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The New York Weraty Hreato—Californ'a ed: eontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be publisbed at ten o'clock in the morniug. Siugle copies, iu wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents, Agents will please send in their orders as early as pos: Bibie. Among the private bills passed by the Se one appropriating $60,000 for the relief of the largest towa ‘n the Territory, its population being over four thousan?.” The usual vote of thanks for the address was adopted on motion of Mr. Augustus Schell, and a copy requested for pub- lication. The steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn, Captain D. G. Farragut, hauled out in the stream on Thursday, February 2, and yesterday steamed down to her anc.oiase off Quarantine, going ten kuots with ea. Sc was much adm‘red by the crowds who 8 \\ | er pass dewn the river She carries eighteen 0 te Dahlgren heavy shell guns, and draws six- tecn ‘eet of water. She sails to-day for the West In lis, to join the Gulf flect In the absence of later foreign news yesterday, the Oth market was ursettled, while the sales reached about 1,500 bales, closing at about 11%. for middling uronds, Fiu- exhbited more firmness for common gra'e,wo'e medium brands were dull and extras un- changed: sales of all kinds were moderate, Wheat was less bucyast, Lut rather nore doing. Western white sold at $1 60, red do. at $136, and white Kentucky at $1700 $175, acd Milwaukie club at $1223. Corn was firm, with gales of Jersey and Southern yellow at s0c. a Slo., New Jereey new white at 79¢. a 80c., and old mixed at 87c. Pork wos artive, but closed with some less buoyancy at $18 45 a $18 50 for new mess, old do. at $18, and prime at $15 50 a £13 624%. Beef was steady and in good domans. Lard was firm and active, both on the spot and to arrive, t full prices, Sugars were firm, and the stiffness of bolders checked sales, which were limited, but at full prices, Rice was active, with sales of about 1,200 casks, chiefly at $3gc. a 43,0. Coffee was firm, The chief sale consisted of 2,800 baga of Rio at 113¢¢. a 1134¢., with email ois of Jamaica and Java at rates noticed in another place. Treights were unchanged and engagements limited, The Scetional Parties of the Day=A Falr Opening for an Independent Union Move- ment. It must be now abundantly manifest to the most superficial observer of political events, that from the movements of the leading politicians and managers of the Southern democratic camp, and of the Nerthern republican camp, the para- mount purpore, on both sides, is a sharply de- ned sectional contest upon the slavery question for the next Presidency, Among the Congressional leaders of the South- ern democracy every hope and every desire of conciliating the North appear to have been abandoned. The settlement of the Kansas quar- rel is thus regarded by these Southern leaders as no settlement, but as only the entering wedge to further'and wore dangerous “ Northean aggres- sions,” * Acverdingly, we find that every politi- | cal issue which can be distorted by a Southern body into a sectional controversy bas been scized upon aud appropriated to keep up the fires of the slavery agitation. Thus, upon Cen- tral Americon affairs and the Walker filibusters, upon tbe question of the revival of the African slave trade and upon the tariff question, it has been made to appear, by Southern fire-eaters in Reid and the crew of the privateer brig Armstrong. The House Homestead bill was re- ported by the Committee on Public Lands without amendment, and Mr. Johnson gave notice that he should call up the Senate bill on the same subject at the earliest opport » A resolution was adopted calling on the retary of War to com- municate any report whic ay have recently been made on the defences of New York harbor by the engineers having charge of the works. A Dill ov- ganizing Dacotah and Arizona Territories was re- ported. In the House a report declaring Bird B. Chapman entitled to represent the Territory of Ne- braska, instead of Mr. Ferguson, the sitting mem- ber, was presented by the Committee on Elections. A bill establishing a national foundry at Alton, Illinois, was introduced and referred. The most importaet subject before the Legisla- ture yesterday was the introduction into the As- sembly of a couple of bills from the Canal Com: Lit- tee. One provides for levying a tax of five-eighth of a mill upon each dollar of taxable property in the State for the next fiscal year, the same to be applied to the improvement of the State canal The sum realized by this tax will amount to $5 000. The Commissioners of the Canal Fund are-au- thorized and required, if necessary, to invest, from time to time, any surplus of the moneys of the Ca- | General Congress and out of Congress, from Washington to Mobile, that the wrongs and outrages inflicted upon the South and her “ peculiar institutions” have been pushed to the last extremity of endurance. And what else? Why, that the safety of the South now demands that her politicians and her people shall at once take a bold and positive stand in defence of slavery, including the African slave trade, and upon this platform leave the alternative to the North of a continuance of the Union, ora separate Southern confederacy. In behalf of this shaping of the policy of the Northern democracy, their sectional leaders of this Congress have been laboring with the earn- estness of a revolutionary conspiracy. From their factious hostility to almost every promi- nent measure of the administration, at the last session and at the present, it is apparent that they are resolved, if possible, to “crush out” even the conservative policy of a President of their own choosing, because it stands in their way. What prospect is there, then, of a nation- al re-orgasization of the democracy, with the party already reduced substantially to the limits nal Debt Sinking Fund, not less in all than the sum of $500,000, in the tax to be levied unde: first section of the act—the moneys thus invested to | be applied to meet the appropriations made: and the moneys arising from the tax » When paid into the treasury, be applied, in the first instance, | to reimburse the Sinking Wand, with interest at | five per cent. The second bill appropriates the | proceeds of the tax to the enlargement of the Oswego and Cayuga and s, and to the completion of the Black River canal. The amouat | is apportioned as follows :— | Erie Canal... -$120,150 | ‘Oswego Can 149,649 | Cayuga and 68,815 | Black River Canal tot to jor March next, to secure a 8: after the first of channel, Details of late and interesting news from Mexico, received by the steamship Tennessee, a brief tele- graphic summary of which has already appeared, is published elsewhere in our columns. By the arrival of the steamship Cahawha at this | port last evening, we have advices from Havana to | the S0th ult. It is reported that a strong specula- | tive feeling had pervaded the sugar market, while | freights were dull, with a large amount of tonnage | in port. Exchange was declining. The general | news is unimportant. The brig Nancy had been | formally surrendered to her captain. The new | Geueral was expected to arrive about the | Intelligence respecting the revolutionary move- ig P g tf ment in Hayti is published in to-day’s Heraup. | The latest dates from the principal Haytien ports | are:—Port au Prince 9th, Gonaives 12th, Cape Hay- tien Mth, and Jeremie and Aux Cayes 16th ult. Several of the interior cities have also been heard from, and the accounts from all points concur in representing the republican cause as in the ascen- dant. Soulouque, however, was still master of the capital, with a well appointed army at his command. | His eventual overthrow, and the establishment of a republican form of government, however, were regarded as beyond doubt. Accounts from Great Salt Lake City to the 15th ult. have been received. The District Court had adjourned, but the cause is not stated, and there is no allusion to the reported difficulty between the Mormons and Gentiles with reference to cases be- fore the court. The Legislature had done nothing of importance. The steamer Vanderbilt, formerly of the Stoning ton line, ashore at Fisher's Island, was on Thursday moved seventy feet from her rocky bed, and, cre this, is afloat, The probability is that she can never be made serviceable. ‘The Whig General Committeee met last night But few persons were present. A resolution was i declaring that it was inexpedient further to © the slavery question. A committee of five ‘ppointed to correspond with distinguished membors of the late whig party, and ascertain thelr | op “pon our foreign relations, the acquisition of | Dube, the currency, tariff, internal trans-continental railroad, &c, eet ee In the report of Lieutenant Mowry’s address be- fore the Geographical Society on Thursday evening, | he was made to say that Tacson was the principal | town of Arizona, and contained but two hundred inhabitants. His remark was:—Tucson, at the | time of the Gadsden Purchase, had only two hun. cred inhabitants. When Arizona was a flour. | i-aing Spanish province it had a population of three | thousand, It now has about one thousand. Mesilla, #% the head of the valley of the same name, is much F of the Southern States, and with such leaders and managers as these we have described con- trolling this party? We must give it up, and | make up our minds to the conclusion that the Presidential ticket and platform in 1860 of the Charleston Convention will be limited in their purposes and operation to the slaveholding States. The designe and tendencies of the leaders and managers of the Northern republican party are eqnally indicative of a purely sectional organi- zation for 1860. While prominent republican members of Congress have been re-affirming the programme of that “irrepressible conflict with the slave power,” as laid down in Mr. Seward’s Rochester manifesto, it appears that either he or bis agents in Washington have been, and stil! | are, industriously employed in sowing that mani- festo broadcast over the North. The object is to prepare the minds of the rank and file of the re- publican camp for the nomination of Seward as their pre-ordained candidate for the succession. Thus, looming up in bold relief in the fore- ground, we recognise the unmistakable outlines of two formidable sectional parties for the next Presidency, upon the broad and general issue of slavery—the one party a purely Southern organization in behalf of the maintenance, pro- pagation and expansion of slavery, and the other a purely Northern organization, acting upon the | comprehensive programme of the exclusion of | slavery from every Territory, and its extinction in every State of the Union. If, therefore, the contest for the succession is to be limited to | these two sectional parties, the results will be: first, the election of an administration pledged to | the subjugation and suppression of “the slave | Oligarchy;” and, secondly, no doubt, the reyolu- | tionary experiment of a Southern confederacy. But, between these extremes there is the middie ground of the constitytion and the Union, and the strong reserved corps of the Union loving conservative body of the people. At present they are represented on the demo- cratic side by Mr. Buchanan's administration; and, on the opposition side, by the floating debris of the old whig party and of the late American national organization. In the campaign of 1860, however, the administration, by the Southern fire-eaters at Charleston, will most probably be covered up in their slavery programme, while the conservatives of the opposition camps will be compelled to endorse the Rochester platform of Seward, or cut adrift from the republican | party. In anticipation of this necessity, now is the time for the conservative masses of the people, North and South, to take the initiative in a bold and simultaneous independent movement for the Presidency, upon some such truly national and | conservative patriot as Gen. Scott. The inde- pendent opposition movement on foot in Pennsy]- vania in behalf of Gen. Cameron shows where the shoe pinches in that quarter; and if a corres- | ponding movement in contempt of the rotten party organizations of the day be started upon | the more comprehensive scale sugyested, we shall soon discover that if this new party is not sure of an election by the people, it will be sure to command the issue of an election in the House of Representatives, New York, New Jersey , Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, .Tenneseee, Miesouri, California, and perhaps Vir- ginia and North Carolina, to :ay nothing of In- diana, Dlinois and other States, could thus be carried under the Union platform embodied in the name of Gen. Scott, between the opposing candidates of the Northern abolitionists and the Southern secessionists, as represented in the re- publican and Charleston nominations, ~ In- any event, as from all the movements of thy leaders of our several existing politiza! par- ties at Washing{on, there appears to be no desire and no prospect of preventing another embitier- ed and purely sectional contcat between the Southern democracy and the Northern republi- cans, there must be three parties in the field, as in 1856. The third party, which, in that cvutest, from its bigoted jack-o’-lantern rubbish and mummeries, disgusted a very large body of sen- sible men who otherwise would have joined it, may, in 1860, under a new-and practical common sense Union organization, and upon such a great and popular name as that of General Scott, at least carry the highest electoral candidate to the House, and there secure his election. We earnestly invoke the sober, reflective and independent people of all sections and parties to the consideration of this momentous subject, in- asmuch as from the demoralizations, corruptions and reckless tendencies of our existing par- ties, factions and cliques of spoilsmen and Presi- dential gemblers, the next Presidential election involve the alternative of national union and harmony, or that of political disruption and the horrible civil strifes and chaos of Mexico. Exransion or tug Unirep Srates.—Ovr Prevosep New Territories.—In another column will be found some interesting communications on the resources—agricultural, industrial and mineral—of the three new Territories which are about to be added to our confederation, namely, Arizona, Jef'ergon and Dacotah. The Committee ou Terri ‘8 of the House of Representatives has reported favorably on the petitions for organization presented from all three, and there is no doubt (tat they will be similarly received ia the Senate. Their admission, therefore, may be regarded as proximate. With these additions, the confederation will consist of thirty-two States and nine Territories, covering an area of about 3,300,000 square miles. Several additional Territories are in contempla- tion, but they are merely sub-divisions, and will add nothing to tie extent of our dominion. As it is, taking into account the youth of our re- public and the trifling cost of blood and treasure at which this immense empire has been secured, we think that we have reason to congratulate ourselves on having proved to the world that the propagandism of principles is more fruitful of results than that of the sword. One other great truth remains to be demon- strated, and that is that the policy by which we have thus extended our sway is capable of re- taining the pcaceful conquests it has made. Territorial aggrandizement is comparatively easy of accomplishment. From the time of Alexander the Great down to that of the first Napoleon, it has required but a strong will and military talent on the part of individual rulers to extend the scope of their acquisitions. But by what an enormous expenditure of human life and money have the ambitious designs of such men been carried oui! And in proportion to the price thus exacted and paid, have we not seen the seeds of dissolution invariably scattered throughout their conquests, weakening their strength and counteracting their efforts at cgnsoli- dation? Ofall the great empires created by the sword since the time when Alexander overran the East and regretted that he had not another world to conquer, but few remain to attest the extravagant ideas of their founders. Those that at present divide the submission and respect of mankind may be said to owe their ascendency rather to the political genius and sagacity of their rulers than to the strength of their military resources. It remains to be seen whether a power ac- quired like ours, by the influence of great funda- mental principles, the diffusion of liberal ideas, and the careful avoidance of armed aggression againet the rights of others, will not outlive the forced creations of the sword. European states- men are in the habit of ironically designating our republic an experiment. In one sense the saying is correct, though not in the limited one in which they apply it. It is not an experiment of republican theories merely, but of bloodlessly formed and rational institutions, intended to arrest the periodical retrogressions of the human mind, caused by the lust of conquest and the am- bition of military chieftains. That Providence favors this new order of political ideas is evident from the rapid and un- precedented developement which it has taken. It is this fact which holds out the promise of a per- manency for our political system, which has been wanting to all others. When mind is thus found dominating over matter, there is hope that the world is entering upon an era of political as well as intellectual regeneration. Wasnincton Newsparers,—We perceive that one of the hungry Washington journals has set up a howl of lamentation because it does not re- ceive what it calls its share of the public plun- der. The proprietors of the journal aforesaid have the sublime audacity to send a petition to Congress, asking for a little pap to keep the wolf from the door. Well, when dogs are hun- gry they will whine and bark until they are fed, and Congress may throw these hungry fellows a bone or two to keep them quiet. Their action, however, affords an ample endorsement of the ground we have always taken with regard to the Washington press. The fact is, that, for all Hewspaper purposes, except reporting the de- bates, Washington is nothing more than a third rate interior town—the reading public of which, receiving the New York papers on the day they are printed, natarally depend upon them for in- formation, not only upon general matters, but concerning events in their own city. One or two newspapers would be quite enough tor Wash- ington, but now there are no less than five, all quarreling with each other for the crumbs that fall from the federal table. None of them can live without cleemosynary aid from the govern- ment. To be sure there is a pretence of doing some. work for it, but the devices to avoid actual plunder are too filmsy to deceive a child. These papers are at the head of all the political jobbing and corruption that disgrace our government. They engineer the enormoue printing job, and receive among them not lees than a million dollars a year, They ad- here to the treasury with the tenacity of leeches upon relations. One Washington journal has been supported by the government for half a century, and the money fobbed with the same grand air that Mr. Dorrit, Senior, assumed when roceiving shillings in the Marshalsca, This vete- ran sucker could net be shaken off, though seve- ral attempts to do it were made. Tii¢ Washington journals are at the bottom of all the jobbing at the capital; and it is they who have nursed the festering sore that is eating into the vitals of the country. And still their cry is, “Give ! give! give!’ The last Oliver, sneaking up to Congress with his pap bowl and spoon, would only be a subject of ridicule were not the toot ton ovchone Sie tellags 2 The Cuba Question and the Traps of Poli- tclans=A Hint to Statesmen Here and in Europe. The favorable manner in which the proposition of Senator Slidell to authorize the President to negotiate with Spain for the eale of the island of Cua, and to place thirty millions of dollars at his command to make the earnest payment, has been received in Congress and by the people, is a marked and suggestive evidence of the tone and tendency of the popular mind on this question, To the question of the acquisition itself no op- position deserving of attention has been made either in Congress or out of it. Mr. Slidell’s bill has been opposed on the grounde of political ex- pediency and constitutional propriety, as a ques- tion that should not be carried at the present time because of the low state of the treasury, as a political manwuvre looking to the next Presi- dency, as a mistake in policy calculated to delay the acquisition, as a measure that may provoke opposition in the Spanish government, as a party trick on the part of the President, and for sundry other similar reasons of a light and frivolous character. But the measure itself is acknowledged by all to be a popular one, and an integral portion of our national policy. Mr. Seward, who led off the opposition to the bill, states that he has always received as a political axiom the declaration that Cuba gravitates back to the continent from which it sprang, and he believes that sooner or later it will come into the Union through the force of political necessities. One of the Seward journals in this city frankly acknowledges that “if the question were an open one, and could now be de- cided upon its merits by a popular vote, we have very little doubt that four-fifths of the people of the United States would be in favor of the peace- ful acquisition of Cuba.” The Zribune—another Seward organ—uses still stronger language. It looks upon the Slidell proposition as “a dodge of political gamblers—a bold stroke for triumph in 1860;” and it adds: “Let them only, with the help of sundry whiffling journals in this city and elsewhere, inflame the popular lust of acquisition and direct it towards ‘ the gem of the Antilles,’ and their battle for 1860 is half won.” There can be no doubt in the mind of any clear-headed observer of public opinion in this country that these admissions of the popular character of the question of Cuban acquisition are correct; and if any corroboration of them is required, they can be found in the present course ofaction on the subject in Washington. The lead- ing Senators and representatives in Congress are busily engaged just now in laying their lines and setting their traps for the Charleston Con- vention and the next Presidential cam- paign. The cunning democrats are perfectly willing ‘o save the powder, rockets and fire- works of the Cuban argument until a period of time nearer to the Presidential election; while the disorganized opposition are busily casting about in the vain hope of bringing up some new issue, such as the tariff, a Pacific Railroad, econo- my in the public expenditures, to engross the popular mind. As a blind, the democracy feign now to present a divided front, and to wrangle among themselves upon all sorts of empty ab- stractions, letting the Cuba question rest mean- while; but as the time for the Presidential race comes on, they will drop all these, and, mdunt- ing a candidate upon a thorough-going Cuba platform, will discuss the question before the people with a warmth that will surpass all for- mer campaigns, and carry their man into the Presidency with an overwhelming majority. The seed for this movement has been sown in the popular mind by the logical and unanswerable report of Mr. Slidell, and the warm reception it has received all over the country has shown to the politicians that they have got hold of the right string, warning them at the same time not to pull ittoosoon. Hence their readiness to delay action upon the thirty millions proposition now. What the effect of a popular Presidential dis- cussion in this country upon the question of the acquisition of Cuba will be in that island, can easily be foreseen. Cuba lies within a hun- dred miles of our shores. Her ports are visited annually by one hundred and fifty steamers and fifteen hundred sailing vessels from our own. The Cuban mind partakes largely of all the for- vor and excitability of the Latin family. Every argument used here will be magnified and aimed there by the popular mind against the hated colo- nial government, in which they have no share or part. Every evil will be aggravated a thou- sand fold, every hope will seem to become an at- tainment, and if the colonial government of Spain can ride out the storm in safety it will be a miracle. The material prosperity of Cuba is great, and her people are rich. They may easi- ly buy over to their cause a part of the Spanish army itself, and precedents for such a course are not wanting even in the Spanish army now in Cuba, although the miscarriage of collateral pro- jects have prevented some of the cases from be- coming known even to the Spanish government, which is well aware of not a few instances. A pronunciamiento daring a Cuban Presidential can- in this country, made by a portion of the ‘h army in Cuba, would command the in- stant support of thousands of men and abundance of resources from here. All of these things are in the fature of the discussion of the Cuba question in this country, and the statesmen of Spain and the cabinets of Europe should look them fairly and squarely in the face. "They may rely upon the force of the Spanieh army in Cuba, and contemplate naval demonstrations to supportit. They may think that a reepect for European power may turn the current of popular feeling here. But all experi- ence bas demonstrated that whenever a popular movement on this continent has taken direction against a colonial despotism, European reinforce- ments and naval demonstrations are weakened by the broad stretch of the Atlantic, and are: . rendered futile. The next one will be against the colonial government of Cuba, and it will go far to ripen the events which will separate that colony from Spain, if it does not consummate the separation altogether. The progress of political science now demands that a peaceful mode of meeting the exigencies of ripening colontes shall be found, and a recognition of the fet that they cannot always be kept in a state of politi- cal servitude. The statesmen of Europe, and particularly of Spain, would do well to consider this, and to prepare to meet it ina spirit conso- nant with the spirit of the age. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1859. fanttery Condition of New York, The renurt of the State Senate Commitice on the sanitary conu.tion of this city, published in yesterday's Herarp, is full of warning and in- truction, which it world be well for the State Legislature, the eity goverment, and all whom it may concer, to lay to heart, It is not like a mere question of party politics; it comes home to the business and the bosom of every man in tbe community, Whoever has carefully read the ‘document and is acquainted with the different localitict of the city will observe that portions of New York are extremely unhealthy, while other portions sre not surpassed for salubrious location on the face of the earth; and that the healthy and uubcaltby perts are those, respectively, which ave high end dry and those which are low and damp. All who bave seen the old maps of the city, aud know what the configuration of the ground was some fifty years ago, will perceive at a glance that those parts of the city built on the natural cminences are all healthy, while those situated in low, and what is called “made” ground—tkat is, ground reclaimed from the sea—are unhealthy, because these localities have never been properly drained, and consequently are damp in winter, causing rheumatism, diseases of the lungs and other maladies; while in summer, under the rays ofa hot sun, they exhale poisonous miasma, pro- ducing intermittent fever and a whole train of disorders. Among the most healthy portions of the city we may enumerate the region of St. Paul’s chureb, corner of Broadway and Fulton street, aiid the site of the Henavp establishment. Dig down here fifty feet, and you will find the carth perfectly dry. The City Hospital, in Broadway, and the Bowery theatre, are located on healthy ground; so are Union square and Murray Hill, whilst the regions of the North and East rivers in the lower part ofthe city; of Canal street, fur- merly en inlet from the Hudson; of the Swamp, ivcluding Ferry street; of the Tombs, built on adeep pond called the Collect; of Madison square, Washington square, St. John’s park, Gramercy park and Tompkins square, are all unhealthy. These places are built over springs, and streams, and ponds, which have never been drained, or over salt marshes saturated with the water ofthe sea; and the inevitable consequence is that the moisture continually oozes up, chilling the blood and undermining the constitution. What is wanted, therefore, in the first place, is a thorough system of scientific drainage for the whole city, to carry off the subterraneous water; and after that a scientific system of sewerage to conduct the filth of the city into the North and East rivers, to which there is a natural fall, so that these two great scavengers may convey it where it can no longer be noxious. Never did nature do more and man less for the purification of a great city. Besides, the main sewers and their branches, there ous} t to be a sewer from every house to one of these; and no new honse ought to be permitted to be built without this appendage, so essential to health. The third thing necessary is to keep the streets and alleys continually clean, as is done in Paris and London. Then there ought to be regulations about direct light and pure air, and for the prevention of overcrowding the habitations of the poor. And to enforce all these sanitary conditions there ought to be a Medical Board of Health—as there is in all the large cities of Europe—instead of en- trusting the health of the city to ignorant men who know nothing about the matter, and care little for anything but to pocket the public money. We regret to see that the new bill proposed, though an improvement on the past, does not come up to the necessities of the case. If the right steps are only taken now, and vigorously carried out, New York, instead of being in some portions the most unhealthy city in the world, will soon be the most healthy throughout its entire extent—as healthy almost as that beau- tiful plateau in the Twelfth ward, lying between Harlem, Manhattanville and Fort Washington, including Carmansyville. Fort Washington is the summit of the ridge, and the highest ground about New York, commanding a most extensive prospect of the surrounding country, marked witb all the undulations and diversities of land and water—on one side the smiling, peaceful val- ley, stretching away to the Sound —on the other the Hudson, with its noble “ Palisades” and its lordly flood moving in silent majesty to min- gle its waters with the blue ocean. dhe view embraces the city, the unrivalled bay and its small isles, with the larger one of Staten Island, the splendid Narrows, and even the Atlantic wave. It is one of the most healthy and delight- ful spots in the world—equal to the environs of Florence and the most salubrious and beautiful portions of Germany. It can be reached in an hour's ride, and is the finest location on this con- tinent for private residences. In a few years property there will command a fabulous price, and those who could now purchase pleasant coun- try seats at a moderate rate will hercafter regret that they lost the opportunity, and lost it for- ever. The scenery of the Hudson, particularly in early Fall, is not surpassed in beauty by any- thing on the banks of the Arno, or even the far- famed Rhine. Monat or tHe Propana War.—We do not be- lieve that the public will be quite satisfied with the complacent way in which the doctors have hushed up the Whitney case. We believe, taking the alarming statistics of city mortality along with the doctors’ own showing, that the medical profession is a public nuisance, and that between ignorant, gorsiping pbysicians, and slashing: butchering surgeons, patients have generally to rely upon the natural strength of their constitu- tions, not only to conquer disease, but to over- come the effect of the pretended remedies which are applied by their medical advisers) We should not make a wholesale charge against any profession without proof. That proof is before the public in the debates of the Academy of Medicine, which were yesterday spread before the readers of this journal, The Academy of Medicine purports to be the fountain head of medical and surgical learning, not only for this city, but for the whole country. Its weekly meetings should be devoted to interchanges of opinion upon professional subjects, calm discus- sions of new theories, and dispassionate analyses of cases. Tumbly acknowledging their igno- rance of the great mysteries of nature, the Fel- lows should come together to compare notes and mutually exchange the results of their expe- riences. That is what they ought todo. But, on the contrary, we find the fashionable physi- cian gossiping about from houge to house, cod- dling up the old ladies, sugaring the young ones, and bread pilling everybody. On the other had is the butcher, with his knives and lances, and tourniquets and catheters, and probangs and caustics, and all the dread artillery of sur- gery, experimenting on the man form with ag wuch sang froid as if it were a 02°CK Of wood, When both of these doctots get hold of the same patient, the result is certain death Then we have the Academy cebate, which lasts three hours on one oecacton, and four on another. It results in nothi.\g but personal equabbles and self-contradictions At one time a surgeon gives it as his opinion that the patient died from a complication of diseases, at another that his death resulted from mal-prac- tice—finally, after blackening the dead man’s character, the Academy proceeds to whiten its own by adopting a resolution declaring that there was no mal-treatment by anybody. They should have added that medical men were al- ways right, and that obstinate patients died out of sheer malice. We say again, in full view of the facts, that the profession has injured itself with the public, “and lost much of that blind confidence, which is one of the real causes of the fact. While every- thing else progresses, medical science is almost ata stand still. And we believe that when the public finds out that one half of the doctors are humbugs, and that nearly all the others are cut- ting away in the dark—when the profession is chorn of its pretence and brought down to its real merits—it will be better for the public health. We have used strong language, but not strong- er than the subject demands.. The medical pro- feesion stands to-day, a self convicted and stupendous humbug. CuevatieR Wenp’s Trovpixs—Chevalier Webb is always in distress—sometimes politi- cal, sometimes financial, sometimes religious, His last groan is a mixture of all the three ele- ments. Bennett, Buchanan and Bonaparte seem to annoy him amazingly. He can no more setile it into his mind than he can settle his paper bill, his butcher’s bill, or his numerous mort- gages. We will, however, endeavor to correct some of the Chevalier’s hallucinations, and try to purity the cloudy atmosphere of his .intellect, as far as it is capable of enlightenment. We have never speculated in stocks, either in Wall street or on the Bourse, either in the Uni- ted States or in Europe. We have never lost money in any of our operations. But we came very near losing $40,000 in unknowingly and unwittingly endeavoring by indirection to sus- tain the Chevalier Webb in all his undertakings for the last few years. We will explain:— During the last ten years we have paid im cash, on the nail, over two millions of dollars to Persse & Brooks, paper manufacturers, of thia city. In the revulsion of 1857 they failed. They had had about forty thousand dollars cash belonging to us in their hands, as a loan or depo- sit—being the earnings of the Heratp for the previous few months. At the time of their failure Chevalier Webb owed them for paper about forty thousand dollars, the payment of which he had postponed again and again, while spending his money in foolish extravagance, in- stead of regularly paying his paper merchants by the week, in cash,as we have done. The money advanced by us to Persse & Brooks be- came, without our knowledge, the means of let- ting Webb have the use of forty thousand dol- lars for a long time. His inability to pay this money was the principal cause of their failure; for if they had had that amount in their hands they would have got over the financial crisis safely, and come out with a fortune of one han- dred thousand dollars each when the times grew better. Fortunately for us, however, by an um- derstanding with the creditors, we outdid Nick Biddle’s financial genius and re-imbursed our- selves since that period for the advances we had made, by deducting so much from the weekly bill of cash payments. And now we are square, while Webb and his establishment are loaded with debt and delinquency to the Harpers, to Moses H. Grinnell, and to Persse & Brooks— the latter of whofm have obtained a second mortgage on his little property in Tarrytown, for $21,500, according to their own circular statement made to their creditors. ‘Thus it appears that the show and expense and extravagance, and fine dinners at Washington, and the junkettings with Lords Clarendon and Palmerston in England, have been sustained, un- known to us, through the intervention of the un- paid paper account of Persse & Brooks, and the savings of the Hrratp establishment. Chevalier Webb, had he one spark of chivalry or common gratitude, would thank us for saving him from utter ruin, instead of listening to ridiculous stories of our operations on the Bourse—opera- tions which never did and never*can take place. Will the Chevalier be a gentleman for once, and state these facts in the columns of the jour- nal which we have supported so many years, indi- rectly, through the paper account of Persse & Brooks? ‘4 Corossat. Stvrrmprry.—The New Jersey Legis- lature has again formally declined to ne- gotiate with the authorities of New York for the purchase of Sandy Hook, which is the most available site for a Quarantine station in our harbor. The argument used by some of the sapient legislators of New Jersey is, that we desire to rid ourselves of a nuisance by fastening it on them. This is utterly absurd. Sandy Hook isa desert which can never be popa- lated, and the people of New Jersey are as deep- ly concerned in the location of the Quarantine in such a spot as we are. Their shores are washed by our bay, and their commercial inte- rests are intermingled with ours. And yet, one might think from their legislative action that we were five hundred miles away from them. The stupidity of the rural legislators of our sister State passes comprehension. The re Rasen Fen, 4.—The United States vs. Carmina |. —OfMeer Dilks identified the nine half eagles ($45) which he re ceived from Mra. Reilly. Mr. Birdsall, of the Assay Office, was called as an ex- ert, and prosounoed the pleoss as imporfoct: that the coina had been gawed through the edges, and that base metal had been introduced, aod that the edges had beem re milled to cover up the defect. Officer Dilke was recalled, and detailed the circrm- stances of his foliowing the prisoner aod watching her from store to store; he arrested ber, and found on ber porron $47 in good money; he searched her house, bus — bad nine; tor feiting, y hor implements for coun Mrs. Hewitt, the baker's wife, was called, and oar- roborated the testimony of Katherine Cleney, and iden tided the five dollar coin which she had changed for her two months ago. Adjourned to ten o'clock on Saturday. Theatrical and Other A: ments. B Maren ‘TaRaTRR.—* roe and Petrachio” an@ zeppa’’ are announced afternoon, and the latter and two other good pieces for the night. . bape hres sepine tana trouge ap- pears ve most agreeably sui somewhat Udious frequenters wn thia Louse. Bei Bowery Tnratne.—Tbo Misses Westorn are to delineate characters in the play of the “Wand ? bar leeque opera of “ Jenny Lind” and drama called “'Yenkem Jack.’ At Benton's and Wautack’s they adhere jong: standing announcements, i 1:4 Lavra Kexxk’s.—Thero is to be a ara joie here: in honor af the comedy of ‘ Oar Anpecions Cowie” The affair will close with a grand pictorin) display. Covorkd Orena.-The managers of tho excellent Exbto- eum, Woo.t's, Bryante’ and Sniffia’@ ‘® Pairs in the arrangement of their seem to have takea Ville for to-day,