The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1858, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JaMES GURVON BENNEDSE, EDITOR AND PROPRIZTOR OFricE BK. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. copy S (ie or sate nn hg sa Se Pes oF annum, ‘scope. m. "part of reat Brisatn, or #6 vo any part oy the Gomcinant, both THE FAMILY HERALD, every Wedneaday, ot fowr conte por or amin POLUNTART CORRESPONDENCE, gontatning wwe, soliciied from any quarter of the world, tbe ibe Pally pasd for, RQ~OUR FORRIGH CORRESPONDENTS ARB PaR- Bequesrep ro Saat 4 Larrens xb Packagms NO NOTICE tain of anonymous communications, We do not maar pene aa Vicks Baca ee JOB P: executed with meatnens, cheapness and dee Voetume XXIII... ” + Ne. 113 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. whos iacsrente Faaceeua, Dracaena BROADWAY THEATHK, brosaway—Puuar oF FRance— Baooaine Byaats. —— WIBLO’S GARDEN. Brosiway—i'ste Cuauretas—L’ AL uas—Tus Gowan Koc. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery—Ros Ror—Wirow's Vic rin—Nowan Cnaina. t BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway. opposite Bond stree:— A Bagp Sravccir—Tae azar Teacio Revivat—Lovs snp ‘Mozper— Cartan Caagtorre. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Love Kaor— Genina anv Aurumy. LAURA KERWE'S THEATRE, Broadway—Brancun oF Beasorwus BARNVM'S GHERIOAN MUSEUM, Broadway— Afternoon —Desam at Sea. Bvening—Huaet or tax Woai. WOOD'S BUILDINGS, 661 and 663 Broadway—G. Cunistr (& Woon’s Minstasis—Erwiorisxiam—Tus Staion Rive, MECHA¥IOS HALL, 472 Broadway—Brvawt's Minereat Necro SonGs axp Busirsqres—Dezax or Suoveiey, M44 BROADWAY.—Marr. Pow.'s Campania Minsrerrs— Ermortas Mevopizg anv Kocentaicirize—Dangsy's Desa. TRIPLE SHEET New Vork, Friday, April 23, 1858, ‘The News. The, steamship Canada, from Liverpool,{had not made her appearance off Halifax at eleven o'clock last night. The “ Reds” celebrated the death of the French regicides, Orsini and Pierri, last night by a torch- light procession and public mecting in the Park. About 2,500 people participated in the celebration, and some 15,000 witnessed the spectacle on the line of march. Several violent speeches were made by the orators in the Park. See our report elsewhere. In the Senate yesterday a bill was introduced to secure the construction of a line of telegraph from San Francisco to St. Louis, to be commenced within ninety days after the passage of the act. The bill gives one bundred feet right of way and a government contract in aid of the project. It was referred to the Military Committee. The resolutions respecting Paraguay and the Deficiency bill were then dis cussed till the adjournment. In the House the bill donating 6,540,000 acres of public lands amony the States for the maintenance of colleges where usri- cultere and the mechanic arts shall be taught, was passed by a vote of 104 to 101. In Committee of the Whole the bill granting pension to the soldiers of the war of 1812 was taken up. Notice was civen of a number of amendments, including one to equalize the pay of the army, navy and marine corps. The report of the Kansas Conference Committee will probably be presented in the House to-day. We have acceunts from the Rio Grande to the 7th inst., but they contain nothing of importance rela- tive to the movements of the political and military factions in northern Mexico. A decree, signed by the acting Governor of Tamaulipas, and which is believed to be approved of by Gencral Vadaurzi, de- claring the Rio Grande frontier of Mexico open to the free introduction of all kinds of merchandise, has been issued. It includes all the settlements on the river, and also the city of Monterey. ‘The Pennsylvania Leguwlature adjourned finally yesterday. A Philadelphia paper says it has been distingnished principally for its liberality. It gave away the remainder of the public werks to a pri- vate company, passed nearly all the private bills which came before it, and allowed everybody to go | into the grog selling business. The Board of Aldermen met last evening. solution was adopted directing the Corporation Counsel to commence proceedings forthwith to the constitationality of the laws passed recently by the Legislatare relative to wharves, piers and slips, and giving certain steamboat companies control over wharf property belonging to the city, The Street Commissioner sent in the nomination of Henry L. Southard for City Surveyor, and it was unanimously confirmed. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening, and transacted considerable business of a routine nature. A petition of the Broadway Asso- ciation for assistance in cleaning Broadway was re- ferred to the Conmpittee on Streets. A resolution authorizing the COinsel to the Corporation to take legal proceedings to compel the Harlem Railroad Company to cease running locomotives below Forty- second street was referred to the Railroad Commit tee. An Qpdinance reorganizing the Croton Aque- duct Department in conformity with the new char ter was, with seme unimportant amendments, adopted. In the Supreme Court yesterday, on motion of counse! of Mr. Devlin, Judge Davies granted an order i iting Mr. Cooper, the new Street Commissioner, to ehow cause on Saturday next why an injunction should not issue restraining the said Cooper from taking posession of the Street Commissioner's office The hotel waiters held a meeting last evening at Hibernian Hall, Prince street, but nothing of impor tance transpired, except the adoption of a set of by laws to regulate the Waiters’ Society, after which they adjourned to Thursday evening next In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, Her tainus Decker was tried for a felomious assault on Joseph Rose. The evidence showed that on the 28th alt. they were in a lager bier saloon, Bowery, and the defendant, without any provocation, stabbed him with some instrument. Several of the witnesses for the defence testified that Rose assaulted Decker first, and that they saw no stabbing; but the jury did not believe them, and rendered a verdict of “guilty of an asawult with @ dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm.” Sentence reserved till tomorrow. Counsel for Mre. Cox and danghters (colored), indicted for arson in the first degree. moved a postponement of the case till next term, in consequence of the absence of a witness, who was in Salem. Lonis Napoleon, one of the witnesses for the provecution, stated that the absent witness was in court on Wednesday. The Recorder put down the cate for this morning. Francis Fowler, keeper of a California ticket office corner of West and Chambers streets, was tried for petit larceny, an Ohioan, named Wm. Schumaker, alleging that while he was paying for a ticket Fowler abstracted a $20 gold piece. The jury failed to agree upon a verdict last evening, and were discharged. Eleven were for conviction and one for acquittal The cotton market war active and excited yeetorday, with a strong epeculative feeling, and closed at an ad vance of Yo. per pound. fhe sales embrace’ about 10,000 bales, on the basis of 12%,¢ for middling uplanda, 12K ¢. for Mobile and 12746. a 130. for middling New Or \enme and Texas, The advance snd animation were pro duced mainly by advices from the South. A private tole raph Compatch from New Orleans had stated that the ad vance ip that market subsequent to the receipt of the Arego’s news had reached about (jc. per pound. The tfasmactions embraced some 4,000 a 6,000 baies in trans: sod tw were sold on speculation, with som test | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1858.—TRIPLE SHEET. wales also to spinners. Flour was rather eteadier and betur tor common end medium grades, while prices were ‘unchanged for other qualiee, Wheat wus heavy end eaics fimited. Corn eold to @ fair extent, including common to goed white at T2c. a Téc. and yollow at 76c. Pork was @gainactive end in good demand for forward delivery , aud the eales embraced about 2,500 bbis., to ar- rive aad on the spot, at prices elated in aadther column. Sugars were rather atifier and in good demand, with sales of about 1,500 bhds. at rates given elsewhere. Coffea was steady, with eaies of about 2,000 bags of all descriptions, at rates given in another piace. Freights were without change of moment in retes, while there was rather more offering, but eogagements were moder-te The Great Pacific Raltlroad Treasury Rob- bing, Land Jobbing and Stock Gambling Scheme. We perceive that the Pacific Railroad pro- ject, which the Senate had agreed to postpone till next December, has been opemed again, under a reconsideration of that vote, to the ac- tion of the Senate during the present session. We presume, too, that this reconsideration has been conceded with the intention of taking soundings at some carly day, and under an im- pression among the friends of the measure that some bill may possibly be passed even be- fore the 7th of June, the day when, by appeint- ment, the present session is to close, We apprehend, however, that all attempts at this cession or the next to bring a majority of the two houses to an agreement upon any Pa- cific railway bill will signally fail. To be sure, the spoils involved in the scheme are equal to almost apy ordinary requirements of log rolling and lobby corruption; but then the sectional and political considerations involved in this business are of a magnitude which cannot fail to stir up a stout resistance to any Pacific rail- road bill whatsoever. Already we see enough in the ground taken by Southern members of Congress, and by leading Southern journals, | to eatisfy us that no Pacific railroad bill can | be made a safe plank in the general policy of | Mr. Buchanan’s administration. And we are | glad to believe this, because the policy chalked | out by the President in his annual message em- | braces quite enough of really useful and prac- tical measures of legislation to occupy the | closest attention of Congress for several years to come. With regard to this project of an overland railroad from the Mississippi valley to the Pa- cific ocean, whether by a northern, central or southern route, we do not hesitate to pronounce it the most visionary scheme, and the most bare- faced and stupendous plot for plundering the treasury, land jobbing and stock gambling that human ingenuity and cupidity have ever in- vented. Let us see. A road connecting the great artery of the Mississippi valley with the Pacific ocean, by any route, can hardly be less than two thousand miles in length. And what, by any route, is the character of the country to be traversed? Is it populous—abounding in citfes and villagee? or is it fertile and rich in its mineral and manufacturing resources? No. Nothing of the kind. The ficst cight hundred miles of the road, starting from the inhabited western frontiers of Nebraska, Kansas, or Arkansas, would be over timberlees and comparatively wateriess plains, and the next twelve or fifteen hundred miles by a northern or central roate would be over the intricacies of two or three of the greatest moun- tain chains on the continent, the intervals being mostly filled up with deserts as blank and deso- late as those of Arabia. The extreme southern route, (which is the shortest and most available in every sense,) from the western frontiers of Arkansas to the Pacific ocean, passes over a re- gion which may be aptly described as “a God forsaken country,” a blank and howling wilder- nees, unfit for anything except wild Indians and wild beasts. Excepting the Mormon city at the Great Salt Lake, and the poverty-stricken towns of Santa Fé and Paso del Norte in New Mexico, there is | dozen shanties between the inhabited frontiers slope of Oregon and California. Nor do we suppose that within these limite, by any route, | even with a railroad completed, could there be more than a dozen settlements, exceeding a thousand souls, for one hundred years to come. And why! Because arid | plains, sterile mountains and sandy de- serts, without flowing water or rains for six or nine months in the year, “can never be made to pay,” except with the discovery therein of rich deposits of precious minerals—discoveries which here have yet to be made. Suppose, however, we agree to build a Pacific railroad of two thousand miles in length, what will it cost’ Including the transportation from the two ends of the timber, iron, men, ani- mals, provisions, and including fraudulent con- tracts, &c., it will average not less than a han- dred thousand dollars a mile for a single track. The road, then, single track, with ite necessary tarn out, stations, Ac., will cost the nice little sum of two hundred millions of dollars. Close calculating engineers put it down at one hun- | dred millions, but experience has shown that their estimates may in almost any case be safely doubled. And where is this sum of two hun- dred millions to come from? The lands on the route are good for nothing, except a little mar- gin at both ends. Other public lands that are good will be absorbed, or the treasury will be drained to meet deficiencies, or the road will fail, and the paying subscribers and stockhold- ers will be ewindled, with a grand explosion, ax of another South Sea bubble. Pass a bill, however, and the sppilemen, land jobbers and stock gamblers concerned will soon reap a South Sea harvest from a credulous and speculative community. And as this, we suppose, is the whole intent of the parties actively concerned in the enterprise, we hope the swindle may never be consummated Proved that the road will never begin to pay the expenses of construction, the loss must in- evitably fall upon the public treasury, and the subscribers and stockholders and others, not to the extent of two hundred millions, but proba- bly upon the community at large to twice or thrice that amount, in the general collapse which the bursting of euch a bubble would pro- Let all honest parties in Congress, then, look to the ways and means, and count up the costs before they consent to embark in any euch moonshine speculation as this Pacific railroad swindle. It is a stupendous lobby spoils, land jobbing and stock gambling job, aad nothing more. Tne Lasr Ovrrace Mr. Helper has published his account of the recent afiray with Mr. Craige of North Carolina, Ao- cording to Mr. Helper’s own statement, the affair was a second edition of the Sumner ae | sault, and Mr. Helper endeavored to enact the | part of Mr. Brooke, of South Carolina. Northern border ru flianiem, and nothing else duce. in Wasinoton scarcely, by any route, a white settlement of a | | of the Mississippi valley and the narrow Pacific | A re | The Congressional Printing Report of the House Comunittce We published yesterday an abstract of the report presented by Mr. Taylor to the House of Representatives from the select committee on the Public Printing. Today we give it in full, persuaded that the importance of its statements will recommend it to the attentive considera- tion of our readers. In our opinion no more interesting document haa been laid before Con- gress for a considerable period. The Tribvne hopes and confidently an- nounces that the recommendations of the committee will be hooted out of Coa- gress. Should this prediction prove cor- rect, then we say that the venality of our legis- lators is pushed to a point of unparalleled recklessness and demoralization. If they ignore the facta contained in this report, it will be aa much as acknowledging that Congress is the organ of individuals and not of the nation. It is mortifying to reflect that whilst a comparatively emall appropriation is re- fueed by Congress to the support of a nation- al enterprise like the Collins line, hun- dreds of thousands should be squandered in the enrichment of a clique of needy adven- turers, through the medlum of an expenditure from which the country acarcety derives a shill- of benefit. Judging from this as from the twiltitude of other jobs annually sanctioned by Congress, it would seem as if the province of national legislation was rather to screen and ratify the plunder of the public treasury than to protect it against the frauds constantly per- petrated upon it under cover of the national necessities, If our readers will give themselves the trou- ble to examine the facts disclosed in this report, they will find that by the aid of the lobby enor- mous sums have been squandered on the public printing, which by a commonly judicious sys- tem of management might have been altogether spared. Not only has the work been done dearly, but it has been done badly, and whilst hundreds of individuals might have benefitted by its proper distribution, some half dozen adven- turers and lobby men have succeeded in making enormous profits out of the crimping of the public contracta) In the printing and binding for both houses we find, for instance, the same parties holding a monopoly of the work—one session as principals and another as contractors or sub-contractors. Besides the large profits realized by the party actually executing the House printing, it will be segn that the gross amount paid as a per centage or bonus for the privilege of doing the work, to the government officials, amounts in round figures to very nearly $250,000 a year. The amount of profits realized on the House binding for the Thirty- fourth Congress may be judged of from the fact that, although the work was contracted to be executed at twenty-two per cent less than former prices, the person who secured that con- tract relet it to another party for the conside- ration of twenty per cent on the gross amount of binding done, and that this sub-contractor again sub-let his contract to another or third party for the consideration of one-half of the profits on the work executed, after the deduc- tion of the per centage to the original con- tractor. The twenty per cent reserved to the latter the committee states has already amount- ed to $33,000, whilst the third party, who actually did the work, was, it appears, so well satisfied with his share of the profits, that his conscience prompted him to execute it in a bet- ter style than it had previously been done by his predecessors. ‘These facts sufficiently point out the character } of the facts contained in this report. They are | of a gravity which cannot be trifled away by light disclaimers or the bold assertions of news- paper editors and correspondents, who are known to be largely interested in the main- tenance of the present system. This system is shown to be the result of a regularly planned organization for the plunder of the public trea- sury¢ and unless Congress promptly puts an end to it it will render itself accessory to a fraudu- lent expenditure of the government revenues. The remedy recommended by the committee, and long since suggested by us—the establish- ment of a Printing Bureau—is the only one which will effectually meet the abuses that have eprung up under the present mode of distri- buting the public printing. It is to be hoped that Congress, for the sake of its own reputa- tion, will, before it adjourns, carry out the exe- cution of this important measure. Kaysas—Tue Commrrer or Coxrerance Brrooory.—Kansas, poor Kansas, is still kept | fluttering and flaunting at Washington, like » shirt in a high wind. The Committee of Con- ference, which yesterday morning everybody supposed had wound up the case, in the shape of a grand lobby job of land spoils and plun- appears. All the Southern Know Nothings, and some of the high and mighty strict con- struction Southern fire-eaters, it is reported, re- fuse, upon constitutional scruples, to swallow the matter of fact compromise of Mr. English. | Of course, should the plan fail there will be | very little chance for any other; for if the bonus of several millions of scres of the pub- lic domain cannot carry Kansas through Con- gress, we think she may be given up this ses- sion as a bad job. We have no doubt that the public lands indicated would make Lecompton quite acceptable to the people of Kansas, and would settle the question there as readily as the gratuity of ten millions of dollars to Texas ect- tled her boundary question. But the trouble is among the shuffling politigiaas of Congress. Perhaps, however, we may have a report of a compromise today, or a failure, we don’t care much which, for almost anything will do now. The farce is substantially pnyed out Tow Paste ayp THe Henary.—The reader will find in another column a very amusing article from a St. Paul paper, dated in October last. To appreciate the full force of the article, it thould be remembered that it was one of a hun- dred such which at that time were filling half the county papers throughout the conatry. The article charges, in so many words, that the Henan, being a paper of devilish instincts and in no wise dependent upon advertisements or subscriptions for support, loved the rain and de- struction of all things, and constantly worked therefor; that it brought about the late crisis purely from its fiendish malice and hatred to the railroad and commercial interests of the country; and that, when the work was done, it absolutely revelled in the destruction it had worked. All this, as will be seen, is done up in very grand style, with that richness of mota- phor which characterises a certain order of Western eloquence, We hope theeditors of the papers who, in the months of September and October last, wrote articles similar to thie one will now read it over, der, had counted their chickens in the shell it | | with great indignities, the company was broken and thaok their stars that they too are not made ridiculous by the reproduction of their defunct On Wednesday last Senator Mason introduced 4 joint resolution suthorizing the Presideat to take such measures against Paraguay as the re- fusal of that republic to make reparation for firing into the United States steamer Water Witch may demand. Mr. Mason stated that Captain Page would soon esil in ® mall steamer for the locality in question, to co-ope rate with any force there may be required to attain reparation. The question was brought up again yesterday in the Senate. Such have been the consequences of our absurd intestine political disorders, particular- ly those springing out of the admimion of Kansas into the Union, that our foreiga rela- tions have necessarily been neglected. Our difficulties with Spain, our relations with Mexico and Central America, our differences with several South American States apon the Pacific, as well as our controversy with New Granada, are all laid upon the shelf for another day. A scandalous party strife for the control of anew State paralyzes the arm of govern- ment, and the honor and commercial interests of the country go without much consideration. Besides all these, we have the Paraguay ques- tion to be settled; one which presents the most perfect case for immediate interference. The Water Witch insulted and fired on during a peaceful scientific survey, and the destruction of a large American company at Assumpcion remain totally unavenged, and if things go on in Congress as they now do they never will be. Bat we shall see what the Senate will do. "Phe ase of the Water Witch has been so often alluded to, and the facts in relation to the unprovoked attack upon her are so well known, officially and otherwise, thatit is mot necessary to enlarge on them in this article. But the fate of the American company is less understood, and is sufficiently interesting to deserve a more extended notice. An American agent, despatched by Mr. Polk, visited the upper waters of La Plata, and was so well received in Paraguay that he returned to the United States for the purpose of forming acompany to navigate the river and establish an American trading and manufacturing com- pany at Assumpcion. The project had the full approbation of President Lopez. In 1854, after much effort, a company was formed in this city to take advantage of the opening, and a num- ber of enterprising persons, both here and in Providence, Rhode Island, united for the pur- pose, putting up a capital of about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. A eteamer was bought, fitted out and sent off at large cost, and an assorted cargo, comprising more than eight hundred packages of goods, was for- warded in a brig called the Kate and Alice, which safely arrived at its destination. The articles eclected were admirably adapted to the wants of Paraguay, and were computed to be worth on arrival three or four hundred per cent above their cost. Thus saw mills and other appropriate machinery were forwarded to cut up and prepare for market the beautiful woods of the country. Machines for the manu- facture of tobacco in every possible form were provided, and a gang of operatives obtained from Cuba to take charge of them. Others for cleaning and hulling rice, ploughs, harrows, drills, shovels, spades and steam engines were also procured. Samples of all kinds of Ameri- can manufactured goods adapted to the coun- try, medicines, elementary books in Spanish, printing presses, saddles, firearms, and even an organ for the cathedral, were sent out. Every branch of American industry was fully repre- sented. In addition to these, various splendid presents were sent out to Lopez and his family— a silk standard to hoist on his palace, a very costly State coach, and full sets of harness, a gold watch studded with jewels for his wife, and silver mounted garden implements for his daughters. Our government also sent a pair of beautiful brass howitzers, which sti stand be- fore the government residence. The steamer unfortunately encountered a heavy gale, and wasso much injured as to make it necessary to abandon her at Maranham. The large party of colonists on board of her, however, finally arrived in Paraguay, and their reception was everything they could wish. Very soon, however, Lopez began to be jealous of the Americans, and taking advantage of some imprudences of the company’s agents, (the American Consul being considered the chief offender among them,) rescinded many of his agreements, committed personal violence on the Vice Consul, and though it is said a different course on the part of the Consul | might have ended all the difficulties, yet certain it is that he, too, subsequently was treated up and driven off, and aloss of several hundred thousand dollars was the consequence. A lengtby correspondence ensued on the subject, in which these aggressions were sought to be excused by the alleged misconduct of the American Consul. Nothing but the fortunate presence of the little Water Witch prevented him from shoring the fate of those who had in pre- vious years learned to know what it was to come under the displeasure of Francia and Lopez. company, thus maltreated, outraged and | broken up -having done nothing of themaclves to bring upon them these disasters, or this breach of faith—-have made a strong appeal to the autho- rities at Washingten for redress. They have been waiting several years for it; but Mr. Bu- chanan took up the subject of eur difficulties with Paraguay in his firet message. We almost despair of any immediate action on the part of Congress, although the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Senate has brought the sabject | before that body. There are too many jobs ahead, too many candidates for the Presidency, too many “niggers in the wood pile” to permit | them to think of the wrongs of their country anywhere but in Kansas. It will be exceedingly difficult to operate against Paraguay, though she deserves to be well chastised for the treatment given the Water Witch and the American company. It is decidedly the very worst case unsettled on the books of the State Department. One-half the provocation given by any European State would eet the whole country in a blaze; but it is the fashion to permit the South American States to insult ns with impunity. It will, how- ever, be very difficult to bring Lopez to his senses. He has hambagged Brazil several times, even after they have got their squadrons into the river and made some progress upward. The channel is not a perfectly easy one. Vee- eels drawing ten feet water have to be very cautious; and though the Water Witch, the American eteamer Fanny and a French war e FEES HE i it i i g . ; ls é i | if Hj ? £3 a2FebEe z i l | f fi I | i i le allowed to \F | | al Hl for matter contained in a cemmunication to the that if this trial goes on it will prove an om- nium gatherum, or general receiving house for expositions of all the varioas modes by which the taxes of this tax-ridden people have in- creased, by assessments for opening streets, levelling mountains of rock, flagging sidewalks, and other contracts and operations, upon whieh | 80 many millioas have been expended within | the'ast few years. . This trial, therefore, which professes to be the trial of Thomas N. Carr for making too free with the distinguished name of Richard Busteed, is, in truth and fact, a trial of the official conduct and acts of Mr. Busteed as Cor- poration Counsel during his term of ollice. Under the defence to be eet up by the counsel for the defendant—the everlasting Mr. Whiting, who gives nothing up—an opportunity will be furnished for introducing scores, if not hun- dreds, of witnesses from our unhappy tax- payers, who are to state their grievances and explain the secret (if the secret can be got at) how the taxes have been so mach increased of late years, and how public officers under the Corporation, with salaries of three or four thousand a year for three or four years, so fre- quently retire with fortunes of three or four hundred thousand a piece. ‘This trial will again take place today, and we trust that all parties will be prepared, for the public are already prepared to hear the evidence to be brought forward. The characters of Mr. Busteed and Mr. Carr are somewhat at stake, but not a great deal. They are both well known long-lived democrats; they are fa- miliar with all the turns of Tammany Hall, and all the tumblings of democracy in thecoal hole; they have both held distinguished positions under the Sachems for many years past, and are now both ofliccholders of the Corpora- tion: one, Busteed, as Corporation Counsel and general director of assessments; the other, Carr, as a commissioner for opening streets, and as such one of the executors of Mr. Bus- teed’s orders. They both know each other's characters; they know the principles of their party; they know the venerable character of the resolutions of ‘98; they know the wonder- ful unction of democracy; they know the value of office and the spoils of office; they know the value of their own characters; and they both know the bull dog tenacity of the counsel for the defence, Mr. Whiting, who, as Billy Lackaday says, “never gives nothing up,” until he brings something out of it. We wish all parties a safe deliverance, and the poor taxpayers some information as to how the ten millions a year are disposed of ; so that the expositions in the trial of Mr. Carr may cover the cases of Chemung Smith, and Devlin, and Comptroller Flagg, and all the other charges and examinations put together. PurtapeLrma verses New York—STeawsiirs vor AN Ini.anp Town.—Onee there was a little dog which had a very amusing habit of going out every evening and barking at the moon most furiously. To be sure the moon didn’t mind it im the slightest degree, and kept on shining just the same, but the little dog kept barking, for all that. Now, Philadelphia has been con- tinually barking at New York just in that way for a number of years, because we have had the commercial enterprise to sustain sundry lines of steamships, which an interior town like Phila- | delphia might covet but could never possess. But New York has not cared for it at all, any more than the moon cared for the barking of the little dog, and has gone right along increas- | Ing in commercial importance, and even finding employment for the only steamship line that bravely made Philadelphia one of its ter- mini, The account of the Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia line of s#toam- ships, whidh we publish elsewhere, illas- trates this fact. This company, afler four years of patient suffering in an experimental effort to establish a line of steamers between Liverpool and Philadelphia, was at length obliged to remove to New York, where their course has since been pr It reminds us of the illustration of “Dignity and Impudence” in the shop windows to see an in- land town like Philadelphia pretending to vie with New York in commercial importance. Philadelphia may do very well as a market for amall country dealers, and as a quiet residence for a fow Quakers of remarkably conservative notions, but is no more fit for a tine I ears to run to than Oyster Bay would be for the Grent Pastern. Mr. Everett in the South—A Patriotic Revot lution. Mr. Everett is receiving marked honors at the bands of the people of the seaboard Southern States. At Charleston he was offered public honors, which he declined. Ho was received, however, by the poet, patriot, philosopher, pub- | Nelst Yeadon, in @ apeech which is only second in beauty and poctic imagery to the great work on Niagara Falls, in which the same gified sutbor pays 8 marked and no doubt merited compliment to “stupendous nature.” ‘Tho miasion of Mr. Everett is an important onc, and is not without its parallels. At several crines in the world's bistory great national ca- lamities have beea prevented by the interven- tien of evothing emollients, applied by disinte- rested philanthropists in the fields of art, reli- gion, politica, poetry or literature. Thus we find that the States of (irceco were torn by in- ternal dimensions when the great Homér jour- } eyed from place to place, reciting the Iliad. | He told the Greeks the story of the slege of Troy; of the trenchant blade of Ulysses; of the rashnees and bravery of the Jove-sprang hero, “poble Achilles;” of stout .old Ajax, and his grend combat with Hector; and particularly of the united froat which the mailed Greeks pre- sented to the warlike Trojans, The lofty strains of the Homeric verse from the bybla-stung lipe of the poet himself, roused the Greeks to the enthusiasm of patriotism, union aad harmoay. They fought nv more awoug themselves, but re- served their epears for the hearts of foreign foes, At a later period, when Greece and Rome were in their declension, when the Gallic horts menaced the Capitoline Hifi, when it seemed probable that the lowest barbarism would succeed the highest point of civilization, we fiad the tide tarned by one who was more Roman than the Romans themselves. The clo- quent Paul journeyed on foot from city to city, preaching, teaching and converting many. In Syria, or on the shores of the Aizean Sea, or in the islands of the Mediterranean, in Athens aud Italy, by whose wondrous gift the rong» and stories of the sunny land were handed down from agetongr, forming the foundation for nearly all the light literature extant. Thus we have the apostles of religion, of art, of patriotism, of poe | try, of chivalry, and the result of their labor of ove. The mission of Mr. Everett ia the South com- bines all of these objects, and adds obarity to the list. We have therefore been shocked to see in various prints some sarcastic remarks levelled at the oratorical Yexdoo, on account of the lofty tone of his remarks. The scoffers should remember what Sir Lacius O’Trigger saye:—When affection guides the pen, he would be a brute who would find fault with the style.” So Yeadon, bursting over with love for My. Everett and hie work, hailed him as “orator, patriot, sage, Cicero of America, laudator of Washington, apostle of charity, high priest of the Union, and friend of mankind.” That is all true, and cannot be gainsayed. Again, Yeaden remarks that Mr. Everett comes “to brighten and cement anew the worn and fretted chains of our politi- cal Unien ;” that he is a “ patriot, statesman, philanthropist"—that in his person “Charleston tenders a cordial welcome to Boston,” with more about “Bunker Hill,” “tea party,” “Stamp act,” “son of the old Bay State,” “offspring of the rock girt and ice bound land,” and #0 oo. Father Yeadon welcomed Mr. Everett to the “commercial emporium" (of South Carolina), “now preparing, we fondly believe, for her | speedy coronation a# Queen of the South.” | What the orator means by this latter sentence we don't exactly know. Is Charleston going out of the Union, or will her merchaats buy the Collins steamers? Mr. Everett said, in reply, | that he was “taken by surprise; and very asta- | rally too. He, however, recovered sufliciently | to deliver his lecture at Charleston and Colam- bia. From thence he goes throagh Georgia, | Alabama and Lonisiana, and up the Mississippi | to the West. in every city and town of im- | portance he will deliver bis famous oration | on the life and character of Washington, the | proceeds to be applied to the sacred work of placing the tomb of the Puter Patrie in the lands of the nation. No holier mission could | be imagined. It combines all the great works | of the former patriots, ports and sages, and i* | is particularly at this time, when the bad feeling between radicals at the North and the South is studiously fostered and che- rished by the politicians. In and out of Com- gress, Mr. Everett recounts the deeds of one who was as wise in council ax Ulywes, as torri- | ble in battle as Achilles; he preaches a crusade against disunion and fanaticiam; be is cheered on by the emiles of the ladies, and Weadon bas given him his countenance. Mr. Everett is positively doing # great work in the South. Not that the Union needs saving particularly at this time, but because it cannot be denied that there is come hostility between sections of the people, both in the North and in the South; and to correct this, to inspire the whole people with the feeling of union aud mu- tual conciliation, is a work worthy of the ele- gant scholar, the silver voiced orator, the emi- nent «tatesman and the accomplished gentle- man. He is the chosen Apostle of the Union, and his mission is as holy as that of St. Pant himeelf. So, Mr. Everett is the Homer of the thirty-one States of Young America-—the St. Paul of the great empire of Washington—the Peter the Hermit ofthe mighty hosts embattled against the infidel of disunion the troubadoar of the wonderful middle age of American civili- zation—the Don Qnixotte armed with civilina- tion tg the teeth against the border ruficas of —