The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, DPROR AND PROPRIETOR, @PFD'E N. W.CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU ST TERNS, cash in advance. THRE DAIL) HERALD, 2 cents per copy, #7 per annum. APY TSEMENTS senewed overs slay. aRUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Romno saxo JOLIET —Vowing Tr Tastes. BOWESY THEATRE, Bowery—Kanurt, tae Scour; or, = als 4 , ‘THE JEASEYS—BRIGAND'S Som—Grrsey Faumen. RIC N'S NRW THRATRE, Broadw y, ongactte Bend ot. = 1) tes 4iL—Four Paantoms—A New ‘AMLLLE, WANLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Mrpea—Warnsa om Poxds—Fine Baten, LAURA KEENWS THEATRE, 6X Broadway—Facst amp MARGEURITE—LOVE IN "726. AMFRICAN THEATRE, Chambers street—Cuanity’s Bove—Live Np Let Live. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth st.—Itauran Orzna— a SONNAMBULA, BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Aftor- meeo—Richrs axp Wroxes or WomeR—Quite at Home. Bvening—Korn OaKiey, GEO CHRISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broad- wey—RrtoriaN PERFOKMASCES~MiscMLEVOUS MONKEY. 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SP, Bavewroc: —Do. do Lavgai) \—Jobn Honter, 12 Exchange street East Havxr—sm & Baropean xpress Uv, 21 Rao Comneitic. fhe contents of the Puroptan edition of the Ames will con bine (he nows received by mati and telegraph at he office during the provious week, sad up to tne hour f publica: The News. Last evening the telegraph lines south of Phila tel- pia ceaed working. We are, therefore, this moriing without our usual despatches from Wash ington and tee conclusion of yesterday's Congres sional proceedings. Mr. Buchanan left Lancaster yesterday morning. He eet ont on his journey amid the ringieg of bells and tne firing of cannon, was rceived by muititades ef people at Columbia and other points on his way, snd d lees arrived at Washington in due season. The Union of Saturday contains the fo lowing: “We bave seen a jeter from Mr. Bachanan, in which be soys that he was never in better health in his life. He has en‘irely recovered trom the attack which he had whilst in Washwgton, and ts now eompletely restored to his usual robust state of health” In the Assemb'y yesterday reports and bilis re organiziug the municipal government of New York eity and the pelice depariments of New York ana Brooklyn, were presented. An abstract of them may be found or the eighth page of this morning’: paper. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Cass presented the pesolutio: s of the Legislatare of Michigan, instract- img the delegaticn from that State to vote against the ¢xtension of slavery. Mr. Cass took occasion to peilerste b's well known views with regard t) the doctrine of imstructions, and the consideration of the subject was, on motion of Mr. Stuart, of Michi- gan, postponed till the 10ch inst. Mr. Toombs pre- sented a report defining the act providing for the eompensstion of members. The House refused to suspend the rules in order to take np the bill making an appropriation for the construction of ten sloopsofwar. No increase of the navy, there- fore, need be looked for this session. A bill to deposit the surplus revenue, excepting two million doilar-, with he Sta es, to be refunded when called for, was reported by ‘he Committee of Ways and Means, and pasted by a vote of i19 to 79. The Cava? Board have issued proposals for a loan of bal! a million dollars, at five per cent, Proposals seceived until 24th inst. The steamship Niagara, from Liverpool 14th ult., peach«d Boston yesterday morning Her mails for the South were despatched by the afternoon train dune in this city at midnight, but owing to the ob sur wns on the railroad, caused by the storm, they probably did not arrive until this morning. The steamsbip City of Washington, hence for Li- verpoo! Jan. 31, arrived ont on the afternoon of the 12th ult She sailed on ber return on the lith, two hours after the Niagura, with 120 passengers and 1,200 tons of measurement goods, and is now fully due, unless detained by the storm. The City of Woehington takes tae piace of the Kangaroo, the latter having been detained on her outward voyage by ice in the D.laware river The report of the Nia- wera baving exchanged signals with the Kangaroo on the 15th is a mistake, of course, as the K. did not get clear of the ice off the Capes of the Delaware un- fi the oth ult, Tie Board of Supervisors met last evening, bat no business of importance was done. A petition was received from Justice Meech, for $250 counsel fees, imcurred in defending a snit brought by a party whom he bad committed for contempt of court. The p< tition was referred, and the Board adjourned to Monday next. Both branches of the Common Council held their firet mectings of the March session last evening. Re- solutious of regret at the death of Dr Kane, and suggesting that the flags of the city be suspended at balf-mast on the day of the faneral, also ‘hat a joint committee proceed tw Philadelphia to join im the obeequies, were adopted. In the Board of Aldermen a resolution directing a thoroagh overhauling of the accounts of the various depart. ments ond bureaus by the Committee on Accounta, was adopted. The committee are authorised to send tor persoos and papers, and are to report the result of their investigations as early as practicable. Re apecting the beetowal of General Jackson's gold snuff box, which he wilted to “ the most valiant in delence of bis country,” a resolution was adopted re questing the First Regiment of New York Volan- teers to decide waich member of their corpa is en- titled, ty bie military rerviees and valor during the late wer with Mex ¢o, to be the recipient of this mark of honorable distinction. It is contemplated to have the presentation ceremony take place on the Fourth of daly rext. In the case of ine filibasters, Mr. Campbell yes. terdpy cummed up on the part of the detence. See ovr report ehewhere. Toe A bany Burgess Corps, Capt. Spelman, arrived in vie cl yyerterdiby, en route (or Wastington to wit- meee ihe imetgmation They were received by the cit or@ entertained at Niblo’s, where they par- tak ot « collation, and escorted to the boa* foot of Cotlids thest They expected to arrive in Wash- fag on orning, and will retara on Thucaday ment Af Toke on at the corner of Wa er and State C840, yesterday, and before it could be very 10 he value of half a m lion of collars wom destro ed. Atnous the sufferers were Mint & Oo ee E150 00. cp of He Cont of Generd Besions provision dealers, whovw | yas Beit, Lice aut own @ gu A diaed S28 NEW YORK HEALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1857. ‘prevent. A large number of petit jurors offered ex- cues for non-attendance, the plea, as usual, being ‘tmfirmity and affliction. Frarcis Quinn was then placed on trial, charged with robbery in the first de- gree. On the night of the 9th of January last he forcibly abstracted $71, in gold and silver coin, from the bosom of Mary Gintz, residing at 225 Twelfth street. The iury convicted him of grand arce:y, and the court sentenced him to the State prison for four years and six months. In consequence ot the indisposition of the Recorder, the couct was adjourn- ed till Wednesday next. ‘The case of the parties charged with th» French railroad frauds was, after several remarks of coun- sel in opposition, postponed to Wednesday, until the answer of Judge Ingersoll could be received a8 to whether he will act judicially in the proceedings. The motion for adjournment was made on the part of the prosecution, on the ground that they could not proceed before a tribunal which had no power to maintain order or protect them in case they should have occasion to produce documents of im- portance. ‘The severe snow storm which prevailed yesterday fore- Boom tended to check transactions in nearly all depart. ments of wrede, The cotton market continued firm, With sales of about 3,500 bales, closing at about 3:0. ad- ‘vanoe on most descriptions. Middling uplands were at about 18%0 , and New O;loans middiing at about 14},0. aléxc, Transactions is flour were limited, while prices were urchapg:d. No sales of wheat of momen} trans. sp'red. A lot of Jersey new mixed corm sold at 700, Pork was duiland lower, Sales of new mess wore made at $22 75, ecller’s option, thirty cays For immediate delivery it was beld petty G@rmly at $23. For the stocks of pork and beet we refor to another column. Slavery as a Geographical Question—Iater. coung Facts and Statistics. We transfer to these columns a most interest- ing article from the St. Louis Intelligencer, em- racing copious extracts from a late speech of B. G. Brown in the Missouri Legislature, on “the disappearance of slavery from Missouri.” The tacts, figures and argument of the St. Louis legis- jator are adopted by the St. Louis editor, and with these strong assurances, to wit: that “slave- ry will soon cease to exist in Missouri; that “the fiat is irreversible; that this institution “will not be abolished,” but that “it wili disappear; that “it is going now;” that “it is waning in Missouri, and to be waning is to be dead.’ In support of these etartlisg declarations the speech of Mr. Brown furnishes all the needfat positive testimony of facts. He shows that in over one-fonrth of the State of Missouri within the last five years slavery has positively decreased, while the increased white population has been correspondingly Jarge in the same counties Thus, in twenty-five counties, since 1851, while there bas been an actual decrease in the sl ve oopulation of 4.442, there has been an increase in the white population of 75,797. Ia the tea coag- ties adjacent to the free State of Towa there :as been a slave increase of 238, and an increase of the white population of 31,691. Mr. Brown, speak- ing to the Missouri Assembly concerning lowa and Missouri, says that “the Iowa line divides the two States as clearly and strikingly as the lusid line of water which distinguishes the turbid and muddy torrents of the Missouri from the blue and sparkling current of the Mississippi at the junc. sion of those mighty rivers; and that among Ve Most prominent facts in this distinction is the relative price of land in the two States—“in Towa, land of like soil and situation being fully iwice ae high as in Missouri.” Hence the pressure of the ewelling waves of tree white emigration into Missouri, not withstand- ing the drawback of African slavery. Hence tho remarkable tenacity of the free State cause in Kansas The same causes, the same results, the came curious facts are working out the geo graphics! solution of the slavery question else- where, and will apply directly, more or less, to the other border slave States of Kentacky, Vir- ginia, Delaware and Maryland Free white labor is gradually invading those States from the North, and slavery is steadily receding before it, The results are not so evident in the redaction of the slave population, bere and there, as in the vastly superior general increase of the free white population, Take, for examples, the fullowiag census returns of the increase from 1°49 to 1850 of the whites and slaves, respectively, in the bor- der slave States aforesaid, to wit:— —wWe Popelaion.— -— Tae 460, 1840 In6) 781413 189,268 210,081 96800 449087 = 474,698 8661 TL,1Fo 2 406 219) 318204 = 41794388 9,787 90,308 Here it will be seen that, even upon the new and fertile soil aud comparatively fine climve of Kentucky, while the slave population on the inst census decade increased only about eleven per cent, the of the white population was nearly twenty-five per cent; that in the same period the white increase in Virginia was over twenty per cent, and the slave increase less than five per cent; that in Maryland, from 1540 to 1850, the slave population was at a stand still, and that in Delaware there was a positive de- crease to the extent of nearly one-eighth of the slave population of 1540. Unquestionably the census of 1860 will give us results decisive of the question in all the aforesaid States within the next succeeding ten years, if not sooner, The reasons for this sweeping conclusion are at hand. Comparatively, our Northern States are fall of people, and the scanty margin remaining of the unoccupied lands of the groat Wost or Northwest, will in a few years more be peopled. Then the tide of our Western bound thousands and bundrede of thousands from Europe, from New England, New York, New Jersey, Penneylvania. Ohio, &o., will recoil and oveifiow the waste places in the border slave States, where the slaveholders, fliding their lands more profitable in the market than slaves or slave labor, will sell out their estates for cash and move off with their niggers further South, Gov- ernor Wise and bis niggers among the rest. Thus, while Congress is stultifying itself from seesion to scasion between the qnestion of ite jurisdiction over the Territories and the question of squatter sovereignty—tbus, while the North and the South are kept by noisy demagoguee of both rections ina state of agitation, excitement and enmity bordering upon secession and disunion —thus are the natural laws of slavery, of slave labor and free white labor, working out their owa solution. The geographical laws of race, climate, sofl and products are, meantime, most powerfully assisted by European immigration and the rapid natural increase of our Northern white inhabi- tants. Under this combination of free soil influ- ences the Kaveas border roffiaus may bang every free soil ejnatter in the Territory, and yet Kansas | omg be a free State, and Missouri, Delaware, | Masylond, Virginia and Kentucky in their order | | Will follow } The tine policy of the South. then, ie not to make the establithment of slavery in Kansas, or | anything of the sort, a question of union or disso- | jution, but to Jook for the strengthening of nogro Savery towards the tropics, within those climats where the white man sickens and pericher under the exposure to the heat and the aaletia 1; b tue b multiplies. The seaboard States of Mexico, the Central American States and the West India islands constitute the proper fields for the exten- sion of African slavery. Jamaica and Hayti, as slave colonies, and Hayti and Jamaica as free black settlements, have solved the problem there for African slavery in behalf of both races, and in behalf of humanity, Christianity and commerce, These views are not designed, however, to bolster up the Southern fire-eaters and their Utepian scheme of a grand slaveholding Southern’ confederacy, “based upon military principles,” and outside of the existing American Union, Slavery may disappear from the present border slave States before either Cuba or Mexico is annexed ; but Southern secession does not fol- low as a necessary consequence. There will still be found among the people wisdom, moderation and conciliation enough to secure the constitu- tional rights of the slave States against all offen- sive anti-slavery aggressions. But, be the final consequences what "they may, it behooves our noisy politicians upon State rights, Congressional rovercignty and squatter sovereignty, to consult he practical working out of this geographical solution of the slavery question, TneatricaL Crrticist—Is rr Venat or Not?— Now that the Wasbingten Investigating Commit- tee has wound up its labors, and two or three members, with itching palms, have retired from the service of an ungrateful country, the_atten- tion of the public has been directed to similar matters in the world of art. Mrs. McMabon has made another speech at Boston of the same tenor astwo which have preceded it from the same person. She reiterates the statement that she might have been puffed in the papers if she had seen fit to pay for it—not being disposed to sub- sidize the Puritan critics, she was unequivocally damned. She, however, states that she intends to imitate the glorious example of Mr. Brown, the persevering hero of one of the gems of the colored opera, and never give it up so. Along with this statemeat of Mrs. Mc- Muhon’s, we have another from the Hon. Booby Brooks, who says, in the Express, tbat the agents of Miss Matilda Heron sab- sidized the press of this city at the expense of some three thousand doliars The mutwr has been still further complicated by the com mencement of a libel suit by one of the critics against one of the managers) The manager pub lishes a bulletin containing his bills aad puffs of the performances, which have been made a little more piquant by persoval attacks on the offend- ing critic. He has been denounced as incompe- tent and venal; accused of secking to break down one theatre in order to build up another. Toe manager will haye an opportunity to justity his statements; if he does 0 there is no libel about the matter. In the case of Mrs. McMahon we have her owa word that she might have had good notices by pay- ing for them. In the case of Mis: Heron we see her suddenly inundated by an avalanche of unqaalified praise, which astonishes the editurs of the provin- cial papers, who never before knew that they had enjoyed during several years a great theatrical luxury, trom which the New York public was debarred. We see one Wall street journal abso- lutely forgetting stocks amd codfish, and giving to this newly discovered hizh priestess in the «mple of Melpomene au extra, with two leaded columns half a mile long. The little curs of the Sunday prees whine gently, making a sweet ful eetto to the profound bass of the big dogs of the dailies. What is the cause of this charming una nimity? The Hon. Booby Brooks, whose expe- rience in all such operations is something won- deiful, says it is three thousand dollars. Brooks ought to know. On the otber side it is held that the a:cusations are grovbdlets, and that the Heratp is yenal in its criticisms of public amusements because bills and posters announcing concerts, operas, theatri- eal entertairments, &c,, are printed in our office In regard to this, it must be apparent that a cou tract for job printing is tur labor aciwaliy per- formed. Li is exccly the same as advertisiag, for whicb the full value of the money paid is re turped in the publicity given, There fs no more venality about printing the bills thaa there is in printing) the advertisements, wand whether we print their bills or not makes no difference in our opinions as to the merite or demerits of asy actor, notyes*, tioger or manager. The public expects and should receive trom the press fair sad unbiased report of every mat ter of general interest. The public amase ments of # greet city are matters of geueral in terest. he public has reason to believe thar the criticisiws upon plays and piayers are dic tated by influences apart from truth, candor aud fairness to all parties, the public then maxt los all confidence in the journals It appears, frow the testimony of the Hoo. Booby Brouks, who occupies the position of State's evidence, aud of Mrs. McMahon, who says she bas been a victim that there is reason to Lelieve that some outside influences bave been brooght to bear upon the 89- called theatrical criticiems J+ is important that there matters should be properly investigated Let us have a committee, and let every poor av tor, actress, singer or manager be enmmoned to tell whether they have paid anything for good notices, how much they bave pald, in what way it was paid, and to whom it was paid. We must have al] these matters cleared up. Perhaps the great libel case—critic against manager —will do it. If not, let us have the investigating com: mittee. Stock Gammiine Jovnwaris.—It will be seen by our reports cleewhore that Wesley & Cu,, the proprietors of the Times, continue to operate with boldness and confidence on the bull side Some time since—that is to ray, when the Money article of the Times affected to be honest and can- did—it is understood that Wesley & Co. were, like other operators, bulls on some things, bears on others, But latterly they have become con- vinced that everything is going up; orders have been issued to the money article writer to pat indiscriminately ; cid Wesley & Co. are in the market as buyers. We note, in their ro- cent operations, a slackening in their former re- liance in Central; they do not seem to want so touch of that delightful fancy, bat have trans. ferred their affections to things westerly, namely, Cleveland ond Toledo and Miebigan Sonthern. A doy or two since they went into Brie on the strength of the reeignation of M and bought a few parcels of stock— instructing the money cditor to be sare and puff it strong mext morning. Me did so, but by the time the puff war brought to bear, his masters were off on a new tangent. We seem to have exaggerated the Importance of Wesley & Co, when we eaid that their pur- chases afd files tight average $3,000,000 1» month. Kyen with the fall aid of their we e given fo understand that a millibs « tenth MO @ lau ar ebage. The Twe Newspaper Organs of Corruption. There ie something peculiarly instructive and amusing in the comments of the New York Times and Tribune on the result of the corruption inquiry. With singular uniformity they both refer to Scripture ; and seem to say that the ex- pelled members play the part of the Jewish scapegoats, Perhaps they do. But, if Messrs. Matteson, Gilbert and Company are the scapegoats of pc pn rip a ayed by Mr. Greeley, part Tbune, and Mr. Simonton, part propaigage of Mr. Weeley’s Times, one 0’ whom escaped the notice of the committee by a convenient engagement in Towa for lecturing purposes, while the other was ignominio. sly expelled from the floor of Con- gress? Ou cotemporaries, twin brothers in politics, do not seem to have heard of these events; or, if the intelligence has reached them, it bas escaped their memory. Let us re- call them to notice. Mr. Simonton’s dismissal is a historical fact; Mr. Greeley’s thousand dollar business is more mystified, but on the face of it, it is singular, and at the least suspicious. Now, but for the Investigating Committee, Mr. Simon- ton might have gone on with his little business, as a partner of Mr. Wesley, the stock gambler, without let or hindrance ; and but for the same body, the incorruptibility of Mr. Greeley wouid have been beyond question still. One can ua- derstand how these republican managers consider that the inquiry “commenced in a panic,” acd was parsued “ with cowardice, party malignity and personal malice.” In effect, the net result of the Investigation Committee has gone to show that the two leading organs of republicanism in New York, Wesley's Times and the Tribune, and their principal allics and friends in the House, were and are corrupt and venal. It is pretended by Mr. Wesley, in his Times, that but for the partisan feeling of the committee, at least equal corruption would have been developed on the democratic side of tae House, and that the expulsions would have been equally balanced among parties. We have vo doubt but suck is the fact. The democrats are not remarkable for their backwardness in matiers where money is to be made; if Reverdy Joho- son's forty thieves could be detected, no dou»: there would be many a “ bigh-seuled, pure, aud sterling democrat’ among them. But so far a- the facts betore us indicate, the corruption is a! on the side of the republicans. It is their mem bers who are ignominiously declared to be un. wortby of seats in the House, It is their news- paper organs whoze eorrespondents are fou guilty ot receiving money to aid in the passag: of bills On their heads and on theirs alone, ha- the weight of the Congressioual thunderbolt fallen. We are not inclined to think that they bave been as iil used in this matter as they would have us believe. Of the antecedents of such mcn as Mattexon it is of course unnecessary to speak, after the report of the Lavestigating Committee. Nobody defends him. Nor bas apy one, himself above suspicion, arisen wo take the side of the other expelled members. As to the journals, it is not, we regret to say, the first time that either of the names mentioned has been made public in connection with corrupt practices. We have before said that we do no: suppose Mr. Greeley received his thousand dol lars asa bribe for himeelf, or even as a bribe which be was personally to use himselt amoug the members of the lobby; but we perceive notbing either in his own or his triend’s expiava- tion that is inconsistent with the theory that the thousand dollars tormed part of a larger eum, raised for corrupt purposes, in connection with the election of Speaker and printer, and placed in Mr. Greeley’s hands for sate keeping. No doubt, if this hypothesis be true, Mr. Greciey paid the drafts which were drawn upou him; and bad we but the benefit of his evidence under oath, we might know pretty neariy what it coals to control a Congreesman’s vote. As to Mr. Si monton, his case is clearer. He confessed guilty aud it only remained to let the law take it- course. His partner, Mr. Wesley, the stock gam bler and chief proprietor of the Times, no doubt desired him to display more fortitude and resig nation; but Simonton’s heaith was bad, and he confessed, and evcaped from custody. It will hardly answer for Mr. Wesley to try to save him- self from responsibility for his partner by now trying to puff the committee or abuse it; this wil: not do: he had best acknowledge bim like a man stand by Lim, and say openly that Simonton did nothing at Washiogton but what Wesley does openly in Wall street. On the whole the republican newspapers have a sberpith air, and do not seem to know what to make of the committee and its report. Yet their meaning is very plain, and he who ruos may read. Tne Friremesrers, Tun Commopores axp THE Pourticays—A New Nicaracva Scueme ror Wai. street—The ides of March seem to be as upptopitious to our filibusters, political spe- culators and stockjobbers in Mosquito grants and Nicaragua transit routes, as they were to the bald-pate Cusar of old. The Marcy- Curhing administration set John McKeon upon the filibusters, and they have retorted by publishing the grateful acknowledgments of Sidney Webster and ‘his associate’ for a share in the famous Kinney scheme, in which the expiring dynasty shines as brightly as an an- cient and phosphorescent mackerel upon a sum- mer’s eve. This pretty piece of pot and kettle discussion is followed by the private announce- ment that Commodore Morgan’s steamships are to be immediately taken off from the Nicaragua route, and Commodore Vanderbilt's are to coin- mence running on the 11th inst., for the benefit of whom it may concern. The Walker school of filibusters look as blank at this discovery as poor Pierce and Sidney Webster did at their exposure, end ard loud im their denunciations of Morgan, Garrison, Vanderbilt and all their coadjutors. Suddenly, in the midst of this crimination and recrimination, there starts up a new searcher after truth. Mr. Tracy follows in the foot- teps of Mr. McKeon, and asks Commodore Van- derbilt, by letter, if he has any connection with the filibusters—to which the Commodore replies, in the style of the London haberdasher, ‘hat he has “no connection with the rascals over the way.” If Tracy wanted the informa- tion for bis own eatisfaction, why did he not ask the Cotnmodore about this privately? What is the spring of this volunteer defence of the Com- modore? The Commodore's reply is oxqaisite. He bas no collusion with “ Morgan or his filibus ter gang; but we are still in doubt, Will Commodore Garrison define his position toward the filibuster gang and toward our friend, Com- tmodore Vanderbilt? We wish the skirts of the latter to be as clear as daylight in the new movements now in progress. ‘The substance of all this letter writing aod using 6f the newspapers Cah be Summed np ih a thie last and have con- stantly held it up to our readers in its true light, as a stockjobbing scheme for operations in Wall street. The plan now on foot is a new speculation in the same fertile field. Two eehemes have preceded it, and both have proved abundantly profitable to the Managers, First came the old Nicara- gua Transit grant, upon which a company was got up and the stock sold in the market, while somebody other than the stockholders pocketed the proceeds. The government of Nica- ragua finding iteelf cheated out of the stipulated share of the profits, was in doubt what to do un- til the advent of Walker, who seized the boats and sold them to a new concern, The grand struggle then commenced here, and the fight has been carried on between the Commodores until the new concern is frightened and Waiker seemingly in deeperate straits, At this juncture Webster and Anderson appear here with joint powers from Costa Rica and the Rivas government of Nicara- gua tocell« new grant of the Transit route, This is to be made the basis of another stock gam- bling arrangement, either in the shape of a new company or a galvanizing of the old one, the shares of which have been bought up at a nomi- nal figure. So look out for another Nicaragua bubble as soon as Walker is defeated. If luck should turn in his favor, however, as the chances of war are always precarious, and the last ac- counts from Nicaragua show that he is not en- tirely whipped, we shall have more new combi- nations and schemes. Let the Costa Rican agents remember the old nigger’s aphorism, “White man very uncertain.” The Last sation Romance. We bave before us a work which is decidedly the greatest romance of the season, far more fasci- pating than the last story by Dickens, the reports of the Bond street murder trial, or the latest im- moral play by Dumas. Our romance has a prosaic title—A List of Persons, Corporations and Co- partnerships, resident and non-resident, who were taxed according to the Assessors’ Books, 1856- 7.” It contains the names of the lucky indivi- duals in this city who hold collectively property valued at over five bundred millions of dollars— William B, Astor heading the list with four mil- lions. The book contains about twenty-seven thousand names, and if the assessed property were divided equally, each taxpayer would have about twenty thousand dollars. If it were di- vided among the entire population, it would give jess than ten dollars each——so the city is not so rich, after all, according to the legal valuation. We suspect, however, that it would be difficult to buy up our rich men with the figures standing against them in’cr¢ +#x book, and herein lies part of the romance of ;ts contents. Since we pub- lished some excerpts from this charming romance, we have received several letters on the subject. Our correspondents take a matter of fact view of the subject. One is the owner of a house and Jot, upon which he pays taxes at the rate of one dollar and thirty-eight cents per hundred dollars of valuation; he is shocked to find that, while real estate is so heavily taxed, personal property, both in large and small amounts, escapes the vi- gilance of the Assessors. He gives as examples the caves of Mesers, Bowen & McNamee, silk merchants, and Duncan, Sherman & Co., bankers. Both these great houses, doing millions of basi- hess per annum, lave, it appears, no personal property subject to taxation, which includes, it wil be remembered, everything except bank stocks, In other cases, holders of real estate es cape taxation by under valuation. For instance, William B. Astor pays forty thousand dollars on three millions of real estate. He is reputed to be wortn fifteen millions, and should pay two hua- dred and thirty thousand. Mr. Astor’s case is only one of thousands. Other people swear off taxes on personal proper- ty by having mortgages upon real estate. Pro- fessional men, with incomes or salaries from one to five thousand dollars per annum, are rarely taxed at all. This, of course, lessens the valu- ation at least one-third, and proportionately in- creases the rate of taxation. The large real estate proprietors are the only gainers, They ercape taxation on half their wealth, but put up the bouse rents as if they paid the whole, Thus the man of moderate means, whether he owns a house, inhabits lodgings, or sts up an establishment of his ova, is sure to suffer. It he owns a single house and lot he is sure to be taxed up to its full valn- ation—if be rents a house or lodgings he must pay double what is demanded anywhere else in the world, because the taxes are so heavy. The author of the tax book complains of the stupidity ot the Assessors, and carries the fact to the credit of the “blighting influence of politica.” But it is certainly very hard that A, whose sole pos- session iss house worth ten thousand dollars, should have topay a crushing tax, while B, who has a million, escapes with only half the pro- portionate burden of his poorer neighbor. Tus romance writers always make the rich richer and the poor pooter—the author of the tax book gives ub, in bis hard tacts, bases for plots of an bondred novels. There fs another feature of this pleasant volume which is still more interesting. Among these names are those of many men who have not a cent or acent’s worth in the world, but who pay taxes on a large amount to keep up their respectability. Pinsh, for example, is an unfortunate merchant, who has seen the day when his bank account was represented by six figures, He has, however, been eaten up by the bears or gored by the bulls in Wall street, He has a large and expensive family, including two or three marriageable daughters. It is a Iauduble desire on the part of Plash to settle these young ladies in the world—to settle means a first claes honse, carriage, two partics a month, subscription to the Opera, a husband, and other luxuries, The women may be beautiful, accomplished, amiable—that isn't enough. The young merchant before be investe his capital in anything must see something tangible to meet it, and the main question is, “how much monoy has the oldman got?’ It is not necemary to pay avy cash down upon the dolivery of the property, but there must be some In ex- pectancy. Before the suitor goes into the ring of the young lady’s admirers, he makes inquiries as to her financial prospects, The father, being duly prepared, figures in the tax book for a cool hundred thousand, when he has not enough to buy out one of the Celestial segar stands aroand the Park. Sometimes the game is played on the other side—cometimes on both. What better foundation for the plot of a comedy or a ro- mance in real life could be found than in the ap- parently matter of fact volume before us? The style of the tax book is not Oriental. With the exception of a brief preface, in which the author has one joke about a clergyman who prefers brown tone fronts fn gdod solid streets heavens,” there is nothing to divert the atten- tion of the reader from the facts immediately to be considered. In truth, the tax book looks as uninviting as the Directory; but both volumes have at times the most thrilling interest. Hard working young men will read the tax book and wonder when they will figure among the great names that adorn its pages—old Wall street phi- losophers will chuckle over their success in hum: bugging the Assessors—ambitious mammas wil} make pencil checks against the names of the available young men—ethereal belles will calm their fluttering bosoms, and reserve the answer to the momentous question until they have had @ glance at the great book—people who have ne money will look over it and growl at those who have some—people who have a little will be un able to see why they should not have a great deat more—peop}é who have a great deal will pray for a long life; that they may increase their pos sessions and still cheat the Assessors. In fact, the tax book is, as the reviewers (advertisement columns) say, “a work of the most profound and wide spread interest, and one which will re- commend itself to the earnest attention of al classes,” Whether the abuses which it discloses wil ever be remedied, we cannot venture to say Certain it is that if the personal and real pro perties of the residents and non-residents of thi) city were fairly taxed, the burden would be dim nished by one-half. But the tax book, incom plete as it is, isa great work. There should b an edition de luxe for every boudoir in the Fifth avenue. THE LATEST NEWS. BY PRINTING AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHS, Suspension of Telegraphic Communication Purapatrau, March 3—8P. M. All the wires south of this city have ceased to work since 4P. M., and there is no prebability that they will be repaired tonight We have tried in vatn to reach Baltimore and Washington via Harrisburg, and a’so via Pittsburg and Wueeling. The storm has ceased, and we have @ pleasant but inte nsoly oold evening. From Washington. APPLICANTS FOB OFFICE—WHO IS TO BE TRANS: LATOR IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT? Wasmnctox, March 2, 1887. 38 will be recollected that sometime since Mr, Loulp Fitzgerald Tasistro, a foreign gentieman, who oocupied an important bureao—thas of transiator—in the State De- partment, was cismissed by Mr. Marcy o2 the complains of M. Sartiges, the French Minister. 1 understand that snother foreign gentieoman—Count Gorowski, who resides in New York, and ts the author of the articles on Russia in the Tribune—is to have this post of translator. Mr ‘{asistro, who formerly held the place, ‘was a \horoughiy educate! genticman, acd weil acquaint. ed with the modern jangusges. Count Gorowskl, who has written a curious book on Russia, is also am acoom- plished gentleman, is compleicly au fait in all the modern lapguages, and bas other recommendations for the office, But there ls another candidate in the field for this office: Francie J. Grund, of Pennsylvania. Mr. G. pd versed in all the modorn languages, and pretty posted in foreign affairs. Applicants for cillce are beginning to crowd into the city. Amerion hasan advantage over Arabia, Arabia bad only one Me:ca; America has two—Wasbington and ‘Wheatiand—with the additional advantage of » quadren- nial change in one of the two. Progress of Mr. hanan. Lancaster, March 2, 1867, Mr. Buchanan left here at eight o’oleck this morning, in a special train for Ssliimore, via Columbia. There was ‘8 great turn out to see te off, amidst the r ng'ng of bolle Corvmnra, Maroh 2, 1857, ‘The special train passed through here before nice, and Wasuixotox, March 2, 1867. SOCGAN AMD THE SLAVERY QUECTION—GENERAL (iss OW THE DOCTRINE OF LBOTLATIVE INSTRUCTIONS. ‘Mr. Cass, (dem.) of Mich., presented the jolat resola- Vena of the Legislature of Michigan on the subject of sia- very in the Territories, instructing their Senators and re- questing thelr representatives to resist the admission of any more slave States into the Union. Mr, Cams said that he know the vatus of time at thie Pportod of the session, and therofore should detain the Senate only a short time. {t would be observed from the reading of the resolutions that his colleague and himsels Bf ii i if i tik Hy 3 § it Hy ot i 4 i! ial i i i ; i i i 4 i i HI ped pitt rt; he pe g Ee i ! Hii i ft i i i Hf Hi HL ui | | | i cf . z az & z § i i i ‘thet Rave pnesed one house shall be sent to ine ‘other for comeurrence on either of the three inst days of the nd that no bill of resotation thet shall have Sabhiossasrasss caeors sn meer op.) sm eyes en of tne Mr. Campenni. 4 Ch from the Committee of Destructive Fire tn Chicago. Ourcaco, Mareh 2, 1867, ‘The moet disastrous conflagration which has oscurred bere for « long time broke out thie morning on the corner of Water and State stroots, in the building oooupied as follows :—Dix, Btocialr & Harris, wholesale grocers; loea, 95,000; insured for $16,000. Hubbard & Co., farnishing goede; lose, $12,000; inured for $0,600, Hale & Co,, ohair (eotory; lone, $6,000; no insurance, Tuttle, Hib- bard &.00,, wholesale hardware; whole took destroyed ; Joss, $150,000; imeured for $120,000, Jewell & Root, jew words We lave ali wioug sea thivuga 4 vo Lowes uot tiade wilh lauds, elacual in the 4 swve centers, ota, $62,000, uusuredstor $25,000. Nostom