The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GOR DN BENNETT, EDITOR AN. FROPBIETOR. OFFICE NX. W. Conn OF NASSAU AND FULTON S79. TERMS, cash doance, ‘Money vont by mail will beat the isk of the 5. cal bein oun i thsad ns cabeorgeston me pa. ERALD, two cents per copy. 91 per annum. THE 5 A i nary Bevuriay, of py ake spur mi the European Bi 81x conls per per copy, $4 annua §0 a ry Continent, bot Cadre Bain on heh ‘amd 260 of 0 per annum baer 4 Me SIL Pe RALD on Wednesday, at four conte per sopy, oF $2 por annum. Volume xxv ction tes AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY reese: Bowery.—Boys axp Gimis or gus Faxsent DAY—ACTRRSS OF ALL WoRk—Ms. amp Mas. Perse Waite, SINTER GARDEN, Brosdway, opposiie Boud sireet.— TR! on} ees E, Broadway.—Hosaamp 10 LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Jeaxm Deans. sie NEW BOWERY ZERASEO, De pogere- He VBI, ow ‘Qooen am Baws ¥~Papex Cans: BABNUWS, 4} AMBRIOAN UH MUSEUM, Broadway —Afee- oon— Trou: ASORRSION—PmANOMEN ‘Moon, Procs—Dous ‘Gin or Tus law. Eveni.g—Bap Rancan. BRYANT# MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway— Buassquas, boxes, DA B= 4c.—Dason ap Prva BIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway —Ono. es ee, Some se TRLaU Es, aie pars PP ria Rs INSTITUTE, Brooklyn.—Drarton’s Pas- PR Led THEATRE, Newark.—Woon’s Morsraris Erwiorian Sones, Dances, da Naw Youn Gata. ie rae Ux- ts Now York, Friday, January 13, 1860. The News. We publish in to-day’s paper a muss of details respecting the horrible catastrophe at Lawrence, Maas., on Tuesday last, together with the evidence esto the disaster which was elicited before the Coroner's jury yesterday. So far as has been ascertained, thirty-eight dead bodies have been recovered, forty.seven persons are miss- ing, while the wounded amount to seventy-eight. The citizens of Boston have already subscribed some ten thousand dollars for the relief of the suf- ferers, and sums have been subscribed in this city for the same object. The proceedings of both houses of Congress yesterday were quite exciting. The Senate sat til) five o'clock. An exciting debate ensued on Mr. Pugh’s resolution regarding the Territories, in which Messrs. Pagh, Douglas, Davis, Green and Clay took part. Mr. Douglas stoutly defended the consistency of views on the question of pcpular sovereignty. He charged that others had changed their opinions, and said that he would not accept a nomination for the Presidency from the Charleston Convention unless on a platform in accordance with his avowed sentiments. He announced that he would bereafter reply to the attacks made upon him. In the House, Mr. Sherman entered into some explanationsas to his course. Mr. Harris, of Mary- land, proposed that Mr. Clark’s anti-Helper reso- lution be removed out of the way, and that the House adopt the substitute adopted by the Com- mittee of Democrats, Americans aud anti-Lecomp tonites at the meeting held on Sunday last, in which they declared that no man who recom- mended, or still insists on, and does not disclaim Helper’s doctrines, and who is not opposed to farther agitation of the slavery question, is fit to be Speaker. Various gentlemen explained the circumstances under which this substitute was adopted. Mr. Haskin asked a question of Mr, McRae, to which Mr. Horace F. Clark gave sharp, harsh reply. Mr. Haskin made some re- marks amid cries of order. Soon the members on ail sides were on wer reer, ana many Tushed to the area and main aisle. The Sergeantat-Arms was called on, and he ap- peared with his mace demanding peace. The utmost possible excitement prevailed. Sub- sequently Mr. Clemens said that he saw Mr. Haskin take a pistol out. of his breast. Mr. Davidson gave notice when he again came to the House he would bring his shot gun with him. Mr. Harris, of Maryland, said that was making game of the House. Mr. Haskin subsequently ex- plained how the pistol happened accidentally to fallfrom his breast pocket. Mr. Clark, of New York, apologized for the harsh remarks, Without ballotting for Speaker, the House adjourned in good order. Bat little of importance occurred in the Legisla- ture yesterday. In the Senate a report was made in favor of amending the atatates in relation to rent. This in effect, it is said, sustains the position of the anti-rent party. Notice was given of a bill authorizing new railroads in New York city. Among the bills introduced was one for reco- vering damages for the destruction of the Quarantine. Among the resclutions offered was one to have the School laws codified, In the Assembly a large number of petitions were presented; among them one for $1,000,000 in aid of the Susquehanna Railroad, which Mr. Cenk- ling urged showld be referred to the Ways and Means Committee. After debate, Messrs. Law, Slingerland, Gibbs, Milliken, Bush and Bingham urging it sheuld be sent to the Rail road Committee, and Messrs, Arcularius, Stil- soa, Robertson, Flagler, Maxon and Plumb pre- ferring that on Ways and Means, it was finally de- cided that all petitions on the subject should be re- ferred to the latter committee. Among the bilis noticed was one to commute the senteace of Mra Hartung, and one to impose a penalty on carrying concealed weapons. Among those introduced was one to pay the State debt by a tax upon articles of Juxury, one to pretect gas consumers, and one to repeal part of the act creating the Contracting Board. Mr. Van Horn introduced joint resolutions to amend the constitution by abolishing tae pre perty qualification. The steamship Moses Taylor, from New Orleans, and Havana Sth inst., arrived at this port last eve- ning. The news is unimportant. Business with the new crop had not yet opened. The health of Havana was good. Several cargoes of Africans had recently been landed, and our correspondent predicts plenty of employment for our cruisers on the coast in a few months. ‘The Board of Aldermen met last evoning. The Committee on Ordinances were instructed to re- port some plan to prevent accidents by the explo sion of steam boilers. The Committee onthe Tax Levy reported additions thereto to the amount of $191,000, The subject was made the spécial order for the next meeting. The Board referred to the Committee on Ferries a resolution directing the Comptroller to take. no further‘ action in regard to the sale of the ferry leases antil ordered by the Common Council. A resolutfon was presented, directing the Corporation Counsel to prepare a Graft of a memorial to the Legislature asking for the repeal of the enactment which prohibite the providing that each member shall receive $2,000 per annum. It waa referred to the Committee on. Salaries and Offices. The Board adjourned to Mog: day next. In the Board of Councilmen last evening, a spe- cial committee was appointed to consider the pro- priety of passing an ordinance providing for the examination of unsafe buildings. The job of print- ing and binding the proceedings of the Common rn was temporarily gives to Edmund Jones 10. A billabolishing slavery in Nebraska passed the Territorial Legislature onthe dd inst. It was ex- his.. pected that the Governor wonld veto it, It has deen stated that there are no slaves in Nebraska, and there are, probably, not @ score of negrocs within her boundaries, Both branches of the Missouri Legislature have passed 8 ball bantahing free negroes from the State, under the =)09 eopsative, of becoming slaves. gh We have news from Montevedio aacca on wo 15th of November, The treaty of peace between Buenos Ayres and the Argentine Confederation had been ratified. The paper contains sixteen ar- ticles, but the main features of them were given in the Henaxp of the 10th inst. Buenos Ayres enters the Confederation again. General Urquiza, in a proclamation, asked the Buenos Ayreans to re- spect his authority, Hostilities had ceased after official notification. Tho sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 700 bales, without change in prices. We still quote middling up- lands steady on tho basis of 11}gc. Flour was more active, and common and medium grades of State and Western were about 5 cents per barre] higher. Wheat was more active, with sales of Milwaukee club at $1 22 in store, and at $1 23 celivorod, with Chicago spring and Western am- ber colored on private terms. Corn was firmer and ip better request. Salea of Jersey and Southern yellow at 87c. a 90c., and white do. do. at 85c.a 8%. Pork was in fair requeat, with sales of mess at $16 12% a $16 25, and of prime at $11 65, Sugars were Orm, with eales of 400 a 500 hhds. and 2,000 bags Singapore on terms given in another column. Coflee was firm, but sales light; 400 bags Rio wore sold at lc. a12%c. The de- mand for teas was modorate. Greens were held with firmness, while biacks were dull, Freights were steady, while engagements were firm, to Liverpool and to London. The Crisis in the Affairs of the Union— The Contest in the House. The news received last night from Washing- ton is particularly interesting and significant, as indicating the alarming tendency of the ex- isting excitement in the public mind growing out of the “irrepressible conflict” between the North and South; and in addition to the reports of the disgraceful scenes enacted in Congress yesterday, we have before us another batch of letters and communications from various parts of the country, exhibiting clearly and truth- fully the tone of public feeling at this excited moment. The whole country is rising rapidly to a crisis in politics and trade which threatens to involve many of our best interests in ruin, While po- litical demagogues are intriguing to rule con- ventions and secure nominations for themselves fanatics are rousing the public mind to frenzy with their absurd clamors, and a deluded mi- nority of representatives in Congress lend fuel to the growing flames by stolidly insisting that Sherman shall be elected Speaker, on the merit of his endorsement. of Helper’s incen- diary book. They flatter themselves that the affair will blow over without any particular results, just as did the Hartford Convention treason in the time of the war of 1812 with England. But they forget that the Hart- ford Convention was not accompanied with any overt act, while their treason teachings have, fructified in the practical revolutionary attempt of John Brown. This is producing its natural. result in the South, where the people, impelled by the in- stinct of self-preservation, are holding back in a large degree trom that free commercial inter- course with the North which has in the past grown to such an enormous extent. Orders which have hitherto been sent here to an im- mense amount, for the supply of Southern mar- kets, are now reduced or entirely withheld. So keenly is the effect of this unnatural disturb- ance of trade upon Northern interests foreseen that the manufacturers of Connecticut have wisely racnived ta mast at Maridan, in that State, to take into consideration the true rela- tions of trade and politics, and to give expres- sion to the popular sentiment thereon. In this city our soundest and most sagacious bankers are watching with anxiety the course of this interruption to trade by political agitation, foreseeing that however partial may be its im- mediate effect on individuals, its general result will be prejudicial in the extreme to the chain of punctual and faithful completion of obliga- tions, This distrust will grow with the grow- ing excitement, and may very easily give us a financial panic before the summer is over. The tone of sentiment expressed at the ding@r recently given by the Senate of Virginia to Lieutenant Governor Jackson, of that State, can only add to these forebodings of evil. Whenever the South, stimulated by the reckless proceedings of abolition fanatics, resolutely enters upon the policy of fostering local industry, & vast change will be com- menced in the condition of things in the North. These results are all being hastened by the reckless determination of the republican mi- nority in Congress to elect Sherman on the rule or ruin policy. They look only to the present political triumph, without reflecting that it must end in their own ruin. The North will as decidedly reject the incendiary and agrarian teachings of Seward, Helper, Sherman and John Brown, as does the South. The reaction has begun here, and is advancing rapidly. The great mass of conservative feeling in the com- mercial central States is already aroused, and five hundred thousand voters who for years have not gone to the polls will go on the first occasion to cast their votes against this abo- lition incendigrism, and in favor of the consti-+ tution and the Union: The election of Sher- man, on his Helper endorsement, will only add to the excitement and insure the ultimate result, Errgct or Ovr Account or rue Fvorrrys Staves rv Canapa.—The interesting account of the condition of the fugitive slaves run off by the underground railroad into Canada, which appeared in the Henitp afew daya ago, is being copied extensively in various journals throughout the country, and will doubtless do much to open the eyes of the philanthrapists who are made the victims of the shysters and swindlers of the underground railroad. We showed that the condition of the poor slaves seduced from their comfortable homes in the warm South, and dumped, if we may use the expression, in the cold regions of Canada, where the thermometer. is often below zero, is most miserable and deplorable. We showed that they are left to starve and perish in a cli- mate against the severity of which their nature and the very color of their skin revolt, and that, consequently, they are herded together in setMements, suffering all kinds of privations, which render their situation a cause of much sympathy and commiseration. These facts we pbtained through the personal obsstvation of one of our Special Reporters, whom we dé- spatched to Canada for that purpose, and their truth has beon admitted by parties known to be friends of the underground railroad system. Their publication throughout the North, there- fore, cannot fail to convince the innocent and hu- mane abettors of slave stealing thai the kind of freedom whick the fugitives enjoy in the British Colonies means something quite different from WEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1860. 8 comfort or a blessing to the ‘unfortunate re- Cipients of that booa. " The Lesson of the Lawrence Massacre. We are compelled to continue the sad record of the terrible calamity at Lawrers, 5 ahneat ~~ +«, Where, through the penny wise and pound foolish meanness of a soulless corpora- tion, nearly two bandred operatives lost their lives, and another hundred or more are maimed for the remainder of their days. There are some shocking accidents—such as fires atsea and shipwrecks—the results of which, however painful they may be, can only be re- gretted. Human foresights#: many of these cases could neither have prevented their 00- currence at the time, nor have provided against the possibility of their repetition. This Law- rence murder is not one of those cases whereip we say that men and women died by the visita- tion of God, or through the workings of some insorutable dispensation of Divine providence. That there will not be wanting in Massachusetts people, perhaps journalists and paraons, te take such ground, we can readily imagine; but it will be as sheer blasphemy as if it were pleaded as an excuse by a wretch who came into court with hands dyed in the blood of his brother. Let us examine the case. In the centre of a large manufacturing town there has been erected a building to be used as @ manufac- tery, to be filled with ponderous machinery, and to be occupied during ten hours in each working day by eight hundred men aud wo- men. It is found, after the erection of the building, that it is not safe, and it is patched up with iron plates, as if they could insure the stability of a structure which was doubtless insecure from its foundation to its roof-trees. The corporation makes itself secure against pecuniary loss by full insurance. The spindles are in motion, the busy fingera of the white slaves guide the magic thread whereon hang fat dividends. The president and direc- tors doze over their after dinner wine, its ruby color deepened with the blood of the operative. The manufactory may fall to pieces, or may be burned down. No matter. It is insured—fully insured in good offices. Another glass of wine. And the di- rector enjoys his port, as fine old Boston gen- tlemen have done before him for many a day gone by, and will formany a day to come. He has dropped into a gentle slumber, and is dreaming of two per cent per month, when there comes a crash, a shriek, a death wail. Two hundred young men and women have been cru@hed and burned to death since that fine old Boston gentleman ate his last almond. But he is insured. Where is the insurance for the kindred of the slain? Where the recompense for the bereaved fathers and heart-broken mo- thers, and weeping sisters and agonizing bro- thers, who stand over the mangled and charred remains of their kindred? Who shall pay the premium that will be demanded from the fine old Boston gentleman in that last great account—that day when the books of the rich and the poor, the high and the low, Dives and Lazarus, the beggar and the king, shall be squarelyand evenly balanced with the golden rule? What company will in- sure the fine old Boston gentleman against that risk? Not we. But they are philanthropists, these corpo- rators of Lawrence. Very likely they give a great deal to home and foreign missions. With- Out doubt they sincerely sympathize with the negro who picks, in Alabama, the cotton which their slaves weave at Lawrence. They will give money to help that cotton picker to rise and murder his master, and to make up for that expense will put the screws tighter to the cotton weaver, who is—God save the mark!—a free laborer—free as the galley slave who clanks his chains at Brest or Toulon; free as the British soldier who faints under the burning sun of India—free to labor many hours at scanty pay in an insecure building, and free to be crushed to death at last! That is free white labor from a State street point of view. Here we may be met with the old plea that the gentlemanly vice of avarice can only be curbed by legislative enactments. ‘Well, we have a government—a federal and a State gov- ernment—an extensive and costly machine, which we work, or which works us, at an ex- pense of many millions per annum. Every year we have as many as two or three thousand new Jaws abont one thing and another. But the moment that any act is proposed to pro- vide against the occurrence of such massacres as that at Lawrence, capital comes in; buys Legislatures like so much merchandise; and there’s the end of all. We need not goto Law- rence to see examples of this. The Greeka are at our own doors. There are hundreds of in- secure buildings in New York, and a very large number of unsafe steam boilers hissing beneath the feet of our citizens as they pursue their daily ‘avocations. In the matter of the boil- ers, the Common Council, we believe, has passed an ordinance appointing an Inspector; but the man has not yet been selected, and probably will not be until after the next ex- plosion. It will be seen that all these dangers to which we have alluded menace more particularly the laboring. classes, who are generally unfriended, living from hand to mouth, and fighting the battle of life upon empty stomachs. Truly, they have the civil law to resort to. The law is open to everybody, and so is the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Perhaps a bereaved father or mether might succeed im an action for damages against the proprietors of the Pember- ton Mills; but who would go security for the costs preliminary to the result? What poor devil can fight a wealthy corporation? The operative looks, then, to the journalist as his only friend. And the journalist should accept cheerfully the championship thus thrown upon him. The press should unite to demand that special laws, as in the cage of railways, should be enacted for the insurance of the operatives as well as of the buildings wherein they labor. The law should declare, in the simplest way, that proprietors of buildings used os mamnfac- tories must guarantee their employés against such accidents as that at Lawrence. Further, that if such building falls, the fact is prima fa cie evidence of culpability on the part of the owners, and legal proceedings for the relief of the sufferers shouldbe commenced in the name of the State, and at its expense. Weemploya District Attorney to bring to justice the man who takes away the life of one other, while the slaughterer of hundreds goes to his bed of down unpunished, sleeps well, fares cumptuous- ly, and when he dies shall have a lying tomb- stone, and “little cupids dropping on his urn their marble tears.” , Massa. Helper’s Autoblography—His Pamphlet, andthe Uses that Are Made of it by the Republican Party. In another part of to-day’s paper will be found a letter from the notorious Helper, the +7 he that 7 substance of whicn Appears WO wo --- hecors menced his business career by “misusing,” that is, stealing, “without the knowledge of any human being besides himself, three hundred dollars of Mr, Brown’s,” his employer's’ “money.” The palljating circumstance, in his own mind, was that he “kept a conscientiously accurate account of the same!” At a later period, Mr. Brown was made aware of the theft, and refrained from sending his t clerk to the penitentiary; but he co: the of- fence, which Mr. Helper denounces asa most shameful breach of confidence, of “divulging the whole affair.’ Somewhere in California, probably at about election time, the purloining employé says that he became honest, and back to Mr. Brown the amount he had robbed him of. “Every assertion,” he concludes his letter, “and insinuation that has been made heretofore, or may be made hereafter, no mat- ter by what authority, nor by whom circulated, in any manner or degree conflicting with what Ihave said above, is founded in s spirit of sheer falsehood and malignity, and can never in either this world or in the next, he substan- tiated or established.” It is not altogether surprising that “this un- ambiguous declaration of facts,” as Helper calls them, should be perfectly pleasant and satis- factory to his black republican admirers, en- dorsing as they do such passaged of his book as, “Thieves are, as a general rule, less amena- ble to the moral law than slaveholders;” and, again, “All pro-slavery slaveholders deserve to be at once reduced to a parallel with the basest criminals that lie fettered within the cells of our public prisons.” The bloody black republican journals of the North, and the fol- lowing sixty-eight members of Congress who authorized the use of their names, recommend- ing the “Impending Crisis,” had good reason to consider Helper peculiarly adapted to be their pioneer in the approaching Presidential con- test. In fact, Messrs. Schuyler Coifax, Cyd’r.B. Tompkins, youre B. —— Apgon Burlingame, John Covode, Freeman H. Morse, Owen Lovejoy, Cad. ©. Washburn, David Kilgore, Amos P. Granger, Sam’! G. ‘An irows, Wm. Stewart, Edwin B. Morgap, Abraham B. Olin, Samuel R. Curtis, Galusha A. Grow, Sidney Dean, Joho M. Wood, Joshua R. Giddings Nath) B. Darfee, John M. Parker, Edward Wade, Emory B. Pottle, Stephen C. Foster, Calvin C, Chaffee, De Witt C. Leach, roan ~ Gilman, Witham H. Keisey, John F. Potter, B. Hoard, ‘Wm. A. Howard, T. Davis ( (nee ry Thompson, Henry Waldon,’ J. F. Farnantox 3. W. Sherman,” John Sherman, C. L. PP, Wm. D. Brayton, Geo. W. Palmer, _ gE Pale, ire Bufflagton, Dan’l W. Gooch, Philemon B Matteson, Heury L. Dawes, oe | Robart Mott, Justin 8. Morrill, arlee Geo. R. Robbins, 1. Washburne, Jr., Pe Davia Ezekiel P. Walton, J. A. Bin; a ” James w= (bea James Wilson, Wa. Kell Homer E. Bg: 8. A. Purviance, E. B. Washi , Isaiah D. Clawson, Francis E. Spinner, Bepj. Stanton, A. S. Murray, Silas M. Burroughs, Edward Dodd, ‘Robert B. Hall, all profess to “feel confident,” as is stated.on the cover, that “were every citizen in possession of the facts embodied in the Compendium, a republican triumph in 1860 would be morally certain.” Between forty and fifty of these gentle- men retain seats, at the present hour, in the House of Representatives; one of them is the unanimous choice of the whole republican party for Speaker; and Helper’s book is their programme for the coming campaign. Helper informs us that the first edition of his “Impending Crisis of the South” appeared about Jane, 1857. The North was not, how- ever, fully ripe, at that time, for taking it up as @ black republican profossion of falth. Hyon the bloody organs of republicanism in the press were comparatively silent concerning it. Free soil negrophilism had not yet worked it- self up to the pitch of daring to chuckle openly over the assertion that “the negroes would bedelighted to cut their masters’ throats,” and denouncing slaveowners as “ robbers, ruffians, thieves and murderers,” “more criminal than common murderers.” Besides, the Kansas out- rage humbug was not quite exhausted, and Le- compton was beginning to bud into a most promising’ clap-trap, out of which Seward, the Tribune and their incendiarist auxiliaries might grind political capital. So 1857 passed away without much apparent attention having been excited by the Compendium. Neither was it heard of in 1858 as a party text book, until about the time of the fall elections, and after its atrocious principles had beer broadly out- lined in Senator Seward’s Rochester speech of that year. In 1859, however, all other appli- ances of the republicans had become threadbare, and the fictions of previous years exploded, and then it was that the sixty-eight Repre- sentative Honorables explicitly, and a multitude more of Honorables and non-Honorables impli- citly, determined to re-usher it into the world, as the great campaign masterpiece ‘for the Presidential election of 1860. It was circulated by tens of thousands, with a “feeling of. moral certainty,” on the part of Governor Morgan, Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley, and other Sewardite leaders, who contributed money to circulate it, and on the part of the members of Congress who endoreed it, that it would secure, as they expressed it, 8 republican triumph in the coming year. Had Brown’s invasion of Harper's Ferry been followed, as abolitionists anticipated, by ® stampede of several thousand slaves from Virginia and Maryland, civil war, and the “rape, fire and slaughters” which Gerrit Smith foretold, Helper’s book would have been heralded to the country as prophetic. It fail- ed, however, igaominiously. The murderer and horse thief, with his associate ruffians, suf- fered the penalty of their crimes, in accord- ance with the laws of the State whieh they violated. As a consequence, the leaders of the black republican party, especially -in the eriti- cal position of things at Washington, havebeen driven to their usual stronghold of subterfuge and deceit. They shrond themselves with a silent disavowal of the Compendium, and, without committing themselves by condemning it openly, assume the airs of injured innocence when charged with advocacy of its tenets. Doolittle, in the Senate, is a specimen of this Clags of temporizers. Seward, perhaps, will en. deavor to reef his sails in like manner, until the storm blows over. It remains none theless true that, while leaders traffic in such wise with conscience, their followers adhere to the plan originally laid down, and are sowing the trea- som contained in the “ Impénding Crisis” broad- cast over the whole land. The publisher of Helper’s work, in this city: ig a man named Burdick. He supplies the trade, and the demand is #0 great for the book that nearly all of the booksellers in New York feel compelled to have copies of it. The orders from the Eastern and Western States are im- mense. Local republican leaders stimulate their followers to purchase it, and the most strenuous efforts are used to place it in the hands of every one who will be entitled f° 4 vote at the next election, Anthon, at No. Ww Wall street, distributes it, as a professional abolitionist, to all applicants, and is continn- ally obliged to renew his stock. The Zribune zeonle sell it from the counter, and, if they canned gevs , rid of it in any other way, are said to let it go at bal y price, or even gratis where it will tell | unusually well, The groateat efforts + are being made to circulate it extensively in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey and Wisconsin, in order to gain, if possible, the doubtful States, K is part of the scheme, thoroughly understood, that while the circula- tion of this document is kept up with unremit- ting vigor, the republican members of Congress shall be utterly silent. Before the time of the Presidential election the Central States will be flooded with copies of this infamous book. its are also at work in nearly all of the populous neighborhoods of the South, and every device is resorted to in order to evade the vigilance of the justly incensed masses of the Southern States. Helper’s book, in a word, is the meinstay and dependence of the bloody black republi can press and the leaders of the “irrepressible conflict” aggressors of the North, in the nation- al contest which is impending. Yet the device is resorted to by the official heads of the party, in order to elect Seward, or some one of like kidney, to the Presidency, of seemingly repu- diating it, while the republican committee, under their directions, emulate the Bible Socie- ty itself in multiplying ite numbers. The fol- lowers of Helper are worthy, in their political manceuvres, of the antecedents of that indi- vidual himeelf. A Canapa Parer oy THe Conprrton or Fuat- trve Staves.—We publish in another column an article from the Toronto (Canada West) Glove, commenting upon the account which re- cently appeared in the Herat of the condition of fugitive slaves in Canada, furnished by our special commissioner. The Toronto Globe is edited by George Brown, whether a relation of Old John Brown or not, we do not know; but we do know that he is represented by the fugitive slave Fred. Douglass, as his chum and faithful companion while Douglass sojourned in Canada in his flight to England, after the arrest of Old Brown at Harper’s Ferry, and it is only to be expected that he would abuse the Henatp’s statement of disagreeable facts con- cerning the unfortunate fugitives in her Majes- ty’s colonies. But it is remarkable that the Globe, while attempting to deny these facts, really admits the most important of them to be true. It confesses that the fugitive slaves do suf- fer on their arrival in that inhospitable region. It. admits, further, that the assertion that the agents of the underground railroad appropriate the funds supplied by ill-advised and hum- bugged philanthropists to their own use, may be true. Moreover, it states that the fugitive slaves can support themselves by farming and trading “if they possess the desire and capacity to work.” That is precisely the state of the case as we represented if; but we have shown that they do not possess the desire to work, and hence they are starving and dying off of con- sumption and other diseases, while herding together in miserable masses, and that they do not possess the capacity to work in a climate wholly unsuited to them, and to which it is cruelty to exile them. It is remarkable, also, that while Mr. George Brown, of Toronto, endeavors to deny, while he actually admits, the statements of the Henatp, the colored gentleman who edits the Anglo- African in New York, and whose office is within three or four doors of the underground railroad depot, confessed that these statements were literally true in all particulars, even to the names. The attempted contradiction of the Canada editg, then, may be taken for what it is worth. Tum Jons any Fravps or rx Common Couner, Past axp to Coms.—We publish in another column to-day, an account of the illegal jobs and frauds which the last Common Council at- tempted to consummate, without success, and which have been left as an infamous heirloom to the new body of 1860, at whose hands, we doubt not, they will receive the most scrupu- lous attention. It will be seen that various schemes, such as the construction of city rail- roads, opening, widening and repairing streets, contracts for street cleaning, and other jobs, were on the tapis in the-lgst Common Council, for assisting which our Censcien¥dus legislators were to receive, or did teceivs, a hoa quid pro quo for thelr services—in one ¢ said, the division of the mug sum of ata Among the principal jobs laid out see the re-_ paving of Broadway; a new contrhct foratreet cleaning; the Yonkers railroad, to run through our principal streets; the widening of Nassau street—a most corrupt and impudent concep- tion; the illegal sale of the Brooklyn leases—e gross outrage upon the public of both cities; and sundry other projects of open- ing and paving streets, establishing unneces sary ferries, repairing markets, and mulcting the treasury to ® large amount for extra psy of clerks of the committees, In almost all these cases a flagrant violation of the charter was contemplated, by giving out jobs of public work without advertising for bids on the contract, which the amended char- ter expreesly provides shall be done. Arrange- ments, we understand, have been made by the present Common Council to take up and push through all or most of these schemes, and doubt- less the parties who are interested in the profits expected to accrue from them will be quite.as liberal with the new boards aa with the old ones. Unfortunately for the taxpay- ers, the lobbyites have a more pliable element to work upon now, inasmuch as the present Common Council is more degraded than the last, and its members still less gifted with intel- ligence, respectabitity or honesty. When we remember the component parts of the late Corporation, this may seem o somewhat bold amertion; but it 4 nevertheless lamentably. true, for the voters at the last election wasted all their energies on the two or three leading offices, contrary to our repeated advice to look to the candidates for Aldermen and Conncil- men, and accordingly the nominees of the grog shop and pugilistic elements of the community comprise the Common Council for 1860. Coming into the field fresh in their hunt after the spoils, this uaggrupulous body of ignorant and hungry politiclans will multiply the labors of their predecessors in imposing all kinds of illegal contracts and jobs upon the city; for it cannot be supposed that they will content themeelves with the unfinished infamy of the last boards; not at all—on the contrary each individual member has big own individual axg to grind om the: whetstone of the publig treasury. Mayor Wood will have a hard task to watele the proceedings of the Comimon Council, aad restrain. (hem from involving the city in out- rageous exp.onses, and we fear that with all his good intentions: @nd precautions, his simple veto power, the om.” *emnant> of authority left * kim, will be able to y axcompliah very little im Poe tide of goreupeton which flows nal through he channels of our Gogtaded te, legislatare. Tax Errect ov Tum Anti-Siavury Aarrarios on Tus New Yorx Horers.—Among the offeots Produced by the anti-slavery crusade of the republican party, is vital injury to the hotela of New York, whose proprietors are complaining of the immense falling off in their business. Everybody knows that a very large proportion of their support comes from the South; but Southern men are not visiting the North, as they did in former years, and the hotel keepers are beginning to feel it severely; and those dealers from whom the hotels purchased their provisions are also suffering from the results of an agitation which is so materially affecting the interests of commerce and every other ia- terest of the North but that of the politicians. But if the hotels are mow suffering a great loss of business in the winter, when the Southera travel is comparatively small, what will the effect be in the summer on the hotels and watering placesat the North, which derive their chief sustenance from Southern visitants, whe | that season have been heretofore as regular in their annual periodical visits as the gay birds of brilliant plumage from the sunayg South, which make our groves vocal with their cheerful songs, and add picturesque beauty te the scene? In the coming summer the humaa “birds of passage,” which have hitherto crossed Mason and Dixon’s line in pyrauit of health or pleasure, will seek the watering places of Vis- ginia, North Carolina, Georgia and the moun- tain ranges of the Southern States, abounding with fine scenery, and with air as salubrions and bracing as any at the North. Repulsed by rudeness and violence, and by abuse of the homes of their childhood and the attempted destruction of their cherished institutions, they will henceforth seek enjoyment and recreation in regions where they will feel more at ease aad more at home. Oratonicat DisPars 1s Coxcrnss.—Ever since the present mass meeting, called the House of Representatives, hasbeen in session, there has been nothing but debate—long, wirdy, discursive speeches, the tedium ef which hes only been brokem by a personal dispute or an unsuccessful ballot for aSpeaker. In the eourse of this extended discussion, the most vital and important topics in the present state of the Union have been taken up and treated, as a rule, rather after the fashion of stump orators then of statesmen. We look through column after col- unin of the debates without finding anything like ® broad and comprehensive view of public mat- ters, and lay down the record with the feeling that if the country relies for its salvation upom such men as these, its dependence is upom a bruised reed. We presume that during the present session of the House, the members have made altogetheras mary as a hundred set speeches; and, with the exception of avery few, such as those of Mr. Curry of Alabama, Mr. Miles and Mr. Boyce of South Carolina, aad Mr. John Cochrane of New York, they sre the most vapid, inane, spiritless produetions that have ever been uttered in the Capitol. Any State Legislature could do as well; some, much better. One feature in these debates is that the scep- tre of oratory seems to have departed alte- gether from Virginis. The Old Dominion has no more Henrys, Randolphs or Wirts. It has only its Pryor, which is something of a descent. Pryor having nearly killed several journals— the Union and States, of Washington—and finished off (a horrid case of infanticide) the Richmond South altogether, turns up inéhe House as the representative of the Virginla chivalry. He had made, as we have seen, a thorough breakdown in journalism, having been compelled to resign his connection with several journals just in time to save their livea, and he immediately turned his attention to statesmanship, and as preparatory step en- tered Congress. Now, any man of mediocre ability will answer for Congress, and it is much easier to be a distinguished statesman than an able journalist; s0 a.great many good Ratured people had hopes of Pryor; thought he Inigh} turn out well, and make a mark in the House. But the result ot his maiden efforts in the field of oratory has been as disastrous as his exploits in that of journalism. His speeches are as wordy, egotistical and sophomorical as were his dull editorials. Mr. Pryor, however, is not alone in the desert of buncombe and tigmarole, and that may be a crumb or two of comfort for him. The speeches of Messrs. Curry, Boyce and Miles have set forth, ina very spirited, manly and forcible way, the views of the South, and they, therefote, com- mand generel attention and extort admira- tion even from political opponents. If we tarn to the opposition benches, we shall find thinge in even s worse condition than they are on the democratic sidé of the House. The leading members of the republican party have endeavored to preserve utter and complete silence upon the main questions of the debate, and there have been no adequaie replies to the charges that have been made egainst them by the other side. These charges Bave been of the gravest character, and the faot that they have not been repelled is takem by the country asa tacit acknowledgment of their trath. They confess to the circulation of mable publications, of hooks calculated to up insurrection in the South and disef- fection in the North; they confess, by their sitence, to the guilty knowledge of some of, their leaders in the John Brown raid; and they, acknowledge that their party teaches sedition, riot, murder and disunion.... Theve are some of) the green frnite of the Thirty-sixth Congress. What may we expect of the dry? Prosrsors or Mrvtne-Inpusrry—Larom Ar- RIvaLs or Spscr#.—For some time past we have been receiving Cheering announcements of the general activity and encouragement which pre vail in the mining districts in California, and te which the discovery of rich veins of tin and cop- per ore seems to have given an additional im palse. Judging by recentarrivals, these reporw have bad something more than a newspape: foundation. By the Atlantic alone we notice an excess in the amount of specie receivoc” here of nearly five hundred thousand dollar aver that ef the corresponding peried ¢ c ’