The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1858, Page 4

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WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 53 Broadway—Groncr Cunisry & Woops Muxstreis—Tu Toopixs, witn Cavvur Lecrvns. BUCKLFYS SERENADERS, No. 414 Brosdway—Nzcro MELODIES AND BURLESQES—DOWN IN ALABAM, MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Brvayt’s MINSTRELS —Ermorian Sonos—Bor Ripiey’s Fxsnivat. ooooooooooooooooeq=SO New York, eer: Februnry 10, 1858, —=—— = ‘The News. Three steamers are now in the fourteenth day of their passages from England to the United States, viz.: the North Star, from Southampton for New York; the City of Baltimore, from Liverpool for New York; and the Indian, from Liverpool for Portland. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Douglas moved to postpone the consideration of the bil! increasing the army in order to take up his resolu- tions calling for information respecting the Kansas elections. The motion was defeated by a vote of 23 to 31, eight members being ab: sent, among them Bates and Bayard, of Delawa: Johnson, of Arkansas; Reid, of North Carolin Thompson, of Kentucky, and Thomson and Wright, of New Jersey—all supporters of the administration. ‘This signal defeat of the anti-Lecomptonites in the Senate puts a quictus to Mr. Douglas’ scheme for delaying action upon the Kansas constitution. Mr. Mason stated that the effect of Douglas’ resolution would be to transfer the excitement in Kansas to the halls of Congress, and he should, therefore, at the proper time, move to lay it on the table as a test question, on the ground that it was not a fit subject for the consideration of the Senate. A debate then ensued on the Army bill, Messrs. Benja- min, Pugh, Foot and Hamlin, opposing an increase | of the standing army. With regard to Utah, Messrs. Foot and Hamlin would withdraw the troops and | civil officers from that Terrigory, leaving the Mor- | mons to the inevitable fate of their own vices and | @elusions. It is regarded as certain that the Army bill, in its present shape, will be defeated. The Com- | mittee on Foreign Relations reported a resolution authorizing the President to settle our difficulties | with Paraguay, growing out of the attack by the | troops of that country upon the United States #team- | er Water Witch, while she was on a surveying expe- dition in Paraguan waters. The President will, is said, employ prompt measures to obtain repara- | tion for the offence. } In the House a bill was reported making an ap- | propriation to fulfil treaty stipulation for the aboli tion of the Danish Sound dues. A mot w adopted providing for a special committee to investi- | gate the facts connected with the purchase of land at Wilkinson's Point, in the East river, for fortifica- tion purposes. There are reports afloat that large sums have been realized by certain parties holding prominent positions in the sale and transfer of the property referred to, and an investigation of the cir- cumstances can do no harm. The committee ap: pointed to inquire into the accounts of the late Poor- keeper of the Honse was instructed to extend their researches to any charges that may be preferred against the present incumbent of that office, Mr. Hackney. Governor Wise, of Virginia, addressed a letter of characteristic dimensions, on Kansas affairs, to the antiLecompton meeting held at Philadelphia on Monday evening. We give under the telegraphic head a brief summary of the points of this epistle, from which it will be seen that the Governor boldly reiterates and enlarges upon the views previously expressed by him in his famous Tammany Hall letter Nothing of importance occurred in the Legislatare yesterdsy. The Assembly was engaged in discuss ing the Governor's mes-age. The erintendent of the Banking Department told at y yesterday the mortgages of the Pratt Bank of Buffalo and of the Ontario Bank of Phelps. None of the mortgages fetched par, but they sold at very fair average prices. The Democratic General Committee met last night nd passed a series of resolutions endorsing the Pre sident and the administration members of Congress for the co ave taken on the Kansas question. eld shy ds of the at Tammany Hall administration, and to sustal n the m this city Who stood by the Lecompton const The Central Demo- nion Club al i resolu last nigh: ouste ining t 4“ } The «loo , ( arrived at this port Cape de Verds. She has been absent station twenty-seven months. A list 0! A of her officers and passengers may be found ia another ctamn. A number of shipwrecked mari ners and invalids came home in the St. Louis. The frigate Cumberland, the sloop-of-war Vincennes and the storeship Supply were at Port Praya on the Ist ult, There wae nothing of interest stirring at the Cape de Verds when the St. Louis left. The reception of N Dow, the author of the Maine Liquor law, at the Academy of Music last evening, Was, a* may be seen from the report in an- ater column, rather a sorry affair. It was a most usmmmcessful attempt to fill this building, and the fact that not more than five hundred persons were present shows a terrible falling off in the supporters (ithe proposed prohibitory law. There was quite a rumpus in the Board of Ten Governors yesterday, growing out of a desire on the part of certain members to dispense with the ser. vices of the confidential clerk of the Board, who has been quartered on the departinent ata salary of 92,650 per year for some time past. They conceived there was se for any such officer, and succeeded finally in abolishing the clerkship. The friends of the clerk declared that he had interfered with cer- tain private schemes of some of the members, and for that he was to be ostracised. The whole affair was a terrible tempest in a teapot. ‘The investigation demanded by James B. Smith who is charged with perpetrating frauds in the Comptroller's office, was commenced yesterday af ternoon, before the Recorder. The only witness examined was B. 8. Cady, the chief clerk, a full report of whose evidence 1 be found in another | column. The examination will be resumed on | ‘Th ay entra 1 adopted a res of April the tim f ‘on extending to the first day | for the pre: | nist plans. | f eu lowed competite itm ! Park to comp The Board of Councilmen last night j total decreas \* were | for prime. | Ho uu Park Commissioners met yesterday | ° NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1858, - ——- ‘ins tatemal sini tieihiatiemamibititastaiistii x with the Aldermen in granting to the State Women’s Hospital thg block of ground bounded by Forty- ninth and Fiftieth streets and Lexington and Fourth avenues, to be used for hoapital purposes. The ma- jority of the business was merely routine. ‘The Board of Supervisors yesterday remitted taxes to the amount of $100,000, and refused to remit the tax on the library of the Spingler Institute. A spirited discussion took place on the proposition to appropriate $16,500 for the purposes of a mounted police for the upper part of the city. Considerable ition was manifested, and the report was laid Mr. Kennedy offered a resolution, which was adopted, calling upon the Comptrofler to report the amounts and purposes tor which moneys are required tob» raised for New York county expenses, sepa- rating the requisitions authorized by law from those which it would be necessary to have the Legislature legalize. This seems to indicate the Supervisors’ opinion that the Common Council have nothing to do with the tax levy. The specia) committee of the Common Council on the reception of Rear Admiral Mahomed Pacha held a meeting yesterday, and agreed to confer full power on the sub-committee to receive the Admiral ou his arrival in the city, and that he be met by the Chairman as soon as he disembarks. The sub-com- mittee reported that they had another interview with the Turkish Consul in New York, who expects the Pacha aud his suite in a few days, by the next steamer from England. The Committee on Streets of the Board of Coun- cilmen met yesterday, and heard the arguments of several persons for and against the widening and extending of Reade street. After stating that they would hear no more in reference to that street, but preceed at their next meeting to hear parties interested in Duane street, the committee adjourned. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, a re- spectable looking man, named Wm. D. Thomas, in- dicted for stealing $600 worth of property at differ- ent times from Arnold, Constable & Co., pleaded to an attempt to commit that offence, by per- ‘on of hisemployers, and was remanded for sen- tence. Wm. W. Thompson, alias Wm. H. Roach, alias Wm. B. Bureh, a notorious “confidence” man, who has obtained money under false names and by repre- sentiny different individuals, pleaded guilty to pass- ing a check for $800, purporting to have deen signed by Chas. H. Phelps. He was sent to the State prison for two years and eight months. Hen- ry Christman and Henry Miller, youths, charged with stealing $30 worth of gold pens and holders from W. 8. Latimer, pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and were each sent to the penitentiary for six months. The jury acquitted John Hart, who was charged with breaking into the store of E. L. Bar- low & Co., and stealing a quantity of segars, there not being any evid@ce to connect him with the charge. Margaret Gallagher was convicted of an audacious 'arceny in picking the pocket of Jacob Bort. While passing through Broome street. she threw her arms around his neck and stole a pocket- book containing $14 in money, a check for $400, andaring. The day after an officer arrested her, and while endeavoring to take the ring off her finger she swallowed it. The Recorder sent her to the State prison for three years and eight months. Horace Waters, the music publisher, was convicted ofan assault on Mrs. A. J. Williamson while at- | tempting to remove a piano from her house. He will be sentenced on the last day of the term. ‘The co'ton market yesterday continued firm and active The evles embraced about 8,000 bales, based upon mit Gling uplands nt about 1144e. a 1124/0, closing at the lat ter figure. The de:rense ii receipts at the ports since tho Ist of September list amounts to 537,000 bales com pared with the same period ist year. The decrease in exporte to Grest Britain amounts to 18,000 bales, to France 15,600 bales, and to other ports 20,000 bales. The exports compared with las; year amounts Flour was im fair demand, white gy change of moment. The sales were to the local and Eastern Tho chiet sales of wheat were confined to prime white Suthern and Tennessce at $140, Corn was oO» without chiet trade. | lecs active, and ranged from 64c. a 66c., with a small lot Ory white at 67, Pork was Srmer, with sales of mess at $15 624; @ $15 76; afterwards $16 was asked; prime rapged from $12 40. $12 60. Lard sold freely at 940 ‘Sugars were firm, and eales of Now Orleans by avetion showed 3c. advance, while the transac tione, public aud private, embraced about 1,900 a 1,400 bhds, at rates given in another column. Coffee was steady, with salee of 500 bags Rio at 10 ‘gc. a 113¢¢., and 100 bags Maraicabo at 10% c.a1l%c. The «tock in this market is recuced to 65,105 bags Rio, and packages of al! k 064 Freight engagemeats were moderate, a rates unchanged. Re-Opening of the Kansas Agitation—Party Movements fur 1560, The effect of the late resolution of the House of Representatives at Washington, is not ouly to delay the settlement of the Kansas contro- versy, but to re-open this senseless agitation, which the “law and order” conservatives of al! sections and parties had hoped was rapidly drawing to a close, The unsuspecting reader, however, is deceived if he supposes that “popu- lar sovereignty” and “ the rights of the majori- ty of the legal voters of Kansas” were the ex- clusive considerations of the republicans and fisyby Northern democrats who voted for the Harris Douglas reso) a lust Monday. Par. ties and party leaders, North and South, are leginning to take their bearings and to plant their stukes for the campaign of 1860; and thus Kansas continues to be, as she has been from the beginning, the mere foot-ball of scheming politicians and sectional parties and cliques for the suc a. In this view the ouly material difference be- tween thie Kansas imbroclio as it now stands, and as it stocd three months ago, is that the nal of the political gl ansferred from Lecompton to We suspect, too, that is ended the anti y ot Congress will resort to a policy of “masterly inactivity’ in the matter of voting upon the arena direct question of the Lecompton constitution, | similar to that which has served so well the purposes of the free soil agitators in Kansas. Mr. Seward has given us to understand that so far ae the democracy are concerned the result will be the same—-Lecompton or no Lecompton; but he has also very broadly declared that the adoption of the Lecompton constitution will the pag “so of all things scatter the democra- cy t hey winds. The same idea, we know, generally pre vails in the republican camp; and hence, when the Lecompton constitution is brought to a direct vote we shall not be sur- prised should it pass the House with the conni- vance of the republican leaders. Mr. Seward understands the case, It is cer- tainly, for their present necessities, the game of his party to allow the Lecompton constitution “with slavery,” as reported by the “Lord Pro- tector” Calhoun, to pass, for by no other pro- cess can the charge be established against the administration democracy that their whole Kaneas policy, from first to last, has been to make Kansae a slave State. But with Kansas admitted as a slave State the, thing is fixed; and so we would admonish Mr. Senator Douglas that his expectations of swamping the Lecompton constitution may be defeated, though he may be able to count upon bis finger absolute ‘majority in the opposed fo that constitution. As the y party permitt t to go by default in Kay with slavery.” it may be allowed to slip through Congress in the same way, by ut me part “for th sine purpose, very 4 the disgust of Mr. Douglas and §s as- ' sociate democratic deserters from the camp of the administration. In any event, this Kansas controversy in Congress is but an incident—although the lead- ing incident—in the preparations on all sides for the grand campaign of 1860, With the eettlement of the pending question, in any way, we may anticipate the reorganization of parties for the succession upon sectional lines of divi- sion. From the general indications of the anti- slavery feeling of the North, and from the nume- rous abolition petitions presented to the Senate from time to time by Mr. Seward, we may sately predict that the platform of the anti- slavery alliance for 1860 will be, “no more slave Territories, no more slave States ; freedom is national—slavery is sectional ; and Congress muy interdict it in, or expel it from, a Territory at any time.” On the other hand, the national democracy will perhaps fall back upon a liberal margin for filibustering, and upon the doctrine that alavery follows the supreme law into all the Territories over which the federal constitution may be ex- tended, and that when a new State, with a pro- slavery constitution, knocks for admission into the Union, she should be admitted, without go- ing behind the record for a pretext to reject her onaccount of slavery, =, If the national democratic party, demoral- ized and divided as it now is, can be re-united for 1860, it must be upon such a platform as this. But theSouthern democracy, without any fur- ther effort to harmonize with their Northern brethren, may prefer to set up for themselves, and the democracy of the Northwest may, per- haps, be thus driven into a different sectional movement in behalf of their candidate. Before we can predict the reunion of the democracy they must be re-united upon the administration. All these enumeratéd contingencies of sectional parties and factions, therefore, are foreshadowed in the shiftings and diiftings of politicians and parties in Congress upon this Kansas qifestion. The solid phalanx of the Seuthern men of all parties upon the Lecompton programme admo- nishes us of the universal sentiment of the South upon the broad and general issue of slavery; and the majority which the anti-sla very pressure of the North has accomplished in a democratic House of Representatives, in the face of the administration, is significant of the depth and strength and increasing momentum of this Northern anti-slavery preseure. For good or cvil, the shaping of parties and party iseues for the succession, and the probable consequences towards union or disunion, hang upon this incidental iseue of Kansas, The ac- ceptance of the Lecompton constitution “ with slavery’ may give a temporary advantage to the anti-tlavery party of the North; but this will be more than counterbalanced by the act, 2s a measure of Southern conciliation with the democracy. A Northern man, here and there, may fal! as a martyr; but “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” In any event, the contingencies depending upon the solution of this Kansas problem, to all sections and parties, and to all the financial, commer- cial and industrial interests of the whole coun- try, are more momentous and comprehensive than those of any preceding crisis in the history of the Union. If it is decreed by Congress that there shall be “no more slave States,” or if a Northern President is elected upon the platform of “No more slave States, and no more slave Terri- tories,” Filtbuster Histery and Prospects. Our readers will find in another column full and complete sketch of the several fili- buster expeditions from this country to Spanish America, which has been compiled with great care from the best, seurces of information. It will not fail to strike every one on the pe- rusal ‘of this sketch, that all, or nearly all, of these movements have originated in the coun- tries where they were intended to operate, and that the chief purposes of the parties were poli- tical in their character. Mina, Miranda, Porter, Lopez, Quitman, Walker and Paez cannot be looked upon as buccaneers, freebooters or pi- ratee, however conflicting their acts and opinions may be with the interests of crowned heads and despotic governments, How far their theories conform to or diseent from a wige public policy itis not our purpose toinquire. When they act in conjunction with a majority or a part of the people of any coun- try for the purpose of effecting a po- litical change for the better, they run the risks which all revolutionists rua, of be- ing held by the world as patriots or rebels, as they succeed or fail. In appealing to the right of revohution, they of course come in conflict with the established government of the country to be revolutionized, and through that with the international relations of our own, which are always held with governments de facto and not de jure. The question, therefore, of the right of revolution and assistance is a delicate one. But the sketch which we to-day publish will throw light upon the general tone and tenden- cy of the country. The filibuster movements were at first few and far between; but they have gone on increasing in magritude and fre- quency, until Europe has become alarmed at their growth. That they will diminish is not in the nature of things. The rapidly recurring revolutions in all Spanish-America,{ the, in- creased efforts of the church and European agents to establigh the old systems of despot- ism there, the greater facility of the liberals for obtaining assistance from here, and the large increase of the party willing to grant it to them, all indicate more movements of the same kind at no very distant day. But they must be of a different character and spirit from the filibus- terism developed by Walker in Central Ameri- ca, if they would command any sympathy among the people whom they go to assist, and attain even partial success. The only thing that can prevent these movements is the adoption of a new policy on the part of our go- vernment, and the lending of some support to the establishment of a permanent liberal go- vernment in Mexico. That is the quarter where we now perceive the strongest indications of movement, and it behooves the administration to watch the developements there. If the libe- ral party is driven out, there willbe filibuster expeditions and a revolution within six months. Tux Scnemes or Correrr Corporation SrecuLators DeveLorrp.—There is, perhaps, no city, either in the New or Old World, whose environs are so admirably adapted to the loca- tion of villas and country seats as that portion of the island of New York which lies between Manhattanville and Kingsbridge. It possesses all that diversity of hfll and date without which no scenery can be called beautiful, and is in every other respect peculiarly fitted for the pur- poses to which we have referred. Those who ' have visited London, Paris, or Florence must we have seen enough to know that | the South will proceed to the deliberate work | of a Southern confederacy. And, from every | point of view, the tendencies of the crisis to a sectional and disunion reconstruction of » parties are such as should command the most | serious attention of every honest representative of the peopie and of every good citizen of the republic in behalf of law, order and the har- | moay of the Union. Tue Transitions IN Pourricar, Grotog Sir Charles Lyell tells us that the study of geo- logy reveals “the annals of a grand succession of past events—a series of revolutions which the solid exterior of the globe and its living in- habitants have experienced in times atecedent to the creation of man,’ The same lessons may be learned by the study of the geology of polities, We have the primary democratic, the secondary Know Nothing and the cretaceous or tertiary republican strata—precisely the same formations which the geologists have given to the crust of the earth. Modern discoveries prove that the relative positions of these strata are constantly changing; that one aggregates to itself particles of matter belonging to the other; and that this agglomeration, by transi- tion, makes a new stratum, composed of parts tion losing some particles by the aggregation of matter for the Know Nothing strata, which soon fell to pieces. These detached fragments, with a still further subtraction from the pri- mary formation, make the tertiary republican stratum which is just now exerting a magnetic influence over both of the other strata. Some particles, like Douglas, George Bancroft, Wal- ker of Kansas, Wise, Haskin, Harris, Stanton and their friends, have been detached from the primary formation: they are just now floating about like crustacea among the rocks and sea- weed, seeking for a place where they may hold on, It is qtite certain that they have been so far infected by the disintegrating effects of the carbonic acid ambition that they have not only of the old formations. | This is precisely the change that is going jon in the political geology of the | day. We find the primary democratic forma- | are unable to move those unimportant atoms in the formation to which they are attracted. In politics, as in geology, there is no room for abstractions, We must have ascertained facts—visionary theories are of no value. So we shall see that these disintegrated particles not being strong enough to make a stratum of republican formation, and lose their individ- nality in building up that conglomeration. Pouitical, Sticioes.—The calendar of politi- eal suicides for this year opens heavily. Mr. Douglas heads the list; next comes Governor Walker, then Governor Wise, then Secretary Stanton, then Broderick, then Haskin, then Harris, and then « long train of victims of more or Jess political and personal consequence. They have died the death. Like Mr. Webster in the time of Captain Tyler, each of them will soon ask, “Where shall I go’ The democracy will cast them off altogether, and the opposition has too many candidates for great and small places to give them anything whatever, in the event of the success of the republican party. Casio, or both do kill each other, any way,” they can gain nothing, Politically they are a dead ae Mr, Gliddon’s mummy. their own, must naturally be attached to the | | been separated from their old stratum but | So, whether “Cassio kill Roderigo, or Roderigo | also adamantine, have been struck .with the exquisite beauty of the environs and the picturesque villas which greet the eye, and wanting which the scenery would be deprived of half its charms. All the resources of art are employed for their embel- lishment, and all the advantages presented by the locality are improved to the highest degree of perfection. Ia the course of a fow years more we might reasonably expect that New York would uot be inferior to the European cities in this particular feature, possessing as it docs all the advantages that nature herself, without the aid of cultivation, can confer. There is, however, a set of corrupt specula- tors who, solely intent apon defrauding the public and enriching themselves, are endesvor- ing to procure the passage of a law by which the locality alluded to isto be reduced to the same dead, dull and painful uniformity as the reat of the island. The object of thia is too evident to escape detection. Their sole purpose is to swindle the public; and the means by which they are to accomplish the fraud is by the levelling, grading and total destruction of the most picturestue and beautiful part of the whole island. Having no soul themselves they are ready to commit any act of vandalism, if they can only enrich themselves by it. A set of these insolent, scheming and corrupt specu- lators are, as we have said, endeavoring to pro- cure the passage of a law through which to de- fraud the tax payers of New York, and have in- duced a number of the simple minded people of | Carmansville to sign a petition to the Legisla ture asking for its enactment. This is the usnal mode of procedure when any great fraud is to be perpetrated, and we advise the property | owners who have the interests of the city at stake, and all who would prevent the infliction | of such an act of vandalism, to use every effort in defeating the designs of these corrupt corpo- | ration speculators. Iscomprtency or Cowrrronien Fiaca.—The investigation which has thus far been made into the charges against Comptroller Flagg shows that he is, and was, utterly incompetent for the | proper performance of the duties ofhis office. It also shows that frauds of the most extensive and corrupt character were committed by officials under him; and through his incapacity and igno- rance of the state of the books and accounts of the department they were perpetrated with perfect impunity. The charges which are now under investigation are not new, however; simi- lar charges were preferred against him two years ago by Mr. Oleott Rhines; but they were treated at the time with indifference, and no in- vestigation was had. We republish them as they were drawn up by Mr. Rhines at the time, for the purpose of showing the utter want of order and regularity which prevailed in his office, and the opportunities which were thus afforded to the unprincipled for defrauding the public. Breagine tHe Lt Among other curious things incident to the division of the House on Mr. Harris's proposition, we notice that several of the New York delegation who once belonged to the barn burner, free soil soft section of the party, to wit: Mesera. Cochrane, Maclay, Kelly and ickles, voted with the Lecompton men, while Haskin, a hard, to the republican side, and Clark, dodged the vote altogether, al overturn, and it shows went over This is a curious polit W.'H. Sewarp Trorrep Ovt #r THe CuEva- uusk Wess vor 1860—The re-opening of the Kansas agitation, in its transfer from Kansas to Congress, has resulted already in bringing for- ward W. H. Seward as the “imperial” candidate of the North for the succession. Chevalier Webb, of the Courier and Enquirer, trots him out upon the course with all the decorations of a prize ox at an agricultural fair. Hear the Che- valier, how he exalts his slippery idol as the best piece of goods in the political market. The Chevalier is speaking of Mr. Seward’s peculiar and “imperial” observations on the army bill ; and, says the enthusiastic Chevalier— We avvex Gov. Seward’s reply—a reply worthy of the man and the place, and of the palmiest days of the repub. lic; @ reply proving him to be aa great as he is able, aad demonstrating to the whole American people that we have among us one leading statesman, at least, who is worthy of the place he holds in the affections of the people. aud who dare be bonest and independent, come what may. We ¢iffer wits Governor Seward upon the propriety.ot bis vote; But for daring thus to vote, and for baving thus via- dich‘ed bis claims to act dependently of party and party copsiderations, wo honor him as we never honored him before. And such we hope and belivve wil! be the senti- ment of every honcst man in the United States. That will do. It exceeds our most exaggera- ted expectations of anything that could be said in adulation of W. Ii. Seward. But the Cheva- lier Webb bas said it; and when he thus speaks all his party subordinates must dance to the music, as he doubtless wishes them to under- stand. Mr. Seward is in the Presidential field. Look at ‘him, and admire him. The Cheva- lier Webb was fooled the iast time at Phila- delpbia, but he has resoived to be early enough this time with his champion in the ring. And the lesser Ajax of the Daily Times seconds the motion. Grecley is in a rather anxious and dubious state of mind. He don’t like Mr. Seward’s advocacy of the bill for increasing the army; but the Chevalier Webb, with the terrible Thurlow Weed in front, and with the “little villain” of the Times to bring up the rear, will be more than a match for Greeley. The Chevalier Webb has issued his manifesto, and when he speaks obedience is the word. Very true, as a general rule, no- body minds him; bui this time we suspect he speaks with the full approbation of the im- mortal Thurlow Weed. He speaks as a man having authority; and his order is that all other republican aspirants for the White House, except Mr. Seward, must stand back. The Chevalier Webb wants an “imperial” President, and Seward is his man. There is treachery in the camp, and some underhand plotting going on, rely upon it. But what say the friends of Fremont? Is he to be shelved thus unceremoniously? And what say the republicans of New England? Is their favorite, Governor Banks, to be set aside by the mere orders of Chevalier Webb? Now is the time for the Fremont men and the Banks men to give the Chevalier Webb a piece of their mind. Is there only one leading statesman alive, and is his name Seward? We should really like to know. Vourstary Aroxexest—Go and San NO Moxr.—When sinners express contrition for their offences half the fault is wiped out. In politics as well as in religion repentance is the great saving grace. In the breach of social proprieties the same indulgence prevails, and when a gentleman promptly acknowledges that he has committed an error, bis offence, if it does not amount toa moral delinquency, is rightly considered to be absolved. Whilst, therefore, we have not hesitated to apply to the actors in the late disgraceful scene in the House of Representatives the terms of condemnation which their conduct merited, it affords us pleasure to be able to bear testimony to the manly manner in which they have come forward to apologize to the House and: to the country for their offence. We like best the tone and manner of the excuse offered by Mr. Keitt. It is a full avowal of his fault, without any sort of qualification. He recognises the justice of the position maintained in all Parlia- mentary bodies except our own, that in the presence of the nation nothing can justify the ‘vindication of personal quarrels, The in- terests discussed in legislative assemblies are of too grave and important a character to admit of their being interrupted by the jealous. ies or bickerings of individuals, In a body which is paid for its services this principle should have still greater force, Servants have no right to waste the time and money of their masters in the gratification of their intemperate propensities. Mr. Keitt seems fully impressed with these truths, and we are satisfied that he will not again permit himself to be betrayed into an act of such gross indiscretion. Mr. Grow’s apology is conceived in rather a different spirit. He acknowledges the impro- priety of making Congress the theatre of per- sonal conflicts, but maintains that the duty of self defence overrides all other considerations. In this we differ with him. A national delegate owes & paramount respect to the country in the persons of its representatives, which should pre- vent him from resenting any insult or act of violence offered to him in the discharge of his iegislative duties. Neither his honor nor the interests of his quarrel can suffer by | the postponement of its settlement to a fitting time and place. Beside, the body of which he is a member is posseseed of ample power to protect him, and a delegate thus outraged performs only his duty in appeal- ing to that protection, Were members who are placed in this position more impressed with the responsible character of their functions they would do this more frequently. Congress would then be compelled to vindicate its outraged dig- nity, and to punish by immediate expulsion the offending party. Such as they are, however, we accept the apo- logies of Messrs. Keitt and Grow, as the best extenuation that they can offer for their miscon- duct. Having been betrayed into a momentary forgetfulness of their position as legislators and gentlemen, the most sensible thing that+ they could do was to act as they have done. To carry the matter further, by a resort to the pix tol, would only have aggravated their offence and shown them to be utterly indifferent to pub- lic opinion. The only way in which they could redeem their claims to the character of gentle- men was by promptly and frankly acknowledg- ing their error. We are of opinion that the painful and de- grading position in which Messrs, Keitt- and Grow have found themselves placed om this o¢- casion will exercise a wholesome inflaence in preventing similar breaches of legislative decorum. Public indignation has manifested iteelf so unmistakably of late in regard to them, that members must indeed be lost to all sense of their own interests when they give way to their evil passions to such an extent. It is of the highest importance that both individually and collectively Congress should exert itself to restr ebullitions. We are approach ing danger and critical times, when the exercise of temper will be more than ever n all su told called for on the part of the national represen- tatives, Let every man clothed with this character, therefore, bear in mind that self- control is one of the first duties which he owes to his constituente to the country. Tux Tuene’s Loaie—The New York 7ri- bune, in reply to our remark that nothing te the damage of Fernando Wood had been de- veloped by the municipal committees of inves- tigation, remarks that Devlin and another in- dividual who have been implicated by the inquiry were friends of Wood, aid that it by as bad for him as if he were convicted himself, This is Just like the Tribune's logic. By the tame rule Horace Greeley might be held re- sponsible for Matteson’s roguery, for the inde cencies of the free lovers, and even for the crimes of the culprits in whose behalf he pleads in bis paper. How would the Tribune enjoy this working of the rule? THE LATEST N NEWS. WWTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON, Defeat of the Anti-Lecomptonites in the - Senate. Letter of Gov. Wise on Kansas Affairs, &e., &e., &. Affairs at the National Capital. : THR PARAGUANS ABOUT Tu BK BKOUGHT TO TERMS — DEFKAT OF DOUGLAS IN THE SENATE—THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THY LECOMPTON INVESTIGATION— THE FORT SNELLING AND Tu: $87,000 svestiGa- TION—-TUE PACIFIC RATLROAD — APPOINTMENTS FOR WESTERN NEW YORK—RBCEPTION OF MOBAM- MED PASHA, ETC. Wasuincton, Fed. 9, 1858. ‘The committee on foreign aflairs reported to-day in favor of giving the President full power to settle the difficules between our government an. the repudlic of Paraguay, growing out of the attack of the latter government on the Uvited States steamer Water Witch. As soon as this re- solution is passed the President will immediately demand reparation; «nd if ii is refused he will send a naval force that will shortly bring them to terms. Mr. Douglus atiempted again to-day to get his resolutions relative to Kaosis through the Senate, but utterly failed. He carries no one with bim but Broderick and Stuart. Mr. Stephers, of Georgii, wil probably be cusirman of the epecial committee orcered by the House on the Lo- compton conttitution ond aff:irs in Kansas Mr. Hughes, who moved the resolution for the committee, will, it is undotstood, not claim any privilege for having moved it. ‘There will be probably nine democrats proper and six re- publicans on the committee. ‘There is one view that might well be taken in reiation tothe Kansss question. It is this: A large majority of the Sense w!!l never cenvent to allow Minnesota to pass without Kansas. ha’ being the case, the friends of Shields’s bit! #il! have io allow the two to go through the House together, or «se the Sen «tors of these new States will not, at eost curing this session, take their seate in the Senate. Now, the course that wil! be adopted to effectithis o! ject will be for the Senate to pass a bill for their joint admission, and send it to the House. There it will be debates, possibly, for a short time, when some of the friends of the Minaeso.s admission (and who ae against the admission of Kansas) will be absent on the fiual vote, Tails will \erteioly be the termination of the question. Minnesot» ¢ upot puss without her sister Kausas. Wo learn, thot by direction of the Presicext of ine United States, it # ordered by the War Department that, on the arrival of Rear Admira; Mobammed Pasha, ofthe Turkish navy, be will be received with ail the Lonors due to bis ravk, by each military post which he may be pleased wo visi ing his stay in the country, ‘The Tariff Investigating Committee mot last eveniog, and examined Mr, Wolcott at great lengt. The questions are put to bim ia writing, avd ac-wered in the same maaner. He consults bis lawyer—Mr. Keith—relative to tue au ewers in every instance. The commitiee have not auc- ceeded in getting anything definite as yet. ‘The Fort Snelling Investig iting Committee are procesd- ing with their inquiries; but 1 learn that so far the evi dence goes to show that the government really received more for the property than it was worth, unless at a 6pe- cziat ive valuation. It is iz evidence that the land is not worth five dollars an acre. Senator Ribard Schell ap peared before the committee yesterday, aad they are satisfied (Lat be had nethiog to do with the matter, exceps as alona fide business traasaction. There is no douse that the investigation has been gotten up by disappuiuted speculators, who desired to get the property for no- thing, by « combination, in case it had been sold by auction The House Special Committee on the Pacific Railroad have had two or three mestinge. I understand that they will mot designate any particular route—ai least, that is the opinion af present entertained by the committes Tiearn this evening that the President bas appointed Dr, Eddy Collector st Lewiston, New York; also Orville Robinson Collector at Onweao. Daniel 8 Dickenson arrived here this evening. He bas a number ef umportant cass to argue before the Supreme Court. ‘The aavy departmect hos received information that tne steam frigate Merrimac, which took out our winister Mr. Meade to Rio Janeiro, was to leave that port on the 10th for the I’acitic station. The President's reception to-night was crowded. White House is not hvif large ecoagh. A better state of things exist as to Kansas matters The administration will have a mejority, notwithetanding the vote of yesterday. Several misguided members are on the eve of returning. ‘The Army bill in its present Senate. The shape will aot pase tae Letter of Gov. Wise on Kansas Affairs. Purtavevemas, Feb. 9, 1858. A letter of nearly four columns from Governor Wise im response to aa invitation to attend the anti-Lecomptoe meeting held here last evening, will be published in the Pres to morrow morning Governor Wise says that? a careful review of the Prosi- dent's mesea ge constrains him to differ with the Presideat of his choice, flo protests ag. inst tue mode ia which tue Lecompton constitution was pretended to be submitied, as anti republican and oppressive, as offensive to the self reapect and moral sense of a free people. fle admits that the conduct of the Topekaites was violent and unlaw- fal, and that their opponenta acted under lawfy! authority up to the submission of the constitution to tho people. But that has nothing to do with the issue—tie the constitution the act and deed of the people, and i# tho schedule republican’ The wrong of the Topekaites Will not justify the wrong of the Lacompton Convention, nor cure the defects of the Lecompton schedule, which, though providing for its ratification or rejection, was sub- mitted for approval alone, without allowing a vote upon its rejection. He contends that there war obviously « sinister and anti republican purpose in thus giving ap un- fair election as to part of the constitution, with no election as to the whole. He denies the aesertion of the President that no people could have proceeded with more regularity in the formation of a constitution than the people of Kanens have done, The people were not al- jowed a fair oloction at all. A fair election could not be held under the schedule, a appears from its face. He combats the Prosident’s idea that the admin. sion of Kansas would speedily end the agitation in Com- gross and localise it in Kaneas, Ho cleclares that it never can be local, Again, it is all essential that the settlement shall be just, right and equal; and if not so, it is sure to be mischievous to that party snatching power without right, and doing wrong that good may como, The ulterior eect of adopting the Lecompton constitution will be worse than réferring back the question for Territorial de- decision. Ti will arraign the democracy and the South for demanding more than is right; it will return the chalies to our own lips, when the Kansas question again and again arises in our bowndiess do- main of wuneetilod Territories; it will drive away thonsands of honest democrats to raise the binck republican fag over the Capitol in the next estroge’ for power, and then raise the ad dread issue of disanlon, ile coneludes by addressing the committee as the friends of Mr. Buchanan and tho administration, who have his best wishes and warmest friendship, and whom he would save both from danger and defeat. He truste in their pare and patriotic motives, but he regards mach mote t mocracy of fesaes ensiety for (heir f, he few and pro no- the South and th fate. kor him aus