The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TS. TERMS, cash in atoance THE DAILY REXALD 00 cnt per cope, $1 per annum. eer Meer cen te alee RE oe ere canner pe eaten: id 7 annum, ‘part of Great Brijain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, to THE PaMILY LD, every Wednesday, at four cents per opy, or $2 per annum. Wotmme MXM eee cee cecceesecssoseesN@s 193 nn Syren 79052958" AALAND EREAASRSOEST TU AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Four'eenth street—Graxp Prowe Ape Concent, UNDEX THE Dinaction Or MUSARD AND AN- BoHUTZ. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Foxry axp Firrr—Co ‘LUMBUS EL FILIBUSTERO. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—lnisu Assonaxce— ‘Tus Younc Actaass. METROPOLITAN HARU, 5% Broseway—Prenon Turs- enti srcnsaeria Portize—Le Gain vs Panis, BARNUMS AMERICAN MUsaay, Broad way—After- noon and evening, Feats or Macic By Wruan, THE WizaRD —Worpsrrct Curiositizs, &o. BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway—Brmorian Bones, ANCES, AO.—PinoRaxa OF tHE Hursom RIVER. GARDEN, Fourteenth street and Sixih aveaue— Quanprnosnrape Oowcest, cxDEn Tux Dorion OF Bx ‘Tuos, Barn. New York, Tuceday, July 13, 1858. BAILS FOR BUROPE. Whe New York Herald—Edition for Kurope. The Cunard mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone, will leave Boston on Wednesday, for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city this af- ternoon, st half-past two e’clook, to go by railroad, and at balf past four o’clock, to go by steamboat. ‘The European edition of the Hmnatn, printed in French gad English, will be published at tom o’clock im the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, six cents. Sebecriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Wew Your Hunsvp will be received at the following place ‘ta Barope— fouvon ....Bameon Low, Boa & Oo., a nil. William st. Rue Corneille, ‘The contents ef the European edition of the Hera Will combi®e the news received by mail and telegraph at he office during the previous week, and up to the bour of pablication. ‘The News. At last we have tidings of the Atlantic telegraph fleet. The British steamtug Blue Jacket arrived at Bt. Johns, Newfoundland, yesterday, after a passage of twenty-eight days from Liverpool, and reports seeing, on the 24th ult., in latitude 51 32 north, lon- gitude 32 west,a large and a smaller British steamer —doubtless the Agamemnon and her tender; and the same evening saw a large steamer—the Niagara, no doubt—bearing down upon the others. The Blue Jacket reports the weather on the 25th ult. as hazy with a westerly swell, and that the weather continued moderate but thick till the morning of the 3d inst — @ period of eight days—when there were strong gales from southwest by west with ahighsea. At the time the fleet was seen by the Blue Jacket it had not reached latitude 32 02 north, longitude 33 18 west, the spot where the splicing of the cable was to be effected and the paying out commenced. The arrival of the Niagara cannot, therefore, be reason- ably expected before the last of the present week. The steamship Fulton is now due at this port ‘with the details of European news to the 30th ult. ‘The Star of the West is also due from Aspinwall with the semi-monthly shipment of treasure and mails from the Pacific coast. The steamer Phila- delphia is likewise due with news from Havana. , By the arrival of the steamship Canada off Cape Race we have European news to the 3d instant, three days later than the advices previously received. With the exception of the dissolution of the Spanish ministry, and the formation of a new one with Ge- neral O'Donnell at the head of affairs, there is no political intelligence of importance. A meeting of Mlinois Central Railroad shareholders had been held in London, who decided to send an agent to the United States to look after their interests. Sales of Central Railroad stock are reported at 27 discount. The Li- verpool cotton market continued buoyant, at the ad- vance reported by the Fulton. The sales during the week preceding the departure of the Canada amount- ed to 77,000 bales. In the face of favorable weather for the crops, fiour was firm and in demand at an advance of sixpence per barrel. Consols are quoted at 96) a 95] for account. We have news from Camp Scott and Salt Lake City. The army was to commence its march to- wards the Mormon capital on the 17th. The troops were in high spirits at the prospect ofa release from inactivity. General Johnston had issued a procla- mation, assuring the Mormons of his desire and in- tention of affording them protection. He had re- ceived a communication from the Peace Commis- sioners, advising himof the peaceful disposition of the Mormons. The Peace Commissioners and Brig: ham Young hed bad a meeting, and it was reported that they had agreed upon conditions of settlement between the rebellious Saints and the general go- vernment. The steamship Roanoke arrived from Richmond early yesterday morning, bringing the body of Lau- rens Hamilton, of the Seventh regiment, who was drowned at Richmond. The remains were accom panied by a large delegation of the Richmond military, who were received at the pier by a delega- tion of fifty of the Seventh regiment, in citizen dreas at the request of the family. The body was placed in Trinity Church, in one of the family vaults, in which it will be interred this afternoon at three o'clock. The Virginia escort was quartered at the Lafarge House, as the guests of the Seventh regi- ment. ‘A Military Court of Inquiry was held last evening at the Arsenal—Colonel Lebau, President; Major An" thon, Judge Advocate—to inquire into the truth of a statement made in the Tribune and weekly papers, alleging that members of the Eighth regiment had become intoxicated and conducted themselves in a disorderly manner while acting as a guard of honor on President Monroe's remains in the City Hall on the 24 inst. Several witnesses were examined, whose evidence exculpated the members of tho regiment from the charges preferred. We have news from San Domingo, dated at Port au Platte on the lst inst. President Baez capitula- ted to the forces of General Santana on the 12th of June, when he gave up San Domingo City. The country was quiet. Trade was so dull at Port an Platte that six cargoes of provision. had left for another market. Onur correspondent at Tork’s Island, writing on the 2d inst. says: The weather has changed—which is for the better—by copions showers having fallen last week, which ad refreshed this arid soil. Balt making continues very favorably, but prices lately arrived wearcely pay the labor attending it, Stock on hand now about 25,000 bushels, at S}c. a 9c. per bushel. ‘Trade ia dull. The Britieh steamers have left, and their place has been taken by a laree fleet of Ameri- can vessels of war, some of which touch oceasonally nd infuse cheerfalness, and circulate the “mint drops” profusely. BMicksc! Cancemi, convicted of the murder of policeman Anderson, was yesterday sentenced to be executed on the second day of September next. A report of the proceedings before the Court may be fow.d in another column. The intense heat of Saturday and Sunday last ‘war tempered yesterday was a most resting bre: from the southeast, and last evenin® the eky became overcast, and there was a promise of rain. ‘The wind yesterday, which in the city was quite free!), was almost a gale in the river and bay. Out fovea it must bave beeg very strong, aug py jt blew directly upon the shore may have done come Bamage to the shipping on the coast. There were Pery heavy rains to the north of ns on Sunday, Which must have Gone incalculable good to the crops, which had begun to suffer from the drought. ‘The yield of all kinds of cropa between this city and Albany will be enormous this year, and we be- lieve the same observation will hold good of all the country to the North and West. We give a full report of the progress of events at the Quarantine grounds, with a list of the latest ar- rivals of vessels from infected ports, and their pros- pects of discharge ‘after disinfection. The captain of the bark Essex has been complained of by Health Officer Thompson for having passed Quaran- tine, after coming from Sagua la Grande, by means of false representations as to the health of his crew when in harbor, and of the sanitary condition of the place when he was there. A warrant has been is- sued for the captain’s arrest, and the Essex has been taken back to Quarantine. The Health Commis- sioners met yesterday, and a letter from the Secre- tary of the Treasury, giving permission to store the supplies of the Susquehanna in the government warehouses, was received. Captain Chase, of the bark Brothers, which ar- rived at this port yesterday from Cienfuegos, reporta being boarded by a boat from the brig Orinoco, of Cherryfield, bound from Remedios for New York, which solicited a supply of mustard. The Orinoco had lost the second mate, and the first mate was very sick. She afterwards bore up for Charleston. The Board of Councilmen met last evening and transacted a large amount of routine business. The Street Commissioner was directed to have the Second avenue macadamized without delay. The Mayor vetoed a resolution appropriating certain valuable lotsa to the Orphans’ Home. The Board of Aldermen did not organize last even- ing for want of a quorum. Fire Marshal Baker’s semi-annual report is pub- lished elsewhere in our columns. It will be seen that during the past six months there have been 161 fires in this city, involving a loss of property amount" ing to $464,157, on which sum insurance to the amount of $346,720 was paid. Compared with the preceding six months there is a diminution of forty-four in the number of fires, while the loss of property is less by about one-half. The Fire Mar- shal’s statistics and suggestions are important to the public generally, and his report will repay an at- tentive perusal. The de Riviere case was brought up for the se- cond time before the Circuit Court of Hudson coun- ty, New Jersey, yesterday, to hear the return to the writ of habeas corpus issued last week. The return was made by de Riviere’s counsel, but the captain did not appear. Exceptions were made to the re- turn, which was ordered by the Court to be made more complete. The case was finally adjourned til! Thursday next. Mrs. Blount was in court, and had @ private consultation with the Judge. Miss Blount’s whereabouts still continue to be unknown. During the forenoon yesterday de Riviere's goods and chat- tels at the Napoleon Hotel were seized by the She- Tiff to satisfy a debt of a Mr. Collins, of Mobile. Full particulars of the progress of this interesting affair are given elsewhere. The foundation stone of a new Episcopal church named St. Mary’s, in Classon avenue, near Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, was laid yesterday afternoon at five o'clock by the Right Rev. Bishop Potter, who was attended by a large number of clergymen. The ceremony was a very imposing one; and after the stone had been laid addreases were delivered by the Rev. Mr. Guyon and other ministers. A collection, amounting to $121, was also taken up for the furtherance of the work, after which the benedic- tion was pronounced by the Bishop, and the congre- gation separated. A number of cases were disposed of in the Court of General Sessions yesterday by Judge Russell, as will be seen by our report of the proceedings. In transcribing from the telegraphic des- patch of Mr. Dougias’ speech at Chicago, a mistake was made in that part of it relating to the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court. Mr. Douglas is made to say in our report that “he was not prepared to yield obedience to the law as expounded by that court,” &c. He said just the reverse of this. The European news by the Fulton imparted increased buoyancy to the cotton market yesterday, which was both firm and active, and closed at an advance of fully one-eighth of a cent per pound. We now quote middling uplands firm at 125c. per pound. The sales in transita and on the spot reached about 5,000 bales. The total increase in the receipts at all the ports since the first of September, 1857, amounts to about 125,407 bales. The increage in the exports to Great Britain amoants to about 331,007. The decrease to Francs amounts to about 20,442 bales. The increase in stocks at the ports amounts to about 65,497 bales. The estimates regarding the amovat of damage inflicted on the present crop by the late floots ‘are still widely at variance. Few estimates fall below 800,000 bales, while some go as high as 350,000 a 400,600, It is argued that, as the previous great flood of 1844 injured the crop by about 300,000 bales, and that the overflow of thie soason having exceeded it, the pre sumption is that ite effects will also surpass it. But it must also be recollected that the breadth of land planted in cotton is in excess of former yoars, and that so far the reports regarding the crops on the high lands are not in the main deemed to be uufa- vorable, The flour market was quite steady with « tair ‘amount of enles. Wheat was active, withenles of about 60,000 a 70,020 bushels at prices given elsewhere, Corn ‘was firm for sound lots of all kinds, which were scarcer while unsoand and inferior grades were heavy and ‘rregu- lar. Pork was steady, with sales of moss in lote at $16 65; at the close $16 76 was asked for large Jote, and $16 62), did. Prime was at $1370 0 $1975. Sugars were firm and active, the advance of last week having been fully sustained. The sales embraced about 1,700 hdds., at rates given in another column. Coffee was steady and quiet Freight engagemests were moderate and rates unchange4. ‘To California rates were at 27 }¢c , with light engagements. ‘The Revuision and the Revenue—A Coming Revolution in our Publie Economy. One of the most prominent facts which the recent commercial revulsion has brought home to the minds of the American people is the great one, that in a time of profound peace the revenue of the country is not equal to its ex- penditure, and we are necessitated to incur a large increase of the public debt. Whatever may be the cause of this anomaly in our public finances, it is evident that it must be removed. The nation in this réspect is not like an individual. When a man finds that his income is not equal to his outgo, he retrenches at once, and falls back upon his old coat, breeches and boots, which are made to do ser- viee for another season. Not so with the na- tion. It cannot fall back upon the old breeches or the old boots. Our national budget grows with our national growth. The public defence must be annually attended to, whether we are poor or rich. The wheels of government must be kept going. Fanatics in Kansas and Utah must be made to obey the law and keep the peace, if they will not do so voluntarily. Indian wars are the chronic symptoms of our national advance, and must be met with the exbi))tioa of the proper remedies at once. Mormons, border ruffians, free State rascals, Dacotahs, and all the rest of the list of white and red scoundrels, will not put off their pranks until Uncle Sam feels himself rich enough to whip them into propriety. The needs of government are permanent, and they should be met with a permanent revenue. Economy should be prac- tied at all times; but we cannot economize beyond a certain point, and we have no right to lay opon our successors the burthens of the Present day, besides their own, in the shape of & public debt. There are truths palpable to the whol reo: e, bey “ay ‘ : : pie, 90d they are forn'cg the country into a reconsideration of our entire revenue system. All acknowledge the necessity of a remedy, and the quacks in political economy are alrendy thrusting upon public attention their cure-all NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1853. | SS TS EE nostrums. Some of them insist upon starvation and a cold water cure; others would convince us that @ high tariff cures everything ; a third Preecribes depletive and tonic practice, in the shape of direct.taxation and free trade; a fourth wants the currency mended, by the with- drawal of all small bills, And so they go on, each ~with his patent medicine, which he ingists the public knows all about and im- Plicitly confides in, although the truth is, the public looks with the utmost contempt upon both the quacks and their nostrums. We sup- pose we shall yet have a thousand other won- derful remedies proposed, including, no doubt, the Chevalier Webb’s great remedy—a national bank—which he found so excellent in his own case, In order to arrive at the true remedy it will be well to see how ‘the late financial revul- sion has affected the revenue of other countries. In France and England the tempest was as se- vere as it was with us. In the first of these countries great efforts have been made to cover up its ravages, and it is atated that the revenue has suffered very slightly, if at all. The ‘re- turns of the British revenue have been publish- ed, and we find that for the quarter ending March 31st last, the revenue of England, ex- clusive of the property tax, increased, in round numbers, five millions of dollars over the cor- responding quarter of last year. We exclude the property tax, because on the 5th of April, 1857, its rate was reduced from sixteen pence to seven pence in the pound. The total revenue of England for the year ending 3let of March, 1858, exclusive of the property tax, exhibits a slight increase over the pre- vious year. We have no full returns of our revenue yet; but those of New York enable us to estimate them approximately; and these show a diminution of more than forty per cent on the income of the first six months of the pre- sent year, as compared with the same period last year. At the rate we are now going on the revenue of the government will be about thirty- five millions of dollars less this year than in the previons one. It is this great disturbing cause chat has thrown the finances of the government into con- fusion, and compelled it to seek for a loan to meet its ordinary and necessary expenses in time of peace. The silly efforts that have been made to saddle this unpopular result upon the administration of Mr. Buchanan must fall to the ground, for he is in no way responsible for it. But as the mass of people do not generally go behind results in forming their judgments, the odium will cling to his party, and, it must be confessed, with justice. One of the cardinal measures of the democratic party is the first element of this disturbing cause. A simple com- parison of the revenue systems of the United States and England will render this evi- dent. Our revenue is derived almost entirely from customs imposed upon the secondary articles of consumption The pri- mary articles are wholly or in large part ex- empt from taxation, either by the nature of our staple productions—as cereals, cotton and its fabrics, meats and sugar—or by law, as coffee, tea and wool. The revenue of England is de- rived from customs on imports about one-third, and the other two-thirds from direct taxation. Then, too, the customs are laid upon the pri- mary articles of consumption. The five items of sugar, tea, tobacco, spitits and wine alone yielded one hundred millions out of the one hun- dred and thirty-five millions of dollars arising from her customs. The consequence of this system is, that whenever the consumption of the secondary articles is cut off, our government loses all its revenue, while that of England loses little or none of hers, Then, again, in our system of revenue there | is another great disturbing element not pos- sessed by that of England. There the duty isa fixed rate upon the quantityimported. With us the absurd ad valorem eystem prevails, by which our revenue is not only always fluctuating with the value of the article, but it is made oppres- sive through its want of uniformity. If the wit of man had been exercised to its utmost to devise a system of impost which should be unequal to the consumer and unjust to the importer, it would have selected our present ad valorem system. Under it notwo consumers pay the saine tax upon any article, except by a mare accident. Besides this, it ia a great incentive tofraud on all sides, and creates the necessity of establishing a customs watch in every one of our foreign consulates, Theeo are evils that ehould be remedied. For their existence the democratic party is respon- sible, for our present revenne system has been one of their measures of party faith. It works evil in two ways. When times are good it pro- duces an immense income, which fosters extrava- gance and a system of plunder in official circles. When times are evil, it deprives the government of the necessities of life, and forces it to borrow of the future. The financial revolution through which we have just pamed has demonstrated the necessity of a change; and the ad valorem tariff will before long be buried by the people by the side of the dead questions of Kansas and the nigger. A regular income is the only guide to true economy in the administration of the government. Cancemt To Be Execuren—The Judges of the Supreme Court decided the case of Cancemi yesterday, and he was sentenced by Judge Wright to be executed on the second of Sep- tember. All the technicalities urged by de- fendant’s counsel were set aside by the Court. Judge Wright, who tried the prisoner, having certified that the twelfth juror was withdrawn by the consent of Cancemi himself. A motion was made for a fourth trial by the counsel for the prisoner, which it is to be hoped will not be granted. The unfortunate criminal has had tbree fair and impartial triala, and has twice re- ceived the sentence of death, If there was any shadow of doubt o* to the justice of his convie- tion, of couree it woull he quite proper to place him aga‘n on trial; but no euch doubt exists on the mind of the Judge who tried him, the jury who prononaced the verdict, or the pultic generally. It is time that we should have done with this lege! bair-splitting in behali of reat criminals. A> exwnple is much needed to check the rowdy spirit of the times, and if the victim be one whore crime merits just punishment, a0 one can complain. Tre Next Conaressionan Exection.—A good deal of cutting and carving is going on in the city preparatory to the next Congressional elec- tion, and there will be come curious manwuyres before the time comes round. Out of every new teh of men who go to Congress two or three fire generally derigtished in thy fret efoston. Of our Congressional delegation only two men have really come out with honor—John Coch- rane and John Kelly. We hear very little of some of the others—they appear to enjoy a quieecent mediocrity; bat there are two of them whose course has been of such a character that they will probably find themselves left in the vurch, among all the parties, when the election comes about. ‘The Gilded Road two Grace. Some one of the amall papers has been giving the world valuable information as to the sala- ries of the metropolitan clergymen. From this authority we learn that Henry Ward Beecher bas e yearly salary of $5,000 and s parsonage rent free, and that, with his literary earnings, his income is $12,000. E. H. Chapin has $5,000 per annum, and makes as much more by lec- turing. Dr. Bethune has $2,500, but is the poseeseor of a fortune outside of his professional earnings. Dr. Adams, says our authority, has $5,000 and a rich wife. Dr. Hawks has $6,000 @ year and a house. Dr. Taylor, of Grace cburch, has $10,000 and the fine parsonage adja- centtothe church. Rev. Mesers. Tyng, Bellows, Orgood, Cheever, and other leading clergymen, receive from $3,000 to $6,000 per annum. In many cares the salary only represents a small part of the pastor’s earnings, If he is young and a bachelor, the young ladies vie with each other in furnishing him with the thousand and one et ceteras which go to make up a gentle man’s toilet. He has clippers, and caps, and watch cases, and suspenders and surplices, and all sorts of traps, without number. He may select the “richest of his fair patrons for his rib,” and receive a round dowry from her dis- bursing agent at sight. His new household is adorned with contributions of useful and orna. mental articles—the gifts of his parishioners, who hepe to find a short cut to heaven by a heavy fee to its elected representative. In the summer months the fashionable congregation suspends the task of worshipping God in town, in order to adore Satan and all his works at the watering places. The clergyman bolts off to his country seat, and gives himeelf up to the sports of the season. What becomes of the poor sin- ners who cannot afford to go out ef town we cannot say; nor do we suppose their spiritual pastors and masters have much care about it. If we compare the rewards given to the clergy with the salaries of other professional men, or men pursuing occupations which give them a position before the public, we shall find that the ministry offers them more sure com- petence than any other calling. Leading coun- sel at the bar may make fortunes; but how few are really “leading” among the army of law- yers? The larger number are briefless young men, who get nothing. Again, there are hard working attorneys who may make two thou- sand a year, and have the hardest work to col- lect it. The same remarks-will apply to the literary and medical professions. No one seems to relish paying an editor’s, bookseller’s, doc- tor’s or lawyer’s bill; but money comes down upon the head of the parson in a Danwian shower. Next to the popular clergyman the popular player is the greatest pet of the public. Per- haps in the golden hour of his early triumphs he may receive for the time being more money than the preacher. But let premature old age come upon the actor, and those who petted and dined and wined him yesterday will kick him into the gutter to-morrow. With the young ladies he stands next to the parson. But the divinities of the greenroom are not in that high state of drill and discipline that dis- tinguish the divinities of the vestry. Satan is always at work in the coulisses, making some kind of a riot, more or less public, according to the prominence or obscurity of the sinners. Beecher and most of the tip-top clergymen generally manage to keep the old fellow out by making their churches a close borough, and watching, like prudent gamekeepers, over their flocks, male and female. Sometimes, however, the sentinel on Zion’s watchtower slumbers, as in the recent case of the Brooklyn widow and the demoiselle who had two intrigues during the re- vival. So the Devil slips in; then he is only ex- pelled by hard praying and harder swearing, according to all accounts. We must do the clergy the justice to say that they watch their lambe well. Some uncharitable people say that they do so from interested motives; but in this wicked world no one can escape calumny. ‘The parson has the further advantage over the player, the lawyer or the doctor in the perma- nence of his employment. The broken advo- cate, the ruined actor, or the physician or edi- tor who does not keep up with the times, are quickly thrown overboard; but Igt your “divine” be ever e0 much of an old fogy—let Lim snuflle over his prayers and cough out his eermon—he is still continued in office, with an assietant. The ladies pet him more than ever—their dear sym- pathetic souls cleaving to the holy man more and more, as his infirmities grow apace. Monks, ministers and pastors have been the especial favorites of the-fair in all times, and we cannot expect to be wiser than our grandmothers. It is this fine position of the pet clergyman that calls many a young man of good parts to a sense of awakening grace. He is born to evil asthe sparks fly upward; but Satan does not pay eo well, and therefore he enlists on the other side. Players, too, see before them a field of clover when a crisis has reduced them to short commons and religion hits them on the head with the force of a sixty-four pound shot. But these “converted actors” are not public pets. They are generally strollers or walking gentlemen. Nobody ever heard of a first-rate opera singer being brought to a sense of his awful condition until after he had lost his voice. We are forced to the conclusion that Mammon— the god that regulates this metropolis—has crept into the ranks of the unco pious themselves, and that, in spite of the revival, Satan yet holds the Malakoff. Tue Quarantine Laws.—Through the selfish- ness of a few, it is quite possible that the efic!os action of the Health Officer of the port may be | nullified. There is evidently o disposition in some quarters to evade the quarantine laws and resist the regulations which the season and the unhealthy condition of many neighboring foreign ports render necessary to be obeerved with the utmost strictness. With yellow fever in Sagua la Grande and many porte in the Weet indies, it ie quite proper to keep all vessels from those places in the lower bay until they are thoroughly purified; and in doing so the Health Officer is only exercising ® caution which a consideration for the public health de- mands. It is true that the city is perfectly healthy just now; but that is no reason why the rules of quarantine ehould be relaxed in cases where there is the smalicet suepi cion of danger, The interests of a fow aré of very Ifllle moment compared with the public health, and it woald be quite unpar- donable to allow any consideration whatever to expoee the city to the risk of infection at this time of the year. ef Political Parties. We have shown, and the country has ecen, how the great democratic party of the Union has been disorganized and shattered through the action of democratic representatives in the last eeesion of Congress, .The Washington Union points to the triumphs achieved by the administration, and argues from them that the party is compact and united. We, from the game grounds, maintain that these successes only show the high position occupied by the administration, and the justice of the policy pureued by it. The New York Zribune, on the other hand, accepts our position as to the de- moralization of the democratic party, and hugs itself with the delusion that the republican party has not drifted upon the same quicksands, but that it presente to-day all the elements of a united, compact, vigorous and healthy political organization. In that, hpwever, the Tribune is as far astray as is the Qn. The republican party is hardly -lees dis0fPanized than its great rival. Its representatives in Congress made, to be sure, a spasmodic effort at the commencement of last session to unite all their discordant elements with Know Nothings and renegade democrats, in presenting a front of opposition to the ad. ministration on the Lecompton question ; but in order to do so, they had to stultify all the principles of their political existence, and vote for admitting Kansas either as a slave State or as afree State. After that, what force or power can republicanism have as an anti-slavery organization? And as such alone has it had any vitality at all. If Giddings, and Lovejoy, and Bingham, and Stanton, and Colfax, and their confreres from New England and the West, have deliberately eaten up all their declarations of hostility to the ex- tension of slavery, in voting for the Crittenden- Montgomery bill, how are they to expect the abolitionists of Ohio and Illinois and Indiana and Massachusetts to vote for republican candi- dates? Why, itis clear that the acts of the re- publicansin Congress were even more calcu- lated to disorganize and shatter that party throughout the Middle and New England States than were the acts of democratic members to ruin their party. The truth is that both parties, as distinctive organizations, have fallen into mutual ruin, and have obliterated the points of difference that formerly existed between them; and candidates for political office stand a better chance now of being voted for on their indi- vidual merits than from any consideration having its origin in party humbug or party machinery. Even in this State—the central State of republicanism—the leaders of the party are at heads and points in the prelimina- ries for the next State convention. This is a condition of things for which the country has to thank the firm and sagacious ad- ministration of Mr. Buchanan, founded, as it was, not upon party grounds, but upon conside- rations of high national policy. No greater blessing could fall upon the community than the annihilation of those. rotten, corrupt and debasing combinations got up under the desig- nation of party for the purpose of helping im- beqles, rogues and scoundrels into offices of trust and honor. If these combinations should be wiped out, as they promise to be, it will be owing partly to their inherent rottenness and eorruption, but chiefly to the national non- party policy of the present administration. The Tribune speaks already of replacing repub- licaniem with another party, the chief element of which is to be the labor of the North. Well, some substitute may have to be found for the decaying fungus which sprung up out of the amalgam of Americanism and abolitionism; but it strikes us that a labor party will hardly answer. A labor party cannot be sectional, as republicanism was—it must be national, as democracy is. Labor at the North isdependent for its existence and vitality on labor at the South. The two can never be made distinct nor placed in mutual antagonism. Our manufactures, our ships, our commerce, all our prosperity, are indissolubly connected with the industry of the South; and when our philosophic neighbor has to fall back upon the idea of rendering the two interests hostile, it is evidence of the desperate condition in which he finds himself placed by the impending dissolution of the republican party. For our part, we should rejoice with an exceeding great joy to see political combina- tions which have no distinctive merit in them- selves and which are only got up for the benefit of a handful of miserable office holders, office seekers, and office mongers, completely wiped out of existence; and if the desertion of demo- cratic members of Congress, the stultification of republicans, and the national policy of the ad- ministration combine to produce such a result, we will welcome it asa consummation most devoutly to be wished. Tue Dury or Tus Taxrarers—We have de- monstrated by an array of facts and figures that over sixteen millions of dollars are annually ex- pended on our municipal government, but as the only data we have to go upon are the ac- counts as rendered by the office holders of the Corporation, who have the fingering of the money, the figure is very probably higher than that. As to how it is expended we have to take the words of the same parties; but, from all the shameful exposures of fraud, swindling and forgery which have been recently made, there can be no doubt thata large portion of the amount is dishonestly disposed of—in short, that it goes into the pockets of officials. The “jdea that it costs, proportionately to the popu- lation, five times as much to govern this single city as to govern the whole of the United States is a startling one, it must be admitted. That it does actually cost this amount for any legiti- mate purpose no one oan believe. The finances are, and have been for the last ten years, reck- leesly and dishonestly squandered by a gang of thieving office holders. Taxable property to the amount of five hundred and twenty-one mil- lions is represented by over thirty thousand taxpayers in the city, and itis hard indeed if they cannot by a combiacd movement rescue the treasury from a horde of plunderers, If they would only bestir themselves to action, throw politics and partisan inclinings to the dogs, and eee how they ohn sve their pockets, the next lection might see the evil corrected at once and forever, and all municipal offices filled by honest and eflicient men. Ward committees abould be formed for thie purpore, and money collected at once to put the machinery in motion. Poli- ticions of all factions are already at work to mirguide the public and retard the progress of an independent taxpayers’ party. This is to be expected; the fellows who have their hands on the public money bage will hold on with despe- rate tenacity, stopping at no measure taat will enable than to retain their grip; but the tax- payere are etrong coough 49 oust tow wex: fail, if they only act in combination, firmly deter- mined to put an end to the wicked eystem under which the city is going to perdition. More than this the taxpayers cen and should do—namely, call a convention to revise our State constitu- tion and city charter, in order that under'‘a new order of things we may have a healthy State and municipal government, Senator Dovenas anv His Pourricar Aspe RATIonS.—Senator Douglas seems determined to secure his re-election to the Senate from the State of Illinois by hook or by crook—though we understand that, rather than not get back to Congress at all, he will be satisfied with the nomination from his district to the House of Representatives. At any rate, he is resolved to play a réle in Congressional proceedings in either the upper or the lower house. It will not be for lack of effort, however, if hée does not succeed in securing his re-election to the Senate, although he has a rival in the field who takes the ground that the Kansas-Nebraska bill was 8 political juggle, and that squatter sovereignty is the veriest humbug and nonsense—two posi- tions which Mr. Douglas will find it very difi- cult to overthrow in Illinois. He has, however, undertaken to join issue with his antagonist on these points, while at the same time he main- tains the correctness of his position in opposing the President’s Kansas policy, even so far as to vote against the English compromice bill. If Mr. Douglas would not see himself shorn of his Senatorial honors, and shorn of all pre- tensions to the Presidency, there is but one course for him to pursue. He must propitiate the administration at Washington, and thus secure the support of the friends of the admi- nistration in Illinois. The republicans will not trust him. They know he is too deeply imbued with democratic doctrines ever to be a reliable member of their party; and besides, he is the father of the measure repealing the Miseouri compromise, and ef the myth of squattor sovereignty. So, whatever chance for him there is elsewhere, there is none whatever in the re- publican party of Illinois. Still he has not fallen so far from grace in his own party as not to be capable of being re- ceived back into communion. The Kansas matter is now practically settled, and it might not be deemed necessary for him to recant bis errors and cry “peccavi’ in regard to that question. There might be no objection on any side to let bygones be bygones. If Senator Douglas will only renew his oath of fealty to the party and to the administration, his late backsliding might be overlooked, and he might get such support as would secure for him the immediate object of his ambition. As to the prize of the Presidency, which he has in view, he must abandon all hope of that, for another term at least. There is not time enough left for him between this and 1860 to retrieve his political reputation. He must be | content to wait till 1864, when the people may have forgotten or may be content to look with leniency on his fiasco of 1858. Wasnixaton Scanpars—We have received several communications relative to the difficulty between Mr. Corcoran, the banker, and Mr. Mu- ruaga, of the Spanish Legation. It has already been stated that the attache, having been fas- cinated by the daughter of the banker, visited the house of the latter after having been forbidden to enter it. He, the attache, was ejected by force—that is, kicked out—and after receiving congé from his governmeat, chal- lenges Mr. Corcoran to mortal combat, which polite invitation is sensibly declined. The far- ther circumstances of the case—that the lady is a leader of the fashion, heiress to a great for- tune, and an only child—make the matter a most piquant dish for the gossips of the capital. On the merits of the case we have little or nothing to say. The parties are competent to settle their own affairs. But we may be allowed & word or two in reference to the absurd hum- bug of the small Washington papers, who affect to regret that euch matters should “find their way into the public press,” and who are shocked that the private affairs of two of the “wealthiest and most respectable families” should be exploited in print. These very jour- nals are daily purveyors of the smallest kind of small talk in the metropolis. The “wealthy and respectable families” give it to them through an insane desire to get into print. Flunkeyism is as rampant in Washington as at St.dames’ or the Tuileries ; and as we have no regular court journal to record fashionable movements, the correspondents of the regular journals are coaxed, or pressed, or sedaced, or’ bullied into the service. Mrs. Snob desires that her fancy ball, or her levée, or soirée, or what- ever else she may call it, reported in the papers, and takes every means to obtain notoriety on every possible occasion. All the women wish to see themselves in print, and to have their wrinkles, their affectations, and their cracked reputations, varnished over with compliments that shine like silver, but are only plated after all All these people tell scandalous stories of each other; it isa mutual guerrilla warfare, where the Mrs, Candour with the longest tongue is the victor of the field. Of course these stories come to the ears of those who will write them down for the printers. Sometimes they are published—oftener, however, they are rejected. But in any case, the fashionable people them- selves are the only parties to blame. If they kept their affairs within their own walls they could never be published—that is quite certain. They should remember the Eastera proverb :— “That which is whispered in the streets will be proclaimed from the house tops.” —— Custom Hovse Arromtments.—Removals and appointments at the Custom House are slow operations-—it is so very hard to please every- body—and one can easily imagine how many there are to please when we state that there are at the present time six thousand applicants for places there, from one party alone. The wholo number of offices in the gift of the Collector is only eleven hundred; and in fact there aro only between two and three hundred appointments , which can be made, because all the rest of the present officials are a part of the machinery of the Custom House, without whom its businvss could not be efficiently conducted. They have, as it were, grown up with the establishment, thoroughly understand its workings, and are almost indispensable. In this state of things what is-to be done? Over five thousand appii- cants must be sent hungry away. We procoma the other two parties, if they were in power could muster between them about ten thousand applicants for place, Just think of it—six- teen thousand greedy office seekers in this city alone! We understand that the rule in making Gas- tom House appointments will be, that none bat thoce who are known to be staunch friends of the admiuietweiun wil be shown aay favor,