The New York Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1858, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNDE®, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Ovrice ¥. w. CORNER OF FULTON Asp Naasac ors. eee ie. PO pm hn aA a a spy, oF $3 por annum, the Bu opean ‘part of farast Briasin or 85 ony part athe m8 FANILY RBRALD, sory Waincadeny, at four conte par mit 0: taka Y CORRESPONDENCE, 7, sontatatag cite | Og eT pe pad oe on ad Pat xt ais Lerress 4m > Packages one per anuum, to omeunent, doth MD VERTISEMENTS renmeni elem Newman be | PO a Warr Hanae, 2 Fawlty Hiswala, and wo the Votume XX111. Ne. 103 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF WE. Fourteenth #.—Mvsagp's Tarep Coscear ix New ¥ SRUADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway—M icogra—Hiooxce Coos ome, NIBLO'S GARDEN, “Broadway— Musinaxs—| Bycemtoe—Raove. ied " vg power E TNRATAR, ‘Fowery—Tae Taaue Fase Mex— Stace dBc BURTO<’S THEATRE. Broedway. opposite Bond sireat— Hann Stavocie—Pooawontas—Moeteororitan POu0sMaN. WaLLACK’S THEATRE. Bros¢way—Uncus Fooms—In- Visine s Hoteamp—Boors at Tee Swag. e LAURA KEENDS THRATES, Brocdway—Tux Su oF BARNUMS AMERIOAN MUSECM, Broscsray— Afternoon —Heaat or run Won. Daa WOOD'S BUILDINGS, Pace nnd Op Bronte & Woop's Mixeresis—Krw1oriay ise MECHANICS’ BALL. 673 Broaéway—Baranr's —Neonro Soncs amp Bumiasees Brvavt's Gasat Saow, y—G_ Caper Tas moan Rive. 444 BROA' WAY—Mart Pests Canrsetc Minsensis— Prarorta® MeLoptes amp KecenTErcit1es—Lé MABSELLAISE TRIPLE SHEET ewe York, ‘Wedneoday, April 4, =. ‘The News. By the arrival of the steamship City of Washing- ton, which left Liverpool on the forenoon of the 3lst ult., have late and interesting news from all parts of Eu- rope, India, China, Australia, the Sandwich Islands, | Utah, California, Oregon, Central America, New | Granada and the West India Islands. The news from Liverpool is four days later than previous advices. The cotton market was irregular, | and a decline of three-sixteenths to one-foarth of a penny is reported on the rates current on the 26th; bat it is not clear that this is not the same decline referred to in our commercial advices brought by the America. Breadstuffs were very inactive. Consols closed in London on the evening of the 30th at 97} a 974. American securities were active at previous rates. The rates in the London discount market ranged from 2} to 5 per cent. Nothing had been done in the matter of the India loan, which was re- garded with less favor in the money market. Sugar and coffee were rather lower in London. Lord Derby had proposed his new bill for the gov- ernment of India toParliament. It was more com- prebensive than that of Lord Palmerston, but al- most identical in spirit with his measure. Both houses had adjourned for the Easter holidays. Fifteen persons were burned to death while asleep in a house in London. The cotton mill of Messrs. Lewis & Williams, of Manchester, was also barned down, and five hundred persons thrown ont of work. The Duke de Malakoff was not expected to leave Paris for London until after Paster, when he would open # splendid establishment in that city. It was reported that Napoleon would soon again visit Queen Victoria. The arrests of political offenders and deportation of political convicts continued in France. It was said that the Count de Persigny would be nominated bead of the French Cabin but this was denied by some Paris letter writers. The country continued quiet, but trade was very dull, although the Paris Bourse was firm. The Emperor had met many capitalists in conn, eil on the subject of the depression in business, and it was thonght that some approach to the system of free trade would be made. The relations towards England were regarded as improved. The publication of portions of the corresponde of Napoleon 1. in the Paris Moniteur is said to have offended the Emperor of Austria. The government of Basle, Switzerland, has re- fused to admit the new consulate which the Freuch government desired to establish there The wt taken out by the America to the effect that the Spanish government bad proposed a law to the Cortes for the a! ion of slavery in her West India colonies was discredited in England and on the continent of Hurope, and no such measure is men- tioned in the correspondence from Madrid. Our correspondent details the particulars of the voyage of the steam frigate Niugara to Plymouth, and the progress already made towards laying the Atlantic telegraph cable. The British Admiralty have detailed three vessels to assist in the work. Telegraphic advires from India are dated at Lugk- now on the Sth and Bombay on the 9thult. It is likely that the rebellion has terminated before this time, either by the surrender or slaughter of the mutineers in Lucknow, as Sir Colin Campbell in- vested the place on three sides on the Ist ult. with sixty thousand troops and one hundred and tweaty runs, whilst Sir James Outram had taken six thou sand men across the riverin order to cut off the re treat of the rebels. The mutineers were d with great low by General Outram at ¢ in February, and they were also beat bagh rent points by other generals. The quiet. It reported that th Lacknow were safe with the “Q very active in Bombey—imports in great demaud and money eay From China we have late news | dated at Canton on the Houg Kong on the 17th of February. ( r Yeh Deen shipped from Ca and the official papers were more disposed to 1 commissioners and troops. I representatives of France, P gland United States were acting in accord for the po of obtaining commercial ce ssions from the peror and extending the nees of civilization over the try. Comm r Reed was aiding in the project of establishing house at Can fon, and it was thought that be would go for a short time to Manilla and then return to join ina diplo matic congress with Lord Elgin, Baron Gros and Count Putiatin, the Bnglieh, French and Rossian Plenipotentiaries, at Shanghae, The Unit frigate Mississippi was at Shanghae and t nesota in the Canton river on the ith of Febr We have news from Aw the 10th and Melbourne on t r ‘Trade was dull all over the colony. W es an’ 1 had fallen in price at Sydney. ge ® £3 148. 6, to £3 174, 6d. per ounc Mel Dourne. The new Reform bill was progressing in the Parliament of Victoria, and @ Parliamentary lection was being held in New South Wales. Onr advices from Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, are to the 27th of Febroary. The King celebrated his twenty-fourth birth day on the Sth of that month. Labaina wa by a severe whirlwind on the 20th of Februnry, which took off the roof from the honse occupied by the Ame n Consul. American circus company of Rowe A Marahell dat i lula, on their way to Me a. The King and Quer retur He 6 from a trip to the other islands. One hun Gred wnd ten tons @ sugar lad reached Honol from the Lihoe plantation. The Polynesian says the { blasphemy is very common in the island The import retarna for 1857 show « decrease ©f $21,000 from those of 1856, and of & rom Pivis Wi didde Dig douupalle predate cay 2 and the Star of the West, from Aspinwall, we | ce | ated | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1858.-TRIPLE SHEET. 1857 shows a decrease of about $45,000 from those of 1866. And in the totel exports we find a falling off of $25,000. | The news from California is unimportant. Nothing | worthy of note had tranapired previous to the suil- ' ing of the steamer from San Francisco. There had been no particular movement in financial or com- | mercial affairs. Money was easy, and the supply of | dust from the mines continued to flow in in sufficient quantities to meet all demands. The Scar of the | West brought $1,325,912, which is an increase on the amount brought by the arrival of #he corres: | responding date last year of nearly one hundred | thousand dollars. Our dates trom Salt Lake City are to the 6th of February. Brigham Young and his Mormon follow- | ers continued to exhibit their belligerent and brag* gardocia spirit, and were throwing out all manner of threats, evidently for the purpose of intimidating the United States troops. It is again asserted that | the Mormons are suffering for lack of supplies. | By our accounts from Nicaragua it will be seen that General Jerez is in arms against the govern- ment of Martinez, and that affairs in that country are again in as great confusion as ever. The steamer San Carlos bad been seized and sunk by the Nicara- guans, the Costa Rican guard which was on board having been previously driven off. It was said that | Mr. Webster had procured a kind of contract from the Costa Rican government in which it was stipu- lated that when Vanderbilt pays $90,000 it would consent to sell the steamers. The sinking of the San Carlos, the only steamer in its possession, effec- tually disposes of the conditions of this bargain. We learn from New Granada that the treaty ne gotiated by Gen. Casa and Mr. Herran had at last been ratified by the New Granadian Congress. Our advices from Havana are to the 10th inst. The ceremonies and festivities of the Holy Week had put a stop to all business. On Holy Thursday morning, in the Cathedral, a young Cuban lawyer, named Giral, was severely stabbed by a salve gvardia, or policeman, during the solemuization of mass by the Bishop, in return for a blow inflicted "pon him by the former. The affair caused great consternation amongst the congregation. There had been another arrival of Asiatics in a British ship, | of whom, out of 493, 135 died during the voyage. | Sugars were quiet, and exchange dull. In freights for the United States there had been a slight im- provement. We have news from the West Indies dated at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 29th ult. The markets | are reported as followa:—"Business has been very | dull during the past fortnight. A heavy failure in | the provision trade tended somewhat to increase suspicion and retard eperations. Halifax stuffs have advanced, owing to the advices by last American steamer, but other articles remain at about our last quotations. Produce is very quiet, coffee and pi- mento being offered only in small quantities.” Our files from Bermuda are to the 23d ult., but they contain nothing of interest, either political or agricultural. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes» writing on the 28th ult. says:—“Breadstuff and provisions from the United States are in moderate supply, with an improved local consumption— Corn meal $5 37 to $5 50, and flour $7 per bbl. Bag bread is commanding more attention at higher prices. Peas, codfish and mackerel are in large supply, and the market is overstocked with native produce. Sugar making is very active,and prices of new are $3 50 per 100 Ibs. and molasses 13c. per gallon. 4,112 hogsheads sugar were shipped to Cork and London. The health of the island is very good. Two regiments of soldiers (foot), each 1,000 strong, are ready to emberk for India, and look for orders jy to depart. No alteration in rates of foreign exchange.” In Congress yesterday Mr. Green offered his pro- position to the Senate for a Conference Committee onthe Kansas bill, and it was agreed to by a vote of thirty to twenty-four. The bill authorizing the con- struction of a line of telegraph to some point in the vicinity of the army in Utah was discussed, and finally postponed till December next. In the House the bill providing for the establishment of a police force in the District of Colambia was taken up, and the House indulged in a profitless disputation on po- litical topics until the adjournment without taking any action on the matter under consideration. A motion to concur with the Senate in referring the | Kansas bill to a Conference Committee will be made in the House at one o'clock to-day. Te administra- | | tion members confidently expect to carrythe mo | tion, though the absence of a large number of mem: | bers renders it somewhat doubtful whether the | question will be pressed to a vote until the strug- glers can be recalled. The proceedings of the Legislature yesterday | were important, but we have no space for a detailed reference to them. Our reports contain full details. ‘The Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination ef Messrs, Bowen and Stranahan a» Police Commission. ers, with the understanding, it is supposed, that the Board will appoint Mr. rge Briggs as a member of the Commission in place of Mr. Perit. The hotel waiters held another meeting last eve- ning, and agreed to strike for higher wages on the firet of May, unless their employers accede to their demand for an increase of compensation. The Committee of Arrangements for the Orsini and Pierri demonstration met last evening and de- cided that the affair should come off a week from next Thorday. The sale of tickets is progressing We give an account of the meeting last | | | rapidly. nt of Police is, it is said, effort to have street begging em of putting at the work of clean- all persons found begging in the s!) vagrants, and in the event of refasal, offered, to have this class of per- y | Phe Board of Ten Governors met yesterday, but did nothing worth noting beyond designating Mon Gays and Thursdays as the visiting days of Bellevue Hospital. There are now 2 peragns under the the Covernors—an inerease of 1,336 as com pared with last year The mrit inance of the Board of A met yeate . bat no business of public yes the «treet | streets, or fair wag itted for vagra or. inte. fore them. rd of Supervisors met yesterday, but no- yesierday (all mate before the Furo. ved) embraced about 1,500 bales at No sales transpired after the sews Flour contioned heavy for common grades at the pretioun day's pricsa. Extra brands of Obie, as well as of Southern, exhibited rather more Orm. neve at the close, while prices were unchanged. Wheat was irregwiar. The sales of prime or choice qualities were reported —Chicago spring eeld ot $1,, and red jthern et €1 18. Corn wae firmer and more active. upebanged prices wee pubdliehet Sales of mixed and white were made at 7/4 a 7c, and Pork was irreguiar, sales of mess were od of prime at $14 m. at 746. at S17 Oas C. Cul meats were tierces fine by at 1c, Lard was wad eold at 109 @ 10%0. Sugars were but quiet ‘The sale embraced about 325 at raten given in another column. The chief move- ofiee was confined to the auction sale, which Ataong the frm wendy bho. ment i cowisted of about 4.474 bageof Rio at 1001140, aver age 104° 100e., which was a slight advance over previous eace. The eale crew a good company and passed off with much epirit, Freighte were wichanged, and engagements moderate. The chief amount teken was for London, and in Some cases of provisions at rather easier rales, Anonirion or SLAVERY ty THE Spantsn Coro- nies. The last Cunard steamer brought a tele graphic despatch from Madrid to the effect that the government of Spain had introduced a bill for the abolition of slavery in the Spaniah colo- This despatch, it appears, was sent to the Brussels Nord, and at the time the City of nies Washington left was not credited. People will do well to form no opinion on the eubject with 1 fuller information. On the face of it the ~~ SE rehulde The Administration and tue Demeraized Parties aud Factions of Congress. ‘The demorallzed and disorganized condition of the parties and factions of the present Con- grees is the most remarkable feature in our political affaire of the present day. All party tines seem to be obliterated in both houses; all ideas of party consistency seem to have been ‘ncheu up, the administration at every point Is embesrrazeed by party defections, and its suc- veever, even in those measures which are indis- peneable to meet the obligations of the govern- ment, appear to be dependent upon the ehari- ties of the opposition. We do not wonder that such a state of things at Washington, at this time, should be construed by some of the lead- ing journals of Europe as significant of the rapid downward tendencies of our popular in- stitutions to revolution and Mexican anarchy; for even among our own political philosophers there are not @ few who share in such appre- bensions. And why not? Look at the examples far- nished by the present Congress of sectional and factions demoralization. The party which elected Mr. Bnchanan President came into thie Congress with a majority of some twenty-eight in the House and a majo- rity of nearly two-thirds in the Senate. The same men are there, but where are these majori- ties? Frittered away into sectional and factious cliques, under the lead of a few plotting con- epirators and unscrupulous gamblers for the honors, the offices and the public plunder pf the next Presidency. Thus, with the reading of the President’s annual message in the Senate, Mr. Douglas, upon Kansas, filed off from the administration with his equad of Northern and Northwestern democratic seceders, and boldly placed himself and his followers in the attitude of open rebellion. This was an ominous beginning; but it has been rapidly followed up by other movements of defection and party disintegration equally remarkable. For instance, the President's sound and impregnable views upon filibuster- ing, asset forth in his special message upon the Paulding-Walker case, brought about his ears aregular volley of great guns and mus- ketry from the ranks of the Southern fire- eating pro-élavery democracy. Next, upua the Utah army bill, the Southern ultras, joined with the Western factionists, defeated the plan of the administration in both houses; and only when reduced to the weak and wishy-washy expedient of three temporary regiments of volunteers could this important object of reinforcing the army in any shape be secured. Next, the Deficiancy Appropaiation bill, to meet the army and other expenses al- ready incurred, was thrown out of the House by a decisive majority; and its reconsideration and passage were only achieved by the generous support of some of the more sensible members of the opposition camp. These examples of defection and party de- moralization are quite enough to justify the conclusion that all party principles and all con- siderations of party consistency have ceased tv exist; that all party lines are obliterated, and that echeming demagogues, sectional cliques and local factions have reduced all parties in Congress to the service of some half-dozen am- bitious, unscrupulous, cunning and indefati- gable gamblers for the grand Presidential prize of 1860, Thus the party which was elected to | sustain a democratic administration has been | cut up into three or four separate and discor- | dant fragments; Know Nothing into two or three little separate cliques; and thus the ramp of the thus we find that to the black republicans— | the most deadly enemies of the President—he | has really been indebted for those appropria- tions of men and money without which the | functions of the government, civil and milita- ry, to @ great extent would now be stopped. This is certainly a very gloomy picture of | the existing condition of parties, sections and factions in Congress, and very ominous of a rapid downward tendency to that state of revo- lution and anarchy which controls, at the point of the bayonet, the despotic and precarions Presidential governments of Mexico and South America, But, then, we have here in these United States the safegnards of Anglo-Saxon common sense and an overwhelming mass of in- telligent, educated and pure blooded white people, whove practical business interests neither political parties nor reckless dema- goguee cen trifle with too far, sustained as the people are by « vigilant, omnipresent, indepen- dent press, which neither partics nor factions nor demagogues can buy. Hence it is that with all the recklesencss and corruption of the trick. | sters of Congress they have been compelled, “upon the sober second thought,” to concede this menenre and that principle to the adminis- tration which they hud resolved at first to deny. It is in these things that woe may find the se- | crets of the inherent strength and solidity of the Union—en intelligent, practical, conserva- | tive people, and ® popular and independent | press. These are the powerful elements which have given to the administration of Mr. Bu- | chanan ite strength and its successes against all the party defections and demoralizations of Congress, Nor need our European newspaper cotemporaries entertain any serious alarm in consequence of the mutinour and revolutionary aspects of our present Congress, Within another year or 80 the members thereof will be called to an account at the bar of public opinion. this view they are beginning to comprehend their position. They see that in an unserupu lous war upon the administration they will themrelves be back. They know that the country will eustain | that which ie honest, fair and just; and they know, too, that, with all their clamor, the ad- ministration still possesses the undiminished | respect and confidence of the country. Ratification of the Treaty Between the United States and New Granada. The Star of the West brings us a report that the treaty between the United States and New | Granada, signed in Washington last September by Gen. Case and M. Hegran, the New Grana dian Minister, bad been ratified at Bogota— after having first been rejected by Congress, and then reconsidered. The intelligence is be- ‘eved to be correct, and is of considerable im- portance to those having claims against New Granada. It will be remembered that the difficulties be- tween our government and New Granada arose principally out of the destruction of American properly in the Panama riots of the 15th April, There were other important questions, however, such as the imposition of a tax by New Granada upon articles in transita across the Isthmus, and a desire also to effect a more liberal postal convention, The Minister of the United States, Judge Bowlin, was anable, after a , to eleet any arrang party has been divided | Tn | destroyed, and they are falling | ment. The then government of New Granada denied that it was in any respect responsible, under the existing treaty stipulations, for the occurrences at Panama, although it was expresely provided in that instrument that the interoceanic route should be kept open and maintained in peace and good order. A special Minister, Mr. Morse, was then sent by our government to Bogota, but his mission was productive of no more satisfactory results, Meantime a change took place in the govern- | ment of New Gtrarada; and their Minister, Gen. Herran, was directed to open negotiations dl- rectly with the State Department at Washington. After some weeks delay the treaty, which it is now stated bas been ratified by the New Grana- dian Congress, was duly signed. The treaty in question does not by any means cover all the matters in disxpute—but limited as it is, it met with the most serious opposition on the part of the opposition in New (Granada. It provides for the appointment of a joint commis- | sion to investigate all the claims of citizens of the United States against New Granada from 1818 to the present time, inclading the clatms growing out of the Panama riots, The amount awarded in each case is to be paid by New Granada, the convention declaring that “New Granada acknowledges its responsi- bility, derived from the right and obliga- tion of maintaining the interoceanic route in peace and good order.” It is also agreed that inasmuch as the government of the United States may require to possess in one of the islands adjacent to Panama sufficient land, not exceeding a hundred acres, for landing places, coal depot, wharves, &c., the Granadian government grants the privilege of buying or renting such lands, the authorities of the Isth- mus not having the right to tax them or in any other way interfere with their works. And in order to make provision for the payment of the indemnity to our citizens for their claims, New Granada assigns one-half of the amount annually received from the railroad company, and guar- antees to make provisions to meet tie residue. In addition to these stipulations, General Her- ran, in the name of his government, expressed its regret at the occurrences which took place at the riots, and promised that the offenders should be prosecuted and punished. This treaty is very well as far as it goes, and, under all the circumstances, it no doubt was advisable to close the questions incladed in it as specdily as possible. But we expect Geno ral Cass will now proceed to insist upon en adjustment of the remaining questions without further delay. The New Granadian government has been notified that ifany at- tempt is made to collect the passenger and ton- nage tax which she has directed to be imposed on goods and passengers going over the Pana- ma Railroad that it will be resisted by the United States. Thus there is daily dan- ger of an interruption of the intercourse across the Isthmus, dependent wholly upon the fear which New Granada may entertain of our gov- ernment. Nothing can be more unjust than the attempt on the part of New Granada to estab- lish such an imposition as taxing persons and | goods merely passing across the Isthmus. It is in violation of the spirit and letter of the treaty by which this interoceanic route was establish- | ed, and it is in direct opposition to the princi- | ple which governs New Granada in regard to If this | free trade works in such a way as to bring no revenue into the New Granadian treasury, it would be more honorable in that government to endeavor to replenish it in some other way than by taxing our citizens in violation of ex- isting treaty stipulations or any civilized com- mercial precedent. Atall events our govern- | ment has given notice that it will not submit to any such exactions, and ifthe question is left | Open it is very probable it may lead to the moet unpleasant resulte, Meantime, we hope the news of the ratifica- tion of the Cass-Herran treaty is correet, and that justice is at length to be done to our citi- zens who have suffered from the outrages of the Panama rioters. Women's Rights and Ranaway Matches. Within the past week it is understood that an unusual number of runaway matches have taken place in this city. It is rumored that some of our principal up town hotels have been the ecene of some of these amatory hegiras, and that certain among the Wall street bankers are | more interested in them than they would like. Something, of course, must be allowed for the verpal season, which, as every one knows, prompts mankind as well as the brute creation to Jove. But even allowing for this, it strikes us, judging from certain data before us, that the mania for runaway matches must be deci- dedly on the increase. We believe it to be a fact that at the present time they form quite a large proportion of the aggregate marriages which are celebrated in these parts. They have been | | on the increase for some time. One may per- | | haps date the new developement of their popu- larity from the éclat which attended the efforts | of Miss Mary Ann somebody to become Mrs. John Dean, in spite of the opposition of her fa- mily and the frowning indignation of our best society, That startling drama roused the ener- | gies and fired the imagination of all the ardent | her own imports, which are duty free. young girls in the city. They did not all sigh for red haired Irish coaehmen, to be sure; most of them figured to themselves an Adonis, per- fect in face and figure, and equally capable | of winning a woman’s affections and brav- , ing a brother's wrath. Bat the main thing they have pined for has been a husband to run away with them; and, as we said, very many of them have not pined in vain. There are hundreds of young married couples inhabit- ing New York at the present time who were in such a hurry to become man and wife that they could not wait for anybody's consent, or any vulgar pecuniary means; who now are dependent upon the support of some relation, and sce before them, as plain as the sun at noonday, a life of misery, obscurity and pos sibly crime. it may be asked, how does it happen, in this enlightened age, where our girls are ao tremon- dously educated that they know not only all that they should, but a great deal besides which they would be better without, that young wo men should be found ready to run away with idle vagabonds after a few days acquaintance? Our young girls are not children. At fourteen they kuow everything. Most Now Yo le { of sixteen are as worldly minded as men of thirty. There is no deceiving them or catching them unawares. It possible to sedic them, because they have calmly considered the subject, weighed the advantages and (isadvan tages, and decided against a four pos as an error As to passion they have nothing of the kind about them. They are mere pretty, fanciful, artistic, cold, caloulating, and i of aurpristagly meghanip ao'ht uote, § Yet these same women wil! deliberately fly in the face of parents, friends, society and com- mon sense (0 marry @ tipsy fiddler, or an idle, worthless seamp of some sort or other, who nev-r could support a wife, and who takes one in order that she may eupport him. ‘There can be very little doubt but the recent | agitation of the question of women’s rights has had much to do with the increase of runaway | matches, Her marriage is the only thing a | girl cares about having her own way upon. She don’t want to vote, or to command a ship, or to go to Congress, or to plead causes, or to cauterize ulcers. But your true daughter of Eve would rather, if you please, choose her own husband, without regard to anybody else’s | opinion, ‘Iherefore when the women’s rights advocates proclaim that she has a right to in- dependence of foreign control, and that her in- | dividual will is her best guide; when Mr. James © T. Brady and Mr. George W. Curtis preach ia a fashionable lecture room agalust the horrid tyranny practiced by parents and guardians over their daughters and wards; when every in- | sidious argument is employed to inflame the minds of young girls by painting the wrongs of | women in vivid colors, and calling upon them | to assert their rights as the equals of man; what { cana girl do, how can she bear witness to the | eloquence of the lecturer better than by run- ning away with a ¢oachman or a fiddler? The lecturers on women’s rights seem to ex- pect that their pet theory is destined to general adoption in this country andin the world at large. We hope they are mistaken. For ex- perience and reason alike signalize an increase of runaway matches as the first consequence of the developement of the women’s rights theory ; and not even the lecturers themselves would argue that such marriages are calculated to couduce to the public benefit or te the private happiness of the parties. ! Another Seuthern Commertial Convention— A Rare Chante for a Good Bargain, Our numerous readers, and especially those directly interested in the coasting trade between the North and the South, will find an interest. ing Southern manifesto among the general mat- ters of news which we publish to-day. It is a manifesto issued to “the people of the Southern and Southwestern States” by the committee appointed at the Knoxville Southern Commer eial Convention of 1857, inviting the “men of the South to turn out and seud ful) delegations of their noblest sons” to the convention which is to be held in Montgomery, Alabama, on the 10th day of May next. It will be observed that the special object put forth by the committee in behalf of these talk- ing conventions is the preparation of the South for the dreaded contingency of disunion. In | view of this contingency, which the committee eeem to regard as inevitable, and only as a question of time, they plead that the first thing to be done is to make the South independent of Northern ships and Yankee skippers, by es tablishing a direct and self-sustaining commerce between the Southern S'ates and foreign nations. To this end the comm‘ttee confess that very little as yet has been accomplished by these conventions; but that +till they have paid all expenses in the Union which they have pro- duced among Southern men in defence of South- ern rights, cort what it may, We are assured, however, that this forthcoming convention “ will not consider the question of disunion, or | any question tending to produce that result; but that “if we succeed in restoring the com- mercial independence of the South, aud build up our own towns and enrich our own people, by our own means, which now build up and en- rick others,” it will be enough, even though disunion should follow close behind. Very well. Perhaps we can aid these com mercial regulators in their great undertaking of revolutionizing the lawa of trade. We have certainly no objection to bring the project to a practical experiment a6 soon as possible, and ia this view we have a hint or two to submit which may be of the highest practical value to this grand gathering in May of our Southern commercial philosophers. The Convention at Knoxville appointed the Hon, William Ballard Preston, of Virginia, a special messenger to Europe in behalf of Mr. A. Dudley Mann's grand project of a line of stupendous steamers between England and Nor- folk. He was thus authorized to enter into ne- gotiations for a trial trip of the great steamship Leviathan to Norfolk, merely by way of show ing the practicability of his plan of a line of vesselsto that port, each of twenty or thirty thousand tons. Having failed, however, in di- verting the trial trip of the Leviathan to No. folk, Mr. Preston wisely concluded that France would perhaps be a better field for bis main en- terprise than England. The result was a contract | with the Paris and Orleans Railway Company | for a line of four steamers, of twenty-five hun. dred tons each, to ply between the mouth of the | Loire and Norfolk: capital five millions, one- | half to be furnished on each side of the Atlan. | tic, &c. The company, in pursuance of this contract, has been chartered by the Virginia | Legislature, and nothing is now wanted to put the scheme into full blast except the moncy and | the steamers. Now, then. we propose to this approaching | Southern Commercial Convention of the “no- | blest sons” of the South, first, that instead of long | speeches, high sounding resolutions, and empty | abstractions, they proceed to a practical effort | ‘to raise the money and the steamers for this Southern initiative Norfolk experiment of di- rect trade. Secondly, that after raising a hand- | some eum of money, cash down, the Convention | ehall send a competent agent or commi to New York to buy the Collins steamers. There are three of them—the Atlantic, the Baltic, and the crack ship, the Adriatic—three of the largest, swiftest, strongest and most beautiful steamers in the world. They are in the mawket | they are all ready for sea; but they are all lying idle at the foot of Canal street, the line having proved a dead loss from the niggardly economy of Congress in regard to the postal service. ‘These splendid steamers, cash down, we doubt not, can be bought now ata great bargain; and only think of the advantages to Southern direct trade of a line of such steamers, all complete, and ready to sail at a day's notice, as comparcd with the slow operation of building new steam ers of an inferior size and quality at a greater cost, and at a dead loss of two years, perhaps. le time. We admonigh our Soathern too, that in this matter there fs danger of that fn- of vel frien in delay. The meroantile men ! land, fresh water port, called Philadelphia, are on the alert, and talk with a very confident v of buying the Collins line to ran up the Dw. ton are in the ewmmer season, and to New York in the winter, when the Delaware is frome, up We tre af thove Phils“ielphia that some wt, 100, ¢ | wre old broadbrims have the money, aud can readi- ly raise 8 million or two if they are only very sure it “can be made to pay.” Come, then, gentlemen of the Southern Com- mercial Convention, now is your chance for aa | immediate experiment of a line of splendid steamers, all complete, direct between Norfolk and France, under the contract of Mr. Preston. Buy it; try it. Very true, the line has failed between New York end Liverpool—_twe ports possessing come commercial resources; but etift the ships have failed from the withdrawal of the government supplies. Perbapa the govera- ment may be more liberal to this line trams- ferred to the South. If not, the best plau, per haps, would be to get each of the Southern | States concerned in the enterprise to put im a subscription of eight or ten thousand a» year, say for five years for the first agreement, te give the scheme a good start. Thusit may be made to pay in the course of fifteen or twenty years. Who knows? What say our philosophers of the Southern Commercial Convention? Now ia your time. | Fancy Balls and Socicty at Washington— Grand Lubby Convention in Disguise. Publio attention has been directed to the na- tional capital during the past winter by a ee- ries of occurrences more exciting than credita- | ble. There have been fights on the floor of Con- gress, knock downs in the rotuuda, battles im the etreeta, rencontres in barrooms, and incipi- ent duels by the dozen. These latter affairs, however, owing to the commendeble discretion of our legislators, remained in the bud. The time has thus been passed in those light and cheerful entertainments so much in keeping with the dignity of the Senator, and which have afforded the aflachés of the legations so many piquant paragraphs for their private Jlet- ters. But the best of entertainments sometimes pall upen the appetite. Washington society at last became bored with fights. What if one he- norable member did pull another honorable member's nose, or kick him down stirs, were not the honorable members continually doing so? What if a party of “swipers’—tbat is the elegant name of the Baltimore ruffuns--did come into the District and break each other’s head under the shadow of the Capitel? Had not that sort of amusemeni become stale by cua- tom? It is not gocd to have uiways partridge for dinner; so we must get up someting new, and tbat new thing ie a grand fancy bal, te whieh everybody shall come, and where, under the ia- fluence of punch, chumpagne, segars, crinoline and Strasbourg pies, we shall arrange all the lobby business for the balance of the session. Thus saitn the log rotlers, the axe grinders, the private bill engizeers, the patent extenders, and all the lobby, great and small, big and little Weil, the bali came off The editors were ia- vited to the number of seventy, but only seven accepted. Whether these mysterious seven re- presented the seven sacraments, the seven goldew candlesticks, the seven churches, the seven wonders of the world, or the seven deadly sins, we cannot say—more likely the latter than the former. They seem to have been drawn chiefly from the class of chsfoniers who conduct the penny papers at Washington, and whe eagerly seized upon this eplendid oppor. tunity to fill themselves to the brim with oysters and champagne, and to pick up a few pennies by reporting the next day the full names of ladies who presumed they were at- tending a private party. The seven rag pick- ing Jenkinses, however, don’t stand upon small poiats of etiquette, and so their seven-by-nine | inch sheets are full of the ball, and the dresses, | and the punch, aad the supper—particulariy the latter. We have before us the accounts of three Jen kinses, an embarrassment of riches in that way They combine, as Jerrold says, “the keennes: of the razor with the brilliancy of the door. plate.” One starts off with the assertion that this ball is the greatest affair of the kind sinor that at which Gustavus of Sweden met with + fatal accident. Asthe Washington affair wa a@ bal costumé, and the other a bal masqué © domino ball, and therefore not at all sisi lar, and as Jeukins cannot be suppor to have attended all the balls for the laé century, there might be a little doubt about te propricty of this neat figure, However, its pretty, and let it pass, It next appears thé the givers of the ball have a “family dictions ry.” in which there’s no such word as “fail;’ and #0, on account of the mission, the ball suo ceeded. Jenkins, after “treasuriag in his hewn some recollections,” repairs tothe punch room where “two gigantic bowls were kept suppliet with the most delectable beverages——one spirit uous, the otber vinous.” All the Jenkiasa speak enthusiastically of this punch. After panch Jenkins prostrated Limself at the shri of the ladies that received, who “di look magnificently.” One was a marchioncs, “above the usual size’—(what is tre usual size’); the other was a Greek girl-—sone distance off that—with silver boots and on, which must have had « curious effeot. Hose, ale, wes stationed the official reporter of the affdr and of the penay lobby organ, and after bim re | bear of the President, several members of he Cabinet, Senators, 4c., who, beiag gentlenen, were dreseed as gentlemen, aad got ow as postible. The Turkish Adiniral came are pot surprised to bear that he waa amused.” He was “much amused” with the New York Councilmen. Jenkins further ells us that Lord Nagicr, in court costume, was afine representative © Britieh diplomacy.” We not aware that bis lordship has cone anything to deserve this puff, and lope be will go to work at once. Sir W. @ Ouseley came as a Knight of the Bath, whether he means to. throw cold water on ih Nicaragus treaty we are not iaformed. Nov of | We have the usual lists of Pompadours, Freac! Kisge, ffower girls, Spanish end Italian peo sunts (in velvet Jace and satin), Highlander and court dresses, We are told that indie “walked in beauty like night; through the dance like the goddess of th "(does Aurora know the “Lanoers?”’): tha several oMers “attracted much admiration, another “general admiration” (probably fror some of the men of battle, who are polkin when they ought to be on the frontior); ths another was “uoiversally admired.’ Jenkir ougbt to be more careful about the distribatio of the adverbs—the ladies may get jealous. that one “move day The dames and demoiselles do not, howeve | monopolize the elegant qaill of the brilliant + | corders nirable an opportunity for ti intereange of compliments by the members the Mutual Admiration Soolety could not vilowed to pass. we have accounts of people that nobody ever heard of be others known to fame. Keitt of the U went as Buckingham which one wo are a formed. They all made a horrid mes priitteal otions, however, Joba C