The New York Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENHETN, KDITOR ANY) PROPRIETOR Q7vION K. W. CORNER OF FULTON ANT KAAHAD OTR, SBMS, cash tn advance. Money seni by ths sell be a4 0m Hae De cater” Potags amen ant rertined es eacrigtice | THe DAILY HERALD, te coma por copy. ¥! per onninn. THE WEEKLY BLhAaLD, mory Saturdty, at oe ores 20 py, 0 $3 per unr, « conta hy, m ib tame port W Oe, Continens hb kien om the 60h and 300 a onnwn a ae aM TY HERALD, 4 Weinesday, at four conte pet *: per annum Yo NOTH E tuners of anonymous correypondencs. We do mot prturn veferted communications. nar ria Grea Brewin, srttnoma hohe include rostngs, the of sack month. at wi conde Velume XXIV . eorece + Me. 95 Se ee ee SS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Broadway — 4 flernoon and Brening— WSO GSRDER, WreD Muiss—CRAtNKD HORSES, ‘Ormova PERTORMANCKS~ EDUC, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Miuuse or New Jens -New Youk ayy BROOKLYN. METROPOLITAN THRATBE (Late Burton’s.)—Tux Czani- na—Barsy basse WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—As You Lixs Ir— Love axp Mumps. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Ovn AxagicaN Covsin—Jaxsy Lina. BARNUMS AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdway.—Afer- noon and Evening—Ovs Ipisa Covsia. A MINSTREL BUILDING, 661 and 563 Broadway— Imran Songs, Dances, 40.—Starux Loves. NTS’ MINSTRELS, MECHANICS’ BA war hnoeo Bonen, &c.~— Buniesqus Trans Oi 427 Broad- rns NIBLO'S SALOON, Brosdway.—Mapae F. Iewaw's Conceut. ‘TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, April 6, 1859. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. We are again compelled to call upon our adver- tisers to send in their business notices before nine o'clock in the evening. It is important to their in- terests that their advertisements should appear under proper heads. The News. Tire most important news in to-day’s Heap is the intelligence, received yesterday, of the peace- ful settlement of our difficulty with Paraguay. It appears from the details which we publish in an- other column, that this speedy and satisfactory ad- justment has in a measure been accomplished through the friendly offices of President Urquiza, chief of the Argentine Confederation. The pre: cise terms upon which the settlement is based have not been made public, but it is known that ample indemnity is conceded to the family of the person killed on board the steamer Water Witch, and also to the company represented by Mr. Hopkins, The steamship New York, which left Southamp- ton on the evening of the 22d ult., arrived at this port early yesterday morning. Her advices are three days later than the news by the Persia, and are ofa move pacific character as regards the Italian question. It was announced that Lord Cowley’s visits to Vienna and Paris had eventuated in the Emperors Francis Joseph and Napoleon consenting to refer the subject of the affairs of Italy to a peace Congress, in which England and Prussia would be represented, and which would assemble in London, Berlin, the Hague, or some other neutral point. To judge from the tone of the money markets of Lon- don and Paris, this report was generally believed» although some newspaper writers doubted it, whilst others had simall hopes of war being averted by negotiations, even if the Diplomatic Council met in session. Consols rated in London on the 2Ist at 963 a 96} for money and account, an advance of one-fourth on the Persia’s quotations. The French rentes stood at 68 francs 65 centimes. Cotton advanced one fourth of a penny in Liverpool on the 21st over the rates of the 18th. Flour and provisions were unchanged. A number of the Italian exiles had reached Lon- don, and were received with immense enthusiasm, Lords Palmerston and John Russell taking part in arranging the meetings. The new reform bill of Lord Derby was strongly opposed by the workingmen of England. The mails from India do not cont: any addi- | tional news. The insurgent Rohilias were entirely dispersed. We have news from Australia, dated at Mel- bourne on the 25th of Dece Gold was un- changed in price, and the re $ from the mines good. One hundred tons of gold were exported during the year 1858. War exists between Denmark and Dominica. Our correspondent at San Domingo states that a Danish war steamer had arrived at that port, hav- ing on board a diploma agent from the King of Denmark, who peremptori)y demanded ind i in the sum of $150,000 for the seizure of ty vessels by President Baez ¢ ng the la tion in the Dominican republic. Presiden offered to refer the matter to arbitrate Danish functionary declined the pri gave the Dominican authorities twenty-four hours to comply with his demands or submit to the biock- ade of their ports. The Dominicans met the emer- gency by deciding in favor of commenced manning their batt enemy. It is hinted that the Don corumissions in the United States to pri We have news from Swan Island, West Indies. dated on the 19th ult. Large exports of guano were being made, aud our correspondent speaks highly of the salubrity of the place and its great importance settlement. The ship Robert Center } from New York, and Captain Arnold thinks the tead the finest in. the Gulf. As the settlement is only ten days sail | from the Bay I alue to us in case of trouble in that quarter, or with New Granada, is urged by the writer. We publish to-day a batch of news and corres- | , pondence from Utah up to as which it is evident that the citize: tory conclude that it is about time to atthe door of Congress into the Union as a sovereig¢ sources we learn that the that sending the army and nev their Territory, though at sion, is turning to their advantage ir point of view. Many of the charge: have, in the course of investigation, bee and consequently the prejudice of the ¢ the States is somewhat diminished. next session of Congress we may expec considerable from Utah. Every mail brings c: firmation of a good understanding between the mi tary and civil chief in the Territory on Mormon matters. degree of truth we do not vouch—that Brigham Young is unpopular with the Mormons, and that he has agents in the northern provinces of Mexico, and also in Central America, prospecting for a loca- tion to which he and his partizans may remove and set up an independent hiers g The day boats have fairly commenced their trips between this city and Albany. The steamboat Armenia, ofi her first trip, arrived at her dock at Poughkeepsie on Monday at twenty minutes before twelve, noon. She was welcomed hy a large con- course of persons of both sexcs, and by the firing of cannon. The Armenia responded to the honors done her by several tunes from the steam calliope on board. The Metamora, the consort of the Ar- menia, arrived at the dock a few minutes after the latter had departed. We learn from Washington that the instruction which go out to-day to General Lamar, our Mi! the Buaropecin Bxbition every Wainenday | It is stated, however—but with what | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1859—TRIPLE SHEET. in Nicaragua, are of the most positive character. He will demand ample apology, restitution and in: demnity for the outrages committed upon our citi- | zens, and in default of a compliance with these re- | quisitions, will ask for his passports, The Home | and Pacific squadrons are to be placed at the dispo- sal of General Lamar, to aid in carrying out his in- siructions. The trial of Mr. Sickles at Washington made but little progress yesterday. Only three jurymen were obtained when the panel was exhausted, and an- other was ordered to be summoned to-day. It is supposed a jury will be procured to-day. | The report that the Court of Appeals had render- ed a decision in the case of the old police force not | having yet been officially confirmed, the Senators | from this city yesterday addressed a note to the | presiding Judge of the Court, requesting that if such a decision had been renderea it be made pub- lic, in order that whatever legislation is ne- cessary may be resorted to without delay. It is ru- mored that the Court are of opinion that the mem- bers of the old force are legally entitled to their pay during the period of their suspension, and the truth or falsity of the report will now, in conse- quence of the action of the Senators referred to, soon be made known. Several subjects of local importance were brought up in the Legislature yesterday. Our readers are referred to our reports and despatches for particu- lars. The charter election in Brooklyn yesterday re- sulted in the choice of the democratic candidates for Mayor, Treasurer, Auditor, Comptroller and Police Justice. The majority for Mayor is 2,584. Our correspondent at Pernambuco, writing on the 26th of February, states that the steamship Washington, from New York for San Francisco, ar- rived there two days previously, and was taking in a supply of coal. Her crew and passengers were in excellent health. A religious revival had broken out among the passengers, and prayer meetings were held daily. The Councilmen’s Committee on Ordinances held a third meetivg yesterday in reference to the pro- posed removal of the carriage stand from the west- ern side of the Park. Several cabmen and others interested were present, and contended that the present stand is not an inconvenience to the public, while it is the most convenient for every one. They said they would have no objection to the establishment of additional carriage stands, but they were of opinion that prohibiting them to re- main at the Park would destroy their business dur- ing the summer months. There being no one pre- sent to advocate the remoyal of the carriage stand, the committee adjourned. The weekly mecting of the Board of Ten Gover- nors took place yesterday in the Rotunda, Park, Governor Townsend presented a petition, signed by Archbishop Hughes and 2,146 Roman Catholic citizens, praying that the @hildren of Roman Catholic parents be afforded Catholic instruc- tion in religion exclusively, instead of being classed with ali the rest of the children and taught by Protestants and Catholics, as is the pre- sent custom. The petition was placed on file. A resolution calling upon the Medical Board of Belle- yue Hospital to report the names of the members thereof, and the vacancies that have occurred therein, atthe next meeting, was adopted. This motion was made with a view of having the medi- cal duties attended to ina more satisfactory man- ner than it is alleged they have been hitherto. No other business of public interest transpired before the Board adjourned. The number of inmates in the institutions atthe last return was 7,630, being a decrease of 202 during the week ending April 2. The number admitted in the same time being 1,507, and those who died, were discharged, or removed, 1,709. Of those now in the institutions, 1,456 are in the Almshouse, 999 on Randall's Island, 953 in Pellevue Hospital, 618 in the Lunatic Asylum, and the rest divided among the other institutions. The Eurcpean news received yesterday by the New York imparted more tone and firmness to the cotton market. The sales embraced about 5,500 bales, nearly al! of which were made in traneitu, closing at an advance of about an cighth of a cent per pound. Lots in store were more firmly held, but were without quotable change in prices. The receipts at the ports since the Ist of Sep- tember Jast have reached 3,250,000 bales, against 2,442,000 in 1858, 2,622,000 in 1857, and 2,900,000 in 1858, The exports have been 1,962,000, against 1,511,000 in 1858, 1,621,000 in 1857, and 1,923,000 in 1858, The stocks in the ports embrace about 817,000 bales, against 750,000 in 1858, 537,000 in 1857, and 653,000 bales in 1856. The re- ceipts of the week amount to 71,000 bales, againgt 100,000 in tbe same week of last year, reducing the excess 29,000 balee—conseguently the excess atands at $14,000 bales. At New OPeans tbe receipts within 1 week later were 2,000 Dales, against 40,000 for the game week last year; and at Mobile 8,500, against 12,000 for the corresponding week last year. Flour was in rather better a easier prices for some deseri; Wheat was inactive, with sales of emall lots of prime red Southern at $1 5234, and Kentucky white at $1 87. Corn was heavy and lower, with sales of Jersey and Southern yellow at S4c. a 88c. Pork was in better demand and firmer, with sales of new mess at $17 80a $17 ¢, Old do. at $17.50, and a lot for May and June delivery at $18, and prime at $12 62% 8 $12 75. Sugars were steady. The auction sale of 900 hhes. New Orleans went off yesterday with much spirit. The rale was a good one, and the whole catalogue was dis- posed of at fall prices; about 400 hhds. were gold to the trade at rates given in another place. Coffee was in fair demand, with eales of 6,000 bags Laguayra, $00 do. Pio, and gome Maracaibo at rates given elsewhere, Freight engagements were moderate and rates were un- changed. The Hamburg steamer engaged 5,000 bags coffee, 1,500 bbls. rozis, 50 bbls. ashes and 120 bales of cotton, ai rates given in another column, annd, with fair sales, but Settlement of ibe Paraguay Claims—How it Wos Done—What Next for Our Pacificat- ing Fieet? We give in another column the important in- telligence of the final settlement of our claims on | Paraguoy, without the firing of a gun. Presi- dent Lopez has agreed to pay an indemnity to the family of the man killed on board the Water { Witch, and to ihe American company of which Mr. Hopkins was agent. This peaceful settlement of this disagreeable affair was bronght about in no small degree | through the friendly offices of President Urgquiza, | of the Argentine Confederation, and it is his re- port thereof that has given us the first knowledge | of the facts, But the chief inducement to a paci- fic arrangement was, noedoubt, the determined | manner in which Mr. Buchanan set about making the reclamation. We gather from the report of | President Urquiza, and from advices we have heretofore published in regard to the matter, the | following fe When President Lopez learned the formidable character of the expedition sent agalaost him be | became alarmed, and sent urgent solicitations to all the neighboring Powers to intervene in his bebalf. In consequence of this step on his part, both Brazil and Montevideo determined to | offer their mediation. This was declined by the | Commissioner, under his instructions from the | President, and the result was that all the neigh- | boring governments sent representatives to a di- plomatic congress that was to be held somewhere on the banks of the Paraguay. Brazil, Montevi- deo and the Argentine Confederation were repre- sented, and the French Minister to the riverine | States also proceeded to the scene. Besides this, | Lopez made an arrangement with President Ur- quiza to come down and meet him at Corrientes, in the Argentine Confederation, and meet the United States Commissioner there. Bat the movements of Commodore Shubrick were too rapid for them, and he had got beyond Corrientes when he met the Paraguayan Commissioners, who wished him to return and walt for a negoti- atien at that city. This h» declined, as we an- nounced some days since in our special corres- Ppondence, an‘ pu-hed cn, When Pres ‘ens U qniza reache? C rrientes, under his arrangement with Lopez, he found how matters stood, and says in his report that he could return the confidence of President Lopez in offering to come into the territory of the Confederation by pro®eding at once to Paraguay. So he followed the Commodore, and his report tells the rest of the story. This se-ult is exactly what we have predi:td in the columns of the HEraxp ever since we be- gan to receive the braggadocio announce mente of the Para-uayan press. The louder the Spx piards boast the greater ia their feur. Those black :epublican journals that so rabidly abused the President for sending out the expedition to Paraguay will now be forced to confess that the administration was perfect'y right in adopting the course it dit. Had the milk and water morality which they advocate been allowed to prevail, we might'still have been soliciting Prosi dent Lopez to do justice, and receive only insults in retnsn for our moderation, Com nodore Shu- brick and the big guns bebind him were the real pacificators in this case, and the result will be that if the United States is only decently repre- sented diplo vatically hereafter in those regivus, American interests and American citizens wl! be respected for a generation at least, by all the riverine States of La Plata, We have but ene word more to say. The Paraguay expedition is now, proba ly, on its way bome, Part cf it is no doubt already near ovr thores. Its shot and sh: ll are unex- pended, Its sailors and marinesare in a fine e of drill, Everything’ is ready for inme- diate action, We advise, we urge the President, to assume the responsibility, and send it at once to the poris of Nicavagua, Les it exbibit iis powers of moral saasion on Preeident Martinez just as ithas on President Lopez. Our word for it, not a shot will be fired uf it goes ready t» fire shot. Americon interests in Nicaragua will at once assume a respected character, end our citi- zens may there cross the Isthmus for twenty years at least, with the most implicit confidence tn the safety of their lives and of their interests, Our Central Amerivan imbroglio re ju'res only the naval style of diplomacy to he se tled as easily as the Paraguay difficulty has been ar- ranged. stat A New Phase in the War Question—Austria Agrees to a Conference. According io the news received yester- day by the New York, the war question negins to wear a less threatening aspect. There are hopes that the difficulties that have led to it may find 2 diplomatic solu- tion, Austria has agreed to submit them toa conference, and by this concession something may have been gained to the cause of peace. A quarrel pestponed is often a quarre! settled, and we are not surprised to find the moneyed inte- rests of Europe rejoicing over this welcome an- nouncement. But will the reference of the Italian question to a conference do more than temporarily allay the appretensions which have been excited by the prcspcct of snother European war? It is im- possible, of course, to predict what the discus- sion of general in‘erests in such a body, and the interchange of views between the representa- tives of ihe Powers interested, may bring about, The fact that Austria has yielded on a point in which her pride was so much involved will be locked upon by many as a proof of her con- sciousness of her own weakness, and as a conse- quent evidence of her desire to avoid a collision. She has always declined to admit of foreign ad- vice or interference in her Italian relations, and this conclusion will naturally be regarded as the correct one. But there is another, just as reason- able and as consistent with fact. She may desire to exbaust every means of arriving at a pacific arrangement and of placing herself legally, if not morally, right before Europe before she engages in a struggle which invoives such fearful results, This disposition may have been induced less by the representations of Lord Cowley than by the remonstrances of tae Confederated States. The latter have probably intimated to Francis Joseph that they will support him only on the condition that he ehall submit those pretensions in connec- tion with Italy which admit of question, to the decision of a Buropean Congress. Whilst complying in form with this recom. mendation, is it quite certain that Austria will be disposed to fulfil the expectations that are formed from it? Let us suppose, for argument sake, that the Conference shall insist upon the renunciation of her treaties with the Duchies. Here is a question in which she may contend that she has rights based upon the jaw of nations, and which no Congress can upset. If Frauce be justified in entering into an offen- sive and defensive alliance with Sardinia, then is Austria justified in forming similar treaties with the Dnchies. Although the one is a consequence of the other, neither can be said to be a viola- tion of established precedents. The question, therefore, if it comes before the Congress, will be surrounded by so much difliculty that nothing but a compromise can solve it: Austria will never consent to abandon her treaties with the Italian States unless France, on her side, is willing to renounce the offensive alliance she has formed with Sardinia. To do so would be madness, for she would then he exposing her Lombardo- Venetian provinces to the double risk of Sardinian invasion and revolation, Theee views acquire consistency from the lan- gmage employed by the Memorial Diplomatique, the Austrian organ in Paris, It states that “ Austria will only consent to a conference on the | condition that no resolution to be taken by it shall infringe the treaties of 1815, those special treaties which are their natural corollaries, or the rights inherent to the inde- pendent sovereignty of each State.’ Exactly Ly the law of nations, as well as by the constitution of the Germanic Confederation, Austria was entitled to form alliances with the smaller Italian States, and to occupy their terri- tory by agreement with them, just as on a former occasion she occupied Piedmont for the joint in- terest and convenience of both. If it be as sumed that by submitting the Italian question to a conference the intends to abandon a right based upon international law, and specially re- served to her by the articles of the Confederation, we cannot avoid arriving at the conclusion that the is utterly helpless, and has no other alter- native left her than to bow her neck in meek submission to her enemies. If, on the contrary, she means to adhere to the reservations which accompany the concession that has been obtalaed from ber, then we tay tha! we have no very san- guine faith in the results of the proposed Con- ference. The only prospect of an arrange ment that we can see is that which we have just euggested—the mutual renunciation by BO. Trance and Austria of the treaties which bave inspired so much apprehension. Even then the question of war will not be definitively settled, for Taly, left to itself, will rise in revolt, and pre- texts in abundance will be farvisbed for the in- tervention of the Powers whom it is now desired to exclude. In such an event a collision is plainly inevitable, and will be followed to a cer- tainty by a general war, The Imte Scattering Elections—The Drift of the Political Currents of the Day. The republicans have made a clean sweep of Connecticut, including her four members of Con- gress. With a similar result in Minnesota, this party will, most likely, be able to command the organization of the next House of Representa- tives ; for we presume that there can be no doubt of the election in Rhode Island. At all events, we think it may be safely said that with this Con- necticut election the popular branch of the next Congress has been lost to the demoralized demo- ¢racy; and this, too, when the election of the next President may possibly be thrown into Congress, Simultaneously with this clean sweep of Con- necticut (which we respectfully submit to the special attention of the Secretary of the Navy), our telegraphic advices inform us that the repub- licans have carried the State of Michigan by over 10,000 majority, including a gain of over 800 in the city of Detroit ; that the republican candi- date for Mayor in the city of St. Louis has been elected by a plurality of 2,500 over his demo- cratic opponent, including the election of the whole republican city ticket; that the same thing has occurred in Cleveland, Ohio; and that in Louisville, Kentucky, even the old whigs have waked up from the dust, and given the democra- cy aregular dressing. This isa chapter of dis- asters in the presence of which we can derive very little democratic comfort from the general result yesterday in Brouklyn. What does all this mean? It means that the great democratic party has gone to wreck aud ruin, and that the opposition, as sure as fate, hold the next Presidential election in their hands. Had the leaders, managers and Presidential cliques and factions of the democratic party possessed anything of the saving article of com- mon sense, they would have profited from the Presidential election of 1856, in which they escaped destruction as bya miracle. The loss of nearly all the Northern States, and a popular minority in the vote of the Union of nearly four bundred thonsand, should have taught them the absolute necessity of harmony and cohesion on ihe basis of Mr. Buchauan’s administration, In- stead of this, however, the mort damaging con- spiracies and rebellions, the most vicious hostili- ties and combinations, against the administra- tion and the party, have arisen within the lines of the democratic camp. Upon the platform of the great peace measures of Henry Clay, of 1850, the democracy in 1852 carried the Presidential election by an electoral majority without a precedent since the time of Mource. The great whig party was thas lite- rally extinguished, ang the democracy held un- disputed occupation of tie country. But that desperate Presidential electioneering experi- ment, the Kansas-Nebraska bill, in the second year of Pierce’s administration, resulted in the election of an opposition House of Representa- tives. It revived with tenfold bitterness, the Northern slavery agitation. It substantially reduced the democratic party to a Southern sec- tional organization, and created an overshadow- ing Northern sectional opposition party. With this division of pari'es upon the Kansas issue in 1856, the Southern democracy would have been overwhelmed but for their conservative national candidate, Mr. Buchanan, and the saving inter- position of Millard Fillmore. But the impressive lesson involved in this elec- tion was lost upon the selfish, reckless and un- scrupulous leaders of the democracy. They would rule the administration of Mr. Buchanan, or ruin it, at all bazards. In various shapes, and upon various pretexts, comprehending every prominent measure, foreign and domestic, of Mr. Buchanan’s administrative policy, these disor- ganizing leaders, aspirants and managers of the party, in Congress and out of Congress, since the day of his inauguration, have been playing this suicidal game against the President. He has not been vangnished—his administration has not been shaken from its course—but the party | has been broken to pieces. From the experiences | of the last Congress, Mr. Buchanan may feel per- fectly easy regarding the next. Under the con- trol ofa potitive opposition majority he cannot possibly meet with a more vindictive and factious resistance to his recommendations than that of the late democratic House of Representatives, On the contrary, a responsible opposition ma- jority will have every incentive to avoid a fuc- tious course of hostility to the wise and seasona- ble measures of the administration. Thus, in any event, the adminietration is se- cure; but, alas! we fear it is all over with the late invincible democratic party. Shorn of half its strength, and with the remnant of its forces de- moralized and broken up into wrangling cliques and factions, and under the general control of an impracticable Southern ultra pro-slavery corps of managers, the wreck of this once all powerfal party is drifting into a purely sectional position. That it will take the field in 1860, reduced to an intensely sectional faction, there can hardly be a doubt. That it will thus be routed, horse, foot and dragoons, by the republican anti-slavery party of the North, is certain, unless the saving intervention of a third party shall change the issue of the fight. Meantime, we perceive in the defeat of the so called Personal Liberty bill in the Massachusetis Legislature, and in the rejection of several pro- positions of a similar character in our own Legis- lature, the other day, that the republicans, with an eye to the loose conservative materials of the North, are disposed to drop the extreme pro- gramme of the Rochester Manifesto, and to adopt a more moderate line of policy, These movements should admonish the engincers of the third Presidential party, represented by the new opposition organization of Virginia, that they have no time to lose, if they would secure a strong position in the field in 1860, To this end, should they bring out a popular vote in the Vir- ginia May election, involving a democratic de- feat, or a solid opposition gain, they will have a substantial encouragement to proceed at once to a national organization. Otherwise we may make up our minds for a sectional battle for the next Presidency of the most exciting and the most terrible description, and the most disastrous that we can imagine, to the constitution, the Union, and all sections of the couatry. TakinG Sovnomos.—Mr. W. H. Seward has been “bobbing around” in Pennsylvania. Wonder if he has made it all right with Gene- ral Cameron and the ironmongers! Or, per- haps, he may have gone into the coal trade. Who knows? , Tne Mormoxs—Intenestinc Movemenrs.— According to the news from Utah which we pub- lish to-day, the Mormons will bave a batch of special favers to ask of the next Congress, of @ rather formiduble bulk, including a renewed ap- plication for the admiesion of their Territory into the Union as a State, on au equal footing with the other States; aud applications for maguetic telegraphs, Pacific railrouds, daily mail lines, special land grants to the trustees of these towns and settlements, in behulf of their settlers, &c., on a grand scale. But their most remarkable petition is in behalf of Territorial “popular sovereignty,” in the event of the refusal or failure of Congress to admit them into the sisterhood of the States. In this view they have framed a memorial asking the authority from Congress to elect their own Gov- ernor, Judges and Secretary of State, as well as the members of their Territorial Legislature. We have no doubt that in this movement the Mormons have taken the hint from the propo- sition introduced in Congress at the late session by Mr. Morris, and one or two others of the Illi- nois Douglas delegation, covering the exact ground of this Mormon memorial. Upon the submission of this memorial to Congress we ap- prehend that Mr. Douglas and his “popular sove- reignty” disciples will discover that this propo- sition of Mr. Morris is entirely out of the question. Pass this proposed bill of Mr. Morris, and the Mormons, in the election of their Governor, Secretary of State and Judges, would practically be as independent of the laws and sovercign territorial jurisdiction of the United States asthe government of the Sandwich Islands. A Mormon Governor and Mormon judges would administer nothing but Mormon law and Mormon rights, and we should thus have under this mischievous humbug of ‘popular sovereignty” a Territory in the heart of the continent governed by the most re- pulsive institutions on the face of the earth, and beyond the reach of any remedy save that of a civil war of extermination or expul- sion. But under the constitutional law of Con- gressional sovereignty over the Territories, the Mormons and thvir abomiuatious may be gradual- ly reduced to decency and submission without bloodshed ; and until this territorial excres- cence of Mormonism shall have been re- moved, it will stand an impassable barrier to any further concessions of territorial “popular sovereignty.” Mr. Douglas has heretofore been a stumbling block to the Mormons; but they have caught him at last, and he must now abandon his hobby of territorial “popular sovereignty,” or sur- render to the Mormons. Thus, however exten- sively a great political fallacy may flourish for a time, it willsome day be brought to a test which will snuff it out. Tur Navies or Encuanp axv France—Bat- tisH Views oF American Suips.—The war ques- tion in Europe is stirring up the naval Powers there, and, singular to say, England guages her- self by the power of France, and announces to the world that she must at once increase her navy in order to. protect the interests of peace, for the British Ministers are ‘convinced that England, to be peaceful, must be powerful.” This is a very curious assertion to make, and the entire speech ot Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty, which we give in another column, is worthy of perusal. The statements it makes, particularly in regard to the ability of England to increase her fleet ina year so that it will equal if met exceed that of Frauce, has j caused a good deal of surprise in the latter country. The French evidently thought they had got ahead of the English in naval matters, and that they could keep the lead; and the speech of Sir John Pakington shows that he thinks they are right in the first part of this supposition, but he evidently hopes to disprove the second part of it, There is another striking fact in these revelations, Louis Nupoleon is building iron or steel clad ships, a3 an offset to the improvements in navalartillery. As soon as England found this out orders were given to make experiments, and the result is that she, too, has directed the construction of slips with sides coated with plates of iron or steel four anda half inches thick, like the French. These facts, connected with the recent speech of Sir John Hay in the British Parliament, derid- ing the new American ships, published in our columns some days since, give rise to some*curi- ous reflections. We take Sir John Hay’s obser- vations for all they are worth, and would only remark that we do not believe that cither he or any other man can form a traly appreciative judgment of the relative merits of the several systems of naval construction and armament now in use. There has not been really a naval engagement since the introduction of steam as a propelling power for ships-of-war; and no prac- tical opinion can be formed of the efficiency or inefficiency of any of the systems, These mail clad ships are in fact the most recent de velopement of the ideas formed on the results of the last war between this country and England. When it was demanded why our ships constantly captured the British cruisers of equal rate, it was found to lie in the fact that we had paid attention tothe power of naval artillery, and carried bigger guns and better ones, Since then everybody has been striving to improve their cannon. Naval armaments have run up from twenty-four to sixty-eight pounders, and from thirty-sixes to eighties. We have done a smart thing or two in this way ourselves, but without making a noise about it. Guns of eleven, twelve, and even thirteen inches bore, some of them carrying shot of one hundred and twenty pounds, are not unknown in our navy; while the Dahlgren cannon, which is peculiarly ours, still holds its pre-eminence, notwithstanding the vaunted Armstrong gun of England and the rifled cannon of Louis Napoleon. Sir Joba Hay may sneer at the Niagara, but we guess that, with her armament of eleven inch guns and her fast heels, she will tell a tale if it ever comes to the trial. Tue Crry Ramroap Scuemes.—There are ap- plications for charters for some twenty railroads in this city now before the Legislature, and the State capital is literally thronged with lobby agents interested in them. It is impossible to tell how many of these harpies are besieging the legislative halls, but that they are there in hun- dreds we know. Should all the grants sought for be obtained, or half of them, the city will be con- verted into a gridiron; property which of right belongs to the city will be disposed of for the benefit of some hundred individuals, who will re- alize about five millions a year profit out of the roads, while the city will not receive a dollar for the franchises which of right belong to it. We know that the receipts of the roads now in operation amount to over a million and a half a year, and pay @ bandsome profit out of that. We can calculate, then, from these premises, the city will lose if the franchises of the proposed lines are banded over to a set of hungry apeou- Jntors, It is true, the Legislature may, by » special act, insure the city some paltry sum, in the shape of a twenty-five dollar license ou each car, but the influence of the railroad lobby may | checkmate even this move, j | We question the right of the Legislature to grant these charters at all, There can be no | doubt that the franchises cought to be legislated away belong to the Corporation, and they should be disposed of just a9 the ferry rights are, We | hope, therefore, that every one of these railroad ; bills will be kicked out of the Legislature, They | are a parcel of corrupt jobs, and nothing more. Turex Erocus i Tae Lire or THE SHOULDER | Hirrer.—What is vulgarly though graphically called the “rough” population of this city is | made up of very curious materials, and the ope- | rations of the bruisers afford a curious insight | into the subterranean social life of the metropo- lis, One fine Sabbath morning the town is hor- | tifled with the accounts of a terrible affray at , Stanwix Hall, where half a dozen bullies fought | with the ferocity of wild beasts, rather than with | the milder antagonism of human beings. One | of the gang is there killed, and another is seri- ously wounded while “sailing in” upon a maa who was contending against already fearful odds, The affray at Stanwix Hall was followed by others of a similar character, its natural legacies, and shooting, cutting, gouging and maiming were the order of the day, until the peacefal por tion of the public heartily wisbed that there could be invented some infernal machine by which the whole fighting fraternity could be killed at the same moment of time, The scene of operations was next transferred to the shores of Lake Erie, where the cham- pions of the two leading fighting factions met to hammer one another for the laurels of superi- oriiy and a heavy purse. The affair was inducted with the preliminary — parade and ceremony attendant upon some very important public event. Bulletins contaia- ing reports of the condition of the men, tho state of the odds, and the public feeling as it swayed from one side to the other, were de- voured with avidity by men who would take little interest in the usual topics of the day. Such a set of incarnate fiends as was gathered together on the scene of the fight could not be matched in any other part of the civilized world. Although they came individually as spectators of a contest wherein the toughest muscle and the hardest head was to gain the victory, yet all were armed to the teeth with revolvers, bowie knives, and other modern improvements in the art of assassination. An English pugilist, who came over as an expert for one of the men, was horrified at the knives and pistols which bristled around the ring. The fight rather widens the breach between the factions which are headed by the respective champions of the ring. Taking up the cry of foul play, one swears—so it is pub- licly reported—that he will flog the other withia an inch of his life. The man that is to be flogged retorts that if the floggee attempts to carry out his design he will never live to fight again, and there is bad blood among all the adherents of! the champion on either side. The third scene transpired in the Bowery. The, other day a veteran pugilist, much respected the younger hitters, suddenly disappears, leavi his family destitute. Morrissey steps forw: nd arranges with his brother “pugs” an exhil tion for the benefit of the woman and her dren. His bitter opponent, Heenan, joins the commendable movement, The cards, le ters and threats are all forgotten. The cordiale is, 80 far as can be judged, perf The champions embrace each other with charming empressement of two school girls j come back from the holiday vacation. All the! followers fall on each, other’s necks, and swear eternal friendship. The gentle dew of charity drops upon them faster aud thicker than their quick hits, upper cuts and body blows upon the corporeality of their unfortunate papils. Two thousand five hundred specimens of muscular perfection come together and join in a labor of Jove and charity, not to be mentioned in the papers, like the Wall street or Fifth avenue Christian, who gives alms as an advertisement here and an investment in the world to come, but purely and simply to do’ a good deed for the: sake of the satisfaction that the doing of it gives, It isa singwar verification of the theory that nothing is created to hecome thoroughly and en- tirely bad; for we see that even in these hearts, cicatrized with sin, and these hands, imbued ia blood, there may be still found traces of the qualities that ennoble and dignify weak and erring human nature. The recording angel will score it up with a shining mark, and as an in- stance of that charity which covers a multitude of sins. Tre Stcxurs Trrar—Harp 10 Ger a Jury.— Aguin this case has been adjourned without a jury being obtained. Thongh seventy-five tales- men were summoved only three were sworn, and for this day seventy-five more are summoned, when it is probable the remaining four may be sworn, and to-morrow the merits of the caso be gone into. Instead of seventy-five talesmen sum- moned each day, there ought to have been four or five hundred jurors summoned on the first day of the trial. The difficulty arises from the fuct of the case gaining so much notoriety, and being so thoroughly discussed that almost every person is biassed; and then the difficulty is’ further increased by the property qualification of $800, which sounds harsh in a democratic re- public. Had Judge Crawford followed the course of some of our New York Judges, who exclade jurors because they form an opinion upon what they read about a case in the newspapers, he would hardly obtain a jary at all. It is a significant fact, as showing the state of public opinion in Washington, that a majority of the talesmen who were rejected as jurors yester- day—residents, as they are, in a city in which the accused was a comparative stranger, and the de- cenged was not only well known, but a very po- pular man—that these, his townsmen, should strongly declare in favor of Mr. Sickles. Of twen- ty-three, says our despatch, who were rejected before a single juror was sworn, “ nearly all ad- mitted their decided bias in favor of the prisoner, and several fully justified the act.” On the pre- vious day, G. E. Kirk said his relation to the ac- cused prevented his acting the part of an unpre- judiced juror—this relation simply being that he, too, was married, as well as Mr. Sickles, Inriwx oF Froatina Porutatioy to THe Mx- TROPOLIS—THE THEATRES AND TIE Ornra— epring trade of this city is opening with ordinary briskness. The principal hotels crowded with buyers from all parts of the o try, and that useful class of persons, the dru mors, are up to thelr eyes in business, show!