The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS TERMS, cash in advance. Money sent mail will be at the vine aernaen ‘Postage amps not won Me as subscription rt DAILY HERALD. two cents |. $1 per annum. Tan WAERLY HERALD ‘every Saturday, ete Welneaduy, y. i et por copy. ier amma any part rae or $8 to the tom i ins tule On the Sth and 2h of a PPA AMILY HERALD on Wencalay, af four conte por or. ‘annum. ENC! important PARY ay gear Poy) cris a pote ag a Sn man ak amp PAgx- O70 NOTICE taken of anonymous correepondence. We do nol NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1859.—TRIPLE SHERT. A ip the City Hall. ‘The nows by the Persia, advising a deol've of id. in Liverpool, exerote : no influence upon the cotton market here, because the trade had expected to hear of @ more serious falling off. Tho sales embraced about 5,000 bales, 4,000 of which were made in transit, Tho market fr ‘he latter was firmer, while lots in store closed with «teadi- nees on the basis of 1lo. for middling upland. Tho re- ceipts at the ports have reached 1,398,000 bales, which is over one-fourth of the crop of 1869 (tho largest crop ever before grown in the United States), which, at tho Present average prices, may be sot dow: at the value of $09,201,000. Of the receipts, 697,000 bales have been exported, of tho valu) of $34,158,000. The flour market was steady, with a {air de- mand. Included in tho sales were purchases for export. Prices were without change of momont. Wheat was heavy and gales light, at pricés given in another place. return TISEMENTS renewed avery day ; advertisements in- aed tn the ‘Werucy Hawaip, Fame and inthe ai uINTING aosceted th neainess, cheapges and de- epatch. Velume XXIV..... seeesereee Serer No, 341 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. td GARDEN, Broadway.—Cammiz—Tas Cossizn's cE. WERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Maccm—Sxsvcams 0 Tones Oniue and Rarastacy. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond sireet— Ooroncox. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Eranrnopr's Fausxp—Too Mucu rox Goop Narvzs. URA KEENE’S THEATRE, 6% Broadway.—Wire's sacabr Bose Fauwirs. i NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Constcaw Buornans Garonne 4 GovaRnon—Kat sxine 4ND PatRucay. FRENCH THEATRE, 595 Broadway.—Cowat.'s Musioat Berestaururnt. AMERICAN MUI BABNUM’S te Broadway.—Afer- mo0a—HONEYMOON. Davuiz. see oe WOOD'S MENSTREL/S, 444 Broadway.—Ermi0rian Soncs, parca 4o.—Perex Piren Purrex Povo. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway— Boriesques, Soxgs, Dances, &c.—Jounny Rosca. NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Gro. Cnurstr’s Mrx- wreeis ut Soncs, Dances, Bueesques, &c.—Tux Fucttives. CHATHAM AMPHITHEATRE.—Eqvuestaias Perroru- afczs, Come Pantomures, 4c —Buok Bison. KNICKERBOCKER HALL, Twenty-third street—Co« MING's Firth ANNUAL Concert. TRIPLE SHEET. Sew York, Friday, December 9, 1859. The News. A tremendous Union demonstration meeting was held at Faneuil Hall, Boston, at eleven o'clock yes- terday, at which there was congregated one of the Most numerous assemblies that ever came together in that building. The enthusiasm was of the most exciting cbaracter—in fact, a more enthusiastic meeting was never held in any city in the Union, although the early part of the day wet and Stormy. Eloquent addresses were delivered by the Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. Caleb Cushing, and Governor Lincoln, of Massachusetts. The crowd was so great that hundreds of people could not gain admission to the building. When our reporters left the storm had cleared away and the sunshine was brightly playing over the city. See our report in to-day’s paper. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Slidell gave notice of ‘& bill making an appropriation to facilitate the ac- Quisition of Cuba. Notice was also given of a ‘Homestead bill, and of a bill for the construction of raffroad in Pennsylvania avenue. The remainder of the session was occupied in a discussion of Mr. Mason's resolution providing for an investigation into the Harper's Ferry foray, in which Messrs. Trumbull, Yulee, Clay, Pagh, Mason, Davis, Brown " and Wilson pasticipated. The House did not ballot for Speaker, but resumed the debate on the slavery question. Our special despatch from Washington contains some of the main points of the forthcoming reports of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, Navy, In- terior, and also of the Postmaster General. It is not likely that any of these reports will be made public until the House is organized. The Persia arrived at Jersey City early yester- day morning, with European news dated to the 26th of November—two days later. Cotton had slightly declined in Liverpool, in con- sequence of an anxiety to realize on the part of holders. Breadstufis were dull, with a declining tendency in prices. Consols closed in London on the 25th ultimo at 964 for money,and 9644.96} for account. The money market was regarded as easy. Nothing definite had transpired respecting the ™meetwg of the European Congress. Austria had made some difficulty respecting the Sardinian Re- gency in Central Italy a cause of delay. Lord Cowley had reached London from Paris, and had an audience with the Queen on the subject. All parties in England were agreed that force shouid not be used to insure the return of the Grand Dakes, but it is pretty evident that the whole Italian question is surrounded with political and diplomatic complications. . There was a good deal of excitement both in France and England on the subject of a French in- vasion of the opposite coast. ‘The English journals touch the question of the Harper's Ferry outrage very spariogly, and seem to rather avoid the discussion. Our advices from South America are important A Buenos Ayres correspondent, writing on the 22d of October, states that the negotiations of Gea. Lopez between Buenos Ayres and the Argentine Confederation progressed very slowly, the bellige Tents refusing to suspend hostilities fora time at his request. The squadron of Urquiza passed the fortiications on the island of Martin Garcia on the 14th of October, after a very severe conflict. The firing from the batteries was effective. Senor Jose Berses, Commissioner from Paraguay to the Uui- ted States, had passed through Buenos Ayres ou © his way to Washington, via Hogland. Boglaud aud France were augmenting their forces in the La Plata. The Board of City Canvassers met yesterday a twelve o'clock. Alderman Boole was called to the chair. When the Board adjourned they hud can wasted the Eleventh and Seventeenth Aldermuauic districts, and commenced on the Fourteenth. A great namber of discrepancies were found ia tue returns, and several sent back for correction. ‘The Bourd of Councilmen held @ short session last evening, but no business of importance was transacted. They concurred to fit up the drill rooms of the Fifth regiment, over Eayex mark at an expense of $250. A report of tné Committee on Fire Department of the Aldermen, with an or- dinance providing for the election of an Assistant Engineer, and rules and regalations for conducting all futare elections for Chief aud assistant En- Bineers, was made the special order fur Muuday ‘The Comptroller submitted a summary of expen- Gitures on city accounts, and also upon the several ‘trust and special accounts from January 1, 1859, to November 30, amounting in the aggregate tu $14,- 362,396 45, Aldermen Taylor, Dayton and Greea, of the Brooklyn Common Counctl, appointed to coufer With a special committee of the New York Cominon Counsil, on the important subject of consideriny the best mode of leasing and regulating the ferries to Brooklyn, met yesterday in the City Hall, Ne Work. They were received by alderman Boule ‘who informed them that the New York Aldermen ‘were engaged as city canvassers, and would not be able to meet with them this week. After considerable consultation had taken place, it was GnaLy agreed that the next meeting of the com. Corn was quiet and sales modviate, while prices wore without alteration of importance. Pork was irm, with sales of mess at $16 37 a $16 75, and prime at $11 60 a $11 76. Sugars were firm, but not active. The sales ‘embraced 300 a 400 hhds. and 500 boxes, at rates given in another column. Coffee was quiet. Freights exhibited more firmness, with more offering for English ports. The Great Question Before the Country— The Uniom Movements of the North= ‘What will New York Dot We submit to our readers this morning the proceedings of the great Union meeting held in Boston yesterday. They show that, al- though the cause of the Union, and of peace and concord with the South, is without a repre- sentative from the New England States in Con- gress, there is still, perhaps, a sufficient amount of patriotic leaven around Bunker Hill to leaven the whole batch. Simultaneously with these Union proceedings in Boston, our des- patches from the South exhibit a most startling sensation in the public mind in that section. It would really thus appear that Northern travellers, Northern commercial agents, and even citizens of the Southern States of Northern birth, are all liable to suspicion and in danger of expulsion, under that rigid system against social and commercial intercourse which pre- vails between two nations in a state of war. These manifestations in the South, we pre- sune, will suffice to convince the most incredu- lous Northern agitator that the “irrepressible conflict” with the “slave power” has been pushed to the point of revolution. In this con- nection, we are glad to know that in this great commercial city—whose interests are so inti- mately blended with the Union that we cannot dissolve the one without destroying the other—our commercial men are actively moving to ratify the late Union meetings of Philadelphia and Boston. Nor have we any doubt that this imperial metropolis, in 1859, willbe as potential in behalf of the compromises and compacts of the constitution as it was in our great political crisis of 1850. But to make this projected meeting effective in the right di rection, it must proceed to business in the pro- per way. A mere assemblage of old fossil whigs, or disbanded Know Nothings, or tainted Tammany Hall fugitives, or frightened republicans doing business “in the cotton trade and sugar line,” will not answer. It must be a meeting without distinction of party—an independent Union meeting, representing the Union sentiment which governs the majority of the people of thisisland, This sentiment has just been ex- pressed in a way eminently satisfactory to the Union men of the South. All things considered, the election of Fernando Wood 4s Mayor of New York is one of the most remarkable Union triumphs in the annals of American Pe litics. Against Tammany Hall and its affiliations with black republicanism, against the Tammany aristocracy of Wall street and Fifth avenue, against all electioneering resources of the Custom House, Post Office, and other federal establishments faithless to Mr. Buchanan’s ad- ministration—against the treacherous and plot- ting Albany Regency, against our democratic corporation authorities, cliques and spoilsmen, and against all the odds and ends of the oppo- sition, abounding in money and influence, and full of confidence—against all these elements of hostility, and the Sabbatarians combined, this man, Fernando Wood, single-handed, was bold enough to take the field and strong enough to win the day. How is this astonishing result to be ex- plained? The solution is very simple. Fer- nando Wood was victorious because he stood boldly forward, the only candidate for Mayor who defied all the elements of abolitionism, and planted himself squarely upon the great national Union platform of the ancient but ex- ploded democratic party. He was the cham- pion of the rights of the South, of municipal rights, of popular rights, and of the Union, and, single-handed, he has routed his enemies right and left, and won the victory. Thus, like King Saul among his people, he stands this day “a head and shoulders above them all,” and he thus stands authorized as our representative of the principles of union and national harmony. Of all men, therefore, Fernando Wood is the man for President of the projected New York Union meeting. His appointment to this posi- tion will be worth a thousand resolutions in the South. His name, fresh from his late well fought municipal battle, will be a tower of strength to the meeting, and any other name for President will be a failure. Let Wood be President, and put on all the Ketchums, and Sher- mans, and Beekmans, &c., &c., in the city as vice presidents and secretaries, and they will do no harm. The man, however, who has been so emphatically endorsed as the champion of the Union sentiment of this metropolis is the only man for President of the proposed Union festival. Already, we understand, some of our merchants, since the late election, have been calling upon bim for certificates and pass- ports of good character in the South. The least, therefore, that they can do in return is to make him the President of their Union meeting. Let this be done, and the meeting will carry with it a prodigious influence in the South and throughout the country. At the same time, we would cull the attention of the President of the United States to thoze faithless and treacherous snbordinates of bis in this city who have pros- titnted the patronage of their offices in behalf of the abolition affiliations of Tammany Hall. These faithless officials should be rooted out, and the broken fragments of our forlorn demo- cracy should be put together upon a different basis than that of the rotten Albany Regency and poor old broken down Tammany Hall. The terrible political excitements of the day de- mand a reconstruction of our political parties. These Union meetings look in this direction, and we hope tbat Mr. Buchanan will co-operate for the same great object, in the reconstruction of the New York democracy. Meantime, as the first thing in order is this popular Union demonstration, let the man mittee will take place on Tuesday evening next,in | elected Mayor by the people of this city upon Union péinoiples be the President of the meet- ing. He is the man, and the South will not accept any apology for his exclusion from this position, to which he is se eminently entitled. Gentlemen, to business. Call your meeting, andlot New York, through an authorized voice, speak for the constitution and the Union. The Nows from Hurope—Change of Front in Public Agairs. By the Persia we have two days later news from Europe, and if we may credit the English journals, a sudden change in favor of the con- tinuance of peace has taken place in the aspect of affairs there. Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador at Paris, had suddenly returned to London, and it was said that he bore 9 proposition from Louis Napoleon for the mutual disarmament of Eng- land and France. Whatever truth there may be in this statement, its circulation seems to have taken a wonderful possession of the pub- lic mind, and to have produced a good result. The fact is, the trade and manufactures of Great Britain were begining to feel the preju- dicial effects of the cry of a French invasiow 80 long kept up by the English journals, and of the ostentatious preparations for war made by the government in order to preserve confidence in the public mind. But the more that people began to believe the possibility of an invasion, the less disposed were the merchantsand manu- facturers to undertake enterprises of distant ad- venture, requiring long periods of time for their fruition, and the result threatened se- riously to interfere with the public revenues of both countries. For this reason, no doubt, the two governments have taken into consideration the means of letting the British journalists get down from their hobby of a French invasion, which they had ridden till they began to get dizzy. The proposed disarmament of France and England is nothing more than a tub thrown out to amuse the British whales for a. while. With Italy in a ferment, and Austria ready to pounce upon it again; with Spain ostensibly menacing Morocco, but really thréatening to make Gibraltar a Spanish strait; with Germany beginning to talk of constitutions, and Hun- gary making numerous national demonstra- tions; with Garibaldi throwing up his alliance’ with the Napoleonic policy, and the revolution- ary elements of Europe whirling in the counter currents of slack tide, preparatory to taking a new start; and with the Pope and the partisans of the church clinging to and endeavoring to te- establish the most hated theories of government, neither Louis Napoleon nor England can really disarm without imminent danger to both. The Italian question presents new pbases and pew complications. Leuis Napoleon seems to have pushed too far his opposition to the election of s Regent in Central Italy, and to have given room to suspect him of a design to produce disofder there by preventing the con- solidation of government. The rejection of Prince Carignan, and afterwards of jCount Buoncompagni, was followed by the sudden resignation of Garibaldi, and a still more sud- den reconsideration of the rejection of the last named selection for Regent. This we are told is also accompanied by an agreement France and England that force shall not used in assisting the banished Dukes to return. Whatever may be the policy of Louis Napo- leon, he evidently desires that peace shall be preserved for a while at least, in order to give him time to cement the recent territorial changes he bas made in Europe. The Spanish war against Moroceo lags. Marshal O’Donnell, who left Madrid in such haste some time since, pauses on the margin of the Straits. In the’ capital the press were making a great outcry against the assurances given to England in regard to not making per- manent conquests, and a ministerial crisis was imminent. In the meantime, the people and the priests continue to increase the fervor of their cries and prayers for a holy war of con- quest against the Moors. The spirit of the fifteenth century seems to have awakened again in Spain; but whether it is a permanent arousing, or only a temporary flashing of the old impulses, the result only can determine. Austria is said to have interposed objections to certain recent events that are likely to delay the meeting of the European Congress. What she really aims at accomplishing, unless it be to provoke a general war, and reduce every other Power as far as possible to her own decrepit and penniless condition, it is difficult to foresee. Her policy has been re- jected by every government in Europe that rules a really progressive nation, and she can- not in the face of all the other Powers much longer delay the gathering of those representa- tives whose discussions may delay the coming upheaving of the European political system, and give to its dynasties a new lease of power. Our New City Government=—An Amend- ment of the Charter Required. The election is over, and the Mayor and Cor- poration are chosen. Upon the character of both we have previously expressed our opinion. We are satisfied of Mr. Wood’s good intentions, but we believe that the two boards of the Com- mon Council are about the worst we have ever had. The Comptroller has declared his estimates of the expenditures for the coming year 1860, and they are lower by nearly a million anda half than those of the current year. That fact, how- ever, carries little consolation with it, because the Common Council will undoubtedly increage it by perhaps two or three millions. Such has been heretofore the result of the action of previous Corporations; and as it is admitted by all parties that the one just elected is the most corrupt and degraded this city has ever seen, there is no ground to hope for anything but a worse state of things than has heretofore ex- isted in our municipal legislature. We have confidence in Mr. Wood; and in spite of all the abuse lavished upon him, we believe that he means to administer the goverment efficiently, so far as it lies within the means of his limited authority. We have confidence in Comptroller Haws; he is au honest man, who will not become a party to any fraudulent dis position of the public funds. We have confi- dence, too, in the new Corporation Counsel, Judge Bronson; he is a man of strict integrity, andirreproachable character, and we arecertain that he will not permit any unjust claims to be recovered against the city by de fanit. The Mayor and Corporation Coun fel will assume the functious of their respec tive departments on the Ist of January and we have no doubt that they, as well as Mr Haws, will perform their duties faithfally. Bui what of this? There is much more required k insure us & good, economical government. We must look to the Legislature to amend the charter so as to render these officials indepen- | gave to Tammany is as indellible as the spot of dent, and concentrate more power in the hands of the chief magistrate. We do not expect much from the next Legislature, it is true; it is a partisan Legislature of an abolition character; but stid there may be a few men in it upright and just enough to relieve this great metropolis from the legislative shackles which bind it, from the odious laws which nullify all power in the hands of its leading officials, leave it depen- dent upon a foreign body at Albany, and ex- pose it to the mercy of a band of plundering politicians. We want the charter so amended that the Mayor shall have entire executive power, alto- gether independent of the Board of Aldermen, even to the matter of confirmation of his ap- pointments by that body, the evils of which were so shamefully manifested in the case of Tiemann’s appointments of City Inspeotor, where the Aldermen absolutely refused to con- firm any one until they had made their bargains as to a share of the spoils. We want the Comp- troller to have absolute authority of his depart- ment; and we want the Corporation Counsel to be, in fact as well asin name, the responsible head of the law department of the municipal government. When this is done we may expect the affairs of the city to be properly administer- ed, corruption arrested in its course, the public funds honestly disbursed, and the taxes reduced, ‘but not till then. Under the present charter it is impossible for the heads of departments to control them with efficiency, and itis hardly just to hold them responsible for the faithful execution of their duties, in the performance of which they are continually obstructed by irre- sponsible parties. In the amendment of the charter, then, to the ends above suggested, we must alone hope for any prospect of an efficient, economical government. The Downfall of Tammany—Its Causes and Effects. The result of the municipal election has given to Tammany Hall a deathblow. The council fires are extinguished, the Sachems sit in sackcloth and ashes, the warriors have be- come chicken-hearted, the braves have been scalped and tomahawked to a man. This dreadful state of things has extended beyond the classic precincts of the Coal Hole and the Pewter Mug. The panic has spread to the Custom House, the Post Office, the United States Marshal's office, the auriferous Assay Department; all the officeholders, from the heads of departments down to the lowest tide- waiters, are doing an amount of shivering and shaking in their shoes which must be exceed- ingly distressing to all parties concerned. They have reason to be afraid. They have cause to howl and gnash their teeth over the triumph of the “Emperor of New York,” as they called Fernando Wood. But they have only themselves to blame. They have rushed upon their own fate. It is now nearly twelve years since the first taint of negro worshipping heresy was introduced into Tammany by John Van Buren. Among Fest gal supporters were William F. Havemeyer, Samuel! J. Til Nelson J. Waterbury and Isaac V. Fowler. A fierce struggle for the possession of the Hall ensued between the negro worshippers and the nation- al democracy. When the masses of the demo- cracy were appealed to fairly on the issue the victory alwhys perched upon the banners of the national party. But the negro worshippers succeeded; bya series of the most impudent and high measures, in controlling the Tammany organization, which they made a close borough wherewith to reward their friends and to punish thelr enemies.” They suc- ceeded, also, in humbugging the powers at, Washington; and during the better part of two administrations they have kept all the spoils in their hands, meanwhile truckling and trading with the black republican lobby, and conniv- ing at their bekutiful echemes of plunder at Albany and Washington. So the Tammany machine ran along smoothly enough, and the managers thought, like the French aristocrats before the Revolution, that this delicious state of things would last forever—that the flesh pots of Tammany would always be as savory, her fire-water always as invigorating. How they were mistaken, how the concern ran off the track and was smashed, how the little nigger introduced twelve years ago by Prince John comes out asa very large nigger in the shape of Havemeyer and Tilden, how they were shamefully beaten in an election which was as hotly contested as a Presidential canvass, every one knows. The simple fact is that Tammany Hall, as the representativé of a democratic organization, is, to use an every-day expression “played out.’ The masses of the democracy muster under the flag of Mozart Hall and Fer- nando Wood, who has adroitly turned the mis- fortunes of Tammany Hall to his own advan- tage, and now stands the acknowledged leader of the New York, and indeed of all the Northern democracy. The administration of Mr. Buchanan cannot shut its eyes to these important truths. They demand immediate action at its hands. Even Messrs. Cobb and Toncey, who have done a great many silly things since they have been in office, could not oppose the free use of the guillotine to the men who have demoralized the democracy by the nomination of such spot- ted democrats as Havemeyer and Tilden, who have secretly subsidized a black republican journal—the Times—and made it, with the Jour- nal of Commerce, which was established as an anti-slavery paper, their special organs. This black republican Times has been filled day after day with the most gross personal abuse of the President and the members of the Cabinet. It has assailed the democratic party with all the mostoutrageous and filthy epithets that the Eng- lish language contains, and yet we find it fed in an underbanded way with the money which the administration pays to its own officials, These federal oflicehoiders have collogued and in- trigued with Weed, Greeley & Co., and appealed to the abolition vote, in the hope thereby to elect Havemeyer and share the spoils with their black republican friends. It is the duty and the proper policy of the administration to make a thorough and effective clfange in the. manner of distributing the patronage of this’ State; and, to bring about this result, there should be a new deal all round. All the fede ral officeholders throughout the State should be removed, and their places filled with reli- able, national, conservative men. The men in office now are traitors to their party obligations, traitors to the administration, and traitors to the rank and file of the democracy. The magses found this out; hence the terrific stampede from Tammany and the rush to Mozart Hall. The negro tinge which Van Buren Duncan’s blood on the hands of Lady Macbeth. Neither the faces nor the hands of the Tam- many traitors will ever be clean again. And it is these men, now luxuriating in govern- ment sinecures, who are responsible for the fact that the democratic party is in a minority in this State. With their black republican organs and their striped candidates they have done their best to ruin the democracy. They should be cut off root and branch, without mercy. Bring out the guillotine. Splendid Prespects of Americam Art— Am Era of Eathusiasm and Develope- mont. The fine art collections of New York have been making large receipts for the last few weeks, Never at any period has there been so much genuine intereat and onthugi mani- fested in regard to them. Until the close of the exhibition of the “Heart of the Andes,” on Saturday, there was such a rush to the studio gallery that more than six hundred dollars were taken on that day alone. The sensation created by Palmer’s “White Captive” has also continued on the increase. At the rate at which money is being taken the sculptor will in a few weeks receive more for admissions than the amount of the price which he is to get for the work itself. “The Home of Washing- ton” is having its fair proportion of patronage. Not only are the visiters numerous, but the list of scriptions for the proof engravings is rapidly filling up. There can be no better test of the satisfaction of the public with the work; for, whilst curiosity in regard to this subject may attract people to see the picture, only a conviction of its merits can seoure subscribers. Nothing can be more gratifying to the friends of native art than these facts. They prove that a new epoch is opening for it, and that the artistic genius of the country is at last about to receive the encouragement from the absence of which it has so long languished. We have always felt convinced that once the public taste was turned in this direction, the impulse imparted by it would be all-pervading. We now see the evidences of the fact in the in- creased activity observable in every branch of art, in the large sums invested by connoisseurs in the purchase of native works, and in the im- portation for sale of the choicest specimens of the modern European masters. If the present movement is not checked by unforeseen cir- cumstances, in another dozen years this country will be one of the most profitable fields in the world for an artist to exercise his talents in. In proportion as commerce centres here, the intellectual arts will thrive and flourish amongst us. In their coincident success they will only be following those inevitable laws of attraction which from the earliest ages have governed their progress. It is now generally admitted by historical writers that ‘republican institutions have al- ways been the most propitious to the develope- ment of art. It is true that with the Chaldeans and Egyptians, under the old despotic system, originated the first rude notions of it; but it ‘was not until long after the early Greeks were civilized by the colonies which arrived amongst them from Egypt and Phoonicia, that art was reduced to fixed principles and brought to its highest point of perfection according to the ideal standard. Cadmus, who emigrated from Egypt and founded Thebes, is traditionally be- lieved to have imported into Greece the ele- ments of art, but Phidias, Praxiteles, Apelles ‘and Lysippus were the creators of the dis- tinctive features which gave it, as it were} a new birth. Had these men lived under the Egyptian satraps instead of under republican ‘Mhstitutions, it fs certain that art would have remained in the primitive condition in which they found it. Rome imitated the forms of Greece, but could not appreciate her esthetic culture. Energy and brute force were the types which the Romans deified and consequently the refining influences of art’ were lost sight of in the gross- ness of this perverted taste. It was not to Rome, properly speaking, but to the other colonies or communities of Italy, that the early progress of art in that country wasdue. Pliny says that before the foundation of Rome paint- ing was carried to great perfection amongst the Italians. Winckelman is of opinion that the Greek colonies established at Naples and Nola had at a very early period cultivated the imita- tive arts and taught them to the Campanians. Whatever truth there may be in this specula- tion, there can be no doubt that the ancient’ inhabitants of Etruria were the first who con- nected painting with the study of nature. It was in the metieval cities of Italy, how- ever, that art took its highest developement. Then the double influence of republican institu- tions and of the church impurted to it a new and more vigorous life. Whilst the one left the mind unoccupied by political cares, and at liberty to imagine and create, the other lent its aid to the encouragement of a taste which ad- vanced its own interests. But it was in those republics which cultivated commerce the most that art was most encouraged. The merchant princes of those communities vied with mun archs in the munificence of the patronage which they bestowed upon it. Such, apparently, is the destiny which is opening to art in this country. With the rapid accumulation of wealth, the cultivation of in- tellectual tastes, and the spirit of competition which is natural in a young and ambitjous peo- ple, we are not likely to leave to the Old World &@ monopoly of its glories and advantages As decorative art, in the creation of the Central Park, and in the creation, perhaps, of still finer parks in other parts of the Union, brings home to usa conviction of its benefits, we shall be the more eager to profit by all the resources of inventive and imaginative genuis. It is for our native artists to prepare themselves worthi- ly for the splendid career which lies before them. Let them bear in mind that it was under a similar favorable conjuncture of circumstances that Italy gave to the world the great works of which she is so justly proud. Tue MorMoxs 1s Revrvat.—We publish to- day some interesting intelligence from Utah. The Mormons, it appears, have had a religious revival, which lasted four days, during which the Saints were addressed by Brigham Young, and sundry other shining lights of the Mormon Tabernacle. The tenor of the discourses, as well as the general sentiment of the people was, according to our special correspondent, exceedingly mild, and presents a striking con- trast to the blustering and defiant tone which some time ago characterized every speech and newspaper article emanating from Salt Lake City. We give areport of Brigham Yeung’s a gre ORNS 1S USL eIe = principal sermon dtring the revival, from which it will be seen that he confined himself to the discussion of certain doctrinal subjects, without employing any of the fire and brim- ble. The Mormons may be getting sense, Anti-Slavery Theatres and Litéerateurs. The anti-slavery manager of the Winter Gar- den addressed us an impudent letter afow days age, which was published in the Heraxp, but whioh, in the bustle of the municipal election, we permitted to pess without comment. The writer is of the Exeter Hall stamp, being im- ported into this country from that British hot bed of abolition. It comes natural to him te | lic, and he is only playing bis part in the same drama with Redpath and the other abolitionists who participated in the recent conspiracy which resulted in the treason and servile insurrection at Harper's Ferry. Hie Pictures of Southern life are mere daubs—ear- ricatures of the most exaggerated kind—as um- like truth and nature as Hyperion toa Satyr Every Northern man can testify to this who has | visited the South, and witnessed the operation of ita peculiar institution, Bonroicanlt passes over all that is beautiful, beneficent and good in the’ relations between master and slave; singles out an exceptional feature, and exhibits that as the prevailing sspeet of slavery. He takes an extreme case, and” puts it forward ag the general rule. Noth- ing can be more unfair or ¢alumnious than thie. He might as well go into bor’s house, steal his seighetow iti tian, and exhibit itin public as a fair specimen of hie domestic affairs; er retail in the newspapers some trivial family quarrel, perhaps the only one for many years, and set’ that downs a sample of the domestic relations, the hagmony and happiness of his friend’s home. -‘Then the insidious manner in which this is done. In the case of the play of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” every man could see from the outset the drift of the piece. carefully concealed, and the spestator is drawn on by degrees, without perceiving it, till at the egd he finds himself a sympathizer with John Brown, unless he is too well inform- ed on the subject to be led away by such a dis- honest representation. Such perilous stuff is fraught with the worst consequént@s to the rising generation. The stage is an institution of great influence for good or evil. It is a school of instruction in which susceptible youth are liable to be deeply impressed with the most erroneous views of men and things. “The Oo- toroon” is more pernicious than “Unele Tam’s Cabin,” and would “do mischief than “Helper’s Impending Oriaié were wapre- sentation capable of being multiplied like ce- pies of the book. The moment selected for bringing out auch a production is worthy of notice. When sec- tional feeling is at ite highest point, both at the North and the South, in the midst of & crisid of great danger, this man recklessly puts on the stage a pley calculated to fan the flame and to exasperate one section of the country against the other. We repeat what we have before said, that this is set a subject. for levity; and that ft ill becomes a maa who says “the seven years he has in this country are the happiest of his lifé’— & penny-a-liner, who, cast~out of London, comes here to earn his bread—it him to ¢mploy his penny theatre misrepre- sen! the institu of the éotintry, and i the publi lineations intended ming b; ated de- cal passions which brought John Browd and his unbappy associates to the gallows, and have brought this mighty confederacy to the verge of dissolution. ‘That his design is bad he insolently admits in his letter ; for he saya, “I believe the drama to be a very proper and effective i@trument to use in the dissection of all social matters.” It is not, therefore, merely for public artuse- ment he caters, but for anti-slavery propa- gandism.. He modestly compares himwelf with the incomparable Moliere and the immortal authors of the Greek plays. But these writers, while they hit off social life with’ the trathful touches of their genius, were never guilty of arraying the prejudicfs of one ea | section of their country against anoti na of ministering toa design to involve it in civil war, Patriotism was a characteristic of their writings—to kind] the flames of sedition and treason is the o! such plays as “The Octoreon.” Avyoxmpan Sire NHN STION.— The pious Jour forgetting the sanctimonious is habitual to it, bursts into a guation at the re- sult of the ation, and singles out the H ve, because an- nounced t! its half and-half Tam- many and © {didate, aud over the candidat 1 degree of repubtican- ism, as) 11 A New York against the suspici iism, and a heavy blow to a poli ; 4 ruin to the commercial inter » eat metropolis. T) vag Aminidub Sleek can think of sa, bo ost us is that wed supported Fre- mont in 1856. To that we haye ouly to reply that we did then support ‘Fresiont, and would again support him, or a man I/ke him, under the same circumstances. Piercé’s administration had almost ruined the country, and there was a general distrust, and a gereral desire for a change to some other party That feeling was nearly being gratified in he election of Fre- mont, who was only defetted by a very smail majority of electoral voles. The country de- cided in favor of anoth*r trial of democracy, and we acquiesced in jhe decision. Mr. Bu- chanan has turned outfo be a very different man from Pierce. Mr. fremont was a Southern man whose tone was moderate ato the North. He was a friend of fe South, for we never knowingly supported any other. He was en- tirely different from William H. Seward, on whom the political Abolition elements of the North, including thefree sotlers of Tammany Hall and the Journd of Commerce, are prepar- ing to concentra in 1860. Fremont never delivered such ¢ brutal and bloody mani- festo as that of/Seward at Rochester. Fre- mont never committed himself to such doctrines as those which tonstitute the principal planks in the Buffalo/platform, on which Aminidab Sleek now stanle cheek by jowl with Anthon, one of the orafrs of Havemeyer, and one of the committer for the circulation of Helper’s treasonable book. Times and circumstances are changed since 1856, The republicans had not then shown their hand. The chief leaders stone style of oratory for which he is remarka-. | | 4 abuse end villify the institutions of this repab- |, But in this drama the object is | i