The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1858, Page 4

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Elsewhere wil] be found additiohal details of the attempt on the life of Louis Napoleon, and other interesting European intelligence. We also give an account of the escape of the American bark Adriatic from Marseilles, where she was detained on account of the collision with the French steamer Lyonnaise, by which the latter was sunk. The Senate was not in session yesterday. The House was principally occupied with a discussion of the Deficiency bill. A written call has been issued to the democratic Senators to attend a caucus in the Vice President's room in the Capitol on Monday evening next. Commander Davis, of the sloop-of-war St. Marys, in a despatch from Honolulu, states that over a hun- dred American vessels had arrived at that port since his last advices, with property on board valued at twenty million dollars. . The Atrato expedition had arrived within thirty miles of the Pacific on the 25th of December, and Lieut. Craven expected to reach the ocean by the middle of January. His progress had been somewhat delayed by the inferior quality of the materials fur- nished by the government, and he had sent to Car- thagena for new supplies. Despatches received at the State Department yes- | terday from Nicaragua state that the treaty would | ‘be signed on the return of President Martinez, who | had gone on an expedition to San Juan del Norte. ‘The relations of Nicaragua and Costa Rica are said to be of the most friendly nature. The Navy Department has received despatches from Commodore Armstrong, commanding the American squadron in the Chinese seas. The steam , frigate Minnesota arrived at Hong Kong on the 25th of November, the date of the despatch, in 105 days from Hampton Roads. vessel are highly commanded the ad: Hong Kong. Later advices have heen received from the Utah Expedition at Weston, by the arrival there of Mr. Davidson, who left the army on the 14th. The health of the troops was good, and they were as comfortable as circumstances permitted. There was no snow to ‘the east of Fort Laramie, and grass and buffalo were abundant. A sult train from Fort Laramie was met by Mr. Davidson on its way to the camp. Nothing had beer heard from Captain Marcy. A bill was introduced into the Senate of this State yesterday by Mr. Brandreth for the relief of the credi- tors of the State. The bill provides that the Comp: troller shall draw his warrant cn the Treasurer for al] sums due and payable to State creditors. In case there should be no money in the treasury to meet ‘the domands, the warrants are to draw an interest of five per cent per annum. Under certain condi- tions these warrants are tobe received by the Super- intendent of the Banking Department, the same as other State securities. A bill to restrain taxation was also introduced; it provides that the aggregate taxation shall not exceed one per cent of the assessed value of real and personal property, except when authorized by special legislation. The Assem- bly was not in session. In our correspondence from Kansas this morning will be found those sections of the Lecompton and Topeka constitutions which differ most in their pro- visions. The sections are arranged in parallel co- lumns for more convenient comparison. We have news from Hayti, dated at Port au Prince the lth of January. There wasa large number of foreign vessels in port, and more arriving daily. Busi- ness was very dull. Some vessels had left in ballast. ‘The stocks of coffee and logwood were large, bat held at high rates, and no buyers. Money was scarce. Our Port au Prince correspondent, writing on 10th inst., states that some of the resident traders had, during the financial crisis, imitated the example of their English commercial models 80 closely that very heary and suspicious failures ensued. One broker closed and fied with deposits amounting to one mil- lion of Spanish déllars, but as he had intimate busi ness relations with the Emperor, his Majesty would ‘not permit a search for him. He had fafled twice previously. Another young mercantile gentleman had failed for $400,000 (American). All the Haytien cities are involved in these late swindling opera- tions. It was expected that a number of other houses, really respectable, would have to succumb to the pressure. All business, excepting i the provi- sion trade, was at a standstill, the few sales that ‘were made being for cash. American specie com- mands a high premium. Native prodace was falling, sand remittances could be made to advangage in coffee. The supply was not large, but several fleets of coasters were daily expected from the pee ‘The amall stock of coffee tended to raise the pri Dut the scarcity and demand for money forced it down. There were about thirty vessels in port, mostly foreign, many of which would be compelled ve in ballast. The fever was still very severe; two captains and many sailore had died recently. It appears by our Toronto correspondence that Queen Victoria, to whom was referred the vexed «uestion of selecting a seat of government for the province of Canada, has arrived at a decision, hav- ing chosen as the fortunate place the city of Ottawa, #rmerly known as Bytown, on the river Ottawa Tvevious to 1838, when Upper and Lower Canada vere two distinct provinces, Quebeo was the capital ©! the one and Toronto of the other. When the wnion of the two provinces took place, In 1838, HNontreal became the capital. The sed of govern- moent was, however, afterwards moved to Queens wn, and subsequently back to Montreal. In 1840, ontequence of the barning of the Parliament ‘use, he seat of government was removed from D’ @real, and # bill gassed to make it alternate be- © en Quebec and Toronto. It went to Toronto and (on to Quebec, and thea back to Toronto. The ne- her appearance going | officers at | cessity of eettling this was of course felt, but owing to the diverse inter- ests no place could be agreed upon, and finally it was decided to submit the matter to the de- termination of the Queen. She has decided upon Ottawa City, formerly known as Bytown. This is a place of about 9,000 inhabitants, the capital of Carlton county, Canada West. It is about one hun- dred and twenty miles west of Montreal, on the right bank of the Ottawa river, just above the en- trance of the Rideau river, and at the northern ter- mination of the Rideau canal. It undoubtedly owes its selection to its advantageous situation for com- munication with the surrounding country. It is connected with the opposite side of the river by a beautiful suspension bridge. There are one hundred and fifty stores, and the lumber trade is very exten- sive. There are a number of factories for the manu- facture of cloth and other articles, saw mills, planing mills and foundries. There are seven churches of various denominations, four weekly newsp&pers and several colleges. Should the report prove true it will, of course, tend greatly to increage the impor- tance of Ottawa City, ‘ A letter from Captain Ryan, of the ship Lion, re- ceived at Boston, and dated Anjier, November 22, states that a mutiny had taken place on board the Baltimore ship Kate Hooper, laden with coolies for Havana, whilst lying in the harbor of Anjiers. The coolies set the ship on fire three times. Before the mutiny could be suppressed the officers were com- pelled to shoot fifty of the coolies. The Police Commissioners had a lively session ee Mayor Tiemann presented charges of rdination against Inspector Weed, of the Second precinct, for demanding in a dictatorial man- nerthat Sergeant Birnes and his squad, now de- tailed to the Mayor's office, should be returned to the ward. A number of charges against policemen were disposed of. Mr. Perit stated, in incidental conversation, that the fact of his being displeased with the Board was new to him, and that the public statements with regard to it would “in due time be set right.” It may therefore be presumed that Mr. Perit does not intend to resign. Two Committees of the Board of Councilmen met yesterday. One was that on Wharves, Piers and Slips, on the subject of steamboat removals; and the other the Committee on Streets, to hear the reasons why certain parfies are opposed to the improving of the streets in the Third, Fifth and Sixth wards. On the first subject there was considerable debate and much earnestness manifested by those in favor of and against the removal of the steamers. The next meeting of the committee will bring this contro- versy to a close, for the committee has decided to only hold another meeting before reporting for or against the measure. A good deal was said in oppo- sition to the proposed improvements inthe Third, Fifth and Sixth wards, but the committee took no action in relation to this matter. The*trial of Maurice O'Connell, for the alleged rape and murder of Teresa Spitzien, in Greenwich | Street, is progressing slowly in the Oyer and Termi- ner before Judge Ingraham. The evidence adduced by the prosecution yesterday points very strongly against the accused. Two or three additional wit- nesses will be examined by the District Attorney this morning. The case for the defence will be opened at noon. The cotton market was active and excited yesterday, and advanced 3c. per Ib. The sales embraced about 2,500 bales, closing firm at 103¢c. # 1080. for middling uplands, and at 103(c. a 10740. for middling New Orleans | and Texas, The flour market was dull, with moderate sales, while prices were without material change. Wheat ‘was inactive and sales made on too limited a scale to ee- tablish a regular range of prices. A small lot of prime | Southern white was sold at $1 37. Corn was rather easier, | with sales of new yellow and white at 66c. a 67c. a 68. Pork was easier for lots in store, and firmer for future de- livery. Sales of mess on the spot were made at $15, and $14 50 refused for June delivery. Sugars continued firm, with sales of about 600 hhde, Cuba muscovado and 150 do, New Orleans at rates given in another column. Coffee was stoady, with sales of 960 bags Rio at rates given in another place. Freight engagements were moderate, while rates were without change of importance. Kansas in Congress. We are upon the threshold of the final con- | flicc in Congress upon the Kansas question. | The immortal Jobn Calhoun, with that ever- | lasting Lecompton constitution in bis breeches | pocket, may turn up at any moment on Penn- sylvania avenue. It is not certain that he will give the President the opportunity for a regular message upon the subject, inasmuch as the “Lord Protector” may prefer to carry his parchment directly to the Capitol. There can, however, be no doubt of the position of the ad- ministration. The President and his Cabinet are inflexibly committed to the Lecompton con- stitution, and in favor of its ratification by both houses, and as fast as possible. The President simply adheres to the law and its responsibilities; and he is right. He has no alternative. Lis duty is to execute the law as he finds it, and to leave election frauds and bogus returns tu the local authorities, where they belong. Considerable noise in certain quarters has been made concerning the alleged frauds and thimblerigging of “Jack Calhoun” and his confederates in the January Kan- | sas elections, under the Lecompton pro- gramme. But this matter is of no sort of consequence in reference *yto the legality of the Lecompton constitution. With the ratification of that document on the 2ist December, Kansas, according to the re quirements of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, be- came a State, awaiting her admission into the Union. For all the election frauds, bogus re- turns, and false elections reports, therefore, that have occurred in Kansas since the 21st Decem- ber, the State authorities and the people of Kansas are alone responsible. And as the reme- dies for these lawless proceedings are beyond the reach of the administration and of Congress, it is not the business of either to meddle with them. Let strict constructionists beware lest in thie matter they trespass beyond the bounda- ries of both popular and State sovereignty. How stands Mr. Douglas? He has deserted his own bantling, the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and has gone over to the enemy. We speak from the record. On the 17th March, 1856, Mr. Doug- las, from the Committee on ‘Berritories, report- ed a bill “to authorize the people of the Terri- tory of Kansas to form a comstitution and State government, preparatory to their admission iAto the Unton.”” The third section of that bill con- tained the following clause: That the oT hoo be, and the same are here. by offered to the said ‘vention of the people of Kansas: when formed, for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted by the Convention, and ratified by the pe o the election for the of the comatituiim, shall be obligatory On the United states and the State ot Kansas. Here we havea popular ratification distinctly ordained. But in the bill as finally amended (the Toombs bill) an sed by the Senate, with the active co-operaW6n of Mr. Douglas, in lieu of the foregoing clause, contains the fol- lowing:— Sec. 19. And be it farther enacted, that the following Pp poh = are hereby offered to the Sad people of Kansas for their free ac. tion, shall be obligatory on Uke United States and upon’ Un said State of Kanaas. or Here the Constitutional Convention is made the decisive exponent of the will of the people of Kansas, And suth was the positi of Mr. Douglas upon “popular sovereignty’ 1856. But that was before the Presidential election. K was the pressure of the Kansas- Nebraska bill upon Tlinois in that election that tarned the head of the “Little Giant put the law, and the requirementa of the law, re- main the same. And how stands Mr. Seward upon the record? He, also, was one of the many Congressional Kansas tinkers of 1856. He submitted an amendment, in this capacity, to the Toombs bill, by which Kansas was at once to be de- clared a State of the Union, dependent upon the consent of the Kansas Legislature, indeed, butcompletely ignoring the doctrine of “popu- lar sovereignty” in the work of framing and ratifying » State constitution. Consistency is one thing and the law may be another thing; but here both consistency and the law are against Mr. Douglasand Mr. Seward. The Le- compton constitution is the legitimate fruit of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. As such, it is the platform of the administration; and as such, it will be, and ought to be, supported by a decided majority of both houses of Congress, But this Lecompton constitution is something more comprehensive than mere naked ques tion of legality. It comes before Congress in the shape of a most beautiful compromise upon the slavery question. We say beautiful; for it is a compromise upon slavery which gives to the South all that it has asked for, and to the North all that ithas demanded. The South have in- sisted that ehould a slave State constitution for Kansas come before Congress, even without having been submitted by the Convention to the people in the lump, the Southern States would make its acceptance by Congress an ultimatum for peace or war. The Lecompton constitution covers this ground. On the other hand, the North has declared that, at all hazards, Kansas must be admitted as a free State; and a free State it is, with a free State organization out and out, and a free State it will be, though admitted un- der the Lecompton pro-slavery constitution, and with the constitution of South Carolina to clinch it. But in still another view this Lecompton con- stitution commends itself to the black republi- cans. While it cannot do the slightest damage to Kansas asa free State, its pro-slavery fea- tures will furnish a little desirable active capital for anti-slavery consumption. And if Jack Calhoun seeks to accomplish the double purpose of compromising the democratic party in expediting the admission of Kansas as a free State in the disguise of a slave State, why should Mr. Seward, or any other black republi- can interfere? But whatever Mr. Seward and his partisans may attempt in their efforts to defeat this Lecompton constitution, they may rely upon it that it will be adopted. More than this, it will give peace to the country, peace to Kan- sas, and stability to the administration. But it will leave at least three over hasty Presidential aspirants high and dry, to wit, Mr. Senator Douglas, Governor Wise and ex-Governor Walker. The Lecompton constitution “with slavery” is only a scarecrow; but as the principle in- volved is everything to the South, let them have it, and much good may it do them, for it can do the North no harm. The destiny of Kansas is fixed. She isa free State. All the constitu- tions of all the slave States, Lecompton and all, in one bill, would be utterly worthless in behalf of slavery in Kansas. The moment she is ad- mitted as a State she is free ; and, aseverybody has become disgusted with her never ending and still beginning Territorial border ruffian squabbles, the sooner she is admitted as a State the better. EnGuisn Pitosopuy on Centrat, AMZRICAN Arrars.—The English journals contain several very curious comments upon the capture of Gen. Walker by Commodore Paulding. Some of them congratulate themselves ‘hat thoy are out of the scrape which they were within an ace of getting into, by a similar proceeding on the part of a British officer ; others think that Mr. Buchanan has taken the course he bas in order to conciliate public opinion in Europe ; others again think Commodore Paulding did the same thing that he seized Walker for doing—that is, invaded a country with which his own was at peace; and finally, some con- gtatulate themselves that they can look on serenely as simple spectators, and enjoy a very pretty imbroglio on the American Isthmus. We admire the philosophy of our British friends, which enables them to bear the troubles of other people so serenely; and while we do not doubt that England may be very glad that she is ont of the present Central American imbroglio, we have a slight suspicion that Mr. Buchanan has never thought of conciliating European public opinion—in fact, we do not believe he caree a fig for it. As for getting out of the scrape of Walker's and Paulding’s __filibusterism, we shall do that very easily. Even already the people and governments through- out Central America are delighted with the na- tional filibusterism of Paulding, and are con- triving how they can manage to get a little more of it. The substance of the Yrisarri treaty as given in the HeraLp some months since, has been published in every paper in Central Amre- rica, and the promise that the United States will keep a permanent naval and military force on the Transit route, is hailed with joy. Our only trouble there is likely to be that of their wanting us tooceapy much more territory as naval stations than we can conveniently man- age to need. We have only to remark, for the benefit of the English journals, that they have got a little question in India to settle, which we advise them to look well to; and as we have our little Indian question in Cenjral America to arrange, we will attend to that, and see which comes out best in the end. Ax for taking care of Walker, we shall find no trouble whatever. They may depend upon that. Location or THE New Post Orrice.—This subject is still agitated in the journals, and the very proper feeling against the desecration of the Park seems to be growing stronger. We cannot have the Post Office in the Park. Since the Battery has been spoiled by the so-called improvements, the Park is the only public ground in the city below Fourteenth street. We would have it still farther improved by the re- moval of all the buildings, except the City Hall, in which there should be a public free gallery of pictures and statuary, and a great reception room for the guests of the city. Then let the city buy up the property on the Points, between Centre street and Chatham square, and erect thereon buildings for the Post Office, the United States Courts, the public offices of all kinds, the criminal and civil courts of the State, all within a stone's throw of each other. The convenience and importance of euch a Movement is obvious. A dangerous district would be purified, all the property in the vicinity would be doubled in value, while the pulfic would be better served than at pre- vent. But, at all events, no Post Office in the Park. Curfous and Critical Position of Moxice. While the domestic affairs of Mexico are go- ing daily from bad to worse, we learn from Eu- rope that the most difficult question in her fo- reign relatidns is in a fair way of amicable ar- rangement. Spain has determined to accept the proffered mediation of England and France for the settlement of the pending questions be- tween her and that republic. This new movement materially diminishes the chances of Santa Auna’s return to Mexico, and removes all probabiljty of either an expedition from Havana to Vera Cruz, or a participation by our filibusters in a movement from Mexico against the Spanish government in Cuba. At the same time it deprives President Comonfort of that unanimous national support which a declaration of war by Spain would have given him, and gives greater freedom to the intestine troubles that now exist in Mexico. Wesay that this new movement on the part of Spain will di- miniah the chances of Santa Anna’s return, be- cause all our advices from Mexico agree in stating that a general hatred to him existe there, and that he cannot gain possession of Vera Cruz, whichis the key to the republic, without the assistance of @ Spanish fleet. So both the echeme of Senta Anna and the project of placing a Spanish prince on the throne of Mexico fall together. But the full advices we have lately published from several parts of the republic exhibit a state of great confusion there, and leave # mul- titude of doubts as to the probable result of the contests that are going on. It will be re membered that Gen. Comonfort was elected o short time since President for four years, and Don Benito Juarez Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. While the election of Comonfort was carried almost without the drawing of party lines, Senor Juarez was elected as the strict candidate of the ultra liberals, or puros, as they style themselves; and this circumstance possesses now a grea® significance, from the fact that, there being no Vice President in the Mexican organization of government, the Chief Justice succeeds to the office of the President in the case of a vacancy. Ever since the promulgation of the new con- stitution last summer, the church®has endea- vored to overthrow it, on account of its liberal reforms; and though defeated in the several at- tempts made by its more prominent partisans, it has been able to keep in the field a set of brigand guerrilleros in several parts of the country, whom the government have never been able to put down. These now constitute the reactionists, who are favorable to the return of Santa Anna. After endeavoring for some months to govern the country under the constitution that was adopted last summer, Gen. Comonfort has found it impossible to do so, and a party was formed under, the direction of Payno, Baz and Zuloaga to overturn the constitution and cen- fer upon him supreme power. To this plan, as we learn from well informed sources, the Presi- dent was not a party; and he accepted its re- sult only at a time when it was too late to pre- vent the movement, with the purpose of pre- venting other and more sanguinary proceed- ings. To the position now occupied by Comon- fort the ultra liberals are in violent opposition, and Chief Justice Juarez, their representative man, is in close confinement in the capital. Generals Doblado and Parrodi in the north, and Gen. Alvarez in the south, have pronounc- ed against the Plan of Tacubaya, or the Payno and Zuloaga movement, and in this they have been seconded by La Llave, who is Governor of the State of Vera Cruz. To this state of dis order is to be added another fact, which is that Gen. Zuloaga’s brigade has divided its alle- giance in the city of Mexico, and a part of them have openly pronounced against President Co- monfort. Gen. Comonfort is endeavoring to allay this state of division among the opponents of the re- actionists by pacific measures, but with what success is very doubtful. Should he not succeed, and be deposed or driven out, Juarez becomes the legal President of the republic, and may attain the Executive chair. He is a full blooded Indian, and is the representative of the princi- ples of the ultra liberal party, which are as'radi- cal as those of the reddest of red republicans, Above all, he is strongly opposed to the church. His rule would be the first inauguration of a pure Indian government since the days of Monte- zuma, and the experiment will be a novel one even in Mexico. One of the indications that point most strongly to a probable deposition of President Comonfort is the fact that General Alvarez has pronounced against his acceptance of the Tacubaya plan, and that the insurgents of the North have sent a deputation offering him the command of their movement. It re- mains yet to be seen what course he will take, as he has some time since announced his with- drawal from active life. It will not be at all surprising to see Mexico break up into a parcel of little republics, which may become the prey of their own constant revolutions. Corporation Fravos.—Our readers have io ticed that the proverb, “when rogues fall out honest men get their dues,” is now being veri- fied at the City Hall. Conover and Devlin, the rival Street Commissioners, are exposing each other; Flagg, the Comptroller, is exposing his confidential clerk, Chemung Smith, who kept his yacht, his horses and his country seat on $1,200 per year; and the Aldermen's Com- mittee on Frauds is working away to expose everybody. The fact is that all parties have been defrauding the taxpayers for the last four or five years, daring which the taxes have in- creased from four to eight millions. The city treasury has been shamefully plandered and swindled by politicians of all parties, colors and stripes; and it is quite time that the mat- ter was thoroughly overhauled. So let the exporition go on. Let somebody expose Flagg, and tell us how all these things were done under his nose, In fact, we want a general exposition to see where we stand. Levey Stone ann Her Taxes.—We see that nearly all the papers are making a great fuss over the late attempt of Mrs. Lucy Stone to evade the payment of taxes upon some real es tate which she owns in New Jersey. Mistress Lucy is probably quite satisfied by this time. She has always been afflicted with a morbid appetite for notoriety, and has not been very particular as to the way in which it was obtained, so long as she got it. This was the principal motive for her recent row with the tax gatherer in New Jersey. She found that the negro business was pretty well done up, and resolved to make a strike for woman's rights, Now, we advise all the editors to leave Mre. Stone, her rights, her negroes and her petti- coats alone, She thrives under opposition, and erows fat upon denunciation. Let her alone, A New Social Revulution—Mr, Brisbane on Free Love. A long time ago, when we went to school and had Latin verses hammered into us—sometimes 2 priort and sometimes 2 poseriori—we had smah respect for the pastoral poetry of Virgil; and we remember that we*had various and sundry battles in endeavoring to construe properly the following lines :— Jam redit Virgo, redeunt Saturnia rama; Jam nova progenies calo demittitur Our classical readers will remember that these lines occur in the celebrated eclogue about which the scholars have had many dis- putes. It treats of a boy who is to be born and, with his birth, a new order of things is to commence. Now the Virgin returns—now the Saturnian reign commences, ‘ce. No one has ever been able to decide as to the identity of this apostle of the golden age—some holding that it was a son to be born to the Consul Pol- lio; others that it referred to a prophesy of the Cumean sybil in relation to Cesar Augus- tus, and so on. We b&ve been relieved of any doubts upon the subject, however, by the very extraordinary letter which we publish else- where, and which has ws deme by Albert Brisbane, the Fourierite' le. Virgil pro- phecied the golden age which is to be inaugu- rated bythe Free Lovers and Fourierites to gether. Mr. Brisbane was one of the original disci- ples of Fourier in this country. He went to that philosopher several years ago, and drank from his fount of wisdom, which flowed from a garret near the Paris Bourse. Returning, Mr. Brisbane, we believe, organized the first coterie upon the principles of social- ism or communism; he was the guide, philoso- pher, friend, counsellor, preceptor, instructor of the clique that set up the Brook Farm Asso- ciation—Dana, Ripley & Co. Under his bene- ficent teachings Massa Greeley became indu- rated with those progressive, benevolent and humanitarian ideas which have been so happi- ly identified in the disinterested advocacy of the interests of the Fort des Moines Improve- ment Company and kindred projects. Mr. Brisbane has amplified his theory, and has be- come one of the leading apostles of the Free Love movement. He writes to us to say that he did not found the socalled Free Love Club in New York. That honor he resigns in favor of S. P. Andrews, who, he says, desired to get up a series of dancing assemblies. We presume that Mr. Brisbane has seen the “dancing assem- blies” in Paris and London, the Jardin Mabille, the Closerie de Lilas, the Chateau des Flears, Argyll Rooms, and so forth. The police see that no impropriety is committed in those places; bat every one knows the gencral cha- racter of the company and the purposes for which it assembles. As to the joke of suppos- ing that the Free Love Club was organized for bad purposes, all we can say is that it may ap- pear very funny to Mr. Brisbane, by we have heard of some discarded wives and abandoned husbands to whom it was not at all amusing. In the second part of his letter Mr. Brisbane, like Joe Smith for the Mormons, as- sumes the mantle of the prophet, and statés his prediction that a new order of things is about to commence—“ a mew method of union for the sexes will be inlugurated 3? * * * “it will be considerered proper only so long as the spiritual union continues.” They mean that the age is coming when the marriage laws are to be swept away altogether, that men and women are to live together se long as both are pleased, and that the connection may be dissolved at a moment's notice at the option of one or both the parties. Mr. Br e also says something about the “materi{jem” of mar riage, as if the household must not always be material. Men and women are more material than spiritual; bread and butter is material; scrubbing floore and stairs is material ; rear- ing, feeding and educating children, all very material ; blacking boots is mater‘al; in fact the happiness of every one depends more upon some apparently slight materials than all the finespun theorics in the world. Ono's spirit wite would be se far above materialism that one would have no buttons to his shirts, which are important materials. The Free Love philosophers are in fact only giving a new developement of the theories of the Grahamitee, the Fourierites, the abolition- iste, the socialists, negro worshippers, &c., de. It is of affinity also with Joe Smith and the Mormon civilization. The negro question has ceased to ex- cite general attention; Kansas is gene- rally voted a bore and a humbug, and so we have a glittering and fascinating dogma brought forward under the banner of social reform. We regret to say, however, that Mr. Brisbane's theory is not quite new. Joe Smith and the Mormons are a little ahead of him. Such institutions as he favors have long existed here. The Saints in Utah have adopted them, pla- giarising from Sodom and Gomorrah. But the finest developement of his theories may be found in Church and Mercer streets in this city, where they are carried out to their fallest extent. Also at the establishment in Howard street, where materialism was so far discarded that the women appeared in puris naturalibus, and were materially shocked by a material police- man, who took them before a material Judge, who sent them to a vagy material institution on Blackwell’s Island. There is on¢ chance for Mr. Brisbane, how- ever. They say that our r_reform Mayor, Mr. Tiemann, is, under the advice of his spi- ritual counsellor and father confessor, the Right Reverend Marcus Tullius Cicero Stanley, about to commence a crusade upon the Free Love institutions in Church and Mercer streets, The President seems determined to break up the Sajnts im Utah, and out of the scattered remnants Mr. Brisbane might construct.bis new social edifice, and realize the Bucolffon pro- phecy which is quoted above. Let him go ahead and try. A Joxe in THe Counts.—The best jolte of the day appears to be the trial of Maurice O'Con- nell for a rape upon and the murder of an old woman named Tereka Spitzlen: at least if one is to judge from the tone and style in which the case is conducted by the lawyers on both sides. These funny fellows make capital—though somewhat broad—jokes upon rapes; and their drollery about the mnrder part of the case is positively killing. We can’t say much for their puns; but their witticiams about the age of the poor old creature who was raped and murdered are capital. They get a roar out of every stab that the facts give to poor human nature; every atrocious feature is for them the subject of some facetious sally. Apparently, if O'Connell were accused of rape only, or of murder only, they would be less mirthful; but & murder and rape together—gould there be a finer eubject for jocularity? And what busi- nees have the public to talk about swinish brutality of words that is in fit keeping with the swinish brutality of the deed that was com- mitted when poor old Teresa Spitzlen breathed her last? Of course the jury enjoy the fun of the case —and instead of going into it with the gravity befitting one of the most v@lanously savage acts that ever disgraced the city—they natural- ly share the good humor of the counsel. They are coming to look at it asa good joke; why should they not—why should they not acquit the prisoner without delay—when the prosecut- ing officer does his best to convince them that there is no occasion for indignation or disgust, but merely a chance for a good laugh? ‘The Late Attempt on the Life of the Emperer, The attempt on the life of the Emperor Na- poleon, of which we gave a brief account ia our paper of yesterday, affords a remarkable il- lustration alike of the peculiarity of the social system in Europe and of the frightful insecuri- ty of public affairs in France. The attack was made, we hear, (like that of Fieschi upon the life of Louis Philippe,) with the aid of am infernal machine, or contrivance of gun barrela fastened together, and so directed that the dis- charge, simultaneeusly emitted from all the bar- Tels, swepta large area, The machine was planted near the entrance to the Italian Opera; and though the Emperor himself escaped, the aim of the conspirators was so true that the Em- peror’s hat was perforated by a ball, five of his attendants were killed, and sixty wounded, ef whom eleven are in a critical condition. Well may such a frightful instrument of death be de- nominated infernal. No direct clue to the authors of the atrocious attempt or to their motives has yet been dis- covered. Four Italians, among thema pair of Counts (Italian Counts) have been arrested; and we hear also that another suspicious character, an exile of 1852, had been arrested just before the discharge, and found heavily armed. But if the police have any further information as to the perpetrators of this nefarious act, or their designs, it has not yet been made public. One cannot help suspecting that the obscure Italians who invariably figure as the criminals on these occasions are only the puppets in the shew, and that the strings are pulled by other hands. What motive could half a dozen Italian chévaliers d’industrie have for murdering the Em- peror? What could they gain by such an act What wrongs have Italians to avenge? One cannot but recall the stories so current in Hu- rope about the readiness of Italians to under- take murders for pay. There are people enough in France to whom the Emperor's death would indeed be a boon and a blessing; must we suppose that they hire ruffians to do the deed? It is well known that this is the third or fourth attempt on Louis Napoleon's life, and that many more such attempts were made upon the life of Louis Philippe. Of course no monarch— nor even the President of a republic—is secure against assault. We have all heard of the at- tempts upon the lives of the Queens of England and of Spain, and other European sovereigns. But these attacks upon the rulers of France dif- fer from all others in their completeness, their skilful plan, and the tremendous character ot their instrument. The attempts to murder Queen Victoria end other European sove- reigns have invariably been the work > of individual lunatics; they have been marked by an utter absence of skill, method, and aim. The regicidal exploits of the French have on the contrary been characterized by cunning, dex- terity, combination and boldness. Are we to suppose that the murderous propensity is stronger among the French or Franco-Italians than in other nations ?—or that the sovereigns of France possess more individual unpopu- larity than the rulers of the rest of Europe? It is to be hoped that the authors of this last abominable crime will be devected, and whole- somely punished. One cannot conceive an act better calculated to be widely injurious than the murder of the Emperor Napoleon. Three inches lower down, and the ball emitted from the infernal machine on Mth January, 1858, would have plunged France—and very likely Europe bodily-~into a chaos and disorder com- pared to which the confusion and anarchy of 1848-52 were mild and*immaterial. The Eia- peror Napoleon gone, his wife a woman of no particular intellect, bis son in his cradle, uis relatives all either conspirators or imbeciles, his Generals cach looking out for his own ad- vancement, France would without doubt be plunged on the morrow into a civil war ; and no human being can say how it would come out out of it—whether as an empire, as a king- dom, as a republic, or as a European copy of the Mexican States. The whole of Europe might have been thrust into revolution and ruin had that ball taken a course three inches lower down. It may well, therefore, be hoped that the perpetrator of so fiendish an attempt will meet with the penalty due to his guilt, and that no considerations of pity will be suffered to interpose between his neck and the guillo- tine. At the same time, the escape of his Ma- jesty will naturally suggest not only to himself, but to his friends and counsellors, the necessity of making some settled preparations for so pos- sible an event as another and a more successful attempt upon his life; lest, by mischance, France should be taken by surprise and hurled into civil war before she have time to turn. Common prudence should teach the French that the order of the succession ought to be determined and made public at once. Tre Wise axp Rinoway Arvarft at Rrow- uoxn.—We have frequently had occasion, for yeare past, to animadvert upon the peculiar chivalry of Virginia, as illustrated in the mean and sneaking proclivities of the scurvy politi- cians of that good old commonwealth. Bat nothing has occurred within our recollection calculated to phace these pretentious expound- ers of Virginia chivalry in a more unfavorable light before the world than this late “affair of honor” between the eon of Governor Wise and the editor of the Whig at Richmond. From the statements which we have published from both sides our readers are possessed of the details of the case, and if they do not unanimously ‘con- cur with us that it is a case of the most revol® ing description, we are very much mistaken. According to the “ card” of Mr. O. Jennings Wire, enraged, beyond all forbearance, at the incessant newspaper assaults of the editor of the Whig upon the Governor of Virginia, the father of the complainant, the said complainant proceeded to the editor's sanctum, was admit- ted, and, with a few preliminary remarks, com- menoed the punishment of a “light” caning. Admitting the pro tion to have been insup- portable, this pelle was a simple act of ruffianism, anwarranted by any article of the “code of honor,” or the code of decency Tha