The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1855, Page 4

356 ~EW- YORK HERALD. aN “RDON BENNETT, JAMES Ge. “"" EDITOR, PROPRIETOR An~ errcy ¥. W. COREE xueeiu axp wouroX pre} sory, © fay part of Great Be and Rota to mclude 5: Volume XE, erererrr |: ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS BROADWAY THEATRE, Browdway—Cinpenerra—s Bucuran Brie. SOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—La Toun vx Nesie— PRELAND AND AmeRICA—~ SERVANTS BY Leeacy. sURTON’ Lrvine 700 ane TABLES. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway~Gaux or Lire ~ © Fuasrican AND TUE ¥ CAN MUSEUM—Afternoon~Quirz ar Home Ba Susas. Byeatna -Tus Daunxann. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, hantos” Hall—474 Broadway EY'S OPENA BEUSE, 639 Brosdway—Buom, morian Orena TROUPE, EATRE, Chambers ctree:—Joun Josne— et WanpeRine Minernen -ToRmixo any New York, Thursday, Febraary 15, 1855. The News. The steamship Asia arrived at Halifax at one elock yesterday morning. She briaga one week’s later news from Europe, a comprehensive suamary of which is given on the first page. The pointof special interes! is the defeat and rezignation of the NEW YORK HERALD, \ THURSDAY, | well ae they can, sgainst the inelemsncy of the sea- on ard the attacks of their exewlem” We gives | years hence. We know, report of the eufferings of two English officers who returned to Port Royal, after having bsen fifty-two ca,” S* Sea, in am upauccessful attempt to reach Torks 19,.°4* They got on the const of St, Do- mingo, but the.” Teception wea not very cordial Deeg the Fmyerot Soulonque dread Britis) filihas tec? : Ths Pebrosry thaw hae set in upon G3 {a gnrngas. From fye o’chock yeate:day morning un'il twelve o'clock last night the raim poured down ia a coati- pucus torrent, washing Away the snow and ioe, flooding the streets, and submerging the cellars in the lower sections of the city. We do not, however, learn of any serious damage. This storm, like the snow storm that preceded it, has extended in sll direcions, and it is probable we shall in a day or two learn of bridges and dams being cartied away by floods, ania long csialogue of other catastrophes usual at this season of the year. The telegraphs worked badly Isst might, and we were obliged to put the Henaxp to press without (2 cor. Senate, and ‘sith but @ meagre summary of tue Ly gislstive doings. In the United States Senate yeste’ day a communi- cation was received from the War Departnean: re- specting the Indian reservatio as at Fort Laaven- worth ; also one from the Secr etary of tne Navy re- lative to navy yards and dois, Both were referred. A. bill was introduced aypropristing twen'y five thousand dollars to the ‘captors of the Britis brigs “Aberdeen. ministry, which was officially ammounced in Perlisment om the lst imst., at which time Lord Derby stated that he had bee invited by the Queen to form a wilnisiry, ‘but that he gould notdoit. Our views on thia subject are given at lengtb.in the editorial columns. Another aud an important featare of the news is the defeat of the proposition 6f Austria, in the Germanic Diet, to wobilize ithe federal army, and the adoption of the proponalof Prassia to place the ‘contingent force @n)y on @ war footing. These measurss caused ade- elie in the funds,and much speculationas to the couree Atastria would pureue under th> circum stances.’ Prussia has assumed @ more energetic at. ‘titude. ‘The latest despatches from Berlin state that porticns.of the army had beem ordered to advance into Saxony and Silicia, aud an application on the part of, the French govornment to permit the pessage of a force throngh Prussian ter- ritory was peremptorily refused. Prussia has signitied to the Western Powers that sho entirely. accords with the resnlt of the confer ence at Vienna, and that the admission of @ repre- sentative to its deliberations is indispensable to her adhesion to any treaty that may ba made. Tae ‘intelligence from the Crimea is unimportant. The French numer 68,000, and additional reinforementa ‘were on their way. Gen. Canrobert has offered to ‘assume the charge of al) the offensive operations, The British appear to be completely paralyzed. A change in the Torkish ministry was expected. Tae commercial news by this arrival ia somewhat un- favorable. Cotton and breadstuffy were dall, with a slight decline in prices. Console closed at 914. The extreme inclemency of the weatner yeaterday, together with the announcem:nt that the Asia had reeohed Halifax, had the effect to restrict ea'es of eotton and other articles of produce. The stock of cotton again becoming reduced in this market, hold- ere were, before the receipt of the news, indisposed to make any concession to buyers. Tue sales em- braced about 500 bales at unchanged rates. No tranesctiona occurred after the news came to hand. Owing to the low stage of water in the Southern rivers, the deficiency of receipts this year compared with leat, in the seaports, amounts to 103,000 bales, while the exports to foreign porte, are 219,000 bales im excess of last year, Jeaving the total stock in the porte 202,000 bales less than last season. Tae only @rawback to the prospect of better prices arises from the complex political state of Europe, and ap- pretensions that the war may be indefinitely pro- tracted. Flour and grain were unchanged. Pork was firmer for new mess, wit sales at $1450. The steamship Crescent C.ty, from Havana 8th inatant, brings important and exciting intelligence of detected conspiracies, numerous arrests of promi- ment personages, extensive preparations to repel anticipated invasiors, the arrival of a British naval force, and other matters of a startling character, the particula’s of which may be found on the first page. In the editorial colamns we have com- mented upon this interesting news. There is evi- dently « storm brew'ng sround the “Queen of the Antilles,” andthe next uews from that quarter will be awaited with feverish anxiety. By tbe arrival of the steamship Norshera Light last evening we have the details of the California news, the announcement of which was given in yesterday’s paper, rectived by telegraph from New Orleans. We bave also news from Cen tral America and the Sandwich Islands, Tats stea- mer brings a smaller amount of gold dust than any preceding steamer during the last two years. It was stated in San Franciaco that very little of the pro- ceeds of the mines was coming in, and that the bulk of the treasure which was shipped consisted of - coin. It will bereen by the news that the minss, however, were stil! yielding abundantly, and giving reason to anticipate increased shipments by fature arrivals. Our last news left the inhabitants of Los Angeles in arms against the constituted authorities, in consequence of judge having respited a sen- tenced murderer. The mob sated their vengeance upon the unfortunate criminal by hanging him. Some robbers had attacked the county treasurer at Sonora, broken bis skull with a hatchet, aud robbed his safe of asum of money, supposed to be about thirty thousand dollars. One of the murderers was arrested and hanged by Lynch law, a code which seems more in vogue in some parts of California than the statute. We give, for the benefit of poli- ticians, the result of each of the twenty-two ballots in the California Legislature for United States Sena- tor, and also a number of items which wil be read with interest. ‘We learn from Oregon that Gen. Lane, the present delegate in Congress from tha’ Territory, is a can- didate for re-n>mination. Ata meeting of the citi. zeus of Clark county, Washington Territory, held on the 16th December, Hon. C. Lancaster, delegate im Congress, was denounced in connestion with a determination on the part of the settlers to resist the claims of the Hadson Bay Company to certain lands at Vancouver. Col. Wheeler, our Minister to Central America, had taken possession of the papers belonging to the miesion, and established himeelf at Virgin Bay. In Lower California apprehensions of an insurrec- tion were entertained, and Senor Melendriz, the commander of the northern frontier, had issued a proclamation, ordering aH suspicious persons to quit the territory. ‘We have later intelligence from the Sandwich Islands, but it is not of the least importance politi- cally. The public attentioa wes occupied with the preparations for the obsequies of the late King, which were to be conduc'ed on an extensive sale. By the arrival of the Crescent City we have re- ceived a file of Kingston (Jamaica) papers to the 18th of January. They contain no news of genera) interest, but report a variety of trifling items of mere local importance. Sabscriptions to the English patriotic fand were being gotten up in some of the parishes. The Kingston Morning Journal of the 15th ult, speaking of the prospects of the allied troops in the Crimes, is much less sanguine in its tone. It says now :—“ The ides of wintering in the Crimea, or at least tn an entrenched camp withou’ the walls of Sebastopol, was never contempiated by the Generals of the besieging army, who were quite confident of capturing that place before the winter should eet im. But they cleariy underestimated ita strength apd capabilities of defence; and sler failing im their measures, a: leas’ for the present, they now Gad themselves comoel'ed to cones opera Mos sgnw eile ad Csledonia and Detroit, during the last war with Great Britein, The Te.sus Creditors bill was report:d from the House. On motion of Mr. Rusk the amendments were disagreed to, and a commitive of conference waa ordered. The considsrs‘ion of the Indian “Appropriation bill waa then resumed. Jn the House yesterday a bil! app-opriating $125,- ‘000 for the site ard erection of military defences at the termination of the Mexican Galf Railroad, in ‘Louisians, was passed. Fat jobs for the pristers have been cut out. Resolutions were adopted, or- dering 130,000 copies of the agricultaral an’ 20,000 copies of the mecharical parts of tne Patent Offive report; also t0,000 copies of Com. Perry’s report of the Japen expedition; a’go 10,000 copies of tre sur veys for a railroad to the Pasific, including those of Ool. Fremont. The resolution authorizing the'con- struction of seven steam sloops of-war was taken up, the question being to close the debate ia five minutes, which was laid on the table and the sub ject dropped. The resolution appripriating one million dollars to faifil certain treaty stipulations with Spain, relative to losses incurred by the in- habitants of East Florida previous to its annexa- tion to the United States, was laid on the table— 104 to 90. The Connecticut Democratic State Convention for the nomination of Stats officers mst at New Haven yesterday. The ticket of last year was re- nominated, with the exception 0! ths candidate for Comptroller, for which office Thomas Cowles was selected in place of Julius Hotchkiss. Resolutions opposing the Know Nothings and the Maine law were adopted. At 2 meeting of the Commissioners of Emigration, held yesterday afternoon, s communication was re- ceived from Mayor Wood relative to the shipmentto this country of panpers and convicts from Belgium, in which the Commissioners are requeated to act with the city authorities in causing the immediats reshipment of those objectionable immigrants, From the debate in the Board it appears that we are indebted toa person named Strauss for the csrgoes of criminals and paupers landed om our shores. He, it is said, bas a standing contract with the Belgian authorities to dispose of their refuse population at #0 much per head. The other subjects under the consideration of the Board were quite in- teresting, as will be seen by the report which we give elsewhere. A large amount of routine business, but noting of a very special nature, was transacted by the Board of Councilmen last evening. A reeolation of Covncilman Mather, defining the principles to be retained or incorporated in the proposed amend- ment to the city charter, was taken up, discussed, and again laid upon the table. In another column will be found the pas‘oral let ter of Armandus Francis Mary De Charbonnel, Catholic Bishop of Toronto, Canada, to the faithful of his diocees, announcing and explaining the new dogma of the Immeculate Concep‘ion, which issued from the head of the church at Rome on the 8th of December last. We believe it is the first official anncuncement of this now established principle of faith which bas been promu!gated on this contiasnt from any prelate of the Romish church, and now, in the words of the Bishop, “to deny even mentally the Immaculate Conception will be the same sin of heresy as to deny the divire maternity of Mary.” Phe Virginia Campaign—Henry A. Wise— Sad Decline in Virginia Statesmanship and Chivalry. Since the re-election of Seward, the Virginia campaign has lost much of its interest to all good and independent conservatives. The weakness or the inexperience and inefficiency of the Know Nothings at Albany logically jus- tify the conclusion that the same causes will probably lead to the same result in Virginia— the success of the anti-Know Nothing candi- date. Still, there is much in the moral as- pects and political issues of this Virginia con- test entitled to consideration. The “Old Dominion” is a term which has be- come identified in the public mind with the highest statesmanship, es well as the loftiest chivalry and the most refined and graceful hospitality. Her Patrick Henry gave the first decisive impulse to the Revolation ; her Jeffer- son drew up the charter of our independence ; her Washington established it, as the leader of tbe American armies ; her Madison gave form and consistency*to our federal and State insti- tutions ; her first great President put the gov- ernment in motion, with the smoothness of a perfect engine in the bands of an experienced engineer ; and her learned Mar- shall first defined the sphere and limita- tions of our supreme department of law. Such were the patriots and statesmen and such is the glory of the “Old Dominion.’ How widely different from this majestic and exalted | statesmanehip of. the “ Old Dominion” is the stumping Virginia demagoguism of the pre- eent dey! How strikingly this decadence from strength to imbecility is illustrated in the pre- sent champion of the Virginia democracy, Henry A. Wise! Of late years little has deen known outside of Virginia of the peculiarities of her party campaigning, the calibre of her statesmen and politicians and her chivairy, eave the gleavings from her newspapers and the speeches of her members of Congress. Believing that this pre- sent gubernatorial struggle involved the cle ments of @ great and wholesome political reyo- lution in the State, and desirons of enlighten. ing the public upon the practical issues of the campaign; believing, also, that chivairy and hospitality, refinement and courtesy, were still the ruling characteristics of the Virginia de- mocracy, end fairly represented in Mr. Wise their candidate, we anticipated a hospitable and from this office to give Mr. Wise a fair ond im- partial hearing through our columns. We were very little concerned in reference to Mr. Wise, upon any side of the question—Know Nothing or Krow Something, whig or democratic—for in forward by his democr elnsion or the proceedings of the United Si yes | what party sny man belong two or three it, like his Caleb Cushing, of “the Corporal’s Guard,” Mr. | he Wise, during the last fifteen years bas “i : to all parties; and we were satisfied to ts’ him, for the present, as the champion ’ ancient democracy, and as the peculir tary representative of the high-ton and refined hospitality of the - | glorious ‘Old Dominion.” ae A the af heredi- .@ Whivalry ereud and-ever 2 vr i In this character, Mr ine had been brought athe confederates and or- 040 Washington; and this #@ thivt we expected to encoun- Ai article falls as far below the at- -escription as one of Bernum’s hum- Be We have given to our readers three of the emp speeches of Mr. Wise-three of the f¢’ wear ‘eight which he has delivered. The commectness of our report of the first two was impugned, and our reporter was coarsely as failed ew -an emissary of the Kuow Nothings, whose office it was to dog Mr. Wise and mis- represent and falsify his speeches. Determin- ed to put our impartiality beyond all cavil, we secured the services of two of the most ac- complished stenogrephers of Congress, gradu- ates of this office, to give verbatim, from first to last, the speech of Mr. Wise at Alexandria. Their excellent report we have published, Not awhisper have we heard from any quarter against its fidelity. It is conceded to be a da- guerreotype by all parties who heard it. We lay some stress upon this fact, because this full repgit cetablishes the correctness of our gene- ral report of each of the two preceding speeches, The Alexandria epeech was the Charlottesville speech, and the Petersburg speech, with trifling variations, The late Mr. McDowell, of Va., once delivered a finished conservative speech in Congress on the slavery question. A gentle- man remarked to one of his colleagues that it was a great speech. “ Yes,” replied the col- league, ‘I always did admire that speech of Mr. MeDowell’s.” So with Mr. Wise. It is the samo speech, boiled over and rehashed from stump to stump, and our reporters have unwittingly re- vealed the fact, and auticipated him at every point in the unfinished schedule of his election- eering tour. The wrath of Mr. Wise, in being gans, from Richme’ was the Mr. Wir ter, The rev” tractive ¢ —d ht) Pereonal respect, as we do all men as far as FEMAUARY 15, 1855. . 7A! election, Ihave never been diegraced | patible with tower or #heaner vulgarity. Wo have | is, in faot, aerfore tretted Mr. Wise with bezoming | ‘they are entitled to it. His porsonal abuse of | ‘us, therefore, is gratuitous, and betrays his natural instincts to be those of the mean and dirty demagogue, inetead of the chivalrous a2d refined Virginian. He is a fitting champion of Forney and the Kitchen Cabinet, a worthy spoils democracy. the experiment of sleeping under the samo blanket with Captain Tyler; buat the pair could not agree. Botts and Wise would ve better matched. It is doubtless this lamentable decline in the decencies and meralities of Virginia politics, as illustrated in the stump speeches of Mr. Wie, that has so far excited the sympathies of pointment of Captain Rynders a3 a political missionary to the Virginians. He may be useful toMw. Wise, in teaching him the classical and comparatively polite usages of Old Tammany ; in lifting him up from the degradation of the drunken loafer in the gutter to the dignity of speech which characterizes the Coal Hole. A Christian enterprise is this propo:ed mission of Captain Rynders. The Virginia Cabinet can- didate may learn of him the proprieties and decencies of political electioneering—Captain Rynders is qualified to teach him. Mr. Wise has an unfinished list of some twen- ty places at which he is yet to harangue the public with this Petersburg-Charlottesville- Alexandria speech, and its variations. The Vir- ginians may expect, therefore, twenty times over, the same rigmarole on agriculture, com- merce, manufactures and mining—the same contracted ignorance of the universal, world wide drawbacks of the war in Europe; the same unmeaning generalities upon State affairs; the same fighting of the windmills in his attacks upon the Know Nothings; the same slang- whanging of the flippant demagogue on the slavery question ; and the same dirty malice against the editor of the Herap. This con- tinued infliction upon the honest Virginians thould, if possible, be arrested. Mr. Wise wants thus robbed of his stumping capital, may be natural enougb; but“his solitary speech, and hia mode of exhibiting his displeasure at the dis- closure, destroys every vestige of a claim from him to the statesmanship, or chivalry, or hos- pitality of the good ‘Old Dominion.” Let us glance at some of the salient features of this Alexandria speech of Mr. Wise. He ex- patiates upon the European war; but sticks to the eaving clause—the salvo of an increase of the price of wheat. This reminds us of the old market woman who lived on the hills over- looking the Ohio. A great flood in the river submerged all the valley, and swept off houses, fences and live stock to the amount of millions of property. Hundreds of people were driven from their homes to the hills, houseless and bankru;t, and some were lost in the over- whelming waters. But the old market-woman on the hill was secure, and thought ‘the flood would be s blessed thing for all, for it would raise the price of chickens and eggs.” Aud this is Mr. Wise’s huckstering view of this hor- rible Eastern war. It is a blessed thing after all —it raises the price of wheat. Mr. Wise next declaims upon the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining re- sources of Virginia, and is eloquent in exposing the negligence of the State in the develope- ment of these vast reserves of wealth and pros- perity. But the only measure of relief which he proposes is to make the Virginians “groan with taxation.” His plan, we presume, fs to build a vast system of railroads and canals, to tax the people to pay for them, and then to sell them for what they will fetch at auction, like the State of. Pennsylvania. It strikes us that the New York and Yankee squatters in Fairfax and Prince William counties have shown the way of redeeming the agriculture of Virginia, the basis of all commercial, manufacturing and mining prosperity. Virginia wants more of euch farmers as those of the modern schoo! in old Fairiax, and to secure such reiaforcements it were better to lighten their burdens than to “make them groan with taxation.” The main reliance of Mr. Wise, however, ia the slavery question. This is the staple in trade of Northern and Southern demagogas ; and the seditious agitations of Seward, Hale, Giddings, and such, in the North, are scarcely more despicable than the inflammable fustian | of such demagogues as Rhett, Jeff. Davia and { Wise in the Sonth. What fall is here in the stumping declamation of Wise from the ex- alted statesmanship of ‘ Old Dominion !” What a contrast between this Alexaniria ha- | rangue upon abolitionism, and the recorded speeches and sentiments of such of the Virginia | cotemporaries of Mr. Wise, as Stevenson, Taze- | well, Rives, John Tyler and others, on this vexed and perilous question! The Northern Know Nothing:, the anti- | slavery epeech of Anson Barlingame at a Bos ton meeting, the indorsement of this speech by | Senator Wilson, the sentiments of Freeman | Clarke and Heory G. Gardner, and various , other things from the North are brought forward | by Mr. Wise to prove that the Virginia Know Nothings, slaveholders incluied, are aboli- | tionists. As well try to prove Senator Mason | or Hunter, of Virginia, a free soiler, from the fact that Chase, of Ohio, and Sumner, of Mas- sachusetts, both elected by democratic votes, | are free soilers, good and true. Next Mr. Wise startles the Virginia Methodists and Baptists ia proving that the Know Nothings are heretical | Unitarians, as if the Baptists and Methodists | within the order were ignorant of what they were doing. He knows all about the Know | Nothings, their cyphers, their signs, their grips, pass words, &c.; yet here Mr. Wise is the veri- table Don Quixotte fighting the windmills. He next descends from knight errant to the Short Boy. Not content with the hackneyed fustian of | the shallow demagogue upon great public } issues, Mr. Wise comes down to the common level of the Short Boy in his personalities. Our inoffensive reporter is assailed asa Know No- | thing emiseary,@ wilful falsifier, and if Mr. Wise were Governor, he “ would hang” all such interlopers, Let our reporters remem- ber it. Mr. Wise has said that he would conduct his campaign with some regard to decency and propriety. Yet for the | offence of detailing reporter to take down flattering reception to our reporter, detailed | bis speeches, for their more enlarged circula- tion, which he should have regarded and treated as ® epecial compliment, he assails the editor of this journal with the coarsest Billingegate and the vilest epithets of the Five Points. The most excited orgies of Tam- the materials for a new speech or two. Let Captain Rynders hasten to his relief. Fall of the Aberdeen Mintstry—Intrigues of the Aristocracy In England. ‘The Aberdeen Ministry has gone the way of all coalitions, and died an ignominous death. It falls, an object at once of contempt and wonder to the civilized world, and of execration and hatred to the Brittsh people. From the com- mencement of the war it has exhibited a luke- warmness of purpose and an indecision which, it they did not arise from treachery, looked but too like it. The men whocomposed this galaxy of political talent have, with one exception, ef- fectually damned their reputations, As the Lon- don Times has emphatically declared, they have sold the country to the court party. And now comes the struggle for ascendancy between the two great rival influences. The Queen has sent for Lord Derby and has com- missioned him to form a ministry, forgetting that at present there is only one ministry pos- tible, and that ministry embodied in the person ofone man. Besides, Lord Derby is imperious, crotchetiy and irrascible ; and no man of any weight of character would be contented to serve under him in a state of things which re- quires coolness, patience, and more than an or- dinary amount of self-control. He is, of all men, perhaps the worst calculated for an emergency like the present. But what do the court party care for that? Next to the active Russian sympathies of Lord Aber- deen, the defective temperament of Lord Derby affords them the readiest means of effecting their objects. They might make a concession to popular feeling by accepting Lord Palmerston as Minister of War, but they could check, con- trol and neutralize him by giving as a chief that most impracticable of all self-willed and selfconceited statesmen—Lord Derby. The plan was well conceived, but it appears to have failed. His lordship bas been unsuccessful in his efforts to form a cabinet. Lord Palmerston will not serve under such a man, for Lord Pal- merston values his political reputation, and he cannot afford to hazard it again under a second puppet of the court party. Even the dashing Disraeli, whose audacity is equal to anything, from literature to finance, and from finance to war, will not this time suffice to get him out of his difficulty. The patience of the English peo- ple would be hardly equal to the task of bear- ing with a government of mere rhetorical flourishes, after they have had such difficulty in escaping from the paralyzing influence of an hermapbrodite cabinet. It is lamentable in all this to find the sove- teign—and that sovereign a feeble woman— made to play a part #0 opposed to the feelings and interests of her people. She cannot fully comprehend the movements of the wires that are pulled behind her throne, or she would not | have hesitated for an instant in sending for the man to whom the unanimous voice of the Eag- lirh people has long pointed as the only one capable of extricating them from their present embarrassments. Her disregard of a fact so patent only shows the deplorable extent to which foreign influences are allowed to prevail in the royal closet. So much the worse forher- self and her children, Nothing wi!l more surely bring the monarchical institution into contempt | than these attempts to sacrifice the most pre- cious interests of her people to the foreign pre- judices and attachments of her husband. She would do well to recollect that no term of op- probrium ‘more effectually marked out the un- bappy Marie Antoinette to the hatred of the mosses than that of “the Austrian.” Were against Queen Victoria by the consequences of her own acts, we would not answer for the safety of her throne. As we bave before obscrved, however, al- though the court party will struggle hard against it, there is only one ministry now pos- sible in England, and that isa cabinet with Lord Palmerston as its soul and head. Asa subordinate ander any other man’s leadership, the qualities that he is acknowledged to pos- sess would be neutratized and lost. It was for this reason that he contented himself with the office of Home Secretary, when the public voice designated him for that of Secretary of Wer. He will not compromise his reputation and the interests of the country by making this mistake a second time. He must be Premicr or he cannot be an efficient Minister of War; for to repair the disasters that have alrealy been brought ebout by the incxperience, the imbecility, and perbaps, even, the treachery, of bis former colleagues, he must huve the Tammany Hall as to result in the special ap. | | | | elder among the Latter Day Saints of the | John Minor Botts once.tried | 7 sey embonves, ae ke picicnt ics Yh police we maow mus by > maby Lied, asuoh svi Whe treacheries Of a) luuytt sid the moet sleviuty powers vam | Out ior thy spring (Teskets. = glorious mission William Pitt, VOL. X¥ 0% from Havana, ort to the same bold and uncompromising | from which it Appears ‘nat either the contem-* measures to save his country. Hemust,there-| plated filibuccering expedition from New Or- fore. either assume altogether the reins of gov- ernment, or leave to others the pitiful comfort of divided responsibility and weakened powers. leans, oF the grand Central American Coloniza- tion scheme of Colonel Kinney, with its reversionary plans in regard to Cuba, or proba- Should the Queen and her royal cgnsort per- { bly both these alarming facts combined, had so sist in ignoring the popular wishes, by refusing such a man his proper place in her councils, there will be trouble in England greater than that cauged by the disasters of the Crimea. Anti-Slavery and Its Characteristics, Mr. Samuel J. May, of Syracuse, delivered terrified General Concha that on the arrival of the British West India fleet, which has been fent to support his measpres, he proceeded to arrest, all who were considered obnoxious to the government, to the extent, it is said, of some three hundred persons. Amongst them rumor numbers the Governors of Matanzas, Puerta an anti slavery lecture in this city on Tuesday | Prineipe and Trinidad, and the Captain-Gene- evening, concluding, in the words of the re- ral’s own private secretary. The ostensible P J porter, ‘‘by reading a passage from an early | motives of these rigorous proceedings are the number of the Liberator—Mr. William Lloyd Garrison’s paper.” It is hardto say precisely what class of people constitute the staple au- alleged discovery by the government of a con- spiracy embracing a large proportion of the wealth and intelligence of the island, and the dience at the anti-slavery lecturesat the Tabor- | we}} ascertained fact of the proximate depar- nacle. Among them doubtless many persons may be found perfectly reckless of all moral and religious restraint; persons whom no blas- phemy could shock, no turpitude annoy. But there must also be among the number many in- dividuals who have not lost their native sease of religion and propriety; respectable citizens, fearing God, obeying the law, doing justice to man; whom mistaken views of philanthropy— not a prurient hankering after mischief—have ture of another filibustering expedition from the United States. There is reason to believe that the first of these allegations is merely a pretence to cover the apprehensions inspired by the second, These arrests are in all probability but the con- sequences of the decrce issued under General Canedo’s administration, and which render liable to imprisonment, as a measure of precau- tion when political circumstances demand it, inveigled into the anti-slavery flock. Now,weask | 1) persons known to be hostile to the govern~ these persons—for there must have been some ment. The only thing that seems to belie this such—how they relished the idea of sitting | suppocition, is the rumored arrest of #0 many down in lecture room to hear a minister of high officials, It is not likely that such severe the Gospel read extracts from the writings of the most open and most unscrupulous atheists in the United States? It will not do to reply that we calumniate Mr. Garrison by applying this epithet to him. He does not deny it; but measures would be extended to them, unless the government were acting on precise and certain information. We have, however, no positive confirmation of their arrest, and until the facts are known, we can come to no other than the glories in it; boasts of it; flies into a rage if his | oj4 conclusion, that the Cuban authoritles are infidelity be questioned. Besides, whole reams easily frightened, and that there is more smoke and libraries of his writings, as well in the co- | than reality in this pretended conspiracy. Be lumns of that very Liberator from which Mr. May read extracts as in other places, attest the thoroughness of his scepticism, and the bitter scorn with which he regards the Chritian reli- gion. Wo have not the smal'est objection to Mr, Garrison’s belief, and rather rejoice that such | the defence of the rights of the mother country, phenomena as he should oceur from time to this as it may, the measures they are adopting are but little consistent with the paternal ia- tentions expressed by the Spanish Ministry in the Cortes with regard to Cuba, and are not precisely of the character to ensure the grati- tude and moral support of the inhabitants in time to prove the honesty and reality of our| T HEE LATEST NEWS... toleration. At the same time it would be ob- viously a very lamentable and fatal th'ng for this country if the principles advocated by him and in the journal he edits became those of the American people at large, if the United States in short were peopled by infidels. This is the end which the anti-slavery agitators are trying to accomplish. ‘We say the anti-slavery agitators, for we see little distinction between them, and Mr. May has done no more than scores of others before him. Half these lectares have been delivered by infidels; all the anti-slavery conventions have been marked by avowals of open unbelief from some one or other of the leaders. That infidelity and anti-slavery go hand in hand is in tact quite notorious. More than this, im- morality is fast becoming an equa'ly conspicu- ous characteristic of the party. Formerly, the abolitionists were content with a theoretical exposition of their immoral doctrines; they are now growing practical. The leading organ of the sect, the Vew York Tribune, a journal which is ceaseless in its attacks upon the insti- tutions of the South, has recently teemed with articles of such a character that they canaot fail, if continued, to be brought under the notice of the Mayor. Wecanonly hint at these matters, from obvious reasons; but we are bound to say that until a few days ago, we had never thought it possible that a journal aspiring to a respectable name and standing could have dared to publish, for the guidance of the repro- bate, a complete directory to the houses of ill- fame in this city. That this was done in the columns of the Tribune, and most clumsily disguised in the shape of a dissertation on the value of property in certain localities, the read- ers of that eheet are able to testify. Still later, an article on the supposed state of society in Jamaica, in the same journal, contained details which journalists in general would regard as entirely unfit for publication. Ard only yester- day, the same sheet gave publicity to a descrip- tion of a scene at some vile den of prostitution, for a parallel to which reference must be had to that class of publications which the United States customs laws exclude from the country. It is not our object, in referring to these re- volting matters, to call the attention of the police to the infringement of the laws protect- ing the public morals—though assuredly a leading journal should not be allowed more license in such things than the wretched hawker of some loathsome print. Public contempt is perhaps after all the best punishment for this class of offences. Our desire is to draw the attention of the sober-minded and the vir- tuous to the alliance between anti-slavery and immorality. Thi, they may rest assured, is not accidental. It is no mere coincidence which leads Garrison and Greeley and May and Parker and so many other abolitionist leaders to set at defiance the precepts of the Bible and the laws of morality. If they are sound abolitionists, it will go hard but they are eound infidels, and sound advocates of giving free play to the passions as well. One leads to BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington, @ THE PACIFIC TELEGRAPH BILL—RUMORED ASSASSI- NATION OF SANTA ANNA, ETC. Wasurnaton, Feo. 13, 1855. Messrs. Alden and Eddy’s Pacific Telegraph bill was passed to-day in the Senate, as it came from the House» without amendment, Although the grant of land was, by the consent of the parties, stricken out, yet the form in which the bill is paesed is regarded of more value when the line is constructed than the land grant with the pro~ posed government privileges and securities. The bill as now passed grants a right of way of two hundred feet. wide, in perpetuity, and leaves the parties to select their own route, to build in their own time, to fix their own rates of tolls, and extends over all the property of the line the penal law of the United States for its protection. It is understood the parties are satisfied with the present bill, and if monetary affairs should favor subscriptions. to the stock, the enterprise will be prosecuted with vigor to an early completion. Mr. Brown’s amendment to the Indian bill proposes: to authorize the Second Comptroller to settle the claim of R. W. Thompson, of Indiana, against the Menomenees, on the principle of law and equity—the sum awarded to ‘be paid out of the Menomenee’s fund, on the memorial of the tribe in general council. The Commissioner of In. dian Affairs decided that the Indians were entitled to no- thing. They employed Mr. Thompson to prosecute their claim; he recovered rome $200,000. His fee was to be one hird, The amendment proposes to abanton the con nal decision, Mr. Thompson says, and Mr. Brown back him, that the laborer is worthy of his hire. aving re- covered a large sum from the government against the decision of the Commissioner, he is entitled to be paid, bor, The Senate will probably so award. ‘There is a rumor here, upon the strength of a despatch from New Orleans, that Santa Anna has been assassi- nated by three of his officers, at the capital; that Alvarez bas established a provisional government at Acapulco, awaiting the arrival of Cevallo, then to assume the con- trol of the empire. The rumor, however, is not credited. There was a tremendous outside pressure to induce the President to sign the French Spoliation bill, for a few doors last evening. The friends of the claimante were elated with a prospect of his signature. They are corres pondingly depressed now—tho Cabinet is said to be four against, three in favor of the signature; but this may not be reliable. fe of the sum recovered, full compensation for his la- Connecticut Democratic State Convention. New Haven, Feb. 14, 1855. The Democratic State Convention for the nomination of State officers was held to-day, Hon. R. J. Ingersoll. ‘was elected President. The ticket of last year was re- nominated, with the exception of Julius Hote! Waterbury, who was dropped for Comptroller, and Thos, Cowles, of Framingtn, nominated instead. Hon. Saml. Ingham, of Saybrook, is the candidate for Governor. The convention denounced the Know Nothings and the Maine Jaw. Anti-Nebraska Nomination low Hampshire. Mancuesrer, N. H., Feb. 14, 1855, Aconvention of the opponents of the Nebraska bill met at Manchester yesterday, to nominate a candidate: for representative to Congress from that district. Wm. G. Means, presided, Mason W. Tappan, who had been previously nominated by the free soil party, was no- mimated by acclamation. Maine Law Convention tn Maine. Bostow, Feb. 14, 1866. The republican members of the Maine Legislatare have called a State Convention at Augusta, on the 22d, of the people opposed to thejextension of slavery and ir» favor of the Maine law, to nominate a candidate for the other. The man who is ready to trample | “veror, &e., &o, the constitution under foot will not need mach pressing to throw the Bible overboard ; and all experience teaches that however plausible and seemingly honorable infidels may appear, there is no trust to be placed in their principles, no reliance on their moral sense. Some may hesi- | jit that a belief which p: the ery of “the Russian” jost now rita |e © 90m that a belief which purports to pring from the most generous feclings of the heart could lead to these results. Bat the in- Trial of the Sol. Northrap Kidnappers, Synacse, Feb. 14, 1865. The trial of the Sol Northrup kidnappers was expected to come off yesterday, before Judge Boched, at Dalston. W. A. Beach, C. B. Cochrane and William Wait appeared for the prisoners, and moved to quash some of the counts in the indictment, alleging that the sale took place in the District of Columbia, and, consequently, no juris- diction could be bad. After a long argument by Coch- rane and Beach, for thé prisoners, and District Attorney quisition was based on the purest principles of | °%! for the people, the Court advised them to go up to humanity. Domitian threw the Christians to ‘the wild beasts because he believed it was for the good of his subjects. So the abolitionists call for @ crusade against slavery, and many good and truc’men join them besause they think it cruel and barbarous for a poor negro to be enslaved ; and they go on, ranting and raving against the laws of their couatry till they lose respect for law altogether, and pass from step to step to a contempt for the Bible, and a disregard for all that society holds most sacred. | Tar Great Ratw Storm.—Hardly have we eecaped from the winter’s cold and accompany- ing avalanches of snow, before we are menaced with greater dangers. Yesterday large qitanti- ties of rain fell, with a prospect of mach more. If it is not crystalized at the north into snow, there in reason to fear destructive finods, Look ® full bench on # demurrer to the indictment, Departure of the Africa, Bostow, Fob. 14, 1855. The Africa sailed at 10 o'clock with 101 passengers for Liverpool, and 10 for Halifax, She took $253,000 in American gold, 14,000 sovereigns, and $0,000 in apecie. Arrest of a Post Office Clerk. Muwavam, Feb. 14, 1856. A German clerk, im the Post Office here, has bem arrested for the letters passing through bis handa of reveral hundreds of dollars. From the South. ARRIVAL OF THE SOUTHERN MAIL—GeN. QUITMAN SUPPOSED TO BB OFF THE ISLAND OF CUDA WITH & LARGE POROR, BTC. Bauttuome, Feb. 14, 1856. The en mail, as late ax dus, has been received here, w! jew Orleans Papers of Wednesday. ‘The schooner Deveresux bas arrived at Savannah, sod brings Havana dates to the 4th inst, At the time of her wailing great excitement existed in anticipation of the laréing of Com, Onitrran wha wae ap'd to be off a | inlana with @ large tunes, ihe Spank Best, consisting the English constitution, He| = Axnorarep- Oyrenmax om CvessTee ) > called upon to fulfil the same Srasisw Avruoririvs 4 FuxK.—In ~aother which devo'ved _ upoa| column will be found some excel aly fngpor- and be will have to re-| tantand exciting intelligence