The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1859, Page 6

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The European mails will cloge in this city at half-past eleven o'clock this morning. ‘The European edition of the Haratp will be published at Bubecriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Naw Youu Henatp will be received at the following places boone’ pe ronge & Co. pov passes agri. pole the Haratp will @ombine the news received by mail and telegraph at the efSce during the previous week and up to hour the of publication. The News. ‘The steamship Circassian, which left Galway on the 18th inst., arrived at St. Johns, N. F., yester- day. She brings Liverpool dates by mail to the evening of the 16th, and by telegraph to the fore. noon of the 18th, five days later than previous ac- counts. The news is highly interesting. The war question was assuming a very threatening aspect The proposition for a peace Congress meets with little favor evidently, though negotiations were still slowly progressing. Austria refuses to have any- thing to do with it unless there is a general dis- arming, while France continues her military pre- parations, and will, it is stated, be ready to take the field in a month or six weeks. The British Parliament was to be dissolved on the 21st instant. Mr. Reed our Commissioner to China, had arrived in London. The warlike aspect of affairs does not appear to have sensibly affected the money markets or public securities. A still further decline in cotton ig reported. Breadstuff: and provisions were firm. The news from Utah, which we publish under the telegraphic head this morning, is important A serious difficulty had sprung up betwroen General Johnston and Judge Cradlebaugh on the one side, and Governor Cumming on the other, growing out of the call of the Judge upon the General for troops to protect his Court, which action was distasteful to the Governor. The Governor is sustained by the Mor- mons, and the Judge, probably to avoid a collision of the citizens and military, removed his Court from Provo to Camp Floyd. The Mormons, it ap- pears, were stirred up to the edge of revolt in consequence of the investigations in progress re- specting charges of murder preferred against some of their head men, who had fled from justice It is reported that a large body of Indians had banded with the Mormons, resolved to resist the arrest of the suspected parties. The Sickles trial terminated yesterday in a yer- dict of acquital. The excitement on the rendition of the verdict was intense,and the enthusiasm of the populace was wrought up to the highest pitch. The scenes are graphically described in the reports that are published in to-day’s paper. Mr. Sickles will, it is said, remain in Washington several days The remaining portion of our very interesting correapondence from the South Pacific and Central America, brought by the St Louis—which was crowded out yesterday by a press of advertise- ments—is published this morning. It will be scen that during the late outbreak in Valparaiso the Tost deadly and rancorous assaults were made on the American residents by the Chilean soldiery. Mr. Horatio Gates Jones, an estimable man, was shot dead in the midst of his family, and his head was afterwards transfixed to the floor with a bayo net. His brother-in-law was mortully wounded; Dr. Blanca and Mr. Albert Sness, American citi zens, were both robbed, aud the house of the Ame- rican Consul was rudely violated. Hon. Mr. Bigler, United States Minister, had already as- sured the Chilean goverument that full sa faction must be given for these crucities, and it was considered that the official clamor agamst our Consul was revived purposely in order to direct Atteution from the facts. The Chileans hate North Americans, owing to our having proved them to be such an inferior race in the early days of the gold discovery in California. Our naval aud other jetters from Central America give reports of the movements of the United States squadron in these waters, with some remarks on the canal work of | M. Felix Belly. We have files from Bermuda to the 12th inst- A very severe storm from the northwest passed over the island on the 9th, blowing down trees and damaging some small boats. We have not heard of any further mischief. The crop of potatoes did not suffer very materially. The fortieth anniversary of the organization of the Order of Odd Fellows was celebrated ia this city with great enthasiasm. The day was beauti ful; the atmosphere warm, and the sky clear. Early in the morning the various societies, headed by bands of music, were seen moving through the streets, and the general appear- ance of things was similar to our national anni- versary. At nine o'clock in the morning the various lodges of this city and from abroad mus- tered on the Battery, and at eleven o'clock they took up the line of march at the direction of the Grand Marshal of Ceremonies. The assemblage of the members of this worthy fraternity was large, and it is supposed by those qualified to judge that there were not less than ten thousand persons in the pro” cession. After the column had marched over the route designated in the programnie of arrange. ments, they halted in Madison square, and formed around a platform erected for the occasion’ and from which the Hon. R. B, Bortston, of South Carolina, delivered an oration. It was promod With yooa! and instrumental must. At six o'clock NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY; APRIL, 27, a quiet collation was given at the Astor House, and | the parts. It will enable & 4 all at night a grand soiree was held at the Academy of music. John D. Pfomer was tried yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Term'ner, for the manslanghter of Charles Sturges, on the 25th of March, in an oyster saloon in the Bowery. The particulars have been already recently reported. For the prisoner it was contended that the killing was done in self defence, and therefore justifiable. Ata late hour | the jury bad not agreed. The vestry meeting held at Trinity church yes- terday for the election of wardens and vestrymen resulted in the re-election of the old officers, with the exception of John R. Livingston, whose place | has been filled by ex-Surrogate Bradford. The interest taken in the election may be judged from the fact that 153 votes were polled, being the largest number ever polled on any previous occa- sion. The successful ticket had 105 votes, and the remaining 48 were distributed among the unsuc- cessful ones. The Board of Ten Governors held their weekly meeting yesterday at the usual hour. Two com- munications—one from Mayor Tiemann, and the other from Charles H. Haswell and others—stating that the third annual meeting of the Sanitary and Quarantine Convention will take place at the Cooper Institute to-day; that a large number of medical gentlemen and others interested in sanitary matters, from all parts of the Union, will be present, and suggesting to the Board the propriety of inviting them to visit the institutions under their control, were read, and a committee of five, with power, ‘was appointed by the Board to be present at their meeting. The warden of the City prison sent in a communication asking for the appointment of two additional keepers. Their appointment was author- ized. The Superintendent of the Relief of Out Door Poor was authorized to appoint a clerk speak- ing the English, French and German languages, at asalary of $800a year. The number in the insti- tutions is 7,258; decrease on last week, 105; admit- ted during the week, 1,408; died, discharged or sent to the penitentiary or State prison, 1,513. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales, included in which were 700 in transitu. The mar- ket continued to be unsettled. The foreign news exer- cised a favorable influence over the market for bread- stuffs, and imparted a stronger tone to it. The sales of flour were on a rather increased scale, while common and medium grades of State and Western were firmer; Southern was also in good demand, and prices steady, Wheat was in better demand with more doing; prime lots were more firmly held, while common qualities were unchanged. Corn was firmer and more activo; sales of Jersey and Southern yellow were made at 850. 8 863¢¢c., and good to prime at 8730. a 68c.; Weatern mixed was at 82c, a 823g, Pork was easter, and more active, with sales of new mees at $16 90.a $17, and prime at $1275 $12 85. Sugars were tolerably active, with sales of about 1,600 bhde. at ratea given in another column. Ooffse was steady; two cargoes of St. Domingo, embracing about 6,000 bags, were sold, one of 2,800 bags at 10-3ic., and the other on private torms, Freight engagements wore somewhat larger in amount, while rates were without change of moment. The Next Presidency—New and Important \ Democratic Movement. A Washington despatch, which we lay before our readers this morning, discloses the leading points of a new and most important programme in behalf of the disjointed democratic party. Re- duced to a few words, this programme compre- hends a party compromise on the question of slavery in the Territories, whereby the South is to drop the demand for Congressional protection, and Mr. Douglas his hobby of squatter sove- reignty, both sides agreeing to the doctrine of. non-intervention and to the exclusive super- Vision vf We Supreme Court. Soooudly, two democratic National Conventions in 1860—the first to fix up the platform and the party re- organization, and the second, some months later, to nominate the democratic ticket. The simplicity, the novelty, the sagacity and the expediency of this plan of operations must be conceded on all hands. If upon any programme the disorganized democracy can be reunited, it is upon this. Southern democrats can never agree to the doctrine of Mr. Douglas, that while they have the right to take their claves into any Territory of the Union, the safety of that sort of property must depend upon the local police regu- lations of the squatters, Nor do we suppose that Mr. Douglas and his adherents will agree, in any event, to the extreme Southern doctrine that it is the duty of Congress to passa special code of laws for the protection of slavery in the Terri- tories. As we understand it, the power of Con- gress over the Territories is supreme (within the limita of the Dred Scott decision), and thus Con- gress, in its discretion, may pass or refuse to pass a slave code for the Territories. The ingenuity and the simplicity, therefore of this reported basis of a compromise between the Douglas and the anti-Douglas democracy upon this subject, cannot be surpassed. Its prac- tical operation would be to leave slavery un- touched in every Territory until it shall enter into a State organization, when the people, through their Constitutional Convention, will have full authority to make the State a free State or a slave State. In a party view, the two ex- tremes upon this subject can only agree upon this plan of leaving slavery in the Territories un- touched by Congress and by local legislation. | True, this policy might nullify the late act of the | Legislature of New Mexico for the protection of slavery in that Territory; but that affair isa mere bagatelle to the democracy compared with { the great object of settling among themselves these foolish abstractions of Squatter Sove- reignty va. Congreseional Protection. The Cincinnati Convention positively fixed upon Charleston as the place for the party Presi- dential Convention of 1869, but the time is not yet determined. A committee was appointed to ap- point another committce to name the day; but, if this second committee was also appointed, we have forgotten the fact. In any event, as leaton is to be the place, the time cannot eufely be delayed beyond the latter part of April or the frst half of May, on account of the dan- gers of the climate. The strangers’ fever, if we sre not mistaken, begins to develope itself in the latter part of May at Charleston, and that dreadful visitor, “Yellow Jack,” sometimes is found there in June. Concluding, then, that the Charleston Convention will be called to- gether early in May, 1860, will it not be too early for the Convention to make clean work of the busines before them—plutform, ticket and all? The new Congress meets in December next— the long session. It may, and most probably will, be protracted till July or August, 1860. Certainly we may-expect to find it in full blast simultaneously with the Charleston Convention; and.as the leading democrats in Congress will be the managers of the Convention, they may not be allowed by the opposition in Congress the time required to patch up a treaty of peace, and to shelve all the impracticable contesting candi- dates for the Presidential nomination. In this view, the proposition to held a second Conven- tion after the adjournment of Congress, to nomi- nate the democratic candidate, becomes emi- { ‘ao advisabie, the weaks poivts of the proceedings of au opposition House of Representatives, and all the weak points of the common enemy outside of Congress. Nor is ¢ is oll, A September Conven- tion of the democracy in this city, te nominate their Presidential ‘icke*, will leave the opposl- tion in the inte va! to fight im the dark. On the other hand, it wll operate to rally together the New York and all the Northern Gemocracy; and it will give the party the ful'est insight into the secret of the most available man, In the inter- val, too, from May to September, this financial and commercial reaction of universal prosperity will have relieved the Treasury, and silenced all the clamors of the opposition concerning the bankruptcy of the administration, and this will give a prodigious lift to the democratic cause. Thus, from the good sense and sagacity indi- cated in this reported programme of the party peacemakers at Washington, we are inclined to believe in the probabilities of its ultimate adop- tion. We believe that no better plan of opera- tions could be adopted, and that the intestine squabbles and difficulties of the party upon measures, abstractions and men, are so numer- ous, so complicated and so serious, that it will require at least two National Conventions to bring them to a practical treaty of peace. At Cincinnati there was no other alternative than Mr, Buchanan. At Charleston Mr. Buchanan will not be in the arena; but there will bea dozen Richmonds in the field. Thus a precipi- tate nomination may be the death of the party, while a cool and judicious postponement may restore the party to life and power. Prompt action is a good general law; but there is nothing like a little “masterly inactivity” when in the shadows of Goming events we sec the advantages of delay. The Life of Commerce the Death of the Ta- riff Agitation—Do the People Want Fiscal Legislation in Good Times? The prosperous reaction in commercial and industrial affairs is producing its natural effect in destroying the popular interest in all ques- tions relating to fiscal legislation; and prominent among those that recently agitated the public mind the tariff discussion is laid out stone dead, until another season of commercial disaster brings it to life. Whenever hard times come on, and the peo- ple, from any cause whatever, find it difficult to meet their notes and pay their debts, they are prone to lay their disasters at the door of the government. Unwilling to ascribe their misfor- tunes to their true causes—over trading, specu- lation, extravagance and a heedless running in debt—they readily adopt the assurances of dema- gogues, and persist in believing that to the policy of the existing administration, no matter which side may be in, is due the peculiar hard- ness of the times, Achange must be had at once to relieve the people. The foreign policy of the government must be overturned, and its domestic policy completely altered. But the uni- versal panacea is an immediate change in the ta- riff. If it is a high one, it must be lowered; if it is a low one, it must be increased; and on every side are heard cries for protection from foreign competition, for relief from high duties, and for a thousand nonsensical and conflicting things, none of which agree with others or are really applicable to the case. Such was precisely the effect of the commercial revulsion of the mull or 1857, and the Congress of 1858 was agitated with a tariff discussion. But the country has got bravely over that now. Commerce has revived in a large portion of the Union. The imports at the port of New York, since the first of January of the present year, exceed in value those of 1857 for the same period of time, and that was the year of largest importations we ever had. Moreover, prices of goods averaging fully one-fifth less now than in that year, the quantity of imports must have proportionately increased to attain the same aggregate of values. Then, most of our indus- trial establishments, and particularly the maau- fectaring ones in New England, are crowded with orders, and work night and day to supply the demands upon them. Railroads are looking up again, in consequence of present increase of trade and travel, and the confident expectation of further augmentation, Even the iron men find it difficult to make a show of hard times, in view of the rapidly reviving demand for their products. And, as a natural conse- quence of this state of things, no one bothers his head about the tariff except the merchant, who feels in his daily walk of business the incon- gruities, inconsistencies and burthensome evils of the ad valorem system. We do not say that this revival of prosperity is general, or that the figures of the New York Custom House are an exact index of the increas- eG trade of the whole country. There are good reasons why some parts of the land should not yet feel this business revival, and others why it should be greater in New York than in some of the other commercial centres, The Western and Northwestern States are still partially laboring under the effects of two or three successive bad harvests. But the unexampled prosperity of the South has more than made up for this defictency, and its demands this spring for the products of Northern skill and New England industry have never been equalled. Thus far it has borne the great burthen of lifting up trade. Then, too, New York has centralized more business this year than ever before. The panic swept off many merchants in the provincial cities, and these have not been able to replace them, while New York, abounding in capital, skill and active busi- ness men, las not permitted a single line of cus tomers{o go down. To these causes of our in- creased trade we may add our rapidly augment- ing means of communication by rai) and steam with every part of the country, and the natural tendency of all commerce to centralization. With such present elements of prosperous busi ness, the promise for the coming fall and year are better still. The crops everywhere will be boun- tiful; for not only is their present appearance flat- tering, but it is well known that a greater breadth of land was sown than ever before. People hav- ing nothing to do in speculation took to planting. Large os our imports and domestic manufactures have been, the stocks are swept off and have to be replaced. The causes of prosperity in the South continue in force, and new ones are daily becoming evident, to bear upon the cereal and grazing districts of the North. In fact, we have begun to roll up one of those prosperous eras which go on with cumulative force until they attain the fever heat of speculation, and end in the chills of revulsion. In such 4 state of things 8 tariff agitation has not the ghost of a chance for success. In good times people want no changes in the tariff, nor any tinkering of the existing fiscal legislation. These are subjects that can be touched only when every body is losing money, and the people, being The expodignt will afford mony advantages to * foancially uncary, aro poll ioully disgontentod, And If our present ratio of increasing revenues goes on, as no doubt it will, and the expenditures of the government arc conduoted with economy, Mr. Buchanan will pay off the twenty millions the treasury has been obliged to borrow from the banks, and leave to his successor an unburthened, if not a plethoric treasury. ‘The Odd Fellows’ Celebration. Onr streets presented yesterday a spectacle as novel as it was imposing. About ten thousand Odd Fellows, a third of whom were visiters from different parts of the Union, turned out in pro- cession to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the institution of their Order in this country. Althovgh the insignia and banners of this asso- ciation are not unfamiliar to our citizens, this is the first time that its members have assembled here in such strength, or with so much pomp and display. The scene was an exceedingly interest- ing one, and attracted an immense concourse of spectators. The benevolent objects and exten- sive charities of the Order are so widely felt and appreciated, that, as might have been expected, the celebration embraced in its range a larger class of sympathies than is usually manifested towards secret organizations of this character. ‘The origin and spread of this association in the United States are so remarkable that we may be excused for briefly reverting to them. It had its beginnings in a small public house in Baltimore, called the Seven Stars, and kept by a man named. Will. Lupton. Here, on the 26th of April, 1819, the present patriarch of the American branch of the Order, Thomas Wildey, with the only four other members who could be found in the city, met and formed themselves into a lodge under the name of Washington Lodge No. 1. Requir- ing, however, some authority to work under in order to guard against the evils likely to result from the system of self-institution, they sought and obtained a charter from the Duke of York Lodge, of Preston, England, under which they were legally constituted and duly authorized as the head of the Order, to grant charters and ex- ercise supreme authority in the United States. To this commencement, humble as it was, origi- nated the Grand Lodge of the United States, with its numerous ramifications of subordinate lodges now spread in every direction throughout the Union. The growth of the Order was slow, until the ab- duction of Morgan and the decline of Masonry gave it its first great impetus. Our readers can- not have forgotten the excitement that pervaded the country in consequence of the disappearance of this man, or the political use that was made of it. The results to the Masonic affiliation were dis- astrous. It lost within the two following years about two hundred thousand members, and in New York alone, out of three hundred lodges, only seventy, and these merely skeletons, re- mained. The Odd Fellows, of course, gained largely by these defections, and we accordingly find them rapidly increasing in numbers until they have reached their present aggregate of over two hundred thousand. The Masonic order, which has recovered from the odium cast upon it by the Morgan affair, numbers about a third more. Like the Masons, the Odd Fellows have long since renounced all allegiance to the Grand Lodge of England. In 1843, we are told that “the Grand Lodge of the United States formally and unanimously severed the connection, and declared itself the only fountain and depository of Independent Odd Fellowship on the globe.” We have alluded to the works of charity and benevolence which constitute the main objects and the daily duties of Odd Fellowship. No esti- mate can be formed of the immense amount of good which is done by its members. But for their exertions the eleemosynary aid which is doled out by State and corporate institutions would have to be increased to perhaps double its present amount. But there are offices of kindness and of charity which public institutions cannot easily discharge, and which it is the espe- cial duty of the Odd Fellows to perform, They not only relieve the necessitous, but they visit the sick and desolate, administering words of hope and comfort to those who might otherwise think themselves deserted by their friends and society. In thus playing the part of the Good Samaritan, the Odd Fellow performs one of the noblest and holiest duides which it can fall to the lot of humanity to fulfil. It is the more ad- mirable in his case from the fact that as the members of this society are ia general hardworking and busily occupied men, they have but little time left for the rest and recreation which are indispensable to recruit their exhausted energies. Or the influence which is wielded by a secret organization, composed of so large a number of substantial and respectable men, having affilia- tions throughout the Union, of course no accu- rate idea can be formed. We must remain con- tent with the belief that it is exercised for useful and benevolent purposes, and will not be diverted to objects which might prove injurious to the public interests, It is obvious that were the oc- cult force which it possesses brought to bear on political schemes it would become a power in the commonwealth dangerous in proportion to its irreeponsibility. Frosi Times Augap.—From unmistakeable in- dications about us in the commercial centre of the Union, there can be no reasonable doubt that we are close upon a repetition of the flush times that immediately preceded the crash of 1857. That we went through that crisis so well, all things considered, and have recovered from its effects 60 soon, is a striking proof of the recupe- rative energies and elastic vigor of our country, and tbe enterprise and pluck of our traders, They are ruined one day, but jump up and try it over again the next with all the sang froid in the world. Here we are now in the second quarter of 1859, doing a driving business io all branches of trade. The imports will be close on to those of 1856 and 1867—perhaps exceed them, By the end of the fiscal year, on the 30th June next, the Secretary of the Treasury will flad a very handsome return from the Custom House to satisfy the government’s little bills. When the government gets fairly on its feet the banks will expand still farther, trade will receive euch au impetus as it has rarely known before, an army of schemers and speculators will appear in Wall street, with magical rapidity, and all sorts of means will be adopted to divert the money which is made in the regular business channels into the pockets of stock gamblers, who are really re- sponsible for money panics. There fs a certain fascination about stock gambling which many people cannot resist, and this is taken advan- tage of by the Wall street men when times are good. After the severe lesson of 1857, however, people ought to know better and be more careful in their operations, Sudden expansions on credit basis, if it can be 60 called, must inevitably be followed at some time or another by sudden crashes, If people will only keep this fact in mind, perhaps may be even able to bear the proeparity, Tish ae some upon them as well JARO ammrmra vrwe TSA rem SHEUE, heh Ma ten ee se the adversity out 01 Wawa tuavy wave COME BO well, The Washington Tragedy~-Verdict of Aw quittal. Yeaterday at two o'clock the case of Daniel Sickles, tried for the murder of the late Mr. Key, at Washington, went to the jury, who, after re- tiring for an hour, brought in a verdict of not guilty. This is just what we predicted nearly | two months ago, in the first article we published on the eubject, whem the homicide occurred, But looking back over the course pursued by counsel on both sides during this judicial investi- gation—their gladiatorial exhibitions, their long- winded legal dissertations, their subtle, hair- splitting mystifications, their sclfcontradictions and ridiculous fooleries, which, spun out for twenty-three days, with all sorts of variations, were sufficient to confuee and bewilder any twelve honest, unsophisticated mea—we have had our doubts as to the result during the progress of the trial, and we now regard it as really won- derful that the strong common sense of the jury triumphed over such difficulties, and, looming out of the fog with which they were surrounded, not only came to a definite conclusion, but rendered, after so short a consultation, a verdict in full \ accordance with public opinion. No ‘hanks to | the counsel for this denouement of the i ody, for never was a trial so botched and buigled be- fore. It is to the sound understanding and firm- ness of the jury, and not to the wisdom of the lawyers, that this verdict of substantial justice is due, and there can be little doubt that these twelve sensible men had made up their minds at an early stage of the trial, which might as well have been despatched in three days, as forced to drag its slow length along for three weeks. "The accused has reason to thank some lucky star that the result is what itis. There was ex- treme risk of its being far otherwise. Let him, therefore, rejoice; but let him be cautious, and let him keep quiet. Let no indiscreet friends induce him to accept any foolish ovations. His best friends will advise him to withdraw from public view, and avoid all notoriety for the pre- sent. It will take some years for this matter to wear out of the public mind. It has been a lamentable and disastrous affair all through. Let him, therefore, retire quietly and modestly from the popular gaze till it is forgotten. Let him take the opportunity of beginning a fresh career. Let him be born again, and lead a new life for the future. In order to carry out this idea, bis best and wisest course will be to start in some other State than this—to remove from former scenes and associations, that he may again carve his way to professional and even political distinction. He is not too old yet to begin a new career. There is a life of honor and a happy old age still before him if he will only now pursue the right course. The following is the article which we pub- lished on the subject at the time of the homicide, and to which we have referred In the beginning of this:— THE RECENT TERRIBILR AFFAIR IN WASHINGTON. the New York Heratp, March 1. On Sunday aiternoon, in the most aristocratic square of the federal capital, and under the very drop- pings of the Executive mansion, one of the most distin- guished members of the lower house of Congress eucoun- tered and killed peerheae mig the government for the District of Columbia. a volar in the prime of soca? ditingaished ‘careses, Ove daliverstely” viclaied the sanctity “of bis friend's freaide, inflcting’ upon is honor the deepest posable stain, ‘The young. writ of Mr. Sickles gotten her husband and ber children, The the husband Seed ihe the human nature; the lsmeeyy highly Peedi ‘nsouciant man of the world was changed ina moment to’ the savage seek- ing the life of his enemy, who was sent to his Maker unre- pentant, unannealed. Asa matter of course, such an affair, with such cir- cumstances and such surroundings, could not fail to cre- ate the most intense excitement wherever the swift wings Of the telegraph conveyed its particulars. In all its as- the affair ia a most lamentable one. Hore are two sporeband, most unanti Mr. hen eataiieed hin Key to his firealde and hia table, to the society of his wife and children—to emory waking hours, and disturb his deepest slumbers. ‘7 a aim of the Jaw is entirely exem; ae oe is entirely uoneceesary in such cages a8 thi ial action could peice ‘8 moral with more cermity than do the c| ae eee upon the killing of Mr. Key by The effect of this melancholy affair upon the pate i oi of the survivor will be temporarily disastrous. pic of New Ue whatever may be aaid to the acer ve & deep scated respect for the law, meg ng Bee d circumstances, will view its abi with repug- mance. They may excuse the act, but will hesitate to reward the author, But tho services of a brilliant man Uke Mr. Sickles wiil not be the? bevatnd the country, which is wide enough for all. In some of the border Terri- tories, where, from the laxity of society’ and the weakness of infaxt governments, the pa of viol wt remedies for violext social evils is vecesearily zou’, he may com- mence a new career, ‘Sostained by social ba. We hope and trust be will do so, Few young men in inhi Mfe = more promige then Mr. Sickies previous to thie a © recognized leacor, as he was the eta ‘an, 4 the doiegation from the commercial metropolis ut the country. Au eioquent orator, a keen debater, anda verd working man in committee; and, witbal, not losing sig tt of those xorial amenities which adorn the life of the publie man, he had ait the prerequiites for a first clags states. man. There will be thore who will be glad to return bim again at Washington after time shat! have in some degree softened the bitterness of the cup which has been pre- sented to hia ipa. Wasnrsaros Heronvs—Tua Dury or tHe Prorgxiy Owxens.—Now that the lobby jobbers bsve been defeated at Atbany in their scheme about the region of Washington Heights, in the Twelfth ward of this city, extendiag from Manhattanville to Spuyten Duyvil Creek, the time is come for the owners of the soil in this extensive district to hold a mecvting at Carmans- ville, or some other convenient place in the ward, te make arrangements about laying out the avenues and streets, with a view to have the plan agreeed upon confirmed at once at the next meeting of the Legislature. All that is neces sary to be done is to appoint a committee from among the property owners, and give them in- structions to carry out the views of the meeting, to prepare @ map and draft of a bill, and to re- port to a subsequent meeting, when the plan will receive the final fiat of all the owners of the land, and then be ready for the action of the Legislature, It would bes crime against nature snd a sin against posterity to allow any set of Commis sioners to mar the beauty of the place, and change its healthy character into the dead level and right angles of the lower portions of the city. Let at least one spot on the island be sacred from the levelling barbarity of the modern Goths and Vandale, consecrated to dwelling places, free from the dust and filth and noise and nuisances of a great commercial me- tropolis. Those who have bought pro perty here have not bought it for pur. poses of speculation—they are merchants, lawyers, clergymen, doctors, professional men— many of them retired from business, and desiring to enjoy 8 life of happy repore—men of charac- ter and mark and stake in the community—the its of Gis Clty of Now York. Fiore are “ittle villains” among them, no broken down Wall street stoot: jobbers who, in their despery tion, deal in dead xnen’s bones; but they are sue cessful men of business—among them some suc ceseful editors, They are men of eGycation, and taste, and talent, and refinement, who a want to epeculate in their delightful reside which they know how to appreciate and enjoy, ‘This region is destined soon to surpass in every other respect, as it does now by nature, the Faubourg St. Germain, of Paris, or the West End of Londea. Let its owners, therefore, once proceed to take the necessary steps'w! we have pointed out towards securing for them! selves and their children forever the blessings oj euch delightful abodes, against the designs oj greedy harpies and vultures, which are hovering around to destroy them by turning the laying out of the streets and avenues into a flagrant job—men who are ever seeking whom and what they may devour—seeking to make everything on the earth, in the earth ahd abov: the earth, their lawful and devoted prey. pote a Ss Tux Orera iv New Yorx—Mantesto rroy PiccoLomint.—The fascinating Sienjese, whe has lately seceded from the Napoleodc Uilinas and walked over to the camp of thimerouria) Strakosch, and who has been bavi 4 triuny *phant career in the provinces (she ist this mo ment at Detroit), will shortly, proba on Wed: nesday next, reappear in New Yorkand give zome operatic soirées d’adicuz at the Aademy of Music. Apropos to this farewell, thollowing manifesto has been issued:— A CARD—MLLE. PICCOLOMINI TO THE YBLIC. Before saying adieu to ® public which hareated me with proverbial generosity, I beg permission expresa, in the best way offered me, the promptings omy heart. Icame to this country, so grand, #0 free anse charm- ing in ita youth and fresbness, with high wes, which have been more than realized. An artist who is satiafled is a miracle, I 8 miracle, then. But perhaps the public, or a portion of it, babeen dis- appointed. That is not my fault, Perhaps theynounce- ments on one side were teo rose colored, why the de- nunclations on the other wore too severe, I never pretended to divine genius. I am hply am artist, who does the best ahe can in her humble \y, an@ is proud to stoop for the smallest flower thatoay be thrown at her fort. There may be others who have the divine spark, per. haps many others approximate it nearer than I, Ilove my art, and devote my whole soul to it. inty ask the public to be fair, You have been more-oy have been generous; and whatevor success I may bye hereafter, the reminiscences of my American tour wilhe among the sweetest of my lifo’s souvenirs. I would rather stay here than go to Eurepe. But ome- even a spoiled girl, and a prima donna as well—caana always have her own way ; 20 I must go on the firsta JuAkd therefore T have written thi in advance of mq farewell performances, to thank the public of the whek country (and of New York especially) for tho fayor tha! has been lavished upon me, ‘More than all this: I shall endeavor In the rdles which ‘am to undertake for the first time here, to ahow that thi previous favor has net been thrown away, but, has ew couraged me to new exertions. And so I salute you all. Iwould be charmed to do| personally; but the country is so large and the popn'atio #0 immense, that I really fear the time would not be suf Acient. ‘The public’s devoted, MARIA PICCOLOMINL ‘This pleasant literary bonne bouche will chara all the prima donna’s admirers more than ever ‘The prospects of her farewell season are extrem ly brilliant. In the early spring the city is ful of Western and Southern traders and Eat ern anniversarians, all of whom bring a lare train of ladies, old and young, all of whm must see Piccolomini, 2s was proven by te grand crinoline crushes which overwhelmed te Academy whea she eang last winter. It is po- bable, too, hat the provincials who desire to har and see her again will be obliged to journey o the metropolis, as it is likely she will not vist the rural districts or provincial cities, such s Boston'and Philadelphia, She will sing in thre réles in which she has not yet appeared in tk United States, which circumstance will pique the curiosity of the habitués of the Opera. Altogether, the Piccolomini season will be a pleasant wind- ing up of an agreeable, and, on the whole, su- cessful operatic year. Facts Asour Nsw Zeatanp.—We have jut received from the Colonial Secretary of Nev Zealand an official report of the statistics of that distant British colony for the year 1857, whith presents some interesting features touching the growth and progress of that young but evidenily prosperous country. Accompanying the report we received the following letter:— CovoNtaL. bag ame ot Orvicn, New ZmALAND, AUCKLAND, Jan. 26, 1869, Sm—I haye the honor to pole | to ‘ ‘oy god of the Colonial Secretary, a copy of the tatletics of Zealand for the Zit or ra, tha Leer 40 86; Ber, pant GISBORNE, Under Secretary. To the Ealtor of the ‘mae, New York, U. 8. Amvrica, The colonization of New Zealand commenced at a later date than that of the neighboring islands of Australia and Van Diemen’s Land, and though it lacked that great clement of sud- den growth—an auriferous soil—which thg for- mer possessed, yet its fertile fields and juicy pastures afforded a temptation to the adventu- rous agricukurist and stock raiser, and the temptation has cventuated for them in a pro- fitable and happy reality, The Europea population now numbers in the aggregate 52,155. Of these no less than 56,927 arrived from the mother country in 1857, The aboriginal population, who are for the most part Q savage and untutored people, exceed by some thousands those of European birth—the total being, 9s far as can be ascertained, 56,049. New Zealand exports a good deal of grain, timber, oi! and gum, and wool, flax and hides in smaller quant ties, The total value of the ex- ports of 1857 was one million eight hundred aad forty-six thousand nine handred and eeveaty dollars; and of its imports for the same period, four millions nine hundred and sixty-four thoa- sand nine hundred and seventy dollars; whereof twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and niacty were received from the United States, The export of wool has donbled since 1853, and the export of Inmber, oil, gum and grain has increased in a still greater ratio. The reve- nue of the colony from all sources amounts to about a million and ® quarter of dollars. The: criminal statistics present a novel and rather agreeable aspect; the total committals for of- fences aguinst person and property for one year, out of a population of over 100,000, being only thirty-five; of whom twenty-seven were convict- ed. The number of civil suits brought for the same period was only one hundred and thirty- nine. New Zealand, therefore, is evidently not the country for lawyers. Half’ a dozen of thena could not make decent living there. New Zealand has about fifteen seaports, and the average number of vessels arriving there im the year is about two hnndred and eighty-nine, and those clearing from the ports two hundred and cighty-three, the large majority of which ane British bottoms, Though our interests ia New Zealand are nob very great, either commercially or soolatly, cf