The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1859, Page 4

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NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 99 omy made a report in relation to the matter last even ing, recommending the Common Council to take immediate steps for the purpose of bringing the guilty parties to justice. Christian Foster, a youth, was convicted in the General Sessions yesterday of aa attempt to enter the store of Mr. Baldwin, 107 Bowery. He was sent to the House of Refuge. Daniel Harrington was jointly indicted for burglary in the third de- gree, having, on the Ist of February, broke into the dying factory of Richard Carson, 181 East Twenty-sixth street. They had prepared $3,000 worth of silk dresses and coats, but were disco- vered before they took them away. The jury failed toagree upona verdict, and the accused was re- manded. Thomas Gallagher, a confederate of Har- rington’s, pleaded guilty to grand larceny, and was sent tothe State prison for two years and two months. Mary Taylor was convicted of stealing a gold watch and chain, worth $80, the property o/ Herman Schaffer. She was remanded for sentence. Thos. Slater pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and was sent to the penitentiary for six months. The Grand Jury presented a large number of indict- ments, to which the prisoners on being arraigned pleaded not guilty, and were remanded for trial. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Cincvs PraroRMances— Trane ‘Mux, £0. BOWRRY THKATRE, Bowery.—Damox and Prtmiss— Masaxusito— Bron Bor, NEW THEATRE, Brosdway—A Dose or On SATONS ow Fanate sunnican Cousy—Duae Baie WALLACR’S THEATRE, Broadway—Tus Vereran ; oR, FRaNox aNp ALGRKIA. JRA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. 6% Broadway. —Ovr Pett Cousin—Iutostxations or Taz Lirg or Wasu- isorom <0n0M'S AMERICAN MUSBUM, Broadway.—After- gu 0) Grening= NEGRO MINWTRELSY—CURIOSTING, £0. WoOP'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 861 and 563 Broadw1)— rivovlas SONGS, DaNces, £0—Mvaio Srau. KRYANTS’ ¥YINSTRELS, MECHANICS’ HALL, 437 Broad- «ay -Neuko SonGs aNd Bumsesquaa—He Wouu pe An Acton i ‘New York, Tuesday, February 22, 2859. 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In Congress yesterday the Senate reconsidered the vote whereby the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was passed. After some discus- sion the amendment limiting the rate of exchange of foreign ministers to ten per cent was stricken out, and the bill passed. The Army Appropriation bill was read and referred to the Finance Commit- tee. The consideration of the bill providing for the acquisition of Cuba was then resumed. Mr. Mason offered a substitute, to the effect that Congress approve the policy of the message of the President respecting the ultimate necessity of acquiring Cuba; that the United States is prepared to receive the island whenever Spain will transfer it at a fair valuation; and that our government can never be neutral under any policy which would sever Cuba from Spain in favor of any foreign Power. Mr. Collamer delivered a speech in opposition to the measure. Mr. Mallory obtain- ed the floor, and the Senate adjourned. The House passed the Army Appropriation bill, after reducing the estimates $1,500,000. The total amount appropri ated for this branch of the public service is about $14,000,000. Leave to report a bill repealing the fishing bounties was refused. A motion to suspend the rules in order to consider a bill providing for a loan of twenty-one million dollars, and a revision of the tariff, was negatived by a vote of 122 to 91— two-thirds not voting for the proposition. This re- sult was brought about by the administration mem- bers, aided by four republicans and two Americans. The Post Office Appropriation bill was then discussed in committee. An amendment authoriz- ing the Butterfield Company to select their route for conveying the overland mail to the Pacific was adopted, as was also an amendment that con- tracts for blanks and wrappers be given to the low- est bidder. An ndment providing that adver- tisements of routes in each State and Territory shall be published in two newspapers only having the largest nlation was also adopted. The even- ing session was occupied in a discussion upon mis- cellaneous topics. The latest accounts from the steamship Black Warrior, ashore on Rockaway bar,state that she was rapidly becoming embedded inthe sand, and that there was little hope of her being got off. The epecie, passengers’ baggage and crew were brought up to the city yesterday. Lighters were at work getting out the cargo, Capt. Phillips, of the bark Goldfinch, at Boston from the Coast of Africa, reports the sloop-of-war Dale to have sailed from Loango November 25, to cruise off the coast. The United States mail steamer Star of the West sailed yesterday afternoon with the mails for California and the Pacific coast and four hundred passengers, among whom were Captain Simpson, U.8. A., recently appointed Assistant Commissary General to the Pacific Department, and Mr. St. John, United States Consul at Greytown, Nicaragua. The proceedings of the Board of Aldermen last evening, of which a full report is given in to-day’s Hena.p, are important in some respects. A com- munication was received from the Street Commis- sioner stating that last month, under a decision of Mr. Richard Mott, referee, a judgment was filed in favor of John Pettigrew for $26,351, the greater part of which sum was for work on Sixty-third street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Mr. Pet- tigrew, it is furthermore stated, bid for that work, embraced with other items, the price of twenty- two cents per cubic yard for earth filling, and the contract was made with him on those terms, he being the lowest bidder. The word “twenty” was bubsequently erased from the contract, and “forty” substituted therefor, making his price forty-two in- stead of twenty-two cents per cubic yard. The substituted price of forty-ave cents is that named in the complaint on whieh Mi. Pettigrew’s judg- ment Was based, and was also the price used in cal culating the amount of the judgment awarded by Mr. Mott. Taking this price as a basis of the calca lation, there were nine lower bidders than Mr. Pet- tigrew. At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes terday & report was adopted in favor of appointing another assistant in the District Attorney's office, at $2,500 per annum; also a clerk at $1,000, and a messenger at $600. It was resolved to send a pro test to Albany against the passage of the bill be- fore the Legislature for the relief of tax and ag. sessment payers, on the ground that it would pre- vent the speedy collection of assessments and taxes. A number of unimportant papers were acted on, and the Board adjourned till Monday. The Common Council of Hudson City have been for some time past engaged in an investigation rela- tive to certain improvement certificates, one of which, amounting to $584, had been satisfied, and afterwards, it is alleged, had been abstracted. forged and made use of. The Finance Committee Jacob H. Mott, the alleged Union Bank defaulter, who was indicted for forgery in April last, was brought from Eldridge street jail, and, on motion of his counsel, was admitted to bail in tha sum of $5,000. The bail was originally fixed by the Re- corder at $10,000, but by consent of the District Attorney the amount was reduced. Three men, named Thompson, Fox and: Moore, will be plased on trial this morning for the murder of Daniei Stackpole, at Harlem. The cotton market yesterday was quiet, and waiting later foreign news. Sales were chiefly confined to about 500 bales in transitu, which, allowing for freight and ex- change, was equal to about llc. for middling at Mobile. Quotations for the article on the spot were unchanged. Flour was in rather better demand, and the bigher and extra grades firmer, while the sales were fair. Southern brands were in good demand, both from the domestic trade and for export to the West Indies, while prices closed with firmness. Wheat was in fair demand, and prices steady at rates given in another place. Corn was heavy, while sales were moderate and at easier rates for new. Pork exhibited more steadiness, with fair cales, at rates given in another column. Beef and lard were in good request, and prices steady. Sugars were quiet, and gales confined to about 300 hogsheads, some tierces and barrels and 80 boxes white Hayana at rates given in another column. Coffee was quiet. Freight engagements were moderate, but at steady rates. Complication of Our Foreign Relations— Threatening Attitude of Europe Towards the United States—Duty of Congress. In the early days of the present Anglo-French alliance, Lord Clarendon, then British Minister for Foreign Affairs, made, on the floor of the House of Lords, the following significant an- nouncement:—* I will further add that the union between the two governments has not been con- fined to the Eastern question. The happy accord and good understanding between France and England have been extended beyond the Eastern policy to the policy affecting all parts of the world; and Iam heartily rejoiced to say that there is no portion of the two hemispheres with regard to which the policy of the two countries, however heretofore antagonistic, is not now in entire harmony.” At the time this celebrated declaration was made it caused great excitement and animosity in this country against England, and at once curdled the sympathies with the Allied Powers in their Eastern conflict which had already sprang up in the American mind. From that day all our American feeling was with Rus- sia in her quarrel with the Western Powers. Mr. Buchanan was at that time our Minister in London, and, perceiving the fall meaning of the threat, he at once demanded of Lord Clarendon an explicit explanation of his extraordinary language. In the face of the difficulties and doubts of the Eastern war, of her growing trou- bles in China, and also those in India—which then began to be perceived by the British gov- ernment, though at that time they were attri- buted to Russian intrigues and not to the true cause of its own misgovernment—the British Ministry did not dare to assume the full meaning which the language bore, and his lordship made a lame explanation, which few or none in this country have ever deemed sincere. But whether it were so or not, the policy indicated was not acted upen openly. Lord Clarendon went out of office, the China war succeeded that in the East, the formidable rebellion of India broke out, and England had her hands too full to permit her to exhibit a policy avowedly hostile to the interests of this country. It is true that, during a short lull in her Eastern troubles, Pal- merston sent out a portion of the Mosquito fleet to vex our shipping and re-open the old sore of the right of search at our very doors. But his sudden descent from power brought in the new cabinet of Lord Derby, which was then strug- gling to establish itself on the Ministerial benches, and when the sore which Palmerston had prepared broke out, it was not ready to ac- cept the issue. So Lord Malmesbury backed down on the principle, taking care, however, to leave a corrollory dispute on which he could re- open the conflict whenever it suited the position and interests of the Anglo-French alliance, The close of the last year saw the end of the China war, the nearly complete triumph of British arms in India, and a state of friendly re- lations with Russia that seemed to promise a continued peace in Europe. England's hands were clear, and no doubt Lord Derby thought the time opportune to consent to practical action on the allied policy which had been long before adopted, and which Lord Clarendon had s0 in- considerately confessed. The policy of Europe and Asia had been settled ina manner dictated by the Anglo-French alliance, and America’s turn had now come. It has all along been a part of Louis Napoleon’s policy to keep England from coming toa friendly understanding with the United States, for such a condition of things made the alliance with him more secure and lasting. His journals have constantly ridiculed the bonds between the two countries as “nothing but cotton ties,” and have harped on the old abolition of slavery string, even while their master was re-opening the African slave trade in its worst form for the French colonies. ‘What exact course of action Lord Derby has resolved upon pursuing in conjunction with Louis Napoleon concerning American politics is not yet fully evident. But there is abundant reason to suppose that it is one hostile to the national progress of our Union. It is well known that Lord Napier was removed from Washington be- cause, being on the spot and having his eyes open as to the popular sympathies and practical tendencies of the American people, he did not accord with the determination which had been adopted, and so he frankly told his government. In Central America there is at this moment a seeming good faith towards us; but who knows what is immediately behind it? The support which Mons, Belly and his anti-American schemes have received in France, where everything hangs upon the nod of the Emperor, and nothing is prosecuted against his will, and above all, the Open approval and support he has received from Lord Malmesbury, give us good grounds fordis- H trust. But itis in Mexico where this interfe- renve in Anerican polities is most evideat. There Mons. Gabriac, the French Minister, is mas- ter of tho situation, aud Mr. Otway, the British representative, is nothing bat his tool. In spite of aud in open violation of the interests of their own sub cots resident in Mexico—in open opp si- tion the manifest political tondencics of tha republ and in enmity to the en- li tened spirit of the age—these official agents of the Anglo-French alliance have éetermined to upbold a priestly and military despotism, which possesses no sympatly with any other political system than that of France, and to crush out, if possible, the constitutional government of President Juarez, ‘The final result of th’s policy, if it succeeds in ing the power of Cen. Miramon, will be 5 on a war between this country and that republic, and that within the next four years. In such a conflict England and France may think they can bring other elements to bear, of a political and practical character, which wil change the whole future, as now maniest, of Cuba, Mexico and Central America, They be- lieve grave complications can be rade, before which the United States will give way rather than encounter the probability of « general war and if Louis Napoleon can bring about a conflict between the constitutional governments of the United States and Bngland his ends will be served, for he knows that such a result wil! be the best guarantee for the safety o1 the despotic theories of his dynasty in France, and of aristo- cratic class government throughout Europe, This is the juncture that is now upon us Lord Clarendon’s boast, that the allied policy was to rule the policy of the world, and that “there is no por ion of the two hemispheres” ox. empt from it, is to be attempted to be carried out. There is but one way in which we can meet it with dignity, with honor to ourselves, and with success. The policy which the President has recommended to Congress must be at once en- dorsed by that body. Let the Cuba Lill be passed at once by the Senate, and then let the bill conferring upon the President authority to pro- tect our citizens and our interests on the great Isthmus transit routes, and in Mexico and Cen- tral America, be taken up and passed by both houses before the approaching adjournment. At this important crisis in our foreign rela- tions the Executive should receive all the strength which can possibly be conferred upon it. The cry that it is dangerous to our public liberties—that it is a concession of the war making power—that it is an ambitious party scheme of the President’s—-that it is an undue strengthening of the executive at the expense of the legislative branch—are the cries of faction, and not the breathingsof true patrio\ism. None of them will bear the test of argument nor the light of reason. A strong Congres- sional endorsement of the policy of the President is the only way to give the government the moral power which the best interests of the country require it should possess, and to preserve peace with all the world. The common sense of the country las long seen that the President should possess the power of claiming redress for the in- dividual wrongs of our citizens and to enforce it, and it has determined that that power shall be conferred on the Executive. If the members of either or both houses, through captiousness or the insane impulses of faction, refuse now to do it, they wi:l be held to a fearful responsibility be- fore the people. Tho complicated state of affairs in Europe, as well as in the republics south of us, renders this course the tore necessary now, because if these necessary powers are granted at once they will give usa moral influence in European cabinets, and produce an immediate cbange in their policy in American affairs. Vacil- lation on our side will only confirm them in taeir mistaken theories, and our hesitation will only encourage them. The whole country expects Congress to act at once on the Cuba question, and on the special message of the President re- garding Spanish American affairs. We call upon it to do iis duty to itself and to the country. Siaxs or tux Times AMona NewsPapers.— Greeley is ranning about the country delivering lectures at filty dollars each. Dana and Ripley, managers and as 8 of the Zribune, are writin, or causing to be written, articles, at two dollars a page, for Appleton’s “Cyclopwdia.” These facts show that nigger worship is nearly at its close, that anti-slavery agitation is going down, and that whenever it becomes defunct the Tribune's nigger circulation will collapse. Jepoments AGatwst tie Crry.—in another column will be found a report from the Street Department to the Common Council, calling at- tention to the judgment obiained by Jobn Pettigrew against the city, and suggesting that some steps should be taken for the “ opening up and setting aside of the judgment thus obtained.” It appears that the chief item in Mr. Pettigrew’s claim was for earth-filling in Sixty-third strect, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, and that his original proposal for this work was at the rate of twenty-two cents per cubic yard. This item was afterwards erased in the original contract, the original bid removed from the Street Depart- ment, and the word “forty” was substituted for “twenty,” making a difference of seven thousand dollars in Mr. Pettigrew’s favor on the 35,000 yards of “ earth-filling” called for in the contract, This is one of the judgments, we un- derstand, which the Comptrollar advised to have paid; and we learn that it is not by any ineans the only one in which “erasures” will hereafter be proved. There are other objections, it is said, utterly invalidating Mr. Pettigrew’s contract and releasing the city from any obligations to pay him; but the one given is so good as to render any further reasons unnecessary. In view of the facts which will be developed ona full exposure of this single case, our taxpayers may well ask, Under what machinery have these judgments been obtained, and to what officer shall they entrust proceedings for the “opening up and setting aside” of so many iniquities? Is it true, as freely stated in quarters likely to know, that not one of these judgments has been obtained on the verdict of a jury and after regular trial? Is it true that claimants to a much larger amount than $500 each have been allowed to divide their claims and recover them piecemeal, though it is a well established princi- ple of Jaw that the recovery under judgment of any portion of a sum due is a settlement of the whole? This subject calls for rigid investiga- tion, and we shall watch its future develoye- ments with care. Dirty Lrrerature.—Some of the weak and sinking newspapers of the day are eking out a brief existence by publishing feuilletons on Bur- dell’s murder, and introducing Mra. Cunning- ham in all the phases of that miserable tra- gedy. Vit of William Smith 0 )Brien, vis gentleman is expected here daly in the Alvert, 1¢ does not appear that he Intends make ibis covutry bis home, bus visits 3 for re und information, intending to retura to ireland aficr a sojourn of a few months. There are two classes of foreigners who are likely to be used up on touching our shores: one is the poor and uneducated, who land at Castle Garden and become the prey of the sharks and harpies, in the shape of emigrant ruaners, boarding house keepers and railroad agents; the other is the “ distinguished foreigners,’ who be- come the victims of the equally unscrupulous politicians and demagogues who create an ex- citement about them—making demigods out of mere men, not from any admiration or appre- ciation of the strangers, but in order to partict- pate with them in a momentary popularity, and bring themselves prominently before the public. The people run to sce the man as they would an elephant, or a lion, a woolly horse, a Feice mermaid, or a Swedish Nightingale; and their expectetions are raised so high that they are sure to be disappointed, aud say—‘Is this all?” They begin to find out that the individual is just a man like themselves; and, taking revenge for having been “sold,” they are apt to bring him soon even below their own level. Thus, General Avezzana, one of the Trinm- virate of Rome during the revolution there in 1849, was honored with a grand military and civic procession on his return to New York, whence he had set out to take a part in the insur rection, What has become of him now? Gari- baldi, another of the Roman Triumvirate, very properly kept quiet when he arrived, and thus consulted his own dignity by avoiding a foolish triumphal show, which would have less meaning than a funeral proc Te is almost the only distinguished revolutionist of 1848 and 1849 who, after defeat, secs to have acted with ordi- nary dixeretion. Kinkel, the German revolutionist, came among his fellow countrymen here—there was a flash, a fizzle, then darkness. And who hears of Kinkel now? A mighty furore was raised about Kossuth, the Hungarian, who by his impradence lost whatever chance there might have been for a leving the independence of his country. Our legiadators, governors, senators, mayors, corpo- rations, the clergy, men, women and chiidren— the whole population—seemed torun crazy. The man at last began to think he must be a god, and his head was turned. Then came strange developements about “Cincinnati saddles,” the assumption of royal state and pomp, with sen- tries at King Kossuth’s door, fraternization with anti-slavery committees, impudent dictation to the government and Congress, till the farce ex- ploded and the great Magyar’s magnificent bills were left unpaid, and he suddenly vanished out of the country under the assumed name of Alex- ander Smith. John Mitchel, on his arrival here, was honored with processions, and dinners, and addresses, and his head was turned even sooner than Kossuth’s; for his firet act was to assail the government which gave him hospitality, and the next was to sigh for a well stocked plantation of fat negroes in Alabama; and he played sundry other antics which cent him to rusticate in the backwoods of Teanessee. Who hears of John now? and who hears of some others we might mention? ‘The politicians have had their day out of them, and now they would hardly touch them even with the tongs. In the same way, Smith O’Brien will not have landed twenty-four hours till he is beset by Irish and democratic, black republican end anti-slave- ry politicians, demagogues and office seekers, each, by the most artful and ingenious devices, endeavoring to bend him to his own purposes. And if he is not much keener than he gets credit for, he will be taken in by the political sharpers— particularly his own fellow countrymen and such as cultivate the Irish interest. They will propose processions and dinners, or draw him out by addresses, in order to have their own names go before the public in conjunction with his; and if he accepts an entertainment he will probably have to pay the bill himself, as was the case a short time ago with another Irish pa- triot. But if he have only the sense of a burnt child who dreads the fire, he will keep clear of the schemers who will surround him on every side. ‘A word to the wise is sufficient; but if his experience bas not taught him a lesson of enution, then nothing can save him from be- coming the tool of frothy demagogues and cun- ning knaves, Jmmediaiely after his arrival in Europe from Van Dieman’s Land, a public meeting was called here at the Tabernacle, in December, 1854, bya requisition signed by the Mayor, ex-Mayor: Mayor elect, and by several Judges, Gcuerals, lawyers, < ¢., “for the purpose of adopting an ad- dress expressing admiration for his lofty integrity and disinterested patriotism, and congratulating him on bis resioration to his family.” The meet- ing was presided over by Mayor Westervelts and an address adopted and sent to him, to which he replied from Brussels, What more is necessary, unless it is wanted to drive the thing into the ground and painfully remind Mr. O’Brien of his defeat and disaster’—a history which must now appear to him as a hideous dream. All patriotic Irishmen and democrats had an opportunity of joining in the compli- mentary address of 1854. What has occarred since to call forth another expression of opinion? Some smart Irish politicians made all the capital they could out of the former business, and they are lying in wait for Mr. O’Brien now. But we have every reason to believe he will disappoint their expectations. We observe that since his return from Van Dieman’s Land to Ireland he has taken no part in political egitation of any kind, and accepted no demonstrations. In this he has shown his good taste; and his trae friends — those who really wish him well and bave no selfish object in view—will not do anything to drag him prominently before the public. ‘The victim of misplaced confidence, he was borne elong insensibly, and by degrees upon a tide o! circumstances which he could neither control nor resist, till at last he found himself ina vortex of which he little dreamed in the beginning. He has paid the penalty, and he has suffered enough, The best thing his friends can do for him is to let him alone—let him pass throngh the country qui- etly as a private gentleman. When he wanted the presence of fighting Irishmen in Tipperary they did not give a corporal’s guard. The less they say about fhe matter now, the better for him and for the credit of the country from which they hail. Stu. 1x THE SuLKSs.—Senator Seward has not as yet declared his position, whether for or against the annexation of Cuba. He is in a state of gravitation, like Mahomet’s coffin, hang- ing suspended between heaven and earth, 185%. Sb ph RS eS ce Pe SSE AS SE ee Ee Gee es pe — Probatle Political Revolution in Virglhilam Revival of the Whig Party. Since the late Opposition Virgiats Convention. compreliending a fusion of all the opposition elements of the State, upon the general prin. ciples of the old conservative whig party, we perceive that the Richmond Hnquirer, the central orgun of the Virginia democracy, is really be- coming alarmed, in view of the possible contin- gency ofa disastrous demoeratic aefeat. We think, too, that the presentation of a few bistori- cal facts ip reference to this impeading Virginia Smte election will go very far to convince the reader that there is good ground for these mis- givivgs concerning that hitherto inflexible and unchangeable democratic stronghold of the Old Dominion. a Yn 1855 Henry A. Wise, in one of the most epirited, laborious and energetic political cam- paigns ever known, oarried the State of Vir- ginia against the Know Nothings by ten thou- sand majority. But while the Kuow Nothings in that canvass had the benefits of a thoroughly disciplined secret organization, they had nothing elve iv their favor; for everything else in the way of political advantage was against them. They presented no competitor on the stump against Wise; but they permitted him to have the whole range of the ficld without breaking a lauce with him. He thus went from county to county, an admitted conqueror, Then, again, the fvolish nativistic secret oaths and mummories of the dark lantern fraternity disgusted many good old dignified whigs, snd many otherwise well disposed adopted citizens, while the Virginia viva voce system of voting kept all the democracy to the Hine. In 1856, there being noiling more than a nominal opposition in the ticket of Fillmore and Donel- sou, the democracy walked over the course in Virginia, and gave the State to Mr. Buchanan by some thirty thousand majority. In other words, the opposition had become satisfied that Know Nothingism was defunct, and they permitted the clection to go by default. But since the inauguration of Mr. Buchanan, there have been some new and curious changes in the Virginia kaleidescope. Ambitious rival leaders of the democracy there have been play- ing the same game which broke down the party in New York. Hardly was Mr. Buchanan warm in his White House chair, when there appeared two democratic factions in the Old Dominion, in- triguing, each against the other, for the Presi- Gential succession—the Wise faction and the Hunter faction. Singularly enongh, too, while the Hunter faction, in the party conventions and in the Legislature, appear to have been able thus fer to carry the day, the Wise faction, in occupation of the executive government of the State, seem to be regarded as holding a decided superiority of strength among the people. In other words, Wise is regarded as a much more popular man than Hunter, At all even's, it is certain that each has an active managing clique at his back, resolved, if possible, to carry him to Charleston og the candidate of the Virginia delegation. In this connection, notwithstanding the soft denial of the Richmond Hnguirer—the central organ of Governor Wise—we all know that the democratic candidate for Governor, Mr. Letcher, is regarded as the repre- sentative of Hunter. Certainly Letcher was the especial aversion of Wise before the Conveation decreed otherwise. It is quite natural, then, to infer from all this that these rivalries and jealousies between the Wise clique and the Hun- ter clique will enier into the merits 0” ‘he elec- tion. Nor can we here overlook the defections of Governor Wise and his Richmond organ in reference to the federal administration. The Governor, in his Tammany Hall ant'-Lecomp- ton manifesto, first bolted off from the adminis- tration. He has, since the last annual message of Mr. Buchanan to Congress, followed up this movement of rebellion against him, in the repu- diation of his whole policy, including his recom- mendations concerning Cuba, Mexico, Central America, a Pacific railroad, the tariff and a general bankrupt law. Upon all these measures the opposition of the Richmond Enquirer to the administration has been as earnest and bitter as the worst enewies of the Virginia democracy could d: Trom this extraordinary course of Governor Wise, as represented through his ecntral organ, it is not likely that the cliqne supporting him will, in the State canvass, feel any particular desire to uphold Mr. Buchanan. Nor can we discover that Mr, Hunter is anything but a luke- warm supporter of the President. And so the Virginia democracy, distracicd between two rival and jealovs Presidential aspirants, and de- moralized through the rebellious course of Go- vernor Wise against the administration, will go into their State election like an army embar- raseed with conflicting leaders, discordant coun- sels and treacherous intrigues between the two wings of the camp. The case wears very much the complexion of the Missouri imbroglio be- tween Benton and Atchison, from which both fell to the ground, and of that now almost for- gotten New York quarrel between Dickinson and Dix, in which both disappeared from the stage of political action. On the other hand, the late Virginia State Convention of the opposition, called together by asort of spontaneous combustion, appears to have rallied the opposition into line, as the long roll rallies a dispersed but disciplined army. We say disciplined, because the substantial cle- ments of thet complete system of organization peculiar to the Know Nothings still remain to the new party movement, There is also in the movement itself a welcome invitation to all the old line whigs, to ail well disposed adopted citi- zona, and to all the disaffected democracy, in re- gard to the Presidential aspirations of either Wise or Itunter. Upon (his point there may be many good democrats in Virginia who would not object to a democratic defeat, ia order to got rid of both Hunter and Wise. Much will depend upon the course of Mr Leteber in this canvass, With the adjournment of Congress, we presume he will go home and take the stump. Should he defend the adminis- tration and the leading measures of the Presi dent’s message, he may expect to get a very cold support from Governor Wise and his followers but should he second the peculiar views of the Governor, the Hunter men will be apt to desert him. There is still the middle course, of carrying water on both shoulders; but this is always a dangerous experiment. Mr. Letcher, in this matter, like Mr. English on the Lecompton question, may slip through under co- ver of a compromise, but he is really in an em- barraasing and critical position. There is one important point, however, in which Mr. Rotts, at the late Virginia opposition State Convention, did considerable mischief to the otherwise flattering prospects of this new opposition movement, We refer to his specifica- <meta, menses ened tions against, a4 denunciations of, Mr. Buchan. an’s adininistratio.”, bis acts and his recommen. dations. Upon ail , hese things the central or. gan of Gov. Wise bag denounced the Presideat as adopting the heresies of old line whiggery and the old federal party. Uf this be so, why docs Mr. Botts complain? Why not take up the bint thus thrown out, and court rather than cast off the Virginia democracy who do be- lieve in the wisdom and justice of the acts aud measures of Mr. Buchanan? Bat the fact is, that Mr. Botts, as a politician, is a blockhead. We agree that he ie a gentleman and a scholar, and a man of shrewdness and discrimiaatioa in every other capacity; but he is, as a political leader, an absolute blockhead. His rashness and impetuosity always run away with him. Thus, had his advice been followed, Gen. Taylor would have been defeated in 1848; and thus, from his Fremont specches ia Virginia, where Fremont had no organization, be contributed there to swell the vote of the democracy. Where the friends of the administration are abandoned by the local leaders of the democracy, the true course of the opposition is to conciliate these administration democrats, And this is the policy of the new opposition movement in Vie- ginia. It may be, however, that between the Wise and Hanter cliques sufficient discords have been sown among the rank and file of the Vir- ginia democracy to enable the opposition to carry the State. The fears of the Richmond Enquirer upon this point are very significant. Should the result be an opposition triumph, the signal will thus be sounded for a new constitu- tional or Union party throughout the countey, with a fairer prospect for 1860 than either the sectionalized republicans or the dismantled de- mocracy. Indeed, an opposition victory this year in Virginia would be equivalent to a gene- ral political revolution. Dratu To Ory Tammany.—A very extensive effort is being made to get up a petition to the Legislature, praying for the abolition of the char- ter of the Tammany Society, with a view to put an end to the rascalities and rogueries hatched in that fruitful nest of intrigues. As the black re- publicans are in full power in Albany, under the lead of Thurlow Weed, it is not improbable that it may be successful. Tammany, therefore, may be considered as approaching itsend. The old sinners who congregate there may as well con- fess their sins at once, and prepare for exe- cution. Tue Biack Repvsiicans anp Mr. Dovanas.— The organs of the black republican school are sorely distressed at what they call the grave mistakes of Mr. Douglas in supporting, at this session, the leading measures of Mr. Buchanan’s foreign policy. Thisshould be regarded as the highest praise by Mr. Douglas. He is unques- tionably playing the winning game. While his anti-Lecompton associates, Wise, Walker, Stan- ton and Forney, are still floundering in the mire, orare completely submerged, Mr. Douglas has thus come boldly forward in the right way to claim and to secure his old position among the leaders of the true democracy. It has been insinuated, through some of the opposition organs, that the late war power mes- sage of Mr. Buchanan was a device invented by some of the Presidential rivals of Mr. Slidell to head off that gentleman and his thirty million Cuba bill. But thisisall bosh, The Cuba bill and the message on Central American affairs represent nothing more nor less than so many of the views of the President's annual message; and Mr. Douglas, in supporting these measures as they come up, takes the right road to restore himself and the broken ranks of the democracy. Let him thus stand fast, and he will soon be as good as new. Great Movement Amonost THE TuTKvEs AND Buroiars.—We understand that a great many thieves, burglars, garroters and the mem- bers of the dangerous classes generally, are get- ting up a petition to the Legislature for the abo- lition of the office of City Judge. During the last two years the City Judge has sent many of the distinguished leaders of these confraternities to the State prison and peniten- tiary, to the great annoyance of the brotherhood. They are naturally determined to get rid of the Judge, if it can be accomplished. Look out for a grand movement in the lobby, by all the vaga- bonds of New York, to get the law passed. Academy of Music—Mr. Stoepel’s Symphony of Hiawatha. Ono of the most agreeable innovations that has as yet been attempted in the way of stage entertainments was that which we witnessed last night in the combined dra- matical and musical illustration of Longfellow’s charming poem. The expectations raised in musical circles by the favorable report given in Boston of Mr. Stoepel’s sym- phony a few weeks since, had the effect of crowding the house in every part—a result that was by no means counted upon with a first night’s experiment of this cha- Tacter here. The stage was handsomely decorated, and arranged with rising seats for the accommodation of the Mendelssohn Society and other singers whose services were enlisted for the choruses; whilst the orchestra dis- played most of the instrumental strength at present in the city. Mrs. Stoepel (Miss Matilda Heron) occupied a Seat in the centre, supported by Mrs. Harwood, Mr. Mil- lard and Dr, Guilmette, whose vocal talents were also called into requisition. Of the opening part of the symphony there i@ not much to be said. It is bas ae (i a Lae ge ; than striking character, an in corr ing with the introductory part the tee Btoopel’s reading was marked by a close study and delicate appreciation of the beauties of the poem, and its swinging rythm, difficult ag it is for the Ln of dramatic intenseness, was ex- quisitely deliver by her. The musical introduction and chorus, describing Nokomis’s descent to earth and the’ birth of Hiawatha, a gracoful and “picturesque” composi. tion, if we may apply to it such a term, was very finely rendered and elicited warm appiause, The ‘Cradle Song,” by Mrs. Harwood, and the Barcarol, by Mr, Mil- lard, were neither of them very successful efforts; but the com is not to be blamed for this. When the success of @ composition depends upon the capabilities of the ‘vocalist, it is not easy to judge of the effects that might be produced by another singer. One of the finest pivces of writing in the symphony 1s the war by the full orchestra, at the close of the second part. Not only ia it to be admired as a scientific effort, but it is strikingly in character with the incident which it describes, The instrumental effects are superb, and displayed a profound knowledge of orchestral resources. In tho second part the “Magic Corn Dance,” the ‘Raven's Chorus” aud the “Chorus of Ghosts, Famine and Fever’’ all elicited warm tributes of admiration from the audi- ence, The chorus of “Spring and Summer,” which closed he programme, is also deserving of commendation for fine effects worked ont in it. Taken altogother, this sym. phony is a remarkable work, and will add greatly to Mr. Stoepe\’s reputation as a composer. The conception and plan cf the entertainment have the merit of originality, and they constitute a refreshing dopaiture from the con’ yentionalities to which we are accustomed in such mat- tera, The innovation, we should gay, is a decided success if we might judge from the applause which attended it” rom the commencement to the close, —$_____., The Mayor and the City Funds, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Observing in various papers that attempts aro mado to throw discredit on the Mayor for permitting tho city funds to be deposited in a bank which pays no interest for the use of the same, I would respectfully call your attention to section twenty-two of the City Charter, orga- nizing the Finance Department, and providing specificall: that all moneys collected by the city. sball bo deposited in the bands of an officor to ‘be called the “City Chamber. Iain.”” ‘she charter says nothing about interest, and givos no disoretion in the mattor, either to the Mayor or any other officer, All money collected must be paid into the Chamberlain’s hands, and can only be drawn from him by ‘a warrant signed by the Comptroller and countersigned by the Mayor and Clerk of the Common Council. Tae cen- sure of the Mayor in this particular ts, therefore, obvions. ly unjust; and the papers which have circulated the at. tack should give a place in their columns to this vindica tion. * i Feunvary 21, 1859, ALDERMA