The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1860, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. rit the Pomage dongs net rectined as saleeripion nnn; vo tee $4 toate i 2, Bots om Cue Sth and MWS of each monde ab oka conte $1 60 per annum. Pp gdatray waka on Wadnesiay, at four cents per or $2 per r CORRESPONDENCE, OLONTARY oon} pore wre, hpet wed Page » Son Fo Foumax ComREsroxarTs ARE Panreetansy Fotis x au. Laerens amp Pace: Boas set v8, ICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not a repped ome renewed every Eo ress Sie Bimal; inte Banas, end te and in by SS PRIDTNG eented neni, chron end dr Volume TEE one ccecsercrcccee cs ertee cere Me a7 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NISLO’S GARDEN. Broadway.—Cooxa’s Borat Aurut- vunares. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Vaisua—Fanoa Ser. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bend street.— Ouves Twit, | WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rouanos oF 4 Poor Yours Man. LACBA KEENE’s THEATRE, 6% Broadway.—Jaunis ‘Deans. 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Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Hla Opener ar vo Tocetves at Hee selene ieee Hill. street. ‘The contents of the Evnormax Enrmom ov rms Hemitp ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of Publication. The News. By the arrival of the overland mail we have ad- vices from San Francisco to the 14th ult. The news is important. Hon. Milton S. Latham was in- sugurated as Governor on the 9th, nominated by the democratic Legislative caucus on the 10th for United States Senator, and elected to that office on the next day. The vote stood— Latham, (dem.) 97; Edmund Randolph, (anti-Le- compton dem.) 15; O. L. Shaft, (rep.) 3. Mr. ‘Latham was to leave San Francisco on the 5th inst. for Washington. He is elected to fill the term of the late Senator Broderick, which expires in 1963, and will supersede Mr. Haun, who was ap- pointed by the Governor of California, during a re- cess of the Legislature. Mr. Latham was a mem- ber of the House of Representatives in 1853-4, and scquitted himself with credit. He isa native of Ohio, but emigrated to Alabama in 1844, and from thence to California. His election to the United ‘States Senate was a surprise, not only to his com- petitors, but to the public. The overland mail brings intelligence of the total Jona of the steamship Northerner, Captain Dall, on the 6th ult., off Cape Mendocino, while on the pas- Sage from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, to- gether with eleven passengers, and twenty-two of the crew. A despatch to the President of the Pa- cific Mail Steamship Company states that Captain Dall was saved, and that the first and third officers, second engineer, pilot, fourteen of the crew and eighteen passengers were lost. The mails were saved. The Northerner was built in this city in 1847, by the late William H. Brown, and ran for some time between New York and Charleston. She ‘was one of the first steamers that proceeded to San Francisco after the breaking out of the California gold fever, and was employed in running between Panama and San Francisco. Of late years she has been engaged in conveying passengers and freight between San Francisco and the northern ports. The Northerner wes 1,012 tons burthen, had two decks, a side lever engine, with a cylinder seventy inches in diameter, was bark rigged, and was supplied with new beilers in 1857. She was 200 feet in length, 32 feet beam, 23 feet deep, and had a draft of 14 feet. It is supposed she was lost in a dense fog. It is said she was insured at Lloyd's for $75,000. We have news from the Sandwich Islands to the 17th ult. Mr. Pratt, United States Consul at Honolu- lu, was about to return home on a temporary leave of absence. The British bark Sea Nymph had ar- rived at Honolulu, after a ten months passage from Liverpool, caused by a succession of disasters. We have advices from Havana to the 2d inst. No movement of importance had taken place in the sugar market. Freights had slightly advanced. Congress commenced business in earnest yester- day. In the Senate bills were introduced providing for a railroad and telegraph to the Pacific, to regu- late the pay of officers and pursers of the navy, and for the extension of the pre-emption privilege to California. Resolutions were offered directing in- quiry as to the expediency of amending the law re- lative to protection granted to seamen, and aa to the expediency of establishing semi-weekly mails between St. Joseph, Mo., and Placerville, Cal., and New Orleans and El Paso. A resolution was adopted calling for all instructions and despatches sent to and received from the late Minister to China and the former Commissioner. The Com- mittee on Claims reported a large number of pri- vate bills which have been passed upon by the Court of Claims. The Post Office Appropriation bill was received from the House, and referred. ‘The remainder of the session was occupied with a debate on the President's Message vetoing the bill making an appropriation for the removal of the St. Clair flats. In the House the Post Office Appro- priation bill was passed. It appropriates the sum of $4,296,009 for deficiencies for the year 1959, six per cent interest to be paid on all sums due con- tractors, and $6,400,000 for the service of 1860. The Dill will no doubt pass the Senate to-day. The House elected George Marston, of New Hampshire, Doorkeepér, and Joshua M. Lucas, of Illinois, Postmaster. Bills were introduced pro- aor for a revision of the tariff, the payment of outstanding treasury notes, and te authorize a loan. The House adjourned till Thureday, in or- der to enable the Speaker to arrange the standing committees. The Legislature met last evening and transacted some business of interest. The Attorney General gent to the Senate a communication declaring that in his opinion the New York Board of Supervisors ia a legal and constitutional body. In the Assem- bly the bill relative to commercial paper falling due on holidays was passed. Several bills of local interest were passed to a third reading, among them the bill relative to the Brooklyn ferries. See our reports and despatches for partioulars. The New York National Democratic State Con- vention for the selection of delegates at large to the Charleston Convention met at Syracuse at eight o'clock last evening, and organized by choosing ex-Speaker Alvord chairman. A committee was sp- pointed to nominate delegates and alternates to the Charleston Convention, and after some other pre- liminary business, and a general congratulation upon the prospects of the national demooracy, the Convention adjourned till this morning. Mayor Wood received an enthusiastic reception from the delegates. The inquest on the bodies of those burned to death at the late calamitous fire in Elm street took place yesterday, before Coroner Jackman. Several of the inmates of the house were examined as to the origin aod circumstances of the fire. The owner of the building was placed upon the stand, and his testimony went to show the manner in which the house had been constructed. In his evidence he stated that it was intended to be occupied by twen- ty-one families, but that, at the time of the fire, one room was vacant. Twenty families were, there- fore, in the building at the time of the sad occur- rence. The jury,after due deliberation upon the testimony presented to them, found a verdict, severely censuring landlords for building houses | higher than five stories, and fer not providing the necessary means of egress from the upper stories in the event of fire. In conclusion, they requested the Coroner to transmit a copy of the verdict to the Legislature, now in session, asking fer the enactment of a law making it incumbent on land- lords to provide for the protection of the Kves of tenement house occupants. A meeting of citizens of the Fourteenth ward was held in the Reformed Dutch church, in Broome street, last evening, to make arrangements for relieving the necessities of the persons who were rendered destitute by the Elm street fire. It was stated that $707 in money and $200 worth of neces- saries had already been contributed for the relief of the sufferers. A committee was appointed to receive additional contributions. The names ofthe committee are given in our report of the proceed- ings, published in another column. The Coroner's investigation into the causes of the recent terrible boiler explosion at the hat factory in Brooklyn, whereby six lives were lost, and a number of persons were severely injured, was com- menced yesterday. We give a report of the testi- mony in another column. At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes- terday,a communication was received from the Excise Commissioners, showing the number of suite whieh had been commenced to recover penal- ties for violations of the Excise law during the years 1858 and 1859, the number of cases which have been discontinued or compromised, the amount received in each case of discontinuance or compromise, and the amount of such receipts paid into the county treasury. We give the communi- cation in our report of the proceedings of the Board, from which it appears that 10,204 suits have been commenced, at an average cost of $9 each, and 435 suits discontinued on payment of costs. The attorney of the Commissioners has received $3,915, and paid for clerk hire, &c., $1,260, leaving a balance of $2,655. The document is a curious one, and exhibits very plainly the utter absurdity of the Exeise law. In the Board of Aldermen last evening a resolu- tion was adopted requesting the Counsel to the Corporation to memorialise the Legislature for the passage of an act which will guard against the re- currence of accidents of a character similar to the destruction by fire of the tenement house in Mim street. The City Inspector was requested to report the number and location of such tenement houses as, from their construction and excessive number of occupants, are dangerous to the public health and life. The resolution from the Councilmen for the appointment of a commission of competent me- chanics to examine into the construction of the new State Arsenal was adopted. The proceedingsof the Board of Councilmen last evening were of @ routine nature. They cen- curred with the Aldermen in requesting the Go- vernor to withhold his signature from city railroad bills which may be paased by the Legislature. Mr. Shaw presented a resolution requesting the Com- mittee on Lamps and Gas to report what action it will be necessary to take against gas companies for eharging for the use of metres, the late Corpora- tion Counsel having said that such charge was illegal. ‘The trial of Hazlett, the last of the Harper's Ferry conspirators, upon an indictment charging him with murder, treason, and inciting rebellion, ‘was commenced yesterday at Charlestown, Va. A dense fog enveloped the rivers and bay yester- day, but we do not learn of any serious accidents inconsequence. The steamers Baltic and Northern Light left their respective piers at the usual hour, bound for Aspinwall, but it is sapposed that they came to anchor in the lower bay. Joshua R. Giddings delivered a lecture last even- ing, at the Forsyth street Methodist Episcopal church, on “The Duties of Human Government.” A fall report is given in to-day’s Hera.p. According to the City Inspector's repert there were 470 deaths in the city during the past week, @ decrease of 10 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 48 more than occurred during the corresponding week of last year. Sub- joined is @ classification of the diseases:—Bones, joints, &c., 2; brain and nerves, 109; generative or- gans, 5; heart and blood vessels, 14; lungs, throat, &c., 157; old age, 7; skin, &c., and eruptive fevers, 80; stillborn and premature birth, 3; stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 42; uncertain seat and general fevers, 51. There were also 12 deaths from violent causes. Scarlet fever, croup,and other dis- eases incidental to children, continue very preva- lent. The nativity table gives 320 natives of the United States, 93 of Ireland, 41 of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,800 bales, 760 of which were made in transit. The market closed without quotable change in prices. Fiour was in fair demand, and the market for common grades of State ‘and Western was about Sc. per barrel higher. Common grades of Southern were heavy and rather easier, while the higher and extra brands were unchanged. Wheat continued in fair milling demand. The chief sale con- sisted of Canadian white, given in another column. Corn was firm, with rather more doing, including Jersey and Southern white and yellow at quotations given in another place. Pork continued firm, with moderate sales, includ- ing old mess at $17 81 a $17 3734, new mess at $18 a $18 1234, and new prime at $14 25 a $14 373. Beef was vhile bacon and cut meats wero firm and in good roquest. ‘The sales of sugars embraced 500 hhds. Ouba, chiefly within the range of 7c. a 73{c. Coffee was steady, with sales of 2,600 bags Rio at 113c. a 123¢c., 600 do. Maracaibo at p. t., and 150 Java at 150. Freighta were steady, with moderate engagements. “Expect Storms Asorr Tarsé Days.”—Such are the sage predictions of the almanacs about the present weather; and from various signs it is not very difficult to predict that there is foul and dirty weather ahead in Congress. The materials are inflammable, and both parties go armed to the House, and drop pistols out of their pockets. The next thing that may be ex- pected, is that the pistols will be used in an ir- repressible conflict. We trust, however, that the new Speaker will endeavor to preserve order and prevent the members accusing each other of saying what is “false,” ag they did before the House was organized. House of Representatives. During the time that the House was ia an unorganized condition there were many occurrences om the floor, many demonstrations on the part of in- dividual members, which placed the whole body im a very disreputable light at home and abroad. Some little excuse might be found for these occurrences in the consideration of the fact that the contest for the Speakership was made unprecedentedly violent by the outside pressure upon all parties in the House, caused by the intense agitation which prevailed at the South and reacted upon the North and the West. But now that the contest is over—now that the Speaker and other officers of the House have been chosen—it is the bounden duty of every member to use his best endeavors in im- proving the character and maintaining the dignity of the body, and conferring upon it the dignity which its weight and importance de- maad. For their weight and importance canaot well be overrated. The popular branch of the Con- gress of these United States represents, or is presumed to represent, more than thirty mil- lions of free, happy, civilized people, who com- pose the body politic of the only republic that for wealth, prosperity and material progress can be accounted among the great Powers of Christendom. It would be absurd to deny that the progress of the United States, under the workings of free institutions, is re- garded by the European rulers with a great deal of anxiety and curiosity, mixed with no little jealousy and alarm, Attached to the old ways and the old forms, they verily believe that our system of popular government is a de- cided mistake; therefore they look year by year for the disruption of the confederated States, and the adoption of a more consolidated go- vernment. It is for their especial interest, like- wise, to keep up the cry that the model re- public is a failure, that our government is the most corrupt on the face of the earth, and that the governing classes are the bullies, the rowdies, the gamblers and the loafers of the great cities, and the tavern brawlers of the rural districts. Our foreign critics are never so happy as when they can find a record of some disgraceful scene on the floor of Congress, or in the streets of the federal capital. It is upon such scenes that they found their impudent dogma that our governmental experiment has not succeeded, and thata return to the despotic system of Europe, where almost every throne rests upon bayonets, is the only resource which is left open to us. It is unfortunately the case that we give but too much occasion for severe strictures. It would appear sometimes that our public men, carried away by the bad spirit of partisan warfare, had forgotten the responsibility which rests upon them, the duty of conserving the institutions transmitted to them by their Revo- lutionary sires, and to be again remitted intact to posterity. Members of the House of Repre- sentatives seem to forget that the man is only dignified by the office inexact proportion to his excellence in performing its duties, and that what would be only a misdemeanor if commit- ted by a private person, becomes a positive crime on the part of a public officer. It is high time that the members of the House were brought to understand that unless they make a united effort to preserve order and the deco- rum which should rule in debate, the popular branch of Congress will sink into absolute de- rision at home and profound contempt abroad. A recent disgraceful occurrence at Washing- ton—something which happened since the elec- tion of the Speaker and Clerk—seems to de- mand in an especial manner the attention of the House. On the evening of the same day when he had been elected, the man who had been honored far above his deserving, in be- ing chosen to the second office in the House, degraded his position, and insulted the mem- bers who had supported him, by addressing dranken mob in one of the streets of Washing- ton, and abusing ina ribald and vulgar man- ner the representative of a co-ordinate branch of the government in the person of the chief exe- cutive officer of the republic. In the height of a drunken spree, surrounded by ruffians ex- cited by intoxication, this officer of the House had the effrontery to pour out his per™ sonal spleen upon the President of the United States, and to assail him in language fit only for the pothouse or the kennel. Such a state of things as this could never have been foreseen by the good and truc patriots who laid the foundations of our government. In their day such conduct on the part of an officer of the House would have been considered as an impossiblecrime. And even at this time it affords the strongest proof of the depth of degradation and demoralization to which our government has been brought by the machinations of miserable politicians. But it is possible that there may yet be a sufficient amount of public virtue, private honor and gentlemanly feeling among the members of the House to punish this officer as he deserves, or at least so far as the powers of the House can go. And we hope that there will be found a member who has a sufficient regard for the credit of the House and the honor of the country to introduce a resolution for a com- mittee to investigate as to the truth of the charges against this officer, and that being proved, asit can be quite easily, the House will expel him from the seat which he holds under the immediate eye of the Speaker. For that Person to occupy sucha place after having so aseailed the representative of a co-ordinate branch of the government is a disgrace to the nation, an insult to his supporters, and a foul affront to their constituents. If the majority of the House has any regard for its dignity, or any desire to uphold the power of the govern- ment in all its branches, it will not hesitate to act in this matter at once, and to act firmly. Sewarp’s New Srescu IN THE SENatE.—Every one is expecting soon a great speech on the state of the country from Mr. Seward in the Senate. His very silence is indicative that a storm is brewing somewhere. A faction in his own party is preparing to overthow him. This faction is organized by old Blair, of Silver Springs, and championed by Horace Greeley, with a design of bringing forward Bates and Cameron for the nomination at Chicago. Seward will be swamped before the middle of June if he does not wake up. There is something in the wind. The hounds on his track are giving tongue. The apostle of the higher law is like astag at bay. Letthe dogsbeware. Look out Newspaper Emterprise—A Live Jourual. ‘Those desiring a fair sample of what news- paper enterprise and energy can effect have only to take up our issue of yesterday. There- in was presented, in addition to our domestic news, a complete assemblage of all the facts and statements bearing on the great questions which are now occupying the attention of Eu- rope, together with the views of our foreign correspondents in relation to them. Besides the letters given from London, Paris and Ber- lin, we were compelled from want of space to omit many more of equal importance from the other European capitals, and this notwithstand- ing our publication of a triple sheet. It is scaroely necesaary to tell those who are in the habit of follewing up our foreign correspon- dence that it is written by parties who have access to the highest and most authoritative sources of information. It is so constantly in advance of events, and so generally reliable, that it must be evident that the persons furnish- ing it have direct means of satisfying them- selves ‘as to the true springs and origin of the movements, political and otherwise, upon which the foreign journals occupy themselvesin vague speculations. In our correspondence of yes- terday, for example, is to be found more full and accurate information on all points connect- ed with European politics than is to be gleaned from the English and continental news- papers. Such a combination of talent, in- dustry, enterprise and omnipresent activity— if we may use the term—has perhaps never before been exhibited in any single newspaper issue. Take all the other city dailies united, and they do not approach it in interest and aggregate value. The only paral- lel to it is that of the London 7imes, and that fails in giving to the interests of the two hemis- pheres the same adequate share of representa- tion. All this, be it observed, has been effected at a cost to the reader of only two cents, which does not even pay the price of the white paper on which the number was printed. The expla- nation of the resources by which such an enor- mous outlay is covered is of course only to be found in the fact that the Heratp is printed in New York, one of the greatest commercial centres of the world, and that its business patronage has furnished it with the means of accomplishing all that the most ardent professional ambition could aspire to. The pauper journals throughout the country, which drag out a miserable existence by the aid of the printing spoils and such party crumbs as fall to them, naturally feel jealous at the success of any contemporary that can pursue am independent course and that can afford to set at defiance these corrupt influences. Ani- mated by this mean and paltry spirit, they en- deavor to depreciate efforts which it is not in their power to imitate, and which, if it were, they are either too lazy or too unintelligent to attempt. As an example of the fairness of their rivalry, they are in the habit of impeaching the genuineness of our foreign correspendence, asserting that is made up in our office on the arrival of the steamers. All that we have to say in reply to such allegations is, that the faculties which they imply are much more wor- derful and difficult to credit than the opportu- nities and facilities which an unlimited com- mand of capital and business energy can pro- cure. Unless the world is returning to the age of miracles, it would be impossible to reconcile the explanation given by these persons of the reputation which our journal has gained for early and accurate information in reference to political movements abroad, with the actual results. It is no exaggeration to remark that if our European in made up in our office; all the wonders attributed to mar- tyrs, saints, oracles, seers, spiritualists and clairvoyants, in the present and past, fall far short of the wonderful prescience and extraor- dinary supernatural powers of the editor and proprietor of the Hzratp. are not the devil himself, we are the devil’s , if we first cousin. When will the dolts and idiots who level these charges against us comprehend that marvellous results may be accomplished by the simplest means, and that genius has less to do with their achievement than singleness of purpose and unflinching perseverance? If they had the good sense to mark out an honest and independent course for themselves, and the heart to pursue it with constancy, they, too, might win seme of the prizes, for the attainment of which the vulgar are apt to attribute to others such extra- ordinary gifts. They prefet, however, to gro- vel in the mire of party dependence, doing the bidding of corrupt masters, and prostituting the small ability they possess to the basest and vilest of uses. Of course, it is not to be expected that such men should comprehend the success any more than they understand the motives and aims of the true journalist. He be- lieves that in the independence, the upright- ness and the patriotism of his conduct the re- wards of professional exertion are alone to be found. Tae Inquest on THE Ex Srreet Fire.—We give in another column the sensible and just verdict of the Coroner’s jury in the case ef the Elm street fire. It is there declared that the proprietor of the tenement house consumed, with so many of its occupants, is responsible to a great extent for this serious loss of human life, inasmuch as the building had been con- structed without any regard to the safety of its occupants in case of fire, it having been utterly devoid of any means of escape after the egress by the main entrance had been cut off. The jury, therefore, call upon the Legislature, now in session at Albany, to enact a law making it incumbent on owners of tenement buildings to place iron stairways, or some other approved means of egress, on the outside of those struc- tures, and that the height of those buildings be limited to five stories. It isto be hoped that the Legislature will give attention to this reasonable request, and that it will make such dispositions as will prevent the speculators upon the poverty of the working classes from piling them up in hundreds in narrow and un- safe buildings, and thus preparing a human hecatomb for the sacrifice. Worx 1 Conoress—The House performed some work yesterday, and then adjourned over till Thursday, to enable the Speaker to arrange the committees, which will be announced on that day. The Post Office Deficiency bill was passed and a Doorkeeper and Postmaster elected yesterday. The Deficiency bill wae im- mediately sent to the Senate, where it will pro- bably pass to-day, and then about four millions of dollars will be released from the Sub-Trea- sury and thrown into the market. $F Can nothing be done to clean the streets? NEW FORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1860. Tyros in the Abolition Raaks—Their Proposition to Change the Great Poli- tical Iseue. The new recruits in the abolitionized black republiean ranks, Hickman, Haskin, &c., be- Ueve, in their young zeal, that they can change the great political issues upon which the vete- ran leaders of their party are strenuously fight- ing for victory. We announced some time since their inten- tion, as soon as the House of Representatives was organized, to ask for the appointment of investigating committees, with the special ob- ject of aiming their inquiries at all the details of the executive action of the President and the Cabinet officers, and it is now stated that they are about to move in the matter. These tyros in politics believe that certain investigating committees aimed in 1840 at President Van Buren effected his defeat and the election of President Harrison in that year, and thata similar measure now would produce similar political results to those witnessed in that cam- paign. If their premises were true, the accom- panying circumstances identical, and the posi- tion of the country and of parties the same, there might be some appearance of logic in their deduction. But these young converts to black republicanism exhibit the same ignorant contempt of the veteran leaders of the party, and of the ex- perience which time in leadership gives, that characterizes all cadets. In the zeal of their new conversion they fondly believe that they can set aside old issues, supersede old masters in politics, and wheedle the multitudes into change, as easily as they have been wheedled into deserting the political camp where their loss does not amount even to the desertion of a faction. A cursory examination of the precedent they cite, and of the present positions of parties and the country, will show how little they compre- hend the existing state of affairs, and of the probable results of the movement which they believe will have some importance. In 1840 there was no great issue before the country. Mr. Van Buren was a candidate for renomina- tion, and received it from his party on purely personal grounds. The parties had gone through the long conflict between Jackson and the United States Bank years before, and this had been followed by the great commercial re- vulsion of 1837, the explosion of the pet bank system, and the ruin of many of the great ma- terial interests of the country. The con- servative feeling was aroused everywhere, to which was added the desire for any change amid the existing depression. For want of a political issue the attempt was made to fasten the existing dissatisfaction per- sonally upon Mr. Van Buren, the candidate for re-election, and it was successful. Gen. Harri- son, on alog cabin and hard cider platform, which meant nothing at all but anti-Van Bu- renism, was sung and swung into the Presi- dency. But how different is the present state of af- fairs. Mr. Buchanan is not a candidate for re- nomination, and positively refuses to take it. ‘The country is prosperous everywhere. Good prices are obtained for the products of the soil and of labor, trade is profitable, speculation is tife, and the conservative feeling, instead of @esiring relief from change, is rapidly rising in opposition to it. There isa great issue be- fore the people, involving all the thought of men, awakening their fears, and thrilling with electric touch every material interest in the North and in the South. The veteran black fepublican leaders are stimulating by every possible means the fanaticism of their follow- ers, Helper’s incendiary book is circulated by them to every town, village and hamlet. Half a dozen treason shops have been epened in New York, where the moral poison is dealt out over the counter. Those who cannot afford half a dollar for it, get it fora quarter, and not a customer is lost, even if it has to be dealt to them gratis. Wendell Phillips and Joshua R. Giddings fill the air of New England and New York with their rhetorical periods in favor of it. Theo- dore Parker philosophises on it from Rome. Sherman and Grow pour out their bitterness re- garding it in Washington. Seward and Weed plot, the political parsons howl, and the black republican journals shriek continuously in the cause ‘This is the state of things which Hickman, Haskin, and afew more young beginners in abolitionism, think they can change with their popgun proposition aimed at the retiring states- manship of Mr. Buchanan. They ignorantly suppose that the year 1860 is but a repetition of 1840, and that a personal attack directed at that time against a President who was a candi- date for the succession can be successfully re- peated against one who refuses to accept a nomination, and therefore is not in the fight. But their shortsightedness goes even further than this. They do not see that the course they ask their new black republican friends to pur- sue is a direct attack on the veteran leaders of that party. In clamoring for a new and a fool ish issue, they proclaim, in fact, that Seward, Phillips, Wilson, Theodore Parker, Chase, Sher- man, Grow, and their fellow abolitionists, do not know what they are about, and are incom- petent to lead the party they have organized. Notwithstanding the confident egotism of these new lights in black republicanism, we suspect that it will be a long while before Hickman can displace Seward, or Haskin fill the shoes of Sherman. As for such pigmies changing the great issue that is beginning to agitate the country, the idea could spring only from the presumptuous egotism of raw recruits. Repvusiican Lecturers oy Tax Stuur.—While the republican members of Congress are very busy arranging all their plans at Washington, touching the lobby, the spoils, and so forth, with a view to the Presidential election, and large editions of Helper’s Crisis are being scattered broadcast over the Union, there are a lot of republican philosophers travelling through the country, delivering what purport to be lectures on divers subjects, and which their auditors—who go to hear what they sup- pose to be a lecture—discover to be really a political stump speech, designed to turn the public mind in the direction of the Presidential siection, Thus we published, a few days ago, an oration of Wendell Phillips on Toussaint L’Overture, which was supposed to be ua his- torical lecture, but wasin facta political speech of the deepest abolition dye; and to-day we pub- lish a discourse of Joshua R. Giddings, deli- vered last night, on the duties of human govern- ment—an oration of the same stamp. These lecturers are, in fact, republican stump orators, and nothing more. Cmoviarion or Hetree’s HupBoor « hand-book of treason in the Central States Anthon’s depot, 16 Wall street, and the Zribun shop, are kept busy sending it forth for dissemi, nation in New York State, Pennsylvania, Indi, ana, Illinois, and the other Middle States are doubtful, and may turn the acale of victory to either side. Private circulars accompany “the Compendium,” also, the “Irrepressibl Conflict” manifesto ef Seward, with the of Charles O'Conor, both of which taken toge- ther, the black republican managers expect! will make an efficacious dose, on the principle of the collision of opposites, like the acid aad the alkeli in the seidlitz powder. They have Probably sent out 200,000 copies of Helper’s book, to slander the South and its institutions, and to produce a prejudicial effect on the pub- lic mind im those quarters where the small- eat gain or loss of votes is of the great- est moment. Thus are the black republicaa leaders up and doing, while the democratic politicians are quietly enjoying the spoils of office, sitting on cushioned chairs doing nothing, | but dozing away their useless existence, or quarrelling with each other about the spoila of the succession, while they allow the commoa enemy to carry everything by default and without a struggle. TRovBLE IN THE Biack RePusiican Caup.— There is a good deal of trouble just now in the black republican camp, which seems to promise still further complications as events progress. After the defeat of Sherman, the republicans in Congress proceeded to bestow the other offices upon the renegades from the democratic party, the old whigs and the Know Nothings. Like a set of chiffonniers, they hunted up the old rags of all parties, and picked out the castoff rene- gades of each to place in office in the House. It appears that they are now going to adopt the same plan with regard to the Presidency, by nominating Bates, of Missouri, for President, and Cameron, of Pennsylvania, for Vice Presi- dent, casting off the old fathers of the republi- can party, Seward and the rest. Bates and Cameron will, no doubt, make an excellent and practicable ticket—a streak of fat and a streak of lean—but this policy is going to involve the party in a heap of trouble. We have no doubt that the plan originated with old Blair, of Silver Springs, near Wash- ington, who has been trying for some years past to get prominently into politics by all kinds of manceuvres, and who is the parent of the Helper book, with all its abominable doc- trines and designs. It is a mistake, however, to suppose that Seward’s friends—Thurlow Weed and others—will give him up so quietly, to make way for Mr. Bates or any one else. They did so once before, to make way for Fre- mont, whom they defeated; but they will not do so now. They will stick to Seward to the last, and we may look out for hot times at the Chicago Convention in June. The movements of the republicans there, and in the interval preceding the Convention, will be worth watch- ing; but especially worthy of attention will be the next speech of W. H. Seward, which he is now preparing, upon this question. It will no doubt contain some strange developementscon- cerning the republican tactics. There is a storm brewing in the republican camp, which will culminate at the Chicago Convention. Tue Uxtox Megtixa at Par.anerpata.—Tho great Union meeting announced to take place at Philadelphia came off on Saturday night, but it did not seem to amount to much. The speak- ers were comparatively undistinguished, though letters were read from Edward Everett and a few other retired from political life; but the sentiments they contained were only the same which have been expressed by all classes of men who participated at previous Union meetings held here and elsewhere, and which all national democrats of the Central States avow. The results of the Philadelphia meeting were exceedingly small, and it was evidently got up by a parcel of political chiffon- niers of all parties—democrats, old line whigs and Know Nothings—who, having sold all their old clothes and old boots, are looking through the dirty political streets of the republic in the hope of finding some other old material to sell. The Honorable Booby Brooks, of New York, went to Utica ashort time ago to try and sell the débris of the Know Nothing party, and having failed to make a sale, he smashed up his own machine, while at the same time he endeavored to make peeple believe that he smashed up the machines of the other two par- ties. The real issue before the country—smother it up in Union meetings and other manceuvres as we will—is the radical revolutionary issue of anti-slavery—whether slavery shall be crushed out in the Southern States, or, as Seward said, it shall spread over the States of the North andEast. This is the true issue—the vital question of the times. As for these Union meetings, they are got up by a set of used up politicians—mere ragpickers—who, as we said,” having disposed of all they had to sell, are hunting up some other material through the streets with which to go into the market, and, like the Jew, cry—“Old clo’, old clo’, who'll buy any old clo’ in politics?” ACADEMY oF Mosic.—After a campaign in Boston, more or less successful, the artists of the Opera have returned to the metropolis, and commenced a new season in Irving place last night. The weather was not especially propi- tious; in fact, it is using a mild term to say that it was one of the dirtiest nights of the season, inky above and muddy below. Nevertheless, there was a great house—one of the finest we have ever seen in the Acade ‘The opera was the “Puritani,’’ with Adelina Brignoli, Ferri and Susini—a fine quartette, erb performance promise made to the hope was have rarely seen a performance of tie “Puritani” equalled that of last night. Of course Ade the florid and briitia did more—she gave which proved that ste guish herself in tho bi Her acting n the finale of tho first act was finer than is generally seen at the Opera, even at the hanos of “experienced artists, Miss Patti may adopt Elvira as oze of her best réles,aud her performance of it afforded a gratifying proof to her metropolitan ad mirers that their feith in her future was not misplaced. She received a grand ovation at the bandsof the audience, and is fairly enthroned a8 @ popular pes | eer very well. ‘The A teo cara was pre eee and gained a decided encore. Susini and Porr: sustained their réles faithfully and well. Altogether the 9 opened very finely, Wednesday ade ‘adelina Patti, Brig: noli, Ferri, Susini mM ‘ae, find on Friday MeDer seca wil for the first time here, with beng | ae, der Stand Bement er ater: to know been @ tas nigh wil be do in the manner of lighting the house ‘The effect Whe new arvannetnen 1 give the theatre a Boch tveler ‘Tum Faanmno Soman Dansawre, one of the most agree- able réuntons of the season, will take place at the Aca- demy of Music to-night, commencing at five o'clock. Tha oor until pine will be devoted to Young America.