The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1860. NEW YORK HER * JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. 'S, eash to advance. Money sant by mat wi beat the Wier US sender.” Penage sampe tot recsieed es odleaription rie DAME MTERALD, no cts per copy, oat nanan, ‘Edition oer THE WEEKLY HERALD, every 6 oles cents annum, the European Been Soe PAR pau HE "y, 0° 88. per aR. AMUSEMENT THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Itaian Oren Banesk or Sevusa. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Cooxr's Rora Aurui- BUEATER. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ricuarn III.—Roox- ren. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Ouvex Two, WALLACE’S THEATRE, Poor Younc Man. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 6% Brondway.—Jeanir Deans. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Jack Sarrranp~ LApins’ STRATAGEM. Broadway.—Romayce oF 4 BROADWAY BOUDOIR, 444 Broadway.—Goop yor Evn—Imish AssuRaNcs AND YaNkuE Mopesry. BAHNUM’S AMERICAN MUSHUM, Broadway.—After- moon and Kvening—Ocroroon. BRYANTS' MINSTREIS, Mechanios’ Hall, 472 Broad. wry Benumiques, Boxes, ‘Dances, 4£0.—We Come raow mux Huss, NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Geo. Cunisty’s Min- Srexts ix Songs, Dances Buaesques, &c.—Dovsis Bevpep a. NINTH STREET, one door east of Broaiway.—Soromon's Teurts. New York, Monday, February 13, 1860, The News. The steamship Etna, from Liverpoo) January 28, arrived at this port last night. The Etna brings the details of the news brought by the Canada, but from some unknown cause we did not obtain our files until too late to be used for this morning's edi- tion. The telegraphic report from Sandy Hook stated that the Etna had evidently been in colli- sion with something, and had lost her bowsprit, but we were unable to obtain any particulars. The North Star reached this port yesterday morning, from Aspinwall, by way of Havana, with the California mails, three hundred and fifty-one passengers, and some specie. She left Aspinwall on the 4th and Havana on the 6th of February. Serious consequences were expected to result from ‘the disunion movement in New Granada. It wa’ thought that a new republic would be formed by the seceding States, as Carthagena had already been proclaimed, under a rule, independent of the federal authority. Good reports had been re- ceived from the Cruces gold mines, but operations aust be suspended in April—the rainy season, ‘The court martial on board the United States ship Wyane had disposed of the case of Lieutenant Morris by restoring that officer to his duty. From Central America we have important news, dated at Managua, Nicaragua, on the 24th, and San Juan del Norte on the 31st of January. Colonel George F. Cauty had visited Nicaragua as agent of the Anglo-American (Croskey & Co.) Transit (Company, and made new offers to the Martinez go” vernment for @ concession, the road to be opened within six months after the paper was signed. The sompany proposes to pay one hundred thousand dollars within four months to Martinez, to pay the Nicaraguan portion of the debt of the federation— three hundred thousand dollars—the government giving six per cent interest. They also offered to take one hundred thousand acres of land along the route, paying therefor one hundred theusand dol- Jars—Commodore Vanderbilt to have the route to California. A legislative committee was appointed to confer with Colonel Cauty. A line of British Steamers would run to Greytown, in order to catch the China and Australia trade by way of the Pa- cific. Colonel Blanco, of Costa Rica, had made a movement in favor of Mora at Guanacaste, but it was suppressed by the government. We have advices from Honduras dated at Belize ton the 14th of January. Christmas and New Year were celebrated with great éclat—feasting, horse racing, yachting, and other amusements. The Legislative Assembly met on the 7th ultimo. Her Majesty's Superintendent's message was very short; the session would likely be also short. A box with specie, from England for Belize, had been stolen wn its route, and a similar one, but filled with shot, bubstituted. The fraud was not discovered until the box was opened at its destination. British darks Mercy and Mary Bibby had been condemned, and would be soon offered for sale. The members of the New York Legislature fa- vorable to a pro rata Freight bill held a caucus in Albany on Saturday. Several amendments wera proposed to the present bill, and a proposition to force it to a vote in its present shape was discussed, but nothing definite was determined on. A report of the proceedings of the members wf the judiciary and members of the bar at the meeting held in this city on Saturday last, to express their feelings in regard to the death of Judge Ingersoll, are given elsewhere in our volumns to-day. Judge Betts presided, and Mr, Truman Smith presented suitable resolutions, and paid a glowing.tribute to the character of the de- ceased. ‘The trial of Hazlett, at Charlestown, Va., for his connection with the John Brown affair was con- cluded on Saturday last, by the jury rendering a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The prisoner received the verdict with the same indif- ference which he has manifested during the trial. The brig Brothers, Capt. Davey, from Alexen- dria for this port, with a cargo of coal, was yes- Yerday, when off the Highlands, run into by the schooner R. H. Huntley, and cut through. She sank in about three-quarters of an hour. The cap- tain and crew were saved, and arrived in this city last evening. Owing to the favorable character of the foreign news by the Canada, at Halifax, there was a firmer feeling 1m cotton on Saturday, and the market closed firm on the basis of llc, chiefly for middling uplands. The transactions footed up about 3,500 bales, chiefly in store. The flour market was firm for common grades wf State and Western, while extra brands were un- Sitered. The transactions were to a moderate oxtent. ‘Wheat was in fair milling demand, while sales were Yeht. White Southern sold at $156, white Indiana at 31 G0, and red Southern at $1 98. Corn was dull and heavy, and sales light at 79c. a 80c. for Jersey and South- ern yellow, and 80c. for Southern white, Pork was firmer, ‘with moderate enles, including new meas at $18 250 $18 5, tho latter for good city, and new prime sold at $11 ‘373; a $11 60. Optional conteacts for future delivery of ‘mess were also pretty freely made. Sugars were firm, with Bales of about 69 hhis. Cuba muscavado, chiefly within the range of 7c. a 7Xc., and 600.8 700 boxes on pri- vate terms. Coffee was frm with limited sales. Freights wore firm with a fair amount of engagements, and es- pecially to British ports. Ship room for both foreign ant Southern domestic ports was reduced. Among the engage w.cots fo Liverpool were about 1,500 bales of cotton at 7 E52 Na Actual Revolution and Bleedshed in South America—Prospective Revolution and Bloodshed im North America. The news we published last week from Venezuela, and the intelligence we give this morning from New Granada, although they may not strike the general reader as important, pos- sess en interest and significance that should not be lost sight of at this critical period of our history. The whole of South America appears to be in @ state of anarchy and bloodshed. The American continent, stretching from the regions of the North Pole to Cape Horn, embracing within its limits various zones or belts of climate, soil and geographical aspects, produces in abundance every- thing which the wants and luxuries of man require, and of a quality not inferior to the products of any other portion of the globe. Its forests supply the finest timber, its cotton is sufficient for the demand of the “| whole world, its sugar is superior to that of the West Indies, better than that of India, and the wheat of its Western fields is the finest in the world. Gold and silver,iron and coal, copper and lead, liein its bosom. The richest tropical fruits ripen under its Southern sun, and the products of agricultural labor are developed in endless variety. That portion of the continent lying north of the Gulf of Mexico has, for the last two hundred years, been peopled by a hardy, thrifty and industrious people, composed of the Anglo-Saxon race, intermixed with the active elements of other races, which a love of enterprise and progress has brought to these shores. Under the rule of this people the American republic has at- tained a marvellous developement. The insti- tution of slavery in the South, undef the guid- ance and control of the white race, has been made a beneficent instrument in developing its resources and enriching the world with its valu- able products, to an extent that the cotton of the Southern plantations almost enjoys a mo- nopoly all over the globe. Slave labor has gradually receded from those portions-of the continent where the labor of the free white man is adapted to the climate, and has centred in those States where slave labor has been or- dained a necessity by nature. In that portion of the American continent south of the Gulf of Mexico we behold a sin" gular contrast to this picture. There we have a number of distinct independent nations, popu- lated by the Latin race, intermixed with the aboriginal people, which, following the exam- ple of the North Americar Colonies, threw off the yoke of the mother country, and established themselves as separate independent republics— Mexico, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, the Ar- gentine Confederation, the Oriental Republic, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, San Salva- dor, Honduras, New Granada, Venezuela and Paraguay; and in the midst of this nest of repub- lies stands one solitary nation which still re- mains a monarchy, growing and flourishing under a crowned head—the empire of Brazil, What is the history of these South American republics? It presents a record of perpetual anarchy, re- volution and civil war, neglected fields, deserted harbors, agricultural resources undeveloped, rich mines unworked, and universal retrogres- sion. Selfish ahd unprincipled party leaders have divided the people, and keep the countries in an unceasing condition of international war- fare. Every steamer which arrives brings news of a fresh revolution in some of the South American republics. We all know the miserable state of affairs long existing in Mex- ico; and now Venezuela, which was esteemed, as it were, the New England of South America, has fallen into a more desperate con- dition, and in all probability will before long be given up hopelessly to the rule of the color- ed race. In the empire of Brazil, on the con- trary, surrounded by all these free nations, prosperity reigns and progress is the order of the day. The people are contented and peace- ful, and satisfied with the monarchical govern- ment under which they live. There, no daily revolution disturbs the course of things; the country is developing its resources successful- ly; but the secret is that Brazil has maintained the institution of slavery, while the republics have abolished it. Slavery in Brazil is a patri- archal institution, as the slavery at the South is with us; and under it that empire has grown prosperous, and the institution itself has been made a blessing to both races, just as it has be- come in this country, where the slave popula- tion has increased from three hundred thou- sand to four millions. Slavery exists as a nor- mal condition in these tropical countries, and it cannot be abolished without producing evil results. There is a set of agitators in this country whose fanatical course is calculated to bring the United States into the same chaotic condi- tion as the unfortunate South American repub- lies, and they seem to be laboring to that end. Our Garrisons, Phillipses, Sewards, Giddingses, Hales and John Browns are aspiring to the parts of the Santa Annas, Monagases, Rosases; Miramons, Urquizas and Floreses of South America. They, too, would incite a war of races within our own borders; and if they should succeed in electing a black republican Presi- dent in 1860, his first act will be an attack upon the rights ‘of the South. Encroach- ments and restrictions will be made upon the institution of slavery which will drive the South to exasperation, and at length an at- tempt will be made to abolish slavery alto" gether—a consummation which would at once impoverish the whole South, and break down all the commercial interests of the entire Union. This is the programme-of the republican agita- tors—the followers of Seward, the endorsers of Helper’s abominable doctrines, and the ap- provers of John Brown’s treason. But we have a fearful warning in the fate of the South American republics. British Carrraists aNpD WESTERN Ratt- Roaps.—Recent accounts from England iaform us that Mr. Cobden, the well known free trader, has lost, through his investments in our West- ern railroads, vary nearly if not all of the splendid fortune which the manufacturers and merchants of that country conferred upon him asa testimonial for his services in the cause of free trade. Mr. Cobden’s case is not a singular one. Many other of the English capitalists have burned their fingers in the same fire. These gentlemen are easily caught by the bait of a high rate of interest, and with it they readily swallow all the hopeful and glowing represen. tations of a set of speculators who make their profits in the construction of the road, and not in working it after it is built. From this source funds have been obtained to build hundreds of Cruclties im the Merchant Service—Com- vention with Great Britain for Their Suppression. We are glad to find that the question as to the means of preventing unnecessary harshness to sailors on board American and British ebips is about toreceive a solution from the joint action of the two governments. In the House of Commons, on the 27th ult., Lord John Russell stated that,in compliance with the address of the House on the cruelties prac- tised on board American ships, he had com- municated with the American government, that power had been given to Mr. Dallas to enter into negotiations to put an end to these atroci- ties, and that a convention was being drawn up with this object in view. This communication is stated to have been received with cheers by the House—whetherfrom a conviction of the existence of the same abuses in the English commercial marine, or from the desire to take a fling at this country, we cannot take upon ourselves to say. It is sufficient for us that the question is in progress of satisfactory adjustment, for we believe that preventive measures are as much called for by the bar- barities practised on board British vessels as on our own. In another column will be found & communication from an American shipmaster on this point, which corroborates the facts that have come to our knowledge in regard to. it. As regards the outcry made on the subject on the other side, we have to remark’, the greater frequency of the complaints made there arises from the circumstance that for one British ship that puts into our principal ports, about twenty American vessels enter Liverpool. It not unfrequently happens, too, that the Ame- rican captains against whom charges of cruelty are preferred are not native born Americans, but naturalized Englishmen. The harsh prac- tices prevailing in their own commercial marine they have introduced into ours, and thus it happens that the American name is made to bear the odium of cruelties which are common to the vessels of both countries. In a document recently communicated to the Senate, and which will be found elsewhere, we have a return of the number of native born and naturalized sailors who have been regis- tered during the last twenty years. It will be seen that, assuming all these to be living, they would not constitute in the aggregate a suffi- cient force to man our merchant vessels, to say nothing of our navy. Another curious fact shown by this return is that, notwithstanding the enormous increase of our commerce, there has been a considerable falling off in the sup- ply of sailors from both these sources during the last two years. Now, as the total number of men required for our merchant service is from 100,000 to 150,000, some idea may be formed of the immense number of foreigners that annually enter it. This result is mainly owing to the abandonment of the apprentice- ship system and the non-substitution of any other which could operate as a feeder for our commercial marine, We believe that, as regards both the British and American services, the origin of these complaints of cruel treatment is to be found in the fact that crimps are in the habit of shipping landsmen who have Lad no experience of the sea, and who consequently, in nine cases out of ten, turn out idle and re-- fractory. Responsible as they are for the safety of their vessels and cargoes, itis scarcely to be expected that sea captains should at all times be able to control their tempers with these unruly elements. Between _insubordina- tion and open mutiny, there are but slight bar- riers to pass, and in dealing with these cases of alleged cruelty, the position of the officers of & vessel should always be borne in mind and their conduct judged in reference to their responsibilities and the crews they have to deal with. We are far from wishing to palliate or excuse the harahness to which seamen are often unne- cessarily subjected. We desire, however, that fall justice shall be done to both services; and certainly so far as actual barbarity is con- cerned, the balance of evidence is against the English commercial marine. There are no sailors in the world, perhaps, worse treated or worse fed than the British; and there can be no more conclusive proof of the fact than that they will always ship on board American ves- sels in preference to their own, when they can | get the chance. The convention, which we are told has been agreed to by the two governments, is all very well,and will, no doubt, tend to mitigate the evils complained of. lt will, however, faii to reach the necessity which exists for the punish- ment of infractions of discipline where the safety of a veesel depends upon its observance. Some plan by which sailors can be‘properly trained and educated is obviously the only effectual means of preventing a recourse to harsh measures. The apprenticeship system, under proper conditions and restrictions, ap- pears to us best calculated to do away with the revolting practices which are commor to both services. Sea captains are not negessarily tigers or devils incarnate, and if they can only get crews to work well under their orders, we have no doubt that they would be found just as placable and easy to deal with as other people. In regard to the desire to suppress the atroci- ties complained of, we can claim the credit for our government of having been the first to move in the matter. It will be seen from ® letter from Mr. Dallas, written in April, 1858, that not only were his most anxious efforts directed to the subject, but that Mr. Buchanan before him had labored long and earnestly to bring about a convention such as has at last been agreed to on the part of Great Britain. A Worn ror tae Centrar Parx.—In answer to a resolution of the Legislature, the Commis- sioners of the Central Park have made a very interesting report as to the present condition of the work, and the probable cost of finishing it. The report is worthy the special attention of every one who has the prosperity and glory of this imperial city at heart. Next to the Croton waterworks, the Park is the most noble, the most praiseworthy, the most philanthropic of our pub- Nie works. We have watched its progress trom its inception, examined the work step by step, and can conscientiously approve the manner in which it has been performed. A cry has been raized in certain quarters that the patronage in the hands of the Commissioners has been used for party purposes; but there is no sufficient evidence to sustain such a charge. It seems to be generally conceded that there bas been less of political jobbery about this work than any other, and that, therefore, it has been much better done. Certainly, the discipline preserved in every department of Ixbor upon the Park fs admira- miles of railroads in our Western States, where there are neither cities, towns, nor settled coun- try to use them, and where, consequently, they cannot pay even their working expenses until the tide of emigration shall have brought peo- ple to use them. Had these foreign capitalists paid more attention to the statements and ad- monitions of the Henan, in past years, they would have saved their money, and been to-day much better satisfied with themselves than they now are, fone Sodom and Gomorrsh of the Pro-~ ‘vinoes, An article from @ Chicago paper, which we reprint in another place, gives a revolting pic- ture of the manners and morals of the people in the new cities of the W We have be- come so far accustomed “tO recording elope- ments of wives from their husbands, and vice versa, in the West, that such cases attract but little attention. The common excuses for these misdemeanors, that they are unavoidable . in @ new country and an unsettled state of socie- ty, where the domestic hearth is in the draw- ing room of a hotel, will not answer in the particular matter before us to-day. Thisisa case wherein 8 woman of mature age, refined, courteous, well educated, properly trained, surrounded with all that makes life agreeable, presiding over a luxurious home, descended, not with one person, but with many, to break her marriage vows. And that the case is not a singular one in that section of the country, may be gathered from the context of our Chi- cago cotemporary’s rather remarkable article. "This picture of social life in the West is not flattering, and shows that the West sinks as rapidly or more so into vice and immorality than it progresses in population and material wealth. Within a year it seems that two clergymen have been obliged to give up their churches on account of immoral con- duct; at Racine a clergyman has seduced the wife of a brother in his church; two leading men in Chicago have debauched their sisters- in-law, and so on to the end of the disgusting chapter. We allude to this Chieago contribution to the erotic literature of the day not because Chicago is any worse than other places in the interior. Occurrences fresh in everybody’s recollection go to prove that other places— Boston for example—are quite as bad, so far as secret vice is coneerned. Atnd yet we find the editors and the parsons in these very places erying out to the metropolis, “Get thee behind me, Satan, for I am holier than thou.” The fact is that there are many small cities and towns in the interior where the per cent- age of crime is greater in proportion to the population than in the metropolis, with all its foreign and floating population, to say no- thing of a notoriously scanty and inefficient police force. And it is likewise a fact, beyond all peradventure, that while nearly all the felo- nies committed here are done by foreigners new- ly arrived, the sinks of iniquityto which the ru- ral editors and parsons so pathetically allude are maintained and supported by non-residents, provincial journalists on’ a spree, country traders piloted by dry goods drummers, or clergymen eager for forbidden fruit. The po- lice rolls contain the names of some of the very hypocrites who are so loud in proclaiming the city of New York, this grand imperial city of which every American citizen should be proud, a Sodom ora Gomorrah. The truth is that the people from the country know much more of the wickedness of New York than our own citizens. Without the strangers, the gambling hells, the brothels, and other disreputable houses of the metropolis, could not be sustained. Our people do not Arequent them, and, as a general role, do not know where they are. What is done secretly in Chicago is repeated openly in New York by the same persons, and we write this to hold them, and not the citizens of New York, respon- sible for their immorality. The time for such shamming and humbugging and double-faced hypocrisy has gone by. Let us have no more of it, but every tub fair and square on its own, bottom. —/ Tass Barrie To-Day ror THE Pristina Sroms iv THE Hovse or REPRESENTATIVES.— To-day commences the fight for the printing spoils in the House of Representatives, amount- ing, perhaps, toa million of dollars. Perhaps it may take a month yet to decide the question, for in its bearing on the republican nomina- tion for the Presidency it is of greater impor- tance than the contest for the Speakership. The republican members have held two cau- cuces. In the first, the plunder was awarded to Mitchell, the Bates candidate; in the second, by @ majority of one, to Defrees, the candidate of Seward. The charges, however, brought against Defrees, of offering as a bribe to the republican leaders half the profits of the gi- gantic job, to be used for electioneering pur- poses, will more than counterpoise that single vote in the House. It will rouse the demo- cratic members to opposition, and they hold the balance of power between the belligerent parties, and may, perhaps, start a $hird candi- date of their own—not that they can succeed in electing their man, or that they are pre pared to turn these spoils to good account, for they have no rival candidates, as yet, in whose intereest one faction or another might elect a printer. Had any one democratic candidate such controlling power in the House as to command all, or nearly all, the democratic voter, then there would be a bona fide fight for the spoils in his favor. But, a it is now, the democrats are all at sea, and know not what to do till the Charleston Convention. The repub- licans, on the contrary, are already marshalied for two Presidential candidates—Seward and Bates—and fight under their two lieutenants— Weed and Blair. All that the democrats in the House can do is to worry the republicans for some time by preventing an election, and at last giving their casting votes for the repub- lican candidate whom they most desire to see in the field. This irrepressible conflict, therefore, between the two factions of the republican party pos- seases more than ordinary political interest, because it is not only for the possession and contro! of a vast amount of public plunder, but for the ascendency of one faction over the other, in view of the nomination to the Presidency. The two factions are about equally divided. The rival leaders, Weed and Blair, hate each otber as cordially as the rival men of business, Rives and Wendell. Weed is a Machiavelli in politics, Blair is a Talleyrand; and the fight will be so desperate that, perhaps, some man in the interest of Banks wll slip in between them, and thus give the Massachusetts leader the best chance of winning the race at Chicago ble. It is the first instance in this country, withia our knowledge, where a public work has been carried on like a private business affair. Our people have already enjoyed the first fruits of the Park in the delightful Ramble, the free concerts, the noble drives and the skating. But this is only the beginning. Now, it seems that two and a half millions of dollars are wanted to complete the Park. It should be given cheerfully. No one will object to his quota of taxation for so fine and grateful a pur- pose; and so long as the work upon the Park progresses as steadily, and is as well and thoroughly done as at present, the Commisaion- ers should receive the encouragement and sup- port of the Corporation and the Legislature. Rey. Taxopors Parxer’s Seconp Mantresto ix Favor or Revotution.—Our readers have not yet forgotten the first letter of Theo- dore Parker on hearing the news of John Brown’s invasion of Virginia. The audacity of its treason and the intensity of its fanaticism have made it memorable. Another letter from the same pen now appears on the execution of the martyr, saint and idol of the abolition party, who Mr. Parker thinks is properly put by Cheever before Moses. The second is equally fanatical and revolutionary with the former letter. The reader will find it in another column of this day’s Heap, copied from a Boston journal. Parker says “the storm ofanother revolution is beginning, and that none knows when and where it will end”—that “on the morning of the 19th of April, 1775, at daybreak, Old England and New—Great Britain and the thirteen colo- nies—were one nation. At sunrise they were two. The fire of the grenadiers made reconci- liation impossible, and there must be war and separation. It is so now.” He goes on to throw cold water on moral force, and says that what Seward with his appeal to the higher law, and the eloquence of Phillips and Sumner, could not accomplish, will be brought to pass by John Brown, who inaugurated the true method of abolition, when, taking his life in his hand, he said, “Slavery shall go down, even if it be put down with red swords.” So that as the blood shed by the grenadiers in the first revolution “made reconciliation impossible,” and inevita- bly led to “war and separation,” “it is so now,” in the second revolution, and war and separation will follow from the blood shed by Jobn Brown at Harper's Ferry, and the shed- ding of his blood on the gallows at Charlestown. Such is the historical parallel drawn by Parker. “Red swords” are the weapons of his warfare for the pulling down of the strongholds of Slavery, and he significantly hints that “the battle-axe,” though rusted since the first reyo- lution, has still an edge that can “bite and cleave down the monster which hinders the progress of humanity.” And he winds up by a bloodyallu- sion to “the men of wrath” who are to be let loose in “the stormy time that is before us.”’ Thus does this apostle of the anti-slavery party at the North preach up a bloody civil war. His epistles ate of greater authority among the brethren than those of St. Paul. The words of Parker and Garrison, Phillips and Seward, are “the law and the prophets” by which they swear. It isin vain that Senators and Representatives in Congress gloss over the creed of the “party. So lately as the 27th of January last, at the annual meeting ofthe Mas- sachusetts Anti-Slavery Society held in Bos- ton, Dr. John 8. Rock gave utterance to the fol- lowing sentiments :-— I would no morc think of comparing Napoleon III. with Bochanan the Last than I would the Saviour with Beelze- Oired ea Ge eee i comnts te col man wi ve Sony nae renee Dee tions knew of the smothering fires that are in need only of one breath of pure air to fan into Here are foreign nations invited by these traitors to stir up “the smothered fires” of ser- vile insurrection in the Southern States with a view to the conquest of the whole country; and the blacks are reminded that they “have every- thing to gain” by fighting on the side of the enemy. Who can say that Parker is not at the present-moment on a mission of this kind in Europe? Where all this will end, if the revoln- tion is not speedily crushed, needs no prophet to predict and no ghost to tell. Tue Benicia Boy Aproap.—As our readers are very well aware, Mr. John C. Heenan, familiarly known to the “governing classes” as the Benicia Boy, is now in England, bent upon a tournament with the fisticuffs champion. of England, Thomas Sayres. Mr. Heenan has been received by our English cousins in the most affectionate way. He attracts as much attention as any distinguished orator—say Mr. Webster ; Wendell Phillips, or Garrison; or any of our wonderfully clever women writers—say Mra, Beecher Stowe. For the moment Mr. John C- Heenan has put the nose of Miss Re- mond, the American lady, a trifle off color, who couldn’t get a passport from Mr. Dallas, and in reference to whose trials and tribulations the mind of the British public hath been powerfully exercised. Mr. Heenan has been feted and caressed by the nobility and gentry, as well as the of polloi, as the finest representative of American muscle which we have ever sent abroad. It is eaid by the British critics, that although he is very big, and mag- nificently proportioned, our boy is not well knitted together; but that will be shown by his conduct in the ring. He may take his knit- ting work with him, and stay an uncomfortably long time with the champion of Albion. Mr. Heenan seems to understand his mission, and to respect the very large and important class of persons that he represents abroad. Mr. Heenan does not talk treason in Exeter Hall, nor take abolition tea with the Duchess of Sutherland. We do not think he would asso- ciate for a moment with Mr. Frederick Douglass; and if Lord B.ougham should ask the Boy’s opinion of any of ou: peculiar institutions, he would get a reply more direct and circumstantial than agreeab!e, perhaps. The Boy, as we are glad to sce, declines to make a show of himself, althongh offered a large sum of moncy to do so. But we bave no doubt that now that Parliament has been opened and the London season fairly commenced, Mr. Heenan’s stalworth form may be seen any fine day in Regent sivret, Pica dilly, or at Hyde Park corner. And, badinage apert, the Benica Boy, in iris way, will produce amuch more favorable impression than many of the represen e men and women whow we have sent abroad. We have e a distinguished honor of a personal inter with the Benicia Boy, and can bear y testimony to his modest and courteous be havior, Whether he thrashes Sayers or not, any notorious abolitionist—say- he will leave in England a more opinion of our national muscle. —_—_—_—— Avxormen Cuarren 1 Havrse’s Hisroav. We publish to-day an article from the Caroli: Watchman, ® paper published in Salisbu North Carolina, the town where the notorio Helper, author of the “ Impending Crisis,” employed at the time when it is alleged that robbed his employer. This article isa rep to Helper’s vindication of himself, which a; peared in the F p and other New Yo journals some time ago, and furnishes a ve interesting history of the leader whom th black repub! have thrust into the van their foray upon the rights and interests of ¢! South. It appears that Helper was for thre years in the employment of Mr. Michael Brown of Salisbury, North Carolina, a merchant o known integrity and truthfulness, and we hat the assurance of the Watchman that Mr. Bro’ substantiated the charge that this faith though trusted clerk robbed him of some th hundred dollars, and then departed from town, as had been previously stated. But tf odious character of the man Helper is still ther developed by the statement that when bh was leaving Salisbury for New York, aft making « clean breast of his previous tre = to Mr. Brown, he played another deceitfu considered a more profitable account by pub ture painted of Helper in the article which we transfer to our columns to-day from a journal! printed at the scene of his early crimes and J treacheries, and we commend it to our readers ¥| as a specimen of the kind of*men the republi- cans have selected to lead them in the contest 4 for the Presidency. They seem to have picked up all the vagabonds of all parties for their # agents, including Helper, of North Carolina, J Forney, of Pennsylvania, and many other rene- gade politicians from New York. We may have a fulllist by and by of all these waifsand strays who are enlisted under the black repub- lican banner, marching to disunion, revolution, # and the overthrow of the republic. ‘Tae CAMBER oF ComMERcE ON PRIVATEER. Inc.—A great many years ago, in good ola Colony times, when the second George was King, the Chamber of Commerce of New York was established by the solid old merchants of’ that day. Noone ever ascertained precisely for what the Chamber was organized, and for a long time it never claimed any special recogni- tion at the public hands. We are not aware that the Chamber of Commerce gave any very valuable advice to General Washington or the Marquis de Lafayette, or that they told Rochambeau how to sail his ships. Nor do we believe that the Chamber had much to do witl the foundation of the government, or the event that led to the second war with England. those days the Chamber of Commerce was com sidered as a body organized for the spe bers and the details of trade and finance at particular point. But we have all that. It has been reserved for the latter days and this glorious country to p: duce a statesman who defines the mission of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenip tentlary to be nothing more than that ofa m consular agent, and for the Chamber of Co: merce to have assumed the pesition of a co gress of diplomats. The Chamber of Con merce has taken up the very difficult and de cate question of privateering, and settled quite to the satisfaction of the Chamber a Commerce. Some ill-natured people may sa} that the Chamber would do better to attend its own affairs; that it is a mutual admirati society, and derives its chief importance fro its own exalted self-appreciation. We don agree in all this. We simply call the atten of the world in general to the new and in portant diplomatic body which hails Wall street. Next to the Chevalier Webb! great beefsteak discussion with Lord Palme ston, the action of the Chamber of Commero is the most important demonstration of American diplomacy on record. What a pity it is that Mr. Marcy is not alive to witness the annihilation of his pet idea! —————- Conclusion of Hazlett’s Trial=Verdict of Guilty. p Barrmonr, Feb. 12, 1860. The trial of Hazlett has been concluded. On Friday evening his counsel, Mr. Groen, made an able defence! then the case was submitted to the jury, when the Court adjourned. On Saturday, when the jury rendered a ver- dict of murder in the first degree, the prisoner received the apnouncement with the same indifference that has characterized bis conduct throughout the trial. Arrival of the Canada at Boston. Bostox, Feb. 12, 1860. The steamship Canada, from Liverpool 28th ult. via Queenstown and Halifax, arrived at this port at 123¢ P.M. to-day, and her maiis will be despatched this even- ing, and will be due at New York at an early hour on Monday . Sons of Mi The Wyoming Lodge, I. 0. 8. nik plac 3 ted Hon, We i Disomale, W. Scoit Johason, Fey, aud it. George I. Fried, to the Grana National Encampracee of the Order, to be held at Washington city on the instant. Markets. tr oN ERAT Feb. 11,1860 Mees pork quiet at 817.75. Bulk meat 74 a 8%e. Flour very dull at $5 40. Wheat firm. Corn quiet. ‘a a to-day, 5,000 bats Feb. 1, 1860: on—Sales to-day, 8; rales unchanged at 0s,¢. a 10%. for middling. New Onteans, Feb. 11, 1860, Cotton—Sales to-day, 12,500 bales, at unchanged rates, . Whiskey, 25¢ a 26¢.’ Freights of cotton to Liverpool, $.38d. “Exchange on Iondon, 84 a 93¢ per cent, and® with bills of lading 7, a8 per cent premium. Exchange on New York, sixty cays, 2% a 83¢ per cent discount, and at eight Ay a 13-26 per cent discount. Purranetrata, Feb. 11, 1800. Flour firm—Superfine $5 62 a $6; wheat quict: white $1 40 « $1 50; red $1 20 a $1 36; corn declining. Yellow Tic. Provisions firm: mess pork $18. $18 25, Whiskey unchanged. Bartrwone, Feb. 11, 1860. Flour dull—Howard strect beld at $5 37),; wheat firm: $135 a $1 45; red $1 25 a $1 30; corn qniet, yellow 72c. Provisions steady. Whiskey firm at 2c. for cofiee firm and advancing: prime held at 12%¢. a 13¢. ’ Sight exchange on New York 1-10th per comt pre- Bivm. The Late Murder in State Street, 10 THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD Sun—Permit me te correct the report published tn your paper of this morning, relative to the murder of Mr, Tors The sclertion ef roundsmen is made by the Captain of the Might Inspectors; consequently Mr. tuers’ appointment was made uy Captain Ackerman, The rules of the oflies Jelinquencies to be reported to the Captain sand the report is ma Tn juation rtqueht It ts f the tight or veyor. lishing the infamous “Impending Crisis,” underf} the patronage of the black republican leaders—ba Sherman, Greeley and the rest of the endorse M of that abominable and treasonable publication.g] Nothing can be more disgusting than the pic-g]