The New York Herald Newspaper, July 10, 1859, Page 4

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METROPOLITAN THBATRE (Late Burton’s).—Bueax Bovss—Txxuxg It On, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.—Warte Horse or sum PErregs—A Lesson For Hosnanvs, LAURA KX¥ENE’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broalwey.— Gir avpa—Invisisie Proce. NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham etreet.—Vexuttas—On- PHAN OF GemRva—JACk BPRrrauD, BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSSUM, Brosdway.—Afer nocu and Erening—Wrean, Tax Wizann. WOOD'S MINSTREL SUILDING, 561 and 663 Brontway.— Exmioriax Sones, Dayces, 4c —Dauxrns on tam Leven, New York, Sunday, Saly 10, 1859. . The News. ‘The steamship Karnak arrived at this port yes- terday with news from Havana and Jamaica. From Kingston we learn that the revolutionary feeling again excited and spreading widely over the island. Efforts were about to be made to Bo affect the Legislative Assembly as that mem- bers would vote in favor of the negro agitators. Our correspondent thinks force must be resorted to to put them down. The news from Havana is to the 2d inst. Consul General Helm intended to request a leave of ab- bence extending over atew months. Yellow fever was slightly prevalent. The sugar market had not altered e the Quaker City left, and the transactions were rather limited. Government was about to establish a military school for the instruction of volunteer and other troops in the sciences of war. The Countess of Villanueva, at- tended by a numerous suite, left on the Karnak for ® sojourn on Long Island. The venerable lady fs blind, childless and widowed, but enjoys ararely happy and contented mind. Colonel Thrasher’s modest defence of his translation of Humboldt’s “Essay on Cuba,” published in the Hexanp on the Oth ultimo, was highly appreciated by his many friends in Cuba, although, to them, not required. By the Karnak we have also received files of Ba- ama papers to the 2d inst., but they contain no news of interest. The three Collins steamships, the Atlantic, Baltic and Adriatic, were sold yesterday by Brown, Brothers & Co. They were purchased by the Pa- cific Mail Steamship Company and the Panaina Rail- road Company conjointly. The Atlantic will, per haps, be sent round to the Pacilic and be placed on the Panama and San Francisco route, while the Baltic and Adriatic will rua between this port and Aspinwall. The steamship Bremen sailed from this port yes- terday for Southampton and Bremen, with 120 pas- sengers and $590,643 in specie. According to the City Inspector's report there were 457 deaths in the city during the past week, an increase of 77 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 15 more than occurred in the corresponding week of last year. Of the whole number 86 were men, 61 women, 169 boys, and 141 girls. There were 81 deaths of diseases of the brain and nerves, 5 of the generative organs, 19 of the heart and blood vessels, 109 of the lungs and throat, 1 of old age, 33 of eruptive fevers and skin diseases, 43 stillborn and premature births, 34 of diseases of the stomach and other digestive organs, 28 of uncertain complaints, 3 of the urinary organs, and 24 from violent causes. The nativity table shows that 362 were natives of the United Btates, 66 of Ircland,17 of Germany, and the ba- lance of various foreign countries. The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer and thermometer, the variation of wind currents and the state of the weather at three periods during each day, viz: at 3 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M. ey id + Byida| Ud Hy REMARK. Satarday—Morning, overcaet; afternoon, heavy raion and thunter storm. Sunday—Overcast. Monday —Clear and pleasaat. Toesday—Clear; clear night and moonlizh’, Wednesday—Ciear; clear night and moontigot. Thareday ; Clear eight and mooalight, Friday—Clear; clear night and moontight, Saturdey—liazy and warm, The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 500 to 600 bales, closing without quot»ole changa in prices, but ‘with rather more steadiness. Fy) lower, with moderate sales at uasettled prices for Stato ‘and Western grader. Southern brands were ia fair re- quest, but prices were irregular. Wheat was unchanged, with sales of red Western at 31 50, yer colored do, at $1 53, white Kentucky at $1 70a$1 78 and Milwankes club at $1108$112%. Corn advanced about two sents per bushel. Seles of round yellow were mate at 900, a 925., oboice Western mixed at 90c.,and a small lot of choice Southern yellow waa made at 95c, Rye was firm at 830, a 890. Pork was firmer, with sslcs of new mees at $16 183 a $16 25, thin mors at $16, clear at $18 25, and prime at $12.50. Sugars were firm, but lesz active. Too rales embzaced about 400 bhds., chiefly Cvbas, 150 do, ‘Molado, and 450 boxes at fuil prices. Coffee was steady @nd quiet, Frcight engegemente were moderate and rates uncharged. Horace Greetny ayp His Pice’s Pear Hempcvecery.—We apprehend that Greeley ha been egregiously humbugged by the speculators at Pike’s Peak. They have shown him gold in small quantities taken from those diggiugs under his own eyes; but we know that Massa Greeley is | vain and credulous, and can be made to believe almost anytbing by designing sharpers. Thas, if we are not mistaken, be has from time to tin» been taken in and done for by New Jersey zinc mining sbarpers, by Lake Superior copper opera tors, and by Fourierite phalanx associations, to say nothing of vegetarians, spiritualists, Slievegammon revolutionists, women’s rights reformers, and bogus fugitive slaves. The- Pike's Peak speculators seem to have had a very good time with Greeley. They have boea making @ great man of him, and, as one good turn de- serves another, he will very apt to be convinced before he leaves them that the mines of Pike's Pesk are richer * of California. But n those pradent men will beware of all such reports from Greeley. He is very good natured, very credu- lous, and easily led astray. Mr. Buchanan Under a South Side View of the Northern '. We transfer to this paper, from th Charleston Mercury, a remarkable bill of charges and spec!- fications against “the administration democracy of the North.” From this article it will be seen that our ultra-Southern cotemporary concurs with Mr, Senator Brown, of Mississippi, in the opinion “that Mr. Buchanan, General Cass, Mr. Toucey, Mr. Bright, Mr. Dickinson, and the whole Northern democracy, except a small Spartan band, are unreliable on the question of the right of Southern men to protection of their property in the common Territories,” and that Southern men should, therefore, go int) the Charleston Convention prepared to enforce the recognition of their prixciples, “or the total dis- suption of the preeent democratic organization.” In this connection the recent defeats and the present demoralization and weakness of the Northern democracy do, in truth, make up a gloomy picture. But if Mr. Buchanan may be ipeluded in this formidable catalogue of the fuithlees democracy of the North, why not at onee pronounce the democratic party dissolved, instead of awaiting the inevitable confirmation of the fact by the Charleston Convention? Ar- ralgniog Mr. Buchanap, however, among the others accused of bad faith to the South, the im- placable judge of the Mercury inquires :—“ Is he not at this time looking to the official success of the democratic organization and the preserva- tion of the Union by compromising the rights of the South?” And then attention is called “to the rumors, variously originating, of a compro- mise recently made between the President and Douglas,” and, “in verification of its truth,” we are referred to “the open reconciliation with Walker, the right hand man and staunch friend of Dougias.”’ me There and other things, including the coun- sels of the New York Heratp touching the slavery question, satisfy our Charleston cotem- porary that “preparations are making to white- wash Douglas in the Charleston Convention by compromising and betraying the Territorial rights of the South,” and that “another compromise is afoot” requiring “the States rights party of the South to maintain a firm, unbroken front of re- sistance to the attempt, come from what quarter it may.” Aud euch, Mr. Buchanan included, are the grievances of these Southern disorganizers, for which the remedy proposed is the sectional disruption of the democratic party. But the moat extraordinary feature of this Southern bill of accusations agains! the North- ern democracy is the charge that Mr. Buchanan is seeking the success of the democratic party “and the preeervation of the Union by compro- mising the rights of the South,” at the same time that the organs and adherents of “squatter sovercignty” are accusing him of “compromising the rights of the North.” In thus being de- nounced by the two extremes of the party, North and South, the highest proof is afforded of that intermediate couservative national ground occu- pied by the adminietration. If Southern mal- contenta accuse Mr. Buchanan of a compromise with Douglas, we have Northera deserters who will as stoutly contend that he bas delivered himself over, body and soul, to Jefferson Davis, John Slidell, or R. Barawell Rhett. The simple truth is that Mr. Buchanan is pur- suing his own policy as President, not of the North, nor of the South, but as President of the United States. His election covered this ground, his office covers it, and the policy of his adminis. tration bas been measured and adapted accord. ingly. This controlling idea with Mr. Buchanan rises superior to the sectional divisions and Presidential cliques of the party, and all their schemes and movements for the succession. If he had desired ‘‘a compromise with Douglas’ he could have bad it by dropping the Lecompton constitution; but it came to him as the legal emanation of an organic law, and he could not look behind it, nor hesitate to confront the Northern party rebellion which attended it. If, on the other hand, he had desired to conciliate the Southern agitators, regardless of the laws, which it is his duty to sce “faithfully executed,” all that would have been required might be sum- med up in a little aid and comfort to the filibus. tere and African slave traders. It is the stead- fast adhesion of Mr. Buchanan to his constitu- tional obligations that has excited the distrust and enmity of both Northern and Southern dia. organizers, It Las been said that while the late English Derby Cabinet was for a rigid neutrality and a close alliance with Austria, the present Palmer- ston Cabinet is in favor of a rigid neutrality and a close alliance with France. The neutrality of Mr. Buchanan, however, as the official head of the democratic party, docs not admit of an alli- ance with any of the sectional cliques or fac- tions contending for the Charleston Convention; cad yet, like England, he is possessed of a bal- anee of power, which, at the right time, may cable him to dictate a peace to the belligerents, The Southern firc-eaters and disunfonists would doubiless be pleased to have the active co-ope- ration of eo powerful an ally as the President in their movements to blow up the Charleston Con- vention; but in the interval the President has more important duties upon his hands. When the time arrives he may fail to prevent the threatened explosion of the democratic party, but he will not fuil to vindicate and uphold his administration before the country. He has shown that its euccess does not depend upon the demoralized democracy. —_—_—_—_—__ Tue Scexe or tax Lare Barrug.—There is a clrenmstance in connection with the scene of the Inte battle of Solferino which would seem to prove that the Austriens selected that ground for the engagement with an admira- ble strategic object. The fight came off, it will be remembered, on the line ranning from Sol. ferino, which is only a few miles southwest from Peschiera, down to San Martino, a village lying a little south of the common road from Cremona toMantua. Within this space of about sixteen miles in length are situated eight or nine towns and villagespeome of which are very avaliavle points in a battle field, and, it appears, ov picd conspicuous positionsin the recent o . This location bas for many years been the grea’ review ground of the Austrian army in Italy, and it has assembled there once or twice a yoar for review cometimes in numbers a3 large as seventy or eighty thousand men. The whole ground, then, was familiar to both officers and meu. They hed fought many a sham battle on the field of the late bloody contest; had probably taken and retaken in mock combat every one of the positiona which they were compelled to attack and defend on the 24th of June in the face of hostile hatallions, This fae : NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1859. ‘The Literature of the War—Napoloon’s Pro” | They ving to the belief, and they assert their mveb as any other, which induced the Austrian Generals to meet the enemy at that spot rather than on the other side of the Mincio; and it must tave given the Austrian troopaa great advan- tage over their adversaries, a circumstaace which renders their defeat a worse one, and the victory for the enemy still more glorious. @he Tyrenny of the Sunday Laws. The Police Commissioners have passed resolu- tions to sustain the obsolete Sunday laws, and the Superintendent of Police intends, we under- stand, to carry out those resolutions by vigorous action to-day, insisting upon every place of re- freshment in the city being closed. In such hot weather as this, before the people are de- prived of the means of slaking their thirst on Sunday by a harmless glass of beer or wine and water in houses of pub- lic resort, the city authorities ought at least to furnish them with the means of getting a driok of water, and public fountains ought to be estab- lished in every part of the city, instead of a few and far between ia Broadway. ‘The whole drift of this measure is against the working classes and the poor. ‘The wealthy can go to Long Branch or Cape May, or Newport or Satatoge, and to a thousand other places, to en- joy the fresh cool air of the country; or they can afford the necessary time and expense on any day of the week to take a trip into the country in the steamboats or railroad cars. Not so with the mechanic, the artisan and the laborer, and even mapy professional men. They must toil herd all the week. Sunday is the only day they can call their own, and they are deprived of the benefit of this either by unjust and unconstitu- tioval laws, or by the hypocritical and sanctimo- nious course of railroad directors and steamboat owners, who care just as little about Sunday as other men, but pander to the prejudices which they know to be fanatical, or to pretensions which they know to be insincere. New York is £0 situated—it is so central and so near to nume- rous points suitable for Sunday recreation—that if railroad cara (particularly cheap trains) were permitted to run, and steamboats were per- milted to ply, multitudes would be taken iuto the country in every direction, instead of loiter- ing about the low groggeries of New York, poisoning themeelves with bad rum. They would be so delighted with the country after seeing it once or twice that they would never lose an opportunity of enjoying a similar pleasure, and they would bring their families with them, instead of abandoning them at home for the excitement of whiskey and brandy ia the drinking ealoons, This is the course pursued in Paris and every- where on the Continent of Europe, where the population are most orderly and moral In the Herarp of Friday last we pub- lished correspondence of a Cork paper from Stutgart, in Wirtemburg, in which the writer, besides giving an account of the fortifications, describes the manners and habits of the people. In writing of Ebrenbreitstein, “the Gibraltar of the Rhine,” opposite to Coblentz, he says:— As yet the beautiful ncacias and other trees and shrubs with which the open space all round the fortifications {4 Planted, have not been cut down. This is a pusiness seemingly put off for the very last. You can have no idea, without seeing them, of the beauty of these planta tions, and the delightfully shady walks thoy afford to ali Classes who enjoy them, without so much as pluckiag a rose. Here on Sundays, holidays aud evenings, citizens with their wives and daughters and comotiess soldiers, green Hessiang, white Austrians and dark biuo Prugsiavs, and ill- looking indeed must be the sorving girl who has not a soldier for her schatz, or sqeotheart, with whom to waik. Here, too, are tables laid out in the’ open air, at which all classes drink wine, beer o¢ coffee, waile drunkeaness or disorder of any kad is raroly it ever This is exactly what we have often stated ia these columns. The Germans here, one of the most orderly elements of our population, have established places in the open air in the suburbs and rural districts around New York, Taey call them “Gardens.” The operative brings with him to those resorts his wife and children, the best guarantees against disorder or vice, and they drink together their lager bier, which re- freshes but dooe not intoxicate. The innocent mirth, the healthy, agey, and holy recreation of there people are cut off, and their most sacred rights are invaded under the Phariaatcal pre- tence of preventing a violation of the Sabbath It is the Police Commissioners who are really violating all that is holy ia the Sabbath. For what can be more holy than the enjoyment of a happy family in the pure open air, free for a while from the eorrodiny cares and sorrows which beset them for the rest of the week? The ignorant superstition and arrant 'y pocrisy which dare to interfere with the rational and free enjoyment of God’s creatares on S rnday, was rebuked by Christ when he told them, nearly 1,900 years ago, that “the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.” The Com- missioners and the Cuurier and Enquirer contend for a Jewish observance of Sunday, as if it were of the same moral obligation as the Command- ment “Thou shalt not steal,” or “Taow shalt not murder.” The religion of the Jews waa a reli gion of ceremonies, and those ceremonies were abolished by Christ. Accordingly, the early Christians did not keep the Sabbath, or Seventh day; modern Christians do not keep it now, but they substitute another day for it, aud imitate the Jewish observance. which has no longer any Dinding force; and this they do without any authority from the Bible, which they tell us is “the religion of Protestants.” The wh dea of the modern Phartsces fs to make the peop gloomy and miserable a3 possible, instead of cheerful, joyous and happy. A pious Wall street journal, which indulges in more than an ordinary share of cant on the sub- ject, reckons, by way of dizparagement, among the citizens who signed the remonstrance agaiast the enforcement of the Sunday laws, “editors of Sunday papers and other Sunday occupations.” Srow, it so happens that {t is the editora of the Monday papers who are occupied on Sanday, and in preparing and printing their matter for next day, and among these is the devout editor of the Courier and Enquirer. The Sunday editors have nothing whatever to do on Sanday—their work is finished on Saturday. This fact speaks volumes for the candor and sincerity of the organs and champions of the Sunday movement. These mon are in the habit of talking of the despotism of the Church of Rome in Catholic countries inter- fering with the civil rights and liberties of the people. But what despotism can be greater than that which they seek to impose both over the minds and bodies of men, and that, too, {a dero. gation of the Constitution of the United States (Amendments, Art. I), which rejects the idea of any law to establish religion, or to impose re- etrictions on the human mind, or on the free and legitimate exercise of man’s corporeal fusulties? If this encroachment {s not resisted in time, It will be established as a precedent for a series of measures which will tuke away ouc by one the dearest and most sacred righ's of the people. But the advocates of the “higher law” have never paid any respect to the funtamental law clamations. The proclamations issued by Napoleon III. on his entry into Milan are documents as re- markable for their felicity of language as for their political sigaificance. They are not only to be admired for the disinterestedness and ele- vat'on of their sentiments, bat for the terseness and force with which their views are expressed. It would be impossible to find in the whole range of military manifestoes any in which so much meaning is conveyed in euch'few words, As great a master as Napoleon the First was o lacoviclsms, we contend that his successor has proved himself his superior in the art. The few brief sentences contained in these proclamations have changed in 9 moment the face of the present complications, They convey to Germany an assurance as positive as words can intimate that France has no objects in the present war beyond the assertion of Italian inde- pendence. They satisfy that portion of the English people who, under the influence of art- fal suggestions, still doubted the Emperor’s good faith, that his views in regard to Italy are divested of any more selfish consideration than the desire to gain that moral in- fluence which, as he truly says, is of more value to him than territorial conquests, Pub lished opportunely, at the moment when a ministry favorable to his policy has just come into power, they will contribute more to strengthen the hands of the latter than a dozen Parliamentary triumphs. The course of Eng- land on this question assured, the world acquires a moral certainty that the mediation of that Power, in concert with Russia and Praseia, will be attended with successful results as soon as the fall of Verona and the fortresses connected with it shall have decided the fate of Lombardy. It is one of the distinguishing marks of a great mind to be able to convey its views in brief lan- guage. It is only ordinary intellects that ex- pend themselves in verbiage. The sincerity of both may be the same, but the world is disposed to award most credit to the man who is sparing of words. His very reserve inspires the belief that when he does declare himself, he means what he says. Louis Napoleon possesses this faculty of brief and forcible expression to a greater degree than his uncle, or perhaps than any other public man befere him. Take the different State papers and proclamations that he hes issued since his accession to power, and it will be found that they compare favor- ably in point of terseness and vigor of language with any of the bulletins of the Consulate or first Empire. Their ideas are concentrated into epigrammatic phrases, that will live long after the subjects with which they are connected have passed into oblivion. People sneered at the memorable saying, “L'Lmpire c'est la paix,” when the Crimean war broke out, There are many who will probably again amuse them- selves with it in reference to the Italian cam- paign. Itis not clear, however, but that poste- rity will take an entirely different view of the value of theee words. Unless we are greatly mistaken, the wars of the second Empire will do more to insure the permanent peace and tran- quillity of the world than all the diplomatic labors and exertions of the last half century. Louis Napoleon may not bea great man ac- cording to the staudard of political greatness erected by routine minds. What he does, he does out of rule, and by certain methods of cal- culation peculiar to himself, He puzzles medicere ixtellects by his reserve, his telf-re- ance, his absence of vain-gloriousness, and his seeming inconsistency of purpose. Measure him, however, with any of the leading minds of the preeeat day, ard see how far he leaves them be- hind him. Asa statesman he has solved politi- cal problems which none of them have dared to touch; as a general he has developed qualities which have proved his superiority in the field; as a literateur, his pre-eminent mastership of the pen is developing itself in his proclamations and orders of the day. When we compare with these productions such turgid literary efforts as the protests of the Dukes of Modena and Tuscany, we can appreciate the noble simplicity of style which is displayed in them. Nowhero, despot though he be, have the quali- ties of Napoleon been more fairly estimated than io this country. There is so much affiaity be- twecn the independent and practical cast of his micd azd that of our people generally, that we did not fail at once to recognise his merits, In the pithy and spirit-stirring languege of his late proclamatious he bas struck a fresh key to our admiration. He talks in a style which has be- come identified with American modes of thought, and which can alone move the hearts of the Tt is thia which has given to American alism such an influence over the public ch coustitutes the main clement of sly of opinion that if Louis Na- polecu were uot Emperor of the French he would ave made a first rate newspaper editor. or Tw Hoenprep Mies— vives—We print elsewhere in umos today the narratives prepared for the press by three of the gentlemen—Mesars. Hyde, Wise and La Mountain—who made the re- markable balloon voyage from the Mississippi to Lake Catario on the lst and 2d inst, They lefc St. Louis on the evening of the Ist, and de- ecended near Sackett’s Harbor, in the northwest- ern part of this State, next day, having travel- led the intervening twelve hundred miles within twenty hours, being at the rate of a mile a minute, Even by the side of those thrilling de- seriptions of desperate daring that come to us from the battle plains of Italy, these narratives of that remarkable aerial voyage have an attrac- tion all their own, and cannot fail to stir up ex. citement and awaken admiration in the hearts of all who rcad them. Intrepidity and daring are not restricted to the battle field, and these qual peal as much to our recognition ond applause when exh{bited In any other field of humaa action. And so, while the impetzous Zouaves and the dashing Chasseurs of the Alps make the world ring with the fame of their mar- tial deeds, that same world cannot withhold an cqual measure of admiration and praise from thoee dauntless men who, in navigating the air, have set an example of skill and daring, and achieved ascsult, before which all similar exht Ditione in the past sink inte instguificance, What th nit may be said that this was a foolhardy experiment, looking to no practical good to mankind, and not calculated to coufor apy benefit upon the world, are there not aa many to aesert the same thing of that grand and eanguinary tournament now beisg fought out be- tween the Celtic and the Teutonic races? And is not the distinction rather in favor of those ex- ploits which call fer no bocetomba of brave men? Bnt these aeronauts will hy m9 manag conse have thelr @ rage among the us our © eat to power to fix, at discretion, the apportionment of troller can appoint the assessors for this county, he alone may be empowered to do their work, as the Receiver of Taxes does the work of the old collectors. Would this mode of reconstructing the whole government by ‘statute be constitu- tional? of this law. An act was also passed by the late Legislature for equalizing the taxes of the other counties. Suppose the Commissioners shall say at the next session, that their work is too large for their number, and that they ask for the power to sors in all the counties, and for the abrogation of subversion of established usages be covered by his arguments? Whilst he admits that the power to tax and the power tion taxation aze identical ble, he assumes that the apportionment is nevertheless “separable,” as the constitution makes no provision, but leaves the Loegistature at liberty to delegate this vital power where and how it may see fit. He cites the case about the Flushing avenue difficulties, Brooklyn, which covers only street assessments. be as to the officers of private corporations? Has the Legislature discretion to say that the in- scrutable Sons of Malta could apportion the “oharter officers,” and with the views upon the pony c ion with @ confidence that Inspires re- spe, at that which has heretofore been deem- ed impoasible is not 80; that with their aerial ship they can cross the ocean safely, expedi- tiovsly »nd with much precision as to their course; and ‘hey say that they regard the ox. periment just made aa highly satiafactory ta that regad. However tbat may eventually turn out, no one can read the narratives of their voyage from the Mississippi to the Ontario without feeling himself as excited aa he would be with the de- seription of a mighty battle. The risks of the serial voyagers were fully compensated by the emotions which they experienced: now sailing at an altitade of two or two aud a half miles in a pel- lucid atmosphere, through which objects on the earth’s surface were distinctly outlined ; now sweeping over the tall trees of the forest ; again exchanging salatations and jokes with the skip- pers of propellers on Lake Erie, and finally get- ting within the scope of a hurricane, the fary of which appalled even the stoutest, and appeared to leave them no option except as to the death they would prefer—whether they should be ewallowed up in the wild waves of the Ontario, or dashed to pieces against the solid earth. At one of these fearful moments, when the balloon was descending on the lake at the rate of a mile and three quarters per minute, La Moun- tain tells us that he was not disconcerted, and that his only thought was that at a point on the shore, dimly visible from where he stood, his mother lay buried. But while memory thus re- verted to her who was the fountain of bis life, he neglected no means which offered the faintest promise of preserving the existence of himself and his fellow voyagers. He appears never to have despaired; and to his presence of mind: courage and self-sacrificiog intrepidity his com panions owe, under Providence, their safety. He might have clambered out of the boat into a tree which it struck; but he refused to do so, and ascended into the car, resolved that the fate of one should be the fate of all. Mr. Wise says that it would have been quite easy for them to have sailed directly to the city of New York, as it was proposed to have done, had they kept more in the upper gurrent: but that that plan was frnstrated on account of the unpreparedaess of some of the crew for so cold an atmosphere. We donot kaow whether this is reconcilable with Mr. La Mountain’s state- miles above the earth—was blowing in the same direction as the hurricane. Both agree, how. ever, as to the theory of there being uniform cur- rents at certain altitudes, While their balloon, at analtitade of a mile and a half, was carried along in an easterly direction, a smaller ballooa lower down, which had undertaken to pilot them over St. Louis, was not carried in the same di- rection. Both declare themselves well satisfied with the result of the experiment, and more than ever determined to go forward with the en terpriee of transatlantic ballooning. At all evente, this has been the most remarkable and successfal experiment that has yct4een made in aerial navigation, and the narratives of the voy- age are most exciting, Progress ef Partisan Legislation—Th: Tax Office Under the Albany Dirpensation. The people are growing more familiar with the government of this city than they have been When the tex levy was not three millions, some dozen ycars since, they cared less about it, bat now that upwards ot ten millions are levied is general appropriations, and nearly as much more in street assessments, there is more concern felt. This, for instance, is manifested by the general interest awakened in the apportionment of our enormous taxes, and the singular manner in which the tax office has become the very pivot of partisan interests in this city. The republi- cans have secured the machinery by which each man’s proportion of tax is determined, and in this connection have set on foot an uoparalleled echeme, by which it is now first attempted, under the laws of this country, to bring the levy of taxes forward as one of the objects for which there shall be a partisan strife. It was only under the perfect despotism ot Louis the “Mag nificent” of France that the idea was complete- ly carried out of shifting the burdens of taxation from the shoulders of the governing classes upon those of the less privileged. The Loegistature passed the new Tax Office law last winter, with just this viow on the part of those who solicite it, and for the especial benefit of this devoted e have already published a report from a Committee of the Supervisors on this law, to which a reply has been offered in a minority re- port, said to have been prepared by John McKeon, as counsel for the Tax Commissiovers. The first report confronted the question in a plain and direct manner, whilst that attributed fo Mr. McKeon deals in mere special pleading, without a word upon the real merits of the case. Setting aside all quibbles on cases, and vague construc- tions of statutes, will Mr. McKeon, or any like gentleman of his raul. in the profession, uader- take to maintain that the constitution of this State can be so read as to countenance the pro- cedure under this new Jaw by which an executive minister of this municipal corporation, through his appointed agent2, can be endowed with the individual taxes in this county? If the Comp- Let Mr. McKeon look at a wider spplication appoint deputies to supersede the existing asees- aseessors altogether. Would a low for such a to appor- and ingepara How would it taxes of the county? They may be some sort of nature of county officers entertained in rome ty powers” might by » ment that the upper current—two and a half >, and to any extent of irresponaibility. neve a ought to be too sound a lawyer to be the autho” of this report, and his position as the private oo sel of the Mayor is too delicate to allow him to. sompenentie it in the tax office controversy on e,'ther side. It may be held that the Co, *ptroller can ap- point assessors to levy the taxes, state and local, in this county, or it may be beth’ Showa that the vital privilege should be vested in’ #he Super- visors; but neither ehall alter our c*Aviotion that to constitute an assessor it is as easent.‘al that heshould be elected by ballot from among #be denizens of bis assessment district, as that a juror’ should be drawn by lot from among his peers ef the county. The appointment of assessors by the Comptroller is as preposterous os it would be for the public prosecutor or the Sheriff to pack and appoint the juries of the county. The function of an assessor is judioial, or of the nature of a jury verdict. The artificial mavipulation of such an officer by the will of the interested agent or minister of a corpora- tion militates against that idea of justice and conscience which is the essential basis of equity in a judicial act. Ever since the tithing men organized by King Alfred, it has been the common law usage for every such “tithing man,” “porsholder,” “headborough,” “borough’s elder” or “assessor,” under every sort of county, whe- ther palatine, corporate or other, to be elected in theit districts at the convenience of the peo- ple of the county, and to be chosen out of the electors of such limits, to have jurisdiction with- inthe same. It remained for the lobby in the legisla- tive session of 1857 to procure the abroga- tion of the election of assessors in this county. It was consummated then as a preliminary step and portion of the conspiracy for public robbery which the Conover uproar has since rendered as notorious as the gunpowder plot. Ali the rob. ten contracts, frands and defalcations of that memorable Corporation explosion were examin- ed, computed acd apportioned under the pre- sent aseessors in the tax office. It way by these identical parties that the new * ’ waw extending their term of of five years was emuggled through the routine of legislation last winter. Whetever may be their fate inthe hands of the lawyers, we have entered this case upon the calen- dar of a higher court, and mean to have a ver- dict before we gei through with it. Meantime, the faithful of the republican fold must make the most out of the present dispensation for relicving their burdens. The Almighty Nigger in a British Point of View. In one of. Dickens’ last stories there is a curious character, one Jerry, whose wife is one of those evangelical persons who are never happy when they are not praying. As Jerry says, she’s “at it agin,” and continuously “at it,” supplicating “the bread out of his mouth.” So with a persistent faction in this country and in Great Britain. The Garrisonian philosophers are never happy unless when exploiting the griev- ances of the friends of the almighty nigger, the lukewarmness of the friends of the slave, and the consequent depletion of the funds which, as they think, ought to be raised to carry on their so- Cleties and ameliorate the sufferings of such martyrs as Garrison, Phillips, Parker, and George Thompson, “late M. P. for Tower Hamlets,” By a refreshing extract from a London paper, which we reprint as a literary curiosity, it will be seen that the Exeter Hall philanthropists, or at least the extreme Garrisonian wing of them, are “at it agin.” They have held a parti- colored meeting to deplore the peculiar indif- ference of the British mind in general, aud the London mind in particular, upon the subject of flavery in the United States, It appears that the great bulk of anti-slavery people in England have been visited with a severe attack of common sense; that they have reasoned among themselves to the effect that it would be as well to pluck the beam out of the eyes of Mr. Bull be- fore they attempt to extract the mote from the optics of Brother Jonathan, And, in view of this circumstance, Mr. Thompson’s mind is deeply exercised by the fact that when a brother or a sister of the Garrison school comes to England, he or she can find no society in London to do the amiable. Mr. Thompson said some depreca- torily civil things of a society (the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery), which ‘directed its attention to the workings of emancipation in the colonies, to the question of immigration, and to the mauner in which foreiga nations ob- served existing treaties on the subject of the slave trade.” Through international diplomacy and Parliamentary agitation such a scciecty might do a great deal of good; but, as the orator very justly remarked, the question of American slavery is not one that can be treated in that way. Farther, the object of this meeting plainly was to treat American slavery by treating the apostles of anti-lavery to free quarters and a good view of all the London sights. Mr. Thompson had no sooner settled all this to his own satisfaction than another philosopher proceeded to upset it. This person had been surprised at the apathy of the people of London and Liverpool on the slavery question, until he found out that the British merchant was directly engaged in sus- taining the peculiar institution; that, in fact, the cotton brokers of Liverpool actually held mort- gages on slave property as security for advances made to planters “before the crops were ripe or even planted.” Now, this speaker touched upon the root of the whole matter. Commerce is a king, and - money rules commerce. If the British merchant finds that philanthropy for some niggers three thousand miles off is likely to interfere with that charity which begins at home, away gocs phi- lanthropy to the wall, and no amount of emanci- pation committees will prevent it from sticking there. The same indifference will be found in ‘Wall street as well as in London or Liverpool, and the almighty nigger is somewhat nearer to us ‘han toChange Alley. Noi that we, or rather the politicians, are satisfied to leave tho aigger alone and continue to improve our local govern- fnents—not that there will be a time just ahead when the slayery question will be banished from politics--no, the niggur is viewed here in quite a distinct way from thas in which our Dritish cousins view him. For them the issue is a theoretically philanthropic one, and therefore they, taking excellent good care of number one, let the nigger slide the mo- ment he touches their pockets. And we submit that, with a very slight difference, the game rule will be found to obtain in New York, Philaget- phia, or even Boston. Nor is this indifference on the part ot British philantbropista toward the Garrisontan faction any new thing. Fourteen or fifteen yerra ago there was held in London a World's Anti- Slavery Convention, at which Garrison, Phillips re Tea?