The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1859, Page 4

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Hsraup will be published Single copies in wrap ‘The mails for Ey afternoon, » at four The Eoxorkas Evi @t ten o'clock in the pers, six cents. The News. By the arrival of the Hungarian off Farther Point on Saturday we Lave news from Europe to the afternoon of st ult., four days later than the accounts brought by the Circassian and Asia. | The telegraphic summary of the news which we publish this morning will be found interestiag. According to reports there is a possibility of a satisfactory settlement of the Italian question at an | early day. Count Walewski and Lord Cowley, the British Minister at Paris, have been commissioned to arrange the basis of co-operation between England | and France iu the war against China, The investigation iyto the causes of the ex- plosion on board the Great Eastern failed to fix the responsibility of the disaster upon any one, and in regard to the killed the jury rendered a verdict | } of accidental death. The great prize fight between Sayers, the cham- pion, and Bob Brettle, resulted in the former win- ning the battle in twenty-three minutes. Some of the English papers exhibit considerable warmth in discussing the San Juan affair. One of them culls our soldiers the “ licensed ruffians of the federal army,” and Lord Paimerston’s organ calls upon our government to disavow the act of Gen. | Harney. Late accounts confirm the report of the captnre of Schamyl by the Russians. The renowned chicftain’s | sons and family were cither killed or made prison- ers. A conspiracy to assassinate the Sultan of Turkey | had been detected, and some two hundred persons implicated in the plot were arrested at Constanti- nople. Private advices from China state that large sales of manufactured goods had been made at Hong Kong and Shanghae, and it was inferred that politi- cal matters bad not been further complicated. The London money market was quite buoyant, | and the funds exhibited a decided improving ten- dency. Consols on the 2ist were 9542 953 At Liverpool the cotton market was dull, at a further decline of one-eighth of a penny on the inferior | qualities. Breadstuffs were quiet at slightly higher prices, while provisions were firm. It is reported that the crops in France have fallen off greatly as compared with last year’s yield. By the arrival of the Karnak at this port we | have accounts from the Bahama islands. The dates from Nassau are to the 24th ult. The Bahama Herald of the 2ist, remarking upon the mail com- munication betweeu New York and Nassau, says:— “We enjoy the privilege of steam communication | with New York at a cost of £1,620 per annnm, paid out of our local treasury, for which we enjoy in return the immense advantage of receiving our English mails two or three days sooner every month than we got them by the Australia, which cost us nothing.” The earth had been refreshed by copious showers of rain. A vessel was about to convey a number of military pensioners from Nas- can to Jamaica. We have advices from Turks Islands to the 10th ult. The Standard of that day says:—On Saturday last, the four elective members of the Legislative Council of these islands, acting under the provis- ions of the 15th standing rule, resigned their seats at the Board, through a conjoint communication ia writing addressed to his Honor the President. This unprecedented act in the Legislative ‘experi- ence of the colony has resulted from the passing of “Ordinance No. 1 of 1859, to preserve order daring the sittings of the Legislative Council,” and the same coming into immediate operation*uader the sanction of the Governor in Chief—a measure of legislation rendered so highly necessary by the past misconduct of one of the ex-members just re- signed. Accounts from St. Martins to the 15th ult state that very heavy rains had fallen thero, destroying three handred thousand bushels of salt at the Great Pond. Our special Washington despatch states that the steam frigate Wabash, now on the Mediterranean sta- tion is to be relieved by the new steam sloop Iro- quois. The officers and crew of the Wabash have been handsomely complimented by the Chamber of Com- merce of Genoa for their efficient services during a disastrous fire in that city some time ago. Captain Levy is to take command of the Mediterrauean Bquadron on the withdrawal of the Wabash. In onr advertising columns may be found the an- nouncement of the intended departure of the steamer Bt. Louis from this port for San Juan del Norte, with the United States mail, on Wednesday next. She is to connect with the steamer Pacific, and it is Btated that arrangements have been made for an extra steamer to call at San Juan del Sur to trans- port the mails and passengers to San Francisco in ‘case of the non-arrival of the Pacific. - At 10 o'clock last night a fire broke out in the ‘extensive lager beer brewery of Albert Speyers, called the Lion Brewery, situate between 107th and 109th streets and Eighth aud Tenth avenues. The whole of the buildings were destroyed, together ‘with their contents. The estimated loss amounts to about $250,000— insured for $145,000 in city cum- panies, The origin of the fire ig at present on- known. We publish in another column an interesting as- -count of the cricket match recently played at Mon- treal by the English and Canadian players. (he Foglish cricketers arrived in this city yesterday oy the Albany boat and proceeded to the Astor Hoase, where they will be located daring their brief siay @ecre,and no doubt our cricketing fraternity will $ise cvery exertion to make their temporary so. Journ among us pleasant and comfortable. The @patch between them and the twenty-two United | statee ployers wil commence today on the new | erick? ground st Hoboken. ius Van Duyee, the Snperintendent of dyed that he oid in three hours after the Took ploce His 84s confined ty 400 byl as avain heavy, and for © per barrel lower, WY dail for coma Wheat new Was stow!y with moderat F North Carolina $1 wipal at fhontueky whi luis clayed at 2le. 4 pr mess at $8 SH vd the late he stock embraced 9 on the Ist of Septon at of Octed Wah nome tendy dema prising sel, ehietly on 4 tes by : Fieights were tirm, while wate term wore quite engagemen The Popular Movement Against Seward- ism and Rowdy ism to Achieve Political Reform. The great uprising of the intelligence, integri- ty and moneyed influence he people of New York against the rowdy misrale of Tammany and Mozart halls, 4 y Regeney depravity and the atrocious disunion doctrine liam H. Seward, is everywhere a most healthy, cheering and beneficial sensa- tion. Cliquedom,close-boroughism and usurped monopoly of power are felt to be sapped at their foundations. Such a tottering and down- fall of the system of treachery, violence and barbarism which has prevailed during the past few years is anticipated as sball bury in ruins all who have co-operated to sustain it. It is hoped that the methodized rottenness and cor- ruption with which party organizations of every stripe and shade have become identified may now be abated under the watchful care of the high-minded gentlemen who have banded | together to put an end to existing abuses. An | effective check will also be given to the ma- rauding inroads of the Blackwell's Island, bur- | glar and pot-house condottieri, whom hopes of | plunder have hitherto enrolled successively | under the infamous banners of either Know | Nothing, black republican, or bogus democratic | wirepullers. The measures contemplated by | the aroused respectability of this city will be undertaken with exc'usive reference to the welfare of the country and the principles by | which the representatives of the people should | be guided. Mr. Seward has been, throughout his entire | public career, the most unscrupulous adept in | pecuniary and political profligacy that the Uni- | ted States bas ever produced. The State of + New York bas staggered for twenty years un- der the burdens which he saddled upon it dur- | ing the two terms of his gubernatorial adminis- | tration. THis name has tainted and dragged ; down into disgrace everything with which it \ has ever been associated. Within a late period, moreover, he has unfurled a flag of sectional | discord, which, if triumphant, would carry | desolation to every hearthstone inthe land. His irrepressible conflict” theory would plunge | the country into civil war, destroy our com- | merce, ent off the internal and external sources | from which prosperity flows to our merchants, farmers and capitalists, and makea wreck of this now happy republic. It is the bitter sense | of these appalling truths, together with the fact | that the corrupt organizations of Tammany, | Mozart Hall and the Regency are whol- ly deaf, blind and careless to every- | thing else an power, place and spoils, | which has inspired the worth and wealth | of the community with the conviction that, if they do not themselves stem the tide of wicked- | ness and political heresy, the unity of the na- tion may be shattered and its prosperity sacri- ficed. ‘The following list swells the array of names of democratic gentlemen who are weary of the rule of corrupt cliques, both here and at Albany, which has been imposed upon them; | who are determined to wield, henceforth, them- selves, the power which has been so grossly | abused by Regency, Tammany and Mozart Hall | spoilsmen, and who have resolved that the en- dorsement of the State of New York shall not in any case be given to Sewardite disunionism at the coming State election:— Roya! Phelps, James T. Brady, Watts Sherman, August Belmont, Samuel J. Tiden, John J. Cisco, William Butler Duncan, J.T. Souter, George E. Baldwin, Colonel Lee, Isaac Bell, Jr, Jobn H. Brower, 3 Sam. F. Butterworth, Joshua Hoary, Schuyler Livingston, Moses Taylor, Charles Lamont, James B. Nicholson, Benjamin Whitlock, H. 0. Brewer, Isaac Townsend Charles Yu Wilimm B. Clerke, David Ogden, EK. Alburtis, John A. Dix, Senator Cooley Robert J. Dillon, Charles Secor, les A. Clinton, gernon §. Jervis, y Myers, Robert H. Winslow, Robert T. Woodward, Wilson G. Hunt, 3. W. Culbert, Oliver Slate, b A. Weatervelt, G . Drayton, M. Connolly, $. Wilmerding, vithers, James Benkard, Eaingham Townsend, Myndert Van Schaick, James B. Murray, ian ©. Verplanck, Francis Burritt, William B. Scott, John H. Gourtie, William H. Neilson, Williain S. Wetmore, William C. Wetmore, William Lamar, William Whitlock, Jr., H. Davidge, Joseph Kernochan, vatson, Josoph Lawrence, Charles M. Lup Ralph Clark, Judge Yawards Merrepont, Wiilam M Clark, Robert L. Cutting, Danie! Deviin, Andrew John A. Stewart, Anthony J. Constant, Francis B. Cutting, 0. D. F. Grant, . Anthony L. Robertson, Arthur Leary, ©.¥. 8. Roosevelt, Francis F. Marbury, mes Howitt, T. Bailey Myers, Lawrence Turnure, Leroy M. Wiley, Wm. F. Havemeyer, Edward Ludlow, W. H. Aspinwall, @ Smith, J. Ogden Woodruff, John H. Elliott, F. L. Talcott, Jobn P. Treadwell, Hiram Cranston, Charles Corey Taber, Udolpho Woife, Carroll Livingston, 8. P. Russell, Theodore Sadgwick, D. M. Hughes, Charles A. Townsend, Jay Jartis, Robert Scholl, William G. Lano, Eward Schell, HA, Jobnson, William Lord, W. 8. Church, John Romeyn Brodhead, George 8. Phillips, DD. Willers,” Andrew Mills, William A. Mead, L. Delmonico, G. R. J. Bowdoin, Thomas Smull, James Robinson, B. R. Winthrop, peed Hilton, James O'Brien, Bradish Johnson, William Agnew, Lucius Hopkins, William A. Kobbie, H. W. Hicks, H. M. Schieffelin, John McKeon, Morgan 1. Smith, G. W Mclean, John O'Brien, William O'Brien, M, Olwell J. Olwell, ; William Coleman, Lowia G. Morris, N. H. Wolfe, ©. Marié, J. Tansing, C. W. Campbell, R. A. Reading, A. G. Stebbins, Henry L. Van Wyck, George Douglas, J. J. Henry, These are but a small number of the host of NEW intellip« nile rightne 1 e the State tose integrity, uy Hed oa to pilot by which jemocrats alone have they ave cares No understanding of the mn comtmnction whieh would be y ascendaney, and of the rence to the Presi- coming which a fe ticket in Novem- ‘ot utliance at Syra- wd shoalder-hitters halls with the in- > Avaves of the Regency, who i . olence and brntality, de- g and patriotic men of the » contribute no more to the ve brawling, tighting fretions, pendently for the salvation 3 but the hearts of right many s ure also evideutly uniting in the re- that the leprosy of S al the fall el ns are split, avowedly, into two ions, nunely, the demagogues and disunionists of the party, and that more con servative class whom the vicissitudes of late years bave drifted from their old moorings, but who will never consent to support Mr. Seward’s abomineble programme, and will therefore refrain from giving him strength this year at the coming election, The old whig remnant repudiates all affiliation with him, and the action of its leaders will be, heart and soul, ith the gentlemen who have so boldly and Fecidealy come to the rescue ata moment when the rust of selt-love seemed to have eaten into the very core of all patriotic sentiment. More- over, the ink is scarcely dry which has recorded the protest of the anti-Sewardite against the abolitionist portion of the American party. It may be confidently presaged that at least one- third of the nominal opposition will unite together to redeem the State. The nominees of the party opposed to the Seward platform are not all of them unexceptionable; but they represent, as a ticket, the cause of national ad vancement and union against a faction whose aim is to rend the country into a hundred frag- ments, In a word, the intelligence, intellectuality, honor and integrity of the city and State re- cognise that there never was a period fraught with more political danger to the country than this preparatory and initiatory stage of the next Presidential election. The rowdy, brutal cliques which occupy all the approaches to Mo- zart Hall and Tammany Hall are utterly heed- less of anything but plunder. The Regency plotters would sell themselves to Seward as readily as they bargained away the Wise letter. The gentlemen, a part of whose names we have given, are, therefore, resolved to fall backupon their own patriotism, means and integrity, to be guided by their own councils, to employ their own agents, to expend their own money; and they begin already to see with satisfaction the tens of thousands in the city and State ral- wrshed aws lying around them who have so long wailed for just such a course of action as has now been inaugurated. Aw Oreninc ror A Great Ponrticat Re- ForM.—The old magicians and alchemists used to divide their valuable time between re- searches after the philosopher's stone and at- tempts to discover the means of creating and prolonging human MHfe. Lamerly we nave tad a new school of dreamers, who call themselves spiritualists, who claim, through Judge Ed- monds and others, to have established intimate relations with their friends in the other world. Through the assistance of disembodied spirits they have discovered a new religion, by which communication with the Infinite is rendered as facile as if it worked by steam or electricity. This is so great a step towards a new social re- form—a revolution, in fact—that itis hardly possible to tell where we may stop. Perhaps Judge Edmonds and his confreres may discover some way of bottling up the surplus spiritual electricity which plays such pranks with their furniture, and using it by a sort of newly contrived galvanic battery. If this can be done we might galvanize those mammoth Bennett pumpkins, and put them up as leaders, gnides and teachers of the people. As politicians, Congressmen, Aldermen, Councilmen, &¢c., we are quite confi- dent that they would be quite as intelligent as the majority of our rulers, while they might be depended upon for honesty and integrity; as parsons, they would be sure not to preach fanaticism, bigotry and intolerance; and as journalists they would never commit such stupid blunders as those of Jefferson Brick and the reverend Caleb Jedediah Melchisedek Hurlbut. If Judge Edmonds will go to work at the spiritual galvanic battery, we will agree to find the raw material to replace the present race of editors, politicians, and so on altogether, com- | mencing with Mr. Brick and his quadrilateral collabor aleur. Turriow Wren, Boosy Brooks, AnD THE Reerstry Bustess.—The venerable Thurlow Weed thinks it very remarkable that, while all the republican papers of this city “denounce in proper terms the outrage of the democratic supervisors in defeating the Registry law, the New York Express, after clamoring for years for a registry law, is dumb.” And we think, too, that there is something in this matter cal- culated to astonish Thurlow, when it appears that the Supervisors have “appointed more than three hundred and fifty foreigners” ont of the six hundred registrars, without a remonstrance from Brooks. In trvth, however, this action of our Supervi- sors is nothing more than the result of a con- test between the republicans and democrats of the Board, in which the former were caught napping, and beaten at their own game. The unaccountable absence of a republican member or so explains the whole business. The demo- crata, seizing the advantage of the majority thus accidentally at their command, made the ap- pointments, and distributed them chiefly among their own men. Had the same advantage been offered to. the republicans, they would have acted in the same way. We presume, however, that Mr. Supervisor Bell and his colleagues did put a few “Americans on guard,” and that Brooks is thus resigned to fraternize with the Patricks and the Michaels of the registration catalogue, in order to teach a wholesome lesson to Seward, and his good man Friday, Thurlow Weed. We dare say, too, that so far as the Registry law is concerned, it will be as faithfully administered by the pets of the democracy as it would be by the camp followers of the repub- licans. YORE PFRALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1859. Dhe Oficial Reports,from China—Our Policy m the Swarming East. Captain ‘Latnall’s letter to the Secretary of the Navy is an unfortunate one tor himself and for Mr, Ward, the Minister to China, and should the next accounts show that the course they have followed resuit in any complications of our re- lations in that quarter, both the Minister and the naval commander should be at once su- perseded, According to his own account, Captain ‘Tatnall proposed to Mr, Ward to return the po- liteness which the British Admiral had ex- tended to him when his steamer was aground, by tewing ibe British reserves into the fight. Mr. Ward agreed with him perfectly, and both thus absndened our neutral position and became participants in the war. It yet remains to be eyplained why it did not occur to Mr. Ward and Captain Tatnall, when the Chinese told them the day before the fight to go to the northern entrance of the river, only eight or ten miles distant, and where the masts of junks could he seen across the land, to proceed thither and see if there was any truth in the story. An hour’s run would have carried the Toey-wan there, and it would certainly have been much better to have taken this trouble than to risk the good relations whieh have been established with so much difficulty be- tween us and China. Captain Tatnall, in tell- ing us what he bas done, has shown that Mr. Ward has very little mind of his own, and that the gallant captain is little fitted to be his conscience keeper. He exhibits a curious ap- jation of the relation of things when he ‘rs an act of naval courtesy to a ship aground sufficient reason to change the entire relations between two nations. Our position towards China is one of the highest import to ourselves and to the whole civilized world. For many years we have sedulously sought to keep aloof from the quar- rels of England with her, and our policy had been tful of good results. We had attained a position in the estimation of the Eastern people and their governments as different from that of England as the policy that animates the two countries towards the Aslatics. While England is setting her foot on the neck of India, placing her claws upon the peninsula of Malacca through Singapore, knighting Sir Rajah Brooke for filibustering Borneo, forcing opium into the mouths of the Chinese, and stealing five of their ports, turning Canton into a desert, and finally in- sisting upon re-opening the war because the Chinese recommend another route to Pekin, our flag has never been seen there in the act of aggression, and no resisting Asiatic has had his limbs scattered over Asia’s broad plains and lofty mountains, blown from the muzzles of American cannon. That Captain Tatnall should blend our name and policy with the domineering acts of England on the shore of Asia, because, forsooth, a British Admiral help- ed him to get off his two-penny chartered steamboat which he had clumsily run ashore, proves how utterly unfit he is to be entrusted with a distant command, or made the dry nurse of an ignorant politician who has been unfortunately placed in ministerial breeches. Whether England and France will attempt to conquer the empire of China, twelve thousand miles distant from their shores; whether the blundering gallantry of the British Admiral may not have left reason on the side of Chi- {nese diplomacy; and whether, if an Anjlo- French army is sent to subdue the three hun- dred millions of people that bow to the sceptre at Pekin it will succeed, are questions that have yet to be solved. But whatever result may betide, our position, attained with so much constancy on our part and enjoyed through so much abuse from English diplomatists and writers, must be preserved. A conflict between Europe and China may disturb the commerce and the peace of the whole world. We hold the high position of moderator and pacificator to both parties. John Bull may come to recognise it grudgingly, but he will recognise it eventually, and China has done so already. Our geographical position points to material results as advantageous as the moral ones that we have achieved on the western shore of the Pacific. Thatocean at an early day is to bethe scene of our mightiest commercial achievements. From San Francisco, a westerly run of six thousand miles brings usto Jeddo and Nan- king, to Japan and China. The first of these, closed for two centuries to the enterprise of Europe, has been opened by American policy. The second is still closed, and the mighty com- merce that floats upon the bosom of the Yang- tse-kiang—the Mississippi of China—or drags through the great Chinese canal from Nanking to Pekin, seeks an uncertain outlet through swarms of pirates to the ports of Shanghae and Hong Kong. American policy may be far more successful in opening Nanking than Bri- tish force; and, at all events, we owe it to the | highest interests of civilization not to relax our peaceful efforts because other Powers prefer to pursue a belligerent course. ° Tu Contracts Yor Urau Anp New Mrxico— | A Goop Exawpre Ser py tHE Prestpenr.—By | reference to our Washington telegraphic des- patch it will be seen that the bids for the sup- plies of the army in Utah and New Mexico were opened on Saturday in the presence of Mr. Bu- chanan himself, the Secretary of War being absent. This attendance of the President to superintend the opening of bids for contracts, in order to prevent any foul play,is worthy of imi- tation. Had other Presidents been as careful in times past, we should have less of that cheat- ing and corruption and public plunder which have for so many years disgraced our government and prejudiced our institutions in the sight of the populations of Europe and of those by which we are surrounded on this con- tinent. It is characteristic of Mr. Buchanan’s administration that all through he has paid mi- nute attention to the details of his government, as far as it was possible for him to do, and thus he has guarded the public from many frauds, and himself from bearing the odium of the dis- reputable acts of other men. The old con- tractors, Majors, Russell & Co., have not ob- tained any of the new contracts. The gain to the public may be estimated when they are in- formed that the former contract was $1 80 per pound for every hundred miles. Tho present is $1 34, being a saving of 46 cents on each pound, or more than 25 per cent. Tue Leecurs or TaMMANy AND Mozart Hat.—Friday last was pay day at the Custom House and in other institutions connected with the federal government. As a consequence, the poor officials who presented themselyes in the Assay Office.and at the desk of the cashier's office of the Collector of the Port were followed und pestered, from the opening until the close of business hours, for money, by the greedy as- sessors of the two dens of profligacy and cor- 1uption which claim to represeht the democra- tic party in this city. We are happy to believe that this plundering process is disapproved of by the higher officials not connected with the Post Office, and it is to be hoped that the poor men, whose fan.ilies are in need of every cent they earn, will close their ears to all such appli- cations, and despise alike the threats of re- moval and the cajolery of the irresponsible dividuals who approach them with their beg- ging books. THe Approacning Opera SeAson.—The #ea- son at the Academy of Music which closed on last Saturday, after achieving a mode- rate amount of success, was after the manner of a preliminary lunch, to fit out which the remnants of last season’s dinner were served up cold, and adorned with such ornaments as the imagination of the public could give them. But we cannot always live upon operatic souvenirs, however sweet they may be, and the managers of the Opera are not disposed to shut their eyes and ears to the public demand for novelty. While, therefore, they gave a short preliminary meal, chiefly for the strangers who throng the metropolis during the early part of the autumn of the year, they beld in reserve a fresh stock of attractions for the real Opera season, which will commence about the 20th of this month, or directly after the Boston campaign shall have been closed. Then the managers, Messrs. Ullman and Strakosch, will introduce the new artists whom the last named impresario has just engaged in Europe. Mr. Strakosch, in his operations this summer, has deviated from the plan usually adopted by American managers and agents abroad. It has been the usual eustom with them to engage artists who have had London and Paris reputations, for which reputa- tions the manager had to pay double price. Now, what is the modus operandi of the London or Paris manager. is continually in the small towns of Italy and Spain, the kitchen gardens where opera sinzevs are cultivated. The moment that a good fresh voice and fine stage presence comes out, the London or Paris director engages it for a long term, three, and sometimes five years. Probably at the end of that term the singer is no better than before. She may be worse, so far as her voice is concerned; while, if she has been at all successful, her terms and her airs will rise to an altitude which the mostintrepid aeronaut could not reach. By that time, however, the director is prepared to supply the place of the old artists with others from the same fields, and then the American public is graciously present- ed with a worn voice, and accepts a “has been” as preferable to a “never was. This year, however, things have been changed, and there has been a great struggle for fresh voices between the London and Paris and American operatic ambassadors in Italy. Quite as important to the parties concerned as the negotiations at Villafranca, or the Con- gress by Zurich’s fair waters, have been the struggles for prime donne, tenori, bassi and baritoni. And in one or two instances, at least, the American manager has remained master of the field. He has carricd off from under the noses of half a dozen contestants a prima donna ‘who ‘is certainly young, undeniably handsome, and said to have a fine fresh voico of remarkable compass and quality. A new tenor and a baritone are highly spoken of by Italian critics. Two more prime donne are to arrive before the first of next month. By bringing the artists from Italy, rather than London or Paris, the manager who is capable of judging for himself gets singers equally as good as those who have appeared in the great capitals, for about half the money. He is thus enabled to engage a stronger force, and to ex- pend the amount formerly paid to a single star in perfecting the ensemble of the operas he produces. It is only in this way that the Opera can be sustained. The public will not pay to hear one celebrity and be bored with an army of fifth or sixth rate artists by way of penance. We understand that the directors of the Academy are fully alive to this cireum- stance, and that they intend to give the Opera here a completeness comparing favorably with that of London and Paris. The mystery that enshrouds some of the artists will pique still more the curiosity of the publie, and we may justly anticipate an interesting and suc- cessful Opera season. A Tammany “Cram Baxu.”-—The political items man of one of our Sunday papers has discovered anew dodge on the pmt of the Tammany sachems in view of an official suc- cessor to Master Dick Busteed. Thus, our Sunday cotemporary in question, in speaking of “Sam Jones, the fisherman,” says:— We were reminded of this historical incident last Thurs- day, upon being shown a card of invitation to a clam- feast at “Jersey Farms,” one of the appurtenances of the Astor House hotel, signed “Charles Stetson, President,” and countersigned’ “John E. Devlin, Chief Ch The card was headed, in bi Clams!!! and was in poss Tammany political machin the great rulers and regulators in and around the “Old Wigwa axrauged” that Jobn F, Devlin, the son-in-law of the worthy host of the Astor, Counsel to the Commissioners of Ei ‘a good fellow generally, should be the democr nee for Counsel to the Corporation. Tho ‘Jersey Farms’? was designed to 3 rangenvent,” and prepare tho w quietly into the old shoes of Dick Bri to tind more profitable clam digging able tor round Castle Garden. Now, without touching upon the question of Mr. Devlin’s clams, claims or chancesfor this very fat office of Corporation Counsel, we cannot avoid a word of approbation of this “clam-bake” plan of making appointments, as contrasted with the ancient ruffian system of Tammany Hall. It is to be hoped that the sachems will follow up this “clam-bake” reform to the entire abolition of the Old Wigwam, and give us hereafter, when they have any spoils or plunder to divide, not arowdy gathering in Tammany, or the Coal Hole, or the Pewter Mug, but a clam-bake over in Jersey or down at Coney Island,.or an oys- ter stew within striking distance of the new placer in the Sound. Thus the wholesome in- fluences of a dinner of shell fish in the openair, and the pure and invigorating atmosphere of the woods or the sea shore, would do much to cure even the oldest bruisers of Tammany of their brutal propensities, and to bring them within the pale of civilized society. In this view we commend this Jersey “clam-bake” of Mr. Stetson to the special attention of Tam- many, 28a good example. The price of tho tickets could be regulated 20 as to keep the roughs at home, The ideais a splendid one, and in this connection Mr. Stetson looms up in the fine proportions of a public henefactor. nto step e he hopes 2 has been He | - New Movements ty ReviGion—Tux Ertsooran Convention anp Busnor OnpERvonK.—This is @ wonderful age for new movements in religion as well as in everything else. They are almost as rapid and beautiful as the coruscations of the aurora borealis, the play of the lightning’s wings, or the flight of balloons, For example, ex-Judge Edmonds and ex-Sena- tor Talmadge have been hunting after anew re- Uigion, which they call Spiritualism, and they are still in pursuit of the phantom, which flies before them, and ever eludes their grasp just when they think they have it. The Mormons are looking out every day for the descent of the New Jerusalem from heaven in the vicinity of Salt Lake. Dr. Bellows has grown pale and lost several pounds of flesh in search of a new Catholic church, which he has not yet found. He is dissatisfied with the lifeless, worn out sects, and their dry bones of abstract theology, and he sighs for something new and healthy, suited to the spirit of the age. And now we have the Episcopal church assuming a new phase—the forgiveness of sins. It has pardoned the sins of Bishop Onderdonk, and rendered him as white as snow. He has made confessiony and the Episcopal Convention has given him absolution. In the exercise of Apostolic power it dispenses plenary indul- gences to bishops, and the sentence of guilt and punishment is cancelled in the case of Dr. Onderdonk, who is restored to his functions and to the favor of the church. This is good, for it is following the example of the Pope. Butif the shepherd can thus have absolution, why not the sheep and the lambs of the fold? Why not repentant laymen as well as bishops? There is Daniel E. Sickles, who has repented. Why not absolve him from his trangressions? And there is the Chevalier Webb, a great light of the Episcopal church, who has not only re- pented, but has so grown in grace that he knows not what to do with his excess of re- ligion. It is absolutely spoiling withhim. He could sell $52,000 worth of it and never miss t, while the money would be very useful in paying off his mortgages. Will nobody buy? The Episcopal church ought surely to do for him what it has done for Bishop Onderdonk— wipe out the old score of sins in order that he may begin a new leaf. There is ex- Governor Seymour, who is one of the lay representatives from New York State to the General American Episcopal Convention, to be held at Richmond on the 5th inst., at which delegates will attend even from Canada and Nova Scotia. Why not give him absolution upon making a clean breast touching the circu- lation and publication of Governor Wise’s pri- yate confidential letter, the political assassina- tion of that distinguished Southern chief, and all the other dark deeds of the Regency of which Horatio is a silent member? He would thus feel more at ease in the capital of Virginia, and might then and there esta- blish an entente cordiale with brother Wise of the same church, who is of a frank, for- giving, and Christian disposition. By all means let brother Seymour be whitewashed. One of the new and peculiar phases of the late Episcopal Convention was the introduction by Mr. Jay of a petition “to take steps to stay the growing evil of the African slave trade, which hath been reopened, and is now being prosecuted from the port of New York, within the limits and jurisdiction of this diocess.” A resolution to submit this petition to a commit- tee to report atthe next Convention was almost unanimously lost; whence it may be inferred that the Episcopal church is in favor of the slave trade. As forslavery itself, even Mr. Jay could not summon resolution sufficient to say a word against it. Are not, therefore, the rapid changes and new movements in religion truly wonderful and startling in this age of universal revo- lution? eee Boruer Exprostons ED OF Rigorous Leagan Exacrments.—We can hardly believe that the people of New York are so exceedingly care- less and apathetic as not to feet some degree of alarm for the dangers to which they are daily and hourly subjected by the recklessness prac- tised in the matter of steam boilers. We can- not say how many boiler explosions, more or less fatal, oceur in this city in the course of @ year. They probably average one a week, and in every instance almost they arise from the most culpable carelessness. Sometimes the ex- plosion is caused by the worn out condition of the boiler, sometimes by exposing it to too high a pressure of steam, sometimes by a de- ficiency of water, and sometimes through the utter ignorance of those employed to attend them. But in all these instances it is really recklessness and culpable negligence that lie at the foundation. The late boiler explosion at the Girard House, following so speedily upon the much more terrible one in Goerck street, and occur- ring the very morning on which the Heratp contained an article on this very subject, has stirred up public attention to this matter, and we hope that the feeling will not subside watil wholesome and rigorous legal enactments are applied to remedy the evil. In the Girard House case it is made to appear by the evidence pretty clearly that the caf astro- phe was caused by one of two things- -either the carelessness and incompetency of the engincer, or the insufficiency of the F,ofler in point of strength. Now, these are the two things which wholesome Jaws can br» made to reach, and in this way: We want first, and above all, a law prohibiting under yery severe penalties the employment of any man on an engine, whether stationary or lee omotive, who has not passed examination by #. board of en- gineers, and obtained a certifie ate of his com- petency; and also punishing ‘any person who will continue to employ es w 4 engineer a man who is known to be careless or of intemperate habits. Secondly, we wan’; a law imposing a heavy fine on those who. dy» not, at least once a year, have their boilersex amined and subjected to the usual tests, by @¥,oard to be appointed for that purpese. If we had such wholesome laws made and. duly @ aforced, there would not be one steam hoiley explosion for every ten that we have now &) chronicle. We cannot re- frain, in this’ cop nection, from thanking the jury in the Girard House case for having re- cognized the vecessity of an annual inspec- tion of boilers. They included in their verdict a recommend ation “ that the proper authorities pass an ord’inance making it obligatory on the part of al). persons using a stationary or lend engine to have the boilers inspected at least once a year by « competent person appointed for that purpose.” , This is a step in the right direction, and wa call upon our legislators at Albany to take