The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1857, Page 6

6 @DrTOR and ey —e OUPIOR H.W comnEx OF NASSAU AND FULTON O88. nen NEW YORK HFEALI', Eh ook Se St I ed Erntimena, both elume AY YHRATRE, 2 ou mun BROADW, ‘TRB, Broadway—Favsrus, NIBLO’S GARDER, Broatway—Tas Coorsns—Faenvat Dansante—Kimma. BOWEBY THEATRE, Bowery—Duus Gui 07 Gaxoi— UBTON'S NEW THEATER, Broadway, oppasite Bond tun Aroreate Mis0uine Manin: - - LAURA KERNS THRATRE, Brosdway—srii Waren oat treats a Gh g GHRIBTY AMD WOODS MINGTRELA 44 Br cod RUCKLEYS SERERADERS, 68 Broadway—Eraor:in Pans cnmanons—Taoy atons. FANNY DEANE'S VARIETIES, 663 Broadway—D, Zz rg. Pork S, 663, way—Deamaric TRIPLE SHEET. Sails for the Pacific. MEW YORK HERALD—OALIFORNIA EDITION. The United States mail steamship George Law, Captain Hornden, will leave this port this afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for Califoruia and other parts of the Pacific ‘Will close at one o'clock. Tho New Yorx Waxxiy Hanarp—California odition— @ontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the world ‘will be published at ten o'clock in the morning. Single copies, tn wrappers, ready for mailing, eixpence. Agents will please send in their orders as carly as possible, ‘The News. The steamsh'p Niagara arrived at Halifax yes terday, with European news to the 9th instant, three days latter than previous advices. The intel- ligence is important. Cotton had advanced one. eighth of a penny, with sales of sixty thousand bales during the week. B eacetuffs had also advanced, not only in Liyerpool, but throughout the Continent generally, while provisions were steady. The London money market was strin- gent, and consols had advanced. The quotations for money are 933 a 93). The statement as to tho Ainorease of the capital of the Bank of France is be- lieved to be incorrect. ‘The British Parliament opened on the 7th inst., when the Queen's speech was read by the Lord Chancellor. The only allasion made to affairs on this continent is contained in s brief paragraph, as follows :—“ The negotiations in which her Majesty has been engaged with the government of Hondu- ras, with regard to the affairs of Central America, have not as yet been brought to a close.” Spain was ins ferment. Malaga had been placed in a state of siege, and disturbances had occurred in various parts of the country. Ist reported that the treaty bet yeen Kagland and Persia hag been ratified by the Shah. Meantime thero has been some hard fighting by the belligereat armies, and Mohammerah has yielded by the British. ‘Phere is nothing later from China, The prepara- tions in France for the despatch of troops to the soens of hostilities have been suspended. The East India Company contemplate placing a portion of their naval force under the command of th» British Admiral, Senator Somner had declined a pudlic dinner ten- dered him by the Americans in Paris. The movements ef Brigham Youug have attract- ed some attention since the receipt of the report had fied from Utah. Now that it has beon ined that there is no truth in this report, his proposed expedition to the North forms the interest- ing feature of Mormon intelligence. We learn, on reliable anthority, that the Mormons are about com- menoing a settlement near Council Bloffs for an out- post or receiving station. The leading menof the new settlement are to be Hastern men, who have not been initiated into the real mysteries of Mormon ism,end who will, therefore, be better fitted for taking charge of young disciples and giving them their first lessons in the new faith. It is more than probable that the founding of this settlement is the real canse of Brigham’s “secret expedition to some- where in the North.” We learn trom Washington that Major Ben. MCallech has declined the Governorship of Utah Territory. Itisetated a Western man has been se- leoted for the post. It is furthermore stated that the government has determined upon adopting vigorous measures as regards the Mormons. A large military force is to be despatched thither, probably under command of Gen. Harney. Elsewhere may be found some adiltional news from Mexico. A translation from a Mexiean paper of an account of the landing in Sonora of the fili- bastering expedition ander Col. Crabbe ts also given. ‘The writer terms the expeditionists “ modern Lafay- ettes.”" The entire party succumbed to superior numbers and were shot on the 6th inst. Our Vera Cruz correspondent confirms the report that the late vigorous action of President Comonfort in the case of the Archbishop of Mexico had a most salutary effect upon the minds of the clerical agitators. A correspor.dent at Guadalajara furnishes an tnterest- ing ard graphic account of a late trip from San Francisco to that city. The run by eea from Call. fornia to Mazatlan is deecribed as delightful, and the scenery around the last named place is very besutiful. From Mazetian the writer went in a schooner to San Blas, which town is ballt ina most picturesque but unhealthy situation. A stage runs from San Blas to Tepic, conveying any passen- fers who do not object to dine in mule stables by the way on tough meat, red pepper, corn meal and flat cakes, using their fingers instead of forks all the time. Tepic contains thirteen thousand inhabitants 2nd « splendidly arranged cotton factory, in which one bundred thousand dollars per annum are realized. Coaches filled with motiey congregations of passen, Gers run between Tepic and Guadalajara, which is a well laid out city containing a magnificent cathedral, G@verno2's palace and other grand public buildings. ‘The residents are fond of amusements, and delight in bull fights and bailoon ascensiona. At Singapore, on the 15th of March, gold dust rated as follows:—Malayan, 28765 9 29; Australian, 30 69 8 31, per bunkal. The concluding portion of the testimony taken be- foe Mr. Commissioner Betts in the French extra dition case, and @ summary of the argument made on bebalf of the accused by Mr. Benjamin Galbratth are given in today's Henaip. Mr. McKeon presenta the final argome nt in the case to morrow. The application of Mra. Canningham for letters of administration apon the estate of the late Harvey Bordell was brought op in the Surrogate’s Court yesterday, by the counsel for the parties interested, When it was agreed and ordered that the case should be brooght up on Toeaday, the 2d of June, and be continued daily until it Is finished. The new Excise Commissioners met yesterday morning in the room of the Court of Common Pieaa, and announced that they were ready to re- pplications for license. There have been no Applications mace as yet, thongh It Is expected that | fusing at the same time the benefit of ita example a reply to the communication of Mayor Wood yes terday. It is also understood that they resolved to fall back upon the clause in their bili which gives the power to call out a force, and upon that to establish a sort of the Chief Foulke, similar in a degree to that which We It having been discovered that the United States steamer Michigan, on the lakes, is one or two tons larger than the size allowed by a treaty between @reat Britain and the United States, and Lord Na- pier having called the attention of our gorerament to the matter, orders have been given to discontinue her in her present capacity. The Michigan has been of grea’ service in assisting vessels, British as well as our own, in distress; and in view of the chances of losing her, the attention of the Canadian Parliament has been called to the fast. The Cana- dians say they are not at all afrald of the extraordi- nary size of the little steamer, and that,so far as they are concerned, they are very much in favor of her remaining where she is. ‘We publish elaewhere the proposals, issued by the Consulate of Spain in this city, for supplying the Spanish government factories with Kentucky and Virgivia tobacco, for a period commencing om the 10th of July next, and ending with December, 1860, together witi a tabular statement of the probable quantity required for consumption. The value of the supply to be contracted for will amount to from five to ten million dollars per annum. The Board of Ten Governors were to have met yesterday at the Penitentiary, on Blackwell's Island, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jcaeph &. Taylor; but no quorum appearing, the Board adjourned over. The extreme inclomency of the weather yesterday tond- ed to check operations in some branches of trade, and es- pecially in such aa depended upon outdoor arrangements. ‘The foreign news by the late steamers at this port, com- bined with that brougnt to Halifax yeeterday by the Nis- gara, imparted greater Mrmness to the cotton market, which advanced tyo. @ X¢c. per Ib., with sales of about 1,C00 @ 1,200bales. Flour was unchanged and sales made to a moderate extent Wheat was unsettled and transac. tions limited; included in the sales were Missouri white at $1.87, and St Louts mixed at $178. Corn war firm, with sales of Western mixed and Southern yellow, in store and delivered, at $9c. 8 90c., and white Southern at 88c. a 920, Pork wns lower with more dotng; the sales Included 1,000 barrels mess, in the usual way, and 200 do., check on the day, at $25 60, The bad weather checked sales of eugars, which were confined to about 200 2 300 boysheads Cuba muscovatio at rates given in another column. Coffee was steady but quiet. Frelghta to Liverpool were rather iy Corn, im bulk, was taken at 3d., and cotton at The Conflict with the Legislature—A Lesson Borrowed from History. The conflict of authority which the recent ar- bitrary stretch of power on the part of the Le. gielature has given rise to in our city is assum- ing an aspect which occasions the greatest alarm and anxiety to the friends of public order. From the accounts daily brought in to us by our re- porters, it would seem as if it were fast drifting nto that stage of animosity in which physical force is usually subsituted for reason. With a | semi-military body like the police divided into | two hostile camps, aud obeying leaders who | eem determined to push matters to extremities, | it is not probable that the struggle will be much | onger carried on with paper balicts The mag- | nitude of the interests and the violence of the | paseions involved in this question render the daa- | ger of a collision imminent. It is to ba hoped | that the friends of constitutional rights will en- deavor, by their good temper ond moderation, to avert euch a catastrophe, without, however, | abandoning an inch of the ground whicn they occupy. The position In which they stand is indeed one the gravity and importance of which cannot be exaggerated. They represent In the struggle In which they are engaged not only the cause of popular liberty In these United States, but the principles of freedom all over the world. It was these principles which, asserted on a limited ecale and by emall communities in the middle ages, expanded from a germ into a glorious ma- turity in the constitutional countries of Europe, and descended to us as a precions heritage. For | the first time since the Revolution these princl- pke are aseailed by a despicable oligarchy, who have managed to obtain the control of the legisla- | government of Louis Napol WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, i853.—TRIPLE SHERBET. ick was obliged to 1¢) nqaieh bis pretens'on, and | xew Abolition Movement tu Massachusetes | epectability and purse of the noa-resistant Vigi- | Mr. te acknowledge the right of the confederate cities to levy armies, to enclose themselves with- in fortifications, and to exercise within their owa walls civil and criminal jarisdiotion, It isunne- cessary for us to follow step by step the subse- quent progress of these cities in political power and influence, the rapid advance which they made in the arta of civilization, the high state of prosperity which they enjoyed for centuries, and the means by which they lost all these advan- tages, and finally succumbed to their old oppressors. Suffice it to eay that the silent growth amongat them of aristocratic influences like those of the Visconti and Medici families first paved the way tor the admission of foreign gold, and the despotic tendencies and intrigues of the church completed the subversal of their lber- ties, They first became slaves to tho masters whom they had themselves quietly allowed to usurp their privileges, and then passed under the yoke of the invader. There is no doubt that had the free cities of Italy steadily resisted in tho first instances tho enorcachments of the aristocratic factions, they would rot pow have to lament over their lost li- berties. The municipalities of England and Northern Germany, profiting by the leseon of their misfortunes, pureued a different course, and to this day enjoy the benefits of their firmness in extensive privileges aud immunities. They eaw that these privileges formed ono of the most im- portent bulwarks of the popular liberties, and they wisely resisted the slightest attempt at in- terference with them on the part of their ralers. It was the emigration of this spirit of inde pendence and hatred of centrafization that led to the formation of the first Eoglish colonies on this continent. Jamestown ard Plymouth were purely municipal rettlemente. It was the same determined epirit of resistance to oppression on the part of another colonial municipality, (Bos- ton) which led to the Revolution itself. For the first time since the Declaration of Independence we are again called upon to fight this battle, A miserable oligarchy which has growa up in our midst, and which has proved iteelf traitorous to the principles in which it bas been nurtured, has imposed upon us this necessity. We must elther combat it inch by inch, or consent to see our- selves made the elaves of a syetem of centraliza- tiov, which epreading to the other States of the Union, will absorb a)l their local rights and finally destroy all that is useful or valuable ia oar form of government. Our great dependence In this crisis ison the firmness, decision and ener- gy of the authorities acting under the old ohar- ter. Even if beaten in the Court of Appeals they have sufficient rights under that {fostrament to justify them in holding out until the next mu. nicipal election in December enables the people to effect another revolution, and to defeat in a quiet, tegal and constitutional manner these trea- sonable attempts against their liberties, The Credit Mobilier. We recently published an abstract of the an- nual report of the French Credit Mobilier, pre- sented to the stockholders late last month. It ia, in one sense, the most wonderful document of the kind ever published. It starta with the assumption that tho Crodit Mobilicr bas another object in life than the making of money. Ite “duty had been at first,” it says, “to encourage the indastrial develope- ment of the country ;” but in 1856, the country having gone ahead too fast or fast enough, “ its task was rather to restrain than to urge for- werd.” Whether this peculiar guardlansbip of the general interests of France was voluutarily assumed by the company, or formally conferred upon it by its charter, is not apparent: the fact speaks volumca for the political economy in use in that country. The “duties” of the Credit seem to be multifarious. It takes credit for the sid it gave the government by a subscription of $50,000,000 to the new loan, and also for par- chases of government stocks made with a view to sustain the market price, amounting at one time to 95,000,000 francs. It refers with pride to the total of 703,000,000 francs advanced during the year on railway eecurities; and winds up the list of its “ duties fulfilled” by referring to the “ provision it mado for the wants of all the rail- way companies,” and of the Bank of France. How they manage in France to support a moneyed institution which seems to assume the re- sponsibility of seeing that everything goes right, not only in public but in private financial circles, in the industrial, financial, commercial and bank- ing world, fs a problem which we hand for eolu- tion to our Wall street solons; assuredly this community is not strong euough to maiutain any euch incubus—eny more than it could tolerate the deepotiem which Governor King is attempt ing to establich on the model of the centralized tive power at Albany, and if we do not now op. pose a firm resistance to thelr encroachments, we are likely to mect with the fate of the free cities | been known in the world. It bu | France, Turk } in London; i of Italy, which, after asserting and maintaining their liberties for centuries, were finally obliged to submit to the domination of the aristocratic factions which they had suffered gradually to in- thoee brave little communities, and to apply the tunes to our own case, After the abandonment of Italy to the Lom- bards hy the Greeks, the latter preserved several {rolated porte and fortified places along the coast. Venice at the extremity of the Adriatic, Raven- na at the south of the mouth of the Po, Genoa at the foot of the Seyrian mountatns, Piza toward the mouth of the Arno, Rome, Gaeta, Naples, Amo)fi and Bari, all maintained to a greater or loes degree their independence, and eer ved as the refuge of Roman civilization. In these cities all those who had preserved any fortune, inde pendence of mind or hatred of oppression, as eembled to concert the means of resisting the in- solence of their barbarian masters From the example of theee places and of Venice, which owed ita rise to the pressure of similar influences, sprung the host of free cities and «mall republice, tuch as Florence, Milan, Lucca, Pisa, Sienna, Perugia and Bologna, to which the subsequent political throes of Italy gave birth, In these communities was inculcated as a paramount duty the principle of resistance to aristocratic tyranny, and this doetrine served to maintain intact the liberties of the Italian people for ages, dif- to other parts of Karopa When the Emperor Freéerick Barbarossa laid waste and devastated vade their hard won privileges It is instructive | to cast a retrospective glance at the history of | garcons de cafe. moral of thelr patriotic conduct and thelr miefor. | Italy, in order to make good the extravagant prerogatives which he claimed over the Lom- bards, the whole couatry would have been re- duced under his rule but for the confedera there will be as roon as the printed blanks are ready. A full report of the movement to dismisa Dr. Cheever from his church will be found in another column. ‘The trial of Thomas Deniny, charged with arson © the Gret degree, was yesterday gel postponed | tion of the free vities of Verona, Vicenza, Padua, Troviro, Cremona and others, whieh resalted in the fuston of the Guclph and Ghibelline faction \, and produced the famous Lombardy league. After 8 thirty years coatest with the [talians, Feeder. Nothing like the Credit Mobilier for untversa- lity of scope and vastness of purpose has ever railways fa and Russ! owns omnibuses establishes banks at Mudrid; it manages hotels and makes gas at Paris; it builds telegraphs acroes the continent of E wop it sets op foot lines of transAtlantic steamers It is alike the banker of the Ewperor and of It has ® band io every man's en- terprise and In every man’s pocket, Tt is the soul and the life of the whole commerclal and financial movement of Europe And now for the resulta Toe total profits of last year were, we are told, 15,249.981f, or something over $3,000,000, which, after all deductions, smounte to 23 per cent per share Tt ta quite certain that no commercial or finan clal business at present prosecuted in France poys @ividends anything Ike this Seven, eight and ten per cent are very unueal dividends for a financial enterprise on the European contl- nent to pay: twenty-three per cont—and this a falling off from the past two ov three years—ts something wholly unprecedented, The principle upon which the French account for these enor- mous dividends is that capital, sgregated into one Jarge sam, is more valuable than when need in several small sums This prinotple contains enongh theoretical truth to make it pass master; and few persons remember that the advantage of the association is more than counterbalanced by the lack of individaal energy and vigilance which isinvolved by the fusion of the property of Individuals into one common mass There may be some who believe that the Credit Mobilier really earna the money it pays in divi- dends. But wo desire to be connted out of that party. A brief railroad experience in this coun- try teaches that dividends may be paid withoat being earned; and when @ concern with a capital of sixty hes the right to isene bonds for six hun dred millions, the case with which funds can be supplied for the payment of unearned dividends must be a great temptation, We have no doubt but this, bke the other dividend, is merely paid out of the capital of the concern, in order to curtain the market yalue of the stock, Arming of the Nigger Wurehlspper lanta, We entertained a hope that the recent aboli- tion anniversary meeticgs would throw some further light on a certain Massachusetts associa- tion, to which our attention has been attracted for come time past. But, save the vaunting invi- tation of General Wentworth Higginson for a convertion of fugitive daves to assemble pub- Nely in the City Hall of Worcester, we heard no @irect allusion either to the association or its power. That invitation alone, bowever--giving the proposer credit for the usual abolition sanity —is proof poutive that he mnst have spoken with some secret authority to render the invita- tion eafe, and the persons of the invited sccure; and of the nature of the league which lies be- bind this'invitation, we are now enabled to give come details that will prove, we think, deserving ef very serious consideration. We do not allude to the Boston Vig'lance Committee or its auxiliaries, but to a secret society, elaborately organized. drilted, disciplined and trained to the use of arms, The true title of this society we are not at liberty to divulge; but os its members have adopted for their flag one of the old. symbols of New England, we may call it by the name in general use among its membere—the Pine Tree League. Strictly speaking, this league is not of an abolition character; its one sole and exclusive eim is the nullification in Massachusetts. of the Fugitive Slave law. Al other icsues and objects it ignores, and -potitics—whether national, State or municipal—are forbidden to be discussed within its gatherings’ Thus, baving no patron- age to bestow, mere politicians avoid it, aad only those ultra-zealo‘s are at home ia ita ranks who are willing to do duty and make eacrifices in support of an abstract principle. This society is divided into two orders or clasees—technically known as Assistants and Athletes—the former comprehending the new members and those whose sentiments are least advanced. The Athletes are selected by ballot from the Assistants; and so exclusive is the or- ganization that one black ball, or vote in the negative, defeats a candidate; and none are eligible unless fully prepared to adopt to its utmost extent the motto of the association, which 1s “Everything for the Cause.” To the adoption of this motto we believe the elected bave to swear; but on this point our information Is not certain. These Athletes, therefore, form the “mountain” or most udvanced Jacobin-wing of practical enti-clavery, and to them is committed the un- questioned government of the league. Butfor the attainment of prompt action, a centralized and concentrated authority is requisite, and therefore the eutire executive power is delegated by an inner vote to less than half a dozen—five, wo believe— of this Athlete council. The creed of this inmost directory and the belief for which they are se lected runs to the effect that the time for remon- strances is over, and that deeds alone must mani- fest their repugnance to the obnoxious law. Speeches, resolutions and personal liberty bills they denounce as mere decoys and diplomatic blinds; and if there be any truth in the oaths they have taken, these presiding officers would choot down, oth ox oteing up any unfortunate slave hunter who might fall into their hands “wu ne more ceremovy or compunction than would bo used or felt in performiog @ similar office for any four-legged bloodhound which should follow its prey within the charmed bounds of Massa- chueetts.”’ The Athletes are drilled in small compa- nies, once, twice, and in some places thrice exch week—not only to the old fushioned use of the masket and bayonet, but in all the modern and improved accomplishments of the French chasseur. To these purely military exercises is added a novel one—perhaps the most efficient for the purposes had in view that could be invented: it is called the walking stick drill. The arms for this exercise are oadgels of all shapes and kinds —gold headed canes, hickory eticks and leaded Todia rubber life-preeervers, Hach private arms according to his taste and means, and has a stick to cult the remainder of his drees, the only uni- formity required consisting of a certain length, strength and weight in the weapon carried. The Athletes and Assistants so armed are train- cd to mingle with crowds, stand or walk hore and there as ordinary spectators, but on a givon algnat to collect, or act separately, ax necessary, with the precision of « disciplined body. The whole corps is divided Into “squads” consisting of five Assistante—each squad being under the command of an Athlete who is called a “monitor.” Four equads form a “class,” under the lead of a “teacher” (ceptain); and four “classes,” or one hundred men, @ school or company (otherwise regiment), under the orders of a “depaty.” When on daty everything Is entrusted to a “mar- shal,” whose commands are law—Aselstants, Atbletes, monitors, teachers and deputies being allewornto obey him without question or re- monstrance. Over all the members and resources of the league within bis district each marshal | cxerctecs a supreme and unlimited dictatorship, Tt fs a principle of the leagne to avold nonecessary exposure or publicity. None bot the empreme cxeentire know any- thing of its total resources, strength or plana When one man can ‘accomplish a task, he goes alone; where two only are required, three must never be sent, Every “squad” is distingnishod by a number, every “clase” by a letter, and every “company” by « word whieh is their sign of recognition, and has, therefore, to be frequently changed, If a thousand Athletes and Avsistants are congregated on the eldewalks or fn a court room, any eqnad of six men (each drilled to act with and rely on hie associates) can be called into action by a word, letter and namber intro- doced, apparently without design, into the speech of eome orator or lawyer Initiated Into the mys tery, and endowed with the requisite power. ‘There etx will then act as preconcerted, the rest of the leaguers present remaining uncommitted epectatore—witnemes, if need be, in defence of their comrades— but ready at any moment to aid graduelly, partially or entirely with their whole regimental force as the commanding marshal may direct. This Pine Tree League dates its present form end organization to the extradition of Anthony Burne, but the Idea and nucleus of it ran back to the Latimer case under thé old law, So “advanced” are its members that they regard the Garrisonian Vigilance Com- mittee as a highly conservative and rather alver-grayleh sect; and the chiefs of the new as soolotion affirm that the citizens of Boston may thank Mceers, Garrison, Phillips and Parker that no blocdebed followed the steps of the procemions iat conducted Thomas Sims and Anthony Burns to Long Wharf—the flery zeal of the Pine- troe mon, it seems, having been overpowered and broken down on both these occasions by the re- ‘This statement will be news, we make no doubt, to those who have always considered the the party. Since May, 1854, however, the League has ma- tured its organization in its present form, and spread iteelf through every town and village in the State of Massachusetts. Colored men are ex- Executive Directory. But its strength may be judged from the fact that its leaders now defy the general government to capture a slave in the Bay State outside the range of the cannon of the Navy Yard and federal forts in Boston, They bave arms, ammunition and ships—two schooners certainly—for the travsport of fugitives to Cana- da; and they allege that several depots of State arms are within their grasp at any moment they may choose to seize them. Thay have also pre- | pared more than one hiding place and ammani- | tion etore amongst the hills and islands of Masea- ' chusetts. Their motto, as we eaid before, is “Everything for the Cause; and their motive | eeems less one of sympathy to the flying bond- man than # desire to preserve the “sacred soil of the Puritans” from, being converted into “a | human hunting ground.” For the. present we content ourselves with stating these fects without any comment or appli- eation; bat every reader must behold, even in their naked statement, the inevitable reaction which the course of the extreme Southern seces- donists has provoked. Disvnton aMonG THE Punrrans.—Our cotem- poraries in the Seuth, and especially in South Carolina, have been in the habit of quoting the seditious sermons of the Rev. Dr. Cheever as an index to public sentiment in New York. Wo trust that the proceedings which commenced on Monday for the expulaion of Dr. Cheever from his pulpit will help to undeceive them. We, who have never ehared the delusion of our Southern cotemporaries, and who know very weil tbat Dr. Cheever’s opinions are those of an infinitesimally small and unimportant olass here, are not in the least surprised at what is happening. Had the congregation of the Church of the Puritans remained silent and passive under the peculiar course pursued by the pastor: they became of necessity responsible for him and for his eccentric doings. As it is, they have resolved to vindicate themselves by taking open steps if not to dislodge the reverend preacher of treason, at least to show to the world that they at all eventa are not answerable for his deeds or co-operators in his sedition. At the informal meeting held on Monday night, it appeare that | Mr. Cheever rather stole a march on his oppo- | nents; this no doubt will bo set right at an | early day, and the strength of parties honestly | tested. It is possible, indeed it is likely that the | personal affection which many of the congregation Siakles and the New York Hotel clique, who got the Custom House offices by Mr. Buchanan, were eecretly and truly hand in glove with the black republican clique who concosted them daring their passage. Mr. Sickles will deny the above statemeats over his own signa- ture, gusted with the proceedings of the late Legiste- ture than any one else; for they have actually placed it in the ridiculously false position of an advocate of law and order. We are aware that thoee of our readers who do not see the Tribune will regard this ag a flight of fanoy on our party we can only refer them to the paper itself im support of our assertion. Strange as it seems, after a consistent career of opposition to all law during several years, the Tribune has become ag apprentice to good citizenship since the Legisia- ture undertook to establish a centralized despet- ism in this State, Among other acts which the 7ribun applauds ia tho act for tho removal of the Quarantine, aad the measures taken by the Commissioners in com- wequence of that act. It published a msnifeste from the Commissioners yesterday, ia which they confess that they couldn’t buy any property at Seguine’s Polat for a fever depot, but that they tricked a man into selling them their present lo- cation under pretence that it was wanted for @ country seat. Now, we ask, if it is decent that representatives of the State should be allowed to practice tricks for which a horse jockey ora Peter Funk would be punished by the Mayort The Commissioncrs also endeavor to justify their barbarous conduct by calling the oys- termen names. This is politic. If these men are to be killed off and exterminated by yellow fever deliberately planted among them, their characters had best be blackened 9s soon as pos sible. We commend the Commissioners for their abuse of the oystermen; it is the most judicious thing they have done. Praylet them keep it up It is also commendable that the Commissionere coneent to “the oystermen going on with their business as heretofore, if they conduct themselves well” This gracious clemency will no doubt be appreciated; though it is rather reversing the usual order of thingsto spare a man’s purse after refusing to spare his life. For amall favors, how- ever, it is meet to be thanhful; and we have ne doubt the fishermen of Princes Bay will be grate- ful, in their way, for Dr. Thomson’s promise that “he will not molest them except in unusual sea- eons,’’ Trarts ty Parosoray.—The placid and civil- ized philosophers of the Tribune call our Kaneaa correspondent @ border ruffian. This epithet ia hardly a civilized one; indeed, it might be com- sidered an exhibition of blackguard philosophy and passion. The fact is, that our Kansas corres- pondent Is a quiet and inoffensive literary maay must feel for their old pastor may induce them to treat this offence of his with clemency, and while Gisapproving his course, to abstain from visiting it with @ punishment which would throw the doctor into the strect. Perhaps the moral effect desired may be produced, and the erroneons im- pressions of the South corrected by a demonstra- ou of @ decided character, though stopping short of an absolute diamiseal of the pestor. But the congregation of the Church of the Puritans | owe it to themselves to go this far. ; The event will be a lesson to the extremes of both North and South, The Southern men will, | we trust, learn from it thatthe voice of a stray clergyman here and there is not the voice of New York. Thisisa sort of cauldron into which all corts of ingredients are thrown, and by the latent heat of the mass, thrown to the sur- foce, where, as they float, the newspapers hastily photograph them, and hand down their picture to posterity as part of the history of the timea Among the most nolsy and effervescent of the contents of our cauldron are tho Northern and Eastern clergy. They are constantly coming up to the surface in a bubble of froth, and squirm Ing round in eccentric curves; wo catch them as they rotate, laugh at them, and let them burst into air. Take the anniversaries for instance, Here are a number of very pious and simple minded men, from North, West and East, who meet once a year to talk about Bonisboula Gha, end anti-slavery, and other nonsense; they meet here because the point iscentral, and also because the best part of the $2,000,000 year on which they live comes out of the pockets of our merchants; and when they havo talked themselves out, they go homo with Tefreshed minds and replenished pocketa. How absurd it would be to make the city of New York answerable for the childish nonsense which these clergymen talk! The South should learn to know us better. We are here, as a rule, strongly conservative men; bound to the Union, to peace, and to law and order generally hy every tio of interest, habit and temper; but being quict and tolerant by natare, if our clergy at times divert themselves by talking treason or other trash, the only notice we tako of it ts, we stay at home in- stead of going to church, The event will likewise, we hope, be a good lesson to Dr. Cheever and the clergymen who like him have tried to talk themselves into noto- riety by fulminating unchristian speeches from the pulpit We are disposed, everybody is dia posed to display forbearance to a clergyman, on account of his peculiar non-resistant doctrines, and his supposed piety, and sincerity; but after all it fa very well that the clergy should be tanght, and then, that they are only a modern convenience, and that if it comes to the worst, they can be diecharged, like a housemaid or a waiter. Possibly, when the country clergy sco that instead of dissolving the Union, Dr. Cheever bas only succeeded in dissolving his own congregation, they may think twice ere they as #ame the functions of political government, and let the Dred Scott judgment alone for fear of in- curring a judgment of a very different character at the hands of the Court which furnishes them with bread, Tyrrrovens Discoventye TremseLves,—Some- body—writing in the columns of an obscure black republican paper—-denies that Mr. Daniel E, Sickles voted for any of the infamous acta passed by tho last Legielatare, except the Excise bill, It was well known in Albany, during the diecursion of those billa, that Sickles, in conjuno- tion with his confréres of the New York Motel clique, who have recently obtained fat offices in the Custom Honse, was aiding and assisting in Indirect meana tn his powor. It is trae that Sickles nominally voted against soveral of them; bat had his vote been necessary for their passage, we have the assurance of Thurlow Weed, the State barber, that he (Sickles) would have come to tho rerone, and given his votce for all of them, as he dia for the new Prohibitory Liquor law. and it argues anything but a gentlemanly state of clvilization in these philosophers to use sack epithets with regard to such 9 person and yet claim an equal position with the most renowned models of courtesy and gentlemanly conduct, ia word and deed. THE LATEST NEWS. ABRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA AT HALIFAX. THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION DISTURANCES CONTINUED FIGHTING IN PERSIA, ADVANCE IN COTTON AND IN SPAIN. BREADSTUFFS, CONSOLS ADVANCED, &e. ae, &o. Hiauvar, May 10, 1867, ‘The royal mal! steamship Niagara arrived here at @ quarter to ten o'clock this moraing. She sailed from Liverpool at ten o'clock on the morning of Baturday, the Oth inet. Hor dates are, therefore, three days later tham those received by the Anglo-Haxon at Quebeo and the Arego at Now York. The Niagara ealled from here at eleven o'clock for Boston, whero she will be due about midnight on Wednesday. ‘The Niagara passed May 12, lat, 10, lom. 22, the steams- ship Edinburg, from New York for Glasgow, bound cast, The political nows by the Niagara ls of conal- dorable interest, embracing as it doos the dolivery to Parliament of tho Queen's speoch. The ceremony was performed by the Lord Chanocelior, the Queen's state of heakth forbidding her reading the speech in porsem. The speech contains a genoral encouraging view of the af- fairs of the nation, and with respect tothe United States alludes to the as yet unsettled state of the negotiations relation to Central America. . The London money market was without particular varta- Won, except that consols had advauced—reaching for me ney 00%. ‘The Liverpool cotton market was firmer {n its tone, and tm general a slight advance had been obtained on rates current at the departure of the Asia, The market was also rather more active, the sales of the week reaching ‘about 60,000 bales Tho Liverpool market for breadatuffs waa steady, and im some cases were slightly bigher. Tho Liverpool proviston market was genorally staady, and without Important change. The Canadian, screw steamship, from Portland, arrived at Liverpool! at ten o'clock om the morning of Friday, the ‘Sib Inst, ‘The Boigian scrow stoamor Constitution arrived at South- ‘ampton on the merning of Tuesday, the 7th nat. ‘The steamer City of Manchester satled from Liverpool for New York om the 6th inet, GREAT BRITAIN. ParRament was opened on Thursday, the 7th instant. Tho following te tho Quoon’s speech, read by commén- ton ASD GENTLEMEN — We iy of bavi sion to enable you satisfactoril; Pid matters, some of which occupied Nament In the ef airs in Furopo denes in the are commanded you that ly negotiations rencee we have arinon bet 4 tho Swisa joration with regard chatel, ‘aro drawing to a close, and will, Por Majoety truste, terminated by an arrangement satisfactor, oti aty’s civil and naval officers still remained ond pate, but bor Majoty had to China & Plenipotentiy ry fully Inetricted to deal with mattors of differer co, and that Plenipotentiary will military and paval force in Ing necessary,