The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1858, Page 4

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A letter from Salt Lake, published elsewhere, written by one of the faithful, gives an interesting inside view of the state of affairs among the Mor- mons. The writer ridicules the efforts of the govern- meant troops, and asserts that the whole army might easily bave been destroyed by the Mormons had they felt disposed so todo. He also predicts that the army will make a retrograde movement in the spring. We learn from Washington that the Secretary of ‘War and the General-in-Chief arb diligently engaged in arranging the spring campaign against the Mor- mons. It has been decided not to wait the action of Congress upon the various propositions for in- creasing the military force, but to withdraw troops from the frontier posts and concentrate them upon Utah. Orders in accordance with this design have been already issued. The call upon the President for information as to whetber the people of Utah are in rebellion against the federal authorities has een responded to. The documents, however, con- tain nothing of importance on the subject that is not familiar te the public. The committee of the New Jersey Legislature on the Quarantine question has reported against quit- claiming to New York a portion of Sandy Hook for quarantine purposes, and the Legislature has en- Gorsed the views of the committee. As this subj is abelved, let the Board of Quarantine Commission- ers be abolished without delay. The Senate was not in session yesterday. In the House the consideration of the resolution providing for the appointment of a select committee to inquire whether executive infinence has been employed to control legislation was postponed till Thursday next. Notice was given of a bill permitting creditors of the federal government to bring suits for the recovery ‘of debts in the United States Courts. After a dis- cussion of the Kansas question in Committee of the Whole, the Indian Appropriation bill, and the bill approptisting money to falfil treaty stipulations re- garding the abolition of the Danish Sound dnes were parsed, and the House adjourned till Monday. A large number of bills and reports were presented ‘nthe Legislature yesterday. In both branches bills to “provide forthe purity of the clective franchise,” to “prevent illegal voting —in plain terms, for the re- gistration of voters—were introduced by members of abe Know Nothing party. They were referred to select committees, after considerable opposition from the democrats. The Know Nothings and republi- ans seem to be united upon this project, if upon nothiag else. In the Assembly a bill was introduced creating a Board of Home Relief for the city of New York, to consist of seven members, with sala- ried officers and clerks, with autharity to supervise od regulate tenant houses, provide relief for va- grant chikiren, Ac.—all expenses to be paid out of the city treasury. Bills legalizing stock transac- tions on time, and for levying a taxto pay the old police force, were also introduced. The Board of Councilmen were in session last even- ing and transacted considerable routine business, but nothing of special public interest. The Board con- curred with the Aldermen in ordering the fire alarm bells of the city to be rung at nine o'clock every Sabbath morning, for the convenience of the Sunday school folk; and also in relation to advertising for new hose for the various fire companies. An ordi- nance, submitted by the Fire Department Committee of the Alderman, for the better regulation of the Gepartment, was concurred in. The report of the Pinance Committee on the tax levy was returned by ihe other Board and referred to a Committee of Con- ference. The Committee on Lands and Places were instructed to report at the next meeting as to what gre the difficulties in the way of the purchase of Ward's Island. Messrs. Genet and Brady were ndded to the Standing Committee on Assessments, the latter gentleman affirming that the recent de velopements of frauds rendered it necessary to ex- emine the apportionment of assessments carefully. A committee of five, in pursuance of a resolution offered some time ago, was appointed to proceed to Albany to advocate the repeal of the Metropolitan Police bill, after which the Board adjourned till ‘Tuesday. The Committee on Lands and Places of the Board of Councilmen were in session yesterday. Mr. McCotter came before the committee to urge upon them the necessity of the city buying his portion of Ward's Island. Mayor Tiemann was present, and said he thought that Mr. McCotter bad no right to claim public roads, which he does, or possession of the land from water mark on ground that does not belong to him, bat to New York. Opposition in the form of was offfred to the objections of the Mayor, and the result was aa adjournment of the committee without any action. Two other committee meetings of the Board of ®oancilmen also took place yesterday. One was the Railroad and the other the Street Cleaning Committee. The Committee on Railroads was en taged hearing parties on the subject of extending the Fourth Avenue Railroad to Forty-second strect, dout agreed to hold another meeting previous to re- porting for or against the propriety of granting per: mission for an extension. The other commitee was wccupied listening to arguments as to the best amethod of having the streets cleaned: but adjourned without doing anything. A correspondent at Bridgetown, Barhadoes ng on the 6th inst., says:— Within the last three ‘weeks twenty-two vessels from the United States mrrived at this port, bringing us 5,000 barrels flour 4068 pounds meal, 1,840 bags corn, and 1,260 bar rels pork, with a fair supply of horses and mules. We therefore report the market as ebundantly sup. t also writ plied, and as vewels continue to arrive, the trade e@perations, particularly in breadstaffs, are conducted with cavtion. Corn meal and corn, owing to some fpeculation, range firmly—the former at $1 75a NEW YORK HERALD,. SATURDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 27, 1868. 44 80 per dareéi, and the lather #5. Oodtah is in anal supply, and is much wanted: Lard dali at $16.2 $20. weather is dry.and rain much wanted. Sugar making is becoming daily'tore general, and in another week or two the mills will be imfull opera- tion throngh the island. The crop witt be the largest ever made in the island. New sugar sells at $2 60 0 $5 26 per 100 Ibs.; moiasees, 17 cents; rum,36 cents, in bond; sterling exchange, $490 a $487 60 per £100, aud bank bills on New York, at ten days, 2 per cent premium. The cotton market continued firm yesterday, with free rales, The transactions, including coneiterable lets in transitu, embraced sdout 4,000 bales, closing firm om the basis of middling uplands at 12¢. and gulls do at 12Ke. Flour was dull ond sales modcrate, closing at rates ia favor of purchasers. Wheat was quiet and gaies limited. Choice lots were scarce and wanted for milliug. Tho ates embraced choice Southern white at $146 and red do. at $125, and Chicago spring at $1. Corn was steady, with sales of Southern yellow aad white at 68¢. Oc., with & ‘small lot of the latter reported at Tic. Pork was steady, With sales of 108s at $16 6% $16 60 and of prime ai $15 26, Sugars were steady, with gales of 720 bhds. of New Or- leans and Cuba, aud 160 hhds. pew crop Porte Rice given. at rates in ancther column. Coffee was steady, with sales of 1,000 a 1,500 begs Rio and 200 do. Jamaica at prices given elsewhere, Freights were witbout change ef me- ment in quotations, while engagements wore moderate. The Defeat of the Army Bill—Singular De- velopements in the United States Senate, The proceedings of Thursday last, in the United States Senate, which resulted in the de- feat of the Army bill, abounded in the most sin- gular and significant political developements, First, the bill was an administration measure (three or four thousand increase of the reguiar army) imperatively demanded, in view of the Mormon rebellion and the numerous hostile In- dian tribes of the vast wilderness of the far West; ard yet this practical measure of a demo- cratic President has been overthrown in every shape and form in the Senate, which is demo- cratic by an overwhelming majority. This isa curious fact; but from the peculiar views of ultra Southern and Western democratic Sena- tors upon the subject the want of unanimity among them may be readily explained. Ultra Southern fire-eaters, of the narrow ca- libre of Mr. Toombs, were afraid of this pro- posed increase of the army. It might result in placing too much military power in the hands of some future Northern President; and we sus- pect that Mr. Seward’s emphatic support of the measure may have contributed to strengthen euch ultra Southern suspicions. On the other haad, the ultra Western Senators wanted volunteers instead of regulars, because, while the great West would be ready to furnish any number of volunteers for Utah for a limited term, her people would have little or nothing to do with the enlisting business for the regular service. Thus, among many of the democratic senators conflicting sectional and local considerations were para- mount, and between them the administration and its requirements were disregarded. In the second place, singularly enough, among the most steady and consistent support- ers of the administration upon this measure were Mr. Jefferson Davis and Mr. Hanter, the two most prominent leaders of the Southern ul- tras, and Mr. Seward, the great leader of the anti-slavery holy alliance of the North, second- ed by Mr. Cameron, the especial anti-Buchanan champion of the Pennsylvania republicans. But these men, upon this subject, were governed by broad statesmanlike views, and properly appre- ciated the general public sentiment of the whole country in reference to that great moral ulcer of Mormonism, for the extirpation of which this proposed increase of the army was requested. In this light the moral independence and con- sistency of Mr. Seward, through all the varied proceedings and amendments of the bill, (con- sidering the party appeals and remonstrances that were brought to bear against him.) are particularly entitled to respect. But the most remarkable feature in the di- visions of the Senate upon this aforesaid bill is the inveterate hostility with which it was re- sisted, in every shape, by the dyed-in-the-wool black republicans of the New England school, from Hale, of New Hampshire, to Doolittle, of Wisconsin. They opposed the measure upon the pretext that this army force was intended for the reduction of the people of Kansas tu submission to the Lecompton constitution—that another object was executive patronage, and on the general plea that the army was already large enough for all legitimate purposes. The real ground of this ultra Northern opposition, however, we fear may be traced to a lurking tympathy for the Mormons and their scanda- lous system of patriarchal polygamy and con- cubinage. From the advent of the missionary labors of Fanny Wright and Robert Owen, in bebalf of a “free love” reconstruction of our social «ye- tem, their poisonous doctrines have been sprout- ing up in the North, and especially in New England, in all sorts of hideous shapes. Fou- rierite phalanxes, amalgamating abolition socie- ties, woman's rights conventions, Bloomers, spiritual circles and free love conventicles, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, have been the order of the day. Puritanical Maseachusetts, in these duced social reforms, has taken the lead, until, if we | may judge from the case of the Kalloch, some of her most saintly anti-Ne clergymen are little better than Mormon elders Re | our municipal system. from our territories. . The general pubiic senti- ment, North and South, demands the abatement of this naieance, Bad in eome form or other we hope'that the troops required will yet be pro- vided by Congress. As for any danger to Kan- a4 or to the public liberties from the perma- nent increase of the army indicated, it is all poneense, With the additions proposed the army, after disposing of Brigham Young, will find permanent and useful employment as the government police force of our widely extended western deserts aad frontiers, Rewarps or Mrrir—It seema that General Nye haa got his bouse and lot, at least the title deeds are said to have been secured, and posses- sion is to be given on Ist May. The property is located, it seems, on the corner of Twenty- third street andTenth avenue. We are not told whether the house is four or three story, or the lot full width or anything more or lesa; but we presume that the policemen have done the thing handsomely, and that the property is all that even General Nye could wish. It may be pre- eamed that the house will be decorated with a suitable inscription, to run somewhat as follows: Presented to Commissioner Nye out of the scanty Bavings of the Policemen, as a roward for 4 fow months exertions as @ member of the Metropolitan Police Board. The police must notstophere. Having begun the good work, let them not falter in well doing, but persevere to the end. General Nye cannot be expected to be content with a house. A Commissioner of Police should have his carriage aud horses. They will cost but a trifle. A pair of clean limbed, hamfsome animals (General Nye could not be expected to be satisfied with any others) will cost about $1,000 to $1,200; the carriage may be bought for as much more; and a vacant lot adjoining the house, with a subetantial stable upon it, may be added to the gratuity for about $5,000 more. A few months steady economies on the part of the patrolmen will enable them to manage it. ‘Then, it is but fair that General Nye should have a service of plate; a thousand to fifteen hundred will purchase this. Finally, as the hot eummer months are approaching, it would be « very delicate attention on the part of the policemen to present General Nye with a yacht, in order to cruise through the waters of the bay and recruit his exhausted energies. A yacht like the Wanderer would cost $25,000; but if the policemen eould pick up a yacht like the Rebecca, second hand, they could get it for about five thousand. It would be nothing for them to raise this sum now that they have be- gun. A little privation in their families, a few boots and shoes or a little beef leas for the children, and the whole could be managed, and everybody, including Commissioner Nye, would be perfectly hap, Kassas News.--The letter from Kansas pub- lished in yesterday's Heratp sheds much fur- ther light upon the condition of affairs in that Territory. The writer draws a vivid picture of the adjournment of the Legislature, and por- traysin striking colors the political agitation which has so long been the popular pastime in that Territory. From his statements it seems quite likely that no one would be better pleased at the admission of Kansas under the Lecomp- ton constitution than the very Kansas people who have opposed that constitution. They, like the rest of us, have grown tired of the subject, and with to eee it settled at any cost. We take pleasure in drawing attention to the maturity of judgment and comprebensivencss of view displayed by the writer of our Kansas correspondence. maintained there for some time; it is not too much to say that he has done more toward epreading correct views of affairs in that Terri- He was despatched to Kansas | some time since from this office, and has been | tory than all the other newspaper correspon- | deats who have been there. Had the democra- tic organs in the North had the energy and en- terprise to send correspondents of their own to Kansas the agitation might long since have been checked; as it is they have been so busy quarrelling about spoils that the republicans have enjoyed a monopoly of the manufacture of Kansus news. More Wityrssrs vor tan Tarirr Lyvestt- cating Commrrres.—it seems that this commit- tco are picking up more witnesses in Masaachu- setts capable of throwing light on that $47,000 affair. They must not forget, however, thal certain philosophers in this region profess to know that $200,000 were collected from the New England factories for the purpose of re- pleniehing the lobby and promoting the passage of the tariff bill. stock jobbing and stock gambling journal in this city have acknowledged that they quainted with the facts, and their evidence may help to bring the charge home. Their names are Raymond, Wesley and Simonton. Let them be called before the committee and com- pelled to testify. Tur Pouck Buss ar Auvaxy.—All sorts of The managers of an obscure | are ac. | bills have been and are going to be intro- | into the Legislature at Albany to amend and tinker this and that defective part of | All these are mere | moonshine; we hope none of them will pass, for in disguise. Thus, among the rabid anti-slavery | factions of New England and the North, free love and its attendant abominations appear to | ha’ fanaticiem, till at length we may pretty safely » heen extending peri pasen with abolition | assert that where we meet with an inveterate | hater of negro slavery we find a sneaking free | lover, or a skulking Mormon with another name. We have no doubt that this hidden sympathy | for the Mormone and their practical Fourierite and free love institutions has bad much to do with the opposition of the ultra black republi- cans of the Senate to thie army bill. Mormon- ism, a6 it existe in Utab, isa sort of nucleus upon Which may be engrafted similar experi- ments iu other quarters and ander the various disguises of our Northern social reformers. But let Mormonism be extirpated, and public opinion will next be directed to the various modifica. tions of the same abominations existing nearer home. It wa® therefore a bold venture on the part of Mr. Seward to denounce the infamous polygamists of Utah as a moral nui- sance; bat it was an unpardonable offence in him to advocate the increase of the army re- quired for their expulsion. The result will pro bably be some curious political classification, at no distant day, of the anti-elavery legions of the North: but in that event Mr. Seward may rejoice in being relieved from the contami nating associations of Fourieriem, free loveism and abolition sympathies with Mormonism. As for the recommendation of the President for an increase of the army to the extent of four or five thousand men, it was eminently wise and judicious, The force indicated will be needed for the removal of this Mormoa nuisance even a good bill superadded to the mass of in- congruous legislation which we have just now | would do us more harm than good. The only reform that will be of any use will be a retara to the old system of a one man power, in the person of the Mayor, and the abolition of ali the independent officials and Boards of Commis sioners whieh now cumber the muuicipal frame, and prevent the wholesome administration of city government. If any member will propose , rates than ever before known. | now wants is our ¢ to abolish all our existing charters and amend- | ing acts, and to substitute a brief law assimi- lating te government of New York to that of | the confederacy, he will render a cood service: anything short of this is an injury Souxe Him Orv.—The man of the Spring field Republicon, in Massachusetts, who made «ach a ridiculous fiasco in attempting to ostablish a great journal in Boston last year, bas the impu- dence to say that our Kansas correspondence is not written in Kansas, but is manufactured in the Hera. office—this, too, in the face of self-evident facts. We can bold no communica- tion with euch insolence, lying and meanness in newspapers. We shall therefore strike the fel- low off from our exchange list. A Newsrarer Pryener.—_Mr. Booby Brooks is every other day stealing from our columns without acknowledgment, and serving up a cold, cheap hash suitable for the Fifth avenue, Hlis last basket of cold ‘vittals” wae made op from our account of the red republican banquet in Leonard street, He re-cooked that piquante affair in the shape of a report and an editorial article—a cold hash and hot stew at one meal. His butcher's bill for the last week must have been @ little more than weual. Southern Extension and Northern Interest,— Several of the minor newspapérs are endea- voring to make it appear that the extension of our influence over Mexico and Cuba would re- dound exclusively to the interest of ‘the Southern portion of the Union, and that it should be resisted o2 grounds of sectional inte- rest and influence. A grester fallacy than this could not be easily found; for not only is it not true in its aesertion that the South is exclusively interested in the extension of our eouthern frontier, but the fact is that the North, and more particularly New England, draws a far greater advantage from our extension southward than any other section of the Union. The political weight that may bave accrued to the South by the admission of Texas has been counterbalanced three or four times over by the admission of new Northern States, while the actual material advantage is with the North. The direct and indirect trade of New York and Boston with the ports of Texas is a hundered times greater than that of all the Southern porta together. Sena- tor Seward’s declaration on the floor of the Senate that the fight between the social systems fer political preponderance in the Union has been fought and won is emi- nently true; and while the political elements of the agitation that hos been eo rife fora gene- ration among us is dying out, it behooves us to consider what are the true principles involved in the bringing of new territories within our circle. These new principles are entirely of an in- dustrial and commercial character—the open- ing of new markets for that thriving industry which hives in our Northern States; the re- moval of those tariffs, protective laws, preventa- tive regulations and jealous schemes of policy that now se greatly obstruct our trade with Mexico and Cuba; a free interchange with them of the products of the fisheries, looms and forests of New England, and the grains and meats of the Northwest, for the intertropical and metallic productions natural to them. The extension of our influence over Mexico and Cuba might give them a stable government, and a prospect of a permanent future, and thus redound greatly to their advantage. But a much more palpable benefit would accrue to ourseives. Every mill privilege in New Eng- laad would double in value at, once; the demand for the products of her looms would more than double in one year; three times the present yield of her fisheries would not suffice to meet the wautsof the new trade; every article that her prolific ingenuity now produces would be at once demanded by ten millions of new con- eumers; and in return we should have the rich productions of Cuban agriculture without the burthen of a double line of duties, and the countless treaeures of the now almost unworked mines of Mexico. A very few statistics will demonstrate this. We will take Cuba first?’ That island now con- sumes, in round numbers, the following articles of trade, which she should mostly, if not entire- ly, get from us:— Cotton, woollen and linen fabrics... $6,000,000 Meats, fish, Xe. . ceccecreses SOO OO Flour (nearly all from Spain). 5,000,000 Lumber ..... dnisvosedueteeesss 2,000,000 Total from New England and the Northwest... see ss. $16,000,000 Rice (the only Southern product) .. 1,000,000 iron and metals. ..............04. 3,000,000 Total .. - . $20,000,000 While here we have only one article, rice, trom the South, we have four articles to the value of sixteen millions of dollars which should be supplied to her by the Northwest and New England; yet, owing to the prevailing sys- tem of tariffs between the two countries, not five per cent of either of those articles, except lumber and fish, are supplied to her from’ this country. None of our cotton or woollen manufactures go there, when proximity, superiority of product, cheapness and many other reasons should give us the exclusive trade. By the present political relation of Cu- ba to the United States, New England is de- prived of an immediate market for ten millions of dollars worth of the products of her industry, | which would inercase vastly from the moment of the admission of Cuba into the Union. A far greater result would attend the remo- val of the commercial barriers that now exist between us and Mexico. We have no trade with that country worth calculating, while every ele- ment of her industrial existence demands a free exchange of products. We will take only one of these elements-—her mineral wealth. The mines of Mexico during the latter part of the last century yielded as follows: From 1770 to 1779. $165,000,000 From 170 to 1789, 194,000,000 From 1790 to 1700 231,000,000 Total. 3600,000,000 Before the first decade of the present century expired she became involved in civil war, from which she has never since been free, and her production ofthe precious metals has gone on decreasing continually. In addition to this cause of industrial decay the high price of quicksilver, necessary for the extraction of the metals from the ores, has tended against her. This has been removed by our developement the quicksilver mines of California, trom whence it can be supplied at much lower All that Mexico arantee to the stability of ber government and an industrial anion with ue, and she will produce far more wealth than California ten times over. In retarn, she will require cotton goods from Lowell and Law- rence, boote and shocs from Lynn, Yankee no- tions from every town and hamlet in New | England, and machinery from New York and Pennsylvania. The stimulus tbat the opening of these mar- kets would impart to New England would far exceed that which has resulted from the open- ing of Texas and California to them; and it is in this material light that the entire North will look upon the question of our Southern exten- sion within a very short time. The admission of the free States of Minnesota and Kaneas will forever deprive the abolition agitators of the political elements they have found so ready to their hand, and force the old questions to give way to the new ones. Some of the leading Northern politicians have already foreseen this result, and are prepared to head off ona new tack for public favor in Nosthern public opinion. Srock Prepterions.—Some of the prophets of Wall street foreace a revulsion in sixty days; others in three months, others in six, others in To listen to each, you would suppose the nine. speaker was revealed. How harmonious the revelations! How sensible the prophecies! Progress of “The religious : ( where is gsining ground every day. A eimilar movement commenced at about the same time (he Religidus | Revolution, . revival in this city and elee- | in Europé and on the shores of the Pacific, 80 | | | | | | j | | 1 ] that we may reaeonably conclude that all Chris- tendom is awakening to grace. In this city there are twelve daily public prayer meetings of all the evangelical denominations. We give a report of yesterday’s proceedings at one of them in to-day’s paper. There are also daily services in all the Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches. These services are attended by not less than ten or twelve thou- sand persons every day; the prayer mectings are crowded, and the attendance at the Lenten church services is greatly in excess over any previous year. We read that in all the meet- inge “there seems to be adesire to avoid de- nominational bias, and to make all the women who come perfectly easy in their minds on the score of possible offence at their preconceived ideas.” The same zeal prevails throughout the country, and the einners are flocking in great armies to taste the sweet waters of eternal life. The philosophic mind will naturally seek for ‘the cause of this sudden religious excitement. It may be found chiefly in the historical verifi- cation of the theory that in all ages the spirit of God and the spiritof Satan have been at war for the possession of the soul of every man, woman and child on the face of the earth. To go back no further than the Christian era, we find that the Apostles and their immediate suc- cessors, “the noble army of martyrs,” buckled on their armor and fought with Satan night and day, in seagon and out of season, overcoming him at last. Then the spirit of God reigned upon the earth. Then arose the Roman church, with all its pomps, splendors, political power, corruption, sins, lusts, and wickednesses. The church was rich, powerful, luxurious, licentious and cruel. During many centuries Satan had possession of the Romish church, and therefore full swing over all Christendom. What he did history will tell. Then arose the fiery Luther, the mild Melancthon, the ascetic Calvin, the sturdy John Knox. They openly defied the devil and all his works. They preached through all Europe the plain, simple faith of the Fathers, and worked out the reformation. How the Dis- senters in England and Scotland and the Hu- guenots bled and suffered for the cause of Christ, the records of the times of Queen Mary, the blood stained sabres of Claverhouse’s dragoons, the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s and the cruel- ties in La Vendee will tell us. Here was ano- ther army of martyrs, and the spirit of God again reigned. But time impaired the power of the Roman church, and the Anglican organi- zation took the lead. The penalties against Dissenters were relaxed. Even Quakers were acknowledged to be human beings. The suc- cessors of the reformers fell into the old ways— Satan again possessed the kingdom. Then ap- peared the instruments of the devil in the shape of Voltaire, Rousseau and other free thinkers, whore infidel publications set all Europe in a blaze, and brought about the horrors and the terrors of the first French revolution. The effect of that revolution was to disorganize society in France and elsewhere, and to make it fashionable to scoff and sneer at holy things. The teach- ings of these French philosophers inculcated many dangerous heresies, and many weak brethren, seduced by the glittering generalities of the infidel books, embraced the spirit of Satan with open arms. In the early history of this country the Puri- tans had a hard fight with the old leaven of un- righteousness, They conquered, however. They never hanged a Quaker, set an Episcopalian in the stocks, hunted a Papist out of the settle- ments, or shot an Indian without having prayers before and afterward. But here also the church grew rich and lazy. The spirit of Satan came down upon us twenty-five or thirty years ago, in the shape of Fanny Wrightism, Owenism and so on—all theories connected more or less inti- mately with infidelity. Then came Fourierism, spiritualism, agrarianism, socialism, and the crowning abomination, Mormonism. The reign of corruption, roguery, infidelity, licentiousness and fanaticism had commenced. Satan seemed firmly fixed when this new, spontaneous re- vival of religion commenced. And now we are told that the spirit of God is to descend upon all Christendom, to drive out Satan and all bis works, to cleanse, renovate, and invigorate all the regular churches—to crush Mormonism and all the other isms—to make us all clean and white as little lambs seven times washed in the silver Jordan. This is the philosophical view of the religious revolution. The Christian religion is founded upon certain plain, practical, radical moral principles and trath. Men change—times change; truths alone are immutable, unchange- able, eternal. At various periods since the birth of our Saviour the reign of error tas seem- ed to be permanent, but not so. The spirit of God has descended upon the churches, the brethren have returned to first principles, and Lucifer has been sent howling to Hades, It is now the time for a similar movement, and with the time we have the movement. We are re- turning to first principles. Already we see the decadence of the political and the fighting par- sons. Beecher preaches Sharp’s rifles no more. The spirit of Satan which popped into the Church of the Puritans, like the spirit of evilin the shape of “Jack Calhoun” in Congress, has been routed out, and the church is coming around right again. Let the revolution go on. Through its agency we shall crush out all the hereeies of the day, and walk in the paths of righteousness through the light of the New Tes- | tament, which is the lamp of eternal life. Tue Doveras Democracy ann Troveie.—The defection of ex-Governor Walker from his po- sition of hostility to the administration on the | Kansas question is creating quite arow amongat the handful of politicians composing the Doug- las democracy here and elsewhere. Poor For- ney is in a stew in Philadelphia, and has found out that another seceder has gone over to the administration from his camp. It seems that a Mr. Johnson, who claims the merit of the no- mination of Mr. Buchanan and the chief agency in his election, has abandoned the Douglas de- mocracy and is now writing for the Union at Washington. But this is not all; George N. Sanders and all the New York Hotel clique have also dererted the Douglas democracy. So there is trouble all round. Is tHe Kine or Prossta Comme Here ?— It is reported that the royal family of Prassia are about to increase their investment in Erie bonds, of which they already hold near a mil- lion. What does this mean? Do they foresee a coming squall in Barope, and do they want to prepare a comfortable home in the United States? | THE LATEST ‘NEWS. T ¢ Onn Non-Arrival of the Amertca, . Hauwax, Feb. 1-2 0. There are as yet no signs of the royal mail steamship America, now fully due at this port, with three days later newsfrom Europe. Weathor calm and clear. _——— Despatches for Kurope. i Ponramp, Feb. 26, 1858, Tho steamehip Indian will leave this port for Liverpest at2P.M. tomorrow. Despatches to be forwarded oy her ghould be loft at 21 Wall street, Now York, befere oon of Saturday. Affaire at Wi THE SPRING CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE MORMONS—oe- POSITION TO COLLECTOR SCHHLL—NEW YORK CoB- ‘10M HOUSE APPOINTMENTS—MAIL STEAMSHIP PRO- is busily engaged in arranging the spring campaign agnings the Mormons. The Secretary has decided mot to wait the ection of Congress in relation to increasing the army, bat to immediately withdraw the entire force from the frontier ‘and all other quarters, and concentrate them against the Mormons; and with this view orders will be at once trans- mitted for the movement of troops to Yor} Leaveaworth, Preparatory to their march to Utah. Talso learn that tho Secretary has decided to convene e Court here for the purpose of trying Col. Sumner em charges preferred against him by Gea. Harney. Mr. Schell, your Collector, has been here with a list ef thirty-six mew appointments to the Custom House. ‘They are selocted from all the Tammany factions, but are not yetconfirmed. Opposition is made to them by the ‘Tammany Society. A desperate, but secret snd suppressed contest, is going on here between the New York democrats of the diferent committees. Great effort is being made by the Biokles, Fowler, Rynders and Hart party to break down Collecter Schell and those who act with him. ‘The opposition among the democrats in the House te the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution is disappearing rapidly, There can be no doubt bat it will pass the House by ten or twelve majority, and there is no doubt about the Senate. There is no truth whatever in the rumored changes of Southern members on the Kansas question. You may depend upon it the bill will pass both houses Horace Greeley has come on here to drum up the re- publicans. It is said bis evidence will also be required before the several corruption commuttees. Matteson will be examined b fore the Tariff Investiga- ting Committee to-morrow. The statement telegraphed from here as to the feeling of the House Post Office Committee regarding an increase of ocean post routes, is an instance of the mannor.in which certain correspondents attempt to biack mail par- ties having business before Congress. In point of fact, but few more routes have been memorialized for—two to Europe and two to South America, on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts—and all of these metthe approval of the Postmaster General in his report to Congress. The com- mittee have not yettaken the subject up; but so far as the opinion of its members is concerned it is more than probable the reports will be favorable for all such lines ‘as cam be conveniently established, and which can be shown to be required for the developement of our com- merce. The views of the Heraxo in this respect will be fully endorsed. There will be a caucus of democratic senators to-mor- row morning, for the purpose of agreeing upon a pian of action with regard to the important measures of this ees- tion. It is stated by the administration democrats of the Penn. sylvania delegation in Congress that Mr. Sharwood will be appointed to the Judgeship made vacant by the death of Judge Kane. ‘The district appointments still hang fire. Dr. Jones is Postmaster, but the President is much embarrassed in the selection of Marshal. He may be compelied to retain the present incumbent. ‘One of the principal writers for the Union isa Mr. John- son, who claims that he once conducted the New Youx firnatp, managed the democratic party, got Mr. Buchanan nominated, secured his election, had Walker appointed Governor of Kansas, G. N. Sanders to the navy agency of New York, and bimself w be Consul to London. Do you know him? THR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE UTAH REBELLION. Wasinxaton, Fob. 26, 1858. ‘The President to-day, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information to show to what extent Utah is in rebellion, communicated voluminous documents in reference thereto, the substance of the most importaat of which have already been published. A letter from the headquarters of the army informs Gen. Harney that “So well is the nature of this service appreciated, and go deeply are the honor and interests of the United States involved in its success, that the govern: ‘ment will hesitate at no expense to complete the of the little army, and ensure health and comfort to it as far as attainable.”’ He is told—The prudence expected of you requires you to anticipate a resistance, general and Organized, and to shape your movements as if it were certain, keeping the troops massed and in hand when ap- Proaching expected resistance.’’ In a letter to Col. Johnston, dated January 23d, General Scott heartily approves of the Colnei’s conduct, and unites his sympathy for the difficulties he (Johnston) #0 man- fully conquered; alao tendering an expression of his (Scott’s) high appreciation of the noble energy, pationce and spirit displayed by the officers and men, adding that in this the War Department concurs. In another letter addressed to Col. Johnston during the present month General Scott says that it ia no longer prob- able that he will go tothe Pacific coast, or that any ex- pedition against or toward Utah will be despatched from that side. Surgeons Greene, Ruschenberger and Folta havo been appointed as @ board to examine candidates for promotion and applicants for admission in the médical corps of the navy. The Board will convene at Philadelphia, March 15, Hon. John Cochrane and others, during the past week, have presented in the House an unusually large number of petitions for a homestead bill, and those for the passage of & bankrupt law are multiplying. Several trials of firearms having been recontly made bere, some confusion has arisen in the accounts which have found their way into the press. The Board of Om@- cors who witnessed the trial of a new breech loading pis- tol manufactured by Mr. Sharp, of Philadelphia, reported that it was similar in conatruction to the Sharp's breech: loading carbine manufactured by a competing company at Hartford, Conn. There being several essential dif- ferences in the principle and construction of the arma, the Sharp's Rifle Manufacturing Company, of Hartford, foot ‘that the report did them an injury, and after considerable perseverance they succeeded ving the official report modified to meet the case. They aak for this explanation as a matter of justice. The following are the names of Postmasters re-appoint- ed. —Samuel C. Allen, Fast Boston; Isaac 8, Burrell, Rom- bury; Charles B. Swain, Nantucket. Report of the Quarantine Committce of the New Jersey Legislature. ‘Trawtow, N. J.. Fob, 26, 1858, The Legislative Committes on Quarantine has reported adversely to the application of the New York Commis- sioners. Their duty to the State, justice to their own citl- zepa and the dictates of humanity, forbid their allowal of the propored location of Quarantine at Sandy Hook. The committes argue the subject at length. They say that the application is preswed against the protestations of the Hoalth Officer of Quarantine itself, the Chamber of Com. merce, the Board of Underwriters, the Commissioners of Emigration, and thousands of New York merchants, The Legisiature bas adopted the report and ordered it to be printed. Re-Opening of the African Slave Trade at the South. Naw Onteans, Fob. 26, 1858, An editorial article in the Delia of to-day asserts that the South has already opened the African siave trado, and that a regular depot has been established on Pearl river, in Mississippi, where cargoes have been received, and the negroes sold and put to work. The Delta says the vessels engaged in the trade generally use the French flag, be- cause the British cruisers on the African coast will not trouble it. Divisions among the Democracy of Hartford Harrvoun, Feb, 26, 1868. The democrats met to-night to appoint delegates totheir State Convention. The meeting was large and very much excited. It was Dougiag and anti-Dougias, and the Douglas delegates were chosen by a vote of nearly two to one. The Grand Ball of the Boston Light Infantry. Bosros, Fels. 26, 1868. ‘The grand ball of the Roston Light Infantry, Captain Chas. O Rogers, at Musig Hall, last might, was tho most