The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1859, Page 4

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Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New York Henn will be received at the following places in Burope:— ‘Lompos.. . . Lor: meager Lymn 47 Ladgate Bil Lansing, Starr & Co. gtk Wiliam stroct. | Pamss,..,, Lansing, Baldwin & éo. do ta Bourse ‘Livearoor..Lansing, Starr & Co., Ne 9 Chapel street. R. Start. 10 Exchange etrect, East. Havam.....Lansing, Baldwin & o., 21 Rue Corneille, Hamavra, . De Chapeaange &O. The contents of the European edition of the Heratp will ®ombine the uews received by mail and telegraph at the Office during the previouz week aud up to the hour of publication, The New: In the United States Senate yesterday, after the presentation of petitions in favor of the Old Sol- diers’ Pension and the Homestead bills, the intro- duction of a bill abolishing the franking privilege, and a proposition to devote Friday and Saturday of each week to the consideration of private claims, the French Spoliation bill was taken up. Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, made aspeech against the bill, to which Mr. Crittenden replied. The question was then taken, and the bill passed by a vote of 26 to 20. The bill appropriates $5,000,000 to satisfy the claims of American citizens for spoliations commit- ted by the French prior to the lst of July, 1S01. A brief history of these claims was published in he Heap of the Sth instant. The bill making provision for the support of the Military Academy at West Point war passed. A resolution to admit to the floor of the Senate ouly members and clerks of the House, foreign ministers, members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court Judges, ex-Presidents and ex-Vice-Presidents and ex-Senators, was adopted. Mr. Douglas took his seat, for the first time this session. In the House a resolution, calling for all the correspondence of out government with France and Great Britain having reference te the cession of Cuba to the United States, was adopted. Leave to offer a joint resoln- tion requesting the President to interfere in the Mortara case was refused. In Committee of the Whole the Indian Appropriation, the Old Soldiers’ Pension bill, the condition of our foreign relations, and the state of our political parties, were discussed. Finally, the committee rose, and the Indian Appro- priation bill was passed, and the Houze edjourned. But little was done in the Legislature yesterday. The Senate met at seven o'clock in the evening, when the President announced the standing com- mitte He also appointed Messrs. Truman, Ames and ell a select committee on the application of the Inebriate Asylum for aid to the amount of $109,000. The Assembly met at four o'clock. Notice was given of a number of bills, and several were introduced. None of them, however, pos- sessed any genera) local interest. A resolution providing for the appointment of three commis- sioners, to meet a similar commission from the New Jersey Legislature, to confer with reference to Quarantine matters, was presented, and laid over according to the rules. The Board of Aldermen met last evening, and transacted a large amount of business. A commu- nication was presented from the Mayor nominating Dr. 8. Conant Foster as City Inspector, which, after some debate, was referred to a committee of five. ‘The Mayor also vetoed the payment of a bill for carpenter's work, amounting to $1,164 50, dono during the difficulties in the Street Commissioner's office in 1867; also the resolation of the Council authorizing the curbing and flagging of portious of Prince street. A resolution to prevent the practice of throwing salt on the accumulated snow in the NEW YORK. HERALD, men, which have never been published. Copies of these interesting documents will be found in our report, together with the regular proceeding of the society. We learn that the packet ship Isaxo Wright, of the Black Ball line, burned in the Mersey, was in- sured in this country for about $70,000. She was valued at about $80,000. Her cargo was valued at about $200,000, and it was supposed that nearly one- half was insured on this side. The Margaret Tyson, | recently lost on her way to California, chiefly be- longed to our enterprising fellow citizen, Captain Tyson, and was valued at about $70,000; but we could only bear of about $15,000 insurance on her | in Wall street. At Singapore, East Indies, on the 5th of Novem: ber, gold dust rated thus :—Malayan, $28 60 a $29, and Australian, $31 per bunkal. We have news from the French West Indies, ated at Martinique on the 28th of November. The Council General had yoted the introduction of 18,000 immigrants—7,000 Africans and 11,000 Chi- nese. This large number was considered necessa- ry in consequence of the great and increasing de- sertions of laborers in the island. A detachment of 515 coolies had arrived from Pondicherry. The war brigs Mercure and Olivier had anived from Prance, and left to join the French squadron under Admiral Penaud, off Vera Cruz. The commission on the immigration of negroes into the French colonies, was about to examine the Bishop of Mar- tinique and the Bishop of Gabon, both of whom happened to be in Paris, The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales, bused upon middiing uplands at 120, Owing to the character of the advices from Liverpool by the Africa, the market closed with less buoyancy. Flour wes again firmer and in good request, especially common aad me- dium grades of State and Western, and closed at a decided advance over Saturday's quotations. Wheat was steady, without change in quotations, while sales wero to a fair extent, Corn was firm at last week’s prices, while sales were moderate. Pork waz heavy and lower, with sales of new mess at $17 20 a 817 3734, and of old at $16.90 $16 95, and new prime at $13 a $13.25. Beef was steady, and lard firm Sugars were firm, with ssles of 400 2 500 bhds. New Orleans and about 700 boxes brown Havana op terms given in another place, Coifee was quiet, but firm: the principal eale comprised 2,100 bags St. Domingo, mostly at 94g, Whiskey sold at 26c. Freight engage- ments were limited, while rates were without quotable change. The Presidentic! Question—The Squabbling Party Managers of the Day, and Their Candidates. We are glad to perceive, in various quarters, a growing disposition among our political cotem poraries of the newspaper press to enter freely into the discussion of the claims of their party leaders respectively who are in the ficld for the honors and spoils of the next Presidency. Here- tofore it has been the practice of the party press to remain mum, awaiting the authority to speak from the oracle of some local cancus or Con- greseional clique, or national convention of party managers. Now, there is a prospect that these gambling caucuses and conventions will be anti- cipated and superseded by a general newspaper and public overhauling of each and all the can- didates in training for the Presidential Derby. In this view we call the attention of our readers to the curious and suggestive Presidential article which we transfer to these columns from that ancient party disciplinarian, the Richmond En- guirer. It thus appears that the Virginia democracy, at their Richmond headquarters, have two strings to their bow—the Hnguirer and the Examiner; that the former is first and last for Governor Wise as the true man for the democracy in 1860, while the latter organ is rather in favor of the policy, on the part of the Virginia chivalry, of dropping all the pretensions of the Old Domin- ion for the benors of the succession, because of the apparent impossibility of combining the State delegation to Charleston upon any one of her half dozen Presidential aspirants. According to the Examiner, the Southern aspirants who have the vantage ground of all the Virginians are Jeffer son Davis, Slidell, Breckinridge, Cobb and Ham- mond. Three of these are set down as objection. able—Slidell, who is cast aside as “a dangerous man,” an “adroit political manager,” a “ magi- cian,” a sleight of hand “Herr Anderson in politi- cal diplomacy,” and Davis and Hammond, as instances of a too “ sudden conversion from ap- parent sectionalism.” The other two, how- ever—Cobb and Breckinridge—are rolled up in lavender, a8 marvellously available. Moreover, the Examiner leans to the idea that Virginis has had her full share of Presidents thus far, and ought to stand back now, and give her less fortu- nate Southern sisters a chance. The Fnguirér, on the other hand, evidently un- derstands the meaning of all this beating about the bush. It is levelled at Governor Wise; and it is refreshing to witness that his vigilant organ is keeping a sharp lookout for all such snakes in the grass. Very well. Let the fight go on. Let the claims of every candidate, of every party, of every State, be fully canvassed in ad- vance; and then, in the work of packing the party Convention, there will at least be a show of fair play. But we have our misgivings of the availability for the succession of any of the democratic leaders known to be in the field. The party has been rent into picces, and is now represented by three divisions—the national conservative division, supporting the administra- tion; the Northern free soil “ popular sove- reignty” division, whose champion is Mr. Douglas; and the Southern ultra pro-slavery division of fire-eaters, filibustere, nullifers and isunionists, Taking this list of Southern candidates, to wit :—Breckinridge, Wise, Hunter, Cobb, Slidell, Davis, Toombs, Stephene, and last, though not least, Hammond—what chance is there fora democratic fusion upon any one of them at Charleston? Will any one of them particularly acceptable to the South be at all acevptable to the different public thoroughfares was offered and laid | free soil Northern Douglas democracy? Or can over. ness the Board adjourned till Thuraday afternoon. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, and after the reception of a few unimportant resolu’ tions, adjourned to meet on Thursday. A special committee was appoinied to prepare rules and or- ders for the Board, consisting of Messrs. Bickford, The President did not announce the committees, but will probably do so at the next Meeting. Mr. Platt offered a resolution directing the Counsel to the Corporation to institute legal Platt aud Lent. proceedings against the proprietors of the Green point ferry, which was referred. Ih the Court of General Sessions yesterday Judge Russell sent a number of burglars to the State prison, as will be seen by our report of the pro- ceedings. The ant!Tammany factions of the democracy held their primary clections last eveniag, for par- | them all, would be rl ticulara of which we refer our readers to the advertising columns. As far as we could learn everything passed off quite peacably. The steamer C. Vanderbilt, according to latest accounts, was going to pieces. this city were attending her, in order, if possible, to save her machinery as she broke up. ‘The Seqgetary of the Marine Society, Captain J. ‘Tinkham,@eported at the annual meeting of the nociety, last evening, the discovery of addresses by the society to General George Washington aud Governor Clinton, and the replies of both gentlo- After the transaction of some routine busi- Steamtugs from any man among them fraternizing with Douglas be made the besis of a Southern reconciliation? The adminisiration wing of the party, in any general reunion, must be the basis of the treaty of peace, for the simple reason that this wing will hold the intermediate ground between the twoextremes. Since the late war declaration of Douglas, however, it is clear that all hopes of a treaty of peace at Charleston must be dismissed, except upon his recognition by the Convention as the great chief of the party; and it is equally evident that this recognition is entirely out of the question, Thus we dispose of this catalogue of Southern candidates. Senator Hammond, who occupies the most conspicuously conservative position of by the fire-eating mana- gers of his own section; Wise is fatally identified with Douglas; the eame, perhaps, may be said of Breckinridge; Hunter will be killed off hy Wise; Cobb has no substantial footing; Slidell has none, and that Northern journey of Jefferson Davis has chilled him to the bones. Next, looking to the North, the first available representative of democratic nationality, Mr. Bucbansa, will be out of the arena. But Douglas oe pires to take his place, and Bright is moving heaven and earth, and the waters under the earth, to supplant Donglas, As for himself, we | Mffeet of the Presitents BMemage in Kan presume that Bright's azabition is limited to the | tope—Cube the Keystone to Our American Vice Presidency in 1860;, bat even here his chances are subject to 20 many of the doubtful con- tivgencies of a compromise, that we may set bim down as only a Northern co-laborer with the ex- treme South for the defeat of Douglas. We know of no Northern aspirant of the party in the field capable of making a favorable impression upon the Charleston Convention, We consider Mr. Dickinson as belonging to an epoch that has passed away; and for aay other New York candi- date, mixed up in any way with our Tammany and anti-Tammany squabbles, no words need be wasted. He will not ge down. There is, however, a New York man, quietly and inoffensively identified with the democratic party, who possesses the roquisite elements of national availability for the Charleston ‘Sanhe- drim, and that man is Gen. Wool. His peculiar claims, we believe, were first agitated in 1852; but he was not associated with the party wire- workers, and they were afraid of him. A man of this complexion, however, is the very mau for & compromise at Charleston, froin the very fact that his garments are clear of all contact with the dirty work of caucus and convention gamblers, Besides his military achiev- ments, and his high character as an honest sol- dier and putriot, are no small advantages in his favor. Above all, itis only upon some such uncom- mitted, ungectionalized and popular name that the democracy in 1860 can present anything like arespectable front to the enemy, while with such a leader they may possibly recover all they have lost, and carry the day. On the opposition side we find the same sec- tional disturbances and divisions as among the democracy. Like the democracy, the opposition may be classed in three grand divisions, though of a somewhat different character. First, the republican or Northera anti-slavery party; se- cond, the rump of the Know Nothing, or auti- Popery party; and third, the resuscitated rem- nants of the old national whig parly, And the eeveral opposition candidates aspiring to rule the roast present as many different phases upon slavery, Popery, tariffs, protection and free trade ag there are colors in the rainbow, without even an approxch to the harmonious blending of these varied tints of the rainbow. Let the republicans adhere to their peculiar anti-slavery organiza- tion, and re-proclaim it with the nomination of any such man as Seward, Banks or Chase, and they will be confronted with a conservative Know Nothing or whig candidate, who will be certain to spoil their calculations. A similar fate will follow the nomination of a representa- tive of Know Nothingism or old line whiggery; for these things are essentially defunct. It is only a general concentration of the opposition upon some euch no-party national and universal- ly acceptable man as General Scott, and accord- ing to the programme of 1840, that can give them the victory in 1860. In default of this abnegation of all the out- standing candidates of party cliques and caucus and convention managers, democratic and op- position, we may as well make up our minds for a disorderly and riotous scrub race between sections and factions, conventions and bolters, which will throw the Presidential election into Congress, and create there such a contest among the desperate and reckless demagogues and. spoilsmen and disunionists of the House as may bring the government and the Union to a sudden and revolutionary disruption. Meantime, it iz encouraging to find the steady, firm and conservative administration of Mr. Bu- chanan gaining strength aud favor at home and abroad. Here, at least, we have the assurances ofa safe anchorage for the important interval which lies between us and our next Presidential contest. This interval, we have every reason to predict, will be wisely employed by the admi- nistration for the general interests of the Union and the people, regardless of party, or section, or faction, and leaving the wrangling leaders and managers of the democracy to settle their own quarrels over the spoils and plunder of the succession, Mr. Buchanan will be absolved of all responsibility for the consequences, even should they involve what Louis the Fifteenth called “the deluge.” Ponce Rerorwn—Te Sexare Commrrres Ly- VESTIGATION.—The Stale Senate of last session appointed a committee to inquire into the work- ing of the new Police Act. This committee has been prosecuting its inquiries during the whole of the summer, and will shortly make its report to the Legislature. Some of the facts of the evidence taken before them have in the mean- while leaked out, and they are of the most start- ling character. Amongst numerous disgrace- fal charges bronght home to the officers and members of the new police force are cor- ruption, nepotism, condonation of crimi- nal offences, association with thieves and bur- glars, testifying in favor of gamblers, the com- mission of rapes, &ec., &e. These facts ought not to astonish any one acquainted with the peculiar constitution of the force. It is well known that its executive head, General Superintendent Tal- madge, has, by the continual interference of the Commissioners with his duties, been reduced to amere cypher, and that be exercises no real authority over the men. Each Commissioner orders as he pleases, in defiance of the regula- tions, and the nominations and promotions are made in accordance with the personal views and interests of the Board. The report of the committee will, we belicve, establish a state of facts worse than anything that has previously existed, even amongst the old London watchmen in Fielding’s time. And yet it is toa body thus composed that the protec- tion of the lives and property of over a million of oar citizens is entrusted. It is no wonder that under euch circumstances burglary, high- way robbery, outrages against females, and mur- der, should be crimes of daily occurrence, and that in the majority of cases their perpetrators should escape detection. We trust that the re- port of the committee will soon make its ap- pearance. If anything can shame the Legisla- ture into the reforme called for by the general voice of our citizens it will be this. If they have any claim to the character of honest men, they will pass such measures ag will efface at one swoop the legislation of their predecessors, and turn ont, to herd with thcir associates in the stews and kennels of the city, the scoundrels who are at present clad with the police uni- form. A new charter abolishing the commis- sions and independent offices created by the black republicans, and centering all the police and other appointments in the Mayor, will alone meet the evils by which we are oppressed. Let the Legislature at once set about this ne- cessary work, unless, indeed, they wish to come in for a share of the obloquy left them as a legncy by thove with whom they are sald to have political affinities, Policy. An intense excitement has been caused in Europe by the Preaident’s Messuge, and all the journals treat it at much greater length and with | more passion than have ever before been the case with a similar document. We had expected this, Jt has long been a taunt against us, among the stateemen of Europe, that we have no foreign policy; and now that the President proposes to adopt one, they get mad at it. Did they oxpect us to construct a policy which would jump with all their selfish echemes? The sensation which has been caused in Burope by Mr. Buchanan’s recommendation to Congress to lay the foundations of our American policy, great as it is, is not destined to subside. It has produced, of a sudden, some curious changes, par- ticularly among British statesmen and pbilan- thropieta; but in the manner in which it is treated by the organs of the several political parties and cliques, there are plain indications of the coming contest in Europe. The men from whom political leadership is passing away speak of the Message savagely and eardonically; the coming men comment upon it with caution and reserve, as though timidity still held them from the fight. This fight isthe dis- cussion before the people, of the comparative benetits of democratic and monarchical institu- tions, and in it the United States of Americe are to be the great example for attack and defence on both sides. The germs of this contest are constantly springing into view in Europe; and it is with this great fact before us that we should consider the reception given to the President’s recent Message by the press of England and France, Most voluminous, and therefore first, stand the defenders of the past and their organs. The London Herald (ministerial) opens with the comforting assurance that “the President of the United States generally says more than he really meang,” and then asks Mr. Bright what he thinks of the rapid increase of our public debt, and thinks that the last American mails have not afforded him much consolation. It does not like the way Mr. Buchanan receives England’s proposition to establish a police of the ocean; thinks that the absorption of Cuba by us would be a greater evil than the perpetuation of the African slave trade, and winds up by hoping that we will be friends, which -means the hope that no difference with the United States will tumble the present British ministry from their seats. Returning to the subject, after a few days, it again harps upon our debt and disordered finances, recom- mending them to the study of the large section of British reformers ; praises colonial protection, contrasts “democratical America” with “monar- chical England,” finding “no enviable wisdom in democratic institutions ;” asserts that “the most intelligent men in the Union studiously avoid official positions,” and thinks that federation will be weakened as its boundaries become more and more removed from the centre. The Post (Palm- erstonian) draws it a little more mildly, and harps upon the Central American question, which it says Sir W. Gore Ouseley has gone to Nicara- gua to settle. It descants upon the universal re- sult of military occupation being annexation, warns the European Powers to be on their guard against us, and improves the occasion to give the foreign policy of Lord Malmesbury a spur. The London Times is surprised at so large a portion of the Message being given up to forcign questions, thinks we had better pay more atten- tion to domestic affairs, and opines, after all, that the African slave trade is no worse than that be- tween Virginia and the South, if the only way to stop it is to give us Cuba. The Paris Constitution- nel (ministerial) is very anxious that people should not exaggerate the importance of a Presi- dent’s Message, and is alarmed at Mr. Buchanan’s request for power to act in pending questions with some of the Spanish American republics. Tt finds consolation, however, in the fact that the Message is the “ expression of an individual mind rather than a manifesto unanimously ap- proved of by the national will.” And here is the point of the seasation caused by the Message in Europe. The plotters and intriguers who wish to preserve the stulu quo of the world—because progress involves a change, and change means new men in power—are afraid that too much effect may be produced upon the democratic mind in Europe by Mr. Buchanan’s announce- ment of an American policy, They hope that people will not pay much attention to it—that they will look upon it only as an individual opi- nion, and not as the voice of the country—and that, above all, Congress will not, by its favora- ble action, make it an exposition of the national will, and thus show to “monarchical Europe” that “democratic America” is something more than an unbound faggot. On the other hand, the journals who represent the rising democratic spirit of Europe treat the Message with great caution, but are careful to in- timate their praise of it. They do not see clearly the effect if may have on the popular mind, or, if they do, they fear to express it, and their praise is timid. The London Star (radical reformer) reminds the European Powers that two of them only—France and England—have any real interest in the issue of the Cuba question, and says that “ whenever the policy of America with regard to Cuba begins to assume a substantial form we may expect poli- tical complication of no ordinary kind, which it will be well to watch, lest it embroil usin a trans- atlantic war.” It then admits that by the trans- fer of the island to us, the slave trade would be at once abolished, to the great gain of humanity; that the Cubans have everything to acquire and nothing to lose by the transfer, the slaves would be as well off as now, the commerce of the island would increase vastly, and the position of democratic America would be vastly improved. With these admissions it cautiously asks, “what is there to set against these probabilities?” The Paris Presse (semi-liberal) hails the Message with the announcement that “nothing could be more in- structive.” Jt contrasts the matter of a Presi- dent’s Measage most favorably with the vague nothings of a speech from the throne, admires the frank responsibility of a President giving the reasons for his acts, and pleading his cause be- fore the people, and praises his exposure of his projects that they may be discussed. It then cites the points of the Message in a way that shows it does not blame though it is not pormit- ted to advocate them, and winds up by a sen- tence of concise praise that coincides in spirit, though it is#tronger in expression, than the con- clusions of the London reformer. ‘The varied sensations of fear and hope which the admirable Message of Mr. Buchanan has raised in Europe are tho strongest possible argu- ments in favor of the policy he recommends. The Furopean statesmen see that Cuba is the key- stono for the construction of a truly TUESDAY, JANUARY ll, 1859. American policy, and to that question their attention is particularly turned. The statu quo men hope that the President's re commendations will not be endorsed by the voice of the nation, but that it will continue to be what they now regard it—merely “the expression of an individual mind.” On the other hand, the men of progress in Europe look forward with hope to the time when “the policy of America with regard to Cuba shall begin to assume a sub- stantial form.” It is this “substantial form” that should be given by Congress to our Ameri- can policy, by endorsing the recommendation of the President, that the purchase of Cubs should be anthorized. Such a step will do more towards bringing about that desired result than anything else can do; for it will do away with the hitherto unanimous impression on the minds of Huropean statesmen that the wish to acquire Cuba Is only an individual wish among us, aud not a part of! our national policy. The American policy hus been well initiated by Mr. Buchanan, and we bope Congrees will endorse it. Municipal Corruption—A Revolution Neces- sury. ‘The Tribune and several others of our city con- temporaries, are, we see, timidly urging partial reforms in our municipal system. They go In for abolishing the fees in the offices of the Corpo- ration Counsel, the Sheriff, the County Clerk, the District Attorney and the Coroner, That the fee system is an abomination, and affords a cover for an enormous amount of plunder, few will deny. If the city were even to divide the benefit of the money thus raised, it would still be objec- tionable, as holding out temptations to embez- zlementend fraud. It is impossible when such a system exists that any reliance can be placed upon the integrity of the public employés. It isthe more dangerous in a community where the persons who hold public offices are com- posed ot the scum of political parties, and where it is cesential that as little latitude as possible should be left them for the gratification of their acquisitive propensities. To show how the fee system works, we will first quote, from the re- turns of the Corporation Counsel’s office, the fol- lowing items of extra expenditure, from April to September, 1858:. Contingent expenses Stoughton, retaining "o50 a i erreauise’ 760 00 . Van Buren, Tin case... 4.0240 +. 1175 00 A ee on retaining and counsel (ce, Deviin Ee AF “Sinith, consultation anid attoatie 7150 00 James T. Braddy- Liptnnse 7. vpn ° 500 00 R.F Andrews, peLies 1 an Marine and Distr Ree ++ 600 00 R. F. Andrews, Rivne tal referee, Macken- tire i Mayor. Ps te fees. bag 20 00 b D. Held, Geren new Goce’ Pj prong 250 00 je#, arguing case, Cour' penis Mutual Inne Coa ‘ et 760 00 L, Cagger rter 512 00 gohn Gr Gees! ‘opinion ‘on sisi 250 00 i ponnael’ Se8 advice. Cooper, 7 treet Commissioner. 500 00 Auguetue Smith, couns Street Commissionor. . 500 00 Charles O'Conor, in Clark va. Mayor 1,000 00 H. Hilton, referee's focs. 260 00 Ripert Ward & Wilsou, costs, Osbora vs. pak EB. 1,350 00 Gilbert Dean, counsel Now 500 00 R. F. Andrews, counsel, glass ballot box case. 300 00 Disbursements in suits against Mayor. 18 68 Contingent expenses. 1,900 54 Sn om ($16,820 64 For the money thus expended it is, of course, impossible for any one to estimate the actual amount of service rendered. This in itself is a fatai objection to the system, for in the relations of employers and servants wherever there is vagueness of account there will always be sus- picion and dissatisfaction. The abolition of fees will, however, go but a short way towards remedying the abuses of our municipal system. What we want in lieu of these piecemeal reforms is an entire and radical ehange—a revolution, in short—in the whole scheme of our city government. Instead of putting in a brick here and a stone there, to prop up the tottering edifice, we must raze it to the ground and reconstruct it anew, We must make a clean sweep of all the incompetent heads and dishonest subordinates who have been either principals or accessories in the wholesale spolia- tion by which the burdens of the city have been swelled to their present oppressive amount. Instead of having a bydra-headed municipality, with responsibility resting no where, we must centralize authority in the hands of one head— the Mayor—give him the appointments to all offices, and render him responsible to the public for the cerrect conduct and efficiency of his nominees. We call upon the Legislature, instead of seek- ing to patch up a bad system by small amend- ments, like those suggested by some of our con- temporaries, toetake that bold and compreben- sive view of the subject which can alone give satisfaction to the public. The work of recon- struction will take them less time than that of cobbling, and we recommend them at once to set abeut it. A month spent at the task would, we are satisfied, complete it; and if to the scheme thus elaborated they will add a registry law and change the elections to the spring, they will have done more for the cause of good government in New York than any Legislature that has pre- ceded them. There must, however, be no trifling with the eubject; it is not small emendations, but a wholesale revolution that we want. Tae Losuy ar Wasuixoton.—There is, so far as the session has progressed, a marked quietude in the operations of the lobby at the capital, and this has led some hopefully good natured people to believe that the odious system of assisting le- gislation, aa it is delicately termed, has received its death blow. It is quite truce that the recent disgraceful exposures, coupled with the exhaust- ed condition of the Treasury, have circumacribed and changed the character of lobby operations, The Jenkinses of the Washington journals find their occupation gone, There are no more rose colored pictures of the amusements of the aristocracy and of the third house in fancy costume. Weare no longer in- formed as to the dazzling matronly beauty of Madame Smith, from Arizona, who impersonates some courtesan of the time of the Regency, or the more youthful charms of the demoiselles Jones, of Arkansas, who strive in vain to imitate tho abandof of the lovettes at the opera bal masqué. There are no more suppers for Jenkins, who sits himself down in hanger and mourning over the departed flesh pots. The lady lobbyers are minus the usual supply of kid gloves and cologne, and the professional diner out finds that the aplendid fetes belong to the light of other days. The lobby has, in point of fact, retrenched. Economy is the order of the day, aud your first class profes- sional thief is‘always a little in advance of the mode. Let it not be supposed that because the lobby is not 80 palpable as before, that it is, there- fore, extinguished. It is not dead, but only nap- ping, with one eye open for any stray crumbs that may fall from the legislative table. It is too late now to operate in favor of private c| patent extensions and the like; 60 the lobby hag suddenly become patriotic. Its chiefs talk grand- ly about the developement and progress of the country; the duty of Congress, in promoting that progress, by lending the aid of the government to such schemes as the building of a railroad to the Pacific coast, and other small affairs of the same kind. The lobby is also deeply impressed with the sacred character of the bill to peasion all the old soldiers, whether they were in service six days or six years. Such veneration for the battered defenders of our country’s starry ban- ner is touching in the extreme. The lobby, too, is especially shocked at the idea that our Senay! tors sometimes are obliged to walk from one end of Pennsylvania avenue to the other; so they] propose to build a railroad on purpose for the} relaxation of members of both houses, The lobby is deeply concerned for the iron interest of the| country, and anxious to take a hand in the vision of the tariff. The chief operator in grand] affairs, of the free wool order, Mr. Th low Weed, bas been called to Albany, where he is arranging the programme for the session of our Legislature. No doubt when these little local afiairs ure settled, the estimable cbief will lend his services to the iron men as cheerfully as he gave them to the woollen mani facturers, The grand scheme of the lobby men, just at thi moment, is the Pacific Railroad, and they are voting all their time and attention to Senato Gwin, Wilson and Seward, each of whom h plons for carrying out the great work. Thq pressure is said to be tremendous—something likq forty thousand pounds to the square inch—and ifany money or land is voted for the railroad thq lobby will make the most herculean efforts finger some of it. The fact that the operatior i of these cormorants are more quietly performs than usual is no proof that they are not quite dangerous as ever. The lobby is at work, and we shall hear from it again before many days. Maqazive Lrreratons IN tHE Sere anp Yu! tow Lear.—Of all the changes in our mercuria country none are more curious than those in th public appetite for literary pabulum. Education isso far distributed among the masses th everybody has tasted of the Pierian springy while but few have drank deep enough to hav any settled taste for, or inclination towards] the solid branches of learning. Our people lead & busy life, wherein they study men more books, and cram knowledge, rather than it. They read chiefly for amusement and a kao’ ledge of the current facts of the day. They see for those rather in the pages of the diurnal o behdomadal newspaper than in the monthly maga zine or quarterly review. Strictly speaking, w’ have no magazine in this country of the higi literary order of Blackwood’s, the Dublin Univers ty, London Quarterly, Edinburg Review, or Revue de deuz Mondes. We commenced with light, frivo lous affairs, devoted to silly love stories and la dies’ fashions at second hand. Some of theg publications attained a great circulation; bu their prosperity was only temporary. Severa more abmitious attempts have been made, ae as Putnam’s; but they have all failed, general) through some blunder in their management’ Putnam's took to negroes, and went early to th dogs. About a year since, some philosophers wh have long had a sort of Mutual Admiration § ciety in Boston established a rather weak mag zine, which they appropriately call the Avantiq It is dreary, expansive, and watery in the ex treme, devoted chiefly to the glorification of th rock of Plymouth, Beacon Hill, Bostonian book! sellers and New England writers, mem| bers of the particular clique that spread their common places over ita sleey pages. Withal it is absurdly pretentious claiming that its design is to elevate the tastd of the reading public, and putting Boston on pinnacle of literary fame far above every othe city in the United States or elsewhere. Eve one of us poor, ignorant misguided people, is ex pected to fall down and worship these wise men of the East, or to pay three dollars per anny for the privilege of falling asleep over thei monthly, Each number is filled with astonishii puffs of the tremendous abilities of Jones, written by Smith; of the remarkable attainments b Smith, written by Jones; of the magnificent ge! nius of Robinson, written by Brown; of the grea‘ critical acumen of Brown, written by Robinson, aud a grand chorus, after the operatic fashion, in which ell the great lights join in a resound. ing pran of self-glorification. This magazine ig, therefore, simply a local affair, as exclusive! Bostonian as the stnallest of the lively journa f of that exhilarating city. In New York the only popularly circulated magazine is J/arpers’, which makes no pre sions to imitation of the solid articles in British reviews, in which attempt the Adantd fails so utterly, but aims rather to suit the taste of the day, with pleasant tales, agreeable arti cles and jests, which, if not always after tha manner of news, are still welcome, as old friend always should be, Beyond Harpers’ and the sectarian magazines, we have little or nothing in the monthly way. But this apparent lack of a first clues magi zine is easily acconnted for on the principle se forth by the practical philosopher, that this me- tropolis contained everything that the coun demanded, and if any particular article could not be found here, it was because there was ng popular demand for it. The flict is that the m gazine reader proper, disgusted with such as the Adantic Monthly, seeks for his lit forage in foreign pastures, while the improve ments in journalism, so marked within a fo years, have entrenched upon the magazine for fications, and nearly demolished them alto gether. The tone of our light literature is con stantly improving, and some of the weekly jo nals contain very creditable literary effort They belong to the flying artillery of the lite fary army, and they carry the public along with them, while the heavy guns, with their usele baggage and lazy hangers-on, are far in th Tear. ‘ Arrival of the Glasgow. The acrow steamship Glasgow, Captain Thomson, whic! left Glasgow on the 23d ult., arrived off the Battory on| Sunday night, and reached ber dock early yostorday morning, The Ginagow has brought # very valuabl cargo of fine dry goods and thirty-three passongors, Sha} experienced very heavy weather. Tho news has beea} anticipated by the Africa, jalendar—This Ustrep om ane Coens —Nen 82, 98,8, 40, 41,40, 80,31, 0 Suriaiok Covet.—Non, 112, 118, 165, 200, 255, 286, a7, 298, 1 oer! fa as , 314, 2 bag 820, 821, $33, = , 394, 344) 845, 346, 347, Rt, Sa, 28, $e hse. sr be vio.” Part 1 .-NO8. , 149, 158, 165, 167 i 1 18, 176, 179) 381,18, a8 et, 165, m5 Mm 8,1 iy ; 196, 198, 222, 224, eae 208, 212, Arar: re ib ‘490, Ms aasdl foas Torm.—Part 2.—Nos, 175, 176, 177, 478, 179, 182, 184, 185, 188, 189, 100, 391, 4,06, 145,’ "|