The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1860, Page 4

4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1860, NEW YORK ITERALD. JAMES GURDUYUN BENNETT, EDICOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE K. W. €0) U AND FULTON STS. hy marl sei” Se ab the TERMS, cach in wed as sunscription risk of the vender, “SiLE DAILY HERALD, fo per copy, WT per x anne (ALD durday, at sin cents THE WEEKLY Ubi. ot ote cont a F ca Apo Briain, «oh the teh and ith of ach onde at foe conte m any ler of a; Y used, will Bar Ok Fonmiox ieenoness ye HQUESTED TO BEAL ALL Lurreus awp Pace+ AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBIO'S GARDEN, Broalway.—Cooxe's Rovat Am- PHITHEATER. ad THEATRE, Bowery —Girsy Gowxu—Sraiovs ‘AMILY WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street— Oororoon. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—THHorsann to Ompsx—Evexysony’s Fxienp. LAURA KEENE’S THEATERS, 624 Broadway.—Jeanie Deans. 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We publish some very interesting extracts from our foreign files, containing full details of the news, of which an ample telegraphic summary appeared in the Heratp on Sunday morning. The latest intelligence from Lawrence in regard to the recent calamity, is given elsewhere in our columns. Mayor Saunders had issued a proclama- tion earnestly entreating that next Tuesday be ob- served asa day of humiliation and prayer, and re- commending that the inhabitanta abstain from all labor on that day. Services appropriate to the occasion were held in all the churches in Lawrence yesterday. * The Rev. Frank Remington, at the Baptist church in Christopher street,and the Rev. S. Remington, atthe chapel corner of Sixth avenue and Forty- first street, made the recent terrible catastrophe at Lawrence, Mass., the subject of their discourses yesterday. Both churches were attended by crowd- ed audiences, and the services were of a most im- pressive character. Reports of the sermons are given in our paper this morning. Several Dills passed by the Common Council last week, and sent to Mayor Wood for his approval, are published in our advertising columns this morn- ing. This is in accordance with the notice recently given by the Mayor that all bills passed by the Common Council requiring his approval would be published in full in the daily papera for five days before being acted upon. This will give all per- sons who are opposed to a measure an opportunity to be heard. Our special reports in regard to the polit#al ex. citement agitating the country, this morning, will be found interesting and instractive. Our reporter | in Massachusetts furniskes us with the sentiments of the people of that State on the John Brown raid, the Helper book, the present condition of public eflairs, &c., and presents a view of the negro as he is understood in New England. Ata Convention held in Troy on Saturday last Levi Smith and John B. Pierson were elected dele- gates to the Charleston Convention from that Con- gressional district. The leading hard shells par- ticipated in the proceedings. All the telegraphic lines south of Philadel- phia were borne down by the sleet yesterday, and consequently we are unable to furnish our readers with the usual despatches from Washing- ton. ‘The inclemency of the weather on Saturday tended to check movements in some branches of business. The sales of cotton embraced about 500 bales, closing quietly at un- changed prices. Flour was moderately dealt in, while holders were firm at previous quotations. Southern flour ‘was in fair request, with moderate sales at steady prices. Wheat was firm. The chief sale consistel of Chicago spring at $1 20. Corn was steady, with sales of and Southern yellow at 85c, a 90. Pork was dull, with sales of old mess at $16 12 a $16 25; new do, at $17.25, and prime at $11 56 a $11 60. Sugars were quiet, and sales confined to 400 hhds. Cuba muscovado at full prices. Coffee was quiet but steady. Freights wore stea:ly and engagemonts moderate. It appears that the total quantity of forcign sugars received direct into New York in 1859 amounted to 177,312 tons of 2,400 Ibs. each, of which 144,615 were from Cuba, 15,967 from Porto Rico, and 8,163 were from Brazil, making a total of slave grown of 168,745 tons, leay- ing only 8,507 received from all other countries; and 31,- 918 tons were received from Southern domestic ports, ‘taking the total imports of slave grown sugars into New ‘York in 1859 amount to 200,663 tons. A Precepent ror THe AvtHorittes or Law- RENCE.—The Coroner's jury now investigating the fearful slaughter at the Pemberton Mills in Lawrence have a responsible duty to perform, and the eyes of the whole country are upon them at this moment, expecting that this duty will be faithfully performed, even in the face of capital and wealth. Every city and town in the Union has a deep interest in the result of this investigation, and the public look anxions- ly to the Coroner's jury to render such a ver- dict as may make the constrnctors of buildings and the employers of large masses of opera- tives more cautious in recklessly exposing the lives of their fellow beings. In the town of Lawrence itself, as well as in other manufac. turing districts, there are nodoubt many build ings in as unsafe a condition as the Pemberton Mills; and a proper verdict, followed by prompt legal action on the part of the authorities, may have a salutary effect upon the proprietors thereof. Meantime we wil cite a precedent for the Lawrence jury: In the city of Belfast, in Ire- Jand,a large manufacturing town, a similar catastrophe occurred some time ago, though happily with a less fatal result in point of num- bers. A leading lawyer—Mr. John Rea—took up the cause of the poor families of the killed and wounded operatives, and laid the case be- fore the Grand Jury. The community laughed at the idea of a lawyer, single handed, attempt- ing to bring a righ corporation to justice; but he persevered, nevertheless, and the result was that the proprietors of the mill were not only indicted for manslaughter, but were convict- ed, and sentenced to transportation for life, Massachusetts venerates the laws of Great Britain; here is a precedent that the jury and authorities of Lawrence aight follow to some Good purpose, ] whe Vemal Regency at Albany, and the | The Congress of Paris andthe Seutaeaes of Charleston Convention, We copy into this morning's paper, a recent manifesto of the rotten and corrupt barnburaer Regency, through their organ at Albany, to the Charleston Convention. Its impudence and misstatements are worthy of the shameless traitors who sold a private and confidential let- ter from Governor Wise for twenty pieces of silver; and, from the geographical accuracy with which it classifies California as a Northern State, it may be presumed that the iaspirstion of its writer was derived from a source similar to that which led to snch important discoveries concerning the “elbows of the Mincio,” by the Hon. Jefferson Brick. The pith and substance of the manifesto is covertly to threaten that, unless Confidence Cassidy, Cagger & Co.'s packed gang of free soilers, are admitted, ox- clusively, as delegates to the Charleston Con- vention, they will sell outto Seward, orto “any other candidate of the ‘irrepressible conflict’ school.” It declares that the democracy of this State “will not be represented at all” at Charles- ton, if the Regency clique are not admit- ted; it intimates that the. State of New York is only “likely to cast her vote for the caa- didate of the Charleston Convention,” if, ‘in the preliminary consultations and arrange- ments,” these traffickers in honor and conscience are permitted to map out their future share of the spoils. It distinctly proclaims that the “great prize of the thirty- five electoral votes of New York” can only be obtained on the condition that the depraved and vicious Regency of Cagger and Cassidy “be allowed to manage their internal party organization in their own way.” Tf, after such a brazen-faced avowal of dis- honesty, the national delegates at Charleston permit the presence, in their midst, of a body of men, who, with some few exceptions, are mere free soil renegades, and whose honest in- gredients are simply fossil automatons, they | will be giving a virtual endorsement to politi- cal depravity in its most hideous nnkedneas. From the time when the great old Regency, which was composed of gentlemen, was stran- gled by the Wilmot Proviso anti-slaveryism of the Van Burens, in 1846 and 1847, the history of its successors has been growing worse and worse, from year to year. The election of General Taylor, through their perfidy, would seem to have stamped the characters of those who then betrayed the democratic party, with chronic, indelible infamy, and they have thought of nothing but patronage, plunder and spoilsever since. Not a glimmering of true patriotic feeling ever shines in upon their dark- ness. They trade with the past, present and future, and even with the names of such of their friends or allies as are held in more re- spect throughout the country. Antediluvian relics like Daniel S. Dickinson, or their sleek favorite, HoratioSeymour, are used like the two ends of a drum, to make a noise with, but are thrown aside when the end is achieved which these dirty political menials had in view. The real present leaders of the free soil Regency, had been engaged, most of them, previous to the Iscariotism of 1848, either in butchering character in a small way in the interior, or in shystering and railroad jobbing, until they were able to make their influence felt through the New York Central. They came into power, virtually, under poor Pierce, and were his wortby tools up to the time they broke to pieces, in his hands, at Cincinnati. They finally pitched on Cassidy, a scribbling ex-vender of bad veal, well acquainted with the language of the shambles, for whom they bought out the old Argus. Cassidy has gratified their tastes and pride in every respect, so that, lately, he and his brother-in-law, Cagger, have been entrusted with the greater part of the slate-making and roguery by which the democratic party are bamboozled and cheated. It is these political policy dealers who now threaten to play again the game of 1848, and to betray the democracy once more, if they are not recognized at Charleston. A large portion of the scurrilous Atlas and Argus document will be seen to consist of vulgar, mendacious abuse of the Henatp, which it ac. cuses of being the organ of Fernando Wood. In plain English, the Heratp refused to sup- port for the New York Mayoralty and the office of Corporation Counsel, two notorious free soilers of the Cagger tribe, like Havemeyer and Tilden. The fact is—and everybody knows it, this paper does not care one pin for either faction of the democracy. It cares equally lit- tle for the democratic party itself. It knows that all of its organizations are depraved and corrupt, and that the success of one or the other is only a choice of evils. The cliques in this State and city are as bad as they .can be, and both Mozart and Tammany Halls are infa- mously managed. The delegates chosen to Charleston by the Mozart people, appear, with two or three exceptions, to have been selected in as direct defiance of decency as those of the Cagger party itself. In the rural districts, their character will bear a closer examination; but, excepting as faras the district system it- self is concerned, not one word can be said in behalf of the representation to the National Convention from this metropolis. The truth is, that, if the Charleston Conven- tion did exactly right, they would refuse to re- ceive into their body any delegates whatever from New York, Why should they? New York has been the bane, curse and scourge of the democratic party for nearly fourteen years. Its history is identical with all of the evils that have befallen the democracy during that period. The wranglings and bickerings of its democratic leaders have, invariably, tended to react mischievously upon national politics, and they will continue to do so. The Wood delegation to Charleston is in many respects very ill-advisedly made up, and that of the Re- gency is so anti-national in its antecedents as to be deserving of no respect or notice. They go to the Convention to cheat somebody, and to drive the hardest possible bargain with who- ever they finally support. The difference of the price of the Wise-Donnelly letter would be sufficient to induce them to shovel Dickinson overboard in favor of Seymour, or vice versa, or to strangle them both for the benefit of somebody else. Let them all be sent home. The candidate of the Charleston Convention will, as a result of the tremendous reaction that is takiog place at the North in favor of national sentiments, inevitably be lected, and neither the threats nor the promises of the Aflas and Argus are of the slightest moment; nor can they prevent the, masses of voters in the State of New York from doing their duty, even if they were able to bargain away their | entire profligate faction to William H. Seward. Vienna=—Now and Then. The Congress of the representatives of the crowned heads of Europe, whieh is to arsemble at Paris on Thursday next, the 19h instant, is the most momentous ever held in the Old World. In apother part of this day’s paper will be found a highly inte- resting sketch of the plenipotentiaries and of the objects of the Congress, prepared for the Trnatp, This Congress is more important than that of Vienna, whose decrees it will an- nul; yet the principal Powers are nearly the same parties as before. The only difference is that a Napoleon will rule the councils of this Congress, whereas the former Congress assem- bed to overthrow the Napoleon dynasty for- ever. The former Congress was the expression of deepotism—this is the emanation of freedom. What vast progress, therefore, has Europe made in the principles of buman liberty during the last forty five years. The avowed object of the former Congress was to subvert the free- dom and independence of all nations who were not able to resist the will of the armed conspi- rators. The design of this is to establish the principle of independent nationalities and the right of the people to choose their own rulers, One result of the former Congress was to reestablish the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, overthrown by Napo- leon T.; a main object of this is to overthrow itagain in a different mode, accord- ing to tbe plan of Napoleon IIIf. The former Congress was founded on the ignorance of the people—the latter is based upon the advancing intelligence of the age. When attending the Congress of Laybach in 1821, whose edicts were a fuller developement of the obnoxious princi- ples of the Congress of Vienna, the Emperor of Austria, in a speech to the professors of a public seminary, said he did not want their pu- pils to know too much—he did not want learn- ed or scientific men, but obedient subjects. The world has outgrown this doctrine, aud Napo- leon II, recognizing the fact, proclaims the principle that the people can never know too much. The increased intercourse of Europe, particularly England, Germany and France, with the republic of the United States, during the last twenty years, has liberalized and es- tablished its statesmanship, and the emigrants from the Old World are so many political mis- sionaries, propagandists of freedom among the kindred of their native land. A wonderful change has come over the spirit of monarchy’s dream in Europe since 1815. Nor is the contrast between Europe now and then more remarkable in anything than in the changed position of England. Then, in the words of her own Napier, the author of the Peninsular war, she—the theory of whose gov- ernment is a limited monarchy, with Protestant ascendency in Church and State—fought in Spain for ‘an absolute king and an intolerant church;” and then she combined with the other Powers of Europe to strengthen and en- large the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, and to establish despotism on the ruins of the liberty and independence of the Italian peo- ple. Then, by armed intervention, she over- threw the rights of the French nation, by de- throning their lawful sovereign, Napoleon L— the choice of the people—and sending him into exile to Elba, while she forced upon them the hated Bourbons, of whom it was truly said by Bonaparte that “during their exile they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” After the restoration of the dynasty In the per- son of Louis XVIIL, Alexander of Russia gave him good advice. He said:—“The doctrine of di- vine right to the crown is now seen through, and repudiated by the people of France. You must obtain an election to the throne by the Senate, that you may be understood to reign by a new title, by a voluntary appeal to the people.” The Bourbon rejected the advice with scorn, and said that in placing him upon the throne the allied arms of Europe had “re- established a principle.” It was in such a spirit the French monarch began his reign; and when, in less than a year, the people had become sick of his tyranny, their beloved Em- peror, with-whom faith had been broken by the Allies and Louis, suddenly returned to France, astonishing all Europe as much as if an earthquake had happened; and when, with a Corporal’s guard, he marched through the heart of France to Paris, and not a finger was raised against him, and the Bourbon ‘led at the ap- proach of the true King, England again proceed- ed to deprive the people of France of their cho- sen sovereign, and sent him to an exile whence there was no.return, while she forced back an odious monarch upon them by an army of 650,000 men and fifty-eight ships of the line, at an expense of five hundred and fifty millions of dollars. All this was done in violation of the principles of the English revo- lution of 1688, by which the right of the people to choose their own kings and of the Parlia- ment to change the reigning dynasty was es- tablished. By that right alone George III. sat on the throne; and yet his agents, Wellington and Castlereagh, and the money of the peo- ple, were employed in asserting a contrary principle—a political aristocracy of sovereigns to swallow up the independence of the smaller Powers, and to parcel out kingdoms without regard either to their kings or the people. But they were afraid to openly avow this policy in England, and in Parliament the palpable false- hood was put forth that “they had no disposi- tion to interfere with the rights of the French nation in the choice of their own rulers.” All this is changed now. The edicts-of the Congress of Vienna have become waste paper. In the teeth of the royal conspirators Belgium bas established its independence, and sepa- rated itself from Holland, while, on the other hand, the kingdom of Poland has been annihi- lated by Russia, the independence of Cracow was extinguished by Austria in 1846, and Prus- sia and Austria, by the decree of the German Diet in 1832, established a complete dominion over the other German States. The French revolution of 1830, which dethroned Charles X., also get at naught the-treaty of Vienna, and still more did the French revolution of 1848, which resulted in restoring the Napole-~ on dynasty to France, and making it the strongest in Europe. It has not only stood for twelve years, but England now co-operates with it to undo all that has been left undone of the treaty of Vienna—to | confirm the expulsion of Austria from Italy by French arms, to restore liberty and indepen- dence to the Italian people, and to so curtail the temporal power of the Pope that it can no longer stand in the way of liberty, civilization and progress. The Pope, according to our latest intelligence BO 8 and wil! ‘not Sa a maasaneien to the Congress till the French Emperor has repu- diated the lute pampblet, which is evidently the work of bis inspiration, The Pontiff will pro- bably think better of it on cool reflection, For what can he do? Napoleon will not allow any other Power to interfere in Italy, and if he withdraws his troops, then even ‘the Eternal City” will not be left to Pius Ninth, but he will he driven from it as he was before in 1849. He owes his restoration to the will of France, and his throne rests on French bayonets, as his predecessor owed his restoration to the arms of the “schismatic” Powers—England, Pruesia and Russia. These Powers are changed in their opinion a8 to the policy of continuing the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, and will follow the lead of Napoleon. The Em- peror of Russia in particular will be glad to see the temporal empire of his Holiness re- duced to the parrowest dimensions, for the bead of the Greek Church wants no ecclesi- astical rival in Europe. The time is gone by when the Catholics of Europe will sustain the Pepe in any appeal to religious fanaticism. ‘They bave no longer any relish for fighting for despotiem, temporal or spiritual, and their motto henceforth is—“Render unto Cesar the things which are Cwear’s, and unto God the things which are God’s.” They want to see the altar divorced from the throne, and stand upon “the Rock of Ages,” on which it was built by the founder of the Christian religion. Thus it will become a greater power than the throne, whereas hitherto it has been made subservient to the throne, and the football of kings, The eyes of the people of all Europe are fixed upon this Congress. Upon it hangs the decision of a great principle, iavolving the liberties and the hopes of humanity. But the eyes of the American people ought also to be directed to Paris. They have a deep concern in the proceedings, not only as regards the progress of freedom, but in reference to their own interests. The question of the maritime rights of neutrals in war will be discussed and settled in the Congress, and it is important for our government to see that the settlement shall not prejudice American rights, and that no combination of crowned heads shall be formed against the commercial progress.of our great republic. Tae Cosservative ELEMENTIN THE Counrry— Tur Porviar Vore.—The black republican members of Congress are quaking in their shoes at the evidences of reaction among their own more immediate followers, and of the rising against them of the conservative feeling among the people; and while they are hoping that some of the fire-eaters from the South will commit some imprudent act that will alarm the moderate and conservative men of the North, they are doing all they can to keep up and stimulate the abolition sentiment in the repub- lican ranks. A sad blow to their hopes oc- curred in the dropping of the pistol of Has- kin, one of the freshly. recruited black repub- licans; for this goes to show that the ruffianly and bloodthirsty disposition exists on the part of the aggressive abolitionists. This hastens the reaction among the people, of which we have evidences on all sides. The reaction dates from the John Brown raid, which oc- curred on the 17th of October. In the early part of the November following elections oc- curred in five Northern States, and the results show a large addition of the conservative vote to the democratic side. Here are the figures:— COMPARATIVE VOTE OF THE STATES TAAT HAVE HELD ELECTIONS SINCE THE JOHN BROWN RAID. ——1858.—-— ——1859,-—— Dem. Rep. Dem. Rep. Massachusetts. 38,298 68,700 36,170 59,431 Michigan 56,067 65,201 53,681 65,916 New Yor) 230,513 247,953 252,594 251,126 New Jersey..-. 41,500 50{001 “51,738 53/367 Wisconsin ..... 55,243 61,356 59,516 63,500 Totals. «. 59 421,621 493,211 453,699 493,340 421,621 453,699 Republican majorities... 71,590 39,641 Decreased republican majority............. 31,949 The Jobn Brown raid had not yet had time to act upon the black republican ranks, but it produced an immediate effect on the conserva- tive vote, bringing out, in round numbers, 32,000 against the fanatics. Since that time the operation of the bloody designs of the black republicans upon their followers is strongly marked. Jn the commercial circles of this city the number of known and influential merchants and manufacturers that openly come out and abjure their former connection with the repub- licans is a subject of constant remark. This fact has brought Mr. Sherman, the black repub- lican candidate for Speaker, to the point ef abjuring his endorsement of the cutthroat teachings of Helper, on certain conditions. But Mr. Sherman, in making the demand for these conditions, destroys the very effect he hopes to produce by his purgation, for he shows that he does it as a compromise and A man convinced against his wil! Is of the same opinion still. Let the republicans continue to urge Sher- man for Speaker, let Haskin’s pistol drop once or twice more on the floor of Congress during a heated debate, and let Hickman talk a little more about conquering the South with a handful of men, and the whole conservative sentiment of the North will rise against the abolitionized republicans, and settle their fate forever as a party. Wirnprawat, oF THE Sovraern TravE From New York.—The recent panic among city merchants engaged in the Southern trade, and the remarks of the Herarp on the subject, have, as a matter of course, stirred up the black republican journals to the repetition of their old game—abusing the defendant's coun- sel and maligning us. The poets of the Post only have ventured to bring facts into the ar- gument. But, however fine these rhymers may be at versification, statistics are not in their way. Tey claim to have ascertained that the Southern custom has not fallen off from the principal hotels, and they back up this assertion with the state- ments of the hotel keepers, who certainly would not be liable to give their establishments a bad name. Nevertheless, it appears, by the Post’s own showing, that the business of two of the largest hotels has fallen off when com- pered with that of last year at this time. And if the factious and treasonable minority in Con- gress should succeed in their attempts to force John Sherman, who endorsed the infamous Helper book, into the Speaker’s chair, the wholesale merchants, retail traders and hotel keepers will find next summer many a good Southern customer’s name missing from their books. This is the truth, and itis idie to at- tempt to conceal or deny it. Already, in seve- ral of the Southern States, clabs have been es- from Earope, objects to the programme of Na- | tablished, the members of which pledge them- iia aceasta felves to buy nothing from the North. The proprietors of Southern watering places are Preparing for a good season, and have already Commenced issuing their circulars and adver- tisements. These are significant signs of the times; and if the agitation now going on is not speedily arrested, matters will grow worse, ia- stead of better. The people will fix the re- sponsibility where it belongs—-on the party of Seward, Sherman, Helper, Greeley and John Brown. ‘The Logic of Haskin’s Pistol on the Fioor of Congrosse—Debasement of Our Delibe- rative Assemblics. In the midst of the momentous discussion which is now going on all over the Uniom threatening to involve our beet and highest in- terests in civil conflict and ruin, the good sense of the country is startled and shocked by the sudden dropping of a pistol on the floor of the national House of Representatives, duriag a heated and angry debate. There is a redeeming point in this untoward event, in the fact that the sense of propriety of the members themselves, small as it is, was_ awakened by the gccurrence, and that it sub. Gued instead of aggravating the heat of the moment. Mr. Haskin, the republican member for Westchester, in the State of New York, who dropped the weapon, felt the incongruity of his position, and explained that he had not drawn it, but that it dropped by accident from his pocket. The apology may have been satis- factory to the House of which he is a member, but the country demands something more from Mr. Haskin, and from the republican party, of which he is a member. What did Mr. Haskin with a loaded pistol in a delibera- tive assembly, where representative men meet to discuss and decide upon our common affairs as a nation? Did he contemplate using the arguments of powder and lead to decide where the majority stood? Did he suppose that it would be necessary to exercise or resist intimidation? Is the republican party pre- pared to resort to violence and bloodshed on the floor of Congress as well as on the soil of the South? We know that Mr. Hickman vaunts bis willingness to march and conquer the South with a handful of republican abolitionists; but we took this for the vaporing boast of a foolish braggart who comprehended neither the posi- tion he occupied nor what is due to the body of which he is a member and the constituency he represents. These indications of a bloodthirsty disposi- tion, and a willingness to resort to violence, should awaken the country to the danger of entrusting their national representation to fanatics and roystering blackguards. When we compare the temper, logic and argumenta- tive ability displayed in the Congresses of other days with the brutal preparations which a Haskin and the swaggering bluster which a Hickman bring to the discussion of great na- tional questions, a blush of shame must tinge the cheek of every citizen of New York and Pennsylvania, which send these men as’ their representative statesmen. They are a stain upon the fair fame of their States, and a blot upon the institutions which place them in high position. The principle of self-government, which we claim as the proudest boast of this country, presupposes the gathering in the na- tional halls cf representative men with equal rights, who shall calmly deliberate upon the common interest,and be guided in their de- cisions by the wishes of a majority. Where fore, then, pistols falling from the pockets of Haskin in debate, and Hickman blustering of his prowess to march as a conqueror from this point to that? Does it mean that the republi- can party is determined to carry the brutal and bloody doctrines of Seward, the cutthroat teachings of Helper, and the fanatical ruffian- ism of John Brown, into Congress? When Brooks assaulted Sumner after the close of the session of the day, the black re- publican journals howled with simulated borror at tbe introduction of brute force into the Senate chamber, Where now is the maudlin indignation of the Tribune, the puffy ire of the Qburier, and the malicious apger of the Evening Post, when one of their own party is caught in the act of going armed into the assembly to enforce the doctrines they proclaim? They are silent now. No horrid phantoms flit before their vision at the sight of Haskin’s pistol. They have not even a word of reproach for the indecent discovery. These facts prove the hol- lJowness of the virtue they assume, and should carry conviction to every honest mind of the necessity of some other rebuke than that of partisan prints for these indications of a blood- thirsty spirit. They area part and parcel of the same disposition which is harrowed up and urged to aggression upon the South by the fa- natical abolition outpourings of Seward, Help- er, Greeley and John Brown, endorsed by the support of all the republican members of Con- gress of Sherman for Speaker. We commend to the calm consideration of the men ofsense in Haskin’s and Hickman’s districts the reproach which reflects upon them from the conduct of their representatives, : Tne Fvermve Stave Law axp Ovr Porice.— New York, which owes its great commercial Proeperity to its dealings with all sections of the Union, has always been remarkable for its conservatism and devotion to national princi- ples. It has never indulged in riot and blood- shed, like Boston and other cities, in opposition to the administration of the Fugitive Siave law, and a case has just occurred which shows that the laws of the land are respected and carried out in this metropolis. A negro who avowed himself a fugitive slave was taken into custody by a policeman and locked up until the federal authorities could investigate the case. Upon the matter being brought before the Metropo- litan Police Commissioners an attempt was made to pass a resolution denying the right of a policeman to arrest a fugitive slave; but the national conservative members of the commis- sion—Mayor Wood, Mayor Powell and Judge Ulshoeffer—properly conceiving that it is the duty of the police to arrest all fugitives from justice, successfully opposed the resolution. This fact will do almost as much as the elec- tion of Mayor Wood to assure the South that the city of New York is essentially national, and is determined to uphold the laws-and re- epectethe rights of all sections of the country. Tur Cost or CLEANING THE Srneers.—Al- though the condition of the streets at the present time is perfectly horrible, owing to the fact that the appropriation for street cleaning is ex- hausted and the work consequently suspended, yet, upon the whole, City Inspector Delavan has wept the city in @ far peter state thau way vt * paul egam on Tuesday at twetrs o'clock. |. John B. Pargon as his colleague. his predecessors, and, as appears from the Comptroller's secounts, without any extraordi- nary expenditure over previous years. The total cost of street cleaning for the three past years was:—For 1857, $296,099; for 1858, $298,- 303, and for 1859, $328,433, During the first six months of 1859 the expenditure was less than for the same periods im 1857 and ’58, re- « spectively, by $18,383 and $11,287, but during the last months of the past year the outlay showed an excess over that period in the twe other years, the result of which increase, how- ever, was manifested by a cleanly condition of the streets such as New York never had before. Tue Lawnence Massacre AGaIN.—As a general rule, the earlier accounts of extre- ordinary calamities over estimate the damage sustained to life and limb. The massacre at Lawrence, however, has been more disastrous than at first reported, as will be seon from the following tabular statement, which we re- print from the Heap of yesterday :— Dead. . Missing. Total dead. . Badly ‘wounded Slightly wound Total killed and wounded. In the meantime, the amount of the subsorip- tions for the relief of the sufferers swells dag by day, and the prospect is that the fund wilt be a very large one. We take occasion once more to refer to the leseon taught by the calamity above referred to, and to insist that the responsibility of it shall be put where it belongs—upon the wealthy Boston philanthropists, who, to save a quarter of a cent in the pound of iron, cause over five hundred persons, white slaves of the North, to be killed, maimed or wounded. And we say further, that the owners of mills now standing will do well to see to the safety of their operatives before they throw away any more of their heaven- born sympathy upan the black slaves of the South, or expend any more of their mo- ney to circulate Helper’s book, or to elect Sherman Speaker of the House, As we predicted, there have been foundsome journals in Massachusetts ready to apologise for the Lawrence manufacturers. One Boston newspaper, after pelting us at random with such epithets as “coldblooded,” “diabolical,” “malicious,” “Satanic,” &c., favors us with a sample of New England ethics such as we never could have dreamt of in our philosophy. Here it is:— ‘Tho simple answer to'the reckless and impotent mon- dacity and malice of the Hxnato is, that in this city the Of ten thousand dollars was raised in two days for a the relief of the unfortunate victims of the tastrophe. Really, this is very consoling. So logical, | too! The premises indisputable, and the con- clusion most obvious! Ten thousand dollars subscribed. on the spot! What right have two or three hundred widows and orphans to shed asingle tear? Ten thousand dollars should fall like the gentle dews of heaven on the poignan-" cy of their grief, make them forget at once their bitterest bereavement, convert their sighs and lamentations into hymns of praise and thanksgiving, and send them in a body to the nearest tabernacle, to pray for ten thousand - blessings on the heads of their benefactors! This philosopher thinks that our just indig- nation at the massacre has been caused by the feeble support which the Henraup has of late received in New England. The fact is that we have more readers in Massachusetts and Con- necticut than in any other two States of the Union outside of New York; and as the popa- ation of the Metropolitan Police district, where this journal is printed, is somewhat larger than that of Massachusetts, and as we are pretty well supported in the metropolis, it would not break our heart or ruin our business if we had no Eastern “support” whatever. Morx Moxey Wanrep ror tae Canats.—We give elsewhere an abstract of the report of the State Engineer which was sent in to the Legias” jature last Friday. The cost of completing the canals is estimated at over sixteen hundred thousand dollars, and the Legislature will pro- bably pass an act authorizing a loan to this amount, which act must be put to the popular vote. Our readers have already been informed that, for want of proper protection against rail- way competition, the canal receipts have fallen off aixteen millions of dollars during the last eight years. Add to this three millions borrowed to finish the canals, and two and a half millions of debt illegally contracted, and assumed by the people at the last election, and then put on the last feather of a million and a half, and we have ever twenty millions of dollars lost, stolen or squandered through the operations of the Albany lobby, as fine a set of thieves as can be found at Sing Sing or Auburn. The | game at Albany is to reduce the canal receipts to so low a point that they will become « charge on the State, and then buy them in for asong, and work them with the railways, when, we dare say, they will pay their way and some- thing over. We should not be surprised if this consummation were nearer at hand than aay one supposes. —— Non-errival of the Europa. | Sackvmnae, N. B., Jan. 15—10 P. M. As yet we have no intelligence of the steamship Europa, overdue at Halifax. The line there bas not, however, been in working order to-day. She could not baye arrived during last night or this morning, or we should have re- ceived her news by express. Democratic Congressional Convention. Troy, Jan. 14, 1860, ‘The Democratic Convention for this Congressional dis-| trict met in this city on Saturday, all the wards and near- ly every town being represented. The icading hard shells| participated in the proceedings. Levi Smith, eq , former Collector of this port under Hon. Greene C. Bronson, elected a delegate to the Charleston Convention, with Mr. Charles J. Wilbur Henry G. Van Valkenburgh, Esqrs., were chosen alter: nates. ets. Cotton easier, but quotations unchangel alc to da 500 bales. Corn 70c. a 75c: Whiskey 2c. Fre to Liverpool, in foreign ships, 9-1 Cotton—Sales sales of. week, 361400 Gwxerxxati, Jan. 4, 1360. Flour dull and w . Whiskey firm at Wye. WAC. a sales 1 at $5 Wa $6 40; receipt! ay Af 1 aoege pruees less -buoyant: mess pork Sight ex: on New York, 3/ per cent premium SiS exchang ‘% per cangennan tor gold. —<—<——_____ ‘ Naval Intelligence. The United States steamer Iroquois sailed on Sa! morning from the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the Medi inean. . While proceeding down the bay, broke the emp, in cnasequerce of ine haing in the pips. She