The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIBTOR. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1857. ED tieth Council district, Issac A. Hopper, met at the City Hail yesterday. Mr. Vance contests the elec- , and intends to prove frauds and illegality in the returns. The committee, yPon X. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 678. with witnesses. -No. 12 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROARWAT supeema, Broadway—Gaauax Orena— Pum (Zak ANB ARIRNTBR, Suow> aeons. In the Senate yesterday « number of petitions were presented praying for the construction of a ‘caval on the Indiana side of the Ohio falls. The Towaelection case was further discussed, and the recommendation of the Judiciary Committee, de- NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Exouwn Orsas—Tus claring Mr. Harlan not entitled to his seat, was adopted by a vote of twenty-eight to thirteen. , after a short session, adjourned, because the contestant wae not prepared a aes “Bowery—Kixe Joux—Beur 70] Megrg, Bell of Tennessee, Brown of Mussissipp!, OUR TON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, oopesite Bond st. Mock ano AvovT NoTniIne—QuBEN'S Hovbaxbe WALLACK’S THEATRES, Brosdway—Tumw Onnore— Buswatns. LAURA KEENER TH a, Rroatwar-—1 Dine Wien My Moonen —sagw, RAPER—YOUNG Baccuus, TARFUM': AXERICAN MUSETM Brosaway— After ~ Down Wan OF Marcuxsrwn, Svening—Oresneis Suceer. GRC. CHRISTY & WOOD'S MINSTREL, 444 Broadwas— Bye. as P RRVORMANCE—NEW ¥Esm Calis. BOCKLETS SRRENADERS, 585 Broa¢way—Ermoruan Perrouwarcrs—WoNn b JUAN. DODWORTH’S ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Broadway—Guann OoncRet BY MA. GOT/SCHALK 4*D OTHRR AUTISTS. Se Rew York, Tucsasy, Jannary 13, 1857. Matis for Kurope. RR NEW YORK BERALD—ZDITION FOX BUROPE. ‘Mee Cunard mail steamsbi> Nisgera, Capt. Wickman, wil leave Boston on Wednesday, noon, at Liverpool. ‘Tho matic will close in this city s hal!-past two o'clock this afternoon. tug. Slagle copies, in wrappors, sizpence, Sedscriptions aud advertisements for roy edition of the preci — Feropean Exprous King William 83, Am. & Exprovs Uo., 61 King tae 0 do. #'Piace do la Bourse. Ervauroor— Do. da, 9 Caapel street bremrooi—Joon Bunter, 19 Exchange sireet, Kast. Bavus— Am & Puropern Express Co., 21 Rue Corneilie. Fee contents of the Furopean edition of the Hunan ME combine the news received by mail and telegraph at af prrloation. ‘The steamsbip Asia, which left Liverpool on the 27th December, arrived at this port yeeterday morning. We are informed that the Hon. C. P. Villiers has declined the appointment of British Minister to the United States, and that it was re- garded as p ble that Lord Elgin would be ten- dered the post. Ovor European files contain lit- tie news of importance. The atitude of the Swiss and Prussian Powers towards each other remsined slnost unchanged, but preparations for war were actively pursued by each. The Swiss people point be the advantages which toey will enjoy in fighting on their own soil, and to the hardsbips whieh Prus- sia ost sulter during a long and march in order to attack ty f It is said that ogre cissere bas represented tothe King of Prussia the many dangers which will ensue from a war, whilst thes mperor Napoleon, it is asserted, wishes to see what ‘* termed a “turbulent demagogy” set at Switzerland. Prussia has requested the several States to m wer amy thr their territory on the of Ee sruary, so that the war would no: giv wut’! the winter bad almost ended, and many mopeds .as by that time the difficulty would be ar- racgedi y diplomacy. The accounts rela*ive ta the Persiag* a: are very conflictin, Russia. was cou- centratjs ‘a large force on the shores of the Cas- pian. 2s Shah of Persia staves toat ue had de- clared way ag \ipst Engiand, but it was expected bat the pepnle x feeling would force the last named Power inio an : \handonment of the enterprise. Cap: vain Hariete’n ¢ nd the officers of the ship Resolute have been. ¢ <te. a8ively séied, addressed by public vodies, ang v'sit ¢d by distinguished men daily. A public entericin. went given them by the corporation ces. peri. oon of Portemor:) wes a very splendid affrir. The Kea o: snovher search for Joba Franklin foum =n web favor amoager lasses ia England. The | aris Conferences had not reas sembled, but al. the plenipote had received Weir imsirucsions. The ran for on the Irish wanke bad 1. In Londox the preliminary ex- thern Railway frauds aminations inte oie Great nave resulted lade comm. Redpath, Kent, snd Hogden. Tne three persons charged with baving bose cance™n ed in the great robbery of bul- hon on tke Soutas tern Railway, have also been commited. “hed avonsiration against the income tax contimaed. Coum bad again advanced and vreadstufis w. ae Consois closed at 94). e e the «yscaeot Herman was shipped on woar City of Waeehington, which 20 0 the serow st elt te ult., tor New York. t o & it, received yesterday, was cwonidered favorable fa cotton, bnt ff was too lat wo Wie diy when we im er were delivered for i adtovte to be deweloped. ‘he siles embraced about 2.600 bales at prices. Flonr was improved by the ied at an edvance of 5c. a le. per bom. w deratesaler Waeat wae neld at a. » she’ higher for pri ne lets, which chee fale & lot of Milwaukie mixed « $1 ‘om edvawced 2. per bushel, with saics of Wactern mixed et 720. 2 73c., from store and de- versed. Pork was drm as3 active, vith mow macos at £20 a €20 25. Sagars were fiem, with taler of 650 bhds. Coun muscovade, an @ 360 boxes a ratesg.oen in anetker coluwin. Coffee wae more active, wih sales of between 5,004 4 000 bars Riv, slosigg at an advance of about jc. The sales Noragaily) and 350 Bab roateady and withou t change we organized last e rening at, ted Che Mayor as their , wesid my, mt y thet bas almost inva tial tecn paid the chief magiewate of this city, e tee by ibe board of 1 portizan effor %, h same Litthe bust) veer evening Yicn wae ofere he cla a" 0 nance whereby Croton water suppl more (han ffvees persone, A resolgt. '" appropria ne #7,500 for the ieveption of the ot. leers of the British gteatn frigate Rete'vution ww the epee al order for Wednesday. The resojutayn pay of members of the Common Couneif a nam was debated and finally referred t) the vee of the Whole Special Committee of the mal sew is chareed tor nade Th on the Mayors message, and the Mpecial Committee Soard of Aldermen, of the Bonrd of ¢ Inen on the city charter, met yesterday, and ag pon @ charter enggesting a <itmination of the members of t ‘ommon Council, the at) M989 of the heads of departmente, thereby extending to the M more power, end altogether harmonkeing with the dees contained in the May een) menrage The Speeia! Com vitter nopointed by t ard ¢ council mea to tovestigate into the vw at eon of Ce me dima® to dwelling. ‘inhabited wy oI turn Chall « Houston of Texas, Slidell of Louisiana, and Toombs of Georgia, voted against the resolution, showing that the vote was not a partisan one, amd that the question involved was decided on its merits. Mr. Harlan will no dgubt be reelected to the Senate on the assembling of the Iowa Legislature. The House adopted a resolution directing an inquiry into the of reorganizing the Circuit and Dietrict Courts with the view of equalizing their brs!- ness, and giving to all sections of the country an equal representation in the Supreme Court. The Se- nate bill to reinstate such naval officers as were Gropped, furloughed or retired by the late Naval wvided they be favorably reported on by courts of inquiry and approved by the Presiden’, was passed without amendment. The naval officers in Washington were highly elated at this resnit, and celebrated the event in good style. tion empowering the Investizating Committee to inquire into the corrapt practices of the looby since the commencement of the present Congress, ‘ke Boronean edition of the Hzmuzn, printed in French | was adopted. The committee have made arrange- and Nngitad, #\ll be published at nine o’cionk im the morn- | ments for a thorough investigetion, and will emdea- vor to keep their proceedings from premature ex- posure. A motion to suspend the rules so as % ew Yous Hunain will be received st the following placet | permit the offering of a resolution making the bill granting pensions to soldiers of 1812, the special order for the first Tuesday in Febrnary, was not expediency Board, pr. agreed to. The Legislature met last important subjects were introduced in both houses. in the Senate a resolution directing the Harbor we office Curing the previous week, and up so the hour | Commissioners to open a correspondence with the Governor of New Jersey, with the view of the removal of the evening, when several Quarantine station from Staten Island to Sandy Hook; also to solicit of the general government an old public vessel, to be sta- tioned at the Horse Shoe, for the reception of cases of infectious disease, was adopted. viding for the removal of Quarantine was intro- duced in the Assembly. The Kansas free State Legislotare met at Topeixa on the 6th inst Gov. Robins: on had resigned, and Lieut. Gov. Koberts was aosen:. General disconient prevailed, and it is \ikely that the whole affair will jall through for lack of the Warrants bad been issued for support ef its friends, thirty of the members of the Legislature, seven of whom had been arrested and conveyed to Tecumseh for trial. Gov. Geary, it is eaid, will recommend the repeal of many of the oppressive and unconstitutional laws passed by the Territorial Legislature. A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican states that the weather on the plains has been more severe this winter than ever before kuown. A por- tion of a surveying party in Western Kansas had arrived at St. Josech’s, and mainder bad been frozen to death. it was feared the re- Tt was reported that two eurveying parties had been murdered by the Camanche Indians. ‘The House Committee on the Lobby Job- bers—The Leading Subjects of tnte In- quiry. on the lobby jobber able and well e the various pi plans he Washington spoilsmen, shall bave exhausted thie them at least a dozen more «and such members ¢ ny) who may be as projects of tbe Jobby ap invoivid. we shal) confi these lobby jobs requiring a thoroagh ov most giga’ hese loboy schemes the Pacitic Railroad conspi and ramifications of which minutely he publ mt and f spoils apd plunder in otber government under a Bubble, tbe intam Jations, th pet bar Morus he E thie we munity would be aid. even et require a ten years’ examination to get throuzh the cloud of witnesses that might be raised upow this isene. re are other lobby jobs whic ul jog rol Ad'og irom ‘ certaic of fires The reper! of the doty npop ver Donpty cmuacts, Junie priviles ieee, Conteac!s, p With + died ia mr Washing joe yp et tion, o1 het ¢ oxtimates, fron he Perifie Bo ‘ing table. to wit ih ood acres =e. 1.1.) mites of road, Forres, Wer 6. titles of Foed slabs ese. Cor 1 264 miles of road © enter, tor EF0 m Mc Ragga, for 1.078 me Tore * Return of road racy, of th ehensive ple Timent and t = rails meres aad combin When the ¢ ‘e knowle we have ic. Th of rat the history of this or aoy sun, The g ous Yazoo land ap sand ympr =| pusolid, fous: comm! alone, it i perhaps just as cor- oad conspiracy, ag railroad Innd jobe to three minooe of iroe, 0 adaition wo i De rene ate loeres © wou!, and varioe jand obs 1 RDY MoABeMlONA to OFEOR. Ko grants, exemption 143,19 ,000—$160,000 600 . 3456000 Bia ‘vo 090,0% » 25000 + 6,008,009 + 16,000,000 10,000 900 120 000 099 soe ive the A resola- A bill pro- ym=nittes dge eress, inside and outside worth calling to the he editivation of oar > contemplated public acount other and multiva teaching the poblic throngh the mobupolies and oteer © amvoant of money ta of epolia- epondenes haa n which we make ap | yon 30,000,690 * « 1,060 008 # patent exter ° 3,090,090 | reader a bird’s eye view ef the prodigious schedule of spoils and plunder, jobs and ex- pedients, properly entitled to the attention of the committee of the House, and the examination of witnesses competent to testify in each case. In the meantime, it would, perhape, be as well for the committee to examine every witness upon every spoils job of the present session and the Jast, and to-pin him where he falters or “ palters in a double sense.” Should this process prove to be too slow for the purposes of the committee, we shall endeavor to lighten their work by the ‘specification of the most intelligent, incorruptible end au fait witnesses apon this or that particular subject. Holding, as we do, that the Heraxp is a ve- sponsible party for this resort on the part of the House to this Committee of Investigation, we fee! impelled. from a sense of public duty, to aseiet the committee to the extent of our facilities in dispersing this flock of lebby vultures that have een accumulating in Waehington since the days of Jackson, and that have been bolding @ sort of protracted jubilee under this spoils dynasty of poor Pierce and his Kitehen Cabinet. Smoke hem out! Tur New Brrttsu Mrvisrer.—One of our Lon- don correspondents, who is in a position to be accurately informed, writes to us that Mr. Vil- liers has definitively declined the appointment of Minister Plenipotentiary from the British govern- ment to the United States. Mr. Villiers prefers the atmosphere of Wesminster to the odors of Pennsy!- vania avenue; and in his place, it is said, we are to bave the Earl of Elgin, iate Governor-General of Canada. This appointment, says our corres- pondent, is conditional upon Lord Elgin’s ex- plaining a epeech he recently made in Scotland; in which he boasted that he had “done” the Yankees by the Reciprocity treaty. It is gene- rally believed here that the treaty was a good thing for both sides, but in any case the noble Earl should not be held responsible for after dianer speeches, and will undowbtedly be able to make a suitable explanation of his remarks. Lord Elgin is pre- cisely the person we want. He will not only re- present British interests, but having been loag resident in America, he wil! be able to understand the feeling and respect the righte of the peeple of the United States. He is, moreover, a first class man—a statesman and a gentleman, and will not descend to the small intrigues of a Bulwer or the after-dinner, hot-toddy diplomacy of a Cramp- ton. Let us have the Earl of Etgin, and we will see whether he can do the Yankees again. Our correspondent also gives some interestiag speculations concerning the Swiss imbroglio, taking it for granted that the Confederation will be obliged to contend sing!e handed against all the great Powers—Eagland excepted--and that the liberal constitution of 1848 is to be crushed out. It does not appear quite clear to us that France will suetain Prussia in her course against Switzerland, and it is very certain that any at- tempt to coerce the Cantons would excite sach a storm of indignation among the friends of con- stitutional government all over the world, that the firmest thrones woald be shaken. If France and Austria do not wish for a repetition of the scenes of 1848, they will do well to allow Prassia to settle her own affairs. More Linen Scrrs—More Thearaicars.—The philosophers and politicians are not going to have ali the fun and expense of bringing suite agains’ libellers, notwithstanding the fact thet Greeley has brought three or four suits against the coun- try editors who have charged him with taking bribes at Washington and New York—the latter in Mariposa stock, which is no bribe at all—the stock being worthless, No, the good thiags of this life are not so unequally distri- buted as to give all the Iuxury of bring- ing suits for lilel to the philosophers and politicians, We learn that the chivalroas has- band of the fuir debutante who lately appeared at the Buffalo theatre, will proceed immediately tothe West, and bring syits for libel agatast each of the five editors, proprietors and critics of the five daily newsp»pers, which have a circala- tion varying trom five to fitteea huadred each, Here will be amusement and business enough for the public and the lawyers of Baffalo for some time to come. Mr. McMahon is himself a mera- ber of the bar. He has had many years’ practive, by which he has realized a large fortune in ad- dition to the handsome competence brought tohim by his fair partner, which enables them both to live in clegant style within bail of the Fifth avenue. Mr. cargo has the reputation of being an at celal pleader, and understands ly Mey to proceed against the five delia- » critics 80 as to inake them smart before be has done with them, and teach the press of the interesting city of Buffalo some prin es of good manners, just criticism, knowledge of the stage and gallantry to a fair di So the public will see that Philosopher ley is not going to have all the business of ¢ libel enits to bimesif. Im the me while Mr. McMahon is adlministeri lelinquent and i 'serable lady wil! make her appent he fications before an eolightened, just. and rkilful audience. She bos taken the my of Music for next Saturday ev consequence of the agreement betwe prietore ard Mr. Strakosch, brin atime, cal whore Ope season Jonday, she could not have tha commences on hovee for a longer term than one night, therefore taken Burton's old bijou Chambers street, for one She has a're, in jonth, paying five hun dred he Vars rent © the = firw week and three bune for eath week succeeding, which we 0) good—for Burton. She has er the firet artiets now in the market, and ie rapidly filling op ber company with the best talent that con be had. She has engaged a prompter who has very superior talent for bis post, and a treasurer who has two invalnable and very fearce articles--houesty and integrity. The fair déintonte will appear first in Juliet or Bianea—it is not yet definitely settled which. With regard to the advertising, we suppose that it will be given to all partics, wo that the oyster Louse critice will have no ovcasion to fee! furious and gbuse the whole affair. Wre. McMahon's reason will be a novelty in the Aistory of theatricais. tiox, Jonm Barsey's Expianxation.— We pa Heb to-~fay the explanation of Hon. John Barney of hie emvereations with Gen. Case, from which | the said Baaney was convinced that the said Oass | had been appeinted Mr. Bachanan’s Premic had grocion pted the office, The m } mistake of Mr Jsarney wae fp patting t before the hor Se did ic saing that Mr. for Gen. Cres, when in Ce B vchanan wos Me. Barney ius look @he Moral Effect of the Resolute Affair. ‘The reader will find a large portion of our space occupied by the details of the reception of the Resolute officers in England. It is doubtful whether any foreigners, whether of kingly or any other rank, have ever been so magnificently en- tertained, or 60 80 gracefully complimented by the government of England, as these countrymen of oure. From the Queen to the people of Ports- mouth, every one has vied with his neighbor in trying to chow how highly he could testify his gratitude and respect for this country; nothing has been omitted that the heartiest good feeling or the most cultivated goed taste could suggest. We are glad to be enabled to add that this city is not going to allow itself to be outstripped by its English cotemporaries in the display of these honorable qualities, With no more objection than might have been expected from the hetero- geneous character and somewhat exceptionable relation of the lower branch of the city govern- ment, a sum of money has been voted which will enable New York todo her duty, Our private citizens will doubtless not be backward in so good a work, and it will go hard but the officers of her Majesty’s ship Retribution wi)l be as well received here as our countrymen were in Great Britain. Thus much so far as we are concerned. It does not seem to have occurred to any ef those who have written or spoken on the subject, that these festivities, which on the outside appear only to be the outpourings of gratitude and kind)y feeling, possess in reality a high poli- tical significance. All Europe is ringing with the fact that England and America, after an inter- change of hard words on the subject of the Rus sian war and Mr. Crampton’s case, are fraterniz- ing once more, and are interchanging pledges of unchangeable friendship. The Paris papers, which appear just at this particular juncture to have discovered that the United States are some- thipg of a country, and that in a few years they will be able to hold their own, not only against apy nation of Europe, but against ell Europe combined, will draw their own conclusions from this affair of the Resolute. We may rely upon it that these conclusions will be wholesome and sound. It may have been noticed as curious coinci- dences that the arrival of the Resolute was a signal for the appointment of a British Minister to this country, and that this measure was imme- diately followed by a good understanding be- tween England and France on the Russian ques- tion. Ot course it would be saying too mach to assert that Louis Napoleon abandoned bis design of breaking off with England in consequence of the arrival of the Resolute. But we do not dis- guise our convictions that the cordial feeling be- tween the United States and Great Britain, of which the Resolute was a manifestation, may have had not a little to do with his Imperial Mojesty’s decision. With all their quarrels, Eagland and the United States are friends at heart. Small mind- ed people in both nations make it their business to nurse petty spites ; but the large-hearted peo- ple of both countries are friends, allies, and brothers. And this is no political alliaace. Though the government of England is more like our own, as being freer than any other in Eu- rope, yet the governing class is by no means drawn toward the United States ; the alliance is purely popular one, rather in contravention of, than in obedience to, the sentiment of political leaders. When England allies herself with France, her peopte know very well that it is but a temporary make shift, a political expedient; they explain, they try to excuse it by saying that the French are at bottom an improving people, and that their preeent ruler, the Emperor, means very well aad is remarkably honest. Bat at the very time they are saying this their hearts are full of distrast; they don’t believe in the French alliance, or in any other, unless it ‘2 with the United States. Nor is the sentime. confined to England. The continental nati « of Europe are as disbelieving as the Egglish 0 a permanent Anglo-French alliance. But even Russia looks with distrust upon an alienation between this country and England, and natural. ly expects them some day to rush together, ce the fragments of a split tree, and squeeze quar- rel-makers fearfully in their gripe, All Earope, al) the world knows that, if England and the United States were allied and cordial triends, they could whip the world. The despots of Eu rope don’t like this affair of the Resolute. Tus Miynesora Lanp Bru. Fravp.—As most of our readers may have forgotten the material facts connected with the history of this beautiful specimen of railroad land jobbing, we repab'ish them from the files of the Henao of 1855, to wit:— In the Floure of Representatives, on the 2°:b of January, 1855 Mr, Ouvting, ot New York, reportoc from the Jeaeoctery Commities, a joint resolution disapprov. ard empulling the act of tue Minnesota Logisiatare, whch was pease? on the th of March, 1864, incorporating tne “Minnesota and Northwestern Keilroaa Com) E pant hoadred sad fifty thoowan , and the Governor #bo Saorciary of State who certified ciaries Mr. ©. obrerved that this was one of the most Hegrant {raude ever sought to be perpetrated om the government. Mr Lays, of Oregon, agroed with ‘The ‘Transit Ratiroad Company's ote, War aio reported ae annul d. ‘Tre resolutions parcod Dy a vote of 116 to 16, One of our Washington correspondents, writ- ing to the Henrany under date of January 5, 1855, says:— ‘The House is now engaged with toe considerstion of the Minnesota Railroad bill, parsed by Congress in ite Ime eeetion, making large grants of iaud for railread pur pores. The bili war so adroltly aitered as to throw a! tote lands imo the bands of certain epecuintore. Con- gore thew repeaies It. The Territorial Legisiature, how- arpormed the company and the lan’ ow them The United Sites t Attorne, proveht sult in the peme o the govermment to recover teem oF tert the title. The Company gained the eait, and ert op well until the President ordered the case to arter, of Minve- be brrnght before the United Steies Sapreme Court, wh © Bow pending. Yesterday the House ehro- gntet whole of the proceedings of the Territurial Legiiatore, |) Was © grand ewindle trom beginning to pd This precious case will afford an incredulous public some idea of the extent of the rascalities covered up in the various lobby land jobs aad other jobs, now rendered subject to an examisa- tion by a Committee of Inquiry of the House of Representatives. Nothing like dusting out the numerous lobby holes and corners of the capiiol once in every two or three years, Waat Dors Tats Meay !—The Pennsylvaria Senate yesterday, as it appears. refused, 17 to 14.10 consider the resolution of the other House setting apart thie day for the election of Joon W. Forney to the United States Senate. So there will be no election to-day, and there may be none to morrow, nor next day, nor vext week, nor next mouth, perhaps, What does this mean’ Is the very siret measure of Mr. Buchanan's ad ministration, in behalf of the Union, taue to be snubbed and thwarted j Digi jemocratic Jature of bis own State? not Mr. £ Union man’? je not Mr. Dochapaa p: rave the Usion? Why, then, thie sor+w loos ; among the » Pennsyiva ja democracy 7% 14 What's the matter nol? The Industrial Condict in Eng’ Phase of the Slavery Question. The return of Dr. Livingston, the African ex- plorer, to England, has given rise to a curious conflict there which indicates the tone and tide of public opinion in Great Britain. This is nothing Jess than the conflict between the true policy of the commercial and industrial classes, and that of the family cliques which have for so long a time governed England. The London Times, the great organ of the merchants and manufacturers, bold- Jy announces, in commenting upon Dr. Living- ston’s discoveries, that “the one great service which the world demands from the negro race is the production of cotton;” and, admitting that “the white man seems unfitted for labor under the peculiar conditions of place and atmosphere requisite for the cultivation of this necessary sta- ple,” propounds the doubt whether, even if it were possible to transfer the scene of its produc- tion to Africa, “ the negro will cultivate the soil with the certainty of purpose and regularity of result necessary for commercial purposes.” It goes even further than this and asks “ if the ne- gro proprietor will not employ the compulsory labor of slaves?’ The London Post, the special organ of Lord Palmerston and all the advocates of government by a class, takes alarm at these bold propositions of the Times, and endeavors to change the issue by assuming that the battle now going on, and whore existence it expressly admits, is a battle between geography and slavery. In the course of its reasoning it admits that cotton and sugar are articles of universal use in all zones; but points to India and the Cape Colony, to French Algeria and Syria, where it says “ the cotton plant yet flourishes in the gardens of Aleppo, and the eugar cane by the waters of Damascus.” In the course of its argument the Post is led into a singular advocacy of the most ultra theories of the American filibuaters, in appealing, in support of its propositions, to the French conquests in Algiers, where “an immense tract of land of the most exuberant fertility passes from the hands of the Arab, the Turk, the Moor, the negro, and the Mozabite—indolent, ignorant, fana‘ic, with- eut industry or capital—into the haads of those who are capable of giving that territory its due and active part to play in the great drama of the world.” This is pure filibusterism of the moet ultra American school. But the Times is right in its position, for the commercial and industrial interests o! the world are beginning to awaken to the true issues involved in the discussion of the slavery question. Cotton and sugar are the immediate results of the system of tropical labor established by the early discov- erers of America. Cotton and sugar have been the great sources of amelioration in the dress and food of man in every zone, and have produced many of the most valuable improvements in his bygienie condition. Cotton and sugar are at the present day two ef the most important foun- tains of the commercial and industrial movement of the world, and therein constitute some of the greatest springs of modern civilization. Not only their production, but a continued increase of the product is demanded by the wants of civi- lization; and any policy which shall tend to de- stroy the productive contributions of the existing system of tropical labor, before any substitate jor it has been established, is conflicting with the material interests of civilization, and thereby with its true developement and progress. The existing humanitarian theories, based upon an abstract moral truth, are found to conflict with these social necessities, while at the same time they fail to fulfil in a moral point of view the hopes of their advocates, The first triumph of these theories was wit- nessed in St. Domingo. ‘Phere a community, which in 1789 produced 145,000,000 pounds of sugar, 70,000,000 pounds of coffee, and 6,000,000 pounds of cotton, has been destroyed to the in- Justrial world, and its place has been filled only oy communities organized on a similar social sys- tem. The next triamph is exhibited in the West India colonies of all the Europeao powers, ex- cept Spain. The change in their social organiza- tion has reduced the production of sugar in the English, French, Danish and Dutch West Indies, tince 1833, nearly one-half, precluding at the same time any advance in the culture of cotton, Were these theories and their attendant results to be applied to the southern portion of the United States and to the colonies of Spain, which still hold to the system of involuntary negro labor, not only would they be involved in social ruin, but the shock to industrial England would be of | tie most disastrous magnitude. It is true that in the sugar culture the coolie labor of India and the Mauritius is beginning to replace the loss of St Domingo and the West Indies. But there is a well founded doubt epringing up in the world whether the coolie system is any more consonant with the abstract principles of hu- manity than is the system of negro slavery § practised in America. Waving, however, this point, it has been demonstrated that cotton can- net be cultivated as successfully in India as it is in the United States. In Africa the experiment has not yet been practically tested, and even should it be positively ascertained, there rise the gteat questions propounded by the Times:—Can it be produced there with the certainty of pur- pose and regularity of result necessary for com- mercial purposes? If so, will not the negro proprietor employ the compulsory labor of slaves ? Commercial England has to decide these ques- tions for herself, and, shaping her own poli abide its issue. Here we are not disposed te terfere with the desirable increase of cultur staple so necessary as is cotton to the civilized world, merely to carry out a truth tbat may seem moral and humane in the abstract, but the pra tical results of which, in a moral point of view, are open to grave doubts. Throagh her Indian possessions and her coolie system, England may compete with usin sugar for the commerce of the world, but in cotton and its fabrics she can- not do #0. ofa Who are tre Finmvsrens?—Some two or three weeks ago, when Jobn McKeon had Com- modore Vanderbilt up to say whether he was a filibuster or not, we learned that the Commodore's pangent denial of the charge had given rise to a piquant letter from Senor Goicuria to the Com- modore, in which some recent transactions were fully laid open. We called for the correspon- dence, in order that the parties might be set right before the public. It has not yet been produced, and we now learn thac Vanderbilt replied to Goicuria in a style @ la Marey to Goneral Syott. The whole thing forme an exquisite little brochure, | again, Come, uml We my i} for the paper Senor Goicuria, let the public have the corres pondence, or it will begin to think that you are seed ap vy the Commodore's knack of letter weiting. We cul} for the documents ‘Tuearnica Apverrist~va.—Some of the jour- nals have contradicted the statement made by the HERALD, to the effect that Mr. Strakosch, the new impressario of the Opera, had resolved to restrict his advertisements to three or four of the daily newspapers having the largest circulation, This contradiction is said to emanate from some per- son who is presumed to be the agent of Mr. Strakosch; but we learn that Mr. Strakosch hag no agent authorized to speak’for him in the mat- ter, and we repeat the statement, the accuracy of which cannot be doubted. We have no doubt that Mr. Strakosch will be able to carry out al? the reforms that he bas initiated, and that he wil? materially cut down the expenses of the Opera by giving his official announcements to the three or } four daily journals having the largest circulation, and that he will save a great deal of money whiclr is usually thrown away upon morning, evening, and Sunday papers which have no circulation worth mentioning. This is a reform which several of the managers have long contemplated, but they have not had ufficient moral courage to carry it out. The history of the Italian Opera in New York has one instance where 4 manager attempted econo- my in advertising. ‘This manager was Mr. Fry, who had an idea similar to that of Mr. Strakoach, only that Fry’s was inverted. He advertised only in the papers having the smallest circula- tion, in order, we presume, to have the Opera as exclusive an affair as possible. Some time ago the manager of the Broadway theatre attempted to carry out the system of economy in advertis- ing by giving his lengthy announcements to the Herarp alone, and his smaller notices to the Express and other journals of the same order. He, however, was driven out of the idea by the savage attacks upor his theatre by these newspapers. Had he been possessed of sufficient nerve to have turned these attacks to account, and considered them as gra- tuitous puffs over the left hand, they would havz been much more valuable to the theatre than all the nauseous puffs over the right hand with which the Express and kindred journals are filled. With regard to Signor Strakosch there is no doubt that he will adhere to his purpose, which is fully concurred in by the executive committee of the owners of the Academy, With a very fne company—shortly to be strengthened, in all pro- bability, by the addition of Madame d’Angti, with whom he is in negotiation—there is no doubt that his enterprise will be rewarded with the favor of the public, and that he will have moral counge enough to smile at al) the jibes and jcers which the small fry newspaper trash may heap upon him. At any rate his attempt is a curious incident im newspaper history, and highly praiseworthy a¢ the came time. Licutive cp 4 Dark Svpsect.—We publsk elsewhere some correspondence that has latly passed between Thomas N. Carr, Esq., late Cousul of the Walked States at Tunis, and Elijat F. Purdy, Peq., one of the officers of the Mechatics? Institute of this city, from which it @ppears that Mr. Carr will shortly deliver before the Institite @ lecture upon Morocco particularly and Afica generally, Mr. Carr bas had particular facilities for obtaining the fullest and most accurate inor- mation with regard to the subject upon which he purposes to lecture. He represented the United States at Tunis during several years, and while there collected much valuable information. Siet his return he has devoted his time to the studyo the subject, and we may confidently expect sene thing new and interesting—a rare luxury inlec tures now-a-days, THE LATEST NEWS BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS. Important from the Plains. REPORTED MURDER OF SURVEYING PARTIES BY INDIANS—PRARS THAT OTHER PARTI£S # PERISHED FROM COLD. St. Loris, Jan. 12, 18 The St. Joseph correspondent of the Repullican, ¥ date of 3d inst., says that the weather on the Pian been more severe than ever koown before. The sy ing parties have been disabiod and driven io. G4 Matthews reports a rumor that two United States sv ing parties bave been murdered by Camanche ladh the Southwestern part of Kansas, and also thata portion of another party had returned from Wa Kansas, the remainder it is believed having beewn to death, The thermomeier at St. Joseph stood swe below zero; and the ice in the Missoori was ty inches thick. News from Bermuda—Marine Disast Haurax, Jan. 12, The steamship Delta, from St. Thomas Januarnd Bermuda 8b, arrived bere to day. ‘The schooner Jaiian, twenty days from Cove bw York, pat into Bermada on the 29th of Decomiitn lows of sails, spars, boats, and badly. tee run Into and stove in by the ‘brig Ne of Sled, ‘The Norfolk was not seen afior the collis but Ip. tam of the Julian thicks that she was not serida- ured. The brig Quadruple, from Bermuda for Baltimut back en becember a, hte mate and = fick. She had encountired ae 112 avinvs from Ale Vota! wreck. Stone aod mizzepmast cut onng. ‘She had pea, weather, and there was several feet of win ber hold. ‘The brig Jane, from Pictou for New Tot, ete George's on the 20th of December, with loss galley, tails, and with sprung ‘mainmast, ry yaroe a pekgenyd ‘Water Witch, forty-two days (rere Ralem, put into St. George's ob tae 80th of Derr, jenny, ‘and the crew frost bitten. The bri ondiog, trom Domarara for Nerk, arrived at Bermuda on the Slat of December. poarmatnonibetans is am NEW YORK LEUISLATURE, Senate. Aunany, Jen, 25. A memorial wes presented from the bankiow York, asking for an increase of salary to the Sa periniendent. A report from the Western House of Re‘ ge pre- rented, asking $36,000 from the State, Mr, SravceR roported © bill 10 authorize the ican and Fcreign Bible Sootety w parchare $160 Ova of eal entato. ‘Mr. BRavrorD reported « bill to provide for te of the inran 6 and criminal of the Sinte, ‘Mr. Lae reporter a bill (0 create a Board of w to the charitable institutions, © be supported in 8 oF part by A ecamaniestion ‘was then rent in from ex hant Governor Raymond thanking the Senate for tom- plimentary resolution. Mr. BRooxs introduced a bill authorizing the T to perve pomenemees fasued trom the Marine UonNow Harbor Commissioners to open a correspondess the Governor 0” New Jersey, with a view to the al of joarantine Hook ; » re- the « ‘at Siaten Island ene Ss pat Fda, Masa the go ment at for tho wea or rome old veneel, to be mot the Horse shoo near Sandy Hook, for recetv! fectour dinennos found on vor see on thoit wavew ‘ork, and to de ured an ® hoepital; also -roqu the mm'saionore to repors to the Legisiature bpary: the renolt of thetr irqairien, Ac journed Assembly. ALnANY, Jam. 57 ‘The Asrembly metals? M . a goodiy nomen bere beng present TONS RROR NERD, From phyntoinon of Now York, asking for ttory poites. Prem theo net Goue'y Agrisoltural Sooler\ng for agrluoltarmosen Bet wowvcng of bee caning pomale toe ’ U t ' 4 t ' ‘ r