The New York Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1858, Page 4

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Bingle coptes, in wrappors, six cents. ‘Sadsoriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Youn Axnatp will be recetved at the following places ‘n Burope: Losvos ....amson Low, Fea oe St tne witnn ot Place do la Boarse: ‘The ooptenta of the European edition of the Hxxatp will combine the pews received by mail and telograph at the office during the previous week, and up to the bour of Publication. ‘Tne News. The steamship Angto-Saxon, which left Liverpool on the afternoon of 21st ult., arrived in the river St. Lawrence yesterday. The news is three days later tha previous advices, but is generally of an unim- portant character. The annual financial statement bad been made to the British Parliament, from which it appears that, though the revenue of Great Britain for the past year has been in excess of the Ordinary expenses of government, yet the extraordi- nary expenditares incurred for the ensuing year will exceed the estimated receipts by £4,000,000. It is proposed to muke up the deficit by « tex on Irish whiskey and a penny stamp tax on bankers’ checks. The budget bad been favorably received in financial circles. The London money market was dull. Consols on the 20th ult. were quoted at 964 a 963 for money. American secu- ritles were heavy. At Liverpool the cotton market was very buoyant, at an advauce of one quarter of a penny on the prices current on the sailing of the Arabia. Breadstafis were depressed. The acquittal of Dr. Bernard bad created o great sensation in Paris. The details of the news from India had reached London, but they contained nothing of im- portance. We have news from Porto Cabello, Venezuela, to the 16th alt. Our correspondent writes as followa:— “This country is at present very quiet, after a bloud- less revolution great in its results. Ex President Movagas is still under close observance of the police, at a private residence, and must disgorge the treasure of the country which he has so flagrantly Purloined, or suffer the consequences. The pro- visional government issued « commission inviting General Paez, at New York, to retura to his native country, and assume the I’residency of the republic. The dooument was confided to the care of six gentiemen of the Legislative Assembly, who are to embark about the 20th of April, in the bark Rowena, now loading at Lagaayra for Philadephia. Ex-President Monagas’ son baa escaped, much to the surprixe and regret of the powers that be; but he cannot embark from these porta. It is presumed he has gone over land to Raleigh, in Britixh Guiana. Captain Conroy is under bail, and will leave shortly for the United Btates.” The United States surveying schooner Varina, Lieut. Com. Craven, arrived at this port yesterday from Carthagena, New Granada, whence she sailed on the 7th ult. The Varina has been engaged for some time past in surveying the route for the con- templated «hip canal through the Isthmus of Darien to connect the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. A Ust of the names of the officers of the Varina, and of the topographical corps, is given elsewhere. The religious anniversaries of the season were inangurated last evening by the meeting of the American Board of Foreign Missions. Owing to the financial revulsion of the past winter a deficit in the cash accounts of the various reformatory and pro- pagandist institutions of the country is generally aaticipated; but the balance sheet of the American Board shows that its expenditares during the past year have exceeded its receipts in the inconsiderable sum of $1,186 only. Rev. Dr. Dabney preached the sermon before the Board, a report of which, together with an abstract of the annual statement, may be found in another column. In consequence of Mr. Deviin's letter to Mayor Tiemann, resigning the office of Street Commis sioner, the proceedings at Mr. Devlin's «nit against Mr. Conover and Mr. Cooper were taken before Judge Satheriand on Saturday evening, pro forma and dismissed. The bark Ottawa, boand from Matanzas for New York, was towed into Charleston ou Saturday by the steamsbip Nashville, having been found at sea in distress by the last mentioned vessel. The annexed table ihe temperature of the atmoaphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind cur rents, and the state of the weather at three periods during each day, viz.: at 9 A. M.,and 3 and 9 o'clock P.M — O-vercam and 000! 8! Gay: Yoady Monday —Chear and ooo) all day & ee cleats 7 Twosc sy —Overcast all day, with sow in the after. coon, night, overcast. Morning, “lonéy. A re occurred yesterday morning ia the building on Federal street, Boston, oceupted by the Douglas Axe Company and others, which, together with a brick dwelling adjoining, were totally destroyed, in- volving & load of property valued at $200;000. Four persons were killed by the wails of the building fall- ing upon them. the trinl of Edward Desaling, a Peassian, arrested under the extradition treaty existing betweet Prus- siv and the United States, oharged with committing fraud aud forgery upon J, H. Steen, a banker of Co- logne, Prussia, was concluded at Paducah, Ky, on the 27th ult., and resulted io the soquittal,.and dis- charge of the accused. The Judge decided that the Prossian depositions offered in the oase were not competent testimony, Mr. Mulkke, @ Prussian po- lice officer sent ont to make the arrest, and Mr. La pagh, a New York lawyer engaged to prosecute the case, were arrested on complaint of Dessting and held to bail for false imprisonment, damages Laid at $20, 000 aguinst each. The steamship James Adger, of the New York and Charleston line of packets, while lying at the former port on Friday night, burst her steam chimney, scalding the engineer and four firemen. Three of the firemen subsequently died of their injuries. Some higbly important statistics relative to the foreign trade of Chile, furnished by our Valparaiso correspondent, will be found in our paper this mora- Ing. The tables exhibit the gross meney value of the merchandice imported to the republic from all countries during a space of thirty mouths, ax also the amount of Chilean exports to the United States, and a concise epecification of the goods sent to her by our traders. It will be seen that out of an agre gate total of over one hundred and seventy millions of dollars, the United States received only about eleven millions, owing, it is aid, to the monopolizing spirit of a few houses and the apathy of our mer- cantile community with regard to this immense source of profit from South America. The cotton market was dul! on Saturday, and estes coa- fined to some 400 a 600 bales, without quotable change iu prices. Flour wes heavy, and common and mediun grades of extra State and Westera closed at a dociiae of about 60 a 100. per bbl. Wheat was heavy, and prices favored purchasers; sales of 6,000 a 8,000 bushels were monde at rates given in ancther plece; amorg the parcels sold were Kentucky white at $1 32081 825s. Coro was casier apd active, with sales of useound @outhern white at 66c a 68c,, and eound do. at 69c a 700., aud yellow «19, at 120 a 13c. Rye Gold at 66540, afloat. and at 7c. a 630, delivered. Pork was beavy und lower, with moderate sales, including moss at $18 75 and prime at $16 25. The total stock of o d end new in this market, on Let of May. smoupted to 41,700 bbls. old and new, of ail kinds, sgetnat 28,442 bbis. on the Ist of April last, aad against 40,065 on the 1st of May, 1857. The stock of bool was 22,672 bbls. against 25,194 on the Ist of April, an‘ 23,950 on Ist of May, 1667. With the reduced stock there a better demand for sugars, and sales were moro freely teade at steady prices. The transactions footed up about 2,286 bhds. Oubs refining and grocery g 10d at bo. 06%. Coffee was steady, with sales of Rio at 100. a L1¥c., (mainty at 10:¢¢.,) and Jave sold at 180, Freights wore aguin firmer, but mot very active. Flour was taken for Liverpool at 1s. 103¢d.; corn, in bulk, at 64 ; and cotton at 3-161 The Triumph of the admintetration---What Wl be done with the Desorters? Now that the administration has settled the Kansas question, in a decisive victory over the holy alliance of black republicans, Southern Know Notbings and democratic renegades, the question arises, what shquid be done with tho Douglas deserters from the democratic camp, with whom alone rests the responsibility of this protracted, profitless and demoralizing struggle to break down the President and his policy ? Had not these followers of Mr. Douglas been led astray, this Kansas imbroglio, instead of oc- cupying five months of the most inflammatory spouting and mining and countermiaing, on all tides, would have been eettled in two or three weeke upon the President's original and conclu- sive plan of Lecompton “pure and simple.” At last, it is only through the repentance of one half the original Douglas bolters of the House that even the modified bill has prevailed. So far, then, as there repenting backsliders are concerned, there can be no doubt as to the couree of the administration. Like the labor rs of the vineyard who came in at the eleventh bour, they will stand apon the same footiag as those who have “ borne the heat and burden of the day.” In accepting the bill of Mr. Eaglish the administration has gone half way to recall the Douglas deserters to their allegiance, and those who have contemptuously refused this generous peace offering have lost all claims to any further exercise of mercy or magaanimity from the recognized head of the party church. These intractable Douglas renegades include the following members of Congress: Of the Senate—Meeera Douglas of [linois, Stuart of Michigan, and Broderick of California, Of the House—Meeers. Harris, Mershall, Morris, Shaw and Smith, the whole Illinois democratic dele gation; Chapman, Hickman and Montgomery of Pennsylvania; Adrain of New Jersey, Davis of Indiana, McKibben of California, and Clark sod Haskin of New York. Among the democratic outeide allies of Mr. Douglas we may mention ex-Governor Walker and ex-Secretary Stanton of Kaneas, Governor Wise of Virginia, the Rev. George Bancroft, and the Abbe MoMaster of New York, and the unhappy Col. Forney of the Philadelphia J’ress, as the most conspicuous among the democratic anti-Lecompton agita- ting mutineers, And now the question recurs, what should be done with these men? They have refused the generous peace offering of the administration, they are in active co-operation with the enemy, they are entitled to little or no mercy, they appear to be bent upon doing all the mischief they can—what should be done with them? The usual course in such cases, under the rules and articles of war, is to bring the fnour- able deserters and runaways from the fleld of demn them and march them off to be shot We apprehend, however, that in this liet of Kansas mutineers there may be some with whom milder policy than gunpowder would be ex- pedient. Respecting the chief conspirator, Douglas, we pase him over to the executioner. An amnesty in his case is out of the question. The same, perhaps, may be said of Walker, Stanton, Senator Broderick, and a few others. Of all men, Broderick has been the most violent and vulgar in his personal abuse of the Prest- dent, and evidently the most malignant in his hostility to the administration. He should be made an example of without further loss of time. Gov. Wise, we submit, upen the whole, should be let off. He is a bold, impulsive, fearless man, and apt to fly off at tangent; bat in leading forlorn hope he is one among ten thousand. He wrote several letters against the Lecompton plan, pure and simple ; but for all this, he never gave up his sympathies with and reepect for his old political friend and favorite, Mr. Buchanan. Taking the Richmond Bnagutrer as our guide, we might suspect the Governor to be half inclined to reopen this Kansas war with Senator Hunter upon the merits of the Con- ference bill; but «till we think the Governor should be allowed Ifberal margin of time in which to define hia position. The Abbe McMaster may also be exoused for not saing the requisite faith to swallow the Lecompton programme as an “immaculate coa- battle before a drumbead court martial, con- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1868. ception.” A man who attempts to measure tho operations of border rufflan politioians by the dogmss of Mother Chureb, must necessarily know very little of the first principles of Tam- roapy Hall. Lot bim pags. Next, we submit tbat of ail the deluded toltowers of Walker and Dongles, poor Forney should be treatod with tenderness avd pity. His peontiar mie fortane is ® Inck of braina Ever since he got the ridiculous notioa fato his silly noddle that he elected Mr. Buchanan, poor Forney bss been all at sea. No doubt his special grief arises from his loas of the run of the White House kitchen. It isa bard case, we must admit; but, if there be a case among them all entitled to special com- misseration, it is this. We are satisfied, how cver, that in the bands of the President, Forney will be treated with all the tendernosa dua to a poor fellow whose self-conceit and woundsd vapity have been abused ‘to his prajudice by sharpér and more artful demagogues than himeeif. With regard to thoae intractable rebels— Horace F. Clark and John B, Haskin—we pre- tume they are aware of the fate which awaits them emong the. democracy of Tammany and Westchester. Nothing buat a. prompt. repent- noce for what is past; and's full atonement fur tbe future, will save these unfortunate men from an early and long r-tirement to private life. Finally, in view of the great victory achieved over the triple alliance of Northern black republicans, Southern Know Nothings and Western democratic deserters, we dare say that the administration, in its treatment of the Douglas rebels, will be guided by those princi- ples of justice, firmness, moderation aod magna. simity for which Mr. Buchanan is eo preemi nently distinguished. Having achieved the victory, the President will, uodoubtedly, shape his action in the re- consolidation of the democrmy in view of the great practicul measures con nected with our foreign and domestio af. fair, which he has indicated as the policy of his sdministration. Thus it muy be fouad oxpedi- ent to shoot some of the Denglas deserters, and to give to others 6 term of grace for repentance and absolution. With this we shall be content, and all the faithful democracy will say Amen! Mors Disconreyt AMONG THR Porrrictans — There seems to be a great deal of discontent among certain political cliques in this city at the appointments made by Mr. Cooper, Mayor Tiemaan’s new Street Commissioner. The elder black republican organ gives veat to this feol. ing, and the Mayor, a4 well asthe Street Com- missioner, are roucdly taken to task for taking the great majority of appointees from the old line of their own party, the lights and leaders of the Tammany Hall democracy, leaving the re- publicans and Americans, who eupported Mayor Tiemano, not 60 much as a respectable emell of the spoiis, The men appointed are well enough, as far as cberscter und repute goes, if we except Tom Byrnes, who has been prominent among the fighting politicians in the lower wards, and simi- lar factions in otber parts of the city. But the fact is that thero isa very general effervescence of bitter feeling among portions of the factions tbat combined for the rout of Mr. Wood last De- cember, and placed Mr. Tiemann ia power. First, the general policy of the Mayor does not please many of his former supporters. Even his useful reforme—the suppression of the policy shops, the breaking up of the gift swindles, the pursuit of the gamblers and keepers of disorder- ly houses, the crusades against the thousand and one small rascalities of city life—do not meet with unanimous epprobation. The persous who are engaged in these pleasant pursuits were the prime leaders in the movement against Mr. Wood last fall, and think they deserve, as a reward for elevating Mr. Tiemann, perfect immunity in all their little operations. From the highest to the lowest they are all very much disgusted with the Mayor. The politicians who rushed into the fight with euch patriotic ardor, now find themselves deprived of the Street Commissioner's office, which is the capital prize In the city lottery, After months and months of tiresome litigation, aod more hard swearihg than was ever done by any four armies in Flanders, the old Commis tioners are ousted and o bran new one put io, baving the control of at least three milifons of +poile per annum, including the pickings and stealings. He immediately hands all this over to the old Tammany party, leaving tho Know Netbing and black republican factions howling with hunger, and sore with rage, grief and dis- appointment. It is bad business, and sore enough they sre abont it. The 7hibune even goes as far as to say that Mayor Tiemann ex- ceeds the command of the Scripture: “Love those that hate you, and pray for those that deepitefally use you ;” but our philosophical cotemporary thould remember that the Mayor is @ great leader of the reform and revival movement, and that his course in rewarding bis enemies is only in accordance with his own theories, and the eminently Christian and phi- lanthropic spirit of the day. Axt! SLAVERY AND AssassrvaTion.—Tho beat evidevce of the unsounduess of mind of the anti-slavery fanatics is the precipitation with which they embrace every newdelusion. Thus we bave seen the principal anti-slavery organ | in this city advocating alternately Fouricrism, spiritualism, teetotaliem, woman's rights, and free love; last of all it has started the now and startling doctrine of assassination as # political method. In this last wur de force it is followed by the leading apostles of anti-rlavery in Now England. In this city the demonstration in honor of Orsini was a very petty affair, confined to a few foreigners; in Boston, as we perceive by the report published in polyglot fashion in four languages in the Boston Courier, the meeting to commemorate the martyrdom of the assassins of the Rue Lepelletier was an imposing cere mony, pretty much like the great demonstra tions against the extension of negro slavery. The principal native participanta in the per- formance were leading apostles of the anti- slavery creed. William Lloyd Garrison was to have presided, but was prevented by unforeseen circumstances. Thus we see that the doctrines of political amassination and anti-slavery go hand in hand. Gerrit Smith would doubtless have taken part in some demonstration of the kind but that he happens to be engaged at the present moment in demonstrating the Inutility and abeurdity of the Christian dootrine of eternal damnation; while other popular champions of the school are cqually basy in founding new recta of Mormons under the sweet sounding title of Free Lovers. When a man’s intellect ts of the enthnetastle and {-bailested order, be will receive one Gelu- slou as readily ag another, The crazy spiritu- alista are al+o infidels, The Fourierites are pro- bititive Liquor men; and the antl slavery fa- patics applaud the assassination, by dark aod murderous methods, of their political opponents, The time bas not yet come for the anti-slavery philosopbers to recommend the adoption of the practice of assassination by political parties bere; bot at the rate they are progressing, it may well be expected that we shall live to see them argue that the President and the democra tio Jeaders are a8 thoroughly reaponelble for the lives that have been lost in brawis in Kansas, ax Louie Napoleon is made out to be for those which were taken away In the street confilots which preceded the establishment of the empire; and therefore that a new antislavery Orsiai would be quite justified in endeavoring to as- wassinate Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Mason or Mr. Green with some new dark, seoret, and cowardly weapon. ‘The Cas-Yitearri Treaty and the Transit Monte, The treaty between the United: States and Nicersgua, which has-been repently confirmed by the Legislature of the latter country, will be eubjected to a terrible lobbypressure at Washington before it is ratified by the Senate, if'we may judge by the indications already seen here and there. The treaty is opposed: by the disappointed applicants for the grant of the Transit route, among the steamboat men of this city. It is opposed of course by tho whole fillbustering element of the country, and every possible gency is employed to defeat ita ratification. While the treaty was before the Nicaraguan Congrees at Managua the sgents of the Transit speculators bad aclear field for their operations— the filibusters being tabooed, excommunicated, in that region; and as each agent was then in hopes of getting the contract for his own om- ployers, it is natural to suppose that they all lobbied to get the treaty ratified there. And they were successful. But now that tho grant for re opening the route has been given to the Ship Canal Company, represented by White & Stebbins, all the other candidates have made thelr appearance in Washington, and, with the aid of the fillbusters, are on- deavoring to prevent the treaty being rati- fed by the United States Senate. In addition to theee influences, English interest is most probably in the lobby, but curiously enough it isin favor of the treaty. But in order to ua- derstand fully the aims of all these different interests it will be necessary to refer to the facts in connection with the grant for the Tran- eit route, because that question has more to do witb the agitation-on the Case Yrisarri treaty than many people suppose, In Jane last Mr. Yrisarri made an agree- went with HL G. Stebbins, President of the original American Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Company, established by = obarter and | r ect of corporation of the Nicaragaan Legisla- tare in 1849, to construct an interoceanic ship anal and railroad across the Isthmus, but re- leasing the company from the obligation to construct a canal—such being found impossi- ble, owing to certain natural obstacles—and substitating a railroad from Virgin Bay to the Pacific in its stead; all the reat of the transit being done, as provided by the charter, by river and lake navigation. This agreement or convention was ratified by tho Executive and Congress of Nicaragua soon after, with the pro- viso that it should not be valid until it was delivered into the hands of the company’s agents in thie country by Sefior Yrisarri. Ac- cordingly, on the 26th of last October, it was so delivered to Stebbins & White, by Yriearri, and they were de facto the holders of tho con- tract to resume the Transit route. This con- vention bound the company to open the route before the 26th of January last; but they managed to get the time considerably ex- tended—they say until next January. Mean- time, the agents of Vanderbilt were not idle. The lobby at Managua was active. Vander- bilt’s agent, Webster, and White's agent, Body, were working there like beavers—Webster hoping that, as White & Stebbins had no steamers, they would not be able to fulfil their contract within the appointed time and that Vanderbilt might step in snd obtain it. Meantime, the Cass Yrisarri treaty, which guarantees United States proteo- tion to the Transit route was mude at Washing. ton and sent to Nicaragua for confirmation, and the agents of both parties sought its ratification there, It is generally known that the republic of | Nicaragua is steeped to the Lips in debt, and the treasury is empty. Among other claims on her, there is one by an Euglish firm— Manning & Glenton—emounting to @ quarter of s million of dollara. Manning was for a long time British Consul-General in that republic; until, in fact, he was banished by Walker. A few months ago this firm be- came pressing, and urged their claim, wo be- lieve, to the extent of threatening the hostile advent of a British frigate at San Juan del Norte if it was not speedily settled. But, ascer- taining that the State was bankrupt, aod that there was no chance of getting their money ex- cept from the revenue accruing to the govern- ment from the Transit route, their agents, Merere. Clover and Glenton, entered the ranks of the lobby, and endeavored to make arrango- ments whereby the route could be opened. Under this preseure the government gave a conditional grant to Vanderbilt's agent—bared, we pro- sume, on the condition that White & Stebbins should fail in their engagement as to the time for opening the route—Vanderbilt agreeing to loan the government $100,000 for twenty-five years at four per cent per annum, and to pay a tax of a dollar and a half on every pawsenger carried over the line. The whole of this revenue the government ceded to Manning & Glenton in satisfaction of their claim. It therefore became the interest of this English firm to have the travel revived as soon as possible. It must be & matter of indifference to them who opens the route, if the revenue therefrom flows into their pockets; and as the Nicaraguan Legisla- ture have not confirmed this oontract with Vanderbilt; and, moreover, as the Ship Canal Company, who hold the contract, daly ratified—as before stated, and eustained by a letter of Yrisarri’s published in our columns of the 23d ult—are bound by the original charter of 1849, which has been confirmed to them by the late convention of Yrisarri and Stebbins, to pay the State of Nicargua $10,000 on the rati- fication of the contract py the Legislature, and $10,000 for every year until the canal (or rail- road, as modified by the new arrangement of June last,) is completed, besides s free dona- tion of two hundred thousand dollars worth of shares in the canal, or it ia very likely that they would bo just as pleased to oes | property, and Costa Rica admitted that she bad. | then entered into by Col Canty on behalf of SADA AS SN EE, a White & Stebbins in the enjoyment of thy 00a- tract as Commodore Vanderbilt. Thorefa™®, the English interest will probably, for a won- der, be ‘ound on the side of the ratifiration of the treaty by the Senate; and these facta may account in some degree for the favorable view which Lord Napier is said to take of the treaty. The pretext upon which the ratification by the Senate is opposed is this—that as Costa Rica owns one eide of a portion of the San Juan river, Nicaragua hes no right to make this treaty without her concurrence. To prove that this is @ mere sbam, it Is only necessary to state that Costa Rica has indubitably become a con- eenting party to the right exercised by Nica- regua in the diapoxal of the Transit route. In February last Vanderbilt's agent, Webster, made a contract with Cafias, the Costa Rican Minister of War and Marioe, to purchase the two steamers Lx Virgin and Sao Carlos, telzed by the two governments, Nicaragua acd Coste Rica. jointly, a» prizes of war from the filibusters, for $90,000, and submitted the con tract to the Nicaraguan government, with the privilege of purchaslog them over Webster's bead. Nicaragua did sot avell herself of this privilege, but obtained an ownership tn the pene ae eee 2. sssoclation have not, for Worth the ot and ty pe. mere Under the olroumstances, we cannot but 00a- gratulaw the association for devoting its oblef attention, this year, to the oysters and strawber- ries of the Mayor of Baltimore, aud to the agree- able epectaole of a ficld day with the Fiyiog Aw tiery. In these harmless pursuits they will be more at home than in the arid paths of ecience. More Corporation Frauds. The joint committee of the Common Coar cil, which has been, during several months, en- gaged in examining into the numerous cases of city defalcations, bas, it seeme, only just com- menoed ite work. Like the industrious Califor- nian miners, this committee is opening new velas and striking novel placers every day; and ®@ will soon appear plein to the people that the developements of pablic fraud, robbery, chica- nery and corruption already made are bat trifling when compared. with those whioh this devoted city has really suffered: It will be remembered that a short time elnce # small nugget, of the value of nine thoa- sand dollars; was found in the pocket of Heary Erben—an upright reformer, stern in his integ- rity as @ Roman father. This was discovered. in excavating and ventilating the extension of Canal and the widening of Walker street. It is now stated that there is a still richer lode of corruption underrunning the improvement of Pearl street and the opening of the new Bowery. The extent of the several placer in this new mine has not yet been quite defined, but they have already netted not less than forty thousand dollars. Iadeed, in the case of any street opening, your reepectable operator will not look at leas than thirty or forty thousend dollars clear profit from the job. Anything less is low, vulgar, and a waste of time If the whole Bareau of Street Improve mente for the past ten years should be opened to the public, with all its secret history, there would be such an uprising of popular indigna- tion as has never been acen before in any civil- ized community. The community bas not forgotten the charm- ing case of Mr. “Chemung Smith,” the confiden- tial clerk of the “watoh-dog of the treasury,” Mr. Comptroller Flagg. It wiil be remembered that while the watch dog aforesaid was basking in the warm sun of office, or catching flies at noonday, or rabbing his paws over a few sbil- lings extravagance in stationery for the Alder- men, other dogs, youpger and buogrier, were making free with the kitchen, and seizing the joints from the spit. These circumstances have opened a splendid quartz view for the miners of the , snd those who are now en- gaged in following up this vein think that, with Cbemung Smith and all, it will net at least teven hundred thousand dollars, But these are only email items—drops in the great bucket of corruption. If we take a short retrospect, say ten years, and make a caloala- tion within bounds, we may safely say that the amount stolen by Corporation defaulters will net be less than an average of two millions per sa- bum, or over twenty millions for the whole time. During that period the amount to be raised by taxation has tripled, and the loading items of excess are precisely those whiok give the ficest opportunity for plander. Thus the Corporation defaulters and swindlors have robbed us of a sufficient sum to lay out the Central Park, to build a new City Hall, to open & new Broadway from one end of the city to the otber, to refine, adorn and beautify the metropolis in every low and infected quar- ter—apd we have nothing to show for the mo- ney—absolutely nothing The beautification of the city is the work of private hands, the streets aud avenues are only preserved in a moderate- ly clean condition by drafts upon private purses, Every department of the government isin @ dilapidated condition. Tho most im- portant—that of Finance—is in the greatest disorder. Here we find that some of the ledgers are twenty-five cent paper books, such as those with which prudent housewives keep their butcher's tally, and bought undoubtedly by the Comptroller to save the city’s monay, His splendid ideas of economy bave opened the way to scenes of fraud, robbery, plunder and corruption altogether unprecedented. The con- fusion amongst the books, papers, records and documents of the city is as far beyond desorip- tion as it exceeds parallel With commendable pride in our national glory we are often given to drawing parallels between our happy condition and the distressed state of the down-trodden millions of Europe. Let as for a moment indulge in the laxury of a comparison between the goveroment of the city of Paris, where “a bloody miaded des- pot” sits upon the throne, and the froe city of New York, where the people alone are sove- reign. In 1847-'48 there was a peaceable revo- tion in this State. The constitution was amended, or rather renewed; the city likewise was establisbed in business, with a new charter. The rule of democracy was adopted; every de- partment was placed under a separate head, which plan was supposed to embody the beau ideal of everything that was pure and bonest. About the eame time the people of France elected Louis Napoleon to be their President. He found the department system in existence, and speedily instituted a one man power by making himself Emperor. While he did not forget the provinces, he still remembered that Paris was France. He improved and beaati- fied the gay capital so that it could hardly be recognized by Its best frienda A great park, with sylvan shades, murmuring waterfalls, emooth roads and glassy lakes sprung up be- yond the barriers, Old districts were swept away by magic, and noble avenues filled tho place of dirty lanes. A splendid boulevart opens the city from end to end. The streets are scrupulously clean; the police unequalled; publio order is preserved with the strictness of @ private household. To the citizen and sojourner the law gives gives protection, quiet, rafety, comfort. The rowdy element is an- known. The people are taxed, but they re- ceive something for their money. They live in the best governed city in the world; bat, alast the horrible deprivation!—they must not talk politics. On the other hand, look at our imperial city of New York. We have no government; we are plandered on every hand; our lives are constantly in danger from villains vomited oat by Vigilance Committees California, or grown upon onr own frui il. The Em- peror of the French makes the Bois da Boulogne in @ year, whilst we quarrel for ten or twenty years over the Central Park, with the prospect of « failure at the end. Our law Is incompetent to protect or to punieh; but we are free, we aright to one-third of it, A convention was Costa Rica and Gregorio Juarez on the part of Nicaragua, which gave the latter Stato, in case Webster’s contract did not take effect, the rigbt to dispose of tho steamers in order to fa- cilitate whatever contract she may make {a reapect to the Transit, provided that she piid Costa Rica two-thirds of the price obtained for them. This certainly recognizes the right of Nicaragua to the control of the Transit route, and demolishes the sham of the opposition in Wasbington. Nicaragua assumes nothing that bas not been conceded to her by Costa Rica, and this fact reduces the opposition to the rati- fication of the Cass-Yrisarri treaty by the Se- nate to its proper dimensions, of an individual movement for personal ends, It ie of the utmost importance that this treaty should be ratified for many reasons. It virtaally abrogates the absurd Clayton-Bulwer treaty ; it is in fact the beginning of a settlement of all the Central American difficulties and estangle- ments, and will be the means of opening the travel across the Isthmus. We hope the atates men in the Senate will discriminate between the interests of the country and those of a set of speculators, when the treaty comes before them for confirmation, The influence of the lobby and the lobby newspapers will, we trust, not avail in retarding the ratifica- tion of an act so essential to the interests, not only of this country, but of all civilized na- tions. The preeent disorganized condition of Central Americas, ang the coasequent obstruction of the route between the two oceans, aro serious evils, which should not be endured a day longer. The ratification of the Cass-Yrisarri treaty will accomplish the opening of the Transit roate im mediately, if our government insists upon it, as it should do, and it will facilitate vastly the settlement of all the troubles in the Central American republics, MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION POR Tux ADVANCEMENT oF Sctsnce.—This body has been In session at Baltimore for some days, but the papers have little or nothing to say about it. There is a good reason for this, A few years ago the meetings of the asso- ciation were instructive, and beneficial to the cause of eclence. The first men in the country assembled at the annual gatherings, and grave topice were searchingly discussed. Discoveries of signal value in the practical sciences, and ingenious advances in those branches of scieace of which the value is rather prospective than ac taal, were disclosed to the world at these meet- ings. It was an honor to belong to the associa- tion in thove days, and a privilege to sit and listen to the debates. Then, the country could safely bonat that it had a body of scientific men which could compare with the great scientifl: ascociations of the Earopean countries, All this bas been changing latterly, The greatest of our scientific mon, Agassiz, Bache and their compeers are either withdrawiag from the association altogether, or taking a mere secoudary part in ite proceedings. It is evi- dent that the interest they once felt in it is dying out. Some, no doubt, are growing old, and cease to feel the noble emulation which used to fire them in the Intellectual coatests of which the sseociation was the the scene. But the great proportion of the leading men sho are neglecting the associstion have withdrawn their aid in disgust. They have seen the time of the body coneumed day after day fn frivolous dicussions on matters of mere personal vanity and pique. They have been bored to death by efaborate inqniries as to whether it was Professor Smith or Professor Jones who discovered the hairs on fleas tails They bave been asbamed of sitting ani listening to indecent squabbles between ill-bred aad igno- rant men who ought never to have been suffered to take seats on the floor of the assoota- tion. And they have felt satisfied that a body which could afford a couple of days to a noisy brawl between two nincompoops was not a fit audience to receive the aublime results of the studies of an Agasiz or a Bache. Again, the association has been hurt by the rivalry of cliques into which it was divided There are probably no class of men more jea- lous of each other or more swall minded in their spite than second rate men of science. Venom is distilled from the lips of a college professor in the most concentrated form. Take awey a dozen gentlemen from the rank and file of the members of the association, and the others were always dying to abuse their col- leagues in private. Some one has said that mathematicians are the best haters; naturalista, geologists, and astronomers can hold their own at that business pretty well. Among such men aa these, the annual meeting was a mere occa sion and pretext for a general outpouring of envy, malice, and all uncharitablencaa, Bat the cbief reason why the annual gather- inge of the aseoctation have ceased to be of wuffictent public interest to warrant reports in the leading papers is the futility of the labors of the body. It may be said broadly that for the past three or four years the transactions of the nesociation have been Of no earthly use to any one. The really important anbjects which have come before them, as for instanee, the eb ject of uniform weights, measures, and coinage, have been put off from year to year, and the time of the mesting has principally been devoted to puerile and frivolous questions of specalative sclence. Every professor has been allowed to alr his private foolishnen, while the great in- tereata of eclence have been — oo the exception of the extraate which have read from Bache’s coast surveys, and Agassia’s Great work now la course of publication, the . Ce a ee ol eee Coes ie a oe ee