The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1859, Page 4

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It will be remembered that he stabbed this Italian in the strect, and when locked up in the Tombs stabbed a fellow prisoner in a horrible manner, inflicting seventeen wounds. The Empire State, of the Fall River Line, and the Connecticut, of the Norwich and Worcester Line, Doth left the city yesterday afternoon on their eastward trips. The weather was rainy, and it was quite foggy on the Sound when they left. The boats on both these lines run regularly every day. The Stonington line, at present, has but one boat running—the Commodore—which left for the cast ward on Thursday afternoon at the usual hour, her passenger ng Boston at seven o'clock yes The Plymouth Rock, which is s, will take her place © boats started on reight for the eastward the piers of all three of these e State went out loaded down, ¢ quantity behind, and the Norwich er line are loading propellers with lin and left and We market was steady yesterday, but the sales ec! to about 500 bales, closing without quota- ge in prices. Flour continued firm, while, owing t to the storm and to the absence of pr! letters rangactions were somewhal ac; in flymor and in good demand, with some speculation in Western winter red on private terms; small lots were sold at $1 26.2 $1 28; white Michigan at $1 42, and white Kentucky at $1 55. Co firmer ) heales of 5 y Q o advanced another ge.) MakiL tions footed ‘The cargo of e, was aol ain firmer, and. previously noticed coutinued.to prevail. iced in another place heard after- s in Boston, reported by aph to a house in A cargo of 700 cases of gs was sold in ity, to arrive, at S5c., and 3,000 bags pepper, for New York, at 9c. ble tr The Next Presidency—The Administration, the Democracy, the Politicians and the Peo= mers from New Orleagp in the Gulf, was pr olution allowing C Hartstene 00 for expenses incurred in connec- tion with the restoration of the bark Resolute to the Briti nment, was adopted. A call was made on t! of the Navy for details of all contracts for g live oak. The Senate decided, by a vote of 3 side the pri- yate calendar and take up the Pacific Railroad bill. An animated debate ensued, for and against the pro- position. An amendment, providing that any con- tract made by the President be submitted by him to Congress, and take effect only by joint resolution, was adopted. An attempt to re- commit the bill failed by a vote of 29 to 23, and motion to lay iton the table was defeated—29 to 27. The Senate adjourned until Monda The House made a call on the Secretary of th Rpecting the quantity of coal used by the commissions of purchasing agents,and by authorit id agents are appointed. The S Comn e on Printing, and the Judiciary Commit- tee, were authorized to employ stenographers. The Senate joint resolution, authorizing Townsend Harris, our Minister Resident at Japan, and others, to receive presents, was adopted. The private calendar was considered, and several bills acted on, We refer our readers to the telegraphic despatch- es and reports for the proceedings of the Legisla- ture yesterday. There was a mass meeting of foreign patriots, efugees and socialists last evening, at the Metropo- litan Rooms, in Hester street. The speakers ad dressed the audience in five languages. The dull- est of the addresses was that delivered in English by Signora Mario. The audience was too foreign to appreciate the lady's eloquence. Had it been otherwise the meeting would have been very en- thusiastic, as the speech was a regular bombshell into the camp of the enemy. There was considera- ble consumption of lager bier and segars in the same building where the meeting was held, which was entertaiument enough for many who could not unfflerstand English, so that all seemed pleased. Representatives from some eighteen Irish civic societies and military companies met at Hibernian Hall, No. 42 Prince street, last evening, to make arrangements for celebrating St. Patrick's Day— the 17th of March next. Other meetings will be held before the requisite arrangements are completed. A meeting was held at Tammany Hall last even- ing, to take into consideration the case of the per- sons, members of seditious organizations in Ireland, who have been arrested and are in prison. The meeting was a private one, but we give the sub- stance of the proceedings elsewhere. The Tammany General Committee met last night Hall, to complete its organization. + Fowler occupied the chair. The greater part of the evening was spent in deciding upon con- tested seats. No other business was transacted, and the meeting adjourned shortly after midnight. We have advices from Havana to the 10th inst. Sugar was quiet, while freights and exchange re- mained unaltered. The slave trade was unusually brisk. General Paez arrived at St. Thomas, as already reported, in the United States chartered war steamer Atlanta, on the 12th of December, and left on the 15th of the same month for Cumana, Venezuela. The United States war steamer Cale- donia, having on board the sons of the General, made St. Thomas on the 15th ultimo, and was to leave either the next evening or early on the morning of the 17th, for the same port. General Paez was unable to land, in consequence of the ef- fect of his recent injury by accident in this city. He was, however, received with great enthusiasm, and visited by the Governor and Venezuelean and United States Consuls. A salute of twenty-one guns was fired from Fort Christian in his honor, and there was a fine display of fireworks in the town. His sons were also treated with marked courtesy. When the Atlanta and Caledonia had discharged their mission at Venezuela they would stand for the Parana river, to join the Paraguay fleet. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday John Quenzea pleaded guilty to attempt at burglary in the third degree, and was remanded for sentence. Joseph Long and Jonh H. Blanchard were convict- ed of an attempt at burglary in the first degree, having attempted to enter the dwelling house of Barnett L. Bolomon, and were each sent to the State prison for four years and nine months. An- tonio Lang pleaded guilty to stealing sixty-three dollars from Ann Warden, and was sent to the Btate prison for two years. Catharine Davis pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, in stealing fifty-two dollars from Mary Gleason Mary Kerrigan pleaded guilty to petit larceny, in stealing a dress and breastpin, worth $40, from John Flynn. James Brady was convicted of assaul: and battery on John Burke. All these prisoners were remanded for sentence. Jacob Herrman was acquitted of a felonious assault charged to have been committed on Jacob Eichle. Andrew Fowler, charged with stealing a gold watch from Caroline Turner, was also acquitted. James Duffy, indicted for grand larceny, pleaded guilty to the minor of. fence, and was sent to the Penitentiary for six m The Grand Jury handed in another bateh of in Jictments, and among them were three charges of homicide, which will be disposed of next week. Jean Bosquet, who looks more like a baboon than @ human being, was arraigned for the murder of ple. The impression is at length gaining ground throughout the Union, that m reference to the Presidential election of 1860 we stand upon the threshhold of a crisis which will determine the stability of our popular institutions or plunge the country headlong into the horrors of Mexi- can anarchy. If we look at the movements of our political parties and party leaders in Con- gress and elsewhere, and at the violent sectional and factious excesses of our political journals, North and South, the prospect before us is in- deed dark and dismal; but still there aré visible, here and there, some gleams ot a wholesome po- pular reaction. For example, the cordial public reception whi 1 Scott has received at every point Southern journey may be fairly con- an expression of the public sentiment onth in alf of the sound conservative Union principles of which he is known to be the embodiment. We may also derive some addi- tional satisfaction from the free discussion of the Presidential question, in which some of the most stiff-backed and straight-laced of our party or- gans are taking an active hand. Very true, there is little that is positively encouraging to the independent masses of the people in the newepaper extracts which we lay before our read- ers to-day, on the Presidential issue; but never- theless, from the newspaper agitation of the sub- ject thus opened at the present time, we may console ourselves with the idea that the merits of parties, politicians and candidates on all sides will be pretty thoroughly* un- derstood by the people in season for a sound and wholesome decision in 1860. Our readers will observe, in this connection, that our political co- temporaries, from which these extracts are made, have been chiefly drawn into this discussion from the agitation of the Presidential problem entered into by the New York Heraup. We have thus gained our first point; and believing that, to bring the people toa lively sense of their great responsibilities and their duty in the premises, it will only. be necessary to keep up the fire, it is our intention to keep it up until the whole country shall be fully awake and earnest- ly alive to the tremendous contingencies which will be involved in the struggle for the Presi- dential succession. With regard to the democratic party, it will be seen that while the weight of the testimony which we give to-day from our exchanges sup- ports our views of the demoralized and wran- gling condition of the various factions, sections and leaders of the party, there is yet a little democratic organ in this city which enters its “protest against this sweeping condemnation.” The case made out in behalf of democratic har- mony, however, by this hopeful organ, is a faint and feeble vindication, which substantially ad- mits the force of our accusations. Still it ap- pears to be regarded as something “paradoxical” in the Herap, while supporting the administra- tion, to aseert that “the party, of which that ad- ministration is the trusted exponent, is hopeless- ly broken up and demoralized.” But there is nothing “paradoxical” in this distinction be- tween the administration and the party, because all our discriminations between the one or the other are true; and truth is always consistent with its details, The graphic picture of the mosaic materials which make up the hierarchy of the democratic party, as drawn by that late active member, ex- Senator Clemens, may be somewhat highly colored; but still there is much of truth in it concerning the clashing leaders and principles thus grouped together. Indeed, there is no ne- cessity to erfter into a labored argument of names, facts and testimony to prove,that this party is broken up and demoralized.” The pro- ceedings of the last session of Congress—the pro- ceedings of the present session—the results of the Northern elections of the last summer and autumn—the re-election of Mr. Douglas by the democracy of Illinois, and his removal as Chair- man on Territories by the democracy of the Senate—the disagreements of the party in Con- gress upon Lecompton, the filibusters, the Mor- mon question and the tariff, and the squabbles of Tammany Hall—settle the question that the democracy, as a national organization, are broken up and demoralized, and heyond the reach, apparently, of any sensonable remedy. / On the other hand, a8 the successes of the ad- ministration at the last seseion, upon the Kansas question, the Utah question, the filibuster ques- tion, and various other questions, were due to opposition support, against the demoralized democracy of Congress, so it is evident that upon its leading measures of the present session, the administration can expect nothing without some support from the oppost- tion side. If the administration, therefore, con- { tinues to be the exponent of the democratic party, it isplain that the party has ceaged to be the bulwark of democratic principles. And the simple truth is, that while the administration has pursued, and is pursuing, the “ even tenor of its way,” the factions and sectional leaders of the party have broken up the party into sections and factions, from which the safest prediction is A riotous sectional serub race in 1860, Under this belief, we adhere to the opinion that the only basis of democratic union in 1860 will be some uncommitted and unsectionalized Presidential candidate—such a man, for instance, as General Wool. We cannot imagine how any truce is to be made upon Douglas, Wise, Hunter, Slidell, Cobb, Davis, or any other of the out- standing clique candidates, among whom there are antipathies as violent as those between Pill- more and Seward, or as those between Douglas and Slidell. In i844, and again in 1852, all the candidates of the party in the ring had to be cut, and an outside man had to be taken up, and so it must be in 1860, or the same disaster, and on a more extended scale, will follow that followed the nomination of Gen. Cass in 1848, Thus much for the democracy, We hold that their only available medium of reunion is some such unoflending, uncommitted and popular man as Gen. Wool. So with regard to the opposition. ‘They are equally broken up into personal eliques d ional factions, ond their only basis of n and consolidation is some such national, ryaiive and popular patriot as Gen. Scott. Hence we adhere to Gen, Scott as the proper man for the peacemaker among the opposition elements. Our paramount object. isa fair pa- tional fight in 1860, upon the practical questions of the day, sinking the disgusting and mischiev- ous nigger agitation, North and South. gOther- wise a scrub race. is inevitable, and an election by the House of Representatives, or a failure to elect, will, perhaps, be the closing chapter of the great ‘and glorious governmental fabric estab- lished under our federal constitution, Mov vrs Amoxa THE Sports: We learn from an Albany paper that a gathoring of* the democratic spoilsmen was held at the De- Javan House—the ancient home of the lobby—at which the concern which does business under the name and siyle of Cassidy, Cagger & Co, was fully represented. Several country politicians, agents of the concern, were present; and from the hints of the Journal, we apprehend that the Metropoli- tan House of Ike Fowler & Co, had avoice or two in the affair. This precious tea party, “in the room of a distinguished democrat from the West- ern part of the State,” proceeded very coolly to transfer the democratic voters of the State to Horatio Seymour. They elected that he should be supported in the Charleston Convention, as the Presidential candidate of the New York de- legation. Now, none of these politicians have the most remote idea that Mr. Seymour could ever be successful at Charleston, and their movement in placing him in the field would be of no conse- quence were jt not part ofa well settled plan, They (Cagger, Cassidy & Co. and Ike Fowler & Co.) have taken sole charge of the democratic shop, and intend to carry on the business for their own profit exclusively. They put Mr. Sey- mour forward in order to make him the channel through which the federal spoils may flow to them should the democracy succeed in the next Presidential canvass, They have also found the democratic party in this State too large to be conveniently handled, and they have therefore adopted the tactics of the old and experienced house of Hallett, Greene & Co., of Boston. Those tacties aresimply to keep the party conveniently small, so that there will be a sufficiency of federal spoils to make the business pay handsomely. The party in Massa- chusetts is just about large enough to collect the revenue-and take care ot the United States courts and post offices. This makes things very comforta- ble for “the party;” and Ike Fowler & Co., and Cassidy, Cagger & Co.,are striving to effect an equally nice state of things in New York. It is not intended that the democratic party shall ever again be in a majority in this State; so the quarrels among the several factions are artfally encouraged and fomented. The democratic spoilsmen we have named are willing to give the local patronage to the opposition, in return for its assistance in killing off leading democrats who may take an independent stand. They have managed, with the aid of Thurlow Weed and other republican chiefs, to slaughter all the lead- ing democrats who refused to submit to their dictation. The proceedings at Syracuse, at the State Convention, and the result of the follow- ing election, fully prove the veracity of our conclusions. The concerns of Thurlow Weed & Co. are connected with those of Cagger, Cassidy & Co. and Ike Fowler & Co. more closely than people imagine. It has been the constant effort since 1852, of the leading softs, to reduce and disorganize the democratic party, so as to throw all the spoils into a few hands. That their efforts haye so far been crowned with the most brilliant success let the election re- turns testify. With an actual majority of not less than thirty thousand electors, the demo- cratic party stands today in a minority of seventy thousand. This is encouraging to the enterprising firms. If they keep on as they have begun, the democratic party of the Empire State will be reduced in 1860 to the heads of the concerns—Cagger, Cassidy & Co., Ike Fowler & Co., and their immediate attagpés. It is a pretty prospect; and,as such, we recom- mend it to the view of the leaders of the un- terrified, invincible, harmonious and overwhelm- ing democracy of the country. Syapatny witt THe Inisu InsurRECTIONIsTs— Some meetings were held in this city last night by certain parties who sympathize with the young men recently arrested in Ireland on the charge of being members of a secret political so- ciety, with a view, we belicye, of raising money ‘to defray the legal expenses of their trial. It is, Perhaps, quite natural that those who partici- pated in, or were friendly to the unsuccessful attempt of 1848 in that country, should feel under an obligation to assist in the defence of men under prosecution, most probably for re- viving or maintaining the same spirit which in- stigated all previous movements of this character. But why should not the fund raised in this coun- try ten years ago, for the aid and comfort of the insurrectionists of that time, be applied to the present purpose? It strikes us that it might be £0 applicd legitimately. That money amounted, ifwe are not mistaken, to $30,000, and. was lodged in the hands of Judge Emmett, Horace Greeley and others, If properly invested, that eum might have nearly doubled itself since—an amount far greater than could poseibly be raised now in these hard times, with a severe winter pressing upon that class from whom contribu- tions would be most likely to come, The Vital Statistics of the Metropolis for the Past Year. We publish this morning an interesting and valuable series of tables showing the mortality in the city of New York during the past twelve months, In addition to these we also present the statistics of the marriages and births in the metropolis for the same period, From these we learn that while the number of deaths reached the high figure of 24,492, the births for the twelve months commencing November, 1857, and ending October, 1858, did not exceed 14,770, showing, if the latter returns are reliable, a yearly falling off in the population of nearly 10,000. But the returns of births, according to the City Inspector, are not correct, for the simple reason that the requirements of the law in regard to theirregistry are not and never haye been com- plied with by the clergy and others to whom the law applies, Were it otherwise we might have serious cause for alarm, and considerable ground for the belief that the population of New. York is not sustained by the natural law of inercase, but wholly by accessions from foreign countries and from different parts of the Union, A reference to the table giving the ages of the deceased shows that of the deaths 8,568 were aniong children under one year old, and that more than two-thirds of the deceased were under ten years, After the first decade the greatest mortality is among adults from thirty to forty years of age, and next in point of numbers among those from forty to fifty. The most fatal diseases among children are, as appears from the tables, infantile convulsions, of which 1,655 diced, and cholera infantum, which carried off 1,503—the total mortality from the two diseases numbering 3,158, or about one-eighth of all the deaths during the year, But the most fatal on ihe long list of diseases is consumption, which alone swept off 3,194, while there were 1,167 deaths from inflammation of the lungs, and from disenses of the lungs, throat, &c.—6,543 altogether. After these, in numerical order and strength, we must class the diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, which have added 6,015 to the bills of mortality. For the cause of the large number of deaths from that most fatal of all diseases—consump- tion—we must to a certain extent look to the reckless carelessness of our people in regard to the ordinary laws of health; and while this cause remains, we may expect to see consump- tion occupying the first place on the bills of death. Perhaps no stronger proof can be pre- sented of this recklessness—a recklessness which may, to a certain extent, be regarded as suicidal—than that afforded by the table show- ing the deaths from external causes. By refe- rence to this table we find that of the whole number therein set down, 113 were caused by burns or scalds,157 by drowning, 62 by frac- tures, 9 by rupture produced by falls, &c., and 20 by suffocation. There were no less than 77 cases of suicide, and of poison 18—accidental, it is presumed. i Of the whole number of deaths, 1,488 are en- tered under the head of still-born, and 434 under that of premature births; but it is to be feared that a large proportion of these should be put on the list as abortions, of which, however, but one is reported as having occurred during the year 1853, There are indeed substantial reasons for the be- lief that many of the deaths are entered to the credit of diseases by which they were never produced. The practice which has obtained among some physicians of keeping the public ignorant of the actual causes of doath is sometimes dictated by a feeling of delicacy, and sometimes by a regard for the deceased parties themselves; but these are not valid reasons for their exclusion from the records of mortality, on which they can be placed without a violation of professional secresy in any case. We are glad to see that deaths from starvation are not on the tables, although it is painful to ob- serve that not less than four died from exposure and neglect—a sad commentary on our benevo- lence, after all that is done by public and private charity. Of deaths from intemperance the num- ber was 109, or fifteen less than the mortality from the same cause in the preceding twelve months, There were forty-six cases of murder, or killing, which is a little less than one every week. The whole mortality of the year shows an increase of 1,159 over that of 1857, and the diseases to which this increase is attributable are consumption, infantile convulsions, diarrhoea, ery~ sipelas, disease of the heart, hooping cough, inflammation of the brain, inflammation of the lungs and smallpox; while there is a very ma- terial diminution in the number of deaths from scarlet fever, infantile marasmus, teething, &c. The table of nativity of the deceased shows that 17,575 were born in the United States, and of the balance 3,825 were natives of Ircland, 1,455 of Germany, 470 of England, 169 of Scotland, and 102 of France. The marriages during the year are set down in the table giving the monthly returns, with the ages, color and condition in life, at 4,029, which shows a decrease of 137 on the returns of the preceding twelve months. According to the re- cord there were eight colored men married to the same number of white women. This table is a study in itself, and although it is liable to the same objection as the table of births, it will re- pay any attention that may be bestowed upon the facts therein presented. There is one important consideration arising from a perusal of these mortuary statistics which should not be overlooked, but which should recommend itself to the medical profes- sion generally, and to every person who takes an interest in the health of our city. It is this—that while New York should be one of the healthiest cities in the world, on account of its location, the system of sewerage which it possesses, the salubrity of its climate and the purity and abun- dance of the water with which it is supplied, its yearly bills of mortality show that the per centage of deaths is greater than that of a large number of cities in the Old and New World which are to a certain extent deprived of the same natural and other advantages. We have said that this excessive mortality is par- tially attributable to the reckless and suicidal carelessness of the people themselves, but no small portion of it is to be traced to, and laid at, the doors of those who are entrusted with the cleaning of the streets and the preservation of the general health of the metropolis, The lesson which these tables of mortality teach, should not pass unhecded—and that is, the election to positions of trust of men who are mo- rally and intellectually unfit for the proper dis- charge of their official duties and responsibilities affects not only the purses of the people, but, what is still more valuable to them, health, and even life iteelf. If cleanliness is akin to godliness, New York fs very little better than the ill fated Cities of the Plains ; and, if it were not for the long ago fallen beneath the weight of its own filth and official corruption. Louls Napoleon’s Gffer to Beck England Against the American ure and Present State of the Clayton-Bulwer lin- brogiio. The Paris correspondent of the London Globe informs us that Louis Napoleon has caused Lord Derby to be officially informed that it’ England withes to take any measures to counteract the American policy indicated in certain parts of President Buchenan’s Message, she can count upon the French Emperor to back her up in so doing. We do not doubt that Louis Napoleon has token this step, for, in the prosecution of his de- signs in Spain, he would be-very glad to see a coolness, or even a rupture, brought about be- tween England and ourselves, But no difficulty will grow up between England and America on the policy indicated in the President’s Message. Higher principles than any that underlie the Napoleonic policy now control the relations be- tween England and America. The policy initiated in Mr. Buchanan’s Message is based upon the great necessities of social developement, irre- spective of present political combinations or dynastic aspirations, This great law rules the relations between the Cabinets of Washington and London, and is rapidly displacing political theories and projects for the balance of power, in the estimation of the English people. In its practical operation it is now at work removing all cause for irritation between the iwo countries that may exist on Central American questions. A cursory review of the facts which have been presented in the Tivnarp, from time to time, as they occurred, will explain this. The Clayton-Bulwer treaty itself came into ex- istence from a professed desire to obliterate all motive for dispute between England and the United States, But an empty headed diplomatist on the part of the former, ambitious of obtaining the credit of having overreached his opponent, rather than of really settling the pending ques- tions, and a weak-minded Secretary on our side, more ambitious of ihe honor of making a treaty with England than able to perecive a fallacy in its clauses, concocted an instrument which passed through the Scnate only with the aid of decep- tive explanations, and which has ever since been very differently interpreted by the two govern- ments. Tor a time efforts were made to arrange these differences by correspondence, but without success, and tbe last note on the subject was written by Lord John Russell in very tart terms. Mr. Buchanan’s opinions on the subject were well known both in official and private circles in Eng- land; and when he was elevated to the Presidency it was at once surmised there that he would recom- mend to Congress its abrogation by act—a course which would have been very unpleasant to the English statesmen who had-so long de- fended the treaty, and who were becoming daily more convinced of the unpopularity of any difle- rence with America, In order to avoid such a result, the American and British bankers in London, and the leading men in the Manchester interest, put their heads together and prepared the plan of settlement which is now in process of negotiation. Mr.- Ouseley was selected as the agent, because of his connection by marriage with this country, and his personal intimacy with Mr. Buchanan. He was appointed Minister-to Central America, and directed to proceed to his post by way of Wash- ington. There he was to confer freely with the President, and after ascertaining the views of our government, was to construct the plan of such treaties between England and the Central American republics as would do away with all the points of difficulty in the interpretation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, including the bug- bear of the Mosquito protectorate and the Bay Islands seizure. In the meanwhile, however, Mr. Buchanan had pursued the straightforward course of recommending the abrogation of the treaty by Congress, in accordance with his well known opinions. When Mr. Ouseley came and explained the points of his mission, the President, whose sole motive was to place the material interests of the world at large upon a secure footing in the transit of the American isthmuses, consented to delay action upon his recommendation, for it was perfectly indifferent to him whether this se- curity was obtained through a planof his own or any one else, until the new mode of settlement could be tried. This is what Mr. Ouseley has gone to Central America to do; and it will be seen that the whole plan originated with the industrial interests of both countries, and not the political schemes of either. But a new clement of agitation sprung up in the premises. Mr. Clingman, who was at that time Chairman of the House Commiitee on Foreign Relations, undertook to bring in a bill to abro- gate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. As he is a thick-headed fellow, whose brain, when it gets an idea in it, must run on, like a piece of clock- work, till it runs down, it was not thought pro- per to communicate the new state of the ques- tions to him, and he was simply requested to de- lay action on the recommendation of the Mes- sage. This he refused to do, and the consequence was that the House, respecting the opinions of the President, threw out his bill. Since then he has gone into the Senate, and there he has met with a like repulse in the matter. Irritated at this, he has procured a disreputable writer, who bas been ejected from the halls of Congress, to write to certain obscure journals in this city and New Orleans that Mr. Clingman’s patriotic exer- tions were defeated by the influence of Lady Ouseley with Mr. Buchanan. The statements of the disreputable writer are of little moment; but as the information upon which he based them could only have come from Mr. Clingman, it be- comes this gentleman, if he has a spark of chi- valric gallantry, to clear his skirts of the suspi- cion of having made so unjust an imputation upon the character af an innocent and worthy lady. Meanwhile, however, we have little fear that Louis Napoleon will be called upon by Eng- land to sustain her in a quarrel with this country. ‘Tie New Crry Hai..—We publish in another column the report of the Commissioners of the new City Hall, appointed by the Legislature last April, from which it appears that they con- sider the sum appropriated for the erection of ‘such a structure entirely inadequate to the pur- pose, and they prefer waiting until the Legisla- ture can be induced to grant a sufficient amount before they advertise for plans and specifications. The «um allotted for the new hall is only $250,000. The Commissioners are of opinion that a million dollars will be wanted to complete such a building as the city requires, and they therefore recommend that the Legislature should be applied to for that amount at once, ‘so that they shall have mor.cy enough at their mercy #0 often extended to it, it would hayd | disposal to finish the buil*ing before they dig a big hole in the rear of the present City Hall, which may remain there for years to come as am additional ornament to that locality, A very sensible conclusion on the part of the Com- missioners. * Tux Crry Ixspecrorsmr.—We stated a few days ago, that it was generally believed in quar- ters where such knowledge was likely to reach, that a compact had been made between the pre- sent incumbent of the City Inspector's office and some members of the Board of Aldermen, whereby the former officiel was to be retained; the modus operandi agreed upon being the refusal of the Board of Aldermen to approve of the Mayor's nominee, and the return therefor being the appointment of the Aldermen’s friends to offices in Mr. Morton’s Department. This was denied by Mr. Morton, in a card over bis own signature. The recent proceedings of the Alder- men, however, and especially those of Thursday, as well asthe fact that Mr. Morton, though his term of office has legally expired, has made « complete change in his subordinates, which, taken in eon- nection with the declaration of «a democratic Alderman on Thursday, that Mr. Morton, who is a Know Nothing, would appoint his (the Alder- man’s) friends, and he did not want,any other officer in his place, would seem to substantiate the charge. The Mayor has nominated a physician, with whom, it is said, he is not acquainted, but who has been highly recommended to him as a per- con qualified for the post of City Tuspector; but so far the Board of Aldermen has taken no defi- nite action in the matter. It was gravely sug- gested at the last meeting of the Board, that as the Mayor was understood to have ten more nominees in reserve, the committee should report upon one every month, and thus keep-Mr. Mor- ton in office until Mayor Tiemann’s term-expired. All these statements, we say, go fi to show that the rumor of a collusion hetween the Aldermea and the City Inspector had a good foundation, as they certainly prove the course of that Board open to the suspicion of trickstering for the benefit of some of iis members, and shamefully trifling with the int 8 of the city. Mn. Sumyer’s Vacant Cuam,—It would ap- pear that the Massachusetts people have become & little tired of waiting for Mr. Sumuer to renew his duties at Washington. Some time since, at a republican State convention, a resolution was adopted suggesting the propriety of closer atten- tion to duty on the part of Senators and repre- sentatives, and a day or two since a member of the House, Mr. Tucker, of Boston, (one of the corporal’s guard of “democrats” theve,) intro- duced an order requesting the Governor to in- form the House whether there is not another Massachusetts vacancy in the United StateSenute besides that to be occasloned by the expiration of the term of Henry Wilson, in March next. We presume that it would be within the power of the Legislature to declare Mi. Sumner’s seat legally vacant, and to proceed to fill it, How- ever, that step would hardly be required. Mr. Sumner could not keep his seat with the smallest grace if requested to resign by the Legislature. When Mr. Everett found himself, through ill health, unable to discharge the practical duties of a Senator, he resigned his seat; and here Mr. Sumner has a distinguished precedent. It is all’ very well to write pretty things about Sumner’s chair being a silent sentinel of freedom, and so on, but the State has a right to be represented by two Senators—not one andachair, The very best thing that Mr. Sumner can do is to resign, and then the Legislature should choose Mr. Banke in his place. He is not only the best practical statesman that New England has given the country for years, but in the Senate he would be found superior to any one in the opposition, not excepting Seward, whom Mr. Banks sur- passes in every Senatorial requisite. If Sumner’s friends wish to keep him in office, let them choose him Governor of Massachusetts. He can go to Kamschatka then and stay forty years without being missed. But Massachusetts cannot afford to let a man like Banks rust in the Executive Chamber, while’ Sumner is sitting under the droppings of the sanctuary of the British aboli- tionists, and drinking in weak tea and treason with the old ladies of Exeter Hall. If bis sufferings are half as acute as they have been represented, he ought to have learned the virtue of resignation by this time. Overnaciine THE ALbaxy Lopsy.—It will be remembered that the Governor called atten- tion to the corrupt and disreputable lobby opera- tions which have disgraced the Legislature of this State for many years. The portion of the Executive Message referring to the lobby has been taken up by the Senate and referred to the Committee on Public Buildings, in which all parties are represented. This latter fact should prevent anything like slurring over any expo- sures that may be made during the committee's investigations. The duty of that committee, if well performed, is the most important that can well be imagined. It is to the lobby system that ' we can trace nearly all the odious and corrupt legislation which has quartered so many country politicians upon the taxpayers of the metropolis. It is the lobby system that has made our Legis- lature the tool of a few railway managers and Albany editors. Let the committee investigate all the facts, and see if we are not right. Above all, let them have Thurlow Weed in all his glory, and obtain from him a complete history of his lobby operations for the last twenty years. City Intelligence. ’ Eriemic AMoxG tix Jersey Hocs.—Yesterday Mayor Tiemann received a letter froma person out in Jersey, ‘stating that a serious epidemic was prevailing among the hogs at the distillery at Millstone, near Raritan, N. J., and that they were sent to the city and gold. For the benefit of the pork eaters, it is stated that the keepers havo placed men to ‘watch the h 5 thought to be attacked by the disease, which symptom ix that of ring, ho is knocked in the head, soon di ‘and gent to the city to be rold. itis said, wound up by calling on tho City Inspector to. look out for them. mor says It is a stale to find out pees th Inspector. It is hoped the Mayor will sce to ‘Tux Ammntoan IneritcTR AND THE American Untoy.— ‘Thetrusteos of the Instituto having, at the present time, ‘a petition before the Mayor and Common Council of the city, praying for an appropriation of the property, on which stood tho Crystal Palace, for their special use, im carrying out the objects for which the Institute was. founded, viz.: exhibitions, fairs, shows, &c., thadirec- tors of the ‘Union’’ have likewise gota petition, in cir- culation for signatures, ing the Mayor and. ran Council to take their to the property ito tioir avenue, upon the body of a child three yonrs Mary Jane Conway, who died from the Stieets sf aocl on the 31th inst., catching fire at the stove. Verdict, accideutal death. ‘Tie BrRaMER Atice Prick is, the only Shrewsbury boat now tunning, She leavex Robinson ptroat pier daily, at two o'clock P. M., lauding at Povt Monmouth, where stages copnect for Red Bank and Srowsbury.