The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIOH M. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON &TS. ee rene cash in adoance. Money vend by mait will be at the ‘sean aetage tampa not received as eubecription \Y HERALD. proenh ner oun ae tam. ALD, every , Gt six cents Se ee the Buropean Ration We M, Britain, risk of ‘on the 6th and 30th of each at wD annum. pal rialic? Hatta on Wednesday, at four cents per ery, or commum. V4 Paiur CORRESPONDENCE, containing tmportant Pg any quarter of the world; &% used, will be liberally paid jor, a@rOux Foren Coreesronpents are ABTIOULARLY REQUESTED TO SEAL all LETreRs AND PAck- AGES SENT U8. ‘No NOTIGE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not na reburn rojected comm: na. ADVERTISEMENTS. renowed eery day: advertsementein- werted tn the Warxty Haxaip, Famity Huepawp, and in the and Bui Editions, SOR PRINTING executed wiih neainess, cheapness and de- ¥ Volume XXV.... ccc sccecesees es ceeee cores 5S AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street.—Parr: Marina Af one O’oLocK—Luois DI Lammgemoon—La Favontta—Den NIBLO’S GARDEN. Broadway.—Afternoon and Evening— Qooae's BOTAL AMuiranatsn, BOWERY THEATRE, .—Bouratan Giei—Oraxt- irae ‘Anpy—Box amp Cox, 1B GARDEN, Broad ” _ way, Opposite Bond street.- Govarwon's Wire—Jexny WALLACK’S TR) jel to 2 Tama’ ‘B, Broadway.—Bouanos or 4 LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 6% ane lilnmaaal NEW BOWERY Ti rl —L, THEATRE, Bowery.—Wo.rcano—La THEATRE FRANCAIS. 585 Broadway.—Lx Cio0 av Bee a qu'une Porte Sot Ouvgxts ov Fenmee— ‘Tamaoun Barrant. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- oon and OKOON. BRYANT'S MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Brosd- way.—Buecesquss, Sones, Dances, 40. —Scenes at Pus- Lon’s, NIBLO’B SALOON, Broadway.—Qro. Cunisty's Min- srexis 1x Songs, Dancers, Boxiesquas, 40.—Tax Mumur. NINTH STREET, one door east ef Broadway.—SoLouon’s Temrie. SHEET. “TRIPE New York, Saturday, February 25, 1860, The New: We have received some intelligence relative to the wreck of the steamer Hungarian, which was lost off Cape Sableon Monday morning last. The body of a small child, and that of a man, supposed @ fireman, have been washed ashore and taken in charge by the Coroner. It was reported that the steward’s pocketbook, containing the names of some of the passengers, had been picked up. The supplementary mail bags, containing the mails for Canada and New York, have also been picked up, but in a very damaged condition. The Bohemian, which sails from Portland for Liverpool to-day, will tow two schooners to the wreck, with an agent of the underwriters to take tharge of whatever pro- perty may be recovered. The screw steamship Vigo, Capt. Jellard, which sailed from Liverpool on the morning of the 8th inst., and touched at Queenstown the following day, asrived at this port yesterday evening. The European mails brought by the Europa reached us from Boston last evening, completing our files to the Lith inst. We publish to-day a copy of the new treaty of commerce between England and France, with a full report of the important speech made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer when submitting the paper to Parliament. A letter from the Pope to Napoleon, previously alluded to by his Holiness, is given, and other interesting matter. By the arrival of the bark Star King, Capt.Smith, we have advices from Buenos Ayres to January 4. The differential duties for the port of Buenos Ayres were enforced on Jan. 2. The elections passed off quietly, and the affairs of the province were quiet, The bark Susan Clark, expected to sail in a few days for New York, will bring the ex-Acting Charge d@’ Affairs, Mr. Breup, who returns home an incurable invalid. Our Mexico city correspondence, dated February 6, will be found interesting. The Prussian Minister had acknowledged the Miramon governmentasthe legitimate rule of the country. The clergy party entertained high hopes that Vera Cruz would be taken by their forces and the Juarez government displaced for the moment. Regularly organized bands of guerilla troops roved about and robbed from both parties, It was thought that Mr. Mathew, the British Minister, would be removed. A very bitter feeling towards the United States prevailed amonggt the churchmen. By the arrival of the overland mail we have ad- vices from San Francisco to the 4th inst. The mar- kets continued dull. The ship Malay, from New York, had arrived out. The general news is unim- portant. In Congress yesterday, Mr. Doolittle, of Wiscon™ sin, addressed the Senate on the relations between the North and the South. The House squabble over the printing plunder was continued. Four bal- lots for a Printer were taken without effecting a choice. Mr. Carter, of New York, introduced a preamble and resolutions censuring the Washington statue committee of arrangements for their neglect of the Seventh regiment, and the bungling manner in which they managed the affairs generally. Tney will be taken up at some future time, and a warm discussion is anticipated. The proceedings of the Legislature yesterday were interesting. In the Senate, among the bills no- ticed was one to amend the militia law, and one to abolish the Almshouse Department of this city. Several bills were read a thirdtime. In the Assem- bly alarge number of petitions were presented and bills reported. Among the latter were three for the Susqueharnah Railroad, in relation to the tenure of real property, to provide for fand- ing the floating debt of New York, to indemnify stookholders in the New Haven Railroad, to amend the act to suppress intemperance, and to prohibit the sale of liquor. The New York city railroad bills were not reported. The Central Park bill was taken up on its third reading. A motion was made to recommit, but the bill was finally laid upon the table. A graphic account of the arrival and reception of the Seventh regiment, on their return from Washington yesterday morning, may be found in to-day’s paper. The Police Commissioners met yesterday, and tramsacted some unimportant business. Ht is un- derstood that Mr. Pilsbury has placed in the hands of one of the Commissioners his resignation of the post of General Superintendent of the force. Ill health is assigned as the reason for Mr. Pilsbury's retirement. An anti-slavery meeting was held last evening at Rey. Dr. Thompson's church, corner of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street. Drs. Thompson and Rogers were the only persons who addressed the audience. ‘The meeting was tolerably well attended, and was of a much milder character than the last one of the same kind held at Dr. Cheever's church. ‘The names of the four new mail steamships of the Irish-American line are to be Leinster, Ulster, Mun- ster and Connaught, in honor of the designations of the four provinces of Ireland. The Leinster will Yeave Galway for New York on the Ist of June next, and all the others will sail within six weeks afterwards. Their saloons will be decorated with paintings of Irish and American scenery artistically intermixed. United States Commissioner K. G. White decided, yesterday morning, to commit Mr. James 8. Wil- liams, the defendant in the Norwalk Bank case, to NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. sioner fixed the bail at $5,000, and Williams was taken into custody by the proper officers, in default of a bondsman. .. : The avniversary of the Female Bible Union of the First Baptist Church, corner of Broome and Elizabeth streets, was well attended last evening, notwithstanding that, to the disadvantage of dirty streets—from which New York seldom expects to be free, except through special imterposition of Providence—was added that of s heavy snow storm, The address was delivered by the Rev. Frank Remington, on the subject, “A Pure Bible the Only Platform4of Christian Union.” By the Treasurer's report, it appeared that the receipts for the present year had amounted to $675, all of which had been paid into the American Bible Union, of which this society is a branch. The New York Liquor Dealers’ Society held a special meeting at their rooms last evening, for the Purpose of attending to some unfinished business relative to the society. As the business to be transacted was of a private nature, they excluded the reporters of the press and refused them any nformation—none but members who were furnish- ed with tickets being admitted. There was a strong police force present to preserve order, as the election of officers, which took place a short time ago, ended in a grand row. An investigation in the case of George Denver: charged with the murder of James Humphreys, a seaman on board the packet ship Devonshire, on the 8th of December last, while on the voyage from New York to Liverpool, was commenced yesterday before Commissioner Betts. A report of the testi- mony is given in another column. Judge Smalley, of Vermont, was introduced to the bar yesterday by Judge Betts, as the Judge who will preside in the United States Circuit Court in this‘city at its opening on the first Monday in March: The cotton market was heavy yesterday, with sales of about 1,500 bales, chiefly in store, on the basis of 113,c. @11:{0. for middling uplands. Flour was firm and more active, and sales wore pretty freely made, chiefly to the domestic trade, at quotations giveu in another column. Soutbern flour was firm and im good demand. Wheat was Orm, with fair sales, at prices given elsewhere. Corn was in good demand, with gales of good Jersey and South” ern yellow at 80c. a 820., though chiefly at 80c. a Blo. Pork was less buoyant. Sales of mess were made at $i8"3734, and of new prime at $1487% a$16. Sugars were in, fairfdemand, with sales of about 1,000 hhds., at prices given in another place. Coffee was firm, with sales of 1,200 bags of Rio at 1234c., and some smal! lots of Java at full prices. Freights were quite steady, with moderate epgagementa at unchanged rates. — Disunion at the South—The Cause and the Remedy. The chief organ of Seward in this city charges the democracy of the South with being a disunion party—a charge which has been often made of late, and reiterated usque ad nausegm. This charge is, to a certain extent, undoubtedly true, and ought to be admitted. It is true con- ditionally—true in a certain contingency, which may or may not happen. The universal senti- ment, not only of the democracy of the South, but of the whole South, is, that in the event of the anti-slavery parties of the North gaining the ascendant in the federal government, the wisest policy of the Southern communities is to secede peaceably from the Union, before a ty- rant majority in Congress proceeds to reduce them to a base subjection, which would place them in the position of conquered provinces, instead of independent sovereign States. This has been proclaimed by the leading men of the South in both houses of Congress, de- clared in their State Legislatures and by the Governors of States, enunciated by the people in their mass meetings, and by their presses from Delaware to Texas. Now this is an alarming condition of things, tending directly to the breaking up of the Union, and the question is, what cause has pro- duced these dire effects? We answer, that thirty years of anti-slavery agitation at the North has at last culminated in a crisis which has driven the South to the wall and compels it to stand atbay. A moral war has been waged against its institutions, which are guaranteed by the constitution, protected by the constitution, and incorporated into the very framework of the constitution. Garrison and Phillips are un- doubtedly right, and honest as they are right, when they pronounce the constitution “pro- slavery.” It is pro-slavery, and therefore they curse it, and curse the Union of which it is the bond. The moral war against the institutions of the South has proceeded step by step till at length it has become a physical war—a war of saltpetre and brimstone, and rifies and pikes, of which the saint and martyr John Brown is the pioneer, and of which Helper’s Compen- dium, endorsed by all the leading men of the republican party, is the law and gospel. William H. Seward, who has given this book a special endorsement, is the prophet of the party, who, like Mahomet, with the Koran in one hand and a sword in the other, issues his declaration of war against the South, threatening to subject its institutions to a higher law (a new book of Mormon); and his disciple, Mr. Hickman, of Penn- sylvania, follows up the menace of the “irrepressible conflict,” of which there was a foretaste at Harper's Ferry, by another menace that the higher law will be forced upon the South by eighteen millions of bayonets; and the man who is at the head of this party, William H. Seward, is its candidate for the Chief Magistracy, which would place at his dis- posal, and at their disposal, the federal army and navy and the militia of the several States. Has not the South, then, reason to fear the worst in the event of the triumph of the anti- slavery party, and the election of William H. Seward? And is it not natural that the South should meditate and threaten secession from a Union which would no longer exist but on parchment, and which would be henceforth only the union of the shark with his prey? The Harper’s Ferry invasion may be explained away, but the South will regard the election of Mr. Seward as the palpable, incontrovertible, overt act of the whole North, foreshadowing the other overt acts in his programme. It will regard his election by a Northern majority and a sectional issue as the first act of dis. union committed by the combined Northern States, and it will consider itself as absolved be- fore God and man from all future allegiance to the Union. Judging from the best information we have received from every State in the South, our solemn conviction is that, if Mr. Sew- ard [should be elected, or any other man who adopts the programme of his “irrepressible conflict,” he will never be inaugurated at the Capitol in Washington. The causes which are precipitating this ter- rible catastrophe are the same which have led to similar results in all other countries. Take, for instance, the case of England and her North American colonies. What produced their re- volt? It was the oppression of the mother country, which attempted by a high hand to in- terfere with the legislation of the colonial Assem- blies and to ignore the rights of the people. They remonstrated in vain, and at last threat- sword. CaritaL.—Washington was the scene, menaces were then called disunionists, traitors and rebels. Undoubtedly they were disloyal, anid disloyalty at last became patriotism, and success justified and sanctified the Revolution. What produced the disunion, disloyalty and Revolution? The tyranny of the British govern- ment, which, because it had the power, oppress- ed its weak colonies, and broke the political compact. In the same way, the antislavery party have become a majority in the North, and control ita elections and resources, and they abuse their power by nullifying the constitution of the United States, and breaking the compact—the solemn league and covenant inte which all the States entered at the time of the union—and the Northern States repu- diate their obligations, and say they will not restore fugitive slaves, though commanded by the constitution and the laws of Congress, and that they will not permit any more slave States, which is in direct violation of the letter and spirit of the constitution, and in defiince of the history of the country from the fournda- tion of the government, during which nine slave States have been admitted. get possession and control of the federal government, they plainly declare they will car- And if they ry out their ideas with force and arms, fire and Here is the cause of the disunion at the South, where ten States have already “pronounced.” What, then, is the duty of the conservatives of the Middle States—all who detest per- fidy, covenant-breaking and “Carthagenian faith”—all our merchants and manufac- turers, and all who have an_ interest in the continuance of the Union? Their plain duty is to unite, put down the anti-slavery agi- tation, declare their intention to render the South the justice due to it by the terms of the bond, and, as the best evidence of their sin- cerity, rally around and elect a man to the Presidency who will faithfully carry out this policy. Then, and not till then, will the dis- union party cease to exist at the South; but if the solemn warnings given by the signs of the times are disregarded, and if the anti-slavery sentiment is permitted to gain the ascendency next fall, then we shall soon find, not merely threats of disunion at the South, but disunion itself, and the dissolution of the greatest and best political confederacy the world ever saw. To S ‘TH REGIMENT AT THE NATIONAL on Wednesday last, of a most imposing cere- mony—the inauguration of the statue of the Father of His Country; and on that occasion the Seventh regiment of New York—a corps whose reputation for discipline and military spirit extends far and wide—were specially honored by an invitation to be present, by the Congressional Committee having charge of the proceedings. The gallant Seventh, with their accustomed alacrity exhibited upon all public occasions, accepted the invitation, and pre- sented themselves—over six hundred strong— at the appointed time, in the national capital. It is unnecessary to say that their visit was made at great personal inconvenience, loss of time and heavy expense. But the sacrifice was unheeded by the regiment. The event was one eminently calculated to elicit feelings of patriotism and devotion to the memory of the great good man whose heroism achieved the independefice of the country, and whose wis- dom founded a stable and fraternal govern- ment. In such aspirit the Seventh regiment cheerfully responded to the call; and it is not oo much to say that their presence at the ceremonial gave the greatest share of ¢clat to the proceedings; for, apart from the statue itself and the Seventh regiment, there was lit- tle elae imposing about them. But it appears from the telegraphic and newspaper reports of the affair that our gallant soldiers did not meet with that kind of a reception which we are accustomed to accord to military organizations visiting New York. There seemed to havebeen no adequate prepa- rations made for their accommodation; during the ceremony they were not admitted within the enclosure, but were permitted to stand in the road up to their ankles in slush, until the Colonel, in consideration for the comfort of his command and the respect due to them, very properly marched them off the ground. It is true that there was no want of attention to the men on the part of the private citizens of Washington, and that the venerable President received them in a kind, dignified and courteous fashion, becoming the Chief Magistrate of the na- tion; butif the accounts published be correct— as we doubt not they are—the conduct of the committee was, to say the least of it, very ex- traordinary and very neglectful. The recep- tion of the Seventh regiment on this occasion compares very badly with that which they re- ceived a year ago in Virginia, at the obsequies of President Monroe, though one would sup pose that the national government should not be behind the State government of Virginia in extending a hospitable welcome to its visiters. Though the officers and men of the regiment made no outward demonstration of disappoint- ment at their bad treatment, it would be unna- tural to suppose that they did not feel it very keenly, considering the sacrifices they made in order to impart an éclat to a ceremonial which, without them, would have been tame indeed, and perhaps unfitting the occasion which gave birth to it. We perceive by the action of Congress yes- terday, that some members of that body are conscious of the slight put upon their military guests; for Mr. Carter, of New York, offered a resolution to this effect:— Resolved, That we convey to our Speaker our sincere regret that the Executive and Committee failed to extend to the regiment the hospitality and respect so eminently their due, in consideration of the high appreciation of this body of the soldierly skill and discipline exhibited. The resolution, however, was not adopted, on the ground that it cast an imputation on the committee, which might be true or false. To his Mr. Keitt intends to reply. Porvtar Orrsion In Venetia.—We give else- where a translation of a very spirited desorip- tion of popular opinion in Venetia, as expreas- ed in street scenes, demonstrations at the operas, cafes, piazaas, &c., in Venice and other cities in the provinces over which Austria holds univereal sway, all contained in a letter to the Paris Siecle, written by the author of “Monte- Cristo.” The graphic description of M. Dumas will be read with a degree of interest beyond its value as a social sketch. It shows that the very name of Austria is loathed and hated by all classes of Venetia, high and low, rich and poor, and that the feeling of the Italians against the invaders is even more bitter than it was be- fore the war. It is very evident that the days of Austrian supremacy ia Nortbera Itsly are aw it the action of the Grand Jury. The Commis. \ ened. The leaders who gave expression to their | numbered. ‘The Shoemaker’ Strike in Massachu- eetts—Tho Danger and the Lessem of the Hear. The workmen of Lynn and the neighboring towns, engaged in the shoe trade, have thrown up their work and struck for higher wages from their employers; and it is stated that the number of men engaged in that branch of business in Massachusetts is not less than fifty thousand, and that the present movement is likely to embrace the whole trade of that State. This is a serious movement, whether con- templated in a social or a political light. That there should exist in the Old Bay State a nu- merous class of skilled workmen, not immi- grants hastily poured in, and who have not had time to disseminate themselves through the channels of employment, but men native born, and grown up in the midst of our active and increasing prosperity, a class of mem 60 poverty-stricken and oppressed as these claim, through their spokesmen, to be, and who have no other resource for obtaining adequate re- compense for their labor than that of refusing to work, parading the public streets in proces- sion, and relying upon the public sympathy to sustain them in their course, is conclusive evi- dence that there is something rotten in the so- cial condition of New England. Whether the cause of the evil lies in imperfect education, a want of energy and enterprise, or bad social habits among the people, or whether it springs from inadequate legislation for the protection of free labor, it is not our purpose to inquire. There stands the fact, that the shoemakers of Lynn assert that they cannot earn more than four dollars a week with fifteen hours of daily labor, when the average wages of unskilled labor in this country is not less than one dollar a day. The strike itself is an evil, and its occurrence at this time affords a practical comment upon the political theories that are so strenuously advocated by New England. It would be well if some of the sympathy which Wilson, Sum- per, Feasenden, and their fellow representa- tives from the New England States, so vocife- rously expend against the imaginary evils of slavery, were turned to the suffering that stands at their own doors. Whether the workmen will obtain the object they aim at, at the pre- sent time, isa question. Asa general thing, these strikes of the workingmen usually occur “at times when a long period of inflation of the currency has disturbed prices, and carried those of provisions to an exorbitant point. Then labor seeks for a commensurate advance. Thus, in 1836, the workingmen in all parts of the country began to agitate and strike, and turn out for higher wages, because every article of necessity or use had been greatly increased in cost by the prevailing speculation. The crisis and revulsion of 1837 crushed employers and employed alike. So, too, in the early part of 1857 the cabinetma- kers of New York, and many other classes of workingmen here and elsewhere, began to agi- tate for an increase of wages, and to strike. The revulsion in prices came before the year was much more than half out, and the employ- ers had no work to give at any price. In the present instance the strike comes at a peculiar moment. An insane idea of regulating social forms in the South has taken possession of many of the minds of Northern men. It has divided the churches, it has severed political connexions and parties, and it is nowextending its baneful division into commerce and indus- try. While the manufacturers of Massachusetts are being pressed on one side by their work- men for an advance of wages, on the other they are being cramped by a decreased demand for their goods, in consequence of the decline of orders from the South, instigated by the hostile feeling that has been created by the aggressive attitude assumed toward the South by the abolitionized black republican party. _The concurrence of these effects is likely to result disastrously to the shoe trade of New England. Between dissatisfied workmen on one side, and dissatisfied customers on the other, the employers are likely to be brought to the verge of ruin; and this result cannot butreact upon the workmen themselves. The loss of the demand for so large a portion of the products of their labors as that which has hitherto come from the South, will deprive the employers of any ability they may have to augment wages. The evils which are presented in the influ- ences now operating on the shoe trade are not confined to that trade. They are at work upon all the industry and commerce of New England, and place its manufactures, its shipping, its railroad interests, its real estate, and all the varied ramifications ofits industry and values upon the brink of a danger that may involve them allin ruin. A political crusade is now being preached among them, and by them, against the safety and very existence of fifteen States of the Union. These States contain a population of fully twelve millions of people, who are the best customers the Northern com- munities have, and their destruction must react most disastrously on these. That the abolition of slavery would effect this is beyond a ques- tion; and federal inteference with it in any way is so near an approach to it, that it gives a lively character to the evil. The social organ- ization of the North and South may be compared to two webs of cloth—one all linen, and the other of linen and cotton mixed. No one de- nies that the all linen is the superior, because all its elements are of the superior ones. But the linen and cotton mixed will still serve for the uses of society as long as the web is intact. But withdraw the warp of cotton, or destroy its fibre, and the web is destroyed and the woof “hangs a mass of isolated or tangled threads, useless to all, except when again woven into a new order of things. This is the war of the North against the South. Northern demagogues insist that the web of Northern society is supe- rior to that of the South, because it is all linen, or all white; and they demand that the web of Southern society shall be made all linen or all white too, forgetful that no legislation, nor any effort of human art or power, can convert cot- ton into flax, or a negro into a white man. Sqcapste Anovut THE Printing Spoms w Goxcress.—The action of the republican party in Congress is adding infamy to that organiza- tion day by day. After spending two months in a wrangle about the Speaker, they next proceeded to elect a disreputable indi- vidual, who isa disgrace to the country and the House of Representatives, to the responsi- ble office of Clerk; and now that they are only about two weeks in the position of a legis- lative body, they are fighting and squabbling about the printing spoils. Since the com- mencement of the session the republicans have earned more disgrace than the other party have succeeded in acquiring in ten years. It is truly astonishing to behold the effect which @eoat in Congress and the atmosphere of Washington seem to have upon these indi- viduals, Many of the republican members are very respectable men in private life, pious men, temperate men, members of churches, who, no doubt, when they were at home bore themselves with great decorum; yet in Con- gress they act like a parcel of vagabonds from the Five Points. -By the time the two years session of Congress is over many of them will have become fit recipients for the hospitality of a lunatic asylum, a penitentiary, or some other retreat of like character. ‘Tae Senate AND Messrs. Hyatt anD Howz.— The attempt of Thaddeus Hyatt and Dr. Howe to resist the authority of the Senate, by re- fusing to appear and testify relative to the Harper’s Ferry outrage, is truly absurd. Hyatt denies the power of the Senate to com- pel his appearance, and, it appears, is about to appeal to the authority of a State court to | maintain him in his recusancy by a habeas cor- pus. If the Senate has no power to make wit nesses testify in a case like this, it has no power at all; and by invoking the aid of a State tribu- nal, Hyatt is taking issue with the constitution of the country. Any State Judge who would grant a writ of habeas corpus in this case would be grossly violating the constitution; and if Congress cannot compel Mr. Hyatt to go to Washington and tell what he knows about the insurrection at Harper’s Ferry, or, on his retusing, cannot inflict punishment upon him, then we have no government at all. Hyatt and Howe are valuable witnesses in this investigation. They were the con- federates and friends of John Brown; and we all know—for Hugh Forbes has told us—that before he went to Kan- sas to teach the anti-slavery party there how to use Sharpe’s rifles, and shoot and mur- der their fellow men, there was a dinner par- ty—a private, comfortable dinner party—came off at New York, at which he and Thaddeus Hyatt and Horace Greeley were present. They enjoyed themselves mightily, and discussed the whole coming affairs of Kansas; and when Forbes got up to start for the train on his jour- ney to Kansas, he was short of money, and Greeley put his hand in his pocket and gene- rously gave him twenty dollars, wished him godspeed in his undertaking—saying at the same time:—“Now, Forbes, when you get to Kansas I want you to write me everything that goes on there, particularly about the fighting, for if there is tobe any fighting I want to be there.” The Senate Committee should certainly subpena Greeley. He can tell all about that dinner party, how he sent Forbes to Kansas to teach John Brown to fight, and about the plans of Old Brown and his confederates. Dr. Howe also can give a great deal of information, for it was to him Forbes wrote that long letter, which we published, in which he informed him that he told all about John Brown’s project to Senator Seward, some time before. The Senate should insist upon having all these witnesses before the Committee, CuevauieR Wess AGaIn In TRovBLE ABOUT THE Heratp.—We are sorry to find that we are such a source of constant trouble to Chevalier Webb. We disturb his sleep—he dreams of us every night. We throw a blight over his poli- tical prospects, and we fear that his hopes in the world to come are overcast by the shadow of the Hrratp, which haunts him as a spectre by night and by day. An editorial article we published a few days ago, upon the coming elections in Connecticut and New Hampshire, has completely upset his equanimity. We said those elections were of great importance, and might turn out to be not only decisive of the Presidential election, by influencing the votes of those States in November, but by their effect on the Middle States result ina large popular majority against the higher law. In this our unhappy contemporary sees “trea- son, stratagem and spoils.” He says this plan of defeating the republican programme was communicated confidentially to the Heraup by the leaders of the democracy, and that we immediately revealed the secret. The leaders of the democracy have nothing to communicate to apybody, and therefore could not have communicated anything to us. We have had to furnish brains to both parties in turn, and often found it up hill work to teach them even common sense. We are also gravely charged with betraying the democratic party. We could not betray a party to which we did not belong. We never belonged to any party, and instead of being the “organ” of the democratic party, we make that party our organ, and other parties our organs when we think fit. No party can use the Hx- RaLp, tor we despise all the party organiza- tions, and only use them as instruments—ne- cessary evils—out of which we try to bring good for the country. As to the bets which he says are freely offer- ed that the Heraxp will oppose the nominee of the Charleston Convention, we can only say that every one may betas much as he pleases upon what we shall do, but till the nomination is made, it will be very difficult to find out what course we intend to take. If our cotem- porary thinks he knows, let him bet on the right side, for it is not the first time for him to gamble—let him bet $52,975, and he may win just enough to pay what he borrowed from the United States Bank. —e THE WRECK OF THE HUNGARIAN The Vigo, which arrived at this port last evening, re- ports that the steamer Hungarian, for Portland, left Liver- pool simultancously with the Vigo, at 11 o'clock, on the morning of the 8th inst. A despatch from Queenstown, Ireland, dated on the 9th instant, says:—The Canadian mab steamer Hungarian arrived here at 11 o’clock this morning (Thursday), and sailed at five this evening with the Canadian mails, pas sengors, and latest despatches. Hauwax, Feb. 24—Evening. ‘A despatch from Ragged Island, 24th, to the Postmaster General, says that the supplementary mail bags for Ca- nada and New York have been picked up, ani are in safety, but in a very damaged state, and are awa iting or- ders. Postmaster General Woodgate has ordered the mails to be brought to Halifax to be arranged, as the bags are burst and the letters torn. The following is the latest news from tho scene of the weer Baaiotox, Feb, 24—9 P. M. ‘Thos. Nickerson informs me that on Monday morning at threo o'clock, he saw from the main land a steamer’s light. It was stationary tor some time, aud he sup- powed a ship bad struck on the Horse Racs, about two miles off the Cape. It was then seon to move. At daylight a large steamer was seen ashore, with one mast standing. He thinks be saw men oa it when it went over, which was soon after daylight A report has reached me that the stoward’s pocket book has been picked up, having some passengers for extras. 1 will inquire into it and report. On Wednesday the body cf ong souall child was found, A008 and yesterday that of one man, supposed to be a fire: man. The Coroner is attending to them, Portions of the mai! and cargo are being yet picked up. Anything further transpiring to-night will be telo- graphed in the morning. Mowrnmar, Feb. 94, 1860. ‘Tho steamship Bohemian, which will sail from Portland to-morrow (26th), tows schooners to tho steamship Hun- AES, ESS Ore eC to look after the property. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Renewal of the Contest for the House Printing. FOUR MORE BALLOTS AND NO- ELECTION The Inauguration of the Wash- ington Statue. Resolutions Censuring the Congressional Committee for their Treatment of the Seventh. Regiment, Speech of Mir. Doolittle on the “Zrre- pressible Conflict.” Interesting Revelations Respecting Old Brown and the Kansas Ald Societies, Rey wey ke Our Special Washington Despatch. < * Wasmneron, Feb. 24, 1860, ‘THE SQUAPALE YOR THE HOUSE PRUNTING. ‘The record of to-day’s House proceedings verifies my dospatch forwarded to the Herat last night. Mr. Ball culminated yesterday. Mr. Mitchell took most of the scattering votes of the republicans and two South Ameri- cans from Mr. Glosabrenner, and exhibited to the House and the country that he could be elected if the rest of the republicans bad changed from Ball to him. On the third ballot to-day Mr, Seaton, of the Intelligencer, took thirteen South Americans and three democrats— Messrs. Millson, Pryor and Dejarnette—trom Glossbrea- Ber. On the last ballot Bail and Glossbrenner had seven- ty five votes each, and their principal opponents—Mitchei and Seaton—bad sixteen votes each. The result of.to- day’s work brought the republicans to the decision to hold a caucus to-morrow at two o'clock. There is a report to-night that some of the Ball and Defrees men will not go into the caucus for fear that Mitchell will be nominated. They think by keeping out they will not be bound to vote for the nominee, notwithstanding tho Defrees men, when he was nominated by one majority against Mitchell, who led him in the caucus on six ballota, held the friends of Mitchell to the support of the nominee for two woeks. The first who broke the lines from Defrees to Ball were [Defrees’ own friends. In view of this fact the friends of Mitchell will hold the republicans in honor ‘bound to vote for Mitchell if he is nominated. Mr. Adams is ready to vote for Mitchell, and some six or seven South Americans will also vote for him if the republicans nomi- nate him. THE NEW YORK SEVENTH REGIMENT. Mr. Carter's resolution censuring the action of the Con- gressiona! Committee of Arrangements at the inauguration of the Washington statue for not tendering an escort to tho Seventh regiment on their arrival or departure, and for other alleged manifestations of disrespect to the gallant Seventh, was an unexpected bombshell, and will be the subject of an interesting debate in future. Mr, Keitt gave notice that he should speak on the resolution. Shortly after this he received news of nis brother's death, and this fact will postpone the consideration of the subject for some time. THR INVESTIGATION PUBLIO PRINTING PLUNDER The House Committee on Public Expenditures, which are investigating the public printing and other matters connected therewith, met this morning, and examined Mr. Wendell for several hours. The committee swear all ‘Witnesses to secresy, 80 as to prevent any of the deve- lopements getting into the papers. This testimony, how- ever, was nearly the same as that given before the Senate Inveatigating Committee. This committee intends to be More thorough in its researches and developements, in- quiring into every branch of Printing, binding and on- Graving, together with the profits received and money squandered by the government in this matter of the pub- Hic printing. ‘The Senate Investigating Committee met this m and eXamined Mr. Hart, Superintendent of Sisk eae ing, in regard to the charges preferred against him. He explained everything to the satisfaction of the committee, but bis testimony did not place Mr. Bowman, the Senate printer, in a very satisfactory light. ‘THE APPROPRIATION DILI8—BOONOMY IN THR RXPENDITORES. ‘The House Committee of Ways and Means are from day to day upon the Civil, Legislative and Executive Appropriation bill, They are cutting it down considera. bly below the figures of last year. After this bill is dis. posed of by the committee, they will take up the Army and Navy Appropriation bills. They intend to prune them very closely, lopping off all unnecessary expen- ditares. THR DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND THE INAUGURATION ORREMONTES. It bas excited no little surprise and displeasure here that the whole diplomatic corps, which had been formally in. vited to participate in and assist at the late ceremony in inaugurating the statue of Washington, refused to be present on the paltry pretext of technical etiquette, alleging that the position assigned them on the occasion ‘Was not as dignified as they had a right to expect, there- by implying that some slight or insult had been put upon them and the governments they represent. Tho President, in his speech on the following day, with dignity rebuked this discourtesy by simple allusion to it. ‘THE SICKLES AND WILLIAMSON CONTESTED CASE. Mr. Sickles resumed and conciuded his argument to-day before the House Committee on Elections. He contended that the petition of Mr. Williamson does not allege facta enough to call for a defence, and also that the omission to give notice of proceedings, as required by the law of 1851, the failure to support petition by any testimony, the oocu- Pancy of the seat since December, and being sworn in as member without objection to the certificate, exclude ‘Mr. Williamson from any right to contest his seat. The contestant will now submi: his reply in writing. INDIAN WAR IN NEW MEXICO. ‘The Indian Bureau has received official advices that the ‘Navajos have at last commenced a decisive war upon our People and are also killing the Mexicans along the Rio Grande. Superintendent Collins says:—“A war with the tribe is now beyond the possibility of prevention.” It will be recollected that last year a treaty was mado by Uaptain Bonneville and Superintendent Collins with these Indians, but it has not yet been acted on by the govern- ment. ‘THE PENSION AND WEST POINT APPROPRIATION BILLS. ‘The Pension and West Point Appropriation bills would have been passed to-day had there been a quorum in the House when the committee rose. These bills elicited no debate whatever, there being in them no appropriations in addition to those previously authorized by law. ‘THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS. ‘The republicams are to have a caucus to-morrow after- noon on the subject of a Printer. ‘THE HARPER'S FERRY INVESTIGATION—INTERESTING REVERA- TIONS, George L. Stearns, of Boston, was before the Senate Brown Raid Committee to-day, and testified ad follows:— 1 did not ke any active interest in the Kansas affairs un- til the attack on Lawrence and the destruction of the hote and other private property in that town, roused mejto the importance of active exertion in behalf of that portion of our fellow citizens who were thus assailed. The assault on Charles Sumner in the Sonate chamber at Washington, which followed closely on the attack of Lawrence, at once determined me to devote all my ener- gies to the work of making Kansas @ free State, and I immediately went to the Boston commitics for the relief of the guiferers in Kansas, and offered my ser- vices. I worked for them until June of that year, and then, being willing to devote all my time to the cause, was made chairman of the State Kansas Committee of Massachusetts, which took the place of the first named committee, and continued the work throughout the State. In five months, inéfuding August and December of that year, I raised through my agents about torty-cight thou. sand dollars, and in the same time I commenced the for. mation of societies for contributions of clothing, which re- sulted in sending from twenty fo thirty thousand dollars more in supplies of varions kinds. In January, 1967, our work was stopped by advices from Kansas that no more com- tributions were needed, except for defence, If we had pot been thus stopped, our arrangements then made would