The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1860, Page 4

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Goode, a former representative from Virginia, was made in both houses. Appropriate eulogies were delivered, and the customary resolutions were adopted. The Seventh regiment, National Guard, take their departure this afternoon for Washington, to participate in the ceremony of inaugurating Mills’ equestrian statue of Washington. According to our despatches, the regiment's acceptance of the invitation tendered by the Congressional Commit- tee has created the liveliest satisfaction among all elasses of people at the national capital. At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes erday, a resolution was offered requesting the Dis trict Attorney to report to the Board the names of all persons against whom indictments were found prior to 1859, and which now remain undisposed of, together with the date of the indictment, the of- fence charged, and the reason for not having brought the parties to trial. Quite an interesting discussion ensued upon the resolution, which Super- visor Purdy characterized as “a very extraordinary nd unusual procedure,” and finally the subject ‘was laid on the table. Asketch of the discussion is given in our report of the proceedings. After the transaction of some unimportant routine busi. ness the Board adjourned till Monday next. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yester- day a communication was received from the Mayor mominating P. G. Maloney for President of the Croton Aqueduct Board, and Lewis A. Sayre for Resident Physician. The nomination of Mr. Maloney ‘was rejected—11 to 5; while that of Dr. Sayre was confirmed—10 to 6. A report in favor of allowing the city railroad companies to continue the prac- tice of sprinkling salt in the streets to melt the snow was adopted by a vote of 10 to 6. Five ocean steamers were sold at auction at the Merchants’ Exchange yesterday. The Illinois was knocked down to B. W. Cheeverfor $106,000, the Moses Taylor to the same person for $102,000, the Btar of the West to Moses Taylor for $15,000, the Philadelphia to Francis Morris for $5,000, and the Empire City to Francis Morris for $10,000. In the General Sessions yesterday Dr. Thomas J. Ellis, a notorious confidence man, was convicted of stealing a diamond ring from Miss Mary Roberts, Snd sent to the State prison for three years and six months. Some curious developements were made at the close of the trial, which will be found in our re. port elsewhere. According to the City Inspector's report, there ‘were 507 deaths in the city during the past week, fn increase of 52 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 106 more than occurred uring the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives 3 deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &c., 79 of the brain and nerves, 7 of the generative organs, 21 of the heart and blood veaeels, 174 of the lungs, throat, &c., 9 of old age, 79 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 5 stillborn and premature births, 72 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 54 ge- neral fevers, and 4 diseases of the urinary organs, including 22 from violent causes. The nativity table gives 352 natives of the United States, 87 of Ireland, 33 of Germany, 16 of England, and the ba ance of various foreign countries. A letter from Rio Janiero of the $d ult. reports aa follows :—The number of foreign vessels is ¢on- Biderably reduced. This, together with the exces- Gively high rates demanded for coffee, leads us to Delieve thagthe shipments this month will be com- paratively small to your country. Business very Gull at present. Flour partakes of the general de- Pression, and should imports thie month be heavy, Ho improvement need be expected. Exchange on London 253, 90 days. Our correspondent in Monterey, Mexico, dating on the 15th ult, reports the existence of many Petty jealousies and divisions in the liberal ranks. It was feared that the church party would make fn attack on the city, and, if successful, that a very Bevere revenge would be taken for the former op- Position of the inhabitants to the clergy. Consid- erable alarm existed in consequence. We have news from Venezuela dated at Caracas onthe 28th and Lagnayra on the 3ist ult. The central government had granted a commission to NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1860. Dr. Hogan, one of General Walker's officers, to raise a mounted rifle company composed of foreign. ers. The Doctor, now a captain, did so, and has re- ceived full permission to do all manner of injury to the revolutioniste. The same gloomy state of affairs continued all over the country. The constitutional Congress did not meet on the 20th of January, as expected; so the canvass of votes for President and Vice President could not be instituted. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced 3,000 bales, in- cluding 2,000 in transit, The market closed without change, and on the basis of quotations given in another column. Flour w.s firmer, with a fair amount of sales, ‘and for most grades the market closed 5 cents por barrel higher. Southern flour was also firm and in good demand from the trade. Wheat was firmer and more active, with pretty free sales at quotations given in another place. Corn was rather better, with sales of white and yellow Jor- eey and Southern at ‘8c. a 80c. Pork was firm, and some lees active, with sales of new mess at $18 50; new prime at $14873; a $14 03%. Beef,on accountot foreign ad- vices, was firmer. Coffeo was firm, with sales of mats Java at 15%{c.,and of bags do. at 16%{c., and 70 bags Santos sold at 13c. Sugars were firm, with sales of 200 a 300 bhds., 50 boxes and 4,000 bags Pernambuco, at rates given in snother place. Freights were steady, with a fair amouxt of engagements. The Presidential Campaign—& Third Party in the Field. On another page we publish a very curious document: it is the manifesto of the nucleus of a new third party which has taken the field for the succession to the Presidency, and calls iteelf a “Constitutional Union Party.” This address is issued from the federal capital by the Central Committee, headed by the name of Jobn J.Crittenden, of Kentucky, and bears the date of Washington’s birthday, in order, we sup- pose, to add to itseffect. It announces the inten- tion of the Executive Committee, at some future day, to call a national convention in Phila- delphia, to nominate a candidate for President, and to organise a campaign in opposition alike to the republican and democratic parties. Yet its platform, as far as it is announced, is pre- cisely the same as that of the democracy. Its “cardinal principle” is declared to be:— To remove the subject of slavery from the arena of party politica, and leave it to the independent control of the States in which it exists, and to the unbiasged action of the judiciary; to remove all obstacles from the due and faithful execution of tho provisions for the rendition of fugitive slaves; to guard and enforce the supremacy of the laws by an impertial and strict administration of the powers granted by the constitution; to respect the rights and reverence the Union of the States as the vital source of present peace and prosperity, and the surest guarantee of future power and happiness. Whether there are to be any other principles enunciated than those enumerated, the commit- tee leave to the Convention to determine, but add that they know of “no platform more acceptable to every true patriot than ‘the Union, the constitution and the enforcement of the laws.’ ” This is precisely the conservative ground occupied already by the democratic party, and the new party, consisting of the remains of the old whigs and the debris ofthe American orga- nization, calls upon “the people of the United States” to abandon democracy and support itself, because it has adopted the very princi- ples proclaimed by the democratic party. Now, it will occur to every rational mind that this new organization is more likely to damage than to aid the cause which it is its avowed object to serve. The object is the same as that of the democracy, and it is plain that the best way of accomplishing it is by uniting both forces together against theecommon foe, instead of dividing their strength and turning their weapons against each other, which would, perhaps, result in the defeat of both, and the triumph of the anti-slavery revolutionists, whose sectional position and whose ultimate designs are thus described by the Central Com- mittee of the new party:— As an indication of the character of this struggle, of its tho spuiicadt fact: that a convention has ‘boon Called by ‘one of these parties to select a candidate for the office of Chief Magistrate of the Union, from Which, by the neces- sary logic of its construction, fifteen States of that Union are excluded. This description of the republican party is true, and is rather under than over the mark. Then the “necessary logic of its construction” should lead the new party to ally itself with the democracy, whose object is to overthrow these black republicans in their black and foul at- tempt to seize upon the reins of government upon asectional, disunion issue, and by meansof “an organization which excludes fifteen States of the Union.” The democratic platform'is na- tional, and not sectional, and declares for the equal rights of all the States; and this equality and fraternity is the sum and substance of the platform of the third party, whose organization, therefore, can have no other effect than to draw away votes from the democracy, and so weaken its strength that re- publicanism, both black and red, may achieve a victory, whose result to the two other parties and the country at large may be well expressed in the old Latin words ve victis—“woe to the vanquished !” The South can take care of itself, and will vote asa unit; but it will require the united strength of all the conservatives, of every shade of politics, to defeat the republicans in any Northern State except,, perhaps, Oregon and California, which only opunt seven electoral votes. There is no other State north of Mason and Dixon’s line of which it can be predicted with confidence that it will be carried against the revolutionary legions of black republi- canism; so that 127 electoral votes are all that can be calculated upon to stem the advancing waves of the Northern horde of freebooters. But 154 votes are wanting; and if a new party is going to splitup the conservative strength of the Middle States, the chances are that the necessary balance of twenty-seven votes cannot be obtained. Here, for instance, in our own State, the republicans and democrats are very nearly balanced, as appeared by the result of the last election. But let a second conservative party take away even a small portion of democratic strength, and the State will un- doubtedly go black republican. But let the conservative elements unite, and the State is won for the constitution. Now, upon the State of New York the result of the election and the fate of the Union may depend. Its thirty-five votes, with the one hundred and twenty of the Southern States, would be more than sufficient to elect a constitutional President, and over- throw Seward and all his “higher law” host. Or take Pennsylvania, in which the democratic party were defeated at the last election by some 15,000 majority. By rallying all the ele- ments of conservatism in the coming conflict, the State might be won as it was in 1856. But divide them, and inevitable defeat is the result. Yet upon Pennsylvania may hang the destiny of the country. Its twenty-seven votes, with the seven of Oregon and California, would decide the battle in favor of the Union. Thus, then, the matter stands. It is not possi- ble that the n8w party can even hope to elect its candidate by the people. That is out of the question. It can only give the victory to the republicans in November, or bring the election into the House of Representatives, where that party would have the beat chance. The path of duty of the new party is, therefore, clearly pointed out, and that is to adopt the nominee of the Charleston Convention, as well aa ite platform. The organizers of the new party say the de- mocracy isa pro-lavery party, and ought to be overthrown, because it is helping to pro- mote disunion “by its frequent and unnecessary intrusion of the elavery question into party politics,” and thus increasing the growing spirit of disunion at the South and affordiag opportu- nities for anti-slavery agitation at the North. Our readers know that we are far from partial to the democratic organization, and that we have denounced its leaders again and again. But we must, in justice to it, sey that this charge is not well fo , and that the saddle is not put upon the orse. It is the anti- slavery party which is the aggressor, and if that party did not exist there would be no pro- slavery party. The democratic party, including the disunionists of the South, are on the defen- sive,and the republicans are the assailants. Extinguish the anti slavery agitation, and there will no longer be @ pro-slavery party. The country is forced into an issue on the slavery question, not by the democrats, but by the abo- litionized republicans. For the last twenty-five years the anti-slavery party have agitated the country, and kept it in hot water, contiaually making aggressions and gaining in strength, till now they are rampant with success, and threaten to march upon the South with eighteen millions of men and subdue it in a bloody struggle, if they cannot wrest its rights from it by the ballot box. This is the party which the exigen- cies of the times require to be put down first. But, say the leaders of the third party, the democracy is corrupt, and therefore we oppose it. These gentlemen cannot have a worse opinion of the leaders of that party, particu- larly at the North, than we have. They are for the most part rotten. But the charge at present is ill timed, and is no reason why we should reject their services at such a crisis as this. If there was any chance of a party less corrupt being organized and capable of defeat- ing the republicans, then indeed it would be desirable to break up thedemocracy. But such is not the case, and if our house were on fire we might as well refuse to co-operate with a dis- reputable fire company to extinguish the flames, because many of its members were blackguards, as to oppose the democracy now when they are endeavoring to put out the incendiary fires of Northern fanaticism which threaten to lay the temple of the Union in ashes. The democrats and republicans are both bad, but one party is infinitely worse than the other. Of the two evils we ought to choose the least. Let us now use the dirty materials of which the democratic party is composed, and when we whip the re- publicans with it, and put down revolution, then let us turn our attention to the purifica- tion of the democracy. Samson slew thou- sands of the Philistines with the jaw bone of an ass, and the democracy is a good enough instrument for the defeat of an enemy whose triumph involves the dismemberment of our confederacy, and all the fatal consequences re- sulting from a dissolution of the Union. Vistr oF THE SEVENTH Recuent, New York Srare Minima, ro WasHtscton—Tue Sranvine Army OF THE Unirep States,—We have before announced that the Congressional Committee having the matter in charge had extended to the Seventh regiment of this city an invitation to be present at the inauguration of Mills’ statue of Washington, at the national capital, to-morrow, February 22. At avery full meeting of the regiment, held at the Arsenal yesterday, it was decided, by an overwhelming majority, that this invitation should be accepted; and to-day, the gallant Seventh leaves our city to assist at to-morrow’s magnificent celebration. For a variety of causes the Seventh has come to be considered the “crack” regiment of our country. Its perfection of drill and equipment, which has elicited the admiration of foreign military men as well as those of our own land; its gallant conduct at the Astor place riot, which it suppressed; its presence—as at Boston and Richmond—upon occasions which give it a reflex interest and honor; its “Child of the Regiment,” a young lady— ® daughter of a deceased officer—whom it has reared and educated; its splendid new band and drum corps—these and many other circumstances, to which we have not space to allude, have conspired to give this regiment a national reputation and an éclat which ita appearance to-morrow can scarcely fail to in- crease, since it is only by comparison withsuch fine companies as those from Maryland, Vir- ginia and the District of Columbia, and those of the United States army, that the merit of our Seventh regiment can be fully appreciated. But, although we do not suppose that the Seventh regiment can be surpassed anywhere else in this country, we have in New York seve- ral corps which already, in all points of sol- dierly excellence, contest the palm with, and might perhaps bear it away from, the celebrated Seventh. In this, asin most other things, the great metropolis of America seems to have a superfluity of superiority, an excess of excel- lence. And these military organizations, more or less perfect in drill and equipment, extend from the metropolis over the entire country, and form a grand standing army in round num- bers of two and fa half milions of men. Most of the European nations maintain, at an im- mense expenee, standing armies of four, five or six hundred thousand men—armies whose foot- steps crush out life, liberty and wealth from the very countries which cupport them. But here in the United States we have a standing army larger than that of any European State, each member of which is an intelligent being, and pays his individual expenses; an army which is composed of men of good character, voluntarily enrolled and voluntarily remain- ing—semper paratus; which is no tax upon or dependent of either the general or State gov- ernment, and from which, in case of war, from one million to one million and a half of soldiers could be collected at twenty-four hours’ to. a month’s notice. ze No other country in the world can produce such a volunteer army, of which the new Eng- lish rifle corps are but a miniature specimen; and in no country, probably, could a regiment, after such a recent and expensive tour as that taken by the Seventh regiment to |Richmond, Va., undertake, at a few days’ notice, and at an outlay of from ten to fifteen thousand dollars, a trip of about three hundred miles, to assist at such an inauguration. No better proof than this could be needed of the wealth and the ea- terprise of this country. Troubles of Parturition Among the Black Republicam—The Man Child that is to be Born. Aman child isto be born, and all the po- litical midwives and nurses are busy with their preparations, and cooking up their candidates for the conventions to come off this spring and early in the summer. In one important particular the democrats have secured an advantage over all their op- ponents. They have determined to come early into the field, and have fixed the time for bring- ing forward their candidate on the 23d of April, while the others have unwisely put off theirs until the month of June. This arrangement will give them a decided advantage; for be- sides enabling them to get well organized before the other parties are ready to enter the field, they will have an opportunity to make an impression while their antagonists are still quarrelling over their candidates. If this ad- vantage is well improved it will contribute largely to the final result. There can be no doubt that the nominee of the Charleston Con- vention will carry the Southern States in a body, and that the key of the fight lies in the Central States. Here the conservative masses are to be moved, and for this purpose every effort must be devoted to them. Theee efforts will acquire much support from the dissensions among the black republicans that evidently exist, and which will increase in beat and bitterness until their nomination is made. An article from the Tribune, which we print in our columns to-day, gives a vivid idea of troubles of parturition which will attend the black republicans. That abolition sheet insists upon having a practical abolitionist of the school ef Mr. Bates, Instead of that “little coterie of common scolds,” the disunion aboli- tioniete, who “insist on damaging Seward and Chase by speaking well of them.” According to the philosophers of the 7ribune, Mr. Bates possesses many of the qualities of Helper. He was born in a slave State, has not the odium of having been hitherto identifled with the black republican party, goes in, like Helper and Hickman, for “‘ the abolition of slavery and the perpetuation of the Union by force;” and though, as the Tribune acknowledges, he would have little chance of carrying one of the border States, he would have a respectable ticket in them, “led by such men as John Bell, H. Winter Davis and John J. Crittenden.” On these grounds the Tribune believes that the man child to be born should be practical aboli- tionist Bates, and nobody else than practical abolitionist Bates. The whole scheme has the earmarMé of the true getters up of Helper’s handbook of treason and incendiary revolution. It is in such revelations as these—and we shall have many of them during the troubles of parturition of the black republicans—that the democrats will find much advantage by their early appearance inthe field. By perfect- ing their organization at an early day, they can bring them all thoroughly home to the con- servative masses in the Central States, where the fight lies. There will be no need of wast- ing ammunition in the Southern States. We perceive that this fact is becoming patent to the democratic politicians. The Virginia Conven- tion have shown their appreciation of it by throwing averboard both the Wise and Hunter factions, and announcing its preference for the candidate who can win. It would be wellif other politicians were to learn something from the fears of those of Virginia, and not be foolishly stirring up divisions in the Central States, as a pap-fed journal in Washington is doing, by try- ing to puff up one set of New York delegates by crying down another. If the democratic party in this State is united at the next elec- tion, it may have a good chance to carry the State for the Charleston nominee; but division, such as the Constitution is erfdeavoring to fo- ment, can never do it. The issue is too important to be risked in petty and personal squabbles. Itis the issue of peace and prosperity; or revolution and tuin. The black republicans have inscribed on their banners principles which will involve this whole community in ruin. It is sought to arm the fanatics of the North against the local institutions and right of self-government of the South. The commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the Central States are to be sacrificed to a set of theories absurd in deduction and impossible in practice. Their prozperous trade isto be broken up, a line of blood is to be drawn between the slave and non-slaveholding States, and those lying upon its border are to be made the active scenes of Seward’s propagandism, Helper’s incen- diarism, and John Brown’s practical treason. Against such principles and such plans all conservative men should unite, and bid the fanatics and political demagogues who support them to hold their peace forever. Turnnine Orr.—The recent Democratic Con- vention in Virginia has diminished the list of Presidential aspirants to the extent of two, the friends of Messrs. Wise and Hunter having succeeded in using each other up, after the ap- proved fashion of the cats of Kilkenny, whose wicked example has ruined many promising politicians any time these fifty years. As things stand now, the Old Dominion, the Mother of Presidents, will have no candidate to offer at Charleston, but may be able to dic- tate as to which of the men offered from other quarters shall receive the nomination. In any event, both Wise and Hunter may be con- sidered as politically deceased. Errects oF THE PotricaL Revotsioy 1s New Exoiann.—We have already printed some ac- count of the strikes of the New England shoe. makers, who have the old complaint against their employers—too much work for too little pay. The employés propose a new scale of wages, without reflecting that unless the tide of fanaticism which is now rolling over New England be not speedily arrested, there will be no employment for them even at the present scanty wages. Even now, at the beginning of the revulsion of public sentiment at the South, a considerable portion of the trade heretofore given to the New England States has been withheld, and we hear of several heavy failures by Eastern manufacturers. Se it would appear that the shoemakers have selected the very worst time for their strike, and will therefore gain little or nothing by it. The real difficulty with which they, as wellas their employers, have to contend, lies deeper than the surface. By sympathizing with John Brown, by en- throning him among the saints and the martyrs, by adopting the odious Helper book, and en- dorsing the bloody and bratal Rochester mani- festo of Mr. Seward, the manufacturers of New England have offended their best customers, and unless the conservative masses of the North put an end to the black republican folly and fanaticism which is now dominant in many of the free States, things will go on from bad to woree, and the prices of white labor will be still fur- ther depressed. When masters are breaking every day, strikes for higher wages on the part of operatives are absurd in the extreme. New Yorx Powrrics at Wasmaroy anp Exsewuere.—Our silly and venerable cotem- porary of the Washington Constitution seems to be very fond just now of dabbling in the dirty pool of New York politics. So far as the Con- stitution grandam—and indeed almost every one else—is concerned, such interference is love’s labor lost. New York politics are really not worth half the time and trouble that is spent by small newspaper scribblers in study- ing them. Letus see how the quarrel stands. The democracy of this State is supposed to be represented sby two factions—one under the control of the Albany Regency and Tammany Hall, and the other paying allegiance to Mozart Hall. Both these cliques have chosen full dele- gations to the Charleston Convention, and both sets of patriots will be on hand to take part in the quadrennial conflict for the spoils. The Albany Regency delegation was selected at the- State Convention last fall. Horatio Seymour is its head and Daniel S. Dickinson its tail. The Mozart Hall delegation has been elected in the Congressional districts. Fernando Wood is its head, tail and ten horns. Both dele- gations are made up purely of politicians, who are looking after the spoils and nothing else. Any person who supposes that this fact is not thoroughly understood by the people of the State is quite mistaken. It is known here and at Washington, and will be fully appre- ciated at Charleston. The political issue which is just now presented to the nation is too broad, too important, too comprehensive, to permit afly time to be wasted in arranging the feuds of political leaders who claim to represent pre- cisely the same general principles. Weighed in the balance with the vast interests which are to be considered at Charleston, the squabbles of the New York democracy are of no possible moment, and should attract no attention what- ever. That this is the opinion of the conservative masses in this State, and of the leading men at Washington, we have nodoubt. It may be that the vote of the Empire State will settle the next Presidential election, and we believe that if the Charleston Convention puts up a fair man, this State can be carried for him, and against Seward, or any other person who may be nominated at Chicago. We find a strong proof of the reliability of this pro- phecy in the last State election. Then the relative strength of parties was about the same, and some eighty to one hundred thou- sand voters did not go to the polls. These abstaining electors form the reserved or floating vote, which belongs to no party, but which, in case of any extraordinary emergency, is thrown in solid column on the order and Union loving side. It will be thrown for the nominee of Charleston, provided he is one who can com- mand the confidence and support of fair men. The result will not be changed whatever may be done about the conflicting delegations; and the very best thing that the Charleston Conven- tion could do would be to send back both delegations, and let them fight it out among themselves. The quarrel has been patched at Baltimore, and repatched at Cincinnati, only to break out again at Charleston. The time when 8 convention could repair the breach is gone by, and therefore all the delegates, Mozart and Tammany, should be excluded from the Con- vention. All that the democracy of New York asks—all that the conservative, no-party men want, is a good, sound, patriotic, capable candi- date, and they will give him the vote of the State. Our word for it, if once the democratie- leaders in this State should be excluded alto- @ether from a National Convention, they would manage to settle all their troubles in the short- est possible order. Let it be tried once, and at Charleston. It is the only-soothing medicine for the chronic political inflammation which affects the party leaders in this State. Tae Brooxtyn Ferry Conrracrs—Orrres- SION OF THE Ferry Monopo.ies.—There is a great deal of interest excited just now about the renewal of the contracts for the Brooklyn ferries, the management of which has become a crying evil on account of the excessive rate of fare exacted, and the poor accommodations furnished. The Wnion Ferry Company, which isone of the most obnoxious and oppressive monopolies in existence, is making desperate efforts to have its charter renewed upon terms by which it can continue its exactions and re- tain its enormous profits; but a bill has been paseed in the Senate limiting the fare for pas- sengers to Brooklyn to one cent—an amount which would pay the company liberally—in- stead of two cents, as now charged. It is ex- ceedingly doubtful, however, whether that bill can be passed in the Assembly. If the com- pany’s lobby influence prevailsit certainly will not receive the sanction of that body; and if the Union Ferry Company procure a renewal of the charter without such a provision attach- ed to it, they will charge just what they please. The residents of Brooklyn and those interested in her prospertiy may learn what the action of the Union Ferry Company will be, from the outrageous proceedings which’ characterized the course of the Williamsburg Ferry Company the other day, which carried passengers for halfa cent while they had an object to gain, and, as soon as their purpose was effected, raised the fare to the onerous price of three cents for each passenger, which nearly led to a riot. This is one of the most glaring instances of the evil of monopolies extant, and shows to what an extent greedy individuals and corporations will go when they have the power to oppress and abuse the public. The condition of the Staten Island ferry is another example of the same kind. Here are a number of boats carry- ing hundreds of people every day, which are wholly unfit forthe service. There is not an hour at which the lives of hundreds of people are not placed in imminent peril on the boats of the {Staten Island ferry to satisfy the avarice of the company, and we will some day or other be startled by the news of some terrible catas- trophe oceurring on this ferry, by which two or three hundred lives may be sacrificed. Ail the mismanagement of these ferry lines is attributable, more or less, to the bad policy of George Law, who controls the lobby of the Corporation and the lobby at Albany xtike Mr. Law’s shrewdness as 4 financler and xpecn lator is only equalled by his suecess; but should Seen ee a a frightfal calamity occur on one of these fer- riee—as it assuredly will—he may -wake up some day to find his name execrated in this community, and the blood of hundreds of inno- cent people resting upon his head—s heavy burden to bear, and one hardly to be endured, even though paid for bya Princely fortune. Picxtxp Srrexets—A Danaerovs anp Ov Rageous Nursaxce.—New York, which may be called the city of nuisances and official corrup- tion, is just now suffering from an additional nuisance, and presenting a fresh example of Corporation inefficiency and misgovernment, We refer to the outrageous practice of salt- ing the streets for the purpose of getting rid of the snow. This practice is fraught with the utmost danger to the public health; all the foul substances which lie in the streets are mixed up with the melted snow, creating s moist, sickly and destructive atmosphere, which generates all kinds of throat and lung diseases. It is impossible to avoid in- haling this deadly atmosphere whether we ride or walk, while to pedestrians the condition of Broadway is absolutely fatal, for nothing in the shape of shoe leather can resist the ° penetration of the salt slush, the pickle, in fact, intensified by cold, which covers the surface half a foot deep. It is the opinion of leading phyeicians that the prevalence of dip- theria in the city at the present time, a disease with which almost every one is more or leas affected, is the result of the abominable damp- saline atmosphere we are breathing. And for what object are the three-quarters of a million of people who inhabit this’ metropolis thus sub- jected to discomfort and disease? To further the interest of one class alone—the omnibus proprietors. To gratify them and minister to their avarice the whole population is obliged to submit to this outrage. If we had a proper government and a good police this thing would never be permitted to exist for an hour. But the truth is, we have no government at all. The Common Council went through the form of passing an ordinance against spreading salt in the streets some time ago. Why is it not en- forced? Why do the police stand by and see it violated every day? Simply because both Cor- poration and police are thoroughly corrupt and inefficient. Mayor Wood and Mr. Delavan should see that this nuisance is abolished at once. The Mayor should insist upon the police, under whose eyes the ordinance is openly violated, arresting every offender and bringing him to punishment. There is no necessity for apply- ing any such means to remove the snow from the streets at all. Why does not the Corporation have the snow carted off as soon as it ceases to fall? This is the method pursued in London and Paris, and, we will venture to say, even in every large city in this country except New York, where the people have no government, and are left to the mercy of every one who has an interest to subserve, no matter what the consequences may be to publi comfort or public health, _ Presipent Maxine Facrory.—Greeley & Co. have recently set up in this city a new factory for making Presidents. They have already "mapufactured for the Charleston Convention Senator Douglas, of Illinois, and for the Chicago Convention the venerable Madame Bates, ‘of Missouri. We will see when the conventions meet how the work of the new factory takes. The Celebration of Washington's Birth- day in Boston. Bostox, Feb. 20, 1860. Governor Banks has ordered a salute of one hundred and twenty-eight guns to be fired on the 224 of February in this city, in honor of Washington’s birth. The banks, insurance offices and Custom House will be closed, and business for the most part suspended. The Shoemakers’ Strike in Boston. Bostox, Feb. 20, 1860. A general strike of operatives in several of the leading shoe manufacturing towns of this State is arranged for the ‘224 inst., unless the boss manufacturers previously agree to the new scale of prices. Fire at Brantdford, 0. W. Baanrrorp, C. W., Feb. 20, 1860. ‘The total loss by the fire here on Saturday 1s $95,000, of which $60,000 is insured, mostly in English companies. In consequence of the calamity business is at a complete stand still. ——$ Forgery Case in Bangor, Me. Bangor, Feb. 20, 1860, Benjamin Kimball, member of the Penobscot bar, was to-day convicted of forging s deposition by which he ob- tained a divorce from his wife. A motion in tho arrest of Judgment and bill of exceptions to the ruling of the Court is pending. eee Death of Lieut. Thomas, of the Navy. Burrato, Feb. 20, 1860. Lieutenant Calvin Frederick Thomas, of the United onsale consumption in this city on Saturday ——$—$—________. Railroad Detentiog. Bosrow, Feb. 20, 1860. The Suuday night train for New York met with detea- tion in Southboro’, from snow, and an engine was con- siderably damaged by being thrown from the track. The passengers would go through by this morning’s train from Boston. Southerm Ocean Steamer Movements. Savanwan, Feb. 20, 1860. The ecrew steamship Huntsville, of Cromwell's line, from New York, arrived yesterday afternoon, 19th inst. Cuariston, Feb. 19, 1860. The United States mail steamship James Adger, Capt. R. Adams, arrived here at four o'clock this (Saturday ) PHILADELPHIA 8TOOK BOARD. Parapetrata, Fels 20, 1860. Stocks firm. Pennsylvania State 5's, 03; Reading Refl- road, 203;; Morris Canal, 613%; Long Island Railroad, 11343, Pennsylvania Railroad, 38. Sight exchange on New York par. ‘Cuartaston, Fob. 18, 1860. Cotton market depressed: sales to-day 1,000 bales. , Feb. 20, 1860. Breadstuffs firm. Flour steady. ‘at $1 60 for white, and $1 35 a $1 firm: pce ners Agistcton Provisions active: mess os 8 50 a $18 75; new prime, $15. Bacon firm: hams, C. @ 18c,; sides, 103c.; shoulders, 8x0. Lard, 11%¢- 1 kc. a Be, Coxcrexam, Feb. 20, 1860, Mees pork firm at $17 560. $18. Beoon quiet at 740. a 93s. Flour dull at $5 50 a $5 6& Whiskey dulb at 20}gc. Wheat firm. Corn steady. —— Court of Oyer and Terminer.. Before Hon. Judge Ingraham. Fan. 20—The People vs. Henny Karples, Jn—In this, care Mr. Blankman said he ha received notice from th. District Attorney of his intention to call on this case. Th. ccused was charged with foagery and embeuziement, an} bad been tried and acquitted of those charges in the Cour of Sessozs. Counsel now desired to file a plea to that ef Gone. He then asked tha’ it. ‘The Dnstrict Attorney said that he should have timo t read the plea before he could say what course he woul After some further remarks, Mr. Blankman gave notic ‘that if this case was not disposed of at th: preseus tarm ¢ the Court he woaki move for the discharge of ‘Witliam Hutehivson, indictes for manglanguter in tt firet degree, for killing John Rowe, in a puguistic fight © the 14th of ber last, was permitted © plead gail to mapsiaughter in first Gegree. Remanded for seatu! The People vs. Patrick, Oomayhell and othe The acous — parties ity this case icted batts | ty the Fourtee sth