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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. eee OFFICE M. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NAS6AU STS, ——_—_———oo SERME caahin once " THE LY HERALD, two cents ), Viper annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD: ery, Sieurday. af wis conte per A ‘annum, the European Exdition. $4 per anmam, to Pager) rt §S ve amy part of the Continent, Bah TNE AMIE HERALD, every Waincaday, af four conte per ony ow annum. PONDENCE, gontoining tapertant on ARY CORRES har of the world; if wood oil libe- rally paid for, BQrOUK Fousics CORRESPONDENTS ARB Pan- RLY Requasrsp ro Ski au. Larraas ax> PacksGus OTD NOTICE taken of anonymous communications. We done return thew 4 ¥ [ENTS renewed every |; advertionmenta ta at ne mat, Family rand ta the tn the Wanetr “i PRINTING axewiel with neainces, cheapness and dee pater. Votume XXIII..... stececsereeeecssceeer sess N@s OS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth ot.—Itatiam Orana— ‘Tan Livcusnors. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Afternoon and Eve- ming—FQuesraianism BY CELEBRATED MALE AND FEMALE Artists—Vas Ausuncn’s Mexagunim, &c. THEATRE, Bowery—Suorwaxzs or TovLouss BOWERY —Euaust MaLrnaveas—Scounan or tax Oceax. BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond street— ‘Tue Coor P'Erart. rm WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Jessiz Baows, 0 gus Revexs or Locexow—Swiss Swaine. LAURA KRENE’S THEATRE, Broadway—Gueen Busars —Vuiscs Lawran. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Afternoon end Kveaing—fae Buipe or an Evening. woo! BUILDINGS, 6561 and 663 Broadway—Guoncs unr a Wooue Mixstaxis—Peree Pires Perree Poocs. * MECHANICS' HALL, 472 Broadway—Brvamt’s Munstexis —Eruiertax Sonce—Hor or F asmion, New York, Wednesday, March 10, 1858. ‘The Hews. The election for State officers in New Hampshire, yesterday, resulted in the success of the republi- cans. In the Senate yesterday resolutions of the Legis- lature of Texas, relative to holding a Southern State Rights Convention in the event of the rejection of the Lecompton constitution, were presented by Sena- tor Houston. The bill for the relief of Commodore Jones was passed. Mr. Hamlin, of Maine, then spoke in opposition to the Lecompton constitution, but be- fore his remarks were concluded the Senate went into executive session and confirmed a number of appointments. Among the appointments confirmed was that of Mr. Cook, as Postmaster of Chicago. This appointment has created considerable interest, from the circumstance that Mr. Douglas, for certain partisan ends, arrayed the combined opposition forces against it, and pledged his reputation to prove Mr. Cook unworthy of the office to which the Presi- dent had nominated him. After a protracted dis- cussion and an examination of official documents bearing on the case, Mr. Douglas was completely overthrown, and the nomination was confirmed by a vote of twenty-five to eighteen. In the House Gen. Quitman’s bill authorizing the President to raise five regiments of volunteers, was discussed by Mr. Faulkner, of Virginia, who opposed the plan. The Kansas question was then debated till the adjournment. In the State Senate yesterday the special commit- tee on the Brooklyn bribery case made a report. They find that the charge was eatirely without foun- dation. The report was adopted. A bill was re- ported authorizing the raising of $50,000 during the present year to supply any deficiency that may arise from the income of the fund provided for-the pur- pose of supplying Brooklyn with water. In the As- sembly the bill to abolish the office of New York City Judge was referred to Messrs. Seely, Winne, Jeremiah, Chauler and Moore, delegates from this city. The steam frigate Niagara, which had been de- tained at Quarantine since Saturday last, weighed anchor yesterday at one o'clock and went to sea in fine style, with a fresh northwest breeze. It is ex- pected that she will make a short run across the Atlantic. The discovery of a defalcation in the Union Bank of this city, to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, caused a slight sensation in and about Wall street and certain faro banking institutions yester- day. The delinquent held a position as bookkeeper in the Union Bank, and lost the money at the gam- ing table. A warrant for his arrest has been issued, but he has escaped to parts unknown at present. On Monday night a party of burglars entered the store of Lockham & Co., No. 75 Chambers street, and sueceeded in carrying off $15,000 worth of silk and satin goods. No arrest has been made. We understand that an action for false imprison ment is about to be instituted against the agents of the Rothschilds in this city, by one of the parties who had been arrested on a charge of defrauding the Northern Railway of France of a large amount of shares, but was never bronght to trial, and was libe- rated after being some time in prison. We have news from the Bahamas, dated at Nassau, N. P.,on 15th of Febroary. The Legislature had met in session. Goverimor Bayley, in his speech, recommended a change in the wrecking laws, and adverted to alleged cases of fraudulent collusions between shipmasters and wreckers, in order to pro- cure high salvage awards. A Court of Inquiry, em powered to act in all suspicious cases, is about to be established by enactment. Hopes were given of an appropriation for the fitting out of a steamship line between Nassau and New York. Efforts were to be made for a more complete developement of the in- sular resources of the colony. Turks Islands papers of 3d of February report the sale of salt dull at ei; cents per bushel. The Royal Gazette states that 71,000 bushels had been shipped away during a week, and that of last year's crop there remained on hand several hundred thou- sand bushels, which could be had at very low prices. ‘The salt pans at Inagua are said to be ina promis ing state. A large quantity was on hand there, bat no sale for it. Only three cargoes were disposed of in all the month of January. The Turkish visiters were yesterday treated to their firet sleigh ride. A full account of their say- ings and doings will be found elsewhere The Board of Ten Governors met yesterday, and finally agreed to rebuild the Island Hospital on Blackwell's Island, in accordance with the plans sub- mitted by James Renwick, Jr. 11 will coat $100,000. Mr. Thomas B. Tappan was appointed warden, in place of Harman Eldridge, resigned. There are now 8,115 “persons under the care of the Governors, being an increase of 1,439 as compared with last year. The Board of Supervisors met last evening. A resolution was presented and referred, providing for the appointment of a special committee to ascertain the amount of money required for expenses of law suite appealed from the county courts; also the amount expended hy the Police Commissioners in defending the Police law, and to consider the pro- priety of instructing the Commissioners that the re cent decision of the Supreme Court with regard to the old police force be considered final. A report on the tax levy for 1858, separating city from ooun- ty expenses, was adopted. A resolution asserting that there ® necessity for improvement in the sana- tary offices of the City Inspector's department, and sug, eating the passage of a law to mect the necessi- ty, was presented and referred. A report recom. meiding that the catimate of the Board of Eduoas tion for 1868—$1,126,013—be confirmed, with the exception of the ftem for arrearages, which wae re @uced from $126,000 to $100,000, was adopted. The Board refused to take up the report making to Priation for the mounted police squad. Sev ea. fnd reports were also acte lon; none of them, how ever, were of any gencral interest. The proceedings in the Court of Gene Fererlay were interesting Seasions NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1858, charged with stealing $260 in gold coin from Joseph Killenbeck, No. 47 Cherry street, plefied guilty to an attempt to commit grand larceny. In conse- quence of extenuating circumstances the Recorder —who presided in the absence of Judge Russell— sent him to the city prison for six months, Patrick Nugent and Jobn Murphy, old offenders, were con- victed of burglary, having broken into the store of ‘Thos. Underhill, No. 181 South street, on the night ofthe 16th of February, and stolen $4 worth of groceries, Murphy was sent to the State prison for four years and four months, while Nugent was sent to Sing Sing for four years and seven months. The Recorder stated that these men were notorious charac- ters, and were discharged by him on the llth of February in consequence of the proof against them being insufficient to convict. John Burke pleaded guilty to burglary, and was sent to the penitentiary for three years and seven months. On the 10th of February he broke inte the store of Nicholas Cor- nell, No. 46 Beaver street. Patrick Holland con- feased to stealing a gold watch from Chas. H. Has- well, the President of the Board of Councilmen, and was sent to the penitentiary for one year. John Hawkins, indicted for breaking into the dwelling house of Abraham Carpenter, No. 97 West Twenty- seventh street, and stealing, amongst other things, two gold watches, pleaded guilty to larceny. Sent to the State prison for four years and seven months. Adolph Argentier was acquitted of burglary, having been charged with breaking into the room of Chas. Barnard, in Leonard street. The testimony was very conflicting. John O’Brien pleaded guilty to burglary, and was sent to the penitentiary for one year. William Levere was convict- ed of stealing $90 by means of the panel game, and sent to the State prison for three years and seven months. Catherine Carroll, his accom- Plice, pleaded guilty to the charge, she having in- duced a countryman named Nicholas Hines to visit her room. As she expressed a desire to bea witness for the people, his Honor was rather lenient, sending her to the State prison for two years and two months, observing that convictions for this offence are very rare, city men being afraid of exposure. Thomas Murray, tried for breaking into the store of Samuel J. Stewart and stealing a bag of sugar, was convicted of petit larceny and sent to the penitentiary for six months. Two colored youths, charged with bur- glary, pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and were each sent to the penitentiary for six months. It is a re- markable fact that all these prisoners were under twenty-five years of age. The Recorder will render his decision m the lottery cases on Thuraday. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 4,000 bales, at steady prices, closing on the basis of about 11%c. 4 12c., with few lines to be had under the latter figure. The deficiency in the receipts at this port, compared to those of last year, amounts to 386,000 bales. The de- crease in exports is: to great Britaiu, 38,000 bales; to France, 40,000, and to other foreign ports, 61,000; giving ‘@ total decrease of exports, compared with last yath, of 139,000 bales. Owing to the increase in receipts at tho Southern ports, estimates of the crop for 1867 °58 have been run up by some parties to 3,000,000 a 3,100,000 bales. Even admitting that the yield should amount to either of these figures, it will not probably be in excess of demand, cousidering the diminished exports and light stocks held in Burope. At last advices the stock in Liver- pool wag reduced to 116,000 bales, while the consumption was equal to about 39,000 per week. Easterly winds, however, it was said, bad prevented expected arri- vals, known to be on the way. The flour market was firm yesterday, with a fair amount of sales for the home trade, with some purchases for export. Wheat of Prime quality was firm. A sale of common Virginia white was made at $1 23, prime to choice do. was at $1 40a$1 45, and red co. at $1 20a $125. Corn was firm, with sales of distilling lots and for shipment eastward at 66c. a 67c.; white, for export, at 68c., and prime Southern yellow do. at 7c. a Tlc. Pork was steady, with sales of mess at $16 85 a $16 90, and prime at $13 25. Sugars were firm, with sales of 600 a 600 hhds., and 1,500 boxes at prices given in anotber column. Coffee was steady, with sales of about 1,500 bags of Rio at rates given elsewhere. Freights were heavy and engagements light. Corn in bulk was taken for Liverpool at 4344. ; cotton, part compressed, at iyd., with flour at 1s. 6d. To London some bhds. of tobacco were enguged at 228. 6d. The Mormon Rebels and our Northern and Southern Disorganizers in The more we reflect upon the paltry pretexts and excuses upon which our Northern and Southern demagogues in Congress have opposed the President's recommendations for an in- crease of the army, the more we are convinced of the demoralizing purposes and projects by which these reckless sectional demagogues are controlled. In a distant Territory of the Union, cut offby a thousand miles, more or less, of almost im- passable deserts and mountains, in every direc- tion, from any other white settlements, we have an Anglo-American community capable of mus tering ten thousand active men for war, inopen rebellion against the general government, A corps of Territorial civil officers, appointed by the President, under the escort of a detachment of the army, have been arrested in their march by the military hostilities of these rebellious Mormons, among the most inhospitable defiles of the Rocky Mountains. The government of- ficers destined for the Great Salt Lake, and the army escort, have thus been compelled to en- camp for the winter in the beart of a region pronounced by Colonel Cook the most frightful wilderness perbaps on the face of the earth. But the worst of it is that before the required rein forcements can reach this army camp the whole detachmenr* may be cut off and destroyed by the guerilla operations of the Mormons. To prevent this threatened disaster, the bill for the increase of the army was introduced in the Senate, and had that bill been actod up- on with the promptitude which the exigency re- quired, an efficient moveable army column would have been ready with the disappearance of the snow from the great Western plains to take up the line of march for the relief of Col. Johnston. But the bill has been lost in the Se- nate by the factious opposition of Northern and Southern disorganizera. The pretext of Mr. Senator Hale, and others of the same school of abolition demagogues, was that thie proposed army force was designed for the suljugatipa of the people of Kansas to the Lecompton consti- tution; and the excuse of Mr. Senator Toombs, and others of the same Southern clique of fire- eaters, was the dangers of a great standing ar- my to the liberties of the American people. Such were the paltry excuses and subterfuges under which the Army bill was defeated—a bill intended for the restoration of law and order among the rebellious and infamous polygamists of Utah. The ground of hostility of Hale was that of a rabid sectional fanatic; bat the plea of euch men as Toombs was equally the plea of sectional disorganizers. The idea that the ad- dition of four or five thousand men to the regu- lar army of eighteen thousand would be dan- gerous to the liberties of the American people is the baldest absurdity, when we look at the fact that there are at least two millions of able bodied freemen in the United States capable of boaring arms, and the great bulk of them per- feotly familiar with the use of arms, We hazard nothing in the dec ion that a United States army force of twentyShree thousand men would he incompetent to the conquest of the smallost State in the Union, #0 perfectly secure are the people in the reserved military strength of the several Mates, The fact is that, exolading altogether this Mormonrebeltion, an increase of the army to the extent indicated by the Presider mpera. tively called for, as a pyhigg force, order the numerous predatory Indian tribes of that immenze extent of wild country lying Letween the Hudson Bay territories and Mexico, north and south, and between the Miselesippi valley and the Pacific ocean, east end west. Numerous white settlers in various parts of this vast wilderness region, and nume- rous emigrants and emigrant trains in passing cver it aro annually destroyed by the Indians, for want of a defensive army station or detach- ment here and there. Very true, Gen. Sam Tlouston, whe bas practically tested the hos- pitalities of the Indians and Indian life, con- tenda that the soothing aystem is all that is needed to stop the Camanche or the Pawnee from murdering and scalping; but we prefer the testimony of Kit Carson, that our wild red brethren are never so amiable as in the pre- sence of an effective force of rifles and dra- goons. As the police force, then, over the Indians of our great Western plains and mountains, the army might be judiciously increased to the ex- tent of four or five thousand men; but when we include the Mormon rebellion, the necessity for this increase must be manifest to every honest and patriotic man. The foul nest of Mormon- iem is a living reproach against the whole coun- try and its republican institutions; but when Mormondom stands boldly out in open rebel- lion, the last excuse for tolerating the nuisance another hour is gone. In was encouraged by President Fillmore; it was winked at by poor Pierce; but against it Mr. Buchanan bas firmly taken his stand; and a rebellion is the consequence. He asks for the army reinforcements needed to put down this rebellion, and upon the miserable and factious grounds of opposition we have indicated, North and South, the bill is defeated; including men, too, professing to be friends of the administra- tion and advocates of law and order. In view of these facts and considerations in connection with the Army bill, we are forced to the conclusion that the progressive demoraliza- tion of our sectional parties, factions, cliques and politicians has at length reduced them to a condition utterly selfish and almost hopelessly corrupt. Neither the good name of the coun- try in the ear of the world, nor good faith to party professions or principles, can bind them any longer. North and South, dirt-eaters and fire-eaters, local demagogues and Presidential disorganizers, disunionists and secessionists threaten us with perpetual discords and national calamities. With there disorganizing and reckless politicians the sacredness of the Union is a humbug, and the integrity of the Union a delusion that has had its day. Thus, upon Kansas affairs, upon filibustering, and upon this Mormon nuisance and rebellion, we find the wise and seasonable counsels of the President scouted and flouted by Northern and Southern tricksters, of all parties, until the conclusion is justifiable that the government of the Union is actually undergoing the first process of a practical dis- solution, because one government is insufficient to supply the demands of our numerous would be Presidents and hungry place hunters and spoilsmen. With these con: siderations, however, the honest men of Congress, and the honest masses of the American people, will only the more fully com- prebend that their duty to the Union is identi- fied with their support of our present conserva- tive administration. We must have some com- mon rallying point against these national disor- ganizers, or soon we shall all be adrift upon the waves of revolution and disunion. Couiector Scuet anp ovr Crry De.eca- TIon IN Cononess.—It appears that Collector | Schell is to be taken care of by the Congressional | delegation from this city. They, at least, as we are informed, have assumed the right to dic- | tate the appointment of his subordinates, and insist upon executing the trust. Our opinion is that they will have quite enough to do in the proper discharge of their legislative | duties; and that, if the Collector be really incompetent to select his subordinates, the best course would be to dismiss him and appoint some competent man in bis place, It seems a little curious, too, that while our Congressmen are so very solicitous of the proper discharge of the | spoils duties of the Collector, they should have nothing to say or suggest in reference to the subordinates of the Surveyor of the Port, of the United States Marshal, of the Navy Agent, or of the Postmaster. Our Congressional delegation, while they are about it, should make a clean job of it, or give the Collector at least the same margin of discretion that is allowed to the others of our federal officials, Finally, we suspect that if our enterprising Congressmen are ope- rating in the Custom House for the purpose of consolidating the democracy, their benevolent | end« \vors will be “love's labor lost.” Let them look well to their own official duties; and if Mr. Schell cannot take care of his, let us have | another three years’ party quarrel upon a new | Collector. Anything will be preferable to a Collector who has to be wetnursed by our dele- gation in Congress. Tae Way Srreer Contracts are Mave anp | Exxcvten.—In another part of the paper we | publish a communication in relation to the way affairs are managed in all the different branches of the street department. At the present time, when public attention is «0 much occupied with the numerous frauds which have accidentally come to light through the quarreling of the two would-be Street Commissioners, this communica- tion comes most opportunely to supply informa- tion as to the mode in which contracts for regu- lating streets are made and exeented, and how the different officials perform their duties. Our correspondent giver a succinct account of the modus operandi, from the passing of an ordinance by the Common Council for regulating a street or avenue to the assessment of the property for the payment of the same. The communication is, therefore, worthy of attention just now, when one of the committecs appointed by the Common Council to ferret out the alleged frauds and place the guilt on the right shoulders have abandoned the attempt, with the conviction that the task was entirely beyond their power to accomplish. An investigation into the frauds in the finance department of the city, of a more promising character, is now being made by the joint committee of accounts, who have engaged experts to overhaul all the accounts ‘and sift the affairs of the finance department to the bot- tom. moiety of success attended « similar attempt year, and we should not wonder if something may turn up out of this seoond enter- prise in that direction if it is properly managed. At all events it hne been satisfactorily proved that “standing committees on frauds” are not the instruments with which to excavate the mine of corruption which underlies our city government. And so we raid from the begin- boop ia ' ping. Fashionable Society in Washington. Our fashionables are like the birds, in other respects aa well as the plumage. They migrate regularly every year. In the summer we find them in the North, rolling in the surf at New- port, scudding in their yachts through the Sound, drinking Congress water at Saratoga, promenading about the fortifications of Quebec, trouting at Lake George, scaling the heights of Mount Washington, or sulphurizing themselves at Sharon. In the winter they flit southward ; they parade the national capital, haunt the library of Congress, lounge in the Speaker’s room, flirt in the rotunda, listen to the band at the President’s receptions, or display their crinoline, laces, moire antiques and diamonds at the balls of my Lord Napier, or the parties of the wives of the Cabinet Ministers. Aware of these facta, we do not share in the surprise of our “Chevalier Jenkins,” who writes to us from Washington that the first part of Lent—“a time for prayer and sorrow for sin, and almegiving and mortification ’—is really “the gayest week yet.” It is, evidently, very gay. On Monday a Secretary gives a din- ner party, entertaining a celebrated belle from the Wooden-nutmeg State; on Tuesday the President has a reception, and some double distilled scoundrel stole the Chevalier’s “talma ’—whatever that is; the same evening the “eau monde” went to the residence of a Cabinet Minister, whose “ magnificently curled and gazelle-eyed daughter ‘did the honors.’” Here, also, in addition to the “magnificently curled daughter,” was the wife of a Senator,. “wearing superb lace over pink silk, aad her daughter dressed in lemon colored silk,” with her hair & 7a John Chinaman. Then we are told confidentially that there is to be a grand bal costumé at mi-caréme, “ which will make a sensation.” On Wednesday we find Jenkins at another Cabinet party, and on Thursday still another, “the most brilliant /éte of the season.” There were two ladies, “each fine looking and each in black”’—a curious coincidence ; a “be- witching” Southerner, “bright as the golden grapes which decked her hair;” another, “ whose deep hazel eyes must be the windows of a true heart ;” a “metropolitan nightingale in most beaming blue and silver ;” a delegate from Onondaga, in “amber silk with lace flounces ;” another who wore her “bridal blushes; in fact, as the Chevalier remarks, the cream of the cream was there. The Chevalier found the sherry “excellent,” the punch “capital,” and the supper “the crowning glory of the enter- tainment.” There were Strasbourg pies, and ortolans and truffles and salads and pheasants, and ealads without stint, while champagne and Rhenish flowed ——ike to the Pontic Sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne’er feels retiring ebb. What wonder that “copious libations’ were drank to®the fair giver of the feast! What wonder that the Chevalier Jenkins, who knows, says that “the whole affair was magnificent!” We endorse our Che- valier Jenkins, and we will lay a wager that he cannot be beaten in his line by any other Jenkins in Europe or America. He is hand- in-glove with all the diplomatic corps—Lord Napier, Sir Gore Ouseley, the Conte de Sartiges, and go on; he isa polished Chevalier des Dames; can tell Honiton from Valenciennes, and knows exactly who Mrs. Dash ought to ask to her party and what is the correct thing for Miss Dash to wear on that important occasion. Again, we endorse Jenkins. At the same time we look with sadness upon the desolate and broken down condition of the Fifth avenue fashionables in this city, as compar- ed with the grand entertainments of their Wash- ington confréres. On one side we see accounts of ladies whe wear dre@®es worth at least a | thousand dollars, and jewelry which costs five times the amount, revelling in truffles, choice wines and point d’Alencon lace—dashing about | from party to party, among lords, counts, at- taches and all sorts of dignitaries; and on the other, in our own Fifth avenue, cheap opera cloaks, covering empty stomachs, get parties where only homoepathic doses of stale cakes and cheap wines are served out, daily prayer meetings and a butcher's bill of seven dollars for an entire month, Tlow shocking is the contrast! While the Washington fashionables are eating, drinking and arraying themselves in purple and fine linen, our best society is mourning in sack- cloth and ashes for money wherewith to satisfy their butchers’ bill of seven dollars per month. Why is this so? ‘The fact of the matter is, that the people who have money at Washington have plenty of it. The panic and the stagnation did not effect the lobby. Our mutual uncle paid his employés the same as ever. The foreign ministers also draw their moneys from all the European courts, and the liberality with which they are treated is in striking constrast with the meanness of our go- vernment to its representatives abroad. The money which ought to be paid to them is thrown away on the lobby. This latter body always has ample means to keep matters going. The Cabinet ministers are all wealthy; and, as Jen- kins remarks, they have a “Crinoline Cabinet,” compored of young ladies, who are ready to do the handsome thing to all presentable people. Many members of Congress, disgusted with the miserable hotels of Washington, have set up their own establishments, and entertain “all conditions of men.” These circumstances have transfered for a time the seat of fashionable government from New York to Washington. But the sceptre has not departed forever. In spite of the Che- valier Jenkins and his friends, there will come a time’when the Fifth avenue will raise its droop- ing head and wipe tts weeping eyes. There will come a time when sackcloth and ashes and seven dollars per month butcher's bills will be done away with. That important epoch is ra- pidly approaching. The banks are loaded down with specie; stocks are rising daily; the spring trade is freshening up; the Opera flourishes; all sorts of concerts and masquerade balls are loom- ing in the distance; the exciting political quee- tion of the day approaches its final settlement. Then Waehington will lose its glory; then the fashionables and the diplomats will migrate to New York, and then shall the Fifth avenue be lluminated with the light of other days. Arr Assoctatioy.—Lottery gambling, under of art associations, is only another of the pharisaical sin. Efforts have been made to prove to us that this agsociation isa legitimate enterprise, but the cloven foot appears through all of them. The recent disgraceful explosion of a similar con- cern at New Orleans is, besides, conclusive proof that a taste for art is sometimes identified with a taste for gambling. If the Cosmopolitan Art Association be really 4 society projected in the interest of the public, the best thing ite prietors can do ia to refund to their subacrt ac mwacy Waal tbey dave doe soied ia it Cosmorourran Orry Taxarion—Atpany Leoistation.—We have heard some curious facts in relation to the County Clerk’s office, which serve to throw ad- ditional light on the unscrupulous manner in which our city officials continue to multiply, to their own advantage, the burdens of the tax payers. In 1852 the salary of the County Clerk was $2,500. The fees of the office, amounting to from $40,000 to $45,000, was, previeus to that time, regularly paid into the city treasu- ry. When a new incumbent came into office in the fall of that year, an act was quietly emug- gled through the Legislature enabling the new County Clerk to retain all the fees from the day that he entered upon his duties. Thus his salary, from $2,500, was suddenly raised to $50,000 a year—his clerk hire and office ex- penses being paid by the city. It must not be sapposed, however, that this sum comprised the full perquisites of the office. By the same act the fees were augmented from 75 to 80 per cent, and under this double arrangement the present fees of the office are said to amount to little short of $150,000 per annum—more than double those of the Sheriff. It was by the merest accident that another bill, intended to further swell the aggregate of these fees, was defeated in the House about two years since. ‘This bill provided for the appointment of a spe- cial clerk in the County Clerk’s office, to keep a register of all suits entered in the county courts of New York, to be charged against the Board of Supervisors, at the expense ef two dollars a suit. This would have made a handsome addi- tion to the already princely income of the County Clerk; but the scheme, after passing through the Senate, was fortunately exposed in time to prevent its confirmation by the House. It is to be hoped that these facts, in connection with the recent developements in the Comptrol- ler’s office, will induce our citizens to press upon the Legislature the necessity of a com- plete revision of our present system of taxation. Unlees a speedy stop be put to these corrupt practices, New York will become the heaviest taxed, as it is already the worst governed, city in the world. Ocean Steam Navication.—Several new pro- jects of steam communication with European ports have lately been started. We are afraid that the results of these enterprises are not likely to fulfil the hopes of their projectors. There is but little encouragement in this coun- try for the employment of capital in such un- dertakings. The indifference manifested by Congress in regard to the Collins line, and other speculations of a similar character, has natu- rally induced a feeling of hesitation on the part of capitalists te embark their money in mail lines. The disposition on the part of our gov- ernment seems, in fact, to be, to hold out to the English and other foreign lines all the induce- ments possible, and to discourage and crush out native enterprise wherever itcan. This is a bad state of things; and, unfortunately, it is aggra- vated by the jealousy and hostility of the American steam navigation interests them- selves. When these interests come in conflict they never think of accommodating matters, or of amalgamating, as is commonly the case abroad. The difficulties attending the arrangement of the Nicaraguan Transit disputes show the pertinacity with which our shipowners hold on to their own selfish views, notwithstanding the advantages that are to be gained by an amicable compromise. The consequence is that the only American steam navigation enterprise which is remunerative at all is the California line, and this only because of the fact that it is not exposed to foreign com- petition, like those plying to Europe and other parts. It would be a matter of indifference to us how all these companies managed their affairs, but for the depressing effect which these influences exercise upon our steam navigation interests generally. In other countries it is found ad- visable to encourage those interests either by favorable legislation or by pecuniary subven- tions on the part of government. With us the inclination is decidedly to give to foreign mail lines ali the advantages which the crashing out of home competition can afford them. The nar- row-minded and illiberal course pursued to- wards the Collins company may be regarded as a great blow and discouragement to any further efforts to wrest from the English companies the monopoly of the goods and passenger traffic which they have for so many years enjoyed. If Congress perseveres in this suicidal policy, we may #0on expect to see the whole carrying trade of the country pass into foreign hands. Wire Staves or tut Norru.—This is the title which Senator Hammond, of South Caro- lina, applied to the laborers, or workingmen, of the North ina speech which he made in the United States Senate. Many of the anti-slavery journals attempt to create an excitement at this insult to the free white Anglo-Saxon Caucas- sian races of the North. To put them in the same category with the Africans is supposed to be a Might and an ineult. The nigger worship- pers here have been always contending, and making a fuss over it, that the niggers are en- titled to equal rights with the white races; and in this point of view the expression would seem to be warranted by the course of the anti- slavery men for years. But we suspect that there is a great deal of white slavery in the North. The whites of the North are the slaves of politi- cal parties, of railroad directors, of bank ma- nagers, and of the moneyed oligarchy general- ly. We are taxed and re-taxed and taxed again by the moneyed oligarchy and their understrap- pers, the politicians, and by them treated worse than the niggers of the South are by their own- ers. We are taxed between nine and ten mil- lions a year for a city government that only in- flicts injuries, insults and mal-administration upon us. Are we not white slaves here? The State is heavily taxed; and four millions more are wanted to satisfy the corrupt maw of the lobby. Are not the people of this State the slaves of the oligarchy at Aivuuy! The truth is that the great macs of the white people at the North—those who work to earn their bread, and have saved no property in ad- vance—can be put in the same category with the slaves of the South. There are slaves to politicians and a moneyed oligarchy in every free State, who plunder, op- press, inflict injustice upon the people, and give them nothing but bad laws and corrupt govern- ment. United States Conmmtestoner's Office. Before K. G. White, Raq. ° ARRRAT OF JOHN D. WILLIAMSON. ‘An indictment having been found against John D. Wil. liamson for refusing to appear before the Investigating Committee of the House of Ropronentatives in reference to the 887 000 to havo been pal by Tawrenss, Sere & Co. for the pu of toe Cates Pane, ake beta tom to ball in the sum of $1,000 anid Wulinmaon, the defondantia father, be- gue ae quent, THE LATEST NEWS. AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. Our Spectal ‘Telegraphic Despatch: DEFEAT OF DOUGLAS AND CONFIRMATION OF POE: MASTER COOK, OF OHIOAGO—DxsPaTOHES FROM THE RAST INDIA SQUADRON—PROSFEOTS OF ME. REED'S MISSION TO CHINde-NO SHIPWREOKED SEA- MEN AT FORMOSA—APPOINTMENT OF WES? POINT CADBTS, POSTMASTERS, ETO. ‘Wasuinaron, March 9, 1868. Owing to the absence of quite a number of repnblicens ‘Mr. Barris did not make his contemplated movement im the House to-day. As soon as all their forces are om the ground the move will be made. At three o’clock the Senate went into executive cession ‘and took up the case of Mr. Cook, the Chicago Postmaster. The documents called for by Mr. Dougias,and received from the departments, did not aubstantiate one of the charges preferred by Douglas. He had staked his repa- tation to the Senate that be could prove the chargeshe bad made ; but he failed in every point. After consem- ing about two hears in trying to make out « case, a vote ‘was taken, and Mr. Cook was confirmed by a vote of twen- ty-five to eighteen. Never was a Senator 30 worsted. Despatches were to.day received at the Navy Depart- ment from Commodore Armstrong, commanding the Kast India squadron, dated Dec. 28. Capt. Simms, who was sent some time since to the Island of Formosa to iaquise into the fate of the crew of the ship Highflyer and of other Vessels supposed to be wrecked om that- island, had reached Shanghae, and reported that no information cout be obtained of white persons being held in captivity by either the Chinese or native inhabitants of the island. The English and French fleets had moved up the river off Canton, and had established their headquarters on the Inland of Hanan, opposite. The French fleet having left Macao, and fears being entertained’ of a revoit, the Amert- cans residing there had asked that a United States veasel of war might be sent there for their protection and refuge. Commodore Armstrong had sent the sloop-of- war Portsmouth to their relief. Advices from Gommissioner Reed are ofa most encoar- aging nature. He hopes to conclude his mission by the autumn of this year, and return to the United States. ‘The President bas appointed the following cadets at large for West Point:—George McKee, Samuel M. Mans- field, Singleton Van Buren, William B. Beebe, George N. Bomford, William H. Betts, Charles R. Suter, William Bartlett, Roland 8. Mackenzie and Jobn R. Blocker. The following Postmasters were to-day onnfirmed ia executive seasion:—J. W. Keyes, Springfield, Ilunois; BR. W. English, Alton, Mlinois; F. M. Gwin, Now Albany, In- diana; J. Elder, Richmond, Indiana; R. Doolittle, Mads- son, Indiana; L. Baugh, Abingdon, Va.; G. B. Graves, Winchester, Vs.; E. 8. Candler, Milledgeville, Georgia; Solomon Cohen, Savannah; J. W. Stedman, Norwich, Conn. ; J. F. Lewis, Knoxville, Toan.; H.H. Heath (editor of the Northwest newspaper), Dubuque, Iowa; A. P. Dwe- bin, Lyons, Iowa. Gen. Seth Gover, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Indien Agent in Kansas, vice McCaslin, removed. J.C. Spencer has been appSinted District Attorney for the Northern district of New York, vice Gorvin. Colonel Selded, late of the firm of Seldon, Withers & Company, was to-day nominated by the President as Marshal of the District of Columbia. The Senate did not act upon this nomination, and there wassuch a stfong foel- ing against it that bad a vote been taken to-day it is pro- bable Selden would not have been confirmed. Mr. Flinn, nominated as Navy Agent at Washiggton, ‘was also sont to the Senate by the President. ‘The General Land Office is in receipt of the following from the Surveyor General of New Mexico, viz :—Parts of correction parallels Nos.1, 2, 3 and 4, west of the principal meridian; township lines from No. 1 south te 29 inclusive, situated on both sides of the Rio Grande, representing the location of the following, to wit: the towns of Lemitaz, Las Cruces, Mesilla and Amoles; also Fort Thorn reserve, and the subdivisional surveys of township 18, south of range 4 west, and township 19, south of range 3 west. This survey adjoins Port Thora reserve, and contains twenty thousand acres. ‘THR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasmsvoron, March 9, 1858. The Treasury Department has decided that hemp, car- peting, caustic, soda and blank copyiag books are eau- ted to entry at fifteen per cent duty. The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia are engaged in an investigation of the case of ex Lieutenant Rhiad for sending a challenge to Commander Boutwell. ‘The Advisory Board, appointed to prepare a code of re- gulation for the naval servico, have made their report. They, howover, disagree on some reformatory measures, chiefly with reference to the law relating to the positions of disbursing and medical officers to officers of the line. ‘The representatives of the former in the Board claim that they should be entitled to the same consideration as staf! officers, and that the regulations in this respect should be similar to those of the army. (On these and some other points two reports are submitted, but with these excep tions the Board generally agree. There is no immediate prospect of the arrangement for expediting the transportation of the mails between Wash ington and Boston, as preliminary to « reform in the South ern service being effected. ‘The Baltimore Methodist Conforence to-day resolved to establish a newspaper, in part to disabuse the public mind in relation to its views on the question of slavery, claiming to occupy a conservative position. Our Washington Correspondence, ‘Wasmwoton, March 6, 1963. The Kansas Debate this Week—The Question soon to be Set- tled—The Next Train for Utah The notice given to-day by Mr. Green, in the Senate, to the effect that an effort will bo made to come to a vote on the Kansas bill next Monday, really moans that the ad ministration Senators are determined to dispose of the question then finally, whether or no. The course resolved on is to protsact the sitting through the night,er as long ‘as may be necessary, be it more or leas. There has been some objection to this method of proceeding on the part of senators who do not feel quite equal, physicaliy, to ‘endure the struggle; but it ix supposed that there will be enough of the opposition in the same predicament who ‘will be willing to pair off with these friends of the bill. ‘If this programme is carried out you may prepare for an exciting session of the Senate on Monday or Tuseday. On the part of the friends of Kansns and the eiminis- The report that any Southern Senators will oppose the admission bill on account of Mr. Pugh's amendment, ie not sustained by the facts. Some of them object to the amendmont, but will not therefore oppose hundred wagons, of six to start from Fort Leavenworth onthe Lant at the Metropolis—Desertion of the Court Chapd— Party at Sir William Gore Ouscley's—Miss Lane's Re- ception— Corruption Entertainment—Gossip Generally. Really, the Lenton season isa horrid bore. Just as ‘our set’ was perfect in Les Lanciers—jast as I had so ‘won the confidence of the migratory waiters as always to gota bottle of champagne at a party, and just as the de- partment men had to leave atone in the morning from sheer fatigno—juat then, ding dovg went the matin bette, To be sure there have been some little ercapader from ace, such as the Topeka party given by Mrs. Senator xon, of Connecticut, to Governor Holley, of that State, ‘on his retarn home from the Richmond celebration, the nent little dance at Lady Ouseley's, on Thursday Inst; hotal hops of various grades, according to the localities; and some gatherings among the howrgecinis Put all these have beon very slow and stupid. The diplomatic corps gre the tone to society bere, and so long as the most of them keep Lent we cannot borrow pleasure. What keeps the devout more austere than aval ie the lesson given to the Rector of ®. John’s by no leas « per- fonage than Lady Napier, St. John’s, be it known, ie om the north of the square facing the Rrosiient’s house, and ‘wan erected as ihe estabiished @iurch It contains © “ President’: pew,” where Madison, Munroe and Adama worshipped in suctesion, and wiich has since been graced plus om moine by the occupants of the White Howse—Miss Lane now attending, although “ my uncle” goes, likes een Presbyterian, Dr, Gurley's, The rigtt bonoradic Gar Rago, Conn trom tae Vout of 0 Vaochn ant all the ald finlomate om, WOM Wo OvCUpy the“ Cow at