarter of the globe a degree of interest which our present information most imperfectly sup- plies, Should the Czar instigate a fregh rising of the Sikhs, or should the inhabitants of Bok- | hara descend upon Peshawar, while Great Bui- tain is engaged in Europe—and beth events seem very likely—the British tenure of Hindos- tan would become very precarious, and events of very serious importance to the commercial interests of this country might occur within « very short period. We therefore propose to have a commissioner travel through the Bri- tish possessions, in “order to watch the move- ments of men and races there, Should any | war break out in that quarter, we think we shall have information of the fact in advance of any other journal not only in this city but in the world. These are a few of the arrangements which we are on the point of making, and which were referred to in the notice published yesterday. | We have concluded and are concluding othere, of which, for obvious reasons, we can say nothing in this place. Altogether we venture to say that our readers never had go fair a prospect of receiving the earliest and most reliable news in our columns. These arrangements cannot be made for nothing. Correspondents—to be fit for the duty—require to be well remunerated, and travelling is expensive. We estimate that the changes and additions we are about making to our force, domestic and foreign, will raise our yearly expenditures from some four hun- dred thousand dollars to four hundred and fifty thousand, or perhaps half a million—a larger sum, we think, than has ever yet been spent on any newspaper in the world in twelve months. We incur this fresh responsibility, and make thie new venture with confident convictions of its suecees. We might have continued to em- ploy our present force, and relied upon our former sources for information of the events now taking place In the world; and had we thus adhered to the old rule that /e mieux est Ven- nemi du bien, every business man knows that our profits would have increased year by year, and our position in the press remained the same. We have refused to set the example of military operations in Asia, threatening, as they will, the road to the eastern poss s of Great Britain, will afford ample occupation for one or two more. While these are busied in the field, another class of men will be eatrnsied with different and more important duties. On them will devolve the duty of watching the move- ments of the governments and people of Europe Some notion of the responsibility of their office may be gathered from the fact that an able correspondent, now stationed at Berlin or Vienna, might foretell the course which the German Powers will take in the present quar- rel, at least a fortnight or a month sooner than the public will know it ; and thus solve the mo- mentous problem which is holding the commer- eial and political world in such suspense. He conservatism. Age has not yet so far impaired our energy that we shrink from once more lead- ing the American press in anew channel ofen terprise. We only require public support—and we believe we can command it—to ensure our success. Twenty years ago, the journals of the United Siates, and more especially of New York, were in a very low condition as respects influence and circulation. In this great metropolis, not gle journal had over three thousand sub- ser and the aggregate circulation of the whole did not exceed 25,000 copies daily. In twenty yeare, a total and complete revolution hes been effected, both as regards influence and circulation, Then, a few only read the paper} and few people more than one: now every one reads, and moet people subscribe to several. Then every journal was under the control ofa certain set of politicians, whose mouth piece it war, and who dictated to the editor what he ould write. Nineteen years ago, when this journal was established, the struggle between intellect and partizanship commenced, and the laiter is HOW Completely vanquished. Now, the mort lofluential journals of this city dictate to parties instead of receiving their mandates or submitiing to their censorship. Then, the mind of the e rtered against the dollars of his Now, newspapers make public fon, and impose Jaws on thelr former een- fr TLe consequence of this cilent revolution has been to make the New York press the cenire and focus of public opinion in the United States. The tendency of civilized man is always to- wards intellectual centralization; we see it nowhere more clearly exemplified than in the newspaper press. The press of Paris is the opinion of France with all its shades and vig rieties; that of London is the voice of the British people; ard in like manner, within the lest twenty years, the New York prese, represent- ing every faction, every variety o sentiment, embodies the thoughts of the people of the could not of course form a reliable judgment without aid from intelligent assistants and sub- ordinates. He would need to communicate freely with the other continental capitals, and to be perfeetly familiar with the progress as well of public sentiment as of private official intrigue in all, Such a man, possessed of the qualities which constitute the value of » news paper correspondent—active, energetic, un- wearied, endowed with unblushing impudence, master of every language, and conversant with the history of every State, and every political leader in Europe—would throw a light on the war for which every intelligent man would be grateful. Possessed of as much information as any government, and enjoying over kings and ministers the advantage of being disinterested, his letters would be the oracle as well of the whole mercantile community as of the general reading public throughout the world. Wehave no hesitation in affirming that no such man is to be found in the array of able writers who cor- respond for the British press, Fear, favor, and the events of the past or the prospects of the future afford but a faint hope. The election fraud case was continued in the Court of Genera) Sessions yesterday, before the Recorder. Up to the adjournment of the Court seventy-cight witnesses had been examined for the prose mn, who testified to their voting for Camming H. Tucker. W. A. White, one of the witnesses, ex- plaining the general conduct of the inspectors, swore that when he handed his tickets in Murray, one of the defendants, opened and read them before they were dropped into the boxes. The case for the de- fence will be commenced to-day, when several wit- messes will be examined to sustain the conduct of the defendants while acting in their capacity as Inepectors of Election. William Hayes, charged with the murder 0: Dr. Latener, was discharged from custody yesterd -y, the District Attorney having entered a wolle prose qui. The trial of Andrew Williams, indicted for tae murder of his wife, was commenced yesterday in the Cort of Oyer and Terminer. The testimony for the prosecution is not yet concluded. ‘We had another wet, dul!, misty day yesterday. In the morning the rain came down with arash; but it held up at about nine o'clock, and only threatened to renew the fall of the waters during the remain’ of the dey. After nightfal it was wet and dry al- ternately, but sufficiently showery to make an um- brella useful. Until after midnight the heavens were black with clouds, making it diffeult to ¢ 1038 | dates w whether it would rain or shine to-day. Our list of maritime disasters is continved to dey With scarcely an exception, each vessel arriving at this port for the past week has reported the loes of spars, sails, boate, and also in many instances every movable article on deck. Terrific hurricanes, gmumerable icebergp and dense foga, have been en- countered by navigators this season to a degres un interest constantly bias their thoughts and encbain their pen: all the news we in this coun- try receive through their medium is necessarily warped and refracted by their own hopes, wishes and apprebepsions. In view of the im- portance of the struggle, the proprietor of the Henarp thinks that his own time cannot be better spent than in directing the vast machine of his European correspondence in person : and we anticipate the most satisfactory results from his journey. Besides these new contributors, we. expect valuable assistance from a small corps of writers who were despatched to China some weeks ago. @ne of these will travel through- out the interior of that vast empire and chro- nicle the progress of the pending revolution— an event whose importance to the world at large exceeds even that of the European war. Others will remain at the seaports, whence they will send us the latest commercial intelli- gence. From their combined efforts we hope to have by far the most complete account of Chinese affairs published im any journal. We have already received and published one in- ste] of correspondence: those who take the trouble to compare it with the news coa- tained in the Chinesé now ers of the same a perceive b ar we shal) out- the local press. and the Hast, the British pox session ent of Asia command at- tention » present moment. The discussion of the renewal of the Bast India Company's charter, the conquest of Birmah, and the strong probability of some movement being made whole Union. Half a dozen leading daily journals in this city give the most faithful re- flection of the minds of the twenty million of American people that can be found. Washing- ton was at one time the political focus of the country: it is now merely a sort of arena where the ideas of the New York press are dis- cussed, and acted upon. The great mind of the country is here. More yet remains to be done, however, to make the triumph complete; but few years will elapse before that too is accomplished. Tee Presipent’s Orcan axp THE Cuban Question.—The Washington Union flames and splatters like a Congreve rocket, against Spain and her alleged designs, under the guidance of England for the Africanization of Cuba. It threatens all sorts of horrible things if the at- tempt to fasten the nuisance of negro emanci- pation upon Cuba is persevered in, and flatly declares that the experiment shall never be carried out. We very much fear, however, that this blast of war from the administration Punjaub or on the northeastern | The Science It is acarious proof of the poverty of ideas which distinguishes our boasted progress in civilization, that we are continually obliged to revert to the works and discoveries of the an- cients for the first principles of most of our moderninventions. In the fine arts not only do we derive all the elements of our knowledge from # period which, in other respects, may be said to have been allied with barbariem, but we have succeeded in making no advance upon the models bequeathed tous by the pure and classic taste of the Greek and Roman schools. The mechanical skill displayed in the colossal structures of the Egyptians and Assyrians, are even at this day objects of wonder and admira- tion, whilst in the physical sciences the Arabs and ‘Hindoos had trenghed closely upon come of the most valuable discoveries of our own day. In chemistry, more particularly, the Hindoos attained an early proficiency, the use and properties of most of the metallic ox- ides being known to them at a period when the European nations were wholly ignorant of their properties. Although they have made little or no progress since the period we refer to, their dyes, compounded of the same chemical agents that were used centuries ago, are still unsur- passed for their purity and brilliancy; whilst the productions of theirlooms exceed in deli- cacy of fabric and harmonious distribution o cclors all that the multiplied mechanical re sources of European or American manufacturers have been able to produce. The same remark which applies to the usefal arts, would seem to find illustration in those alleged modern discoveries which are destined, we are told, to alter the whole system of mo- dern warfare, and scatter destruction and death by wholesale, where heretofore the results were only partial. In the same benevolent spirit, no doubt, which led an amiable and philan- thropic French physician to invent the machine of which such terrible use was made during the first revolution, and which has conferred such an unenviable immortality on his name, the ingenuity of certain curiously constructed minds hag, ever since the last war, been per- trumpet, is Like a tale told by an id'ot, Full of sound and fary, signifying nothing What we want is lese bluster and more action in reference to Cuban affairs. We want a firm, dignified, positive and practical Amorican policy put into practice. The country is tired of this rant and cant of the Washington organ. It is vulgar, undignified, and calculated to sink the government in public opinion, at home aad abroad. The blustering of the braggadocio does not become the official paper of such o government as ours. it is unworthy the dig- nity and majesty of this great republic. There is no shadow of justification for such wrath and vengeance on the part of the organ, while the administration itself knows not what to do. When the hen bas laid an egg she may cackle. Uncis Sam Taktna a Svant Ovr or Tue Brazm.iane.—A short time since the commander of the Waterwitch, an American steamer on- gaged in the survey of the La Plata and Para- guay rivers, obtained permission from tho Pra. sident Lopez to uae the P: an flag i view to facilitating his ope Whether purposely or Page ran some two or ti ther into the Brazilian ter digious vensation az agst the aa tiven, who doubtless apprehended an armed invasion. The cireumstance, although wi sume easily explainable, occasioned on the part of Presiden: Lopes who ceo the Captain on his return, The Watecwiteh vas vince left those waters, ag a pro | severingly directed towards the discovery of new agents, or the perfection of old ones, by —— - of War. wit publican chieftain of Honduras, and formerly President of that country, arrived at Mobile the other day, en route for Washington, os Mi- nister from the independént State of Hondures to the government-of the United States. This will give us three representatives at Washing- ton from the fragments of'-the old republican confederation of Central America—Senor Mar- coleta from Nicaragua}: Senor Molina from Guatemala and Coste Rica; and Senor Barrna- dia from Honduras, . The immediate objects of the mission of Senor Barrundia, secording to our telegraphic information from Washington, involves, first, an alliance between the United States and Honduras, which will comprehend most of the material advantages. of annexation ; secondly, an interoceanic railway across the State of Honduras, and such other commercial regule- tions as may be best calculated to develope the resources of Honduras, and to increase its traffic with this country, These are legitimate objects of negotiation, and under ordinary cir- cumstances, in the hands of such « mans Barrundia, there could he little doubt of his sac- cess in weaving them into a commercial treaty. But the interests of the Nicaragua line may operate againt any railroad interocean‘c com- munication across Honduras. Then, again, that State is at war with Guatemala and Costa Rica; and the minister from the latter two may, perhaps, find it his policy to counteract auy ex- clusive political arran; ats between our go- vernment and that of Senor Barrundia. Notwithstanding these embarrassments, how- ever, it is high time that we should do somo- thing to secure at ‘least the independence, sach which the process of extermination might be rendered more extensive and certain in its ef- fects. These destroyers of the human race claim the credit of philanthropic motives; but we never could appreciate the value of the ar- guments on which this assumption is founded. They say that by rendering war more certain and terrible in its effects, they will increase the reluctance of mankind to embark in it; but they forget that the ambition of rulers, and the thirst of conquest on the part of warlike na- tions, will never be arrested by humane calcu- lations, and that unless the common sense of the world combines to impose limits to these impulses, all other devices and checks must fail. In these terrible inventions, however, re- specting which so much vague apprehension and curiggity exist, and which, if we are to be- ligve their authors, will do more to establish the real equilibrium of power than all the pre- tocols, alliances and armed confederacies that have been called into action te maintain it, may be detected the same plagiarisms from the so- called barbarous and crude notions of the an- cients that are traceable in most other modern inventions, Our readers no doubt recollectall the fuss and noise that was made a few years ago about the alleged discoveries of Captain Warner, which it was asserted would blow up and destroy, at some incredible distance, not only whole fleets, but the strongest fortifica- tions, and which were to confer the mastery of the seas on the nation that would give the enor- mous price stipulated for them. The subject, after occupying the attention of the English Parlia- ment, was referred, if we recollect rightly, toa commission composed of military and naval officers, who reported unfavorably upon it. Although the present Earl Talbot attempted several times since to revive it, and even threw out intimations that there was danger of these inventions being offered to other Powers, the whole affair was treated with contempt, and Captain Warner himself consigned to oblivion. His name has, however, again been lately brought into notice by the fact of a large number of mysterious looking tin pack- ages having been shipped on board the vessels composing the Baltic fleet, and which the ready imagination of some London penny-a- liner, sent down to Spithead to chronicle the inci- dents of the departure of the fleet, converted into a stock of the captain’s death-dealing mis- siles, They will no doubt turn out in due course to be as effective materiel of war, but materiel composed of preserved beef, witha due accompaniment of that new item in the commissariat lisi—concentrated beer. Although Captain Warner endeavored to sur- round his discoveries with all the mystery and secrecy which their alleged importance and the modest amount of the purchase money de- manded from the English government rendered consistently prudent, yet it soon leaked out that they were nothing more than modifications of afire missile invented as far back as the seventh century, and which, although described by historians as being most destructive in its vesults, is, in this age of effective artillery ond steam, totally inapplicable to the purposes of modern warfare. The objects of Captain War- ner’s adaptations were to carry out the spirit of Mrs. Glass’s celebrated receipt, and to catch his hare before he cooked it, by bringing the enemy within range of his infermal machines; bat he failed utterly to convince the thick- headed officers who composed the commission that he could give practical effect to hie beneyo- lent views. And so the Greek fire seemed des- tined to remain a subject of passing speculation to the historical student, whilst Captain War- ner’s “long range” found ao place amongst English proverbs. Another candidate for pyrotechnic fame has, however, just started up in the person of Pro- fessor Jacobi, who, it appears, has been lending the aid of his ill-directed scientific talents to the Czar, and inventing submarine batterics for the protection of the Russian ports in the Balife and Black Seas, Although the accounts given of these ney contrivances are not very clear, it would seem as if the invention of the old Syrian angincer Callinicius were to play o part in them, aided by the oxplosive qualities of gunpowder and the invisible agency of the else- tric wire. The Greek tire, ae onr readers arq probably aware, bas the properties of buraing briekest in water, and of diffasing itself on all aides, according to the direction given it. Those combustible elements are enclosed in stroag iron cheets, and suck inthe sea,a galvanic battery, connected with them by means of wires. being fixed outside. Above the chest is somo machinery, which, on being touched by the keel as it is, of the several Central American States. Mr. Clayton in his treaty with Sir Henry Bul- wer, did nothing but get-us into an entengling alliance with England ; Major Borland ison his way home from his roving mission without extri- cating us from these entanglements. His treaty recognizing the Musquito;Coast, as an integral part of the State of Nicaragua, appears to have been coolly thrown into the old barrel of waste papers in our State Department:*"This is equiv- alent to the achnowledgment of the British protectorate over the Musquito kingdom, os a district of country wholly independent of the State of Nicaragua, notwithstanding all the democratic protestations in ‘the United States Senate to the contrary. ‘This point having been thus conceded to England by our administra- tion, it is not very likely that Mr. Buchanan is either instructed or expected to do thing to cut us loose from our joint protectofate of the Clayton treaty. , : Stlll the affairs of the’Central American States call for the prompt attention of our gov- ernment, especially of the States of Guatemala and Honduras, which border upon those of Mexico, and which it is alleged Santa Anna de- signs incorporating into his empire as soon 23 his expected funds from. the Gadsden treaty will enable him to venture upon the spoliation. The true policy of our government would be to use its good offices with all three of the Miais- ters from Central America, to restore the re- publican confederation. of these States upon a solid footing, under a common central govern- ment, Thus they might become a powerful re- public in the course of time, strong enough to protect themselves against all foreign encroach- ments, and sufficiently stable to render them respectable in the eyes of the world. Cut up as they are at present, there is neither co-opera-_ tion among them against their foreign enemics, nor peace among themselves.’ We trust that the mission of Senor Barrundia will comprehend not only the. immediate local interests of Honduras, but the more important objects of a reconciliation among her neigh- bors, and the restoration of the Central Ameri- can Union upon.a sound and durable platform. His character and antecedents aos an able statesman and diplomat, render him abundantly qualified to undertake this important duty, with @ reasonable prospect of complete success. Senrexce or tHE Court Marrian on Mason Wrse.—A Wall street cotemporary seems to think that the President will remit Major Wyse’e sentence, and speaks ss though it had some private intimation of the fact. Wedo not know what the President will do; buta clearer case than that disclosed on the trial of Major Wyee, we never remember to have read. Guilty of the grossest itisubordination and breach of discipline he ‘undoubtedly was ; no soldier ever more so. Ifhe is to escape un- punished, what’ shall hereafter constitute a punishable offence in a military man? Ifan officer is to be perniitted'"to disobey orders as deliberately as Major-Wyse did, what becomes of the efficiency, of the service and the discipline of the army? Better disband it altogether than establish the principle that every officer shall have the right of exercising his private jndg- ment on the orders of his superior. Tus Washinezon SEXTINEL, THE SenaTe 2ND THE ADMINISTRATION—From the debate in the Senate of the United States, the other day, up- on the question of making the Washington Sen- tine! an official publichet of the proceedingsand debates of the Senate, there were-some refresh- ing truths told by Messrs. Byightand Weller (hard shells), of the condition of the democra- tic party. The Sentinel had had the audacity to denounce Benjamin F. Butler and his speech at the abolition meeting in the Park last Satur- day, in favor of Seward for ti Presidency, over Dovglas, and had’ dared to speak of Butler and the New York Van Buren free soilezs, and General Pie.ce and Sgpretary Marcy, s3 all of the same kidney. Mr. Stuart, of Michigan, called the attention of the Senate to this out- Tage upon the administration ; but to his n*ter astonishment, Messrs. Bright and Weller eu: ors ed the Senitme?,-and @eclared that the salya- tiag of the democratic party could only be ef- fected by 2 thorough purging. This is what we have maintained for months | pact; bat now that the question fs officially auc openly taken upin the Senate, we shall expect something to be fgne to. reorganize the demo- cratic party upoih @ matignal Phion platform, with or withod the" tion. Had the Senate met | months singe, it would have, 9 of trouble to all congerne y 4 ‘too late to om- | ee Let it be purged. —— Great Demanp ror Raas—A Worp or Ap Vick To Hovsekexrers.—Very paper, realize the importance of rags to the business community, and there are none, per haps, who are more directly affected by a de— crease in the supply than newspaper establish— ments. To prove this, it is only necessary to state that in the printing of the Herarp about forty thousand pounds of paper are used every week; and in the manufacture of this amount not less than sixty thousand pounds of rage are required. Four or five years ago one paper mill supplied four newspaper offices in this city; but since then, so immense has beem the increase in the circulation of the Henan» that this mill cannot manufacture sufficient paper to supply our demands. Every year we pay over two hundred thousand dollars for paper, and for the rags consumed in the manu- facture of this paper at least one hundred an@ fifty thousand are paid by the manufactarer. Whether there isa scarcity in the article at present, or the demand for paper has exceeded the supply of rags, we know not, but we do know that the price of the former has been con- siderably increased within the past year, Rags are now selling at from four to six cents a pound, according to the quality, and even ola Newspapers can be sold for two cents and a half a pound, a In view of these facts, we have a few words to say to housekeepers, both in and out of New York. If we compute the number of families in this city at eighty thousand, and calculate the amount of rags produced by each at a pound anda half per week—a moderate esti-. mate—we will have a total of one hundred an@ twenty thousand pounds, or about five thon~ sand dollars’ worth. In this est’ uate we do not include the supply which is obtained in the form of clippings from tailors’ shops, dressma- kers, and all establishments where the needle and scissors are indispensable. What we would say to housekeepers, then, is, that they should carefully preserve their rags, or, that rather than destroy them by burning, they will throw them into the streets for the rag pickers. Tae Kyow-Notnine Excrrement—Tae Case: or Exxiorr anp Orners.—New York is a great. place for wonders, mysteries, and tremendous excitements. It is a remarkable fact, however, that these wonders hardly ever attain the legi- timate age of nine days. After a day or twooF brilliancy, they sink like a bright exhalation im the evening , and are seen no more. The last of these absorbing topics is the “Know-Nothing ” excitement, and it reached its present magnitude by the usual means—the public journals—the Courier and Enquirer- being onc of the instruments used for the pur 3. : Pot is alleged that there exists in this and other citics, an extensive secret organization, having for its object the elevation of native born Americans to all posts of political influences. the retrenchment of the powcr and property of the Roman Catholic Church, and the farther protection of the ballot box from what are called the ‘insidious wiles of foreign in- fluence.” Three or four days since the Courier and Enquirer published a letter, purporting to be a copy of one received by a Roman Catholic priest. The writer promises to pat the priest in possession of all the signs, grips, pass-words, tokens and manner of work of a secret society, of which order he (the writer) is _ @ high officer, and which order has for its ulti- mate object tlie overthrow of the Roman Catho_ lic Church in the United States. All this valua. ble information was to be given for the modest. sum of ten thousand dollars. The “ priest” re- fused, for certain good and sufficient rea- sons, and the letter was published without signature. It is further alleged that the order referred to was the “Know No- thing” order; that certain members of that order suspected that Mr. John E. Elliott was the writer of the letter, and that these persons made a forcible entry into the premises occu- pied by Mr. Elliott, and thercin seized and carried away o trunk containing documenta, rituals, seals, &c., the property of the order, and also certain personal property belonging to him. Mr. Elliott denied the statement relative to his connection with the letter, and he made affidavit that to the best of his knowledge and belief three persons—Messrs. Sleight, Allen and Moree—were the individuals who seized his pro~ perty. These persons were arrested and exa- mined before Mr. Justice Osborne, yesterday- ‘The examination was holden in the court room formerly occupied for the Sessions, and it was crowded to excess. The people, invited thereto by the delicate wit and playful sarcasm of the leader for the defence, indulged in noisy de- monstrations of applause, which produced several scenes disgraceful in a cout of jastice. The Henatp reporters have given full notes of the evidence, which appear in the proper place. The evidence does not throw much light upon the various interesting subjects which go to make up the excitement. The cor- pus of the prosecution’s case was not well sns~ tained, and their main witness was not by any means certain in his evidence. He could iden- tify but one of the accused persons (Mr. Allen > and the charge of burglary, as far as the othere are concerned, was abandoned by the counsel for the prosecution. The examination is to he continued this afternoon. The whole affair seems to be a humbug. Mrs Elliott says he has received threatening letters —that pistols have been discharged near him head, and so forth. All these threatenings go. for naught among sensible, practical men of the world. Appended to the report of the proceedings at the Halls of Justice, will be foud a condensa- tion of a pamphiet purporting to be anexposé of the “Secret Order of Know-Nothings.” It deserves record as one of the ridiculous fea~ tures of a ridiculous affair; and, notwithstand-- ing its absurdity, it may be Jona fide. It ier unneceseary to say, after recent revelations, that the crop of fools is as luxuriant as ever. In onr time we have seen several politica secret orders rise, flourish and fall. Some of them do not flourish, but they always falk. After the first flush of victory jealousy creeps. into the camp, and the shabby edifice falls te pieces, never to rise again, or, at loast, never im. the same manncr. Eight years ago the native American party achieved temporary successes fn New York, Boston aad Philatelphia, These