The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1858, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. eT JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ee OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAT’ BTS. LY HERALD every ‘at six cents per Sie Grek Bao De ony nt THE FAMILY HERALD, every Wednesday, at four conte per or annum. %m; a “WOLUNfaRT CORRFSPONDENCE, ssricining Serortant ewe, srticited from any ‘paid for. Fi RESPONDENTS nk Par- Frotetnny Reeratenn ro Bast a Latrens anp PAacmaGes taken of anonymous communications, We do the Tr TS renewed every day; advertisements in- verted in tne WEEKLY Bawaty, PaMiLy HERALD, and in the Oniente, pen Editions. B PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and dee ‘Wetwme XXHT,...........50000009 seers +) MO. 188 ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND RVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Forty ap ¥irry—Jexxy Luxp—a Movat ora Wire — iz jway—Inisu Lion—Mis- ouunes Suvi anon Mx Two Farman. ARKUN'S AMER! MUSEUM, Brondway—After- . SeennOmuy a datr Puret—Siss Ans. Pvening—WiLow Corsu—Waxrep, Oxe Tx0v- BAND SSIES WooD’s BUILDING, Brosdway—Eraoruax Boxcs, = ee os ‘Hopson Rives. MRCEANTOY BAL, Crees’ Valea fava Waeogune—Winatnta PSSTTYAIS We have three days later news from Europe, dewalt by the steamship Africa, which left Liver- pool on the 26th ult.,and arrived at her dock at Jer- ney City at noon yesterday. Money was in brisk demand ia the London dis- count market at the minimum rate of the Bank of England. Consols closed on the 25th at 953 for account. The bullion in the Bank of England in- creased during the week £113,686. Messrs. Fenn, Kemm & Fenn, wholesale grocers, London, had Buspended payment. Their liabilities were estimated Bt £60,000. Cotton had slightly improved Liverpool. On the 26th ult. the sales were 10,000 bales, including 3,000 en speculation and for export, the market closing firm. Breadstuffs were very languid under the prospect of a fine Furopean harvest. In the London market sugar was unchanged, and coffee ‘was in fair demand at prices a shade lower. The value of British prodace exported during last May was £10,234,000, against £11,382,000 in 1857. For the five months of 1858 the value was £43,226,000, against £50,195.000 for the same period last year, ‘and £43,307,000 for the first five mouths of 1856. Lord Malmesbury read to the House of Lords on fhe 24th ult. official papers received from the French government relative to the shipment of ne- groes, and subsequent mutiny aud murders, on board the emigrant ship Regina Celi. A tremen- Gous sensation was produced by the statement that fhe colored folk had passports from the actual Pre- ident of Liberia, who requested the French captain to trade there, and took the head money for the passports to the blacks. Earl Grey and Lord Brougham expressed their couviction of the evils attending the system of “free emigration” adopted by the French government. Lord Malmesbury’s speech caused annoyance in high quarters in France. Accord- ing to a Paris letter, instructions had been seat to the Duke of Malakoff to demand explanations. The leading London papers assert that Doctor Wilber- force, Bishop of Oxford, Lord Brongham, and the Exeter Hall people generally, injure the cause of the negro as well as the prosperity of the British colonies, by their fanatical advocacy of an imprac- ticable rule for the abolition of sla sery. Senor Lafragua, Mexican Envoy in Madrid, had been instracted by the Juarez Ministry to renew his protest against all conventions concluded by Spain with the Zajoaga goverament. It was said that the Spanish government had applied to the Emperor Napoleon for support against any compulsory proceedings which may be taken by England for the suppression of the Cuban slave » trade, and that his Majesty had given a favorable reply. I pdedsiies broke out in Dantzic, Prassia, on the 19th ult., destroying a great number of warehouses, mills, factories, and dwellings, with some human lives. News had been received from India, dated at Calcutta 18th and Madras 25th of May. The English troops besieged in the jail of Shahjehanpore were relieved. Sir Colin Campbell had crossed fhe Ganges. The weather was intensely bot, and the army at Lucknow in bad health. A battle with ten thousand rebels was looked for at Moulvil. The Nabob of Banda had joined the se- poys. Nena Sahib had attacked the troops under General Jones, but was repulsed. Omar Singh had crossed the Ganges, and menaced the Bombay route from Allyghur. A conspiracy had been dis covered in a wing of the Fourth native infantry in She Punjaub. The conspirators were hanged. China advices are dated at Hong Kong on the Sth of May. The inhabitants of Canton were leav- ing the city, and a general fear of an outbreak pre- wailed. Hong Kong city was mach injured by the borsting of a water spout over it. Trade was dull at Bhanghae, and silks had fallen in price. The Repul State Committee met at Albany yesterday, the usual bickering, resolved to issue a call for a State Convention, composed of two Gelegates from each Assembly district, to be held at Fyracuse on Wednesday, the eighth of September next, for the nomination of State officers and the transaction of other business. The offices for which nominations are to be made are Governor, Lieuten- ant Governor, State Prison Inspector and Canal (Commissioner. From the summary of the business done by Surro- fate West during the past half year in the Sarro- gate's office, it appears that the total number of wills admitted to probate in that time were 211, many of which were contested. The document altogether shows a large amount of business to have been transacted. - ‘The Excise Commissioners held another meeting yesterday, at which they received one application for a storekeeper's and two for innkeeper's license. All the Hicenses asked for were granted, and the Commissioners then adjourned till three o'clock foday. The Commissioners of Health met at noon yesterday, and made provision for the relief of the Susanne and the Grotto from Quarantine within one week, that they may proceed to their Ports of destination, provided there be no more rickness on board those vessels and that new hands be shipped. A letter in reference to the first named Bhip was also received from the British Consul at bis port. The Police Commissioners did not meet Gen. Nye being absent. The next anitid wal te beld on Thursday next. ‘The only case tried in the Court of General Ses- Bions yesterday was a charge of felonious assault and battery against a young colored man named ‘William Hilton. On the 25th of October he stabbed Officer Dazet in the abdomen with a knife, while he was removing Hilton and others from Mrs. Platt’s Paloon in Thomas street. The defence endeavored to prove that it was another colored man who inflicted the stab; but the jury believed the evidence ad- Guced by the prosecution, and convicted the ‘oper of an assault with s dangerous weapon +H )intent to do bodily harm. Judge Rassell, in [-°49) teentence, said that Hilton had served « (wg already in the State prison, and was a deape- f) techarncter. The Judge sent him to the State ¢ 4) for foor years and ten months. Hilton, it w Se remembered, was tried last term for the mur- Ger of bis wife, but was acquitted in consequence of fhe inability pf the prosecution to furnish tye reqni- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1858, site legal proof of his guilt. Joseph McClain pleaded guilty of an attempt at grand larceny, and was sent to the penitentiary for six months. Joseph Me Carthy, a boy, pleaded guilty of an attempt at burglary in the third degree, and was sent to the House of Retage. The Afrion’s newa received yesterday imparted rather more tone to the cotton market ‘The sales eabraced about 2,000 bales, closing frm, though without quote cbenge ia prices. About hats the sates were made ot cas ton in transite. Four was quite eteady, ani fresh ground brapds were acarce and in good demand, while the mar ket closed without obange of moment 1a prices. Wheat ‘vas firm, and in good demand, wish sales of #0me 28,000 bushels at rates given clsewhers. Corn was firm, with eales cf Souibern yellow at 849.004 white do. at Bie, and Weetera mixed at 680. © 77c. Rye sold at 860. a 70@ Pork opened firm, but closed with teas buoyancy. Mess scld at $15 60.0 $16 60 and prima at 8°S 60 @ $15 00. Beef aod lard goatinued frm. Sagars wore firm, with cales of about 1,400 bhds. and 230 vox, at prices given ip aoother columm. There was a move- ment in refining syrups, and about 2,560 bbls. were sold within the range of sbout 3c. a 400 per gallon. The chief feature in the coffee market was ths public sale of 4,000 bags of Santos at 92(c. @ 140, average 10-54c., showing an aivance of about 3c # ‘(5 per pound, Freights were steady, and rales were without cbange of moment, while engagemen's w.:¢ moderate or Earopean ports. Notices of ec ral charters wiil be found under the proper head. and reject it, In policy it is unwise, in prac- tice it ie crucl, and in result it must eventually he disactrous to the communities that practice it. We do not believe that the negro will labor vo- luotarily, nor do we hold that the Hindoo or the Chinese can, unaided, advance beyoné their Present eparse ability to supply the world with the staple products of their labor. But we be- licve that it is far wiser to. permit every com- munity to werk out the problem of its own 6o- cial dettiny. If civilization needs to increase the productive labor of the Af- rican, or the Hindoo, or the coolie, let civilization go to Africa, and to India, snd to China, and carrying there its skill, its ecience and its mechanical appliances; and, uuder a social organization adequate to the capabilitics of these dissimilar and unequal races, ruide their labor and stimulate their pro- duction, But the tearing away of thousands from their native land and native sky, loved by ail alike, whether it be under the pressure of hunger or of power, the lure of relief or of loxury, is an abuse andafraud. As for the Exeter Hall theory of improving the social organism of countries equally civilized with their own, and equally capable of reasoning upon the true relations of right and wrong, we will simply commend to the attention of its ad- vocates anotber Spanish proverb, with which we end. “The fool knows more about his own house than the wise man about a stranger's.” Tae Mormon Detxaars’s Lars Mantresto.— The letter which we published a few days since from the Hon. John M. Bernhisel, the delegate in Congress from the Territory of Utah, was in many reepects a curious document. It set out with the assumption that all the correspondents who write for the Hernan and other newspapers on Mormon affairs are echeming and specula- ting Gentiles, who have personal interests to subserve, and who desire to promote those in- terests through “the wicked enterprise denomi- nated the Mormon war.” Now, so far as our correspondent is concerned, and we presume the same is true of other newspaper correspondents, he is entirely innocent of any sach motive; has no interest in any contract for corn, or mules, or anything elee; but is simply performing the duty entrusted to him—that of keeping the readers of the Heratp posted up in the affairs | transpiring in, and en route to, Salt Lake City. Then, he asks, why it is that “these cruel and mercenary persons” cast doubt on the sincerity of the Mormons’ desire for peace?—points to the fact that the Mormons had entirely abandoned their plans, sacrificed their preparations for de- fence, and opened a way for the troops whom they might, if they chose, have annihilated; and intimates that the policy is to exasperate the Mormons to euch a pitch as tomake them tura and defend themselves. He speaks of the Mor- mon troops having been, owing to the peace as- surances from the President, called back from their hostile march against the United States troops, and made to salute the flag of the Union. But still be complains that preparations against them continue, or are not slackened. In all this Mr. Bernhisel seems to assume a sort of “independeat nationality for the hetero- geneous collection of men and women and Saints in Utah, and to treat the march of the troops there in the same light as military ex- | pedition by one nation against another. Now, | this from a gentleman who has been allowed a teat in the House of Representatives and the | emoluments attaching thereto during the very time that the government was at war, as he thinks, against the people whose delegate he was, is extremely cool and refreshing for the weather. The troops have gone there not to subdue an enemy, but to enforce the laws of the | country, and to compel the Saints to observe a little decency in their conduct. If the delegate from Utah could have given the President as | surance at the opening of Congress that the people whom he represented would pay due obedience to the laws, and due respect to the | requirements of decency and civilization, he might have saved the country the expense of the expedition, and his friends and constitaeats the dangers to which he says they are now ex- posed. But not having done £0, it is entirely too late in the day for him to write such silly letters to the newspapers, or to ask the public, as some pickpockets and burglars do, to suspend judgment. The Mormons ought to have be come a decent people withaat compulsion. They must do so now in spite of themselves, or withdraw from under the jarisdiction of the | United States. Centrat. Park.—The Mayor has done a very | good thing, in spite of the solicitations of Mr. A. H Green, President, and Mr. AB. C. Gray, Commissioner of the Central Park, in refasing to give his approval to the appropriation of $300,000, except upon the condition that the loan ebculd be raised and paid to the Commis- sioners only at the rate of $50,000 per month, as appears by the advertisement of the Comp. troller, inviting proposals for the 26th inst. in another column of the Heraip. Whilst this monthly payment will be fully sufficient for all the purposes of the Park, this mode of raising the loan will save three per cent to the city. If the whole amount were raised In one eum it would be deposited in the Bank of Commerce— selected by the Commissioners as their do- pository—which allows only three per cent for the use of the money, which would not be wholty wanted for a year; and, as the city pays six per cent upon the loan, there would be an actual loss to the city of three per cent. As the Mayor said, he “was opposed to borrowing at six and lending at three per cent.” This movement of the Mayor is also important as the first blow by the city government at the selfich private and partisan interest which, hitherto, has kept the working majority of the Park Commiesioners together. When will the Legis. lature cease to usurp the chartered rights of the city in selecting men to perform duties that are etrictly locai?--or, if they will do so, when will they appoint men to city trusts who will regard city interests, and not their own? Tur Pew System.—The Churchman (Paseyite Episcopalian organ) has a long and elaborate attack upon the pew aystem. It is claimed, that the worshipper who owns a thousand dollar pew keeps aloof from him who sits in one that cost less money, and that the unity of the body is hidden behind worldly distinctions. The matter might be carried further yet. Here a stranger is dependent upon courtesy for a seat in church, with a few exceptiona, and often, fear- ing refaeal, is kept away. -The continental sys- tem of throwing the whole church edifice open every day free, and selling separate seats for special occasions, is much better and more democratic. And yet, with all our claims to liberty and equality, we carry social distinctions ey a3 we gag to the court of heaven | The African S!av¢ Trade—Extraordiaary De- \ts— Liberia in the Trrffic. velopemen' “here isan old Spanish proverb which says, “When cronies fall out truths come to Jight,” and this seems to be precisely what is occurring among the negrophilista of the Old World and their free negro proteges in Africa. The revelations that have recently been made in the House of Lords and by the French Minis- try for Foreign Affairs, which will be found ia another column, throw’ a good deal of light upon the sham of the free nigger and abolition humbug. Mr. Wilberforce, now Bishop of Ox- ford, has come out with a strong pronunciamiento against the British coolie slave trade, the re- establishment of slevery by the Boers of British Africa, and the free slave trade of the French on the coast of Guinea, in which he has been seconded by Lord Brougham and Earl Grey. The clamor of these respectable old fogies, which sounds very much like their ancient war ery when George the Third was king, has brought forth a counterblast from Count Wa- lewski in the ehape of an official note to Lord Malmesbury, which must bea sad unveiling of the truth to these old and self-blinded humani- tariene, and do no small harm to the cause of free niggerdom for all time to come. The official testimony is, that our pet little free nigger republic of Liberia, the darling of one shade of the abolitionists in general, the evidence that was to be of the capacity of the free nigger, the hope of Africa, has gone into the slave trade, and sold its fellow niggers, just the same as if it wasacolony of white men. The President of that republic approved so highly of the French free slave plan, that he bargained to get $1,565 as his share of the pur- chase money for 400 head of free niggers, and persuaded the French captain to carry out his operations exclusively in the territories of the Liberian republic. This is pretty good—dog eat dog, or rather nigger eat nigger. It must not be supposed, however, that this rate of about four dollars a head is the Liberian Presi- dent’s valuation of a healthy, able-bodied nig- ger; it is only his price for permitting the French slave trader to buy niggers “under the superintendence of the Liberian authorities.” We can fancy how like a wet blanket this in- telligence of the. free nigger falling from grace will come upon the ardent minds of our en- thusiastic abelition‘=is. But the world is rapidly opening ita eyes to the fallacics of the humanitarians, and not even the old champions of Excter Hall ean stop the unveiling of truth. The bright dreams that were entertained of the political millesiam which was to come to the free nigger through the black empire of Hayti, or the mulatto republic of Liberia, have been dissolved; the economical fallacies about free labor being cheaper and more productive than slave labor have given way before the intense laziness of the emanci- pated black in all the West India islands and Spanish America; the great social mistake that whites can live ina community where blacks preporderate, and prosper under a social equa- lity with them, is demonstrated; and the popa- lar error that the negro is only a white man with a black skin is fast melting away. No revival of the Exeter Hall eloquence of the olden time can save its fallacies and its fanati- ciem from destruction. Its theories have been reduced to practice, and they have utterly failed. No community of emancipated blacks has preserved ite industry, its mechanical skill, ite knowledge of the arts, or its memory of t teachings of Christianity. Everywhere in them production has declined, handicraft has disap peared, science has waued, and the moral truths have become sedly darkened. It is this experience which has come over the world, and taught men that the laborer cannot be made better than the employer; it is this that has again created the traffic in the brawny form of the nogro, the lithe and graceful limbs of the Hindoo, and the short, sturdy bodies of the Chinese, for the par- pore of making their labor available for a term of years in the culture of the tropical fields. This result is the fruit of the conflict between the necessities of man and a short sighted hu- manity, which, perverting the true aim of its mieeion, is now in danger of loeing the little good it bas done. Effortsthat first were aimed at the suppression of the infamous African slave trade, were afterwards directed toward the re- volution of the social organism of a large and important portion of the civilized world. The moment that the humanitarians abandoned their true mission they began to produce evil, and not good, and the natural reaction is now coming upon them. We Americans, abused and belied as we are inthe Old World, bave better comprehended the true mission of humanity. We stopped the African slave trade before England or any other Power did so. We saw the injustice and the inhumanity of conveying thousands of in- voluntary emigrants from one continent to an- other to supply the demand which everywhere exists for cheap labor. But there we stop- ped. We saw the folly, the complicated injustice to the white and black, the injury to society and to religion, that must result from changing the social organiem of a community of dissonant races, and lowering the superior to the level of the inferior race. And now, when every humanitarian is acknowledging the superiority of the American rlave as an indus trial emigrant, either to Liberia or Jamaica, were no believers in the policy of re-estab- lishing the system of conveying thousands of the barbarous races across one or two oceans. Whether it be the Hindoo slave trade to Mauritius, the cootie slave trade to the West Indies, or the French of Spanieh plave trade to States and France in Relation to Cuba and Hayu. The probability of an entente cordiale between France and the United States, in regard to the future political relations and industrial seeu- rity of Cuba and Hayti, is beginning to attract public attention. No political arrangement between two gov- erpmepts would meet with greater approbation from the whole civilized world, when once ef- fected, than the transfer of these two islands—one to follow the course of its former sisters, Louisi- ana, Florida and Texas, and become a State io our Union; and the other to return to its alle- giance to France, and accept from it the civili- zation it has lost, and the skilled labor and capi- tal so necessary to enable it to become acon- tributor to the wants of the world. The pro- position will, no doubt, evolve gome opposing discussion, for there are never wanting oppo- nents for any plan, no matter how generally ad- vantageous it may be. But there are in the condition of both Hayti and Cuba reasons which call for interference on the part of govern- ments that comprehend the true march of the world more rationally than do those of either Soulouque or Isabel Segunda. "In Hayti we have # barbarous and fruitless imitation of the forms of constitutional abso- Jntism, if such a thing could exist “anywhere bat in a negro community. The social con- dition of the people is no better than that of slaves, with the disadvantage that they are slaves to their own kind, who do not possess the intelligence necessary to guide their labor pre- ductively, nor the humanity to govern the bonds- men with lenity. The very existence ofthis state of things in close proximity to civilized commu- nities ia a blot upon the age. France has claims upon Hayti which fully entitle her ta reassume her sway there, and Louls Napoleon has shown himeelf to possess the practical mind necessary to reorganize government and socie- ty there. In the growing importance of the transit routes across the American Isthmus and the care with which England clings to her military position, present and prospective, in the Caribbean Sea, there are abundant reasons why France should enter again upon that do- minion which was thrown away by the agrari- | anism of the first French revolution. ° The situation of Cuba, too, though very dif- ferent from that of Hayti in a social point of view, is equally unstable in its present political relations. The military position which it holds towards this country makes it an important feature in our scheme of national defence, and points with unmistakable certainty to the fact, that in the event of any great convulsion in Europe, we must take immediate possession of {t for our own safety. Another element of change in Cuba which the United States are worally bound to guard against, is the policy pursued by Spain there. That government openly consents to the prosecution of the slave trade, and thereby fosters the elements of a war between England and this country which must be removed. But besides this, she persistently entertains the idea that she will reduce Cuba to the came state of black bar- barism from which the whole world now de- sires to see Hayti and Jamaica reclaimed. For this purpose is she arming the negroes there, and making them a part of her etanding army, while the white Creoles are jealously precluded from learning the use of arms or military drill and tactics, Such a policy, if not changed by the iInterferenoo of other Powers, will inevitably light the flames of ® war of races in Cuba, in which our people will take part from a feeling of sympathy with the Cubans, and ultimately result in a war be- tween the United States and Spain. These complications in the future can be re- moved by the entente cordiale between this country and France, and a proper use of the power which the latter holds over Spain. There can be no serious objection here or in Europe to the re-occupation of Hayti by the French crown; and every government in the Old World knows that if an island like Cuba lay off the shore of an European monarchy, commanding the out- lets of its great rivers, and the ap- proaches to thousands of miles of its coast, the feeling of national security would alone be svflicient to cause its occupation, to say nothing of the dangers incurred from its possession by weak and unreasoning Power. This is the petition held by Cuba toward the United States; and there is a growing necessity for the peaceful solution of its future. Such may result from @ proper understanding between our government and France, and a new gua- rantee be given for the peace of the world. No News or Tue Tereorarnic Fueet.—The Africa, which arrived yesterday, reports that the crossed the projected route of the ocean telegraph squadron in thick weather, and saw nothing of the vessels. Several recent arrivals have reported bad weather, and though it is not remarkable that the Niagara has not been sighted, yet the delay is ominous, and should we not have some definite news of the ships, or be able to report the arrival of the Niagara at Trinity Bay by the 15th inst, we must be forced tothe unwelcome conclusion that some untoward accident has bappened. Tae Nationat Gvarp at Ricuwoxp.—The people of the Old Dominion have gone into ec- etacies over their military visiters from thiscity, dining and wining and praising them to the tkies. One staid journal breaks out into a shout, “Long live the Seventh regiment.” The gallant corps seems to have quite verified the prophecy made before ite departure, and to have wiped out Mason's and Dixon’s line altogether. So we can say, Long live the Old Dominion! Srurrtixe Hains.—The dispute betwoen the Iifdependent and Lewis Tappan about “ techni- cal” and “Christian abolitionism,” and the row in Dr. Cheever’s church, which also grew out of the nigger question, has now settled down to a quarrel as to the proper form of ger- tifieates for the withdrawing members, who thought the Doctor's sermons were better suited to « Garrisonian Convention than the pulpit of a fashionable church. If you can't agree, gentle- men, part in peace, and wash your dirty linen at home. Nicaracca Oxce Monre.—The little penny paper of Washington is quite eure that Joe White’s company is the only concern that will be recognized by our government or by that of Nicaragua, which fs to be “compelled” to reepect it, and to put down Belly and ali other applicants for grants or franchises. Well, who thall decide when doctors disagree? We have heard from Belly and White. Where's Van- deabtit? They are a happy family, those Commodores. Guadateupe cr Cuba, we altogether condema | The Eistente Coraiaic between tme United | The Monzoe Obsequics-Honors to the Dead, Here and Elzewhere. It is somewhat singular that amid the recent honors paid to the memory of Monroe, and in all the speeches made at the performance of his obsequies in this city, not a single allusion was mado to a dis- tinguished New Yorker, who twice served with him as Vice-President. It is the more singular because the close of both their lives was mark- ed by the pressure of adverse pecuniary cir- cumstances, a marked loss of personal conse- quence with the people, and yet great though tardily expressed regrets. Daniel D. Tomp- kins at one time was the idol of the democratic party in tkis State, and popular with it throughout the Union. It was his patriotic support of the general government in 1813 which gave fresh energy to its operations and strength to its movements on the Northern frontier. So high was the estimation in which he was then held at Washington, that Mr. Madi- son offered him the post of Secretary of State; an honor he declined, as he deemed his services important to the public in his native State. It was then a fitting opportunity for some of the orators to have alluded to his na- tional services as Vice-President while they were eulogizing those of his chief. It is a melancholy fact, however, and worthy of notice also, that the honors paid to the dead in this country have always a tinge of policy or insincerity which mar their effect. After a long time, the State of Virginia has disinterred the remains of one of its most distinguished men—a gallant Revo- lutionary officer, a statesman and a President— whose policy not only disarmed party opposi- tion, but gave a new etart to the principles of liberty to be forever sustained on this conti- nent. From a resting place here, which pri- vate friendship had furnished for his remains, they have been carried to his native soil, where an economical monument is to affirm its re- awakened gratitude. The city of New York, which had been their guardian, could not but awaken to the reeponsibility thrown upon it of delivering over safely the precious dust it had gnarded for many years. And although the occasion was seized upon—as all such occasions are in this city—by many unworthy and contemptible represontatives, to bring themselves before the public by tem- porary official display, the ceremtonics, in spite of the contamination, were imposing, stately and appropriate. The generous action of the National Guard in proceeding as an escort with the corpse, though involving a very large private expense, will long be remembered as one of the most honorable in their honorable career. All this is praiseworthy; but what a pity that this regard for the name and fame of President Monroe did not show itself in his lifetime! The sums expended in this pageant, if they could have been donated him while living; would have soothed his last hours and smoothed the bed of death: Nor is this a soli-_ tary instance of the thoughtlessness of the American nation in the treatment of their pub- lic men. There are two striking exceptions— those of Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster. Both these great men in their lifetime were well taken care of by their friends, who were not in- different to their public services, and did not wait to exhibit their regard in monumental grief. We can hardly recall any other examples in our history Where Uviug public men of merit have been so sedulously followed by minister- ing friendship. While our statesmen are in power they have rank to confer and office to bestow; the antechamber is crowded with syco- phantic followers, ready to make any sacrifice for the chief they are so anxious to serve. When the term of office expires and the power of patronage has departed, the crowd disperses without waiting even to say farewell. Many & President, many a Cabinet Minister, many a Governor has found this out to his surprise and mortification. Men of the world as they may have been, advanced in life, perhaps, by the very same acts, they are astonished to find they areno exceptions to the rule, and that obscuri- ty, neglect, and generally poverty, are the re- sults of a life of public service, It is this consideration which, perhaps, has been secretly at work to impair the characters of our leading public men. It is admitted that there was never euch corrupt legislation known in any country as we have witnessed for the last few years in this, Gigantic projects of all kinds—land swindles, steam and mail contracts, and a profligate expenditure of public money— have found advocates and among our Politicians in and beyond Washington. They have seen what is the fate of honest public benefactors, and they, therefore, do not mean to be honest. They intend to rise as politicians to the highest elevation possible, and plunder as they go along. They do not think that to be buried at the public expense after having been starved to desth in the public service is of any great advantage to themselves or their families. To be honest as a politician is to be poor, and #0 they look out in time, and provide for retirement out of the public crib. We imagine this is now-a-days the theory of our politioal leaders, which is not to be changed by the spectacle of gratitude which has been exhibited at New York and Richmond. We are now finishing « costly monu- ment to the memory of General Worth; a job from beginning to end, in which there never was a real feeling of regard for that hero. The city of New York could vote away thousands of dollars to erect an obelisk to his memory, when it would have been far more impressive, and doubtless far more acceptable, if this expenditure had been made to purchase an annuity for the partner of his life, or to have provided a monument in the shape of a house for his family. Bat that would not suit those patriotic gen- tlemen, who had, perhaps, a stonecuttag’s contract in their eye, the expenses of a cere- monial to manage, refreshments to furnish and partake of, hackmen and undertakers to divide commiesions with, and a display to make to the shoulder hitters and rum sellers who keep thom in office. On the whole, we consider these exbibitions as the severest eatire the people who get them up can pass upon themselyea, They are hollow and worthless—an oxouse to get into print, or an opportunity to spené money; and though these cecasions frequently call out very generous and disinterested ao'.s on the part of individuals connected with them, yet, on the whole, they gre a great di teption, and mean nothing in reality. Tuk Tract Soormry.—The Ohsor ver and the Zn- dependent @e quarrelling a3 to the amount of money profit made by the Tact Society dariag the thirty-three years of fs existence. The Independent sets the sum at one million of doilara, The Observer simply contradicts the statement apd puts off the settlement of the matter inded- nitely thus:—“The Judgment Day will show tbat thousands of honest men have been misled these by statements.” Why will the Independent atop half way? Why not tell the people what bas become of the money? Mons. Belly and bis Nicaragua Interoceanic Mons. Belly has taken his departure for Ha- rope, carrying with him his grant for o ship canal across the Isthmus of Nicaragua and all his hopes for the construction of this great work. Before leaving us he took @ look at the bulls and bears of Wall street and the lions of the rest of the metropolis; then he went to Wash- ington, where he reported himself as a volun- teer diplomatist to Gen. Cass, and we hope alse to Mons, Sartiges, the French Minister, who has been a little anxious about him; and seat us, just before embarking, a letter, which we published yesterday, purporting to reveal all his secrets about the Nicaragua Canal grant. He is particularly solicitous on two points: first, to impress us with the idea that, notwithstanding his abuse of the American people, which he wrote before he knew us, he now thinks we are an intelligent people and have a great country, and that he may become our real friend. The second point of his colicitude is, to deny ali connection of any kind with Louis Napoleen. This manifesto of Mons. Belly contains, how- ever, one or two little inaccuracies, upon which we must set him right. He assumes that the Nicaragua Canal is a magnificent work, before which “the genius of the United States recoiled,” and Mons. Belly has come to its assistance. This is sheer nonsense. American engineers have not only surveyed the route of the canal, but they have demonstrated its practicability and given esti- mates of its cost years ago. He tells us “how necessary and how desperate was the appeal made by the Central American governments to Enropean justice.” This is a pregnant un- truth, for it involves two or three fallacies. The appeal of Martinez and Mora to the gov- ernments of Eorope was neither necessary nor truthful. If the power of the United States had not intervened directly in the Central American coitest—first, by Captain Davis at Rivas, and a second time by Commodore Paul- ding at San Juan del Norte—it is probable that neither of those governments would néw be in existence. The phrase “European justice” isa mienomer: there is no euch thing for Mora and Martinez to appeal to; but they may appeal to the selfish instincts of crowned heads in Europe. As for the appeal iteelf, it is based upon false. hood; and, showing to the world the true cha- racter of those government, it will aecuredly work their ruin, for no government can stand upon a palpable lie. Mons. Belly makes another little, mistake. He claims to “have called the world’s attention toa vital question,” to “have prepared am economical maritime revolution,” and te “have opened to the legitimate inflaence of Ame- ricans new roads which were thought closed.” This is all humbug. The world’s attention has been called to these subjects long ago, as Mons, Belly will find when he gets to Europe with his little project. Years ago Commodore Vanderbilt and Joe White got up a magnificent scheme on this same enhject. Joe White went to Central America and performed even more than Mons. Belly has lately done there. When he came home with his big grant and moderate estimates for an Atlantic and Pacific inter- oceanic ship canal, he and Commodore Vander- bilt went to Europe to lay the whole thing before capitalists, But it would not take ; the time was not ripe. When they returned heme the plan was changed, and the Nicaragua Ac- cessory Transit route was started. For a time this was kept up, but Commodore Vanderbilt found that the old policy, under which he had made all his fortune, was as applicable to the Nicaragua route as it was to the Hudson river, Stonington, or any other line of travel. So an arrangement was made with the parties running the other line of communication to California, by which he was allowed a certain monthly stipend as long as the Nicaragua route was closed to travel. This allowance we are in- formed is still paid, and all the parties imme- diately interested find it more profitable to keep the Nicaragua Transit route closed than open. As for the canal, it is an old ides, that will be carried out whenever the time is ripe, which is not yet. The Isthmus of Nicaragua probably affords the best line for its construction, but its coat will exceed the estimates of Mons. Belly, aa well as those of Vanderbilt and Joe White, which amounted to thirty-one and a half mil- lions of dollars. Twice, and perhaps three times that eum will be required to construct the work, and the commerce of our Pacific empire is not yet equal to this expenditure. Another change, too, is likely soon to come over the question of these American transit routes. ‘When that through Tehuantepec is opened, the Panama interest will not be able to pay the Price necessary to keep Nicaragua closed, and then we shall have three lines competing for the trade and travel of the world, which will large- ly reduce the want of acanal. As Mons. Belly and Joe White have made a clean breast of it im regard to Nicaragua, all we now need is that Commodore Vanderbilt should do the same thing. We might then know something of the troubles of a transit route grant seeker. Wat Becomes or toe Revexves or toe Crrr?—In view of the enormous amount of taxa tion imposed upon the property owners of this city, and the very little value they receive for it in the way the city is governed, it beoomes an im- teresting question, among others, how the re- ceipts of the city treasury from other sources than the taxes are dispesed of. Those sourcea are many and fruitful, and it may not be toe much to expect that the revenue therefrom would contribute to render the taxation less op- pressive if properly applied. To enumerate » few of them:—There are the rents from the va- rious markets; the rents from wharves and pliers; the ferry privileges; the licenses of stage rontes, cartmen, city railroads, and so forth; the sale of uncalled for property rescued from thieves and burglars; the pound money for the redemption of stray animals; the fines imposed in the various courts; the money paid for pro- perty leased for different purposes by the Cor-, poration; and the interest on the debt of the Croton Aqueduct Department, There con he no goubt that a handsome revenue is derived from all these sources—possibly they represent in the aggregate about two millions angually, ond we think that the public ought to be ia. formed where that amonnt goes to, If these diferent institutions ary self--ypporting —that ia