The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY. JANUARY 21. 1868. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOK AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER LERMS, cash in advance. THE DAILY HERALD. two conte per copy, SHR WERELY HERALD, every Solway conte per ory annum ; European jition, a ‘arte! Great Brttain, oF B40 any grart of Whe Continent, both OME PAMILY HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per sepy or $2 per ann m ce annum. fad via conte per AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING S:OADWAY THEATR! Broadway—FqesTeiay AND Bower cota Faia cee on Tas Lire Giass PurrER. 8 GARDEN, Broadway—KQurerri anism AND Gra. voaTeD Ruinocknos, Kraruant, Camet, MoLes, Bowery—CataRact OF tae GawGrs —Roox woo. BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond street— Tweirra NicutT—Covumess. eMALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tus Poon or New ORK. ® LAURA KEENR'S THEATRE, Broadway—Tas Licat Hovse—Ax Unrevat Maton. BARNUW’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway— Afternoon —Quean’s Pace. Bvening : Pionmaa Patnior. WOOD'S BUIDINGS, 561 end 843 Broadway—Gronce Ousuurr & Woon's Minstexis—! New Yeau Cais. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, No. 444 Broadway—Necro ‘Mxvopins amp Buaizsques—Suaksrenean Reapinus. MEORANIC'® HALL, 672 Broadway—Brranr’s MrnsreEis —Emmortas Somes—Down in ALansua. oO New York, Tnursday, January 21, 1858. ‘The News. Late accounts from Kansas represent the people of Lawrence as in a high fever of excitement in con- Bequence of news from Washington that the Le- compton constitution will inevitably be endorsed by Congress. The free State men were preparing to take immediate action to put in force the Topeka consti- tution, and a fierce resistance to the Lecompton legis- lative enactments was anticipated. The letters of our correspondents give full details. The returns of the elections on the 21st ult. and 4th inst. were opened on the 13th in presence of the proper offi- cers. The vote given on the 2st ult. on the Le- compton constitution was 6,063 in favor of the slavery clause, against 526 in opposition to it. Mar- shall, democrat, is chosen Governor, while Parrott, free State, is elected to Congress. The free State party has a majority of seven in the Senate and fifteen in the House. Although the time for mak- ing the returns had expired, it was determined to keep the count open to receive whatever returns might be presented. The usual reports of fraudu- lent returns are given. Several important sabjects were brought forward in Congress yesterday. A bill was introduced in the Senate, and referred to the Military Committee, to increase the efficiency of the army and marine corps by retiring the disabled officers. It is to be hoped that in this business blunders like those which oc- curred with respect to the naval officers will be avoided. Notice was given of a bill changing the mode of appointing cadets to the West Point Mili- tary Academy and modifying the laws regulating | that institution. Mr. Hale concluded his speech on the Kansas question. Mr. Harlan, of Illinois, will continue the discussion. In the House bills for the protection of life on board ocean steamers; granting | Jands to aid in the construction of railroads in Cali- fornia, and for the payment of French spoliation claims, were introduced and referred. After the an- nouncement of the special committee on the distribu- tion pro rata of the patronage of the executive depart- | ments among the States and Territories, the House ‘went into committee of the whole on the President's Message, and discussed the Pacific Railroad project. Finally the House, by a vote of 136 to 60, agreed to | refer the subject to a select committee of fifteen. The Senate yesterday, in executive session, after considerable debate, confirmed all the appointments | of naval officers affected by the naval courts, which | had been sent in by the President. The vote stood | twenty-four to fourteen. Our suggestions with regard to the propriety of allowing aliens to hold real estate has met with are | sponse in the right quarter. Mr. Mather introduced @ bill in the Senate yesterday which entirely meets the case. It proposes to permit aliens to hold and convey real estate in the same manner as native born citizens. The report of the Pilot Commissioners, containing recommendations for laws as to dredging docks and slips, building wharves, &c., was presented. ‘The substance of it is given in our report of the pro- ceedings. An additional appropriation of $4,100 was asked for to complete the maps of the survey of the harbor of New York. The Assembly made no progress towards organtzing yesterday. There is Dut little chance of a coalition of the ‘blaok republi- cans and Know Nothings, and the probabilities are decidedly in favor of an arrangement whereby a de* mocratic Speaker will be chosen—perhaps to-day. The War Department has called upon Congress for $1,224,000, for t:-enty months rations from July next, for eight thousand persons composing the Utab expedition. A letter from our correspondent at Omaha City, published in to-day’s paper, gives the particulars and incidents of a very interesting free fight which oo curred recently in the lower branch of the Territorial Legislature of Nebraska. The quarrel, it appear, few out of a difference of opinion among the Solons as to the location of the capital; and the upshot of the matter was that the majority of the legislators meet at a town called Florence, while the minority continue to meet at Omaha. Mr. Richardson, the new Governor, was, however, expected to arrive shortly, and set matters right. The preliminary steps for organizing the democracy of Nebraska had been taken. A mass meeting was to be beld on the 8th instant, when it was thought a platform supporting Dougias’ position on the Kansas question would be adopted. The steamship Black Warrior arrived from Ha- vana yesterday morning, with advices to the 15th inst. A Spanish naval squadron, consisting of five ‘vessels, put to sea on the 12th, ostensibly with the object of improving the health of the sailors bya cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. It was, however, sus- pected that Gen. Santa Anna was board the ship Isabel I1., and that the commandePof the squadron ‘would endeavor to land him at Vera Cruz, in order that he might make another attempt to regain power in Mexico, and thereby advance the political designs of Apain. A correspondent to whom the personal appearance of Santa Anna is known says that he is pretty certain that he saw the ex-Dictator lately walking in the garden of the house in which Madame Santa Anna resides. War between Spain and Mexico was considered imminent. Sugars were dull, with a beavy market. The health of the city was good, but fever had appeared among the ship ping, and carried off Capt. Ellems, of the American drig Austins, on the 14th inst. The United States frigate Wabash, having Col. Frank Anderson and Lis filibuster command on board, was in port at Ha wana. The new Exchange was opened with great Gisplay. General Concha made a speech, in which he deplored the depressing effects of the money crisis on trade. A pamphlet on the financial question was circulated, with official approbation, advocating the fesue of “a guaranteed and acceptable paper cur rency” by the Spanish Bank,as a remedy and means of increasing the value of sugar in the market. ‘Two gamblers, for a moment in luck, were, when travelling with an armed guard, robbed of $12,000 by eighteen highwaymen. The steamship Africa sailed from this port yester day for Liverpool, with fifty-three passengers and $1,244,568 in apecie. Our correspondent at Sandusky has furnished us ‘with a graphic letter containing a statement of the social polity of the Berlin Heights Free Lovers, with extracts from the essays, articles and poety pub- Lhd in their organ. The jury in the case of Mr. Robertson, whose trial @t Rochester, apon the charge of attempting to poi @oa his wife, has created considerable atteution during the past week, yesterday rendered a verdict acquitting the accused. The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday. From the reports of the Superintendent of Castle Garden it appears that 185,186 were landed during the past year at that depot, from 657 vessels sailing from 24 ports. During the year 788 families were helped to settle in the West by money loaned them by the Commissioners, their baggage being the se- curity. In all $8,723 75 was advanced in this way, of which $6,414 50 has been returned. This means of aiding emigrants is highly commended in the re- port. The Superintendent has not kept an account of the money brought to this country by emigrants, as in former years, a circumstance to be regretted, as it is desirable to know the amount of bullion thus added to the circulation of the country. Up to the 20th instant the emigration was only 2,055, which shows a great falling off as compared with former ears. sé The Academy of Medicine held a meeting last night and elected Dr. John H. Griscom, E. H. Parker, Elisha Harris, John McNulty and J. Marion Lewis delegates to the State Medical Convention to © meet the first Tuesday in February. Valentine Mott, M. D., presided. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday John E. Edes, charged with forgery in the third degree, pleaded guilty to the fourth grade of that offence, and Judge Russell sent him to the State prison for two years. John Albertson, indicted for stealing a chronometer, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, and as he promised to return the article, he was sentenced to only six months imprisonment in the peritentiary. The notorious Chauncy John- son, who was arrested on Saturday for breaking into the store of Thomas Wilson & Co., Church street, and stealing $5,000 worth of velvets and satins, was indicted by the Grand Jury and pleaded guilty, say- ing that he would throw himself upon the mercy of the Court. He was sent to the State prison for four years and three months. Robert Vernon, jointly in- dicted with Johnson, pleaded not guilty, and was re- manded. A graphic account of the burglary was given in Sunday’s Hrratp. Vernon was subse- quently tried and convicted by the jury with- out leaving their seats, and consigned to the State prison for four years and = six months. His Honor said Vernon was an old thief, having served a term in New Jersey. An- drew Boyle pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degree, and in consequence of that being his first offence, his sentence was two years imprisonment in the State prison. Michael Wogan, Jr., was arraigned, charged with the murder of Michael Cassidy on the 7th ult., and said he did not wish to plead in the absence of his counsel. The District Attorney stated that he would, if possible, try the case this week. John Medex was convicted of grand larceny, in stealing $600 worth of satin from the office of Ed- ward L. Hedden, South street, and was remanded for sentence. John Baker, jointly indicted with five young men, was convicted of stealing $200 worth of butter and groceries from the foot of Seventeenth street, East river, and sent to the State prison for four years and nine months. The City Judge ob- served that it was his intention in future to punish the perpetrators of larcenies with the utmost seve- rity. James Rorke was convicted of assault and battery on officer Polley, and remanded for sentence. The receipts of beef cattle during the past week amounted to 2,540 head, a decrease of 262 hea as compared with the receipts of the week previous. Notwithstanding the falling off in the supply the de- mand was very moderate, and prices remained about the same as the week before, say 7}c. to 10c. per pound, according to quality, with a trifling ad- vance on the rate for the finer descriptions. Cows and calves were without change. There was a heavy supply of and active demand for veal calves at 4$c. a 7c. The receipts of sheep and lambs were about up to the average, and sales were brisk at $3 a $6 50, according tg quality. The receipts of swine were 1,557, against 2,598 the week previous, but as the demand was only moderate prices im- proved but little. The quotations are 4jc. a 54c. The cotton market yesterday was somewhat less buoy- ant, while the sales embraced about 1,200 bales, closing at about 1010. per pound for middling uplands. The de- crease in receipte since the Ist of September last at all the ports amounts to about 521,000 bales. The increase in ex- ports to Great Britain now amounts to 24,000; the decrease to France to 24,000 bales, and to other foreign ports to 15,000 bales. Total decrease in exports toall places about 3,000 bales. The four market was steady, with fair sales, including some 2,000 barrels for export, while quotations were unchanged. Wheat was inactive ; the sales were confined to Michigan white at $118, and fair to prime Southern white at $1 25 a $1 35. Corn declined, and was active at the falling off ; the sales embraced about 40,000 » 50,000 bushels, including new yellow and white, rather green to dry, and in good shipping order, at 650. a 68¢. a 70c, Pork sold moderately within the range of $14 75a $14 85, with retail lots at $15, for new moss, Sugars were active, and the sales embraced about 1,400 bhds. and 160 boxes, at prices given in another column. A public sale of coffee was held yesterday, ghich com prised about 4,200 bags, chicfly common grades of Rio, at Tie. @ 10e., average 8.89¢. About 3,000 bags, chielly of the better grades embraced in the catalogue, were with drawn. The eale, considering the early stage of the sea son and the quality of the article, wax regarded as a good ope. The sales to the trade were light. The stock of Rio in this market is about 89,000 bags, aud of packages of all kinds about 10%,000. Freight« were without change of moment. The chief business was done to Liverpool, in cluding wheat in bags, at S44d., flour at Is. 10d., cotton at 3 16d., and heavy goods at 20s. ‘The Slavery Agitation of the Day—Shall American Progiess be Stopped by Fanaties! The political philanthropy-mongers, under the lead of Maste ward, are again beginning to agitate in the North the question of negro emancipation in the Southern States, in the hope of having a popular hobby to ride when the Kansas question shall be setiled, as they now begin to fear it soon will be. That such should be the case at a time when the complete failure of the plans of European philanthropists in the West Indies and South America is being everywhere acknowledged; when even Europe is beginning better to com- prebend the true nature and tendencies of the black race, and to tire of the fallacies of the humanitarians, seems strange and incongrwpus indeed. But our political abolitionists have change’ their tactics little. They pretend to have given up the fallacy of the equality of the white and black races, and to accept the fact {hat has been s0 concifisively demonstrated in West Indian and Spanish-American history, that the two races cannot live in the «ame commu- nity with social and political equality. Their great scheme, however, is the same as of old—the slaves of the South are to be emancipated, and the whole of ite vast social and industrial fabric is to be torn to pieces and constructed anew, after some utopian plan that Master Seward and his clique have not yet explained. In the new scheme the blacks are to be run off to Africa, or the West Indies, or Central America, to do what blacks ever yet have done since the world had a history—that is, to found industrious, intelli- gent and prosperous communities. All this, however, is nothing more than a scheme for political agitation in the North; and in order to give it prestige, the honored names of some of the fathers of the republic are invoked in ite support. Letters of Washington and Jefferson, written fifty years ago, are pa- raded for the purpose of making it appear that the idea of negro emancipation lies at the very foundation of our political system, when the trath is that the intention of the writers was very far from that. But even were this not the case, the great advance that has been made in the last thirty years in ethnological and social science, makes a vast change in regard to | The Uteh Rebeliion~Inaction of Congress. opinions that were held at the beginning of the present century as to the true social status of the negro race. Thirty years ago the sage Humboldt emitted opinions and hopes in regard to the probable advance of St. Domingo and other negro com- munities in America, which time has com- pletely disappointed. In fact, the citation of Writers of the last generation against the facta and figures of the present day, as developed in the history of negro emancipation and coloni- zation everywhere, is very much like citing Moses to disprove the discoveries of Lyell, Agassiz and other geologists and naturalists of the age. The question of negro emancipation, in the abstract, admits of no argument now, for it has already been reduced to a question of practical results. By what has occurred in the British and French West Indies, in St. Domingo and Spanish America, we can mé the results that Master Seward and his clique would achieve for the United States. They have not only passed from the list of wealth producing com- munities, but, with their material welfare, their political weight has passed away. In the family of nations there are now but two American Powers that have any social vitality or indus- trial value. These are our own Union and Brazil; and they owe their importance in a very great measure, if not entirely, to the fact that they have preserved: the institution of negro slavery. Without it we should pro- duce no cotton, and Brazil no coffee or sugar; for the production of these erticles is not a question of soil and climate only, but of the organization of the labor of the only race that can withstand the burning sun of the tropics, combined with and directed by the superior intelligence of the white. Neither race can produce either of these staples of the tropics, in such large quantities as the world now demands, without the assist- ance of the other. If, therefore, we emancipate and emigrate the four millions of slaves that now produce cot- ton, sugar and tobacco in this country, we strike a deadly blow at our material prosperity, and through that at our political significance. Take away these three staples from our indus- trial production and foreign commerce, and what do we become? Nothing but a wheat and iron producing community, with the same character and resources as the nations of Northern Europe, and fitted only to enter into competition with them for the trade of those countries which might produce the very arti- cles that we now bear the palm in. The textile industry of New England must be abandoned or go abroad, competing with other nations for its material; the vast shipping interest we now possess must seck its remuneration in other ports than our own; the grain and meat producing West, deprived of the markets now afforded by the South, must depend upon a failure of the crops and a famine in Europe to dispose of its superabundance; every branch of home indus- try would participate largely in the ruin and decsy of the South, and we should be reduced to the condition of a third or fourth rate nation in the balance of the world. These are no idle vaticinations. History has demonstrated their truth in the barbarism that has already engulphed many of the West India islands, and to which every Spanish-American republic where slavery once existed is fast re- lapsing. The material government that now rules France has recognized them, and is en- deavoring to restore her dilapidated American colonies by a return to a system of involuntary domestic servitude by native Afrifims. Eng- land is contemplating a similar organization of trepical labor and European skill, in bringing vast numbers of Hindoos to the wasted and abandoned fields of Jamaica. But whatever results these may produce, we have still a greater danger to encounter. England and France, in opening the labor crowded commu- nities of India and China to the ingress and di- rection of European science and mechanical skill, are preparing for usa great industrial conflict in the not distant future. For this we may need all our energies and all our power. The abolition fanatics, who, in view of these facta, are striving anew to agitate the public mind with the question of negro emancipation, and to strike a deadly blow at our brethren in the South, are guilty of high treason against us as @ nation. They would not only destroy— for the mere sake of political agitation and personal ambition—our national Union and prosperity, but they would avert forever that high destiny which we proudly claim as peeu- liarly our own. In carrying the United States into that wild and fanatical vortex which has swallowed up so many of our congenite American nations, they would deprive the Awerican branch of the Teutonic race of that vitality which now inspires its triumphant | career on this continent. Anglo-Saxon progress in America would sink at once to the level of Spanish-American decay should they succeed in destroying our present organization of tropical labor with Anglo-Saxon skill, and re- duce usas a wealth producing country to the same natural laws that limit the industry of Europe. We commend the schemes of Master Seward and his clique to the serious considera- tion of every patriotic American. Neoxecteo Warstxos.—The shocking catas- trophe at the public school in Navy street, Brooklyn, by which seven poor children lost their lives, and three or four more were serious- ly injured, is another proof of the shameful negligence that prevails in our city depart- ments. Some years since an accident of a simi- lar character occurred in one of the public schools in New York, by which forty lives were Jost. The facts elicited on the investigation into the circumstances of that accident showed that the buildings in which our public schools are held are not constructed orf safe principles, in view of the dangers that may be caused by the eudden occurrence of fire. With such large assemblages of children, the worst consequences are always to be anticipated from an alarm of this kind. To guard against them doors should be constructed on all sides of the building, with iron staircases outside where there are more stories than one. Since Mr. Baker, our active and eagacious Fire Marshal, has been in office, he has repeatedly called attention to the neces sity of these precautions in buildings ocoupied either ae schools or tenement houses, These examples and recommendations have, however, been neglected, and the result ie acain a whole- sale lows of life. The revenues anaually squan- dered by the Board of Education are large eaough, in all conscience, to spare the public the recurrence of such @ painful shock to their feelings a8 that occasioned by the Brooklyn accident. We have been waiting patiently for Congress to get through with its usual number of Bun- combe speeches, with the hope that it would then go to work and attend to the interests of the country at large. But we fear we shall have to wait in vain for such a consummation, unlees members of Congress can be convinced that the country—the whole country—does not lie entirely within the boundary lines of their own districts. Civil war virtually exists within our borders, yet Congress, though having been in session over one month, has taken no steps towards strengthening the executive arm for its suppres- sion, The country will hold Congress respon- sible in this matter, fer the administration can do nothing until money and men are voted. The President, the Secretary of War and Gen. Scott have all strongly urged the necessity of additional troops, not only for the suppression of the Mormon rebellion, but for the better pro- tection of our extensive frontier; but the only response has been a few more speeches on “bleeding Kansas,” and a few more tirades against the government for the annihilation of filibustering in Central America, A settling day will come for these unfaithful servants, and that before long. For the purpose of thwart- ing the administration, there are men in Cor- grees who are willing to allow civil war to run riot in our midst, and to permit thousands of our gallant soldiers to perish amidst the snows of the Rocky Mountains. Such men should be held to a strict accountability. As we have on more than one occasion stated, this Mormon rebellion should be nipped in the bud, and the difficulties in Utah settled in one campaign. Humanity and economy demand this, and it can only be accomplished by the most prompt and active measures. Already the season is so far advanced that it will require almost herculean efforts on the part gf the different departments of the army to procure the necessary supplies and to start them across the Plains from Fort Leaven- worth by the time grass commences to grow in the spring. One week's delay now may defeat the whole expedition, and we are disposed to place the responsibility where it belongs. As to the talk that the Mormons will not resist— that they will move off during the winter—it is idle and puerile. Have they shown any dispo- sition yet not to fight and to resist to the ut- most? On the contrary, have they not shown by word and deed that they intend to meet us in a death struggle? The speeches of their leaders in the Bowery breathe nothing but war, and that to the knife, and the acts of the people in the field, in burning trains and stampeding cattle, show that the leaders are supported with energy and fidelity. We bave heard that Brigham and his fanati- cal followers were more likely to leave the country and seek more peaceful homes, than to remain in Utah and wage a fruitless war with government; but we have no assurance that such will be the case, and it would be the height of folly to predicate any action or want of ac- tion on such a contingency. Measures should be taken as if we were convinced the Mormons intended to remain in Utah and fightit out, and those on a scale that will insure complete suc- cess in one campaign. It is better for us te terminate these difficulties in one year, at a cost of fifteen millions, than to continue them for three or four years at an expense of forty or fifty millions. Alrgady General Scott has issued orders for three regiments and two batteries—all the dis- posable force of the army—to start early inthe spring to reinforce Colonel Johnston's com- mand. Nominally this is an increase to the army for Utah of 2,500 men, but in reality only some 1,700 or 1,800—aforce totally inadequate to the duty to be performed. It will require nearly all this increase to guard the trains. We should have a force in Utah of at least 10,000—any smaller number it will be useless to send. Not that it will require this number to force the passes and penetrate to Salt Lake Valley—2,000 of our men could sweep every Mormon battle field; but it is to guard securely the supply trains, and then to have a sufficient active force to follow the Mormons to their mountain fastnesses. We think, in this view, that Congress should at once add to the regular army the additional regiments asked for by the Secretary of War; and also, if necessary, call out a couple of re- giments of mounted volunteers. The army id too small—leaving Utah out of the question--to protect our frontiers. One of the largest items of expenditure now arises from the necessity of transporting troops from one quarter of the country to another, as their services are re- quired; and we presume that enough is spent annually in this manner to support one or two additional regiments, Let Congress raise these regiments at once, and let the administration promote the field officers from the army, which we are assured will be done, and we will have an army that we may rely upon in any emer: gency. As we have stated, the administration has done all in this ma‘ter that lies in its power. The rest remains with others, Brigham Young remarks that “he holds the key of the continent in his hand”—it is our duty to wrest it from him; amd to do this Congress must place the necessary means at the disposal of the Executive; failing which, the country will hold unfaithful servants to a strict accoun- tability. Conroraton Fracos—Tretr Prawanence Recoonwev.—So thoroughly has the principle of spoliation in the administration of the city revenues become part and parcel of the system that the Boards have recognized its permanent character by nominating a Standing Committee on Frauds. The only purpose of this committee is, we are satisfied, to formalize and perpetuate existing abuses, We have but little faith in the utility of investigating committees, in connec- tion with charges of corruption, so far, at least, as the Corporation is concerned. There wasa committee appointed to inquire into the eight million frauds alleged to have been committed in the city expenditure within the last half dozen years. The charges of defalcations in the Street Commissioner's department, and the mys- tifications in that of the Comptroller, deposed to in Mr. Conover’s report, and covering pro- bably a variety of similar delinquencies, have aleo been referred to a committee; bat the pub lic may rest aseured that nothing will come of the inquiry. We see nothing in the constitution of the new committee which holds out a pro- mise that their labors will be attended with any mere benefit to the public than those of their predecessors. The chairman is Mr. Clancy, a small ward politician, whose antecedents are not of a character to ensure any particular zeal or efficiency in the prosecution of such an in- vestigation. We are, therefore, compelled to ar+ rive at the conclusion that the appointment of this Standing Committee on Frauds is only & sham, intended to cheat our citizens into the belief that our city shepherds are keeping strict Tue Sanpusky Free Lovens—Tue Mormons AND THE Biack Rerusiicans.—We publish to- day, from an intelligent correspondent, a full and interesting account of the late camp of free lovers of Berlin Heights, in the neighbor- hood of Sandusky City, Ohio. From this ac- count, gathered from their own official organ, this free love organization is one of the most curious inventions of modern social philoso- phy, and comes nearer the first principles of barbarism than any of theanany other theories of our Northern social reformers. Individual society, and those whom he denounces a8 snobs, wood sawyers, wheelbarrow trundlera, &. We shall then be able to see the whole matter at aglance. In the meantime we advise the ladies and gentlemen who are Getting up the Calice Ball to be active, cheerful and energetic, and they will have a success beyon@ all precedent. Crry anv Country Depraviry.—The acquit- tal of Smith for the murder of Carter, the Preai- dent of the Tamaqua Bank, has given rise te some severe strictures on the conduct of the Phi- ladelphia jury that tried him. We look upom this case as one in which it is difficult for the law to crush out the natural feelings of indig- nation and horror which villany like that ef the murdered man must excite in every maaly breast. We do not excuse the verdict of the sovereignty, male and female, ia the basis of+| jury in view of their legal responsibilities, but this delectable system, including the unrestrict- ed liberty of their amatory inclinations. Each individual is his or her own government, abso- lute in itself, the community being only held together by the vagabond’s law of gravitation. The fountain head of these free love societies, we believe, was that which existed some two years ago on Broadway, under the fatherly aus- pices of Albert Brisbane and Stephen Pearl An- drews, but which was suddenly broken up by an ungodly invasion of the police. The dis closures which led to this proceeding were brought about through the publication in the Herat of some curious revelations of a simi- lar society at a place called Cereea, in Wiscon- sin, if we are not mistaken. This concern was under the special patronage, we believe, of the celebrated Thomas L. Nichols and his wife— Mary Gove Nichols—two very conspicuous teachers, at that day, of the sublime doctrines of “Esoteric Anthropology.” Lately, how- ever, they have repented of the error of their ways, and have sought the remission of their sins in the bosom of the holy Catholic Church ; so that now, instead of diffusing the heresies of “passional attraction,” they are devout and humble believers in the Immaculate Conception. But the most remarkable fact in reference to all these social free love reforms is their active sympathy with the abolition heresies of the North. Our spiritualistic societies and free love conventicles are pretty much the same thing. The Fouricrite fhalanx system, though it recognized the promiscuous freedom of the sexes, had for its special purpose the delightful object of making “labor attractive.” Their plan was a great free love establishment—a great farm, 8 community system of property, constant work for their weak-headed brothers and strong-minded sisters, and a life of ease and luxury for the managers of the concern. Several pbalanxes of this sort—each upon, a large scale—were put in motion in our Northern States some fifteen years ago; but they have all since collapsed and faded away. The founders thereof, however, have, from that day to this, under various forms and disguises, still held fast to their original ideas of social re- formation. Thus, while Brisbane and Andrews have de- generated into the doctrines of the Berlin free lovers, Horace Greeley and his immediate col- leagues, of the Fourier philosophy, after trying spiritualism, the Rochester knockings, women’s rights, &c., have settled down upon the compre- hensive sooial reforms involved in the abolition of African slavery. And why not? Get up a National Abolition Convention, and it will be certain to embody the leading spirits of Fourier- ism, free loveism, women’s rights, amalgama- tion, ger equality, whites and niggers, of both sexes and of various colors, all perfectly harmonious upon the great fundamental princi- ples of negro emancipation, human rights and women’s rights. It is not surprising, therefore, that the lead- ing black republican journals of the North, with the prospect of an early extinction of the Kan- sas humbug, should now, in their sympathies for the Mormons, find a new ground of hostility to the administration. Mormon polygamy is the essential element of Fourierism, spiritual- ism and free love, in the boldest and most successful practical application that spiritualist, free lover or Fourierite could desire, It is very natural, then, that the correspondents of our black republican organs, following in the wake of the army marching upon Utah, should mis represent and falsify the facts of the campaign, in order to throw discredit and reproach upon the administration, whose object is to suppress or expel this nuisance of Mormonism. On the other hand, excepting the spirit of abolitionism and all its abominable affinities, it is sufficient for the administration that the universal sentiment of all parties and sections is with the army en route to the Great Salt Lake. The expedition has involved heavy expendi- tures, has incurred heavy losses, and millions more may be required to accomplish the end in view. But the country will regard the sup- pression or expulsion of Mormonism as a cheap thing should it swallow up (with a due regard to economy) the whole of Mr. Cobb's twenty millions of treasury notes Tue Two Cuanry Baiis—Wuo ark tuk Syvons’—A few weeks ago a number of re- spectable ladies and gentlemen, of benevolent dispositions, got up a ball ia aid of several benevolent institutions. We suggested a modi- fication in the manner of getting up the affair, in order that the arrangements might be made upon a more economical plan than that which is generally adopted. That suggestion was set aside. The ball took place, and realized some two or three thousand dollars for the benevo- lent societies, This is all very well. Another set of Indies and gentlemen, of equal re- spectability, adopted our suggestion, and have been making arrangements for a soirée at the Academy upon a more popular and novel plan. It is called the Calico Dress Ball, and the proceeds are to be given to the poor. There is every prospect that the ap- proaching ball will be one of the most popular and beneficent affairs that has ever taken place hore. But it appears that this batter ball does not please a certain nincompoop of the press. We allude to Mr. Booby Brooks, who was one of the managers of the former ball, but who was neglected by the Committee of the Catico Ball. Like all little minds, he came out and de- nounced them in the sheet which he publishes, uttering the absurd and ridiculous slander that they were all snobs, woodsawyers and wheel- barrow trundlers, These charges and slanders he now denies. Can any benevolent person who laid aside the paper containing these statements send a copy to ue? Can any other benevolent person send us © list of the managers of the firet ball and a similar liet of the approaching one? Then we can eee the difference between the two sets, and particularly between those whom Mr. Booby Brooks calla the oréme dela créme of New York neither do we feel ourselves called upon to pre- nounce an unequivocal censure upon it. Inne country, and under no system of jurisprudence, no matter how strict, would any jury be found ready to return a verdict of guilty in such a case. The plea of insanity, so natural under the circumstances of this most atrocious injury, would everywhere have been gladly seized upon to spare the law the odium of such a ocoa- demnation. We notice this trial, not for the purpose of replying to the objections raised to the verdiot of the jury, but to submit itito the righteous and God loving people of Philadelphia, Boston and other large villages, as another illustration of the care which persons living in glass houses should exercise in flinging stones at their neigh- bors. Whenever a crime presenting any um- usual features of enormity, such as the Burdell murder, is committed in New York, it is imme- diately seized upon by the country press as a theme for invective and abuse against the supe- rior wickedness and depravity of our city. In view of such cases as the Stout and Littles mar- der, and the Robertson wife poisoning charge at Rochester, the murder of a father by his two children at Dracutt, Massachusetts, and the still more horrible parricide at Hamilton, New York, we think that our alleged preeminence in crime will not bear the test of comparison. Contrary to the ordinarily received notion, it would appear, from the experience of recent events, that the more advanced in civilization a community is the more common place and vulgar becomes the character of its crimes. Murders, burglaries and petty larcenies at present constitute the prevailing features of our city criminal statistics. In the rural districts, where patriarchial habits, simplicity of man- ners and strictness of religious observance are supposed to be the ruling characteristics, we find an ingeniousness of wickedness, a refine- Fi ment of depravity and a recklessness of publie ¢ opinion, which we have not as yet arrived at in , New York. With such evidences before the world, is it not time for our rural contempora- ries to leave off playing the Pharisee? If they % would ouly be content to accept human nature as they find it, in town as well as in country, © they would spare themselves the ridicule at taching to the assumption of superior righteous- ness. Tue Pvsiic Privtixe Nuisance.—We pabliah to-day one or two more communications about the scandalous system of public printing at Wash- ington. It is evident that the subject is awaken- ing general interest all over the country. From all quarters is going up a cry against this fla- grant misappropriation of public treasure, and disgrace to our national government. Sooner or later Congress will be compelled to adopt the plan we have all along advocated—namely, the establishment ofa Printing bureau, organized like all other departments of the federal govern- ment, and the sooner the better. This is the only means by which the public funds can be saved from the vultares who prey upon the liver of the Treasury. In the meantime we would like to know what the Printing Commit- tee are about. They have been in existence now long enough to have something to show for their time. We hope they are not shirking the responsibility, or dallying with the lobby, Let us hear from you, gentlemen. Tur Leorstatune at Atpany.—Some of the papers are crying out about the non-organiza- tion of the Assembly-at Albany. What folly this is! We consider those Americans who are preventing the organization the greatest patriots in the State. They are misunderstood, we fear. Their idea is this. They know that aa soon as the Assembly is organized it will go to work to rob and plunder the people and to do mischief by making absurd laws; and they have therefore resolved, like good citizens, to pre- vent the organization, in order to have as little time as possible for plunder and mischievous legielation. We consider that this design and the unflinching manner in which it is carried out entitle the dozen Know Nothings in the A» sembly to the public gratitude. Had the Ame- ricans acted as wisely at the opening of last sea sion, the statute book would have been spared some of the eight hundred bad, corrupt and miechievous laws which were passed last win- ter. AytrStavery in THe Skee axp YeLtow Lear.—We see by a paragraph in the papers that Arthur Tappan is now engaged in vending anti-slavery books and tracts for some pious abe- lition society in this vicinity. Thirty years ago Arthur Tappan was at the head of one of the largest commercial houses in the city in the silk trade, and was reputed to be a millionaire. Thirty years‘ago Arthur Tappan was one of the principal founders of the earlier anti- slavery societies and chief supporter of the anti-slavery organ, which was then the Journal of Commerce. Ten years after, in the revulsion of ‘37, Arthar Tappan broke in business, and has never been able to get on his feet again. A Stont ror Satay’s Deviewt—Thurlow Weed reading and gloating over the licentious correspondence of Aaron Burr, given to him for perusal by the late Matthew L. Davis. Thur- low Weed, by his own confession, presents him- self in an attitude more licentious and impetent Lawrence, Store & Co.—We have been assured member of the firm of Law- rence, that not one dollar was ever paid to any editor, or to aby connected with the prea, for Siecmece carey stames oreeae ea and dear : iting, buting the pamphiets to—ome of which were made up of original statist! Gther matter, while others, teeued beequemti| —] 49, » 40, 207, 228, 376, 443, 446,