The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BESNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. | A im advance, 3! der wish of the ees DAILY HERALD, Vu an geeey wr rtaf Great include pros VB ath to er copy or $1 50 per an Mont nevuin. Y CORRESPONDENCE, containing tn portant om any quarter of Ure world; 4 use: be BF VCH Foreicy Cownvaronperrs ane RQUESTED TO SKAL ALL LECTERS AND PACK EMENTS renewed every day; advertisements in- Weexiy Heeain, Fawtuy fivwaro, cud tx the vropean Editions. aiken of anonymous correspondence. We do not communications. Volume XXEV..........0:.0 00+ On eeeeeeeeee No. 49 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Afternoon—S1acz Even SusaN— VALENTINE AND ORSON. cek—PavL Puy—Famiry Jans. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broudway.— Afternoon and Evening— Ciucos PERFORMANCES —TRaINED Honses, MULES, 40. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Nick or tue Woons— Neu, THe Repge—Two Boszawos, BURTON'S NEW THRA’ B, Brosdway—Oon Fewaus Amenican Cousin—Kixno Ganpeven. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tur Verexay; on, FRANCE AND ALGERIA. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, No, 624 Broadway.—Ovz Amesican Coosin—Cons0Gal Lesson. KARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- noon and Evening~NeGao MinstReisy—Cuniosities, &c, WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 663 Broadway— muioriay Songs, Dances, 40. —Mysric Sreu.. CHANTCS’ HAL, 427 Broad- 3—WIDE AWakg. PRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, M svay—NeoRo Songs aNp Bun ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Pror, Mrt- (cues LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY AND THE BIDLR. New York, Saturday, February 19, 1859, _ SHEEP, Revival of Business—A Triple Sheet Herald. In consequence of the vast increase of our ad- vertising patronage we are compelled again, after an interval of a year and a half, dating from the last revulsion, to recommence the publication of a triple sheet Henaup, in order to find room for the ‘enormous accession of business and news which has been crowding in upon us for the last few weeks. This revival of business, after so severe a commercial ordeal, has begun early in the present season. We are hardly past mid-winter, and yet the spring business is recommencing with an activity and momentum greater than we “have known it to do for many years. Our advertise- ney went by matt anil he at the Postage stampa nA received as auiscription | ats per copy, $1 per annum y Suturday).at wiecents per fay te Evening—Tux Aves: | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1859.-TRIPLE SHEET. was particularly enthusiastic for the rule of the Pope and Catholicism, fulsome in its praise of the Emperor ofthe French and coarsely superstitious on the future of the United States. The writer now gives his name as G. Hugelmann, director of the Revue des Racis Latines. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, John | and James Glass, James Loftus and Patrick Hig- gins, indicted for the murder of Wilhelm Deck- erand Richard Owens in Elm street, were arraigned, and pleading not guilty, were remanded for trial. nit a4 af euch mantis of seen" | Moy will be tried at the next term of the Court FAMILY HERALD, every Wednesday, at sour cents per | Christian Kolb was convicted of grand larceny in | stealing $800 from Simeon Harris, and was sent to the State prison for four years and six months. He is said to be one of the most notorious keepers of a house of prostitution in New York, that for the last four years he has had influence in a certain large | establishment in Centre street, and that two of his sons are now serving a term of imprisonment at Sing Sing. Henry Snellback pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degree, and was sent to the | penitentiary for six months. Alfred Smith was ac- quitted of a charge of stealing $20 in gold from Henry Wall,aclerk in J, A. Marsland’s store in | Pearl street. Charles Hensell and Otto Berman’ Were also acquitted of a charge of assault and bat- tery "preferred by a man named McMahon. Cotton was firmer yesterday, with sales of 2,600 bales, about 1,500 of which were in transitu. We now quote middling uplands firm at 113{c. Flour was firm, espe- cially for the upper grades, with a good demand from the home trade, while common brands were unchanged. Southern flour continued firm and in good demand, with Some purchases for export. Wheat was firmly held, while sales were moderate at full prices. Corm was heavy, aud sales limited at quotations given in anothar place. Pork opened dull, but regained strength towards the close, with fair gales on the spotand for future delivery at $18 @ $18 1235 for new mess, and at $17 273g for old; $13 25 a $13 8734 for prime, and at $13 60 fer April do- livery. Beef and lard were firm and in go demand. Sugars were steady, with sales of between 600 and 700 bhds. New Orleans and Cuba at rates given iu another column. Coffee was steady, with sales of about 1,750 bags Jamaica and some lots of Laguayra at rates given clse- where. Freights were steady, while engagemorits were moderdte and rates unchanged, ‘The State of Affairs in Europe—Is it a Gene- ral War or a General Revolution that ts Coming? We have received our mails by the steamship America to the 29th, and one week’s later ad- | vices from Europe by the telegraph from St. Jobns. The aspect of affairs there shows mnt only that a general war on the Continent is im- minent, but froma wide generalization of the state of popular and political fermentation, it would seem as though’the last days of the Eu- ropean dynasties are approaching. The present signs are more immediately those of international war, but the very causes that threaten to produce this are.of far deeper origin than simple international quarrels. Ostensibly the motive is the necessity of reform, in a liberal sense, in Italy; but it isnot in Italy aloe that the reform question is agitated. The British ments and circulation are both equally stimulated | Parliament, which has just met, must discuss, in by this new movement in trade. We shall proba- | the face of all Europe, the reform measures bly have to issue a similar sheet to that of to-day | Which are to be presented by Bright and others. twice a week during the ensuing few months. | France burns through every vein and artery for Nothing can stop the progress of New,York. This vast metropolis is one of these days destined to become the centre of the commercial world. ‘The News. The President sent to the Senate yesterday, one of the most important special messages ever com- municated to Congress. It calls upon Congress to confer upon him power to use the army and navy to protect our citizens and their property on the Isthmus transit routes. The message is given in full in our columns this morning. The message was . debated, but no action taken in reference to it. Inthe House the Army Appropriation bill was discussed in Committee of the Whole. Anamendment to strike out the appropriation for brevet pay was rejected by a vote of two to one, thus putting an effectual check to the effort of the Senate to deprive the veteran General Scott of the trifling sum of money to which he is entitled. We have important news from South America, dated at Montevideo on the 20th and at Buenos Ayres on the 30th of December. The frigate Sa- Dine, flag ship of the Paraguay fleet, with the steamers Harriet, Lane, Water Witch, Fulton and storeship Supply, arrived in the river Plata on the 20th of that month. Commissioner Bowlin was preparing to go up to Asuncion in the Fulton. Ii it, while Louis Napoleon lives in constant appre- hension of assassination by an Italian hand on one side, and on the other the necessity of re- moving all‘anxiety at home in regard to indus- trial prosperity, and giving play to the aspira- tions of French liberalism beyond the bor- ders of the Empire. Italy is confessed on all sides, except by Austria, to be a perfect pest house of corruption and oppression which must be purified. The Prussian Parliament is in session, with such an immense liberal majority in the popular branch of it that the Prince Re- gent has become alarmed and receded from the liberal policy he had initiated; the German principalities are filled with political unitarians longing for German unity; Austria, threatened on te ma- ~¢ hor Ttalian possessions, finds Gall? cia and Hungary ina state of popuiar Terme that requires an increase of eighty thousand men to her forces there ; and in Russia the question of the emancipation of the serfs has given rise to the idea of a convocation of the States General of the Empire, which must eventually fructify. Everywhere the great reform movement under- lies the present agitation of Europe, and the ¢ | Press of every country on its western shore, keeping a guarded silence on the requirements prevented, hostilities would ensue; but the general impression was that Lopez would arrange all diffe- | Of reform at, home, universally admit its neces- rences with him amicably. The report, received by | sity in some of the other countries, while all con. the Prince Albert, that the Brazilian authorities had | cur in denouncing the present condition of Italy offered to mediate between the United States and | as one which is repugnant to civilization and Paraguay, and that the offer had been accepted, is | humanity. alluded to in our special despatch from Washing- On the surface of this great popular agitation ton. Neither the commander of our squadron nor | ti the signs of international war, pressed into — propre A ;; bed Snare rte notice by some of the rulers in order to lead the digg. Par Mat wares Ast bch ic tabi public mind from dwelling on home evils, First whatever. Buenos Ayres reports state that the . agricultural and commercial prospects of the coun- | “008 these is Louis Napoleon, secking to found try were very good. The French officers in Rio | #2 absolute dynasty, and to be the arbiter of Janeiro had had some difficulty with the Brazilian | Europe, by flattering and cheating its demo- authorities on a trifling subject, but their general | cratic elements. But there are other dynasties course there lately was not pleasant. which see that their only hope of safety lies in We have news from the French West Indies | being able to arouse the feelings of national dated at Martinique and Guadaloupe on the 23th of | pride and international hatreds to such a pitch December. General complaints were made of the | 95 to induce them to forget the home evils under want of hands for the work on the plantations. On which each nation labors. This has multiplied the recommendation of the Council General of he indicati f in E ‘ Martinique, two agricultural colonies had been | the indications of war in Europe greatly during formed—one for young prisoners who had been the fortnight we have under review. Parliament condemned to correctional imprisonment, and the has opened in England, and the Queen’s speech other for those who had been tried and acquitted | is ominously silent on the Italian question; the on the ground of having acted without discern- | money centres everywhere age nervously sensi- ment, but who had not been given up to their rela- } tive, and fluctuations of all the public funds are tiver. In the southern communes of the island it extreme; military preparations of all kinds are was oxpected that the crops would be late, in con- } continued with great activity in England, sequence of the drought which prevailed at the France, Sardinia and Austria; acamp is being end of the autumn. One of those communes—Le formed at Toulon, and baking establishments are Francois—was on the 24th of December the scene of a violent fire, which broke out in the building of | Kept at work night and day; the French and a plantation called La Pointe, and before it could | Russian squadrons in the Mediterranean are to be got under destroyed property to the value of | be largely increased; Victor Emmanuel has 150,000 francs. called upon the great Powers to save Piedmont ‘The Young Men’s Democratic Union Club held a | from the Austrian pressure which is warring in- special meeting at the Mercer House last evening, | directly with Sardinian interests and her consti- and appointed a committe of three, composed of tutional independence; Austria has increased Messrs. White, Lebineau and Herrick, to wait | her garrisons in the towns of Italy to an over- upon Lord Napier and Smith O’Brien—the later is . expected to arrive in the steamer on Monday—to | POWerns Vogel det ‘i aad tender to them an invitation to the Grand Demo. | “Sbty thousand men on the banks of the Ticino, cratic Union ball on the 22d instant. A committee | i front of the Sardinian troops, and doggedly resists all reform in Italy; the Russian press, lately so peaceful in its prognostications, now ‘was also appointed to unite with a sub-committee of the Democratic General Committee to make preparations for a mass meeting respecting the | breathes of ,war on every “side, and Cuba question. that of England holds a markedly signifi The Whig Central Committee held an adjourned | cant tone towards “the arbitrary and ‘meeting last night, and transacted considerable rou- | dictatorial conduct of France,” and the tine business, Letters were read from eminent ‘whigs throughout the Union expressing confidence In the success of the party in the coming Presi dential contest. A preamble and resolutions were passed expressing the same sentiment. A select committee was appointed to extend the courte wies of the central body to such eminent whigs 5 are now in the city, and also to others who are expected to arrive during the present month. 3. T. Jones, the alleged Colchester Bank default* «*, was yesterday conveyed back to Connecticut on + requisition of the Governor of the State, which 4° Sheriff preferred to recognise rather than the ‘wortant issued by the Recorder on a charge ot 1 ‘se pretences, ‘fhe anonymous author of the brochure recently wicked pertinacity of Austrian protection in Italy “of things notoriously full of corrup tion and oppression.” In connection with these things it is worth while to remember how ex- actly Louis Napoleon has followed the traditions of the first Empire, and that Italy was the scene of the first Napoleon’s glories, and Austria the victim. Such is the present state of affairs in Europe and the condition of things which surround its egotistical dynasties, having three millions of brutal soldiers under pay, who must have work, spoil and promotion abroad to prevent them from fraternising with the oppressed people at home. fddressed to his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon iif. | They indicate that a mighty change is coming; Hpon the French influence in America, has con- | but whether that change be a general war or a Pluded to give his name to the world. The brochure general revolution is the question. The year of ‘wonders, 1848, was preceded by a reform dis" , cussion in England, and was hastened by the parading of Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Ca- nino, through the towns of italy in his uniform | 48.an officer of the National Guard of France, | haranguing the people in their cafés and piazzas. | Reform in England is again under discussion, | and Bonapartist aims are again mixed up with Ttalian agitation. But there is one great fact that shows where all this popular ferment tends, | whatever may be the immediate form which it takes, The European press already complains of the evil influence exercised by the present disputes upon the increasing necessities of inter- national commerce. People are beginning to comprehend the great fact that the selfish inte- rests and dynastic ambitions of the governing | families of Europe are detrimental to the natural |- and commercial developement of national and international interests. Political economy is rapidly and steadily mining the foundations of thrones built upon family claims to rule, and they must all, sooner or later, fall. When all begin to talk of the necessity of their neighbor’s reform, it is a certain evidence that change at home is coming. This change may begin with a war, but it will end with a revolution, that will sweep away every throne in Europe. Important MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT ON Prorection To AMERICAN InTERESTs.—The Pre- sident sent to Congress yesterday a special mes- sage on one of the most important subjects em- braced in our foreign policy, and the one where our government is weaker than that of all other civilized nations, and which constantly tends to embroil our relations with some of the anarchi- cal Powers south of-us. F, On no subject is the American Executive so weak as on that of protection to the lives, pro- perty and rights of our citizens abroad. It has been the opprobrium of our country and our citizens ever since we have been a nation; it has crowded the archives of the State Department with the unredressed claims of our citizens against foreign governments, which the Exccu- tive Department has no power and Congress no time to press to a settlement; and this fact, well known to the revolutionary leaders of Mexico and Spanish-America, has given to them a sense of impunity whenever it suited their purposes to lay hands upon American citizens or American property. Mr. Buchanan has nobly met the emergency of the case, and the outcry that will be raised against his patriotic motives in calling the at- tention of Congress to this subject, and asking them to confer upon him the necessary power in the premises—a power which is possessed by all other civilized governments. It now rests upon Congress, and upon each member of Congress, to act in the matter and to remove so great a source of anxiety and trouble as is this weakness of the American Executive, to all of our citizens whose interests occasionally lie in the countries in question, or who are compelled in their tran- sit between our Atlantic and Pacific States to cross the various Isthmus routes. The bill in- troduced by Mr. Mason at the close of last ses- sion, and which he has several times endeavored to call up during the present one, covers the re- quisite points, and the whole country will confi- dently expect that Congress will pass it before adjourning. Let us have protection to American interests abroad. Eyxousu InrerveNTION IN Mexico.—The Queen’s speech on the opening of Parliament in- forms us that the recent intervention of the British fleet in Mexican affairs was consequent upon orders sent from England. and not on any understanding between the Centrat yuverumeny and the British ‘and French Ministers. The Queen says that her forbearance has been car- ried “to the utmost limit in regard to the wrongs and indignities to which British residents have been subjected at the hands of the two contend- ing parties.” If this isso, we may expect that the recent demonstration at Vera Cruz by the Anglo-French squadron will be looked upon as a recogtition by England of the government of President Juarez, and result in its final triumph in Mexico. General Miramon is the one who has committed the most numerous and greatest indignities on the British residents in Mexico; and as Juarez has been brought to account for the robberies of Garza, or some little irregu- larities in the Vera Cruz Custom House, Mira- mon should be made to repair the outrageous in- dignities committed by him on British subjects at San Luis Potosi and other places, and those of his predecessor, Zuloaga, in the city of Mexico. We are curious to see the result of England’s policy in Mexico. Does it recogniee the government of Miramon? Tue WHeets or THe Crry Government Be- Gry to Move.—Now that the Common Council has adopted, and the Mayor has affirmed, the tax levy for 1859, the wheels of our municipal go- vernment, 60 long obatructed, can begin to move alittle. The Comptroller is’ paying arrearages of salaries and other expenses incurred last year. The Street Commissioner, also, will immediately commence some work—that is to say, whenever there is an unexpended balance of the appropria- tions remaining. Among these the work on the wharves and piers, which are in a miserable condition, will be at once proceeded with. Work to be paid for out of the trust accounts, likewise, of which there remain about # million dollars wnexpended, can be undertaken; but until the Legislature passes the tax levy no steps will be taken to perform the necessary work in the Fire Department, which is very much needed, nor many other jobs required to put the city in good condition. We hope, therefore, that the Legislature will lose no time in taking action in this matter. The affairs of the city have been too long at a dead lock already. Army Pay Brri—A Suaspy Busryess Kincep Orr.—The bill which has passed the Senate rela- tive to the pay of the army, and which we pub- lished yesterday, was introduced by Mr. Jefferson Davis. The known hostility which he feels to General Scott, to General Wool and to General Twiggs, should have caused the Senate to give his bill a more ‘attentive examination before adopting his views and explanations, We are glad to see that the project was effectually killed in the House yesterday, by the decisive vote of 80 to 42. ——_—___ Wriam Sse O'Brrex.—By the telegraph we learn that Mr. Smith O’Brien is on his way to this port in the steamship Prince Albert, from Galway, which touched at St. Johns on Thurs- day. He is the last of the Irish agitators and revolutionists who have come to this country, and if he follow the course of those who pre- ceded him that will be the last of Smith O’Brien. We trust that his good sense will prevent his at- cepting ovations, addresses or public dinners, or permitting himself to be made a tool of, either by Irish or American politicians, ‘Three Parties for the Next Piesidency=The | election in'v Congres, and strong enoug there Third Party and the Balance of Power, Fromall the late and present movements of the different party leaders and party managers of the country, it is manifest that we shall have three national party conventions in 1860, three Presidential tickets, three great parties, a doubt- ful contest before the people, and, most pro- bably, an election by the House of Representa- tives. A third party is no new thing in a Pre- sidential election; but the intervention of a new practical, conservative party between the two great existing sectionalized parties of the day will be a novelty which will render the cam- paign exceedingly interesting, and the issue ex- ceedingly doubtful. Let us bring up the record and see where we stand. From the first decisive contest of Gen. Jack- son with John Quincy Adams in 1828, there were but two parties in the country upon federal politics worth noticing down to the cam- paign of 1844, when the separate anti-slavery movement of the North, in carrying off the op- position balance of power in this State to Birney, defeated Henry Clay and elected Mr. Polk, the democratic candidate. From this staggering blow in the back the whig party never recovered. To be sure, it carried the elec- tion of 1848; but then its candidate, Gen. Taylor, though “a whig, was not an ultra-whig;’ and besides, that anti-slavery Northern balance of power in New York, which, in 1844, had given the Presidency to the democracy, took it away from them in 1848, by giving this State to Gen. Taylor. Martin Van Buren, smarting under what he considered his shabby treatment by the Baltimore Demo- cratic Convention, both in ’44 and 48, resolved to be revenged; and, upon his Buffalo anti- slavery platform, as a third party candidate, he was revenged in the decisive defeat of General Cass. And from that ugly blow in the back, the national democratic party has been going upon crutches down to this day. And here we come to the most remarkable turning point in the history of our political parties. Henry Clay, the great founder, leader and embodiment of the whig party, was the author of the compromise measures upon the slavery question of 1850. But what follows? Upon these peace measures of Henry Clay the democratic ticke! of 1852 was elected almost by general acclamation, and that staunch old con- servative whig and distinguished soldier, General Scott, on the same platform, came off with the electoral vote of only four States—two North and two South. But why? Because, first, the people were content with the peace measures of Mr. Clay, and feared that in the election of General Scott a certain W. H. Seward would be invested with the power to re-open the slavery agitation; and, secondly, because the Webster men and the Fillmore men were disappointed and soured, and went over to the enemy, or stood aloof and permitted the election to go by default. Thus the democratic party in 1852, in steal- ing the thunder of Henry Clay, destroyed the party of which he was the founder, leader and embodiment. From the ruins of this party two new parties speedily arose—the secret, sectarian, anti-Popery Native American jack-o’-lantern party, and the sectional anti- slavery republican party. The former organiza- tion at first threatened to carry everything before it, and created such a tremendous sensation from its invisible machinery, its wonderful discipline and astonishing power, that a host of the broken down and over ambitious politicians of the coun- try, whig and democratic, rushed into its secret Ind ges «2 sonnojls, and tank such oaths as would cause the Italian carbonari to shrink ot +v seud- ing of them. In 1854, however, poor Pierce, and the sectional mischief makers of the democratic camp affiliated with him in that disastrous experiment, the Kansas-Nebraska bill, stirred up an anti-slavery revolt, which speedily built up the republican as the overshadowing party ot the North. In 1855 Henry A. Wise gave the death blow to Know Nothingism in his memorable Virginia campaign. From that day this nativistic and sectarian party rapidly declined, and in 1856, upon the slavery issue, half its remaining strength holted from its national convention and its ticket of Fillmore and Donelson. Thus crippled it went into the campaign fer the Presidency, and thus it came out of the battle with the soli- tary electoral vote of Maryland. Thousands of good whigs, disgusted with the mummeries of this dark lantern party, went over to the de- mocracy, and thousands of others went over to the republicans, who, upon-anything like com- mon sense and conservative principles, would have chosen the third party in preference to either the too strongly tinctured pro-slavery democratic or anti-slavery republican camp. + But experience teaches wisdom, and the sur- viving managers of the impoteat Know Nothing movement have learned from dear experience the rocks and shoals upon which that crazy craft was foundered. It is evident, too, that they intend to profit from the knowledge thus acquired. In this they have every encouragement from the factious discords and disintegrations of the de- mocratie and republican parties. The one has become so intensely pro-slavery, and the other £0 intensely anti-slavery in its character, that there is no longer a safe place in either camp for the calm and considerate lover of the Union. There is thus before us a splendid margin for a new third party—not like that paltry balance of power party of Birney in 1844, nor like that factious Van Buren movement of ’48, nor yet like that bigotted, riotous and impotent Know Nothing experiment of *56—but for a new con- stitutional or Union party, sinking the slavery question, and sinking Know Nothingism, old line whiggery and old line rubbish af all sorts, in the living, practical issues of the day. Such a party, so organized, and upon some such ticket as Scott and Everett, or Scott and Crittenden or John Bell, holding the beautiful and inviting field that is offered between the pro- slavery democracy and the no-slavery republi- cans, may in 1860 elect their ticket by the peo- ple, and will unquestionably be able to carry the elegtion into Congress. Once there, the chances of a compromise will be decidedly in favor of this third or constitutional party, for it will oc- cupy that accessible and convenient half-way ground between the two extremes which will give it the power of gn arbitrator. With these views, and considering the disman- tled and ricketty condition of both the republi- can and the democratic parties, the abolition herestes of Seward, the secession heresies of the Southern managers of the democracy, and the abounding materials afloat for a new constitu- tional party, we can come to no other conclusion than this—that there will be three parties in the field in 1860, that the third party will perhaps be as strong 16 one or either of the others, that it will certainly be rerong enough to carry the to command the election. Tm behalf of this third party, Mr, Botts, the first and last of ‘he old whig barons of Vir zinia, is 10 open the ball in ‘his ci'y on the twenty- second instant, and from all that we hear, an ex- tensive organization will rapidly follow this first gun of the campaign. Very good. The time is auspicious, the field {s open, and ‘he coast is clear. Sewarp SKULKING oN THE Cuba QuastI0n.— In the debate on the Cuba question in the Senate, on Thursday, Mr. Polk, of Missouri, en- dcavored to get Mr. Seward to define his position in regard to the acquisition of Cuba, When Seward quibbled on the subject Mr. Polk asked hini to say, categorically, whether he was in fa- vor of its future acquisition. Seward evaded the point by asserting that the question was now an abstraction, and that he would answer when the juncture shall come that will make it a prac- tical question. Does Mr. Seward think the question of the acquisition of Cuba a greater ab- siraction than the abolition issue he wishes to force upon an unwilling country? The people will decide whether the Cuba question is an ab- straction or not, and they will not be apt to forget that Seward skulked when the question of {ts acquisition was presented in a practical way. Another curious point was presented in the same debate. Mr. Chandler, of Michigan, speaking in opposition to the thirty million bill, took occasion to abuse the Cubans roundly, and to assert that “from the Captain General, the Judge on the bench, the priest in the pulpit, to the lowest Cuban, bribery is universal.” Mr. Chandler evidently was not aware that in the army, navy, church, judiciary and civil adminis- tration of Cuba there is not a Cuban in responsi- ble position, and very few in subordinate ones. Unwittingly, no doubt, he was abusing his own friendg—the Spanish colonial government. A Revorvrionary Cram Wuicu Oveur to BE Parw—When we find the retrenchers of this Congress resor'ing to such mean ex-' pediens of economy as the attempted sus- pension of the paltry brevet pay of ' General Scot', i: is, perhaps, useless to appeal to them in behalf of a deserving and long suffering Revolutionary claimant. Yet we will venture a word or wo in behalf of the claim of Mr. Haym N. Salomon,the legal representative of that Revolu ionary Haym Salomon, banker, of Philatelphia, who furnished ‘housands upon thousands of hard cash to aid in the war of in- dependence, and for which no return has been mage. The applicant in the premises has pro- duced all the necessary facts, figures and vouch- ers of the justice of his claim. It cannot be de- nied; and it should have been settled fifty years ago. That it has not been settled during the last ten years may, perhaps, be due to the fact that Mr. Salomon is not a lobby man, and has not resor'ed to the appliances of the lobby to aid him. This fact, however, should be con- sidered to his advantage among the patriotic men of all parties in Congress; and we trust that, short as are the supplies of the treasury, they” are not too short to meet this old, unpaid, hard money Revolutionary debt. ‘Tue Invi Rusper Coytroversy.—The series of litigations which have arisen out of Charles Goodyear’s patents for the vulcanization of India rubber and the application of that material to so many articles of ornament and use, threatens to last as long as arag of, the patentee’s rights re- mains. The latest of these conflicts has recently been submitted for legal adjudication in the United Rtatan Otevute ere is this city, before Hon- Judge Ingersoll. It seems that Mr. Horace H. Day brought suitsin that court to restrain several firms, as defendants, from importing, manufacturing or selling clas'ic woven rubber goods, without having previously obtained from him a formal license or permission. Mr. Day based his suits for injunction against these venders on certain agreements made between him and Goodyear, the patentee. The motions for injunctions were atgued on the plaintiff’s side by Mesers. Curtis, of Boston, and Jenckes, of Rhode Island; and on {ychalf of the defendants by Mosers. Jas. T. Brady amd William Gifford, of this city. The Judge re- cently rendered an elaborate decision, which, to- gether with Mr. Curtis’ argument for the plain- tiff, we publish in full in the Heratp of to-day, The Judge denied the motions to enjoin the de- fendants from the sale or use of the goods in question. To this, however, an important excep- tion was made. Day, the Judge held, had the exclusive right to the manufacture and sale, and to grant licenses for the manufacture and sale, of what are termed “corrugated or shirred goods,” made according to Goodyear’s patent, dated March 9, 1844, as granted to Day by cer- tain agreements made in October, November and December, 1846. The exclusive right to all elastic goods, except these shirred or corru- gated goods, is vested in Mr. William Judson, Goodyear’s attorney and counsel, and in the Nashawannuck Company—the latter having alone the exclusive right to the making and vending of elastic rubber suspenders. This decigion affects a valuable and growing interest. Whilst submitting the decision on the one side, we allow the plaintiff an opportunity of presenting his case, by publishing the argu- ment of his counsel on the other. Tue Mysterrovs Cask or Mrs. Brannan.— We have had in this metropolis and its vicinity, from time to time, many mysterious cases of a dark and terrible character, pointing to deeds of blood and violence, the secret whereof has never been revealed; but one of the most alarming and extraordinary cases of all is that of Mrs. Captain Brannan, who disappeared in July last on Staten Island, and of whom trace or tidings have never been found. Some time ago the case of Mary Rogers, who disappeared in a similar way, and whose fate was never publicly known, excited a great sensation. The only solution to that mys- terious affair was that she had been carried off, violated and murdered. Later still came the Burdell murder, around which bloody busi- ness the veil of mystery is still wrapped as impenetrably as ever. The disappearance of Mrs. Brannan, however, is eurrounded with so many remarkable coinci- dences as to render it more startling and more incomprehensible than the others. Here is a lady, the wife of a captain and the daughter of a colonel of the army—an estimable wife and mother—against whom there existed no hostility on the part of any living being, and pos- sessing « character which precludes all suspicion of voluntary desertion of her family. In the broad light of a summer’s evening she is seen to enter the Staten Island ferry boat, which daily carries thousands of people, und which was then filled with passeagers; she is seen to leave the boat and enter a car- ringe at the landing at Staten Island, and i [ z s i E same carriage with her, but she does not appear to be acquainted with him. No trace of that indi- vidual, whoever he was, can be had; and, what is stranger still, no clue can be discovered to the driver who had charge of the carriage. Such are the facts elicited by the % Various rumors as to her voluntary departure from her home, and her appearance in this and that part of the country, have been sifted by her friends, with the assistance of two able lawyers and a strong detective force, and they are all , pronounced to be untrue. What conclusion remains? Alas! only one: that on the journey between the ferry and her home, short as it was, and undertaken in the broad daylight, she was cruelly outraged, mur- dered, and her remains concealed, to avoid detec- tion. We repeat, there is no other solution to the mystery, and it is a dark and fearful one. But what a commentary upon the moral con- dition of this city!—what a reproach to the police system under which it greans and suffers, and is daily exposed to the worst crimes of the most daring criminals in the community! Who can be surprised that midnight murder passes undiscovered and unavenged, when such a deed as this can be done in the open day and ina comparatively frequented locality? If the conclusion we have arrived at be cor- rect, there were, in all probability, two parties to the crime—the mysterious person who entered the hack after the unfortunate lady, and the man who drove them. Yet, not all the vigilance which the police are said to have exercised has been able to discover the identity of either of these persons. In all probability we shall hear no more of this extraordinary case. The fate of Mrs. Brannan will remain as deeply shrouded in mystery as that of Mary Rogers, or the mur- der of Dr. Burdell. Ocean Steam Navicatioy.—It will be seen, by the statement published elsewhere, that there are at the present time about nineteen of our first class ocean steamers lying idle ix our ports. This, taken in connection with the eommercial activity which distinguishes our people, proves that there must be sad mismanagement some- where. It is evident that as long as we continue to import and export largely there should be business for this class of vessels, and therefore when we find foreign steamers monopolizing the traffic to the exclusion of our own ships, it is'time that we should raise our voices against the in- fluences which produce such inconsistent results. There are two causes to which the blame of this unnatural state of things is to be attributed. The one is the narrow minded and selfish policy of Southern and Western Congressmen, who can see no advantage to the country in any measure which does not bear directly on their own inte- rests. It is useless to try and prove to those men that what benefits one section of the Union must react faverably on the condition of the other. They can see no further than their noses on any question of public policy which does not. take in as its main considerations their local views and objects. The fact is to be deplored, but it is not the less a fact, and hence it is that we have to eignalize an anomaly which should not be suffered to exist for a moment in a coun- try where the general good is supposed to be the prevailing principle of legislation. The other cause is the shortaighted and suicidal policy of steamboat companies and shipowners them- selves, They view competition not in the light of commercial rivalry, which secks to divide fairly the profits of remunerative enterprises, but as a means of extorting from the fears of those engaged in them an illegitimate harvest. In other words, many of them start oppositions to established lines in the expectation of being bought out by the old companies, or of receiving an annual revenue from them for dropping pro- jects which they never seriously intended carry- ing out. This ruinous system, which originated first on our domestic water routes, has been ex- tended to the Central American, Atlantic and other great lines. It is now producing its fruits in the consignment to idleness and decay of some of the finest steamers ever constructed in our ports. The mischiefs to which this policy must give rise are incalculable. As steamers gradually su- pereede sailing vessels in the carrying trade, which they are fast doing, they will daily be- come more evident. The English, for instance, foreseeing the advantages to be derived from being prepared for the approaching changes in commercial navigation, are establishing steam lines in every direction for the purpose of mo- nopolizing freights. Congress, instead of en- couraging our shipowners to pursue a like policy, by aiding them with mail appropriations judiciously distributed, is limiting as far as pos- sible its patronage in this way. We have seen how in the matter of the Collins line an impor- tant national enterprise was allowed to go by the board because of the illiberality manifested téwards it. If this policy be pushed any further, we shall by-and-bye find ourselves left behind in the race of maritime competition. Then, when it is too late, our Southern and Western repre- sentatives will perhaps deplore the infatuation which prevented them recognizing in this branch of industry one of the most fruitful sources of the national wealth. Aupaxy Lxaistation ror New Yorx.—We have already observed that Mr. Opdyke—the in- evitable Mr. Opdyke—has introduced a bill ‘into the Assembly, creating the office of Solici- tor of the City Treasury, and making said Soli- citor an appointee of the Comptroller. Thus, by the introduction of bill ofter bill, at average intervals of four days, Mr. Opdyke attempts to concentrate all the power and patronage of this city, its revenues and its expenditures, in the hands of a single individual. Mr. Opdyke evidently went to Albany very full of béls— gorged to the throat with bills—and it #3 equally evident that there is a wire fastened t Mr. Op- dyke, and that at certain irregular intervals the wire is pulled and Mr. Opdyke inymediately “Jets” bill. He has let about’ four already ; and, judging from appearances, he has not dis- charged quite half of the origined number with which he was londed, Now, we beg you to suspend operations, good Mr. Opdyke. We don’t desire any moro Soli- citors of the City Treasury, We have so many alroady, and they arein uch a fair way of re- ceiving the full amownt of their solicitations, that we really think you are giving us too much of a good thing. Or if the wire mast continue to be pulled—if you must still be required to emit bille—do it all at once, and put us outof our EE ————