The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1858, Page 4

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Ly py (pono Sonce amy Bunizsaus lic 44 BROAOWAY—Mart Pasi’s Carnet Mime Brmocrus Mevopies awp Dances—Dancay's Daan. -Buyany’s Mrvevams OULD BE AN ACTOR, New York, Friday, June 18, 1858, ‘The News. By the arrival of the steamship Vanderbilt, from Southampton, off Cape Race yesterday, we have European advices to the 9th instant, four days later than previous accounts, and also later intelligence from India and China. The news was placed upon the wires in less than seven days and ten hours from the time of its departure from Southampton. This is quicker by more than twenty-four hours than European intelligence has ever before been received in the United States. It may, however, be beaten by Capt. Judkins, of the Persia, who intends to place his news in this city on Saturday next— seven days from Liverpool—in season for our even- ing edition. The arrival of the Saxonia at this port and the Buropean mails brought by the Europa, places us in possession of our files and correspondence to the ith ‘instant. The remarks of Mr. Fitzgerald, Under Socretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the British Parlia- ment, cn the 4th inst.—the substance of which has been already published—with reference to the con- duct of the British craisers in the Gulf, are given in full in to-day's paper. It will be seen that doubtless in due time satisfactory explanations will be made to our government for the offences, and that proper reparations for whatever damages have been sus- tained will be accorded. The subject is discusse? in the English press at considerable length. All agree that the efforts of Hngland to suppress the slave { traffic are futile. | The text of the convention negotiated between | Costa Rica and Nicaragua and Mons. Belly may be found elsewhere. M. Belly has made « contract with the governments of Costa Rica and Nicaragua for the construction, by a party of French capital- ists, of an interoceanic canal via the river San Juan and Lake Nicaragua; to have an exclusive privi- | lege for ninety-nine years, the works to be begun in | two years and finished in six if possible; with a grant of all public lands for the breadth of oue Jeague along the canal and river; ships of the Canal Company to pass free of tolls, but others to pay ten per cent on merchandise and twelve dollars per pas senger; the neutrality of the canal to be guaranteed by France, Great Britain and the United St | on the basis of the Clayton-Balwer treaty, | but the French government to have the right to | keep two ships of war stationed on the canal or on | Lake Nicaragoa, for the entire duration of the works. Appended to the contract is a declaration, signed by Rivas, Martinez and Mora, declaring that Central America is threatened by an invasion of fili- busters, under the official patrenage of the United States, and that the American Minister in Nicaragua boasts publicly of peremptorily proposing as an ulti- matam the ratification of the Case-Yrisarri treaty, or an invasion of filibusters under the Amertcan flag,'and placing the independence of Nicaragua and Costa Rica under the guaranty of France, England and Sardinia. Our Plymouth correspondent furnishes full par- ticulars of the experimental trip of the Atlantic te- legraph fleet. The weather was fine, and the expe- riments were quite successful. The depth of the sea where the experiments were made was 2,530 fathoms, or nearly three miles. The cable was spliced four times, the vessels being separated on one occasion nearly four miles. The ships were put at various speeds, and by the aid of the new appara- tus the cable withstood the strain in a satisfactory wanner. The cable was payed out from the Niaga- ra on one trial at the rate of seven knots, aud from the Agamemnon at the rate of eight knots per hour. Mossages were transmitted through the wire when in various positions. ‘The expedition was to take its final departure «bout the inst. Should the anticipations of the projectors and friends of the Atlantic telegraph be realived, we shall, on and after about Monday week, receive daily and hourly intelligence from all parts of Europe. The letter of our London correspondent contains some revelations respecting the domestic difficulties Dickens that will interest literary and cles. By the Vanderbili we have later news from India end China. Gen. Rose had obtained an important victory over the rebels. Affairs in China had not materially changed. in Londen money continued abundant. Consols for account on the 9th were quoted at 95] a 957, ex dividend. At Liverpool the advices taken out by the Persis weakened the cotton market. On the 9th prices closed at the juotations reported by the En- ropa. The sales for the three days preceding the 9th amounted to 22,000 bales. Breadstufts and provisions continued depressed. We have sews from Camp Scott, Utah, to the 29th ult., brought by the mail. It confirms the pre- viously received accounts of the abandonment of Balt Lake City by the Mormons. It is stated, more- over, that the Mormons intend to rendezvous at Provo City, where they design fortifying themselves to resist the troops, should they proceed against them. Gen. Johnston had decided to advance with- out waiting for the arrival of Captain Marcy with supplies and animals. Col. Hoffman's command ‘wae seventy-eight miles east of Fort Bridger. It is probable, therefore, that upon the arrival of Col. Hoffman, Gen. Johnston will commence a forward movement. The Peace Commimioners reached the camp either on the 29th or 30th ult. We publish in another column additional detaile of news from Mexico, inclnding the reasons given by our Minister to that republic, Mr. Forsyth, for pro: testing against the collection of the forced contritn tions songht to be levied upon foreizners by the Zaolaga government. Messrs. Coolidge and Garcia, American citizens, who were taken prisoners at Orizava, have been liberated. At a meeting of the Police Commissioners yes. terday, an opinion of counsel was read, to the effect that by the police law the force are bound to snp- Press public nuisances; also, that by law the running Of locomotive engines below Forty-second street ie forbidden, and that the law could be enforced | President, and William L. Dayton for Vice against the Harlem Railroad Company. Whereupon, on motion of Mr. Bowen, the Deputy Superintendent was directed to enforce the ordinance against said company. The efficial returns of the recent municipal clec- tion in New Orleans show that only about seven thousand votes were cast, which is less than half the number of legal voters which the city contains. The majority for Stith, the Know Nothing candidate for Mayor, was one hundred and thirty-one. The trial of Daniel Cunningham, charged with killing Patrick McLanghlin, alias Paudeen, by shoot- ing him with a pistol on the 20th of March last, in a drinking saloon in Howard street, was commenced yesterday in the Court of General Sessions. Two witnesses were examined for the prosecution, after which the Court adjourned till Friday, when the case will be continued. In the case of Michael Cancemi, now on his third trial for the murder of policeman Anderson, counsel commenced summing up yesterday, but had aot con- cluded when the Court adjourned. The trial of Patrick Lally, for the murder of George H. Simonson, was concluded in the Kings county Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday. The case was given to the jury about five o'clock, who returned with a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the second degree at seven o'clock in the evening Sentence will ba passed at the opening of the Court this morning. The joint Committee of its of the Common Council for the celebration of the Fourth of July, met yesterday, but failed to elect a chair man, after balloting more than a score times and being in session for nearly two hours. The reason of this was that the members of one Board voted against the other, there being a candidate from both the Aldermen and Councilmen, and each party being desirous of electing a Chairman from their own body. After a variety of iudicrous proceed- ings they at length concluded to adjourn till Mon- day at two o'clock, without having effected any- thing. The cotton market was firm yesterday; the sales em braced abot 3,000 bales, closing at about 120. for mid Cling uplands. The sales of sugars embraced about 1,260 bes. Cuba muscovado, 100 do. Porte Rico, and 600 boxes, at prices given in another column. Tne speculative fecling in flour to @ great extent subsided, and the market closed at a decline of about Sc. a 10c. per bbi., while sales were lees active. Wheat sold freely at full prices for good to prime let=, while inferior common grades were dull and irregular, Corn was in fair demand, but without change of moment in prices, Pork was Cull and sales limited; for mees $16 75 was bid and $17 asked, with small sales of prime at $14. Coffee was Steady. The cargo of Rio, per Anna (5,019 bags), was sod at p. &; 600 do, Laguyara at 11yc.; 609 do. St, Domingo, for export, at 9370. Freights wero rather more active, without change of moment in rates. ‘The Last and the Next Presidential Election— Party Conventions vs. Pablic Opinion. While our democratic journals as yet scarce- ly speak above a whisper upon the great pro- blem of the Presidential succession, our opposi- tion cotemporsries are agitating the subject in a spirit of earnestness, aud with an air of conf- dence, which are perfectly refreshing. The Triloine, for example, concludes a late general article upon the subject with the expression of positively “ joyful hopes” that 1860 will make the downward progress of slavery and the slave power “plain to many who now disbelieve it.” But the gravamen of this hopeful review of ihe field appears to rest upon the lottery chances of a convention of party wire-workers, pipelayers, and vagabond office seckers. Thus, we are told that the Republican Convention of 1856 framed and adopted “a truly republican platform,” and nominated John C. Fremont for President; and then, after a recapitulation of the causes of Fremont’s defeat, our submissive cotemporary says, “Whether Col. Fremont or another shall lead us in the contest of 1860, it is not possible that he should be imgueatureably, recklessly, atrociously de- famed as was our standard-bearer in 1856.’ We infer, from all this, that the Tribune as deliberately resolved to rest upon its oars, and patiently wai to take up the part of second fiddle to another National Convention of party loafers and beggarly gambling office seekers. But, as an independent journal, retlect- ing the centiments of the independent masses of the people, the New York Hera flatly repu- diates this debasing policy of playing second fiddle to any conclave of office gamblers and spoils beggars of any party whatsoever. Tt has been said of the late Col. Benton, that on one oceasion he congratulated himsclf upon the fact that there were three infamous things of which he had never been guilty; “and,” said eald he, “beginning with the most infamous, I place them in the order of their infamy. Ihave never been within the doors of a national party convention ; nor inside of a gambling hell, nor of a house of ill-fame.” This opinion of our national party conventions was doubtless the result of long and careful observation of their elements and their fruits. We all know, too, that from the standpoint of a clear and honest judgment, Mr. Calhoun looked upon these party assemblages of office and spoils jobbiag politi- cians with supreme contempt, and would never have anything to do with their dirty work of compounding a Presidential ticket or platform. Without going further back we must, in this connection, remind the philosophers of the Tribune that the nomination of Fremont by the the republican party of 1856 was not the work of the Philadelphia Convention. We are quite sure that a majority of that Convention, in the outset, were opposed to Fremont; and that it was the pressure of public opinion, as reflected through the independent movements of the peo- ple and the independent press in behalf of Fremont, that compelled those Philadelphia office and spoils gamblers to adopt him. Had there been no Philadelphia Convention at all, it is possible there would have been less of that treachery among the Seward managers, through which Fremont, in the Pennsylvania October election, lort the main battle. So with regard to the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati. It was a collection of partisan office seekers and hungry tagabonds whose principles were the even party principles laid down by John Ran- dolph—“the five loaves and the two fishes.” The drift of public opinion, the demoralization of the democracy brought about by Douglas and Pierce, and the convincing facts and argu- ments promulgated through the independent prees, not omitting the New York Hera, had proved that Mr. Bachanan’s nomination was the sine qua non to the democratic party. As for the Cincinnati platform and the Phila- delphia republican platform, had they been written and printed in Chinese characters, without a translation, they would have served their purpose quite as well s the double doaling or equivocal reeolations on either side, The principles of the two parties were known and interpreted by their acts respectively; and thus between Mr. Buchanan and Colonel Fremont the public opinion of the Union was divided upon the great Kansas issue and the contin- gencies which it involved—pro-slavery or no slavery, union or disunion—the Fillmore filibas- ters casting the balance of power. We believe that the Kansas policy of Colonel Fremont would have Ween substantially the NEW YORK SEKALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1868. Tha Beily intrigues 1a Central Americe-- Impudrnt B«ctaradien of Presidents Mora avd Martinez. We publish to-dey from the London Times a very extraordinary document, being an inter- oceanic caal graut, and an official declaratory appendage trom Presidents Mora and Martinez, ot the republics of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, to Mous. Beily, the French speculator and diplo- Policy pursued by Mr. Buchanan, or, at al! events, that the policy of the latter will end precisely as would that of the former have ended—that is, in making Kansas a free State With this fact before us, and with the fact that by the year 1860 there will have been at least three, and perbaps four or five new freo Stutes admitted into the Union, and most probably no new élave State, we cannot account for the sanguine expectations of our antisiavery agi- tators, in reference to “the aggressions of the slave power.” We take it that when the com bustibles are exhausted the fire must go out, and that we cannot have in 1860 a retarn of that anti-slavery panic which swept over the North like a whirlwind in 1856, Returning, however, to the main questien of party conventions and convention platforms, what can they do in 1860 which caauot be doue aswell, or better, without them? It is perfectly certain that, with all the efforts of desperate leaders ard factions and cliques of the demo- eracy to break down Mr. Buchanan’s adminis- tration, as disclosed in the present Congress, the party, Gemoralized as it may be, will be compelled to stand upon the party platform of his foreign avd domestic policy. They can no mere evade it than could Van Buren evade the responsivility of General Jaokcon’s finan- cial experiments, On the other hand, if there be ony of the principles of common sense among the opposition camps, they will readily per- ceive that their platform of union and action must be the platform of opposition to the ad- ministration and its financial results. This policy of the opposition can be comprehended acd adopted without a gambling caucus of office eeekers; and in regard to the candidate of this or that party, we dare say that he will stand out in sufficiently bold relief by the year 1860 for all practical purposes, in advance of any so-called National Convention. We hold that itis not enough that the popu- lar vote should determine the election of this or that Presidential candidate; but that the popular sentiment, and not a caucus of tpoilemen aud office seekers, should determine bis nomination. To this end we maintain that the largest liberty should be exercised by the people and by the public press in the discussion of principles and the claims of candidates of every party and section; and that, in this view, the public journal which surrenders the princi- ple of independence to the uses of party jag- glers ceases to be the organ of an independent public opinion. The Tribune, we apprebend, would do better in holding the choice of its candidate for the succession subject to the high- est bidder “till November or December, 1859,” than in passively awaiting the office-gambling nomination of a party convention in 1860. For our part, henceforth as heretofore, if we can- not set aside these juggling conventions we shall persist in lashing them into submission to the public sentiment they may assume to repre- seat. We cannot consent, on any terms or for any candidate, to play second fiddle to the caucus jugglers and gamblers of any party. Whatever may be the diplomacy of Mons. Belly, it is evident that he has tukea the best means to eecnre euccess. While our ehrewd New York Commodores have been fighting each other for four years over the Nicaragua Transit +rante, Mons. Belly has settled the whole matter in four weeks. The secret of all this is that the French speculators have all clubbed together asd acted in unison, while our Wail street Commodores have kad altogether too many cooks in the business, Had they united their. wealth, influence and exertions, as we advised bem to do more than a year ago, they would vot have tound themselves all floored, as they now are, by Belly and his cook. The grant iteelf is a most extraordinary docu- ment. It not only overthrows completely the whole Monroe doctrine, but it sets entirely aside the position assumed by Mr. Buchanan and Gen. Cass, that Le petty republics of the American Isthmys ehall not lay onerous taxes upon the comm -e of the world through the authority merely of their geographical position: Not only are French men-of-war to be placed on the river San Juan and Lake Nicaragua for tbe term of ninety-nine years, but a tax of tea per cent on all merchandise and twelve dollars per paseenger, besides the canal tolls, are laid for the privilege of transit. Measures are to be immediately taken to induce the governments of Frence, Great Britain and the United States to guarantee the neutrality of the canal on the basis of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty; but assoon as apy one of these Powers assents to such a guarantee it will be considered sufficient to al- low the passage of such ships of war as Nicara- gua and Costa Rica may consent to. But the extraordinary character of the grant is far surpassed by that of the appended decla- ration of Presidents Rivas, Martinez and Mora. All the past acts of the United States govern- ment against the filibusters—the proclamations of the President, instructions to Marshals, Col- lectors of Customs and naval commanders; all the acts of Davis, Paulding and Chatard, and all the diplomatic assurances of General Cass, are flung back in our faces, and the world is solemnly assured that the American government really bas the filibusters under its patronage, as the means of taking possession of Central America: and it is officially stated under the signatures of two Presidents de facto, and one ex-President, that “all the official agents of the United States have been the accomplices and auxiliaries of the invaders,” and the two republics of Costa Rica and Nicaragua are placed “under the guarantee of the three Powers who have caused the independence and nationality of the Otto- man empire to be respected—namely, France, ingland and Sardinia.” This documert, if it be what it really pur- ports to be, is the most solemn and gratuitous’ insult ever given to a nation; and we call upon the government, the moment it reccives offictal agcurance that such a declaration has been made Tux Recenr Coneressionar. Lonpy Investi- GATIONS.—T wo journals, the very antipodes of each other in party politice—the Washington Union and the New York Tribune—have come to “a happy accord” and agree like brothers upon the subject of the late investigations by Con- gress into the private machinery of the Wash- ington lobby. They both pronounce these in-| by the Presidents of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, vestigations as involving an officious, one- | to send their passports immediately to Senores sided and impudent intermeddling with| Molina and Yrisarri, and to ask from Mons. private rights and private affairs. Good Sartiges a categorical answer whether the gov- for you, Masea Greeley. Very good for | ernment of France authorizes these post pran- for you, Mr. Wendell. Did they pinch him | dial proceedings of Mons. Belly? And if the rather hard on the public printing’ “Are you | President has not the power to take immediate there, Old Truepenny?” Still, we have noticed | action in the premises, let him call Congress to- that in touching the sore place on a horse's | gether at once, to pass the measures necessary back he is apt to wince under it. We think, | to secure an immediate recognition of our too, that the lobby investigations of Congress | rights upon the entire American Isthmus. With from time to time, beginning with the (:alphin | England protecting the Honduras route, France and the Gardner claims, have done a world of | in poseession of Nicaragua, New Granada ready good in checking the rapacious rats and mice of | to eel! the Panama line to European capitalists, perty owners in the shape of overpayments or something ele, Which might have been pre- vented had the business of the Comptroller's office been conductea’ With any kind of order; had not recklessness 2.14 imbecility ruled su- preme there. In the comuunications from the Street Commissioner, submis ted at the meeting of the Board of Aldermen on Wedaesday, a fraud in regulating Fifty-second street is report- ed, in which over a thousand dollars have been paid by theComptreller to inspectors, for whose services the ordinance did not provide, and a portion of this was actually paid several months before the date of the contract for the work which was to be inspected! In another case— that of regulating Forty-sixth street—a contract was made, but never signed by the Street Com- missioner ; the work was done and the assess. ment confirmed by the Common Council only a few deys ago; but it turns out that Mr. Flagg paid the contractor for the work six months ago! Every figure ia this contract had been erased and altered ; it was not legally signed; the inspectors and surveyors had been paid for work done under it three months before the con- tract was dated. This is the way the finances of the city are disposed of by the present incum- bent. of the Comptroller's office; yet Mr. Flagg obstinately refuses to resign at the call of the Commoa Council, and the wish of the people ; but sticks on with the tenacity of an old lobster to the spoils of his office, A motion should be made to have him re- moved at once, if he does not resign, or we wit! never have things straight in the Finance De- partment. Disorper.y LeGar, Procrepines.—A great portion of the time of one of the Courts, during the trial of a most important murder case, has been devoted during the past week to the ven- tilation of a singular story about the alleged bribery of a witness. One of the lawyers en- gaged says that a material witness for the prose- cution went to him and offered to leave the country for three thousand dollars; that he— the lawyer—thereupon entered into negotia- tions with this corruptible witaess, and allowed him to believe that he might get the money; that he then laid statements of the facts before various eminent lawyers and judges, and was by them advised to persevere in deceiving the witness; that the whole matter has remained in this conditioa—the witness expecting the money, the lawyer retaining the secret—until the trial came on, when the story was brought to light with as great a flourish of trumpets asa new Piece at Stuart’s, or a coup de theatre in Bourci- cault’s last drama. The conclusion to which sensible people will come on this statement of facts, is that the affair reflects very little credit on the lawyer concern- ed, and upon the counsel and judges whom he consulted during the maturing of his plan. This deception and betrayal of rogues are not, after all, the proper function of a lawyer. It is the business of a member of the bar, when a knave comes to him and offers to sell himself for money, to open hisdoor and turn him out. Nor would he gravely compromise his standing if, on evidence of hesitation on the rogue’s part, he were to accelerate his exit by suitable mus- cular appliances, But for the lawyer to enter into unreserved communication with the rogue, and to dupe him for the purpose of betraying him afterwards, is not the thing at all. Nor is it the business of judges to permit such stories to be introduced by wholesale into trials where they do not belong. Whatever passed between Blankman and Lauth, the guilt or innocence of Cancemi could not be affected thereby; the question which the Court and the jury had to decide was simply whether Cancemi killed Anderson; and the conversations be- tween a lawyer and a rag picker, occurring months afterwards, had no more to do with the case than the conversations of departed spirits. By admitting such irrelevant matter into the case, the attention of the jury is diverted from the main question to side issues; and when they THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM UTAH. Sr. Lous, June 17, 4 despatch frem St. Joseph dated the 16th inst., United States express to Booneville, says the Sait ‘mail prrived last night, brioging Camp Scott dates to 29. ‘The mail was seventeen days and a half on the At the last secoupts Capt. Marcy was on the Chi trail, two bunoreé miles from Fort Bridger. Co}. Hoffman hed reached reached Big Sandy severty eight miles trom Fort Bridger, ‘The Mormons were all leaving the valley, and @pisce vemed Provo, forty mties from the city, ig euid they intend fortitying themseives against fu Molestation. General Johaston would leave for Salt Lake City as as provisions reached him, independent of the arrival Capt. marcy, The wall party met outgoing trains at the fi Placee :—Firnt train at the Three Crossings of the 8: Water; second, at Biiter Cottonwood; third, at Ash Hi low, and fourth at Waiout creek. The mail party encoudtered a snow storm in the S pass, one burdred and tom miles from Camp Boott, met Colonel Andrews at the crossing of the South Piat Colonel May was at the Big Blue, ‘The Peace Commissioners wore about tea miles fi Camp Scott. Our Washington Correspondence. Wasmrxator, D.C,, June 14, Despatches from. Governor Owmming and the A: Contradict Each Other—How?—Mormons Afraid Treachery—Why They Keep Thesr Troops in Koho Ke odliegl Oity May or May Not be Burnt—Depends Colonel Johnston—Governor Cumming’s Course tained, de. Despatches from Col. Johnston to the Commander, Chief, five days later in date than the letter of Gove Carmming to Secretary Cass, are reported to have been ceived here yesterday by the voteran General. 1 Governor's letter was the most welcome document to sdministration that ever emenated from the Territory Utah; but the satisfaction, and I might add the almost then experienced bas been of short duration. Do have been thrown over the reported peaceful enti of the Mormons by the said despatches, and it is possil that the distribution of the army, previously d Y og, way be considerably changed. ‘The firat intimation of @ contradictory communicat! from the Colonel commanding the expedition caused q a stir in both camps—we have here our peace and parties. I have today seen the representati of both, listened to their statements, and edifed and amused with the pro and warmly urged with all the vehemence and ‘Deas of life and death depending om the issue. In br the substance of the whole is:—Colonel Johnston’s spatches bear the latest dates, and have been last ceived, which give them the appearance of “iater f1 Utab;’? but a little reflection shows that so far as the mone are concerned, their affairs and their intentions, Governor's letter to Secretary Cass is nearly a Jater than anything which could possibly be in of the Colonel on these matters. The latest reliable information from Great Salt City, received by Colonel Jobnston, was from Mr. Gil of the firm of Gilbert & Gerrish, Utah merchants, fete ba ag athe tyrone wi r0Ops. were sii!] in Echo kanyou; beyoad that nothing was to Colonel Jobnston, save what might be reported by outside pickets of army, or information recol through @ very questionable source—the Indians. Gilbert met the Governor and Cojonel Kane in the kaay; ‘within two Gays of the city, and from that time Exovilency was not heard from but ia : letter to Colovel, which Uored, but the fest that at ime tion was made tothe Governor the troops wi the kapyon mache oe Sy Che of the Mormons for theee Sauer | cont ments— flight and resietaoce —are the re: ence between those who conclude that eflected and those who favor the continuance imme. The latter regard the moving lion eouth as @ ruse to render the tug of war Tasting; and to secure time oftfectively, mer been shaken in his conclusion doeprtches, and arn teonchery =e Mormens. ‘There is no doubt on my mind that the reception Cumming was merely that of formatity. His presence, bland smile, soothing words, and part of the the lobby, and in saving the public bread and cheese and the public lands. The only trouble is that these committees of inspection ferret out teo many of the lobby rats and mice to be palatable to the rest of the tribe. But, for the people at large, what a flood of light was thrown into the dark holes and cor- ners of the lobby by the Colt’s pistol patent in- vestigation ; what a catalogue of interesting facts were brought out in the Matteson disolo- sures of the last Congress, including that thou sand dollar draft. Lastly, the “free wool’ re- searches of the late session have been most remarkably succcesful in developing the patent safe games, and the operators therein of the lobby. Matteson’s proposition for the $25,000 deposit with Massa Greeley ; the $3,500 fee of the Journal of Commerce (free wool); Thurlow Weed's $5,000 (statistics); the Chevalier Webb's petition for house rent, and oysters and cham- pagne for lobby dinners, Xo. (say $52,000); what ehould we have known of all these curiosi- ties of the lobby but for this inquisitive com- mittee on “free wool!’ By all means, there- fore, these lobby investigations should be kept up. Without them, it is very evident the lobby | rats and mice would soon undermine the Capi- tol. Keep at them; never mind their squeak- ing, but smoke them out. Tae Stave Onicarcuy.—The anti-slavery journals and orators are continually talking about the terrible slave oligarchy of the South, and the prodigious power which they exercise over the general government. Who constitate this slave oligarchy? There are in the Southern and Mexico aiming for a European protectorate over its territory, including Tchuantepec, we shall soon find ourselves driven from the Ame- rican Isthmus, our communication with our Pa- cific empire cut off, and our prestige as a nation gone. Let the government act at once. Coxronarion Fravos—A Leer. More Licur. —When the present Street Commissioner came into office and attempted to eet the rusted ma- chinery to work, he saw at a glance that every part of the city government was in hopeless confusion; accounts were mere shams; there | was no check upon any official, while thieving { and rascality abounded everywhere. Mr. Cooper, being a merchant and man of business, knew very well that to bring order out of this chaos was no easy matter with the instruments then at his disposal, and his first step was to } appoint a person as Deputy Street Commis- sioner, whom \he knew to be competent. Mr. Gustavus W. Smith is a graduate of West Point, has the well ordered mind of a soldier, and is accustomed to discipline. Moreover, he has been for a long time in one of the bureaus of the Treasury Department at Washington, where the splendidly organized system of Alexander Hamilton still prevails, and he therefore knows how public business should be done. Previous to Mr. Cooper's appointment there was hardly 8 solitary employ under the Corporation who understood keeping accounts, or had any quali- fication whatever for his post. They were all small politicians, or hungry hangers on and timeservers of some potential man who had a little patronage to bestow. Ignorant, and States about 300,000 slavcholders and 700,000 | for the most part corrupt and poor whites, who have no slaves, These poor greedy for spall, they were just the class of whites are generally led by the nose by a set of | men beet calculated to plunge the affairs of the vulgar and vagabond politicians jast in the city into inextricable confusion, and open the same way that the same class are daped and | doors to frand and rascality in every shape. managed in the North. The people of the South generally do not hold slaves, and the actual slave And such, we see, has been the reeult. Scarce- ly a single job has been done in the Street De- oligarchy are amongst the quietest, most unas | partment for the last few years in which fraud suming and most gentlemanly men in the Union. | to some amount has not been committed, It is only the poor whites and the politicians of the South who make all this noise, and yet the anti-slavery organs and politicians of the North have the impudence to. Jay it to the charge of theelaveholders, There never was greater ham- bug than this. Tit, Coutecron’s Coxvimmarion.-The oon- firmation of Collector Schell by a large majo- rity of the Senate hasthrown a number of the factious office holders of the general govern- mont in this city on their beam ends. Unless Butterworth & Co, mind their P's and Q’s in all future political movements, they will come day or other find themselves ousted at a short warn- ing. Their conduct is perfectly well kgown at Washington, and will be appreciated at the proper time. Ricut or Seance —Now is the time for our government to settle finally with Paglia +! right of earch or visit, through the instrumentality of the Comptrol- ler’s office, Mayor Tiemann, some time since called a number of cabinet councils of the heads of the departments, for the purpose of reforming the eystem, and, if possible, reorganizing the dif- ferent bureaus. Te was cheerfally second. ed by Mr. Cooper and other officials, bat Comptroller Flagg threw every opposition in the way of investigation or reform, as long as he could; and it was only when he found that the new elememt infused into the city govern- ment by the last election was determined to make an effort to change the system now in use, that he yielded a tardy and unwilling con- sent. He know that the affairs of the Finance Department were in such miserable disorder, from his incompetence and imbecility, that they would not bear the light. Every report from the Street Commissioner, or the Joint Commit- toe of Accounts, reveal some fraud on the pro- ought to be founding a judgment on a certain number of plain facts, they are in fact allow- ing themsclves to be influenced by others which ought never to have been laid before them. against 4 This is one of the ways in which justice ts | Sou, were de of their own generals, and it was with the utmost sometimes defeated in New York. culty their lives were ed. Their former reignea Governor Ford's demand for the arms| the Nauvoo militia two days before his assassination, {uinois. Brigham Young by Te More Par.apecrman Lineratirr.—We have already alluded to the extreme liberality of the Philadelphians in starving out their Opera com- pany, which was one of the best ever heard in this country. When they had Mme. de Gaz- weniga and the other artists now at the Acade- my, they asked for Ronconi and La Grange. They came; but the house was still empty. Formes was next asked for, and finally he came, with Musard and his grand orchestra, all for fifty cents. They fiddled and sung to about two hundred people nightly. lormes retired in dis- gust; and there is another ruined manager—this time a Philadelphian. The fact is that the right-angled villagers, having built an Opera House, think that every one should sing in it merely for the honor of the thing. New York is really the only place where the Opera can be supported, as is fully shown by the fact that the Academy has been open nearly ten months, in spite of the crisis, Philadelphia will hereafter be left out of the programme. ols rity to go into the city, both to wreak vengeance oa Mormons for keeping him in camp ail winter, and wie for a triumph over the Governor. The intelligence from Utah, received by last Calif mail, published in the Hrvaiy yesterday, inaicates near #8 much as this; but what! have civen above is dra from a private PT riee=2 Tun Last Kansas Ovrracn—Why don’t the anti-slavery organs throw themselves into fits of indignation against the most recent Kansas outrage? Jim Lane, an anti-slavery partisan, the other day coolly shot down and murdered Jenkins, another anti-slavery partisan, who wanted to exercise the right of taking a drink of water from a disputed pring. Immediately Jenkins’ friends fired on Lane and wounded him, and he is also lying at the point of death. As almost all the bordér raffians have departed from Kansas, the anti-slavery party must, it appears, murder cach other to keep their hands in. Why don’t the anti-slavery organs make a fuss, collect subscriptions and form a fund to aid them in this landable purpose? A short time since we told the antislavery men that they would confer a great benefit on the world by killing each other, and it seems that they are now cordially acting upon our advice. ) DRPARTIENT oF Cram, UT, — 22, 1968, Cory Avsevmers —The opera for to night is “La Tra- vinta,’ in which Mme. de Gazzaniga is #0 fine as Violotta. The new opera “Sappho” ia annonnoed for Monday. “Masaanioilo”’ ia to be given on Saturday for the matinéc, and Garvaniga will sing the Spanish ballad, the ‘Orange Girl a! togother @ fine entertainment. At the French theatre there was, on Tuesday, « capital performance of the ‘Ladies’ Battie.’ The house was fail. The same may be expeoted to-night, when La I’en- drix, Rouge, Mile, Pitron as Holéne, “I. Corde Sensibler and “Les Suites d'un Premier Liv’ are announced, Miles. Onatetion and Juliette will also play to-night. ich they have displayed. — | Cooke in bringing . his rr A |, in such comparatively good condition Hi order ot mao A. “ORTR:, Assistant Adjutant (/eneral. Hrangvarrens, Deranrwert or Uran, Camp Scort, May 6, 1858, To His Excellency A. Orumive, Governor of Utah Sim—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt ur lotter of the Sd inat., and to inform that the | accompanying it will be forwarded by expreee a Persons mentioned in your letter, who « sigh to travel eastward will not be interrupted on 1 the where on the route, Grout Teapect, your Bb ewe L.A BJORN respect, ins Colonel dt Oavairy, commanding. Rarcunve Ovrice, Gamat Baur Lace, May 3, 1988, comm JOHNSTON ‘Tre “Reovtars’ Generar Commirree met last evening atthetr headquarters in the Bowery, but did no business of pote, Resolations were passed complimentary to Col- lector Sobel, avd rejo.cing ia bis copfirmation, Ool. 8. JounsTo%— Sin—By the hands of Messrs. Lawronce and i sina