The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1857, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. ctounennvancososoananttittn JaMEs GORDOS BEN AAAS OOENEB OF WASBAT AND FULTON OTS. Orrics ¥. w. o 3 conte per © per annem. Ty ERALD, every See a ang part oy) BROADWAY THEATRE. Greadway—Mucu 4 Borin Bison Krav Steas, cChiead NIBL'S @aRDEP frendwar- Tight Rore Frars— i Asoee—La Peecur PenvonmaNncee—Tax Cusscairt. BOWERY THEATRES. Bowere—W:00w's Vicriu—0’ Fian- AGAN ANO THE Farmres—Ipior Wiewmss, BUBTUN'S NEW THBATRE, Broadway. oppoaite Road Qurvas Cuasiorte An Carsorrotso Femaie—Miscuine or WALLACE'R THRATRB. seoadway.—Mocs Avo asovt —« Noversc—A Owe neo Cara LaCBa Kaanen w—A Bap iN eas Bano Woarn Two Vasioer, \ MGvenlng’ tue runt Guivtene O08 MINSTRELS, 444 Broad. GRO CBRISTY AND way—BemsOrias Fitri aiaivacsts—Warro, COIN KSE & evening. BUCKLEY'S GERENADERS. BS Broadway. Gevotacce oF ALapDiN—Nreao Soxes—Afternoon LE SHEET. Mails for Kurope. THE NEW YORK HERALD—ZDITION FOB BUROPS. ‘The Cunard steamship Avia, Capt. Lott, will leave this this port to-day for Liverpool. ‘The Furopean mails will cloee in this city at # quarter to ten o'ciock this morning. ‘The Kuropean edition of the Hxmazp, printed in French end English, will be published ad nine o'clock tn the morn- tag. Singte copies, in wrappers, six cents. Bubscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yous Hanaiv will be received ai the following places pps na uropesa Co., 61 Ki 1 Rx; 3 i} ee dor "4 Pisce do tn Bourse. 9 Chapel street. . do. Savas—Am. ‘e European Exprees Co.s i fixe Corneille, ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hematp wil) eombine the news received by mail and telegraph ai the office during the previous week, and ap to the hour of qublication. bs The News. A meeting of the Albany Police Commissioners was held yesterday, at which Thurlow Weed pre- sided. A schedule of the plans and discussion, gethered from sothentic sources, is given, from which it appears that the “Metropolitan Police District” will eventually comprise the whole State im ite labora. A grand centralizing scheme is being developed in the programme of the Albany Com- mission, which wil! bring an elaborate machine for electioneering and wire pulling to bear on all parts of the State, from the centre of power at the head quarters of the Regency. The new Police Beard has accordingly resolvea to go into business atocce, aud make a venture, upon capital borrowed in Wal! street, and the assurance that Weed and the Legiaiature will come to their rescue hereafter. The Board of Ten Governors, having repudiated the action of the warden ot. the city prison, make a for- mal recognition of the police authority of the Mayor, by a requisition on him for police, The new Board completed the blanks for warrants, the badges, and other preliminaries for equipping their force. Another meeting of the hotel proprietors was held last night at the St. Nicholas hotel, to consider the propriety of a rise of fifty cents per day in the price of board. All the leading hotels were represented at the meeting, but it appears there is some difference of opinion as to the desirability of a change at pre- sent. The summer months are coming on, and the hotels wili net do as good a business a4 they have done heretofore, and it is a question whether they would ‘« jastified in raising the price hefore the fall season. Various plans were discussed, and it was conceded that the present hotel syste n of this city was not a6 perfoct as it might be. Another meeting of the proprietors will be held early in Jane. Two United States Senators have passed to their last rest within the pax fortycight hours. Hon. James Beil, of New Hampshire, died at Laconia, in that State, yesterdsy morning. Hon. A. I’. Butler, of Gouth Carolina, who has for some time been anffering from dropsy, expired on Monday evening. We arn from Kanssa that Acting Governor Stan- ‘ten bas isaued a proclamation for an election of dele- gies to the Constitutional Convention to be held on the third Monday in June next. Census returns re- ceived from nineteen counties out of the twenty-six give a total of 9,251 registered legal voters Ely Moore, formerly member of Congress from this city, is urged to be @ candidate for delegate to Congress, and it is thought that he will be elected if he con- sents to enter the canvass. Dred Scot’, #0 widely known in connection with the late important decison of the Supreme Court of the United States, and who is likely to become an histories! character, together with his two dangh- ters, were ermancipated from slavery yesterday at ‘St. Lonis. The Presbyterian General Assembly at Cleveland | yesterday bad an exciting debate on the subject of slavery. The Presbyterics of Rhode Island, New Hampshixe and Wisconsin counsel taking strong | antisiavery ground. The anarchy in Dr. Cheever's church is on the nercare, ae will be observed by the fall report of the business meeting held last night. All the offi- cers of the eburch being dissatisfied with Dr. Cheo- ver's late revolutionary sermons, a movement ts on foot to cut of their heads, after the fashion of the Broneonizing by I'rank Pierce. The General Synod of the Associate Reformed Pree) teriam Church were again in session yesterday, and alter continuing a discussion which has lasted for five days, adopted the basis of union with the asso- caate charch, which has already been puolished in the | Hieat, by a vote of 65 to 34, nine mem’ ers asking | to be excused from voting. In the evening a dele gation from the Associate Synod now in session at Philadelphia, which bas also adopted the basis, were present and made their resort. Immediate steps will be taken to perfect the union, The Synod | will probably adjourn to-day. | The triad of John Smith, John Ned, John Brown and Joun De Costa, charged with murder and ma- | tiny in killing the captain and cook of the brig Generel Pierce mhile on the voyage from New York to Monrovia, in February last, commenced in the Circnit Court yesterday. The vessel, our readers will remember, was taken to 6t. Thomas by the mate, from whence the prisoners were sent to this city by the American Conml. We give « report of the tertimony elsewhere. During the progress of the trial the Grand Jary came into Court and made & presentment respecting the frequency of cruel treatment to seamen on board merchant snips, urging the summary punistunsnt of offenders in such ch cares ‘The ebipments of vegetables from Bermuda up to the }4/b inet, included 265,450 pounds of onions, 74 warréle of potatoes, and 4,059 boxes of t> matoes ve we give a very full report of the Inst day ® proceedings of the Conference of Practical Spirit. aliste, Jost adjourned The principal features of the performance were the exhibition and explanation of the (new motive power, and extracts from a com tamecalon, said to be from the «piriunal ‘world, as to the mode of constructing it. and the necessities of wm mortal wen for jnst such a spiritual motive power, which is to be propelled om the perpetaal Meticn principle; communication from the spirits o® the subject of a new model or spiritaal houses— the whole said to be fashioned after, and evidently ballt of, material resembling in all respects the homan body and feeb with the Re ead, chest, at BX, conte per | anne, 40 NEW YORK HEKALD, W acd trunk, all—in the estimation of the builder, Mr. Howett—being correct representations of man in all | hie daily movements, reepirations and feelings. | This building, however, is to be inhabited enly by | Perfect spirits, or, in other words, perfectionists; | the precentasion by the President of her model or | spiritual government plans, which ia to completely change the present order of things, and is so liberal, that no restraint whatever is to be pat on the cox- sciences or actions of its subjects, se long as they are believers in the creed. Sectionalists are to have the privilege of withdaawing whenever and as soon as they please. Women are to do the voting, hold the of. fices and attend to the out door business, while poor man is to stay at home and attend to the children and cook his wife's dinner. The presentation of a plan for a new spiritual or duck ship, to be cast whole, out of solid iron, and to go whithersoever the navigator pleases, to any part of the world, with no other heim than the mariner’s wiil, and the singn- lar and irrational ravings of the maniacs on the varions topics generally; the grand finale con- sisting ina lopg summing up of the three days’ sesaion, by John Orvis, one of the leading spiritual- sts. Much regret was felt, and spleen vented on Greeley, Dana, Pavis,and other prominent spirit- ualista, for not having attended the Conference and made themzelves usetul. On the evening of Mon- day it was ascertained that there was a financial de- ficiency of ab at $80 in the pockets of the getters up of the affnir, andthe audience were coaxed very hard to come forward and contribute liberally, but to ne purpore; no one appeared to respond. The report is wel! worth a perusal by the lovers of racy proceedings and eccentricities. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 2,000 bales, based mainly upon middling upiands at about Me. » 14tyc., and middling New Orleans at 14340, a 14%c., with some sales reported au },c. higher, ilour was agein fOrmer, and improved about 10c. per bbl, and in some de- scriptions as much ag 16. Wheat was firm. Fair Cana- dian white sold at $185, and Mlinois winter red at $1 60; prime while Missour! was held at $l. Corn was firmer, With gales of Westera intxed at 9c. @ 95¢., and Southern yellow at 6c.a 97c, Rye was at $1 07 a $1 10 for prime Northern, rk was firm and active, with sales of mess at $25 75 8 $25 80. Lard continued firm, and the gales em- braced about 2.000 packages fair to prime at 14%yc. a ldXec. ald Yc. Sugars were quict, and transactions were confined to small gales, chiety to the job- bing trade, without quotable change in prices, Moet all the importers send their sugars into United States bonded warehouses on arrival, there to await the reduction of duties, or until their views regard- ing prices can be realived. In the mean time the atock is increasing, and it is supposed that at present it does not fall below about 48,000 hhds. 21,000 boxes and 7,000 Blds. molado. But this fuct, itshould be recolleeted, must betaken in connection with the circumstance that the New York market is pow the largest on the continent, and on which much greater extent of country and its (rade has todepend for supplies, embracing cities at the Weet which hitherto drew their sugars from New Orleans. This city is also a large seller in bond to Canada, as well as to the neighboring cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore. The whole value of sngars and molasses now held in New York, in bond fand in store, i is supposed amonnt to not less than ten mitlions of doliars, and may sormewhat exceed it. The heaviest holders pre Spanish or Cuban houses. Ceflee wae quiet; 1,600 9 1,600 bags Mara. caibo sold on private terma. Freighte were unchanged, with moderate engagements to British ports. The Central American Question—No New ‘Treaties Necessary. The telegraphic despatches from Washington published in another column, are important in regard to our relations with England It ap- pears that General Cass is engaged in preparing a reply to Lord Napicr’s application to renew negotiations for a new Central American treaty to take the place of the discarded Dallas-Claren- don convention. The rejection of the Bay Islands treaty by Honduras, as tendered by England, with its numerous restrictions and conditions, has fol- | lowed so quickly upon the retura of the Dallas | Clarendon treaty as to take away every pretence for the new negotiations which Lord Napier now | wishes to establish in regard to Central America | and its coming future. It is the culminating point of the mony efforts that England has made to endeavor to get some of the petty Central | American States to give it a foothold upon the American Isthinas; and the time has come for our government to recognize its proper position, and to cease to pander any longer to the ambi- tious designs of Great Britain in that quarter. | The Webster and Crampton propositions were only a piece of good natured folly on our part, which Nicaragua promptly and decidedly re- jected; and the Clayton-Bulwer treaty has been as distasteful to the several republics of Central America as have been all the other attempts to infringe Uwir rights and freedom of action. The history of thoee republice is fall of admo- nition to us as regards our present position to- wardihem. For twenty years after their separa- | tion from the Spanish crown they languished | in neglect, vainly striving to imitate our forms of | free government, and only going lower and | Jower in the scale of social and political organi- | | zation. Nogland, with prescient eye, saw their | coming importance. as geographical points, and | sent her diplomatic agents there to plot and ia- | trigue. Mosquitia was extended farther than had ever the original tribe dreamed of claiming, | hatfield, © famous in diplomatic intrigue there, | went from republic to republic, askiog, beg- | ging and dragooning them into compliance with his wishea Greytown was torn from Nicaragua, and her officers there were driven out. Tiger island was scized, but with such utter ehemelessnces that it was soon after reluctantly abandoned. Rastan poesessed an excellent har- | bor, and Hondaras was despoiled of it, even after the ratification of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and | this time our government took little or no part informed upon their true bearings that when they were first disenssed in the Senate no one was found there sufticiently conversant to discuss them, until the representatives in Washington of several of the republics concerned, came forward voluntarily and furnished the facts and docu- mente. But by this time another influence began to grow up there, and hae been steadily increasing. ‘The growth of oar intercourse with the Pacific carried individual interests to the several isth- muses, and through (heir influence all of the in- ter-oceanic routes have become involved in a mass of intrigue that presents two phases—that of di- plomacy and that of private interesta Tebuan- tepee, Honduras, Nicaragua aud Panama have all their competing interests, and are not oaly all striving against each other, but are using every effort to mistead the government and bend it to the furtherance of private advantage. Mexico, in the midet uf her disintegration, clings to Tchu- antepec, which is the prize that Garay, Hargous, | Falconuet, Sloo and a host of others are fighting quiet, the construction of a railway with British capital and American skill. The Nicaragua roate is the apple of discord to our steamship Commo- dores and the republics of Costa Rica and Nica- ragua. The Panama route bas brought the t nited States and New Granada into» quarrel, whieh the railway company there is strenuously endea- voring to turn to its advantage, while it improves the occasivn of its monopoly of travel (o extort from both r ¥ ‘ r ament Woe Wy | feated army after army in the field, and took in direct violation of its provisions, Daring all | in these questions, and so ill were our statesmen | for. Honduras is about beginning, in apparent | pursued in all these questions is now redounding to our advantage. Although good _ nataredly taking part in pushing the unfounded ciaims of England, it has never gone beyond advising the Central American governments to admit the English propositions of settlement; and while England has urged and intisted upon their ac- ceptance, it has refrained from importuaity on the eubject. The reeult has been that at this time all of those republics entertain a marked distrust of the Eoglich government, and a strong confidence of the moderation and justice of our own. In their present want, the balf of fifteen millions that Mexico is endeavoring to cajole ws into lending her upon a shadow as security, would bring to us everything we can desire in Central America, and render Tehuantepec of much less importance than it now seems to hold. In ordee to take proper advantage of this favorable state of things we muet give up bad company, and let England stand alone in her efforts to seize new commercial and strategic positions trom these republics, The Clayton-Bulwer treaty must be withdrawn, the-Webster and Crampton proposl- tions go into abeyanee, and the private aims that are being thrust upoa the government at Wasb- ington in order to blind umislead it, must be restrained within their proper ephere. We have no doubt that Generat Caas wilt 160k well into these questions, and reply to Lord’ Napier’s re- quest to open new negotiations with a polite decli- nation to have any further treaties or conven- tions relative to Central America in the preseat position of affairs. Treaties, forming entangling alliance, with Earopean powers, are not a part of the policy of the administration. Other co- operative means will be adopted to settle the Central American question and give the United States the necesssary position and influence in that quarter ber commerce and power demand. Mr. Buchanan may be assured that the good sense of this country will support him, and that all our best interests will be eubserved by this course, The Military Administration of Srance and Kngland. We pnblish in another column an extract from a letter written by Gen. Jesup, which contains one of the moet striking critiques upon the ope- rations of the French army in the Crimea that has ever been written. Gen. Jesup is one of the band of veteran heroes that has created our American army, and made it, probably, the most efficient military organization in the world His experience and well proved judgment give great weight to his opinion, and he has concentrated a volume in the short letter from which we to-day give an extract. Its utterance at this moment, when England and France are preparing « hos- tile demonstration against China, opens a vast fleld of reflection. The significant fact that the allies in the Crimea carried on their warlike operations in direct opposition to the highest mi- litary axioms, and that this course was forced upon them by the inefficiency of their administrative arrangements, is conclusively es- tablished, The whole world will be surprised to learn that in all that constitutes the energy and vigor of an army in the ficld—that is, in the means of transportation—France gave to her three hun- dred thousand men in the Crimea “ less than one-half the number of animals for all purposes during the war which we supplied for deaft and packing ulone for our army in Mexico, that never exceeded forty-five thousand men.” The consequences that followed these different tystems of military administration are weil known. General Scott went where he chose—de- city after city; while the allies were only able to sit doggedly down before Sebastopol and expend life and material in @ profusion that surpaseed all previous knowledge or belicf. These are no new tacta. Tho continuous and truthful attacks of the English press upon the administrative system o their army in the Crimea are well known Correspondent after correspondent repeated the \ disgusting details from the English camp till the whole world knew it. The French press took up the matter in a spirit of national pride in euch @ manner that the English press became nettled, and then came letter after letter from the Crimea showing that the French system was as defective asthe English, and that there was as | little true military genius in one army asin the other. Louis Napoleon became alarmed at there revelations, and insisted that they should be slopped, or that he would withdraw his army from the Crimea. The English goverament was almost driven to despair. Lord Panmure called the editors of the leading London journals to a conference, and laying the whole state of the case belore them, implored them to desist from toese terrible utterings of the truth. Morshal Vail- lant, the French Minister of War, has now given them officially to the world, in his report upon the administrative arrangements for the late war in the East; and when we compare them with thoee made for our army in Mexico, we have no need to blush. Yet these are the nations that are going to coerce China, with her tbree bundred millions of population, into a peace. We do not doubt that they may knock down a few of the seaport cities; butin view of the facts made patent to the world by the Russian war, we do entertain seri- ous misgivings of the operations they may un- | dertake on land. Unless they institute some new system of administration for their armies, we do | not see how they are going to march over any | great portion of Chinese territory, or gather | very many laurels there. After the white-wash- | ing operation that John Bull performed for his commissariat on ite return from the Crimea, we | have little hope for him. But Louis Napoleon is of another stamp, We commend to him the | perusal of Gen. Jesup’s letter, and hope he will take heed from it. A few American ideas won't burt a Bonaparte; and if it comes to the worst, the hope of his family to sustain its military prestige may yet lie in the American branch of it that was educated at West Point. Comuetiastry 1s New Evorasn.—We percelve that the religious presses in New Enayland and | elsewhere are bewailing the increase of infidelity in the land of the Purltana, The number of backeliders from the faith of the fathers is very great, and the majority belong to the educated and moral classes of the commanity. Indeed, it appears that the ancient faith Is monopolized by the Reverend Mr. Kalloch and men of his stamp, Doubtless this flood of infidelity has been caused by the teachings of the aati-slavery lecturers | who have been at work in New England for the | past twenty-five years, During that period they | have preached opposition to the Bible—opposition | tothe Church — opposition to Christianity, because all these things seem to countenance slavery in | Sotpe shape or other. The religious mnniverenries j ate now being held at Boston, but they seem to at- ] j tract but little public attention, Now, ff they could baye a representation of a French woman of | the town, or a trial of a clergyman for breaking tt f Ged ardn we stou'd cee all New EDNESDA Fngland ine terrible otate of exoitement; but the religious anniverwaries are very dull moral effairs, and, therefore, not worth notice. We really don’t know what will become of New Engiand, unless the modern spiritualists can in- | voke the spirits of Cotton Mather and his asso- | clates to fulminate the good old Calvinistic dog- mas from the pulpit of the Otd South Charch. Yet even then, the sons of the Puritans are in a bad way, and the sooner the really Christian peo- ple leave New England for tho West the better it will be for all hands. Late Kansas News—Bly Moore Turned up Again—Ultra Southern Opinions of Stanton end Walker, Ovr telegraphic ‘despatch dated Lecompton, May 21, shows that the issue between the free State and pro-slavery parties of Kansas has within the last few weeks assumed a new and very significant shape. The local pro-slavery party has subsided; its sharply defined policy of making Kansas a elave State has been aban- doned, for the pro-slavery leaders have adopted the badge of the national democracy and the policy of making Kansas, not élave State, but a democratio free State. ‘This new phase in the Kansas drama is, we eay, very interesting and suggestive. It shows that the violent border ruffian policy of Atohison, Stringfellow avd poor’ Pierce, has utterly failed, and that with the new administration at Wash- ington pew and wiser counsels have taken root at Lecompton. We hear no more of Atchison in the local politics of Kansas, and Stringfellow’s Squatter Sovereign has been bought out and trans- mogrified into a free State organ. We see, too, that Ely Moore, a Northern man, formerly a democratic member of Congress from this city, is urged to become a democratic candidate for delegate to Congress, and that an effort is to be made by the Northern democrats to send free State men of their party to the Constitutional Convention. Ey Moore! Who of the demooratic graduates of the Pewter Mug and the Tammany Coal Hole, in the days of the Fanny Wright and Robert Owen infidel agitation, and of that fearful epoch of the flour riots of this city—some twenty long years ago—who among our democratic fast men of those days, still surviving among us, does not remember their champion, Ely Moore? Davy Broderick, who has eince gone out to California and returned a United States Senator, was of the same school; but Davy was then a boy, “run- ning with the machine.” Ely became a member of Congress; but running himself out in New York, before his political aspirations were ex- hausted, he went over to try his hand in his native New Jersey. That State, however—which Commodore Stockton carries in his breeches pocket—was no place for Ely. He sank into ob- seurity under the shadow of Stockton, like a pearl of grent price in a Jersey muscle; and we bad given him up as among the political fossils stuck in the mud, when lo! and behold! he | Y, MAY 27, 1857.TRIPLE SHEET.” . ‘odie avd the agitation between the North and South red hot to the next Preeideuth campaign, The federal administration, however, has marked policy. That policy is working well, and Messrs, Stantow and Walker, in recommending and urging the ratification of the Kansas constitution by the people of Kansas, have moet likely been acting by sa authority which will be eustained by the next Congress, and by the country, North and South. We await with increased interest the report of Governor Walker's reception in Kansas, and of his intro- ductory address, Virginia Colonization in 1857 and the Great Anglo-American Schemes of 1545, We devote the bulk of our news columns this morning to the plans and estimates—full length received from an attentive correspondent in Rich- mond, of several Anglo-American land epeoulat- ing companies, organized chiefly in London in 1848, These schemes comprehend the re-coloniza- tion of Virginia and the filling up with farmers of the waste places of other portions of the United States, from Michigan to Texas, Accordingly, to the careful perusal of these recovered doou ments, we invite the attention of our intelligent readers, a8 all of them, more or less, are interested in the subjects discussed: ‘The statistics of emigration given im these pa- pers—the practical business regulations of these companies—their facts and estimates in reference to the purchase and se!tiement of the cheap lands of Virginia and other States, will, at this particu- lar crisis, be very instructive and acceptable to thousands upon thousands ef all clasies of our people, in every section of the Union. It will be perceived that the English managers of these company achemes of 1548 proceeded to their work like men of business, directing their inqui- ries to all the minutix and complications iavolved in the comprehensive enterprise of purchasing lands in America and settling them with emigraats from Europe. Hence, consider- ing the present universal land speculat- ing mania, we have no doubt that, to individual and combined land speculators, colonizers and stockjobbers, these plans, facts and estimates of 1848 will prove to be not only very interesting, but eminently useful and valu- able, from the practical hints with which they abound. We dare say that even Mr. Thayer himself will find in thcse papers many little esentials in the practical business of buying lands and colonizing them, which thus far may have escaped his attention. Our Richmond correspondent informs us of the immediate cause of. the collapse of these schemes of 1848, as furnished in the case of the Western Virginia Land Com- pany, with a capital of $750,000. Ho tells us that “this acheme was in a forward state, and had every chance of euccess, when a number of its promoters applied to the Virginia Legislature for a special act by which aliens could hold real estate; but,” says he, “the first families felt torns up in Kansas as fresh and vigorous as Broderick in California, or Micawber in Austra- lia! His voice may yet be heard amodg the first in the new houses of Parliament at Washington. And who objects? If there be any such let them now «peak out, or forever hereafter hold their peace. What says Mr. Broderick? What says Capt. Rynders! The clection for delegates to the Kansas Con- stitntional Convention does not come off till the third Monday in Jane, and in the interval the rather large for their trowsers, and the privilege which had beer freely acconled in othor States asan act of justice to the slien, was refased.” And so, while the bone and sinew of her free white population’ were being drained off to the West and Southwest, and while her niggers were being shipped off by thousands to the New Orleans market, Old Vir- ginia, with her beggarly self-conceit and obstinate stupidity, refused those gencrous offers to supply the vacuum which would have lifted her speedily Ocal parties and local issues of the Territory | into solvency and prosperity. Her case is some- may be affected in various ways by these new | what like that of the seedy Don Cwsar de Bazan. experiments of the free State democratic leaders. | Shorn of the catates of his ancestors, and reduced Acting Governor Stanton, « decided pro-slavery | to rags from his profligate habits, he yet plames Tennesece democrat, has said, substantially, that | himself upon his dignity, his rank and his chival- if they can’t make Kansas a slave State he de- | ry, and in his eolicitude for theso, he despises the | sires that it shall be made a democratic free | sympathy of the vulgar herd for bis naked back State—an achievement which, ina party sense, | and his empty stomach. may be rendered as efficient as an absolute pro- slavery triumph. But whether this demooratic free State movement is destined to succeed or to fail, we accept it ss an assurance that the late terrible border ruffian scenes of killing, plunder- ing, burning and destroying will not be rapeated in Kansas, bat that, between the local speculators and the politicians, the government henceforward will find no further difficulty in preserving the peace of the Territory. Our Lecompton despatch also informs us that the census returns of nineteen counties out of twenty-“ix show an aggregate of nine thou- sand two hundred and fifty registered voters. Assuming thie report to be correct, and that from the stand-aloof policy of the free State party «here are at least three thousand voters not registered, we may safely say that there is a population to day exceeding fifty thousand in the Territory. We dowbt not that fally one-half this number have been thrown into Kansas this sea- son; and that of these reinfercements, the North- ern settlers as against the Southern are at least as five or six to one. It is this heavy Northern immigration. in connection with the land specu- lating mania which it has created, that has changed the whole face of the Kansas nigger con- troversy within the last few weeks. Hence these new free State movements of the more sagacious democratic politicians in opposition to the repub- lican party—hence the collapse ot Stringfellow's pro-slavery paper, and the disappearance of Atchison from the soene. ‘Thus it is abundantly manifest that, whatever this forthcoming Constitutional Convention may do, or fail to do, Kansas must become a free State. The protlavery leaders give it up, and they will now be satisfied to make it a democratic free State. How ridiculous, then, the impotent outcry of the Richmond South and the Charleston Mercury (see extracts in another column) against acting Governor Stanton and Governor Walker for daring to recommend and advocate the uni- versal policy of this country, of submitting the State constitation to a vote of the people! The Charleston Mercury says that this proceeding will be “cn inewtions and high handed breach of faith towards the South and Southern men in Kansas.’ How eo! What will it avail the South should Kanens be amuggled into the Union as ® slave State? Nothing, woree than nothing. Ney, more. Ts it likely that an applioation for the admission ot Kangas, resting upon a constitation which has not been submitted to the people, will pare through the next House of Representatives We think not. We fear that onr Southern ultra cotempor aries in their denunci « of Stanton and Walkrr aro lets solicitous for Southern rights in Kangis than for a renewed and embittered sectional y zitation ontelde of Kansas, We apprebend that, with the Richmond Sewth and the Charleston Mercury, the main object ie not eo much the admisyon of Kan ensas « slave State, “ by hook or by crook,” as the reconstruction of out PresidenVal parties in 1860 upon violent sectional and disunion issues, These Southern ultra organe are not satiefied with the prospect of the easy pacification of Kansse according to law and usage. They would prefer to In 1848, however, another cause, unexpected, bat all-powerful, operated to disband those Anglo- American land speculating and colonization com- panics. It was the discovery of gold in Califor- nia, and subsequently, with the same discoveries in Australia, a new dircetion was given to the financial, commercial and emigration movements of the age. Thus it is that these land speculating. schemes of 1848 have been sunk in oblivion, till recently recovered from the cobwebs by our Richmond correspondent. Now they are-in sea- ton. The California gold fever has died out—the: Australian excitement has subsided into the regu- lar channels of ordinary business—the Russian war has given way to the pacification of Europe —our Presidential election is over—the Union survives—the Know Nothing scare-crow, set up on this side the Atlantic, bas been knocked to pieces, and again the various currents of a Ea- ropean exodus are directed to our Atlantic ports; and land! land! is the universal cry. The Kaneas experiments of joint stock emigra- tion movements have opened a new field for the speculators and. stockjobbers—-a fictl as vast as this great confederation—-yen, as boundless as the waate lands of the globe. The free States of the great West being pretty well filled up and over- done, and Virginia and the other border slave States, with their fine climate and genial soils, being comparatively depopulated, the attention of Mr. Eli Thayer and other enterprising men has been called In that direction. Monce the organization of the American Homestead Com- pany, for the free white re-colonization and re- generation of Old Virginia if she will; and of Kentucky and Missouri, if Old Virginia should still stick to her dignity and her poverty. Most likely ehe will, if we may judge from the policy of her ruling democracy in reference to her State election, which comes off on Thursday. This ruling party which refuses to accept Virginia's sharo of the public lands, will hardly consent, as yet, to the introduction of any reintoreements to her producing population, though she has mil- lions of acres running to waete, and various rail- ronda unpaid for, unfinished, and without a prow pect of business, as she stands, Very well. Mr. Thayer and his company, we presume, have favors to grant toany State which will accept and encourage their services, notwith- standing the fact that the company proceed upon the idea that where niggers have failed white men may eucceed. Meantime, to all land epecu- lating companies—to all waste land owners—to States, statesmen and politicians, and all parties concerned—North and South--we commend the perural of the doouments we publish this morn- ing, in connection with the universal land speou- lating mania of the day. This is the time to ell—not for looee credit, but for cash or solid recurities A year or two hence will be the time to boy. After the inward tide bas come to @ stand the ebb begins; and when payday comes, even the first families of the Old Dominion will agree to eell niggers ot waste lands to Caroli- niane or Yankees, for # little ready money. ‘There is no need of any hurry on the part of Mr. Thayer. Let him take hia soundings and obecrvationa, and make his arrangements, and cent appearances, pvild and waste lands will be comparatively cheap, Ad open to all parchasers for cash, from Virginia to California, Confirmation of Meumictpal Freedom wy the Court. ‘The judgment of the Sapreme Court on the goa- stitutionality of the Metropolitan Police act, ae delivered by Messrs, Miéshell, Peabody ead Roosevelt on Monday last, affords the most re- matkable confirmation of the views which have been almost daily presented to the readers of this sheet during the past few weeks Though it is assumed by the newspapers, aud noted by the Clerk ot the Court that the decision of a majority of the Bench was adverse to the pretensions of the city authorities and in favor of the’ State usurpers, it will be found on a careful sarvey ef the opinions of the three Judges that, so far from this being the case, there is every reason to be- lieve that each and all of the three Judges conour in the essential points of the argument on behalf of the city, as repeatedly put forth in these es lumas, We count Judges Mitchell and Peabody on our elde, as weH as Judge Roosevelt. To enter into particulars. Jadge Mitchell de~ votes three-fourths of his opinion to showing that nhder the constitution, the Legislature has the right to appoint Police Commissioners for one or more counties, the clause in the constitution which declares that city, town, comm ty and village officers shalt be elected or appoint- ed by the local officers. Having proved this to his satisfuetion, he goes on to make the following significant remarks:— fi oid (he hole ark Th ecco. (cia) in wiseh as supposed tranyfer is made, ts a distinct and separate Sean read cat gctsres paren ea Evidently Jadge Mitchell here decides, by im- plication, that the Metropolitan Police act does not involve a transfer of the police property to the new Board, and that if it did, that elause er section of the act would be invalid, though poe- sibly the invalidity might not involve the de- struction of the whole act. Let us pass to Judge Peabody. He ia a man of many words, and not copious ideas; in the long decision which is printed under his name, there are but two propositions put and answered. The first is that the Legislature has a right te appoint such connty officers as the progress of society may require; the second that these offi- cers may be appointed for several counties in- stead cf or as well as one. Having settled these points to his mind, Judge Peabody infers from them that the late act is a valid law, and says ne more. Nota word says he about the demolition of the old Board or the confiscation of its pro- | perty. Thas, in one word, the only point decided by these two Judges is that the Legislature may, if it pleases, appoint a police force for this and other counties. That is a point which has never been in debate, to our knowledge. No one, at least publicty, has held that the Le- gislature could uot, if it deemed it necessary, ap~ point a potice or any other force, to perform pe- lice, or any other duties, in. this-or any. other counties; provided, in so doing, that it injared: no private rights, and provided likewise that it ' made adequate provision for the maintenance ef waid force out of the funds of the State. The only point in dispute has been whether the Eegislature could abolish our municipal police; take away our right of appoiating them; deprive us of control over them; strip them of their pro- perty and of the property of the city; and confer all these—rights, duties, and property—on & body whose only connection with us would be that they would have the duty of exercising aa- thority over us, and that we should have the plee- sure of paying them. ‘That isthe true, the only point of the appeal to the courts; and it is in view of its exclusive importance that we say the Supreme Coart has- decided in our favor. For while Judge Roose- velt has most ably and beautifully shown that the rights of this city in municipal affairs cannot, ue- der any circumstances, be taken away from it or usurped by the Legislature, without its consent, Judge Mitchell has almost in as many words ad- mitted that the act of the Legislature must not he regarded as divesting the old police authori- ties of their rights or property; and Judgo Pea- body, by his very marked silence, teaches us to perevive that this is his view also, Judges Mitchell and Peabody evidently figare to themselves a state of things in which we should have two sets of police here, the one paid. by the State, the other by the city, and both performing valuable service without interfering with each other. We have no reason to suppose that this plan would be resisted with any obsti- nacy either by the city authorities or by the people. We cannot well have too much police, the complaint througbout all past time has beea. that we have had: too little. And if, by some- judicious arrangement or compromise, the twe sets of policemen can come to an agreement by which certain duties can be allotted, and a clear sphere traced out for each, we hardly sce why any person interested should object to euch a ecttlement of the difficulty. In London and Paris, there are two seta of police, the one de- pending upon the city, the other on the general government; and we believe the plan is found to answer very well. Of course, in these cities, common rense prevails, the city pays the city police, while the State pays the State police; ae other arrangement has ever been If the repablican majority in the Assembly think well of this example, we do not kaew that the city would resist a (rial of it. The present act, after being killed off in the Court of Ap- peals, as it is now certain it will be, will require rome amendments, It must be made to read so that the Metropolitan police shalt aot interfere with the Municipal police; and an appropriation, must be rande by the State to support the new. force. Under these circumstances it might have 8 trial; but in ite present shape, we consider tidy State police scheme as good as dend. A Stave Sanz ww New York.—We lear a great deal about the enormity of selling slaves at auction at Richmond, Charleston, Sevacash, Mobile and New Orleans. Sundry journals within hait of the Hrrat office revel in ascounts of man and women exposed on auction Slacks, and the accounts of such horrible things create tha greatest sensation among the tea dtnking spin stors of the small villages in the jaterior. What will these indignantly virtaous journalists say when wp inform them that © lending auction house of this city purposes ta. expose a slave for sale to the highest bidder, at the Merchants? Exchange-—oar Merchants’ Exchange—on Tnes- day, the twenty-third day of June next? H. H, Leods & Co are the pardes who purpose to com- ait this dreadful deed. EI. H. Leeds & Co, who to be Christians, members of the chureh, contributors to the poor box, pious frequenters of the Sabbath day class, come out with a public keep the sore open | hide bis time. A year or two hence, trom pre: " arnoancement that they will put up at auction,