The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1859, Page 6

6 iis NEW YORK H . santa ty JAMES GORDON BENNETT, OFYICE N. We CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. cash én cdwance, Money eont by ment sill be at the Sythe aera troney. Volume EXTV .....cccseecensees cere ceee Oe B76 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Seniovs Faxur—Tus ‘Toopuxs. WHRY THE. —-Aflernoon—Dome (tnt op Uunos Manitess.” Heung Dawor 4x0) PreWal— ‘PRIVATEER AND ‘Hraiak Bricanns. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposit Bond strect— WALLACK’S THEATBE, Broadway.—Roap 10 Row— ‘Tickiusm Tunes. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE. 62 Broadway.—Sza or ton. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—-Ganrmarpr—Goup- s8 Axe—Wire ror aw Hour. ‘UM'S AMBRICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Aftr- aa = oe aur or THE Dertas—Baiiet Divearisss- mxwe. WOOD'3 MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Eraiortax Sows, Dances, £0.—Biack Swan. NTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, £72 Broadway.— Bausseues, Bones, Daxces, ho—Uexo UP. OOOPER INSTITUTE.—Da. Bormron’s Iniusteatep Lxc- ‘TURE ON GroLoGY, NIXON & 00.’S CIRCUS, corner of Thirteeath street and Broadway, HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Wavon'’s Iraisa. New York, Wednesday, October 5, 1859. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. New York Herald—California Edition. The mail steamship St. Louis, Capt. Churchill, will leave (his port this afternoon, at three o’cleck, for San Juan <let Nord. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Paciflo will cloge at one o'clock this afternoon, ‘The New Yorx Waentx Herap—California edition— containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at eleven o’clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents. Agents will please send in their orders as carly as pos- cible. Owing to the great increase of our advertising business, eve are compelled to ask our advertising friends to come woour aid and help us to got our paper te press. This they cam accomplish by sending in their advertisements at as carly an hour in the day and evening as possible, All advertisements should be handed in Uefore nine o'clock at Right, Those handed in after that hour will have lo take their chance as regards classification. NEW TYPE AND OLD TY?=. Our readers musthave been struck with 10 and beauty of the new type in which our nows sad adver tisomont matter is set. Itis from the foundry of Jamon | Conner & Sons, Beekman street, as was also the type which we have just put aside. The latter, after serving us a year, will go into use for some provincial journal, and will probably auffice for its necessities for some half ceutury or more, provided the: paper lives so long. The advantage of buying good type, with a hard surface, like that of Conner’s, is, that it possesses a market valuo after tho wear that we give it: What will not suit us after twelve months’ use will make olean face and a hand- some typographical appearance for the blurred columns of some rural contemporary. The News. General Walker and his brother filibusters, to the number of several hundred, are again off to Central America. They sailed from Berwick Bay, in the steamer Philadelphia,on Monday last. We give in another column all the particulars of this new movement that have reached us. From these ac- counts it weuld appear that the arrangements of the filibusters are very complete and extensive. The government, however, has taken prompt means to head them off. By the arrival of the overland mail at St. Louis we have three days later news from California. The San Francisco dates are to the 12th ult. aAddi- tional returns of the election confirm the previously received reports of the success of the Lecomp ton democratic State ticket, and place be- yord doubt the election of the two Lecomp- ton candidates for Congress, the State Printer and Supreme Judge. In fact, the triumph of the federal administration is complete and overwhelming. Judge Terry had challenged Senator Broderick to fight a duel, and it is sup- posed that the invitation was accepted, as a meet- ing between the parties on the morning of the 12th ‘was prevented by the interposition of the police. Business at San Francisco continued dull, but with no material change in prices. The election in Kansas on the question of the adoption or rejection of the Wyandot constitution took place yesterday, and,so far as heard from, passed off quietly. It was generally belicved that the constitution was adopted. Our European files by the Hungarian reached us from Quebec yesterday evening. We publish to- day some extracts of interest from the papers, which are to the 21st ultimo. Our English contem- poraries seem greatly concerned about our action in the occupation of San Juan island. The steamship Canada, from Liverpool, is due at Halifax with three days later European news. The Grand Jury were empannelled yesterday in the General Sessions, and after a brief charge by Recorder Barnard, in which he called attention to the law of libel, they entered upon the discharge of their duties. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday, grant- ed one license, and adjourned till this afternoon at two o'clock. Our Nassau, N.P., letter of the 26th ult. con- tains all the local news items of interest from that portion of the Bahamas to date. A lively trade was cafried on in salt and guana, The New York American State Committee met at Albany yesterday, and an address to the Ameri- cans of the State was unanimously adopted. We print the document in another column. Measures were also adopted to secure a full vote at the next election for the ticket recommended at the Utica Convention. % The Tammany Society held their regular month ly meeting last night at Tammany Hall. The only ‘businees of importance transacted was the clection of about twenty-two new members—among them Daniel E. Delavan, John Clancy, Elijah Ward and several members of the Common Council. The weekly meeting of the Board of Ten Gover- nors took place last evening in the Rotunda. They adopted a resolution authorizing the President and Clerk to draw a requisition on the Comptroller for $25,000, after which the necessary routine business ‘Was disposed of, and they adjourned.’ The number in the institutions at present is 7,346, a decrease of ee eh Previous week—the number admitted in a being 1,787, and those discharged elsewhere 1,836. rs ‘There was a good deal of anxi in commercial circles, and sats Byes Packet day, as it is called, when most of the correspon- dence is usually prepared, and up to the closing of the Post Office at 7 P.M., it was not known by ‘what vessel the mails would leave the city for California. market was without animation, ond dealers wore disposed to await later foreign news before doing ‘The accounts of continued favorable woather at {he South also tended to add to the prevailing apathy of Gho trade, fhe chief inquiry was from spinnors. The wales embraced about 800 2 400 bales, closing NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5,. 1859.—TRIPLE dull at quotations given in another column. The receipts at the ports since the Ist of September last amount to 166,000 bales, against 141,000 in 1858, 52,000 in 1857, 121,000 in 1856, aud 189,000 in 1855. The exports amount to 72,000, against 46,000 in 1868, 19,000 in 1857, 29,000 in 1856, and 77,000 in 1865. The stock on hand embraced about 190,000, against 148,000 in 1858, 62,000 in 1867, 122,000 in 1866, and 212,000 bales in 1858. The flour market was heavy, and declined from be. to 16c. per bbl. It was, however, in fair activity at the decline, and some sales were made for export. Wheat was heavy and firmer, especially for the common and medium qualities. Prime Kentucky sold at $1 45; other qualities commanded prices givon in another column. Corn was rather firmer, with moderate sales. Pork was dull and lower, with sates of old mess at $15 25, and of new at $15 3734, and prime at $10 87.8 $10.50. Beef was dull and nominal, while lard was firm. Sugars were firm, with salea of about 500 a 600 hhds. and 620 boxes at prices given in another Place, Coffee was firm, with sales of 650 bags Rio at lic. allie. The public sale of 4,400 bags Santos averaged about 11-84c., and 400 bags Java were sold at 1b3¢c. | ‘The stock embraced 68,415 bags Rio, 24,300 mats, and 2,082 bags (government) Java. ‘Total of all kinds amounted to 108,000 bags. Frights wore steady, with moderale engagements. Among the shipments to Liver- pool were 7,000 bushels wheat at 534d. in ships’ bags. The New York Election in its National Aspect—Something for New York Farm- ers, Merchants and Mechanics to Think of, The State election of New York, which is to come off next month, will be everywhere looked upon as a preliminary skirmish to the great Presidential contest that is to take place next year; and if looked at in that light alone, apart from the important local questions it involves, it will awaken great interest in every section of the country. Although the friends of Seward failed so signally in the Black Republican Convention at Syracuse to obtain any State endorsement for his name, and even withdrew his portrait, which had been ostentatiously placed in the hall of the Convention, the success of the black republican ticket will be loudly claimed as his success, and as an endorsement by the Empire State of New York of the brutal and bloody pregramme he announced at Rochester. That programme proclaims an “irrepressible con- flict” between every Northern and Southern interest, between every farmer, merchant, man- ufacturer, ship owner and mechanic in New England and the Middle and Northwestern States, and every cotton, sugar, tobacco, and rice grower in the South and Southwest. As the home of Seward, the success in this State, and on issues purely local, of the party which he claims as his party, will be looked upon everywhere as proving a willingness on the at industrial interest in the rv upon a struggle with every f uiterest in the South, which, whichever way the result may turn, cannot but prove dangerous and destructive to both. Proclaiming the same conflict on abstract principles that was proclaimed by the fanatics of England against the social organization. of her West Indian colonies, its triumph among us conld but produce the same results, though on amuch grander scale. The great commerce that once supplied the thriving communities of the British West Indies has ceased to exist. Its warehouses have gone to decay, its ships have been driven to other ports, the looms and anvils whose labor it once quickened have been forced to look to other marts to con- sume their products, and the fleets that once came to the ports of England laden with the much needed products of Ja- maica and her sister islands have either dwin- dled to insignificance or are known no more. These untoward results were produced hecause the farmers and mechanics of England were persuaded that between themselves and the system of labor in the tropics there was the “irrepressible conflict” that Seward preaches here, and so they abused the power of the Im- perial Parliament to destroy a social system that, instead of being hostile to, was the com- plement of their own. In order to secure success Sewardism is en- deavoring to beguile the industrious millions of the North into the belief that the system of labor in the South is inimical to them in every way. For this, the South is represented as en- croaching on the North, as being overbear- ing to the North, as wishing to tyrannize over the North, and as a drag and in- jury to the North. In order to refute these misstatements it is only necessary to appeal to facts. In a commercial and industrial peint of view the South forms a part of every North- ern enterprise. Its cotton, sugar and tobacco give employment to the ships of New England, and are thus a stimulus to every shipyard, every mechanical art and every trade in its numerous ports. The wants of the South, when the rest of the coun- try was prostrated by a financial revulsion two years since, sustained the drooping commerce of New York, and always forms one of its most important elements. Its call for manufactures of all kinds was what first set the suspended workshops again in movement. It neverclaims that the labor system of the North shall be changed in anything to suit its social ideas. Its developement and growth is southward and not northward, and every new acre of land it brings under culture, every store it opens, every new home it builds, creates a new mar- ket for the productions of Northern industry and a new source of supply to Northern neces- sities. Thus, instead of there being an “irrepressi- ble conflict” between the North and the South, there is an irrepressible harmony, which should be cultivated by every posssible means. It be~ hooves every farmer, every merchant, every shipowner, every mechanic and every laborer in this State to see that the vote of the State of New York is not per- verted to an apparent ratification of Seward’s pernicious idea. We know that there are thousands in the republican party itself who not only do not assent to the brutal and bloody doctrine of the Rochester programme, but who dissent from it decidedly. But, entertaining, as they do, an honest conviction of their duty to oppose the apoils organizations of the demo- erats, they must take care- that this houesty does not lead them to become the mere blind instruments of equally dangerows spoils ing demagogues who pretend to affiliate with them. The next election in this State should be looked at in its national as well as its local aspect, and every man should ask himself, and | answer to himself truly, is the labor system of the South an injury to me? Will I be better off if I succeed in destroying it? Will it make me more happy or more prosperous if I can suc- ceed in deluging in blood sister States that are Low among my best friends and best customers? And when he has'done this let him so deport himself at the polls next November as his ho- nest wish for the greatest good of himself and of the whole country shall dictate. The Humbug Lecture Sy em. Of all the humbugs practised upon the cre- dulity of the American people the 1» ‘ure sys- tem is the greatest a d the most ho «w; for every other, not even excepting the mock auc- tion shop, gives more valu: for the ¢ h re- ceived. The extent to which the peop'e are bled by it, and to which itinorant lec‘uers, literary societies and committees make money, is astonishing. From one of thse societies we have received the following invitation, which throws some light on the system, o which we will take leave to add a little more :— Dgar 8iR—The Literary Association of this place havil determined to have a course of lectures from distingw amen during the present fT, COMMencing Ist svvein ber, we write to know whether we could be so fortunate agto secure your sorvices for ono night. We paid last winter from to $200 per night, and will pay the exme id you conclude to come, we would pay you $100. An early auswer will be thankfully received. With great respect, in behalf of the Association, J. H. RUBINSON, Please address J. H. Robinson, Princeton, N. J. In reply to the foregoing, we have to say that we will not and cannot accept the invita tion. It appears that $100 is the highest sum paid for the dolivery ofa lecture. The time lost during the operation would be worth $5,000 to us. This sort of business is not in our line. We deliver our lectures in the HeraLp seven times a week, and several of them toge- ther, short and to the point, to ninety thousand subscribers and half a million of readers, at the small charge of two cents, giving more infor: mation in each copy than is contained in a thousand of the lectures, which cost to every man who hears one of them fifty cents, or at | least a quarter of a dollar. But we have no doubt that the “Literary Association of Prince- | ton” can be easily accommodated, The Tribune | publishes a list of lecturers’ names annually, | and every year the catalogue is growing long- er, and the inundation of trash rises higher and spreads more widely over the country. From the names on this list “J. H. Robinson” can select enough of “distinguished men” for half-a-dozen courses of lectures. He will find their prices ranging from $100 down to their dinner, or a pair of old breeches, which is more than nine-tenths of them are worth. In fact they are dear at any price. The Astor Library is the principal manufac- tory in which their compositions are elabo- rated. They are sometimes stolen almost bodily from antiquated books, whose theories or facts have been exploded; sometimes from good and sound works, which the ignorant lecturer not understanding, interlards with his own lucubrations, and perverts the whole into a jumble of absurdity, in which sound prevails over sense. There is nothing fresh, no infor- mation brought down to date, for these men are not posted in anything except in the art and mystery of their own swindling system. Their lectures abound in misquotations and in the grossest blunders, exemplifying the adage that “a little learning isa dangerous thing.” Sometimes these lectures are made up of scraps and odds and ends from old reviews, magazines and encyclopedias—a patchwork put clumsily and unskilfully together, without consistency, symmetry or unity of design. Thus the literary chiffonniers, without origi- nal ideas, without brains, and without a liberal education, go to work at the Astor Library or some other, and produce a worthless lecture, the copyright of which would not sell for $20. No good newspaper would deem it worth $5. Yet this is delivered the first time for $50, perhaps for $100, and the dose is repeated to other au- diences on the same terms, till if has gone the round of the “literary societies.” An original book, with solid information or pleasant read- ing, worth a hundred such lectures, might be purchased for the price of admission, and would be worth nearly what was paid for it in twenty years after, whereas the lecturer leaves nothing behind him worth preserving. So incompetent are many of these literateurs who thus make a living by cheating simpletons with their wares, like “Peter Funk,” who passes off upon a green countryman a pinch- beck or galvanized watch for pure gold, that they could not write a decent article for a first class journal if it were to save their necks from the gallows. What gives them security is the fact that their compositions are not worth reporting in the newspapers, for if once pub- lished they could not be repeated, and the lec- turer would have to commence de novo to get up another essay, and this process would not pay. Their publication, moreover, might pro- voke some scathing criticisms, and this would be ruinous in a double sense. The lecturers are therefore continually at the mercy of the newspapers, and they beg hard of the reporters not to publish them in full, but only to “give justa little notice of them”—a very unnecessary request on their part, and which they would never make if they only knew in what con- tempt their performances are held both by reporters and editors. The chief merit of some of these affairs is in the delivery, or in the elaboration of high-sounding verbiage, which tickles the ear for the moment, but leaves not a trace of an idea or a shadow of information on the mind. There is no connec- tion, no arguments, no facts, nothing that can be remembered, : The literary societies and committees make a good thing of these lectures on the whole, though sometimes they are “done brown” by failures. They use their local in- fluence, and put forth all their exértions in selling the tickets, which they often get off their hands under the most fraudulent representa- tions. Without such appliances none of the lecturers who go about the country could make their expenses. There wasa time when some rather clever men had a monopoly of the business, and made a handsome income out of it; but thore days are gone by, and now the thing is overdone, and driven into the ground, and ecaicely any able man will accept an invi- tation to lecture. If he does, he follows in the beaten track, and will not bestow the pains re- quired for a good original composition. He depends on bis reputation and his name, and | with these cheat the audience out of their querters. Some of the fools think they are amply repaid by seeing his face. Many clergy- men thus add to their incomes by lectures which cost them less toil and have less merit than one of their ordinary sermons. The truth is that the talent, learning and labor necessary to produce a good lecture could not be purchased by any literary socicty; for if the lecture had decided merit it could not be repeated, and would pay worse than the poorest composition. ‘The newspapers would report it on ite first de- livery, and give it to the reader, with a variety of other interesting matter, for two cents, thus destroying its marketable value to the writer, y SHEET. It would pay him better, therefore, to send it | ganise it altogether. This course of action is to a review or to publish it in the form of a book. While we express these opinions of the loc- ture system generally we are aware that there are some exceptions—“like angels visits, few and far between”—in which both profit and pleasure may be derived by the audience. Among these may be classed such lectures as those delivered by Dr. Livingstone, giving an account of his own experience in new and un- trodden countries in Africa, and of Dr. Kane, whose interesting and instructive descriptions, from personal observation, of wonderful Arctic regions, where civilized man had never set foot before, furnished food for the intellect and the imagination of his delighted audiences. The lectures of such men as Lardner, Herschel and our.own Professor Mitchell, giving an ac- count in glowing language of their own disco- veries, or of thosg recently made by other sci- entific men, may also be ranked among the ex- ceptions to the general rule, and, with a very few others, may be regarded as oasesin the barren desert of the lectpre system, which has become the last refuge of literary loafers on both sides of the Atlantic, Tue Insrection or Steam Borers—A Lesson From BurraLo.—We are glad to perceive that some members of the Common Council, at their last meeting, adopted the suggestions of the Hera. with reference to the necessity of hay- ing steam boilers inspected and properly tested every year, by moving for the passage of an ordinance to that effect. There is no other method whereby the safety of the public can be secured against danger from explosions such as that which occurred in the Girard House on Saturday morning, and whivh is but a repeti- tion of similar disasters in other parts of the city. It would be well for our municipal legis- lators to imitate the example of the Corpora- tion of Buffalo, which passed the following ordinance over two year#ago, a measure, as we are assured, which has proved an inestimable blessing to the people of that city, 2s a similar one would unquestionably be to the inhabitants of this:— CITY ORDINANCE. In Common Couscrt, Bervavo, April 27, 1857. Resolved, That the Common Council of the City of Buf- faio, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in them by the charter of said city, do, for the more effectual prevention of fires by the explosion of boilers used for the purpose of generating steam, hereby ordain and en- act the following sections to be attached fo and mado a part of chapter 17 of tho ordinances of’ said city, and numbered sections 43, 44, 45 and 46, Sec. 43. No person shall hereafter erect or uso, or cause to be erected or used in the city of Buffalo, any boiler (except the boilers of locomotive engines and of steam vessels), for the purpose of generating steam, unless such boiler shall have within one year beon subjected to a hydrostatic test, applied by a competent por:oa or per- sons, and the maximum working power allowed to be used agcertained, under the same regulations applied by the United States Local Board of Steamboat Inspectors, under the act of Congress entitled “an act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vesse!s propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes,” Au- gust 30, 1862; nor Until a certificate of such test and of the maximum working power allowed to be used ascor- tained, under the regulations of the dct aforesaid, shall have heen made and signed by the person or persons applying such test as aforesaid, and the same filed in the oftice of the clerk of the city of Buffalo, under a ponalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every offence. Sec. No engineer or other person having charge of any boiler in the city of Buffalo (except the Doilers of locomotive engines and steam vessels), used for the gene- ration of steam, shall under any circumstances load or manage the safety valve attached to any such boiler, or in apy other manner subject such boiler to a greater pres- sure than tbe maximum working powor allowed to be used by the certificate of the Fires or persons applying the hydrostatic test, made and filed as provided in tho receding section, under tho penalty of twenty-five dol- Seo 48 The ‘penal apeenh by the two preceding . 45. penalties im; y wo sections 43 and 44 may be sued for and recovered with costs, in the same manner as penalties of like amount are now by law recoverabie, to be applied in the manner pro- vided by section 41 of this chapter. Sec. 46. The preceding sections 43, 44 and 45 shall take effect August 1, 1857. Approved April 20, 1867. F. P. STEVENS, Mayor. Thereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly enacted by the Common Council of the city of Buffalo on the 27th day of April, 1957. ‘WM. H. ALBRO, City Clerk. Dated Buffalo, April 20, 1857. Our Common Council might very well adopt the phraseology of this resolution, but increase the penalty for its violation to a hundred dol- Ters for each offence. Tae Approacutna State Etection—Waar 3s THE Issue?—The approaching election in this State will come off ina few weeks from now, and it is but preliminary to the Presiden- tial contest of 1860, which, from the vital issues it involves, is the most important one that has occurred for the last half century. We see that the hungry partisan journals all over the State are very busy abusing each other about the canals, each party charging the other with plundering and ruining them; but the fact is that the leaders of both factions have treated the canals alike for the last ten or fif- teen years—to each alike They have been a fruitful source of plunder, and there is not a particle of friendship. for the canals in either party, except in so far as they can use them for purposes of plunder. But light as the issues of the State election may be, yet in its bearing upon the Presiden- tial contest it is of an importance too grave to be trifled about. There are only two parties in the field, and only two State tickets before the people—the democratic and the republi- can—for the American faction died by sui- cide at Utica. The republican’ ticket contains thenames of many respectable men; but it is stilla mere party nomination, and if success- ful the inference will be that this State sustains W. H. Seward and the infamous disorganizing doctrines he has annunciated of eternal war- fare against the Soutli; and it will give him a leading chance for the next Presidency, in which event perpetual agitation and disunion are the inevitable results to the country. The democratic ticket also contains many men equally respectable, though the disgrace- ful scenes at Syracuse, with its arena of bullies and rowdies, have sunk the party and its lead- ers deep in infamy. We hope and trust that, as the democratic ticket stands as a barrier to the pernicious tide of Seward’s doctrines, it will be supported by all conservative men in this! city and State—by all men who value’the com- merce, manufactures, peace and prosperity of the entire country. And there are strong indi- cations that such will be the result. The scan- dalous action of Tammany Hall and Mozart Hall, with their brutal orgies and cowardly ar- ray of shoulder-hitters, rowdics and fighting men, have disgusted the decent portion of the party—such men as those whose names we mentioned in this connection the other day— and they will have nothing to do with either of these vile haunts of infamy henceforth. They are preparing to create an entirely new or- ganization, with a spocial view to the State election, and they will probably raise a fund of from twenty to fifty thousand dollars for that purpose, with which they may be able to main- tain the conservative elements in the State, de- feat the machinations of W. H. Seward, and thus help to preserve the country from that “{rrepressible conflict” which threatens to over- whelm it in endless agitation, if not to disor- clearly the duty of all right-thinking, conserva- tive men, and we hope it will be marked with success, Tas Arrican Stave TRADH AND THE Sovr.—In another column we publish letter contradicting the statement publish- ed in the Heraup some time ago on the authority of Me. Douglas, to the effect that numerous cargoes of African slaves had beon landed on the const of Florida, and that he had himself seen the imported “savages,” and that theSouthorn planters were indignant at these importations as depreciating the value of their property in domestic slaves. It may be that there is a good deal of exng- geration in the statement, but that it was made by Mr. Douglas we have excellent authority fo: asserting. It is possible that, on account of the generat hostility of the South to the slave trade, that the coasts are too well watched to permit a very extensive traffic on the seaboard. But it is not the fault of the black republicans of the North, who fit out the slavers, that greater numbers of the savages are not landed in the South. That the principal slavers are fitted out at New York and ia the ports of Mas- sachusetts our history of the traffic, published in-the Heratp within the last two months, abundantly proves. This history has been compiled from authentic sources, and its facts cannot be questioned. 7 Ifany confirmation were wanting of the ex- istence of an extensive slave trade carried on by Northern ships and Northern capital, we have it in the undisputed fact of the great num- bers of negroes which are landed in Cuba; so that it makes no material difference where they are landed—whether in Florida or in “the gem ofthe Antilles” opposite that coast. The point is that slavers are fitted out by black republi- cans on the Northern coast and sent to Africa for cargoes of native slaves, which are convey- ed to whatever point they can find a good market. And yet these black republican slave deal- ers, in whose confidence and secrets Thurlow Weed proclaims himself to be, will be found among the most rabid declaimers against the institution of domestic slavery in the South. They thus make the slave trade serve a double purpose—first, to make money by it, and, secondly, to make political capital by charging the traffic upon others, as Cassidy & Co. charged. the betrayal of confidence in the publication of Wise’s letter upon others, and as Thurlow Weed, the organ of the high tariff protection party, received five thousand dollars to use his influence to procure the passage of a bill in Congress for “free wool,” and as William H. Seward made vast Political capital asa champion of the tempe- rance movement for the prohibition of all in- toxicating drinks at the very time when he was engaged in the liquor businessin Aubura. Such isthe hypocrisy and moral rottenness which characterizes the leaders of all our political parties. But there is no phase of itso disgust- ing as black republican slavedcalers running down the peculiar institution of the South. It can only be paralleled by Satan with his neck in a white choker rebuking sin. ‘Tux Macmng Suors or New Yorx.—Among those metropolitan features which distinguish New York from the other.cities of the Union, are its vast manufactories of machinery, par- ticularly of that which is connected with the steam engine in its various forms, and marks the progress of the age. Steam has revolution- ized the civilized world, and it is peculiarly characteristic of the go-ahead people of the United States, in which the mighty agent was first successfully applied to navigation. New York, the centre of: American civilization, which diffuses its light and power to the re- motest extremities of the Union, manufactures machinery for every State. In another column we publish an article giving an account of the present operations of those gigantic establish- ments—the machine shops—which turn out every description of boiler and engine which are made, from those intended to move the largest float- ing fortress that “ walks the water as a thing of life,” to the curious little “forest machines” manufactured for the Southern market ana de- signed to fell and saw trees. Among the iron wonders now being forged at the Novelty Works are thirteen steam fire engines, one of them for New Orleans and another for San Francisco, costing $4,500 cach. Thus do the Empire City’s sweltering, roar- ing furnaces glow with blinding white, and the faces of her grim smiths, “clad in leathern pano- ply,” flery grow, as their sledges fall upon the monster shaft or piston “quivering through its fleece of flame;” and the well-timed music of their blows sounds sweeter than the steeple’s chime. But not for the Empire City alone, nor even for the United States, is this energy and activity displayed; lier hammers ring and her craftsmen sweat for Cuba, for Spain, for Rus- sia, for Turkey, and for half the world. Yet for this toil and skill and enterprise New York has her reward, not only in the accumulation of vast wealth, but in the progress of the arts and sciences, and in the rapid growth of her population, unprecedented in the history of any city since the foundation of the world. Reorenino or tHe Stave Trape.—The result of the elections in the Southern States, particu- ' Tuporrasr Muprina ow, Mexcuants ar tun Evie- xerr Hovse—Tue Ante®x'WARD Movemenr.— The proceedings at the Ey‘erett House, of which an account is given in another column, show that the integrity and moneyed influence, of New York may be considered as fah'ly in the field ,zgainst Sewardism and the rowdy misrule of Tammany and Mozart halls. The respect- able portion of the community have at length awakened from their apathy, and are determin- ed that Seward disunionism shall not be cram- med down the throats of the people at the coming State election. It is recognized that there has seldom been a period in our political history more fraught with danger to the country than the present; that an endorsement of the outrageous “irrepressible conflict” doctrine of the Rochester speech of Mr. Seward might re- sult in a crash and ruin to the commeroial, financial and agricultural classes, and inaugu- rate a period of national decay which must at every hazard be averted. The fing of sectional discord which the most ; unscrupulous political profligate which this country has ever produced has unfurled in all ite blackness, forms a fitting sequel to a career which, from 1839, when he ascended the gubor» natorial chair of the State, until the present hour, has in it no redeeming feature. It isa matter, therefore, of profound rejoicing that the gentlemen whose names we have.recently pre- sented to the public have united, as they have done, to rescue the country from the dangers with which it is menaced. Undersuch auspices, a victory may be regarded as certain, and the effect of it upon the public mind will be such an one as has not been witnessed for a quarter of acentury. It is the appearance of the right men at the right timo in the front rank of con- servative political action. They are possessed of skill, ability and patriotism, and with energy and endurance superadded, they may be relied on to pilot the State, city and county out of the dangers by which they are surrounded. The next step to be taken should be a call for a public mecting—one of those mass meet: ings of merchants from which rowdyism is excluded, and where the hoary experience and worth of the last half century may not fear to appear. When the respectability of this city shall have made itself heard in such a manner, a fiat will go forth agginst profligacy and plunder on the* one hand, and Sewardism on the other, which will seal the fate of both for long time to come. Orp Fooyism Among tim Baxks.—Vesterday the Clearing House Association held its annual meeting. Reporters were The Presi- dent observed that it was atrary to the rules to admit them;” and so thé businwss of the combined banks of New York was transacted in a hole and corner, with closed doors and barred windows. Several theories have been started to account for this singular freak of the bank managers. On plain common sense gfounds, of course, it cannot be explained at all; for the Clearing House Association, being a combination of all. the city banks for certain public purposes, cannot seriously be called a private body any more than Congress or the Common Council. It is as public a concern as a town pump ora post office—and this even the densest bankers must see. One theory by which the refusal of Mr. Tileston to admit reporters is ac- counted for is that the banks manage ° their affairs so badly that they are afraid to let outsiders into the conciliable where their blunders are discussed. Some time ago, we believe, the Clearing House held some meet- ings, in which the subject of a currency was discussed, and so much nonsense was talked that the shrewder members concluded it would never do to let daylight in upon the discussion. It was in the Clearing House, too, that the bank presidents, about twelve hours before they sus- pended in 1857, proclaimed “the impregnable strength of the New York city banks.” This would perhaps have been an awkward discus- sion to have reported vérdatim. Another theory which is current in Wall street is that so many of the bank presidents talk bad grammar that if reporters were ad- mitted they would either be doomed to per- petual silence or would make themselves sadly ridiculous. It seems that there are several “Van Boozenbergs” among the Clearing House oracles, and that distinguished financiers have been heard to announce that “We and them others votes the old ticket.” If this be 80, the inconvenience of reporters is obvious. Still, making every allowance for the feelings of the Van Boozenbergs, we cannot but con- clude that the Clearing House must open its doors to the press, or we must have it reorgan- ized by the next Legislature. It will never do to let the financial affairs of this great city be conducted in a hole and. corner, under lock and key, for the sake of the tender feelings and. maiden modesty of bank presidents. The pub- lic have a right to know what the banks are doing, and if that knowledge can “be obtained in no other way, the Clearing House must be chartered, rendered subject to the State autho- rities, and regularly inspected. As for the Van Boozenbergs, let them go to school again and’study their Lindley Murray. cluded Axorner Fruieuster Expeprrios—Monsievr Toxson Come Acatx.—It will be seen by our larly in Texas, proves that the reopening of | special Washington despatches, and also by the slave trade is regarded there, as well as at the North, with disfavor. Philanthropy is ex- ultant, and its disciples are making a great hue and cry. They no doubt believe, and honestly believe, that modern teachings and sermons upon humanity have brought about the result. We should be glad to think so too, but we doubt afterall if the principles of humanity have had much to do with it. The world now, as heretoforo, is pretty generally governed by considerations of material interest. While there is a great deal cf open and calculating hypocrisy afloat, there is no doubt much more of latent and unconscious hypocrisy. Every man is apt to think, while serving his own in- teresie, that he is serving those of God and of the whole human race—that is, if he thinks it worth his while to look at a question be- yond its bearings on self. The North, of course, where white labor fs superabundant, does not wish or desire more of negro labor, whilo at the South such a considerable accession of slave labor as would result from the opening of the slave trade would tend greatly to reduce the value of the capital now invested in slaves, So there is no danger of the slave trade being reopened. Not because philanthropists preach and'cry against it, but simply for the reason that the general interests of the country and of the while race oppose it. those from New Orleans, that the filibuster Walker has turned up again, and that he has slipped off from Berwick Bay on the steamer Fashion, with two or three hundred followers, bound for Central America. We have no doubt that the rumors circulated in regard to this matter are greatly exagge- rated, probably with design, and that any movement which Walker can make against Ni- caragua will be on a much smaller scale than any he has before attempted. Among the state- ments put forth is one that General Wheat is to form a part of the new expedition. We have the authority of General Wheat himself for de- nying this statement, as he is about to go to Acapulco to join’ General Alvarez in his con- templated march on the city of Mexico. It is his intention to go out by thé Baltic for Aspinwall to-day, on his way to General Alva- rez’s command, Tt would not be at all surprising if the pre- sent movement of Walker turns out to have some connection with the new Transit route mail contract fight. He is completely played out, and on bis own merits can obtain neither money nor credit; yet whenever the Transit route dispute comes up, Walker turns up too. The government has ‘sent ordets to look after him and to have him stopped, but we think the best thing the government gan do with him ia