The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1858, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1858.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. JABNBSE GUKVOUN BENET, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR orncs x. w. coms o7 FULTON 4ND MASSAU 8TS. FR eh cies EALD, to conts por TNE ERELY EBALD. cory Batu ‘BS per annum, the European edition $4 per anvun, (@ part of treat Brauam, or $5 10 any part of the Consinend, es qm ra LY HERALD, ory Welnesloy, at sour conte paw | Boron NDENCE, conta my enranT¢ er conensros ‘Z Pe * “rent quarter of RESPONDENTS, aireas AND per annua. a cone pee From amy rally paid for. BA-OOR FOREIGN Srovuanur Bequeeran vo Bust 4 xo Noriee tnken of anonym mus correspondence. We do not DYRRTISEMENTS rennced srery day: advertisements ¢n: ond to the Werkcy Tensin, Famer Manan, and ia the Antone Bilger ea here ‘ith meamess, cheapnessand der wah. Velame XXIII SMUFEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth st.—Gsaxp Ooxcest— Mosanp, Tusisese, D'ASGR:, Ac. BROADWAY THEATRE, Rroadway—Vingunivs—Beoom Fa Costes, — { NIBIO’S. GARDEN, Broadway—Four Lorens—Ls | Briumoa—Raove BOWERY THEATRES, Mowory—Tur Taxus Fase Man— (BrateSEcerTs. THRATRI eae: ate aah eiriene murs Sey ttse, Aeime—Lovs aso Messen WALLACK’S TERATSK, Broatway—Sreinc ann Ac toma Insists Hi eam. zal LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tax Sai oF BARNUWS AMERICAN} R KUBROM, Rroadway—Aferacoa —Heast or run Wortp, Srening:—Dawaw a1 Bua. ‘WOOD'S BUILD. NGS, 661 and 663 Brondway—G. Canuey | a Hors ‘Winereaic—ETS10PIANisM— THe BLEIGR Rion, MECHANICS’ HALL, —DacRO SONGS axD SURLESQES -BxTant’s Guest Suew, 44 BROAOWAY—Martt Peet's Cawrpet: Mivernecs— | Ermorias Mevopiet any Eocestaicitive—Daekey s Davaw. TRIPLE SHEET New York, Thursday, April 15, 1858. Progress of the Herald—Increase of Business. In apite of the depression of business, caused by thi financial revulsion of last year, the basiness of (he Herarp decreases without any drawback or diminution. Tere are ‘@ fow facts on that point -— Advertisements. 3857 —Week ending April 11. .$5,754 28 1863.—Weck ending April 10.. 6,863 40 Increase ‘Thoee facts indicate not outy that the couera! course and | management of the Nrw York Heratn continue to re- | ceive the most substantial approval of this enlightened community, but also prove that the general trade is re. | viving and spreading in the proper quarters. Woe are not compelled, like some of our unhappy ant!-slavery cotempo- raries, to reduce the price of advertising, in order to corres pond with the reduction of circulation, and then to bide our exvy and chagrin by offering blustering bets and making ridiculous assertions. Asa daily journal, with a circula- tion over the circulation of all the others in this city, the New York Hxnarn is an institution of the country, as per- manent as the constitution and government, apd eveo is | much better organized and managed than the latter, par- ticularly the legilsiative branch thereof. Thus we go. ‘The News. The proceedings of Congress yesterday were im portant. of Utah was presented and read. The document was published in yesterday's Heratp. Mr. Bigler moved, as an expression of the contempt of the Senate for the authors of the memorial, that it be laid on the table, and the motion was agreed to by a vote of thirty-two to thirteen. Resolutions of the California Legislature, in favor of the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution, were | ing presented and referred. Mr. Gwin’s bill provi for the construction of a railroad to the Pa was then taken up and discussed till the adjourn- ment. large number of appointments, nowe of them, how- ever, of any general importance. In the House the Kansas bill was again broucht up, on a motion for the appointment of a committee to confer with the Senate with reference to the dis agreeing votes. yeas to 108 nays. The Speaker voted afirmatively, mn was carried, to the great chagrin of The Conterence Committee of the two houses will probably staud as follows, although it is conjectured that some other republican may be named in the place of Mr. Gildings WOteR COMMITTEE. Mr. Hoglish, of fad ia SENATE COMMITTEE Mr. Green, of Mo. Mr. Hunter, of Va. Mr. Seward, of N. Y. After the settlement of the question of the Con ference Committee, the House resumed the consider. ation of the bill providing for the formation of a police force for the District of Columbia, but ad- journed without taking any action on the subjec The one hundred days for which the member the Legislature are permitted by the constit draw pay for their legislat evening, but in all probabi longed till Saturday ne ation for the public pushed shed. Quite a number of bills were through yesterday, including the bill relative to the floating docks of this city. The project of a constitutional convention was killed off in the fenate. The Bre ay Railroad scheme and the Canal bills were ander di on; bat we are not a yet aware of the rew of the debate. Our despatches from Albany contain details of the proceedings. The Canal Commissioners by ded to open the canals of this —_— on the 28th xeept the fs Ii open on the 26th in The clipper ship Sunny South arrived at tl resterday, having on board several passenge ship John G The latter vessel, w voyage fr off Cay pin of January last o'clock in the me heavy gale, struck a sunken iceberg an ak. The leak gained ’ in spite « to keep the ship the 30th she had thirteen At this critica and just ax the © compl preparations for abond: the veasel in the boats, the British ship Herefordshire hove in sight, and subsequentlp rescued the passe ’ ow forty-five in number. The Herefordsh 1, where a portion of r t tor Cork, and on the y y South, whieh br narnitive of the ubsequent * may be found ‘ t ‘ coesting nd the Hampt grave by the wreck We publish a report of * 7 packet Morning Stur au e Mier Iddands. The vessel had immed to Honolulu Sandwich Islands, early in February, and the a ry ments made by her commander, captain Moore, and ev P. J. Galick, will be found very interesting Commissioner nigratic t yesterd bat 4 siness of public importance. The emi the 14th inst. has been 8486, being a , ared with last y At ioxaces | Brosdway—Herawr's Miwarnane | In the Senate the memorial of the citizens | The Senate in executive session confirmed a | The vote on the question stood 108 | this rate there will not be over 50,000 landed at this port this year. We have an interesting letter from St. Thomas written on the 23d ult., im which the writer says:— | “General Santa Anna, the Mexican General, is with us atthe house of Mr. Gomez. Ifhe is thinking to ) go back to Mexico I really don’t know it. He is ' silent—as silent as a post. President Monagas, of Venezuela, presented an Amnesty bill for political offenders, including Gen. Paez by name, to the Venezuelan Congress, on the 2d of February. This he thought would calm the revolutionary storm; but finding the movement pro- | gressimg, he on the 7th of March issued a most vio- | Jent proclamation aguinst Paez, which we publish | this morning, charging him with a wish to seize on power in the republic and re-establish slavery. This trick was equally useless for the purpose of the Dic- =a | tator, for on the 1th of March he sent in his resig- the letter of our Madrid correspondent, which we | publish today, furnishes a full report of an interest- | ing debate which took place in the Cortes on the | subject of the relations actnally existing between | Spain and Mexico. Senor ©. del Mazo inveighed | against the conduct of the republic with respect to her debts to Spain, the outrages committed on | Spanish subjects by her troops, and the bad faith | shown by her in the negotiations which enawed. He at first denounced the intentions of the Lafragua mission to Madrid and the intervention of France and England. Senor Isturiz, President of the Caun- cif of Ministers, replied, showing that Spain, looking to the safety of her West India possessions, could not well enter on a war that might involve her with America and some of the Powers of Europe. Senor | Mazo expreased himself satisfied with the official ex- planation, The only case that was tried in tho Court of seneral Sessions yesterday was a charge of receiv- ing stolen goods, preferred against John Stultz, which resulted in his conviction. He will be sen- tenced on Saturday. The examination of Smith and Fitzpatrick, who re charged with defrauding the city treasury, which was to have been resumed yesterday, was postponed till Saturday, in consequence of a death 1 the family of one the counsel. The Committee on Railroads of the Board of Councilmen met yesterday afternoon. Their atten- tion was again engaged with arguments of those who sre interested in the discontinuance of the use of steam cars on the Hleventh avenue on the one ; haud, and those of the officers of the Hudson River Railiosd Company on the other. It was finally | agreed that both parties should try to effect a set- tlement, and that the property owners should meet | the rellroad officers for that purpose, and subse- | quently report the result of the conference to the committee. Tt was rumored yesterday that an application | would be made to the Supreme Court for an order for the arrest of Mayor Tiemann, for refusing to | give possession of the office of Street Commissioner to Mr. Devlin, who has been declared the rightful incumbent by the Court of Appeals. No such move- ment, however, was made up to fouro’clock. At the cattle yards yesterday there was a mode. rate demand for beef catile, and as the receipts were | somewhat larger than those of last week, a decline of half a cent per pound was submitted to, first quality commanded from 10c. to L0de. Cows and | calves were plenty, and sold slowly at rates varying | from $25 to #65, Veal calves are coming into mar- | ket freely, and are a little lower. Sheep and lambs \ continne in good demand; sales were made at 4}c. a | Ze. for first, and Sc. a 4c. for other qualities. The | demand for swine was very moderate, and prices de- | clined to Se. a 5ge- There was 4 sort of pause in the cotton market yester- | day, buyers and eeliers being lees disposed to come to- | gether. The sales were confined to about 300 a 400 bales, without quotable change in prices, while some less firm ners was visible. The defictency ta the receipts atthe ports amounts to about 262,000 bales, compared with inst year, apd the decrease in the exports to Kurope are about | 110, « © Dales bolow those of last year for the same period. | Flour was heavy, and the lower grades wore easier, | while sales were to ® moderate extent, chietly tothe | jocal and Hastern trado, with some lots for export. Corn | | )| wes tu light supply and firmer, with free sales of while at ., and of yellow at 753;0. Wheat sold to tho extent of about 10,000 a 12,000 bushels, without | chazgs of moment in prices Pork was irregular, but | el rather more firmly. The ealesembraced meas at $17 45 a $17 600 $17 56, and prime at $1430. Sugars were in fair activity and prices quite steady, with sales of about 1,500 a 1,400 bhds., at rates given in another column. offee was uncbanged, and sales embraced abovt 800 2 900 bags Rio, Froights were beavy and on gagements moderate. agitation of the elavery question to the practi- cal parpose of filling thelr pockets with the epoils and plunder? In the year 1846 the elavery agitation, which had been kept under the hatches from 1820, broke forth into a general flame. The Mexican war, and the territorial acquisitions anticipated from it, supplied the combustibles. The Wilmot Proviso was the firebrand which It up the flames in Congress; and from that day down to the great adjustment of 1850 everything at Washington, and throughout the country, was sunk in the slavery agitation. But the lobby jobbers all this time were sowing and reaping their harvests of spoils and plunder. The gene- ral excitement and confusion upon slavery afforded them the finest opportunities for the working of their plots and jobs without deteo- tion till too late. Thus, daring this slavery panic from 1846 to 1860 the great Galphin and the stupendous Gardner frauds were carried through, and that sweeping system of public spoliation known as railroad land jobbing was brought to perfection; and land jobs, covering many millions of the public resources, were pased with the facility of regular appropria- fdons. At that day Mr. Douglas was in his glery, and from that epech his progress was onward until he became a reputed millionaire. With the passage of the slavery compromise Uills-there was a peace—‘a great calm”—and every prospect that it would last for many years. But, alas! poor Plerce had scarcely been a year in power when, in his desperate competition with Mr. Douglas for the good will of the Southern fire-eaters for the succession, this slavery agitatioa—this terrible box of Pan- dora—was opened again. The results have been the shelving of poor Pierce, the downfall of Douglas, and the elevation of a man to the White House who had nothing whatever to do do with their Kansas-Nebraska bill, but who has been threatened with destruction in every shape and form on account of the very evils brought upon the democracy and the country by poor Pierce and the disappointed Douglas. But under this new agitation the lobby jobbers have been as busy at Washington as vultures and carrion crows in the wake of a wasted ar- my. ‘The Matteson lobby investigation and the other corruption investigating committees of the last seseion or two have not told a tithe of the lobby schemes and plots and jobs which have signalized this Kansas agitation of slavery. We hope, therefore. that this joint Committee of Conference upon Kansas will result in some compromise which will take this sheltering breastwork away from the lobby, and from all the plotting agitators who have used, and seek to use, this Kansas difficulty as the mask under which to carry through their jobs of corruption and plunder. Goverson Ki: very fresh act which Governor John A. King commits imparts a sense of satisfaction to those who opposed his election to the Governorship of this State. Be- ginning with folly and imbecility, and going on with reckless disregard of the public safety, and the most barefaced sacrifice of duty to par- ty, he seems bent on making himself notorious ; for every fault which can degrade an official of | his rank. His reeolute disregard of the charges which have been brought against the | Yolice Commissioners very fitly caps a career which began by the contrivance of the disfran- | chisement of this city. if Governor King, when he shall have glad- dencd men’s hearts by retiring into obscurity, | ! be remembered for any one act rather than any other, it will be for his nullification of the sen- fences pronounced by courts of justice, and for | | the nefarious proceedings which began in the | Phe Kausas Question-- Phe Slavery Agitation | and the Lobvy Jobbers. Our readers will see that by the casting vote of the Speaker yesterday, the division of the House being 108 to 108, a joint Committee of } culty. | to work up a compromise bill for the accept- | ance of both houses, and from the aforesaid pe- | culiar vote upon the question of the committee, we have every reason to suppose that some an will now be devised satisfactory to both and perfectly saliefactory to the ad ‘ minisiration, Whatever may be the upshot of thie proceed- e | ing the Kansas question is setticd. Whatever Congress may do, or may fail to the of news and her domestic institut fixed and cannot be changed. The overwhelm- ing ascendancy of her anti-slavery population leaves not a shadow of doubt upon that point, though Calhoun should be declared by Congress | the abeolute dictator of Kansas. The public mind of the country, North aad South, is thus satiefied that the question is eubstantially eet- ! tled. Notbing remains of it but Congressional ' quibbles and pettifogging technicalities The been conceded by all parties, 60 that while the North will get all they bave contended for in getting Kangas as a free State, the South will get all they have demanded in their alstraction of slavery. With this bill, or that bill, or without aay bill from the present seasion of Congress, there- fore. this Kansas imbroglio is settled. [a de fault of any bill of admission the Kansas agi- tatore of both sections may attempt a revival of the late excitement; but as nothing in reality is left of this public nuisance worth quarrelling about, we depend upon the peacemakers the two houses, We preeume that they will not now abandon the hort of «ome finishing compromise, par- 1 under the present aspects of the vst anything will do, rwble to have the last vestige of this lation removed, so that Congress, without impediment, may proceed to business; and #0 that the country may no longer be disturbed by our scheming anti-slavery and pro-slavery dis- organizers and lobby jobbers. Who can ena. merate the rich harvests of spoils and plunder that have been reaped by the lobby under cover of this slavery agitation? Who does nat now understand that all this shrieking and howling over “the slave power,” “the slave oligarchy” and “human freedom,” by our po- litieal negro philanthrophists, has been sheer hypoeriey—the convenient cloak under which , they have worked their schemes to plunder the between tre and the people? Who does not now perceive that these agitating nigger worship. pickpockets in a mob, or common ¥ like have appropriated ov LL only important abstraction to the South has | Conference was carried upon the Kansas difli- | It will be the business of this commitice | transfer of our police business from this city to Albany, and ends in the horrible climax to crime, disorder, and police inefficiency which now surrounds us The commuted sentence O'Connell icted murderer of a poor old woman whose person he had previously out- raged, will stand ov record against the judg- ment, the common ste and the capacliy of Governor John A. King, so long as any one remembers anything about him. There never was @ clearer case, ‘The man had been found guilty of the two most horrible against Maurice con’ crimes on the calendar; it was well known that | the recommendation to mercy which accompa- nied the verdict was a concession extorted from ten jurors who wanted him hanged by two, who, for reasons which they kaow best, had resolved j te acquit him in the teeth of the evidence; the press and public opinion were decidedly in fa- vor ef a rigorous administration of the law; the circumstances in which the city was placed im- periously called for an example. Yet in spite of all these considerations, Governor King commuted the righteous sentence of death which the Court passed upon O'Connell; and the im- | monse class of young rowdics to which he be- longed have thus learnt that they may pile in- | famy on infamy, and add rape to murder, and . yet stand in no danger of the only panishment which they dread. If Governor King was weak and imbecile here, in what terms can we characterize his con- | duct in the matter of the Police Commissioners? ‘The most bitter organs of his own party have sbrunk from the baseness of sacrificing the ef- | ficiency of the police to party purposes, and have begged Governor King to think in dix tributing the patronage of the police a little about the lives and property of people here, and not altogether and exclusively about rewarding his political friends. But they have been treated with as much contempt as the indignant re- monstrances of the opposite party. The offices which the Metropolitan Police act placed in the gift of the Governor have been uniformly dis- tributed in defiance of public sentiment and purely in order to gratify the (;overnor’s political associates; and they, naturally following so au- gustan example have sought, in filling up the ranks of the police, not to promote its usefulness or to protect our lives and property, but merely and solely to support certain hungry republi- cans who were out of employment missioners are worthy of the Governor. With the same impudence which prompted Governor King to withdraw the names of two of the Com- missioners until the Senate could be + lated, and then to eend them in with all the heaviest of Spinola’s chorges unanswered, one Commiesioner loudly avows (that he has made the police a sort of hospital for his relations, | and another continues to expect (not hope lesely) that famous house vad lot, They are splendid monument to Governor King. As for that official } may rely upon it that if he woes on as un, he will justify all that was said j sparagement by the most bitter of his opponents before the d will hones one single tm expites, leetio not ha The Com- , Lebby Tactics and Tacticlans—The Albany System in Washington. We published a letter from Washington o few days ago giving an account of the manner in which certain speculators had contrived to compel the War Depastment, as is alleged, to pay an increased price over what the for- mer proprictor had asked for some acres of land in the neighborhood of New Bed- ford fer a fort site. It appears that these speculators, learning that the lands in question would be required by the government, pesokased them from the holder and immediate- Wy demanded a large advance on the price they had paid. The Secretary of War, knowing no- thing of the circumstances, submitted the mat- ter to arbitration, and it was decided by the arbitrators—persons holding a respectable po- sition in society in New Bedford—with wonder- ful unanimity, that the lands were worth all that was asked. Under these circumstances the Secretary was compelled to pay the amount. Probably neither the government or the public would have ever learned the facts but from a disappoiutment of some of the partics interested in the division of the spoils. Charges of a simi- lar character are made with reference to other j purchases and sales made by the government, such as the Fort Snelling sale and the purchase at Witlett’s Point, &. It is not unlikely that there is more or less truth in all these reporta, and that the ingenuity of the lobby, baffled by the Congressional exposures of last session, has adopted this new field wherein to display its peculiar talent. Under the administrations of Gen. Taylor and Mr. Millard Fillmore the system of operating on the government and on Congress was first brought to light in the notorious Galphin case, | and in the extraordinary proceedings before the Board of Commissioners to adjust the claims against Mexico—a portion of which was the sanctioning of the Gardner fraud. With Mr. Fillmore, too, commenced the periodical migra- tion of the Albany lobby to Washington, and the weekly pilgrimages of wirepullers from this city, through whom all executive favors, it was understood, were distributed. It was, however, during the administration of poor Pierce ihat the lobby attained its full per- fection. Under the skilful lead of Thurlow Weed, Matteson and his “forty insiders,” the most enormous land stealing bills were passed, swallowing up the whole available public do- main and enriching all concerned. To such an extent was this system carried that the last Con- gress was compelled to notice the charges of corruption. Unfortunately for the national credit, even the flimsy investigation which was had exposed a history of the most disgraceful corruption, and ended in expelling several members, including Mr. Seward’s esteemed friend, Orsamus B. Matieson. Matteson has, however, again turned up as a respectable mem- ber of the present Congress, having escaped a renewal of his expulsion upon a technicality, | and being indebted to his friends of the Zribune for a recent coat of whitewash. The tremendous excitement which an expo- | Sure of their schemes caused all over the coun- | try turned the attention of the lobby, no doubt, | to some other means of getting hold of the | public money. The patent extension projects | all fell through; still the fertile Thurlow Weed | and his lobby army were not by any means de- jected. The Pacific Railroad scheme had been exposed by us, and was defeated at the last mo- ment. But there was another way of getting into the treasury, which had already been tried in Albany and had worked well. It was the system of tinding out what property the govern- ) ment would require to purchase, and by | recuring it from the holders, compelling the government to pay a large increase on the ori- | ginal purchase. Thus fortunes were made | out of this State when the Erie canal was con- structed,and the different railroads afford- ed also some choice pickings As a ‘commencement to these operations in Wash- ington a bill was lobbied through Con- gress by Weed, Matteson, Seward and his hangers-on for the establishment of a naval de- pot at Brunswick, in Georgian, At the time it was thought r kable that Weed should be so busy in Washington in favor of a nominally Southern project. The bill passed, directing the purehaee of certain property on Mare's Island. It turned out that Weed and his fol- lowers had made an arrangement by which they came into possession of this property, and when the government sought to purchase it, the sum asked was so great that the department ' hesitated to give it. At length the present Se- cretary of the Navy succeeded in getting some | little reduction in their demands, and he was , compelled to close with them, as the law which | | they had lobbied through was mandatory, A | | good deal of dissatisfaction, it is said, grew out of Weed’s settlement with his assistants, em- | bracing a number of the Washington corres. pondents, because he paid their “fees,” as they | termed them, pro rata instead of in full. | A second attempt, made by the ivy’ friend Matteson, Wesley, the proprietor of the | | New York Times, the ubiquitous Thartlow Weed | | and their lobby, did not succeed so well in the | , end, fhough the manipulation of Congress entirely satisfactory. We allude to the “Brick Church” speculation. Tere, again, the Albany tactics were put in operation. A set of speculators purchased the proper- ity and then attempted to ell it to the government at an enormous increase. For- tunately for the public interest a good title could not be given, and the matter broke down | grea ly to the disgust of the 7imr+ speculators, the Washington lobby and poor Pierce's kitchen | cabinet. We thus see that this cyatem of speculation on the government is traceable directly to Weed, Seward, and thore Albany operatars | whose organs are the 7rilwne and Times of this city. The example thus set is followed ont, it | appears: and hecanse, the new hands refuse to divide with the old seamps, a quarrel ensuce, and the whole dirty business is expored. Such ix the legitimate fruit resulting | | from the transplanting of the Allany lobby to Waehington, under the auspices of Wi! Seward and the active management of Tribune's friends, Matteson, Weed, and the rest | of the big and “ little villains” of that set. we presume, nipa- | Exrexsive Re.icroy.—During the campaign of 1856 there was a great disturbance among the brethren of the American Tract Society, chiefly on the slavery question. The colpor- | teurs of the society, it seems, work chiefly in the South, and it was demanded by the Garrisonian abolitionists that some tracts should be pub- lished to chow to the slaveholders the error of their ways, After a fierce debate, and any quantity of resolutions and committees, it was finally decided that the slavery question should | be avoided altogether, and thus the threatened leepacation of the society intg Northern and | some of the beauties of railroad financiering. | this quarrel is the system by which seven mil- | only three millions accounted for. P| military bagenge Southern sections be prevented. We have re- ceived a “ minute” of the Pablishing Committee, explaining their position on the question, which is not just now very important. One poiat, however, is not distinctly explained. The com- | mittee have spent, in alxteen years, a million of dollars in ene branch of the business, and this is only a small part of the expenditures, Way would it not be as well to let the niggers aloue, and attend to the white sufferers, who sub- scribed this money. Where did it all go tot How much for salaries, how much for inciden- tals, and how much for religion? That's the question just now. Tux Swinpiers or New Yoru.—Mayor Tie- mann very bravely continues the good work. Every day or two his active squad make a de- *cent upon some sham lottery, or gift enterprise, or obscene book depot, and for a time we may be sure that the unlawful business has received | acheck. The late exploits of Sergeant Berney | at Norwich will be productive of very salutary { results. We trust that Mayor Tiemann will remember the adage about the new broom. Almost every new Mayor that we have had in the past twenty years commenced operations just ashe has done, and kept the papers full for wecks with accounts of his triumphant persecution of the idle, worthless and depraved scoundrels who prey upon the credulity of mankind. But after'a few weeks, the Mayor's zeal flagged, and the lottery office keepers, the obscene book peddlers, and the swindlers of every kind reared their heads afresh, and their trade went on as swim- mingly as ever. We hope Mayor Tiemann will not follow, in this respect, the example of the past. And we make the remark -the more wil- lingly as we notice that there seems to be a check to the operations against the gambling houses. Whether this arises from the opposi- tion made to the Mayor by the police who are known to be in the pay of the gamblers aud not at all anxious for their prosecution, we can- not say. One class of swindlers, the gift enterprise people, have, we believe, been pretty nearly used up. One of these individuals—a gift book enterprise proprietor—has, we notice, had the impudence to advertise his own views of his roguery as a quo- fation from this journal. We say that we have expressed no opinion in rela- tion to these concerns except that no person with any sense would have anything to do with them, and that in most cases they ought to be broken up by the police and their contrivers lodged in the Tombs. That is the sentiment of the New York Henraxp in relation to gift en- terprises, and any quotation from this jouraal not in accordance therewith is a forgery. It is wonderful, in this enlightened age, and in a country where education is so widespread need not | as it is here, that people should still permit themselves to be fleeced by the rogues who get up our metropolitan swindles. But there seems to be little progress in this respect. Any day of the week you may see two or three Peter Funks urging on their business openly, and evi- dently living by it. And hundreds of thou- sands of people are every year cheated of more or less money by the sham lottery keepers, gift enterprise humbugs, obscene publishers, and the other scum of this metropolitan cauldron. Great Moran Revrvan acawst Bass Masqves.—Napoleon Ullman, of the Academy of Music, has excited to a tremendous pitch the moralists of the age. The pure and virtuous lobby at Albany are urging the passage of a law by which it will be rendered a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $5,000 and two years imprisonment, to give a bal masgué at the Aca- demy. The Chevalier Webb—the hero of eleven fights and of two terrible runaway escapes—has also been stirred up to the very bottom of kis heart and of his religion on behalf of the morals of the community. We must certainly be within a week of the millenium, when we find the lobby and the plunderers of the United States Bank to dreadfully scared by this new moral danger. Cuonwerit. on Nerotism.—For sound and | philosophical reasons proving the propriety of | appointing brothers, brothers-in-law and nephews to comfortable berths, apply to Mr. Cholwell, the Police Commissioner. He can farnish them the arguments gratis. The propriety of police- men buying a house and lot and presenting them to the relatives of a Commissioner will be set forth in the clearest light by arguments from Gen Nye. Rarnoan Prva nG.—The dispute be- tween Mr. Litchfield, one of the financiers of the Michigan Southern Railroad, and Mr. Jorvis, another operator in the same line, exhibits One of the facts which have leaked out from | lions are added to the debt of a railroad, and The balance | is, of course, to be explained on the principle of evaporation. ACADEMY OF Mesic.—Tim Mesanp Coxcrars —The third Mueard concert was attended lart evening by a very largo audience, ani, encouraged by the return of fino weather, the public was much more enthusiastic than on tho first hight. For this a new pregramme ‘s announced. It retaina, howover, the stirring military quadrille, ¢ Les Zovaves,” the popular ‘Railway Gallop’ and the “ Cattle Show’ qnadrilies. The new features include several of Musard’s compositions and soma more solid works, which will be conducted by Mr. Anachutz, Mme, d’Angri sings the Hrindis! from “ Lucrezia,” and the ronlo finale from “Corentola,” and Thatberg playe bie Masanieiio” fan- tasia. Hereafter the programmes will include every va: riety of music, and all the latest works of Moyorboor, Rerlioz and other popular composers of the diy. The | promined entertainment for to night ia one of the finest | musical treats ever offered here. AMPRICAN EXTRRPRISR ABROAD. —Among the passengers | by the City of Washington from Liverpool was Mr. | Francie, the patentee of the famons life boat which bears | bis name, who returns from 4 busigess tour in Harope j Ho bas succeoded in disposing of bis patent plan for the transportation of troops Acros. rivers to the Fngiteh and French governments at o good oun? eum, and it is aad | ‘that bis operations in Europe wi!!! bring him over bolt a million of dollars. The fame of ithe javention hv reached | the care of the Crar of Huskie, who has sent for Mr. | Vrancie with a view to negotiate with him for the ase of his ¢iecovery, Thi on answers the purpose of « re, and a large boat whon afloat. It w th the old pontoons pontoon b ty with which they can | moved acrore rivers nstoc tary mon of | wwe, Wher they are > oxper tox of army | movetaent oe, at 440, 444, 443, 444, 3009, StrREM® Cowrt—Special Torm.—Now. 45, 46, 47, 70, 7 10,122, 196, 196, 198, 190, 192, 188, 194, 136, 4) 78, 04 117, 12. Part ot-—=Now, 40, 906, 076, 089; 1008, 185, v0, 1000, B6b, 322, 83, 1083, 1084, ig 1086, 889. Part 2-Nos. 1087, 1088, 1 on, 0 18, 1092, 1096,'1096, 109, 113, 499, 861, 1960, 1080, 1 Sthmmon Cocet.-Nos. 267,123, 340, 214, 954, 278, 981, 162, 1 0, 17 ‘nas; O00, 978) 1864, 304, 296, ‘ een, P Noa. 100, 102, 109, 95, 88, 80, 68, 4, 08. 08 87, 80, 90, 24, 27, 96, BT, 8, 86, OF 92; 99) 94 28, 29, 32, 66, 68, 69, 67, 100, 112, 1s, | tong since gone THE LATEST NEWS. INTERESTING FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL A Conference on the Kansas Bill Ordered by the Honse. Debate on the Pacific Railroad Bill in the Senate, Rey Ree he. Our Spectal Washt D - DEFEAT OF 318 OPPOSITION COMBINATION IN THE HOUSE—MBXIGAN AFPAIRS—PROPOSITION TO AN- NUL THE CLAYTON BULWER TREATY — APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED BY THE S6NaTE ~THS FINAL avJOuEN- MNT OF CONGRESS, BTC. ‘Wasurvcrox, April 14, 1858, The motion for @ Committee of Conference on the Kan- fas Dili passed the House to day. The vote was 108 yous to 108 nays; the Speaker's vote in the affirmative decided tho question. Hai Mr. Whiteloy, of Delaware, beon pre- sent, the administration would have had two majority. The republicans were bacly whipped, and tnoy foot & most sensibiy. Great consternation prevails among the combined fections of the opposition at the result of tee Voto, moro cu account of tho dissolution of the present | | combination which it will produce, than from any dishke tothe Kansas biii iuseif. it is conccdod now by tho oppe- aitior that the Lecompton constitation wil! pasa. Colonel Orr will anaousce the Conference Committee te- morrow. Mevars. frgtizh of Indiana, and Stopes of Gcorgia, ead probably Giddings of Ohio, will compose the Committees, The republicans are anxious that Mr. Grow should be third man. ‘The anti-lecompton democrats were in caucus upwards Cf three hours this morning. There wore twonty presoms. They bad a warm discussion in reference to the propricty of granting a Committes of Conference. On taktug «vole bine voted in favor of a conference and eleven against i. Messrs. English, Pecdieten, Gail an¢ Owen Jones thon ia- formed the caucus that they tztonded to vote for tue com foreace, 1 am authorized by tho Mexican Minister to say that the reports in sovera! powspapers that ho had not ooni- dence in the government using the means in its power to arrest or suppress filibustering movements towards Mexico is rot true. The Mexican Minister has aevor expressed anything to that effect. Oo the coutrary, he has confidence in the government. Another report pub- Uahed that Juarez, on bis defeat by Osollo, was driven into exilo, is not true. Hahad gone to bis own Stato ef Ouxaca. The fact that the central governmout at Mexice Coes not pursue 60 relentlessly its other fallen enemies as it dcos the adherents cf Santa Anna, severa! of wacm it imprisoned, is considered e:gnificant of the emali chance the ex-Dictator bas with the present party in power. The Committee on Foreign Relations of the House are preparing, and will econ submit a resolution recommond- ing that n2tice be given to Great Britain for the abrogation of the Claytca Bulwor treaty. The commilitee dows not desire toembarracs the government, but hopes for earty action on this continaally troublesome subjoct. ‘The Seuate were in executive session fora long time to-day considoring and discussing promotions in tho army. ‘They also confirmed a large batch of unimportant appoiut- ments, among whom was C. C. Jackson, of Michigan, Porser in tho Navy; R. }. Clark, of Delaware, Parser, B. Danforth, of Iilinois, Purser; S. Archbold, Eaginoer-in Chief of the Navy; E. Bacoa, of South Carolina, Seore. tary of Legation at St. Petersburg; CB. Fessenden, Cet- lector at New Bedford, Mass.; Moses T. Odell, Appraisar General at New York; J.B. Brown, of tndiana, Agoat for the Sioux of Minnesota; and Jobn Leggott, Pestmaster at Chambersburg, Pa. The Senate passed the Siouse resolution to adjourn om the 7th of June. TAR GRNERAL NEWSPAPER DREPATCH. Wasurvetow, April 14, 1868, ‘Tho anti Lecompton demoorata of the House were this morning two hours in cancus. About one half of them were in favor of the appointment of a committes (> meet Uhat of the Senate in conference on the Kansas bill, bo cause, aa they said, it was understood the Spesker would give them & committee favorabie to their side of the quos tion. They say in taking this course they do not wisn te be considered as abandouing their opposition to tae Le- compton constitution, but wished to show a becoming reapect to the Senate, If it had been necessary to secure the appointment of the committee, Messrs. Cockerill and Foley would have voted in the affirmative in tho House om Mr. English’s motion, in company with Messrs. Kaglish, Hall of Obio, Pendicton and Owen Jones, who sustain the Montgomery Crittenden substitute. THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, WIRST SESSION. Senate. Wasmrweron, April 14, 1868. ‘TUR UTAM MEMORIAL, The Vice Preunent presented a memorial from the Le- gislature of Utah, setting forth their grievances. It is somt defiant in styie. Laid on the table by 22 to 13. CALIFORNIA ON THE KANSAS QUESTION. Mr. Gwrx, (dom.) of Cal., presented resolutions from the Legislature of California asking for the admission of Kareas undor the I.ecompton constitution. Mr. Brownies, (opp.) of Cal., took the oconsion to say that the rerolutiona did not represent the sentiments of the people of California. ‘The resolutions were referred. TUE PAGIIC RAILROAD. Mr. Gwin's Pacific Railroad bill was then taxen ap. Mr. Grex, (adm) of Mo., moved as aa amendment te the first section to trike ont ths words (xing the eastern torminus at “a point on the Missouri river, between the mouths of the Mig Sioux and Kansas rivers,” and to insert the words “at the mouth of the Kansas river,” aa that ro ‘Would be equally available for the North aad Mr. Dovotas, (opp ) of Ill., waa willing to leave it to the cou'ractors to select their route bet ween the moata of the Piatte and Sioux. Hence, he said, it was betier to es ‘she bi!! as it stande. (adm. ) of Jowa, opinion was tha! the mouth ng ther was the place if any point was to be Sco, ath wee on the same paralic! with Cleveland, Buffalo and Boston. He did not believe, however, ie fegialating for localities. He would leage the matter te the contractors. Mr. Brows, (adm.) of Mice, said this Pacific Railroad ‘would bee more fruitful source of party dscord the United States Tank. He was in favor of one, two or three rail- roads to the Paciic, and woula aid the actually existing companies by grants of public lands and mil cootracta, Dut not call ‘companies into existence by special legisla’ i Sree (adm.) of Ga. made lengthened remarks goneral question, preliminary to offoring amend- Soon. Consresa, he said, might constitutionally aid the road by grants of public lands and mail contracts, but ha@ Do power to build it, Although he was in favor of the general principles of the bill he could not give it bis sup- port, because it locates the road where tt will be contro#- ed by a net work of northern lines and empty its fruits into the lap of the North. The southern thirty sccond liel route was shorter, while the muniticent grante of @ State of Texas would insure its completion by private enterprise to the Rio Grande, and from thence it was bub six hundred and seventy tiles to tho Pacific, The thirty- fitth parallel route perhaps was the cheapest, shortest and tho best, but either was practicable and preferable to any northern route, He was in favor, therefore, of two routes. Lat the Norib take one and the South the other, and each have mail cvstracts for their reapective local tier and divide the atvantages offered by Mr, Gerin's bill say twolvo and a half millions—cash as the road progress- ee. He moved amendments to that effect. Me. Skwarn, Copp.) of N. ¥., enid that the time had tor discussing the necessity or fenei ty the Pacific, with the exception of | very email portion of Congress, ho believe it impoasible. The majority of the people koow eas three, four or five Toutes offer the roqnisite fneilitios for the extension of this a i bility of @ railres great object. Rui when they have settled that they have only reached most diMfeult stage of the question, and find it the hing in the world to obtain the assent of Congroas as to cute that shalt be taken and how it shall be paid for, Northernore ask, and reasonably ao, they may have it withio their borders, while the Irveonta of the South demand the game, Hones, though all agree for the ‘ine, they crn ® for the route, He (Mr. Sewar’) wae extreme torthern route, yet from the w ‘a0 waa pre- to 6 to any that obt The com- mutes of Gengreet en the mat submitted to enorifices of opinion, len! py ‘almost prin- ciple, to frame seek 0, bal Ge Would gobare one hanared and fifty one votes of both houses. All the history of the commerce of the Paciflc—all tho apeculations as to the courae of commerce between this continent and the kast— indicate San Francisco as the commercial entrepot of tho Pacifie for tbis century, and possibly for ceotaries t cons. The great ontrepot of the Athntic is Now York. Make a railroad. therefore, on any parallel you will, the passengers and traffic over it must be delivered, — or later, at the port of New York. Tho bulk of the Iation, trade au! commeroe of the United States ie in northern portion of the Union, and the cmention have selected & point on the ‘western frontier, be tween the — and Kansas rivers, to concen- ironds radinting to the Mississippt. im accordance with the wisher Ot the committee to have selected s route between the tormin!, but objections were made, and it was concluded that the President should select anit — xt for the eg mort eligible from the Sioux river to San ference had to economy, eligibility and hans b— the three essential elements, He would say tif the constraction of the road is to be authorivod by Coogren vie teasion, we shall have to sacrifice some pre indices and some distrunt, and {f int work is not beque goon, it will ba too late, Without communiowion wie