The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, BVLPOR AND PROPRIRTOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS Volume XX0I - AMUREMENTS THIS DAY AND EVENING. y THEATRES, Brosdway—Afternoon ant astica — Kacrsraianisw—Mugrmant, Lox, feraoop and Evening— WIBLOE GARDEE, Brent wi KroKMISG RaiNocrRos, QU rsTHLANISM AND GYMNASTIC ‘Monas, Etgruant, &c. —- BOWEAY THEATRE, Kowery—Winetam Trta—tacw Servranp—A Dov iy Paris ALonzo, The Beare KURTON'S THRATRE, Broadway, opposite Rond street ~ Fk WouLn mg AN AcTOK—(MuTIO~ NICHOLAS NICKLRBE, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Boear Pauicery— Crown Prisce, LAURA KRENE'S THEATRE, Broadway—Au. raat Guirrems is Not GoLlw—MY¥ Niicnaoe'’s Wire—fax srecras Buipranoom., BARNOMS AMERITAN MUSEUM, Broadway—After- poon and Evening: Pionexk Paraior. WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 563 Broadway—Grorcr Cuxiery & Woons MinstaEis—Tix Toopuss, wite CacDLE Lxorurgs—Afvernoon and Evening. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, No. 444 Broadway—Nacno Masvopixs anv Bunuxsqes—Down IN ALABaM. — MECHANICS’ HALL. 472 Broadway—Bryant’s Minereeis —Ermoriax Song8—Bos Rrvury's Festival. MOZART HALL, 663 Brosdway—Dramaric axp Literary Exreetsit went BY THE Boon CuiLpREN. The News. The steamsht Edinburg will leave this port to. day, with the mails for Europe. The mail closes at the Post Office at half-past ten o'clock this forenoon. Up to ten o'clock last evening the steamship Nia- gara, which left Liverpool on the 30th ult., for Hali- fax, had not made her appearance at the last named port. She has undoubtedly been detained by the strong northwesterly winds that have prevailed for the last few days. She will bring three days later news. By way of New Orleans we learn that the steam- ship Star of the West left Aspinwall on the 3d inst. for New York, with the Pacific mails, two hundred and fifty passengers, and $1, 00 intreasure. The ships Frigate Bird, from Philadelphia, and Golden Rale, from Boston, had arrived at San Francisco. ‘The arrival of the Star of the West may be looked for at any moment. We have news from Havana to the 2d inst., three days later than previous advices. There was nothing of importance occurring in political circles. The sugar market was dull, with a downward tendency in prices. The stock on hand is estimated at seventy- three thousand boxes. Freights had improved some what. The Spanish vessels of war were knocking about in the Gulf, between Havana and Key West. ‘The slave trade was active, as usual. We have news from Barbados to the 20th ult. Muscovado sugar, new, was in market at $350 a $4.50 per hundred pounds; molasses was offered at twenty cents per gallou; and ram, crop of 1857, at twenty cents per gallon. Flour was heavy at $7 90 for extra Ohio. There was an overstock ot meal, bread and crackers. Good mess pork rated at $21 a $22, duty paid. Lumber was declining. Exchange on New York rated at four per cent, current funds, for ten days. Ne demand for freights. The weather was favoruble for the planters, and the canes are re- ported to be ripening fast. Some sugar had already ‘been brought to town, but the crop would not com- mence generally before the beginning of February. ‘The health of the island continued good. The Senate was not in session yesterday. In the Houre Mr. Wolcott, the contumacious witness in the $57,000 tariff fund investigasion case, wae placed at ‘the bar and interrogated as to what excuse he had for not answering the question propounded by the Select Committee, whether he had not received mo vey from the firm of Lawrence, Stone & Co, Wol cott denied any design of offending the House, and asked till Monday next to justify his conduct. The Chuirmun of the Select Committee moved that the indulgence be granted, aud after some opposition the motion was agreed to. Reports were presented from the Committee on Elections with reference to the case of the contested seat of Mr. Davis, of Mary- land, and the consideration of the subject was post- poned till Monday. Mr. Hoard, a republican mem- Der from the Twenty-third district of New York- raisved a question of privilege, and proposed the ap- pointment of a select committee to investigate rela- tive to executive interference in the passage of mea- sures before Congress. The House, however, by a vote of 108 to 88 declared it was not a privileged question, and thus summarily disposed of the sab- ject. Several subjects of general interest were brought up in the Legislature yesterday. Reports favorable to amending the act relative to extending the jaris- diction of the New York Court of Special Sessions, und providing for a clerk and deputy clerk of said court, were presented. The question of levying a tax on dogs appears to be attracting considerable atten- tion. It is estimated that there are half a million dogs in this ich are maintained at an ex of dollars. The Finance Com mittee have the subject under consideration. In the Assembly « special committee was ordered, to which was refer petition for the repeal of th A report was made favorabic law, taxing all dogs fut where noow ice was giv of ptroller of New to vacate the oMice of ( York, and prov fora tax to pay the Metrop Itan Police. A bill was introduced to incorporate @ Central American Commeicial Industrial Com pany, with a capital of $300,000, to purchase land, establich manufactories, &c., in Central America The anti-Lecompton meeting which was announced to take place last evening at the Academy of Music, did not come off, for the simple reason that the lessee refused to let the building. The reason of his re fusal is fully explained in the report, which wil! be found in another place. An attempt to get meeting outside was equally unsuccessful; and after some remarks from Secretary Stanton, Mr. Bissell, and an orator who proposed to break into the Acade my, the crowd dispersed. Stanton afterwards es sayed another speech from the balcony of the New York Hotel, bat with no better success. The case of the rival Street Commissioners is again on the tapis. Judge Peabody some months ago di rected that the books and papers of the Commissiop- ers office be given to Mr. Conover, whereupon Mr. Devlin applied for a writ of certiorari to review the proceedings. Yesterday the case was argued at epe- cial term of the Supreme Court, before Judge Suth erland, who allowed the writ. The case also came up in general term before Judges Davies, Clerke and Sutherland, when the quo warmnto taken out by Devlin for the purpose of bringing the matter before ‘he Court of Appeals, was argued. A report of the case may be found in another column. ‘There were no less than four divorce suits on the Vulletin of the Supreme Conrt yesterday morning, three of which were granted and one denied. The complaining parties in all the cases were the ladies, the ‘dords of creation” being the gailty ones. The Committee on Streets of the Board of Coun. cilmen held & meeting yesterday, and after hear- ing arguments for and against the widening of Duane street, adjourned for onc woek without tak jog auy action The Committee on Wharves, Piers and Blips of the Board of Councilmen met yesterday afternoon, and after hearing @ good deal for and against the eteamboat removal. adjourned rine rie, thas cansing @ panee, perhaps a final one, in this well discussed wobject The proceedings of the Board of Councilmen last | evening were of tine character. They co rred with th en in appropriating & itoble te st the Committee | to employ te ie 1 Te f the Pin < , _————- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, Department. A resolution was also adopted, giving | out, it is time that Congress should turn its at- the Special Committee of the Counciimen on the mime subject $1,000 to pay for clerk hire. The re- port on the tax levy for 1858 was laid over. Public schoolhouse No. 44, situated in North Moore street, was damaged by fire last night to the amount of about $10,000. The whole of the fourth story aud roof were destroyed. The Chamber of Commerce met yesterday and cceived the report of the comwittee appointed to consider the proposed amendments of the bauking laws. We give the report in full in another column. It is to be acted upon at the special meeting of the Chomber on Wednesday evening next. A pe- rusal of the document may prove interesting to the mercantile and moneyed community, We publish in another column the quarterly report of General Superintendent Tallmadge to the Police Commissioners, and some extracts from the Deputy's report. The General Superintendent gives the Com- missioners a sharp rap over the knuckles on the ex: ample which has been set for the force about inter- fering with politics. About enc hundred and twen- ty-five appointments en the New York police force were made in seeret session on Thursday. The Commissioners aa yet refuse to disclose the names. Many are of the old force, and others, it is said have characters which the Commissioners have good reason to conceal. There was not much business transacted in the Court of General Sessions yesterduy. James McMa- ms was convicted of forgery in having two $3 coun- terfeit bills on the John Hancock Bank, with intent to utter them,and was remanded for sentence. John Kiernan was acquitted of a charge of burglary in breaking into Michael L. Finney’s premises and stealing $40 worth of carpenter's tools, the evidence being insufficient to connect him with the crime. The jury could not agree in the case of James Hyslop, tried for stealing a horse and cart worth $250, the property of Charles Rath. ‘The cotton market continued firm yesterday, with sales of about 2,000 bales, closing at 12¢c. per pound for mid- dling uplands. The flour market exhibited signs of rather more animation, with some demand for export, and sales were madg toa fair extent without change of moment in prices. Wheat was in fair request, while sales wore limited; inferior to prime Seuthern white was sold at $1 15a$1 40, and on the previous afternoon 12,000 bushels Chicago spring at about 98c. Corn was in fair demand, with sales at 66c. a 69c., while 70c. was aaked for prime white. Pork was firmer, with sales of mese at $16 a $16 125;, and of prime at $12 75a $13. Sugars were less active; the sales were confined to about $50 hhds. New Orleans, at rates given in another column. Coffee continued frm, with sales of 1,000 a 1,600 bags Rio at .ull prices. Freights were steady, with engagements of flour to Liverpool at Is. 10d. a 18, 1035. rosin at 18. 94., and 1,000 bales of cotton were taken, chiefly at 5.32d.; cheese was taken to London at 303, Late Events in Mexico—The True Questions for the Consideration of Congress and the Country. It isa melancholy thing to contemplate the Congress of a great nation wasting its time. talents and energy in the discussion of such questions as whether Kansas shall come into the Union with a pro-slavery constitution and a free State Legiskature or not; what shall be done with Brigham Young and his polygamous sect in Utah; or whether a few men shail be added to our army, widely disseminated along an im- mentee frontier, at a time when events are oc- curring in our extesfor relations, and even in the countries beyond our bogfers, but contiga- ous to them. While England, France and Russia are obey- ing the impulse of the age. and building up vast empires and fields in the East for the develope- meut of their industria! interests and commerce, the assembled wiedom of the greatest republic the world has ever known is ignoring the events that are passing within ite immediate reach and duty, and wasting its time upon subjects that have no practical bearing, either now or in the fu- ture, upon the national life. Day after day Senators and members of Congress are only en- gaged in discussing questions aud muking speeches which they suppose will have a favor- able effect upon their chances for re-election to the offices they now unworthily fill. To do this they close the halls of the nation to the greatest questions of the day—uestions which even now are knocking imperatively at the doors of Con- gress for admission. The same impulses toward industrial, commercial and political develope- ment that attend the leading Powers of Europe attend us too, aa the leading Power of America. Cuba, lying immediately upen our shores, and with an industrial life that is from ite very na- ture a reciprocal part of our own, is driven, by a legislation jealously howtile to ue and to her self, across the wide waters of the Atlantic to seek the markets for her sugar and tobacco and her supplies of cotton fabrics, grains and meats. Mexico is disintegrated aud droppiag to pieces within our easy reach, calling all the while upon us with a thousand tongues for help. Ever since the declaration of ite independence the atheistical and infidel Popish clergy of Mexico has been intriguing to gain power there, juet ae the atheistical and infidel Puritan clergy of New England has been striving ntriguing to gain power here. In aud have buildings, and the active wealth of the people to their own corrupt and selfish uses, destroying the political vitality and the industrial power of the nation. Here, fortunately for us, they have failed to shackle the freedom of thought | and of progress. The impulse of the age is urying us to act in | thie direction, and the industrial capabilities of every town and hamlet in New England. New York and the Northwest are loudly demandizy | of Congress that it shall open the venues of | Cubs and Mexico to their prodaciioas. as Englund | is opening India, France Northern Africa, and Russia central aud farther Asia, to their own. The opening of either of these countries, or both, to the energy and enterprise of our citi- zens would produce « beneficial effect apon our- elves, a8 a community, ten times greater than was produced by the acquisition of California. | The requisitions of ten millions of people would | be brought at once into our industrial marts, and all the looms and fisheries of New England, the farms and foundries of New York, and the granaries of the Northwest would be taxed immensely beyond their present capabilities to supply the demand for their products. Coincident with thie stimulus to the increase of our Northern productions, the South would be urged immediately to « far greater increase in its yield of cotton, sugar, tobacco and other staples, which it only can supply through its system of organized tropical labor in combination with capital and skill. A period of industrial and commercial expansion, upon the solid basis of consumption, would follow. such as the world hes never seen. This is what the events and the impulece of the age have been calling upon us to do for the But a weak General and a fool ish diplomatiet defeated us in our daty in Mexico ten years ago: and an fimbectle and cillating administration did the same thing seyuently in regard to Cuba. Now that we last ten years, id ab’ ean edimint id integ. to carry have succeeded in their object, | converted the finest lands, the best | | tention to some higher objeetw than the petty | speeches for bancombe its members are now i making. The progress of the whole nation bs invelved in the events that are passing sround us and in our immediate vicinity, while, ae regards any principle involved in the Kansas question, Utah, or the army bill, the fight hae been fought and the victory won. Nothing that Congress can do can change the political or social organization of Kansas, the destiny of the Mormons, or the inadequacy of our present gallant little army and navy to tae growing wants of the country aod its interests. We hepe, therefore, that it will turn its atten- tion from dead questions to living ones. A revolution is goiug on in Mexico, stimu lated by a vicious and corrupt clergy, who with to perpetuate their iviquitous rule, The con- stitutional President of that republic, delegating the executive power to the person appointed by the constitution, leaves the scene of intrigue and bribery, and ccmeg to us to implore our countenance and ald for the liberal govern- ment—the choice ot the people—in its strife with the combined priesthood and corruption of the republic. If Congress does its duty now, the errors of the past ten years may be redeemed, and a new impulse given to the industrial, com- mercial and true political interests of the country. Let President Comonfort be received as the Preafdent of a sister republic should be received. Let him be sent back as the repre- sentative of a free people should be sent back from our midst—with twenty-five thousand men at his back, to enable a willing people to put down an odious pricsthood; and breaking up ite unboly temporal organization, bid it attend to the saving of souls, and not te the robbery of a vation and to the destruction of its liberties, ‘This is what the exigencies of the day demand of Congress. And after Mexico comes the ques- tion of Cuba. Our Relations with Braztl—Mr. Mende's Ad= dress to the Emperor. There are no two countries in the world that present eo great an identity of social and politi- cal sympathies, combined with great reciprocity of material Interests, as the two leading Powers ot America—the United States and Brazil. iw their social organization they hold to the same forms, while nearly all of the other leading civilized Powers are endeavoring to retrace the erratic steps they have taken, in removing the barriers between the superior and the inferior races. In their political developement and ten- dencies they exhibit a great similarity, and are pursuing nearly identical paths of territorial expansion. We are somewhat the older Power, but Brazil is treading in our footsteps. At this moment she is agitated with the same ques- tion of fluvial rights that at the beginning of the present century stirred the Valley of the West ; and is endeavoring to open the Parana and Paraguay rivers as we did the Mississippi. In the production and consumption of the stapies of industry there is the greatest reci- procity between us. We produce grain and cotton, and largely consume sugar and coffee ; while she produces the sugar and coffee and con- sumes largely flour and the fabrics of cotton. These are the points taken up by Mr. Meade, our new Minister to Brazil,in his address to the Emperor on presenting his credentials, and which gave him the occasion to make some- thing more than a mere formal speech. His address, though short, presents a view of the true position of the two countries with the skill and foresight of a statesman. Reminding the Emperor that his mission was simply one of courtesy and amity, for there are no vexed questions to arrange, no claims on either side | to be settled, his only desire would be to add Increased activity and vigor to the trade and | commerce between the two countries; and he ty of constitutional organization, and the iden- tity of political and social sympathies, that will inspire acommon policy und lead to a unity of action and sentiment in the future. This is the true spirit of civilized diplomacy, and tho reply of the young Emperor was in accordance with it, With such a beginning we anticipate no very difficult task for Mr. Meade in his diplomatic labors, though they may be such as will be pro- ductive of the greatest results to our industrial interests. There is but one other community in the world that presents the same reciprocity of interests with us as is presented by Krazil, Cuba has a similar social and industrial organization, but though she lies immediately upon our shores 8 jealously discriminating and restrictive tariff excludes our cereals and cot ton fabrics from her markets and oppresses both consumer and producer. A little wisdom on the part of Brazil may change the current of the fifteen or twenty: millions balance of trade that we pay snoually to Cubs into her | own coffers. We excel in the making of the | coarser cotton fabrics which Brazil requires to | clothe her slaves, and we give her now better flour than she can get elsewhere, while we are ready to pay the highest price for her sugar | and coffee. The market which she bas opened | for cur flour bak given her almost the monopo- ly of our coffee trade; « like course on her part 1858. SS «SR Ome cel, Fattery than the man in the moon. It isenough { gided by a vote of 105 against 70—the House tbat he knows, if he does know,where the profits go. ‘The tide rises and falls. The man in the ween says nothing; but be occupies a good po- sition for a bird's eye view in the way of busi- nese. The lobby, and all its affiliationg in Wash- ington, New York and Albany, have learned a thing or two from committees of investigation; and from present appearances, here and there, theee committees will next be resolved into com- mittees of whitewasbers, This is the age of progress, and we can’t stop tor trifles, Call the Lext witness, The Passsge of the Ncbraska Bil a Foretaste of the Sucicss of the Lecompton BUL The success of the Harris- Douglas resolution referring to a committce of fifteen the question of the Lecowptou coustitution, is hailed by the foes of the administration as a great defeat for Mr. Buchanan, and as a certain omen that the constitution will be rejected in the House. A more delusive idea Lever possessed a desperate faction. As we have affirmed before, the Le- cormpton constitution is legally begotten of the Kaneas-Nebraska bill; aud in the history of the progress of that measure through Congress may be found some data upon which to calculate on the result of the present question. When the firat vote was taken on the Nebraska bill in the House there was a majority against it of fifteen votes, and this result was viewed at the time, both by the friends and foes of the administra- tion, as a defeat for Mr. Pierce's Cabinet. We all know the final result of the bill in its tri- umphant paseage through the House, just two months after that vote was given. And so it will be with the Lecompton constitution. Tho mighty majority of one by which it has been referred to a special committee will have van- ished, perhaps before the committee have time to report upon it. As the progress of the Nebraska bill forms an interesting page in the history of this whole question, and as it may fairly be taken asa test of what is to follow in the Lecompton case, we will give a short sketch of it:— On the 4th of January, 1854, Judge Doug- las, as Chairman of the Committee on Ter” ritories, introduced into the Senate the orig- inal Nebraska bill, constituting that portion of the continent a Territory of the United States, with its Northern and Southern bounda- ries fixed at the parallel 36.50 and 49 de- grees, The substance of the bill is too well known to require any comment now. On the 17th he gave notice that he would call up the bill on the 22d; but it was subsequently post- poned until the 30th, at the earnest request of several Senators. Meantime the bill was be- coming a source of much uneasiness to men from all sections, including President Pierce and his Cabinet. On the 22d of January a Cabi- net meeting was held ov the eubject, and after much discussion an amendment was suggested, keaving the validity of the Missouri Compro- mise to be adjudicated upon by the Supreme Court. This amendment was not acceptatile to the leading Southern men. Mason, Hunter, Atchison and other Senators declared that they would not be satisfied with any other amendment than the following :—‘“That the constitution and laws of the United States, which are pot totally inapplicable, shall bave the same effect within the said Territory of Ni braska as elsewhere within fhe United States, except the sth section of the act prepa ratory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which was superseded by the principles of the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, and is hereby declared inoperative.”” This amendment was submitted to Mr. Pierce, and after many shufflings and gy- rations it was assented to by him. On the following day Mr. Douglas introduced closes with a gracefal allusion to the similari- | ® DeW bill, dividing Nebraska into two Territo- | ries—Nebraska and Kansas—the former to be contained within the 40th and 49th degrees north latitude, and the latter between the 40th and 37th, and containing the above amendment: ‘This bill was then printed, and is the celebrated Kansas Nebraska bill, the origin of all the con- troversies and the cause of all the shrieks which have since disturbed the peace of the Union. In accordance with the notice of Judge Douglas, the bill came up in the Senate for di+ cussion on the 20th of January, and from that time till the 4th of March following it was the eubject of debate from day to day in the Senate, and of general discussion thronghout the coun try. Petitions poured into both houses of Cou- gress against the bill. Anti Nebraska meetiogs were organized at various points. The Taber- | nacle echoed with denunciations of the bill and its supporters; and a five hundred parson power remonstrance’’ from Massachusetts was hurled | at the head of Judge Douglas. But in spite of all this the bill passed the Senate on the 4th of | March, 1854, by a vote of ST yeas to 14 nays. | towsids our cotton fabrics and machinery wi!) | | render her equally supreme in our sugar trade There are some incongruitics in the tariffs which by ® little wisdom can he easily re- | moved; and we hope that before the term of | Mr. Meade’ miseion shall have expired they will be swept away, and the commerce of the two perous increase. Sports axp Piewper Jons asp Lyvestiaarina | Cowmrrrkes —Three or four investigating eom- mittees are at work upon certain spoils and plunder jobs of Congress, but as yet they have made no very great discoveries, The witnesses don’t know anything, or won't tell anything— which is all the same. Mr. Matteson, they say, could tell a good deal of the lobby operations at Washington; but this, it is understood, is the reason that the House of Representatives spares him. He might tell too much. But we can tell him that it would be a great card for him if he would make aclean breast of it, turn State's evidence, tell all, and promise to sin no more. The people would forgive him, anda long string of rascalities might thus be brought to light, before which the Gardner and Galphin claims would appear a# mere sixpenny transactions. Meantime, we expect romething of Me. Wolcott about that tariff job -but not much; nor do we jook for much from any of these corruption in- vestigations. Finally, as in Congress so in this metropolis, our corruption investigating committees find it as difficult to catch these rogues as the miserable sinners at Washington. George Law, for ex- amp reterious ’ at the Hows No more concerning th swhe built that mysterious On the Sist of January previous, Mr. Richard son, of Minois, had introduced the bill into the House, but the first decisive vote upen it was taken on the 2ist of March. The bill then stood in this position: On its in- troduction it had heen referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and oc- etipied a place in the calendar behind two or three hundred other bills which should be eithes dis. posed of or ect aside in ordeT tS reach it. The ob- ject ef the administration party then was to get it referred to the Committee on Territories, where | it might be dealt with at any time. Mr. Rieh- | ardson determined to make this motion a test of countries put upon permament basis of pros- | the strength of the administration on the bill, | and he accordingly proposed that it be referred to the Committee on Territories. At that time there was a democratic majority of seventy in the House, and the Southern whigs were sup- posed to be on the side of the administration. Mr. Cutting, of New York, led the hostile army, and met Mr. Richardson's motion with an amendment referring the bill to the Committee of the Whole. A vote wae taken, and Cutting’s motion was carried by a majority of fi/teon—the House voting 110 yeas to 95 nays. This was claimed by the opposition as a defeat for the administration, and was so admitted by Mr. Richardson himself, who declared that sending the bill to the Committee of the Whole was its destruction. ‘ Such was the result of the first decisive vote on the Kansas Nebraska bill in the House—a majority of fifteen against it; yet on the first vote taken on the Lecompton constitation a majority of only one is recorded. The bill was again voted upon, on the Sth May, 1854, on a motion to take it up for debate, to the exclu- sion of the bills standing before it on the dock et; and on this occasion the condition of things was changed. The motion passed by a majori- ty of twenty-three—109 voting tor and &% against it. Fourteen days after that the final vote on the passage of the bill wae taken On iwotion of Mr. Richardeon which was de wut into Committee of the Whole on the Kan- eas Nebracka bill, and after a stormy debate it was read a third time, and passed by # majority of nine—the vole being 109 to 100. This is the history in brief of the progress of the Kansas Nebravke bill inthe House. It will be seen that on the first vote the administration tuffered a defeat by a majority against them of fifteen votes, while on every subsequent vote they had a majority. And such, we assert, will be the case with the Lecompton constitution. It will pass the House when it comes to be voted on. The first vote on the President's Mersage, we contend, is not a oreshadowing of the final result. Ifthe administratio. of poor Pierce could beat down a majority of fifteen, who doubts that the strong and more energetic administration of Mr. Buchanan will beat down a majority of one? ‘The Anti-Lecompton Gathering at the Acade- my— Old Buck” Anuther “Olid Hickory.” Our black republican Kansas sbriekers, with afew fishy democrats in the foreground, at- tempted to hold their appointed meeting last night in the Academy of Music, and, had they gained admittance into that building, would no doubt have availed themselves of the oc- casion for the largest liberty im denuncia- tion of the “infamous” Lecompton constitution- They promise to carry out their purpose some day next week. But what will be the result of their denunciation of the policy of Mr. Buchanan? Will it help the cause of the anti-Lecompton- ites to the extent in Congress of a single vote? No. But the effect of such a meeting, and of the late Forney experiment in Philadelphia, and of all other factious Northern movements of the same character, will be only to expedite the inevitable popular reaction in favor of the ad- ministration. The parallel, in this view, between the pre- sent position of Mr. Buchanan and the position of Old Hickory, as President, is very striking and remarkable. It was generally understood among the Icading politicians concerned in the elevation of General Jackson, that as President, he was to be a mere nose of wax, to be moulded at pleasure to suit their purposes. But he was not in “the White House six months before they discovered that they had ‘caught a Tartar” and secured a master. Forthwith the war of conspiracies, defections and rebellion commenced, Mr. Calhoun leading off. This war was prosecuted in various shapes, upon private intrigues, social scandals and public measures, through the whole of General Jackson’s Presi- dential career. Fut what were the consequences? Before the end of his first term, his three most powerful Presidential rivals—Calhoun, Clay and Webster—were laid tow in the dust; and at the close of his second term he transferred to his successor the most powerful and compact politi- cal party in all the history of this country. The nose of wax which the political pipelayers thought they had secured in the new man from the backwoods of Tennessee thus made himself their dictator. He was not the man to be alarm- ed by factious conspiracies or threatening poli- ticians, but a very independent sort of a man, with a will of his own, and exceedingly obsti- nate when he had made up his mind to “take ‘the responsibility.” We have seen that with the election of “Old Buck” a number of the most active and ambi- tious politicians, North and South, concerned in his election, imagined that he, too, could be moulded at their pleasure, like o nose of wax. And what, in this case, are the consequences? Before the expiration of the first year of his administration the vain but desperate efforts of these scheming politicians to reduce him to obe- dience have resulted in casting out into politi- cul exile three of the most conspicuous men of the party, and three candidates for the Presi- dency, withal, who have lost everything in their first encounter with this indomitable “Old Buck” of Pennsylvania, These three prostrated Pre- cidential aspirants are Mr. Senator Douglas, Go- vernor Wise, and ex-Governor Walker. From the dizzy heights of thcir Presidential hopes, they have fallen into the gulf of political obli- vion, never again to reach the elevation from which they have so suddenly descended. They may issue their manifestoes, and get up their po- litical meetings and investigating committees, here, there and everywhere; but they are done for, and their cause is lost. ‘$he Lecompton constitution, ‘with slavery,” within a month or #0, will be a law of the land, and that will be the end of them. ‘Thus, the parallel betwoen “Old Hickory” and “ Old Buck” is complete; and the triumph of the former over all the opposition forces and factious democratic leaders, and their camp followers combined, was not more decisive than will be the success of the latter over the present political combinations against him. As for the subalterns of this Douglas-Walker-Wise move- ment, such as Fe@rney, Stanton, Harris, Haskin and others, they will disappear with the drop- ping of the curtain over “bleeding Kansas,” and “the places which now know them will know them no more.” Wheu the leaders are cut down, their followers must necessarily be djsper ned, The gathering last night in front of the Acade- my was “ Love's labor lost.” If the meeting had been held in the building, and resolutions and speeches, and all the paraphernalia of pomp, and ceremony, and gas lights, been spread out before the people, they would have amounted to nothing—just nothing at all, It matters very little whether the speeches are published to-day or next week. Old Buck has put his foot down; he has made this Lecompton constitution the test of the strength of hie administration, and the re- ult will show that he was right in “ taking the respondbility.” Within a few weeks the Kan- sas difficulty will be settled, the strength and prestige of the administration will be estal- lished, and its enemies will be all adrift upon the waves. — ----—-—— Fancy Stocks Revivine.—With the general improvement in the stock market, consed by the unusual plethora of money, we must expect to see the revival of all the old mining schemes and other bubbles which collapsed some three years ago. We notice already that efforts are being made to resuscitate some of the old hacks which were so much talked aboat during the last mining mania; we doubt not but we shall, in the course of the next few weeks, witness the resurrection of all the old copper stocks of Lake Superior, the gold stocks of Georgia and the Carolinas, the various fancy stocks of Ari- zona, and the lead etocks of the West, inclading Potosi and other bubbles. It is in the nature of things that these several enterprises should receive a share of the infla. tion, after the railroads have been pushed up as high as they will go. And it is also tn the nature of things that there should be fools to buy them, notwithsanding the experience of the past few years. : This being the case, it ,'s hardly worth while fo pnt the public on ite guard against these sham concerns. Still, lest s#y ,hould go wrong from want of due information, we repeat that with infivitersimally few exceptions all suck concerns are #windles got up telely 49 sell stock to greemhorns They are the - of | mock auetions, contrived by Peter Funke, ama sold to simple countrymen. No miaing iv in~ tended by the proprietors of these enterprizes, beyond the mining im the pockets of their dupes, They get no ore save what they filo from purchasers of their scrip, and the blasting that is done in connection with thear enterprises is uttered by the victims when the trick is found out. We earnestly recommend all persons with money, and especially those from the country, to eschew all such concerns as these. MenicrpaL Corruptions.—The increase of the taxea already, since the laat estimate for the year was made, is half 9 million of dollars; they are now to be eight and a half millions, and by the time the year is out, wé have no doubt they will be nine. Toadd tbat the city or the tax- payers derive no benefit of any kind from this regular increase in the tax levy, is superfluoas. It is well known that of late years misgov- ernment and discomfort have increased pre- cisoly in proportion to the increase in the amount extorted from the people in the shape of taxes. New York is fast becoming the most heavily taxed and the worst adminis tered city in the world. If anybody feels curious as to the destina- tion and employment of the millions which are paid every year in the shape of taxes, let him read the debates in the Common Council, the reports of the various investigating commit- tees now sitting, and the reports of the several other committees which digest the work for the municipal government. There he will learn thas from the Commissioner of Police, whose friends try to extort a sixteen thousand dollar house from poor policemen, down to the very messen- gers of the departmente, almost every one, in- side and outside, seem to have no sort of re- gaed for the welfare of the city. Nearly every one in, at, or around the City Hall appears to have his hand in the city purse. Sach @ pack of thieves as the late few years have let loose upon this city, in the shape of decayed and hungry politiofans, has never been wit- nessed before. Robbed, plundered, ravaged and sacked as we are by these municipal banditti, one turns with a feeling of positive disgust toward the imbecile official who occupies the Comptroller's office and who ought to protect us against these thieves He is worse than useless While making a tremendous pretence of virtue aud economy, he has never yet contrived to defeat any great scheme of plunder, and under bis ad- ministration the increase in the taxes has been unparalleled. So long as he occupies his present position there seems to be every prospect of the taxes continuing to swell, and the plunder to become every year more extensive. Tur Staren Isuanp Ferry Company.—The revelations which are being made in relation te this ferry company will lead to the settlement of the important question :— Who governs New-York, the people thereof, or George Law? There are two ferries to Staten Island. One of them is run without the least license or war- rant of law or authoriéy from the city. George Law got hold of a pier on pretence of enlarging the Battery (which work, by the way, from the incomplete and imperfect manner in which it has been done, is proving not only useless but highly detrimental), and straightway, without leave from any one, he started his ferry. The other ferry is also run without license, In this’ case the ferry franchise was sold at auction to Jacob L. Smith, a Councilman, an agent of George Law's; but as the lease imposed certain conditions on the lessee as to the strength of the boats, and the number of trips to be made, neither Jacob L. Smith, hor George Law, nor any one else ever signed it. So, in point of fact, neither ferry is now run under authority from the city. Proceedings were taken some time since to turn the ferry company out of the slips which they occupy without warrant of law. But the parties in interest backed down when money was wanted ; and the lawyers boggled the case, so that nothing ever came of it, and George Law's Ferry Company plied its two unauthorized fer- ries as pleasantly as ever. It may be interesting to some of the hungry politicians who hang round the City Hall to know that the profits of these ferries are not less than sixty thousand a year, including the amounts of which the city is now defrauded. Sixty thousand a year is a good deal of money; it might be got by any one strong enongh and skilful enough to turn the present squatter company out of its berth, and run the ferries with a proper license, As for George Law and Jacob L. Smith, the exhibition they gad of themselves on their exawpinatio, Sefore (he investigating committee is crushing enough without comment. Loe ow ome Frere Avexce—A buécher’s bill of seven dollars a month, Piety and hun- ger, Opera cloaks and empty stomachs, cheek by jowl. Parson Beecuer Fauve Ur.—Paraon Beecher in his paper inquires, “Can, the Union be main- teined?—will it be worth maintaining, if this Lecompton constitution passes?” Let as try. Parson Beecher may be unduly excited. Who knows? . The Greenwich Street Tragedy. COURT OF OYER AND TRRMINER Before Hon. Judge Ingrabam. ‘THE FOURTH AND LAST OF THE ROT CRIMINATA Pen 12— The Deeple vs. Wm. Hagan.—The prisoner in this case is the last of the four youths who were concera- od in the Greenwich street rape and murder; he is appa- rently betweon 16 and 16 years of age: his three com- panjong in crime have been sentenced—«) ‘Connell to death and Toole and Tenbrook to imprisonment, one for 12 and the other for i “4 Om parsetpes tnd ¢rusmal acta ‘ot tho others, Pleated | slaughter in the fourth degree. ‘unt! ; affidavits of rt. the fourth degree is the State prison. Teas within tho Judge to impore any punishment, ‘‘gy's imprisonment in the penitentiary. ‘Tir er Cror.—All speculations in regard to the ice crop may now be set aside, We have accounts from Roeton, Maine, New Hampshire, Albany, and along the North river, which state that ice from eight to eighwen inches in thickness is now being harvested, with a fair Proxpect of the quantity increasing. Ice will be cheap again next sommer Personal Intelligence. Governor Ramsey, of Minne.oia, waa in Milwaukie on the th inst. Lord Napier presents bis sincere thanks to the firemen and e:tizent generally of Wash |: who kindly assisting in putting out the fire that broke out in his house on the tent for mansi ment for two years in iseration of that down to one it