The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1858, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. Jaks GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIFTOR. Pros h. TW. CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSdAU BTS. TERMS on on advance TE DAILY HERALD. O00 conus por onmeme | rn FT per FE WEERIY HERALD. every Seine hig, a vir conte paw 2 the Buropean ection, annum, to | Sy f0 Bel Bein oe Boy pao Se Bos tath | Gur PAaiLY MARALD, cory Weinewiay, af four conte per Sips enum, WoLUstanY CORRESPONDENCH, “ow ty pad for. be. 08 CFstzdn Connacroserre ane Gomkinty Meatasren to bea si LBFYBLS any PF Gasr vs. NU MOTICE taken of wmonymous correspondence. We do not arn those rebocied. JOB PRINTING exocuted with weatness, cheapness and der * ADVERTISEMENTS: renewed cwery tm Ge Wasktr Henaio, Fax Onlyereia end Buropean E-itions. in and in the aap aes eeeee Bon BL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BEo,DWal THEATRE! ‘Broad: — Afterscon gronng Eermrsias Eavecwes tas Weta MIBLOS GARDBN, Brosdway—Kin xa—Ticut Rors @raws—imance. WOWBEY CHRATRE, Bowery—Lion or run Bas—Ex- eseor Of Peayce—tr Ducrers or Omun. 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An: -buropeen Express Oo., 0 Uhapel street, R Stuart, 19 Exchange street, East. Eaves... dts. Eurdpono Express Co., 21 Rae Corneille, ‘The onntents of the Eoropesn edition of the MMxnitn WH combine tho news received by mail and tolegraph at the office darting U9 previous wonk, and up to the hour of per) cabion The News. The proceedings of Congress yesterday were in- doneely exciting. The Kansas debate was continued in the Benate by Messrs. Stuart, Bayard and Brodo- ok They occupied the session until the recess. On re-asscmbling the Senate chamber and galleries were packed with spectators. So great was the ccowd that the messengers of the Associated Press found it utterly impossible to obtain access to the eoporters until the adjournment. Mr. Douglas de Lvered a three houra’ speech, explaining his coarse, end going over bag and baggage to the black repub- fcan camp. Mr. Green will close the debate to day, when the question will be taken on the admission of Baneas under the Lecompten constitution. Ie the House yesterday # reeolution was adopted | Gischarging Wolcott, the witness in the $57,000 tariff | case, from the custody of the House and handing him over to the criminal court for trial. ené minority reports from the select committee son the Matteson case were presented. They will be faken up for consideration on Satarday. The | E:ajority report concludes with a resolution that it is dnexpedient for the House to take any farther action é& regard to the propositions proposing Matteson's expulsion, The report is signed by Mesare. Seward, of Ge; Grow, of Pa. and Huyler, of N. 1. The debate ‘tion was then resumed, and con- Official despatches down to the 20th of January | fove reached the War Department from Col. Johne | fon. Nothing of particular importance had trans | pired since previous advices. The health of the army | do represented as good. An express arrived at Fort | Leavenworth on the 14th inst. from Camp Scott, } tearing @ request from Col. Johnston that supplies | of men and ammunition be forwarded to him imme Gately. ur reports of the legislative proceedings and the Erspetches of cur correspondents furnish full parti- | ¢ulars of what is going op at the State capital. In | Use Renate yesterday the bill relative to the new City Hall passed to m third reading. A bill was Antrodaced in the Assembly providing for licensing Possenger ticket scllers and allowing them permis- 6'on to enter the Castle Garden emigrant depot to | Cinpore of tickets. j Pautoen McLoughlin, who waa shot by David | Cuccingbam, at » dance house in Howard street, oa @tordey night, died at the City Hospital yesterday forenoon. An iavestigation of the affair will be com- toenced today. ‘Tho annexed table shows the temperature of the atmoaphero to this city during the peat week, dhe range of the barometer, the variation of wind q@urrents, on? tho etate of the weather ot three periods during cack duy, viz: at 9A. M, and 3 and O o'clock P.M. :— emus ay, night, clear and etartght Ay Night ram; aferpoan, tigh: rem durtr fl rvening. og Overcast with fog (eclipee of oun to cay); 3 roast ané mic Soe pleasant, afternoon, cloudy ‘eT. ulng, basy; sfternoon, overcast and warm, ulf\, coer Led lear aod warm al day; night, clear and au > "peal *o* peasant «! day; night, clear aad peburday—Morcice, clear ant pleaaart ‘The Board of Counctimen transacted considerable | woutine business fast evening. A petition waa re ceived from Btephen H. Branch, imploring the Com- ticn Council to request the Leyisiatare to pasa the dox levy tmmediately, and was placed on file. It is | Crowded out of our columns by advertisements. A communioation waa received from Major Sprague, | Cited Atates Army, requesting the erasure of the Words “Boena Vista” from the monument to General | Worth, a the General was not there. It was refer #06 to the Committce on Arta and Beiences, Am | Majority } NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, | solution recommending the reorganization of the | Croton Aqueduct Department was adopted; also a | resolution of inquiry as to who is the authorized per- | non to collect fees at the various markets. The com- | mittee on Croton Aqueduct Board reported adverse | to awarding the contract for building the pew reser. | Voir to Fairchild & Co., but an amendment of Mr. Cornell's, giving the contract to the above firm, was adopted by a vote of 18 to 2. They were the lowest bidders, the sum being $632,473 33. The Board then adjourned till Monday. The Councilmen’s Committee on Railroads met yesterday. As the subject ef the removal of ateam | care from Eleventh avenue was to be considered, & large number of persons came before the committee in consequence of the recent accident that occurred on the railroad, inorder to urge upon them the ne cessity of taking immediate action towards having the use of steam cars discontinued on Eleventh ave- nue below Fifty-niath street. On the other hand, several of the officers of the railroad eompany re- plied to the arguments advanced by these who are desirous of having the use of steam cars disconti- nued; but what was said on both sides has been re- peated on former occasions. The committee ad- journed till Friday next, when they will bold ano- ther meeting in reference to the same subject. The Committee on Ferries of the Board of Coun- cilmen held a meeting yesterday. W. B. Townsend appeared before them and said he is desirous of having the Staten Island people freed from the Ceorge Law monopoly, which compels them to come to wherever bis boats may land. He would establish a ferry between Clifton and New York, if he bad a slip in the city at which he might land his boats, He stated that he would be willing to give $3,000 for this privilege. The committee adjourned, however, without taking any action. The preliminary examination of Wm. A. Harden- brook, charged with libelling Judge Thompson, of the Marine Court, was commenced yesterday before the Recorder, and after the examination of a few witnesses the case was adjourned till Friday. ‘The propeller Palmetto, Captain Baker, while on her passage from Philadelphia for Boston, on Sun- | day afternoon, during a thick fog, ran ashore on the south end of Block Island. She was worked off, but at ten o'clock at night sunk in seven fathoms water. Sie had an assorted cargo valued at $120,000. The yessel will probably prove a total los. Portions of the wreck and cargo were driven ashore. The pas- sengers and crew took to their boat and proceeded to Newport, where they all arrived safely on Mon- day, but in a destitute condition, having saved nothing but the clothing they wore. The under- writers’ agent, Mr.G. D. Northam, provided for the | shipwrecked men, and forwarded them to New York. The letter of our correspondent in Kingston, Ja- maica, given eleewhere, will be found entertaining. A very excellent humanitarian movement, having for ite object the reclaiming of outcast and vicious boys in Jamaica, was likely to fall to the ground, owing toa clerical split on the question, ‘Has a negroa soul?” The public heaith in Kingston was good, weather fine, and markets nnchanged, with the ex- ception of that for rum, which article had advanced in price. The enles of cotton yesterday embraced about 2,000 bides, including 700 in transitu. Middling uplands, on the spot, ranged from 11%{c.a117{c., mostly quoted at the latter figure. The flour market was unchanged, while sales wore chiefly confined to the wants of the local and Fastern trade and for export to the British provinces. Wheat continued to be beld with firmness, expecially the bigher grades. The transactions embraced Chicago spring on private terms, Milwaukie club at $1 03, Indiana white at $1 19, white Genesee at $1 40, and red Southern at $1125. Corn was steady, with sales of white at 65:. 8 6c , and yellow at 67c. a 68c. Pork was less active and buoyant. Mess sold at $16 €5, prime at $15 50 and clear meas at $18. Sugars were firm and active, with sales of about 2,000 bhds. and 100 boxes at rates given in another column. In another place will be found tho o- (ablisbed prices of the Messrs. Stuarts for their refined sugars. Coffee was firm, with sales of 800 bags Marazalbo and 1,000 do. Rio at rates given elsewhere. Freights wero unchanged. The chief engagements consisted of bout 40,000 bushels of grain to Livorpool at bjsd. in bulk ‘The Troubles of the Merchants_Necessity for « Bankrupt Law. There is every reason to believe, notwith- standing the plethora of money in the banka, | and the profits realized by speculators on the Stock Exchange, that the mercantile failures throughout the country are still quite as nume- come under public notice because the lists of | be, and it is every merchant's interest rather to | than to make them known. But every one who | bas been engaged in large busiaess will admit | the truth of what we say, namely, that mercan- | | tile failures and mercantile defaults are occur. | ring at the present time quite as frequently as | they ever did during the year 1857. The ox- | tended paper which was made during the panic, and isnow maturing is not being met; every one who holds it is obliged to renew at least for { # portion. One of the caures of this inability on the part of debtors to fulfil their enge vemente ia also the foundation of the prospect of prosperity which now opens up before the country at large. Ever singe the panic, but little or no trade has been carried on in any part of the country: persons who gave their notes in October, and relied on thelr collections during the winter months to pay them, have been entirely disappointed. Very few of the small dealers have made enough duar- ing the winter to support their families. This diminution of trade hae bern mainly due to | the cessation of importations from abroad, and to the gencral curtailment of household ex- penses by all classes of society. It was so plain, last fall, that the panic had been aggravated if | not wholly caused by individual extravagance and great social expenditures, that even those whom the revulsion did not coerge into re- trenchment joined readily with those who did in cutting down the expenses of their house holds, and stopping all purchases of luxuries; whence it became necessary that the importers should largely reduce or stop altogether their orders for foreign goods, and live this year upon the profita of the Inst. Of the extent to which this retrenchment of trade has been car ried, one can form an idea from the fact that our importatiens of foreign merchandise for the past two months and a half at this port alone fall short of those of the like pariod last year by over thirty millions of dollars; last week alone, for instance, we took three millions less foreign goods than we did during the corres ponding week of the year 1857. We learn the same story from the fall in the price of bills of exchange on England, which ore now selling at 106} a 107}. In other words the balance of trade is in our favor, Bagland ia our debtor instead of our’ creditor, and it would pay to import gold from London to New York. This perhaps shows more forcibly than anything else could the extent to which our consumption of foreign merchandise has been checked by the penic, and how able we are, in ordinary times, to subsist wifhout deriving any supplice from abroad. The only thing, now, that is necessary in order to secure the prosperity which can be seen loom- ing in the future is the passage of a general Kenkropt law by Congress for banks and other corporationa as well as individuals. Such a jaw in absolutely needed in ordet to cut away rous as they were last year. The fact does not | failures are no longer published as they used to | conces] the evidences of commercial trouble | MARCH 23, 1858.~—TRIPLE SHEET. from the body commercial those rotten and direased parts in which the late revulsion de- stroyed all vitality, and yet which cling tena- ciously to the sound surroundings, In other words, the law is required to effeci » settlemeitt, once and forever, of the unrettled debts which are now bringing the country merchants to the city in search of renewals; to set free say five thoueand of the ten thousand merchants who are said to have failed last year, and to put their creditors out of their pain. It is likewise needed in order to guard against future revul- sions of the same character as that of last year. Wad the banks of this city been liable to be wound up by the action of courts which were not State courts and not liable to be controlled by powers in the State, they would never have expanded as unwieely as they did last eummer, and they would not, as & necessary consequence, have required to suspend in the fall. Hud the merchants throughout the country hed the vision of a Bankrupt law before them they would have bought more moderately, and would have been able to pay when their notes came due; and, in the same way, private citizens would have lived and spent their time in a more modest and suitable manner. The want of a Bankrupt law precipitated the crisis, Its enactment now would largely help to heal existing sores, and to prevent the likelihood of revulsions hereafter. ‘The Position of Mexico—Our Duty to that bite. We publish to-day a most clear and concise view of the Mexican republic and its history, which in the present state of affairs in that country presents many points of interest to our readers. Mexico ia rapidly fulfilling her destiny. Her people, wearied and worn out with the multita- dinous civil conflicts and struggles for power that have characterized her, leaders, are ready to throw themselves into the arms ofa native despotism or a liberal foreign rule. The or- ganized band of clergy that has #o long batten- ed upon the life blood of the republic is now engaged in a life struggle with the liberals of Mexico, in behalf of their vicious temporal or- ganization. A numerous and penniless corps of army officers, without other means of subsia- tence, are ready to sell their mercenary services to whichever party can give them gold in re- turn. Corrupt administrations have for years temporized with every party and plundered all, cheuting ake their own treasury and foreiga claimants, and keeping faith with none. Com- merce hae been nearly annihilated, the springs of industry dried up, and the laborer every- where torn from his wealth producing toil to fight the batties of mercenary leaders, who, each in tura, uses him with like scorn. Such is a true picture of the native elements at work now in the bosom of the Mexican republic. While this is going on within her territeries, a corresponding series of events is taking place beyond her frontiers. On one side we see the untamed savage, driven from his old haunts by the westward march of a more energetic civili- zation, bearing down upon the strife-worn com- munities of the Northern States, and turning their already haifabandoned fields into wild hunting grounds. Elsewhere we see the long outthrown filaments of American industry fastening upon the favored spots of Mexican territory. Tehuantepec is in the possession @ an American company; American lines of steamers run, or are about to run, slong he Pacific and Gulf shores; American engineers are surveying her roads and laying down new | lines for her domestic travel; American speca- | | lators are plottiag her public lands and se- | curing titles thereto; American traders are } percolating through her, Northern States aad | Territories with wares that have paid no reve- | nue to the republic; American speculators are planning a Pacific Railroad through her terri- ; tory; and everywhere American intellect is quickened, aud American enterprise is watch- ing, te catch hold of any and everything that may present the slightest hope of profit, not now, but in the coming future, when the dee tiny of Mexico shall bave been fulfilled. Behind ail these elements of coming change new forces are germinating within our own Union that will soon give a great impulse to their developement. The law of migration is | one of the involuntary and immutable princi- | ples of our existence as @ people. Under its mandates we have gone on building up State after State, and empire after empire, until the West and the Northwest present no more availa- ble field, and the Pacific slope of the Rocky Monntains is occupied. The great American desert, which, beginning at about the hundredth parallel of longitude west from Greenwich, extends to the eastern summits of the mouatains, offers no inducements to the American settler, are by savage mounteins and vast tracts of un- inhabitable plains from the rest of the world, could be populated only by a set of fanatics like the followers of Joe Smith and Brigham Young. The narrow gorges and high snowy peaks of New Mexico have no elements of empire in them. Yet the impulsive march of our population stidl must go on, still must find new homes for em- pire, and sites for new States, counties, capitals and towns, with all their attendant land epecu- lations and rapidly-made fortunes. Where shall the scene of this new develope- ment be? The question ie already answered. Arizona is clamoring for a Territorial govern- ment, and will sogn be demanding admission to the Union a# a sovereign State. At El Paso, on its southern verge, the narrow valley which follows the mountain range from New Mexico to Chihuahua widens out until it embraces nearly the whole width of the continent at thle point, and an uninterrupted plain, over which wheel carriages can travel almost without roads, extends for fifteen hundred miles to the capital of the Mexican republic, Here in Arizona is the beginning of our march, and nature herself has made the way, endowing it throughout with « temperate climate. It is only aa we descend to the sea on either side that we experience the influence of the tropics, ‘These are the natural influences which, supe- rior to all others, mark the coming destiny of Mexico—decay at home, and an energetic po- pulation pouring down upon the northern edge of its great plain, with nothing to stop its ad- vancing march over it. In two years mere Western Texas and Arizona will probably be the scene of our wildest land speculations aad of the vertigo of a rapidly rising State. We have no need to paint the futuse any farther. | He who runs may read it. If the government of Mexico and our own are wise in time they will take measures for controlling this devel- opement end preventing fatare conflict—mea- sures which « little while and it may be too late to take. We give our readem the best view of the natural capabilities and the present state of future movement, and advise them (o study The valleys around Salt Lake, isolated as they | ‘The Religious Revivals—Extraordiaary Gon- | versions. The demonstrations of the past week, includ- ing the great meetings at Burton's old theatre in Chambers street, go to show that the religious excitement in the metropolis is on the increase, and that the brushing up of the spring trade does not so far occupy the time of the sinners as to prevent them from an open confession of the error of their ways. The meetings at Burton’s have been thronged, and the best resuits are hoped for. It isa good field. Since the theatre was builé by Palmo it has been used tor all sorts of entertainments, from the Italian Opera down to the model artiste. The brethrea at these meetings pray earnestly for the actors and actresses. It is likewise desirable that they should extend their supplications to the deni- zens of City Hall; they are sadly in need of a little of the leaven of righteousness. In addi- tion to these meetings at Burton’s, it is proposed by a correspondent that Tammany Hall should be secured for daily prayer meetings. That would be really beardiag Satan in his own dea. It will have to be pretty strong praying and preaching to wipe out the bard swearing and fighting that have taken place in Tammany. However, there is always ene chance for even the hardest sinner. Who knows? Perhaps the party may be harmonized by prayer. ‘This present religious excitement has had no parallel in this age, and in some respecte it is altogether different from any phenomena of the kind that have preceded it. The Reformation movement of the sixteenth century made no particular improvement in the moral con- dition of the people. It changed their intellec- tual condition, letting in a little light upon some disputed points of faith; but, after all, it was only a sectarian dispute. Luther aad his followers disbelieved in some of the dogmas of the Roman church, and set up @ new church of their own. In England the “Eighth Harry” pitched the Pope out of power because he would not sanction sa adulterous marriage. | Then came the fighting and quarrelling aud persecution of Protestants by Catholics and Catholics by Protestants, which continued during nearly two centuries. The new lights only made the people more cruel and bloodthirsty than ever. In the last part of the eighteenth century we find Wesley, Whitfield, and others of less note, preaching to the people the simple truths of the New Testament, and working a great moral revolution, the effects of which were of the most beneficial character. ‘The new preachers of the school of Wesley paid but little attention to forms or ceremo plainest way, and sent the Bible and hymn book into every English cottage. They changed the forms of lite among the middling and lower classes, and refined that stardy Saxon spirit which routed the Cavaliers at Worcester and sent a Stuart to the block. That dissenting | party in England—snubbed and sneered at as it may be—has still within its ranks the vi- | tality of the nation. In the United States we have had little re- | ligious flurries from time to time, caused chiefly | by the stirring oratory of such men as Maffit, | Knapp and Summerfield; but we have had no | thorough revival to change the social condition f the people. The parsons and the religious papers have always been quarrelling and fight- | ing about forms of church discipline and other | technicalities; our Christianity has been really nothing but sectarianism. The preachers have stated, almost in so many words—‘“If you don’t go to heaven our road you cannot go at all” This bigotry isin direct opposition to the or- ganic principles of the Christian religion as laid down in the teachings of our Saviour and his apostles. Then we have had the political par- sons, and the fighting parsons, aud tho Peck- spiffian parsons, and a host of other traitors to the Master whom they were bound to serve. Through all these causes the professing Chris- tians became lax, and no new converts were made. The churches were close boroughs for the exhibition of fine broadcloth and the latest Paris fashions. But a great financial revulsion ehook the country from Maine to California. B set people thinking, and brought about a new and singular revival. We first hear of it in the Dutch church in Fulton street, within hail of the Heravp office; and we are induced to believe that the lay sermons we have been preaching in the Heratp for so many years had something to do with it. It \is, in fact, movement against the growing tendency of the people to worship false gods—to be carried away by infidel, Fou- ricrite, abolition, spiritualist, political, fanatical and mock philanthropic excitements; it is simply carrying out the principles that have al- ways been promulgated in these columns, It | would seem now that the people have set | their faces against all this infidelity and fanati- | clam. It was quite time. Within the past | twenty years the pulpit has been disgraced by | political parsons. Every four years they turn | the churches into bear gardens for political | fights; and between the elections they keep upa | running fight, probably for the sake of practice. | Look at Beecher, in this city, Kalloch in the East, and Brownlow in the South, degrading their sacred office by using their pulpits for po- litical and personal attacka’ The people are busy in trade, working to get rich. There ia a great expansion; money is plenty; great | churches are built, and the seats are as dear aa at ibe theatres. Anon comes the revulsion. | Almost everybody is emashed up and goes to | Pieecs, Everybody repents, and goes back to | first principles. We do not tind them, however, jin the fine churches, with purple velvet cushions and Oxford prayer books, but in out | of the way places, down town. There they | meet, with » mutual agreement to avoid the dis- cussion of all controverted points; they confess | their past sins, and promise to avoid vulgar po- | Htical quarrels; to avoid gambling, drinking, | bank swindling and cheating—to pay their hon- | est debts and live in peace with all mankind. | Sofarso good. But what will be the end? | It is quite eaxy to see, by past exporience. We | have had from time to time vasious attempts to arouse the moral sense of the people. Thus, the temperance excitement had @ qualified success, | and did much good at first, bat was soon seized by the politicians, and after it bad served their | purpose was thrown aside. This religious ex- | citement will also do good. It is conducted in the right way, and founded upon the simple truths of Christianity, which every chiki can | understand; but in the end it will probably be sciaed by the politicians, used by them, then thrown away, and thus end in nothing. In the meantime, however, let us make the moet of it. We hear lately ot many dietinguish ed converta—Georgp Law, Forrest, the actor, and others, We hope they will all make a clean breast of everything while they are about it, While there’s life there’s hope—an ophorign nice, They taught plain Christian truths in the | which George Law should press upon the notice ef Commodore Vanderbilt and all the other Wall street Commodores avd s#tock ope- raters There’s a great field aiso about ‘l'am- many Hall and the Pewter Mug. Trey are pretty bard cases—the old Tammany habilués— but they may be saved. Don’t give up the ebip. Tre Curnvacter Webp In ANoraeR TowERing Passion.—The Chevalier Webb, now in Wash- ington, we understand, attending to the McCor- mick reaper and other patent lobby jobs, has worked himee}f into another towering passion against Mr. Buchanan. The Chevalier tells us, with the air of a Sir Oracle, thet when the Le- compton constitution goes over to the House of Representatives, “not less than one hundred and twenty honest men will teach the Executive and his minions @ lesson which will not soon be for- gotten.” The Chevalier further assures us that “the whisper of impeachment by the next Con- | gress has reached even the recesses of the White | House,” and thet “fear and dismay have taken | the place of swaggering arrogance.” But the concentrated wrath of the Chevalier . is levelled especially at certain fet contracts, in which he has no share, but which he thus de- taile:— ‘We ase on the ove of & war with a band of roligious fa- the duration of which no man can foretell; and yet | ‘natics, itis raid that the administration bas mado coutracts for supplies, which are toconiinue during thy war, Ibis sup. posed that for the carrying on of this war for asinglo Bot less than fifteen thousand horses wil! de required. Certain partion, it is said, bave received e contrect for the eupply of all the horses thas may be required during the war, 10 be delivered in Minsourt at cne hundred ant Atty nire dollars each, cr two milion four hundred thonsand dollars tor the horees requirec this year! These horses, It in wuld, will net 10 the contractors a clear profit of one. hundred dollars each, or one million ive hundred thou- sand doilere on thi, year’s delivery. How many milloos aro to be mace out of thin contract ? That will do for the horses; but now look at the corn The Chevalier Webb thus rolis up his eyes in pious consternation at the fat contracts for the corn for the service of the army in this Utah war. Hear bim:— ‘Then, again, the item of Indian corn for the purpose o feeding’ the enormous number of required for copducting this war; viz., oxen, mules, cavairy sud draugot horees. Jt is enid that covtracts have beea made with certain parties, rot to furnish @ certain quantity of curn, but to furnish al! that the government may require during dhe war, deliverable in Western Missour: at ninety eight cents per busbei, when it notorious that half per Dusbel would afford au enormous profit. Ho Millions are to be mado out of thia contrest? Ru pays that the firet order for indian corn under a trect ie twe bundree and fifty thousand bushes; and fur ther, that the contract for transportation Ww Sait Lake Val- Jey is equal to ten dollars per Dustel. We apprehend that the Chevalier Webb hax been button holing George Sanders, who hgs “a great hankering after fat contracts, and who, as asort of go-between from Tammany Hall to Washington, may have picked up some stray items concerning these Utah contracts; and if #0, it is quite likely that he has somewhat mag- nified the profits upon the horses, cora aad trapeportation. The most singular fact in this connection, however, is that the Chevalier Webb would have us believe that these fat contracts, al- though “divided and sub-divided so as to ia- clude all who could sid directly or indirectly” in passing Lecompton, have actually operated to defeat Lecompten. This is very curivus logic; for, ordinarily, when ® man is bought ae renders the service for which he bas received | his price. Ah, yes; but things are not | now as they used to be. At the last teesion, for example, the Chevalier Webb | went to Washington, hired a magniticent | house, and set up a style of liviag ; equa} to fifteen thousand a year, including claret | and canvass backs, oysters and champague, all settled for, we understand, by the steamboat | lobby drummers and patentjobbers. And, then, the Chevalier had each aa exal'ed opiaion of Mr. Buchanan that even Captain Dyuders might ; have felt a little jealous. But now, alas, the | unlucky Chevalier, with bis Tarrytown residence | and lets up for eale, is on short rations at Wash- | ington, “roughing It" wt o public hotel, at daggers’ points with the President, and with all these prodigiouely fat Utah contracts slipping through his fingers. No wonder the Chevalier is ina rage. No wonder he has re olved upon a full revenge in the defeat of Lecompton. But | what he expects to make out of ‘hat operation we should very much like to know. Tue Cosoress Lossy wo Fru Broow.— The Chaffee Lodia rubber pater! has worked its way into the House, aud Colt’s pistols are | rattling all around the Capitol. The lobby, in fact, is in full bloom, and under the dust aud smoke, and fuse and fury of thie Lecompton fight, the lobby boys are working like moles and beavers, burrowing and building and min- ing in every direction WIL anybody be good enough to teil us how many newepaper men are secured by the lobby, and who they are, includ- ing genuine and bogus correspond cots who own the papers for which or the editors for whom they write? Mayor Tremann’s Rerorms—Like a giant Tefreahed with new wine or lager bier, Mayor Tiemann is pushing his work of roform among the gambling dens, the dance hours, the lottery policy shops, the gift enterprise dodgera, and the like; but strangely enough, th » more he re forms them the worse they become. Never before in thia city, except about election times, have we had such a spectacle of ruftianly atroci ties of all sorte as those which we sre now called upon daily to record. And all this catalogue of daily assassinations, burglaries, robberies, gambling, embezzlement, and what rot, in the midst of the most remarkable religious revival in the history of this country, How straage! It would thus appear, while the Mayor and his police and all the churches are actively at work punishing or converting our numerous gangs of sinners of all degrees, from the alderman to the pugilist, that Satan and his imps are also taking “along pull, # strong puil, and a pull together,” and seriously threaten to gain full possession of the city. Wo hope ‘or the best, but we fear the worst, and that paint and putty cannot fave us Compuiments amona Fruexps.— Major Heiss, of the Washington States, and Cornelius Wendell, of the Union, at the assembling of this Congress were the two great competitors for the tremen- dous spoils and plunder of the Congress print- ing. They were both defeated, however, by o country combination of half starved and raven- ous democratic editors and loafers from Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia. But these country chaps, having neither the shop nor the immaterial for the work, were compelled to hire the office and the materials of Wendell, by which, after all, he has doubtless seenred the bulk of tie spoils, Thus, it seems that Wendeil is more than a match for these country loboy jowbers at their own game. They get the shea, but he takes the oyster. Major Hotes, however, does not approve of this sort of thing. He comes down npon Wendell with « whole basket fall of Ortini’s hand grenades, and the’ explo one around their victim are truly dreaTful. we : dell is denounced as “a printing plunderer,' “a ewallower of test oaths,” “everytoing by turns that sum | and nothing long,” “a elippery custom: Prospero ot printing plunderers,” do., &c. Vory Well, gentlemen, Jet us know all about it. Keep it up, and we shal) coon have plenty of work foe the Congressional Committee of Inquiry om Printing. Pray, do keep it up. MisrLacezp Ciearncy—Tur Goverxor AGALt ts Favuit.—We see that the sentence of deatia | passed on O'Connell, the murderer of Terese | Spitzlin, bas been commuted by the Governor | into imprisonment for life. We think the exer cise of his prerogative on the purt of the | Governor, in this cuse, a8 uadiecriminating and undeserved as was the recommendation of the ; Jury on which it was based. In the annals of crime there never was, perbaps, an offence ; which called for s more severe punishment than | that of O'Connell. He superadded gullt te | guilt in the violence committed upon the per- | son of bis unfortunate victim. For the rape he was entitled to the full measure of punishment which, under the Governor’s commuted sea- ; tence, he is about to receive; for the murder he ‘escapes the capital penalty which the law , awarded to it. His associates Ia this double | crime have got off with comparatively light | punishments; so that the moral to be deduced | from their sentences is that the most desperate offences ure those which are likely to be at- ' tended with the most complete immunity. We need hardly point out the dangerous ia- fluence of euch an example upon a population ; Smongst whom human life is already estimated | go cheaply. Scarcely a day passes without the | occurrence of some fearful deed of blood by \ which the public nerves are shocked and ur- strung and a general sense of insecurity created. Within the last ten days there have been ne less than five cases of assassination by the knife andtwo by the pistol. Most of these have ter- minated or will terminate fatally, and their authors will as certainly escape punishment, Between reluctant jurors and a tender hearted executive the criminal law or the State has ceased to be anything but s dead letter on the statute book. We are in fact fast drifting te the same condition of things which compelled the citizens of San Francisco to ret aside the constituted authorities and to administer to felons and murderers the penalties duc to their crimes, We implore of the juries of New York not te | impose upon the public such a dreadful necea- | sity. If their responsibility be collective it is | Rot the leswa solemn one, and they owe it to | their own consciences, as well as to society, that \ they shall no longer trifle with it. In transfee- | ring to the shoulders of the Governor the obli- i gations that devolve upon @¢hemselves, they are guilty of a cowardly and unmanly act, which | will bring with it its own punishment. They | know not the moment when they themselves, their wives or daughters, may be made the vic- | tims of the unchecked ferocity of the despera- | does to whom they accord this license. Bat if onr jurors are uot equal in honesty and intelli- gence to the task imposed upon them, it is not for the Executive to aseist in weakening the small degree of force left to the administration of the criminal laws in their hands. If it be pot in the Governor’s power to pass over the recommendations of juries, it is at least withim his province to denounce their verdicts where they appear to him erroneous. Such a case was that of O'Connell, and we cannot but de- i | plore the facile disposition with which Governor , King in this, as wellas in other instances, baa | given effect to recommendations which were ag much opposed to the evidence as they were te the policy of the law and the exigencies of the times. Cussury yor Poor Forney.—Has poor Forney received our donation of a hundred dollars ? | That sum is a trifle, we know, considering the | dead losses of his paper, but still, in these times, ! ‘2 cool hundred is something. What does Forney say to a calico charity ball for his relief, a mas querade, an Indian war dance, a lecture by Lola Montez, a prize fight, or somcthing of that sort? We have been thinking of an anti-Lecomptom | meeting, but Booby Brooks, Massa Greeley, the Chevalier Webb, and the “Little Villain” of the Times, have been working in vain for an anti- Lecompton turnout for the last two or three weeks, and so that scheme must be given up. Suppose we try a gift enterprise at ten dollars a ticket, all clear profit? What says Forney? Livvrany Apvertisine Doners—fSome two- penny literary men in this city, aided by the Evening Post, seem to be doing a brisk business in advertising their goods by the old trick of getting up a controversy about the authorship, originality or genuineness of the book, article or other commodity to be sold. First, we had @ fierce controversy on the question whether William Allen Butler or Miss Peck wrote “Nothing to Wear;” during the pendency of which the poem is supposed to have sold well. Next the new Boston magazine, the Adantie | Monthiy, got advertised by a controversy be- | tween a Mr. O’Brien, who claimed to have writ- i ten astory in it, and other literary men whe swore that he stole the story; and the magazine did well by the fight. Lastly, a novel is pub- lished with a forged letter of Washington Irving on the title page, and it actually looks as though the publisher wae going to make # good thing out of the row and dlegrace caused by the die covery, Our twopenny Jitteratewrs are fanny fellows; but don’t it strike them they are ram ning the controversial advertising dodge some- what into the ground? Awret Tres at Wasnmotox—Read our Washington despatches, Mutiny, discord, treachery, defection, conspiracies, rebellion, suspicion, mystery, strife, bitterness, agony, atultification, artful dodging, wrath, revengs, gall and wormwood, ebuffling, squirming, and all sorts of trickeries, are worse confounded | thanever among the factions, sectional, plotting | and unscrupulous demagogues of Congress. | Yet, after the Inpse of another day or two, wo | shall know what they are driving at. We aro forewarned of an impending expYosion. Let it come; but et us have no mor; hambugging or dummery about it, We have had enough of that. aioe. ‘Tas Raveta at Nowo’s Those po pniar artists have re- | tuened from Boston, and appear fir the opening of the spring reason at NibIO's Garden thi 3 evening. Te Bnornsne Huromeoy, disu guished gymnastic per- formers, arrived by the Arabia. They publish a notice to the public im the amusement Co’ «mn of to-day's Himnatn. Tux Orera.—Tho seventh yy wrformance of the “Hague nota’! last night altract™! @y ony good house, not equal to thoes which have precede 4 it, but still far above the agual attendance at the Acadomy, The artiata wore i= batter voloe than before, Mme, de Ta Grange was warm ly received and sang Mv jirably, ‘The ‘Huguenots? wi de given on Wednesday and Friday, and there will bee matines on Saturday. The + Huguenota’’ will not be payed aftor this wook, and those who desire to onjoy tho finast operatic trent with the most splendid mise en seine that Las over boon given hare, will do welt to make the mont of U0 opportup’.iea that roman.