The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1860, Page 4

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The America reached Halifax yesterday with European news dated at Cork on the 15th ult., two @ays later than that by the City of Manchester at Bt. Johns, N. F. The fonds were firm in London on the 14th ult. at the closing quotations reported by the City of Manchester. French Rentes bad sensibly dechined. In Liverpool cotton was depressed; floar was wery dail, and all qualities slightly lower. Hopes were entertained that the European Con- Breas would really assemble. England could not Pledge herself to the non intervention plan in the Sffairs of Italy proposed by Napoleon, Parliament Rot being in session; sv it was supposed the mat- ter would be reserved for a general diplomatic dis- cussion. Serions agitation still prevailed on the Continent with respect to the Pope's temporalities, and sdditional clerical pastorals had added to tue excitement. Cardinal Antonelli’s resignation is not confirmed. It was said that the Pope woald furrender the Romagna under certain conditions of guarantee for his other territory. The policy of Austria indicated a chance of an- \ other Italian war. The Loudon journals commented on thé financial affairs of the United States and our relations to- | ‘wards Mexico. | Advices from China state that the people of that | Country were making active preparations for a re- newal of the war with England and France. Trade was improving rapidly in Japan. The Great Eastern Steamship Company had not arrived at any solution of their difficulties. ‘The steamship John Bell had broken her ahaft -and put back to the Clyde. We have files from Bermnda to the 18thult. The ‘weather was exceedingly fine, and the people ex. perienced all the mildness and warmth of the mmonth.of May. The British ship Indus, bearing the fig of Bir Houston Stewart, arrived on the 15th from Holifax. Lady Stewart and Mrs. Arthur Jones arrived in the ship. The steamer Gladiator @trived sametime. The transport ship Sir John Lawrence, from England, with three hundred con- victs on board, had also arrived. The news from Washington this morning is inte- feasting. The republicans are busily parcelling out the spoils of their victory. They held a cancus { yesterday and discussed the merits of the varions | Candidetes for the subordinate offices of the House. | Though no formal dectaration of preference was made, it was pretty well understood that Mr. For- ney would be the candidate for Clerk, and Mr. Hoffman, of Maryland, the candidate for Sergeant- at-Arms. The other offices and the printing will Mo donbt be awarded to-day. The House was not in session yesterday. In the Senate notice was given of a bill providing for a railroad and telegraph to the Pacific. A bill was introduced appropriating a million acres of land for the support of schools in the District of Colam- bia. A resolution of inquiry whether the appro- priation for a new Post Office at New York is in force, and if farther legislation on the subject is ne- cessary, was adopted. Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, introduced a serics of resolutions embracing ‘the slavery and Territorial, and ali the other politi- cal qnestions that have agitated the country for the past ten years. The remainder of the session was devoted to discussing the aforesaid questions, Mesers. Fitch and Douglas taking part in the de- Date. The Senate yesterday confirmed a number of appointments, among them that of Francis J.Grund #> Consul! at Havre. A number of important subjects engared the at- fention of the Legislature yesterday, but we have nly room to refer our readers to our despatches find reports for particulars. Stephens and Hazlett, the remaining partici pastors in Old John Brown's Harper's Ferry foray, ere yesterday indicted by the Grand Jury of Jef. Jerson county, Virginix, for murder, treason and Conspiracy with slaves to create rebellion, The frial of Stephens, will be commenced to-day, @harlestown, where the trials are to take place, gras thronged with visiters yesterday to witness the of the court. ‘Thé annexed table shows the temperatare of the atinosphere in this city daring the weck ending @anvary 28, the range of the barometer and ther- gmomoter, the variation of wind currents and the Btate of the weather, at three periods during each Gay, vis: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— ess notices will be found a state. | Meni of Mr iictace i, Day, in regard to the dis pated thi to the elastic vulcanized rmbyer goods, We repeat what we said yesterday: the public: are | wearied with this interminsble coutroversy. Why do not Day and the other parties settle this quea- tion between themselves, and cease to vex inuo- cent purchasers and the public with their gtate- mhents, replies, rejoinders and replications? A terib'e disaster oconrred last night ia Fim street. A fire broke out in a tenement house, and it is cotimated that between. twenty-five and thirty lives we € lost. A full account of the affair will be found in another column, A steam boiler connected with the distillery of Forman & Polley, in Williamsburg, exploded yer terdwy forenoon with tremendous violence, billing George Bel) and Thomas Shannon, and injuring two others, A full account of the catastrophe is given in another colomn. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday the Mayor's * nominations of Gideon J. Tucker for President of the Croton Water Beard, and Dr. Bradford for Health Officer, were taken up. A motion to con. firm the nomination of Mr. Tucker was lost by 4 vote of six in favor to ten against the motion, A motion to refer the nomination of Dr. Bradford toa conmittee was lost by a vote of nine to seven. Tho Ony Inepector’s nominations of D, H. Coles and B, 3. Chapple, ag Health Wardens of the Eighteenth and Twenty-first wards respectively, were con- fiymed. A communicatios from the Comptroller shows that the receipts of the Sixth Avenue Railroad for the year 1869 were $342,483 56, and of the Kighth Avenue, $352,266 21. At the regular meeting of che Chamber of Com- merce, held yesterday, a number of interesting ects were under discussion, We give a full re- port elsewhere. A remoustrance against the pas- ssge of the Pro Rata Railroad Freight bill, now before the Legislature, was read and unanimously adopted. The cuit brought by Mr. J. O'Donnell against the Roard of Ednestion for payment of salary asa teacher in one of the public schools, in which was involved the question of reading the Scriptures fo the public schools, was decided yesterday by Judge Leovard, in the Snpreme Court, in favor of Mr. O'Deuvell. A report of the case is given in another column. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday the jury in the case of Mortimer Shay, tried for the murder of John Leary, rendered a verdict of guilty against the prisoner. The trial of Willard P. May- nard, cNarged with the manslaughter of John W. Zilken, was commenced, and adjourned till this morning. Before the adjournment of the Court, Judge Ingraham sentenced Joues ond Farrell, con- victed of killing an unknown man on the Five Points—the former to three years and six months, and the latter to two years and six months im- prisonment. Crowley, who pleaded guilty to a murderous assault upon Lovejoy, was sentenced to two years and three months imprisonment. Don- nelly, convicted of the manslaughter of Cobane, was sentenced to hard labor for three years and six months. Frank F. Fowler, convicted of swindling & poor emigrant, by selling him a spurious passage ticket, was sentenced to two years aud six months hard labor in the State prison. It isto be hoped that this sentence will have a salatary eflect on this class of swindlers. The Board of Councilmen did not meet last even- } ing; so that the next session will be held on Monday. ‘The cotton market yesterday was quiet and closed with atendency to easier rates. The transactions embraced 1,000 bales, closing on the basis of about 2liye. a ll tic. for middling uplands. The flour market was more activs, and the lower grades of State and Western advanced about 6c. and in some cases 1c. per bul. Southern flour wag algo in better demand and firmer for the inside brands. Wheat was in better request and prices rather firmer, while sales wero moderate. Corn was firm and sales made toa fair extent. Jorsey and Southern yellow sold at 80c, a 81c., and Southern white at 80c. The pork market was firmer, with a speculative inquiry. Sales of new mees were made at $15 12a $18 25, asd uninspected do. at $15, with a sale of mess deliverable in March, sell- evs’ option, at $18 60. Beef was in steady demand et on- changed prices. Lard was firmer, with sales at 10%(c. a llc. Sugars wore quiet and sales trifling, within the pre- vious range of prices. Coffee was quiet, awaiting the auc- tion sale. 300 bags Laguayra sold ab 18c., and 76 bags Bio at 11Xc. Freights were firm and engagements to English ports wore fair. Included in the shipments were 1,000 bbls. four to Liverpool at 2s,, with provisions at ull rates. The Chariceton Cony cution=Movements im Favor of Poor Pierce. We learn from reliable sources at Washing- j ton and elsewhere, that among the other move- ments of the democratic politicians is one in favor of poor Pierce. The plan to be pur- sued at Charleston is not dissimilar to that which succecded at Baltimore in 1852. It is expected that, owing to the multiplicity of can- didates at Charleston, the Convention will be so far divided that a union upon any one man whose name is introduced at an early stage of the proceedings will be out of the question. It is hoped, then, that Pierce’s friends can manage to obtain some support from the disap- pointed Southern candidates, and, with the aid of his Northern and Eastern adherents, to give him the nomination. This plan rests chiefly upon the multiplicity of Southern candidates in Mississippi and elsewhere, who are expected to eat each other up. The same politicians who engineered poor Pierce at Baltimore are now at work for him, and will muster in fall force at Charleston, Whether they will find the material of 1852 in 1860, or whether that material, if found, will be as pliable as before, remains to be seen. The wires, however, are working vigorously. In the meantime, the real leaders of the democratic party are casting avout in much anxiety and distress of mind for a proper stan- dard bearer. As many as fifleen or twenty capable men ate named; but none of them seems strong enough to command success. - It has been generally acknowledged that the can- didate, whoever be may be, ovg14 properly to. be taken from the Central or the Western States, and Messrs. Buchanan and Douglas have been looked upon as the only candidates who could command the support of the conserva. tive, patriotic, Union loving voters of the North. Mr. Douglas, however, does not stand 80 well with the South asto make’ his nomina- tion safe. Mr. Buchanan would be the best man; but it is understood that, notwithstanding his undeniable strength, and the illustrious pro- cedents which can be quoted to sustain him should he permit his name to be used as a can- didate for a second term, he positively declines te do so, and must, therefore, for the present, at any rate, be considered as out of the field. This positive refusal on the part of Mr. Bu- chanan leaves the Central and Western States without a commanding candidate. Looking toward the South, we find no man so strong as Senator Hunter, of Virginia. He ig a sound conservative, national man, and would com- mand more strength at the North than any other Soutbern statesman who is prominently before the country in connection with the Pre- sideacy. Mr. Hunter, in his recent Senatorial speech, has placed his opinions, upon the condition of parties and the state of the conntry, upon record, and before This lime they have been scaftered broadcast over the land, from the forests of Maine to the baycus of Touigiame. Mr. Ianter’s platform is | Proper way the odious theories of Seward a strong, resible, glewbeaded like view of fhe case: He i wot a fire eater a dicunionist, but in a eevere Helper. He takes « hopeful and cheerfut vi of things, acd, altogether, .his speech is the soundest and most sensible that we have heard recently from any member of his party. The democracy could go to: the country upon Mr. Hunter's speech-aione, and win. Of course, the other Sezators, rivals ef Hanter, will hasten to put ibemselves on the record, and their atti- tudes may change the aspect of aTuirs at Charleston. But as things stand vow, if agood man cannot be had from the Northern or great Central States, Mr. Hunter stands nmong the strongest, if not the very strongest man for the Charleston nomination. “—Probabie Mect- and Cont ante The News from KE Jog of the Cony of Peace. The steamship America, at Halifax, brings two days later ews from Europe, the tenor of which indicates that the difficulties in the way of the meeting of the European Congress are gradually meliing away, aud that this body is likely to come together to diseuss the question whether Ausiria and the Pope shall coutiaue to vex the peace of Enrope. : It is offirmed that the recent mission to Lon- don of Lord Cowley, the British Ambassadorat Paris, was for the purpose of proposing to Eng- | land a joint declaration with France that any in- fraction of the principle of non-intervention in Central Italy should be held as a casus belli: to which the British Cabinet demurred, ou the ground that it might involve the country in hostilities without the consent of Parliament. Whatever truth there may be in this report there is good ground for believing that the entento cordiale between these two Powers is much more active than it has been for some time past, and that Louis Napoleon is proceed: ing avith his customary tact and vigor. Care fully watching the course of events, he is sparing of his blows, bat severely direct when he strikes them. As each is given, he coatem- plates for a while its effect, and then sets his agents vigorously at work to increase or coun- teract its workings, as they may -be favorable or adverse to his desires. Such seem to be the present movements on the political board of Europe. When the pamphlet’ on “The Pope and the Congress” was published,» feeling of alarm took possession of the crowned heads of En- rope, and the Congress seemed to be put en- tirely out of the question. Several of them protested egainst it. Cardinal Antonelli re- fused to go into the Congress until it was dis- avowed, and Count Walewski stated that the policy it advocated should not animate the Foreign Office of France as long as he remained at the head of it. Yet the pamphlet has not Leen disavowed, Count Walewski has ceased to be the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. and pow it is stated that the Pope is willing to give np the Romagna provided the rest of his dominions are secured to him. In the mean-, while the diplomatic agents of France, and no doubt of England too, have been actively at work to sustain and strengthen the policy of the semi-imperial pamphlet. To add to the ef- fect, a new commerctal treaty between France and England is concluded, and the friendly un- derstanding between those two Powers sud- deny assumes its past appearance of intimate union. " The Pope has destroyed his own cause, and vastly strengthened that of his antagonists, by the preposterous character of his demands Since the first Napoleon was driven from Italy, the Pope has really had little or no power in the Legations. The Austrian officers and gar- risons have governed there, under instructions from Vienna, till Louis Napoleon drove them out last year. And oven in Rome the Pope has for the last ten years been sustained bya French garrison, ia whose hands he is virtually prisoner. His refusal, therefore, to give up what he has not possessed for nearly two generations, and his demand to be guaran- teed in what he really does not hold, strike the whole world as preposterous, and exhibit the Napoleonic policy in a most favorable light. To these causes must be added the bad faith of Austria in attempting to fill Rome with Austrian troops in Papal uniforms, and thus to precipitate the revolutionary conflict which all Europe fears and dreads. These views, pushed by the agents of Napoleon, and strengthened by the friendly feeling between him and the Bri- tish Cabinet, are rapidly gaining ground, and the Congress is now looked upon as feasible. Before mapy months have passed away it will be manifest that the true sovereignty of Rome, which the celebrated pamphlet tenders to the Pope, is really an increase of his power, and a placing of the Papacy in an independent posi tion, which it has not accupied for a long time. This is a feasible result for the Con- gress. The news indicating its probable meet- ing, therefore, indicates a probable continuance of the peace of Europe, in spite of the Pope and the headstrong Emperor of Austria. Oneaniation OF A Union Party—Mrerinc iy Pawave.rsts.—A call appears in the Phila- delphia papers for a mass mecting in that city, to take place to-morrow evening, for the pur- pote of organizing a ‘Constitutional Union Party,” whose object is declared to be “the preservation of the Union, the protection of the constitutional rights of the States, and the sup- pression of sectionalism.” We are informed that itis signed by a large number of promi- nent citizens of Philadelphia, and among the speakers announced are Mr. Crittenden and Mr. Everett. ‘This is the first distinctive Union movement ofa practical kind, arising out of the anti-sla- very agitation, announcing principles and ob- jects, and originating an organization to carry them into effect. What the complexion of this party is to be, what strength it will muster, or what influence it will have on coming political events, we are not yet prepared to say. No doubt there are mapy in the Norihern States who are not affiliated with either of the leadiog parties of the country—the democrats and the republicans—and they may form a third party. Bot whether they can get up an exciting issue or ralJy sufficient numbers for success in the presence of the “irrepreseib). conflict” be- tween the two parties which we have named, and whose lines are every day more strongly defined, fs extremely doubtful. These two parties are by degrees drawing into their respective rankg uearly all the neutral and moderate elements of the body politic. A new Union party wil! probably absorb a considerable portion of the “no party” population. But in what direction it will cut, and which of the two great existing parties it will most affect, depegd upon A Character, of which’ ns yet'we know’ tittle or nothiog. If it Le of the gennice Union stamp, and pot asham, it will affect the democratic party more thon the republican, inasmuch as it will draw off most votes from the democracy, It can hardly hope to be succeseful as an inde- pendent party; but it may operate indirectly as a balauce of power, by taking off 50 many votes from one of the two parties now engaged in mortal combat as may give a decisive victory to its antagonist. In this point of view the new movement may turn out to be one of great practical importance. The Self-Setthement of Italy—The Latiscz Fatre Policy of Louis Napoleon, In the advices brought by the City of Man- chester we notice a ramor that the European Congress was to meet.on the 15th of this month, We do not attach any value to the report. Without a formal disavowal of the views put forth in the Laguerroniere pamphlet it is not possible for Austria and the Pope to send rep- resentatives to that body. That there is no dispostion on the part of the French Emperor to recede from the principles laid down in that brochure is manifest from the resignation of Count Walewski. Compromised as was the latter by his declarations in favor of the main | tevance of the Pope’s temporal authority, his longer continuance in the French Cabinet be-” } came glaringly incompatible with the Imperial programme. The world was, therefore, right in concluding that his retirement was a death blow toany hopes that the partisans of Rome and Austria might have entertained from the moderation of the Congress, and was, in fact, an insnperable obstacle to the assembling of that body at all. It is now clear that Louis Napoleon only made use of this proposition of a convention of the Enropean Powers in order to sound more effectually the views of the latter on the two points which constituted the main embarresements of the Italian ques- tion, Having gained the adhesion of England and the qualified assent of the Northern Powers to the general details of his plan, be has cast upon Austria and Rome the responsibility of rejecting a. diplomatic ar- rargement of these difficulties. If they refuse to go into a Congress, upon them, and not upon him, will rest the responsibility of the failure of the stipniations of the treaty of Villafranca, and of such events as their obstinacy may pro- voke. What simpler or more practical solu tion of these complications: can be presented? The French Emperor re-enters within the policy of non-intervention, at the same time declaring to Austria that she must also adhere to it. The people of Central Italy and the Romagna desire no better consummation of their aspirations than this. It enables them to settle at once their accounts with te expelled dynasties and the Pontifical government, and even to furnish aid to their compatriots in Naples, should events call for their assistance, That the Pope is at last convinced his case is hopeless, in a diplomatic point of view, may be assumed from the resignation of Cardinal Antonelli. Were a Congress called upon to decide on the fate of the Pontificate as a poli- tical institution, he undoubtedly could have no more valuable or efficient representative. An- tonelli is a man of great ability, great force of character and astuteness. That he should Tetire at the present difficult conjanc- ture of affairs is proof at once that the Congress is no longer possible, and that the Pontiff is persuaded that the question will have to be settled directly with his own sub- jects. Of course, in such an event, the reten- tion of a man so detested and so universally unpopular would be a fatal mistake. The Holy Father is no longer in a condition to gratify his inclinations at the expense of his interests, and he therefore wisely lets Anto- helli go by the board. Whether the Pontiff will get better terms from his people than the programme of the Imperial pamphlet accorded him, is very doubtful. We believe that settlement was the most liberal, the most consonant to the inte- rests and dignity of the Papacy, and the most satisfactory to the Catholic world, that could have been proposed. It is not likely that, hav- ing themselves the decision of the question, the people of Rome will accept the condition of political mutism and isolation to whichthe Im- perial plan consigned them. Neither is it pro- bable that the people of the Romagna will modi- fy the solemn vote at which their representa- tives arrived in September Jast, and which pro- nounced the complete pMlitical destruction of the Pope. Never was the sense of a people more fully or fairly expressed than on that occasion. The basis of representa- tion in the assembly was as one to eight thousand of the population—the vote was taken by ballot, and out of 124 members 121 took partin it, That all classes of the population were fally represented is evidenced by the following classification of the dele- gates:—2 princes, 7 marquises, 28 counts, 3 chevaliers, 4 officers, 14 professors and scienti- fic men, 9 judges, 24 advocates and doctors in law, 10 doctors in medicine, and 23 landed proprietors, merchants and men in business. Thus it-will be scen the rank, the wealth, the intellect and the landed and commercial infilnence of the provinces all concurred ia de- claring “the cessation of the temporal govern- ment of the Pope, and their firm resolution never again to accept it.” In the face of such a declaration we do not see that the Pontiff has more to hope from the generosity of his quondam subjects than he would have gained from the acceptance of the Imperial project. On the contrary, he seems likely to lore the Eternal City, which, in its prestige and the veneration attaching ‘to its traditions, is worth to the Papacy all its other As to Austria, she makes an equally fatal blunder in resisting an arbitra- tion ® congress on the points in dispute. of having s neutral prince placed on the throne of Central Italy, as would proba- bly have been the cate, she will have the mor- tification of seeing Sardinia aggrandized and fortified by the annexation of the rich pro- vinces composing it. Not only will she be cut off from all chance of regaining by force any portion of what she has lost by the late campaign, but her despotic will be constantly brought {a coltteion with the constitutions’ in- stitutions of Italy, to the great peril of the’ in. tegrity of her vast but incohesive empire. France will make her profit out of these eveats by the restora(‘on io herof Savoy in exchange for her consent to the declared wishes of the Duchies and the Romagna in regard to their aunexation to Piedmont. The only losers by PeiimARY oo. ne [ injustice, oppression aod fratid, baye Seen pushed beyond the bounds of endurance, and rsudered inconsistent with the future safety and trasquillity of Europe. Werpent, Pairs axp His Govs.—In his lecture on Toussaint L’Ouverture, of St. Do- tmingo, delivered at the Cooper Institute, and publithed on Weduesday in this journal, Wen- deli Phillips, whe bad previously canonized the cutthroat and horsethief Johu Brown, a white map, exalting him above Washington and every other historical hero in the world, sels up as superior even to him apother god, a black deity, for the idalatrous worship of the republican party. He compares with him Cromwell, Napoleon L., Napoleon IIL, Alexan- der of Russia and Sir Robert Peel, and gives him the palm as a warrior and statesman above them all. He says that Phocion of the Greeks, Brutus of the Romans, Hampden of Englaod, Lafayette of France, and Washington of Ame- rica, may be regarded as the greatest historical men of those countries till John Brown arose; but even he, white man as he is, is eclipsed by the black, “whose name some future Tacitus, dipping his pen in the eantight; will write high on the clear blue above them all—the patriot, | soldier, statesman and’ martyr —Tuuasaiat L’Ouverture.”” Could the force of fanaticism further go? No one need wonder that the Heratp is called an abolition paper by Phillips and the other fanatics whore mental vision is so disordered that they confound every distinction in politics, in morals and religion. For instance, this apostle of abolition places on the same level with the French patriot, Lafayette, the bloody demons incarnate, Danton and Robespierre; and the whole drift and scope of his tecture is to show the blatk race to be superior to the Anglo-Saxon white race, and to every other on earth, Now what did the black hero, with: his myrmidons, effect? Upon the showing of Phillips himself, absolutely nothing that many Indian savage chiefs have not accomplished for a time against the white man—bratal massacre by superior numbers. Aud this bloodiest and darkest deed in the page of bistory was the resnit of emancipa tion. The French revolutionists, in their wild excess, set the negroes of St. Domingo free. Soon did France retrace her steps; but it was too late—the ferocious passions of the black race were let loose, and horrors took place which have no parallel in the annals of man- kind, Those who want to read the fearful de- tails may consult the English historian Allison who is no friend of the French nation. And this tragedy, with all its accompanying atroci- ties, which Mr. Phillips so conveniently glozes over, is what the abolitionists hoped to see acted again by John Brown in the Southern States, and what they still desire to see per formed under the auspices of some other san- guinary leader. But what did Toussaint, after poisoning the wells out of which the white men were to drink, and other barbarities too revolting to describe, effect for himself or his race? Nothing. Phillips insists that this savage chief, who wee above the average intelligence of his sable biethren, had no white blood in his veins. Iovw*does Phillipsknow? The man was bornasiave in St. Domingo, under the dominion of the French, and, for all thatany one can tell, his father may have been a white man. But he achieved nothing. He soon found the negroes wonld not work, and that free- dom was unsuited to them. He recalled their banfshed white masters, and sent all the free black laborers back into\the planta- tions to slavery. As for himself, he was car- ried into exile, wherehedied. The final result now is that the negroes of the island have changed their humane white masters for cruel black ones, and private servitude fora mili- tary despotism. Disorder, revolution. and civil war are their normal conditiom. Next to Cuba it is the best and fiuest of the West India Islands. In the bands of the French itsexports were great. In the hands of the black go- vernment everything has fallon into decay. Under the comparatively vigorous Boyer, in 1822, the government may be regarded asin its most prosperous state since the era of abc- lition. Let us compare the exports of that period. with those of the time when the blacks had white masters:— < ‘s. 6,286,126 4 Look on this picture and on that. After such results, to worship, Toussaint as a hero and statesman superior to Washington is not more rational than to worship the bull of the ancient Egyptians as a deity superior to Christ. Tur Boormaxers or New Exct.ayo—Waere THE Suox Prxcues.—In sending out our Special Reporters, some weeks since, to give us accurate and reliable information as to the state of pub- lic opinion and of the country in the present time of excited feeling; we did not neglect our Yankee cousins. We sent into New England a gentleman well qualified to perform the duty with which he was charged, and who was every where received by the manufacturers and mer- chants with cordiality, and furnished with all the information he desired. That information we used trathfally, and with a due regard to the comity of social intercourse, and not a sin- gle complaint has been made by the parties in- terested. But some of the mean and shuffling Yankee papers, envious of our enterprise, and fedlous of our energy and success in making a good newspaper, are giving vent to their bile in such paragraphs as the following, which we cut from the Boston Jowrnal:— ‘The New York Heratp basa spy travolling among tho the manufactui ing tow os in Massacbusetts, whose businses it seems to be to denounce Southern merchants who make their purchases of republicans. If there is a creature meaner (han such a pip, itis his employer. Should the fellow be discovered, he may have an opportunity to wet poe sinaath of New England made boots, propelled by ic gs. These blind guides, who are endeavoring to lead the industrious masses of the New Eag- land people into an “irrepressible conflict” with their best customers, hate the truth as heartily as the devil bates holy water; and they are not at all pleased that we should epen the eyes of the boot and shoe makers of the manufacturing towns of Massachusetts to the plain state of their own case. So thoy talk ina style that not long since they them- selves were loud in proclaiming as belonging only to the Southern abolitionist hunters, while they asserted that any one could come among them and publish wh»tever arga- ments he might choose 7! litionist ire is of a piece with the wra' dehased descendants of the chivaliy of Viiginia, both being wraihy at being shown vp in their trae 7 te ‘discover the truth ia re- gard to thetr’ fanatical “fenders, and? that these teel where the abelition shoe pinches. Tux New Srxaxex axp His Pouicy,—It was generally believed that the intention. of the repubticans in Congress, in the event of Sher- man’s election, was to appoint strong partisan apti-administration committees, which would, in fact, partake of the character of inv. committees, charged with the duty of scrutimtz- ing all the affairs of the administratton for the last three years. The object of thiv course was 10 change the issue in the approaching Presi- dential contest which has been precipitated upon the republican partynameby, tirat of the abolition of slavery in the Sonth—to the issue of maladministration by the party now im power. It remains to be seen whether Mr- Pennington, who is a moderate man, will onery out this intention, or whether he will appoint committees of a fair and impartial character. ‘There is no doubt that he will be urged by. the friends who supported bim to organize com- mittees of a strong partisan nature, with o view to carry out this in pro- gramme— committees like those appointed to investigate the Fort Snelling and Willett’s Point cases, or the public printing business, or the navy yards. It is probable that they would find some cases of maladministration in the course of their researches, because, with the exception -Of @ brief period during Mr. Fillmore’s term, the affairs of the government have been inthe hands of the same parties for the last twelvé or sixteen years, and a long continuance of power always leads to temptation and corruption. If, however, an investigation into the administra- tion of the government is uadertaken, it may bring to light some other Gardner cases, ia which some of the republicans themselves may figure somewhat conspicuously. We have, no objection to an investigation of this character, provided it be a fall and thorough one, and we sha)! give it all the aid and comfort we can, if it is only done in a complete and radical way. A Few Worps To THE Hovsz or REPRESENTA- Tives.—Now that the House has been constitu- tionally organized by the ch: of a Speaker, itis to be hoped that the deportment of the members. will present a marked contrast to their manners during the past two months. ‘Tbe session opened with the exhibition of a great deal of acerbity, and the frequent inter- change of offensive personalities, together with the theatrical displays made by members. on ihe floor and the applause or disapprobation manifested by the spectators in the galleries, fully justified the allegation that the House was not really a parliamentary ‘body, ‘but rather disorderly assemblage of irresponai- ble persons. Subsequently the intemperate speeches of several members brought “the chaos to its furthest point, One member gave to another the lie direct, fire arms were” exhi- bited, and in one case s pistol fell fromthe pocket of a member upon the ‘floor of'the House. Such proceedings as these go very far towards bringing our government inte utter contempt abroad. At home ‘wé khow very well that the general character ofthe Houre is not to be judged by the misconduct of balf a dozen members, who seem’ to ‘ave been elected for the express purpose of. prov- ing in their own persons that want of decency is want of sense. These persons can only be Testrained by the sense of the House gad of the country. They must be made to understand that the application of foul — epithets, the bullying’ of other « mem- bers by charging them. with intentional falsehood, and similar proceedings, arenot Only violations of the courtesy that obtains among gentlemen, but that they are gross infractions of parliamentary law, and that no Tespectable Precedents can be brought forward to sustain them. As for the carrying of concealed’ ‘Wea- pous into the House, it is preposterous in any civilized country, and in apy deliberative body in Europe would be punished by the immediate expulsion of the offender, not only from that body, but from the society of gentlemen, Now that the chief cause of the excitement in the House has been dune away with, the country expects that the members will“atone for their past conduct by the strictest decorum and courtesy. Let all the sound conservative members of the Touse, from every section of the country, unite to sustain the new Speaker in his arduons task of preserving order in what is notoriously the most tumultuous legalized assembly in the civilized world. By. these means the blackguards and ruffians wilF be compelled to slink into obscurity, and the business of the country will progress without being disturbed by. unseemly and disgraceful interruptions. Tur Twin Recenctes Packina Tus Gon- yestions.—The Republican State Committee, we perceive, under the inspiration of the Weed Regency, have followed the example of.the Cassidy & Cagger cabal by deciding to ap- point delegates to the Chicago Republican Gon- vention, and not to elect them by the votes of the people. The truth is that the leaders of both parties, constituting the twin regencies of Albany, are afraid of the masses; they will not submit the choice of delegates to the people, but prefer to arrange the list in their own bugger-mugger fashion. We are not surprised that the Zribune complains of this mode of se- lecting the delegation to Chicago, and de- nounces it as mischievous. * ; ‘Winter Ganpay—Ouvar Twist.—A very large audience ‘was acsembied bere lest night to assist at the first per- formance of Mr. Josepn Jofferson’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ familiar story, “Oliver Twist.’ The work in a dramatic form has been frequently presented on the me- tropolitan boards, but never with any marked success except at the Park theatre, where Miss Charlotte Cash- man’s vivid delineaiion of Nancy Sikes attracted the atvention of the town. The distribution of parts ét the ‘Winter Garden included several prominent and popular artists, and excited @ great deal of curiosity among thea- tre goers. Matiida Heron was “cast” for Nancy Siled; Mr. J. W. Wallack, Jr., for Fagin; Mr. G. Jordan for Bil Bikes; Mr. Jobnstou for the Dedger; Miss Burke, a very Foueg, Vat ex 2 s Bike fw Gy OS Ss als Se se acting was good as a whole, and in pare Bne. Matikia Heion’s Nancy Sykes was an ferformauce, and will rank She secmed to -catch the real apd tbe author, aud gave a true artistic eotoring 10 the te Next to ihis in morit comes Mr. eee el lore re- ron te te bonrsals are nee ° moot) wattainod, we! po age The theses wil gomman? the aitcplion gad, oppiauce Go the priblc,