The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1854, Page 4

‘Bellevue Hospital. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GOR DON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER NASSAU AND FULTON STS. py—$7 per annum. ilory ab OE cents per | 1x Bivion $4 per annum | nd $9 to any part of the Cow 7 Sebscriptions or with A oer postave will be deducted from ae Ly REQUESTED TO ann P Semr vs TICE tohenof anonymous communications. We do executed with neatness, cheapness, 1] ee SUBVERTISEMENTS renewed every da. Volume XEK.. cece ee a No. 353 | AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, —Ganaw. BOWERY THEATRE, Gowery—Afternoon—Forey Twievre—Massack® OF MiCKILIMAKINACK, Evening— Jackets cr BLue—OLD OAK Cy —LAVITTE. Broadway—Guv Maxnening NIBLO'S GARDEN, Proadway—Bonemiaw Gixi—Mu s041. OL10~ SAVAGE AND iiie MALWEN, BURTON'S THEATRE, Ch PRER-Nice Youn Max—ap org atreet—Sormta’s SuP- LOIN New Youw. WALLACK’S THEATKE, Gunrekwarx FRox lu nLarv~ METROPOLITAN 3 he or Bosra Tux Komners— Woer—ur un Tx Loces, AMPRICAN ML broadway—Tar SivreRs— wuL Dopeer. adway—Afternoon-- Warr or Tun Wiatt UM—Mo: WOOD'S VARIETIES—Me BUCKLEY'S OPERA IK aw York, Sanday, December a » 1854. The News. No signs of the stesmship At antic cff this port at ene o'clock this mormivz, at whic’ time the weatber was.bezutifully clear, criep and cold, with a strong wed from the noithweet. Ja avother part of to day’s paver we publisa a carefolly prepared and ec ronologically arraaged hist of the distingaished dead of the Year 1854. It will prove exceediagly interesting to tae ganeral eater, und invaluable az a work of reference. In scoordance with our usual custom at the close of the year, we present several important statistical tables upon eugjects more or fleas important to all olasses of ovr readera. Among them will be fonnda record of the deaths of centenarians, the nambe of very dest ive fixes and the loss of property thereby duriog the year, the number of porsong kiled at conflagrations, s list of lives I>st by rail- rowed accizents, also the number of steamboat azct @ente, and a )ist of the marders and exe:utions @aring the past twelve months. These tables have been preparei wits great care, and are perlestly relisble, aud impart valuable information tha’ cin not be obtained frora any other sour The House of Representatives mot yesterday, ia a<cordance with the conet:tutiozal provision. T' was © very slim atterdance of members, suffi in number to constitute a quorum not being preseat at apy time curing the scesion. Several comnusi cations from the President were presented—one of them a plan for organizing an insane arylom in the District of Columbia. A resolution pe: mitting ths Secictary of the Navy to provide a vessel for the conveyarep of productions of this country to France, for the Great Industrial Exbibition, was offered, ba objected to. Mr. Faulkner, from the Committee on The Collins Steamers and thot, Servicese Policy and Dety of Congress. We publish in another parte! this paper a interesting statistionl chapter of tho passages, respectively, of Yhe steamsbip: of the Cettias, Ts nautical acd commerciat men, to the goverament, and ¢o #1] parties interested im the progress of steam navigation, these time tables will be valuable as exhibiting the well sustaioed superiority of the Collins line over all competitors, in all seasons of the year. At this particular crisis we would expecially invite the attention of Congress to this subject, and to a few practic.) facts and reasous for the continuance of tbe appropriation allowed by the government to the Co'lins line. scee?, strength, cap»eity and safety which Mr. Collins bas thas cootribnted to ocean steam navigation are the substaatial merits of his claim for Congressional encouragement aud support; and in cocnection with these primary results, there are other important considera- tions which sbould nos be tet aside. Anterior to the introdnetion of the Collias rage time of the Cunard steamers, astern avd western passages, throagh > #as between firteen Now, mark the change effected by be same period, the average of the Westera rips of ube Collins line wes twelve days, two bonrs and thirty-five mivases; and of the Cunard ‘ine, thirteen days, fitteen hours and forty mi- vutes, showing an average gain of the Collin ships of one day, thirteen bours and five mi putes, which exbibits fre marked superiority of these thips over their rivals, agaios’ the pre- vailing westerly wiods. In the aggregate, by both lives, the genius, skill acd enterprise of Mr. Collins has secured an average gain in the passage of the Atlantic of from three to four days over tbe pre-existing ocean steamship “system. What have been the consequences? To say nothing of the impetus thus given to our com- mercial traffic throughout the world, directly or indirectly ; to emigration; to the developement of our natnral resources of wealth and power; and to say nothing of the moral effect in our favor among all the po vers of Earape, resulting from these steamship triumphs of Mr. Collios, Jet us consider the actual savings to the commercial and financial world in this gain of three or four days time in the passage of the Atlantic. The sum of the spuual commerce, in its largest sense, betveea the Continent of Europe, and the Continent of Ameriea, may be pnt down at five handred millions of ‘dollars, the bulk of which is be- tween England and the United Siates. This annual trafiic of five hundred millions is largely represented in bills ofexchange, and in the traas- mission of specie. In the transfer of these bills and this specie, the aggregate saving of iu- terest from the gain of three or four days in the Atlantic transit, will amount, in the course of Military Affaire, 1eporied a bill to extend the provi- siove of the act of August 11, 1843, to the widows of persons dying in the military service of the Uni- ved Statre. It was referred to the Commi tee of tie Whole. Gen. Lane iatrodoced g bill establishiag an additi-nal lend offive in Ozegoa. Without traisa % ing otber business, the Houss adjourard to Tuesday. The Board of Hiucation beld a special mestiag lset evening, for the purpose of winding up th business of tho year. [n our report of the pr ed - ings the reader will find b-ief abstracts of the an- nual reporte of the City Superiatendsat, the Bre cutive Committee on evening snd on No'mal woboc}s, and the sixth anvual report of the Board on the Free Academy. All are repressuted to b> in the most flourishiag condition. Toe customary ecmp)imentary vote of thanks at the termination of the sear wss passed to the Presilent, Mr. Bone dict, who retires, and the efficient clerk of the Board, Mr. Gilbert. The Board next year my be composed of forty-four members, of whom twenty: two—one Commissioner foreach watd— vere chosen at the recent electior. We publish in another column a bighly iateres*ing historical atd statisti al report, by Henry R. icho craft, to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, relasive to the past and present condition of the aborigins! Aribes of this country, Every thing authentic tia’ relates 1o the Red Man is interesting, and the doca. ment referred to will be foand particularly so. © The weekiy official report of the City Inspector gives total of 446 deaths during the paat week vig.: £3 men, 101 women, 139 boys ard 123 gizls’ ‘This is an increase of 67 on the mortality of ‘hs week previous. The wet weather of the past week proved fatal to consumptives and those afflicted with complsints of a similar nature. Anne isa list of the principal causes of death: -Consumotioa, ayear, to perhaps not less thaa two millions of dolars And this is saved to the commercial manufacturing, and agricultural community, by the ga‘nin time achieved by the Collivs steamers—a gain nearly three times greater to the business world on both sides of the Atlantic than the government contribution to the sup port of the Collins line. But, again. We have nosteam navy. Th? ew naval eteamers that we do poasess, are sorry failures, slow and lumbering, and cumber- some and inefficient as the old fogies uader whose auspices they were built. Even poor old Spain is ahead of us, and far ahead of us, in naval steamers, boh in numbers, aud in the individual efficiency of the ships. Cuba, Greytown, Hayti, or sme other question, under the bungling mismanage. ment of this admin‘stration, may yet bring us to blows with some European power, or two or three of them. In this view, Sebastopol and the Cunard steamers will aoswer for the value toour government of the Collins ships, in the quick and safe traneportation of large ma:ses of troops, provisions and munitions of wat: But for the contingent commercial steamers of England, and their invaluable services ia throwing reinfercements and army supplies into the Crimea, we may safely say that Menschikoi would have put @ speedy and disastrons ter- mination to the siege of Sebastopol. In the event of a war between the United States and any European power, or powers, the contest will be mainly upon the ocean. Our world-wide commerce would fvel the first shock. 68; inflammation of the lungs, 35; bronchitis, 15; atrophia, 9; consnisions, 32; d opsy in the head, 14; debility, 10; diarrhona, 11; apoplexy, 8; croup, 17; ecarlet fever, 16; typhus fever, 9; marasmas, 17; inflammation of the bowels, 9; dysaatery, 5; congestive diseases, 13; aud diseases of the heart, 6. There were four premature births, and thirty-four eases of stillborn, reported. There wore five deaths from casualties, one from buaras, oae drowned, oue-from poison, and four from o'd No case of wurder or suicide is reported. 3: ¥ deaths occurred in the public institations —thiriy- four of them st Ward’s Islaai, aud th’rteea at the The other establishmsnts are im exceileut sacitary conditio: Toe nativity table gives 293 natives of tre U ated Staten, 91 of Ireland, 44 of Germany, 13 of Eogland; 2 of Ssotland, 2 of Ho}Jané, and oue of Prassia. From New Orleans we learn that the mercantile house of Brander & McKenna, one of the oldest in thet city, suepended payment on Wednesday last. We have a report by telegraph from Poilsd-!phie that Dr. Beale bas b:en pardoned by Gcv. Biglkr, of Pepnsyivania, avd thet he will be sct at liberty 02 Mondey. The statement requires confirmation. Charles Sigourney, an enterprising merchant of Hartford, hurband of the poetess, died suddenly, of apoplexy, yesterday. ‘There is now eight feet of water in the channe! of the Obio river at Ciccinnsti, and heavy shipments af produce are going forward. * ‘The firet passenger train over the Boston and New York Central Railroad reached the former city, from Norwich, yestercay evening, and was welcomed by @ large concourse of cilizens. Government stocks to the amourt of eight hua- @red thoueend dollars, belonging to the savings banks of this city, were redeemed at the United States Treasury on Friday, This proves these in- stjputiors to be in a sound condition. Very Ricn.—The telegraphic despatch from Washington, publisted today, contaias some euriovs revelations. The intrigues of our ad- ministration and its representatives abroad be- gin to come v~ The great statesmen of Os tend are only equallee ny their confréres at Washington. pH a Decrase ov Tie Granp Orera.—The lta Opera, at the Academy of Masic, breathed its Jast on Friday nigh’. Grisi and Mario have We should have no adequate means for its de- fence except in a volunteer naval system. But in the meantime, suppose that we should, under government appropriations, sustain and in- ercase the Collins line, and introduce an in- creased number of similar ships into all our ocean lines of steamers, subject, in the event of war, to be drawn into government service, wha; would follow? Why, in less than two months from these auxiliary steamers we might send out upon the ocean the swiftest and most ter- rible fleet upon its waves. What does Captain M’hinnen, aa experienced officer of the British Navy, say of taese Collins ships? He says, “Iam only doing justice to these maghificent vessels, in stating that they are beyond any competition,” (mark that ‘ be- yond any competition,’’) ‘the finest, the fastest, and the best sca boatsin the world. I am sorry to be obliged to say this, but as a naval officer, I feel bound in candor to admit their great su- periority.”” And why this superiority? Be- cause Mr. Collins, as aship builder, has applied his observations through a series of years to the continual improvement of his models to their present perfection. He dispenses with the projecting bows and bowsprits of the old style, which cause the ship to dip, and plange, snd labor in aheavy sea. The front of his ships ries vertically from the water. They are constructed like a wedge, so as to cleave the water, instead of driviog, like the tubs of the old style, au immense mas3 of waves be- fore them, equal to hundreds of tons of freight. Their sides, iustead of being hard, flat, and strait, are curvilinear, as far as possible, consis- teat with speed and strength combined, which, with the peculiar arrangement of their internal iron Giagonal braces and arching, give a won- derful solidity, as well as beauty and speed, to these Collins vessels. Congress at the last session ordered the building of six steam frigates. They are under | vay at the government aavy yards; but we are admonished from experience, and from the or tagation of competent men, that every one expect this onye,to to be an abortion. We may wae we Gublee Lallury da ibis gvuu.7y. Dobbia has -bo2gh. a: ss ouatiom ml Mr. Canani and Bremen lines, east and west, for the | | year 1854. The increased ; aud sixtesa | iptreduction of the Collins line, Tae eastern passages, for 1854, of the rs has been eleven days, six hours | of she Canarders, e a days, tourteen honrs and fitey-siy minutes; makiag an average difference in favor of the Collias sbips ef eight hours and fifty misuces. Dariag | etruetion, instead of adopting the marked im- | provements which the Collins line should have | suggested. On the other hand, the British government in its new steamers, is adopting the models of the Collias vossela; and will thus render our naval ebips, upon the old fogy plon, utterly useless ina naval contest. The ship which is fastest may ran down a weaker one, or ran away from s stronger o1e—a con- sideyation which makes the element of speed of the very first importance ia the new system of navel warfare. ° We perceive that another batch of war | steamers is about to be ordered by Congress, and we hope that the superiorities in speed, capacity and strength, as a:tained by the Col- Mns vessels, will not be overlooked by the | naval committees of the two houses, as they were overlocked at the last session. Why rbould goverpmest adhere to the old fogy system of from seven to pine kavots an hour, when less money, ia skilifal and practical bands, would give their steam fri- gates a speed of from twelve to foarteen kavts | an hour? Why should our scam vessels of war be so inferior, in speed, strength and effi- ciency to thre of England, when our com- mercia) steamers of the Collins line are ‘“ be- yond any competition, the finest, the fastest, ax] the best seaboats ia the world?” We really think that it is» not osly the policy aud duty of Congress to sustaia tue Collins line, to increase it, aad to encoarage the ntreduetion of such vessels ivto all our otoer eccan steam mail lines, in view of the possibl« vr ntipgepey of war, but that Congress should also, jp the adaptation of the Collins improve- mrpts to our war steamers, endeavor to kee) pace, at least, with the naval steamers of Eag- land. But at a crisis like this in the world’s tistory, :urcharged with changes and revolu- tions in empires and political systems th: wide world over, it would be the extreme of folly and false economy to abandon the com- mercial highway of the Atlantic to the supre- macy of England, and to discharge the Collias line of steamers, the most efficient naval nucleus afloat, fully up to the highest speed and improvements of the age. Anglo-French Intervention in the United States. The columns of the Courier and Enquirer contained, a day or two since, a long article on the European war, and the relations of the United States towards the belligerents. Its gist wa: to chow that the administration and their organs bad misled the couotry by uatraly im- | puting to Esgland sentiments of hostility to the United States; whereas intact the Courier bore witness to an earnest desire on the part of the British government to conciliate this na- tion, and to settle all existing disputes in a sa- tisfactory manner. These views were accom- | panied by arguments of greater or less force, | all tending to show taat the United States ; Ought to espouse the cause of the allies, and thoroughly crush out the Russian tendency which is beginning to manifest itself in many quarters. So far as opinions are concerned, every mau Courier is as much entitled to give vent to his sympatby as Mr. Css to his hatred against England; but, really, opinions on the war are +0 cheay now-a-days, that the best are hardly worth controvertiog. The Courier’s article might pass without notice were it not for the intimicy which is said to have existed besween the editor and Lord Clarendon, which of cour gives a certain weight to assertious of mat ters of fact by the former. Is has long been w practice of members of the British governmen | to engage foreigners to advocate its views abroad; thus the Chevalier Wikoff obtaiced £500 from Lord Palmersion for influencing the publi: vai: d in the United States, and was still em- ployed in diplomatic missions when his anfor- tunate offa'r at Genoa —which is only now aboat to be explained in his bo-k—cut ehort bis official career. Itis impossible to ray What may have been the nature of the conversations which are said to have taken plicé between Mr. Webb of the Courier and Lord Clareadon, but we have the word of the former that conversations did take place, ia which our countryman filled no mean part in amateur diplomacy. Aud now that those conversations are over, the self-con- stituted representative of the United States allows their effect to appear in hia zealous en- deavors to perform what the Chevalier Wikoff, his £500 a year notwithstanding, never could accomplish. Assuming therefore that the Courier spoke in some sort as a private organ of Lord Olaren- den, the assertion that his lordship has written letters to Mr. Buchanan, denyiag the trath of the interpretation placed upon his words in Parliament, relative to the objects of the West- ern alliance, is quite worth considering. Tacre is nothing surprising in the statement; for it was, under any circumstances, a fouiish thing for a British m‘nister, at the opening of a seri- ous war, wantonly to provoke a friendly Power; aud this was so well ssen in England that one of Lord Clarendon’s colleagues at- tempted a correction of the Jupsus as goon as its effect here was perceived. But such a remark as that which aroused the apprehen- sion of this country isnot cured by a simple verbal retraction. A deliberate menace made by a Minister of State. in his place ia Parlia. ment, against a foreign nation, is not wiped out by a private letter or a few equivoca! sentences hurriedJy uttered at the close of a midnight session; especially if the whole for- mer policy of the government which thas threatened was in harmony with the tenor of the threat. If Lord Clarendon was really sin- cere in disavowing any intention to molest the United States, why did he not give tangible proof of it in his acts? There was ample room for conciliation in the pending disputes between this country and England. Yet, instead of attempting it, the whole course of England’s diplomacy since the threat bas been as inimi- cal to our interests asever. The unjust iater- ferences commenced by Chatfield in Central America have been continued as energetically as before. The British Consal at the Sandwich Islands iutri; , menaces, protests against their annexation to tht United States. The British aod French Consuls at Dominica threaten the native authorities with violence, ifa treaty of friendship and amity is concluded with the United States. Now, these various functionaries did not pursue this uniform policy from private motives of their own; it is clear as daylight that they acted under in- structions from home. One of two things, then: either Lord Clarendon wrote in igno- rance of the policy of the government of which he was a leading member, when he begged Mr. Buchanan to disabuse the American mind with regard to his former speech, or he wilfally sought to deceive. It is impossible. to recon- Cie ohhe Yuliing Oi Distinl wiplyvunavy io Ovairal has a right to his owe, and the editor of the: America, the Sandwich Islands and Dominica with the character sought to be given by the Courier te the sentiments of Lord Clarendon and the British government. There is little danger we spprehend of this country allowing the present reckless adminis- tration to involve ue in war, however much Mr. Pierce may desire to divert attention from his domestic corruptions. Nor is it augh'’ bat preposterous to argue seriously against the propriety of the United States he)piog to -ustaia despotisms in Evrope; though Mr. Pierce has he}ped to sustain one here, But as a matter of feeling, it is not surprising that many Ameri- cans should feel more bitterly towards a Power which has injured, fought, bullied, interfered with and thwarted us, than towards one with which we never had apy intimate relations whatsoever. The Annexation of the Sandwich [slants and the Organization of Indian States from a National Potnt of View. There are two measares of public policy now before the country, which however diii- cult they way appear to superficial ob- servation, nevertheless involve a common principle, and are pregnant with vital eonse- quences to the nation. We refer, first, to the annexation of the Sandwich Islands to the United States, whieh is no doubt the express object of a treaty now in process of vegotia- jon; snd, second, to the proposition of one of he Senators from Arkansas, in the form of a vil inteeduced in the Senate of the United Srates. to organize three new Indian Territo- ries, with a view to their altimate admission into the Union with all the rights and privi- leges of sovereign Statee. We are aware that thé great disturbing question of slavery will enter as @ raling consideration into both these propositions ; and that while the annexation of the Sandwich Islands may cease to be advocated on the ground that they must in the pature of things come in as free States, the erection of these new Indian Territories, with a view to their ultimate ad- mission into the Union, wilkbe supported oa the belief that they will come in as slave States. In other words, both these propositions will find supporters on opposite, but purely sectional grounds. Fanatics, both North aod Soujh, will sink all other questions in the miserable ambition of sectional agyrandise- ment, regardless of the consequences to the na- tion at large. 3 There is, however, a considerable portion of the American people who take oroad:r and sounder views of national policy, and who are disposed, with us, to, consider these questions as concerning rather the general welfare, and the benelit of the cutire country. And they, we are sure, are not disposed raihly to ad- mit to the enjoyment of political, civil, and social rights and equality with themselves the inferior races of mankind, whether they be ex cannibals of the Sandwich Islands or In- dians on our southwestern border. Apart frm the suggestions of instinct in the case, there are political considerations, founded upoa the experience of the past, which should prove an effective warning against any such renewal of the natural relations of the various families of map. It would be a mistake to suppose, while the world bas made such gigantic strides in wate- ria) advancement, tha: it bas no+ achieved soe commensurate progress in other matters, which, it wot eo obviously, yet do vitally concera its happiness. Néither the stateeman nor politi- ca) economist can safely overlook or ignore the recults of anthropological science for the past filty years, since, by the course of events and the multiplication of means and facilities of communication, nations and races are more and more brought in contact, and the question of the nature of their relatiouship made of im- mediate and practical importance. The wide physical, intellectuat and moral differences which all history and observation have distinguished as existing between the va- rious famlies of man, are no longer regarded by cound and unprejudiced miads, (except to a limited degree,) as the results of accident or circumstances—that is to say, it has come togbe understood that these physical, moral and ia- tellectual traits are redical and permanent, and that there can be no admixture of the more widely separated families, or of su- perior with inferior races, which shall be har- monious, or otherwise than disastrous in its consequences. Anthropological science has de- termined the existence of two lagvs of vital im- portance in their application to men and. na- tions. First, thatin all cases where a free amal- gemation takes place between two different stocks, unrestrained by whut is sometimes called “prejudice,’’but which is in fact a natarat instinct, the result is the fins! and absolute ab- sorption of one in the other. This absorption is more yapid as the races or families thus brought in contact approximate in type, and in proportion as one or the other preponderates innumbers. That is to say, nature perpetuates no human hybrids, as for instance a per- manent race of mulattos. Second, all viola- tions of the natural distinctions of race, or of those instincts which were designed to per- petuate the superior races in their purity, inva- riably entail the most deplorable results affect- ng the bedies, minds and moral perceptions of the nations who are thus blind to-tne wise de- signs of nature, and unmindiul of her laws. Io other words, the offepring of such combinations or amalgamations are not only deficient in phy- tical constitution, in inteliect, and in moral re- straint, but toa greater degree even than the lowest of the original stocks. In no rr epect are these deficiencies more obvi- ous than in matters effecting government. We need only point to the anarchical States of Spanish America to verify the truth of the propositions we have laid down. In Central and South America and Mexico we find a people not only demoralized from the unrestrained association of different races, but also the superior stocks becoming gradually absorbed in the lower, and their institutions disappearing under the relative barbarism of which the latter are the exponents. If exist- img causes and conditions continue to-operate, many years cannot elapse before some of the countries to which we have referred will have relapsed into a state not far removed from that in cer were found at the period of the conquest In Mexico there are less than two" millions of whites, or of persons having preponderance of white blood, out of a population of eight willions; in Central America, leas than two hundred thousand, out of two millions; and in South America at large the proportions are nearly the same. It is impossible, while conceding all the influence which can be rationally claimed to other causes, to resist the conviction that the disasters which have befallen those countries are due to a grand practical misgonception of the just relations of does not possess, still less the South Islander, and least of all the negro, the eyes, srespectful tone and civil treatment were ensured to the Aldermen and Councilmen. The moment it was awarded, the journals would pacity to comprehend the principles which | know that they had no favors to expect from enter into the higher order of civil and | political organizations. His instincts and his habits are inconsistent with their develope- ment, at] no degree of education can teach | him to understand and practice them. Instead of a strength, he becomes a source of weakness to the State, and plants cancer in the body yOlitic which it is impossible to eradicate. In the Sandwich Islands there are about | 60,000 “Kanakas,” or natives, It may be! alleged that they have constitated and sustained a regular government, and have thus evinced the requisite capacity to be- come good citizens of the United States. But it is notorious that, whatever there exists of government, both in its origin apd administration, is the work of foreign- ers and white men. Scotchmen like Wyllie, and Americans like Judd, have been and sre the real governors of theee islands, backed snd supported by an aristocracy made up of “meek and lowly” missionari.s. Admit these islands, and these men will play off the igno- rant Kanakas for their own aggrandisement, as we have seen the foreign vote of the United States at times directed by demagognes. In- stead of a bona fide State, with citizens under- standing and perfurming their datiee, we should havea rotten borough, while a few demagogues, aristocratic in everything but pame, would wield and control an ignorant and enb:ervient population as effectually, in fact, as Russian nobles do their serf-. Is there anything in this prospect at all attrac tive t> the sound American feeling of this coun- try? Are we, the famed custodians of the precious pearls of freedom, thus prodigally to cast them before a debased race, naturally in- capable of appreciating their worth? To the Indians upon our southwestern bor- | der these remarks are scarcely less applicab e. | Under no circumstances have the North Amer- | ican Indians exhibited an appreciation of the | value, or a disposition to abide by the recipro- cal otfigations involved in a government of the people. Their ideas of government, like those of the Arabs, and the nomadic hordes of Cen. tral Asia, are only consonant with the system called patriarchal—-ideas which, at this day, and in this country, are not only wholly inapplicable, but antagonistic to those upon which our system is found- ed. The only instance in which they have made a sensible progress in the right direction is that of the Cherokees, under the guidance of whom? Ross, who is quite two- thirds, if not three-fourths, a white man! We are free to admit that the Indians of the old Floridian stock are in all respects superior to the miserable Kanakas ; but neither ia indus. try, docility, or traditional deference to au- thority are they equal t) the Indian families of Mexico and Central America, where the at- tempt to put them on a political and social footing with the white man has entailed eter. pal anarchy and a complete dissolution of the political body. In Guatemala, as in Yucatan, it has brought about a bloody and cruel war of castes, and in the former State has resulted in placing a treacherous and unscrupulous halt- breed at the head of affairs, who rules over + desclated country with irresponsible sway Look at Mexico, and, above all, at Jamaica, where savage nature is fast resuming ber do- minion over deserted plantations, and the woods begin to swarm with half naked negroes, living upon the indigenous fruits of the svJil, and already scarcely one degree removed from heir original barbarism in Africa.” If the lessons of history have not been lost upon us, we shall be careful how we infuse diseased blood into our political system. A vast deal of maudlin sentiment, under the name of philanthropy, bas been poured into the public ear by reverend and social Jellabys, about the amiable Kanakas, and noble souled aborigines. But all the world knows, or ought to know, that neither indians, Kanakas, or negroes have ever made a solitary useful disco- very in mechanics, nor achieved in art an ad- vance beyond meaningless daubs in painting and horrible caricatures in carving! * No dis- covery in science, not a poem, nor scarcely an idea in religion, beyond a disgusting Fettish- ism, relieves the barren waste of their mental and moral history! Not leas dreary and melanchcly have been their attempts at government, Incapable of originating any- thing rational in this first requisite to human happiness, they have even failed to compre- hend and profit by the example of civilized na- tions with which they have been brought in contact. Owl-eyed, the greater the light, the more profound has been tlieir b'indners, To the understanding of the intelligent and reflecting man, who is superior to the partisan and sectional issues of the hour, these conside- rations cannot fail to appeal with controlling force; for, if the Unit-d States, as compared with the Spanish American repablics, has achieved an immeasurable advance in all the elements of greatness, that result is emi- nently due to the rigid and inexorabie Tefusal of the dominant Teutonic stock to de- base its blood, impair its intellect, lower its moral standard, and peril its institutions, by intermixture with the inferior and subordinate racesof man. In obedience with the ordinances of heaven, it bas rescued half a continent from savage beasts and still more savage men, whore period of existence has terminated, and who must give place to higher organizations and a superior life. Shortsighted philanthropy may mean, and sympathy drop atear as it looks forward to the total disappearance of the lower forms of humanity ; but the Ikws of nature are irreversible! Deus oult—it is the wilkof God! Tue Corroration ADVERTISING.—-It is now certain that the present Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen, who go out of office on Monday, will do nothing in the matter of the public advertising, and that the whole business will lie over for settlement by their successors, by whom the advertise. ments will be continued for a long while, perhaps for their whole terms, in papers which no one sees, There are two reasons why the Common Council should adopt this course. In the first place, it is the interest of members who are themselves contractors or have contractors emong their friends that the advertisements for tenders should receive as little publicity as possible. Publicity kills jobs; but a tender, advertieed in the National Democrat, is as safely hidden from the public eye as if it were buried in a hole in the earth, and hence the chance for the few who kaow of it. Again, the corporation advertising would be no slight . boon to some of our suffering neighbors. So ‘Jong as the prospect of obtaining it at the hands of the Ccmman Coane! wae Kept before their the Common Council, and might begin to ex- pose them as formerly. Hence the advantage of putting off a division on the award to the last moment, and finally, the attempt of Flagg and his friends to break down the plan altogether. If the public do not stir, they will succeed. The Jaw will be broken, and the corporation adver- | tisements will enjoy obscurity for some months longer. Bisse: ae Se Tae SenaToriat Evection.--The coming elec- tion of a United States Senator from this State | is creating a great deal of excitement in politi- cal circles. The papers in the interior of thé” State are carrying on the war vigorously, and Mr. Seward evidently feels that this is a tara- ing point in bis politicat lite. He is also aware Ghat he stands in no emall danger of defeat. Senator Seward is a remarkable man, and his political mancenvres are very peculiar. Al- | though one might reasonably suppose that’ his official duties were most important, yet he evi- dently entertains no euch absurd idea; he is continually engaged in patent cases. Since he | has been in Washington he has had an immense number of patent cases, and when there is an | impending election he bas a patent case in Sara- | toga, and pretty soon he will have a patent case in Ale ny. He has an important patent cace in thie city just now, and consequently he bas been here two or three weeks. Since the honoravle Senator has been in this city the Astor House bas been the centre of his operations, and, With bis henchman, Tharlow Weed, he has been actively engaged in mak- ng arrangements for the coming straggle Every effort has been made to cultivate the city deiegation to the Assembly. Brilliant soirées have been gotten up by :he friends of the Senator—politics and polkas, champagne ; and Sewardism, chicken salad and chicanery, have been eerved up with all the attendant | luxuries of the modera mode. At each of these | soirées several of the newly elected members of the Legislature have been present, and the honorable Senator, with his confréres, have been most polite and attentive to these mem- bers. The fascinations of wine, the-witchery of beauty, and the pleasant language of flattery, have not been neglected ia the arrangementa for the siege which has been laid to the hearts. of these new legielators. By these means the weak and wavering have been made sure, and several doubtful votes have been carried over to the sure column. Ata recent male soirée given at the Astor House, the entire Seward forces were present, headed by the Senator in person. On this occasion every member of the city delegation to the Assembly was present, and the plan of operations was ar- ranged under the direction of Mr. Coleman, one of Mr. Seward’s principal adherents, and an earnest, opponent to the Maine liquor law. Thurlow Weed—who occupies the same place in the Seward councils that Oiiver le Dain, (sometimes called Oliver le Mauvais, or Oliver Je Diable,) did in the cabinet of Louis XT, and in many respects resembles that distinguished Ppolitician—was also present; and, according to our information, there can be no doubt tha: a plan has been arranged by which the Maine law votes are to be swapped away for Seward votes, and, after his election, the Maine liquor law is to be kicked overboard without cere- mony. Meanwhile, and after New Year's day, these delightful and seductive soirées are to be protracted, and to be extended to the interior of the State. Woen the new administration has commenced work, Senator Seward will have @ patent case which will require his pre- sence in Albany, aud the seat of government will be removed from the Astor House to Con- gress Hall, The patent case in Albany will be duly attended to; and the Senator will find a patent case in any part of the State where it is necessary that he ehould be present to stimu- late his old friends or make new adherents. We do ‘hope that the members of the new Legislature will give this senatorial election their earnest and serious consideration ; that they will not be turned aside from the im- portant issues which are involved in it, and that they will remember that the principles professed by Seward and his party are such as. can have but one tendency—the dissolution of the Union and the utter ruin of the republic. Since the Hartford Convention no man occu. pying the position of Senator Seward has done s0 much to stimulate he ine disseminate disorganizing principle®to bring about the dismemberment of the confederacy, as he has. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Non-Arrival of the ‘Atlantic. Sanvy Hobx, Dec. 30—11 P. M. We have heard no tidings yet of the steamer Atlantic, now in her fifteenth day from Liverpool. The weather is clear anicold. Wind N.W. Interesting from ‘Washington. THE UNION CORRECTING THE HERALD—TAE OSTEND CONVENTION--CURIOUS DISCLO3URBS. Wasuinotox, Dec. 30, 1854. The Union bas ‘corrected’? the statement in the Heratp of the 224. The Heratn’s statement hit the admimstration hard, and the organ is put to work to. “correct” the truth. Now, what are the statements which the Union quali- fies as a tissue of fabrications? Is it in the statemen about the compromise of the two Commissioners? Let Forney, who wrote the article, “Correction,” who is such a ready writer of smart articles, (and that is what endears him to Pierce,)—let him ask hie patron at the White House to show him a certain letter from a gentleman in Paris, recom mending to Pierce the ministerial conference, assuring him that if the Commissioners went out Soulé would come home and stump it from New York to New Or- leans. Pierce thought the filibusters were still {0 » ma- jority in the country. He thought so when he appoint. ed Soulé—he also wanted to get him out of the Senate. The Ostend conference was finally decided upon, when Sickles came home with the despatches which young Souk brought to Paris the 17th July. He kept them two days at his lodgings, rue de Beauner. One of the secret police of Paris in some way got hold of the con- tents of those despatches, and they were commu- nicated to the French government. Sickles is afterwards selected to bring those despatches to Washington, which he does, and the President was ao much interested in their contents that Sickles is taken in at the White House; but I am not sure of that. Sickles boasted in Paris that he slept at the White House. Marcy wanted no compromise with Soulé, but Cushing insisted, and the instractions were forced on Marcy. He said a few days ago that Sickles was a “contemptible fellow,”’ and he had nothing to do with sending him out —all Forney and Cushing’s work. Sickles returns to Paris, leaves for Castillon on Sth September, as stated” by Jadge Mason in his letter to Marcy of that date: Mason says ‘‘ strict secresy is necessary; but that he feared was impossible with such a man as Sickles, whom he speaks of as being “ obviously most extrava- gantly flattered by the importance of hig mission.’* Marcy won’t deny the letter. I can give the whole of it, ee OO ET