The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Orricg N. W. © - 0 NASSAU AND FULTON STS. Money sent by mail will be at the ATER lle Pectage aampe not reeteed as rubecription OTe DAILY HERALD co cents per copy, $1 per annum. TUE WEEKLY HERALD. every Saturday, at siz cents or exyy, oF 83 per annum: the buropean Bdition coery Wednrnlav, Ta: Cents per copy. A>" un to any part of Great iritain, or $5 fo any part of the sent, both “to include postage; the Hi vf nd 20th of each month at vi cents copy, or $1.90 per an “ PTH RANILY TIRRALD on Wednesday, at four cents per RY, rR ny CORRESPONDENCE, containing important nnesee, solicited from any quarter of the reorid: ret be NEW YORK ‘HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, ‘1860. Seward to the Chicago nomination, and that the Rev. Dr. Bellows proclaims himselfin favor of ele- vating the leader of the “irrepressible conflict” to the Presidential chair. The February term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer closed yesterday, when Judge Ingraham sentenced twenty-two criminals to various terms of imprisonment. The cage of Lane, the Fulton Bank detauiter, was deferred till to-day, when his counsel will move for an arrest of judgment. ‘The evidence in the Norwalk Bank case was con- cluded yesterday before Commissioner White. A report is given in another column. ‘The foreign news yesterday was somewhat less encou. raging than the trade, in the main, had been led to expect, and the market exhibited less buoyancy, and closed with the turn of prices in favor of purchasers The sales embraced about 1,600 bales. Flour exhibit- ed rather more activity and firmness, eepecially for aly ane eucopean Billions atneas, cheapneseand de | We common and medium grades, Wheat was firm, with Mberalty paid jor. Bg-OUX Founiow Connasronpanrs ane Pamnevuaay "uxauesraD TO SKAL ALL LETTERS AND ack ‘AGx8 SeNT US ‘No NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We do not return rejected communications, f f SDV EATE renewed every days advertisements in werted in the Hakan, FAMiLT [ikRaLp, and in the epatch, Volume XXKV..........cccceeeeere AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, | ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth atreet.—Sarrno. NIBLO'S GARDEN. Broodway.—Cooxs's Rorat Ameat- enmaTes. BOWSRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Bouruiax Giut—Orax- 1o—Banvr Anvy—Hox amp Cox. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Govennon's Wire—Jenny Linn, WALLAGK’S THEATRE, Broadway. —Rouince ov 4 Poow Youre Max, LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Jeamie Deane, NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowory.—Woucaxc—Tux Two Higuwarmen—Four Lovers. THRATRE FRANCAIS, 68 Broadway.—Skconn Or Tux Bunins oF KNGLisE VoscuKts. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSRUM, Broadway.—After- mooa—Kraizsx Wusox. Kvenlog—Ocroroon. BRYANT'S MINSTRELS Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way —Buniasqurs, Bonet, Dances, 4c —Scenes at Paa- von's. NIBLO’B BALOON | dway.—Geo. Cuntsty’s Min. wrens ut Soncs, Dances, BuxLesques, &0.—lus Mum«y. NINTL STREET, one door east of Broadway.—SoLomos’s ‘Teuris. New York, Friday, February 24, 1860. ——E———————— ————— The News. We are still without intelligence from the wresk- ed steamer Hungarian, but an agent of the press has been despatched to the scene of the disaster, and we shall probably to-day receive some particu- lars of the catastrophe. It is reported that there ‘were four members of the Canadian Parliament on board the Hungarian. English papers received at Halifax by the Europa state that the Hungarian had a large cargo and thirty-five passengers, but the names of the latter are not given. In Congress yesterday the Senate was occupied in discussing the bill regulating the circulation of bank notes in the District of Columbia, but ad- journed without taking final action on the subject. The House ballotted three times for a printer without effecting an election. The President sent @ special message to the House recommending the organization of a new Territory, embracing within its boundaries the Pike's Peak gold region. The subject was referred to the Committee on Territories. , The Seventh Regiment visited the House of Rep- resentatives at Washington yesterday. They also visited the President, who addressed the corps ina brief speech, in which he complimented them highly for their soldierly bearing, and thanked them heartily for promptly complying with the invita- tion of the Congressional Committee. The Presi- Gent also took occasion to express his regret at the | marked discourtesy of the diplomatic corps in ab- senting themselves from the inauguration ceremo- nial. Later in the day the Seventh Regiment took their departure for home. They will arrive in this city this morning. A full account of the move- ments of the regiment in Washington, and of the arrangements made for their reception on their ar- rival at home, may be found elsewhere in our co- lomzs. Both branches of the Legislature met last even- ing, aftera week's recess. In the Senate several local bills were considered. The bill to release the interest of the State in lands in the Twelfth ward conveyed by James Watts, was ordered toa third | tution and the federal laws. moderate sales at full prices. Corn was in good demand, and wss tolerably active at improved prices. Pork was sereeeeeNQe S& | quick, both for future delivery and in store. Sales of ne mess, on the spot, were made at $18 60, and new (> 4 $14 873; a $24 982¢, Sugars were in fair requesi, with saies of about 450 bhds., part Cuba and part New Orleans, by auction, at prices given in another column. Coffee was. held with firmness, while sales were limited. Freights ‘were quite steady, with a fair amount of engagements? William H. Seward Nominated for the Presidency. In another page we publish the curious pro- ceedings of the Anti-Slavery Society of Mas- sachusetts, nominating Wm. H. Seward for the Presidency. This is the spring time of the year, the season for making nomiastions for the Presidential election next fall, and the several parties are now preparing for the struggle and making their nominations by con- ventions in States and mass meetings in coun- ties and cities, and by societies, and news- papers, and otherwise. Various men have been indicated for candidates. The snti- Slavery Society of Massachusetts puts forward the man of its choice, William H. Seward; and the republicans of this city, at the Gramercy Hotel, on Wednesday night, follow suit, and cheer his name with vebement enthusiasm. At the Republican State Convention he had been already indicated as the man for the time, but now, on the eve of his great speech in the United States Senate, his name is brought for- ward as a preparatory note, in order to gain éclat for him in advance. Like a skilful tactician as he is, he kept silent till the opportune moment arrived for coming out with effect, just as the musical artist retired behind the curtain after a success- ful act, at first refuses to respond to the plaudits and calls of the audience inviting him to the footlights for a heartier greeting, but at length, with well feigned diffidence, yields to the importunate clamors of his admirers. The first scene of the drama opened with the bloody manifesto at Rochester, proclaiming war to the knife against the slave labor of Southern institutions—a war without end while a trace of negro slavery exists on this continent. The success which attended that part of his performance, leading logically to the rising at Harper's Ferry, the first battle of the irrepressible conflict, the Lexington of the second Revolution, as it has been described by the anti-slavery leaders of the North, this success has made him by far the most popular man in the republican party—its head and front, its prophet, priest and guide, and now he enters upon the stage for the performance of the second act of the tragedy, amidst the rap- turous applause of his followers. At the meeting at Gramercy Hotel, Mr. Dud- ley Field denied that the republican party is or | ever will be an abolition party, and that it is not s disunion party, but in favor of the consti- “By no means,” he says, “whether by law, by violence, or by the pressure of external public opinion, would the republican party attempt to coerce the Southern States into a change of any of their reading. In the Assembly the New York tax bill ‘was considered inCommittee of the Whole. An amendment to insert an appropriation to pay the claims of the old police force of New York when judgments are obtained in their favor was discussed and adopted in committee, but when the commit- tee rose the appropriation was stricken out by a institutions.” This is sheer humbug, and would render republicanism a mockery and a sham. The orator is flatly contradicted by the great higher law oracle of the party, and Mr. Field, who is a lawyer, ambitious for practice in a very conservative city, and does not wish to shock its prejudices, is no authority whatever Vote of 48 tc 42, and the bill was ordered to a third | a8 against Wm. H. Seward. Indeed, it is im- reading possible to’ believe Mr. Field sincere, seeing ® The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention | that he is a propagandist of Helper’s treason- yesterday nominated A. J. Curtin, for Governor, and adopted a resolution to the effect that the de- legates from each Congressional district appoint the district delegates to the Chicago Convention. The letter of our correspondent at New Orleans published? in another column, contains some able and incendiary book, which has been en- dorsed by sixty-eight republican members of Congress, that he is one of the agents for its dissemination, and that the depot for its sale in Wall street is under his superintendence. The revelations which, if confirmed, will be apt to whole idea of the “Impending Crisis” is to create an intense excitement throughout the coun. | carry the anti-slavery crusade into the South- try. The letter gives the outline of a scheme ern States after the method of John Brown. comprehending nothing less than the acquisition of | What,then, becomes of the consistency of Mr. Mexico, and it is stated as by no means improbable that even now Gen. Houston, backed by @ large armed force of Texans, may be en route for the Rio Grande to carry the acheme into execution. The Karnak arrived yesterday, with advices fro: flavana to the 16th, and Nassau, N. P., to the 18th inst. Freights were very low in Havana. Ex-Pre- Field and is he not sailing under false colors? Far more faithfully does the Anti-Slavery Society of Massachusetts reflect the creed of the party and the sentiments of its apostle. m | What says Mr. Garrison in his speech? “The sympathy and admiration now so widely felt aident Pierce and Mrs. Pierce and Sir Gore Ouseley for John Brown prove how marvellous has and family were at Nassau. The latter intended to | been the change effected in public opinion return to New York. A salvage of fifty-five per | during thirty years of moral agitation—a Cent had been awarded on the cargoes of the ship change so great, indeed, that whereas ten years Ashland and bark Union at Nassau. The town of Danville, destroyed by fire on Wednesday last. Ei buildings, including three churches, the court house, and most of the leading business establish- ments, were destroyed. The loss is estimated at a quarter of # million of dollars. since there were thousands who could not en- Ky., was almost entirely | dure my lightest word of rebuke of the South, ighty | they can now easily swallow John Brown whole, and his rifle into the bargain. In firing his gun he has merely told us what time of day itis, It is high noon, thank God.” Now here At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last | is the history, progress, present attitude and evening ® communication was received from the | future prospects of the anti-slavery party de- Mayor nominating James 8. Libby for President of | picted in a few lines, It wasa moral force the Croton Aqueduct Department, and Andrew | party; it has become abolitionized, and is now Sheehan as Inspector of Vessels. A division of the a physical force’party, John Brown, under the question was called for by Alderman Genet, who moved that the nomination of Andrew Sheehan be confirmed, and the nomination was confirmed. The nomination of James 8. Libby was then, on motion of Alderman Genet, referred to the special commit- inspiration of William H. Seward and other leaders, having inaugurated the new era by the shedding of blood, for which he is now canon- ized. “Whatever stands in the way of this tee having the nomination of the Health Commis. | acted cause, put it down,” says Garrison. sioner under consideration. ‘The vote on the mo- “whether it be church or government.” “Oh! tion stood 12 to 5. The Corporation Counsel, Hon. | this American Union, falsely so called,” he Greene C. Bronson, sent in communication stating | continues, ‘what a sham, what a curse it has that he had transmitted a memorial to the Legisla- ture respecting tenement houses in New York. “One thotisand copies of the report of the Central Park Commissioners were ordered to be printed. ‘The Street Commissioner, in answer to a resolu- tion of the Board respecting the raising of the sunken ship Ohio, at the foot of Twentieth street, stated that the owners of ‘the vessel have been from the beginning!” “Accursed be the constitution of the United States; it is a cove- nant with death and an agreement with hell.” He concludes by proclaiming the determina- tion of the party to march on to the goal of “aniversal emancipation.” Such is the man at whoee feet, as @ political Gamaliel, Senator made arrangements for raising her at their | Wilson sat and learned the lessons of liberty. own expense. On motion of Alderman Smith, the Mayor was requested to offer an additional re- word of $2,500 for the detection of the murderer of the late W.S. Tuers. ‘The Board adjourned to Monday next, at five o'clock. In another part of to-day's paper will be found a report of the speeches made at the banquet given by the Fighteenth Ward Republican Association on Wednesday night, or, more properly speaking, And what is the language of Wendell Phil- lips at the same meeting? The picture of John Brown—which he recommends every man to hang up in his room for worship as a Catholic would the image of Christ—he pronounces to be one of the most impressive and masterly heads known to sculpture since Michael An- gelo blocked ont his Moses, and he helds it up Thursday morning. It will be seen that the leaders | 98 “the inspiration of their houses, the model of the black republicans in this city—Mesars. Evarts, of their daily life—the portrait of the man Noyes and Field—advocate the gigigs of Wm. H. ! whose lineaments,” be says, “have beea so identified with the irrepressble conflict.’ “Puritan conscience,” be continues, ‘ awakes and flings ite epegr down into the centre of Virginia in the revolt of John Brown, avd the world says, Do approve of him? Well, he is your eldest bora: you onght to acknowledge him. He is the natural product of the thongnt of the North seeking vent somewhere. Tne irreprertible conflict is begun.” Who can mistake the meaning of this? But to prevent the possibility of mistake, Mr. Phil- lips announces that “before twelve mouths, or six months, the great organ hymn of iosucrec- tion will ascend to the presence of God;” aud adds, that the Anti Slavery Society has given birth to aSewuri, und that he hoped to God he may live \o stand in the Presidency. “If we elect Seward,” be concludes, “through the T ity of Joby Brown for his attack with musk: ‘s on the slave system, looming up like the veto of fate,” the slave States will “begin to believe that the beginning of the ead has come,” and if they leave the Union, it will only be “the devil going out of Paradise.” It is very evident that the breaking up of the Union is the real aim and object ef the anti- slavery party, and that nothing could so dirap- point them as the settlement of the slavery question, They have recently announced eub- scriptions from England to aid in that cause, and Fred Doug)ass is now collecting more. It appears, from the evidence before the Commit- tee of the United States Senate, that John Brown, and the emissaries from the British aris- tocracy who accompanied him to Kansas, op- posed the settlement of the troubles in the Ter- ritory, because they hoped that those troubles would lead to a dissolution of the Union. And William H. Seward, the manifest choice of the republicans of thie State, is the candidate of the anti-slavery party of Maseachusetts, and he will, undoubtedly, be the choice of the as- sembled republican delegates of the North at the Chicago Convention in June. His success in November next would be the signal for the dismemberment of the confederation, and wide- spread ruin and civil war would be the inevi- table results. To prevent that catastrophe the conservative elements of the whole country ought to rally under one organization, and, in- spired by the battle cry of “the Union and the Constitution,” haul down the republican black flag, with its death’s head and crossbones, from the masthead of the pirate ship to which it is nailed, Prrsonaities tv Ponrrics—ATTAcks ON THE Hox. Joux Cocnrane.—We notice that the newspaper in this city which is the especial or- gan of Fernando Wood takes every occasion to abuse the Hon. John Cochrane, one of the representatives in Congress of the city of New York. These attacks are made in a very small way, and would be hardly worth notice did they not have a moral, and a very impor- tant one, behind them. So far as Mr. Cochrane is concerned, personally and politically, he is quite safe. Whatever he may have been in the political world ten, twelve or twenty years ago, he stands now, in Congress, as an eminently fair, sound and able man. He represents a district which is marked by very strong social distinctions—more so, perhaps, than any other in the country. His constituents of all parties are satisfied with his course, which has been upright and patriotic. Mr. Cochrane has served two terms in Congress, was returned for the second with an increased vote, and has a na- ional reputation as one of the ableat and soundest men that the imperial city of the North has ever sent to Washington. He is something more than a member of Congress; he isa statesman, and is so recognized by his fellow representatives from all sections of the country. The before mentioned being the admitted facts in the case, it follows that the assaults of the Wood organ are dictated by some of those small personal jealousies, and mean, petty rivalries which have worked so much mischief for the democratic party in the State of New York any time for the last ten or fifteen years, If the Albany Regency, under Cassidy, Cagger & Co., has been so far degraded from the posi- tion it held under its originators, thirty years ago, as to be only a nest of* miserable party tricksters and political ruffians, the partisan leaders in the city proper cannot complain. They are equally demoralized, equally corrupt, politically, and between Albany, and Tammany, and Mozart Halls, the democratic party in New York has been re- duced to its present dilapidated condition; it is a minority—a raging, snarling, biting, snap- ping collection of angry factions, warring over personal feuds while the enemy is at the city gates. What else but de- feat, and shame, and disgrace, can result from such a state of things? How can either body of men claiming to represent the de- mocracy of this State have the impudence to go to Charleston and knock at the doorofa National Convention? Do they expect that their personal quarrels are to be settled in the grand council of the party? Would they not receive the just punishment due to their politi- cal crimes if they should be shut out of the Convention altogether? One delegation claims “regularity.” They are regular only in being regular political scamps, and regularly devoid of all public morality. Neither delegation can claim to represent the democracy in the Na- tional Convention while the present warfare is maintained. The attacks upon the Hon. John Coch- rane form part of this disgraceful guerilla warfare, and come with an especially bad grace from the organ of Fernando Wood. When that gentleman was nominated for Mayor last fall, he was supported more out of sympathy than from congeniality of public feeling as to his political course. He had been persecuted in the most outrageous and brutal way by the Cassidy and Oagger clique, who united with the common enemy—the abolitionists—to over- throw him. Wherenpon the masses of the de mocracy rallied to give Mr. Wood fair play, and he was elected. And now, for the friends of Fernando Wood to attempt the same game which confounded his opponents, is not only criminal in a mora} point of view, but it is sui- cidal politically. The best thing that Mr Wood's organ, or Mr. Wood's friends, or Mr Wood himself, can do, is to leave personal spites and jealousies to the drivelicrs and tricksters of Albany and Tammany; and above all,.to refrain from seeking to defame a man like the Hon. John Cochrane. They have quite trouble enough on their hands without making any more. This is good advice we are giving to the Wood party. They will do well to heed it; if not, worse will come te that faction before long: The Liberty of the Prese—Its Progress and Its Difficulties. We see that on Tuesday last the opposition State Convention held in Richmond, prepara- tory to the coming Presidential campaign, parsed a resolution excluding the reporters of the New York press from the hall in which their deliberations are held. The motive for this proceeding can only be set down to the foolisp susceptibility of some of its leading members. That any advantage in the way of secresy is to be gained by it, is not for a mo- ment to be sesumed. The all-searching and penetrative faculties of the New York press have been too frequently demonstrated in cases of this kind to allow the authors of the motion to lay,that flattering unction to their vouls, The only rational explanation of the passege of so silly a resolution is, that it had its motive in pereonal pique, and that the influ- ence ot individuals was sufficiently powerful to carry it against the better sense of the Con- vention. Some weeks since a similar proceed- ing, originating, no doubt, in the same cause, wus attempted in Congress, by Mr. Ash- more, of South Carolina, and, it is needless to add, was at once acouted by the House. One of the most sacred provisions of the con- stitution is that which declares that Congress ebali make no law abridging the freedom of the press. In that great palladium of our liber- ties it is laid down in the most positive manner that there shall be no interference with rights which form the keystone of the structure raised by it. None recognized more fully than the men who had the destinies of the infant republic in their safekeeping the im- portance, not only of freedom of discussion, but of freedom of publicity in everything not wrencbing on individual rights. These two conditions were absolutely essential to the choice of proper representatives by the people, but more especially of chief magistrates equal to the responsibilities of a position demanding not only statesmanlike qualities, but patriotism and integrity of purpose. They therefore secured them, as they thought, by such a con- stitutional provision as would afford the fallest effect to both. A To whom is it owing that the rights thus conferred have been restricted within limits more arbitrary than those imposed by foreign censorsbips? To the politicians—the trading politicians, we mean—to whom we are indebt- ed for all the other abuses and corruptions that have brought reproach upon our institu- tions, and raised the national expenditure to double the amount of what it should have been. These are the men who, fer their own selfish and venal purposes, have, from time to time, placed trammels upon the free action of the independent press by excluding it from assembiages called together to discuss ques- tions bearing upon the general interests. For fite and twenty years we have battled against this system of party and individual cen- sorship, which, as we have just observed, is far more tyrannical and oppressive than that exer- cised under foreign despotisms, for the latter is based on fixed and understandable princi- ples, while the former is capricious and vindic- tive in its action. From the firet moment at which we were able to lay down our course as independent journalists, we resolved that we should restore to that provision of the constitu- tion which proclaims the fullest liberty to the press all the force and value intended to be given to it by ita framers. We have never in anything compromised, and we never shall compromiee, the rights and privileges to which we are entitled by it. When we originated the system of publishing financial reports from Wall street, the most absurd and ludicrous outery was raised against it, and the stroagest influences were brought to bear on us to in- duce us to desist. We persevered in our plan, notwithstanding all the abuse that was lavished onus. Very soon the other papers began to copy us, and now financfal reports are as essential feature of @ newspaper as any other branch of its intelligence. Thesame desperate opposition was made by the politi- cians to our reporting the proceedings of their caucuses and conventions, but we were not long in demonstrating the uselessness as well as the folly of their resistance. A few years ago we senta reporter to Virginia to report Governor Wise’s speeches, when he was stump- ing the State, and.he was assailed and hunted down by the chivalry of the Old Dominion, with the Governor at their head, in a manner that they have, no doubt, since been heartily ashamed of, although Governor Wise has not had the,justice to take back the abuse that he heapedupon him. The Richmond Opposition State Convention have, unhappily for them- selves, got into the same kink, and if the re- mainder of their proceedings is to be of a simi- lar character, it may safely be assumed that they will not exercise any very serious influ- ence on the Presidential campaign. As for ourselves, we care nothing about their sentence of exclusion; it will spare us both trouble and expense, whilst all that we desire to learn will reach us through channels that have never failed us on such occasions, Rents anp Reat Estare.—There is very little change, either in the way of increase or decrease, in rents throughout the city, this year from last year. Both rents and the value of real estate appear to be pretty nearly stationary on an average. The Central Park has ex- ercised, perhaps, some influence in advancing real estate in that vicinity; but jts value has been exaggerated. From the Park down to Union square, however, property is rather de- clining; and so it is, also, from Canal street downwards to Bowling Green; but between Canal street and Union square it is rising a little in value. Itseeme very evident that as long as the po- litical questions affecting the relations between the North and the South remain unsettled, people will feel an unwillingness to embark in any enterprises in real estate. The stability of things must be better established, before vi- tality can be renewed in this kind of specula- tion. The present relations betweer the two sections of the country, and the uncertainty as to the fatur®, in the event of the success of the abolition republican party in carrying out their designs against the interests and rights of the South, offer no encouragement for the in- veatment of capital in real property,swhich may and must be seriously depreciated should they accomplish their purposes. Thus we see that this interest, hike so many others, is suffering grievously from the mischievous sgitation of political demagogues. Ifthey per- severe in their present course, @ general revul- sion must occur, and every interest in the country mustbe broken down. The Republican Party an Abolitionist Party—Govermey Morgen, David Dud- ley Field and Willam Curtis Noyes on the Stand At the black republican festival at the Gramercy House on Wednesday, several of the speakers endeavored to prove that their party is not an abolition party. Among the chief speakers at that feast were William Curtis Noyes and David Dudley Field, of this city; and a letter was read from Governor E. D. Morgan, of this State, expressing, as his senti- ment, that the republican is faithful to his principles, &c. Now, the republican party, when it firstcame into existence, announced itself as the great opponent of slavery and polygamy; and though it has dropped its opposition te polygamy, we agree with Governor Morgan that it is faithful to its principle of hostility to slavery. Mr. David Dudley Field aleo sets this fact promi- nently forth in. his specch at the Gramercy House, where he abuses the slave oligarchy at the South. In addition to these facts, we will cite one or two others which must be very familiar to Messrs. William Curtis Noyes, David Dudley Field and Governor E. D. Mor- gan. We have now before us a copy of Helper’s treasonable and incendiary Compend, on the fourth page of the cover'of which isa card announcing the belief that if the Compend could be laid before every citizen “a repub- lican triumph in 1860 wonld be morally cer- tain.” Thies card further says:— Every person who subscribes ten dollars or more will, if timely application be made, be eutitled to as many co- pies of the Compend for dirtribution as be may desire, not exceeding the number that the amount of his subscription would pay for at net cost. Subscrivers’ names, with the sums severally subscribed by them, in all cases where the amount is ten dollars or more, wiil appear, alphabeti- cally arranged in the latter part of the Compend. A note at the foot of the page requests us to “see third page of cover;” and there we find the name of “Morgan, Edwin D., Albany, New York, $100.” The card goes on further to say :— tn New York “ad in the circulston of 3, Halper's work on the plan above proposed, beg leave to recom- mend the object to the public, and ask their co-operation. Subscriptions may be sent to the Hou. Wm. Hf. Anthon, Ne. 16 Exchange place, New York, directly, or through either of the undersigned. The names of this committee are then given, and the second is that of David Dudley Field, and the fifth that of Wm. Curtis Noyes. Now let us see what this treason Compend of Mr. Helper sets forth. On the ninetieth page of that book we find these words:— ‘Our motto—and we would have you to understand it— is, the abolition of slavery, and the perpetuation of the Aterican Upion. If, by any means, you do succeed in your treagonabie attempts to take the South out of the Union to-day, we will bring her back to-morrow—if she goes away with you, she will return without you. In order that there may be no mistake as to the use of terms, the writer of what Gov. Morgan and Messrs. Field and Noyes so warmly endorse, tells us on the sixtieth page what “abolition” and “abolitionist” mean. His words are these:— Abolition, m. The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolisbed; an annulling, abrogation, utter destruction, as the abolition of laws, decrees, , Tites, customs, &c.; the putting an end to slavery; \. Abolitionet, n. A person who favors abclition, or the emancipation of slaves. We submit these facts toa candid and just public, to decide between Mr. David Dudley Field on the cover of Helper’s manual for the black republican party, and Mr. David Dadley Field in a post prandial exhortation at the Gramercy House. To our view the proof is conclusive that the black republican party is an abolition party, in the given sense of the word, asa party which “favors abolition, or the immediate emancipation of slaves.) Mr. Field’s last argument is merely a denial of the time and not of the principle of abolition, and this he raises because of the universal detesta- tion which his political theories have awakened. Increase oF Crrme AMoNG THE YoutH OF THE Crry.—The crimes of murder, and man- slaughter, and asgaults upon the lives of our citizens, seem to be growing with fearful pace in this city, notwithstanding that we are taxed at the rate of ten millions a year for the pri- vilege of living in security and peace—a pri- vilege, however, which unfortunately we do not epjoy, as the daily records of crime in the newspapers, and the calendars of our criminal courts, both abundantly prove. ” There have been eighteen convictions ob- tained at this term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, viz:—Murder, 2; manslaughter, first degree, 2; manslaughter, second degree, 2; manslaughter, third degree, 5; manslaughter, fourth degree, 1; felonious assault and battery, 3; false pretences, 2; forgery, 1. Twopersons charged with manslaughter in the fourth de- gree have been acquitted, in each case the de- ceased having been of bad character, and his death having been occasioned by injuries re- ccived in falling, when knocked down by the aggreseor. Besides these there have been re- mitted to the Sessions three cases of murder, three of manslaughter, one of mayhem, and seventeen cases of assaultand battery with in- tent to kill. The crimes, as remarked by Judge Ingraham, have all been committed by young men—not one of the convicts being over thirty years, but most of them being about twenty or twenty-five years of age— a fact which speaks most unfavorably for ju- venile morals in tke metropolis, and, we think, presents a strong contrast to the morals of that class in other large cities. It is rarely that desperate crimes of the character of murder and manslaughter are confined almort entirely to the young in any community, although in the general aggregate of crime this class may be most largely represented. Nor can we be- lieve that this circumstance is attributable solely to the natural depravity of the youth of New York, though it is incontrovertible that reck- lessness and violence strongly characterize them. It is to be attributed mainly to that spirit of rowdyism and disregard of human life so prevalent amongst us, which leads to barroom fights and the free use of deadly weapons in moments of passion. And it is at- tributable, too, with more force, to the in- efficiency of the police, who do little to prevent the commission of crime, and not much more towards punishing the offender. Tur Reten oF TerRor tw THE Sovtu.—One of the abolition papers of this city published yes. terday two communications relative to the treatment of abolition teachers and preachers in the South. In one case it is stated that a preacher—who owns that he sought the over- throw of slavery, and preached with.that ob. ject—was compelled to leave Bracken county, Kentucky; and in the other, it is complained that Southern gentlemen were taking their sons away from the school of a man in Kirksville, Missouri, who was known to be a teacher of abolition doctrines, and that other hostile de- monetrations were made ogainst bim and bis father, a notorious abolitionist. These cirenm stances are probably quite true. There is no i i ders, and take every measure to protect them- selves from the consequences political assault on their mestic peace; but it is only a premonitory symptom—and a faint one, things must come to in that quarter if the anti- slavery republican party succeed at the next election. the particular attention of the fisticuff frater- nity, their admirers and adherents, and the rest of man and woman kind, so far as they are in- terested in the noble art of self-defence or the championship of England, Peoria or Tim- bnetoo or Nova Zembla, to the gladistorial communication from an American mariner of a shoulder-hitting turn of mind, which (the com. munication) we print in anothercolumn, Next to the question as to what is to become of the Pope, the fight which is to take place between Heenan, Benicia’s atalworth boy, and Sayers, the pride and pet of every true Briton, is the most important topic before the civilized world—so important, 60 comprehensive, so searching, that it has even penetrated as far asan obscure Brazilian seaport, where a “sharp American schooner” (is there a harbor anywhere on the face of the earth into which the American echooner has not thrust her nose?) is “dis- charging Yankee notions” Whereupon a sea- man, doubtless of that school raised by Decatur and Perry and Hull, offers to fight Heenan and Sayers both together, or alternately, or in any. other style which may be found agreeable and comforta- ble to all parties. No propositions could be more liberal than those suggested by our cor- respondent, and his views as to the details of the tournament are much more comprehensive than the narrow and restricted regulations of the ring. We see only one objection to his plan. He might find Sayers, as Sidney Smith said to the missionary about the South Sea Islanders, “a little tough;” but we presume that the idea of eating the English champion springs from a pardonable anxiety on the part of our correspondent to show that he is quite au fait to all the refined entertainments with which the “governing classes” occupy their hours of ease. We again direct especial attention to the communication of our nautical friend. There is a degree of refreshing novelty about it which is quite welcome after the old fashioned cards, letters, rejoinders, &c., &c., and we recommend it as a specimen of style to the entire sporting world. — Crean Srreets, A Fine Park anp PLENTY or Frese Waren —These three great essentials to the health of any large city are quite available, under a properly administered government, to the citizens of New York. In the Central Park, with its skating ponds, fine drives, walks, plea- sure grounds and romantic scenery, we have secured one of these desiderata, In the intro- duction of the Croton, which flows like a river of pure water through every street in the me- tropolis, we have been blessed with another. But in the matter of clean streets we are wo- fully deficient; and not because our citizens grudge the amount necessary to keep them in order, nor even an amount large enough to ad- mit of a moderate share of pickings and steal- ings, provided the work was done as it ought tobe. They did not demur at paying thirteen millions of dollars for the Croton water, and six millions for the Central Park. The interest on the cost of the Croton, at seven per cent, would amount to over nine hundred thousand dollars a year; and on the coat of the Central Park it would amount to four hundred and twenty thousand a year—in all, a million three hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year. Surely, when the people cheerfully consent to pay this much for a park and a supply of water, they would not refuse a third of that sum—or $440,000—for ,the luxury of clean streets, if they could only get them for the money; and let us add, that for this amount, honestly expended, the pavement of every street in the city could be kept like polished marble every day in the year. es Tae Spanish Wap in Arnica—From the tenor of the news from Africa, rather than the statement of the fact itself, we learn that the Spanish forces have captured the Moorish town of Tetuan, and that there is a probability that peace propositions between Spain and Morooco will now be entertained. We consider this re- sult very probable, for it is evident tif the Spanieh treasury has got quite enough of the Moorish war, and it is not improbable that O'Donnell has also got enough of the intrigues at Court against his ministry, while he is fight- ing the Moors.on the other side of the Straits. There are other reasons for bringing about a peace which will no doubt have due weight in the matter. Marshal O’Donnell has obtained his title of Duke, and the Spanish nation has got enough of the gory glories of war to satisfy it for a time, and to keep it from an itching for putting its fingers into the Italian policy of Lonis Napoleon. The French interest at the Spanish Court has therefore little reason to push the war further, and the recent renewal of the entente cordiale with England may induce France to give weight to England’s representa- tions against it. Moreover, it is an admirable time to exhibit a magnanimous spirit, and come out of the fight with honor; and such an occa- sion may not present itself very soon again, with the poor materials Spain possesees for transporting her troops into the interior of Morocco. Mr. Sewarp Untiueentne Hrs Guxs.— We see that the Senator from New York has intro- duced a bill for the admission of Kansas as State, and that aday has been assigned when he will speak to that question. It is more than probable that Mr. Seward will take this op- Portunity to improve bis position before the country, by attempting to smooth over the theories promulgated in his irrepreesible con- flict speech. He will endeavor, very likely, by a recital of the history of Kansas, to draw out some of the democratic Senators and open a general debate upon that question, which is only @ side iseue, and a dead one at that. There should be no debate on the Kansas ques- tion. Ifthe democratic Senators and Repre- sentatives are wise they will let the bill pass quietly, and fay nothing about it. The rea} issue before the country, and the only vital question that is to be met during the next election, is thatas to the abolition of slavery altogether, according to the, republican plat- form as Jaid down in the Helper Book and in Seward’s bloody and brutal Rochester mani- festo. The contest must be kept fairly on that