The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JaMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ee OFTIOS N. W. OORNEB OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TH. $7 per annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Sar fal siz conte per eam. or $3 per anniin; the Priropean Ream erste Great Brissin, or $8 te ony part ofthe Conds Tar POULY HERALD, evory Weinesday, at four cents per OF $2 per annum, TERE, cash im advawe EHE DAILY HERALD, t1co conte per Veisime , XXII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Equeraiax PoovoowaL PRRTORMANCES—CINDERELLA, OR THE Livre FISLA'S GANOFN, Brondway—FQuesTatanism AND Gru- anne Rovearan Ruixocenos, Ruzraant, Cama, Moies, 427 Dorses BOWK2ZY THEATRE, Bowery—Catanact or tut Gance Martrra. BURTON'S THEATRE. Broadway, opposite Bond A Dar or Ragzosixc—Cooe a8 4 Cuoumnaa—CoLumaus, were THEATRE, Broadway—Tus Poo or New woe KEENF'S: THEATRE, Broadway—Tap Licat Hovse—As Uneguat Maton. BAZNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Afterwoon —Quien’s Pack, Evening : Proxzex Parutor. WOOD'S BUIDINGS, S61 and 863 Broadway—Gronc Osawery & Woon's Minstaxis—New Year Calis. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, No. 444 Brondway—Necxo MaLopies 4»D BuRLESQUES—SuaKarnnbaN READINGS, MROHANTOS HALL, 472 Broadway— —Brniortan Bonct—Down 1x ALAD New York, Friday, January 22, 1858, VANT's MINSTRELS ‘The News. We have nows from Greytown, Nicaragua, to the Sth inst., ten days later than previous accounts. The treaty between Nicaragua and Costa Rica had been signed, and President Martinez and quite a number of superior officers of the armies of both republics were enjoying themselves at Greytown. They had visited the Wabash and thanked Com. Paulding for dispersing the filibusters. The Wabash sailed on the 8th, with Col. Anderson and his companions, and reached Havana on the 15th. In the Senate yesterday a bill providing for an increase of the army was reported from the Military Committee, and made the special order for Monday next. The bill proposes to increase the number of mer of various regiments, and not the organization of new regiments as recommended by the War De- partment. The Homestead bill was reported by the Committee on Public Lands, with a recommenda- tion that it be passed. Jt was made the special or- der for the second Monday in February. The Sec- retary of War was called on for estimates of the de- ficiency in the appropriations for the payment of the volunteers operating in Florida during the past year. Mr. Doolittle’s resolution authorizing the presenta- tion of a medal to Com. Paulding, was then taken up, and a debate ensued on the filibuster question, in which Mr. Doolittle extolled the conduct of the Com- modore in capturing Gen. Walker, and Messrs. Brown and Pugh condemned it. Mr. Brown offered a sub- stitute to Mr. Doolittle’s resolution, disavowing and condemning the action of Paulding. Without tak- ing the question, the Senate adjourned till Monday. | In the House the civil, judicial, legislative, naval | and fortification appropriation bills were reported. A bill was also reported appropriating $790,000 to supply deficiencies for paper, printing, binding and engraving for the last two Congresses. Bills were | reported to refund to certain parties duties collected | on merchandise destroyed by fire in New York in | July, 1845; also for a uniform code of maritime | signals. The Senate resolution allowing the naval | courts of inquiry to sit until the 17th of April ,to | examine the cases of the retired naval officers, was | passed. | The government has, it appears determined to | despatch troops from California and Oregon to assist against the Mormons. General Scott will, it is said, proceed to California in the next steamer, to make the neeeasary preparations. Nothing of general importance occurred in the State Senate yesterday. The Assembly is still with- out a Speaker. We publish in another column a report of Monday's debate on the Speakership. The | views of the three parties in the Assemily on this question are fully exhibited. j Capt. McIntosh has received orders to go out in the | steam frigate Colorado and assume command of the | Home Squadron, in place of Com. Paulding. Mr. Clifford entered upon his duties as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court yester- day. The Court will adjourn on the Ist of March to the Ist of April. The investigation into the causes of the burning of the Brooklyn school house, and the death of the boys cn that occasion, was concluded yesterday. The jury attach no blame to any person for the cataetrophe, and merely recommend an alteration in the style of constructing school houses hereafter. ‘We give elsewhere a report of the evidence and the verdict. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. A resolu- tion was adopted directing inquiry as to the expe- diency of taxing railroad companies twenty-five dollars per annum for each car run on the city rail yoads. A report in favor of an issue of stock for re building Toropkins market was received and laid over. A resolution to employ laborers to remove the earth on Hamilton square was adopted. The Corporation Counsel recommended that a contract for completing the Battery enlargement be given out, preparatory to a suit against the present cory tractor for damag 1 nou-performance of his con: tract. © ioner Devlin sent in a long com muni leotion, re plyin i to the charges of Mr. Conover. ‘The document may be found in our report. The Committee on Ordinances of the Board of Aldermen met yesterday. A recommendation was made that Comptroller Flagg be authorized to issue stock in order to carry on the building of Tompkins market. The appointment of dock mas tors was considered, but the Committee took no a tion in relation to this matter. The Committee of the Board of Aldermen having in charge the matter of altering the Rass pavement in Broadway, held a meeting yesterday. The ques tion appears to be whether the pavement shall be grooved, #0 a8 to prevent horses slipping upon it, or the pavement be taken up, broken in pieces, aad re laid in the Belgian style A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Board of Aldermen wae beld yesterday. Petitions asking for appropriations to different benevolent so: cieties were considered. The first was that of the American Female Guardian Society, asking for an appropriation of five thousand dollars; the second was that of the State Woman's Hospital, asking for the block situated between Forty-ninth aod Fiftieth wtreeta; and another was that of the Woman's Pro- tective Emigrant Society, asking for fifteen hundred dollars. Several ladies and gentlemen appeared on bebal/ of each, stating the condition of the finances of the societies, their ojects and their claims upon the city. The chairman of the committee, Mr. McSpeddon, said, in reference to each, that the com- m ttee woold call and visit all the institutions at the fre! opportanity. James Tristram, jointly indicted with a man named McHogh, (convicted a few days ago,) for robbery in the firet degree, was put on trial yesterday in the General Sewions, bot the prosecnting officer aban- doned the charge, there being no evidence against the accused. The jury rendered a verdict of not guilty, and he was discharged. Henry and Eva Bemmet, husband and wife, were charged with man slarghter, in causing the death of Jacob Reichester, at &2 Cannon street, on the 27th of December. The District Attorney stated that Henry Semmet and the deceased had a dispute, when the woman interfered to protect her husband, and struck the deceased on the head with an axe handle. Reichester died soon after, Lut Drs. Pinnell, Ferguson and Beech, who made the poet mortem examination, were unable to prove that he came to his death by any other thon natural causes. No wound or bree owes found on ‘any part of the | our doubts. . brain, and it was supposed that Reicheater had died by apoplexy. Under these circumstances, the District Attorney said it would be useless to take up the time of the Court in trying the case, and therefore moved for their discharge, which motion Judge Russell granted. Henry Myer and John Hall, indicted for burglary in the first degree. pleaded guilty to an attempt at burglary. in de second degree, and were remanded for seuicnce. Charles Manning, a colored youth, was convicted of breaking into a Baxter street dance house, and sent to the penitentiary for two years. The whole of the day was occupied in trying John Spence, who was jointly indicted with Moll Hodges, a keeper of a panel house in Hudson street, for stealing $270 from Lawrence Reilly, who was decoyed into the house by little girl. The proprietress of the house was con- victed last term and sent to the State prison, and the jury bronght in a verdict of guilty against her manager at half-past four. He will be sentenced on Saturday. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday (with some lots sold late in the afternoon of the previous day) embraced about £00 bales, closing with less spirit, at 1044 cents for mid:iling uplands. Dealers were disposed to await the receipt of later foreign news by the Earona. Flour was ia fair de- mand, with small sales for export, while the market was without change of moment, except for good common to extra grades of round hoop Ohio, for which there was a good demand at firmer prices. Wheat was firm, with limited sales of good to prime red Tennessee at $1 158 $120, and fair to white Southern at $1 25 a $1 35. Corn was steady and jn good demand, with sales of new yellow and white at 65c. a‘67c., and white in dry shipping order at 70c. Pork was easier, but more active, with some sales for export to California at $14 62 a $14 70, with some retail lots at $14 75. Sugara were in fair demand, with sales of about 300 hogsheads New Or. leans and Cuba to the trade, 400 do. New Orleans by auction, 200 a 500 hogsheads do."molado to the trade, and 5,000 bags Siam, from Hong Kong, at rates given in ano- ther column, Coffee was in fair demand, with sales 0: Maracaibo, Rio and Java at prices given in another place. The movements in freights were moderate, and rates without change of importance. The Crisis in Congress—The Adzatnistration and the Northern and Southern Dtsor- ganizers, According to our latest advices from Wash- ington the Kansas difficulty has been reduced to avery short and simple plan of solution, The Lecompton constitution will be communicated by the President of the Convention (Jchn Calhoun) directly to Congress. Consequently, there will be no message from the White House on the subject, and the question will come up on the direct vote either to accept or reject this Le- compton State charter. Weare also informed that the popular vote on the said constitution, of the 4th instant, will not be recognized by the friends of the administration as having any legal authority in the matter. They held the ground that all the legal forms and proceedings required to perfect the Lecompten constitution were closed up with the election of the Ist December, and that the popular ratification of that day. slavery and all, was the last authori- tative step that could be taken in Kansas upon the subject, shori of the acceptance or rejection of said constitution by Congress. The question will thus be presented to Coa- gress as clearly and sharply detincd upon its legal merits as it could possibly be. And here we come to the main question, to wit:—Will this Lecompton constitution, thus preseated, be adopted or rejected? We have seen several es- timates of the probable vote of the House and the Senate, pro and con, from which it would | appear that the struggle in both houses will be desperate and doubtful. We feel confident, however, that it is only necessary that the South should be united upon the question of law, and the point of honor involved, to secure the speedy admission of Kansas as a slave State, notwithstanding the present revolationary movements of Lane and Rebiuson, and in spite of the rebellion set on foot among the Northern democracy by Walker and Douglas. But regarding the consistency, sincerity and good faith of the Southern fire-eaters we have Look at the newspaper extracts which we publish in another part of this paper. So far from indicating any desire or purpose on the part of the Southern fire-eaters to sustain the Kansas policy of the administration, these extracts betray some very ugly symptoms of a hostile conspiracy between the Southern nigger drivers and Northern nigger worshippers. The Charleston Mercury says that the President last summer wrote a letter to Gov. Walker, telling him that “You must use all your influence to have the constitution referred back to the people for their ratification or rejection,” that “upon this you and I must stand or fall.” The Warhington Republic says that “for a while the President stood firm, and wrote a letter to Governor Walker (not yet published, but shown by Governor Walker to many pcrsons), as suring bim of the support of the administra tion.” And these are the words put in the President's mouth—"Let Georgia, and Missis tippi, and Alabama howl! I will stand by you.” Now, the coincidence in this matter be- tween the leading fire-eaters’ organ of the South and the central organ of the Northern nigger worshippers at Washington is very re- merkable. It betrays, if not a common under- standing, at least a common purpose on the part of nigger drivers and nigger worshippers to falsify, embarrass ‘and scandalize the Pre trident. Another Southern fire-eating organ, (the Mo- bile Merewry,) speaks of Mr. Buchanan's “arro- gant dictation to the Kansas Convention; of his being a ng Stork, by which the South has been betrayed;” and as “a federalist,” “un- stateful and treacherous to the South; and landies these idle accusations as flippantly as they were bandied about last summer, from day to day and weck to weck, by the entire chorus of these Sonthern salamanders, This is precisely the gamo which the nigger worshippers’ organs have pursned, and are still pursuing, in reference to the forth. (Thus, for the last ten months the ae been kept up that the administration is but “the lave of the slave power: that it has “betrayed the North,” “sold the cause of freedom in Kansas," and has fraudulently perverted ite whole power to make Kansas a slave State. In addition to all this, it was only yeesterdey moruing that one of our Seward cotemporatics substantially charged the President with the crime of Congressional “bribery and corruption’ on behalf of the Le compton constitntion. And again, another of our Seward organs, in the article we republish this morning, erraigns the Collector of thi« Port as a man unwortiy his office, and calls upon the Senate to look into the case, This. also, is but a tr'ck to embarrass and distract the friends of the administration in Congress; but it cerves to show that our Northern abolition die organizers can throw their dirty water upon the administration and its official agents with the fiercest of the fire-eaters. These coincidences between Northern anti- slavery factionists and the secessionists of the South in their scurrilous assault upon the ad- ministration, kept up to this day, are signifi. cant of anything but a harmonious acitiement of the Kansas question io Congress. If the and | Southern fire-eaters, however, desire sections! agitation and a sectional reconstruction of par- ties, and if this ie the ultimatum at which they have been driving since the inauguration of Mr. Buchanan, they have only to play false upon this Lecompton constitution, and they will very scon get all they want in the shape of a Northern eectional party. Let this Lecompton constitution be defeated through the treachery of Southern men, and the South will hereafter be considered too contemptible to be treated as % balance of power by our Northern politicians looking to the spoils and plunder of the Pre- aidency. We are confident that, with the union and ac- tive co-operation of Southern men, the Lecomp- tou constitution can be carried through Con- grese; and we @elieve that the said constitu- tion, adopted as a legal settlement and as a concession to the South, in con- sideration of the two mew free States of Minnesota and Oregon, will give peace to Kaneas and pence to the country. To be sure all tbat the South will obtain will be the point ef honor, or the mere abstraction of stavery, for Kansas can never be practically slave State ; but as this abstraction involves the prestige of Southern consistency or the proof of Southern pusillanimity, it cannot be abandoned Ly the South without disgrace. This is the exact state of the question. The administration stands by the legally adopted coustitution of Kansas, although it makes Kan- sus a slave State, with, perhaps, four-fifths of her people opposed to slavery; but if these wuti-slavery people have permitted slavery to adopted by default, theirs is the responsibility, for the President cannot go behind the record. Nor is it the business of Congress to do so. The case is clear— the crisis is at hand, and we shall soon see what Southern chivalry is made of. We say there are symptoms of a base conspiracy between Northern and Southern disorganizers to break down the administration. Does such a conspi- y exist? If so, who are in it? Is Mr. Doug- Jefferson Davis, is Mr. Hunter, or Mr. Brewn, or Mr. Jones? Are personal disap- pointments and petty spites concerning the Cabinet at the bottom of these Southern defec- tions? or is the game of a Southern sectional party to be played out? We have our doubts, but the day is close at hand when all doubts, mysteries, all suspicions, all treacheries and all coilusions or conspiracies -upon this subject will be solved by the yeas and nays. And why delay any longer? We await the call ef the roll. Tae Tratian Opena—TerMination oF THE Season.—For a great wonder we are told of a manager who closes an Opera season of nearly fifty nights without being ruined, and without appealing to the public for a benefit. We re- member when the Italian Opera was first in- troduced, in the Garcia days, at the old Park. A great deal of money was taken, and the artists got nearly all of it. That season, we believe, first broke down the taste for what is absurdly called the legitimate drama, and was the be- ginning of the series of events which resulted in the ruin of the managers. We next find Palmo deserting his oysters to open the Opera in Chambers street. Not much time was required to ruin him, and his immediate successors, San- quirico and Patti, met the same fate. Then there was poor Fry at the Astor Place Opera Houre—more ruined than Don Magnifico Marti, of Havana, who lost nobody knows how many dollars, and retired from the field. Next Ma- retzek, who has been ruined a dozen times, more or less, and to whom, apparently, any other result would be an uncomfortably novel sensation. Ole Bull, Strakosch, Paine and many more have entered the field with simi- lar result. We have, of course, no means of judging about these matters except the managers own statements. Mr. Uliman’s statement is that he has carried this season through without loss; more than that, he has stocked the theatre with certain costumes, properties, &c., &c., of which it stood in need, This fact proves quite clearly that with good management the Opera may be permanently established in this city. It behooves the pro- prietors of the Academy to make some arrangement whereby such a consummation may be brought about. It would seem that the lest plan they could adopt when they finda manager skilful, enterprising, active and liberal, to make @ permanent arrangement with him for a term of years, say three or four, in order to give him time to organize the Opera upon a permanent basis. The present lessee, Mr. Ull- man, seems to be the right man for the place. His administration has been liberal and suc- cessful. He attends personally to the business management of the Opera, leaving the artistic direction to competent hands under his general supervision. It would be proper, then, to vest in him the direction of the Opera for a long term. The advantages of such a course are manifold. The manager could then offer long engagements to young artists abroad, and thereby obtain them al much cheaper rates than for short engage- ments. This is the system pursued by Mr. Lum- ley, the London impresario, who meditates coming every winter to the United States. Further, the manager might be able to carry out the intention of the Legislature in charter- ing the Academy, and to connect with it a school for the instruction of American youth in vocal and instrumental music, and recruiting the orchestra and chorus from the ‘ite pupils. This is the plan pursued in all the Earopean capitals, The government—the power repre- sented by the stockholders here—selects the best manager that can be found, and then gives him the house for five, seven or eight years. Te is thus able to organize his forces properly —some- thing which cannot be done during one year. We trust that the stockholders of the Acade- my will give thie matter their serious considora- tion. Now is the time to move in it. Covnr oF Srssioxs—Exrepirion or Besexess. — During the Inet ten days the City Judge and Recorder between them have tried upwards of one hundred and fifty cases, cleaned out all the prisons, and dieposed of all the prisoners. This celerity and promptitnde are unexampled in the criminal annals of this city, and present a favorable contrast to the mode of despatebing business in this court in former years, It holds out an exemple whieh the civil courts might imitate with honor to themselves and advantage to the public. We have now only one priucipal criminal court—the Court of Sessions-—per- forminy its duties as they ought to be done, whilst we have a dozen civil courts in which procrastination and delay are the invariable rules of proceeding. The example will, we rope, have the effect of stimulating the elag- gish energics of our civil Judges. ___NEW YORK BERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22. 1868. Another Touchstone Turned Up—Mr. Richard Yeadon Under the Scalpel. In the old baronial days men of wealth and station kept professional foole, whose business it was to divert their masters by the utterance of absurd speeches and the gommission of ridicu- lous acts—to play the fool, in short, in return for their victuals and clothing. The practice is still contigugd ia may parts of the world though undef a different name. Your modern jester does not wear cap and bells; it is only by seeing and hearing him that you perceive he is a fool. The planters of the South—merry, good tempered, easy going, wealthy men—are peculiarly fond of keeping this olass of people round them; fellows who will sing, or shout, or tell lies, or carry parcels, or do any dirty work, and who are satisfied to accept in return any broken meats that are going. We are anxious to herald to the world merit of all kinds, and we hasten therefore to pro- claim the rising qualities of Mr. Richard Yeadon, of the Charleston Courier, of Charleston, South Carolina, as the most likely Touchstone of any who are now cringing for the broken victuals on the tables of Southern planters. This Richard Yeadon is not wholly unknown in this meridian. During the last Presi- dential canvass, it may be remembered that the public sense of delicacy and decency was grievously shocked by the pub- lication of certain low, mean slanders about the private life and family relations of Col. Fremont. The stories were so base that no one—it seemed—with the soul of a scullion could have stooped to utter them. They proved to have come from the fertile imagination of Mr. Richard Yeadon, of the Charleston Courier, South Carolina. They were clearly brought home tohim. It might have been expected that aman convicted of such outrageously mean and foul work would bave sought his thirty pieces of silver from his employers, aad retired either to hang himself (which would have been the best thing to do) or to hide his misew@ble head in some wilderness. Mr. Richard Y@@ion has not yet hanged himself; on the contrary, he edits that dirty little paper called the Courier, at Charleston, and hires persons from Mercer street and the Five Points in this city to send him from hence what lying gossip they can pick up in oyster saloons, over drunken orgies, against us and the New Yore Heratp. But the editing of this paper does not absorb Mr. Yeadon’s iutellect. We perceive from a pamphlet which has been handed us that he has delivered an address on “The Influence of the Union on the Institution of Slavery,” be- fore the young men of Erskine College at the last commencement. When the man’s masters come to know that he has sent his pamphlet abroad, he will be likely to catch it. Literary correctness is a trifle, though we might perhaps expect it in the orator of a College commencement. It is evident that Mr. Richard Yeadon’s knowledge even of grammar is on a par with his knowledge of decency. We see, at the beginning of his oration, that he speaks of himself as “ united in the grateful office of honor and incense” —whatever that may mean ;_ that his object is “to émpress the deductions of reason,” “even jn an era of probing political in- quiry ... marked by earthquake throes, which are ominous of convulsion,” (we should think they ought to be, if they were anything of earth- quakes;) he proposes “to combine the didactic with the rhetorical . . . to unfold in the two-fold light of history and the: constitution, the federal cha- racter ... of slavery.” Further on he talks of “a tide” which is “the result of a principle,” (p. 47;) of “an extent of wealth, happiness and greatness outstripping imagination in its rapid advance toward consummation,” (p. 48;) of Northern faithlessness, which “ clouds the hea- ven with portents and jars the land with throes;”’ of “a lovely auditory” whom he seems to think he has bored, &c., &c. But it is too much to expect grammatical accuracy or lite- rary excellence from the gentleman. We should be happy to compromise for common Fenee. And here we come to the point of the dis- course, That point is that the influence exer- cised by the Union upon the institution of sla- very has been to strengthen, confirm, and spread it; that the South has been a steady gainer by all the compromises, all the fight, all the negotiations which have been had with the North: that whereas formerly, the South was a poor half settled country, with an institution pointedly condemned by the fathers of the republic, and barely tolerated by the constitution, now it is rich, teeming with nig- gers and cotton, having been built up by the Union, and having extorted concession after concession from the North uutil even the Bible and the Supreme Court are made to go for slavery, and slave dealers are admitted to be quite respectable. This, we say, is the purport and gist of the oration of Mr. Richard Yeadon, of Charleston; and if euch sentiments have ever Leen expressed before in any periodical but the New York Tribune, or by any orator but Wendell Phillips and bis colleagues, we are not aware of it. Mr. Richard Yeadon’s idea is—you see what ® capital thing the Union is, and how it has enabled us Southerners to humbug and outwit the Northerners; therefore, my friends, let us go forthe Union. If Mr. Richard Yeadon is allowed to talk in this way by the rich men who have him in their charge, we must stop abus- ing Lloyd Garrivon and Theodore Parker. If the South have really swindled the North as Ricb- ard Yeadon says it has, it is high time that the account were squared; and the Kansas question would afford a very fair opportunity. We hand over Mr. Richard Yeadon to the con- sideration of thowe Southern friends who are éupposed to have his interests in hand. If the man is beneath contempt at Charleston, as he was here, why, of course it doesn't matter what he eaye, and the only blame rests with the tras tees of Erekine College, who have certainly supplied the free soilere, at a most critical time, with most admirable arguments and weapons of warfare. But even common blockheads ought to be held in some check; the respectable men of Charleston should let it be publicly kaown that they have no hand, part, lot or sympathy with such « Touchstone ae this Richard Yeadon seems to be. Tun Rowan Carionte Senoors or New Yorn.—We are pleased to see that Judge Da- vies, of the Supreme Court, on Tuesday last denied a second application for an injunction to restrain the Corporation from transferring the block of land granted by the last Common Council to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asy- lum. This is one of the many excellent benevo- lent and cducational justitutions establiched in this city by the Catholics, and of which we pre- cont adetailed and interesting account in an- other part of today’s Herany, These schools are conducted with admirable economy, cou- pared with the profuse and prodigal expendi- tures for educational purposes under the Board of Education. The expenses of this body have reached the extravagant annual sum of twelve hundred thousand dollars, with every prospect of a still greater increase in the future if some prompt and effective measures are not taken to prevent it. This can only be done by making the Board responsible to the Mayor of the city, by whom all its members should be appointed and held to a strict accountability for their official acts. The Moral Sentiment versus Law. The acquittal of Thomas Wachington Smith, who has just been tried at Philadelphia for the murder of Richard Carter, suggests some im- portant reflections. The facts are few and un- disputed. Smith married a young lady who was the ward of Carter; four months after the marriage ehe gave birth to a full grown child, who was the offspring of her guardian Carter. Smith, naturally enraged at having been per- suaded to marry the mistrees of another man, found Carter andehot him dead. The act was marked with deliberation. Tried for the offence, Smith pleaded insanity, and some slight evidence of disordered intellect was adduced. The disorder, however, was not greater than would be likely to follow in any sane mind 80 overwhelming a discovery as that which Smith made when his wife’s child was born; it was the brief fury of just indignation, and clearly pro- mised to ditappear. On this, the jury acquitted Smigh of the murder, on the ground of insanity, and t@ Judge declared that he entirely con- curred in the verdict. A parallel case has just occurred in France. Aman named Guillot either seduced a young lady named Blanche de Jeufosse, or pretended to have done so; at avy rate, he boasted of the deed, and furthermore frightfully compromised the lady by getting over the wall-of her park at night and “blowing a born” by way of herald- ing his approach. Instead of handing over this outrageous scoundrel to the police, Madame de Jeufosse ordered her gamekeeper to shcot any nightly intruders into the park; and ac- cordingly, on Guillot’s next appearance, with his horn, servant and horse, he had no sooner entered the park than the faithful servant shot him dead. Mde. de Jeufosse, her gamekeeper, and her family generally were tried, and ac- quitted. No particular grounds for the verdict are stated. ‘These two cases, occurring in different coun- tries, and under very different systems of law, illustrate an important truth—namely that, under a jury system, the latitude of revenge al- lowed to gravely injured persons is much greater than the law books say. Under the laws of most of the States of this Union, homi- cide is only justifiable when clearly committed in self-defence. This is also the law of Eng- land, of France, and of all civilized countries. Homicide is excusable in most countries when committed by an injured husband upon an adul- terer at the instant of detection in flagrant crime. With the exception of these cases, we believe that the law of most of the States of the Union, of England, and of France reprobates and punishes homicide by penalties ranging from the death penalty to long terms of impri- sonment. The jury system, however, operates as a palliative which altogether changes the law. From the Smith case at Philadelphia and the Jeufosse case in France, it appears that the moral sentiment of the civilized world justifies the homicide of a wanton destroyer of female character and domestic happiness; and that that sentiment will find practical expression in the verdict of juries on the trial of such homi- cides, The London 7imes, in an article on the Jeufosse case, ridicules the verdict, and argues that no English mother would have been allowed to avenge her daughter's dishonor by so strenu- ous a process. We are not sure that this is so. The outrageous conduct of the little babbling Frenchman L’Angelier who was recently poisoned at Glasgow had much to do with the acquittal of Madeleine Smith. And there have been other cases in England which go to show that, there as elsewhere, public sentiment will not punish a man who avenges afoul wrong upon his wife or sister, even by _— the wrongdoer. As for this country, the law may be consid- ered as quite settled. We hear every day or two of brothers and husbands shooting the se- ducers of their sisters and daughters; and we do not at this moment recall a single instance in which a man has been gravely punished for such a deed. In most cases, juries will not even find bills) There was a recent affair in Tennessee in which a number of persons shot dead a man and bis mistress who, between them, had de- | bauched a number of young girls. A few months ago, at Lancaster, Pa., the brothers McKibben shot aman who had attempted to seduce their deafand dumb sister. We have never heard of these affairs coming before the courts in any shape. It may be considered as the unwritten law of this country—and law understood and believed in by every one who is liable to serve on a jury—that aman may kill with impunity the seducer of his sister or the paramour of his wife. Let the race of Lotharios beware. Tue Orrosrtion to Connector Scnei.— The anti-+lavery journals having for the last month been exerting all their influence to defeat the confirmation of Judge Clifford, of the Su- preme Court, as well as of other appointees of the present administration, have now concen- trated all their efforts to secure the rejection of Augustus Schell as Collector of this Port. In this business we understand that they have been aided and assisted, openly as well as covertly, by Chevalier Cassidy and the old tribe of barn- burners and soft shells in New York. We ques- tion, however, whether this opposition will amount to anything more than a flash in the pan. Is Tuer any Curvary ty tae Sovrut—We shall soon see whether the Southern members in the present Congress poseess the chivalry which they claimed in former years. The Le- compton constitution, with slavery in it, will be presented to both houses. Will they flinch or stand firm as a body? Trat $8,000 Boxvs.—The eight thousand dol- Jar bonus paid for editorial services in New York, according to the statement of Law- rence, Stone & Co., bas given great fidgets to two journals, one of them the stockjobbing and etock gambling journal the Times, and the other our pions and sanctimonious contempo- rary the Journal of Commerce. These two organs of speculation and piety have endeavored to explain away in advance this ugly item, by stating that the eum in question was given for the editing of pamphlets containing extracts from newspapers having reference to the wool nice manufacturing interats. Who received the money and what sort of extracts were they? The committee appointed by the House of Representatives should make particular in- quiries into these two points, and we should not he surprised if one of the editors of the Times and one of the editors of the Zrfoune should prove to be the recipients. Oh! virtue, obt purity, where is thy blush. Livrenant Beae’s Late Experneyras Exrepirion wit THE CaMELS.—The report which we published the other day, from Lieut Beale to the Secretary of War, of his experi- mental expedition with the camels over the desert plains of Western Texas, and the stil more inhospitable mountains and desert wastes of New Mexico, should not escape the epeoial attention of Congress. The highest anticipations of the adaptability and utility of the camel to the great Asiatie western half of this continent have been more than realized. The camel is the very thing for that vast Asiatic region, extending from the frontiers of Missouri, Arkansas and Texua te the Pacific Ocean. According to the testimony of Lieutenant Beale, we should say that the success of his camel experiment discloses a new agent of inestimable value, and a new article of inestimable wealth to the country in that humble but admirable animal with whose ser- vices he is so delighted. For purposes of armg transportation and emigration over such desert solitudes as those traversed by Lieutenant Beale, there is certainly nothing to compare with the camel. We dare say, for exampie, that had the army expedition to Utah deen provided with five hundred camels, they would have proved more valuable than ten thousand mules and horses. We believe that Mr. Gliddon, for many years American Consul in Egypt, and a man of science and observation, was the first to agitate at Washington the certain success of the camet on the western section of our continent. We think it was mainly through the activity in the matter of Mr. Jefferson Davis, of the Miliary Committee of the Senate, that the first apvro- priation was passed in behalf of the camel ex- periment; and now that its success is a fixed fact, we hope that a liberal appropriation wilf be made for the importation of a large supply of these animals. They would save, in a very few years, millionsof moneyin the singie item of army transportation—they would be worth three times their cost in the overland transpor tation of the mails, and in the business of the natural increase numerous thrifty litile w settlements all over those desolate regions indi- cated would soon spring up. In the construc- tion of the Pacific Railroad a thousand cameia would be worth their weight in silver. We hope, therefore, that, with the recom mendation of the Secretary of War, Mr. Jeffor son Davis, as soon as the Kansas question ie disposed of, will offer in the Senate an ameod- ment to the first appropriation bill, covering as appropriation sufficient for an importation 0: five hundred or a thousand camels, and pro viding for their distribution for active service on the great plains and deserts of the West from the Mississippi valley to the Pacific They cannot only be made to pay expenses, bu’ to yield a handsome profit to the government and a world of service to our overland emigra tion movements, and in the work of the Pacifi Railroad. THE LATEST NEWS. Important from Washington. THE SPRING CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE MORMONS—GED SCOTT GORS TO CALIFOKNIA TO ORGANIZE AN EXPT DITION—THE ADMISSION OF MINNRSOTA—THK 8S TENT OF OUR LAKE AND RIVER COMMERCE —GRKA’ GATHERING OF OF FICE BRGGARS—THE TARIFF PUN! INVESTIGATION, ETC. Wasnivoron, Jan, 21, 1858. Gen. Scott has nearly completed the arrrngements fo the spring and summer campaign against the Mormon: He is soon to be despatched by the War Department to th Pacific, coast for the purpose of organizing a force to ope rate against the Mormons from that quarter. The Gen ral will doubtless sail in the next steamer. learn this evening that the President bas received copy of the Katsas Lecompton constitution. It will b considered in Cabinet council to-morrow. The Senate Committee on Territories had a long seaio today, and after examining all the facts in the case—aot withstanding they fatled to carry out the provisions of th enabling act—agreed to report in favor of admitting Mir nesota. with ber present constitution, with one provis: that instead of three representatives to Congress, as prv vided therein, they are to have one, and as many mor as the census heretofore ordered to be taken will eatiti them to under the present apportionment. A significant fact was stated in the House to-day by M Hatch, of Buffalo—that the inland commerce of the nortt weetern lakes and rivers sumfpassed the foreign impor’ and exports of the United States. Upwards of one hundred disappointed applicants ( congulships are now in this city. The city is full to ove flowing with politicians. The lobby, within the inst tw days, hae received large accessions. The $47,000 investigating committee had a protracté seesion to-day. They deepatchod the Sergeant-st Arr this evening to Boston, to subpona Mr. Stone and Mr. Ws cot. The committee are desirous of eliciting all the fac in relation to their books and accounts, so as to get at U proper manner of proceeding witb the investigation OUR TREATY WITH NICARAGUA—THE PROGRAMM FOR THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS. Wasmineron, Jan. 21, 1858. It is believed here that Nicaragua will mot ratify f Yriearri treaty. The Lecompton constitution will be pent by the Pre dent of the Convention directly to Congress and n through the interposition of the Executive, The queer will, therefore, come upon a direct vote either to adv or reject Kansas upon that constitution alone. The su frequent vote ofthe people, in pursuance of the act of t Legislature, not being legal in any form, will not a cannot be recognized. Th® will be the position assum by the friends of the administration. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPRR DESPATCH. Wasinsooon, Jan. 21, 1965. ‘The bill introdaced in the Senate to-day by Mr. Dar Provides for adding Yo each regimont of dragoons, caval: intantry and mounted riflemen two full companies, and creasing the number of privates ip each company oft entire force serving in the field or at distant frontier po hot exceeding ninety-six men; also for thé addition of teen asnistant surgeons to the present modieal stait One of the deputies of the Sergeantat-Arma of | House bas started for the neighborhood of Fort Sneily and three others in different directions, to suminon ¥ nesses for the varions investigating committees. Capt. McIntosh bas received preparatory orders, # will go ont in the flag ship Colora:io, to command the Ho quadron. ‘The commission of Hon, Nathan Clifford, aa Associ Judge, was road in the Sapreme Court this morning, =! Chief Justice Taney administered to him the oath of 0”! After receiving the congratulations of ghis associat Judge Clifford took bis seat. ‘The President has isaned & proclamation for the anit & very large quantity of the public lands in lowa, in J and July, at the various lend offices in that State So of them lie each side the line of the railroade. ‘The Secretary of the Troassury has appointed Alt Biaiadell to superintend the construction of the new C tom House, at Portemouth, N. H. ———___ The Elections in Kansas. Sy. Lovrs, Jam. 21, 1868 ‘The Democrat has received the returns of the elect in Kansas on the 21at of Decembor and 4th of January published over the signatures of Governor Denver the presiding officers of the Territorial Legistature. ‘The vote on the constitution on the 2ist of Deeem stands —With slavery, 6,143; and without slavery, 5: At the elegtion ga phe 4th of January the (ree Sate pe