The New York Herald Newspaper, February 29, 1860, Page 4

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The News. in Congress yesterday the Senate adopted a re- solution calling upon the President for a copy of any report made by Commissioners for marking the boundaries between the United States and Great Britain. A report and bill explanatory of the act for carrying into effect the ninth article of the treaty with Spain were presented, and ordered to be printed. Petitions from Pennsylvania in favor of a modification of the tariff were pre- sented by Mr. Cameron. The bill authorizing the gale of arms to the States,and regulating the ap- pointment of Superintendents of public armories, was taken up, and an amendment providing for the appointment of said Superintendents from the Ordnance corps was opposed by Mr. Hale Without taking the question on the amendment the Senate went into executive session, and dis- cussed the treaty with Mexico, the main point under consideration being the provision relative to the employment of United States troops to protect the right of way through Mexican territory. Mr. Simmons, of Rhode Island, opposed the treaty. He was the only republican Senator who took partin the discussion. After calling on the State Department for additional information re- specting certain points of the treaty, the subject ‘was postponed till to-morrow. Mr. Seward will ad- dress the Senate to-day on the affairs of the nation and the state of parties. In the House yesterday the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means reported a biil providing for the printing of the President's annual Message and the reports of the various depart- ments. He also reported a bill repealing the pre” sent mileage law, and allowing members of Con- gress their actual travelling expenses. Mr. Sher- man offered a substitute, that twenty cents a mile be allowed, the distance to be computed by a Btraight geographical line from the place of resi- dence to the capital, the line to be determined by the Committee on Mileage. Considerable debate ensued, but the substitute was adopted by a vote of 128 to 44. The final question on the passage of the bill was not taken, however, and as it now takes its place the sixth or seventh on the calen- ar, it is doubtful if it becomes a law. The Republican National Committee have chang- ed the time of holding the Chicago Convention from the 14th of June to the 16th of May. Bat little of general interest transpired in the Btate Senate yesterday. In the Assembly the con- sideration of the Pro Rata Freight bill was resumed, A sketch of the debate is given in another column. Finally the committee, by a vote of 63 to 12, agreed to report in favor of the bill,and the House ac cepted the report—66 to 39. It is now pretty cer- tain that the Legislature will pass both the Pro Rata pill and the bill tolling railroads during the present session. The Maryland Democratic State Convention met at Baltimore on Monday last, and appointed nine Douglas and two administration delegates to repre- Bent the State in the Charleston Convention. A telegraphic despatch from the agent of the «owners of the steamer Hungarian, dated at Bar- rington, N.S., on Monday last, states no more bodies had been washed ashore. One boat in good condition had been found, and fragments of other boate;had been picked up off Cape Sable. The agent féferred to was to proceed to the wreck on Monday afternoon. s The steamship Northern Light, from Aspinwall and Havana, arrived at this port about half-past one o’¢lock this morning, with the semi-monthly Pacifie- mails, three hundred passengers and half a million in treasure. Her advices have been antici pated by the arrival of the Baltic on Sunday last. Ates meeting of the Board of Aldermen last evening, 8 communication was received from the City tor on the street cleaning contract, in which he set forth the many difficulties that sur rounded him when he first entered on the duties of his office, the exhaustion of the appropriation for cleaning streets, Xc.; that he received two con- tracts for cleaning the streete—one for $310,000 and the other for $300,000; that he accepted the latter, after consultation with the Mayor and Comp- troll that his only desire in the matter was to have-the streets cleaned under the lowest con- tract’ The question of confirming the nomination of Jajnes B. Libby as President of the Croton Board was negatived by a vote of 10 to 7. 7) Board of Councilmen met last evening, and as -o@tt as the roll was called, o motion to adjourn, til] next Monday was proposed and adopted. | At'the meeting of the Almshouse Governors last pvenjog the Comumittee on City Prisons reported in | furor of appropriatiog improvements in those institutions. They alse re- ported that measures should be immedfately taken for exterminating the rats which infost all the prisons of the city, The considerationof the report Was postponed forafortnight. The assistant auper- intendent of the erection of the new Island Hospital was discharged, aftet a long discussion. A motion to discharge the superintendent of the hospital work also was tabled. The Board approved the plans of Thos. Little for enlargiag the Lunatic Asylum. The bumber in the institutions at present is 8,355, au increase of 28 for the week. of January, says:—The warlike rumors which ap- peared in the papers are, fortunately, untrue; the country is as peaceable as may be wished for. bales; the market was without further change, closing on the basis of quotations given in another column; some bro- kers quoted middling uplands at 113{c., and others at Ic. State and Western brands of flour wore active and firm, with a fair amount of sales; Southern flour was in moderate supply and in good request, both for export and from the domestic trade. Transactions in wheat were checked by ‘he Girmnees of holders; the only transaction of moment was confined to a lot of Michigan club, at $1.21. Corn sales were ant and active. New mess sold at $18 8734, old do. 0 for effecting various The stove cutters, numbering a hundred work- men, who were employed upon the new Roman Catholic Cathedral, to be erected on Fifth avenue, between Fifty-first and Vifty-second streets, have stopped work, owing to a refusal of the contractor to increase the rates of their pay. We give else- where a full account of the causes of the strike, and ali the attendant circumstances, The disaflect- ed workmen have prepared a memorial in the mat- ter for presentation to Arcabishop Hughes. Rey. Dr. Bellows delivered a lecture last evening atthe Brooklyn Tabernacie, by invitation of the Sanitary Association of Brooklyn, on the “ Genesia of Crime,” being the first of a series of twelve lec” tures on the science of society which the Doctor designs to deliver. Right Rev. Dr. Spalding, Roman Cotholie Bishop of Louisville, Ky., delivered a lec- ture last evening, at the Cooper institute, on the subject of ‘ European Civilization before the Re- formation.” Owing to the presa of matter upon our columns we are obliged to defer the publication of cur reports of these lectures. The anti-slavery meeting held last evening in Dr. Burchard’s church was addressed by Rev. Dr. Ro- gers, of Kentucky, and Rey. ©. C. Foote, of Cana. da. Those in attendance were mostly ladies, but the facts announced as of such “thrilling interest” were not presented. The United States steam sloop Brooklyn, which arrived off Quarantine on Saturday last, was order- ed to this port from Pensacola, for the purpose of bringing on several witnesses in the case of Corpo- ral Charles G. Cooper, formerly of the Brooklyn, who was charged with the murder of George Rit- ter, on board the ship, just previous to her depar- ture from New York for the Gulf. The case had, however, been brought up in the Richmond Coun- ty Court of Sessions on Thursday last, when Cooper was discharged from custody, no indict- ment having been found, and no cause shown for further detention. We have news from the African coast dated at Monrovia, Liberia, on the 4th of January. Mr. Benson had entered on his duties as Presideat of the republic, for the third time, after re-election, The thirteenth session of the Legislature com- menced at Monrovia on the 6th of December. Hon, A. W. Gardner was elected Speaker of the House, being the fourth time he has filled that office. Pre- sident Benson sent in his message tomembers. He observes:——“Our seasons have been favorable. The soil has abundantly industry. Commerce has manifestly increased. With few native clans, peace predominates. Our foreign relations may be regarded as tranquil. agricultural interest of the republic is ing encouraging progress. more produced and exported by the Americo- Liberians during the last year, than in the entire previous history of Liberia, comprising a period of nearly forty years, and it is very manifest to all who have visited the plantations this season, that there will be a large increase this year over the last.”” The Message quoted from above was Mr. Benson's fifth communication to the Legislature. rewarded the hand of exceptions among some of the The mak. There has been At latest date the republic was healthy, Aletter from St. Domingo City, dated on the 30th The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 was heavy, and = rather moderate, Pork was easier, while Jess buoy- at $17 60, new prime at $14 §73¢, and old at $12 608 $12 50. Beef was firm and in good demand. Sagars were without change of moment. The sales embraced about 800 hhds. New Orleans and Texas, by auction, and about 500 bhds. Cuba muscovado, to the trade, at quota- tions given in anothercolumn. Coflee was steady, with aggregate sales of 3,190 bags of Rio at 123¢c., and 700 do. Coyion at p. t. ‘The stock of Rio was 13,167 bags, 24,000 mats Java, and 150 bags government do., with a total of all kinds of 46,596 bags and mats, Freight engagements were modernte, while rates were firm. The Mexican Treaty Before the Senate— Its Relations with the Movement of the Age. The Senate has at last taken up the discus- sion in executive session of the new treaty with Mexico, and it is said that it will be pressed from day to day until a vote for its ratification or rejection is obtained, We are told that there is great opposition to this treaty, and we are not surprised thereat. It has been negotiated on a basis entirely too national to suit any purely partisan interest. South Carolina opposes it because Mr. Calhoun opposed the admission of California just before ‘he died ; and this he did on the principle that he didnot want any more free States in the Union. Texas opposes it because it removes the faintest chance of filibustering, and of Sam Houston's having an opportunity to extend the peculiar institution of the South into some por- tion of disintegrated Mexico. The black re- publicans, on the contrary, oppose it because, they argue, it will extend the area of slave- ry, and do precisely what South Carolina and Texas think it will mot do. Some of the Southwestern’ opposition Senators oppose it because it was negotiated by a demo- cratic administration, and others have their pri- vate, besides the public, reazons for preventing, if possible, its ratification. These several and conflicting elements of opposition are stimulat- ed to unite and reject the treaty by a wide- spread influence, emanating from the Roman Catholic clergy in Mexico, and which, not dar- ing to make head on its own merits, aesumes the policy of the Apostle Paul, and becomes “all things to all men, that it may catch some.” We tremble for the country when one of the greatest political and commercial movements of the age, as is this new treaty with Mexico, is subjected to the ignominy of discussion on grounds of purely party action and partisan aspiratian. When Senators abandon the high position of a national guardianship, and, from erroneous and conflicting motives, unite in op- Position to a measure of great importance, not only to the nation, but to the whole commer- cial world, we are led irresistibly te the con- clusion that statesmanship has given place to something far more ignoble in the highest na- tional council. The treaty with Mexico accom- plished a great object through legitimate means. Extending a helping hand to the legitimate and constitutional government of Mexico, it enables that republic to subdue a rebellious clergy and an insurrectionary army, to carry out the mighty eventa which is to open the channels of commerce between the civilization of the West and the semi-barbaric millions im the far East. It is what is wanting to enable the cur- rents of commerce to complete the circuit of the globe, and begin the developement of a new industrial era. The merchants have felt this, and have poured their petitions into the Senate; the manufacturers have seen it, and they, too, demand it; the highest interests of the Central and Northern States, where the arteries of trade lie, all hope for the ratification of the treaty. Before such influences partisan feeling should bow, filibuster plans should be laid be abandoned in the areopagus of the nation. great and fiberal seforms which the aplrit. of the oge demands af ite hands, to reconstruct |' goveroment there upon @ firm and stable basis, to reorganize the country and repress the ten- dency to disintegration whieh is already awakening the filibuster spiritin the South, and to open its ports, its highways and its mar- kets to the commerce of the world. By this means an American influence, it is true, is extended over Mexico, but it is a aationai influence, and nota partisan one—an influeace for good, and not for evil. Moreover, i¢ is an influence which our own highest in- teresta, and those of the whole world, call upon upon us to exercise. Mexico contains ten mil tious of people who produce little or nothing but silver, which they exchange for every con- ceivable product of art or industry. Their ansual production to-day is twenty millions of dollars; but with a stable goverament, the removal of the cancer of a. corrupt branch of the Romaa Catholic church, and the sunshine of the moral influence of the United States over them, they would produce a hundred millions of silver yearly, which the marriage of American enterprise to Mexican facilities would soem raise to two hun- dred millions of annual production. The re- sults of such 4 tide to the industry and trade of our Northern and Central States, and to the great sea of Eurepean commerce, are but faintly pictured in that which was produced by the opening of the golden stream from California. Many influences combine now to depress our industry and to stagnate the commerce of the world. Our railroads are not extending their briarian arms into the new Territories; our manufactories are not driven to supply the accumulating orders for goods; our shipping is earning a bard and precarious return; capital finds no active demand nor any prosperous in- vestment in public works, and a general stag- nation hangs over the hives of Northern in- dustry. In the meanwhile, the arms of Europe and the diplomacy of America are striving to open the markets of the many-milliened East, and the first demand that comes is for more silver. The money centres of Europe are startled, the Bank of Engiand hurriedly raises the rate of discount, and all turn to America ag their'stay and their hope in the coming trial. Will she continue to send them her tide of gold? Will she unbar the gates that now close the Méxican lakes of eilver, and bring their waters, a life giving tide, into the lap of commerce? This is what the Mexican treaty is to perform. Unwittingly, perhaps, it is a part of the great movement of the age—a link in that chain of aside, and crotchety abstractions should ‘Tus Curvatier Tom Forp Turnep Ur Acam.— We congratulate the House of Representatives on its Printer. It was a choice eminently fit to be made. markable man—a representative man—in point of fact, a wonderful man. He always turns up when thgre is an electioneering fund of a hun- dred thousand dollars or so raised to carry a doubtful State, by subsidizing the country news- papers. This was the sortof work which the Chevalier Tom Ford undertook in Pennsylva- nia during the Fremont campaign, and the way he did it was unique. We know the whole story. It isa capital thing—but we don’t in- tend to tellit. All we have to say is, that we know something about the Chevalier Tom .Ford, and that we are perfectly delighted that he has been chosen Printer to the House. by; it smashes Weed and Wendell, and Blair The Chevalier Tom Ford is a re- It carries devastation into the lob- and Weed, and it completely drigs up the stream of pap which has irrigated the sucking pigs who control the petty, poverty-stricken rural newspapers; for be it understood that the Chevalier Tom Ford is a man who under- stands his position. He is not the sort of per- son who believes in a division of the spoils. He has gota good thing, and he will hold on to it. He will manage the printing spoils as he did the Pennsylvania ms‘ter. He was in- structed to carry it, and he bis breeches pocket. We now recommenc to the Chevalier Tom Ford the example of an illustrious states- man, likewise from Ohio—the Chevalier Tom Corwin. He got hold of a good thing in the Galpbin claim. It was the only chance he had had in his life; and he made the best of it. He has never had, and probably never will have, another chance ata placer. So with the Chevalier Tom Ford. He has a good thing for the first time in his life, and if he is not an idiot he will keep it to him. self, and steadily refrain from throwing away any of its profits on the miserable half-starved country editors and the suckers of the lobby. Let the Chevalier Tom Ford remember that he may never have such another chance, and so make hay while the sun shines. The election of the Chevalier Tom Ford was a good thing todo. He is the best man for Printer to the House of Representatives. He has our appro- bation, and can go ahead. The election of the Clerk was a disgrace to the nation, and weshall continue to expose its tric! as long as this Congress may last; but the ter is all serene. The Chevalier Tom Ford is the right man in the right place. Corroration DevELopements.—We perceive that our friené Alderman Brady stated at the last meeting of the Board that he was offered $2,000 for his vote in favor of confirming Gide- on J. Tucker as President of the Croton Aque- duct Department; ac that we have at least one competent authority as to thecustom of bargain and sale said to be prevalent in the Corporation lobby. The nonchalance with which this state- ment was made would lead to the inference that nothing is done by the Corporation which is not paid for, and perhepsif poor Tucker or his friends had only placed $10,000 in the hands of the Corporation lobby, be might have a different story to tell to-day. We have now, from the developement of Alderman Brady, the sam which is not saffi- cient to buy an Alderman, namely, $2,000; per- haps we will be informed nekt time whit ad- vance upon that sum is necessary to attain that object. publican Stemp Oraters, republican stump orators who has visited us, played his part at the Cooper Institute on Mom- day evening, and our readers have seen, in yes- terday’s Heraun, an account of the perform- ance. Everything was done to give éclat to the occasion. Horace Greeley, William Cullen Bryant, David Dudley Fie, General Nye and Judge Culver acted the subordinate parts to the chief rdle by the Star of the West. The first half of the orator’s speech was an attempt to show that the fathers of the repub- lic were all anti-slavery men, including Wash- ington and Jefferson.) Tn reply to thia it is suf- cient to say that they took a very curious way of showing it, by holding slaves themselves, and by drawing up a pro-slavery constitution, which provides for the perpetuation of the in- stitution a8 long aa any State thinks pro- per to retain it. Washington, in a letter to Lafayette, complatned bitterly that the English, ia a raid, carried off a num- ber of bis slaves from his estate; aad it appears from his will that he held slaves to the day of his death, that he bought in the slaves of his wife’s brother at an execution, and that he did not emancipate them even at his death, but bequeathed them to his wife and his sister- in-law for their lives, and after their decease he directed them to be manumitted—a disposition of the property whioh, it is soarcely necessary to say, he would not have made if he had had any children to inherit it. At the time of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, drawn up by Jefferson, every one of the thirteen colonies was slaveholding, and Jefferson inserted a clause in it against slavery, which was voted out, showing that the general sense of the country was in favor of the insti- tation, though Mr. Lincoln says a majority of the signers of the Declaration were against it. And the other clause, therefore, retained, which speaks of all men as being “born equal and entitled to liberty,” cannot have any reference to negroes, as has been shown in the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. When the consti- tation was adopted, every State but one held slaves, and even that one ratified it with the provision to'restore the fugitives. It is idle, therefore, to quote the fathers of the republic, including Washington and Jefferson, in favor of the present republican crusade against slavery, It is true that Jefferson for a time became tainted with the French revolutionary levelling notions about negro slavery, and other things; but he afterwards changed those opinions, and no man denounced the Missouri Compromise line in 1820 more eloquently than he did, or inveighed more forcibly against that Northern aggression, and against all attempts of Congress to inter- re with the slave labor of the Soutg,) He deprecated the establishment of a geographical line, upon a moral and poiitical principie, be- tween two sections of the Union, and pre- dicted as the result the fearful struggle which he said he would not live to see, but which is reserved for the eyes of this generation’ And if the Sage of Monti- cello lived to-day, how indignantly would he denounce the republican party, whose doctrines and ideas have led to the invasion of his native State, and now threaten the disruption of the Union. [or Lincoln denies that any republican ‘ever connected with Jobn Brown, or that republican party approve of his principles. It is in evidence that Horace Greeley, a leading member of the republican party, at that very moment in the room, was connected with John Brown’s enterprise, gave money to one of Brown’s associates to help him on his way to the theatre of war, and pledged him to send him word when the fighting commenced, as he wanted to be on hand. Not only is Greeley a lesding member of the party, but his paper is ite chief organ, and that journal applauded, en- dorsed and canonized John Brown. The Even- ing Post, Mr. Bryant’s paper, did the same thing. The majority of the republicans of the North endorsed the horse thief—even the Legislature of Massachusetts did so. And have not sixty-eight republican mem- bers of Congress, with Mr. Seward himself, the head and prophet of the republicaa party, endorsed Helper’s Impending Crisis, which contains the principles upon which John Brown acted? Mr, Seward, whe has‘ announced the conflict of the North against the slave labor of the South to be “irrepressible” and intermina- ble while a single slave remains in a Southern State| was cheered to the echo by the very as- sembly which Mr. Lincoln addressed. Mr. Bryagt, the chairman, said they were “fighting for freedom against slavery, in behalf of civilijation against barbarism;” and Horace Greelty said:—‘“It may be that we may be beaten one year, perhaps another and another, but in \he great tide of time we are sure that the last wave will be higher than the first; and thus we ahall go on from victory to victory, even through reverses, learning how victories i be won.” And Mr. Lincoln, though re cautious, and tries to lull the South tal security, yet commits himself to the tform—eternal war against the institu- the South. He asaails the decision of me Court that “the right of property e ia distinctly and expressly affirmed in the gonatitution,” and, notwithstanding such decistos, deciares his determination to per- severe in the crusade against slavery, for that “right makes might.” He says that unless slavery is overthrown, the South will at last demand the cverthrow of the free State consti- tutions,and that he and his party, therefore, will never cease to assail it This is the counter- part of the irrepressible conflict of Seward. “The South thinking it right,” he adds, “and the North thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.” Now, unless the republican party wants to over- throw the censtitution there can be no such controversy. It makes no difference whether slavery is right or wrong in itself, the constitu- tional right of the Southern States is equally the same, and the non-slaveholding States have no right to meddle with it. But the republican party,are preparing to overthrow the slave labor,of the South because they hold it to be wrong, and this is the issue joined for the cam- paign whith is now commenced. Both Lincoln and Greeley taunt the South with being afraid of slave insurrections, and ak, was it the republican party caused a slave insurrection twenty-eight years ago? We answer, it was one of the anti-slavery societies which commenced its labors thirty years ago, having the Boston Liberator and the New York Journal of Commerce for its organs, and the pre- ‘pent republican party ia the natural emanation FEBRUARY 29, 1860, |The Performamge of the Last jin the Re Abraham Lincoln, of Iineis, the last of the Of those societies. The stump orator, with a tremendous flourish, in which he is sustained by Greeley, says there are no fears of insurrection States of the North. Only inion be dissolved, and we shall not be an- other Shay’s rebellion in New England, and another insurrection in Pennsylvania. And is there not at this moment incipient insurree- in the fj let the see whether there will tion in Massachusetts? It is only the arm of the federal government and the Union of the States thaé now prevent outbreaks and re- volutiona in New England. Let the bond of Union be snapped, and then we shall see the same proletarian fanatical masa that are to wage war against the South, subvert the rights of property all over the North, and pou duce all distinctions to one commoz level, ‘The Massachusetts Labor Strike—Aid for the Sufferers. Although in the abstract the principle o strikes is to be deprecated, there are times when their expediency is ineontro- vertible. ties of been met in a manner plicate greatly their present By their conduct towards their Southern customers they have alienated o large portion of their trade, and by their harshness and in- justice towards their work people they are now @riving them into a rebellion of the most de- termined and formidable character, and which may terminate in the utter annihilation of the industry in‘ which they have invested so largely. It seems to be generally conceded that the pre sent outbreak of the Massachusetts shoemakers is one of those cases which find a justification in the natural right of self-preservation. By one combination or another amongst the manu- facturers the prices of labor had been brought down to starvation point, and the only alterna- tive left the workmen was to strike or perish, Considering the hopelessness of their enforcing attention to their representations by any of the usual means, is it to be wondered at that they chose the former? It is no slight testimony to the desperately urgent necessity of their course that it is approved of by the local clergy of all denominations, not even excepting the Roman Catholic, who are usually so averse to sanction- ing resistance against authority. It is evident that unless the statesmen and philosophers of New England, such as the Everetts, the Cushings and the Winthrops, who must have long observed and deplored the tendency of the commercial policy of Mas- eschusetts, take steps to arrest the influences which have brought about this conflict, the example of the Lynn shoemakers will extend to all the working population throughout that section of the country, and bring ruin upon its industrial interests. The encroachments of capital on the natura! rights of the laborer have become so heartless and exacting that public policy, as well as humanity, demands that limits should be opposed to them. Let, therefore, those men whose genius and elo- quence have so often been exercised to ele- vate the intellectual condition of the working Classes at once come forward and grapple with the evils which have driven them into this despe- rate struggle for existence. In the meanwhile, it should not be forgotten that whilst the contest lasts it must of necessi- ty lead to a vast amount of distress and suffer- ing amongst the operatives engaged in it. There does not appear to have been any ade- quate preparation made for a movement of so extensive @ character, by the collection of funds for the support of the persons thrown out of employment. Indeed, it was scarcely possible that -out of the insufficient wages paid them the workmen could have appropriated any- When capital is favored by legislation, utterly regardless of the interests ofthe laborer, no other means of redress is left the latter against the grinding oppressions to which he is subjected by these combined influ- ences, The policy of Massachusetts has for years fostered the association of capital, and the power exercised by moneyed corporations has constituted a despotism to which legislation, as well as every other interest—social as well as political—has had to bow the knee. The ope- ration of the tariff has unfortunately contributed to aggravate the evils resulting from this state of things. Its effect has been to favor great in- dustrial monepolies, and to press hardly on the laborer. The political dictation exercised at home has not sufficed to satisfy the ambitious aspirations of the Massachusetts manufacturers. They must needs seek to lord it over the South, by insolently endeavoring to force their theo- labor upon it; but they have which is as aggressive as unexpected, and which will com- troubles. | as has never before been witnessed at the Aoa- demy. All New York will be there; for is not the beneficiaire the child of their adoption, aad the first great lyrical star ofmative productiost ‘The nurseries will all be ransagked for bou- quets, and there will be 2 wholesale destruction of white kids. As to the matin‘e on Saturday, we almoot tremble to think of it. Let the mana- facturers of crinoline look out and have a freak supply on hand, Mayor Woov’s Pian or Apverrisme Onse- waxces.—The plan adopted by Mayor Wood, of advertising the ordinances of the Corporation in the public prints before receiving his same- tion, in order that parties interested may have an opportunity of presenting their views upem them, Ins been pronounced perfectly legal and oa by the Corporation Counsel, Mr. Bro The Journal of Commerce, it appears, had conseientious scruples about the legality of the proceedings, and declined to advertioe them. The opinion of Mr. Bronson, however, settles the question of its legality, oz the discernment of the public hee tong since é- cided the question of its utility. As an exam ple of the valucof advertising those ordinances before they become law, several new streets were ordered to be opened in the region shove Seventy-eighth street, which were wholly unme- ‘cessary, by a private resolution of the Corpe- ration, about’ which nobody knew anything except themselves and the contractors; and the property owners were startled when they saw, by the publication, that they were going to be saddled with an immense expense for nothing. In this case, the publication of the ordinance saved them several thousand dollars, and no doubt hundreds of instances of the same kind will occur. The factis, there are about a hundred. and fifty contractors and speculators in the city—headed by George Law and James Potti- grew—who are always on the lookout for jobe in opening streets here, there, and everywhere that any money can be made; and it is through their influence that resolutions of this kind are put through the Common Council. We don’t know whether the leading members of thio hungry gang approach the Corporation them~ selves, but it is evident that somebody does, and often with ruinous results to the property holders. Since the Journal of Commerce declined to publish the ordinances, they have been coa- fined to the Heratp, Zribune and News; but we understand that the Mayor is about to select another paper for the purpose. We recommend him to take either the Zimes or the Sun—papers which are conducted on the modern plas. There is no use in advertising in papers of the last century. We advise Mayor Wood to look over the Zimes and Sun, and select the one which has the largest circulation and is coa- ducted with the most decency and talent, but by no means to give the advertising to the Journal of Commerce, which has declined it, but we believe isnow anxions to regain it—its conscientious scruples about constitutionality and legality having been dispelled by the opinion of Judge Bronson. A Prospgct or Crean Sraeets at Last.— We perceive that City Inspector Delavan is showing himself a man of pluck and energy, im refusing to be trammelled by the Corporation in the matter of cleaning the streets. Though sick and prostrate in body, his intellect, it seems, is clear and strong. The new contract he has entered into with Mr. Smith for cleaning the streets gives promise of relief in that most desirable reform. The plan adopted for cleam- ing the streets last fear was not according to the mode prescribed by the charter with re- ference to large expenditures of the publie money, which is that works of this kind shall be performed by contract, duly advertised for, and given to the lowest bidder. But it hap- pens that one clause in the charter permits the heads of executive departments to get jobs done, of less amount than $250, without this form of contract, and in this way Mr. Delavan was enabled to give out the street cleaning im small jobs to a host of contractors. Mr. Dela- van was appointed by Mr. Tiemann, and there was considerable trouble in procuring his com- firmation by the Board of Aldermen. Whether any arrangement with regard to street cleaning jobs had anything to do with his confirmation we, of course, cannot say, but we believe the work was given to the friends and creatures of the Aldermen, who, with the assistance o€ villanous broken down carts and miserable horses, embracing the halt, the lame and the blind of the equine species, pretended to clean the streets, and didn’t do it. Mr. Delavan, however, has now resolved passionate persons must do—they will put their hande in their pockets and contribute liberally towards rescuing them from sufferiggs have been brought about by no faull own. A public meeting of our citizens would be the promptest and most effective means by which the sympathy felt here for them can find expression. We call upon our leading philar- thropists at once to take steps to carry out this suggestion. There will be an immediate and urgent necessity for all the aid that can be pro- to avail himself of the aforesaid clause im the charter, without submitting any longer to the dictation of the Aldermen, and thus has contracted with Smith to clean the streets by separate jobs, not exceeding the limit of $250 each. Mayor Wood ap- proves of this plan; so does Comptroller Haws; and Judge Bronson, the Corporation Counsel, has pronounced the plan perfectly le- gal under the charter. The oreatures of the Aldermen, therefore, with their wretched carts and invalided horses, are to be dispensed with henceforth. Something like $400,000 was ex- pended amongst this class last year; and we shall see whether, under the new system, the streets will not be kept cleaner this year for thing to such a purpose. The people of New York cannot look on with indifference at the miseries of these unfortunate people. If they believe the strike to be a just one—as all dis- which of their cured for these fresh victims of the rapacity of the manufacturing corporations of Massa- chusetts, Tne OreRA—tThis will be positively the last week of the present season at the Academy, and the last during which the New York pub- lic will have an opportunity of hearing their pet prima donna, probably, for some years to come. It is not often that European impresarii have the good fortune to meet with such a prize as Malle. Patti, and it fs certain that they ili not allow her to return to us until they can find some greater attraction—a thing not easy of accomplishment in the pre- eent dearth of musical talent abroad. When she comes back tc us, si- though she may have gained something in dra- matic intensity, she will probably have lost much of the ‘youthful grace and simplicity which impart such a charm to her wonderfal vocalization. Every one, then, that wishes to preserve a vivid remembrance of what this charming singer was when she @rst stormed the hearts, and carried away the sympathies of our New York audiences, should make it a point of bearing her again this week. In “Martha,” which is to be repeated this evening, she has achieved another marked success, which has given to this beautiful little opera increased popularity. On Friday ebe- takes her benefit, which will, no doubt, preeent 9 spectacie such . $300,000. The Aldermen may rant and fume as much as they will at this arrangement, which deprives their friends and supporters of the spoils, but the publio will give credit to Col. Delavan for his pluck ia throwing off the tram- mels of their influence, and resolving to give us clean streets at last. New Kansas Worx.—They have a Legisia- ture in Kansas which seems to grant divorces es coolly as laundresses take in washing. Only the other day a man went from Washington to Kansas, remained a week in the Territory, aad applied fora divorce from his wife, who re- mained. in the Eastern States. At first the s0- licited relief was denied for “want of evi- dence.” Ashort time afterward, the desolate husband returned with letters from several members of Congress, who asked that his bill might pass, as. personal favor; whereupon it immediately went through both houses. If this sort of business is going to be general én Kaneas it will be a Mecca for all badly matohed people, and, when it is admitted, will earn a re- putation as the most accommodating Siate in the Union. Perhaps the divorce laws have been made very liberal ia order to encourage emigration and increase the population of the State up to the constitutional standard. Court Calendar-.This Day. Scrrsex Covrr—Omovm.—pari I. —Samo as peotanday, wh No goede I inl oy