The New York Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1858, Page 6

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Subscriptions and advertisements for any odition of the Naw Yors Hann will be received at the following places tm Europe — Lomvos ,,. .Samson Low, Son & Oo. 47 I, hint. bo., 61 King William st. ee ‘Am. -Karopean Express Co.,8 Place de la Bourse | Levemroot..Am.-European Express Co., 9 Chapel etreet. ‘R Seuart, 10 Exchange street, Fast. +++ 4m.-Buropean Express Oo. , 21 Rue Corneiile, The contents of the European edition of the Axraip will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and up to the hour of Pobiication. The News. But little of importance happened in Congress yesterday. The Senate was engaged in discussing NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY Il, 18)8—TRYPLE SHEET. | mination by Justice Welsh. Hamilton is not dan- gerously woun ed. At a meeting of the Brooklyn Common Council last evening a communication was received from Mayor Powell vetoing the ordinance abolishing the voluntary fire department and establishing one on the paid system in its stead. The Mayor's action was based mainly upon the ground that the Common Council had no power by law to abolish the depait- ment. The statement in some of the morning journals, that @ warrant was issued for the arrest of Julge Ras- sell, and that papers impeaching his official conduct have been sent to the Governor at Albany, is a fabrication. No action whatever has been taken in regard to the complaint made by Mr. Darcie. The complaint against Dean & Salter, publishers of the Golden Prize, who were arrested on a war- rant issued by the Mayor and sent to the City « Judge for a preliminary examination, was dismissed yesterday, the Judge being of the opinion that they had committed no offence by offering a gift to induce parties to subscribe for their paper. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Mary Spillen, an cld shoplifter, was convicted of petit lar- ceny, having stolen a piece of silk from Hugh Kelly. She was sent to the penitentiary forsix months. Ma- thew Obman was convicted of bigamy in marrying Elizabeth Miller while his first wife was alive. The defence made an unsuccessful attempt to prove that he wasan idiot. Judge Russell sentenced him to two years imprisonment in the State prison. Harris Solo- mon wasacquitted of acharge of assault and battery, preferred by Nicholas Fink. Chas. White and Wm. Saunders, jointly indicted with a man named Blumen- thal, were convicted of burglary in the third degree. having broken into the store of Louis Cuneo, Canal street, on the 13th of April, and stealing a large quantity of boots and shoes, which were found in their possession. Saunders, being an old offender, and known to the police as a desperate burglar, was agnt to the State prison for five years. White was sent to the penitentiary for two years, it being his first offence. The Grana Jury presented a batch of indictments for burglary and robbery, to which the prisoners pleaded not guilty,and were remanded for trial. The case of the people against Thomas N. Carr, charged with libelling the Counsel to the Cor- poration, was set down for to-morrow. The cotton market was irregular yesterday, while the sales footed up about 1,000 bales, on the basis of about lke. a 12sec. for middling uplands, while no straight lines of middling uplands were to be hed under the latter figure. Flour exbibited no signs of improvement, while sales were fair, including some lots for export. The mar- ket cloeed at about yesterday’s quotations. Wheat was also heavy and irregular, with moderate salos at prices given in another place. Corn was ecarcer and firmer for good sousd qualities iu shipping order. Sales of yellow were made at ‘5c. a 76c., and of mixed white at 70c. Pork was heavy, | with eales of mess at $18, check on the day, and at $18 26 usual way: prime in a large lot, cheek on the day, was of- fered at $14 60; in small lots it was held at $14 75. Sa- gars were steady, while transactions in hogshoad: were confined to a few hundred, and about 1,500 boxes wero sold at rates given in another column. Coffee was quiet and saleslimited. Freights continued firm and grain to Liverpool was again higher, with more doing. About 50,000 bushels were engaged at 8d. $i¢d. a 9d. in Dulk and bag:, and engagements of rosin and flour were maie ‘the bill repealing the fishing bounties. An amend- ment that the bounties cease on December 31, 1859, was proposed by Mr. Allen, of Rhode Island, which ‘was turther amended by Mr. Hamelin, of Maine, fixing December, 1865, a8 the time for the payment of bounties to cease, but no action was taken on either proposition. Quite a number of new subjects were etarted in the House, none of them, however, of feneral interest. Post Office, Ocean Mail Steamer, Deficiency and supplementary Indian Appropria- tion bills were reported by the Committee of at 2s, 6d. The ship Time was chartered out to Valpariaso for $9,500. AOS My eA ADA No, The Proposed Bank Association. The reader will find elsewhere an article from the Richmond Enquirer, cavilling at the pro- posed scheme for the association of the New York city banks. Part of the scheme the Hy- quirer misapprebends; the rest it ignorantly condemns. The circulation of the New York city bank notes would be the smallest part of ‘Ways and Means. The Military Academy Appro- priation bill was passed, aa was also the bill granting further time for the President to examine the records of the Naval Courts of Inquiry, with the view to the restoration of certain naval officers. The bill compensating owners of slaves carried off by the British during the war of 1812 was discussed. The New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Balti- more appointments were sent to the Senate yester- day, but were not acted on. A large number of ap- pointments were confirmed, principally those made during the recess of Congress, including Marshals, District Attorneys, Land Officers and Postmasters. We have news from Camp Scott, Utah Territory, to the 30th of March. No movement of importance had taken place, as General Johnston was awaiting | the errival of Captain Marcy from New Mexico with | supplies of animals. The health of the troops was wery satisfactory. We continue this morning our reports of the an niversary meetings. They embrace the proceedings | of the Beamen’s Friend Society, the Vive Points | Mission, the New York Young Men's Coristian | the proposed reform: and as to issuing notes from the branches of the association, no one ever thought of such a thing. As an associa- tion, the confederated body would be no more a bank of issue than the Anguirer is. And 60 far from its being in the power or the policy of State Legislatures to interfere with the arrange- ment suggested, they couldn’t interfere if they would, and if they could, they would not. ° It is the governance, equalization and regula- tion of the exchanges which require the organi- zation of ® bank confederacy at this point. Ever since we began to have a domestic com- | merce, the domestic exchanges have been in the | hanés of private bankers, who have always been at least as unreliable as private mercantile | firms, and who have often been utterly untrast- worthy. ‘They bave been the first to goin time of trouble, and the last to revive. The revul- sion of 1837 was inaugurated by the break up absurd and ludicrous. The fable of the frog and the ox must bave been forgotten in Viginia. As to the New York banks usurping a finan- cial empire over the rest of the oountry, pray, what are they now but the chief of American finance? The monopoly is established. The empire is founded. The money is here. It is from this centre that all the enterprises which give life to the uttermost parts of” the country derive their vitality. It is here that all the surplus Virginia produce is bought and paid for. It is here that the projectors of all the railroads in Virginia come to sell their stocks and bonds, and it is not re- ported of them that when they make their ap- pearance in Wall street, with their hat in one hand and their bonds in the other, they are prone to say much about the despotic control of New York. They take their money and are wisely silent. Let the country papers follow the example. We want nothing more than to regulate and organize, in some methodical fashion, that financial supremacy which is al- ready acquired by us; and if our own banks will only forego their jealousics, the thing will be done without regard to provincial appre- hensions, Tue Fort Syewina Reservation—Justice To wHom Justick 1s Dvr.—Elsewhere will be found the report of the House Committee ap- pointed to investigate the sale of the Fort Snell. ing Reservation. Although the facts of the case may be said to lie in a nutshell, it will be seen from the space which they are made to oc- cupy that they have been swelled into propor- tions to which they have no claim. We have all along endeavored to keep this case stripped of the mystifications and exaggerations with which for party purposes it has been sought to invest it. The committee have arrived at pre- cisely the same conclusions as our own, but they have arrived at them in a somewhat different manner. We helped the public to the truth free of charge; the committee have rehashed it to them at a cost which, at the lowest calcu- lation, will amount to about half the price stipulated to be paid for the lands comprised in this reservation. So much for the perversions and falsifications of party journals having no interest but that of villifying and damaging their op- ponents. Here was a negotiation simple enough in itself, and involving no very difficult calculations, distorted into a gross fraud upon the government. It required but the slightest in- vestigation to demonstrate its true character; but yet this inquiry has been made to cost the coun- try a sum utterly disproportionate to the value of the interests at stake. It will of course add another to the numerous items of idle and un- profitable expenditure in which the revenues of the country are annually squandered. On perusing the evidence laid before the committee one is astonished at the boldness with which the conditions of thie bargain are denounced. The number of acres within the reservation bounda- ries are stated to be between seven and eight thousand, including land, water and marsh. Of this amount there are, according to Major East- man, about a thousand acres of irreclaimable marsh, leaving of fair land between six and seven thousand acres, for which the government is to receive between $12 and $14 an acre. Will any land agent or farmer take upon himself to say that this, considering the situation, is not what most experienced men would consider a fancy price? But another question arises out of this con- tract, which, after all the fuss that has has been made about the matter, the purchasers of the land may feel inclined to test. By statutory provision, the maximum price which the govern- ment is allowed to fix upon the public lands is | only a dollar and quarter an acre. By what | right, then, has it extorted from the purchasers of the Fort Snelling reservation a value so usuriously exceeding that attached to it by law? | After the manner in which Messrs, Schell, | Mather and Steele have been treated we should | not be surprised to see those gentlemen turning | round upon the government and disputing the | conditions of their bargain. The instalment foole? them with the stiadow of the beef in the water, while the solid article itself was passing over the bri@ge to appease the hungry stomachs of the Kansaa anti-slavery party; but it will not be long before our fire-eating Southern champions of Southern rights and Southern equality will discover the important fact that the great field of agricultural labor of these United States covers two climates—the white man’s climate and the black man’s climate—the zone of free white labor and the zone of African slave labor; and that wherever black slave labor occupies or attempts to occupy the zone of free white labor, the experiment must fail, and vice versa. That is the “higher law” of slavery—a good deal higher than the “higher law” of Mr. Seward or the “higher law” of the fire-eaters. Devisy’s Devirrres.—If we may believe the reports of the examining committees, the de- grading coufessions of poor old Flagg, and the judicial developements upon the subject, then we must admit that the late Street Inspector Devlin is a perfect beauty in his way. Accord- ing to theee confessions of Flagg and the dis- closures of Judge Roosevelt, the most bare- Union, and the Union Theological Seminary. | of the exchanges between ihis and New Or- A meeting of the members of the American Tract | Jeane; that of 1857 was commenced by the Boeiety, gpposed to the action of the Executive Com- | failure of the principal exchange bankers be- | which they have already paid being sufficient to | cover the legal maximum price of the reserva- | tion, they may take it into their heads to refuse mittee of the Society, was held last evening in the Mercantile Library, Astor place. Mr. John Tappan presided, and the meeting was addressed by Judge | Hornblower, Rev. Dr. Tyng, Judge Jessup, Rev. Dr. | Thompson, and others. Mr. Lewis Tappan main- | tained that the tract printed last year by the Society, | throughout the South, was a most pernicious docu- | ment,and be considered that Providence had ar- the blow came from the private banking houses which had charge of the internal exchanges. There is no reason to suppose that the persons who were individually responsible for these ac- dishonest than such people usually are; it is contrary to experience to expect individuals rested its circulation among the slave owners. The | doing business without legislative check, and meeting adjourned till this morning, without coming | to any definite arrangement as to the course they | will pursue at the meeting of the Society on Wednes- day next. Details of the European advices received by the Vanderbilt are published in our paper this morning. | ‘The limited statistics relative to the effects of the Iste financial crisis, both in England and the north of Barope, given in the London journals, convey | some idea of the consequences of the mighty money | crash which took place last year. Admiral Carden, of the royal navy, who commanded the [agli«h ship Macedonia when she was fought and taken by the American frigate United States, died in Ireland lately. A French war vessel, having on board « captain of hydrographers, had run up the Hoglish + Channel! to the great alarm of the people of Wales, from whom her captain wished to purchase some coal The Koglish Channel! fieet was being organized. We have advices from Antigua to the 12th of April. The Solicitor General, speaking of the late negro riots in the city, in the House of Assembly on the th ultimo, said:—" This outbreak was not the birth of a momentary dissatisfaction or disappoint ment, bat of well organized, premeditated disobe Gience to constituted authority; that there existed for a long period a feeling of resentment on the part of the worthleas and disaffected portion of the labor. ing body of the city against the honest and obe dient, and the settled and avowed purpose to over ‘awe and subjugate the upper class of the commu nity to their desire.” Quiet prevailed at last date The Board of Aldermen met last evening. The new Street Commissioner, Mr. Cooper, communica ted to the Board his reasons for depriving Mr. Joseph R. Taylor of authority to collect assessments. The Jeter of Mr. Cooper is given in our report of the pro ceedings, a+ is also a letter from the Counsel to the Corporation sustaining the views and opinion of the Street Commissioner. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening. Resolutions directing the heads of the warious departments of the city government to suly mite report of the condition of their respective Dureaus were adopted. The Harlem Railroad Com pany was directed to run amal! cars to Forty.« wtreet as often as they run them to Twenty ¢ mn nth ptreet. ‘The saloon No. 71 West Broadway was the scene of a shooting affray yesterday morning, between a megro named William Hamilton and a white man mamed Job Carley, in which the former was shot in controlling such enormous interests as are con- fided to the domestic exchange bankers, to be conspicuous for prudence, foresight, or safety. The rule is the other way. Therefore has it seemed proper —considering the immense importance of uniform, regular and } uninter: \pted ‘nancial intercourse between New York and ite . estic customers on the one hand, and Nev © ork and its foreign correspon- dents on the oi, .—that the management and governance of | at intercourse should be taken out of the hands of the private houses which now monopolize it, and, as is the case with re gard to foreign exchange at New Orteans at the present time, that all the exchanges should be regulated by the banks, as the highest financial power in the city. We believe that the adop- tion of thie plan would greatly tend to lessen the chances of revulsions, and that, while each bank was free to transact ite private business of discounting and issuing paper, as it pleased, the condition of all would be strengthened by the association. Nor can we conceive how this plan would injure the country banks or reqnire the protecting intervention of State Legislatures jealous of New York. The country bank busi- nese would go on just as before, and as nobody. anywhere, would be obliged to do business with the assoriated banks or their branches, it is hard to see who would be so badly hurt as to feel like calling on the Legislatures for redress. \ This whine « New York which we see in certain papers like the Richmond Lnqvirer. is the baldest trash. New York was made the commercial centre o the Union by nature and the energy of her peo ple. Virginia was made a fine agricultural State: and when all of her people think more about work and less about politics and horse racing, she may be the France of the Union. Norfolk can no more contend with New York then any cove in the Hebrides can contend with London: The allotment has been madg: to one. commer- cial and metropolitan supremacy—to the other, honorable and promising mediocrity. Every | day necessarily increases the distance bmtween them. Every hour New York grows more and {tween this and the West. In both cases, | ;,, pay the other two instalments, on the ground | that the government has no right to alter the regulations made by Congress for the sale of the public lands. It is not improbable that a court of law would sustain them in this opinion; tion, the country may be deprived of the ad. vantages of a bargain which all impartial per- sons must pronounce to have been an equitable one. Mixsesota any Orgcox ano THE Brack Rervwsicans—The opposition of the nigger worshippers in Congress to the admission into | the Union of those two new free States, Minne- sota and Oregon, affords another striking illus tration of their utter disregard of principles or consistency, when consistency or principle does not suit their party purposes. Some of them are opposed to the Minnesota constitution be- | cause it allows to aliens the right of suffrage; | some are oppored to it on account of its restric- tions against free niggers; and, in addition to these objections in the case of Oregon, at least one black republican Senator oppores her constitution hecanse it puts Joho Chinaman in the same category with negroes end Indians an arrangement which is, in fact, a very wise one. The experience of California with the Chinese has aluadantly shown that they are no more fit to be assimilated with, or admitted on a footing of equality into a white community than negroes or Indians. But all these objections of our Northern nig ger worshippers to the State constitutions of Minnesota and Oregon are mere pretexte and subterfuges. Their real objection is the ascen dency of the democratic party in both these embryo States. This objection is particularly ap- plicable to Minnesota, where, under a postpone- ment of the act of admission, the republicans might possibly oust the two democratic United States Senetors already clected to represent that State. and substitute a puir of a more satisfactory stripe of goods. But all this | amount fo | trifling ond artful dodging will nothing. The two new States must come in and as democratic States; and our nigger wor shippers may as well consent to it at once, be- cause there is no help for it. On the other hand we perceive that, in re- ference to Kansas, some of our Southern fire- eating philosophers are endeavoring to accom- plish the work of extracting sunbeams from the encumber ; but if they can make a slive State he thigh with @ pistol in the hands of the latter. more the inevitable centre of the New World. of Kansas, under the English bill, they are quite Corley was taken into custody by policeman Darett, Every minute the chances of the small country welcome. We fear, though, that they will find © the Fifth precinct, amd was committed for exa | towns rivalling this metropolis become more | out, before a year is over, that Mr. English has ‘ faced, unblushing and impudent rascalities, in the shape of frauds, corruptions and embezzle- ments of the public money, have been for some time past reduced to a regular system of opera- tions in the Street Department. There never was apything like it, perhaps, in the way of open robbery and roguery in any city in the civilized world. The facts would seem to be absolutely incredible if they were not support- ed by an array of proofs which are as astounding as the rascalities themselves. A gang of thieves placed over the city treasury, with full autho- rity to appropriate all it coatained and all that might come into it, could hardly have made w cleaner job of it. Look, for instance, at the case of that par- ticular official pet of Master Flagg—a special pet, with a salary of twelve hundred a year, sporting bis yacht and « stud of fast horses, and other luxuries that would tax the income of a principality; and all this going on under the very nose of our imbecile Comptroller, whose re- putation for honesty has so long shut the eyes of the community to his utter incompetency. Was there ever anything like this before in bra- zen impudence and stupid confidence? Was there ever a confidence game more successfully played by the most remorseless Peter Funk with the greenest country bumpkin? What are we coming to? From the sweeping official corruptions of this city, which swallow up our increased taxes, though increased by millions every year; and from similar eviden- ces, more or less, from the municipal disclosures of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and other places, of the most scandalous demorali- zation, we might answer that it is evident that our whole sytem of popular institutions is ra- pidly going to th’ dogs. At all events, so far as this city is concerned we must plead guilty to the indictment of the leading European jour- nale that our popular system of municipal gov- ernment is a failure, and that it is now a ques tion whether a rigid but responsible despotism like that of Paris, would not be preferable to the loose and irresponsible government of rogues and rascals by which New York is taxed and plundered. What say our taxpaying fel- low citizens to a publie meeting in view of the example of San Francisco’ Talking will avail nothing without action, Tux Question or ApvERTISING.—Some of the journals in the interior of the State and else- where have discovered a new phase of mental aberration—to wit, the insanity of advertising. The ehief victim of this new form of delirium is the extraordinary Bonner, who publishes the literary weekly called the Jedyer, and who advertises it so extensively as to make the journals ask Ts the man who pays these enormous amounts for ad- See ee eee the bu- sincss men do not advertise at ally The subject has attracted a great deal of at- tention on all hands, and has even attracted the attention of the Wall street press; more than that. it has absolutely waked up our slow old friend Aminadab Sleek of the Journal of Com- merce, Who has just found ont that somebody has been doing something out of the common way, and cannot exactly make it eut. Some- body, it is quite certain, is crazy on this adver- tising point, and we are quite willing to give Aminadab Sleck, and all others, as much light as we can upon #0 important a subject. It will and which the meeting had resolved to distribute | cidente, were, in either case, more reckless and | ana thus, owing to the malicions fuss that has | he necessary to look into the philosophy and been made about a perfectly simple transac- | facts of the case:-— We have heard that when the remarka- ble Bonner took hold of the Ledger it was a small and not over profitable eoncern. He originated a new and original system of ad- vertising, which has had many imitators in a ‘small way. Public attention was directed | to the paper, and its sales speedily increased. | Finally came the great financial crisis, Every- body cut off the luxuries. The newspaper and book trade was much depressed. The publishers | generally bent before the storm, publishing nothing, selling nothing, advertising nothing. Most of the old fashioned merchants and traders | followed the same course, taking in sail and re- | lapsing into a state of stagnation. A few, how- | ever, had the boldness to take a different course. | Bonner was crazy enough to advertise still more | extensively thau ever, filling column after column with the announcements of the contents of bis paper. Other men—arechitects of their | own fortunes—such merchants as Alexander Stuart, aleo increased their advertising expenses | during the crisis. Some of the wholesale dry goods men moved up to Broadway, scattered their advertivements broadcast through the columns of the Hrnatp, sold off their stocks of goods at retail for cash on the nail, and were ready to meet their payments. But of all these insane persons Bonner was the worst. The melancholy result of his insanity is that his paper not only sustained its circulation through the hard times, but increased it to a considera- | ble extent—that, notwithstanding the “enor. mous amounts” which he pays for advertising, he is a rich man, with a country house, two or three fast horses, Xc., &e., and we soon expect to eee him sailing his own yacht, and making | more of a show than Chemung Smith himself; and that without robbing the Corporation of a penny. Now, look at the old fogy traders who did | not advertise at all, or who gave their sixpenny | worth to Aminidab Sleek and his sleepy friends in Wallstreet. Where are they now? Smashed— irretrievably, irrevocably smashed, and obliged to give way to younger men, who will not be crazy enough to walk in the old way. The public will judge as to the crazy ones from the facts in the cace. It will make up its mind that there is a good deal of method in the madness of the extraordinary Bonner, which brings him inaclear profit of twenty-five or thirty thousand doffars per annum, and aliows him to pay all his great expenses with cash down besides, It will soon be understood, even hy the old fogies of Wall strect, that the busi- ness men of the present day are soiving the im- portant secret of how, when and where to ad- vertise, and that the old system is being swept away by the influence of the independent press. An adverfisement in the New York Henatp, the London Timea, or the Paris Constitutionnel travels over all the world, while the same an- nouncement hidden in the Journal of Commerce serves only as an opiate for some sleepy old fogy in a dusky counting room. Who are the crazy men?—Bonner, who ad- vertise# a great deal, or the old fogie+ who advertise not at all? Tux GovERNMewr axp tHe Mormons.—It appears that there is now every reason to believe that the volunteer additions to the army autho- rized by Congress will not be needed in the work of the reduction of the Mormons to law and | sel of war.has been in our harbor several days, order. It is expected that the force of Col. Johnston, together with the reinforcements, munitions and provisions en rowe to his camp at Fort Bridger, will be quite sufficient for the: purposes‘of the expedition. We presume that the original calculations of the military strength, resources and extensive Indian alliances of Brig- ham Young, for offensive operations, have been very materially cut down under the official in- quiries eubsequently instituted by the govern- ment, and that the administration, after pre- paring for all the poscible contingencies of a fierce rebellion, has discovered that there has been. an immense amount of humbuggery in the blowing and crowing and terrible threats of the Mormon Bombastes Furioso. The force now on the way to the Great Salt Lake will, therefore, answer all the purposes of the administration, as well, perhaps, 26.an army of twenty thousand men. The net results of the expedition will most probably be the re- treat, for a season, of Brigham Youmg and his hierarchy, and their prolific harems, seross our northern boundary into the British possessions, and the submission of the bulk of the Mormons remaining behind to the laws and civil authori- ties of the federal government, without resistance, It has been reported that, under the auspiccs of Colonel Kinney (“Monsieur Tonsen come again”), a contract has been entered into under which the Mormons are to undertake the regene- ration of the Nicaragua Mosquito coast. Should this report turn out to be true, we may next ex- pect to hear of the advent of Brigham at Grey- town, and the gradual ingathcring there of his Saints, as fast as they ean sell out and settle up their affairsin Utah. In default of some such arrangement, considering the hostility of the British government to the detestable polygamy of the Latter Day Saints, the next move of the Prophet will most likely be to some clusier of islands in the Pacific Ocean, where his comma- nity may be tolerated by the civilized World. on account of their complete isolation, and in: view of their services to. commerce. At all events, the substantial removal of the Mormon nuisance from the Territories of the United States, or its extinction, will be a settled question within the next three or four months. In this respect the folly of Fillmore and the imbecility of poor Pierce will soon be amply atoned for in the decisive action of Mr. Buchanan. Tur Mayor axp tae Swixptine Iysrrre- | Tions.—It seems that all Mayor Tiemann’s efforts to break up the swindling institutions of New York—the gambling houses, lottery poli cies, mock auctions, and houses of ill fame—are strenuously opposed by nearly all the other criminal authorities. A few days ago the Mayor’s squad succeeded in arresting quite a batch of gamblers in different portions of the city; but the Recorder discharged them from custody next day. The Recorder, we believe, thinks that the police cannot make such arrests without warrants from a magistrate. If he is going to let loose all the rascals picked up by the Mayor’s squad, on this ground, he will be doing an illegal act. The ninth section of the Metropolitan Police law authorizes the police on a simple order of any Police Commissioner to enter a gambling house and arrest every one found there; and the sare section makes it the duty of the magistrate be- fore whom the parties may be brought for examination to send them before the proper criminal court for trial, “it there shall be any probable cause for believing that any of such persons were in such premises for the purposes of gaming.” The Recorder discharged the pereons above alluded to on the ground that they were not caught in the act of gambling; but was there not probable cause for believing that they were there for that purpose? What else were they there for? It is quite useless for the Mayor to carry on his crusade against these swindling operations if his brethren in the magistracy, instead of sustaining him, only en- deavor to thwart him on all occasions. As for the Metropolitan Police, these institu- tions are carried on by their connivance. They are in league with them, protect them, patro- nize them, and profit by them. The late Mayor attempted to suppress the gambling houses and mock auctions, but he too found his designs frus- trated by the other authorities and by the po- lice; so he gave the matter up in deapair. It is the same now with Mr. Tiemann ns it was with Mr. Wood, and the result will, in all pro- bability, be similar. Not only are the police in league with the gamblers, lottery policy dealers, and mock ane- tioneers, but they do not even protect the citi- zens of New York in their lives and properties from the aseaults of rowdies. Every day and everyhight we hear of gangs of ruifians enter- ing dining saloons and eating houses, filling their bellies with the choicest viands on the bill of fare, and washing them down with copious libations; and if the proprietor dares to ask them for payment they fall upon him, beat him un- mercifully, and smash all hie glasses and depan- ters, and the police are nowhere to be found. This is the way New York is governed under the Metropolitan Police act, and all the inde- pendent irresponsible departments; and we may hope for no improvement until the Mayor is ac- tually, as well as nominally, the chief magistrate. Crimixat Proskevrions against Fixaxcrat Swivocens.—We alluded the other day to be ct that some of the more conspicuous Oe oetalion of the flush times which preceded the late revulsion would shortly be called to ao- count for their misdeeds in courts of justice. The public will be glad to know that the pnos- pect will shortly be realized. Some of the honest and fair dealing financiers of Wall street—for there are some left even in that loca bity—pro- pose to endeavor to have a thorough investiga- tion of some of the more outrageous of the alleged frauds which precipitated the revulsion ; and before many days elapse we may have a legal case pending whieh shall once more fix aly eyes upon the courts 0: justice. It is to be hoped that tRe example wil! be ful- lowed by others, Especially shonid the most mysterious, inexplicable and seemingly shock- ing case of the Ohio Life and Traet Company give rise to some legal investigetion. There never wae a frand in all our finenciad Wistory which did 40 mugh mischief or compaased so much ruin as the foiture of that concerm. It would be of tafinitely dangerous consequence if its catastrophe were allowed to pasa without at least an effort te discover whether or noit was ruined by fraud, and if it was who was the author of the fraad. The ruineds creditors of the Ohio Life and Trust Company owe it to themselves and to the country to proceed at once to lay the facts Lefore the Grand Jury. AnnivaL or THe Sraniso Sram Frigate Buaseo px Ganay.—This beautifel Spanish vee and has attracted considerable notice. She is commanded by Capt. Claudio Alvar Gonzales, who is « gallant and brave officer. Et was this vessel, and her present gailant and brave com- maander, with the officers and men ander his charge, who succeeded in rescuing the steam- ship Illinois from her perilous situation on a | reef and saving a large amount of Califorhia treasure, and who at the time reecived tire con- gratulations of the captain and aif'on board of the Fiinois, This handsome and gallant act of the brave officers and men in charge of the Spanish frigate, also elicited the praise of the prees of the country at the time. As the Blasco de Garay will be in our waters some days, we hope to see those national courtesies usual an such oceasions extended to Commander Gon- zeles and those under his charge, as an-aoknow- ledgment of their praiseworthy conduct towards an American steamer in perilous distress, and freighted as she was with a great nuneber of humaa lives and valuable treasure. Tucriow Ween's Derexce py a Froam— The Hon. Massa Greeley comes up magnani- mously to the defence of Thurlow Weed: re- specting that tariff lobby fee of five thousand doliare. He argues that if Thurlow did get the money, being neither a member of Congress nor a newspaper editor at the time, but only a pro- feesional lobby man, the operation was a legiti- mate business affair. Very well. Have we seid anything to the contrary? We only com tend that Thurlow is a lobby man and pipe, layer, and that “all is fish that comes into hie his net,” which being conceded, puts an end to the controversy. The Hon. Massa Greeley, however, by way of an offset, finds some com- fort in the discovery that our newspaper cotem- poraries have very little to say in the way of fiat- tery for the New York Hers; but when they ean say of us that we have pocketed a lobby fee of five thousand deiiars, or have acted as the go-between in @ suspicious lobby draft of a thoa- sand dollars, or have raised » Slievegammon subscription of $50,000 for the work of revole- tionizing Ireland and have given no account of the money, or that we have collected a fund of hundred thousand for “bleeding Kansas’ without rendering in any account of its die bursement, we shall be ready to capitulate te the lobby, to Thurlow Weed. the incorraptible, and to the Hou. Massa Greeley. Beaus TrixGraru Rerorts—One of our morning cotemporaries has published a telegra- phic report from Washington to-the effect that | Mtr. John Nugent, editor of a California paper, isnow at Washington, a candidate for a fat federal oflice in that State, and that his prin- cipal reliance with the administration is the sup- pest of his claims by the New York Henranp, This is all news to us, and, so far as thisjournal is concerned, it is all staf. Some twelve or fourteen years ago, during the administration of Mr. Polk, Mr. Nugent was engaged for some months as one of the Washington correspondents of this journal, With the breaking out of the California epidemic he was carried off to that country, and, from that day to this we have searcely heard of him, except through the columns of his paper. We had supposed him successful as a journalist; but his appearance now at Washington as an office seeker, if he be an office seeker, demolishes this impression, and we are sorry for it. So far as his uppiication for office is coneerned, we know nothing about him. His case as an office seeker is none of our business, but purely a matter between himself and his California competitors. THE LATEST NEWS. INTERESTING FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. * ae. ae, ao. Our Special Washington Despasch. TUR NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA APPOINTMENTH SENT TO THE SENATE—COMPLIMENT TO. TH TURK- ISH ADMIRAL— THE FORRIGN MISSIONS—THs PRINT. ING AND BANKRUPT BILLS, BTC. Wastivarow, May 10, 1858. ‘The New York appointments were all sent to the Senate to-day, and referred. The President relented inte iaat night. and ent George X. Sanders’ name with the others. The Philadelphia appointments wore also sent im Some of these will ba strongly opposed. ‘The President. fearning that Mohammed Pasha intends Jeaving soon for Turkey, has tendered him, through the Secrotary of the Navy. passage on tho Wabash, the fing ship of the Mediterrancan squadron. The Senate Committee on Naval Aairs instructed their chairman to report a bill for building five light steam sloops for the navy, one of them to be peculiarly adapted for service in the China seas. ‘The Senate Printing bill has been referred to the House Committee on Printing, and they willgreport back nubets tuting Taylor's bill for a printing bureau, and endeavor t put it through, The printing lobby are wild against it, ‘The House Judiciary Vormmittes are working during the seasions of the House, by consent, on the Watrous im peachment case with the hope of reporting within tor by Investigating Commaittes are informed that owing to sickness in the family. Thurlow Weed cannot ‘come to Washington yot. Mr. Babson was to day confirmed as Collector of Cas toma at Gloucester after some discussion. Mr. Toombs intends to preas his Bankrupt bill this see siom, and expresses the expectation that it will pass tie Sevate. The comraittes having it in charge have changy: some of its provisions, which he intends to propose ahonk be restored. Ho will press the bill pretiy much {a th: form as published in the Hrnarn. Tho President says that his views with regard to th Clayton Bulwer treaty question /may be found in his mow age; that Mi. Clingman, as an independant mor fer Congrese, had a right to take whatever course he pleased and that the administration cannot be held responwbie ‘The views expressed im the Heeito accord with those gd the administration. ‘There bas been no action taken yet with regard to an change in the missions to Mexico and Spain. The min: tore to France and Ragland will not bechanget Ther are Got Many mote important foreign appointments to > EEE Oe