The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1858, Page 4

4 ———————— NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GOKOON BENNETT, OFFICE N. W. CORNES OF FULTON AND NAARRAT STS: PERS onch in advan. FHE DAILY HERALD, boo conte per caj per annem, at rir cents per THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saty ore Se oom: tae Seek Haliion. 94) part of Great Brilain, or 8 to any part of the © Be beflade THE FAMILY HERALD, every Wednenlon, at fir conte per enpy oF $2 per anu. enn, to inent, doh | AMUSEMENTS THIS EYRNING, — ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteen!) #.—Trauiam Oreaa~ Tavnona. BROADWAY THFA Broadway —Rqusstaian Ree: Cee —prreracir or et Lae NIBLO'R GARDEN, Beoadway—Lavies row Lorg—Ticar Bors Frat Hance. WERY THEATRE, Bowery—Tinne Fast Nex—Fa eT re Moar, Queue Or Bom. TRTON'S THRATHE, Broadway, opposite Rood atran— rae boreoxs srorts oF Avnas, bY Tue Deomiess Hore antos—-Wanten, A Larry Fasiry, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Jussie Brows, o8 wae Kacias oF Locenow-B Brie. LAURA KFEWE'S THEATRE, Broadway—loor Srmois- wks OnE DLV ae BaRNUY'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Afternoon anc Krering—ive BkiOE OF Am KV ENING. rOOT'S BUILDINGS, 56) and S63 Broadway-Grorce cnaney &Woore Minetrers—Tne BisicK Ripe. MFOCHANICS’ MALI, 472 Broadway—Barant's Mixsteews —Frcertas Soncs—Escargp Cntxamen, N ww York, Monday, Mareh 2), 1858. The News. Accounts from Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, to the 12th inst., give us some additional particulars rela- tive to the progress of the revolution which has recently broken out in that republic. Puerto Cabello was captured by the revolutionists on the 6th inst. Ox the following day a force of ten thousand men marched npon Caraceas, and summoned President Mouagas to surrender the executive authority. He peremptorily re d, and declared the city ina plate of siege. The revolution was general through- out the interior. Of course all business was para- lyzed. fhe steamship Fulton arrived at this port from yesterday morning. She left -; and although her gare at Bos details, which opean mails y for distribu. Southampton news has been s ton, our files con Bion at the P Mr. Joh teinbeck, writing from Jaffa, Syria, ¢ a ful unt ef the cruel ther, with « cireomstantial report + perpetrated on the Rev. Mr. Dickson at that place. A history . With some of the out end family 1 of the facts brot! concern: inte in Syria. been most perse- culprits to jus- ine g that he had been succeswul in having them « The s » Empii y arrived from Havana | with news to the Inst. Sugars d and two thousand ei on band. Freights were dall, and f the city languis nge on Wf per cent. nm the East and twelve yesterday me had need, boxes emai the geners | i | one hi cocties, having los fty-four by Qeaih on the ia correspondent | gives some erning the im the lotest ar. { ‘the per centage | ‘The royal feast in honor of he new Pr Ye celebrated. The British tured the slave ship Amelia Havana, wf Ast ius was soon to r had cap outward bound from together with the j two ew events of occurred within the colony. continned to prevail. The en secared, were ty of wine pro- f January. eat importance and cont the English » the buying that day mint of the of Montevideo. the centre and na- ind the revolutionary ated into 4 “ war ing to the miAtorial and mdustrial thud 1858 las been ushe ful wuspices. Onr deposit suv crowded with dry bide hold by spec n Buenos Ayres Sc., chiefly ¢ that Pre southerly y intermis and in junan, one of the appointed by Go casioned by the Mice as Police s whee stated anaban, me, will control of geaney © Gpon autdority whose term ¢ be reappointed. This wi tie Board to the repuld Mr. Perit's wecent wet with another re , thas leaviag tnly two democrats, Messrs. Powell sud Tiemann, in the Woard. At the secret the Police Board On Thuraday last, Pred. Waterbary, W. H. Allen, W. Ui. Loferts and C. 1. fe Gee were promoted to the Position of Ke nts The ancexed table shows the temperature of the aimepbere in this city doring the past week, tbe range of the barometer, the variation of wind currents, end the slate of the weather at three periods during each day, viz.: at 9 A. M., and 3 and ® o'clock P. M.: ea 1 a eee S¥pegs =! ree wager? Bue tyTF ree we eetng ee i day, night, cloudy and ie overcast, with rain. 2 t1 3 TM, heavy showers ficbt, oar aad moon!) cht. Monday—Mornivg clear end biow ing frest: afternoon, iver night, clear anc moonlight Cal Tueeda| hg, OVETCAS. ANerBon, cloudy Bt bt Civar and moon!ight Wednesday Clear end pleasant al! day, night, clear and plearant afer noon, on light, jensant wi! day wight. clear and clear and plensant fh. a missionary, recent | of new setil NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1858. arrived fom the scenes of the fate Indian mutiny, preached ou cloqucat sermon in behalf of the Moreign Missions ia Dr, Dowling's church, Bedford street, yesterday, He consideree the disturbances in Tadla | would result in the destraction of caste in that coun- | try, and open & field for the Labors of the missionary, | who at present bad to contend against many diffi- | culties in his endeavors to convert the Hindoo and indian tribes. There was a large attendance, ‘the Academy of Music was crowded last night by firemen aud their friends to listen to a “ revival” discourse from Rev. Mr. Corbit. We give elsewhere # description of the affair, (ugether with @ report of the religions exercives on the occasion. The new synagogue of the Hebrew congregation of Beth Zoplah was consecrated yesterday with the solemn ceremonies peculiar to the Jewish faith. Rev. Drs. Raphal!, Fischel and Isascs officiated. ‘The omles of cotten on Satnrday embraced about 1,500 bales, on the basis of ebout 117{¢. for atralght Uses of en! dling uplands; mixed middlings being more plenty than the former were al about lite. Straight lines of middling cottons aro more sought for by American spinners aud are ecarce, white mixed Unes are mostly takeu for export, Fair cottons are searce, while the demand for them is #i0 moderate. With larger and botier assorted stocks the market would no doubt assume increased activity, and eeptciaily for home use, Flovr was quite dull and trans- actions reatricted. To have forced sales # concession of about five ceuts per barrei below inside figures, and especially for the commor grades, would have had to be submitied to. Western red wheat old at §1 2 wud Southern common do. et $1 25. Corn was acuivo and drm mt 8c, a 6Pc.,andat 67 ic. fer mixed Western. Pork was steady, with sales cf mess at $16 80.0816 65 end prime do, a $15 [0a $15 75. Sugars were quite steady, with fair sales, wt full prices. The traneactions embraced about 700 a 800 hhds, Cuba muacovaco and New Orleans, at quotations given in enother column. Coffae was quit und firm. Freights—Engagements were ton moderate ex tent, while rages were unchanged. The Lecompton Constitution in the House The Black Repudicans Give tt Up, The Lecompton constitution probably, before the end of this week, will paas the House of Re sentatives, and (hat will be the end of this Kua- sas agitation. Our hitherto most sanguine black republican cotemporaries believe it, admit it, and the party in Congress, we sus- pect, have made up their minds that il shall be so. Wesee it broadly hited in one of our Seward organs that if the abseace of one or two republicans shall be necessary at the criti- cal point to secure the success of Lecompton, it is very likely that an absentee or two will settic the question. We take this to be tantamount to the declaration that if the bill cannot be passed by an absolute majority it will be permitted to go by default. There are very strong reasons in favor of this lineef action. It makes no practical difference, so far as the question of pro-slavery or no slavery in Kansas is concerned. whether the {.ecompton constitution be adopted or rejected. With the admission of the State under the Lecompton programme the State will be as completely in the hands of the anti-slavery party as it would be'under the Topeka constitution itself. The late decision of John Calhoun gives the organic State Legislature to the free State men by a two-thirds majority, which will enable them at ener to override every impediment to the full enforcement of their whole State policy, consti- tution and ail. But, again, it will be seen from our latest Kansas correspondence that the people there are wearied out and disgusted with this sense- less agitation, and are fully prepared to accept aud to proeeed to business under this Lecompton programme. Satisfied with the substance they cwe nothing for the shadow of the thing. The spring emigration has commenced. Thousands ers from the Northern States are ex- ve in Kansas within the ensuing peeted to y | two or three months. The speculators and | capitalists, merchants aud traders already there, wish (o (urn this current of emigration to the best advanta Now is the time, therefore, for the parties iaterested in banks, manufactures, mill sites, town sites, lands, lumber, groceries steamboats, railroads, public buildings, and land grants from Congress, to be up and at work. Hut they can do uothing advantageously while they remain in the uncertain condition of « Territory. Admitted as a Stute, however, the business mon of Kansas of all classes perceive that big speculations, large prdfits, and grand enterprises, fat offices, and any quantity of public spoils and plunder, are all at oace within their grasp. Hence, all business people of Kansas, and all the sensible politicians there of the free ‘tate party, are quite ready to come in and go fo work under the Leeompton programme: T » doubtless, too, many of ow repubbli- can poli ut, speculators and lobby men, at | Washington and elsewhere, outside of Kanaas, } ' | ' } whe care aot « fig about Lecompton or Topeka, that they get « shar the land, the bank, railroad. city site, town lot aad mill seat profits the operation. We are, therefore, pretty contident that should Leeompton prove too weuk to pass the House by a cltar majority, it will stil? be strong enor to go through by dc fault Ther « four parties in the contest the ad- ministration democracy, the Douglas renegade democracy, the black republicans. and the Southern Know Nothinga, or, as they are more commonly called, the South Americans. Be- tween the louglas renegades and the black re- publicans the alliance is complete: but the balance of power lice with the South Americans, who are said to be a slippery eet of customers, In this vi the special trouble with the republicans is said to be the Crittenden amend- ment, the ultimatum of the South Americans. This amendment proposes to refer back the Lecompton constitution to a vole of the Kan sat poople, and if they adopt it then Kansas ix | to be declared admitted into the Union a« a sovereign State by a proclamation from the President, but if they reject it the amendment | provides fur a new conrention and a new com stitution. Now, it is aid that some two, three or more of the rabid sort of republicans hold Lecompto® in such un jualified abhorrence that they will not touch it even in this innocuous | «bape; but this ie all humbug. It is « mere cuse with these inflexible nigger worshippers, who really desire, from solid considerations of profit and lose carlicet possible admission of Kansas, Lecompton or no Lecompton. " e may congratulate the country, then, « few doys in advance on the passage of the Lecompton constitution, and that probab snd of April this foolish and pr agitation will be completely extin- guished in Cougres#. in Kansas, and throughout the Union. t One Wiastine ~Mr. Matt#on having taken his seat in Congress. after being duly whitewashed, has ergunized the lobby with himself as President and Simonton ae Secretary. The Tors, and other black republican newspapers, are the or gans, acting in conjunction with the outside Mts. We shall keep owr readers well posted wp shout their movements ) exceptions, there were no just plaint against the existing laws, and that any | unnecessary tinkering at them would be at-/ ‘The New Revolution tn Venezacia. The news of the reported revolutién in Vene- zucia which we published on Saturday, and which is confirmed by the letter of our cor- respordeat at Puerto Cabello, published in today's paper, may prove a very important event in the history of that republic. For the benefit ef those ameng our readers who lave not borne in mind the career of the Colombian republics, we may state briefly ‘unt Venezuela formed part of the republic of Colombia, whose independence was declared by Bolivar in November, 1818; that ia 1831 Vene- vnela cut loose from New Granada and Ecuador, and became a separate republic; thatthe first Pre- vldeat, Geaeral Paez, was successively re-elected ‘y bie office till 1846, whea Tadeo Monagns was, suainty through the influence of Paez, chosen President. Between Paez and the Monagas a owife had Deguo in the very infancy of the re- public. Geucral Paez had thrice during the Presidency been forced to use the national forces to suppress insurrections headed by Monague; when Pacz magnanimousiy refused to be again elected President and, with a view of securing the peace of the country, nominated ids rival for the office, the feud grew fiercer than ever, Goaded by the outrageous tyranay of Monagas, Paez rose in rebellion, was defeated, snd exiled; returned again a few years afler- ward, heeded another rebellion, was put down, imprisoned, and barely silowed after 3 long confinement to fly to the United States. He ar- tived here in 1850, and has lived here ever since; he is in the city, it is believed, at the pre- seut time. The two brother Monagas have ruled Venezuela as despots ever since 1846. The elder, Tadeo, who succeeded Paez, was last elected President for four yeare,in 1855. His term of office would have terminated next year. We now hear that the Venezuclans Lave risen agaiust him and recalled Paez. It may be worth remarking in this connection that, a few days since, Mr. Thomas Fraucis Meagher, the lish exile, left this in company with the son of General Paez, Mr. Meagher gave out that it was his intention to travel through Central and part of South America, and to write a book which Mr. Paez was to illustrate; but before he left, some hint was thrown out that the book which they proposed to get up was not such a book as Livingstone, Andersson, Stephens, and other great travellers have given to the world. Mr. Meagher on this wrote to his paper indignantly denying that he was engaged on a filibustering enterprise, and giving as proof thereof the fact that he had got a letter of introduction from some Central Ameri- can Ministers at Washington to their friends xl home. Neither the denial nor the evidgnce were calculated to overwhelm tbe mind; but as, at the time, it did not matter much what Mr. Meagher might have in hand, they passed with- out notice. The late news from Venezuela imparts some signiticance to the journey of the two triends— Paez and Meagher. It is understood that their first visit was to be made to San Jose in Costa Rica; from thence to Caraccas would take seve- ral days, Are they really going there’ Or shall we next hear of them at the head of the anti-Monagas party in Venezucla? We confess that the latter seems the more probable event. Ti UsvoM&iamiy or Bierprmg Kaysas.— One of the most curious circumstances con- nected with the Kansas agitation in this city is the utler impossibility of getting up a meeting to protest against the admission of that ‘Terri- tory under the Lecompton constitution. When the republican leaders went around to the mo chants of their own party and requested them | to sign acall for an anti-Lecompton meeting, they almost unanimously declined, saying that all they wanted was that Kansas should be ad- mitted under some constitution or other, so that Congress might be relieved from this detestable incubus of bleeding, and have some time to at- tend to the legitimate business of the country. Paruxr Law Revorw.—The House Commit tee on Patents have reported back Mr. Taylor's Dill, with an amendment in the nature of a sab stitute embodying all that is really valuable in that measure. and throwing aside the remainder | of its provisions, It should be stated that the main features of the amended bill correspond | with those of the measure approved and recom: mended by the Committee on Patents in the last Congress, and that it adopts most of the recommendations of the present head of the department. The committee are opposed to the codification of the exiting laws for this re that many of the statutes now in foree ly dergone the ordeal of judicial interpretation, wi they prefer to make provision for euch unediate occasions as seem imperatively de, man@ed to perfect the system to runni the tisk of impairing its efficiency by unne legislation. The amendments proposed | committee may be briefly stated to be th forcement of the attendance of witne: creation of a board of three chic! ex the augmentation of the salary of the c commissioner; the power to restore models to inventors, and to dispense with models where drawings are sufficient: the equalization aud son eun the on- the m8: | reduction of fees; the regulation and economy of printing expenses: the giving of proper notice to the public,when extensions arc ap plied for, and the modification of the act of n regard to the labelling of patented articles It will be seen from this short epitome of the | amended bill thatthe committee coincides in the main with the view which we took of the various measures that have lately been presse! on the at- ention of Congress. We stated that, with « sunds of c+ tended with danger. These exceptions hy nearly all been met by the amended bill but for the retention of one, and that the most | objectionable provision of Mr. Taylor's bill, we might, for the sake of the improvements which it embodies, be dispoed to incur the ritk of fresh legislation. The provision to which w allade is that which renders final the decision of the Commistioncer. and which takes away the tight of appeal from bis award to the District Court, We are strongly opposed to placing #0 much power in the hands of any one individual. It is contrary to the spirit of our institutions as wellas to the interests of the public at large. With the immense sums of money at the disposal of the great patent monopolists and the lobby it is evident that the honesiy of but few men could withstand the temptations that would be constantly held out to the head of the depart- ment. A bribe of a hundred thousand dollars would, i is obvions. be considered & mere bage {elle where interests involving millions are at take. cireumstances wa feel ourselves eaeaTy | f} compeiled to take the same position in regard to this auustitute bill that we took in reference to Mr. Taylor's mageure. Whilat we are always ready to support any real improvements in the existing laws, we must be convinced that amend- ments coming from any quarter really bear that character before we can give our sanction to. any fresh legislation on the subject. The pre- sont szetem is admitted to work tolerably well, both for the public and the inventor. Why, therefore, should we give the lobby a chance of carrying out their corrupt objects by impolitic attempts to reform it. The Condition of France—Philosophy of its Government. The recent outbreaks at Chalons and other parts of France; the constant succession of ar- resta; and the perseverance of the Hmperor in the policy of stern repression which was inau- gurated after the attempt of the Rue Lepelle- tier, are important events, assuredly, but they are neither surprising nor unusual. They are as commonplace and ordinary steps in the course of French politica, as the meeting of political conventions, or the bolt of dissatisied politi- cians are in the political movement of the United States. They simply indicate that the time has come when the novelty of the Imperial eégine has worn ‘off, and that the French peo- ple are beginning to cast about in their usual way with a view to political change. To realise the true significance of these arm- ed ontbreaks, attacks on fortified places, ap- peals to the aoldiery, arrests of leading men, which are taking place in France—and which to us here seem the achme of disorder and anarchy—a careful comparison must be made between the political systems of France and other countries in the same stage of political developement. Take for instance England, the United States and France, At first view, no- thing cau be more dissimilar than the political systems of there three countries. England is a hereditary, constitutional monarchy, with a pri- vileged class endowed with peculiar political rights. The United States are a democratic republic, with an execative periodically changed, and perpetual intervention of the people in the transaction of po- litical business, France is an absolute despotism, hereditary in name, and though origi- nally resting on the popular will, independent of popular control in the administration of pab- lic affairs, Here are three distinct and striking- ly opposite systems. But, if we look a little closer, we shall find, underlying the institution- al superstructure, a cardinal feature of the po- litical system common to all three. That fea- ture is the popular control over the govern- ment, In this country that control is exercised in a straightforward legitimate direct mannec. Every four years, the people elect an entire set ofrulers and magistrates. At shorter periods, the people direct public affairs by the election of members of the legislative body. The ad- ministration of public affairs is constantly un- der the public eye, and opportunities for popu- lar interference recur so frequently that there is no temptation, here, to violate the established law of periodical revolution, We find a similar control exercised, not quite so directly, but still plainly enough in Great Britain. The people | of England are partially sovereign by their rep- resentation in the Commons. Parliament, in- | deed, can get rid of an obnoxious government sooner than we can; it need not wait the lapse of any particular period of time, but may com- | pel aminister to resign on any day it pleases. | Adverse to this popular control are the institu- tions called the royal prerogative and the | Mouse of Peers; but, of late years, these branch- es of the government discreetly shun a collision with the Commons, and leave it supreme con- trol over the affairs of the nation. The same popular control exists also in | France, but developes itself in a very different | | way. There is no vent there for the popular | desire to rule, in the shape of periodical elec- | tions or test votes in the legislative body. In | France the public can only make itself felt at ; barricades and with bayonets. And though the | plan seems to us enormously inconvenient and expensive a* compared with the system adopted ; in the Anglo-Saxon countries, it is nevertheless a fact that is a recognized and established plan, and that the people of France look to it with perfect confidence as the method by which their original control over the government of their country must be asserted from time to time. ‘Yo them, revolution, with conspiracies, blood- thed, and barricades, are what Presidential elec- tions are to us, and general elections are to the English, They are the flywheel of the politi cal machine. They would not work at all—they would be utterly ruinous but for the fact that they do not interfere in any degree with the mechanical _ administration of the public affairs, Our revo- | lution, and that of 1649 in England, were cal upheavals which prostrated the po! edifice from chimney to basement; so was the revolution of 1769 in France. But revolutions, the establishment | of the first empire, the restoration of | the Bourbons the affair of 1850, that | of 1848, and the last coup d¢éiat—all these have been mere changes of the political chief Without the least change in the public depart. monts. The word “kingdom” has been seratch. | ed out, and “republic” substituted : “imperial” } has been printed where “royal” or “repabli- | ean” bad flourished ; « few heads of bureaus | _ bave been removed to make room for new men; Dut with these exceptions, the late French revo: | lutions have caused no more change in the me | chanical departments of the French government | than « change of ministry does in Kngtand | probably les« than the election of a new Pre. | sident does here. | The news from Prance, as we said, indicates } | that restlomness in the public mind whiob is th weual forerunner of one of the periodical aaser- tions of power on the part of the French people. | There is little doult but the republicans availed themselves of the period of dulness which fol- | lowed the peace with Russia torevive. extend and improve their organization. The scattered trag- ments of the legitimist aud Orleaniet parties would donbtiess be glad to co operate with them. There is at the present time a genera tion of ardent young men in France who we from reven to twelve or thirteen years old when the Inst street fights took place in Paris, and who by of heaving them talked of, ardently look forward * an opportunity of showing their own mettle behind a barricade. Ibis a well known maxim of modern Freneh politics that every generation makes one revolution, but none ever make two. The revulsion, too whieh seemed fo pase ¢o lightly over France while it ravaged all the rest of Barope muct have done much, more damage than we have been told, aad yielded a much larger crop of { i } | ‘ subsequent He demands his pay in advance, and receives a would-be conspirators thaa ia goncrally eup- posed. Continental Furope is riper for a sudden and sweeping revclution than it ever was befere. Raiironds and telegraphs are so many fuses hy whose aid the revolutionary fire might be com- wunicated with electric speed from capital to capital and from nation to nation. All that would be wanted would be the first spark. Had Orsini and bis confederates had the common sease to employ a man of cool nerve with a re- liable revolver, instead of their fatal and childish grenades, the spark would already have fallen, and the conflagration have been lit. Sazanms or Dramatic axp Orrnatic Agnisrs. —Recent events in this cily and Philadelphia have directed attention to the manner in which the business of the Opera is conducted—a sys- tem, it seems, which leaves the manager and the public entirely within the control of the artists. In the case of one rebellious singer in this city the manager was quite close to a loss of three or four thousand dollars, through the attempted extortion of an artist who received a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per month. In Philadelphia another artist closes his en- gagement, and then is hired from week to week. cheok payable on the day when the salary would have been duc. He them demands that this check shall be cashed in advance of date, and that being refused declines to sing. He was, of course, discharged from the company, and will probably never again sing in the United States. The above are only two instances of the arrogance and assumption of the majority of the Opera artists. In the first place, they re- ceive one or two months salary in advance, thus obtaining a credit from strangers whea they would not be trusted for sixpence worth of maccaroni at home, After they get here the manager must keep them, however bad they may be, and the public has to swallow them. Last summer there was paid for advances in Eu- rope thirty-five thousand dollars. What artist bas been brought out this season, except Formes, who is not included in the aboye pamed ad- Yalice, who has satisfied the public or been of the smallest profit to the manager? Not more than one or two. There are paid now in sala- ries to the artists of both Opera troupes some- thing like iwenty-five thousand dollars per month, and this sum might be reduced one-balf without any serious loss to the public, for of the twenty or thirty artists nominally of the first class there are not over hulf a dozen that the public cares to hear. The salaries range too high from top to bottom, and we cannot see why there should be such a disparity between the wages paid to first class drawatic artistsand Opera singers. The highest salary of an actor in any stock compauy is two hundred and fifty dollars per week; bot that is a single instance of a very great public favori who appears as 4 semi-star. There are a few dramatic salaries, say three or four, which come up to one hundred dollars per week, but the salaries of actors range from fifteen to fifty dollars; generally they are nearer tothe smaller than tothe larger amount. At the Opera the principal singers receive six bundred, five huu- dred and four bundred per week each, while the smallest pipe of them all does not deign to emit its harmony under two hundred dollars per month. The only way that the manager can afford to pay the salaries at all is by using the artists to sing in conceris and extra perform- ances. The salaries are much higher than in Europe. One prima doana hus been threatening to go home for the last two seasons, bat she has not gone yet because she knows that she never can make so much money there as in the country of the Yankees. A baritone who was glad to gettwo hundred dollars per month whea he came here is now considered 4 cheap aud desir- able article at eight hundred. ft is true that selaries, both dramatic aod operatic, have ad- vanced very much within the past five or six years, and have shared in the genersl expansion. Of course, when the panic came they had to share in the geueral contraction. The actora took it with a good grace, but the singers, with one or two exceptions, absolutely ‘refused to take off sixpence, or to give the manager an heur’s credit over the time that their pay was due. A prime donne gets as much salary as the President of the United States, a tenor is paid better than » Cabinet Minister, a bari- tone more than a Judge of the Supr Court, and £0 ‘on. Even the chorus singers are paid three times the salary that is given in Europe, and are good for nothing ot that. After all is done many of the artists lake every occasion to abuse the country wand the people that pay them so well, and will for the slightest cause—a caprice, # half bottle too much wine, refusal: of free tickets for retinue of ad- mirere—decline to sing and throw over the pub- lic and manager without the slightest hecitation. Paid and petted like princes and princesses, the artists almost begin to think they really have deepotie sway over the public, and ecem to con- a the | vey the idea that they are conferring a favor by taking the money from “you Yankees.’ It is to be hoped that you are permeated with proper, respectful, humble gratitude. Mayor Timmaxx’s Rerorus.-Mayor Tie mann has only commenced his work of reform Out of fifteen hundred lottery and po men he has oaly arrested about thirty; oat of three thousand houses of i] fame he has oaly venti- lated half a dozen; out of three thousand gam- blere he bas only apprehended about twelve of the lowest grade; out of three hundred gambling houses he has oniy broken up five or six. Truly, the Mayor has a mighty job before him, The cleansing of the Augoaa stables was noth- ing to it. Qtiek Paseacrs snow Carronsts. We have teon t stated © most of our city cotempor=urics that on the tact arrival from California the trip was performed in a shorter apace of (imo than any heretotore made, Thie te mot the case, The paerage wae the qnickeet yet made over the Panama route, but Ht hae been done in much shorter time by the wey of Nicaragua. The following ise record of the shortest pacenpes — . wy way roamanta ’ Dey of ar 1854 Nerthorn Light... .Uct. 26 1s6h—Northerm Light. Mar, 10 1 Northern Light. Aug. 6 duly 16 39 90 Now. i tet wm + + OF PANAMA, Northern Tight ww sMareb 26 it. 5 20 days 14 he News was received in this vity on Tt of Decem ber 1665, (rom San Fraucisco by the Ramsey route through Mexico to New Orleans and from thence by telegraph to New York in nineteen days 188 Mower Tay! vie PY WeRAD Poor IN Cin wath —The aecount we from the Cincinnat) Zines of an Irish riot at » fune re weorrect so fur as the name of the man over whore body the ricters had sheir co®et, The fight was not ower the body of Mr Tierney, bub ower the co®n end corpee of Mr. Mol any wie Sevrence Comme rap. Gow, Wise has eamniited the sentence of death which bad heen paced pon the dave boys, Morris and Ivy, for bacning the factory of Wer D. Milter, Pay -of Lyngbiburg, Ve., to trawaportation er i Untoereting trom Wi TAR KANSAS ee rcanaere STaTs OF THINGS IN WASHINGTON—THE s0UTH! KNOW NOTHINGS—BETENSIVE BPROULATIONS IN KaNsaw LANDS, RAILROADS, MILL SITES, ETC.--HORACE P. CLARK AND JOBN 8. HABKIN——THK DEMOCRATIC COMMITTBE ON THE ADMINSION OF KANSAS—DES- PATCHES FROM OU NICARAGUA PLENITOTENTIA: RIBS, BTC. Wastaxcrox, March 28, 1358. The lobby operators of the biacks are in great trouble ebout Kansas. My exposure of their projects a few days ego has nipped their corrupt subscription in the bud, tnd eayed the pervonal Lonor of the Keow Nothiags in Congress. These good Kuow Nothings are sow of going for the constitutional rights of the South on the Kaa- gas question, with the exception of two or throe Southera. Coughheads in either house. The blacks are all in coafe- sion in another quarter. There is treachery among their own men, and Senator Wilson knows why he and his con- foderates desire the Lecompton constitution to pass et ‘this scasion in any way, ulthough he publicly votes ad speaks agalust it, Some of his triends and eup- porters have vast speculative interests at stake in Kansas, the value of which depends on ie admission now with any sort of a constitution. There is a most terrible undercurrent at work among the Diack republicans in {aver of admitting Kanon at onco—an under current that is folt among the membess of the Emigrant Society in Boston, the Kansas focely in New York, and all eorts of peopic im bleeding Kansas. ‘The Delaware lands, Minncola jobs, railroads, mul aites, bank charters, new towns, &c., &., in Kansas arc valuet ‘at sizty millions of dollars, and the spéculators among the Diacks in Washington, inthe Hastand in Kansas, waatte Fealizo as coon ag possible. Mobinaou, Calhoun, Deaver, Walker, Shannon, Recder—pro slavery and anti-slavery— bave been mixed up with these matters in some way. All these vatuable speculations break up the mere polii- cal organization of the blacks, and the administration wit carry the day by a wonderful vote. 1 Lave savod, by my foncer exposures (which created such « row), the valuable pecuniary virtue of the Know Nothings in Congress from all corrupt contamination, and I now only set down a few insignificant ones as impotent Southern doughheads, to be guilctined when they get beck to their constitucnts im Maryland, Kortucky, North Carolina and Teznessce, Se there is Bo doubt of Kansas passing the House at last ia tome way, A remnant of the virtuous Know Nothings im Congress wil! bo saved, the Douglas bogus democracy ia probably ruimed forever, and the most conning of the black repubiicans will make, by the admission of Kansas at ence, immense fortunes uext summer if the question be settiod now, and the vast emigration be permitted to ge forward with the opening of the apring by restoring peace to that Territory. Speculations to the smount of sizty mil- tions will thus staundh the wounds of “bleeding Kausas,’” Much Piriue in profitable jobs! Horace F. Ciark spoke last Wevk (%o hours oa Kausas, but the longer be spoke the more ditticult it was to know his opinion, Haskins took his side among the black repub- cans, and is now in full communion with Matteson, whe is wgain the Gamatiel of the lobby. Proparatisns are maxing ia the outside lobby for a tremendous business during the uext two months. Mr. Cochrane has appointed the following committee, in accordance with the resolution adopted in caucus Iagt evening, whose duty it is to report the best mannor of qimitting Kansas under the Lecomiption constitution Measrs. English, of ludiana; Keilt, of South Carotioa; Groesbeck, of Obio; Stephenz, of Georgia; Craig, of Mis- sours; Owen Jones, of Ponsylvania; Cockrell, of Ohio; Branch, of North Carolina; Dewort, of Pennsylvania; Quitman, of Mississippi; Foley, of indiana; Glancy Jones, of Pennsylvania; Pendloton, of Olio. Houston, of Alaba- ma, Clark, of New York; Bocock, of Virginia; Hail, of Ohio; Stevenson, of Kentucky; M. C. Kibben, of Califor- nia, aud Corving of Now Vork. It is betieved this com- mittee will adopt some mode of settling the vexod questicn. The despatches received irom General Lamar are met very important. fe bad not been long enough im Nicaragua to ascertain the true position of ailuirs, The very best fecliog had thus far been manifested, and bis interview was all that he could havo expected. From tho best information he could obtain, be is of opinion that the Yracarri treaty will be ratified. A large betol cf documents was also received from Cary Jones, tho mous important of which is that he was on his way Lome. HT. Livingston, | understand, bas beea appointed Consul to Genoa. TUE CRY SEWAYAPER DESPATON, Wasniveron, March 28, 1858, Yesterday Cotonol Roberts, U.S. A., gave @ trial, oper to all Bow and improved arma, im the orchard at his real- Genes on the heights at Georgetown. Tho company was Cistingalshed and select, including Secretary of War Floyd, General Porsifer F. Smith, Colonel Roberts, Colowel May, Mejor McCulloch and several others. Tho practice was continued from noon tll suidown. focretary Floyd Hired five snote with Sharp's carbine, and putall in the target at Ubree hundred yards, Colonel Roberts carrie@ of the most marks, and also put the only shot in the eb Al the close of the day the marks stood thus im the terget-—S00 yards, Sharp's rite, manufactured as Liertiord, Cons ; Moree’s ritie, 88; Coit’s, 4; Gould's, 8, After the conclusion of the trial, aa agent of Sharp's fred tow shells in forty seeonds. Subeequentiy at 600 to 75@ parce even shots Were pul lathe target, including three by Cootne! Roberts. Another trial comes off soon at the Navy Yard. The following are the yeas and Bays ou the acceptance of the report os the Special Committee in the case of Maileson — Messrs. Abbott, Adrain, Androws, Arnold, Ban- Whoret, Kingbam, Bitr, Bliss, Howie, Bray ton, Burhagame, li, Case, Challe, ie weon, Clark, i. Cochrane, Colfax, Comins, Corning, Covede, “Cemvin, Dumrell, Davis of Std, Davis of Ind.. Davis of Mars., Mavis of Towa, Dawes, Dean, Tek, Dodd, Dur usworth, Footon, Foley, Foster, Giddings, or, Gowmiwin, Granger, Grow, Hall of Maem, i ‘kman, Horton, Howard, Jewett, Kellogg, Kelsey, Kilgore, Knapp, Kunkel of Pa, Leach, Leister, | Lovejcy, Montgomery. Morrill, Morris of Me.. Moree of N. Y., Mott, Nichols, Olin, Par! | P.ke, Voller, Parviance, Richie, Robbins, Roberts, > | Seward, Shaw of UL, Sherman of Ohio, Smith of Geon.; Spinner, Stanton, Stephens, Tappan, Tavior of la, ‘Thayer, Tompking, Trnple, Wade, Walbridgs, Waldrom, Walton, Wacaburno, Whiteley, Wil<on, Woou—06, Naya —Mesers. Anderson, Atkins, Hurmett, Burne, Hur- Clemens, Cliugman, Cobb, John Cochrane, Cox, Craigs, Curry, Payideon, Dowdell, bthot, Eustis, lorence, Garnett, Gartreli, Gitlis, Goode, Greenwood, ivoesbeck, Hall ‘of Obio, Hoard, Hopkins, Houston, tuchos, Jackson, Jenkins, Jones of Tenn. , Joves of Vens., Kelly, Hurkle of Md. Lawrence, Leidy, Letcher, M>Quoen, Maréhall of llitnols Mason, Miles, Millvon, Moore, Miblack, beipa, lowell, Quitman, lady, Noagan, Ratt- Sancide, Savage, Seales, Sentt, Shaw of N.C. Sevcusen, Mewart Wortendyke, Wright ence ene eeiO j Payton, 3 ley. iber, Gooeb, Gregg m | Hawkins. Hill, Huylor, Owon Jouce, Reltt, amar, Landy, Maclay, MeKibbin, Marshall, of ky., Matteson, Maynards Miller, Mercan, Morris, of Ul., Mowray, Valmor, Wendie ton, Philtips, Vote, Ricand, Rosell, ‘Searing, ‘sheen of N.Y., Shorter, Singleton, Smith of itl., bag aN. Y¥, Thompsoa, Underwood, Washburus, (2), White, Winslow, Woodson, Wright of Tenn, Zollion ter, Onr Bpeetal Albany Deapaten. RAVUCING SHERIFT WILLETT'S PRES—TAY OF NEW YORE COMMON COUNCEL—NO MORE CAMPHENT COLONEL BURNETT MODESTLY asks FoR $5,600— ORINDING MILES UNDER PILE WRAD OF STRAM— AUDACITY OF 4 LOBBY MAN--CASTLE GARDEN DR- VELOTEMBATE—MAVTOR OF LECOMPTON, PTO, PTO. Aveaxy, March 27, 1868, Without any consultation with either of the city Sena. tors a bil! bas boon latroduced relatiag to the Sherif. foes in the connty of New York. As the bill ¢ somewtihe benind on the calendar s motion wae mate by Mr. Love land, from the northern part of the State, to consider the Wil, Mr. Noxon, of Syracnse, favored the idea. He anit the Dill merely provided that in every case in which. iasaw Was joined in aay court the fee of the Sherif ahowid be fifty conte for summoning @ jury, He waid thas wader the present law the lees of the Sheri? ruu up to twenty or thirty thowand dollars, Morars. Fly, Mather and Dough- erty contended that the bil) did not come from the city of Now York, but originated with partion out of the city. When the citivens of Now York desired any euch legis a tion they would ask for it through their Ow deisgation. Thay had not asked for any alteration in the Shoriit's feen, fin! they wanted no auch ehange. Mr. Loveland was de- feated in lis attempt to forward the bil). Mr. Doogherty introduced « bill for the relief ofthe mem. bors of the New York Common Council and Board of Su- porvtors for the year 1867, which provides that the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars shall be paid to thom in addition to any moneys received for their sertices, The Supervisors are to be authori ved to raise by tax the mum ot bwonty three thousand aad tweuty: Sour for suck. pay men' 7. Dowgherty aleo préganted a bill to prevent the manu. FI op vd oop eel explosive burning fini. Offenders are to be deemed gallty of & misdemen nor aod eahject ton fine of one beodred dollars or im Prisopment in the Stake prison for the term of two yours. The Military Comm tteo of the Senate have reported « | appropriating the aum of five thousand five hundred filly -eight dollars to Col. Eurnett, which he claims, Haskin, Aion for expouses incurred in rawing the regimont of York volunteers, and partly for six mowths pay aa Colgnet pefore be war Masvergd ia the Unijgd Stage gor