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

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METBOPOLITAN THEATRE (Late Burton's),—Lovuss Be LigneRouEs— Guy Maxneeina, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1859.—-TRIPLE SHEET. between Dr. win, of New York, and Dr. Little- | john—the foimter the know: champion of the | High Church and a favorite of the clergy, while | the latter was the favorite of the laity. The Convention finally compromised on a conserva- tive man—Dr, Odenheimer, of Philadelphia—but, as we have said, not without a struggle, just after , | the fashion of ordinary mortals, vide Congress, | the Police Commissioners, the Board of Council- men and the Tammany Hall factions, This | Episcopal Convention, the Tract Society, the Baptist societies, and Dr. Cheever’s church troubles, would seem to show that gentlemen of the cloth have their squables quite as often and as bilterly as other people, and with quite as much of an eye to the spoils, | fhe Virginia Klectton—The Demoralized | Democracy and the Next Presidency. From the returns received of the Virginia | election we make up the following table of the | reported majorities for Goggin, the opposition | candidate for Governor, in comparison with the vote for Governor Wise in 1855, to wit:— | Goggin's ——— Vole in 1855 ——— | j., 1859. Wise, dem. Flournoy, e | 220 “ i 138 | 280 ‘ea 2 | 200 666 447 120 1,284 948 100 217 306 375 705 sons oon 8285 majority, ag far 8 WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.—Loxnon Assurance Dragoon. LAUBA KEENE'S THEaTRE. No. 5% iroadway.— Bosyy Fisnwire—Mipivawex Nigut’s Datau. THEATRE FRANCAIS, 685 Broadway.--Ls Favouits— L’Roxyace er L'ancent. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSKUM, Brosdwey.—Afer- Boon and Kvening—Oncix Fox's Canin, WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 861 and S63 Broadway— Brntoriam f0xGs, Dances, 40.—Gantt or tax toe BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, MECHANIC’ HALL, 427 Broad- way.—Nnaxo Bowas, 46.—a.in’t Gor Timm to Taany. ROOLEY'S MINSTRELS, 444 Boncs, Dances, &c ~ Disarvorxten Lovers Broadway.—BUR :ESQUBS, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, May 25, 1859. The News. We have news from Mexico dated at Tampico on ‘the 12th and at Vera Cruz on the 14th of May, but it is not very important. Hon. Mr. McLane had visited our Consul at Tampico. Mejia’s defeat is confirmed. Degollado is to retaliate on Miramon by shooting all the officers of the constitutional army which may fall into his hands.. The British war steamer Alert took off two millions and a half of dollars in specie. The Granada brings advices from Hayana to the 23d inst. Quite an excitement had been produced in commercial circles by the receipt of the Eu- ropean war news, and traders in every staple looked forward to a good time. The city was healthy. Sugars were a little more active, with 345,000 boxes on hand. Freights were still im- proving. Exchanges had suddenly advanced. On New York it was at from 2} a 34 per cent premium. Reports from St. Thomas state General Santa Anna intended to go soon to Carthagena and there end his days. We have news from the West Indies dated in Ja- maica on the 4th, and Barbadoes on the 13th of May. Four hundred acres of sugar estate, with the buildings, were sold in the former place for $1,575,s0 much is property depreciated in value sjority im the same counties ta 1 Opposition gain in nine counties, Anything near this ratio of opposition gains | throughout the State would not only overcome the ten thousand majority of Governor Wise, but would elect Goggin by twenty thousand majority—there being one hun- dred and forty-four counties in the State, But these reported gains will be subjected to many heavy drawbacks—first, in the figures themselves, when the full vote of the counties reported comes in; second- ly, in the Letcher gains in the western division of the State. Thus, bearing in mind the first returns of the Virginia election of 1855, we are not disposed to prejudge the defeat of Letcher. When we consider that Wise secured a ma- jority in 1855 of 10,000, upon an aggregate vote of 150,000, equal to a majority of 40,000 in New York upon a full vote, and considering that the Virginia opposition party in 1856 were so dispirited that they permitted the State to go | for Mr. Buchanan by nearly 30,000 majority, it | taxes our credulity to entertain the idea, in 1859, of the election of the opposition candidate for Governor of Virginia. In any event it is manifest that while the opposition elements of Virginia have been brushing up and making a vigorous fight, the democracy have suffered a moral, if not a mortal defeat, in the very Schastopol of the party—the Old Dominion, What has become of that heavy Virginia majority of thirty thousand for Mr. Buchanan? And how is it that, under the prestige of that majority, the party has failed to do as much for Mr. Letcher as they did for Mr. Wise? The reason is, that ever since Mr. Buchanan’s election the selfish, plotting and intriguing politicians of the party have been at work mining and counter mining, plotting and counter plotting, North and South, against the administration and against each other for the Charleston Convention there. The weather was very dry and unwhole- some. Fires on sugar estates prevailed very gene- rally in Barbadoes. Sugar went off easily in Kings- ton, but with no variation in price. Rum sold at 2s. 10d. per gallon. The Joint Special Committee of the Common Council on redistricting the city held a meeting yesterday, but failed to obtain a quorum. The charter of 1857 gave the Common Council the power to fix the limits of the election districts in the city, which was-accordingly done by the Cor- poration. The Registry law, however, which was passed at the last session of the Legislature, re- quires that the voters in each election district shall register their names on a certain day at one place in each district prior to an election. As many of the districts have 709 or 800 voters in them, it is feared that all might not have an opportunity in the time allowed to register their names and fulfil the requirements of the law; and, therefore, the Com- and the spoils and plunder of the succession. Thus we find the democracy in both sections cut up into conflicting factions and cliques; and thus, from the treacheries, rivalries and hostile Presi- dential cliques among the party in Virginia, the opposition have been encouraged to rise for the conquest of the State. If they have succeeded, they owe their success to the demoralizations in the democratic camp; but if the opposition have failed, it is because they have failed to appre | ciate and properly to appropriate the real weak- ness of their adversary. | It isa remarkable fact that the sectional and | factious leaders and Presidential aspirants of the democratic party, North and South, have vied — with each other in their efforts to break down | Mr. Buchanan’s administration. For example, the Northern anti-Lecompton democracy have New York. The extraordinary growth of the New York press is exciting the attention of he journals of Enrope. ‘As ourreaders may have seen by some extracts we published a few days ago from Parisian papers, the progress of the Heraxp afforded them a theme for comment, and called forth expressions of astonishment and surprise. Yet it is easily explained : the progress of the Ixratp Is a part of the pro- gress of New York, and that fs without a prece- dent in the history of the world. The Henarp is an institution of the city. and of the country, and its growth is a measure of the growth of both. It is their organ, giving utterance to their wants, their wishes, their ideas, and recording their events and the events of the world, It grows with their growth ‘and streagthens with their strength, just as the tongue of the infant becomes enlarged as its body advances through the various stages of childhood and youth, till it attains the full measure of & man’s stature. The growth of the United States fs that of a giant, and its press necessarily partakes of its 9 , Character. The amount of matter we published during | this last week of the anniversaries, in which we | had a triple sheet almost every day, would as- tound some Rip Van Winkle fallen into a trance | in a Sleepy Hollow twenty years ago, and suddenly awakened up by the sound of the | steam whistle, or the hoarse voice of the newsboy calling the Heranp in the streets with the news of the war or other stirring events in Europe, by telegraph from Quebec or Halifax or St.Johne, We think, indeed, the amount of matter we published will astonish even our readers when we calculate it for them, and present it in a tangible shape. During the week ending Saturday, May 14, we published in our seven daily issues 3,443,171 ems. In the techni- cal language of printers an em isa unit of space to measure printed matter. In a volume of or- dinary size, containing three hundred pages, there are 264,000 of these ems. The contents of the paper for a week wonld therefore make up- wards of thirteen volumes of three hundred pages each—an average of two volumes for each of the six working days and one for Sunday. Taking such books to be worth, on an average, about seventy-five cents each, they would cost nearly ten dollars in all; and yet we give the reader the whole of our week’s matter, an equal quanity and far more interesting, for fourteen cents In this progress of the press ef New York the Henaxp has taken the lead of all other journals, and still keeps a day’s march ahead. In every step it has been first, and then been followed and imitated by other newspapers. The Henaup was the first to publish money articles and to unfold the financial operations of Wall street. The Heraxp was the first journal to report the debates in Congress, and it organized a corps of reporters for that purpose. The Heratp was the first to report the political party meetings verbatim, for which it was then much censured and abused by the wirepullers, who did everything in secret, Now they want to have all their meetings re- ported in the Heraxp except the caucuses, aud these we manage to publish without the permis- sion of the politicians. It was the first to publish full and verbatim reports of trials and of all matters of public interest. It was the first to publish reports of the anniversaries some twenty years ago, which set tne managers almost frantic with rage. Now they desire above all things to have their proceedings fully published in the Herat, which we do for them gratuitously. The Hexatp was tho first journal to run expresses with European news from Boston. It was the first New York journal to ran the famous Mexican war ex- presses, in which it anticipated the news of the government, and gave it the first intima- tion of the victories of its troops. ‘Mhe Herarp was the first illustrated journal in this country—the first to throw light on events by pictures and maps. For instance, we published an illustration of the great fire in New York in 1835. The Herarp was the first journal to publish a double sheet; the first to publish a triple sheet; the only journal in America that mon Council are about to redistrict the city, by | made war upon the administration, and joined | has ever published a quadruple sheet. Of late dividing several of the larger districts into two, and making other alterations of a like nature in the others. Their next meeting will take place on Monday, when all who take an interest in the sub- ject are promised an opportunity for offering any suggestions that may occur to them. At the meeting of the Health Commissioners yes terday nothing came up in reference to the clean- ing of the streets, or how the work is progressing. Several nuisances in various parts of the city dan- gerous to public health were complained of, and the necessary measures taken to have them reme- died. Their next meeting will take place on Mon” day. The Police Commissioners have evinced a dispo- sition to restore to the force all the deserving old police who will waive their claims to back pay. Eight have already been reinstated on these condi- tions. It is supposed that the intention is to tramp up charges to dismiss them, or to get the force en- larged. One or the other must be done. The New Jersey Protestant Epi:copal Conven™ tion yesterday elected Rey. Dr. Odenheimer, of Philadelphia, to the bishopric of New Jersey, made vacant by the death of Bishop Doane. The steamsfips Westernport and Caledonia, of the Paraguay expedition, arrived at this port yes- terday from Montevideo, via Barbadoes, ali well. ‘The cotton market yesterday was without change in prices, while the sales embraced about 800. 900 balos from store. Flour was dull, and prices lower, especially for medium brands and low grades of extra state. The Sales were moderate, and mostly to the domestic trade, ‘Wheat was dull and confined to small parcels, including fine Southern white a $1 90, and Southern red a $1 75. | Corn was heavy and sales limited, at about 9c. for ‘Weatern mixed, 90 a Mc. for round yellow, and O4c. for choice Southern yellow. Pork was heavy aud cheaper: ‘with sales of thin a $17 600 $17 75, new mess at $17 25 $17 40, closing at the inside figure, and at $15 50 for prime. Beef and lard were unchanged. Sugars wero unchanged, while the eales embraced abont 800 has. chiefly Cubs. Coffee was less active, and the sales made confined to some lots 8t. Domingo and Java, at prices given | in another place. Freights were slack, and engagements | light, while rates were without alteration of moment. The question regarding the supply of rags was exciting wome interest among importers. And ag it is known that Trieste is a large market for their export, which was likely to be blockaded, the houres in the trade wore disposed to Rdvance their prices a half cent per pound, or more. But a6 the trade in Leghorn—s large rag mart—will remain ‘Open, and rags destined from the interior for Trieste can Mind an outlet through Bremon and Hamburg, the market is not likely to be affected by the wimt of supplies. Ba. Rides, a8 all raw materials are depressed in priocs by war, | wage will form no exception. Hence, instead of rising they ‘Will likely become lower. Besides, war increases Line sep ply of rags. At the lore uf tue Crimean war large quam. | Bites were gathered from the seat of war and sont to market, which tended to depress prices. The sama resnit will follow the present war. Those who look for high | prices in rags will be disappointed. Tue CLERGY AND THE Sromts.—The New Jor y Episcopal Convention at Burlington, after tay- ing held half a dozen fruitless ballots, finally | Southern opposition elsewhere, to perceive that the republicans in the charge that it has been faithless to the rights of the North and has sold | itself to the “ slave power;” while the Southern | fire-eaters have as bitterly denounced the Presi- | dent as an “old Northern federalist” and a “ traitor to the South.” Between these extremes, | we think, it is perfectly clear that Mr. Buchanan | has pursued that broad, conservative, national policy indispensable to an honestadministration, | and equally essential to the unity of the demo- cratic party. But the party is broken to pieces, | North and South, from the conflicting intrigues of jealous and ambitious sectional leaders; and | thus it is highly probable that the contest of 1860 will be to the demoralized democracy what the contest of 1852 was to the old whig party— ite final defeat and dissolution. We know that this impression very extensively | prevails among men of all parties—that they “feel it in their bones,” as we have heard the opinion expressed ; and we know that the nar- row escape of the democracy in 1856, and their | subsequent defeats, defections and divisions, | have furnished the most substantial reasons for this opinion. But we do not surrender the ficld to the anti-slavery republican party. It is mani- fest that there can be no coalition between them and the opposition elements of the South. This Virginia election has been fought by the opposi- tion party of that State as a conservative pro- slavery party ; and in Kentucky and Tennessee they occupy the same antagonistic ground against the blick republicans. From the gene- sce, we have every reason to expect that in Au- ' gust next the opposition will carry those two | States, In that event we shall have at once in | thoee important conservative slave States, and in | Delaware, Maryland, Virginis, North Carolina and Missouri, and in the southern border free States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and ILli- nois, the materials for a powerful conservative third party in 1860, competent to carry the Presi- dential election into Congress, and competent there to control it, We sce enongh in the returns of this Virginia election, and in the peculiar principles of the there must and will be a third party in the field | for the succession ; and taking into account the disbanded Americans, old line whigs and dis. gusted democrats, there will be materials enough | to give this third party in 1860 a half dozen ef the central States, including both sides of Mason and Dixon’s line and the Ohio river. Thus, while we recognise in this Virginia election a new sign in the South of the overthrow of the de- ral appearance of things in Kentucky and Tennes- | we have published triple sheets three or four times a week; price two cents per copy. The time will probably soon arrive when we shall have to publish triple sheets every day. In these various improvements, and in all this progress the Heranp has been imitated by seme of its enterprising contemporaries, who generally wake up to the necessity of adopting something that is old with us when we are about to enter upon something new, and to take an- other step in advance. Our lightning presses, the form of the paper, its arrangement, even its style, bave been copied. They are com- pelled to follow us in order to keep even at thé heels of progress or be “nowhere” in the tace. The Hurarp, as we have eaid, is an institution of New York—an institution of news, advertising and public opinion, and it has grown up with this great commercial metropolie, the | Empire City of the United States; and has, at this moment, the largest daily circulation of any newspaper in the civilized world, And as neither the metropolis nor the country have ceased to grow, so neither has the Hurap. It is a healthy limb of the great American tree, “ racy of the coil,” and must continue to grow as long as the tree itself grows, as long as its roots extend their fibres and draw up noutriment from the earth, as long as the vital sap circu- lates in the bark, and as long as the leaves inhale the elements of growth and strength from the air in which they live and move and have their being. Zn avant. Tur Gotp Mines or Nort Canoutna—A Crrric Criricisep.—A short time ago we pub- lished a criticism on “A trip to some of the Southern States,” in which the critic undertook , to correct some statements made about the gold mines of North Carolina, On another page | we publish a criticism on this critic’s letter, which shows that “he is not sufficiently ac- quainted with the mineral resources aud min- ing operations of that State to form a correct conclusion as to their immense value.” The writer of the second letter seems to know what he writes about much better than the author of the former one, and he fully endorses the truth of the sketch published in the Herann. As we taid before, we have no interest in the matter, either one way or the other, but are glad to sor that North Carolina has great mineral resources, which only require to be developed in order to elevate that State immensely in the scale of the confederated States of this Union. Tur Aumicury Nigger —Formerly travellers moralized democratic party, we also recognise succeeded yesterday in electing a bishop to succecd Bishop Duane. The contest was at frst in it the nucleus of a new party which may de- feat the game of the republicans, in the United States accused the Amoricans of worshipping the Almighty Dollar—now, the Al- mighty Nigger. Is it not sot | he Growth of the Herald th Growth of | The Export of Gold—Its Immediate and Prospective Results, The first effect of the war in Europe upon us is seen in the call for gold, and the large exporta- tion of that metal. The Persia took out three mil- lions of dollars on Wednesday, and the steamers today will take out about two millions more, It was supposed that breadstuffs would be called for; but it is seen that war calls for gold sooner | than for bread. The cause of this export of the precious metal onour'part is the necessity of the German and French bankers to sustain themselves. They are not only calling in all their available means, but using the vast credits they possess to en- force the tide of gold iato their coffers, This they will be able to do, and will do to a far greater extent than the natural balance of ex changes; and we can afford to supply their wants without incurring any danger to ourselves. The drain will probably go on some weeks, and we can easily supply it from the plethora of gold that has accumulated with us. But the credit system which the European bankers are now pushing to supply their wants, giving them more money than we owe, or are likely to owe them, is resorted to merely as a temporary relief while they can realize some of the assets which they have got to sacrifiee in the present struggle between conflicting poli- tical and financial systems. The debt will have to be repaid. The reflux of values must set in. It then becomes a question how the repayment will be made. Gold will not be sent back to us. It will hide itself in the hoards of Germany, and will be scat- tered over the scenes of war in Italy, where it will sink beneath the floods of unredeemable Austrian and Sardinian paper. The bankers must seek rome other means of paying their debt. They will find them in the textile fabrics and manipulated products of European industry. Next fall, and all through the coming winter and spring, goods of every description will be sent.in shoals westward across the ocean. Good crops and progperous times here will help their eale. The revenue of the government will be immensely greater than ever before. It will pay off the Treasury notes and debt held by the banks, and thus, increasing the supply of money in their vaults, bring them into the market as lenders and seekers of employment for capital, Theee, stimulating in their turn the importation and consumption of foreign goods, will help on the expansion; and good crops, high prices, plenty of business, immense revenues, and cords of money, will carry us along with jolly good times for a couple of years or so, until we are ready for the revulsion that will follow. And follow it must. The great destructive war that has begun in Europe brings political and financial ruin in its train. The commercial languor that followed the war in the Crimea was nothing in comparison with the collapse that must succeed the present strife. In that conflict no political scheme fell, no system of finance and credit was broken up. Vast quanti- ties of men and material were destroyed, and the men of industry found for a time their profit in providing them and carrying them to the slaughter and to the waste. When the work of destruction ceased, depression followed, for their accustomed places in thejfields and marts of in- dustry were void. No answering supply came back from the consumer. But tho prosent content in w widely different one from the contest in the East. It aims at the destruction of the political scheme erected at Vienna in 1815, With its fall, all the generation of bankers, and loan mongers, and credit trick- sters, must go down, just as the bankers of the Revolution and the Empirefwent down to give place to them, and they will be succeeded by new hands at the coffer and the till, just as they succeeded those who preceded them. When this change takes place the credit system of the world will receive such a shock as has never been wit+ nessed by living generations. When, in former ages, the fall of political eystems has carried down their bankers with them, the world has been little moved. The decay of Holland, Genoa, Venice, Rome and Carthage did not convalse the world, for commerce was still, when they de- clined, a thing of monopoly and limited interests. There was, too, no press to discuss the subject and bring it home at onte to every man’s knowledge. It came home to them slowly, and | the effect had already ceased to be felt in one place when it became known in another. Now the case is different. Commerce has expanded till it embraces the individual interests of every civilized man. The pulsations of finance vibrate with instantaneous sympathy in every political centre. When the political decay and change that will follow the present strife does come, we should be prepared to meet it. Let it not take us unawares. During the prosperous years that are now dawning upon us, we should prepare for the reaction. We should separate ourselves as much as possible from the old growth of finan- cial interests, and connect ourselves with new combinations, in unison with political systems that have not nearly reached the term of their natural life. : Anizona AND Is Stiver Mives.—We publish in another column a brief description of Arizona and its silver mines from accounts of parties alleged to have been eye witnesses of the indi- cations of mineral wealth which that new Ter- ritory presents. While we do not vouch for the accuracy of the statements, nor endorse the various echemes for emigration and mining ope- rations now on foot, we lay the information before our readers a8 we have received it. Admitting that the mineral resources of Arizona may be very promising, it must be borne in mind that the people have been deluded of late in two or three instances by exaggerated ac- counts of the existence of gold in .the far West. California, it is true, realized even more than was promised for her in the product of gold; but we have an example before us of the mischief which speculators can do in the recent humbugs about the gold mines of Fraser River and Pike’s Peak. It is quite possible that good miners and paticnt workmen, by some labor and perse- verance, may make a living and even amass a fortune in course of time out in Arizona; but it is very doubtful whether companies of specu- Jators can accumulate vast wealth with a rush- All highly colored stories about the fabulous riches which are to be acquired in ® hurry should be taken with great caution. In nine cases out of ten they are got up to deceive. Meanwhile several individuals are getting up colonization companics for Arizona, in this city and elsewhere throughout the country; but the War Department has intimated to the manager of one of these companies that all armed parties crossing the frontier of Texas, ostensibly as emi- grants, will be closely scrutinized by the com- mandants of military posts, and if those officers are patisfied that they are organized for any un- lawfa, ‘ objects, they will be arrested and their na, v8 banded over to the civil authorities. This detern ‘ination may materially interfere with the plang ot ‘Bose parties who are getting up emigrant companies for Arizona, ‘William §,™1th O'Brien. After a visit of nevtly three months to this country—during which he has travelled over most of the States and the Canadas, of course in a very hurried manner, which gave him but little opportunity for re- ceiving very accurate information or making correct observations about the people or their ingtitutions—Mr. W. S. O’Brien returns to Ireland to-day in the Vigo. We are glad to perceive that, on the whole, he entertains a fh- vorable opinion of Americans, and very different from what prejudice had suggested at the other fide of the Atlantic; and as he intends to publish ‘naccount of his tour when he gets home, we have no doubt that his book will have the effect of dispelling much of the fog in which John Bull | and other European nations are still en- | veloped as regards the republic of the Unfted | States. - Mr. O'Brien will be attended to the ship by a procession of his admiring fellow countrymen and other sympathizing citizens. During his so- journ in the country he has borne himself on the whole with becoming dignity and in a manner worthy of his high character in his native land. long as they could do so decently, When they found that their further resistance would only endanger the public tranquillity, they yielded with a good grace, and even helped to pass the very measures that they had opposed. They are undergoing another ¢onversion on this Staltam question, and we have no doubt that thetc con- victions will be quickened by the overthrow of the Derby government and the retirement of the Austrians behind their defences on the Ticino. The News from Utah, We published on Wednesday a tefegraphio despatch ‘rom Washington confirmtyg the intelligence which we received by the last mail from Utah and published on Sunday last. Some doubte have been throw on the truth of this news; but we see nv reason to question it, aad it has.enough of pro» bability about it to canse apprehensions of #: dangerous collision betwcen our troops and the Mormons. ‘The first trouble that arose with the Mormons | proceeded from the Judges, and the present re- newal of it springs from the same cause. When the injudicious conduct of these mew had led to rebellion, and it was necessary to assert with a high hand and at any sacrifice the authority of the general government in Utah, Governor Cumming was selected as a gentleman of good sense, firmness of purpose, and at the eume time of a kindly disposition, who would Since his return from penal captivity to Ireland he had steadily refused all popular demonstra” tions, and kept aloof from polities and agitation of every kind. On his arrival here he very pro- perly declined the public honors which it was attempted to thrust upon him by some incon- siderate people, or by small politicians and dema- gogues, who desired at his expense to have their names mixed up with his in the newspa- pers, to the disgust of all right-minded men- The only instances in which Mr. O’Brien departed from the course he had marked out for him- self in America were at Boston and Albany, where, no doubt, he was persuaded to doso by the sinister advice of pretended friends of Irish birth, who cared little whether he placed him- self ina false position or not, if they only ac- complished their own eelfish objects, personal or political; and some of them, who secretly hate him, would be glad to sce him make a mistake in order to reduce him to their own level. Mr. O'Brien animadverted on the course of the Mas- sachusetts Legislature in extending the proba- tionary pericd through which emigrants must passin future before they are entitled to vote. This would be a very proper subject of comment for Mr. O’Brien after returning home. But while be was in Massachusetts it was out of place, and were better omitted, asit is looked upon in the light of foreign interference in our j internal matters, and is calculated to aggravate the very feeling it was intended to remove. Mr. O’Brien is not a citizen of the United States, and what he may sfly on the subject here can have very little weight with those who have the power to make the laws. Even for citizensit is a question which is open to debate, and on which much may be said on both sides. No adopted citizens are wronged by this enactment, for its provisions only apply to foreignera who are not yet citizens, and have not the right to vote. Such persons, if they do not like the law, need not settle in Massachusetts, but direct their course to other States, where there is plenty of room, and the old Bay State will thus lose in population, No doubt Mr. O’Brien thought a word from him on the subject might be attended with good ef- fect; and we believe he acted from the purest and best metives. After all, it isa very paltry ground on which to assail him, and the organ of the extinct “dark lantern,” and “the little vil- lain” who deals in dead men’s bones, would have shown better taste by passing the matter over, instead of making it a theme for ungenerous and inhospitable tirades against a respectable visiter from Europe, and all other foreigners who have landed on our shores. Mr. O’Brien’s histo~ ry is the best guarantee of his honesty and sin- cerity of purpose, and that he did not play the part of a demagogue. Of all those men engaged in the Irish revolu- tionary movement of 1848, and in the move- ments and agitations of previous years for the freedom of Ireland, there is none whose record stands so clean as that of O’Brien. Here he has conducted himself better than any of the European revolutionary leaders who have visited us, with the exception of Garibaldi alone, and he is leaving at the right time, and before falling into the errors which have ruined them with the American people. That he was deceived, thisled and victimized in his political career in Ireland, none knows now better than himself. Con- nected with the nobility of the country by religion, by birth and fortune (his elder bro- ther is Lord Inchiquin), he had everything to lose and nothing to gain for himself or his family by the course he pursued, which is more than can be said for some of his asaociates, who were mere adventurers, aud had nothiog at stake: His carcer is, perhaps, as disinterested, as honor- able and patriotic as that pursued by any public man in the present age. The etruggle in which be embarked has always appeared to us to closely resemble that of the Huguenots of France—the Protestants of that country, since the Reformation, having been dealt with very much in the same fashion by French rulers as the Catholics of Ireland have been dealt with by the British government. In another column we publish an article in which a historical parallel is drawn, and from which be likely to concilfate the good will of the rebels. And there can be no doubt that he was eminently successful in making peace when war seemed in- evitable. That he continues up to the present time: to be the friend of the Mormons, and therefore the fittest man to govern them, is evi- dent ffom a letter which we publish in another colum. And General Johnston was also chosen for his excellent qualities to take the command of the army, in order to chastise the Mor- mons if they persisted in their opposition to the laws. There is no man in our army who stands above him as a soldier and a general; he has an iron will and thoroughly knows his profession. He conducted his army through great difficulties and very trying circumstances. Though the trains of provisions were cut off by the Mormons, and the troops suffered severely in consequence, they never retaliated ina single instance when they had Mormons and their property in their power—showing how popular Gen. Johnston is with the army and what control he has been able to exercise over it. By the ability and other good qualities of both the officers—the civil and the military—together with the good offices of Col. Kane, and the moderation and mercy, tempered with firmness, displayed by Mr. Buchanan in proclaiming a general amnesty if the Mormons returned to their allegiance, Utah was completely pacified, and everything looked well for the future. But a new difficulty arose. American citizens had been murdered in various places, and others plundered, and though the Mormons were strong- ly suspected, there was no positive evidence against them. Some said the criminals were Indians. A prosecution was instituted at Provo, but the Grand Jury would not find the bills, be- cause, as was alleged, they were all Mormons; and Judge Cradlebaugh denounced them in furious style, which, of course, was not calcu- lated to create or foster a friendly feeling on the part uf the Mormons to the United States autho- rities. But next Judge Sinclair loomed up, and be was to hold a court at Salt Lake City, in Union square, to try prisoners for like offences, and he would have the federal troops there to awe the Mormons. According to the news we received, he actually sent a requisition to Gene- ral Johnston to furnish him with the troops, and it is stated that the General consented to do ao. But Governor Cumming, regarding this as dan- gerous to the peace of the Territory and an in- fringement on his prerogative, announced, we are informed, his intention of calling out the militia; and as they are all Mormons— 5,000 of them—it is easy to see what was likely te have been the consequence. There was thus, apparently, a conflict of jurisdic- tion, though if properly interpreted there was no contradiction; and the probability is that there would have been no misunderstanding be- tween the two authorities but that the old sore had not been healed. Positive instructions, however, were sent out early in April, which will put matters right and will prevent a col- lision if they only arrive before the sitting of the court. Commencement or THE Yacutine Srason.— The first race of the New York Yacht Club comes off on Thursday next. It is to be a smooth water contest, the course to be run being from Hoboken to the Southwest Spit, inside of Sandy Hook. Under these circumstances, it is not pro- bable that any of the “old salts” of the club will take part in it, or that vessels whose qualities are best developed in a rough sea and spanking wind will be entered for competition. It has been stated that the Scotch yacht, the St. Ursula, is to test its epeed against that of the Club ves- sels on this occasion. We scarcely think this likely, considering the conditions under which the race is to take place. There isno knowing, however, what the ambition of a foreign aspirant for yachting honors may tempt him to do; and the owner of the St. Ursula would seem to be preparing for the dangerous eventualities of the contest, for we learn by the English papers that he is attending the revival meetings in Fulton street. It is a pity that the regulations of the some instruction may be derived by religious persecutors of all sects. Cosune Stock Looxine Down.—The want of self-reliance which the Austrians have displayed in the opening of the campaign has damaged them materially with their friends in England. The Coburg interest is completely noupluased by their want of pluck. They had expected to have been able to play against the second Napo- Jeon the game which George the Third played against the great Emperor, but they are begin- ning to find out that the circumstances of Eu- rope have somewhat changed since that period. The England of to-day is not the England of half a century ago, and people no longer believe’ in thick-headed sovereigns or “heaven born” statesmen. Amongst rulers as amongst the masses, progress is now the only conservative principle. Those who resist it must infallibly lose their advantages of position and infla- ence. The Coburg clique are not iusensible to these truths, and accordingly we find them trim- ming their sails to prepare for the humiliation of Austria, which, if we are to judge from the al- tered tone of the London Times, they evidently think is near. We give the Englieh tories credit for one thing—they are not recklessly obstinate. They opposed Catholic emancipation, Parliament- ary reform and the abolition of the Corn laws as club do not permit the doing away with the restriction which confines these races to smooth water limits, and which, however it may suit the qualmish stomachs of the amateur friends of the members, is inconsistent with the noble ambition which disdains easy courses, both above and below. The regulations may, it is true, be altered, but they are the offspring of the constitution of the Club, and some of the mem- bers probably entertain a horror of meddling with so sacred a thing. We are, on this subject very much of the opinion of the learned head of one of our colleges, who, when met by a similar objection, startled his hearers by the exclamation, “Then I say d—n the constitution, if it is opposed to the dictates of common sense !”” ‘Until the progressive, though, it must be owned, rather profane spirit which prompted this re- mark, reaches our Yacht Club, some other means must be resorted to to satisfy the natural desire which the more experienced of its members feel to try their strength against each other on the open sea, Let the fresh water sailors have their race, according to the Club regulations, but in a week or two after let there be a sweepstakes between such vessels as the Julia, the Minnie, the Rebecca and the Una, which do not fear a heavy press of canvass, and which display their sailing qualities best in rough weather. By making the goal the Five