The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1858, Page 4

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NOR PRIS PRIN TLN executed with meatness, cheapness and des AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. —Trautan Orema ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street. ~Roment ox Diaaur, Brosdway—Consroay. eps OF Dxwaprut d BROADWAY THEAT! cusus—Pinate OF THE Ls NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Muiy—Usep Ur—Youne Anriyss—JEssik BROWN. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. — Guexvower—Gouvex AXy—Marreo Favcone—Tue Srrrrie. — WALLACK" RTERATRE, Broadway.—Buvg aNp Currry— Going to THE B. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Our Awraicas Coasin—AN Onsgct oF INTEREST. BARNUMS AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—AMer- nooo and Kvening—Taropon’s Mimic Worto—Da. VAuen mink, &C r 4 OP'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— angsones, Dances, &¢,—SCamPini. we Ersio MECHANIC'S HALL, 427 Brondway.—Brvawns’ Mevsrmeis —Sroko Sones anv Buwiesques—Buniesque Equestria. 1 MINSTRELS, 44 Broadway.—Frmiorian TICs, BONGS, &0.—PONGO. nth street and Sixth avenne.— DERELLA. PALACE G. Fquesreianr New York, ze November 19, 1858, MAILS FOR THE ‘PACIFIC. New York Herald—California Edition. The United States mail steamship Moses Taylor, Capt. A. G. Gray, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall. The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific will close at one o'clock to-morrow afternoon. The New Yore Wernty Hrnatn—Calfornia edition— containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at eleven o'clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents. Agents will please send in their orders as early as pos able SPECTACLE OF C) The News. The annual Thanksgiving festival was observed yesterday by an almost total suspension of busi- ness, both public and private, and by a very gene- ral attendance at the churches. Our benevolent fellow citizens, as is their custom, took care to pro- vide suitable entertainment for the destitute. At the various reformatory institutions on the Five Poiats the children, to the number of several thou- saled with the fat of the land, of ‘hwe give some yunt in another column. e day passed off v quictly, except that the air, from early morning till after nightfall, resounded with the martial music of the bands accompanying the numerous target parties that paraded the strects. The free bread for the poor which was an- nounced for distribution in Union square yester- day between ten and eleven o'clock was not forthcoming. The whole affair was a mean hoax, which deceived hundreds of poor people into wait- ing from ten till three o'clock in the afternoon in vain for the promised relief. Tt will be seen by a report given in another column that Health Officer Thompson has sued the Board of Supervisors of Richmond county, claiming ten thousand dollars damages for the destruction of his dwelling and injuries to his wife caused by the burning of the Quarantine buildings. Late accounts from Utah state that Gov. Cum ming had decided that the Territorial Legislature must meet at Fillmore City, notwithstanding the passage ot the joint resolution by the Legislature in 1856 designating Salt Lake City as the place of meeting. We publish in another part of today’s paper an interesting letter from our correspondent at Salt Lake City, together with a lively deserip- tion of the exhibition of the products, animal, ve- getable and mechanical, of the Territory, held not Jong since sands, were ‘The New Treaties with China and Japan— WIL they be Respected by those Nations? The importance of the results to the trade of Awerica and Europe that may flow from the opening of China and Japan to the commerce of the world can hardly be over-estimated, even in the apparently exorbitant calculations of the most enthusiastic theorists. What may flow from a newly opened inter- between the Western civilizations and four hundred or five hundred millions of course some people in the Eastern hemisphere can be foreseen | only in a vague and general way. contemplate the fact of the But when we that the arts and industry | semi-barbarous millions of Asia are in things the very opposite of our own, and that rence is the greates: element of trade, the simple fact that vast | must come to commerce through it, out in bold relief. In fact, our inter- with the Far East, limited as it has been, we will perceive changes standing was the great fountain from which the present trade of the world first sprung. To it do we owe the three great world staples—silk, sagar | and cotton. The first has been domiciled in hern Europe, but the others lie at the very | | founda tions of American industry and American | power. For their developement a new continent | was required as soon as our intercourse with Chine and Japan were cut off. There are not a lew who, in view of the past, steadfastly believe on he new treaties with those countries will not be fulfilled, and that both the Chinese and e made them in bad faith. A cur- nation of the past will throw no little light upon the probable futare. (Our first koowledge of those countries came from the travels of the Polo family, of Venice. ‘Their narratives were not believed, however, until the Portuguese doubled the Cape of Good Hope, in the beginning of the sixteenth century. Commerce entered at once upon the newly ped field; but comme was not then the science and power it is to-day. It was conducted upon the old theories of monopoly and protec- tion. Every trader was impressed with the idea that what he gained somebody lost, and what anybody else gained was his loss. Commerce at that time, fearing to stand alone, sought a co- adjator in religious propagandism. The mission- sry went hand in hand with the merchant. Chris- tianity found an abundant field to reap; but its teachers soon became overbearing to a high de- uree. They were self-sacrificing, holy men, of the most ardent stamp; and they hated each other and the non-believing Asiatics with an intensity like that which animated the bosoms of the borners of Huss, Hooker and the victims of the Jloly tr m. Thie led te Japanese hy sory exe their partial exter | elec! | his Cabinet. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1558. mination and final expulsion in both China and Japan. But the case is different now. Since that time | commerce has learned different theories, and | found other and wiser allies thau the teachers of religion. It is no more one nation seeking to drive out its compeers, or one monopolist seek- ing to exclude some other. Instead ot the Dutch and th Pagans uniting to exterminate the Por- tugues and the native Christians, neither Dutch nor Por uguese are known in the movement. The four great living Powers of the earth appeared together before the gates of these Eastern em- pires, and they have been opened to them. They have made stipulations in favor of commerce, in which each participates with all; and these stipu- lations are supported by something very different from holy men, who deem it doing a service to heaven to burn each other at the stake. These facts are known to the Chinese and Japanese, however limited their knowledge of European civilization may be, and their import will not be lost upon them. Even should they be disposed to evade the treaty stipulations, it would be a short war that would bring them to their senses. But we do not believe they wish to do so. All testimony goes to prove that they are eminently an industrial and commercial people—quick to observe and imitate our mechanical appliances. We are told, moreover, that the American name has obtained a greater influence and more favor- able reception among them than that of any European nation, This may account for the spite of the London Zimes at Mr. Reed. It is also said that a minister from Japan will cross the Pacific ocean and come to Washington. This single fact proves their appreciation of geogra- phical relations, and points to our Pacific empire as the future seat of the commerce with those nations. There we have already San Francisco, known as the New York of the Pacific, and our empire will soon stretch southward till it em- braces some of the Isthmus routes. The great advantage, then, of the opening of Japan and China will redound to us: and upon us may yet devolve ihe diplomatic or belligerent task of keeping them open to the world. A Caxapian Feperatioy or States.—No higher compliment could possibly be paid to the wisdom of the great men who founded the repub- lic of the United States of America, and who established our constitutional form of govern- ment, than is paid in the extent to which that form of government has been copied and imi- tated. It has ever since been the dream of all liberal minds in Europe. France, and Germany, and Italy have made various attempts to obtain such a political system. The old Spanish-Ame- rican colonies, incited by our example, threw off the yoke of the mother country, fought for and obtained their independence, and proceeded to reorganize themselves as independent republics or as federal States, copying as closely as pessi- ble from the great original. Wherever, since 1776, new governments have been established, the liberal principle has largely entered into their composition; and, to this day, the tendency of things all over the world is toward a closer as- similation to our institutions. Not only do Eng- lish reformers, like Bright, praise them and con- trast them with even British institutions, which have been much liberalized since the establish- ment of this republic, but English statesmen en- deavor, in regard to the British transatlantic possessions, to approximate as nearly as possible to the model of our government. This disposition is particularly observable in the Canadian provinces. Instead of being ruled, as of old, by a Colonial Secretary sitting in his office in Downing street, the Canadians now, to all intents and purposes, govern themselves, They bave their own Parliament, and pass their own laws. The only relic of dependence that they retain is that they have no voice in the choice of their Governors, who have the veto power over the Legislatures, The Canadian provinces thus bear to England exactly the same relative position that our Territories bear to us; and there is this advantage about the position—that while they have all the benefits of independence, they are relieved from most of the burdens of maintaining it. And yet, with all these advantages on their tide, there is a growing desire on the part of the Canadians to assimilate themselves even more closely to us; and, strange to say, that de- sire finds no disfavor in England, but is rather encouraged there. It is now in contemplation to form all the Canadian provinces into one fede- ration—republican in everything but name— having a legislative body answering to our national Congress, and with its members ap- | pointed on the same principle. The home government will still retain its right to the appointment of a Governor General, but with that single exception—which will relieve the Canadians from the trouble of Presidential ions—the mother country will have no right of interference with them. Indeed. so far has the principie of election of officers prevailed in Canada, that there is considerable grambling there now because the Governor selects the Min- istry, without reference to the popular voice, just as the President of the United States selects Our experience has not been of a kind te justify these grumblings. On the con- trary, one of our great complaints is that too many subordinate offices are elective. As to the possibility of an ultimate anion be- tween the Canadian federation and this republic, or a portion of it, if ever diseevered, that will be a matter for the consideration of those who come after us. It would be rather premature to dis- cuss it now. It will probably not occur in this | generation. Even if it did, we do not see what ad- vantage it would be to either. Canada being thus practically a republic, with interests inseparably allied to ours, it matters little about the mere form of alliance. The line of separation between us will be virtually wiped out in all that relates to trade and commerce, and as to the mere dis- tinction of governments, that will be a matter of little moment. What is most remarkable in this movement is the implied recognition by the English government of the fact that the only institutions suited to the people of this continent are those established by the founders of this republic. Dows tx Ovp Virarst —The democracy of the Old Dominion are in an extraordinary condi- tion of excitement in reference to the approach- ing State Convention, which is to nominate their candidate for Governor. The contest is between the Wise Presidential clique and the Hunter Presidential clique. The Hanter men have ral- lied upon Hon. John Letcher as their choice, first and last, and the Wise men, without speci- tying any particular champion on their side, are very bitter in their hostility to Leteher. From all appearances, thus far, the Hunter men have the game in their own hands; bit Wise is a host in himeelf, ond the struggle will not be retin quished by him without the full display of bis strength, the prize in view being the Presiden- tial vote of Virginia in the Charleston Conven- tion. Possibly the upshot of the row may be a decisive split of the Virginia democracy-—a cala- mity which would certainly raise the price of | niggers. We await the meeting of the contest- ants in the ring. Thanksgiving Day—What We Are Thank- ful For. The States of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey celebrated their annual Thanks- giving Day yesterday, anticipating by a week the day set apart in all the other States for thanksgiving—namely, the last Thursday in November. Little Vermont, too, enter- tained the absurd notion of acting indepen- dent of her sister States, and fixed as her Thanksgiving Day the anniversary of Louis Na- poleon’s great coup d'eét—the 2d of December. With these exceptions, we believe, the general Thanksgiving Day of the nation will be observed next Thursday. It is a matter of some regret that there can- | not be a complete uniformity in this celebration. Those of our citizens whose home was originally in New England, where this has been long a day of feasting and rejoicing, do not enjoy their thanksgiving turkey with half the relish that they would if they could have imagined all their near relatives and friends enjoying themselves in asimilar manner in the old farmhouse, or be- neath the ancestral roof. It is the associations connected in memory with the annual return of the day that give to it most of its charms. Without these associations, it appears to be little more than a government-ordained holiday, wanting in the sanctities or superstitions connected with those holidays that are com- memorative of events in the history of Chris- tianily. It was, therefore, much to be desired that all the States and Territories of this confe- deracy should have had the same day set apart and dedicated to the religious, charitable and social observances of thanksgiving. But the Govervor of our own State led the way in pre- venting this uniformity; and the Governors of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Vermont followed the bad example. It was seriously proposed, after the termination of the Mexican war—so honorable to our arms—that the President should recom- mend a national day of thanksgiving; but, think- ing that that would be an encroachment on the prerogatives of the Governors of the respective States, he declined to do so; and hence, although the last Thursday in November has been by tacit assent of all usually selected, there have been deviations from it on the part of some of the States, as was the case yesterday. And yet, notwithstanding this drawback, we do not remember ever to have seen in this city so general a celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Business was entirely suspended. Services were performed in all the churches, of all denomina- tions. From almost every pulpit in the city the voice of the pastor was heard, reminding the con- gregation of the manifold blessings enjoyed by us as a people, and for which we should render our thanks to the Giver of all good gifts. The joy bells of old Trinity pealed their merriest chimes in honor of the day. The streeis wore a holiday appearance. Broadway was gayer than usual, thronged as it was with pedestrians, enjoy- ing the beauty of the day, and the frequent spec- tacles of target excursion parties, and gro- tesquely attired bands of fantasticals. In the general hilarity the poor were not forgotten. Arrangements were made and well carried out to give Thanksgiving dinners at the various charita- ble and reformatory institutions of the city; and soit may be hoped that with even the very lowest and most destitute of our population there was yesterday abundant cause for blessing the Thanks- giving holiday. It is an old and a good custom—that of set- ting apart one day in the year as a day of nation- al feasting and rejoicing. It can be traced back to the oldest nations of antiquity. The Greeks and Romans carried it out in the greatest perfec- tion, devoting days, and sometimes weeks, to games, and sports, and assemblies, and merry- makings. in honor of Ceres, and Bacchus, and Flora, and their tatelary deities. So, too, with the Hebrews, who had their religious feasts, and even their year of Sabbaths, in which they gave the earth itself repose. Most of our Christian holidays, instituted in the Middle Ages, were imitations of Jewish or of pagan feast days, and yet are none the less to be observed or reverenced on that account. It is only the old form of human sentiments and aspi- rations under a new name. Our own Thanks- giving day was, till within the last twenty years, a purely Puritan affair. Outside of the New England States there was no such observance. Now it is observed by all the States and Terri- tories of the Union; and even the English have begun to copy us in that, for of late years a na- tional holiday has been annually proclaimed throughout the kingdom; and besides this, the great land proprietors have those merry rural feasts which they call “harvest home.” Every people has much to be thankful for to the Great Ruler of the Universe. No people has more to be thankful for than ourselves. We are at peace with all the werld. No nation regards us as ite enemy. Our white-winged messengers of commerce are welcomed in every port of every sea. Our country is still the home to which the poor and down-trodden of every other land turn their longing eyes. The harvests have been abundant, and trade has revived. Our people are prosperous, intelligent, happy, to a degree rarely if ever attained by any other people. No foreign war or domestic dis- sentions impede our progress. Within the pre- rent year we bave pacified the hostile Indians on our western border, and restored the Mormons to a just appreciation of their position as citizens of a Christian republic. And now we are in the way of bringing the dictator of Paraguay to his senses, by the same means ax those with which we operated on the Mormons—the exhibition, not the actual use of force. Our elections have passed over peaceably. A Northern or a Southern agitator now and again strives to ripple the smooth surface of our inter- State relations; but his efforts fall power- less and without effect. The bond of unity between the States is firmer than it ever was, cemented as it is by mutual esteem and affection. These are all matters for which we shoukl be thankful; and to this list we might add, for the citizens of New York, their immunity from the attacks of pestilence and the promise of a purifica- tion and improvement in our city government, held out in the wholesale indictment of our offi- cials. We doubt not that during the moments of yesterday that were devoted to reflection, some or all of these thoughts presented them- selves to the minds of many of our citizens, Let us hope that we may have as good cause for gratitade and rejoicing next Thanksgiving Day 8 we had yoatortay Triks ef New York Polltttctunse-The Lates Swindle, It is a good thing for the prosperity of the city of New York that the merals of its merchants and of its’ citizens generally are not at the same low point that the morals of its politicians are. Were it otherwise, the future prospects of our great city would be anything but cheering. But then we all recog- nise—the whole country and the world at large recognizes—the wide social distinction that exists between a New York politician and a private citizen of New York. In general estimation the politician belongs to the same low caste as the thief, the gambler and the rowdy. It canhardly be said that he isa degree removed above this class of public offenders, because it is not a rare thing to find him placed at the criminal bar along with them; although, let him thank the mode in which the laws are executed, it is rather a rarity to see him sent to the penitentiary. However, even that sometimes does occur, though by no means so often as the good order of the city and the fair administration of the laws require. Still, we do not know any worse recommendation that any man looking for employment could have than to say that he had been a New York Alderman, or Councilman, or ward politician, It would not be a whit better than for him to say that his last employment had been at Sing Sing or Black- well’s Island. This reputation the politicians have brought upon themselves by their mean, contemptible and disgraceful tricks in managing ward and primary elections, and by their corrupt conduct when placed in any office of trust or power. It is not necessary for us to refer now to the history of that Common Council that was known as the band of forty thieves. It is not so certain, judg- ing from recent developements, that we have at all improved our stock of city officials. The largest share of the work of our Grand Juries and criminal courts is devolyed upon them by this very class of offenders; and so much has that branch of criminal business increased of late, that it might be advisable to have a court organized for the special purpose of trying our public officers. Ifwe had had a revision of the State constitution, and a chance of fixing up the Code again, such a court might possibly have been created. The late election has by no means tended to improve the public estimation in which our politicians are held. The primary elections and nominating conventions were controlled, as usual, by money, rum and loafers. But per- haps the most scurvy trick of the politicians at the late election was this:—It seems that ¢ present Board of Supervisors of the coun- ly ure holding over for another year, under the charter passed by the last Legislature, which extends their term of office. Some politi- cal tricksters of one party having, as it is said, got the opinions of two lawyers that that act of the Legislature was unconstitutional, conspired with political tricksters of the other party, and, by a private understanding between them, tick- ets were printed with the names of certain can- didates for the Supervisorships upon them. These tickets received a few score of votes, and the persons named in them claim to have been respectively elected Supervisors of the county. We have no doubt that some of these indi- viduals would be very much elated at so easily getting into an office promising such splendid pickings and stealings as that of Supervisor does, for all the expenditures of the city have to pass through that Board. We do not believe, however, that this palpable swindle will receive the sanction even of such courts as New York is blessed with. The public honor is against it, and we are sure the law, if rightly in- terpreted, is against it. Still. it cannot bedenied that such dodges have been tried. before to oust men out of office and to get others in. The last Mayor of New York, who was elected for aterm of two years, was ousted out of office at the end of one year by means of a legislative legerdemain to which our black republican Legislature at Albany was mean and tricky enough to descend; and it was only last year that a few friends of «a youth. ambitious of a seat on the bench of one of our courts, resorted to the same dodge to which our would-be Supervisors in the present case have resorted, and—there being a vacancy on the bench to fill for which no election writ was issued—had himself voted for by a dozen of his friends, and grave- ly and seriously attempted to take his seat on the bench. He actually did sit there for some days, avoided and contemned by his associate Judges, till he at length realized the peculiarity of his position and withdrew his pretensions. We can hardly think that these persons, who claim to have been elected Supervisors by a trick as mean as that by which a confidence man or patent safe operator victimizes an igno- rant rustic, will have the effrontery to put forward their claims to the office. It is said, however, that they will, and that they intend to test the legality of their election by a writ of quo warranto, We do not know how lawyers may wrest and distort the law on the subject, but on a com- mon sense view of the matter, these men have just as much right to the office they claim as they would have bad to the United States Senatorship had they had votes cast for them for that position, It is not for Tom, Dick or Harry to decide what offices are to be filled on election day. It is for the Secretary of State to do so in his proclama- tion: and if his proclamation does not cover all the elective offices that are to be vacant, the remedy is plainly against him, either by manda- mus or by impeachment. If it were not #0, see how the matter would work. Take the case of a member of Congress, for instance. The sitting member intends to resign before the end of his term, and entrusts the secret to another person for, or without, a valuable consideration; that other person gets a dozen or a score of his friends to vote for him for Congress on election day, and on that same morning the sitting member places his resignation in the hands of the Governor. Why, according to these political patent safe ewindlers the member elect would be entitled to his seat, The idea, however, is too preposterous to deceive the shallowest mind. The law does not encourage swindling, although the lawyers do; and no amount of legal reputation or of judi- cial wisdom will make us believe that persons claiming office under such pretences can have any right under their election. Grontrications Over Senator Dovorss.—It appears that, in anticipation of the journey of Senator Douglas from Hlinois to Washington, his peculiar democratic partisans at Buffalo, New York, and other points on the route to Washing- ton, are preparing to give him the honors of a regular glorification. In the federal capital, too, as we are informed, the Douglas democrats, headed by the Mayor, intend to welcome the return of “the Little Giant” with a grand popu- ed lar reception. Very well. Go shead, gentle- meu, and by all means Jet thre democratic wel- come of fr, Douglas in ihis city come eff in Tanumoamny Hall, and with all our federal office- holding Sachems on hand in court eostume, and with Forney at the right and Clarke ond Haskin at the left of Mr, Douglas, as the chief invited guests of the day. At Washington, we presume, the republicans will fill up all democratic defi- ciencies, But what next? We must await the budget and the debates of the approaching session of Congress io lift the curtain upon the position and the future prospects of both Mr. Douglas and Mr. Seward. Douglas has eonquered in Illinois by stealing the anti-slavery thunder of Seward, and Seward has triumphed in New York by steal- ing the abolition vote of Gerrit Smith, which is all that is known for the present. As for 1860, it is yet a long way, and the nage first entered may be the first withdrawn. Meanwhile, let the friends of Douglas and Seward rejoice together, and make the most of their time. Gen. Warxer Sunwrrtive to a & Leoar, Ex- PERIMENT.”—-The newspaper organ at Washing- ton of Gen. William Walker gives us the fol- lowing refreshing information concerning the present intentions of the “little gray eyed man Tr will, it is believed, accede to the re- quest of his friends that he and his imthediate party shall abstain from taking - ¢ in the first trip of the new line of emigration ship, Their object. is to test, in a legal und unmistakeable manner, how far this government means tocarry the réle of foreign police agent and in- quisitor genera! over those of our citizens who may desire to change their residence to Nicaragua. They desire to know positively whether any oificial of the United States will venture upon the autocracy of refusing clearance to a ship prepared for a lawful vovage, at the pleasure of Lord Napier, and because Senor Yrisarri has cel his passport tribute, Other people than Ger bave business in Nicaragua, and it is time is to forbid their going, and by what authority. A very discreet course of proceeding, this, on the part of Gen. Walker. He bas evidently dis- covered that any attempt on his part to go to Califernia or Fraser river via the Nicaragua route would be a really hazardous experiment, for he isnot the man to stand upon trifles. We fear, too, that in submitting his case to a “legal experiment,’ Walker gives it up as a bad job; and that all the expectations of our Southern filibusters, of dragooning the administration into a rupture with England for the benefit of Walker, must be abandoned. Something heavier than Walker will be required to balance the kite of Mr. Douglas in the South. Ovr Mesterpar, Decemper ELecrions—Par- ‘TIES IN THE FieLp.—Each of the following parties or factions have their candidates, more or less, in the field, for the offices to be filled by our Decem- ber city election:— The Tammany Hall Democracy. The anti-Tammany Democracy, or Regulars. The Republican party. The Taxpayers’ organization. The Rump of the late American party. ‘The Stump of the Old Line Whigs. The Hump of the 0. U. A. With the opposition elements thus cut up and divided, the Tammany democracy have the inside track; and, 2s between the venerable and super- annuated Mr. Flagg and George H. Purser for Comptroller, the change from the former to the latter will most probably be from King Log to King Stork, it should be the business of the taxpayers to canvass all the parties and factions opposed to the Tammany spoilsmen, and all other spoilsmen, and in behalf of the great ob- ject of an independent, popular and satisfactory combination city ticket, beginning with the Comptroller. In default of some such combi- nation, we must prepare, like the frogs in the fable, to give up King og fe for br King Stork. Procress axp Prosrects or Human Free- vom.—The anti-slavery agitation in this country is producing glorious fruits. They are, to be sure, a little out of the scope of the objects con- templated by some of its promoters ; but what of that. They all go to enlarge the sphere of the human will, and to give to mankind the utmost latitude of moral and physical action which the most roving inclinations can desire. This grand movement for the amalgamation of the white and colored races, and the solving of various interesting ethnological problems con- nected with the slave population of the South, commenced about thirty years since. It origi- nated, no doubt, in the philosophical researches of men like Messrs. Nott and Gliddon, who be- came fascinated by the speculative results of a cross of the Anglo-Saxon and African breeds, and by them was communicated to the politi- cians, some of whose personal tendencies ran that way. The immediate result was the generation of a crop of isms and political abstractions, all of which were to ensure the perfectability, physi- cal and intellectual, of the human race. Fourier- ism, socialism and communism, were the three great representative types of these theories ; but they in their turn branched off into an infinite variety of modifications suited to individual tastes and proclivities. Then came the era of the Bloomer and strong-minded women conven- tions, in which, under the guise of metaphysical reasoning, the independence of the beau sere was asserted, and their right to equal privileges with the men stoutly maintained. Ridicnle did for these doctrines what common sense failed to eflect, and they soon fell into discredit amongst the disciples of the progressive school. The fuct was that practical experiment has de- monstrated them to be insufficient to sustain any permanent or profitable system by which money or influence was to be gained. A return to firet principles and a fusion of the general interests was next resolved upon. Then was conceived that comprehensive scheme of free love associa- tions, which was to embrace in one common bond of union and passional affinity the whole human race. Tow fur the plan was reduced to practical execution, not having the reports and statistics of they socicties before us, we are unable to state. Of course, the negro clement was permanently recognized in their operations, and what figures are wanting to substantiate we shall no doubt gather from the color ofethe next generation. Of the activity of these free love societies there are, nevertheless, other indications. Since they have started into existence there has been an im- mense accession to that stimulating and mentally invigorating class of works of which Ovid was the creator. The printing press and the talent of the engraver have both been largely called into play to aid the propagation of their theories. Even high art has not disdained to lend its pen- cil to this fecund movement. Bat what is most to be admired in all this is that the most emi- nently pious and wealthily respectable of our publishers are giving it the sanetion of their names and imprimatur, Printers of Bibles and prayer books, and shining lights and pillars of Bible Unions and Tract Associations as they are, they have not scrupled to offer written evidence in its favor. Verily the world must be on the eve of some great change, or euch miracles would not come to pass, 2 mean eenaneenitaiiliaD Tux Mesiorrar. ’urseicartoy Movement Pro- GRESSINGe—The general desire to rainate the right men for city offices, in the fret week of December, without any reference to party or political issues, ix manifesting itself in on! un- questionable manner in various quarters of the city. Not only are the leading owners of real estate holding regular raeetings at the Acadenry of Design, but men of another stamp, in different direction, are moving forward to the same goal, A meeting wax liel@ in the West- chester House, on Monday evening, having for its purpose “to consider the propriety of forming 8 People’s party, as the only means of securing the eleetion of an honest and competent man for Comptroller at the ensuing charter election, and, | if deemed practicable, to call a mass meeting, to nominate a Comptroller and other city officers.” Very good. It matters little whether the party is called the “People's” or the “Taxpayers’,” or whether there is a thing called a party at all, provided that the object is attained which we all (small politicians excepted) desire to see, namely, a thorough reorganization of the mu- nicipal government, with honest men at the bead of affairs, There is no prospect now that the Taxpayers’ committee will make any nomina- tions. They are not competent to bring their organization to that point with any good effect. Neither do we expect much from the “People’s Party.” It is to be regretted that no fit oandi- date for the office of Comptroller bas been pre- sented by any of the three parties which have made nominations ; still it is not too late for the people generally to unite upon some good man. Two weeks yet remain before the charter election comes off, and in that interval armed men may spring up, as from the boar’s teeth sown of old, in all quarters of the city, to defeat the nominees of all the political factions now in the field. Tht leaven is evidently at work, and it will not subside without effecting something towards a purification in the matter of office holding, even though it should be a general bolt trom the traces of political factions, THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despatch. DESIGNS OF THE BRITISH WITH REGARD TO THE FILIBUSTERS—EX-MAYOR WOOD AND THK NEBRAS- KA GOVEKNORSHIP—DECISIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENBRAL—CONDITION OF THE TREASURY, ETC. Wasurscros, Noy. 18, 1858. Tam informed, from authority that cannot be doubted, that the British nayal officers in the Caribbean Sea will not interfere with General Walker or any of his men, at fea, but they are instructedto capture them on land. If on Mosquito territory’, the officers will act under authority of the protectorate, and if on the soil of Nicaragua or Costa Rica, upon an invitation from the governments of those States. It is said that ex. Mayor Wood is here after a position as. Governor of Nebraska, looking to future political promi- nence when Nebraska may be made a State, I am authorized to say there is no foundation for the statements made by Washington correspondents, that Secretary Cobb intends to recommend an increase of twenty or twenty-five per cent duty on tea and coffee. The Secretary of the Interior has approved to the State of Florida 284,568 acres of land, in part inuring to that State under the provisions of the act of May 17, 1856, to aid in the construction of that portion of the Flort@m Rail- road extending from Fernandina to Cedar Key. ‘Mag @aur- ter of the railroad company authorizes the establishment ofa line of steamers at cach terminus for transportation of passengers and freight. The road is one hundred and fifty-five miles long, eighty of which are now in opera- tion. It is said the road wiil be completed by the Ist of January. ‘The Commissioner of the General Land Office has trans- mitted to the State of Arkansas patent No.7 of swamp lands in Helena district, under the grant of Sept. 28, 1860, containing 168,257 acres. The Attorney-General has approved the title of the Ma- sonic Temple at Boston, purchased by the United States for a court house site. Te bas also given an opinion to the Secretary of the Interior on the construction of the Pension act of July 4, 1856, and to supplements including the act of Feb. 3, 1853. The question raised was on the pension of Surah Hunt, whether allowance should begitt at the date of the act or at the date of the completion of Proof in the case, He holds that the pension begins at the date of the act, unless the soldier died after that time ; then it should commence at the time of death. The Attorney General also decided that ministers resident, &¢., are not entitled to any constructive allow ance by way of infit, but that they can only be paid for time actually and necessarily occupied in travelling from the post or duty to place of residence. A Minister on leave, and at home at the time of recall, is not paid for Ume occupied in returning. Benjamin F. Gibbs has been appointed an Assistant Sur- geon in the navy, vice Wm. M. Brown, resigned. Lieutenant Balch has been ordered to the sloop St. Mary's, of the Pacific squadron. Secretary Floyd is recovering, and is expected to be at his office in a few days. The Treasury statement tothe 17th inst., isas follows: — THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DRETATOH. Wasnserow, Nov. 18, 1858. The steamer Arctic started yesterday from Washington Navy Yard, for Pensacola, with the officors and crew of the Metacomet, but owing tober machinery being strained and thrown out of line by entanglement with her shore cable, she put back for repairs, but left again to-day for Pensacola. Governor Stevens is pressing on the War Department the necessity of retaining a large military force on the Pa- cific, in order to maintain the advantages recently gained over the Indians. Sr. Lov, Nov. 18, 1868. Recent advices from Utah state that the command un- der Captain Homes, which was recently despatched to Humboldt to settle the Indian difficulties reported to exist there, has returned, and announced that there haa been bo Indian difficulties in that region, as bad been stated, and that the story of the violation of the government mail wat false. Dr. Forney, the Indian Agent, was on his return to Salt Lake City. Governor Cumming bad decided that the Utah Legisla- ture must meet at Fillmore City, notwithstanding the tenor of the resolution passed at the joint session of 1856, which designated Salt Lake City as the place of moet ting. The legality of the proceedings of the last Legisinture are algo questioned by the Governor, from the fact that they are signed by Brigham Young only, and that too at a time when Gov. Cumming himself was in the Territory, under a commission from the general government, and had already issued his proclamation covering the period when said Legislature was in session. The Governor maintains that the approval by Young of said proceedings was, on his part, a usurpation of the executive authority, There are accounts of further disturbances among the Utes Indivns in the southern part of the Territory. Tho bodies of two murdered men bad been found, and cons) derable stock had been driven off by members of thig tribe News from Kansas, St. Loris, Nov. 18, 1858 ‘We have advices from Leavenworth, via Booneville, to the 16th inst. The Douglasites had a large meeting at Leavenworth on Saturday evening, at which there was much rejoicing over the triumph of their leader in Minois. Among other resolutions offered was one by Judge Halde- mann, pledging the influence of the democracy of Kansaa to make Douglas the nominee of the Charleston Presiden- tial Convention. Speeebes were also made by Mayor Denman, Col, Isaacs, General Kaston, and others, all im favor of the resolution. The detachment of First infantry, now in garrison at Leavenworth, he been ordered to Forth Smith. Affairs in Boston. COUNTERVEIT BILLS ON THR BOYLSTON BANK, ETC. Howrow, Nov. 18, 1868. Ten dollar bills on the Boylston Rank, very well comm. terfeited by photographing, are in cireulation here, and one arrest has been mad r circulating them, The Comnvittee of Rank Presidents to consi ler tho te.