The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERNS, cash tn advance, Money vant by mall wh? beat the AT at Seas adnan th restioeh ao edearigtion Tk \AIDY HERALD, too conte 5 enmm. oer ann he Berra Ran ory Wee Stee koran Pon LY MREAED on Wednesday, at four conte per sopy, or $3 per annum. Wolumc EKV......... cc ceee cece rece Oe OE AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Pacey ad MUBIO, Fourteenth street.—ItaLain Orena at One—I Pusrrant. NIBLO’S GARENN. Broadway.—Cooga’s Borat Aurut- ‘emmaree— Afternoon and E' ing. vening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Riosanp IMI—Kit Carson WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bend strect.— Ouvan Twist. oe w. THEATRE, Broadway.—Rouance o 4 Poor Max. LAURA KEENE’s THEATRE, €% Broadway.—Jeamm Deane. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1860.-TRIPLE SHEET, The News. The steamabip Canada arrived at Halifax yeater- day, with news from Europe to the 28th ult., three days later than the aiv‘ces received by the City of Washington, Owing to'the breaking of the tele- graph wires our synopsis of the news is very brief. The intelligence, however, is not of an important character. Lord Brougham had promised to bring the whole subject of slavery before the British Parliament at an early day. Tt was stated in the House of Commons that a convention between the United States and Great Britain was being drawn up with a view of preventing atrocities on shipboard. Consols in London on the 28th were quoted at 944 a 94] for money, and 94} a 94} for account. American secu- Tities were quiet and slightly lower in price. The Liverpool cotton market was active, at an improve- ment of one-sixteenth to one-eighth of a penny. Breadstuffs and provisions were quiet. The steamship7Atlantic, from Aspinwall 3d inst., arrived at this port yesterday, with news from Cali. fornia, and later intelligence from New Granada and the South Pacific republics. A very interest- ing compilation of the news is given in to-day'’s HERALD. The Atlantic brings $1,490,620 in treasure. The dates from San Francisco are to the 20th ult., four days later than the advices received by the over- land mail. The money market was quiet and easier, while more activity was observable in the merchandise markets, though the prevalence of however, apprehorded. A lively atruggle was going onat Aurora, between the citizens and thieves who infest the place, anda number of the latter had been notified to le.ve the town under penalty of being lynched. The express from Pike's Peak brought $3,000 in gold. The terrific gale of Thursday night, which con- tinued all day yesterday, resulted in a large de- struction of property in this city, Brooklyn, Wil- liamsburg, Hoboken and Jersey City, and several ac- cidents to ships in the bay, as well as te those anchor- ed at the piers. The bark Holland was wrecked on Barnegat, and abandoned by her captain and crew. A portion of the roof of the Catholic Orphan Asylum was blown down, and created almost a panic among the children. A school in Brooklyn was also burn- ed, and several other accidents occurred, which will be found fully reported in another part of our re Roe reports from Washington are interesting. The Senate was not in session. In the House the Post Office Appropriation bill was received from the Senate and referred. It will be taken up to-day, when the Senate’s amendment abolishing the franking privilege will be rejected. The Commit- tee on Commerce were directed to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting American vessels from engaging in the Coolie trade. Mr. Edmundson, of Virginia, and Hickman, of Pennsylvania, came very near having a fight in the Capitol grounds at Washington yesterday. They were separated by the bystanders just in time to prevent hostilities. But little of importance was transacted in the Legislature yesterday. In the Senate the Canal bill was ordered to a third reading. Among the bills noticed was one for the preservation of wild deer, birds and fish. Several bills were passed; among them the One Cent Ferriage bill, between New York and Brooklyn. The Railroad Toll bill was taken up. Mr. Hammond moved to strike out the Rome and Watertown Railroad, and advo- cated the motion at length. The debate was con- tinued by Messrs. Spinola, Goss, Ferry, Sessions, Colvin, Fiero, Bell, Blood, Mannierre, Traman and Prosser. An amendment to include the Rensse- laer, Saratoga and Washington Railroad was re- jected, also the amendment to exclude the Rome and Watertown road. A joint resolution was of- fered for a recess from the 17th tothe 27th, and adopted. In the Assembly the joint resolutions in reference to amending the constitution so as to al- low colored persons to vote were debated, and pass- ed by yeas 70, nays 56. A bill was introduced pro- viding for the inspection of steam boilers. It em- powers the Comptrollers of the cities of New York and Brooklyn to appoint experienced practical engineers as Inspectors of those cities, who shall inspect and certify to all boilers hereafter built for use in said cities, and all boilers or steam ma- chinery now in use, and after three months from the passage no engine, boiler or steam machinery is to be used unless on a permit from the Inspector Mr. William E. Burton, the popular comedian, who has been sick for some weeks past, died at his residence in Hudson street, at eleven o’clock yes- terday. An interesting sketch of his career is given in another column. A despatch from Providence states that it was announced in that city yesterday that the Rhode Island Exchange Bank, of East Greenwich, had failed, and that the cashier was a defaultér to the amount of $72,000. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,500 bales, including 1,200 in transit. The market for lotssold in store closed tamely on the basis of 11:<c, for middling uplands. Flour continued firm, with a fair amount of sales, chiefly to the Eastern and local trade, The market, in a general way, was about 6 cents per barrel higher. Southern flour was in good demand, with sales at ful! prices. Wheat was firm, with moderate sales, chiefly to millers. Corn was in good supply and heavy. Sales of Jersey and Southern were made at 79c. a 80c. Pork con- tinued to rule firm, with a good demand from store and for future delivery. On the spot new moss sold at $18 12% a $1825, and new prime at $14 373; a $1450. Sugars were firm, with sales of about 600 hhds, Cuba muscovado at full prices. Coffee was firm. The sales in- cluded 2,665 bags (cargo of the Starlight) at p. t., 800 do. in lots, and 914 do., do.; 300 do., Maracaibo, and 600 do. St. Domingo, at prices given in another place. Freights were firm, with more doing, especially for English ports, at full rates. The Irrepressible Conflict Between the Republican Candidates for the Presi- NAW BOWERY THEATER Bowory.—Tunse Fist Mex —Hous uw ran Wa. BROADWAY BOUDOIR, 444 Broadway.—Kino's Waren Toone AvruassP ADDY ‘Muzs Bor. THRATERE FRANCAIS, 685 Brosdway.—Le Dex: MonnE AMEKICAN MUSEUM Broadway.—After- im. unfavorable weather had restricted operations. The politicians were very active. The democratic State Convention to select delegates to the Charleston Convention is to meet on the 29th inst. We publish, full particulars of the wreck of the steamship Northerner near Cape Mendocino on the 6th ult., together with lists of the names of the lost and saved. Seventeen passengers and twenty-one of the crew were drowned. Our correspondence from New Granada is dated at Panamazand Aspinwall on the 2d instant. The mails from Bogota had failed, ,but private re- ports stated that a revo'ution had broken out in the capital. A lot of Bibles sent out from London had been burned by order of the Catholic clergy- men in the city, and much blame was attached to the United States Minister, Mr. Jones, for not only not protesting against the act, but for witnessing the ceremony,itself. Great excitement prevailed on the Isthmus,about some new gold diggings that are said to have been discovered near Cruces, and several hundred persons bad rushed to the spot. The general court martial on board the United States ship Cyane, at Panama, was progressing. Several United States seamen bad died at Aspin- wall. General Herran, Thomas F. Meagher and H. S. Sandford had arrived #t Panama. The State, of Magdalena was still troubled with civil convalston. i From Central America we have advices dated at General confirmed the decision. We accord-| Reajejo on the 25th ult. Hon. Mr. Dimitry, United ingly publish the list of letters to-day, not for | States Minister, bine oe _ very successful in i his negotiations witl e icaraguan government. any profit that is to be made out of it, but to Mr. Wyke, British Minister, was in Managua, establish legally the fact, acknowledged by all | me intended abandonment of the Mosquito protec- but our rivals, of our having the largest circu- | torate by England was denied in official circles. Ex- lation of any daily newspaper in this city or President Mora had again failed to land in Costa country. Rica, and had been joined by his family. Our advices from the South Pacific are dated at About a year since we gave up the Post | Valparaiso the 1st, Callao the 12th, and Paita the dvertising as an unprofitable affair, it | 16th of January. No direct news from Guayaquil. oe * i Me “ Bae Chile is quiet, and making good progress with her not paying even for the paper on which it was} rairoads. The imports of refined sugar fromthe printed. The circumstance was taken advan- | United States in 1859, were double in amount Jof tage of by several mean and lying party jour- those from Englandand France. A new system of 2 weights and measures had gone into operation in nals throughout the country, either to gratify | Quite, A revolutionary movement against Presi- a spite against us, or to help them to counter- | dent Linares had broken out in Bolivia, but it was act an influence which has always been exer- | Suppressed. Castilla, of Pera, was in reality dicta- tor of Ecuador. cised to defeat the corrupt arrangements by} we have news from Havana to the 3dinst. The which alone these organs are enabled | sugar market of the previous day is thus reported: — existet The few transactions have been effected at full 0) Greg Ont Tee opens rates, say upon the basis of 9} rials per arrobe for renunciation of the Post Office advertising was] p 5 No.12, under which rate nothing can be ob- triumphantly pointed to as evidence of a fall- | tained. Molasses continues as last advised. Freights ing off in our ciroulation, and it was passed were unchanged. Exchange ou New York was at from three and one-fourth to three and three fourths round with the same malicious industry with | per cent on bills of sixty days. There was no local which all the other lying assertions in regard | news of interest. currence _| From the west coast of Mexico our advices are to the Hunitn sreigiven ryan dated at Acapulco on the 27th ult. Great crowds ponents. of worshippers were rushing off to a new shrine It is scarcely necessary \« 244, that never at of the Virgin Mary. General Alvarez had entered his seventy-first year, and the occasion was made any time in its career bave the business, pe) —.) or ceneral compliment to him. He wanted BABNUMS noon and Eve BBYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, 472 Broadway.— Bowiasgv! ma, Boras, Dances, £e.—SusuReque (taLian Oreas SALOON, RBroadway.—Gso. Cammrr’s Mrn- grams Boos, Dances, Buacesguss, £0.—SCHEMERUOKN’S Bor. NINTH STREET, one door east of Breadway.—Sorowon's ‘Tauris. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, February 11, 1860. The Post Office Advertising. After a great deal of canvassing and opposi- tion on the part of our contemporaries, the Post- masters of this city recently decided in our favor the right to the Post Office advertising. The matter was then referred to the Depart- ment in Washington, and the Postmaster dency. The battle of the factions in the republican party for the nomination for the Presidency is fairly begun. Seward has been long in the tronage and circulation of our journal increased | thirty thousand dollars to enable him to move in more steadily than at the period referred to. | the war. The American schooner Falmouth, from We declined the Post Office advertisements simply because they did not pay, and because ‘we could find more profitable employment for our space, and we again accept them merely to put an extinguisher upon the absurd reports invented by the jealousy of our rivals. In regard to the attempt made by one of our San Francisco, had to ran from port in Manzanillo, from dread of a seizure, and reached Acapulco. Our accounts from the Sandwich Islands are dated on the 31st of December, but the news is unim- portant. Trade with the new guano islands was carried on briskly. The body of a man named William S. Tures, a caulker by trade anda Custom House watchman, who resided at 225 Monroe street, was found by a policeman last night, about eleven o'clock, lying anti-slavery contemporaries to compare its re-} dead upon the sidewalk in front of No. 14 State turns with ours we have a word tosay. The journal in question is a weekly rather than a daily, and owes any consideration it may pos- gess to its hebdomadal issues. In order to make @ show it selected for its purpose two months of its business receipts at a period of the year when trade is most active and when money flows in most abundantly. When the Heratp makes a calculation of its receipts it should be recollected that the months it publishes are given as an average of the whole year, and as this is done at periodical intervals the public have an opportunity of verifying their ac- curacy. There is no occasion on our part for resort- ing to partial or fabricated returns, as is but too commonly the practice, to impress the public with a conviction of the fact of our superior circulation. The amount of our advertising patronage is in itself sufficient to establish their belief in it. With gross receipts amounting to $800,000 annually, and increasing with a ra- pidity unexampled in newspaper growth, we can afford to be truthful in our statements on this point. It is no exaggeration to say, that unless something occurs to check its present progress, the Heratp will in a few years reach a height of prosperity and influence which it has never before, and will probably never be again, the lot of any journal to attain. ‘We have been thus explicit in our explana- tions of our motives for again inserting the Post Office letter lists, lest our acceptance of them should be construed into an admission of the adequateness of the price paid for them. We feel that a great wrong is being done to the Journals that are constrained to take them at the present unremunerative rates, in order that the extent of their circulation may not be im- peached. Before Congress separates {it should provide.a remedy for this injustice, by giving to the newspapers,which do the business of the government the prices that are paid by the street, caused by a fracture of the skull, produced, as is supposed, bya slung shot. Deceased was seen by a friend in Broadway about half-past ten o'clock, and when discovered the body was still warm. Thomas Downing, a young man who was found in the vicinity, and John Grady, keeper of a saloon at No. 10 State street, were arrested on suspicion, and detained for further examination. A meeting was held at Clinton Hall last evening, pursuant to the call of an Executive Committee headed by Chauncey W. Moore, to take the initia- tive in forming a “Young Men’s National Union Club of New York,” whose motto is to be, “The Union, the Constitution, and the Enforcement of the Laws.” Mr. A. P. Halsey had the chair. After short speeches by Mr. Moore and others, in which the sentiments of the address already put forth by the Executive Committee were reiterated, a com. mittee of five was appointed to draw up a code of regulations and by-laws, and also to present suit- able names to fill the various offices of President, Vice President, &c., of the club. The Police Commissioners met last evening, but transacted no business of general interest. The consideration of the question of the transferring of the force was postponed till next meeting. ’ The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the week ending February 4, the range of the barometer and ther- mometer, the variation of wind currents and the state of the weather, at three periods during each day, vis: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— Teg? jer. x. a | & '30 81 {30.701 26 N, (30.73126' SBI ‘Wednesday—Clear and cold; 9 P. M. very cold. ‘Thureday—Cioudy all day. trae 3 P. M. overcast and very light snow; . M. snow. Saturday—Snowing; 3 P. M. cloudy; 9 P. M. clear, Accounts from the Pike's Peak gold region state that great excitement prevailed at Denver City, among the miners, owing to the jumping of several claims within the city limits. Several collisions had occurred between the jumpers and the citizens, but bq blood had been shed. Serious results were, field, and yesterday the New York Tribune trotted oat Edward Bates, of Missouri, and showed off his paces by publishing his bio- graphy in large and leaded type, indicating the importance it attaches to the subject of the memoir. This article we have transferred to our columns to-day, that the reader may com- prehend the merits of our cotemporary’s nag, which is entered for the race to come off at Chioago in the middle of June. The winner of that “event” isto be run for the great Presi- dential stakes of $80,000,000 per annum for four years—$320,000,000 in all—which is to take place on the Tuesday after the first Mon- day in November. The Tribune has been for a long time throwing out its feelers for Bates in its editorial columns, and Greeley has been writing letters from the West, where he is pro- bably electioneering for him, in which he paves the way for his nomination by urging the ne- cessity of taking up an available man rather than a brilliant man, which is a sly, covert argument for Bates, and against the apostle of the higherlaw. Yes- terday morning the Tribune, by its memoir, brought Bates fairly and boldly out, as Mitch- ell, of the St. Louis News, did some two months ago, by showing that he was a republican of moderate and conservative views, who ought to be acceptable to many democrats and to Union men generally. And this Mr. Mitchell is not Bates’ candidate for the printing in Congress, and thereby hangs a tale. As for Greeley, if Bates should be successful; he is to have the Postmaster Generalship, the office promised him by Fremont. Raymond, who has been for some time on the fence, is also in the market, and is suspiciously delivering lectures just now in St. Louis. We should not be surprised if it turned out that his real mission in that quarter isto make the best terms he can with Bates, either for a fat slice of Congressional printing, ora chargeship, or consulship, or anything he can get. It will be seen, from the Zribune’s “Life of Bates,” that it is twenty-six years since he was in Congress, and from that time till the present he has held no political office and sought none, and bas taken little or no part in local politics. It further appears that he was born in Virginia in 1793. He is consequently sixty-seven years of age. But his poli tics are older than his years. He is an old fogy of the whig school, one of the fossil remains of another age. For a quarter of a century he has been out of the political world, and knows nothing of the active, living politics of the day. He-has never displayed any abili- ty or made any mark on his own age. He is now far behind the times, and in every way he is disqualified for the office of President of the United States, especially in this critioal june ture of the nation’s history. Buthe is eminent- ly qualified for the purpose of those who have selected him. He is unsophisticated and pliable, and has no will of his own, The man who, after two or three years of angling, has fished him up from the depths of his obscurity and re- tirement, is Old Blair, of Silver Springs, one of the shrewdest politicians 0 the age, a political writer of some force, who is »: lieved to have largely contributed to Helper’. “Impending Crisis.” He was originally a dem rat, from Kentucky, and in the time of Jackson became editor of the old Globe. He was not very polite or obliging to Polk, who, after his election to the Presidency, in 1844, compelled him to retire from the Globe and its spoils. He ostensibly sold out to Rives, who had been his printer, but secretly retained an interest, which, we be- lieve, he holds to this day. He went into a rural retreat, at a place called Silver Springs, some twelve or fifteen miles from Washington, in the State of Maryland. Though he has never since been able to gain public promi- nence, he has continued to pull the political wires in secret, and is famous at intrigue. He always goes to work when Congress meets, and has a sharp lookout for the printing spoils, His candidate for the printing of the House is Mitchell, of the St. Louis News, who, under his inspiration, hoisted the flag of Bates for the Presidency. If Mitchell gets the contract, Rives will get the work, and Blair will share in the job, while the chances of his candidate for the nomination at Chicago will be mate- rially promoted. He was successful in pro- curing the nomination of Mitchell as Printer in the republican caucus. But Weed, who is wide awake and as shrewd 8 politician as him- self, thoroughly understands his game, and will endeavor to checkmate him. Already he has upset the arrangement to give the spoils to Mitchell, and has managed to get the caucus nomination transferred by a majority of one to Defrees, of Indiana, who is the representative of Wendell. We need scarcely inform our readers that Weed is the manager-in-chief for Seward, hisman Friday. The parties to the faction fight, therefore, in the republican or- ganization for the House printing spoils and the federal spoils of the Presidency are : Bates, Blair, Rives and Mitchell, on the one side; and Seward, Weed, Wendell and Defrees on the other. Mitchell and Defrees are only men of straw, and Rives and Wendell are only men of buriness. The political champions are Bates ond Blair, against Seward and Weed, Bates is like a child in the hands of Blair, but not soSeward with regard to Weed. Seward does his own thinking, and Weed, who is a smart politician, merely carries out Seward’s ideas. Seward is not to be managed by the news- paper editors, and hence there is no entente cor- diale between him and Greeley. He does not believe in Greeley’s discretion or political sa- gacity, and Greeley considers himself under- rated, and resents it now and then by asly, sinister etroke at Seward’s ribs. Bates, on the contrary, is the kind of man that suits Gree- ley, for he is approachable and manageable— indeed, the right sort of man for the politicians generally. Greeley entered into the plans of Blair to bring out Fremont in 1856 in opposi- tion to Seward, and he now enters into his plans to bring out Bates in 1860 in opposition to the Senator from New York. For it was Blair who drew from his retirement the hero of California. We remember he called several times on us in 1856, just after we returned from Europe, and urged us to sustain Fremont. Having understood from Mr. Buchanan himself that he was not to be a candidate, and seeing no other candidate in the field, we did, by way of experiment, support Fremont‘as an opposi- tion candidate to the democracy, which had become fearfully corrupt and demoralized under the administration of Pierce. There was then no national, no vital question involved, as there is now, and it was generally believed that a change would be beneficial to the country at large. And very nearly was the desired change accomplished. Chiefly through the intrigues of Weed in Pennsylvania, who did not want to see a moderate and conservative man like Fremont elected, the explorer of the South Pass was defeated. Weed could not trust Fremont respecting the spoils. Blair could not trust Seward in the same regard. It was then diamond cut diamond between Weed and Blair, and so it is now again. The first trial of skill between the two Prest- dent makers was in the contest for the Speak- ership. In that Weed came out “second best.” Sherman, the extreme man, the endorser of Hel- per’s book, was Seward’s and Weed’s candidate. Pennington, the more moderate republican, was the “available” candidate of Blair and Gree- ley. The contest for the Clerkship is not of any significance, unless to show that Forney, who is overwhelmed with debt by his sinking Press, 801d himself and his two members, Hick- man and Schwartz, to the black republican party generally, in the battle for the Speaker- ehip, and his reward was the Clerkship. The election of Printer is a different affair. That involves spoils for the corruption of the party press and the establishment of a newspaper at Washington. Whichever of the two fac- tions wins this prize will be placed ina fair way of winning the nomination at Chicago. The contest, therefore, which will come off on Monday next in the House is full of interest. It is evident, from the voting in caucus, that they are closely balanced, and it is very hard to say which will come off victorious. From the report of the proceedings of the House, published in yesterday’s Heratp, our teaders may have perceived that Mr. Stanton denounced the conduct of Weed’s candidate for Printer in offering one-half his profits to the Republican Committee for electioneering purposes in case he should be elected by the House. We presume Mr. Stanton is on the other side, for on the score of bribery and cor- ruption both factions are admirably matched. It is a pretty quarrel as it stands, and for our part we care as little which faction beats the other as did the woman who, when she saw her husband and a bear engaged in deadly conflict, said “she did not care which licked.” Damaces To Matt. Conrractors.—In the Post Office Deficiency bill, passed by the House last Monday, provision is made for paying interest to the mail contractors on the sums found due to them by the government; butthe section was 8o ingeniously worded as to apply also to the holders of certificates. A proposition has been made to insert in that section a proviso that its acceptance would be deemed to be an abandonment of any claim for damages which the contractors might suppose they had. The black republican House, not desiring to close up that splendid opening for future spoils, de- clined to insert the préviso; but the Senate came to the rescue, and adopted an amendment confirming the payment of interest to the con- tractors themselves, excluding the assignees who bought up the certificates, and declaring that it shall be in full for all claims for damages. If the Senate persist in this plan of checkmating the plunder schemes of the House, we may survive the evil of a black republican organization. The News by the Canada—Meovement of the Abolitionists im the British Parlia- ment. By the Canada, at Halifax, we have three days later news from Europe, the cbief po'nt of which is the movement on the part of the British “abolitionists to get up another anti- slavery excitement, with a particular view to the United States. We were some time since informed that a combined effort was to be made by the British and American abolitionists against the existing institution of slavery in our Southern States. Several of John Brown’s principal tools were Englishmen; he is said to have sent agents to England, and to have received money from there; and the fugitive revolutionary aboli- tlonists from here are now endeavoring to stir up the sympathies and bleed the pockets of their British cousins, At a recent meeting in Wakefield, England, which was addressed by the mulatto Fred. Douglass and Miss Remond, the former announced that the British peo- ple “were to have a very important subject brought before them for conside- ration, and that was the propriety of form- ing an anti-slavery society which should assist in the work of the abolition of slavery in the United States.” As a part of thig move- ment, no doubt, Lord Brougham, who is one of the old original abolition leaders, moved on the 27th, in the British House of Lords, that the government should lay before the House infor- mation in regard to slavery, and the amount of cotton imported from the United States. Lord Normanby promised on the part of the govern- ment, that what information it possessed should be forthcoming at an early day. This union movement between the British and American abolitionists to abolish slavery in this country is a very suggestive one. It reminds us of the mission, over twenty-five years ago, of the ex-member of Parliament aboli- tionist Thompson, who came here to teach the American people their duty, and went back with a flea in his ear, because of his abuse and vituperation of this country, its institutions and the character of its public men and private citizens. But in the motion of Lord Brougham, coupling together two of the greatest material elements of the times—slavery and cotton— there is a curious relevancy. When the two tables are brought together and compared, John Bull will have an opportunity to weigh the relative value to his own pocket of niggers and cotton. On one side he will find the slave statistics of the United States, and on the other all the cotton which, through the nigger, we have senthim. He can then weigh the fact that to abolish the nigger will be to abolish cotton in the United States, just as the same policy has abolished sugar in St. Domingo. Then will come the hefting— cotton, nigger—nigger, cotton—and we shall not be at all surprised if the old gentleman, after duly weighing the value of each, shall say to my Lord Brougham that the subject of slavery in the United States may do well enough for discussion in Exeter Hall or the Stafford House, but it is not a fit subject for the floor of the British Parliament. We are glad to see the union in this matter between the British and American abolitionists. It is a good thing. Let Exeter Hall resound again with the old vituperations of the rascally Yankee slave owners, and of Washington, Jef- ferson, and all the fathers of the republic, in the most approved Wendell Phillips style. Send us George Thompson again to denounce the constitution. Let us have more British gold for another John Brown raid, and more British fanatical emissaries like Forbes for Kansas, Realf tor Secretary to another John Brown scheme of government, and Redpath to write for abolition newspapers such abuse of Ameri- can things as Yankee abolitionists feel a little compunction at writing. These fanatics find better tools and more money in England in months than they can gather in years here— vide Dr. Cheever’s church. Tae ABOLITION OF THE FRANKING Privi- LEGE.—The Senate did a good thing last Thurs- day in engrafting on the Post Office Deficiency bill a provision abolishing the grossly abused privilege which members of Congress and other federal officers have enjoyed for many years back, of having their correspondence, documents, speeches, books, boots, and all other portable matter, carried through the mails free of postage. In that respect we are just twenty years behind Great Britain. There, as here, the privilege had been grossly abused. Instances have been related of Western mem- bers of Congress who, for the sake of economy, made it a practice while in Washington to send home their soiled linen to be washed, and to receive clean clothes in return, all through the mails, and covered by their own franks. In the same way English members of Parliament used to frank hdunches of venison to their constituents, and one was even known to send @ pack of hounds from one part of the country to another, free of expense, under the privilege he enjoyed as a member of Parliament. But before its entire abolition in England there were guards and limitations placed upon the exercise of this privilege, such as that the whole address of the franked letter or docu- ment should be in the handwriting of the peer or member, and that the whole number of let- ters or documents mailed with his frank should not exceed ten per day. In this way the evil had been made pretty tolerable there; but still, as a matter of principle, the thing was unpopular, and when the cheap postage system was inaugurated in Great Britain, a score of years ago, the frank- ing privilege was wholly and completely abe- lished. The Queen pays her own postage, and go does every officer of her government, In the public offices postage accounts are kept, just as for any other regular or incidental ex- a pet th Gis evenizy:no sort of limit or re- striction was throwa around the exercise of the franking privilege. Senators, members of Con- gress, heads of departments and postmasters used or abused it just as much as they liked, and all their friends and acquaintances did the same. It was not necessary here,asin Eaglind, that the entire superscription of the letter or document should be in the handwritivng of the person entitled to the privilege. [oats cor even necessary that the signature should be ae autograph. “He might authorize Tom, Dick or Harry to frank documents for him. It wa only within the last few months that any ques tion was made at the General Post Office as t the right of members to have document: franked by proxy; and then a great outcry way made against the Postmaster General for his in terference. Every Senator and member wh: makes s speech in Washington must need, send copies of it to each of his constituents and he is expected to send them also the Paten Office reports, and every other document tha is printed by order of Congress. Some Sena tors keep one or two clerks constantly engaged in franking documents and blocking up the mails; and it is said that the cost of transport ing the franked matter of the delegate from Utah ‘cost, one or two years ago, between aix and seven thousand dollars. On the whole, the existence of this abuse coats the government, directly in losses to the Pos Office Department, and indirectly in the en couragement to members of Congress to make speeches and to vote for printing jobs, not les than between twoand three million dollars a year. Is it not full time, when the revenues of the Post Office Department fall eight millions « year below its expenditures, to put an end te this abuse? The Senate thinks so now, asi has thought for several years past, and has de termined to wipe it out forever. The most fea sible way of doing so was that which it had re- course to last Thuraday—viz, by an amendmen: to the Post Office Deficiency bill abolishing the franking privilege from and after; the 10th oJ April. But the House will refuse to eoncur in the amendment, on the pretence that a de ficiency bill is not the proper place for such 94 act of general legislation. is That is an empty pretence. If the legislation is per se good and proper, it can be carried oy just as well in this way as by a special act; and the fact is, that if it were not embodied in ‘an appropriation bill there would be very little chance of reaching the evil. Appropriation bills must be passed, but other matters of pub- lie concern have to give way for buncombe speeches and President making. Let the Se. nate adhere to its action, and let the black Fe. publican House, if it dare, defeat the Post Of- fice Deficiency bill by its opposition to so popu. lar a measure as the abolition of the privilege. The Herald and the Abolitioniste—Jeus- malism on the Napoleonic Prineip|: We present in another part of to-day’s im- pression a series of resolutions which formed the basis of the speeches at the recent conven- tions of the Garrisonian abolitionists in West- ern New York. It will be seen that the agita- tion throughout the country has had its natéral effect upon the radical abolitionists, and in- fused a little more vinegar into their denuncit- tions of the slaveholders, whom they have bean persistently sending to perdition any time these thirty years. As usual, these amiable persons, the Gard- sonians, premise their platform with the dogma of John Wesley, that human slavery is “the sum of all villanies;” that the slaveholder is made, by the act and fact of holding slaves a robber, an adulterer, a pirate and a murderer, and, comprehensively, “whatever else is unholy, impious and accursed;” that, therefore, they have no rights that any are bound to re- pect; that they are to be counted outside of any protection and privileges presumed to be given to all citizens by.the Bill of Rights and| the Declaration of Independence; that th Union of the States is asin and a crime, ought to have “been dissolved long sgo; tha! the governments, so called, of the slave Sta States in Congress should at once return to constituencies and set up a Northern repnbiic that the churches which permit their mem to hold alaves are the “synagogues of Sataa;’ that the State of New York should adopt a a to nullify within its territory the effect of thy Fugitive Slave act; that, upon the question | the irrepressible conflict, the doctrines of I ferson, the Richmond Znquirer and Se are identical, so far as the fact is © cerned—namely, that God has declared, be tween slaveholders and non-slaveholders “ tle shall be no concord, but an everlasting sip ration, wide as the difference between bee and hell;” that the democratic party is “th roughly atheistic” and “daringly depravd; that the republicans are “ utterly unwortly support,” and that before long slavery # be hurled to destruction, no matterif the Uiio and constitution go with it. This is what might be called a delectb platform—a sort of literary curiosity—a ¥ exposition on paper of the doctrines which ‘ol Brown attempted to enfore with the rifle. Si gularly enough, however, - solidified in string of resolutions we find a warm encosi for the New York Heratp, a journal ehi hath not heretofore met the approbation ¢ abolitionist faction. It is a recogtti of the Huratp as the only ne in the world which is perfectly ital independent, and sufficiently comprehasil to present every important questin the fullest and fairest manner, giving al \ parties who discuss it, from every PO! of view, a free and impartial hearin. 80 doing the abolitionists have only folo the example of Southern conventions, ‘hii within the last two years, have repeatedlygi us votes of thanks for simply doing ou’ a as journalists, and printing their resotiti quite as rabid, quite as treasonable, qute savage and quite as harmless as thovewh we publish to-day. It is, then, quite a well settled fact tat Heratp is the only journal which has thep! to print everything that bears upon any My] tant public issue, no matter from quarter it may emanate. We place all thf and documents upon an imperishable ec: for a guide whereby the American peipl the future, as well as at the present diy, see, a8 in a mirror, the events } around us, and im Europe as wol, from them draw a logical deduction the nature of the effects to which such must naturally lead. And it is a remsrk| fact, that the orators and the writers of alll tions and cliques, political, and at home, and to a great extent abi obliged to appeal to us as the only through which their ideas and systems can be fully and fairly 9 to the public. And, without gd because we state an admitted we may safely say that we have c out our original idea, adopted a qua: century ago, and that we ta news pal the active sense of the word, giving fi/ill to dwcussion of public affairs, no. up“attd