The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDON BENNETT, ‘OPriGe MN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. aaron THE DATLY RIAD tow orate per copy. | per eum. THE ft te ce Pee sony. or BS per annum, the Ru upean Bdlsiion annum, pert of Great Hritain. 2° $8\%o any part q7 the Continent, both THE FAMILY HERALD very Wetnenlag, ai four conte por OPOLUNTERY CORN FSPONDENCE, comed Soran a smesce, sotictad om amy gusrreor a? the scart ¢/Aaaabbyal fe ithe ‘pad for LOKRESPONDESMBARE PAR RLY Reevestes vo Seat sic Lerrens axe Pacnsoue vA. NU NOTICE taken of anemymuns communis, We do not those reyertmt "ADVERTISEMENTS renevcot cory day; acnettisomggits te ele Want) etiee, Fumie Gansta, ond the nd Curopean Eliions, DB PRINTING womuse’ wih mentnens, cheapness and idee Volume XX: verve. 109 AMUSEMENTS TO MORROW EVSNING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth 6t,—Musann’s Frese Comcret ix Bow York BROADWAY THEATHKE, Mroadway --Macnety—Tux Daycixe Barser NIRLO’R GARDEN, Rroacway—JEareern AND JR QNNOT— Las Aprnia — Kacu BOWES? THrAYKA Sowery—Tae Tages Fast Men — Suuers Brvence BURTON'S THRATER, Kroacway, opposite Boad street Tax Riv ais—Convesus WALLACE’S THEATER, Bron@way—Oruntio— Boos 47 rug Swax LACQKA KEENE THRATKE, Broadway—Pior 4xn Pastion, z SNUM'S AYE aN MUSEUM, Broad way—Aternonm tee livael ort s Worn, Svoning Joan onfAuo—F a: wILY Jame WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 661 and 665 Broadway—Afternoon end eveuing—Gsoses Onnary & Woom Minstass—Tas Buece Rips. ae MECHANTIOS' Bald, 472 Srootway—avanr’s Minsraes —Bayast't Guest Basw 44, PROA WAY Mart Peevs Canrnma Minn emets— Neen BowGs—La MAb AKL A'S! ‘The News. Important news has been received from Mexico by the steamer Tennessee, which left Vera Craz on on the 7th inst. General Osollo, acting in behalf of the Zuloaga mayement, bad captured Guadalajara and the entire Juarez government, the officers of which had been permitted to heave the country. Vers Cruz stil! held out for Juarez. Tampico was in a state of sieze. General Osollo was on his way to the city of Mexico, and there was a probability of his being declared President of the republic. Private advices from Walla Walla, on the Colum- bia river, state that the Mormon settlements in that region are being broken up and the Mormons leaving for Salt Lake. The Honorable Thomas H. Benton died at Wash- ington early yesterday morning. The evening pre- vious to his death he was visited by the President, with whom he freely conversed. The funeral ser. vices will take place tomorrow morning, and his re- mains be afterwards conveyed to St. Louis for inter- t. A public meeting was held at noon yester- y at St. Louis for the parpaso of making arrange- ments to do honor to his memory. Eulogies were pronounced, resolutions were adopted, and a com- mittee appoin'ed to take such action as might be deemed necessary for a publio demonstration of re- spect on the arrival o* his remains in that city. The Committee of Ways and Means has nearly perfected » bill for establishing a branch mint in this city. It will be submitted to the House ina few days. As soon as the Kansas difficulty is dis- posed of in “the House,a new Pacific Railroad bill will be reported by the Special Committee. The Committee on Public Lands have decided to report against granting lands for railroads or other pur- poses. The Committees on Patents of both the Se- nate and House are said to be opposed to granting any more patent extensions. The Indian war delt of Oregon smonnting to five million dollars, is now in the hands of a committee for consideration. Captain Darham, of the bark Adriatic, has been requested to appear before the Committee on Fo- reign Relations of the House of Representatives, and make a statement of the facta connected with the seizure of his vessel in Fraace and his escape from that country. A great deal of business was transacted in the Le qislatare yesterday. The bill to ascertain such citi- gens as are entitled to the right of suffrage was passed by the Senate. The bill to repeal the Metro- politan Police act was defeated in the Senate. The House prmed the bill to repeal the railroad dime bill. ‘The bill to authorize the city of New York to raise money by tax was also passed. The bill to prevent the creation of a floating canal debt was ordered to @ Uhird reading. ‘The Canal Board at Albany has reduced the rites of toll on wheat and flour from three milla to two mills per thousand pounds per mile The Board also made a réduction on partly wrought marblo of one half mill, and on stoves and cast iron ware of one mill. The Senate passed & resolution of inquiry ae to the effect of these redactions of toll on the canal revenues, but the Board declined giving an opinion. The steamship Star of the West is now due at this port, with news from California to the 20th ult. She is now in her 224 day, and may arrive today or to-morrow. The America left Halifax at 2 o'clock on Satar- day morning. She will arrive at Boston this after- noon, and ber mails will be received here carly to- morrow morning. We learn from the weekly report of the City In- spector that the number of deaths in this city during ‘the past week was 435—a decrease of 11 as com- pared with the mortality of the week previous. The following table exhibits the number of deaths during the past two weeks among adults and children, dis- tinguishing the sexes:— Mon. Woman. Boys. Girls. Total. Wook ending April? ... 76 81) ksATCNG Week ending ApriilO. 8$ 761410485 Among the principal onuses of death were the fol lowing:— ms - Drevose Aprils. A, 10. eo 0 a a a “ Inflammation of the brain n 4 Boarket fever : 9 a pa ye cd pt Droper un the head. iu 2 Measies.......... 7 1 iu“ acy ’ i ‘There were also 17 deaths of emallpox, 14 of eon gestion of the brain, 6 of congestion of the lungs, 6 of hooping congb, |? of inflammation of the bowels, 4 of apoplexy, 15 of premature birth, 5 of puerperal fever, 2 of erysipelas, 2 of heart diseases, 4 of typhoid fever, 4 of intemperance, 29 stillborn, and 12 from violent causes, including 3 suicides and » murder. ‘The following is a classification of the diseases, and the pumber of deaths in each class of disease during the week: — Apri Apri 10. Renee , we 6 * 3 ke. aod eruptive ? Builborn ‘and premature birtne Btomach , bowels and other 4 rres- ponding weeks in 1866 and 1857, was as follows; Week ending April 12, 1866, 453 Wook ending April 11, 1857... Week ending April 2. 1888 Work ending April 10, 1866 . ‘ ‘The nativity report gives 309 natives of the United States, 82 of Ireland, 21 of Germany, 11 of Engiand, 5 of Beotland, 1 each of France and Prussia, 2 of the West Indies, and 3 unknown. ‘The foreign newa by the America at Halifax, giving ac counts of m eliphtfalling off tn the prices of cotton at Liverpoe!, produced no corresponding effect upon prices in thie market Pensions contineed to bea gocd deal in- fluenced by Southern e¢rices. The sales jes reached about 1,60 bales, upon the tasts of about 1° . for middiing uplands. The flor market was depressed by the foreign news, and prices were lower for most descriptions, and especially for common or low grades of extras, while sales wore moderate Wheat was only mecerateiy Cealt in, at prices givem in another place. Corn opensé at 76c. for yellow, but closed dull at T2c. @ ‘Tie for white, and 78c. aT4c. for yellow Pork was heavy and lower, with sales of meas at $17 60 @ $17 65, aud Prime at $14 304 $14 36. Scgarg were in good demand and quite steady at the recent advance, with sales of ebout 1,200hhds. at full prices. Coffee sold to the ex. tent of about 2,006 bugs, including Rio aod Maracaibo, at etendy prices. Freights exhibited more tone, without change of importance in rates. Grain was takea for Liverpect in bulk at 4$gd.; flewr, at le, 8d. a ls, 43¢d.; roviz at ls. 14 a ls cheese at 20s. ‘The Kansas Question—Daylight at Last—The Divorganizers Defeated. According to our latest accounts from Wash- ington we have every reason to anticipate, within a day or two, the final settlement of the Kansas question upon a compromise between the two bouses, under the auspices of the ad- ministration. In view of this satisfactory die position of this troublesome business, some of our opposition cotemporaries, we perceive, aro very much cast down, and exceedingly mortified at the conciliatory inclinations of some of the more sensible members of the Douglas demo- eracy. The plan is to get up between the two houses such a modification of the Crittenden-Montgo- mery bill that, instead of providing for the ad- mission of the new State by the President in the event of the ratification of either the Le compton or a new constitution, the bill will pro- vide for the submission of the ratified constitu- tion to Congress. This policy, if adopted, will necessarily defer the admission of Kansas till the next session ; for the rejection of the Le- compton constitution and the adoption and rati- fication of a new one in Kansas can hardly be consummated in the interval to the adjournment of the present session, even though it should be proionged till September. But as the only insurmountable difficulty to the admission forthwith under the Lecompton constitution has been the fact that it was not fully submitted in a regular way to the vote of the people, we have no doubt that the plan in- dicated will clip through both houses as easily asa glove and put an end to the whole contro- versy. The transfer of the actual deed of ad- mission to the next session will be # mere mat- ter of form, with the terms of the proceeding distinctly pre-determined. The interval, too, will be advantageous to law and order in Kan- sas, and to a careful, methodical and deliberate State organization. We think, therefore, that a day or two in ad- vance we may congratulate our conservative readers of all sections and parties apon the happy solution of this vexed question of “bleed ing Kansas,’ and upon the exact policy indi- cated in the Kansas administration and official views of Mr. Buchanan. He has said that it wae his wish to have the Lecompton constitution referred to the people, yea or nay, before the act of ite submieeion to Congress; but, inas- much as the Lecompton Convention possessed the discretion of submission or non-¢abmission, he was compelled to accept their constitation as delivered into his hands from the President of the Convention. An act of Congreea, then, referring the said constitution back to the popular vote of Kan- sas so far from being a defeat of the policy of Mr. Buchanan will be the triumph of that policy. This triumph will involve a victory over the anti-slavery holy alliance of the North greater than anything that has been achieved over this sectional organization eince the an- nexation of Texas. This victory is invotved in the extorted concession from this violent “no more slave State’ party of the important prin- ciple that a pro+lavery constitution shall here- after be no bar to the admission of a new State, in the event of a constitution of this character coming before Congress with the ratification of the people of the Btate. ‘The seitlement indicated, however, will not be the only victory achieved by the administra- tion over the factious cliques and sectional demagogues of Congress. The bill for increas ing the army, which was first thrown out by both houses, has become law; and the de ficlenoy bill of appropriations to meet the debts of the government on account of the Utah army, which was first rejected by a decisive ma- jority in the House, has been reconsidered and paesed. Thus, it will be seen, that not only upon Kansas, but also upon other important measures, the factions disorganizers of Congress are rapidly coming to terms. From and after the final disposition of the Kansas controverry the administration, if we are not greatly de- ceived, will hold a position of political and moral power fully competent to keep all these sectional and factions elements of disorganiza- tion, in Congress and throughout the country, under the wholesome restraints of discipline or submission. Tum Conins Steawens—An Arter Virw.— We see that at a recent meeting in Philadelphia it was resolved to petition Congress for the es- tablishment of a line of mail steamers from that port to Liverpool, and to purchase the Collins line of steamships if favorable arrangements can be effected with Brown Brothers, the pre- sent holders of those vessels. It is surprising that the people of Philadelphia should only now bave waked up to the importance of the Collins line sa @ national enterprise. Had they made their eweet voices heard sooner, it is not improbable that they might have had some weight with Congress in determining the con- tinaance of this fine line of steamers. The narrow «pirit of commercial rivalry which ani- mates our friends of the Quaker city blinded them, it seems, to the injury done to the general interests by the extinction of the Collins com- pany; and it is only now, that they hope to ob tain particular advantage for their own city, that they make known their sentiments in re- gard to ita importance. This is truly quaker- like, and we hope the country will appre- ciate the national epirit which it evinces. At the same time we are compelled to remind the Philadelphians that even if they should suc- ceed in carrying ont their scheme it would benefit them but little. All the European lines that they have tried have turned out miserable failures, and the Collins steamers are not likely to prove a more successful venture in their hands. They would, in the end, be obliged to sail their vessels from this port, as the great entrepot of European and American trade, and the enterprise must finally revert to the eame conditions in which it is now placed. We do hot, therefore, see that the euddenly revived patriotism of the Philadelphians is likely to confer mach advantage either upon themselves or upon those who are euch targe sufferers by the unaccountable indifference exhibited by NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1858.’ Congress to the interests of American com- A Panoramic View of New York in the Ad- merce. Coming from @ class of persons 60 prover- bially selfish as the people of Philad Iphia, this reclamation in favor of the Collins line fur- bishes a strong condemnation of the hostility manifested towards it by our legislators. When the carrying trade of the couatry has paced into the hands of foreigners, Congress will perhaps discover that it has mado a fatal mistake in not protecting undertakings which were conceived aud worked out in strictly na- tional epirit, ‘The Late News from Kansas—Disintegration of the Opposition. Our advices from Washington inform us that the announcement of the result of the labors of the last ““Kansae Constitutional Convention” has created quite » disturbance and excitement in the ranks of the striped and spotted opposition The idea that foreigners and negroes are to be permitted to vote in Kansas, although delightful to Giddings and the ultra free soilers, is rather a bitter pill to some of the more moderate re- publicans, whilst the South American mem- bers who have leagued with the abolitionists are in a still more uppleasant position. As for thore democrats who have been led astray by Douglas, it is believed they will get back on dry land at the earliest moment. Under these circumstances it is highly probable a confer- ence comrmittee will be agreed upon, and Kan- sas admitted under the Lecompton constitution as the speediest way of disposing of the whole affair. Giddings required the nicest manipula- tion in order to induce him to vote for the Crittenden amendment, and his vote on that occasion practically gave the lie to the professions of his whole life. He now appears on the record as in favor of the admiseion of a slave State if the people desire it. Since that vote he has been restive; and we aro not surprised to learn that the last news from Kansas has rendered him intractable. He will go for the nigger now—wool, ivory and all. The South Americans are equally divided in their dislike of the niggers and the foreigners. Hence they will bolt any farther association with the opposition ; and as for those misguided democrats who were induced to bocome dirt- eaters, they will no doubt be glad to chaage their diet, now that an excuse is presented. It is time the whole disgusting subject was got rid of, or we shall soon have the area pf free- dom enlarged in Kansas so as to include amongst ite veters not only foreigners and nig- gers but mules and jackasses. ‘The position held by tho President is daily becoming stronger. He recommended Congress at ite meeting to get rid of the question at once by admitting Kansas, and thas localizing all those eubjecta which for years had been thrust forward and unduly magnified. Once admitted and the excitement would be con- fined to withia her own bordera. This is the position taken by the administration, and it will be carricd out notwithstanding all the efforts of the negro worshippers and disappointed office seekers to prevent it, It is very probable, as the Convention practically asserts, that niggers are aa intelligent as the rest of the population of Kansas, and that foreigners just landed are 45 competent to exercise the right of voters; but this only proves the degraded character of the population there, and the propriety of dismissing the question from the arena of federal politics. Douglas, Walker and poor Forney will be the sufferers. Lefi high and dry, their fate is melancholy. As for poor Forney, we might feel for him if his base desertion of his friend poor Pierce, and his even baser desertion of Mr. Buchanan bad not rendered him more an object of contempt than a subject for pity. Send for the the undertaker and remove the bodies, Werxiy Newsrarers.—We observe that the New York Tribune has been compelled to reduce the price of advertising in the weekly, semi- weekly and daily editions: there are those who seem to know that the reduction has not been confined to the price of advertising in these journals, but has extended to their circulation also. It is commonly reported, in this wicked world, that the New York Weekly Thibune has lost within the past twelve months one-half its circulation. Nor isthe phenomenon any way remarkable, Every five or tix or seven years the philosophical cr social manias of a people change, and all who have depended upon them for exietence fall to the ground, and starve, ‘Thus Vougiggiam has had its day; free love has had its @f* Reti-slavery has had its day; even spiritualism has at last been superseded by the revivals andthe pious cuthusiasm pervading the churches; and thus, all weekly and month- ly periodicals which depended on these various isms for @ subsistence are slowly dying out. Tience the steady decline of our unfortunate co- temporary, the Zrilwne. ‘The revulsion of inst fall affected our periodi- cal literatare immensely. Among all the wide- ly circulated weeklies of the day, the only two which held their ground and seem to be still progressing are Bonner’s Ledger and Harper's Weekly. ‘Two or three years ago, Harper's Ma- gazine had an immenee circulation: but that was affected by the general curtailment of luxa- rics and retrenchment of expenses among consumers of litersture. That other magazine, the Atlentic Monthly, which has lately been started at Boston, apparently for the purpose of consuming the eld matter and rejected articles of the late Putnam's Monthly, is the most tho- rough failure that we have ever seen in the magazine way; such @ mixture of the rabid and the puerile is unexampled. They can do a® toniehing things at Boston, and this Atlantic Month/y i# astonishing enough. The failure of the Trtrne and the success of Bonner’s Ledger are euggesting toa number of ardent spirits the idea of starting weekly papers like the Jeryer, all of them diametrically op- posed on all points to the Tribune. This last idea is ecnsible enough: but the notion of rival- ling Bonner will not answer. Some of those wevklies will live four, some six weeks—hardly any of them longer. Vor the tite, in his line, he hae the right of way. Process oy Cant—Thore are aa many Tar- tuffes walking about now as when Moliere wrote his comedy. There is political cant at Washington and Albany, religious cant all over the country, musical cant about Fry's grand (adopted) American Opera, in New York, but the greatest epecimen of all kinds of cant com- bined is in a new Boston magazine, the Adantic Monthly. The articles are full of violent po- litical cant, narrow, bigoted and hypocritical. The concern seems to be written by a sort of mutual admiration society of Puritan Jenk- inses, whose epectacles are circumecribed to the limits of the little town of Boston, and whose only earthly olject is to write up theig own petty clique. vertising Columns of the Herald. ‘The advertising columns of the Hyena af- ford an excellent panoramic view of life in New York. Here in one day’s advertising we can see what a vast number of our population are doing or trying to do, what their wants, hopes and anticipations are. Thousands of people have houses to rent and want good tenants, while thousands more are on an eager hunt for ‘some place to locate themselves, for the coming year. A new year for the house hunters always begins on the first of May; for New Yorkers, like swallows, migrate in flocks at the approach ofsummer. At thisseason the leading adver- tisements are sure to be found under the head of “Houees to Let,” and a whole page of them of a morning is no uncommon thing. Then there are a great many careless people who are always losing something -—<logs, tippets, shawl pins and “valuable papers” comprising the principal portion of lost articles. Some folks have more mouths to feed than they can fill, so that “a fine healthy child” can almost always be had for the asking. Asan evidence of the hard times, we find splendid rosewood seven octave pianos go- ing for asong, the furniture of the parlor, in these instances, being a little too sumptuous for the condition of the larder; for, unfortunate ly, siuce the panic came upon us, pianos ia the drawing room and emptiness in the ment safe, with seven dollars a month for a butcher’s bill, has been the order of too many households. Batthe most prominent advertising feature is perhaps to be found in the wants of females, and they are numerous enough, as everyone knows, embracing everything from a duck of a bonnet toa Fifth avenue mansion and a carriage and pairof horses. The chief want expressed in our columns, however, is that ofemploymest; and ad- vertisements of this kind usually fill from four to six columns, Those who use advertising asa means of procuring help are, of course, much few- er in number than the parties seeking employ- ment. Still the former contrive to occupy a column or so every day. Some of these have a predilection for German girls, some for {rish or Scotch, while others will have none but Ameri cans “to the manor born.” Thereligion aswell asthe nativity of female helps isa matter of much moment with many advertisers. Several prefer a good staunch Protestant cook, who oan dress a beefsteak on Friday in orthodox fashion, while others will have none but a pious Catho- lic, who, if she were to attempt to roast a tur- key on a fast day, would be sure to cook it toa cinder. But whatever the nativity or the creed of the help may be, each must be endowed with such manifold qualifications as would make an admirable Crichton of a servant gir. We fear, therefore, that our advertisers are sometimes disappointed. The wants of men are far more moderate than those of women. About three-fourths of a column daily satisfies them. But while all these applications for employers and employ‘# are indicative of the growing prosperity and progress of the metropolis, they are suggestive of moch heart sickness, anxiety and misery. Tlow many aypticints there are, poor and friendlessstrangers, anxiously watching from day to day the result of their advertisement, perhaps with starvation or crime the only alternatives in case of disappointment. The mornin: array of anxious faces in our counting room coald tell many a dreary tale of sick and helpless families, waiting in painful suspense in some poor lodging house for tidings of the answer to the advertisement of the day before; waiting and hoping, till Hope deferred maith the heart sick. Another class of “ Wants,” under the head of “Personal,” reveal the fact that parents and children, brothers and sisters, long separated, are pining to renew the household ties; while many people use this medium to convey the ex- pression of a tender passion to some lady who wore a blue bonnet, or who dropped her hand- kerchief in a certain omnibus or car on a cer- tain day. The “ Matrimonial” advertisements, occupying a modest corner of the paper, in- form us that there are seme young men in our midst who are willing to dispose of themselves at an incredible sacrifice—say a dower of a few thousand dollars, with the addition of all the charms of a Medician Venus, the accomplish- ments of an Antoinette, and tho virtue of Cwear’s wife. The young ladies and the widows are easier satisfied— steady habits’? and “a good moral character” being all they require just the most unreasonable things in the world to look for in this age, unless they aspire to one of our city fathers. Nothwithstanding the hard times and the re Iigious revivals, the advertisements of amuse- ments of all classes rarely fall below two columns a day, and the majority of these are of the theatrical order. Lectures just now are at @ discount ; still one can be enlightened on the manners and customs of the East, the legal die- abilitics of women, or be instructed in the various arts and artifices of love by the charm- ing Lola Montez. Thus in every aspect of city life—the grave and gay, the lively and severc—we have a faithfal panorama in the advertising columas of the Herat. Tar Last Great Coxspmacy.—Several of the city journals, backed up by the provincial press, have taken « position against the direc- tor of the Academy of Music, and have en- degvored to bring about the failure of the Ma- sard concerts and the dal masqué. We hare already explained the cause ef the hostility of the rural newspapers They are angry at the centralization of everything that is important in commerce, the fine arts or amusements in the metropolis The opposition in this city, however, proceeds from another cause. Mr. Ullman is the only manager who has conducted the Italian Opera in this city with satisfaction to the public and profit to himself. Late in the very successful season which he has just concluded be brought out Mr. Fry's great Ame- rican opera, “Leonora,” which was eung twice to thin audiences. The Opera-going public was divided into two parties with regard to “Leo- nora.” One party insisted that it was a weak plagiari«m from the old-fashioned composers ; the others said it wae a bore altogether. With out dircuming the question of ite merits, it is only necessary to ay that the most sublime in difference was manifested by the paying public, and that the opera was a fiasco. Now the oyster house critics—the old clique of Astor place— seem to hold Ullman responsible for the failure of the work of their confrére, and they have joined in a conspiracy to break down the manager of the Opera. The intrigues against Mr. Buchanan have probably encouraged them to proceed in the same course, and they have resolved to crush Ullman because he could not perruade the public that Fry was a great genius. Now, then, we shall have a battle royal be. tween Ullman and the oyster house The league eeems to have been perfectty ized. Ullman may consider himself as a up man. Between the two fires of Wall Spruce etreet, with a scattering fosilede from Franklin street, bis case is indeed a desperate one. Curiousty enough he does not seem to have been crushed. He gives to the pubtio the programme of the Musard concerts, promises a novel entertainment, and waits the result. Logically we cannot see how he was responsible for the failure of Fry's opera; but the oyster houge clique have a peculiar way of settling these things, and so they have allied to bring the little Napoleon down. The Musard con- certe are his Malekoff, ard against them the heaviest fire will be opened. He is in a terrible predicament, this manager; and, worse than all, he does not seem to realize his danger. He ie stupid enough to argue in this way- critice. organ- used and Since the Opera closed the city has been almost destitute of any attractive amusement, Now the Academy has been put in holiday attire for the Musard concerts, which are the most agreeable entertainments in the world. They are offered at a low price, with the most agreeable surrounding’, and sustained by the names of the best artiets now in the United States, The public, which is intelligent enough, will judge for itself about the distribution of its own money. Nothing, in the view of the oyster house critics, could be more absurd than this course of reasoning. They make public opinion as the Jerseymen manufacture cham- pagne. The public is not allowed to have an opinion unless the oyster house clique affirm it. They have resolved to crash Ul/man and Musard together. So, to save trouble, they may ss well consider themselves erushed at once. ‘The Street Commissioner Quarrel—High- handed Measure of Mayor Tiemann. The Court of Appesls having decided that Mr. Devlin was the Street Commissioner he is undoubtedly entitled to the possession of the office until his removal (if he should be re- moved) by the Board of Aldermen. Mayer Tiemann, however, seems to think differently, for he hag not permitted Mr. Devlin to enter the office at all, buthas locked it up and put the key in his pocket, where, we are informed, he intends to keepiJt until gompelled to deliver it up. Now, while it is unquestionably the right of the Mayor, under the charter of 1857, to sus- pend the Street Commissioner for cause, and perhaps to keep him suspended until the Common Council shall either restore or remove hia, it is assuming @ very doubtful power for the Mayor to take poescsaion of the office and all its public records. He may suspend the Commmissioner — prevent him from performing any of his duties—bat we hardly think that he can legally keep him out of the office. We presume that Mr. Tiemann is prepared to take the responsibility of this act, which the friends of Mr. Devlin regard, and we think with justice, rather # high-handed affair. As far as Mr. Deviin is concerned we are assured that he has placed himself entirely in the hands of his counsel, and will take no step not sanc- tioned by law. So that we need not fear a re- petition of the acenes of violence of which the Street Commissioner’s office was the theatro last year. As to the Mayor's powersin suspending and re- moving public officers the charter, like all the rest of the Albany legislation of '57, is rather obscare and ambiguous. Touching these powers it says:—“The Mayor shall have the power fo suspend, for cause, during any recess of tho Common Council, and by and with the consent of the Board of Aldermen, to remove any of the heads of departments, except the Comptroller and the Counsel to the Corporatioa, which sue pension and the cause thereof shall be commani- cated to the Common Council, if in session; if not, at their first meeting,” &c. There isaslight conflict of words here. The Mayor, says this section of the charter, shall have power to eus- pend “during any recess of the Common Coun- cil;’ but has he any such power when the Council is in session? Should he not in such case demand his removal! Yet # few lines far- ther on the charter says that such suspension and the cause thereof shall be communicated to the Common Council, “if in seasion”’ But, leaving those technicalities for the lawyers to settle, it is clear that Mr. Tiemann mast seud his message, asking for Devlin’s removal, to the Council to-morrow; for it appears that he is determined to have him removed if he can. He cannot keep him suspended at his pleasure. It is exceedingly doubtful whether the Board of Aldermen will accede to the Mayor's request. They will probably refuse to remove Dovlia, and then what follows? Te will of course en- ter the office—as he is certainly the Street Com missioner by law properly appoiuted—and will assume all the daties thereof. If the Mayor is resolved to keep the key in bis pocket in this event, & qvo warranio or some other equally po tent instrument, may compel him to disgorge it. Altogether it is s very pretty quarrel as it stands. The expect this Street Commissioner difficulty bas now assumed proves one thing, gt any rate; and that is, that the course of Mayor Wood last year in connection with it, which gave rise to so much shameful violence, coili- sions between two parties of the polfce, head- breaking and fisticuffing around the City Hall and Hall of Records, was perfectly legal, not- withstanding all the abuse heaped upon him; and that the action of Governor King, in as- suming to himself the powers of the Mayor, was without aay color of law, @ simple act of despotiem. We may expect a message from his Honor (o the Board of Aldermen, at their meeting to- morrow, recommending that Devlin be removed from the office of Street Commissioner. What action they will take upon it we shall see; but we doubt very much, as the Board is now con- stituted, that they will concur with Mayor Tie- mann’s views relative to the propriety of Devlin's removal. ‘Tie Owe Maw Power ry 4 Conner Syetem.— The report presented to the Police Commisasion- era by Mayor Tiemann on Thursday last fur- nishes another striking illustration of the ineffi- ciency of our police system. The Mayor, with asmall squad of polleemen numbering but fraction of the whole cily force, shows @ table of results which may well put the whole of our Metropolitan Police organization to shame. In the three months ending the 30th March his Honor, with the small body of men placed under his orders, has made 1,146 arrests, ob- tained the recovery of stolen property to the amount of $2,600, and the restitution of money advanced on bogus tickets, watches, &e,, to the amount of $5,910. All thie has been effected by the energy and conscientious efforts of a singleindividual; for, as every one isaware, the same force placed under the orders of the Com- juissioners would have fallen far short of the results stated. Pe stead Mayor Tiemann hae shown bimecif equal to the responsibili- tes of the position to whick he has been éfe- vated. It +s to be hoped that he wild not relax in his efforts to impart to the executive sdmia- istration of the city government the vigor andl the efficiency which have hitherto been wanting toit. Inthe absence of impartial legislative supervision, it is only the example of conscies- tious officials that can correct the laxity and corruption that pervade all departments of oer police and corporate systems. The Commerce of the Pacific—Are the Kag- Msh to Monopolize Itt Some time since we published a report made at the Inst cession of Congress by the Commit- tee on the Poet Office and Post Ronds in favor of the establishment of aa American line of mai steamers on the west coast of South America, to compete with the British line which fur years hasexisted there. By the recent mail from Panama we observe that our publication has alarmed this English monopoly, known as the “Pacific Steam Navigation Company,” and they are out ina card denying that they have ever arranged their echeduies 0 as to avoid connect ing with the United Stntes mail lines to Califor- nia, New Orleane and New York, as was alleged by our Post Office Department, the New York Chamber of Commerce, the Bosten Board of Trade and the comfuittees of Congress Of couree, in the face of such evidence, this denial amounts to nothing; but the alarm exhibited by the company proves that they feel that the es- tablisbment of an American line of eteamers would do them a fatal injury, by directing to the United States a large portion of the commerce of the Pacific cosst of South America, which is now mainly monopolized by England, in conse- quence of her compiete mai! and steam comma- niestion with those countries. We regard the projected American line of steamers a8 eminently deserving of favorable consideration, net only because of the impor- tance of the commerce which would thus be thrown open, but also because of tho fact that at the last session its projectors asked as com- pensation for carrying the mails a sum less than one-third of that heretofore paid by the United States Post Office Department for the convey- ance of ocean mails, and this Congress they de not fix the compensation at all, but leave i with the government to determine what a fair equivalent would be for the service. This demonstrates that the proposed line is not to be established for the purpose of obtaining governmental support, bat that a moderate compensation for carrying the mails is asked simply co as te enable the parties to compete on something like equal terms with the Eoglieh line, which is largely subsidized by their government, in addition to the sum of $90,000 a year paid to them by the governments of Chile and Peru. The parties to this under- taking afford the strongest evidence of their belief in the certainty of an iacreased com- merce between the west coast of South America and the United States in the fact that are willing to build expensive steamers | embark their capital largety in the line, not fe the expectation that our government will support it, bat that the trade itself will be remunerative. The sum they “asked would go but 9 small way towards defraying thelr expenses, but it would enable them to pat their rates of freight as low at least as the Eng- lish lino, and thas sustain the competition. Several attempts have been made by American citizens to establish a line of steamers on that coast without government assistance; but the parties were unable to compete against the pald Englieh line, and henco the necessity for the present application. The trade of the countries on the west coast ot South Ameriés amounts at ‘east to one hundred and fifty millions annually, in which the United States participates only to the extent of about ten millions, in consequence of our having no direct communication—-whila England, with her connecting lines along the coast and by the West Indies, monopolizes nearly all the balance of the foreign trade, as well as millions of gold and silver bullion aa- nually—-not a dollar of the latter ever reaching ua ‘This state of facts exists in consequence of the superior enterprise of the British govern- ment, notwithstanding that New Orleans is 5,200 miles and New York 2,500 miles nearer the South Pacific coast than Eagiand ia, The rates of postage upon single letters to all those countries embraced in the proposed line—Chile, Bolivia, Pera, Ecuador and New Granada—isnow forty cents. Upon the establishment of a United States mail line, there is no doubt the Post Office Department would be able to reduce this to the same rate as the California letters—tea cents, With a difference of at least two weckw each way, sad a redaction of postage equal to three-fourths of that now charged, the amount of American mail matter would be greatly in- erensed, to eny nothing of the absorption of the English mails, which would then go by way of New York to England cheaper and more rapidly than by the West Indin steamers. In a brief time the portages would, doubtless, amount to more than would be paid for conveying the maile, aside from the far greater and more im- portant considerations of an increase of oom- merce end intercourse. Increased facilities of communication would cause the United States and the republics of South America to be bet ter known to each other, aml give us that weight in the Pacific to which we are entitled. We now pay some $60,000 » year for the aa- laries of Ministers and Consnls to the countries lying on the west coast of South America, be- sides sustaining a large naval establishment there—all ostensibly for the promotion and: pro- tection of American commerce—and yet wo have neglected the first step in securing that commerce: the establishment of regular mail communication. It is time the attention of Congress was directed to this subject, and we have no doubt the present administration will cordially co-operate with Congress in promo- ting the extension of our commerce in the mode enggested. A Coxcamt at Haxp.—We learn that Signor Alaime, a young Malian vocalist of much private repute and skill, intends to give ® concert at Dodeworth’s rooms, Broad- way, on the 20h Inet. Madarse Wallace Rouchelle, a well known and highly esteemed soprano singer, will give ber aid and asristance at the same concert. Signor Alaimo is weil known to the musical elite of New York, and wo Lave no doubt will cal} out a decided house: Tux Romas Catiouc Owuan Base at mm Garvan Patace will come off on Monday, the i2th inst, and ts ox- pected to be arecherche affair. Proparations have beom made to afford the guems ampie accommodations, which wore so dingracefully Incking ad the recent charity fits ‘The tickets are sold ata price which most respectable peo- ple can adord, and witich will exclude many objectionable persona who otherwise might atead. The names of the committes of management are a euMicient guarantee thas every effort will be made to ronder the gueste comforts bie, and the entertainment the beat of the season. The Woil known character of the association will also enaure to the purchasers of tickets that the funds will be appre. printed to & praiseworthy object,