The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1858, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. eer JaMBES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFESE U. W. CORNER OP FULAON AMD MASEAD GIS. AARARARRARA RN Tae Pan ia MENALD LD enery Sankt cone | Sper roa rnin or Bloons prt sroont bouk | Nat mana, every Wednesday, at four cents per om i Vor oT eNTaRT RY CORRESPONDENCE, containing tmmertont nee, Cary dg COT a Y weed will ‘pond for. Bare “ame Pan geveanr Wequabren v0 daar’ ais Levens ane Fagcases yt? NOTICE taken of anon correspondence. We do not Peturn those revected. auch ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every j advertisements in. grcrd sn the Waniiy Haan, Panty Hamat, and én hs JOB PRINTE caveutod saith neatness, cheapness and dee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUSEO, Fourteenth street—Tuararnc’s Marine at One O'CLOCK. NTBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tas Pere Caamrstes - AcaLisia—Bianoo, ¥ THEATRE, ‘Bowery—Tux ‘Tunes Fast Mes— Miowan. Kamin. 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The Buropean edition of the Hera:p, printed in French and English, will bo published at ton o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six conta. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Youx Herat will pe received at the following places 1m Europe:— Loxvos.. ..Bamson Low, Son & Oo., 47 Am.-) Express Co. Parw...... 5 Express Co. , 8 Place de la Bourse Levmroot.. Am.-Ew Express street, R. Stuart, 10 Exchange etreet, Kast. Huves,....Am.-European Express Co., 21 Rae Corneitie, ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hxnapy ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at She office during the previous wook, and up to the hour of publieatica. ‘The News. ‘The steamship Hammonis, which left Southampton ‘on the evening of the 20th ult., arrived at this port ata late bour on Thorsday night. She brought London morning and evening papers of the 20th, containing news some hours later than that received by the Persia, and a full complemeng of passengers. ‘Consols closed in London on the evening of the 20th. at 9] for money, and 96} 497 for 8th of April, being a slight advance on the quotations of the pre- vious day. An improvement of one-eighth per cent had taken place on the Paris Bourse. Paris was tranquil, and the Emperor apparently undisturbed; but arrests of political offenders con- tinued to be made in various parts of France, and a number of prisoners had been deported to Algeria. A stringent law with respect to the manufacture of percussion caps containing fulminating ingredients bad been submitted to the Legislature. The Bombay mail of the 24th of February contains some interesting details of the late news from India It appears as if the Sepoys were in very great force at Lacknow, and had put the place in a strong posi- tion of defence. Sir Colin Campbell would, it was expected, attack them on his march to the campaign in Onde. It was said that a relative of the old King of Delhi had been proclaimed King of India, and that he had ordered the dispersion of the army of the mutineers and the formation of guerilla bands all over the country, in order to cut off the English in detail. At the trial of the ex-King of Delhi his complicity with the revolt was fully proven. ‘The China mail had not arrived in Londoa. Our correspondent at Pernambuco, writing on the 6th olt., says:—The only fever that prevails here now is the railroad fever, which is at boiling tem- perature at present. Another section, which extends for into the interior, has been completed, and the transportation of sugar and passengers is immense, Holders of sugar demand an advance in prices, which purchasers are not incliged to submit to, hence vessels leave daily in ballast for America, and Euro- pean vessels go south seeking freight. In the Senate yesterday the bill for the admission of Kansas, as amended by the House by the substi tution of the Crittenden plan for the Leeompton constitution, was taken up, and after remarks by Messrs. Douglas, Bigler and Pugh, the bill was dis- agreed to by a vote of thirty-two to twenty-two. ‘The Senate has confirmed a number of appointments of Lieutenants in the Navy, and Marshals and Dis trict Attorneys. Geapatches. Giscussion of Utah affairs, especially with reference to the expenditures incurred by the military expedi- tion to that Territory. A large number of propositions of local im- e were acted on in the Legislature yester- it we have no space for a particular reference The bill repealing the Metropolitan Police law was taken up in the Senate, but as no Senator was prepared to debate the subject progress was reported, and the bill made the special order for Wednesday next. The annual appropriation bill and the Senate bill providing for the maintenance of the canals for the fiscal year were reported. Daring the proceedings Mr. Chatfield, of New York, became dirorderly, and on motion was forcibly re moved by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Two very extraordinary and mysterious murders were revealed yesterday, the perpetrators in each | case being unknown. In one case Charles Samuels, young man residing at No. 235 Adams street, Brooklyn, was the victim. He was stabbed to the heart and then thrown into the Hast river, with a large stone attached to his body. The other case is equally horrible. The mutilated remains of an un- | known man were found packed up in a whiskey bar tel by the freight agent of the Hudson River Rail- | The | rod Company, at the foot of Canal street. barre! bed been sent on to this city via the Great Western and New York Central Railroads, and was directed to W. T. Jenninge, No. 18) Leonard street; but it was oscertained that there was neither sucl ap individaal nor such a number in that street. A ful! report of the evidence of Comptroller Flagg, at the preliminary examination of J. B. Smith—one of his clerks, who is charged with defrauding the city treasury——will be found in today's Hnwanp. It will repay perusal, as it shows the manner in which the affairs of bi ¢ ore conducted. The investigation will be resumed this afternoon. ‘The steamer Soltan was burnt to the water's edge, and sunk near St. Genevieve, Mo., about three o'clock yesterday morning, and between fifteen and twenty persons are supposed to have lost their lives by the catastrophe. The Sultan was bound for New Orlcans with a full cargo of produce, which, together with the boat, will be a total loss. The Republ ominating Committee of the Seventh ward, Brooklyn, mot last evening, and nominated Samuel H. Turner for & The ealee of cotton yentertay embr 1 ,00¢ Their names are given in our | The House was occupied in a rambling NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1858.—TRIPLE SHEET. demand, with free sales ef yellow and white at 60c.a O03¢c., and & lotof prime white do. at 7lc, Pork was firmer, with sales of mess at $16 85 a $16 90, and prime at $13 76. Sugers were firm, with sales of 600 700 bhds, Settlement of the Kansas Question—Net Re- eults of the ‘The Senate has passed a bill admitting Kan- sas into the Union as a State, the House has passed a bill admitting Kansas asa State into the Union, and the action of both houses was preceded by the recommendation of the Presi- dent for the admission of Kansas, Thus, upon the main point, by the concurrent action of the President and both houses of Congress, it has been substantially decreed that Kansas is a State. Before, however, this concurrent action can be reduced into a law, there must be an exact agreement upon a piece of parchment be- tween the houses upon all the minor details, undersigned by the President of the United States. But there is a disagreement between the two houses upon these minor details, and the question now is, what chances are there for ® compromise? The Senate bill provides for the admission at once under the Lecompton constitution; the House bill, “asa condition precedent” to the admission, provides that the said constitution, yea and nay, shall be submitted to a vote of the people; that if thus ratified, the Presi- dent shall proclaim Kansas a State; but that if aid constitution hall thus be rejected, there shall be a new State Conven- tion, and that with the promulgation of the con- stitution thus framed, the President shall, by proclamation, declare Kansas a sovereign State. In other words, the Senate bill admits Kansas forthwith, and provides that the people may ac- cept or reject the Lecompton constitution after their admission as a State, while the House bill declares that before they can be admitted, they must first accept the Lecompton or frame a new constitution. Upon this nice distinction it is not likely that the two houses will very readily come to any common half way ground of agreement; and for our part, we trust that the Senate will stick to the pure and simple Le- compton bill, and let the whole thing fall through. Why not? Within the present month, we dare say, a new constitution, framed by a con- vention elected under the authority of the late Kansas Territorial Legislature, will be laid before Congress; and as it will doubtless give the same government to Kansas that would fol- low the adoption of the Lecompton charter, or a law for still another convention, why prolong the controversy upon this paltry humbag of territorial popular sovereignty, in vain efforts to patch up a compromise between the two houses, upon an issue which admits of no balf way capitulation on either side? ‘The opposition journals in this quarter do not appear to comprehend where the victory be- longs in reference to the adoption by the House of the Crittenden bill. One of the most fero- cious of our anti-slavery cotemporaries says that the triumph does not belong to the repub- licans, nor to the Douglas democratic rene- gades, nor yet to the rump of the South Ameri- can faction. And such is the fact; for the sub- stantial victory that will have been achieved in this matter, however it may be finally settled, compelling the people of Kansas and the two houses of Congress to bring this senseless buat demoralizing Kaneas equabble to an end. Nor is this all that will accrue to the admin- istration from the settlement or this vexed ques- tion. Upon the sharply defined test of the Le- compton constitution, a solid and reliable nu- cleus has been established ter the consolidation of the democracy, North and South, around the administration. On the other hand, where are the black republicans! Stultified and disgraced before their constituents in voting, under cover of the Crittenden dodge, for a slave State con- stitution for Kansas. And where are the Douglas deeerters? Disgraced and drummed out of the party camp for their fraternal affilis- tions with Giddings, Colfax and company, and the rump of the dark lantern brotherhood. As for these huckstering Southern Know Nothing dough-heads, it is very likely that from and after the expiration of this Congress we shall hear of them no more, or if we do, it will be somewhere north of Mason and Dixon’s line. We may say, therefore, that with all the blowing and crowing of the opposition factions over the defeat of the Lecompton constitution, they have really achieved nothing. To the ad- ministration belongs the credit of pushing this Kansas imbroglio to a settlement, whatever that settlement may be; and, with the admission ! of Kansas as a State, to the administration will ; belong the advantages and the means, upon ; other and more practical issues, for a thorough- going reorganization and consolidation of the democracy throughout the Union. Admitted as a State, Kansas and this Kansas extravaganza will cease to trouble the country. This nigger agitation will be exhausted and defunct, and | dead, too, perhaps, for some years to come. We are, indeed, inclined to believe that upon new issues and new measures the administration will, in season for our next Congressional elec- tions, be able to bury out of sight the remain- ing fragments in the North of the Walker and Douglas Kansas rebellion. In the meantime it matters very little what may be the upshot of the present disagreement between the two houses. With this bill, that bill, or the other, the result will be the same. The people of Kansas have decided upon the character of their institutions; they are fixed, and cannot be altered by any bill of Congress. | They are the institutions of a free State, and whether admitted under the Lecompton, the Topeka, the Minneola or any other constitution, pro-tlavery or no slavery, it is all the same. With the admission consummated, the adminis tration will be free to proceed to more important business. In clearing the ground, however, of the killed and wounded, it will probably see to it that the funeral ceremonies of such false and fainting disciples as Walker, Stanton, Wise, Douglas, Harris, Montgomery and Forney— dropping and dying by the wayside—are not neglected. | ‘THe Anwy Brt.—The conclusion of the Se- nate to vote two regiments of volunteers in stead of four regiments of regular soldiers for the porpoees of the administration in reference | SS SS will be in the success of the administration in | to the rebellion in Utah, is certainly a very lame and impotent conclusion. Two regiments will be of little or no use in helping to bring the war to aclose. The only effect of the vote, and ot the recent debates, as well in the Senate as in the House, will be t» eucourage the Mormons, and prevent their eubmission in the spring. ‘The Printing of Congress—A Now Bill in the It will be within the recollection of all our readers that at the beginning of the eession of the present Conyress the Henan directed pub- io attention to the abominable system under which the Cengressional printing was performed. The subject engaged the attention of both tranches of Congress. The House appointed a special committee upon the subject. That com- mittee has not yet reported, but will probably bring ina bill establishing a Printing Bureau to be attached to one of the departments, The Senate Committee on Printing, through Mr. Johngon, has reported a bill amendatory of the act entitled “an act to provide for executing the public printing and establishing the prices thereof.” It is this Senate bill which is now pending. The amendments to the law of 1852 do not seem to answer even the half way pur- pose for which they are intended. We have already shown that under this law the cos: of the printing has been quadrupled; that the job is so profitable as to bring to Washington at the opening of every Congress a horde of broken down politicians, small country editors and lobby cormorants, who fight for the spoils with the ferocity of vultures hovering over the dead upon a field of battle. Every two years this disgraceful scene is re- peated. Every two years the lobbies of the capital are crowded with leeches. Every two years the business of Congress is delayed during two or three weeks in order to decide which clique shall have the bit of fat. When the job is finally awarded the expense of getting it is so great that the printer is obliged cither to make up his deficiencies out of the public treasury by any means, fair or foul, or to relin- quish it altogether. It is this odious system that the people wish to see broken down, but the bill of Senator Johnson perpetuates all its worst features and descends to details as puerile as they are imprac- ticable. We find the sinecure office of Superin- tendent of Public Printing continued. The printers and binders to the Senate and House are to be elected after the old fashion, and paid by a most complicated scale—so much for com- position, so much for presawork, folding, stitch. ing, &e. Distinctions are made between pages of different kinds and sizes of type, large and small, solid and leaded, “pica plain,” “pica rule,” “nonpareil rule,” and the most trifling details are so far elaborated as to be almost en- tirely incomprehensible even to printers them- selves. It is this splitting of hairs that gives such an opportunity for a dishonest printer to swindle the government. Mr. Johnson might as well have fixed the price to be paid by the employer to the journeyman, and ar- ranged the hours of their labor, the joints for their dinners and the color of their breeches. It is precisely the same as if Con- gress, in ordering the building of a frigate, shou'd specify the number of nails and bolts, or the precise quantity of timber, no more and no lees, which should be used in constructing the ship. The whole thing is #0 ridiculous, 6o utter- ly absurd, that it is impossible to treat it se- riously. It is even too ridiculous to be ridi- culed. What the people want, and what they will have, sooner or later, is a law establishing permanent Bureau of Printing, with a chief and subordinates to be appointed by the Execu- tive, and to work under the same regulations as those which govern the other departments, By this means alone the printing and binding jobs will be taken out of Congress altogether, the work will be done properly by the government itself, members of Congress will be saved from the biennial bullying, coaxing and badgering of country editors, and the treasury will gain at least balfa million per annum. The Senate bill does net meet the question at all. It perpetuates the three separate jobs printing, paper and bind- ing—-and givee the lobby the same plundering facilfties as before. It should therefore be thrown cut, and the House committee cannotdo better than to report at once a bill for the Print- ing Bureau. Necessrry vor a Union Amoyc tHe New York Banxs.—The ancertainty of European affairs, and the possibility of revolutions over- turning at any moment the most scemingly solid thrones, have already begun, since the revulsion, to exercise a marked influence in driving capital to this country. Within the past few days it ie understood that large orders have been received for the purchase, for foreign account, of some of our eecurities, and it is the prevailing opinion among the best financial authorities that similar orders will continue throughout the summer, quite irrespectively of the state of the money market here and abroad. Notwithstanding the shock caused by the panic of last fall, the people of Europe still seem to think amy securites safer than those which a revolution may at any moment render worth- less. They are doubtless right. This feature, together wit the equally obvious increase of trade throughout the United States, suggests some inquiry into the prospects of the future, and into our preparations to turn that future to good account. The production of cotton, cern, tobacco, wool, and other staple articles is increasing far more rapidly than our consumption of foreign commodities. In a few years from this time there will always be a large balance in our favor at the end of every year’s trade, and the foreign exchanges will rule in favor of the United States just as the domestic exchanges usually rule in favor of New York. This country will become the commercial and financial centre of the world. Not only willour own trade leave us creditors of the world at large, but the profits of the trade of the foreign world will come here to be invested, and New York will occupy, for the whole commercial world, the position which London holds in the continent of Europe. What measures are being taken to turn this state of things to good account? Itis evident that no measure could more powerfully aid the establishment of the finan- cial supremacy and centrality of New York than the consolidation of the present bank capi- tat now divided among the fifty-five banks of this city into one great capital for a consoli- dated bank. All these small banks should be consolidated just as the small railways were consolidated into the present New York’ Cen- tral Railway, and the whole business of the present fifty-five transferred to their single suc- cessor. The advantages of this new arrange- ment would be many and importamt. Such a consolidated bank would have agen- cies and branches at all the principal financial centres of the country. At these branches the notes of the bank would necessarily be received at par; thus a uniform paper currency circu- lating throughout the country without depre- ciation would at length be established. Such a great bank, scting on broad general principles, would be enabled to foresee and prevent the oc- currence of panics and revulsions forever here- after. Asit would be held in check by the new Bankrupt law,and would be liable to be wound up by » federal court in the event of its failing in its obligations to its depositors or note- holders, it would necessarily avoid any such expansion as that which precipitated the crisis of last year. It would be able todo all the good to commerce and industry which is done by the present fifty-five banks; and its own safe- ty would compel it to avoid dangers on which they are liable to be wrecked. The only objections that have been made against such a bank are derived from the his- tory of the old United States Bank. Between that institution and the one now proposed there would be no affinity. The old one possessed a connection with the government, and was a monopoly in its way; the new oae would enjoy no rights superior to those eujoyed by any other bank, and would have no connection whatever with the government. The Scheme to Desecrate the Neighborhood of Fort Washington. We published a few days ago the petition and draught of a bil) got up by a set of specula- tors for the purpose of procuring a commission from the Legislature to open strects and ave- bues, lanes and alleys, highways and byways through the beautiful region of Carmansville and Fort Washington, without the knowledge or consent of the proprietors. The bill con- tained the names of six commissioners, the first of whom was John A. Dix—a most respectable and distinguished man. We thought of course that his name appeared therein with his appro- val. We never dreamed—though from the impertinence which characterized the whole scheme we might be justified in so doing—we never dreamed that these speculators would have the audacious impudence to place the name of any gentleman at the head of the list of commissioners in their bill without his know- ledge and consent; but what was our surprise a few days since to receive the following letter from Mr. Dix, stating that he knew nothing about his name appearing in the bill, and in fact that he never heard of the scheme at all until he saw a notice of it in the columns of the Heratp :— THE SOHEME TO DESEORATE THE NORTH END OF MANHATTAN ISLAND. ‘TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERALD. Under the foregoing caption, 1 tnd in'your papot of th morning the foliowing paragraph :— The bill proposes the uames of men as commissioners to do this job who are not proverty owners in that district ittand stall Jobs an bie for yee fe ‘This is a new and remarkable feature in the history of this business, and will serve to throw some light on the mode in which speculators get up jobe, while quiet going people know nothing of what is passing, by stealing men’s names, just as the footpad puts his handinto the pockets of the passers by and steals their money. Mr. Dix is a gentleman of much note and respectability in New York. He was at one time a Senator from this State; and these men steal his name from the catalogue of distinguished gentlemen, put it at the head of their list of commission- ers, and attempt to make him a party to a job and a swindle. We should like to know how many of the other gentlemen's names were put on this list in a similar way. Does our respectable Sheriff, Mr. Willet, know anything about this scheme? Is Mr. Terence Donnelly a willing party to it, or does he own any land in the vicinity pro- posed to be destroyed? Does Shepherd Knapp know anything of it? Does E. Delafield Smith know anything? This theft of the name of Mr. Dix is of itself sufficient to show the Legislature the folly and impudence of these men in asking for commis- sioners to open streets through the property of other people, and we hope they will be guided by it and reject the measure as soon as it,is laid before them. This isthe moet picturesque region in the immediate vicinity of any large city. There is nothing in the suburbs of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna or any city in Europe to compare with it. If it is kept out of the hands of jobbers and speculators, and allowed to grow up, as it is doing, under the direction, good,taste and judg- ment of the proprietors, it will become in ten or fifteen years one of the most beautiful fau- bourgs of any city in the world, and infinitely a euperior location for the fine residences of our merchants and others to Fifth avenue or the Central Park. It is removed from the smoke and noise, dust and filth of the city, and free from the rowdies and loafers, whose pre- sence renders a residence further down town almost insufferable. We designate any attempt to destroy it* beauty for corrupt purposes as improper, mis chievous and impudent. Tue Counrry Press on THe Bas, Masque.—We see that Mr. Ullman’s announcement of the bal masqué at the Academy has already attracted the comments and, in some cases, the animad- versions of the rural press. A Baltimore paper says that “fashionable New York is in « flutter of expectation;” that “clever Mr. Uliman is about to impart a new sensation;” that his bal masqué will be “far wittier and more sensuous” than the ordinary vulgar maaqnerades, and so on. Tho Baltimore cditor is, nevertheless, much exercised in his mind about the bal masgu/, and without any information on the subject shakes hishead. He is afraid it will not be exactly the correct thing. We apprehend that his fears proceed chiefly from an impression that many of the Baltimore fashidnables will come here to the bal masqué, and thus make that city even duller than umnal, if such a thing be possible ; and, further, from the knowledge that the ball is a metropolitan luxury and therefore the Bul- timoreans will have no chance to enjoy it with- out coming here. However, all these notices, whether complimentary or abusive, serve the purpose of the director of the Opera, and give him so much gratuitous advertising. Now, if he could only induce the people at the prayer meetings to abuse the bal magqué, the success of the affair would be beyoud perad venture. Commercial Failures in the States—Necessity of a Bankrupt Law. A few days ago we published a tabular state- ment of the commercial failures which had occurred in all the States of the Union since the 1st ef January, showing a total amount of lia- bilities of over thirty millions of dollars in that short period. This statement, as well as that j of the failures for 1857, exhibit some curious facts touching the relative consequences and causes of the financial disasters in different sections of the country; but, in order to put them in a clearer shape before our readers, we will make the following division of the States, with the amount for which each one has failed during the past year and three months :-— y 1824, 000 | ou me $27,741,000 bette piyerd 8,419,000 10,486,000 1,676,000 $59,821,000 New York Penns; Aes New including city) (includ’g Miadeiiay” "Tes 1,458,000 ‘324 Totals .. Grand totals Here, it will be seen, that in those Western and Northwestern States which possess great centres of speculation, such as land grants for railroads, and eo forth, the wildest recklessness prevails. For instance, in Illinois and Missouri, with their large centres of speculation—Chica- go and St. Louis—the failures amount to over six millions, while in Wisconsin, Indiana and others, which have been getting along more quietly the amounts are comparatively small. In the South the cotton growing States general- ly come out sound, while those relying on sugar and tobacco show heavy liabilities. In 1837 the South broke down altogether. In most instances the cause of these commer- cial failures may be attributed to the way in which individual establishments are managed. While the prudent, cautious man will conduct a business all his life without failing, his reckless neighbor will smash up half a dozen times. There is no doubt that the banking systems of the different States, or more properly the man- agement than the system, had a good deal to do with the revulsion; but it may be taken, never- theless, as a general rule that the manner in which individuals managed their business had a great deal more. The unnatural expansion at which we had arrived, and the enormous cx- pense of maintaining a five story marble front- ed cetablishment with an army of clerks, and a brown stone mansion on Fifth avenue, costing as much to keep as the store, rendered it neces- sary to do business somehow, and it could ouly be done by giving ruinously long and extensive credits. Those States which have a general banking law—that is, where every one who pleases can start a bank, and where there are entirely too many of these institutions, as in New York—have suffered most. The times are ripe for a good Bank- rupt law. Not such a one as will serve merely as a sponge to wipe out all a man’s | debts, and permit the trickster to return to the error of his ways, as wellas give the honest man achance for a fresh start; but a permanent Bankrupt law, with a penal clause in it which, while it protects the honest but unfortunate merchant who can show good cause for his mis- fortunes, will prevent the dishonest one from practising upon the public in future. Another clause, classifying bankruptcy into three or four grades, according to the circumstances of the bankrupt’s failure, and granting certificates showing the grade to which the bankrupt was | entitled might be added with great benefit. Such a law would be a boon in the present state of commercial affairs, and without it we never can hope to correct the reckless system which is plunging the country into periodical revul- sions. License To Crnmxats—Anvse or Tie Parpon- tse Powsr.—We see that some of the small journals in the interior of this State take ex- ception to the strictures that we felt it neces- sary to make on the commutation of the sentence of O'Connell for the murder of Teresa | Spitzlin. It will be recollected that we pointed out the inconsistency of awarding severe penal- ties to small offences, and of mitigating or pardoning those which are dangerous to the peace and well being of society. Thus, while @ poor starving wretch encounters the full rigors of the law for the theft of a loaf, the prize fighter, the street rowdy or the midnight aseassin is held to be entitled to the sympathy of juries and the merciful consideration of the executive. The policy of our criminal sys- tem, as exemplified by several recent cases, would seem to be this, that the more aggravated the offence is the more leniently it should be dealt with. We cannot subscribe to such a doctrine. We believe that it is to this inversion of all moral and legal prin- ciples that the criminal excesses for which our community is becoming notorious is mainly due. If the punishment of crime was certain and invariable in ite operation, there can be no donbt that many of the offences that load our calendars would rarely be commiticd. This view applies more particularly to the class | of youthful criminals who have of late signal- ized themselves by their atrocitice. With them the effect of example is greater than with older and more hardened culprits, and it is therefore the more necessary that there should be no hesi- tation or uncertainty in meting ont to them the fall penalty of their crimes. If ever there was a cave in which it was im- | politic to arrest the arm of the law, if was in thatof O'Connell. He was proved to have been guilty of a double offence, each deserving of death in itself, and committed under ciroum- stances of the most revolting barbarity. If the extreme penalty of death is justifiable at all, this was an instance in which it was most im- peratively called for, The peace, the security and the happiness of society depends, in a great on the vigor with which the its weak and defengoless measure, law defends 200 | members. If the wives and the daughters of our citizens are to be exposed with impunity te the ruffianly aggressions and the brutal lust ef the rowdies of the metropolis, then there ta nothing in the expensive machinery of our criminal courts which is worth our paying for. It would be far better to revert to first prinoi- ples, and to leave every man to defend his own rights. We ehould then have the substance, without the costly shadow of protection, and we should not be eternally seeking to reconcile pretensions with facts, We again repeat what we have so often en- deavored to impress upon the minds of this | Community, that our whole system of criminal | administration is wreng. Neither Judges, jurors, nor Executive seem to entertain a cer- rect idea of the responsibilities imposed upon them. Each seems to be swayed by influ- ences which have no connection with the straightforward path of duty marked out for ‘them. Acting thus it isno wonder that there | should be nothing like concert between them im | the interest of the public. What one does the other undoes, and so between them the law be- | comes a mockery, and its administrators mere | puppets in the hands of. others ,796,000 | RecaMaTions OF Nicoxn Ivrsraiom Acamsr THE AwmeERIcaN Press—Hayrmn Tureats Acaist American Orrmuns—Ia another column will be founda characteristic article from the Feuille du Commerce of Port au Prince in relation to certain alleged intrigues of American merchants resident at that port te | monopolize to themselves the entire commerce of Hayti. This article purports to be a reply to a letter from our Port au Prince correspon- dent, published in the Hxratp of the 6th of February last. Had not our attention becm specially dirrected to it by this circumstance, we should have given it the same prominence in our columns which the late Mr. Disraeli ac- cords to some equally magniloquent prodac- tions in his “Curiosities of Literature.” As @ epecimen of indignant journalism from the great boot-black empire of the West, we have | seen nothing that can at all compare with it. | Christy and Wood’s delineations of nigger ex- travagances fall immeasurably short of this stu- pendous effort of Ethiopian rhetoric. We should state in explanation of this singu- lor production that it is directed against a mem- ber of arespectable American firm at Port aw | Prince whom the Feuille du Commerce suspects to be the author of the letter which furnishes the theme for his energetic phillippic against the United States and its citizens, Although this gentleman is not exactly indicated by name, the allusions marked im italics in the article are sufficiently pointed to leave no doubt as to his being the party meant. Now, it is not our habit to far- nish information as to the sources whence our correspondence is derived, or to occupy our- selves with the suspicions it may please parties tofasten upon persons entirely innocent of the taste or the ability to contribute to our columns. It is evident that were we to gratify the natural curiosity which exists upon these points we would always have our hands full. Notwithstanding the fixed rule which we pre- scribe to ourselves in relation to these matters, there are, however, cases which necessitate a TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. 62 Front staxsr, March 30, 1858. cerca peur bave within the = few months ap- your paper, purporting to have becom ‘au Pringo. Those letters, it aj he tie souslbulties of tho, Haytloue, ed ong Abusive letter oF article hes in re, trying to put the ip of said wee of the house of Cutts ‘Anserionn endavnts, deen beomens oe Fock to thetr disadvantage. e have been requested to you for the name ef the parties who furnished these communications, but as you stated to field this morning that you declined tion, we now simp'y ask of that the letters in question were not Cooper or sent to you i £ i § FY £ 7 sf 638 il i 2 ES: Mr. Cooper is not the author of the correspon- dence in the Herarp whfch has elicited such an explosion of wrath from our ebony contempo- rary. It is sufficient for us to know that that gentleman’s interests suffer from the imputation of intellectual ability to relieve him at once and forever from a charge so damaging in the eyes of the Haytien people. It is worthy of remark that whilst in the model despotism of France, from which Haytien institutions are plagiarized, the correspondents of the Heraup are never interfered with or sought to be identified for the purpose of per- secution, the organs of nigger imperialism should be so thin skinned and sensitive to our strictures, As we cannot find anything in the remarks that have elicited their ire that can account for such violent ebullitions of feeling, we are compelled to arrive at the conclusion that they entertain a latent fear that the chief danger to their ridiculous farce of a govern- ment lies in this quarter. If the effect of this apprehension be to drive them into violent ex- cesses against our citizens, or into infringe- ments of international obligations, we can tell them that they run the chance of speedily re- slizing the results which they seem so desirous to avert. It would require but the reiteration of a few more such threats as are contained in the article to which we refer to restore the dukes, counts, barons and court newsmen of the great Haytien enspire to their original oc- cupations of the wisp and the blacking brush. Censination or THe Revivat, Excrrement.— The religious excitement which has made 60 much town talk during the past four or five weeks has paseed beyond its culminating point, and is now upon the wane, It is very difficult | to arrest public attention in this metropolis | for any subject, and people don’t care much about religion when they have anything else to do. As wa have before stated, the bright- ening of trade diminishes the attendance at the prayer mectings. We are afraid that the lead- ers in arrogating to themselves exclusive privi- leges in Heaven, have rather overshot the mark, and that they will be quietly dropped back into obscurity. The best thing that the revivalists can do now is to make a combined movement | in favor of an increase of the salaries of the | clergy, and then shut up shop. Perhaps if the | clergy get more pay they will labor more ear. nestly in the churches, and keep up within their own doors a revival all the year round. Tue Brut. ro Seize Unctaimen Derosrrs tw Savinos Banks.--The Legislature seems to have taken a fancy to the bill to appropriate the un- claimed deposits in savings banks to the canal enlargement. If the ounals are not enlarged till the money comes from this source, they are not likely to be finished in a barry. But, at any rate, if the State takes (hese depovite, we