The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1858, Page 4

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Bingle copies, in wrappers, six cents Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New York Henatp will de received at the following places in Europe — Lene... Rameen lew, oe & Co., 47 ney hill . “bury 35 Uo. , 6) hi . Pans....- hin, Daropean Express 0s, tPlaonte fe Bourse Livaxpoot.. Am.-European Express Co., 9 Chapel atreet. R. Stuart, 10 Exchange street, East. Baveg,..,.Am.-European Express Co., 21 Rue Corneitie. The contents of the European edition of the Hrnarp will combine the news received by mati and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication = ° ‘The News. The effects of the gale of Friday and Saturday last along the coast are being developed. Through the attention of a gentleman who arrived in this city last evening from Riverhead, and Corwin & Muneell's Long Island express, we have brief particu- lars of @ terrible shipwreck. The ship John Milton, Captain Harding, from Chincha Islands, went ashore at Montauk Point, L. I..on Saturday, during the vio- lent gale which prevailed at that time, and became ‘a total loss, All her officers and crew were lost. Eight dead bodies and the captain's writing desk had been washed upon the beach, at the last accounts. The John Milton arrived from the Chincha Islands at Hampton Roads, whence she sailed on the 13th inst., probably for New York. She was owned in New Bedford. The clipper ship Flying Dutchman, which went ashore on Brigantine Beach, on the 14th inst., was entirely broken up during the severe gale of Friday and Saturday, and isa total loss. She was bound from San Francisco for New York. The steamtug Wm. H. Webb, which was despatched to the assist- ance of the Flying Dutchman, damaged one of her engines during the gale, and lost one of her anchors, but reached this port yesterday, having come in with one wheel. The steamtng Underwriter, which ar- rived up last evening, reports a large black schooner ashore on Romer Shoal. We have not heard of any other marine disasters on the coast cansed by the recent storm. ‘The Hamburg ship Howard, Captain Walter, ar- rived at Quarantine yesterday morning, after a tem- pestuous voyage of ninety-six days from Hambarg. She left Hamburg on the 17th of November, with two hundred and eighty-six passengers, thirty-seven of whom died on the passage from a sickness resem- bling cholera, and from debility occasioned by short- ness of provisions and water, the latter having been dealt out in small quantities for the past forty-two days, and most of it being made from steam from sea water. The dvelling epidemic in Washington i likely to result disastrously to some of the parties attacked. There are four so-called affairs of honor now in pro- gress, namely, between Messrs. Clay, of Kentucky, and Cullom, of Tennessee; Lieut. Rhind and Com mander Boutwell. of the navy; Lieut. Belland Lieut. Williams, of the army; and Gen. Harney and Col. Sumner. The friends of Messrs. Clay and Cullom having failed to effect an amicable adjustment of the pending difficulty, those gentlemen and their friends left Washington yesterday afternoon for an appoint- ed rendezvous outside of the District of Columbia, The affair between Lieut. Rhind and Commander Boutwell has been stopped by the civil authorities placing both gentlemen under bonds to keep the peace. Lieut. Rhind was one of the victims of the Naval Retiring Board, and it is reported that Com- Boutwell refused to meet him on the ground that he had been dismissed from the service. The differ. ence between General Harney and Col. Sumner will probably be settled by the War Department. The quarrel between Lieuts, Bell and Williams had not been adjusted up to the latest accounts, and a duel was anticipated. ‘The one bundred and twentyixth anniversary of the birth of the immortal George Washington was becomingly celebrated throughout the country yester- day, if we may judge from our reports, local and tele- graphic, to which we refer our readers for particulars. One of the most appropriate features of the celebra- tion in this city was a lecture on the Portraits of Washington, by the venerable artist Rembrandt Peale, of Philadelphia, at the New York Historical Society last night. Mr. Peale himself enjoyed the privilege of painting Washington's picture, aa also did his father, who was intimately acquainted with “the Liberator of America.” The lecture was illus- trated by copies of the various portraits of Washing: ton from the pencil of the lecturer, which formed a most interesting part of the evening's entertainment, We are compelled to withhold our report of the lecture from the pressure on our space. It will ap pear tomorrow. By way of New Orleans wo have Havana dates to the 18th inst. They contain no news of importance It is understood that the actual loas arising from the defalcation of Frederick W. Porter, late Secre- tary of the American Sunday School Union, will not exceed $40,000, and that the managers of the Union, with the assistance of a few of their immediate friends, bave determined to pay it out of their own pockets. Mr. Porter has been indicted, but the offi- cers of justice have hitherto failed to ascertain his whereabouts. A fire occurred among the steamers laid up oppo- site New Orleans on the morning of Sunday last. The Virginia, Montauk, Montgomery, W. V. Sher- ran and 8 8. Prentiss were destroyed. The ship Acdover of New York, wae considerably damaged, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1858. and eeveral other vessels received more or less in- "Re Cotton market wes firiner youterday, on, the atabout 11%c. @ 120. Flour nee a we cloved at an advance of about Sc. per barrel, and in fomo cases of Mate and Western at even more, Wheat was quiet, and no gales of moment transpired, the views of bolders being above those of buyers. Corn was firm at 70c. for Southern yellow and white, while sales of all kinds were very Wmited. Pork was held with more firm- Deve, with alee of mess at $16 60.0 $16 60, while some holders demanted $16 75, Beef was firm anc in geod demand. Chicago mess sold at $12 a SiS 60, gad at $146 814 60 for repacked. Sugars were firm, With eales of about 956 bhds. and 1,160 boxes at rates elven in another column, Coffee was firm, with sales ef 300 bags Maracaibo, 600 ¢o. Rio, and 200 do. Porto Rico, on termsgivenin another piace. Freights were quict. ‘and rates more or less nominal at Saturday's quotations. Important News from Kansas—The People tn Favor of Peace. The anti-slavery politicians in Kansas and the black republican organs and orators outside of Kansas, from the adjournment of the Lecompton Convention down to this day, have incessantly kept up their cry of alarm that the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution will be the signal for a bloody civil war. This idea was a prominent feature of the opening speech of Mr. Senator Douglas against the an- nual message of the President; and other oppo- sition Senators have improved upon the hint, by denouncing the bill for the increase of the army as nothing more than a call upon Con- gress for the necessary force to reduce the peo- ple of Kansas to submission to the Lecompton programme at the point of the bayonet. But if there should be any trembling North- ern democrat in Congress otherwise disposed to support the Lecompton constitution, but who shrinks in view of the contingencies of a border war and a general revolutionary reaction throughout the North, we commend to hisspecial attention the calm and dispassionate intelli- gence from our special Kansas correspondent, published in yesterday’s Heracp. Our corres- pondent says that peace “in no way depends upon the mere fact of the adoption of the Le- compton constitution; for if the free State men have the power under that constitution, they will be quiet, if not satisfied.” But he also says that “if there is a tie in the Legislature, there will be alopping off of heads—assassination,” because “the free State men must have the rule some way or somehow, or their shrieks and roars will descend even to the depths of Tar- tarus.”” ‘The difficulty, then, is the new State Legisla- ture; and that difficulty we suppose has already ceased to exist; for if we rightly understand the late manifesto of Gen. John Calhoun, it is equivalent to the concession of said Legislature to the free State party, by a large majority in both houses. But it is in the following extract from our correspondent’s letter of Feb. 12 that we have the key to all these disorderly and war- like squabbles of the two fighting factions of Kansas. Read:— ‘The reason 60 little has been written about the pro- slavery party lately is that there is nothing to write about them, their rs are away, there is no one to excite or mislead them. the rank and file of that party are quietly at home attending to their business, as they would always do if lettalone. Keep these leaders out of the Territory forever and you will confer an incalculable blessing upon it. Jn like manner if Providence or any other beneficent power would take six men in the free party that I could pame out of the a, and keep them out, there would be no more need of the United States troops here. Remove said six men from the Territory, and all the respondents of partisan journals and the — of emigrant aid societies, and keep out the pro-siavery lead- ors ROW out, and we almost instantly have poace. Of the truth of this statement there can be no doubt. It thus appears that all the troubles suffered by the people-in Kansas, and all this embittered Kansas agitation throughout the country, and all the disreputable transac- tions of both parties of border ruffians in the Territory are due to some half dozen unscrupulous vagabond leaders on each side: and their conflicting schomes for the fat offices, and the spoils and plunder, lands, town lota, capital sites, banks, railroads, &c., incident to the organization of a new State. The proceedings of the late Territorial Legis- lature of the free State party will furnish the most conclusive testimony upon this point. Their joint stock speculation for a new State capital at a floating cite called Minneola— their three or four Bank bills, and various other spoils and plunder measures, prove very satisfactorily that the Kansas slavery agitation, in and out of Kansas, has been nothing more than the ragged old cloak under which these reckless spoils jobbers of Kansas have been carrying on their various schemes of plunder and spoliation. Our dirt-eating cotemporary, the New York Tribune, simultaneously with the impartial in- telligence communicated from Kansas to the Herat, published a series of Kansas letters comprehending the same general facte, but under ®uch a black and gloomy coloring as scarcely to be recognized. Thus it seems that, instead of a pervading desire among the masses of the free State party for peace, they are actu- ally impatient for a sanguinary revolt. To this end, the several belligerent resolutions of the late Territorial Legislature (protesting against the Lecompton constitution and threatening the horrors of a civil war should Kansas be ad- mitted under it) are paraded in the columns of the Tribune as embodying the ruling sentiment of the free State party. It is to such black republican misrepresenta- tions as these of the actual state of things in Kansas that we may attribute the prevailing excitement throughout the North against this Lecompton constitution. Had the leading news- paper organs of the democratic party possessed the requisite liberality or sagacity to maintain, here and there, an intelligent indent in Kansas, these anti-slavery exaggerations and false colori#fs of Kansas affairs would never have sccured the impression which they have made among the weak minded of the Northern democracy. Compare, for example, the series of lettere upon the eame topics from the Kansas correspondent of the Hxraip and the Kansas correspondent of the Tribune. The former bear upon their face the imprint of an impartial in- quirer after the truth; while the latter are but the inflammatory outpourings of a rabid and unscrupulous anti-slavery partisan, over head and ears, perhaps, in the epoils and plunder schemes of such free State patriots as Gen. Jim Lane and Gov. Robinson. But as our democratic newspaper organs, from the Washington Union to the Boston Post and Albany Argus, &., are mere spoils organs, close and stingy, and as their motto is to get all they can out of their party and the govern. ment and te keep all that they get, the black republican Kaneas newspaper blood and thun- der writere have had scarcely an opponent in the field except the correspondent of the Hr- naLy. And thus itis that, standing upon the law and the evidence of official documents and official results, and upon the information of a disinterested and inquiring correspondent of Out ow, this journal bas been qualided to cor- all teach the would-be organs of the adminirtration | men who entertaim' ee conscientious a sense of | Opening of the Opera Season—Pian of the their line of duty and their line of argument in | their judicial responsibilities. behalf of the Lecompton constitution. In conclusion, satisfied that our Kansas cor- respondent is correct in his statements of the pacific inclinations of the masses of the free State party, avd satisfied, too, that with the admia- sion of Kansas as a State under the Lecompton constitution they will have other fish to fry than those of a civil war, we have only to urge upon Congress the passage of said constitution without unnecessary delay, Pass the bili, and the democracy will be compelled to rally to- gether around the administration, and, instead of a bloody revolution in Kansas, there will be law, order, peace and “popular sovereignty.” Admit the new State, and let ua have peace. More DEVELOPEMENTS IN THE OPENING OF Srrests.—We publish in another ovlumn a com- munication of no little importance to taxpayers, relative to one of the modes by which they are fleeced in connection with the opening of streets. We preeume the writer, Thomas N. Carr, knows all about the matter, as he is a member of a commission of assesaments and estimate for opening Fifty-ninth street, and is doubtless familiar with the modus operandi. Mr. Carr com- plains that the Corporation Counsel makes too much money out of his services in regard to opening streets—that he has too much power and too many duties to perform. It appears fhat over a hundred cases are now lying un- touched in his hands, in which property to a very large amount is involved. While we agree with Mr. Carr that the fees of the office of Corporation Counsel should be abolished, and a fixed salary substituted, with a view to remove temptation, we cannot see any gain to be derived from creating the bureaus of Cor- poration Attorney and Public Administrator independent departments, The trouble is that we have too many independent departments in the municipal government already. They all are independent, and no one is responsible. Mr. Carr suggests another re- form of dubious utility. At present there are some twenty separate commissions in existence charged with the duty of opening streets. There is no doubt that these commis- eions are for the most part mere humbugg, and that they are fruitful of corruption; but we doubt if Mr. Carr’s substitute would be less open to the same charges. He proposes that the Legislature be asked to enact a law by which one permanent commission may be ap- pointed for the opening of all streets, the ap- pointment to be in the hands of the Mayor and Common Council. According to Mr. Carr's figures this plan would reduce the expense to the taxpayers something like $105,000 a year. There is another thing it would do also. It would create three fat offices of $6,000 a year for the commissioners,and put into their hands almost unlimited pewer to cheat the pub- lic. We do not relish this idea of running to Albany for legislation on every subject. We have had quite too much of Albany interference in our city affairs. The leas of it we have in future the better. The developements in this connection, relating to the manner in which the law is conformed to and the interests of proper- ty owners consulted, form another interesting chapter in that astounding history which the investigations of the fraud committees are re- vealing. The present cost of the commissions on open- ing streets appears to be $125,000 a year, which all comes out of the taxpayers’ pockets. Some of these commissions have been in existence for five years, the members drawing four dollars a day all the time, and doing nothing for their pay, of course, We need some radical! reform of all this jobbing and corruption; but there is only one way of arriving at it, and that is by giving the government of the city into the hands of the Mayor—abolishing all the inde- pendent departments, and sweeping out all the independent irresponsible gentlemen who con- vert their official positions to their own advan- tage, regardlees of the interests of the people who have placed them in power. Let us have a city government on the same plan as the fede- ral government, and the bottom of all this fraud, juggling and abominable corruption may be reached. Without that, it never will, Mean- time we refer property owners to Mr. Carr's communication. They will find some food for reflection therein. Camera, Bestyeas oF THe Crry.—The man- ner in which our new Recorder hae discharged his duties, during the brief period thot he has been in office, is becoming a subject of general congratulation with the public. They ace in it an earnest that he will follow closely in the wake of our present able and energetic City Judge. During the last twelve months the lat- ter has dieposed of about 3,600 cases, a herou- lean amount of Iabor for a single individual. And not only has the promptitude of his deci- sions given satisfaction, but their impartiality and discrimination will bear the strictest inves tigation. One of the greatest benefits derived from this vigor of action is the influence that it will exert on those who are associated with and who will follow him in the administration of our criminal business. From the report pub- lished in our columns yesterday, it will be seen that Recorder Barnard is animated by the same determination to vindicate the laws against the reproach of inefficiency, and to purge the city of the malefactors who have so long pur- sued their evil practices with impunity. With two criminal Judges of such integrity and earnestness of purpose we have much to hope for. At the eame time there remains a question whether the utmost efforts that they can ase will afford us the full measure of protection to which our necessities and the heavy amount to which we are taxed entitle us, Whilst there are no lees than fourteen Judges to administer the civil business of the city of New York, the whole of the criminal business, with the exception of the initiatory portion, which devolves on the Police Justices, is die charged by the City Judge and Recorder. Now, with a population increasing with euch unpre- cedented rapidity as ours, it is evidently impos sible for any two Judges to keep pace with the immense number of offences which will be sent to them for trial. Whilst we cannot but admire the epirit and energy with which the two magis- trates referred to endeavor to prove equal to the exigencies of their positions, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that they are perform- ing an amount of labor which, in justice to its own interests, the city ought not to expect from them. By making some provision to lighten their duties it will contribute to the greater efficiency of the criminal courts, and render still more prompt and certain the punishment of of- fenders. As it is, however, we must be thank- ful for baving on the beach of those courts tro ‘The Tendenctes of the French Empire. It is now quite spparent that an absolute reign of terror existe in Franee. The confiden- tial advisers of the Emperor openly recommend the total euppression of the press; even that eminently cautious and courtly sheet, @aligna- ni’s Messenger, proposed a flight to Brussels, Measures of the most insultingly despotic cha- racter have been proposed to the legislative body. Should they pass,and it is probable they will, the life and property of the entire people of France will be laid at the fect of the sovereign. So thoroughly does the attempt of the Rue Lepelletier—coupled with the previous newspayr outburst of the republican party— seem to have terrified the government that ima- gination as well as bistory are ransacked for precedents of tyranny. Rightly or wrongly, the Emperor considers the expression for which one of the leading Paris journals was suppress- ed some time since—* The republican party is ready for action’”’—to have had some more or lees intimate connection with the late attempt upon his life; and while Pierri and Orisini are left to the mercies of the courts, he is proceed- ing with equal vigor to the attack of those whom he presumes to have been their secret confederates. At the rate he is going, there must soon come a time when no one in France will be safe. After all, the trouble which underlies the restless state of the empire, and the agita- tion of the government is the old sore— the want of a foreign war. Ever since the first revolution the government of France has required a foreign war as imperatively as a re- venue. The army has always been either con- spiring or warring against some foreign nation. To deprive the French soldiers of a foreign foe has always been to turn their sword against the government at home. That is the difficulty just now. The coldiers of the Crimea are tired of inaction and demand to be led to battle. If Napoleon had his choice, it is not likely that he would gratify them. He is too wise not to know the cost of war. But it is highly im- probable that he will be permitted to exercise an unbiased judgment on the question. From the state of terror and agitation in which his friends are at present, it is clear that they are being overborne by the outside pressure. That may be his case, soon; when the case is put to him in its naked proportions, when he is told to choose between a foriegn war and a revolu- tion against his dynasty at home, he will be likely to decide at once against the latter, and in favor of the foreign war, at all hazards. With what nation could Napoleon go to war? It is evident that the army, for their part, have chosen tkefr antagonist—England. And as the war will be of their making, their choice of a foe may not be disregarded. They enter- tain as a body very bitter feelings against the English; feelings which they inherited from their fathers, and which the rather unamiable tivairy in the Crimea did not tend to dispel; they have Waterloo still to avenge. On another hand it seems possible that the statesmen of the two countries may ere long furnish pretexts for hostilities. Napoleon has just made a forma! demand upon the British government for measures to restrain foreign exiles from plotting against his life in England. Lord Palmerston has accordingly introduced a bill into Parliament violating the old British right of asylum, and practically converting the Britiah isles into a hunting ground for French epies. But this bill has already created such a stir that Lord Palmerston will soon be obliged to drop it, or to leave his office. No matter how strongly allied the two countries are, the British people will never consent to permit Napoleon's despotism to cover their soil; and in the at- tempt to do s0, Napoleon will be told certain hard truths which have grown unfamiliar to his ears of late. The Moniteur only needs to repub- lish some of the most offensive speeches against the French empire to raise the war spirit of the eoldiery to an irresistible pitch. Finally, the condition of the continent forbids the possibility of a war with any other Power than England. Russia, which is the only other antagonist whom the French would care about fighting, is still mote closely allied with Imperiat France than England. Ties of marriage bind the Emperor’s best friend to the Russian aristocracy. It is understood that De Morny agreed upon a common pian and policy by which both France and Russia were to be governed in continental mat- ters; that an extensive alliance was formed be- tween them, and that they agreed—looking per- haps to the present contingency—that whatever happened it was their policy to stand together. The French have no natural animosity toward the Russians: the army would hardly care to renew s contest in which they were so recently victorious. : We say, then, that passing events indicate a tendency on the part of the French empire to embark in a foreign war, and that war a war with England. Of the result of such a war there cannot be the least doubt. England is a small island, with a much smaller population than France: it haa an army less than one-fifth that of Napo- leon’s; and small as it is, it is not so efficient or so well trained as that of France. England has besides a severe and costly war already on her hands. Notwithstanding all this, Napoleon may rest perfectly assured that if he allows himself to drift into a war with England, it will not only be the ruin of himself and his dynasty, but it will pulverize nine out of ten thrones in Europe, and be the end of all the despotic gov- ernments on the continent, except perhaps Rus- sia, Wars, at the present day, are not fought with shells and bayonets only. England could donl far more desperate blows at the Em- peror by supplying money and arms to the hundreds of thousands of French- men, Italians and Germans who are eager for revolution, than any pitched battle could in flict; and this, it may be taken for granted, would be the policy pursued. The poor down- trodden peraecuted democrats of Europe have fought many a blind fight for liberty, and have always been beaten; but let the Emperor and his dynastic allies drive England into ® corner, and we shall see very different play on the part of these same democrate. A few millions of British money, a few millions of Sheffield blades and guns, and not a throne in Europe save the Muscovite would stand amonth. We dare say indecd, if the case came to a fair fight between crowne and peoples, that afew tools from some American armories, a few revoivers, rifles, and other hardware, with perhaps a few sharp shoot- ers from our large cities, and & few American engles besides, might be counted in; their Ma- jesttes may depend upon ft that they would not be found on the gide of deapotism. Mew Campaign. ‘The epring eeas6u @t*the Academy of Music was opened last evening with a very good per- formance of “I Puritani.” This season wil! be continued with the eame vigor and perseverance which have distinguished the previous opera- tions of Mr. Ullman, the ‘little Napoleon,” as he is termed. It eeems ‘highly probable that Mr. U''man is the man elected to direct the Academy successfully. Many have been called to the management of the Opera, but none but he have been chosen. Ullman seems bound to succeed whether or no, and this determination is at least half they battle in any enterprise. He bas had-tough times, but never faltered— redoubling his efforts in prosperity, which he bears as well as adversity. He leased the house during one year as an experiment, and went bravely through the crisis, He triumphed over the panic, revulsion and stagnation; kept all his contracts with the public and the artists faith- fully, and now stands fairly to win the game he has played 0 boldly and so well. More than thie, he has succeeded in Philadelphia—the in- habitants of which interior town make it a rule to sneer at everything that is successful in New York. It is probable that Mr. Ullman will shortly become the manager of the Academy there. Likewise he has excited so great a mu- sical sensation in Baltimore that some of the capitaliets there are about organizing a com- pany to build a theatre and Opera house, after the fashion of Niblo’s pleasant establishment. The Bostonians were anxious to get a taste of our Opera company, but the experses of travel to that city and other charges are much greater than those attendant upon operationsin Philadelphia and Baltimore, and the receipts are much less. The musical professors—their name is legion— the camp followers of the theatres and hangers- on of the Boston newspapers, with others who have not the slightest claim upon the manager, demand free tickets, and thus no one expects to pay for his admission. There is, in fact, in Boston a “nobie army” of “dead heads,” as nu- merous and as devastating as the locusts of Egypt. Itis an old playhouse maxim that “orders alwaye grumble,” and this is fully veri- fied by the modern Athenians. After bullying or coaxing free tickets from the manager they are slways more severe upon the artists than the small minority that pay. We were amused, a short time since, by a paragraph in one of the Boston papers to the effect that at a chamber performance of an original opera “some of the friends of the composer had abso- lutely paid for their tickets. If the statue of Doctor Franklin had walked from Court square to Summer street, and stood upon its head in front of Mr. Everett’s door, the journals could not have marvelled more than at this circum- stance. The number of free tickets in all the theatres in Boston is three times greater than in New York; and we are told that, including the stockholders, nearly five hundred persons are entitled to free admission to the Boston Theatre on every evening; and so highly is this privilege valued, that when Rachel played in Boston nearly all the journals pronounced her a humbug because her brother would not give them as many free tickets as they desired. Under all these circumstances, Mr. Ullman has concluded to leave the Athe- nians to pipe to each other, and make New York the base line of his operations, with Phi- ladelphia and Baltimore as the outposts, The chief novelties of the present season will be the production of Meyerbeer’s “Huguenots,” which has never been given here, and Fry's “Leonora,” likewise new to this city. The an- flouncement of this opera has already given rise to much discussion in musical circles. One party declares that it is the finest opera ever written, and another maintains that it is all trash. It excites as much attention as the Kan- sas question or the rows in Washington. Everybody will go to hear it at least once. The excitement attendant upon the produc- tion of the new operas, with a running fire of morning performances, cheap opera nights, and eo forth, will fill up the month of March. Early in April the famous Musard will arrive with his grand orchestra, the most precise and perfect ensemble we have ever heard, and then the season will be wound up by two or three splendid masquerade balls, after the fashionable balls of the Imperial Opera Houre at Paris, which every body attends. It is true that there is a law in thia State against masquerades; but, as Daniel O'Connell said about an act of Parlia- ment, you might drive coach and six through it, and “eminent counsel” have found a place in this act to drive it comfortably. So, altogether, we shall have a gay time of it in April. The city will be full of strangers, The party and ball season will be quite finished. The grand entertainments of the secretaries and senators and representatives and the di- plomatic corps at Washington will be over. The Kansas question will be settled; the investi- gating committees will have closed up their whitewashing business; the knock down, drag out programme and the duelling calendar will all be cleared off. Washington will return to its normal condition of intense dullness, So we shall have all the diplomats and their families, suites and atlachés—to say nothing of a live Pasha, with no end of tails and wives—all here to attend the Academy balls. All the Washing- ton fashionables will come in their train, and thus the dals masques will become the most bril- liant entertainments ever seen here. They will be splendidly gotten up, in the Paris style, and only the ladies will be allowed to woar masks. The bals masques will come slong just as things begin to start up—when we shall have high etocks, high prices, high crinoline, and high old times generally, So every one had better get ready for the grand expansion and the great bals masques at the Academy, some where about the middie of April. Read the manager's bulletin. Fienicurrs, Duets, Wiiskey axp Borner Rorerantsm at Wasurnctoy.—With the trans- fer of the Kansas agitation from Lecompton to Washington, border ruffianism and all its acces- sories appear also tohave been transferred to the federal city. The late Congressional scrim- mage opened the ball, and now bad whiskey, hard swearing, fisticuffs, black-eyes, bloody noses, challenges, rumored duels, and deadly quarrels are the order of the day. The quiet citizens of Washington seem to think, also, that all theee border ruffian developements are but the signs of eomething still more dreadful yet to come. We cannot wonder, then, that Col. Colt has secured'the first step towards the ex- tension of hia pistol monopoly; for, if we may believe all that we hear, no man is positively safe any longer on Pennsylvania avenue with. out a six-ehooter in hie pocket, expecially if he be # member of Congress, gr ot the army or the pery. Tue Wasurvoros Lover on me Warce.— Amidst what Gen. Cass would call “the nolse end confusion” of this Kansas agitation at Washington, and Congressional committees of investigation, and what not, the lobby eperators appear to be working and burrowing like moles after a warm spring rain. For example, Col. Colt, it seems, has got his pistol patent extea- sion, somehow or other, into the hands of the House committee; and from this inkling we may form some idea of what is going on behind the curtain. Asfor the printing committee of in- quiry, it haa probably adjourned its labors sine die. At all events, we have no doubt that Mr. | Wendell, the real proprietor of the Washingtou Union, and the cock of the walk in regard te the printing of both houses of Congress, wilt take care of himself and see that his contede- rates in the game for these spoils do not get more than their share. .A graduate of the Albany lobby organized by the old Van Buren troupe and perfected under the auspices of Thurlow Weed, Erastus Corning, Dean Rich- mond & Co., Mr. Wendell can twist these little country politicians involved in the Congress printing as easily around his fingers as a piece of twine. That he will make a good job of it we leave the printing expenses of this Congreas to answer. He has the tools, and he has the game in his hands As for the lobby patent jobbers, we must not lose sight of them; and. when the committee on printing are ready to report we shall be glad to hear from them. Tae Portictans AND THE PREsS.—Politicians like Messrs, Toombs, of Georgia, Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, and Jefferson Davis, of Mis- sissippi, profess a profound contempt for the press. The sincerity of this feeling may very well be questioned. Those persons know aa well as we do, that the prese is the most power- ful influence in the country. It is recognized by the constitution, makes Presidents and Gabi- nets, controls Congress, and exercises more real power than all the other political elements put together. In other words it is the embodiment of public opinion, which, whatever they may say to the contrary, keeps a wholesome check over the conduct of political malcontents Take them as a body, the lives and morals of the men who conduct the press of this country will contrast favorably with those of any other class, not even excepting our immaculate re- presentatives in Congress. When, therefore, we hear politicians uttering complaints against the press, it may fairly be assumed that it has in some way interfered with the promotion of their individual interests, and is honestly dia- charging its duty towards the country. Prooress or Tax Exransion.—The news from Europe reports continued plethora of money and rise in stocks. These bankers and others who were caught by the revulsion last fall—suck, men as the eight who endorsed for Mr. George Peabody—are determined not to let stocks down till they and he get out. They are more likely to boost them up still higher in order to bring more of the outside public in. Buta time will come when they will sell out; and then, stand from under ! THE LATEST NEWS. “AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. The Quarrels and Fights, Positive and Pro spective, between Legisiators and Naval and Army Officers—Probable Duel betwees Messrs. Clay and Cullom—Our Treatia with Nicaragua and New Granada, 4c, Wasntnctom, Feb. 22, 1858. ‘The efforts to reconcile the difficulty between Hoa ames B. Clay and Mr. Cullom have proved abortive ‘They left Washington this afternoon at § o'clock, accom panied by their respective friends, for, it is said,a plan about thirty miles distant. The probability is that the; will fight to morrow morning. Much excitement exist ‘throughout the city regarding the affair. This afternoon ex-Lieutenant Rhind and his friend Captain Corrie, of South Carolina, were held to batl im tht sum of twenty five hundred dollars each for their appear ‘ance before the Criminal Court for challenging and post ing Commander Boutwell, at whose instance the arres was made. Commander Boutwell publishes a card in th: Star this evening in reply to Lieutenant Rhimd’s chal lenge, declining the invitation to pistols on the groumt that Rhind had been dismissed from ‘he Navy. ‘The fisticuff altercation which occurred yesterday morn ing in a barber shop underneath Willard’s Hotel was be tween Lieutenant Boll, of the cavalry, and Lieutenant Wil liams, of the dragoons. The quarrel may result in a duel a challenge having passed between them. Despatches Just received by the administration from Kansas indicate a marked change in the aspect of affairs that Territory. The person who communicated the intelli gence occupies a high official position. Me says that at thr present time a large majority of the people are in favor o the immediate admission of Kansas under the Lecomptor Constitution; that the honest and fairminded throaghow the Territory are heartily sick of agitation and desir peace; and that the only way to put a stop to agitation anc kill off Jim Lane and his worthless gang is to admit Kaa gas aga State. The Herald of Freedom, and other paper: heretofore opposed to Lecompton, now favor its admin sion. Mr. Yrisarri bas informed our government that, from information in his possess.oo, he has no doubt of the rats fication of the treaty recently negptiated between thr United States and Nicaragua. General Horran, the new Granadian Minister, ia in re ceipt of intelligence from his government to the effect tha the differences between the two governments will be satis factorily adjusted. He is of opinion that the treaty re cently negotiated will be ratified, the reports to the com trary notwithstanding. THE ORNMRAL HEWSPAPHR DEAPATCH. Wasuivorom, Feb, 22, 1868. The Navy Department this morning recsived advice from Commander Page, of the ship Germantown, dated Bombay, January 9. He learned from the American Com sul, Dr. Bly, that our commercial affairs were ina happy condition in all respects, The latter expressed himeett much satiafied at the appearance of one of our national versels there after an interval of fifteen yoars, Com- mander Pago says that our trade was largo, and that fif. teen ships were loading and discharging st Bombay. He had been visited by the senior Captain of the Imaan and Muscat navy, who was superintending the building of @ frigate for bis government. The revolt in India was near- ly at an end, and Commander Page belioved that the fight ing was nearly over, but, nevertheless, that the English would be compelled to keep a large fores there. She had now about 60,000 troops in different parts of the country. He had visited the authorities of Bombay, and mot with every national and personal courtesy. The American party of the Board of Managers ot the ‘Washington National Monument Society, having more tham six months ago retired from all further connection there. with, at the mecting of the subscribers to-day a new board, of opposite politics, was elected 10 serve ene year, ‘or until the next triennial election, a8 provided by the tion. ‘voting was all one way, sranier David vill Counc to his house by a serious }iness, His symptoms are @ little improved this morn - feostor Seward is among those who are expected to speak at an early day on the Kansas question, which it ia supposed will be taken up on Wednesday or Thursday. ‘The Burning of the Pactfle Hotel. St. Locus, Feb, 28, 1858. In the confusion and excitement some errors crept inte the account of the burping of the Pacific Hotel, telegraphed on Saturday. The loss of life a not so groat aa was them stated, The names of those positively known te be among the dead are as follows: — Henry H. Rochester and Thoms H. Strong, of Rochester. H. M. Gregg, Charles Davis, William Ounningham, George A. Crane, Evan J. Watkins and Mr. Johnson, of Bichigan. Miss Hunter is missing, and it is supposed sho is dead The bodies of Bruce MoNett, Burkbardt Welst, Pal