The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1860, Page 6

RTT ‘56 ; NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK RK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, the government of the famine and the meeting adjourned. The news from Washington fs not particularly important. The session of the House yesterday | was dev) ei to an unprofitable wrangle amo OFWOR N. W. GoRNER OF NABSAU AND FULTON 878. | th politisians, and the House adjourned a a { ‘ SENS, ah in en sou ent moll wo | bos tee | Bapenae io: Speaker. The Senate was not in sea: $7 per annum We publish a mass of interesting matter from Avbeny this morn'ng. In the Senate yesterday the | bil to repeal the act to equalize the State tax was reported. Among the bills introduced were, one for hew railroads in New York, one to provide money for completing the canals, one in regard to di- vorces, and one exempting firemen from taxation. The bill to make the act in regard to lake and river navigation companies alao apply to Long Island Sound was passed. A bill to prevent im- proper charges by constables gave rise to some remarks about city aad county frauds. Progress was reported and the Senate adj>urned. In the Assembly, among the bills noticed w.re, one to provide against unsafe buildings; one to protect the property of married women; one to pay inte- rest on canal drafts; one to induce colored persons to emigrate from this State, and one to enlarge Clinton prison. Among the bills introduced was one to authorize the purchase of certain lands for Broadway.—Yvseaxp ro | Sing Sing prison. Both houses adjourned till Mon. day evening. in another column we publish additional details of the catastrophe at Lawrence, together with a revised list of the killed and wounded, and the testimony taken before the Coroner’s jury yester- day. Subscriptions for the relief of the suffer- ing are pouring in quite liberally. At the meeting of the Police Commissioners yes terday, a resolution exempting the police from ar- TM DAILY MERALD, too cents por co THE WEERLY HERALD. every Saturday, al tz cents por Ser urn the “Evropeun alition coe val ty, ry yoy #4 per annum to-any prt of Great Briain, ‘of se ontinend Me set fo fo include pa ah and 2th month at ok cent news, ‘motic Niet a Weerally paid jor aa * Fasucotaniy Raquasrs MOND NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We do not feturn rejected communications DV ERTISEMENTS renowed cowry day: advertisements tn. ont he Warmy Hanatp, Faulty Eismatp, and dn the nia un’ European Editions. SOE 1 HINTING excoued with neatness, cheapness and de- patch. AL abt Lares AMD Paon-< seeeNOe13 Volame XXV. ANUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Joam OF ARO—ACTRESS or <u Woes Bors any Gimis of rus Paxsent Day, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street— Ovronven, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Onpan—iuisn Post, LAURA KERNE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Jeanie Drans. NEW ROWERY THRATRE, Bowery.—Hasves, rue Ux- Rsown—Noree® Goose aNp ‘THe GOLDEN Kkog—Ropert Mataine—Harry May, THEATRE FRANCAIS, 685 Broadway.—La Jeunes Gaxt—Une Pots Teamimr, BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway} oon and Evening—Ticur Rore Ascension—Kep —After- ANGER. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechaniow’ Niall, 472 Broadway— Bezissores, Sona, Dawe, AcoDauor ine Freee all policemen found drinking when in uniform was passed. Several appointments from the old force were made, and two dismissals for intoxication were announced. We have files from the West Indies, dated at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 17th of December. Very severe weather prevailed in Saint Ann’s parish,and it was feared half the crops were destroyed. The Hons. Robert Lamb Constantine and Edward Thompson, members of the Legislature, had died since our previous reports. Bryan Edwards, grand- son of the n storian of Jamaica, had been knighted. From Barbadoes we have dates to the 26th of NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway —Gro. Cnrrsty's Mure Brkas iN Gonos, Danows, Busixsques, &c—Mus, Dar's New Yess Cais rou 1560. POLYTRCHNIC INSTITUTE, Brooklyn.—Matinee at Two O'Clock —i-BaTTON’S PakUOR OFEKss—SENOK ULIVIRBA, NEWARK THEATRE, Newark.—Woon's MinstReis 1s Erutoriax Sone, Daxces, ko ~New Year Cauus, TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Saturday, January 14, 1860. —== | November. The weather, for a fortnight, was very The News. | fine, and the prospects of the sugar crop mach im- The steamship New York, from Bremen and | proved. Southampton for this port, arrived at Halifax yes- Trinidad papers of the 23d of November report terday, short of coal, She encountered very heavy | the canes as whitening and arrowing to a great ex- weather on the passage. She brings Liverpool ad- | tent, under the influence of very moist, wari wea- vices to the 2sth ult., four days later than previous | ther, The Venezuelan steamer Orinoco had visited accounts, and as the difficulty between the Nova | the island, commissioned to purchase a quantity of Bootia Tele graph Company and the press has been | cast off government rifles, with which to arm a town arranged, we are enabled to give a brief synopsis | guard at Ciudad Bolivar. of her news this morning. Three hundred and thirty-five coolie immigrants ‘The most important intelligence by this arrival | had arrived at Demarara from Calcutta. Pitty is the announcement of the refusal of the Pope to | others died on the passage. The weather was fiac be represented in the European Congress, unless | on the island. Trade very dull and breadstutts the authorship of the pamphlet, “The Pope and | ) wer. Herrings were wanted, and white pine lam- the Congress,” is repudiated by Louis Napoleon. | per found a fair market. ‘The pamphlet, our readers will remember, was re-/ [rom Saint Lucia we learn, under date of the 12th cently republished in the columns of the Hera. |} of November, that the weather was very rainy, and There is nothing of importance respecting the | a good deal of fever prevailed, A lot of Kroomen war between the Moors and Spaniards, The Queen | jphorers had arrived from Martinique and met with of Spain has been safely delivered of a princess. a cordial welcome. Advices trom China state that the government of ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,800 the empire had applied for American mediation in | pares, including 600 a 700 in transit, chielly sbipped from the threatened war between China and England | Apalachicola. Lots on the spot closed with steadiness, on and France. The ship Flora Temple, boand to | the basis of quotations given in another column. Flour Havana, with eight hundred coolies, had been lost | was without change of importance, while sales were in the China Sea. moderate. Southern flour was steady, and in fair requost, Owing to the holidays, trade at Liverpool had | including some ‘sales for export to tropical ports. Wheat been dull. Cotton was depressed, Dreadstuffs } ¥4s in some export demand, but sales wore moderate, steady and provisions dull. Consols at London, op | ‘B¢M4 a prime Mitwavkie club at $1 25, and Chicago the 28th, were quoted at 954 4 95;. spripg on private terms. Corn was firmly held, with 5) limited transactions, while prices were unchanged. Pork Our correspondence from St. Domingo City, writ- aah anthlive, “Skies ehicn ceenteeiad sae aie 45s ten on the 1th ul!.—published ia ang colum: a $16 25, and prime at $11'60.' Sugars.were firm: sales ie important and interesting. A opean fie: of 200 a 900 bhds, Cuba muscovado, 25 hhds, New Or- consisting of two French, one Uritish, and one and about 600 boxes Havana were made at rates Spanish vessels of war, lay before the pl auother place. The sales of coffee embraced 742 ing been sent out in order mo ntos, 1,090 Rio and 100 mats Jaya, at prices given force the existing government to recognize the im other column. Freights were steady. Among the menge amounts of worthless paper money with | epgazements were 17,600 bushels wheal to Liverpool, part which President Baez flooded the « yin 1857, | C6268, tn Ahibie Rene enA pore ineale ap. Tn ene °68, but in reality to force the executive into sub- | ef Column we give the particulars of the great woo! sale jection to the representatives of these Powers, | Beld a! Boston this feck. ‘The most of the catalogues of- The writer presuines that through the influence of | ‘Te! Were seld through. | On the 11th int. the ; prised 260,000 Ibs. American fleece and pulled wool, a the Boropean countries San Do 140 bates of foreign, On the 12th the sales included under control of the Haytiea ne 1,119,880 ibs. American, all told, and 659 bales of foreign. recognized by the United State Additional accounts from Me French and Spani-h fleets w at Vera Cruz to enforce the pe France and Spain. The infora signs was said to have been d sources. The liberal forces had ob victories cver the troops of the ch By the arrival of the Isabel at Charleston we lave news from Havana to the 10th inst. New sugar was arriving freely, bat no sales had been made. The receipts of molasses were light. Freights continued dail. The E New York, had not arrived at Havana up to the 10th, and the mails and government despatches were forwarded by the Isabel. We Jearn from Havana, under date of the Sth instant, that forty thousand Africans were landed onthe islandin 1859. The United States steamer Wynadot, Commander Stanley, arrived from Cien- fugos, all well, ou the evening of the 7th. ingo would fat! ‘oes, unless fully ent. te that the The Growth of the Herald—Its Causes, and the Lessons they Teach. The business transactions of the Heratn es- tablishment form the best barometer of the state of trade and general progress of the country that can possibly be found, and by the less or greater ratio of its increase, we are constantly enabled to measure the beat of the public pulse with perfect accuracy. Our con- temporaries publish from time to time certain skilfully constructed tables of their circulation, on which to base their claims to credit in the market, but which really form no truthful ex- position of their affairs. The following figures give the total receipts of the Herald office, froin its two sources of income, circulation and advertisements, during the last month of each st three years:— d from official ‘ined several pire City, for Our Buenos Ayres correspondent, writing on the pia in Dever a Es 1Ath of November, states that trade prospects were ipta in December, I "252 07765 08 never better in the port than at date, in conse- | jyerease of 1858 over 804 60 quence of the late peace, General Urquiza had | Increase of 1559 over J 12,946 90 anunal receipts are about. The number ¢ ects issued per week is. 550,000 Uqual to a yearl; we of sheets of... .. 28,100,000 The tota made himself very popular, being generous to his 750,000 political opponents, but jast in the punishment of guilty defaulters. We give sketches of the leading : fs men in the new Ministry. These business operations and circulation A meeting of the delegates clected to the | of the Heratp are about equal to those Charleston Convention, representing the Mozart } of all the other daily newspapers in this city Hall wing of the democracy, was hela at the Astor } combined, and their parallel does not exist House last evening. A free interchange of senti.| in any newspaper establishment in the ment took place, and it is understood that perfect | y orld. The causes of this surprising in- unanimity of opinion mr Bon to the course to be | ease, and the lessons it teaches, are alike ursued by their delegates from this State. S 4 ‘ er Young Men's Democratic Union Olab dia not | Worthy of the stndy of statesmen, journalists, hold a regalar meeting last evening, as advertised. | MeTehants, philosophers, citizens and politi cial They are properly divisible into two A quorum was not obtained, and the business trang . acted was despatched informally. The club holds | classes—those belonging to its own growth as a meeting next Friday, when the committees on | a journal, and those belonging to its growth building and correspondence will hand in their | with the general growth of the country. Teports. The latter class it enjoys in common with The annexed table shows the temperature of the every other well conducted business establish- a ia soibo ct vee ns hinge bere | ment. As the fertile valleys and vast plains of Li 5 meter and ther: | ).4 American Union fillup with population, and rich cities and great States spring into life on | the banks of its mighty rivers and on either ocean shore of the continent, the demands on the intellect, capital, industry and business skill of New York—the great metropolitan centre—increase in a eorresponding ratio. ‘These call for new means of conveyance and the attendant shortening of old ones, and every | call isaccompanied by an increased demand for the leading journal of the commercial me- wopolis and the country. It is impossible to determine what portion of our increase is to be assigned specially to this class, but we do not hesitate to say that it is not surpassed by the atmosphere in this city January mometer, the variation of wind currents and the state of the weather, at three periods during each | day, viz: at 9 A. M., and 5 and 9 o'clock PB. Mu: REMARKS. Saturday—Morning lear; afternoon overcast. i Sadaye-Ciber ang ostd ail Gay: night overcast increase, from the same causes, of any Monday—Clear and cold, and blowing fresh all day. other business in the city. We have, Sue cecvien’, CPi moderate, began to saow: 3} moreover, daily and almost hourly ex- perience of the trammels which are im- posed upon its growth by the mechanical limits which the present state of mechanical The American General Committee met last oven- | developement places upon the production of an fing aad organized for the year 1560. A committee { Unlimited number of copies of a first class gas Bppointed to prepare cules and bylaws for newspaper within the specified hours of its daily pcre —Clear ail day; night moonlight. ‘Thursday—Ciear all day; gut mooaligut. —Clear al! day; night cloudy. Saturday—Morning thick 58 3. M. ovorcast; boayy fain during the evening: 9 P.M. fog. resting fugitive slaves was lost, and one dismissing | demand. The exigencies of our increase are continually forcing us to augment our demands on the mechanical skill of the country, and we rely confidently on the exhaustless re- sources of the inventive ability of the Ameri- can mind to enable us to meet the public re- quirements of us. The causes which belong to its own growth as a journal exist in the Heraup to-day, as fresh, as vigorous, as progressive, and as inex- haustible, as they have been during its wonder- ful career in the past. They have caused it to become not only the first journal of this coun- try, but have carried its presence and its in. fluence wherever commerce spreads its sails, or connection with the ideas of civilization quickens the thoughts of men. In every coun- try of Europe, in the distant marts of Africa and Asia, throughout the rising communities of the Australian Archipelago, on the pampas and in the Andean vallies of South America, and in ports of the Antilles, the New York Hzratp is found, read, and appreciated. We have been accused of carrying the nations into war, of breaking up cabinets and governments, of creating revolutions in public opinion, of caus- ing financial panics and revulsions, which have swept over two continents, of electing and defeating Presidents, Legislatures and Go- vernors, and of supplying brains first to one and then to the other of the two great parties struggling for supremacy in this country. These accusations are direct recognitions of the power of the Heratp, and that power eprings from its independence, its truthful ap- preciation of cause and effect, and its logical | discrimination and exposition of the events of the day asthey rise. If we do supply ideas to parties and to men, they are tendered to free- men who are at liberty to accept or reject them as they choose; and the fact of their accept- auce by so large a number proves that our ileas are founded on truth, logically deduced, and consonant with the mighty interests amid which we move, act and reason, Were we, like many of our contemporaries, one idea men, or given, as they are, to the mistaking of mole: hills for mountains, and particularly for general c. uses, our judgments and reasons would be of as little effect, and our circulation and influence a: !imited as are theirs, But men appreciate our independence of all minor influences, and the directness and logical reason of our course. The lessons which the growth and in- fluence of the Tkrratp teach are great yet simple in their character. They show tbat the independent press is becoming a power not only in this country, but throughout the world. Through it the gov- erned are beginning to exercise a constant and watchful influence over rulers; party wirepullers cease to beguile the masses with sham professions and platforms to ‘spit upen;” scheming demagogues and corrupt officials are held alike amenable, and it is rapidly becoming one of the great powers of society and of the State. But an independent press can only exist in large cities, where the wants of thousands of individuals and the requirement of a great commerce, shall give it the means of support without regard to the wishes of class or the in- trigues of cliques. No other city than New York would have afforded the means of build- ing up an independent journal like the Heratp; and through the Heravp and its example, New York is producing a revolution in the press of the whole world, and exercising an influence upon all the political parties of this country, which is rapidly making it as metropolitan in politics as it is in trade. DancGERots State OF AFFAIRS IN THE Covs- try.—The reports from Wall street in the com- mercial columns of the Hersup, which are the only fair and honest ones published, represent the moncy market in a very remarkable and seri- ous condition, and a great deal of alarm existing among financiers, arising out of the position of Congress and the country on the political ex- citement between the North and South. We are informed that the interest on private loans on good securities is now eight or nine per cent, and that several failures of rather a re- markable character have already occurred. Owing to the dead lock in Congress, four mil- lions of dollars are locked up in the Sub-Trea- sury—money which is drawn out of the market and put to no use whatever, but which ought to be applied to paying off the debts of the country, and put into circulation in a legiti- mate way. Judging from the state of affairs at Washington, the House is as far from being organized now as it ever was, and the proba- bility is that we shall witness a very serious financial revulsion during the spring, summer and fall—the result not of commercial disaster, but of political agitation. There are two causes for the present dead lock in Congress. The first is the obstinacy ot a new faction—the abolition republican party— in supporting tor Speaker a man tainted with anti-slavery abolition opinions in the most out- rageous fashion; and the other cause is the obstinacy of three old conservative parties in the House—the democrats, the South Ameri- cans (a remnant of the old whig party) and the anti-Lecomptonites—in refusing to unite upon some one national conservative man, which they could do in five minutes, and thus elect a Speaker and organize the House. They have a majority; but instead of combining it against the obnoxious anti-slavery candidate, and thus ending the disgraceful scene now being enacted in Congress, they prefer to be intluenced by mean, contemptible prejudices, to quarrel about old contests, and to indulge in petty, miserable jealousies, while the condi- tion of the country is approaching a fearful crisis, which no man can view calmly without alarm and sorrow. The South, alarmed at the recent assaults upon her rights—the John Brown raid, Helper’s book, and the language and action of the North. ern republican members in Congress—is pre- paring itself to form a separate coniederacy, and is driving out, tarring aud feathering, and otherwise exercising its indignation upon every abolition agitator found within its borders, while the abolition jeaders at the North, on the other band, are inflaming the public mind, fore- boding, threatening, a sanguinary war between the North and South. No oneneed be alarmed about that, however. There never will be a warfbetween the two sections, North and South If war comes it will be between the abolition ists and the conservative and commercial classes at the North itself; it will be a bloody internecine feud, a direfal civil war within our own borders—in New York, New England and the Central States—while the South wil) enjoy profound peace, because it will have sen: out all the dangerous abolition agitators, and there will remain but one harmonious element. Tn the event of such s frightful disaster as a civil war in the Northern States, we may expect to see such abolition fanatics as Garrison, Philips, Greeley and Theodore Parker buog up to the lamp posts by Lymch law, the victims of the passiens of a justlySncensed multitude, The Reign of Terror at Washington. It would appear, from the recent scenes in Congress, and especially the debate, and its concomitants in the House, oa Thursday, that the Reign of Terror has absolutely commenced at the national capital. The proceedings of the House opened acri- moniously. The republican candidate for Speaker, Mr. Sherman, took up very sharply Mr. Housten, of Alabama, and endeavored ap- parently to fix a personal quarrel upon him. Mr. Houston, however, disclaimed any per- sonal motive in bis resolution, which alluded to Mr. Sherman simply as one of the endorsers of the infamous Helper book. Succeeding this trouble came a personal issue between Mr. Horace F. Clark, of this city, and Mr. Joha B. Haskin, of Westchester, wherein the latter was snubbed by the former. Mr. Haskin took the floor to reply; many members rushed to the part of the Hall where he was stend- ing; disorder reigned supreme; the Clerk and other officers of the House in vain endea- vored to restrain the mob, and there were strong indications of a general row, when a pis- tol dropped from the breast of the honorable member for Westchester, and fell upon the floor of the House. The appearance of the carnal weapon shocked the House into com- parative decency. Apologies were profusely tendered on all sides, and, as we are told, the “House adjourned in good order.” The scene reminds one very forcibly of some of those which occurred during the French Reign of Terror; and it affords a striking in- stance of the rapid steps with which our coun- try is proceeding to anarchy and civil war. It must be a terrible state of things when a man of peace, like Mr. Haskin, dares not go from the Capitol to his house, or vice versa, without a revolver in his pocket. Mr. Haskin represents a pacific district. The county of Westchester is after the man- ner of the pastoral paradise sighed for by the classic poet. Its vernal fields and pleasant vales are dotted with the villas of metropolitan merchants and the farmhouses of well-to-do agriculturists. Here, Mars, Bellona and the Furies have no place. Here, Pomona, Ceres and Flora reign supreme. Here fiourish the household virtues. Here the lares and penates receive due homage. Here temperance, indus- try, religion and frugality thrive and grow apace. Mr. Haskin was well fitted to repre- sent this Arcadian district. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, in good standing and full communion ; each succeeding Sabbath found him at bis post as a class-leader. During the religious revivals, two years ago, the honorable member was a faith- ful and able co-worker in the faith, and, without doubt, brought many sinners to a realizing sense of their lost condition. He was connected, too, with the leading philanthropic movements of the day, was punctual in attend- ance upon the anniversary meetings, and worked bravely for the cause of temperance. A Christian, a patriot, a philanthropist and a philosopher, the selection of Mr. Haskin as the representative of Westchester seemed to the good people of that rural district in the light of one eminently fit to be made. But mark how evil communications with the black republicans have corrupted Mr. Haskin’s former good manners. He goes down to the House with a pistol in one pocket of his coat, and it is so easy to be drawn that it falls upon the floor. Perhaps he may have had a Bible in the other pocket, in order to carry out to the fullest extent the doctrine of the Beechers and Cheevers, who advocate the preaching of the Gospel and the sending of the Sharp’s rifle to every creature. Easy, saith the Latin poet, is the descent into hell, and for no one is the deflection so facile as for the saints. Here is the honorable member for Westchester quite ready to be received at the right hand to enter into communion with Peter and Paul, and all the souls of the just made perfect, when, in a single moment, he throws aside all his sanctity and assumes the weapons of a Texan border ruffien or a Five Points politi- cian. Probably he is not alone. Revolvers are evidently plenty upon the republican benches. No wonder that a member from Maryland said that the next time he came to the House he would bring his shot gun ; and as things are progressing we might reasonably expect to see the fire-eating members sporting their private howitzers, and enforcing their opinions upon the opposition at the cannon’s mouth. The excuse made by Mr. Haskin for carrying his pistol does not mend matters. If it be true that Congress cannot protect the lives of its own members while in its own territory—if it be true that the government has so far fallen into contempt that it cannot regulate the ten miles square which has been assigned for the capital—if it be true that the offscourings of the prisons and gambling hells all over the country have congregated at Washington to rob and plunder members and others, without molestation by the authorities—then hath the Reign of Terror commenced in good earnest. If Congress is powerless to regulate the Dis- trict, how shall its authority be regarded in the States and Territories? Of what avail is a government which cannot protect its own of- ficers? It would seem, then, that the Christian philo- sopber of Westchester had been eo far unset- tled by the teachings of his republican friends as to think himself justified in preparing for a resort to arms, He should, however, have re- membered the advice to Peter—He that taketh up the sword shall perish by the sword—and that is plainly the point to which all these dis- graceful scenes in and out of Congpess are tend- ing. And this state of things has all arisen from the absurd agitation of the slavery question, which was commenced in this city same thirty years ago, and of which the Journal of Commerce wasthe original organ. Then came the political agitation by the Van Buren democracy, Have- meyer, Fowler and Company, in 1848, and the black republicans, with Seward and Greeley, Wilson, the Helper book, the irrepressible con- flict, the Jobu Brown raid into Virginia, and so on till we find now that the representatives of the most peaceful and Puri- tanical districts in the North enter the halls of Congress armed to the teeth, and prepared to sully the Capitol with fraternal blood. It is not to be supposed for a moment that the Southern members will hesitate to follow the example pv by their opposents, and the pro- Dable result ia not avery satisfactory one for quiet contemplation. All this danger and disgrace and debasement to the country springs directly from the teach- ings of the black republicans, and the attempts of their leaders to bring on civil war and over- throw the Union, And to check this move- ment st once—to nip it immediately in the bud—it is the bounden duty of conservative men of all parties to rally and to unite in put- ting down the organization which trades in treason and grows fat upon schism and re bellion. Highhanded Interv of the French and English in Sante Domingo, Leniency towards the poor and the weak is a rare virtue of the rich and the powerful. It is even rarer among nations than individuals. Great Britain, for instance, was never known to exercise it. France rarely docs, although she makes loud boasts of her generous sympa- thies. We all know that the island of Hayti is divided politically into twoStates—the Spanish republic of Santo Domingo and the negro nondescript late empire of Soulouque. For some reason, said to be jealonsy of the influ- ence of the Uftited States, both England and France have always been “down” on the re- public of Santo Domingo. For many years they have omitted no opportunity to bully and brow-beat such of its various administrations as they imagined were infected with American sympathies. Sometimes it has been on one pre- text, sometimes on another. A few years ago they succeeded in establishing a tool of their own in the Presidency of the republic, Baez by name, whose administration was signalized by the most unscrupulous and mercenary policy, the details of which, so far as financial malfeas- ance is concerned, are presented in our Santo Domingo correspondence, received yesterday, and printed in another part of this day’s Hera, Among other acts which resulted in his summary expulsion from the country by an indigant and injured people, was his profligate tampering witb the currency, for his own bene- fit and that of his foreign coadjutors, the Con- suls of France, England and Spain. He flood- ed the country with an irredeemable paper cur- rency, under the force of a usurped govern- ment authority, using it without limit in his private speculations and purchases, and issuing it as fast as it could be turned out from presses kepi going night and day. Millions on millions of this worthless paper were worked off on an unwilling people, at constantly depre- ciating rates, until four thousand dollars in pa- per only equalled in value one in gold or silver, How much further this process might have gone on, it is impossible to say—probably until a silver dollar would have brought ten thousand in paper. But, as we have said, the people anticipated that result, by turn- ing the author of the mischief neck and heels out of power—packing him off to join Sovlouque in Jamaica. The foreign confederates of Baez exerted themselves to support their instrument, bat in vain. Their next step was to pick a quarrel with the government which succeeded him. They were not long without a pretext. The new government had to deal at once with the paper money question. Its redemption at par, even ifthe State had the revenues of Great Britain at command, was out of the question. Tt was necessary to fix some admissible value, which was done by law at the rate of 2,000 dol- lars of paper to one of coin—the highest rate at which it was circulating before Baez was driven out. To this the consuls objected, de- nied the right of the government to fix such a rate, and insisted on the redemption of the amounts held by themselves and their friends at rates about ten times higher than those at which they had taken them. This was de- clined; whereupon, in the hope of effecting a revolution, they struck their flags and went off in a body. In the month of December they all came back, supported by a joint French, English and Spanish squadron, and, it seems, insisted on the reboisting of their flags under a salute, on pain of abombardment of the capital. Of course President Santana had to submit. They next demanded that the paper money held by them- selves and their countrymen, Baez's partners, should be redeemed at the rate of five hundred to one, instead of two thousand to one, as fixed by law. As most of their paper was obtained at rates of from two thousand to four thousand to one, this was, apart from its morality, a handsome operation. But theirdemands do not appear to have stopped here. It is intimated that they will next attempt to force a union of Santo Domingo with Hayti, which result, as they well know, in view of established Ameri- can policy, would close the island forever to American influence. How this scheme will be carried out, or attempted to be carried out, remains to be seen. We doubt its feasibility; butit is one which the United States should watch closely, and, in case of danger, interpose energetically ‘to prevent. The possession of the dominating bay of Samana has long been an object of English and French ambi- tion. It cannot be secured from the repub- lic of Santo Domingo; but it would be easy of acquisition from the negroes of Hayti. Tar Lawrence Catastrorur.—It will be seen by the evidence taken before the Coroner's Jary, that the statements current as to the known insecurity of the Pemberton Mills, at the time oftheir first occupation, are fully borne out. Mr. Tuttle, the master mason, who put up the brick work, testifies that he told Mr. Bige- low, the contractor, when engaged on the work, that the walls were too weak for such a building, and that he subsequently informed Mr. Putnam, one of the owners, of the same fact. It was known, and had been repeatedly commented upon, that the building was entirely inadequate to sustain the weight of machinery necessary for the operations of the mill. The timbers of the flooring in the upper stories had so little support in the walls that brick projec- tions had to be built to sustainthem. The foundations were literally percolated with wa- ter, which could be heard gurgling thronch the stones. All these facts were known to the company. They were frequently notified of these uaequi- vocal forewarnings of disaster; yet no means seem to bave been taken to secure the build- ing, or M@f#en the machinery, while the usnal number of operatives were crowded into it, in utter disregard of the frightful risk to human life thus incurred. There never was an in- stance in this country of more cruel and crimi- nal trifliog with the lives of s mass of feillow- beings than was exhibited at the Pemberton Mills, and we hope that the conduct of the Company will receive that measure of punish- ment whioh it so woll deserves. The Coroner's investigation has already established facts enough to warrant an indictment for man- slaughter against the proprietors, and if the authorities of Lawrence fail to bring them to justice for this wholesale slaughter, they will be entitled to be regarded in the light of ae- complices in the crime. More Martyrs of Northern Incendiariam— The Beginning of tho Waa, The Northern incendiary prints are contina- ally publishing every act of violence at the South against anti-slavery emissuries, or these who are suspected of abolitionism, and they dress up and exaggerate those outrages with the view of exasperating the North against the South, but are unwittingly accomplishing a very different object. A day or two ago we re- printed from the Tribune—the leading organ of Northern incendiarism—a terrible account of the sufferings of an abolition martyr, or pseado martyr; and to-day we republish three articles from the incendiary journals—the Tribune, the Independent and the Bvening Post—giving an account of the maltreatment of another victim of the anti-slavery agitation—one James Power, an Irish stonecntter at Columbia, South Caro- lina, who admitted he was an abolitionist, and was rather free with his tongue about slavery, particularly when he was drunk. Under the excitement of the times he was treated to a coat of tar and feathers and sent back to New York, where he reported his case at the principal abolition shops in this city—the last refuges om earth to which he would resort if he had aay sense, for these incendiary establishments are the cause of his misfortunes. It appears from the New York correspondence of a Charlestom paper, which we publish elsewhere, that the exiles from the South, probably including Power, exhibit everywhere, as beggars hawk their sores, the weals on their persons and spots of tar, which they preserve as mementos of their imaginary martyrdom in the cause of freedom. In this connection we may refer to another case which recently occurred in the district of Wil- liamsburg, South Carolina, whence two North- ern teachers, named Hamilton and Dodd, were banished because they were suspected of aboli- tion incendiarism, owing to an unjust prejudice excited against them by the editor of a local paper, who bas been charged with persoual and vindictive motives. One of these men (Mr. Hamilton) is from Pennsyivania, and was em- ployed as a public teacher in the Williamsburg district two years ago. He was fond of writing letters to the newspapers, and sent one.to the Kingstree Star, which was not on the subject of slavery, but which Jed to a quarrel and a fight with the editor, who thereupon thought proper to denounce Hamilton as an emissary of the abolitionists. Some of the patrons of the school were family connections of the editor, and they withdrew their support. A meeting was called, and a vigilance committee were directed to call on Hamilton, and another teacher from the North, named Dodd, and warn them to leave in three days. This was in the latter part of November. Another meeting was held—a very excited one—when opposition was offered to the forcible ex- pulsion of these men, particularly by the slave- holders of the place, who believed them to be innocent. The result was @ compromise—that they chould be allowed to remain till their en- gagements were ended, in the latter end of De- cember, and then depart. Upon this state of facts the abolitionist jour- nals at the North invented a lying story that the slaveholders expelled the school teachers, and that the non-slaveholders resisted them, and that “to preserve for a time the peace of the district, and to avoid the horrors of civil war,” the abolition teachers were allowed to remain till their engagements were terminated. Now, the truth is just the reverse of this. It was the non-slaveholding white population who insisted on sending them away, on the ground that, “though nothing definite was known of their abolition or insurrectionary sentiments, they were from the North, and therefore necessarily imbued with doctrines hostile to Southern institu- tions.” Such is the fruit of Northern incendiar- ism and the endorsement of John Brown and Hinton Rowan Helper at the North. But who were the friends of the guiltless Hamilton and Dodd? The slavehoiders, who not only attended the meeting to defend them, but have since come out in a card in the Charleston papers to defend themselves against a charge of leniency to abolitionists. In this card they say that the whole population, to a man,were agreed about banishing abolitionists, and the only difference of opinion was as te whether Hamilton and Dodd really were aboli- tionists or not. The signers of the card-—H. D. Shaw, 8. J. Bradley, E. P. Bradley, J. A. Gor- don, D. E. Gordon, W. B. Gordon, J. W. Gor don, J. Watson, J. A. Salters, W. K. Lane aud J. C. Bradley—maintained that they were inno- cent, and therefore ought not to be driven away. So that the slaveholders in this district are more liberal to the North than are the other whites; and so it i& all over the Southerm tates. Helper and other incendiaries labor to show that the white non-slaveholding population of the South are on the verge of revolution against the planters, and would to-morrow join the Northern fanatics of the John Brown school, and such slaves as might conspire with them, for the overthrow of slavery by insurrection and civil war. These men contradict them- selves, inasmuch as the slaveholders are, or rather were in 1850, according to Heiper’s sta- tistics, only 847,525, whereas the rest of the white population amounted to 5,836,952—that is, the slaveholders numbered alittle more than a third of a million, while those who held no slaves numbered nearly six millions, or about seventeen to one. Any person can see at a glance that it would be impossible for the slaveholders to maintain for an hour the peca- liar institution of the South unless it had the sanction of the non slaveholding white popula- tion, who, with the negro population, count more than nine millions and a qnarter ( 454), or nearly Swenty-seven to one. The idea, therefore, of the non-slavebolding whites in the South being opposed to slavery is preposterous and absurd. But if this self-evident truth _wanis any confirmation, we have it im the unanimity of the white population who are not slaveholders in dealing with abolitionist emis- saries wherever they have found them, since the affair at Harper's Ferry, being, in fact, more pro-slavery than tbe planters themselves. The present effect of the Northern crusade gainst slavery i@ not to damage thy instita- tion, but tq injure the North—to deprive all ons D-