The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1858, Page 4

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September Baas October. . 57,118 October 18... . 59, November . 57,664 Novem’ser 5... .29,680 December . 52,560 December 6... ..55,200 Yearly average per day........... 56,35) 1857. January. . Februar, Mareb April. Moy. June. duly. A September September 18 October. October f5.... November 2 November 4 December .. December 2. . Yearly average per day * 1855. Yearly average... .55,628 Increase of 1856 over 1855, . . 1857 over 1856... “1856. 56,358 1857. ad 1857 over 1855 The above ia exclusive of the Sunday Herald, California Herald, Weekly Herald, and European Terald, Family Herald The News. The news from Wasbington this morning t# im portant. The President yesterday sent to the Senate his Message in response to the call for information relative to the capture of Gen. Walker and Central American affairs generally. While the President ays that Commodore Paulding committed a grave error in arresting Gen. Walker, he thinks it is quite evident that the Commodore was actaated by patri- otic motives and desired to promote the interests and vindicate the honor of his country. Nicaragua Sustained no injury by the act, but was rather bene- fitted. She alone would have the right to complain Of the invasion of her soil; but he (Mr. Buchanan) was quite certain that ehe would never exercise that fight. An exciting debate took place on the Mes- frags, in which Mesers. Seward, Doolittle and Pearce gustained the President's views, while Messrs. Davis, Douglas, Toombs, Pugh, Brown and Critten den took the opposite side. To executive session yesterday the Senate reamed the consideration of the nomination of Mr. Sedgewick as District Attorney of New York in place of John McKeon. After strenuous opposition the nomina- tion was confirmed by a rote of twenty-cieht against torenty four. Meesgs. Dougiae, Broderick and Pearce, of Maryland, at one stage of the proceedings, voted to lay the nomination on the table. In the Houre the nentrality laws and filibnstertent were discussed hy Mesers. Thayer, of Massachnsetts, of Virginia colonization celebrity, Adrian, of New Jersey, and others. The House adjourned till Mon- day, in order to celebrate tho anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, Nothing of importance occarred in the Legtala- ture yesterday. Inthe Senate Mr. Mather's motion for a select committee on the Metropolitan Police law was agreed to. The standing committees wore announced. Resolationa of respect for the public fervices and private worth of the late William I, Marcy were adopted, and eloquent ealogies npon the Character of the deceased delivered by Messra. Stowe Willard and Wadsworth, when the further consider. Btion of the subject was reserved for a future occa sion, and the Senate adjourned till Monday next. ‘The Assembly ballotted thirteen times for Speaker Without effecting a choice, and then adjourned. Among the papers sent to the Levislatare yesterday ‘Was the annua! report of the Superintendent of the Booking Department. This document, which we po viish in today's paper, is of annsaal importance 8) ‘is time, coming, as it does, jast as the State is ©: rxing from # monetary crisis of extraontinary ia ty. Some of the remedial and preveutive Bt e+ which the Superintendent suggests in our © yand banking aystems are peculiar, and de- fer og of special attention by not only financiers b 1) classes of publie men. NEW YORK SERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1858 ‘The President's Mewage on the Scisure of | Fillbusters, last day of the ycar; 1857, The steamer Isabel, which left that city on the Slst of December, ar rived at Boonsville on the 2d inst., and immediately telegraphed to St. Louis that “All wag quiet in Kan- sas Territory.” The story of Gen. Jo. Lane's san- guinary engagement with the United States dra- goons at Sugar Mound, on the 25th of December, is thus summarily dispoeed of. Indeed, reports of violence in Kansas may generally be regarded as mere Sleevegammonisms. We have a telegraphic report from St. Louis to the effect that the Mormons had attacked Col. Cook's command, while passing from Harris’ Fork to Fort Bridger to join the main body of the army, and butchered over two hundred of them. Col. Cook’s command consisted of eight hundred dragoons, and it is not in the least degree probable that the Mor- mons have had the temerity to attack such a force. The Black Warrior has arrived at New Orleans, with Havana dates to the 4th inst. The sugar mar- ket was firm, with a stock of sixty thousand boxes on hand. Freights were inactive, while exchanges had advanced. There was considerable fever at Havana, and several of the Opera troupe were on the sick list. Three hundred men on board the Spanish ship of war had died of fever. The sloop-of-war Cyane has arrived at Norfolk from Port-au-Prince via Havana. Capt. Mayo, whose arrest at Cape Haytien on a charge of counter- feiting and subsequent acquittal have heretofore been mentioned, was a passenger on board the Cyane. Our correspondent at Ponce, Porto Rico, writing on the 3d ult., deacribes enthusiastically the effect which the high prices of sugar during the past year have had in that region. New houses by the hun- dred have been built and old ones remodelled, public buildings embellished, new roads laid out, and even a railroad to connect the harbor with the town has been projected. It has also led to a considerable extension of sugar cane planting. Owing to the fall of heavy rains the crop promises an abundant yield. The only drawback to the prosperity of the island was the lack of laborers. The Spanish gev- ernment, aware of the necessity of additional force, had obtained from the northern provinces of Spain three hundred laborers, and it is supposed that they are now on their way to Porto Rico. I¢ was con- sidered doubtfal whether these laborers could endure the climate, but if the experiment should prove successful an extensive emigration from Spain would immediately follow. We have advices from Arroyo, Porto Rico, to the 12th ultimo. Trade was suftering from the effects of the monetary crisis in New York, and commercial operations were paralyzed. Grind- ing had commenced on nearly all of the sngar estates, and the crop promised well. The want of laborers in the agricaltnral districta occupies the attention of the government. The Spanish brig Dos de Enero, arrived at Arroyo on the 23d@November, reports that when off Cape Foxardo, about three miles from the land, a schooner, manned by about thirty negrocs, ran down to the brig and asked what was his lati- tude. Being so near the land the captain supposes they had other intentions, which would have been carrieg out had there not heen several vessels in sight. ‘The newly elected Chairman of the Board of Su- pervisors (Flijah I". Pardy, Esq.) was installed yes- terday. Mr. Purdy returned thanks in a modest and. sensible speech, in which he promised to aid the Board in every effort to lighten the burdens that press so heavily upon the taxpayers of this city, who expect economy, retrenchment and reform in the expenditure of the pablic moneys. A message was received from Mayor Tiemann, containing sug- gestions relative to the duties of the Board, and counselling an economical administration of the finances of the city. for 1868 met last night at Tammany Hall forthe election of officers for the current year. The pro- election of Peter B. Sweeny for chairman, John H. | Williams and Samuel Vanderheyden secretaries, | Joseph M. Marsh treasurer, and Charles Mills ser- geant-at-arms. Peter B. Sweeny was nominated by Isaac V. Fowler, and was opposed by Wm. H. Leo- nard, the nominee of Asahel Reed. Fernando Wood ‘was present and participated in the proceedings. The Chamber of Commerce met last night and | adopted a memorial to the State Legislature asking for a repeal of the usury laws, urging that the expe- | rience of the last fonr months was sufficient to show the folly of legislative restrictions on the value of | money. There was a long debate among the mer- chants as to the propricty of building a fine ball for the Chamber to meet in. Bernard McGaffrey pleaded guilty to an assault with fatent to rob, in the Court of Sessions yester- day, and Judge Russell sent him to the penitentiary for one year. Henry Booman, keeper of a sailor's boarding house, was placed on trial, charged with kidnapping, he having, a8 was alleged, detained Alexander Chalmers against his will and endeavored to put him on board ship. The evidence of the com- plainant showed that he didnot offer sufficient re- sistance, and the prosecution abandoned the charge. John McCabe and Jas. Donovan, youths, charged with having robbed Mrs. Loewengood of $105 in gold, were acquitted; after which the Court ad- journed at an early hour, the Grand Jury not having presented a sufficient number of indictments to enable the Court to sit to the usual hour of ad- journment. Tho cotton market was again firmer yesterday, with sales of about 1,600 bales, closing at an advance of about Xie. por ib. The decreare in tho receipts at all the ports mance the first of September last amounts to about 455,000 bales, compared with the same period for the previous year. The increase in the exports t Great Britain amounts to about 16,000 bales. The decrease in exports to France amounts to about 31,000, and to other foreign ports 16,000 bales—showing an aggregate decrease of exports to aii forcign porte of 20,000 bales. Flour continued steady, | wits good ioral and astern demand, without change of moment in prices, except for Ohio superfine, which was scarce and higher. Sales of wheat were confined to small lots of Southern red at $115, and white do. at $1 25.8 91 9. Corn was firmer, with sales of good new white at 65c. Pork was somo firmer, with sales of old and new mess at $16 a $15 25, and of prime at $1250 a $17. Sugars were tolerably active. The sales embraced about 1,000 hhde. and 2,500 boxes, at rates given in another column, Coffee was in fair demand, With valee of about 1,000 bags Mio, 400 mate Java and 475 bag? and terces Jamaica, at rates given in another place. Freight engagements were light. Grain, in bulk,to Lit crpool, Was taken at Sd, flour at 2s. and cotton at )jd. per Ib. —_—__—_. Southern Threats Against Mr. Dongias— Southern and Southern Duties, Sineé the delivery pf the opening revolution- ary epeech of Mr. Douglas iz the United States Senate on the Kansas questiou, some ef the newspaper correspondents at Washtn,”ton have, in several instances, given currency }o the warning that unless Mr. Douglas is very ¢Ati~ tlous for the future he will he very apt to re ceive a thrashing, @ l¢ Sumner, from the indig- nant chivalry of the South. We haye, indeed, heard something of a pur- pore, on the part of Southern men, to provoke Mr. Douglasinto a quarrel from which he can have no escape bit through a bloody fight; and where there is #0 much smoke we suspect there Toust be a little fire. This suspicion is some- what strengthened from a scurrilous paragraph which we read the ether day (in a Virginia newspaper of the fire-eating school) in reference to Senator Sumner. The writer of the said para- graph therein admonished the unfortunate Sena- tor that, if he dared to occupy his place in the Senate much Jonger, he might, perhaps, be visit- ed with a second instalment of that dreadful ceedings were quite harmonious, and resulted in the \ fianism which s0 nearly cost the South its po- litical destruction in the last Presidential elec. tion, a word or two of cool advice to all con- cerned may not be out of season, And frst, looking back at the tremendous popularity in the North of the Philadelphia republican ticket of 1856, can it be dented that the assault upon Sumner swelled the ranks of Fremont with hun- dreds and thousands of recruits from the demo- cratic camp? We may say, perhaps, that had Sumner died from his wounds at any time with- in a week of the Presidential election, the po- litical results would have been the defeat of Mr. Buchanaa, and the absolute annihilation of the democratic party. But Sumner survived, and his gradual recovery, together with the care- fully circulated insinuation that he was all the time “playing possum,” contributed much to ar- rest the Northern current of public opinion. Wehad supposed, however, that the ascer- tained public sentiment upon this case would prove ® sufficient warning for many years to come against a sectional resort to brute force for the offences of a Congressional debate. At all events, we are entirely satisfied, from the ter- rible public indignation excited by the Sumner affair, that any similar Southern experiment in reference to Senator Douglas, so far from injur- ing him or his cause politically, would make them the rallying cry ofall the North. IfSouth- ern men wish to silence the guns of Mr. Douglas they must adhere to the means and the rules of recognized political warfare. In other words, if the men of the South would maintain the constitutional rights of the South, and put down the anti-slavery heresies and abstractions of the North, they must use the weapons of constitu- tional argument, and all the instrumentalities of @ united and enlightened Southern public sentiment. Ruffianism will accomplish nothing but mis- chief to all parties concerned in it. It has been tried on both sides pretty extensively by the desperadoes and political vagabonds of Kansas, and if any good result has been achieved by it to either party there, we should like to know what itis. It was the contagion of this Kansas border ruffianism of 1856 which suppressed for a season that liberal and honest sense of right and fair play which we know to be the natural sentiment of the Southern people. We are sorry, therefore, to hear of any insinuations of intended personal violence from South- ern men against Senator Douglas, or any other Northern Congressman, because even rumors of the sort are calculated to work mis- chief, North and South. We have had enough of scenes of personal violence in Congress with- in the last few years to last us for twenty years to come. The South has certainly had enough of the services of those Hotspurs whose zeal in behalf of Southern rights is so apt to overstep the limits of sober discretion. What she now wants at Washington is the skill, the dignity, constancy and statesmanship of such men as Calhoun; for in the contest which is impending between the South and the North the mere bor- der ruffian will be of no service whatever to either side. A great crisis is at hand, and an issue which is to determine the position of the South and the extent of the political ascendency of the The Democratic Republican General Committee’ North in the general government is involved in this otherwise paltry affair—the Kansas Le- compton constitution. From the position which has been taken by Senator Douglas and others of the democratic party, the South in this matter have but little to expect of Northern clemency, On the other hand, all the vials of anti-slavery wrath, of thirty years’ accumulation, will be poured out upon the “slave-power” and the “slave oligarchy” by Northern demagogues and fanatics. But let the statesmen and the politi- cians of the South meet the exigency as the oc- casion demands, Let them rest their cause upon the time-honored principle of mutual con- cessions to the North and the South. Let them demand the admis-ion of Kansas with her slave State constitution, as ouly a reasonable conces- sion to the South for the admission of Minne- sota and Oregon as free States ; and let them unite their forces in the Senate and in the House to achieve this compromise as the last foothold of Southern equality in the Union, and they may win. But let them adopt the des- perate policy of personal violence against their principal political adversaries, and the cause of the South is forever lost, not alone in regard to Kansas, but in regard to every other expedient for the extension of Southern institutions. All the proceedings of the last few days in Congress may be compared to the frolics of a lot of idle Central American boys neat a liltle grumbling voleano. They are frolicking, but they are awaiting the sigaal for a precipitate flight, though uncertain, many of them, in which direction toran. A few days more and this Kansas volcano will open its crater at Washington—casting up rocks, ashes, fire and smoke ina boisterous volume. But when the eruption is at an end, and when the smoke ehall have cleared away, the whole country will realize either that we have escaped the perils of dissolution, or that they lie directly before us. In the meantime, ar with the Southern States, the alternative is between an armistice and an absolute capitulation—let her repre- segtatives be prepared at least for an earnest, dignified and united demand for still another armistice with the North as the only hope of ultimate peace. Govensons’ Messacrs.—It is really not worth while to devote much time or space to Gor- ernor King’s Message; but one cannot help ask- ing when shall we find a State Governor with sense enough to mind his own business, and to leave the President and Congress to manage theirs? The other day we published an ab- stract of the Message of the Governor of Flori- da, more than half of which was devoted toa discuseion of federal politics, and a denuncia- tion of certain persons and partios who never have had or can have anything to do with the State affairs of Florida. Just so, our own Goy- ernys King dilates on the local questions of a distant Territory named Kansas, and on the ac- tion of the general government thereon ; mat- ters with whic! he—in his official capacity. has no more to do than the Queen of England. Tt strikes us that if the Governor of New York devoted-a little nore time to the break- down of the State hanks (which were always held to be impregnable), and to the encroach- ments of the great railway corporations on the people's liberties, and to the enormous increase of taxation, he would do his daty better in his present station in life than he can do by berat- ing certain politicians about extra State con- cerns. And when the Governor of Florida hae Southern vengeance wlrich was only partially | settled his little affeir with the Seminole In- consummated in 1850. With such alarming symptoms as those be- diane, and paid up the old Florida claim, it will be quite time for him to teach the President his We nave dates from Leavenworth, Kanses, to the ' fore us of the revival of that erce epirit of ruf- | business, ‘Walker—The Old and New The President sent in to Congress yesterday the papers called for relative to the seizure of Gen. Walker by Commodore Paulding, and the discussion upon them in the Senate has exhibit-, ed a curious array of conflicting elements, as will be seen by our despatches in another co- lumn. The fact is that the sudden prominence that has been attained by Walker through the act of the Commodore seems to have upset the minds both of the filibusters and the anti-filibus- ters in a remarkable degree. Among the first effects of the act of Commo- dore Paulding, which was manifestly without warrant of law, and in violation of the etriet letter of international comity, came the wild laudations of that portion of the press that is always parading its immense respect for the law. With an inconsistency only to be found among theee self-styled ultra supporters of law and justice, Commodore Paulding was in their eyes “a second Daniel come to judgment.” In their view the only mistake he made was in not hanging Walker to the yard arm of the Wabash, instead of sending him home, where he would be out ofharm’s way. Thus the “moral” por- tion of the press, as it loves to style itself, went on forging weapons for those it wished to de- feat, by the excess of its own immorality; and had the filibusters been cautious and prudent, they might have gained a much higher place in public opinion than they are now destined to achieve. In their excitement they went on burning their powder, wasting their ammunition, letting off rockets and burning blue lights till they have very nearly if not quite fizzled out before the battle has come on. We have had letters from Henningsen and from Walker, and any amount of windy speeches for Buncombe, both in and out of Congress, till hardly a man of them has another word to say. The letter of Henningsen to Senator Toombs isa politic and ingenious one, but, besides making several historical mistakes, he lets his zeal run away with him, and knocks down the very pillars of his cause. The East India Company filibuster- ized India under the ample consent and protec- tion of the British government; Cortes, Pizarro and Rajah Brooke all stand in the same cate- gory.; while the Roundheads of England and the Beggarmen of Holland can never be classed either as modern filibusters or as “a more highly cultivated race” moving “to disposses another wasting and cumbering the soil in sta-- tionary barbarism.” Moses driving out the Ca- naanites—the Pilgrim Fathers of New Ragland dispossessing the red men—the inroads of Gen- ghis Khan’s Moguls, and of Tamerlane’s Tartars, are neither of them the type of modern American filibusterism. This movement is founded upon a very different principle. It assumes, first of all, an existing party in the country to be filibuster- ized, inviting those who sympathise with them to assist in the estdblishment of peace, order and good government, and to arrest the decay- ing tendency of society there by an infusion of new blood and new ideas into the body politia General Henningsen’s filibusterisem, after the manner of Moses, is a very different thing from filibusteriam after the manner of Lopez, who ‘was its earliest prophet in this country. The letter of Walker to the President calls for little comment. Its tone, its spirit and its logie are not the evidences of a leading mind, nor doce it give any indication of a representative man. Forgetful of the immense disproportion between the head of the government of the United States and himself, he uses tone that would have ill become the proudest innocence; while its bravado and entire want af logical se- quence must exhibit his want of sense in a glaring light to many who had been disposed to sympathise with him in some degree. As for the recent discussion in Congress upon all these questions, and upon the Neutrality laws, it bas only served to show the small calibre of many of the men who took part in it. These laws require a change. In some portions their interpretation is doubtfal, and when stretched to its utmost—as it sometimes is—it becomes not only tyrannical, but in fact inoperative. Such laws always fail of their ob- ject, and Walker's euccess in getting away on his second expedition to Nicaragua, and the sympathy he has found in the South, are evi- dent proofs of this. These enactments were— as Mr. Clay justly termed them when he op- posed their passage in the House of Represen tives in 1818—the result of a process of “teasing” by European Cabinets upon our own; and they require a revision, as is evident from the fact that both ovr own filibusters and a late British Minister have given them a very simi- lar interpretation, But such indiscreet’ advo- cacy of « change as has been exhibited ia many of the recent speeches in Congress ean never bring it about. As for the act itself that has brought about all this discussion, Commodore Paulding has to thank Messrs. Henningsen and Walker for the very best defence of his illegal course that hax yet been made. Filibustering, as they define it, has no existence in this country, except amongea very limited and unimportant set of men, it is not a process of that kind where the “pastoral barbarian” dispossesses the “savage huater,”’ to be himself driven out by “the agri- culturist and mechanic’—at least so did not the early prophets and fatgers of dlibusteriam preach {t; and Commodore Paulding, in arrest- ing such a movement, has done a service to the cause of Os true progress, although his act cannot be sustain’ py any interpretation of international law Wastep Licwt ox tae Crrrexcy Ques- tiox—We perceive that Mr. Fitch has pro- posed in the Senate to tax nll bank notes of small denominations; and simultaneously Mr. Pugh of Ohio has presented a petition in fa- vor of the establishment of a national bank, with sixty millions capitel and o thirty years charter. The object of these gentlemen is doubtless simply to bring before the Senate the general subject of our banking and currency systems in connection with the late revulsion The design is a good one. Beyond question, so all-important a subject should be thoroughly discussed and ventilated, and the light of the Senate shed upon it to the fullest extent. Tt may he remarked, however, that, when the Treasury Note bill was before Congress, the op- portunity was fair for a searching inquiry into the principles of our financial and commercial systema, No one took advantage of it; no ight was thrown upon the subject by any member of either house. Perhaps the omission was due to the haste with which the bill was forced through Congress. Tn this case, the present movemente will afford an opportunity of repairing the omission. If, however, it chould be found to be the case that neither the Senate nor the House of Representative contains men capable of dis- cusefug the question philosophically aud useful. ty, perhaps ey might do good by taking, in committee, the tex timony of some meu who do understand the matter, Lorny Sroms ar Wasaiwcvox-—tak Poort Privtiva.—We publish to-day a batch of com- munications from Washington throwiag light upon the secret plottings and combinations by which the spoils connected with the public printing have been secured to the present in- cumbents of that fatijob. From the statements therein contained it is evident that the public interests have been shamefully sacrificed to the cupidity of the lobby men and certain hungry adventurers connected with the presse. The Sruurmwation or Poxirigians. felt sympathies are at the service of Hall and his friends, Mr. Dillon, M &c., of the New York Tribune, Post, 4 other journals which supported’ Mi sor the Mayoralty, These persons al may rely upon our commiseration i entanglement inte which the Mayor has thrust them. Most eertaiuly, man so coimpletely stultify and ove party as Mr. Tiemann has done by th in which he takes ground against ti tions of municipal authority by the ernment and in favor of the repeal dq tropolitan Police act. For, it mast Y bered, Mr. Wood ran at the late electi changes that have been made by Congress in the personnel connected with this branch of the public expenditure, so far from conducing to economy, must contribute to swell its amount enormously. Instead of one or two gluttonous maws to satisfy, there will be, under the new arrangements, half a dozen, if not more. The displacement of Wendell as House printer was, it appears, more nominal than real; for whilst Steedman ostensibly fills the office, Wendell is still to do the work. The effect of the combi- nation against the latter will, therefore, be ‘merely to compel him to divide the profits of the House printing, and in order that “they may be worth division, Uncle Sam will of course have to make a handsome addition to his usual expenditure under thishead. This whole- sale partnership arrangement in the revenues of a public office, carried into effect, as it waa, under the very nose of Congress, shows the depth of demoralization and corruption at which our public men have arrived. Office seekers, journalists and Congressmen have all been notoriously mixed up in the job, and have shared the plunder arising from it. A spectacle like this, under a democratic government, is one of the most humiliating and degrading that can well be witnessed, and we may expect to find bitter use made of it by the enemies of re- publican idstitutions. Inthe meanwhile we are compelled to pay its immediate penalty in hea- vily increased taxation and the consciousness of wasted resources. If the committee appointed to investigate the abuses connected with the public printing under- stands its duties rightly, » remedy may still be applied to this unfortunate state of things. It should, in the first place, institute a searching inquiry into the circumstances con- nected with the recent negotiations between Messrs. Steedman, Banks, Wendell and others in reference to the House priuting. If itissatisfied, like the majority of the public, that the bargain contracted between these persons is opposed not only to public policy but to public morality, it should report in favor of at once annulling it and of disyuallifying any of them from ever again holding the office or from participating in its benefits. It is only by making severe ex- amples of this kind that Congress can hopo to impose a cheek upon the corruption and profii- gacy which are invading its halls and bringing disgrace upon the national representation. If the committee have the least regard for their duties as legislators, or for their own position as gentlemen, they will not hesitate to hold up to public exposure and punishment all the par- ties to this most nefarious job. To prevent effectually, however, the repeti- wholesale plunder to which they must lead, it feems to us that there is another course to pursue, and that is for Congress to place the disbursements ander this head in the charge of aspecial bureau, and to do away altogether with the office of public printer.* This would remove one of the bones of party contention, and diminish the temptations to legislative vonality. Patext Jous—Commencement or tan Lonsy Ovexations.—We see that the Chaffee patent is again before Congress, on a petition presented | by Mr. Pugh of Ohio, for its further extensioa. This may be regarded as the inauguratory ope- ration of the lobby for the session, and the pre- cursor of & host of other jobs of a more or less profitable kind. We stated the other day that Mr, Matteson, the organizer of the lobby in the last Congrese, and who, notwithstanding his ex- pulsion from the House, has again been allowed to take his seat, would be on band on the first day of the session to marshal his forces, aided by his fidus Achates, Simonton, of the New York Times, The presentation of the Chaffee petition is a proof that the Congressional engincers are already at work, and that they count upon making a brilliant and profitable campaigu of it The amount of corruption that will be brought to bear on Congress dur- ing the present session will, we believe, be greater than has ever before been known. The results of the Matteson and Gilbert investiga- tion, instead of checking the evil, have given it a greater impulse and extension. The re- admission to the floor of the House of the par- ties expelled for participation in that disgrace. ful affair has satisfied the lobby men that they have nothing to apprehend from the tone and temper of the present Congress. The profli- gate bargain by which the spoils connected with the public printing have been portioned ont amongst some half dozen political partisans, with the concurrence and assistance of mem- bers, is pretty conclusive evidence of the way in which the public interests will be sacrificed. Never before was the * by so strong, and never were its opportunities for plunder so numerous, These patent extensions aré in themselves an inexhaustible mine of wealth to the lobby spe- culators, Besides the Chaifee interest, there are some three or four others, such as the McCormick reaper, the Colt’s pistol and Hay- ward India rubber extensions, which are «ufi- cient to make the fortunes of all concerned in them. In addition to these there are land jobs and other fat pickings, from which trading po- litionns, starving journalists and idle lawyers can all glean something. Uncle Sam’s estate may be compared to an Irish patrimony-—it is entailed for the benefit of the hungry and needy. Under such, cfreumstances, it fs of course useless to rem&nstrate against the injustice of patent monopolies and the perpetuation of the numerous other jobs that are certain to be car- ried through this session. Corruption is in the ascendant, and the lobby all-powerful. When the country is tired of seeing its most precious interests bartered away by an organized band of blood-euckers who are fattening upon its en- trails, it may perhaps think of applying a reme- dy. In the meanwhile we must be resigned to play the part of Cassandra to an unwilling auditory, and to groan over abuses that we gannot prevent. tion of such disgraceful arrangements, and the: champion of municipal independeq Mr. Tiemann was selected, put forw: by the very men who had framed the laws. His best and noisiest friend Oakey Hall, who probably drew the tan Police act; his strongest suppor press were the Tribune and Courier, wi @n unqualified support to that act wi before the Legislature. And now, thing that this ungrateful Mr. Tiemay to urge the repeal of the Metropoli' act, and slap his friends in the face. Mr. Wood was defeated mainly quence of the attacks which were m| private character. But it must gratifying to him to see how thoro Tiemann concurs with him in the ger| ciples of his municipal policy ; how, urges the very measures which urged, and in precisely the same way. responding bitterness must the old suy} Tiemann, the republican commit their friends, perceive that the se have nursed in their bosom has sty and that they have only raised a order that he may tread them do} may they make wry faces, and—loatly their own man 80 soon—twist and shift the debate from the main poi Mayor's Message. Really their posi| ridiculous, For our part we accept very glad]; sion of Mayor Tiemann to the cause we have so long contended. He di least that we should acquit him of tb advertising, which we shall accordin; as paid in full by the Message. To be serious, the decided manne: Mayor Tiemann calls for the repeg Metropolitan Police act, in spite of t his republican supporters aad the ps nominated him and procured his ought to show to the Legislature { that the feeling of opposition to tha is too strong to be resisted, and tt petuate the outrage can have no go It is foolish to persevere in insu injuring a community like ours. Mr. Boosy Brooxs on Danctno.— with all moderation, we sometimes Mr. Booby Brooks is the most unmit connected with the press, While lx Flora M’Flimsey were getting up ° ball at the Academy, we advised th) nage it upon economical principles, curtail the expenses and the expansio; line. Mr. Booby Brooks deemed this opposition to public charity, and far our motive was to procure an invitati &@ post as one of the managers of Thirty years ago we might have h: bition of that sort, but we are now dancing age. Thirty years ago we our talents and genius so far as the v} Terpsichore is concerned. Thirty ; we were upon the committee of mar several of the famous Bachelor balls the old City Hotel—the managers with two or three exceptions, are nc sleeping in Greenwood or some other Thirty years ago wo finished our Since that time we have been glac others to do the work, and take the any there be. - Booby Brooks and his associ Flora M’Flimeey, if they are not al hausted by their great exertions, may useful employment in aiding and ass calico dress ball, which ia now being by a committee of our most respect zens, a8 will be seen “by reference too tising columns, Tue Cuaxwet. or tHe East Riven Vixvreatine Hen Wrones.—The discov by the Pilot Commissioners that th enlargement is interfering with and injuring the channel in the East river. foregone conclusion. When the pre first agitated we pointed out this as or resulta to which it was likely to | stated at the time that any interferenc: arrangements of nature in the dispo this portion of our harbor must be with corresponding disturbances in ot of it, all tending to obstract and emba shipping. George Law, however, hi hold of the scheme, and bis influence « through. Money was to be made hy and the public interests were not al weigh for a moment in the scale with the great contractor and financier. see our apprebenatons verified, even by Battery alteration is completed, and b change of the current has had time to late the fall amount of the obstructio it is destined to create, Who can asew example, that this divergence of the will not exercise an influence on th Sandy Hook? The ocean has long at the tide builds up as well as levels portant alteration in the coasts of + harbor may change the whole structur mouth of the bay iteelf. This ia but one of the numerous exar the short-sighted way in which the Cor; alters and defaces the natural aspegis beautiful domain entrusted to their cha the same Vandal spirit we find them gra confederate speculators the right to gri level some of the most beautiful spots in pet part of the city, in order to plat them streets intersecting each other # angles and wearying the sight by their 1 nous uniformity. They not only sacri’ beauty of the city, but the public health cupidity, by cutting down eminences an up hollows, each of which have their p of ornamengation and hygiene. In th jobs to the amount of from ten to twel lions of dollars have been inflicted upon within the last half dozen years, and rate at which they are progressing the will not be @ hillock or a tree left uj island. It is not so much against thi. gate waste of the public money that 1 test, as againet the direction that it is We know that we cannot keep the hands spoilemen out of our pockets, but we