The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1858, Page 4

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The struggle on the Kansas bill in the Senate was brought to a termination at half-past seven o'clock last evening, when the bill providing for the admis sion of Kausas into the Union under the Lecompton constitution was passed by a vote of thirty-three to twenty five, only four Senators being absent, namely, Mesars. Bates, of Ielaware, Cameron, of Pennsyl vania, Davis, of Missise: and Reid, of North Carolina. The amendment merging the Minnesota bill with the Kanses bill was withdrawn. Several 3 were adopted, none of them, however, impa the vitality of the bill. One of the amendments adopted declares that nothing in the ct shail be construed to abridge or infringe the right of the people of Kansas to alter or abolish their form of government at any time or in any manner they may think proper. The Hose was yesterday engaged in discussing the Kansas question upon its geueral merits, The Senate bill will probably be taken up to-day. The Tegisiature was busily at work yesterday. Bpecia. committees have been appointed, to which bills are referred for final consideration. The Senate discussed the Police bill, and passed the bill relative to the City Hall. A bill was introduced in the Ae sembly proposing important alterations in the edu- cational system of this city. A synopsis of it iv r report of the procecdiugs. vate letters from Col. Johnston, at Can to the Sth alt., have been received. He de the Mormons as manifesting a decided intention to net up an independent government of their own, and expresees an earnest hope that supplies will be for- warded to him at as early a day as practicable. A large train with supplies and two regiment in fantry and two of cavalry have already left Fort Leavenworth fer Utah. A German banker, named Ferdinand Arieder, was amendme in this city on Tuesday morning, charged & defaulter to the ainount of one million (440,000) from the city of Stutgard, where he was one of the well know firm Arieder & Weiss, bankers. It seems that both members of thi firm disappeared from Stutgard on the &th of January last, teking with them all the movey entrusted to their care. They bave both been traced to this city, and Arleder was arrested yesterday on a suit brought by the brother of one of the sufferers by the defalcation, and is now lodged ridge street jail, to await the action of the United States authorities The Coroner's inquest in the case of Pandeen Mc Laughlin waa held at the New York Hospi Ited ina verdict against the prisoner, From the evidence adduced ¢ Coroner, the jury were of opinion that n the pai the accused was not jue of nam. Conn am Wus committed to the Tombs for examination. The Police Commissioners were to have held a special meeting yesterday afternoon, tint there being uo quorum present it was ad over till tomorrow. The object of the meeting raid, wae for the purpose of withdrawing thy M and to cor al Superinte ree to make a houses, « any special business, The cause of this mov to be a jealousy on the part of the detectiv acaloat the Mayor's squad, as the latter he w weeks made several imp ete tive squad have t b Several of the Comuui netitie! eeting, bat the Mayor notice of the special call, nor was he informed h in the afternoon of yesterday Ten Governors met date decided to have the Island er til ta The Board after « lor pital § the remousteances of several of the Governors, who thowrht the hospital could be built « r and it by day's work. This was done avainst cheaper by contract. There are now 7.982 persons in the institution, under the charge of the Gov ernors—a «mel! decrease «ince last week The Governors also, in » fit of economy—which it is to be hoped will last-decided to cut off the supplies of liquors, wi segare end carriages, which hav heretofore been prov for the members and ti friends. This puts an end for the present te Jonketings on the isisnd. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. port in favor of granting to the Nurery and Chili's The re Hospital the use of four lots of land fora pluy er 1 was laid on the table. A report from the Con tee on Repairs and Supplies, adverse to the views of the Mayor respecting a building in the Park Post Office and court rooms, was received, and a fome debate accepted by a vote of nine to six. A resolution requesting the Cily Inapector to commu nicate to the Board at its next session why persons employed in cleaning the streets in wards not con tracted for bave not received any pay since the ith day of Oct&er last, was adopted. A report of the committee in favor of concurring with an on of the Councilmen, for the better regulation Fire Department, and to compel thy diferent companies to keep their doors closed, and « boys, runners and improper characters, was lai wit ‘over and ordered to be printed. Other papers were received and referred, and the Board adjo it Friday next. ' A communication waa sent to the Board of & Pervin wee inst evening by the Record Commiasi atating that through accident or carelessness the Croton water had heen permitted to ron during Monday night: that t had dee ter's ofict, sud paftully, if not thirty or forty volumes of the records kept there. They euggested that the water be cut off altogether from the bnilding to prevent similar accideuts in fu- ture. A report was presented jm favor of allowing the Recorder two additional clerks, at a salary of $1,000 each. The Board adjourned till Tuesday next. The Central Park Commissioners held a special meeting yesterday, when the Vice Presideut report- ed that Mr. August Belmont had sent him a note accepting the office of Commissioner, to which he had been previously chosen. ‘The case of Daniel Dodge and others against Fer- nando Wood, Walter R. Jones and others the old ship Joseph Walker affair—wna resumed in the Sa- preme Court yesterday, before Judge Woodruff and a jury. Several witnesses were examined and thecase adjourned. At the stated monthly meeting of the Young Men's Christian Union last evening, at Clinton Hall, Astor place, the subject of religious revivals was discussed at great length and with much spirit, being prolonged to a late hour; and the general opinion appearing to be in favor of the revivals, althongh many exceptions were taken thereto. The Recorder promised to render his decision yes” terday in the case of Jacob H. Mott, the alleged ac. complice of Brotherson in defrauding the Union Bank, but in consequence of a pres of business he will not be able to deliver it until Saturday. ‘The preliminary examination of Smith & Fitz patrick, charged with defrauding the city treasury of $10,000, was resumed yesterday before the Re- corder. A long argument ensued apon the refusal of Charles Devlin to be sworn asa witness, he af- firming, in an affidavit, that he was an accused par- ty. The Recorder will render his decision in the matter on Tuesday next, when he will bring the in- vestigation to a close. Our correspondent at Pernambuco, writing on the 24th ult., says:—A steamer from Rio Janeiro lth inst. arrived here on the 20th, and her news repre- sents that the yellow fever continued to rage most violently, carrying off victims by the dozen daily. Flour was low, and business generally very dull. Freights to Europe 27c., and to the United States 35c. Pernambuco is healthy since the rainy season has subsided. The first section of the railroad has been opened, and the Brazilians are delighted at behold- ing the transportation of sugar and passengers at tho rate of twenty miles per bonr. The commencement logks cheerful, and when the next section is com- pleted the ride will disclose a scenery equal to any in Brazil. Sugar and hides too dear to purchase. Exchange 25d. The Chilian ship Martinez Diez, Ybargaray, from Boston Jan. 19 for Valparaiso, with a general cargo, was scenon fire, no date, by bark Agnes, which arrived at New Orleans yesterday. Her crew had been taken off by bark Charlotte K. Tay, from Philadelphia for Rio Janeiio. A private letter from Buenos Ayres, dated Janu- ary 28, says:—This city is now in great commercial distress. Many houses are failing, and hides are without price, as there are no buyers. When I land- ed here last November hides were selling freely at 3tc.; now they can be purchased in the city at from 16¢c.a 17c. I was offered in the interior first class dry hidesat le. The stock of dry hides in this city is 150,000 a 200,000, Our Key West correspondent, writing on the 12th instant, states that such commendable progress had been made in the constraction of Morts Taylor and Jefferson that about eighty workmen had been dis- charged, and the staf? of mechanics and laborers re- duced to the summer strength. One tier of guns had been placed on Fort Jetierson, and Fort Taylor could Le made bomb proof in a short time. Profes- sor Agassiz, the distinguished naturalist. was on a scientific visit to the Keys and Reefs. ‘The aales of cotton yesterday embraced about 900 bates, without change in quotations; dealers were anxiously walling for the receipt of later advices from Europe, now fully due. The floar market was unchanged, while the sales were to a ‘air extent chic!'y tothe local and Hastern trade. Prime wheat was scarce end firm: common grados were selling in smail lols at irregular prices. Corn was steady, with aales of white at 653¢0. « 66e., and prime yel low for shipment at 6 000, Vork was rather firmer, with sales of mese at § casb onthe day, and at $16 70 im the usual way; prime was at $10 50. Sagara wore in good demand, with selee of about 1,900 a 1,100 bhds. at rates given in another columa. Coif'se was firm, with exiles of 2,100 bags of Ilo, the cargo of the Ocean Foam, on private terms, aud 200 do. Maracaibo at Uc. a Mo. Freights were without change of moment, while ea. iacements were molorate: flour to Liverpool was taken at Je, f4., and cotton at 316d ‘The Gry poode auction sales have boom continued the Preeent week, but chiefly confined to catalogues of as sorted French goods, embroideries and white goods, with other miscellaneous stocks. A sale of French goods waa held yesterday, which drew an average attendance. The silks, howover, being rathor out af the line of slesirabie goods, went of without animation. Other articion sold at fair prices, though somewhat (rregular, while some lots were pared. A satisfactory eule of embroiderice and white gomls, generally of desirable and seaywnable aeeort ments, also came of yesterday, the company being good and bidding spirited, while some few lots were duplicated. ‘The Anti-Lecompton Conspiracy Against the AamInistration. Ti mst now be manifest to the most superti- cial observer of pas vente, that a deliberate conspiracy to break down the administration of Mr. Buchanan und all this factioas and sectional opposition in Congress and throughout the country to the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution. The defection among the Northern democracy constrained to accept the troublesome ty ential offic overnor of Kar that. i ‘his important po fo ma rs of Kausas as t self try, either with or against the administration, and he ubtiess entered upon his office with the resolution to make the moet of it, one way or the oth Mr. Dor by the So: vention, c South in the matter of the repeal of the Mis las had been very cavalierly lreated hern chivalry at the Cinefinnati Cov- sified in being superseded by a candidate who was more acceptable to the South, because he was more available in the North than any man who had dabbled in the KansweNebracka bill. Accordingly, it was not very long after the in anguration of Me. Bachananbetore Mr. Douglas began to show his and. = In hile dictatorial let- ter to the President last evramer, about a paltry office at Washington, the rebellious feelings and the tendencies of Ms. Douglas were pretty broadty betrayed With the endden transformation of Governor Walker, in Kansas, In October, from a Southern fire-cater to a flaming free soiler. the home o gan of Mr. Douglas -ounded the toon of rebel lion to the Kansws policy of the administration; and from this point the war actiyely commenced. With the delivery of the President's meesage to Mr. Douglas, in the Senate, boldly threw down the gauntlet, and from that hour Congress to this the conspirators have been work- ing dey and night, In season and ont of Feaon. to compas the defrag of the conatitution. And why* Tn point siviog of Kansas under the Le | compton, the Topeka, or any other constitution, | isa paltry question, The President, however, may be traced to the determination in, the outset, of such men as Douglas and Walker, to control Mr. Buchanan, th: inies of his administration | and the perly nominati 1860, or to crush | him should he prove Mr. Walker, first, under the sectional auspices of the Southern fire-eaters aden bold push for the ofier of eeretary of State, bat failing in this, he wax | | about them in this i j had no choice. .He could only accept the legal solution of “popular sovereignty” as it came into bis hands. But even with his recognition of this Lecompton constitution, its adoption or rejection wou'd still have been a secondary issue, but for the fact that it was made by Mr. Douglas and his confederate deserters, and accepted by the whole camp of the black republicans as the teat of lite or death to the administration, Thus driven to the wall, Mr. Buchanan has been com- pelled to fight the conepirators upon the ground they have chosen; and yet, whatever may be the result upon this question of Lecompton, it will be an advantage to the administration in de- veloping the extent of the conspiracy and its ramifications. But what follows? With Kansas admitted as # State, under this’ Lecompton constitution, or under some other one, or without any constitu- tion whatever, the people of the new State will be clothed with the full powers of popular eove- reignty; there will be nothing left any longer of this bone of contention to wrangle about. ‘Thus, with the settlement of the question, in any-way, the existing divisions and combina- tions of sections, parties and factions, will die out, and the administration will be left free to reconstruct its defences, and to covsolidate and strengthen its party upon new iseucs and new measures of real importance to the practical interests and prosperity of the couatry. The black republicans, the democratic desert- ers and the little anti-Lecompton squad cf slip- pery Southern Know Nothings—the floatiag debris of the old whig party—it will thus be seen, may be widely mistaken in their calcula- tions, based upon their expected defeat of the Lecompton constitution. With or without Le- compton, Kansas is a tree State, and that wil! be the end of this factious nigger agitation. Even now the masses of the people, of all par- ties and sections, have become sick and dis- gusted with this senseless Kansas fuss, froth and fury among the politicians. For example, with all the horrible clamor of the anti Lecomp. ton organs of this city, it has been found impos- sible to get up a public demonstration here of any account against the administration. Indeed, the great body of the whole American people are only anxious that, Lecompton or no Le- compton, Kansas may be admitted as a State, so that there may be an end of this absurd agi- tation, and so that Congress may proceed to more important business. We hope that a few days, therefore, will suf- fice for the final di-position of this Kansas squabble in Congress; for we feel assured that from the moment it is disposed of niggers and slavery, and the slavery agitation, will be thrown in the back ground for at least a Presi- dential campaign or two. We have just passed through the fiery ordeal of a general financial revulsion, sweeping not only over the whole of this continent, but to the remotest extremities of Europe. Banks, railroads, manufacturing and other corporations, have sunk under this monetary earthquake by hundreds, and mer- chants, capitalists, speculators, e., by thou- sands upon thousands, On all sides we are just emerging from the ruins of this general crash; and from all quarters of the Union, aad from sll classes of the people, there comes up a cry to Congress for some broad, general, substantial, uniform and seasonable measure or measures of relief. With Kansas out of the way, then, Kansas, Lecompton, Calhoun, Walker and Douglas will all be speedily swallowed up in the pressure upon Congress of this broad and general sub- ject of financial and commercial relief relief for the present and security for the future. Thus, within six months all the existing factions and divisions and combinations upon Kansas may be submerged under the active agitation and practical discussion of the fiuancial and commercial necessities of the day. Thus, too, the Kansas conspiracy to break down the administration may be succeeded, be- fore the expiration of the present session of Congress, an incipient reconstruction of par- (ies upon financial and commercial issues, which will give to the President and his party a new lease of power. Mr. Douglas and his confede- rates should know, a4 the smallest urchin at school knows, that the moment his cake is eaten it is gone. Avorn or THe Swart ENTERPRISES OF New Yors.—-We noticed the other day the gift hook enterprises, and rome of the other swin- dlee which by their success in fleecing the pab- lic are beginning to attract the attention of the authorities, But a concern of which we have now before ua the printed programme cer- | tainly beats everything heretofore made pub lic in the way of tempting a man to get rid of his money. This concern generously offers, for the paltry sum of ten dollars, first, a magnifi- cent framed oil painting, next, a lot of land 25 feet by 100, in a part of the country “the natu- | ral advantages and revources of which are un equalled.” “destined to become a fashionable tevort,”’ “extremely prolific,” a little Eden, in | short; and lastly, chance in a sort of lottery | | the prizes in which are, aloan of from $50 to | *5,000 for thirty years, fifteen dwellings, a store, 2 flour and several saw milly, There is | & way fo invest ten dollars with a vengeance. It in.to be remarked that the proprietors of haracter way very little city, though they have their headquarters here. groes, if they were brought ic from Afriea, do vot desire to have them brought here, tor the effect would be to depreciate the value of those who are here already. They are besides de- cidedly opposed to any lawless measures or pro- ceedings which would have the effect of bring- ing their State or their locality into collision with the government. They are before ail things conservative men; they desire to see the laws obeyed and the peace maintained; it muy be taken for granted that they will have no part in meaeures which could violate the one or en- danger the other. ‘The men who make all the noise at the South about the re-opening of the slave trade and about the other ultra messures which create eo much talk in the North are the “mean whites,” the politicians and editors who want little offices and # little notoriety, and to whom these hob- bies are a matter of beef and bread. There is no class of persons whose ravings are of less consequence than the class of “poor whites” in the South who take to politics for a living. They it is who originate all the violently exclu- sive meacures of the South, who get up the abuse of the North, who rant about re‘opening the elnve trade. They belong to the same clase and are entitied to the sume regard as the abo- litioniets of the North—but to no more. ‘Senator Douglas as a Black Republican Leader—Tho Closing Debate on Kansas tn the Senate. Judge Douglas is represented as having, in his speech on Monday night, gone over bodily to the black republicans, distinguishing bis con- version by his personal abuse of the President. But the very violence of his language shows how keenly he must feel the false position his vanity and personal griefs have placed him in. +is onc ofthe peculiarities of this country that ite progress does not depend upon the exer- tions of any particular individual. Greater lights than Judge Douglas have been snuffed out, and yet the growth of the republic has re- mained unchecked. We have, therefore, some hope that if the Senator from Lilinois retires to private life the wheels of government will still run on and the United States will not slip back into oblivion. But the attempt on his part to impose upon the public s belief that he is @ martyr to con- sistency, and that instead of being actuated by selfish considerations, looking to re-election to the Senate in the first place, and personal hos- tility to Mr. Buchanan in the next, is sublimely impudent A more complete somerset than Judge Douglas has taken upon this Kan- ses question cannot be imagined. The position assumed by the President is precisely the same that Mr. Douglas advocated as far back as the admission of California, and unless he can blot out his Senatorial career he must stand couvict- ed upon the evidence of his own speeches and acts as being now guiity of the grossest incon- sistency. We bave already shown that Mr. Douglas was the author of the bill which passed the Senate, in 1856, to enable the people of Kansss to form & convention for the purpose of adopting 4 con- stitution, and in which the whole power was left with the Convention toeither submit the constitution back te the peuple for ratification or not, as they might see fit; and that the clause which hed provided for the subsequent ratification by the people was altered by Mr. Douglas so as to give the Convention exclusive power. He now objects that the Convention exercised a power which he conceded to it a year previously in his official capacity, But his inconsistencies can be even more forcibly shown. One ef his arguments egainst the Kan sas bill is that the slavery clause of the consti- tution was ratified by a vote representing only aminority of the legal voters of the Territory. The President holds that if the legal voters did not choose to exercise their right and vote either on one side or the other, they voluatfily forfcited those rights and are alone responsible for permitting the minority to decide the quee- tion. Last semmer Mr. Dougias made a epeech ut Springfield, [llincis, and he used the following language, in speaking of the legality of the act of the Legislature directing an election of dele- gates to the Convention;— Kaness is about to epeak for herself through her dele gates aasembied ip convention ty frm # constitution, pro paratory to ber admission into the on au equal foot ing with the original Staies. The der whiea ber de. le Are About to be ciectec is believed to be jast avi fair in ull its objects and provisions. [bere is every reason & Lope mad beveve thas the law will be fairly interpreted and impartially executed, so as to lcsure to every bona fide inbabitaant the free and quiet exercise of the elective tranchse, He endorses the justice and fairness of the law under which the delegates were elected. ‘Two or three monthe afterwards he denounces this very law as illegal and unauthorized, be- cause of the absence of an “enabling act.” And alluding to the threats of the abolition organs that the free State men would absent themselves from the polls aud withhold their yotes—pre- cisely the course which they did adopt—he cou- tinues:— if any portion of the inhabitants, acting under the ad. vice of political leaders in distant States, shal! choose to absent themsslves from the polls and withhold their votes, with « view of leaving the {reo State democrate in @ minority, and thus secnriag a pro-siavery constitation, in oppesition to the wishes of & majority of the ie itving under it, let the responsibility pn fy those who, for partisan PUrposee, will sacrifice the principwes thoy profess Wo cherish and promote pon them and upon the political party for whose benefit and under the direction of wheee leaders they act let the blame be visited of fastening npon the of anew State institutions re Ppugnaat to thor feelings and in violation of their wishe. This is the ground taken by the administra. ~ | tion now, and for which Mr. Douglas pretends , he is conscientiously compelled to oppose Mr. They are aimed at the sim: | ple people of the rural districts who cannot be made to understand that a man who offers to sell ten doMare worth of anything for one dol- | maidering his perilous services to the | lar must design to defraud. The country is | tlooded with prospectuses of the kind we have sourl compromise. lis chagrin was only inten | mentioned. and the country papers willingly wive these enterprises favorable notices. Their snccers is 4 disgrace the common sense of the aa Tw Bsionatios Seuewe at TH Soom. We notice that the Senate of Louisiana have thrown out the bill authorizing the importa- tion of negro apprentices into that State from the continent of Africa. The scheme on the fuce of it was inconsistent with the general Laws of the confederacy; had the bill become a law, it would have heen the duty of the President to prevent ite execution. Most of the tolk that is heard in the papers abont the re-opening of the African slave trade is nonsense, The story which was copied from & New Orleans paper into moet of the Northern journals about (he landing of African slaves at the Miesissippi and other Southern ports proves, on inquiry, to be a hoax, a sheer fabrication, eimply derigned to give circulation to the name of the paper where it firet appeared. So it is with most of these stories about the save trade. T ch men, the slave-owners of the South, } the only mea who could adored to pay for ne- Buchanan, even to the oxtent of personal abuse. We are told that to admit Kansas with the | Comptitation now presented would be an unpre | cedonted irrtgularity, yet we find thatin the case of the admiselon of California Mr. Douglas answered at thet time, in the Senate, all such objections by declaring : But there is not an irregularity in the case of California which has net occarred aod beep wadvel in the admission | of some new Mate into the Union. If the Senator will point me to any irregularity in We case of California, I will point him to a corresponding one in the case of nome Other Stato which has been reeeived into ue Union. What wore the “Irregularities” plained of in the case of California’ That no enabling law hal been passed by Congres: that none of the stops usually taken in the for matlon of « Territorial government had been pursucd, and that a majority of the voters of the Territory had not had an op- portunity of vuling on the constitution which had boen adopted by an acknowledged minority, Here are “irregularities even greater than those charged in the caso of Kansws; but at that time Judge Douglas ridiculed the opposi- tion and properly denounced it as fhetions, and of no practical use except to keep alive an unm nocewary agitation at the expense of the people of California, who would be kept out of the Union by the delay. California was admitied, and the agidation and excitement at once eulk sided. So it will be with Kanvaa In a week afler her admision it will be as difficult to get up 4 dixcuesion om the subject ae it would ayw NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1858. be to raise an éxcitement about the compra mise measures of 1850, After all Mr. Douglas’ exertions, what & beggarly array of converts does he show in the Senate. Bat two profeseing democrats have followed his lead—Broderick, of Catifornia, and Steuart, of Michigan As for Broderick, it is well known that he is ac- twated wholly by his hostility to the President for declining to give all the foderal offices to Brederick’s bottle holders. Steuart, of Michigan, is leoking after a re-election, and has for some time been regarded as really belonging to the Tepublican garty—just a4 much 60 a6 Preston King. In the House the number of democrats who will follow Douglas’ lead will be compara- tively no greater; and if he succeeds in trafiic- ing with the “South Americans,” as they are termed, it will only be seducing those men to their political graves, for not one of them will ever be returned by their betrayed constituen- cies In any event, no matter what combina tions may be formed of disappointed office-seekera and fanatical agitators, their utmost efforts can- not keep alive the agitation, or prevent a speedy eettlement of the question. Public Amusements tn New York and Else. : where. Within the past six months there have been given in this journal two tabular statements of the receipts of the theatres on iwo several occa- sions, The first was publiehed during the panic, the cecond when things had settled down into stagnation, We have now entered upon a new era of expansion, and on last evening the re- porters of the Heraxp visited ten theatres, as well as several other places of amusement, to note the effect of the brightening skies. Tho result of their labors will be found in another column. It will be noticed that the attendance at the theatres, notwithstanding the fact that we are on the verge of Passion Week, and in the midst of the most remarkable religious revival that has ever taken place in this country, is very large. The receipts of the Opera house during the past two weeks have averaged nearly three thousand dollare for each performance, and the furore created by the “Huguenots” is altogether un- precedented in the operatic history of the coun- try. While the public amusements of the metropo- lis are thus prospering, there comes up a great howl ot lamentation from the newspapers of the right-angled village of Philadelphia. There is confusion, desolation and ruin in the operatic camp. The director, Maretzck, has resigned the afon to a Ssubaltern, and retired from eny connection with the Opera. He retains, however, the serviees of his principal artists, and will probably combine with them the chief members of Mr. Ullman’s company, inclading, we hope, the great tasso, Mr. Formes, whose career in thie country has been a succession of triumphs. The Philadelphians have deserted the manager they loved so much, neglected the prima donna to whom they were going to erect a statue, and allowed Mise Juliana May, the daughter of Revolutionary sires, to make a fiasco under the shadow of Independence Hall “Did you ever,” asked a celebrated artist of his friend, “play in the Desert of Sahara!” “No,” was the reply. “Well, I have,” rejoined the ar- tist, “it is im the Philadelphia Academy of Mu- sic.” Doubtless the same impression waa forced upon the mind of the frightened prima donna, to whose eyes the oases of auditors were few and far between. The Philadelphians made a great fuss about their Opera house, and now they cannot be induced to go to it at any price. Ip orton two or three theatres have straggled slong through the winter, but there has been no Opera. The public will not pay for it, and everybody wauts a free admission. One or two concerts in Boston entirely exhausts the fands and the enthusiasm of the musical public. Philsdeiphia is equal to an Opera season of six nights at half price, and Baltimore does wonders if it gives good houses for three performances, Mr. Thalberg has exhausted the South, and so we shall have during the coming three months all the great artists centred in New York, where they properly belong, and the only place where they are supported or appre- ciated. The fact is that in the matter of pub- lic stmusementa, as well as in busiaces of every other kind, Boston and Philadelphia have long been mere outposts of New York, and they are gradually dropping out of sight allo- gether. They are retrograding, while this me- tropolis is going ahead, and is soon to stand equal with Loudon aad Paris in point of wealth and population. It is now superior to the oll capitals in business, energy, activity and en- terprise The coming months will be distinguished by © general revival in all branches of trade. Al- ready our friends and customers from the rural districts illuminate the fashionable side of Broadway; already the hotels are fall of traders from all sections of the country. There will be no lack of amusements for them. After next week Mr. Uliman will bring out at the Academy the famous Musard concerts, and in the middle of April the firat ba? masgué, which will be gotten up in the most splendid style. Patterns OF the masks and costumes are already on exhibition at the Academy and other places. Murard and the ba! masgué are the chief topics of conversation in tashionable circles. The la- dies are discussing the disputed points of dominoes or fancy costame with all the gravity of the diplomats who arrange the balance of power in Europe. The fa! masqud will be something entirely new to thie country, as there never has been one here on the Paris plan. It will attract strangers, expeclally the ladies, from Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing- | ton, Boston and other parte of the country. We shall have all the diplomats here from Waah- | ington, with half Congress at their backs, and all the real fashionables and would-be fashiona- bles from everywhere. After the Musard con- corte we may have more Opera on a grand seale, and then everybody will be quite ready to rest until carly autumn, when we are prom- | feed the pignant Biccolomint and all of Mr. Lam | lay’s artists from Mer Majesty's theatre, London. Such i# the programme for the amusements of the metropolis during the coming season. Possibly Philadelphia and Boston may get a few of the crumbs, but even that depends upon whether or not they can pay for thom, which Is very doubtfah } How to Quire } s Rowune Papwor—Give the Chevalier Webb a corn of a horse contract for Utah, equal to a cash profit of $5 aad, Lecompton or no Lecompton, ke witl bo (quiet ve a lamb, ee eee eam Personal Intelligence: Capt. Whipple, Ua A, and Maj. 1. 1. Gratiam, 7S A., are in Warhington. ‘The Rev. John Sawyer, of Bangor, who ie now in the 1004 year of bie age, is quite unwell, and But eiigh! boges ace quiertained of Lis recovery THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Passage of the Lecompton Constitu- tion in the Senate. THE KANSAS BILL WITH THE AMANDMENRS. Continuation of the Kansas Debate im the House, LATE NEWS FROM CAMP ScorT. PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE, &., ko, aa. Our Special Washington Despatch. YASSAGH OF THM LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION IX THE SENATE—GOY. ROBINSON IN TOWN—WHAT HR ABOUT—THE EUROPEAN MAILS, ETC. Wasnincrom, March 28, 1968. ‘The democratic caucus of Senators this morning deser- Mined not to offer the amendment which Mr, Green, @f Missourt, gave notice some time since he intended to offar, of merging Kansas and Minnesota toguthur. The objest Of this movement is to atrongthen the Kansas bill ia the ‘House, which it will do, as moat of fhe South Americans wilt Bow vote for it, but which they would not do had the ‘Minnesota bill been attached to it, Tho South Amoricams Gre dead against Minnesota It is extremely doubtful whether the Minnesota bit wilt be taken up inthe Senate for eome days—not, peraaps, ‘until the Kansas bill is disposed of in the House. Lecompton looks better today than tt has at any toe yet. There will be a prodigious fight inthe House om it to morrow. Both parties have their full atreugta om aie ground. ‘The presence in Washington of that remarkable mas, Governor Robinson, of Kansas, at this crisis, is attracting @ good deal of inquiry. Some say that he has come for the purpose of posting up the anti-lecompton men with the tricks of Calhoun; but there are shrewder peeple whe say he bas other flab tofry. The Delaware Indian He serve lands of Kansas are the best in the Torritory; thay cover an immense and fertile district of country, Tho tribe are negotisting to sell them, aud it is said thas qaite 4 number of federal and local officials of Kausas are anx- ious to get a bera) grant from the tract in beualf wa railroad, as scom as the government can dispoee of thees lands. Perhaps Governor Robinson may havo a fingor im this pie. He must be after something moro -importaat im acash valuation than the United States Seuste,or be would hardly be absent from Kansas at this junctare. Senater Gwin will to-morrow insist on taking up his Pacific Railroad hill; and he will doubtiess succeed, not, however, without a d@sporate dght. Wolcott, the Middlesex Mills man, has been released 6b bail, and is now on his way to Boston. The bad is $2,000, and Willard of the hotel is his bondeman. It ig believed that through informality in the indictment this will be the end of that farce. The lostmester General hag sent instructions te the New York, Boston and Philadelphia Fort offices to make up mails for Europe by the North America, which is to ‘sail from 'ortland, Maine, for Liverpool on Saturday, te ‘27th inst. The Art Convention, which has held daily meetings at the Smithsonian Institute, after having formed a per- manent association for the promotion of art in America, adjourned to-day till the 22d of February, 1869. ‘TW CENTRAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasniyorow, March 23—1:20 P. M. The Senate bas just adjourned. The bill to admit Kan- ses under the Lecompton constitution passed after being considerably, but not vitaily, amended by Mr. Gree, by eight majority. Nearly all the members of the House were in the Se- nate during the closing proceedings on the Kansas bill. ‘The chamber in every part was as densely crowded as possible, On announcement of the vote, there was slight: applagso in the galleries, intermingled with hisses, but ‘no extraordinary excitement was manifested. The National Art Convention havo adopted a constitateom for organization, on ® firm and definite basis for the ad- ‘vanoement and promotion of art in the United States, with a view to secure the recognition by government of the claims and interests of art. The Convention wit! urge oo Congress the appointment of a commission to secure to artists an unprejudiced and unbiased adjudication epom any works they may prosent for the adornment and com- pletion of the national buildings. They also propose we formation of a national school of art. The Rev. De. Bal- lows lectured to-night, at the Smithsonian Lastitation, be- fore the Convention. TUIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, FIRST BRSSION. Senate. Wasuyeton, March 23, 1884. The Senate is again crowded today. The prolimmary Dusiness was unimportant, THE ADMIAMON OF KAMAN Mr. Grose, (adm) of Mo., commenced by donying the assertion of the Senator from Michigan (Swart) tast the friends of Lecompton have beon driven from their poal- tions. The Senator from Llingia (Douglas) implied the same thing, but it i# not so, and the committec’s repert stands oochalienged. Its every individual charge is aux tained by official evidence, and the only exception taken to the report is by the senior Senator from Verment (Foot), who objects to the harsh appéilation of rebels Tie mate rome desultory preliminary retnarks in reply to the Senators from Michigan, Llinois and Vermont, aad then went into the main line of his argumont, eayiry that the government of Kaneas was de facto quite as much an i the case of California, even if you admit that treads were committed. He drew a parallel between the cases of Kansas aud California, citing Mr. Dougias’ opinion on the latter in support of his own (Groon's) views om the former. Fle said the statement nineteen countios are diefranchised was meact to deceive. Thove counties were a wilderness without inbabitants. He defended the leva lity of the carly steps towards the formation of the Le- compton constitution, and denied the assertions of the Senator from Vermont and Mr. Foster, that there wore broken pledges on the part of Gov. Walker apd the I’res- dent. Everybody kuows that Gov. Walker waa in favor of submitting tho constitution to the He advo- cated is, but he bad no power to pledge it. The Soaator from Illinois says that the only reason that they did nob submit the whole constitution was becanse it was said it would be yoted down. Who nail so” No one except the Senators from Hlinbie and Michyan. The great question i, does the constitution embody the will of the poople— which is legally exprewed the will—tho rules and the evi dence are tho same im oquity and in law. We cannet take we fyiug rumors and the opinionn o the Governors of Kansag aa evidence. That i# fraught with @ danger which, if oarried to its uitimatam, would bring bristling bayouets and cannon pointed at the walle of the Capitol— to substitute opinionsef the mob for the forme of law, All the logal formr having been com plied with in completing the Lecompton constitauion, it Was a completes! fact that the people had no right to vote nto whether or not it wae constitution. What would Senators say if the constitution of their own States, after being in actual operation, waa to be submitted to the peo- pie to seo whether [t i¢ a Constitution of nat. The Senator Kentueay sayy it would do no harm, and would onty show abundant care to sabm.t itagam and again to the or Yes, try again, try again. Col. Fremont would ve liked that principle—to iry agnin. As to the ory of fraud, it reminded him—but he would uot apply the im to the Senatore—“‘that a lie well stuck po ant repeated ie aa na the truth.” Mr. Green contixnea to analyze tho franda, admitting that frau’ s did exist, hut none to vitiate the Constitution. Further than that no legal evidenoo exista to ahow that this | ecompton const!tntion doer not 7, the will of the people of Kansas, and 5 wom be the dence wo strike at the very principle of liherty. Ld mitted that the Senators from Mlinoie, Midhigan, and Kentucky were not infiuenced in their acts by tho existence or non-existenoe of slavery in Kaneas: but thay ‘Were asmigting to built up a party dangorous to the Talon, and whoxe fan iamental piple just enunciated is, “No more slave States.’ Had ft not been for them Kansas many weeks since would have been ® young sistor in the federation of States, Mr. Groen would not go over avoid the enemy, however he might be disastisfed with the action of hia friends, Among other things he anit that black ropublicaniem crushing out the demo- eracy in its cotrse would never meet rts barrier, till it met the cannon of the South. Ho concluded by ax: pressing an ardent aspiration for the consolidation ant ancy of the democratic party. Kansas ts but the Sohn Doe and Richard Roe: it is of no importance that Calboun baa given the cort: to the tree State men, the principal Involves! is Oe Of vital interest to the South, and the N intereeta North in 60 far ae it depends on the Sout, for the of both are so interwoven that they cannot be severed without injury to both. Mr. Sawarn, (opp ) of N. ¥.—Doee the Senator attach no importance to the circomatance that the comstiiauon ‘the return to mado within eight daya’ ir. Gnere—That election of offtows Congress has no He did not know, neithor did tho New York A note ‘here laid om bis donk said that the returns were ail within eight days; 80 that the Senator from Mtw York ig aAnawored. Mr Groen then refurred to the atnlement of Mr. Dongiae that tho conetitation can only be changed before 1264 by the exercise of revolitionsar Fight, anc waid It wae not so. New York and other Staten had done it, and it was inserted with a siinitar interpreta Hon in the Kanens bill of rights. ‘The people must have JWAt rigrht to change the conatituiton in a legal wey, thor Wikh they could not reyrulate thoir own aifairs, bot woke be bound hy the pre?eding generation «In eemming np, "ye said, RO Wyld oy uppre vo Le AmROrIoNDS bo dwiill ap