The New York Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1858, Page 6

TE en Potente SM ELMS Seen ST ERS Seen ee Mg en a ee ee ee Ec ee ee 6 NEW YORK HERALD. Jaume GORDON BENNRET, — PROPRIBTOR. ARAMA ARR OFFROS &. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND MASSAU OTS hoo cents, FT pr annem, ‘oery Saterday, ot ts come ar ig pl Ae ky ams ‘YY HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents par annem pt a rege LLerrERs AnD PACKAGES ve. YOTTOR taken of anonymous corre pondence, We do net [ENTS renmeed every day; dae im the Waray Hena.p, Fame and in the re executed with neatness, cheapness and der AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.--Ducurss or Mairi —Tux Youre Wivow. H NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brosdway—Tas Mitiinsas—Ticer Rors Faats—Kaovr. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Tax Taxes Fast Mux— | Bowen Maca, BURTON'S THEATRE. Broadway, opposite Bond AgNaw War to Par Op Depte—Sanau's Youre Man. | WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Oruri.0~Boors at THe Swan, LAURA KERWE'S THEATRE, Broadway—Fiowmrs or ‘rex Fonest— Cun Elves. BARNUW'S AMERIOAN MUSRUM, Broadway—. Jan Or Ano. Mvening—fus bnive or ax KvENina. ‘WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 561 and 563 Broadway—Geongs Canute & Woops Minsrasis—Tux Sisicn Rips. | MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Burant’s MinstTReus —Krmrerian Borgs—Sa¥ putt Ackesats. BRCOKLYN ATHEN AUM—Picromtay Iuicerearions oF De. Kane's ADVENTURES IN THE Axotic REGIONS. TRIPLE SHEET. | ‘The News. Intelligence of a very important character has | been received from Venezuela. The revolution is at anend. President Monagas, being unable to stem | the revolutionary torrent, sen} in his resignation to Congress on the 15th of March. His resignation was | accepted, and a provisional governmentwith General | Castro at its head was immediately organized. Our | @espatch from Washington stating that (ieneral | Paez had been olected President is probably incor- | rect. i The steamship America, now in her thirteenth | day, had not arrived at Halifax ata late hour last night. She brings three days later news from Ex- | rope. Our Europoan files, brought by the Indian to | Portland, contain some interesting details of the | news telegraphed on the 5th inst. and published on | the 6th, which we give this morning. From the re- | port of a debate in the English Parliament, it | would appear as if the now passport system of Nepoleon would almost destroy all intercourse by travel between England and France, and severely affect the trade of both nations. The cirenmstan ces which induced the resignations of M. Vietri, late Prefect of the Police of France, aad of Count de Persigny, Minister of France in London, show that serious personal feuds and bickorings prevail amongst the advisers of the Emperor. There ts stated to be an extensive orgunization im the Southern States to aid the liberal party in Mexico, and important developements are expected | in a fow days. Santa Anna is reported to have no | party of any strength in that country, and his return | to power is considered very doubtful. } The bill for the admission of Minnesota as a State was passed by the Senate yesterday. The bill allows Minnesota two representatives in the federal Coa gress. The Lecompton bill will be called up to-day in the House, and without any debate be immediately acted on. The Senate bas resolved not to adopt the Crittenden amendment under any circumstances. ‘The Bankrupt bill was under consideration by the | Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, and it will probably be reported to the Senate next week. Mr. Collins has submitted the results of his explorations of the valley of the Amoor to the State Department at Washington, together with two maps, | one of the Amoor river, and the other showing the relative position of Northern Asia and our Pacific | coast. Mr. Collins shows the prospective importance | of the trade of the basin of the Amoor to the United States. The War Department transmitted to the House yesterday the full particulars of the contracts for the Utab army. The rates to be paid for transportation depend upon the scason of the year the service is to be performed, and are stated not to be exorbitant as had been represented. ‘The bill to pay the station house keepers of this city, appointed during the police difficulties, was laid on the table in the Assembly yesterday. The vill to restore to the Common Council of the city of New York the right to grant titles to Jand under water | was referred to the New York delegation to report complete by the Senate. A great number of reports | and notices of bills were offered in both branches of | the Legislature. The final vote on the repeal of the | Metropolitan Police bil! will be taken on Monday next in the Senate. The excessive mortality on board the passenger ships from Hamburg was the subject of much com ment in the Board of Emigration Commissioners yesterday. It was stated that it was cansed by the captains using the waters of the river Elbe, instead of the reservoir water prescribed by the authorities of Hamborg. The arrivals from Hamburg from Janu- ry 1, 1867, to February 1, 1868, were 15,766, and the deaths $52. The total arrivals from Bremen for the same period were 30,222, and the mortality 90. From ‘thie it will be seen that with half the number of atrivals from Hamburg the deaths are four times greater than in the Bremen vessels This is ex- clusive of the far greater number who sicken on board aad die after arrival on shor. The Com- missioners determined to expoee the captains who have had the most mortality on board, ax it is clear ly nseribable to neglect and carelessness. The emi gration so far this year has been §,01"—nearly 7,000 toss than for the same period last year. The Tammany Society met last night, but did nothing beyond initiating two new members. All the magnates of the city democracy were present, together with avery full attendance of members. All the {actions were ov hand to see that uo mine was sprung, but nothing was done that would give any indication of the strength of the rival cliques. The Board of Education met last evening and agreed to appropriate $24,377 for the erection of anew schoolhouse in the Tweuty-second ward. They also elected Mr. Randall to fil the office of City Superin- tendent during the next term, which commences on the first of June next and continues for two years; and Mr. Kiddle was elected Assistant Soperinten dent during the same term. The Committee of the Board of Councilmen to whom was referred the subject of locating a found Ling hospital in this city met yesterday, but a4 no ons appeared before them in reference to the matter, they adjourned sine die A policemen’s prayer meeting wae beld in the Stanton Street Baptist church yesterday afternoon Addresses and prayers were made by several reve- qentiomen; hymns were sung and brief ad dresses were made by Captain Hartt, of the seven teenth ward, Sergeant #obus, of the Commisioners office, and a member of the force from Brooklyn Mr. Béward Hi. Smithson, the young man who was eld in custody as a witness in the case of the mur der of young Samuels, was released upon bail vex terday. Mr. Perse, of the firm of Perse 4 Brovks, became bail for the prisoner in the sum of $1,000. No less than eleven unfortunate individuals were swindled ata passage ticket office in Cedar street yesterday out of sums varying from #20 to #90 cach. ' | bales , tubstitute. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1898—TRIPLE SHEET. The police at the Deputy Gaperintendent’s succeeded in recovering the greater part of the money thus fraudulently obtained. When will these emigrant swindlers be crushed out? ‘There was very little business transacted in the General Sessions yesterday. Jas. Mahoney, indicted for sealing @ watch from Joseph P. Willis, pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and was remanded for sen- tence. John Tubbs pleaded guilty to an assault and battery on Henry Jennings; he will be sentenced on the last day of the term. Joseph Heslop was tried the second time for stealing a horse and wagon worth $250, the property of Chas. Roath. The jury failing to agree on both occasions, it is not probable that he will be placed on trial again. ‘The anniversary of the settlement of Ohio was celebrated yesterday at Marietta. The only survi- vor of the party of forty-seven which settled there iy 1787 was present. Speeches were delivered by en, Thomas Ewing and others. 4.ue flour mill of Mr. Homer Ramsdell, about a “mile south of Newburg, was consumed by fire on Tuesday night. The loss is about $25,000. Two weeks ago Mr. Ramsdell sustained a loss of $12,000 or $15,000 by the burning of his barn. The cattle market showed increased activity yes- terday, the supply being somewhat short. Although | the quality of cattle on the market was merely ordi- nary, yet prices advanced fully one cent over those of last week. For veal calves there was a moderate | demand, with but few sales at the highest rates. The demand was good for sheep and lambs, with more , sales than usual at the highest quotations. The sap- | ply was rather light. An active demand prevailed for hogs, and higher prices were offered. The de- mband for dressed hogs was brisk, and sales were | readily effected at our quotations. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,860 ‘The market closed firm at 12c., and straight lines, which were scarce, were held at higher rates, while mid. dling Gulfs were at 124c. Flour opened dull, but at the cloge exhibited more strength, while prices were without change of momont. Sales were made io a fair extent to the domestic trade, with sales of some lots for export. Wheat wns cold to a fair extea!, at rates given in an other place. Corn advanced about 2c. per bushel, with sales of yellow, both on the spot and to arrive, at Thc. Pork again advanced, with active sales, including mess at $17 35a $17 50, cloning at the latter Sgure, and of prime at $14.0 $14 10. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 1,000 bhds., at prices given in another piace. Coffees was quict and sales limited. Freights wore inactive, while rates were without change of importance. Wheat in bags ‘wag taken to Liverpool at 434d.; tierce beef at 20s., ani cotton to ti up at 4d. The Kansas Entanglement—The Duty of Congress and the Dangers of Deiay. For the last three days the House Kansas bill has been retained in the Senate, under a notice of Mr. Slidell for a reconsideration of the Senate vote by which the Grittenden-Montgo- mery substitute was rejected and the original Senate bill adhered to. Our telegraphic des- patches of last night inform us that Mr. Sie- phens guve notice yesterday that he should call up the Senate bill in the House at one o'clock to-day, and let a direct vote be taken; also that the democratic members of the Senate had determined to adhere to the bill, pure and sjmple, in the shape it had already pasecd that ‘This is probably all that Mr. Slidell desired in his notice for a reconeideration. What the result in the House will be remains to be seen. Should the Houte vote to adhere to its position, the death of both bills will be accomplished. In this extremity some new Lill must be intro- duced; and wesee that it is proposed on the administration side, us a last resort, to hitch Kansas and Minnesota together, ander the hope that the “popular sovereignty” of the Pembino Indians and the Kansas border ruf- fians combined may be able to settle the quee- | tion. of every party of Congress is fally convinced | hai it will make not the slightest difference in regard to slavery in Kansas whether the simple Lecompton bill, or the Crittenden-Montgomery substitute, or a new bill of any description | shall be passed; and we dare say, too, that there is not now a solitary member of eithor house who does not, to some extent, appreciate the dangers of delay. With the rabid and reckless agitating malcontents of the North | and the South, whose only capital is Kansas and with whom the ruling objects are sectional discord, alienation, confusion and revolution, there is. of course, no desire to effect a settle- ment. Upon paltry quibbles, pettifogging dis tinctions and parliamentary devices they hope to stave off a settlement for this session, so that | this Kansas scarecrow may be used to some pur- | pose in our approeching elections, North and South, for the next Congress. From the tone of | our newepaper exchanges, and particularly from | the misgivings and uneasiness of our immediate anti-slavery cotemporaries, it is manifest that the only real alarm of our Northern and South- ern disorganizers is the fear that their Kansas | stock in trade will shortly be confiscated in the tinal disposition of the whole question. This important fact should stimulate every friend of the administration and of law, order, peace and harmony to come to the rescue, and pass as epecdily as possible a bill ofsome sort for | the admission of Kansas into the Union. Let the Senate recede, or let the House recede, or let the two houses compromise their differences upon some new bill, the one thing waating to | put an bnd to this agitation will be achieved admission of Kansas into the Union The shortest course is the Lecompton bill, pure and simple; the sext best plan is the Crittenden | As for the Minnesota attachment, | it is just a» likely to lead to further entangle- ment» and complications as to a final adjast- ment. We perceive, however, in the results of the late scattering elections, from New Hamp- shire to St. Louis, that thie Kaneas bagbear will overshadow all other questions of a politi- cal character until it is removed from the calendar, Remove it, and it will quickly be superseded before the people by those broad and general measures affecting our domestic and foreign concerns which have been fore- shadowed by the President as covering the practical policy of his administration. With aj! the captious, factious and pettifog- ging technicalities with which this Kansas «uabble has been encumbered, it is still one of the simplest of questions, and admissable of the simplest solution. The admission of Kansas into the Union Is all that is needed to put it out of the way; and to this end, for all practical purposes, this bill, that bill or the other will do. The great and the only danger lies in the possible failure of any and every bill at this ses sion. From the alarming proportions, North and South, into which this sectional agitativa of slave- ry has been inflated upon this Kansa humbug, we may conjecture the consequences should it te keptin fall blast till next December. We may anticipate a violent sectional shaping of parties and factions, which will cripple the ad- minietration, defeat all measures of general re- lief for the country, and make the oext Con grees the mere battle ground of disorganizing factionists and sectional conspirators. From 1819-20 to 1821 a fierce sectional agi- tation existed in Congress and tlroughout the We presume that by this time every member | the | the patriotic exertions of Clay, Calhoun and | their compeers of that day, after ali sorte of shifts, expedients, schemes and devices had been tried in vain, a settlement was effected upon the simple basis of the Missouri compromise. The Texas annexation, the Mexican war, and our vast territorial acquisitions resulting there- from, brought upen the couvtry a more forml- | dable and complicated agitation of this vexed question of slavery, extending from 1846 to 1850. And yet in 1850, after the expenditure of months of sectional bluster and bravado, by the hour and by the day, and of experiments and expedients by way of 8 compromise without number, the simple schedule of measures pro- posed by Mr. Clay in February gave peace and — security & the country in September. | So in regard to this caso of Kansas, All the | entanglements and difficulties which factious | and scheming demagogues have been weaving | around it are as flimsey in their texture as 60 many spiders webs, and can all be broken by i the simple act of sdmitting Kansas into the Union. All the other difficulties which have invested the question are settled—every impor- tant principle at stake has been secured. Ad- | mit Kansas, and the whole trouble is at an eud —delay her bill of admission, and the whole trouble may be reopened again by our dew perate and unscrupulous sectional agitators. But it may be eaid that the great and distin- guished spirits which shaped and controlled the compromise of 1820, and the adjustment of 1850, have disappeared from the stage, and that in exchange for those strong leading minds, Congress is now ruled by paltry hucksters and juggling politicians, To this we may reply, that while in 1820 we had a good but a neutral and negative sort of President in Mr. Mouroe, and while in 1850 we had a weak and wishy- washy executive in the person of Mr. Fillmore, we have in 1858 anu executive whose positive character and inflexible decision of purpose have been more than a match for these huck- sters and factious jugglers of Congress. He has reduced even that dyed-in-the-wool aboli- tionist, Giddings, and all his coufederates, to the important concession that a pro-slavery constitution shell be no bar hereafter to the ad- mision of a new State, , Why, then, should there Le any more chaffer- ing or idle negotiations upou the subject with the opposition factionists who really desire no settlement. ifthe House will not recede, let the Senate permit the Crittenden-Montgomery substitate to slip through; or if that will not aaswer, let the scheme of joining Kansas aud Minnecota be tried without further ceremony, Should thai fail, let the Lecompton bill be tried with the unequivocal recognition of the right of the people of Kansasto alter or abolish their constitution at any titac henceforward, noiwith- standing the 1564 interdict of the Lecompton schedule. In a word, it isthe duty of the ad- ministration party of Congress, upon this bill or that bill, to admit the State of Kansas iato the Union without further loas of time. The | President has done his duty; let bis supporters | {evening to one Curtis, in Congress do theirs. The admission now | hangs upon the hair-splitting differences be- tween the twohouses. It only remains to be seen whether this Congress will do its duty to the administration and the country, or play intothe | bands of the disorganizing factions and dema- | gogues of the opposition camps by throwing over the act of admission to the next session. Tax Consotipatep Banxs or New Yorx.— | | Some of the small democratic politicians are shocked at our suggestions of a union among | the banks of this city. They see in it an effort to revive the old United States Bank. Some petty financiers also have luid hold of the idea, and ure dwarfing it by suggestions of a bullion | bank. The idea of a union among the banks of this city for the general mansgement of the banking | business neither involves any resuscitation, in any form, of the defunct United States Bank, nor conflicts with a neceseary increase in the use of bullion as a currency. That idca rests upon the obvious maxim that in union there is strength—that had the banks been united and not divided last fall there would uave been no | | very eerious revulsion, and no breakdown on the part of the banks themselves, It commends | itself at once to the judgment of every one who | can form an opinion on public affairs, | It is not necesrary—to adjust each a union— that the hanks should give up their separate | individnal existence, Kach might continue to be separate and distinct from the oth | ence to its local and particular bus coalescing with its neighbors for certain specific objects. There might, in fact, be a confederacy of banks just as there is a confederacy of States, } With « general Congress, and particnlur bank | Legislatures, | his confederation has already obtained a | thare of public favor among the banks. The Clearing Honse <ystem is a confederation for a certain specific object. The action of the Me- tropolitan Bank is also in one sense a proof of The late resolution to allow no more interest on de posite is confederation itself. Now all that is wanted to make the banks impregnable and to prevent revulsion forever hereafter would be for the banks to extend this confederation to | other branches of théir business; for instance to take the foreign and domestic exchange business out of the hands of the Individual bankers who | now transact it, and to depute a certain bank to — do it for the confederacy. By this means euch heavy failures as eccurred in August and Sep- tember last among the Western bankers and precipitated the revulsion of last fall could never occur; nor would the banks be exposed to be broken themselves by the foreign ex change dealers as they were in October, ‘This «ytem of co-operation and union is the | trae one: the banks will come to it sooner or later. } | combined action on the part of the banks, Ta» Recorpen's Cuance—The charge of j ltecorder Barnard is in some respects a very creditable document. The paragraphs referring to ehysters deserve great applause, and ought | to be acted upon by the jury. Tt will be well | for the jury to adopt thy suggestions of the | charge in reference to receivers of stolen goods and pawnbroking offices. And it ix to be hoped i that the Grand Jury and the Recorder between them may accomplish what the police seem in- | capable even of attempting-—the repression of | that rowdyiem which the Rocorder deplores. The paragraph in the charge about stock gam- bling ia sheer nonsense; why could not the Re- corder stick to what concerns him: Bat altogether the charge is creditable, and ecems to indicate that, unlike his predecessor, the new Recorder will co-operate heartily with the City Judge, and accomplish something to ward the purification of the city from crime ond roacality. | and deceased together on Wednesday. | Curtis ; ‘Who Elled Young Samuels? ‘The inquest in the case of young Samuels has been adjourned over till Monday in order, it is said, to afford the police more time to hunt up evidence as to this most mysterious murder. As it etands, the case vies with the famous Bur- Gell tragedy in point of horror and mystery; nor is there as yet the least prospect of the veil lifting which overhangs the; ‘ Let us briefly review the facta. On Thursday H afternoon Iast, two boatmen and grapplers by trade grappled « body at the bottom of the East river, at a point some twenty feet from a dock in Brooklyn opposite the Catharine ferry. The body, oa being. raised to the surface, proved to be that of ® young man who has since been identified as Charles Samuels, son of a respecta- ble citizen of Brooklyn. It was pierced with astab which sppeared to have been given by an oyster knife or come similar weapon. The stab penetrated the heart, and was saflicieat to cause death. To the body was attached a large piece of stone, similar in charaoter to several tons of sione now lying at the foot of Wash- ington ctreet, Brooklyn. The body was, im consequence of the drift of the tide, brought over to New York instead of being taken to Biooblyn. , According to the evidence, young Samuels was last seen on the Saturday evening previous tothe Murder. This is inconsistent with the statement of one of the witnesses: Stephen B. uit swears that he saw deceased on Sunday, and the barkeeper Howard and a pilot named Davis testifies to his hav- ing been in the Fulton Hotel on Wednesday; but as none of these witnesses knew deceased, their evidence must be received with caution. The last time young Samuels was seen by his family was on Saturday evening, when he went out to call upon a lady to whom he was en- gaged; can it be possible that he would have remained in this city from Saturday evening to Wednesday afternooa without letting his father or his betrothed know anything of his where- abouts? The supposition is inconsistent with the character for good orderly conduct which all the witnesses give deceated. The police will do well to assume, in their inquiries, that the disappearance of young Samuels took place on Saturday evening; their investigation should date from then. At the time the body of deceased was found he had in his pocket a few small silver coins and achain. It is possible that he may have had from fifteen to twenty dollars in his purse when he went out on Saturday evening, though it is not likely that he had se much; he carricd no valuables about him. The inference is strong from these facts that he was not attacked by robbers, and murdered to conceal the rob- bery. The tnotive of the deed must have been something different. Under the stimulus of volunteer evidence the Coroner has already slfted two theories of the marder. ‘The first rested mainly upou atatements that deceased had been seen talking on Saturday the keeper of an oyster etand at the corner of Burling slip and South street; eaid Curtis not bearing the very beet of character. On the strength of the | suggestion other items of volunteer evidence came to heap the load of suspicion on Curtis’ lead. It was shown that be had borrowed a piece of rope on Weduesday night, and was not the corpee tied to a stone witharope? It was proven tbat he did’nt open his stall on Thars- | day, though he had oysters to sell, and this looked suspicious. On,further inquiry, how- ever, this fabric of suspicion fell to the ground. The rope which Curtis borrowed was not the rope which fastened the stone to the corpse. And grave doubts arose as to the reliability of the witnesses who swore that they saw Cartis Hence, at present, though Cartis is still in custody, suf- fering from delirium tremens, the general opinion is not favorable to his guilt. The next theory that was set afoot was sug- gested by arumor that young Samuels had a rival, a vindictive rival, who had threatened to avenge himself apen him for superseding him in the affections of the Miss Curtis to whose hand both youths aspired. This rival way one Edward H. Smithson. It seems that the only _ evidence of the threat fs, first, a chance expres- sion of the deceased to the mother of Miss recondly, a very positive statement | -worn to by iwo young ladies, to the effect that in their hearing Smitheon threatened to be revenged on Samuela One of the young ladies, Miss Duff, is only fourteen | years old; she is the daughter, and the other young lady the niece of o boarding house keeper who was once Smithson’s landlady. We ave not eurprieed, under the circumstances detailed, to find these young ladics rather severe in their opinions of Mr. Smithson: one of them going even so far as to Intimate that he made “obscene propositions” to her cousin. As to the threat of which Mre. Curtis was told, it is cu- yious thet neither the father, nor the mother, nor the lady love of the deceased ever heard of it, Mrs. Curtis seems to have been sole deposi- tory of the secret; and the moment poor young Samuels was missed, she rushed frantically to his mother's, and half aceused Smithson of the deed. She had had a dream about a murder; thia seems to have confirmed her suspicions; but when she heard that Miss Samuels had also ‘ bad a dream, she had no further doubts of any kind whatever In opposition to these probabilities, sugges- tions, and dreams, there is the fact that Smith- eon delivered himself up when he found su» picion directed toward him; the further fact that he is not the man physically to murder a reeolute youth like Samuels; the clear and complete account which he gives of his time—which appears to have been equally divided between his office, his bed, and prayer meetings; the evidence of James Scully and Joseph Bodard, who testify that on the night when this murder mast have been committed, Smithson wae in their house, in his room. . Jn a word, then, we have no evidence what- ever to throw any snepicion upon any one in reference to this most horrid murder. Of the fact that young Samuels was murdered,. most brutally, and that it was not done for mere rob- | bery, there seems to be no doubt; but boyond this we know nothing except that the possibili- ty of euch an event and the mystery which overhangs it afford uo fresh illustration of the inefficiency of the Metropolitan police. Avxornen Coxvert.It is eid that the great unwashed of the 7ibune has gone over with Awful Gardner to the ranks of the clect. It is to be hoped that if they baptiee himin any rivor they will wash him clean while they are about it. If he makes a full confeesion of his sins, we truet that he will tell as what became of the thirty thousand dollars which was cubscribed to got up ® revolution in Ireland; also about thy money cent lo for bleeding Kansea; likewise wo should ' like to bear about the final disposition of that thousand dollar draft which he carried in his pocket for some time; and, further, what be- came of the funds in his hands during the con- test for Speaker of the late House of Repre- sentatives. If we are to be indicted for pub- Mehing a man’s card, we must insist that the Philosopher of the Tribune shall at least be washed up. ‘Tux Worx ov tax Stars Leawiarorn—We publish in another column to-day a list of the acta passed by the State Legislature for the por- tion of the present session which has already elapsed. They number in all ninety-seven. ‘The session laste for a hundred days, the firat thirty of which were occupfed in electing a Speaker, and ten more are yet to come. This , gives us a little over an act and a half a day | for the work of legislation so far. In the last | seesion of a hundred deys the Legislature passed eight hundred bills, so that if we are to have the same amount of legislation this ses- sioa, the members kave a heap of business to despatch in the remaining ten days. The delay | in electing a Speaker was quite a God-send, for | it saved us a vast amount of mischievous legis- | lation. It the Know Nothings had only held out to the end of the session they would have | immortalized themselves, The acts reported in our list to-day—as far | as anything cau be gathered from their titles— seem to be of little importance: being chiefly local bills, or bills for the relief of individuals, Butthe fact is that, from the stupid way in | which all the reports both of Congress and the — State Legislature are furnished, it is impossible | to tell what is doing in either. For instance, ‘im the despatches from Albany on Tuesday | among other bills reported as passed | is one “to alter the map of the city. of New York.” Now who can tell what that means? Some persons perhaps will learn its meaning to their cost when their | property comes to be cut up by-and-bye under | some provision of this act. The method, not | only of reporting legislative business, but of | transacting tho official dutics of the Legislature | iteelf, neede a thorough reform. The publicare | most carefully mystified about the whole affair. | ‘he lobby is the ouly body which is well posted | in what is going on within the legislative halls. Doubtiess the lobby knows very well by what | influences the Broadway Railroad bill was le- | gerdemained through the House with such ex- pedition on Tuesday; and they can tell to a| dend certainty what its fate is to be in the | Senate, This mischievous and corrapt scheme, we aro | assured, was rushed through without a moment’s debate—withoat even the decency of an appa- | rent consideration—though it is known to be at variance with the wishes of nearly every | property owncr on the proposed line of rail- | road, and to all the people doing business on | Broadway. While such has been the fortune of the bill in the House, we fear that a similar one awaits it in the Senate; for the sume potent in- fluences prevail in both bodies. In both “the | lobby” is king. | government has arrtved from Vonezuola, Tuk Crry Finaxces—-Wuy Doras Nor Mr, | Fiace Resian {—Atl the devclopements which , the recent investigations into our city atfuirs | have produced show that the Finance Depart- | ment—the most vital in the whole government -~is in a miserable condition. The city treasu- | ry has been the prey of a flock of harpies who — have been feeding on it at their will, without ; Jet or hindrance on the part of the Comptroller. | No one doubts the integrity of Mr. Flagg; but | other qualities than honesty are required in an officer occupying +o important a position as that | of Comptroller. The late exhibition which Mr. Flagg has made of himself as a witness is suffi- cient to show that he is incompetent for the Post he occupies. It is evident that he hasbeen conducting his department, or others have been doing it for him, in a most improper manner, The Comptroller's office has been used as a medium for all kinds of frauds, and Mr. Flagg, if we can take his own testimony in proof thereof, has been blind to the whole pro- ceedings. In his voluminous evidence before the Fraud Committee and the Recorder he ad- mits that a eystem of peculation had been going on, of which he was made the involuntary in- strument; and when pressed for information on many important points, which might lead to fasten the, guilt on the right parties, he has al- most invariably fallen back on the convenient non m ricordo plea, thus leaving the investiga- tion a# much in the dark as before. In justice to the city and to himself Mr. | Flagg ought to resign and meke way fora | more active and vigilant officer. There is no other remedy for the complication of fraud and corruption in which his department is now in volved. Proren Onservance or tik Sannaru.—There hax been of late considerable discussion upon | | the subject of the desecration of the Sabbath in | i | this metropolia. Meetings have been held, ad dresses made and resolutions adopted, with a view to check the prevalent disorder in the | city on the Sabbath. At one of these meetings the Superintendent of Police, Mr. Tallmadge, made a speech against the newsboys. His re- | marks have been made the subject of extended comments by the press in general. So far as we understand the intentions of the gentlemen | who are endeavoring to bring about the San- | day reform, they do not object to the sale of | newspapers on Sunday, but to the outery of the | boys in the neighborhood of the churches and | private dwellings. Still another nuisance is the | practice of funeral parades on Sunday, by which the worshippers In the churches are die turbed and annoyed by the military music, ond the false alarms of fire, which latter are | gotten up by the idle hangers-on about the engine | houses, in order that they may have a run in | Broadway. The bost way to get over the news. | boy nuisance is for the persona who wish to take & paper to subscribe at the office and have it served at their residences by the regular car | riers, The force of public opinion ought to be | strong enough to put down the other Sunday nuisances, and to make it really a day of rest and quiet. ExJupan Wiring anno me Corvonartox Swisotens.—It ts pretty well known that ex- Judge James RK. Whiting is very keen on the seent of the Corporation swindlers. He com bines the perseverance of the terrier with the grip of the bulldog. As Mr. Whiting looks more to facts than to forms, he has a certain brusqueric aud roughness of manner which is not calculated to advance hie personal popularity. It is this, perhaps, which makes him somewhat unpopular with the reporters of the daily press, who do not always treat him fairly, For example, while he was engaged in 9 case the other day, he bad o¢gasion to remove bis oyer- t-tests nlite sf Si eesttiehchesineesh cesarean office | country upon the Missouri question. Through | coat. This was magnified into # statement that he had taken off his coat to knock down the op- posing counsel. Nothing could be more absard or more opposed to the facta. We are informed that Judge Whiting is now on the track of ome extraordinary Corporation swindle which will open the eyes of the tax payers and create a great explosion. It is very certaia that, once on the scent, Mr, Whiting is not the person to give up the same until it is fairly rum down. Errors Excertsv.—Mra. Biddy Bigelow, of the Ruening Post, makes a mistake when she states that the Heraun is the organ of the ad- ministration. The fact is the administration ix the organ of the Heraiy. Mrs, Biddy Bigelow’s bib and tucker should be better attended to, THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM VENEZUELA. ‘THR PONAGAS COVERNUENT OVERTHROWN, Bauroiors, April 7, 1858. ‘The bark W. R. Taylor has arrived in Hampton Roads. By her we have Laguayra dates of the 20th of Marol. Tho intlligence in reference to the revolution in Veme- selais highly important, General Monagas, Prosident of the republic, fearful of boing overthrown by the revolutionary party, sent tis | Resignation to Congress on the 15th of March, which was accepted, and & provisional government recognized, ot the head of which is General Castro. The lattor bas ap- Pointed the following Ministers:— W. Uruitia, Secretary of War nad Navy. General Monsgas and the late Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Sr. Jacinto Gatrirrez, are under the collective pro- tection of the diplomatic body. Leon dela Cova, Consul to Philadelphia, came passenger in the W. R. Taylor. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Our Special Telegraphic Despateh. THE LECOMPTON BILL IN THE SENATE—THE NEW BANKRUPT LAW—NEWS FROM VENRZUELA—MBaI- CAN AFFAIKS—ABROGATION OP THE OLAYTON- XULWER YREATY—THER FAWNEE INDIANS, ETO. Wasaixertoy, April 7, 1958, Mr. Stophens gave notice to-day that he intended to onl up the Lecompton bill atone o’clock tomorrow. Tt has | doen decided pot to discuss it, thorefore Mr. Stephens will | pot speak on the bill but lot a direct vote be taken. ‘The Senate will insist upon the Lecompton constitation, and under vo circumstances will they accept the Crittenden amendment. This was fully determived. ‘There seems to be no doubt that the administration party has obtained aa accession of two or three members. It | believed there will not be agnin so fulla bouse as em taking the vote on Thoreday last. There is yet hope that the democrets may carry their measure. Mr. Toombs having arrived last evening the Committee on the Jusiciry met this morning and conside- ration tho Bankrupt bill. Devin Tussegbe Teen: ed to the Senate roxt week. 1 learn this evening that a bearer of di fo this Benre Paer is Preevident of that republic, Monagas having re- tired. The purport of the despatches will be known te- morrow. ‘The fact that Santa Anra, who bad loft Carthagens Promptly on receiving the news of the troubles in Mexica, bad delayed bis departare from St. Thomas to Havana, i considered evidence of a-serious check to the soi-disant Jictator’s aspirations. According to reliable advices here Santa Anna bas no party of any otrength in Mexico, Ua- Joes there bo a great change through a general disorgamd- zation of parties and by civil war, or by « powerfal inva. sion threatening to extinguish the rule of the Spanish race in Mexico, he will not return to govern that country. There is, 1 am informed, an extenaive organization im the extreme Southern States and at Southern ports to at@ the Liberal party in Mexico. It is not said whether Comea- fort, who is residing tp Louisiana, is @ party to this meve- ment or pot. In afow days I expect to be able to give you some important developements. Lord Napier is frequently at the State Department. Thore are matters of importance under consideration. Negotiations are now going on bowween the Unied Btates and Fogland for the abrogation of the Claytdh- Bulwer treaty. The Senate and House Committees on Foreign Affairs will shortly, by a decided majority, re- commend its immediate abrogation. The Eaglish govern- ment, through their Minister here, profomes to have ae objection, provided our goverument will make certain conceseions in Contral America. The Preskient is deter- muned to act promptly in this matter. The large delegation of Pawnee Indians which haa beam here to make the troaty left Washington this morning for their home in Nobraska They will call to see the Tixnanp establishment while ia Now York. Kleven mil lion of neres of land have heen obtained by the govern mont by the treaty made recently with these Pawnee In- diane. Col. Kenton is dangerously ill and not likely to tive many days. Mr. Casey, the United States Treasurer, ie also very ill, but somewhat improved to-day. Mr. Allen, Clerk of the House, '8 sick, and his duties are new por- formed by Col. Carter, the efficiont chief clerk. ‘The Deficiency bill will hardly pass in its present shape. ‘The objcetion: mort urged are by tbe strict construction- ist's sobool of politicians, on technical grounds, thet ae more thaa throe of the eight millions called for ts for ao tual deficiency. Feunsylvania is about to offer « regiment for Citak. Simon Cameron, once a printer and one of the most ae tive of the Special Committee on Vrinting, i# in favor of the contract eystem. The probability is, howewor, that a national printing office will be recommended. THE GENRAAL NEWSPAPER UNEP UTER. THY UTAH COMMISSION-—THR DRVICIRNCY BILL CONTRACTS FOR ARMY TRANSPORTATION, BTC. Wasisoron, April 7, 1868, Knough i kvown to warrant the asrertion that Gow. Powell and Major MeCullough, I"sace Commissioners te Utah, will be instructed to assure the Mormons that it i ‘not the desire of the }'rosident and the United states aatho- ritles to make wer upon them, but to secure the enforoe- iment of the laws, to which end they will be counselled te | participate, The Commissioners will also inform them | Uxat some troope will be retained im tbe Territory to pre tect the emigrants to the Pacitc agninet tbe attacks of hostile indians, The Commissioners will go out by the next reinforments to Utah. Much solicitude i# expressed concerning the Defclenoy Appropriation bill, which is now more clearly than over | threatened with dofeat in ite present form. The interent tm heightened by the fact that the supplies to the Ute | expedition depend on ite passage, and money is wanted for the immediate necessities of the service. ‘The War Department tranamitted to the House to-dagr the full particulars concerning the contracts for the eup- Plies of the Utah expedition. They do not sustain the pulb- lished statements of exorbitant prices. The rates of transportation to Utah depend upon the seaage the sorvies ‘te performed. ‘The Sonate returned the Kansas bil! to the Houne to- day. By gonoral agreement the latter wil) take it up to- morrow at 1 o'clock. Dennis Murptty to-day was unanimously coadrmed by the Senate as Paymaster at Harper's Ferry. Explorations of the Amoor River in Northern Asin VOR OFFICIAL REPORT OF MR. COLLINS, UNITE STATHS COMMERCIAL AGENT, TO THE STATE DR, rae. Wasmsoros, Apeil 7, 1868, ‘The report called for by Mr. Scott, of California, a few days ninco, in relation to the explorations of Major P. McD. Collina on the Amoor river, will be submitted to the House in afew days. It waa sontte the State Departreent to-~ day, together with two maps—one on the Amodr rivor, ‘and the other khowing the relative position of Northern Ania and our Pacific const. ‘The Amoor, it will be recollected , i « river second only to tho Misaiesippi, which flows from the contre of Northern Asia into the Pacific Ocean not far north of Japan. The report will give a general view of the interior commerce of Russia preparatory to the grand developement of hor Asiatic commerce and policy. Mr Collins obtained the appointment of Commercial Agent (rom V'resient Pierce, (er the purpose of making