The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD.| JAMES GOROON S6RENK TT, @NTOK aN PROPRIETOR, TOR aD Massa FS. — TERMS, cash in advance. Money sent rit wil be at the | rtek of the sender, Postage oa Til pate: nEnarp trea conte per WEBKLY HERALD, every Sotw Pe eT, Bh por coma; be iectroe Baton tere Welneoeg @f otz conte per vopy. $4 Pr angen to any part af Great Britons, | Beker ‘v the C both We atrige | Wve Crrion w. W. Ow ‘at xe vance we. 417 | AMUSEMENTS THIS RVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSTO, Fourteenth stroet. —Trautan Orama —Maunee si one o'Viook—14 Ths viata. WIBL@’S GABDES, Broniway.—AxToxY AND Ouzo- rare. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Goruam—Poxdo—Ove a é POLIVAN THR aTR xp Fapse—biasise asp On WALLACK'S THEATEH, Broadway.—Tux Wire—Box amp Cox. Leuma Lenn edi THEATKA, No, 534 Broadway.—Mip- poms scuut’s Di THEATER MORTS, GR6 Hroadway.—L/Amove Que’ est QU 'Ca-Mum. Beeteamp ax Mite. KaTox—LE | LANO M1MT HE BARNUM'S AWERICAN KUSFUM, Browtway—atter neoe—Tor Honteus or tue Freexess, Kyeaing—Oor Amse Vous. woors rat BUILDING, 561 nad 563 Broadway— Brmorus Boxcs, Daxces, | 40.-Rurvan ov tus Reuuext. Al TOS’ HALL, 427 Broad- Roast Bsxr. Beamer MIMETRELS, way —Daco Sonus, 40.- FALL. Astor Piace.—Dx, Loxn’s Lectons or _ TRIPLE SHEET. — pow Korn, Pharony, apru 28, soi The News. By telegraph from New Orleans we have highly important news from Mexico. Miramon had suc- ceeded in penetrating the lines of the liberal forces, and reached the capital on the th instant, He had already, it is stated, commenced the work of murdering peaceable foreigners indiscriminate- ly. He had also issued aformal protest against | the recognition of the Juarez government by the | United States, and had banished Mr. Black, the American Consul-Genoral, from the country. | While those occurrences were transplring at the eapital, at Vera Cruz the British Ministor kad made demand on the Juarez government for the full payment of all the claims of his countrymen, and instructed the commander of the British tleet to bombard the city in case of refusal. The exequa- tur of the Spanish Consul at Vera Cruz had been revoked. We learn from Washington that Senor Mata, tho NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1850—TRIPLE SHEEP. nn ssc of a number of the crew m the open boats. Com- mander Scott, Assistant Surgeon Craig, Midship- man Parker, the engineer and gunner, with fifteco men snd boys, wore still missing whon the Styx left Port Royal. Samuel Forbes, an ord'na’y seaman, a native of Massachusetts, died on | o:rd the frigate Sabine, at Montevideo, of para’ys\-, onthe 20th of February. Ab upplication was made yesterday to Judge Roosevelt for a writ of error and stay of proceed: igs in the case of James Stephens, convicted of | poisoning his wife. ‘The Eu:opean new? received yesterday by ‘the Circas- sian at St. Johus contributed to keep the cotton market unsettled, while sales were too trifling to form any orite- rion of prices. The receipts at the ports since the Lat of September last have amounted to 3,418,000 bales, against 2,650,000 in 1868, 2,784,(00 ‘n 1867, and 3,142,000 ip 1886. ‘The exports have reached 2,271,000 bales, against 1,794,000 im 1853, 1,830,000 in 1857, and 2,218,000 in 1866. The stock on band amounted to 636,000 bules, against 664,000 in 1858, 298,000 in 1857, and 650,000 in 1866, Nothing but the apprehension of war in Europe was calculated to in- fluence materially either the foreign or domestic markets. The firmness imparted to flour by the news yesterday was maintained today, and the prices advanced for ak grades under good to choice extems fully 50. per barrel, while sales were mado to a pretty free extent. Wheat was more active, and the upper qualities were quite . Small lots of French red and white for seed were sold at $1 60 a $1 70. Corn was pretty freely dealt in, while prices were without change of moment. Pork opened with some dujness, but was more buoyant at the close, With salee of mess at $16 75, and of prime at $12 ud alot ofheavy uvingpected sold at $13. Sugars ‘The sales embraced ., obletly retning grades, at 6c. a 63¢0 , with emai! lots of New Orleans at 634 Tie and 210 bhus, moiado at 4760, Ovilve was steady. Salos of 2,000 bays Laguaysa were made for export at p. t. ng change ef moment. Louts Napoleon as a Revolationary Leader— Whe State of Europe and the Coming Up, heaved, The language of the Monilewr, Louis Napo- leon’s official organ, in its issue of the 10th inst., and reprinted in our columns two days since, is of the most remarkable and significant charac- ter, and clearly indicates the remarkable change that is preparing to overran all Europe. In this official and accredited outgiving Louis Napoleon claims to be the leader and protector of the moderate revolutionary party of all Ea- rope. As the protector of Italian liberty, he takes the ground from under the feet of Mazzini; | in his didactic utterances about “the peoples,” “the nationalities,” “progress,” “reform,” “civi- lization,” he seizes the words from Kossuth’s lips; aud his pointed expressions in regard to German nationality, German patriotism, enlight- ened Germany, independence of the Germanic confederation, and German unity, are such as might ‘nave been expected to fall from the lips representative of the Juarez government, will be formally received by the President to-day as the duly accredited Minister of Mexico. ‘The steamship Moses Taylor, om Aspinwall and | | Havana, 9 1 at 5 port yesterday. The ad- vicea from the first named port have been anti pate the a of the St. Lonis on Monday. ‘The daies from Havana are to the 23d inst. Gen. Goiaoouria passed through the harbor on the Cahaw- ba, and immediately after all sorts of stories about filibuster invasions were put in circulation. Cubans in New York intending to return to the island are cautioned by our correspondents against the trap likely to be laid for them by Spanish spies now in this oity. Consul-General Helm and family had feft Havana for the United States on a brief visit. | Havana was unusually healthy. The people were engaged in the religious ceremonies of Holy Week, but the Moses Taylor was allowed to get her coal on board on Good Friday by the gracious permis- sion of the Bishop. Sugars were in good demand for Spain, with about 280,000 boxes on hand. Good “ grocery kinds” were at 5} a 8} reals per arrobe. No change in freights. Exchange on New York trom par to j per cent premium. We publish in another column an interesting communication relative to the postal service be- tween New York and San Francisco and New Orleans and Nan Francisco. It has been stated that the government, have decided to transfer the mail contract from the Panama to the Nicaragua route. Such, however, is not the fact. The Post Oftice Department has simply advertised for proposals for transporting the mails between the points men- tioned, stipulating that the bids must be accompa: nied with a full and satisfactory guarantee that the | service will be faithfully performed. The commu. nication referred to contains several important declarations of the President respecting the Nicara- gua Transit route, and its author is evidently of opinion that the prospect of the transfer of the postal eervice to that portion of the Isthmus is anything but encouraging. The grand water celebration, which was to have taken place in Brooklyn yesterday, was ably postponed on account of the inclemenc; the weather. The Common Council had two ses- sions during the day, and decided to put off the affair until to-day, when the programme will be the same as was announced for yesterday. Should the weather be again unpropitious, ‘the oration and ode will be delivered inside the City Hall, and the procession and fireworks will be dispensed with until some future day. The firemen, nothing daunted by the rain, turned out in large numbers yesterday, and had parades on their own account. The necessity for the postponement was greatly deplored by ali classes, but the enthasiasm on the subject of the ‘ntroduction of the water will no doubt bear them up against a week uch drench- ing rain as was experienced yes' . Wind and weather permitting, there will be a grand time in Brooklyn to-day. ‘The third annual session of the National Quaran- tine and Sanitary Convention commenced at the | College of Physicians and Surgeons yesterday. attendance was very large, the di ites represent | ing cities and medical institutions in all parts of the country. Dr. Griscom, of New York, was chosen to preside, assisted by a dozen vice presidents and | half a dozen secretaries. An invitation to attend | the Brooklyn water celebration was received, bat @ motion to adjourn over till Friday was negatived- Interesting reports on Quarantine and hygiene were | made, abetracts of which are given in our report of the proceedings. We understand that the city au- thorities have made arrangements to give the delegates to the Convention « splendid banquet on Baturday evening next. The Commissioners of Fmigration met yesterday. But very little business of interest came before them. Captain Crabtree said that the laying of the yellow fever buoys at Quarantine, which must soon be done, would cost about $300, and he was de sirous of knowing who should bear the expense wand also where the buoys are to be laid, as this syear the location of Quarantine is an uncertainty up to the present time. The matter was referred | to the counsel and Vice President of the Board. | ‘The Committee on Castle Garden submitted a pro- ‘position for the regulation of the emigrant landing depot. It provided that the Board should be re- sponsible for the baggage of emigrants till they reach their destination, Considerable debate as to the propriety of entertaining this provision ensued, and the subject was at length referred to a com: | mittee to report at next meeting. The number of emigrants arrived during the week was 1,490, making the whole number for the present year 9,728, The receipts were $2,048 16, and the over. | draft $14,679 93. The British gunboat Styx, which arrived at Ber. | youda on the 29th ult., from Jamaica, brought aa | official account of the loss of the wy Jasuor on Baxo Nuevo Shoal. We p & statement which cxplaius how the d parved, Vesides @ palatal recital of the saflesings | effects of The ; 0 | tan’s rue | derate revoluti | ism, like charit, of President Loerre, of the German Parliament. To support these firebrand words he cites acts and policies pursued by him:—The con- stitatiopal throne supported in Spain, liberty shielded in Switzerland, moderation urged upon the Pope, reforms advised at Naples, concilia- tion towards the German Diet counselled to Denmark, and .triamph obtained for national interests in the Danubian Principalitics. We doubt if there is a crowned head or the Conti- nent of Europe that can read this array of facts and hints in the Paris Monitewr without a pre- sentiment of danger and a feeling of alarm. Louis Napoleon has achieved the old Napoleonic position as* arbiter of Europe and dispenser of its thrones, and his military sinews are still un- scathed and his financial resources almost un- touched. As an absolute sovereign enthroned on popular suflrage he is secure, amd may feel that he can stir with impunity the masses that underlie the old end rotten dynasties of his fellow monaychs. From this position he cannot be driven by a coalition, as Napoleon was from exhausted France; and he will hold # until the next revolutionary tide reaches him. ‘Thus far he has exhibited great skill in play- ng the popular feelings of the different coun- tries upon their rulers, and clique against clique among the politicians By his astute manage- ment of public opinion in Eagland, and a | judicious setting of leaders against beaders, he | has attained more real power there than any of the native stateemen; and both those in and those out of office, on every public occa- sion, protest their cordial alliance with him, and have constantly upon their lips professions of the utmost confidence in his sagacity and prudence. At the present juncture of affairs the statesmen of Magland are paralyzed, so far as regards their moral influence upon the Continent, by the necessity of appeal- ing to their constituents upon the very question of reform and extension of popular rights which Louis Napoleon has fanned into a flame ia Italy, | and which he is beginning to kindle in Germany. Even in their own domestic contentions the English politicians are in a constant state of jealousy and alarm at each other’s confidential relations and communications with the French Emperor. A similar peliey bas been inangurated for Germany, and we shall ere long begin to see the it, The Russian interest has been secared to Louis Napoleon by some secret under- standing, poseibly matured at Stuttgard a year | since, and which will make that meeting between Alexander IL aad Napoleon IM. as famous in his. tory as the mecting at Tilsit of Alexander IL and Napoleon L has become. Then the Umperors could abou the disposition to be made of ople ; now, perbaps, they have agreed upon that, and some farther division of the Sul- aod in’ Western Asia Africa. Hoglend declined to eessions of “ the sick man,” Tur not yet know if Louis Nopoleon has Ny «htdenying. In the ugitation ea of German unity and German na- the French Emperor has struck a dead- Avstria, and has not done meh less utrality policy of Prussia He. will be Northern do 6 oy tw German ptjuces and people denlllgs eacls Guid just as he bas the Maglish po- | “ » petty dukes no from ‘Russia, isttia, others from sia, and not town feara and selfish interests; ra fine field of labor for the moet TOP Where Louis N: ‘apo leon, a# leader of the mo- ts of the Gld World, will end, Many wil! say that his liberal- should begin at home; and few will doubt that it must end there, at all eventa. no one can tell. | He evidently secs that the present condition of things in Karupe is not only unfitted to be the fonndation of astable dynasty, but that tteannot in any event last Yong. The millions of armed men to keep the people down, the great- excess of expenditare over ite revenue by nearly every government, ae pantings of the popular heart for freedom, the increasing social developement and intelligence of the maese, and the growing d corruption of the ariatocratic and y potnt to but one remedy god one solution for the present compligation, | den t Jaare: z, have Revolation uaier the name of reform is rife tn England, at fore ca) in Italy, sative tn Lng many, restigd « 5:25, gettiieaiing im and latent in France apd. Austria. In yng ea deavoring to Jea and control it, the question is, can Louis Napoleon master the bydra-headed spirit of the age? Affairs in Mcxtco—The Necessity of a Strong Morel Support of Presideat Juares by Our Gove: ents The news from Mexico, received yesterday by telegraph from New Orleans, is of an iwportant and exciting character. It is brief ia its details, aud may be summed up in a few words. After his failure to take, or even attack, Vera Cruz, Miramon, the young President of the church party, retreated to Orizaba, The consti- tutional forces from the west had in the mean- while Jaid siege to the city of Mexico, and those of the State of Vera Cruz endeavored to pre- vent Miramon from going to its relief, by takiag up strong positions in the pass of Aculcingo, leading from the valley of Orizaba to the plains, of Puebla. This route was the oaly one practi- cable for artillery that Miramon could take in his march from Orizaba to the capital. Our ad- vices to-day inform us that he had forced the lines of the constitutionalists at Aculcingo, and reached Mexico on the 11th fnet, flushed with success. His subsequent conduct there is more that of a madman than of the leader of a strong party, and proves the desperate con- dition to which the clergy and their tools are reduced. He immediately commenced an attsck on the foreign residents, going so far, ac- cording to the despatches, as to murder them in- discriminately ; iesued a formal protest aguinst the recognition of the liberal government of President Juarez by the United States, and with drew the exequatur of Mr. Black, our Consul, and banished him from the country. This conduct on the part of Miramon is not at all surprising to us. From his first accession to command his course toward the foreign residents generally ia Mexico has been in utter defiance of law, friendly comity and the laws of nations ; and much, if not the entire blame of hia persie- tence in this course is due to Mons. Gabriac, the French Minister, and Mr. Otway, the Eaglish Minister. The first named of these has been, from the inception of the church party govera- meat under Zuloaga to the present moment, the active adviser and plotter of its counsela. In the prosecution of his designs he has utterly abandoned the interests of the French subjects, and so completely has he awakened their ill will towards himself, that several memorials against him, numerously signed by French merchants and residents in Mexico, have been remitted to Paris, Mr. Otway, the British Minister, ar. } rived in Mexico after the establishment of the Zuloaga government, and thé first official act he was called upon to perform, after presenting his credentials, was a claim for reparation to two British merchants at San Luis Potosi, who had been forced into the ranks of the Mexican army by Miramon, snd compelled to pay $10,000 ransom therefrom. Since this outrageous act Miramon has continued his attacks upon British and all other foreign residents in those parts of the country where he had jurisdiction; and yet Mr. Otway not only withdrew the demand ho had made on President Zaloaga—that General Miramon should be dismissed —but when this sol- dier displaced Zuloaga, and assumed the Presi- dency, he, with Mons. Gabriac, hastened to be the first to lick the hand that had smitten their | fellow-countrymen, and to give it moral and even physical power by their official recogattton and secret counsels and aid. Besides all this, the conduct of the English and French ministers in Mexico towards the iberal and constitutional government of Presi- dent Juarez has been such as to establish in effect an intervention of the worst kind in the of the Mexican people. By so timing the just demands of their governments on that of Mexico, and the enforcement of their concession upon President Juarez, whom they refused to recog- nise, as to weaken his material power at the moment when it was called upon to resist the inest violent attacks of Miramon, they managed to give practical aid to his efforts to overthrow the constitution and the government that maintained it. They even went farther than this. When the French and British fleets before Vera Cruz forced President Juarez to give up to them the larger share of the revenues of that port, which obeyed his rule, the diplomatic representatives of those Powers demanded also that Juarez, the constitational President of the republic, should divide with the rebel Miramon the pittance of revenue which they left to him. In this they failed, and now we learn that the British Minister has instructed Capt. Danlop the commander of the British fleet at Vera Cruz, to demand of President Juarez one anda half millions of dollars from the Custom House in that port, and in case of refusal to bombard the city. We hope Capt. Danlop will do uo such thing, as he bas refused to do other eimilar out rageous acts, instigated from the same source. If be does M, he will merit the condemnation of every right and liberty loving people in the world. Affairs in Mexico are drawing to a crisis, Tho choreh party, with the madman Miramon at their head, are fighting the fight of dceperation. The constitutionaliste, under the lea ip of Presi- raincd the entire possession of the republic, excepting only the cities of Puebla and Me If they succeed in taking these, Congress will be at once called together, and t law confise ig the vast possessions of the Mes can eccletiastical corporations will be enacted. This will instal « religious schism and revolution there, bared upon political necessities. The cburch party, by the acts of Afssm000, towards our Consul in the city of Mexico, has virtually declared war nst us; and shonld the effort’ of the British ‘and Freneh Ministers and fleets enable it to trlumph over President Juarez, we thal] be at war with Mexico, and cannot honora bly ercape from its prosecution. In this state of things the President should de- termine to exett at once all the power at his control. An effective American ficet should at once concentrate at Vera Cruz Mr. McLane’s hands should be strengthened, and he should be instructed to interpose as mediator between the allied fleets and President Juarez, A proper course on the part of onr Minister now, backed by the positive inetrnetions of the government, ipported by the presence of a strong fleet, may shield Mexico from the Machiavellian de tigns of the allied Ministers, and eave us from the coet of a reconquest of that country at our own expense, Miramon possesses no ports or sea coast, 0 that we cannot hold him to an ac- count for his course tow: ards our representatives at this jancture an r fupport to President inde; we can teach bln lo kaow that undor no and + c'roumetances' is the American government s Power to be trified with. The Mystificattons About “Popular fove- relguty.” Now that the Kassss issue is departed and gone, the politicians, North and South, aresoroly troubled for a new and living issue. Io shoir derperution they are raising the dead, by gettiog up an iseue on an abstract question, called squat- tor or popular soverciguty. The slavery topic is no longer on the tapis in any practical shape, for Kansas will be admitted, without question aud without discussion, among the sovereign States of the Union, whenever her admizsion is proposed in Congress, and there is now no “bleeding” Territory to exercise the tender mercies of “free State men’’ on one side, and of “border ruffians” on the other. The President- mokers are, therefore, reduced to the abstraction of squatter sovereignty. This does not neces- sarily involve the slavery question, bat it icaves room for its discussion incidentally, and the dead nigger will be hid in the fence in order to have the opportunity of dragging him out to public view. In their poverty of invention they fall back on the old nigger in some shape—if they cavnot bave him in the concrete, they will have him in the abstract. Accordingly, the news- papers, North and South (including the Phila- Gelphia Press and the Waehiogton Constitution), are mokivg great noise about popular sovereizaty, and these journals, instead of being candid to each other, are doiog their utmost to mystify the public mind, and to invest with a factitious importance an abstraction which has no real, practical existence. The question of squatter covercignty is a myth, a shadow—thero is no such thing. The Northern journals raise a clap-trap cry about sovereignty residing in the people. Everybody knows that the people are the true source of all legitimate power. At the organi- zation of the government the sovereigaty re- sided in them, but by the very constitutioa which they adopted they delegated their sovercignty to their representatives, and do not, and cannot exercise it directly. The democracy of the United States is a representative republic, aud laws are not made or unmade by the votes of popular assemblies, as they were in the republics of ancient Greece. It is truc that the people by revolution may overturn existing laws and constitutions, and establish on their ruins a new order of things, or, by the legitimate, orderly means pointed out and secured in the constitu: tion itself, they can alter and amend the fanda- mental law of the Union; but till they do so, the sovercignty resides in Congress and the State Legislatures, according to their respective rights, as laid down in the original instrament. ere is only one restriction, and that is, they must not exceed the limits prescribed in the instru- ment. Whatever power is not granted directly or by fair implication to Congress, or to State Legislatures, is reserved by the people. But ro one will pretend that legislation for the Territo- ries is one of the things reserved. On the con- trary, the constitution, by an express provisioa, gives Congress the power to “make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory of the United States.” A majority of Congress therefore have the absolute control of the legis- lation of the Territories—a Territory is their mere creature, and continues to be so till it is ad- mitted into the number of the States. It follows, as @ necessary consequence, that Congress can, within the limits of the constitution, establish { or permit slavery in a Territory. This the Nortuera jourpalicis depy in the vory face of the bond of union—the great fundamental law which holds the States together. The Southern journals are therefore right in the assertion of the principle; they repudiate squatter sovereignty, and they contend that Con- grees has the power to introduce slavery into the domeetic affairs of Mexico, and against the rights | i Territorics and to protect the right of slave owners therein. If they stopped there, no one could justly find fault with their views; but they go one step further, and they insist not only that Congress has the power to throw its wgis over slavery in the Territories, but that it ought to do £0, and ought to place the peculiar institu- tion on as firm a basis in a Territory as it is placed on by State laws in Georgia, Alaba- ma, Mississippi or Louisiana, Now, this is un- reasonable. It is one thing to possess a power, quite another thing to exercise It, The Southera zealot is right in the aseertion of the abstract principle—wrong in the policy of its application. It is foolish to attempt to enforce, idly and for the mere sake of showing power, a right of Con- gress which cannot be denied—foolish on the part of the South, because it has no longer the means to do it, But if the Southern interest had a majority in Congress, it would be equally inja- dicious to insist on the enforcement of the ab- stract right. Many things are lawful which are fur fiom expedicnt. “It is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but tyrannous to use it aso giant.” There are many things lawful for a parent to do in his own household, but which he will not do if be is wise. The prudent and proper courre for Congress is to hold its right in abeyance, and to favor neither North nor South, East nor West, There are other powers vested in Congress by the constitution which it does nut exer- cise, but keeps in abeyance. Tor instance, Congress has the power to abolieh paper money in every State, and it has the power to passa bankrupt law to take effect throughout the whole Union? Both these powers are expressly given in the constitution, but Congress holds them in reverve, and does not carry them iato excoution. Congress is not bound always to reise its powers. Iu the case of the Ter- ritories the constitution does not say “Con- gress muet,” but that “Congress may.” A diecretion is entrusted to the wisdom of its members, and for ita judicious exercise they are responsible to the people. And wo trust that no clamor of aigyer-worsbippers on one ‘side, or of slave drivers on the other and no schemes of demagogues who care nothing for Sambo, dead or alive, ia the abstract or the con- crete—unless to manufature an issue ont ofhim for oflice and epoile—will ever induce Congress to transgtess the conservative line of policy which the spirit and tenor of the constilution, taken as whole, dictate to the sober common se f the represcntatives of this great confederation. Vhe moment they do, they cross the Rubicon of the Union, and take a step which may become irrevocable, and fatal in ite consequences to the political fulric which hus been reared by the wiedom of the fathers of the Revolution, and whioh is now the hope and polar etar of oppressed nations to the ends of the earth. As for the trading politicians who are trying to raise the ghost of the Iuted Kansas iveue in the shape of squatter gover we thiok they will soon find out their n aud that the people ean- not be du (gagsparent humbi Wig 9 any suel ] household gede are suppored to be fn a atato of | their horecs entirely too fast, Rewrs axp Taxes wy Tue Mergovouw —As _—— es, Newsn’'e® Boreerece—Tos Hararp un We approximate the awful Gay whon ovorgbody’s | d7u Conremrons6—We copy from a rap: ota perturbasion—the housewife’s purgatory aad tho cartman’s beaven—the all important question of rents aseumes a double degree of interest. Ad is well known, rents bave increased in thia city in a wuch greator ratio than population. Not- withstanding our rapid progress, there remains still a large propertion of tbe city proper which is but scantily peopled. This circumstance may be partially accounted for by the superior fucilities offered to down towa traders by the suburban citiee—Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City, &c. But if a man with a moderate income could obtain the seme sort of house on the same terms in Fortieth street asia Brooklyn, he would prefer 'o live on thia island; but he finds an in- crease of thirty-three per cent rent in New York over Brcoklyn, which is a great deal to him Well, one would suppose that the New York landlords, seeing this emigration, would come down; but the truth is that they cannot do co, They are asscased now three times as much as they were five years ago, and the rents certaialy | are not more than double. In 1856 the rents were faid to be enormously high; in ’57 they | were increased; in °58 the heel of the orisis did not affect them materially, except in very expeneive houses. Thisyear they ran generally up to the highest possible point. Sbop rents are very high this year. The dry goods business has taken as sudden a start now as it had a fall io 1857, and the shop to be erected on the site of the Broadway theatre is said to be already rent- ed at the round figure of sixty thousand dollars per anpum. One effect of the increase of rents bas been to give a more settled character to our people. Time was when everbody, almost, moved on the Ist of May every year. Now it is customary to hire houses for louger terms—two three, or five years. That is because it is pretty ble Saterday coutemperary—tho New York Leader—s cleverig written article on newspaper enterprise in this ga ttry. The subject is oae that is interesting nog merely to ourselves ag | Journalists, but to the miasn’s of our people who | owe their political education entirely to thas source, Asa chapter of contempovary criticism, the article to which we refer is remarkable for its freedom from prejudice and general accuracy of statement—a rare thing now-a-duy’s in discus sions in which prefoesional rivalry is invelved. It advances one or two opinions in regard te ourselves to which we might take exception; but they are countcrbalauced by so much candor and such a spirit of fairness in other respesta, that we may well exouse them. When we ob~ eerve the evidence of a desire to deal honestly with facts, the speculative views to which they | Inay give rise are but of secomdary considore- | ton with us. It will be seen that the writer of this article bears testimony to the iufluence which the er- terprise of the Hkratp and the oreative | abilities of its proprietor have exereised upon the progress of the newspaper press of America. He dates the vitality ef the latter from the period when the appeaz ance of the small sheet which first bere his imprs- matur announced that anew spirit had been im- fused into its labors, But what is the progress which he desoribes as then excltiug the euvy and moving the stothfulness of its contemporaries to that which now marks the ceurse of the Haratpt Atno time in its career has ite circulation iacreaa- ed with the same rapidity, or its udvertisements multiplied to the same extent, as during the last twelve montbe, The revival of business broughs us an immense additional amount of advertising patronage, and the extraordinary activity of the spring trade has made such demands upon our certain that rents will not go down during the present municips] misrule and general official corruption under which we sulfur. Landlord suffers as well us tenant. Landlord must make his increased taxes in the shape of increased rent. The taxes can only be leesened by a thorough reform in the municipal government— reform not so much in the form of government as in the men who are called to administer it. Only let proper persons be selected for rulers, and the government will get on well enough. These views we give, not for the first, nor the second, nor the fifticth time. We pressed them upon the taxpayers last year; but the noto- rious indifference of our people to abuses under their own noses, and eating out their own sub- stance, picking their own pockets, prevented anything like a combined movement against the tax-eaters, and the old system of robbery was re- peated, is being repeated, and will be repeated over and over again, until the people who are plundered see fit to stop it, which they can do very easily when they set about it in earncat, Governor Wisk JemrmxG Too Hraw.—Our political cotemporaries are puzzled what to make | of the late Alabama letter of Governor Wise. Certainly the peculiar declarations and opinions of this letter are hardly consistent with the pre- sumption that the Governor is a candidate for the next Presidency. Whena politician fixes his attention upon the White House he usually en- deavors to enlarge his views of the policy of the goverpment, so as to embrace the interests of all | sections of: the Union. Not so with Governor Wise. He remoins in the Dismal Swamp of those old Virginia abstractions of °98 and ’99, and em- | phatically believea in the stand still and do no- | thing policy. Thus he denounces Mr. Buchanan as a latitudinarian and federalist, worse than an Adams or Hamilton, on account of his recom- mendations in behalf of « Pacific railroad, inci- dental protection to home manufactures, the ac- quisition of Cuba, the pacification of Mexico and the settlement of Central American affairs, a ge- neral bankrupt law, &c. Governor Wise would have none of these things. He would reduce the federal government to a quiet asylum for decay- ed politicians, leaving the country to run to seed like an old Virginia plantation. But if he thinks this old Virginia policy will do for the Charles- ton Convention, and that Virginia will rule the democratic roast in 1860, as she has done here- tofore, he is under a great delusion. He will find that in his efforts to out-jump Hunter as a strict constructionist, he has been jumping too high. Indeed, asa politician, he reminds us of the old Virginia darkey:— “He wheels about, ond turns about, And docs just 80; ‘And every time be wheels shout, Ho jumps Jum Crow.” Ovn Criwrvar. Recorp.—We publish elsewhere an article showing that there are now confined in our city prison the startling number of eighteen persons either convicted of or charged with capital crimes. At the same time, the news- papers throughout the country teem with reports of murders, executions for murders, poisonings and other outrages truly appalling. It is a curious | fact that, as a general rule, modes of murdering have their seasons of prevalence like the fashions, as is the case now in the use of poison, | or as was shown last winter in the numbers of garroters, So with suicidés: different means of death—as, for instance, strychnine, drowaing or arsenic—are alternately in favor. This city, however, bas more thaa its proportion of crimes, and appears to be in a measure cx- empt from the rule above mentioned. This i8 owing to the total ineflicieney of the police, in consequence of which all sorts of crimes | are committed with impunity. The stealthy mode of committing crime prevalent elsewhere is not necessary here. Rowdies can abuse, maim and murder in the public streets and bar- rooms with perfect freedom, because our miser- able police either dare uot or will not interfere. Give us a good police, and New York will be the most moral city in the world, aud exempt from the seasons of crime that prevall elsewhere. Te ALABAMA “Di mockacy-——A Suor ar Doveras—The Alabama democracy appear to have no faith in squatter sovereignty. The fol lowing resolutions, passed at a democratic meet- ing at Cahawha, in that S:ate, on the 1GUb inst., are pretty explicit:— Remived, That we tert repudiate Stepben A, Doag- ag and his abolition heresy that Territorial 1 ture may probibit tlavery by native hogisiation, Resolved, That under no circumstances wil! wo support Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency, if nominated by the Charicston Convention. Theeo men appear to be inaburry. They have gone off halfcocked. We do not suppose that Mr. Douglas expects to be nominated at Charleston. But the question with these Soath- orn fireeaters should be, can we disponse.with the support of Douglas? Can we afford to kick him out when he really desires to stand with the democratic party and the administration? That is a very nice question, Let the Southern ul- tras hold back a little. They have been driving space that we have been compelled, to issue triple sheets three or four times a week—a feature thas bids fuir to become a daily:and permanent neces- sity with us. Our advertisement receipts, os our books will show, average upwards of $300,000 a year—equal to those of all the other daily journals of New York put together—whilst our duily circulation is also equal to their com- bined aggregate. One of the best, because one of the most convincing, proofs ef the extent of our circulation and advertising influence is the fact of New York papers, like the Mcproas, tha Tribeng nq the Sun, advertising in our golusins, Ta order to retitled peeps that they are ia ex- istence, our contemporaries flad themselves com- pelled to have recourse to the publicity which the Heravp alone can afford them. Ent Tuayur Sris, Co.oxwiwa.—We under stand that Hon. Eli Thayer, the pioneer of those famous Kansas Emigrant Aid Societies, is now busy at Worcester, Massachusetts, organi- zing a company of colonists for his new and pre- mising settlement at Ceredo, on the northwest- ern border of Virgivia, We have lately passed through the Charlotte gold district of North Ca- rolina, and from the information derived ia that district of its auriferous and other resources, and of the 2 scarcity of labor there, we should say thas acoloby of well bebaved and industrious Yan- kees in that neighborhood would make it pay handsomely to all concerned. Indeed, from Vir- gin'a to Georgia, what with the iron, coal, geld and other mines, and endless forests of timber, and water power, &c., &e., to say nothing of the fish and oysters, and “early garden gass’”’ of that great section of the Union, there wouid be a megnificent ficld of operations for Northera white enterprise and labor, if we could only have peace between the North and the South upor this everlasting question of slavery. Thus, with peace upon this subject, the advantages to both sections would be inestimable. As it is, in Vir- ginia, North Carolina, and even in South Caro- lina, an enterprising conservative Northern man, like Eli Theyer, is pretty sure of a kind and hoe pitable reception, and sure to make it pay. Poor Fornsy.—The Chevalier Forney is com stantly howling over Mr. Buchanan’s distribution of the spoils. Poor Forney. Since his expul- sion from the fat chops and sops, and pickings and lickings of the kitchen, everything gocs wrong. His latest distress arises from the re- ported appointment of a Mr. O. B. Bar- rett, of Pennsylvania, as Superintendent of Public Printing, in the place of George Washington Bowman, supposed to have re- signed. Forney is astounded. Why Barrett? Te was always, according to Forney, an enemy of Mr. Buchanan. ‘Barrett was the representa- tive of the old Shunk opposition to Buchanan,” and Barrett, it appears, “has written more bitter articles against Mr. Buchanan than any other man living, not excepting James Gordon Bea- nett.” And thus, through half a column, the dis treesed Forney howls away at Barrett. Poor | Forney. If you wich to hear him howl, give hina | aemell of the kitchen. vn—Avorunr Coop -The official retarns of the Post Oflice De- | partment, according to the Washington Svar, tor the quarter ending with December, 1858, show asum total of receipts equal to $1,860,176 14, against expenditares amounting to $874,543 70, which give a surplus for the quarter of nearly @ million, and a gain of nearly one hundred thou- sand holders of receipts over the corresponding quarter of 1857, Here we have another evi- dence of the, return of prosperous times; and we have no doubt that, notwithstanding the culpa- ble folly of Congress at the late session, and the embarrassments thus entailed upon the Post Office Department, that through the current year and the next year it will continue to prosper. The Department is in good hands, and is doiag very well in spite of Congress. | Tat Poser Orrick R Sr | Siene The Movements of the Atiantic Telegraph Company. ‘We are reliably informed that the negotiations botwoom the Faglish government, tle Atlantic Tolegraph Company, and the New York, Nowfoundland and London Tolezrapts Company, have reachod a point which admits of no coat about the government's guarantee of eight por ceat ou the six hundred thousand pounds capital being accopted. Im view of this fact, aa wo learn from the rame reliable source, the Atlantic Company aro actively engaged in making the most thorough toste of the varions kinda of cable adapted to the Atlantic line, and will be prepared to enter into the necoseary contracts at an early day. In the moantina, the company have decided to oxpond w'aum, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, to resuscitatethe present cable, and active operations to this end will be com- monced as soon a6 the woather will admit. ‘Tho heavy battery of Mr. Henley, which arrived at St. Johns, N. F., late last fall, bas not yot been sect to the tolegraph station at Trini y Bay, owing tothe ivo, but will ‘be in position within the next fow weoks or days. Tho Atlantic Company will not attompt to lay the new cable until July of noxt year, f—John Lehmann, who lately horse eten'ing nnd an outrage mony — hae been tried and suuyevoed prison for eight yeors f rence fee the oe yeors for the first of