The New York Herald Newspaper, November 10, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BENNSETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIC’ M. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS rikey Ae Senter, “Pocage strap’ nak retteed as culerinion DAILY HERALD. two conte , $1 per onus. $HE WRERLY BERALD. evry Cra foals bane er sory ee amma prt re Brive, & a Pai om he 6 ond 0 f ak month af MEI VANILY UREALD on Wednesday, at fowr cents Pre VEE SINEMRNTS rence! erry Husain ond 0 the and ‘Bitions. iy Bickearar bret, ea Bequerran re Bast sit Larrans AND cous Sere ot, ‘anonymous correepondience, Wedo not Verte PRINTING asxrwied with neatness, cheapness and de- vue Vodmnt KKIV.. cee esseseseseessees cone Oe SIR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Ieucanp as Tr Was—Le Anp Our or Pica. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Doom o¢ Davitts—Eron Bor—Sexotas Bawegacou. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, oppostie Boud sirect.— ALLAOK’S THEATRE, Breedway.—Wancs, Aszona— nora amp Bacg. 1aDRA KEENE'S Sscant—Jeony Lixp. THEATRE, 634 Broadway.—Wire's —a NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1859.—TRIPLE SHEET, ed. The weekly statement showed that during the past week 1,527 persons had been admitted to the institutions, 30 had died, 1,299 were discharged,and 100 sent to the penitentiary, leaving a balance of 7,558 persons remaining, At the annual meeting of the Pacific Mail Steam- ship Company yesterday, the old Board of Direot- ors, with the exception of Mc. Raymond, was unanl- mously re-elected. There was 8 falling off in the receipts of beof cat- tle last week of 1,000 head, but the market was dull and pricesunchanged. Milch cows, veals and sheep and lambs were quiet at previous rates. Swine were in large supply, bat firm in price. There were on ale 3,300 cattle, 164 cows, 587 voals, 10,936 sheep and lambs, and 10,000 ewine. ‘The sales of cotton yeaterday embraced about 1,2008 1,600 bales, which closed on the basis of 11 <c. a Mic. for middling uplands. A small portion of the sales were re- Ported to have been made in transitu. Flour was firm, aad in good Eastern, export and speculative demand. Southern ‘was in good request, and prices sustained, Wheat was firmer, with free sales, including some purchases for ex- port. Corn was comparatively quict, while sales wero made without change of moment in prices. Pork was heavy, with sales of mess at $15 12 a $1515, and of prime at $10 60. Sugars were firm, and in good demand, with sales of about 2,600 bhds. Cuba muscovado at full Prices; 300 hhds. melado at 53<¢., and 9,000 bags Brazil at P. t. Coffee was firm, with the sale of the Addison Child's cargo, 4,200 Rio, at 113e., with other lots to the trade. Freight engagements were moderate, while rates were sustained, . ‘Triumph of William H. Seward at the Late Blection. The result of the State eleotion is suffictently apparent, already, to indicate, beyond a doubt, YY THEA’ e Tom's New SO! ‘TEE, Bowery.—Uscs that the great “irrepressible conflict” hero, whe gave the key note to the Brown rebellion at Harper's Ferry, has come out victorious from the conflict. Arch-Beelzebub of American poli- tice as Mr. Seward undoubtedly is, he surpasses in the craft for which he is remarkable, all of his contemporaries. Van Buren attempted to make the slavery question a dividing line in the democratic party, but he signally failed. Seward wrenched from his hands the capital that could be made out of it, and has monopo- lized it ever since. Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Giddings, Gerrit Smith, and Hale are but satellites, revolving round the greater aboli- tionist sun, and vainly attempting to fly from the centripetal force that controls them. The name of Seward taints everything which be- comes associated with it. He is the most un- scrupulous adept in pecuniary and political profiigacy, that the United States has ever THUATRE FRANCAIS, 665 Broadway.—Le Demi Mowps. ARNUWS AMERICAN Broadway.—After- noeeeRVAL, Pachs—-MAnhIED. AND Evening Founpuna or Tux Fouset—Rival Paces. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Eqmuor14x SONGS, pine, doe Mask Basse BRYANT MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, 672 Broadway.— Sounes at Pualons. SALOON, Broadway.—Geo. Cxnwrr’s Min- EEE MO DBE OE Dl NEW OPERA HOUSE, 720 Broadway.—Drarton's Pan- Lor Orexas axp Lrnic Provenss. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Waucn’s Irauia. PALACE GARDEN AND HALL, Fourteenth street — Recrrative any Duscriprive Exrsetaumest. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, November 10, 1859. The News. The steamship Asia, which left Liverpool on the 29th ult., is due at this port. She will bring three days’ later news. The steamship Aflantic is due at this port from Aspinwall, with San Francisco advices to the 20th ult. and news from Central America and the South Pacific republics. Additional retarns of the election in the State of New York on Tuesday justify the belief that the republican candidates for State officers are elected, but probably by a small majority. Both branches of the Legislature will undoubtedly be largely republican. We do not publish the frag- mentary returns that come to us by telegraph from various parts of the State, as their incompleteness would serve rather to confuse thar enlighten our readers. The trial of Captain Cook, Old Brown’s second in command at Harper’s Ferry, was continued yes- terday at Charlestown, Va. He pleaded guilty to all the counts of the indictment, except that of trea- Bon, and the court overruled that exception. He admitted conspiracy with the slaves, a crime pun- ishable with death, or imprisonment for life. It is Stated that Cook’s confession contains little that is new in regard to the designs of the conspirators, He, however, implicates Fred. Douglass and Dr. Howe, of Beston, in the plot. The confession is to be published in pamphlet form. It is reported by telegraph that Gerrit Smith is insane. He was taken to the Utica Insane Asylum on Monday by his relatives. Our correspondent in Buenos Ayres, writing on the 15th of September, gives a few news items, althongh his letter is not so late as the reports given in the Henatp on Tuesday morning. He says:—Vice President Derqui has received popu- larly the nomination for President of the Argentine Confederation, and, as the election occurs in No- vember, he will probably be Urquiza’s' successor. The dominion of the river is now in the hands of Buenos Ayres, The railroad to the west is going forward rapidly,a cargo of rails having just arrived. A new project of a railroad from Buenos Ayres to the south, towards the choicest lands of South Ame- rica, is just now undertaken, and two hundred Square leagues of wild land have been set apart to Pay its construction. Our correspondent on board the United States steamer Lancaster, dating at Rio Janeiro on the 27th of September, states that all hands were quite Well and the vessel about to «ail next day for Val- paraiso. The Brazilian ¢o" ornment had protested Sgainst the continued presence of the British frigate Madagascar in port for such a number of Years, on the ground that she was employed only a8 a “foreign spy” vessel, and a mandate had been issued for her departure from the harbor. She was togoon a cruise after years of idleness in her ordinary line of employment. Trade was very dull, and some dread of yellow fever existed. The United States frigate Congress had not arrived on the 26th of September. Very little business was done by the Emigration Commissioners at their meeting yesterday, and none of the slightest interest or importance. The number of emigrants arrived during the week was 3,384, making the number for the present year 69,976. The balance of the commutation fund amounts io $5,070 15. The Board of Education met last evening, and adopted the annual estimate of expenses, ag sub- mitted by the committee and published in the He- Rap on the 6th ult., with the slight amendment of taking $5,000 from one item of expenditure and adding it to another. The introductory lecture before the Metropolitan Medical College was delivered yesterday by Prof. Archer. A synopsis of it will be found elsewhere- ‘The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the week ending November 5, the range of the barometer and ther- mometer, the variation of wind currents and the state of the weather, at three periods during each day, vis: ot 9A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— paneer I rer reenter Rea: A AES, clear; night, bright moontigys ray Norio haet origi moat . bright MI9p!ig's, dleir; € 2. it, cloudy; 0B. i A session of the Board of Ten Governors was held yesterday afternoon in the Rotunda, but owing to the absence of a quorum, no business Was transact: produced. Upon his advent into office, in bis debted $5,000,000. He left it, at the end of an administration of only four years, owing $25,000,000. He had inaugurated the reign of bribery and corruption, and nearly bankrupted the wealthiest member of the Ameritan con- federacy. In 1852, when Winfield Scott stood before the country as a candidate for the Presi- dency, his supposed identification with Seward dragged him into the dust. Yet the demagogue has survived, and now presents himself to the country, endorsed by the vote of day before yesterday, asthe only great champion of the black republican party for the chief magistracy of the country, after 1860. native State, he found it in- The recent registry of voters in the city of New York, shows that there are, in this me- tropolis, over one hundred thousand persons entitled to the right of suffrage. In the whole State, there are about six hundred thousand. It appears, however, from the election returns, that less than two-thirds of these presented themselves at the polls. This has been mainly owing to the utter state of demoraliza- tion into which parties have fallen. The two hundred and odd thousand citizens who have refrained from voting, probably con- stitute the most conscientious, honest, and con- servative portion of the whole community. They have been perplexed, partly by the exe- erable character of most of the candidates of all parties offered to their choice, but princi- pally by the degradation of the leaders of the democratic and republican Regencies. Be- tween Thurlow Weed, and the scandalous job- bing operations, of which he is the representa- tive, on the one hand, and the rotten, Judas Iscariot selfishness of Cagger, Confidence Cas- sidy & Co. on the other, they have been palsied into supineness and inactivity, preferring rather to do nothing, than to co-operate with iniquity of any kind. Had they been able to see one ray of light; could they have reposed confi- dence in any representative organization, they would, we think, haye made their influence felt; but they recognized that at a critical pe- riod in the history of the State and country, it was their duty to feel certain of the founda- tion upon which they were building. The con- sequence has been the loss, by default, of an important election, and a victory in behalf of the most atrocious disunion dogmas that ever have been sprung upon the public. The elections in Michigan, Wisconsin, Massa- chusetts, Dlinois, and other Northern States, point in the same direction and teach the same lesson as that which may be derived from New York, namely, that there is a paralysis of feel- ing throughout the North, growing out of the decay of parties, which restrains the better portion of the community from going to the polls. It is within bounds to estimate the number of good, cautious, patriotic men, who have abstained from voting, at the late elec- tions, as at least eight hundred thousand. Had they taken part in the recent conflicts between the demagogues of parties, for official position, the results would have been entirely different. Should they continue to refrain from doing so, during the coming two years, William H. Sew- ard will, in all likelihood, be the next President of the United States. They hold the next Pre- sidential election, in fact, in the hollow of their hands. They hold in their hands the perpetua- tion of the union between North and South. They are so completely the arbiters of the fu- ture destinies of the country that whether there shall be peace or civil war, is subject to their decision. We do not believe that there is a thoughtful, upright man in the North, who doubts that a series of outbreaks, similar to that which was recently witnessed at Harper's Ferry, would endanger not only the prosperity but the very existence of the Union. And if there were an individual like William H. Seward elevated to the Presidency of the United States, the princi- ples of whose administration would be that such rebellions are not “unnecessary, acci- dental and the#vérk of interested and fanatical agitators,” but the result of “an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces,” he could not consistently suppress them, but would be compelled, even, to contribute to | them such indirect aid as the federal adminis- trailon could afford. Missouri would be in- vaded by abolitionists from Kansi0 and Mlinois; Kentucky and Tennessee would be attacked from Ohio; the plan of Brown to take posees- sion of Maryland and Virginis, would be at- tempted from Pennsylvania and New York, and the “day of calamity” would come which Gerrit Smith foretold, when “fire, rape and slaughter” shall fill up the measure of afflic- tion. Where then would be the civi- lization, progress, happiness and onward advancement of the United States? Aboli- tionism, aided by President Seward, its high priest and apostle, would be rampant in its aggressive measures, The resistance of the South would be just and stern; but the day would have come of whioh the Father of his Country uttered such earnest and mournfully prophetic forebodings in his Farewell Address, in Septomber, 1796. His warnings, and those of Jackson at a later period, will have been ne- gleoted, and the nation will have a chief magis- trate who, instead of “indignantly frowning upon the first attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the ties which link together the various parts,” wil connive at the destruction of “the palladium of our political existence and prosperity.” The late election in New York, as well as in other Northern States, bodes ill for the future peace of the Union. They are a direct triumph for the shrewdest demagogue and traitor whom the country has ever produeed, and fearful as the prospect is, he must inevitably be the next Presidential candidate of the black republican party; but it remains to be seen whether the eight hundred thousand voters whose apathy has contributed to his success will rouse them- selves in time to prevent the still greater and more fatal catastrophe of his election, during the coming year. International Finances and Financiers. The death of Mr. Magon and the return of Mr. Preston leave our Missions at Paris and Madrid unoccupied, and the newspapers have been busy lately filling them with several per- sons, but none have hit upon the truth in the matter. With each of these posts the name of Mr. Anguste Belmont has been prominently connected. We have it from the highest authority that Mr. Belmont would accept of neither of these posta, nor, in fact, of any political position from either the government or the people. He no doubt has good reasons for this determina- tion, which are well known to persons within the circle of operation of international finances, Hereditary banking families are subject to the same natural laws with hereditary aristocra- cies. They run out at the third generation, when they require an infusion of new blood and new brains, or else they will go down. The banking families of Europe under- stand this very well, and constantly practice upon it, so that all of the houses that have been established for several generations are managed by persons whose names seldom appear in the firm. The rapid and vast growth of American commeroial inte- rests has led some of the most successful of the European establishments to seek Americans for their managerial chais, as in the case of Mr. Bates with the Barings, and who, it is said, is to be succeeded by another American, Mr. Stur- ges, imported expressly for the occasion from Boston. ‘The Rothschilds are entering upon the third generation, and the house requires a new head. Founded by Baron Anselm, and continued by his five sons, of whom two only—James and Nathan—were capable of continuing the edifice begun by their father, the present members of the family have other leanings than those for the dry details of business. Mr. Belmont, edu- cated in the old house at Frankfort, and sent to this country some twenty years ago, has grown up during the period of our most active and greatest commercial developement, with a fa- miliar acquaintance with the ins and outs of Wall street; and at this day there is probably no man in America or Europe who possesses a more perfect knowledge than he of the capa- cities and requirements of the international finances of the two continents. These are the qualifications which are about to call him to the head of the house of Roths- childs. In these days, when commerce is king, such a position is one of far more power and far higher public utility than that of a parade Minister in a European court, such as our rep- resentatives are. Mr. Belmont, in such a posi- tion, with the capacity he has shown himself to possess, the intimate knowledge he has acquired here of the course and tendencies of American trade, and his long familiarity with the past operations of the house, will make the firm of Rothschilds more potent than it has ever before been. We learn that before he carries his American schooling to the direction of the European house, he intends to take a trip to the ever- glades and coral reefs of Florida for a few months’ amusement in hunting and fishing, such as he will stand little chance of getting when he crosses the ocean. Tue Cask or Stevens, THE Harrer’s Ferry Consprator.—In turning over the prisoner Stevens, of the Harper’s Ferry conspirators, into the hands of the federal authorities for a trial, Governor Wise has done a good thing; for, whereas the State court of Virginia could only reach the witnesses within its local juris- diction, the federal courts can reach them in any partof the United States. Thus, in the trial of Stevens, all the abolition and black republican leaders and fanatics, from New York to Kansas, supposed to have been impli- cated in this plot of “Old Brown,” can be brought up to testify upon the subject to the extent of their knowledge. Accordingly, let Giddings, Greeley, Forbes, Redpath, Seward, and all other abolitionists and republicans con- cerned, look out for a call to Virginia to answer as witnesses, under oath, before a federal court, to the extent of their knowledge in refe- rence to this bloody raid of “Old Brown,” its origin, objects, and the parties concerned. In regard to Stevens, Governor Wise has pro- mised us come astonishing developements, in- volving prominent Northern abolitionists, &c., and we have no doubt that this federal trial will be exceedingly interesting to the republi- can party. Wao was Deveaten at, tHe Recent Ecae- Tioxs ?—Some of the journals assert that the general administration was defeated at the re- cent elections. The administration f& not de- feated, but the democratic party is defeated, owing to its disorganization in the last Con- grees, But the truth is that the recent elec- tions in the Middle States have been carried wy default. Voters bare re the polls, probably to the extent of three- fourths of a million, and these consist of the gonreryative glasses, ‘ined away from 4 Luring The Complications of Burepe—Hevola- tion In the Roman Catholic States or a War with England. When the war in Italy was on the eve of breaking out, Prince Jerome, the only living brother of Napoleon, strongly opposed it, and on its declaration exclaimed, ‘We are again in 1810.” The complications which are now rising in Europe recall that eventful era and the mighty struggle which succeeded it, and the pertinent inquiry comes up on every side, “Is Louis Napoleon equal to the exigencies of the situation ?” In the early part of the present century the dawning of the Napoleonic ideas awoke the Pope and the dynasties from a lethargy of centuries, The heir and testamentary exeoutor of the great convulsion which shook the thrones and crowns of Europe, Napoleon, brought his genius to the task of bridging the abyss of revolution, and conducting nations and dynasties from the worn out political sys- tems of Charlemagne to the adoption of new theories consonant with the enlightenment of the age. The people olaimed a voice in the selection of their rulers, and the rulers clung to the old dispensation of divine right. Then came the great confilot, in which the banded dynasties roused the nations against. the child of revolution, and Napoleon and his ideas were consigned, as it was hoped forever, to the isolation of St. Helena. The third Napoleon, in a philosophical analysis of the ideas of his uncle, has told us that he failed because, anticipating men and things, he con- quered too promptly and did not leave time to cement his construction. The dynasties paci- fied Europe with the bayonet, divided it among themselves with the pen, and cheated the peo- ple out of the promised ameliorations with which they had drawn them into the conflict. But the Protestant Powers have given way more or less to the impulse of the age, and England, Prussia and Sweden have admitted the popular element in some degree into go- vernment. The Roman Catholic sovereigns have re- sisted the new spirit ia every way, and while the kings have held tenaciously to the forms of Charlemagne, the Pope has clung to the theo- ries of Hildebrand. Louis Napoleon, like his great uncle, is the testamentary executor of a popular revolution against these ideas of the dark ages, and he finds the hierarchy of the church and the supporters of despotism every- where struggling against him. He has endea- vored to meet them singly; and thus came the conflict with Austria, which Count Buol very clearly characterized to Lord Cowley as a con- flict between the ‘dissatisfied nationalities, led by France, and the rights of sovereigns and the established order of things, defended by Austria. This power has been defeated, but the conflict does not end. Italy rebels against the tyranny of the Papacy, and the Pope refuses to admit the new order of things in his temporal rule, Austria cannot support him in the coming conflict, because France re- strains her. Spain did entertain the idea of sending a Spanish army to garrison Rome; but Louis Napoleon has succeeded in turning the martial spirit of the Spaniards in another di- rection. Naples then came forward as the backer of the Pope; but the threat of the with- drawal of the French troops from the Eternal City reminds King Bombino that a revolution in the Legations would soon sweep away the despotism of Naples. Deprived of extraneous support, the Pope is driven to resort to the church militant and its moral weapons to preserve his rotten tempo- ralities. And here is the struggle that now complicates the affairs of Europe, and endan- gers the position of Louis Napoleon. It is the throes of reform in the Roman Catholic coun- tries of Europe. The ultramontane priesthood in Italy and in France are at open war with the Napoleonic ideas. They are supported by all the religious fanatics, the strongly conserva- tive and the timidly passive interests of so- ciety. Pastorals from the bishops and allocu- tions from the Pope are hurled at the policy of Louis Napoleon in Italy, while at the same time he has no other option than to perse- vere inhe course he has begun. The conflict threatens to band together the Catholic Powers against him and to divide his own empire be- neath his feet. In this dilemma a general Con- gress of the European Powers might afford him some resource to master the situation, if the Protestant Powers would support him there. Russia is not averse to do so, but England holds aloof, and Prussia leans to the council of England. Yet Louis Napoleon must deprive the priesthood of the power to divide his em- pire beneath his feet, and to defeat the church reform movement in all the Roman Catholic States. Here his usual astuteness avails him. | England deprives him of the support of a general Congress, and England is the point of attack. But notin her stronghold. Her out- posts, her distant points of weakness, must be aimed at. Her complications in China must be increased by withholding the French contin- gents. Her Indian possessions must be endan- gered by a Suez Canal, which shall open a path for the fleet at Toulon. A dash may capture Gibraltar, and the overland route to the East is closed to the power of Great Britain. A French and Spanish fleet is gathered at Algesiras as it was of yore at Cadiz. French and Spanish arms are preparing to drive the Moor from the other shore. England sees the danger, and en- deavors to preserve peace between Morocco and Spain; but when this fails and waris on the verge of being declared, the tory organ in London, speaking for the Derby-Disracli clique, blurts out the truth, and roundly asserts that if Spain makes any attempt on Gibraltar, England will strike a fatal blow at her through Cuba. Such is the contest of principles and policies that is now going on in Catholic Europe, and which menaces the very existence of the Napole- onic ideas and dynasty. If forced to it, Louis Napoleon will no doubt provoke a contest be- tween Catholic and Protestant Europe, and “then the Catholic sovereigns must have his aid on bis own terms. For this he fs preparing his vast armaments. But Tingland is mistaken in supposing that she would be per- mitted to take possession of Ouba; Such an. attempt would bring “alother Power ‘into the combination, and we should be forced to oc- cupy that island to prevent the European con- flict from extending to our waters and breaking up the routes of domestic trade between our Atlantic and Pacific shores, The coming win- ter promises to be one of great political activity in Europe, and when the spring opens it may a renewal of the naval battles of the time of Neison, ot the rush of Louis Napoleon, Garibaldi and Kossuth with a revou.cllry torrent over the southern States of Europe. ee The Coming Charter Blectt: bility Vorsus Rowdyism, Now that he the charter election, which takes place in De- cember, will become the great topic of interest for a month to come with every political party in this city, and with the citizens at larga. The moral and social worth, the respectability and the educated classes of New York, ought to lay this matter to heart, and prepare to rescue the oity from the misgovernment and maladminis- tration which have so long saorificed its best interests to corruption, and plundered the people by an amount of taxation without a precedent in the history of this country or any other in modern times. Our readers are aware that the large cities for a number of years have been in the hands of the rowdies, whether organized or not, whether without any particular designation, or whether known as Dead Rabbits, or Short Boys, or Killers, or Plug Uglies, or any of the other delectable names which they tove to call themselves. Controlling the primary elections by violence, they have sold the nominations to the highest bidders—sometimes to the members party, another. They have thus virtually ruled over thé intelligence of the great cities of the Unioa, by placing in power the worst men in the com- munity—men ignorant, unprinctpled and cor-' Tupt, and of scandalous depravity of morals, and men to whom the rowdies and criminals look for protection and immunity from the consequences of their crimes. The rowdies of late have improved on their original plan. When they cannot get a suffi- ciently good price, instead of selling the offices to other men, they now appropriate them to themselves, dividing them with each other, giving the best place to the strongest rowdy and the greatest rascal. No decent man is able to get a party nomination; and so low has the obaracter of candidates for public offices fallen, that respectable men who would be public ornaments shrink from the contact, and will not allow themselves to be put in nomina- tion, lest their fellow citizens should class them among the thieves, swindlers and scum of society. Indeed, unless they stoop to corrup- tion and bribery, they have but little chance of any party nomination. The condition of Baltimore for a series of years is an example of this, pregnant with both shame and instruction. There respectable citi- zens were driven from the polls by armed vio- lenoe, and murdered in the streets for simply exercising the right which the constitution and the laws gave them. At last the system became so intolerable that violence was met by violence, and decent citizens, organizing and arming at the late election, beat the rowdies with their own weapons. They beat them also in the po- litical contest as well as the physical, and the result is that a Legislature has been eleoted which, it is hoped, will take measures to pro- tect in future the freedom of voting, and put down forever the rowdy element which has been #0 long in the ascendant. Here in New York we have no reliance of that kind. We must work out our own sal- vation. Neither democrats nor republicans will redress us. If we would be free, we must ourselves strike the blow. For many years every interest of the city has been mismanaged and ruined, and wholesale corruption has waxed fat on the people’s purse while it kicked up its heels against the people. Take the con- dition of our harbor as an example. By the Battery Enlargement scheme the port has been injured in the most serious and vital manner. The ferries, the city railroads, the markets (Washington market for instance), have been all subjected to the same process. The Commissioners of Emigration are no exception to the rule, and the Almshouse is a foul nest of vice and corruption. Even the public schools, which ought to be sacred from such influences, are becoming rowdy concerns or arenas for sectarian bitterness, in which the worst pas- sions of human nature are exhibited. The Cen- tral Park, whose management hitherto has been beyond reproach, is the solitary exception, the oasis in the desert of municipal rascality. Taxation has risen above the fearful figure of ten millions of dollars, of which the hard- working mechanic has to pay his portion as well as the richest manin thecommunity. The tax on real estate is paid indirectly in the in- creased rents of those who occupy stores and private dwellings. It is paid too often in con- sumption and other fatal diseases arising from the overcrowding of tenement houses by fami- lies who cannot afford to pay for separate dwellings in which they could have free light and pure air. These are only a few of the penalties which the citizens of New York pay for their quiet and passive subjection to a reign of rowdyism. The question to be solved at the coming municipal election is no longer one between ‘parties, but between rowdyism and respecta- bility—the good and the bad elements of society. The American party is gone, rump and all. The whigs are old fogies—fossil re- mains of the past. The black republicans amount to nothing. The democratic party is split into three or four factions, each claiming to be the democratic party par excellence, but all equally led by corrupt demagogues. All parties are disorganized, and it is now the task of the virtuous to educe order from chaos and anarchy. It is their duty to reflect on the sub- ject during the month that intervenes between this and the election, and, without regard to party considerations or party names, to choose the best men, from the Mayor down, no matter to what party they may have heretofore belong- ed, or whether they belonged to any party at all. Upon this basis let the respectable classes or- ganize, and select an independent ticket, and thus redeem, regenerate and disenthral the city from the bondage in which it has been held by the rowdy element for so many years. Merroroniran Progress wy Ant anp OTHer Reviements.—The transfer of Page’s “Venus” toa locality higher up town seems to have been a natural compliance with the law that regulates the march of things in this great city of ours. If we of the lower strata are sup- posed to have derived improvement from its inspection, there is no reason why tho upper crust should not participate in its benefits. In latitudes hereabouts the painting would seem to have given a tremendous impulse to artistic taste, if we may judge by the number of Venuses which are advertised for exhibition in different parts of Broadway. Besides tho “Bacchanalian Venus,” we have the “Unso- “Mettented Venus,” the “Circassian Venn,” pean and, for aught we know, the Hottentot Venus. sota~ | After Page's “Venus” hassojourncd for a while {n the neighborhood of Union square, we ox- ‘State election is disposed of | pect 29 Ond that the contagion of its preseuce on i); have alarmingly aeturbed the staid ideas of “our Lost people.” We hopa wy will not go crazy about ‘4 like certain art worshippe’$ down town, who are “dicted to the cultiva: tion of the beautiful and érue. It is pleasing to reflect that our country confemporaries are informing themselves ougerly, through their correspondents, as to the merits of this picture, They are evidently dying to see it—a wish in which they will, no doubt, soon be gratified by the complaisant individuals who have charge of it. Avvamns iv Cama—Hosrinrry to Franon amp Exatanp.—We publish to-day some interesting correspondence from China, showing that the condition of the popular mind there with refe- rence to the American, Russian and English na- tions has undergone no change, the latter being viewed at all hands with great hostility, while the feeling towards our country and Rusela continues of quite an amicable character. The fight at the Peiho has not only added to the MM will on the part of the Chinese towards the English, but it seema-to have filled them with determination to resist all similar attempts te that on their forts and bastiers, The carth- workson the Peiho have undergone full re- pairs, the guns from the British gunboats have been recovered and mounted on the forts, an@ everything put in a position to meet another attack, From the recent aspect of warlike affairs im China it is difficult to predict what the result of the pending war may be, but it is certain that i will be a different affair from the previous conflicts or slaughters in which the British troops have met the Celestial soldiery, In the attack at the Peiho the British found themselves face to face with a new enemy—not Russian artillerists, as was given out—but a more war- like race than the Chinese proper, better fight- ing men than the regular troops of the impe- rial army—namely, the Mongrows, a kind of roving tribe, from the neighborhood of the Amoor, with the fighting capacity of the Indi- ans. This fact may account for the warm re- ception which the gunboats received, and the deadly effect of the fire from the forts on the Peiho. It is evident that the Chinese are preparing vigorously for a war with England and France, while at the same time they are disposed to cultivate friendly relations with this country an@ Russia, a fact which proves that the course pursued by these two nations was the wisest one. We want to trade with the Chinese, not te fight with them. They are willing to trade, it would seem, from their reception of our Min- ister, Mr. Ward, and they are willing to fight as well, as the disastrous event on the Peiho and the present preparations testify. Our object, and that of Russia, doubtless, also, is to accom- plish in China what we have done in Japan; and while England is entering upon a devastating war, to the great injury of hor prestige im Asia, and the serious complication of her af- fairs in Europe, we may attain all we desire in @ peaceful and satisfactory way. A serious cause of quarrel with France has sprung out of the coolie system, which, it ap- pears, as conducted by some French vessels, ia little better than the African slave trade. The captain of a French bark, it turns out, was de- tected in forcibly running off a hundred and sixty coolies, and shooting them down when they attempted to leave the vessel at Woosung. The result was a serious riot at Shanghae, the seizure of the vessel by the au- thorities, and a most bitter feeling against the French. Thus, the course of France and Eng- land is beset with difficulties in China, while so far everything seems favorable for the proper adjustment of our claims, and the fulfilment of our desires in the Celestial Empire. Tue Rewicious Asrecr or THE IraLtan QuEs- T10N.—The efforts made by Rome, through the French bishops, to coerce Louis Napoleon into a disposition favorable to the stand-still policy of the Vatican, are producing results that the Pope’s advisers had not calculated upon. They have revived and imparted increased activity to the dissensions which formerly existed in the French Church, between those who advocated its independence of Rome and the ultramontane party. The Emperor, disgusted with the bad taste and worse judgment of the instructions sent to the bishops, is, it appears, taking his stand with the moderate churchmen against this insolent attempt to apply the Papal screw for political objects, after the fashion of the Mid- die Ages. We should not be surprised, in con- sequence, to find the Italian question gradually altering and finally changing altogether its pre- sent aspects. The obstinacy of Rome in resist- ing the political reforms which can alone pre- serve a remnant of temporal power to the Pope, and which has a second time compromised the interests of the rest of Italy, is fast inducing the conviction that there is no security for the future of her people as long as theocratical in- stitutions are suffered to exist within her limits. It is, in fact, only thesupposed friendly disposi- tion of Louis Napoleon towards the Pontiff which has prevented the Italian liberals under Gari- baldi from raising the standard of resistance to Papal authority throughout the whole of the Roman territories. The moment that it is found that there is no political compromise pos- sible with the Roman government, and that France leaves it to its fate, the present politi- cal antagonisms will in all probability degene- rate into a fierce religious war between the enemies of ecclesiastical authority and the fa- natical supporters of Papal despotism, aided by Austria and Naples. If France, on the one hand, and England on the other, stand aloof from the contest, it is plain that matters must take this turn. The first cannot support a statu quo policy on the part of the Pope with- out violating her pledges to the Italian people, and the second will not care about mixing her- self up with a question in segard to which in- vidious religious motives would be attributed to her. Thus o state of things will be origi- nated which no Congress can cure, and’ which only a religious conflict of the most desperate and fanatical charactor—like that of the Purt- tans and Rotindhoads—-can bring about a sqla+ tion of. wey MES ‘Tox Next Leowsiarvre.—In preparing for the action of the next Legislature we desire alt the honest citizens of this State to procure ac- ¥ curate copies of the records of the State prisons, and ascertain the aggregate amount of all that has been robbed, stolen, and swindled from the community by the convicts who are now inmates of those prisons; and let them then watch the proceedings of the Legislature, and aR een <