The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1860, Page 4

4 NEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL | The Railroad Tell Bil--Report of the Senate Committee on Rallroads— Eight City Rall- road Bills Reported for the Conside- ration of the Senate—The Sena- torial Combination— Corrup- ton Reigning Sapreme, x6., &o., a Our Special Albany Despatch. Auiayy, March 7, 1860, ‘Tho morning session of the House was taken up con aidering the Tolling bill, which was the special order for to-day. The discussions were mostly upon motions to ‘ke out certain lines and insert others—a warfare be tween the friends of different roa’s. All motions to strike out particular roads were lost, and the Ogdensburg and Whitebai! roacs were included im the provisions of this }; siso the Canandaigua and Elmira Railroad, Cooper moved that the provisions of the bill be ex cinded from all roads that a pro rata bill bad been OF Sangtorg should hereafter be applied to Upon the heels of this motion a motion was made to rise and report progress, aad ask leave to git again, which was carried. Mr. Allen, of Buffalo, then moved that the report of the commitiee be disagreed witia, . Wh carried, against the wishes of the friends of tolling rail- » was no session of the House this evening, the of attraction being in and about the Senate, where y railroad war commenced in earnest this morning Jar thundar storm of railroad bills, mixed with pail and sleet. ‘The Senate Comniittee om Cities and Villages made a report this morning on all the bills for city railroads that np that body, even those that were | ‘This is rushing the matter with ts io the shadeall railroad movements | aud may well foree us to ask what has is, however, only a forced march of the | se bills reported by the House committee, can reach the citadel first. In this committee have not reported favora- fered the whole batch for ‘This is quite a triumph 18, who lave been holding nightly «i Swearing Vengeance upen those i) before the House committee. are tbe bills that have been brought out $s H. Woods, John H. Swift, Samuel «ourts, Daniel Van Dosen and Louis N. @ railroad, commencing at West ‘ and Eleventh’ avenne, down Eleventh to Tweoty-third street, through Twenty-third etreet to avenue A, throngh avenues A and D to Houston ce by a meandering course to the City T Mills, Daniel D. Nash, George J. d Kelly,’ Phineas L. Tyler, Leonard Willam H. Degroot, Jum, George Irving and siiroad from Weehawken course to Fulton ferry, a the Assembly loose broke that the East river. 8. Authorizes R » William M. Pullis, George y 0 construct a railroad ue and Fourteenth street, and find its way to the City Hall Park, meandering through the cross streets to Fulton ferry. 4, Authorizes H_ Blackstone, Ira Campbell, Nathaniel Currier, William FE. Northern, Isaac Walton, Franklin §, Allen apd Orin M. Rogers, to coustruct a railroad, com- mencing at Central Park, at the head of Seventh avenue, down that avenue to Broadway, down Broadway to Union place, thence ihrough the strects ‘allel to Broadway to the Astor House, 5. bave the famous Hospital bill, which I noticed some time since, which authorizes James H. Hail, Robert Tayior, William E Dean, Amos Tenney E. Delaeld Smith, to construct a railroad, commencing at the intersection of Broadway and Fifty niath street, through Seventh av. nue to the Astor House, and appro: The Mesers. Y. P. Vroveer anc others, and far Fiero, Spinola, Seesions and Hammond, with a democratic Senators, All amendments to lost, cred the sane we add an additional section “Keep tl 8 clean. ‘Sctator Gardiner. sald that be never before saw a reported at one o'clock, printed and on the files of Benate st seven. Sepator Spinola thought the entire tage he of New ve nee in favor of bills just like the one vo Oo the Senate. P. P. Murphy said es, ho saw, jaded renee meaeure, that it was leatined. O ya power behind oe throne en. the throne itself. He characterized it as a great monopoly. Senator Ramsay, on bebalf of the Albany and Susque- banva Railroad, endorsed the Dill, and wanted to see it parsed. Senator Beil opposed the bil, and thought the attempt to rueh it through without precedent. He understood that roliable citizens of New York had offered to the city of New York one million dollars for the of laying tracks on the streets asked for by this , and he wanted to know if Senators were prepared to vote that into the pockets of the speculators? Senator Manierre presented a memorial, signed by several leading citizens, offering the sum of one milion for these franchises, or an annual tax of seventy dollars ; yet, notwithstanding this, the caucus voted straight ahead to give the whole thing toa band of speculators. Sevator Hammond wanted to know what right the city | had to these franchises? He should vote for the bill just eupon Mr. Cooper moved to adjourn, which was | | | priates ove mil! for each passenger to provile a hospital | for the dead, maimed and wounded—not a word about deadbeads, however. 6. Authorizes James S. Sluyter, James MeMerrian, Ladlow to construct a railroad with branches. Mannierre last evening, which provides that any person otic desires to coustroct a railroad, and deposit an approved bond of at least $100,000, and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to advertise and sell the same at public auc- tion within thirty to the highest bidder. bill, whicn authorizes the following persons—Wm. H. Hays, Edward 6. St John, Jacob Hays, James 8. Aunt, Lamby, Benjamin M. Stillwell, Thomas H. Tower, Frode- rick T.' Hays, William H. G Henry 8. Low, Wil- liam P. Buckmaster, Lewis A. Cobn, A. F. Robins, Wil- liam B. Smith, James Morphy, Joseph S. Craig, Richard E. Winecr, Jacob Russell, John B Babcock, Burkley B. Hotchkiss, R Schuyier’ Hewitt, William Ravesieyn, John Petigrew, Richard ‘Franchet, John Thompson, Nathaniel Barnett, Thomas W. Dixon, Edward E. Kendrick, Robert road in ail the avenues, lanes, byways and streets men- tioned in the bills reported by the Hovse Committee. It, in fact, is the hidden nut in movement of the Senate Committee this morning. Not one of the bills were reported favorably, but simply for the considcration of the Senate. A portion of the committee desired to report cer‘ain bills Dut could not got the consent of all the committee to that ition. The only way that they could get the con- sent of all the committee was by simply reporting for the consideration of the Senate of al! the bilis that the commit- tee had before them. The movement and the concentra- ton of the powers behind the throne is upon the last ramed bill, which is a movement of those controlling the ae and Eighth avenue roads to get contro! of the new roads Here let me cail the attention of all.to the list of names in the bill. It will be seen that it contains a combination ofthe most singular material, arrangou to pring under ite wing a majority of the Senators. Thus the President of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad is among the incorporators, as a bait for three Senators. desiring to construct railroads in New York may give | writing to the Comptroller of the route that he | | and fo on through the whole chapter of names, forming a | combination which I understand has been agsented to by Certain Senators at a caucus, under the solemnity of an cath, sad forms a manwuyre tbat puts all the bar; and saies of the Common Council of the city of New York im the background, It is intenced as a movement to offset that in the House, and a number of other persons who are not interested in the Senatorial Combination bill, but are in the other bills that have been reported by the committee, have been as badly sold as they were by the House Commities. They, in fact, have only been tickled this morning, and will see that the arrangement mace at the private oaucus, under which a pressure was brought upon the committee Oak Senatorial Combinatidh bill, which I have given in the above list. ‘Truly times are becoming lively here, and the combi- nations formed are assuming many curious positions. it looks a litle to-day as th@ugh “Live Oak’? had outfiguered Weed and his followers im the Senate. They ha’ male the Combination bill the order for this evening's session, when we shall be able to tell what Senators have gone into the caucus combination, taking them from a public view. It, however, ia not n the secret is out, 1 oaths adi ed, gecret. The agreements and understandings which presents one of the diackest pictures of the Senate that has ever been known of apy body. Look out tor breakers! Written communications are being handed by the dozon to the reporters by the parties interested, pretending to puff of their lines. Bome of the points of the movements nearly correct; but taking the majority of them, it is plainly to be seen, by a careful watcber of events, that are not posted upon the subject. Many of them, I should consider, would in. | odie fe ep for sagacity were I to give them as ded tome. I see that some of the partice who are upable to use the reporters here, are forwarding their communications te the offices of the different papers. ‘These communications are, however, acceptable, and I any secret movements in regard to the lobby.- If mot fully correct they will oftentimes before me.eciue whereby Ican ferret out the se. . Let all who bave any secret facts about Ani '8 acoeptable. for the iilisat i it ei £ 83 ga rH I [ gon as di¢ Genoral Tay! ‘eta, a fixed a Vita, fixed gaze, and holding if they expected the next moment would eat of their brave men. Their powder is ¢ iS Fela Chau. (or a Lng sbruggew aa i Ei § 3 | | to report these bills, is intended to ruin their projects and | Ki leave them out in the cold—for the benefit of the Live | Nevin, Aaron Arnold, M. Morgan, Amos R. Eno, John J. | avenue A, with a winding course to Fulton ferry | 7. A general railroad Dill, introduced by Senator | ‘The last, but not least, isthe George Law Combination | W. Tompkins, Jr., Wm. Higgins, Andrew B Hodges, Wm. | Marshall, John Marshall, Join Berry—to construct a rail- | as it is. Senator Gardiner moved to strike out the name of the President of the Susquehanna . hye brought Senator Ramsay to his feet. It hit him too close. The motion, dike all other amendments, was lost. Senator Spinola moved to add three additional names, which, as a matter of course, was adopted. After some further discussion Mr. Spinola moved that the committee rise and report progress and ask leave to | sit again, which was carried. Senator Spinola moved then that the Committee be dis- charged from the further consideration of the bill, and ‘that it be ordered to a third reading without amendment | of debate at half past eleven o'clock to-morrow. Senator Gardiner said that this is the game thet he had expected. Senator Lawrence followed the lead of Spinola. P. P. Murphy declared it a system of wholesale legisia- tion and a disgrace to the State. Senator Hammond also favored the gauging move of Spinola. A ‘division of the question was taken and the motion to order the bill toa third reading was carried. Yeas, 18, nays, 12. A motion to adjourn was then lost—yeas, 10; nays, 20. Another division of the subject was taken, and the bill was made the special order for to-morrow by yeas, 19; nays, 11. It was also decided that the final vote should be taken without debate—yeas 16, nays 13. Never has there an ident of the kind bappened in the State Senate. Senator Gardiner gaid the Albany and Susquehanna eeems to have its nose in everything, and I sbould not be surprised to see the bottom of their mea- sure knocked out. Albany. They are unquestionable saints compared with &@ majority of the Senate. The Senate transacted a large amount of business this rorning. A number of bills were passed finally by that body, among which was one relating to certain assessments in the city of Brooklyn, to reduce the capital stock of the charter of Hope Fire Insurance Company. The bill for the completion of the State canals was or- dered to a third reading this mornivg, with the Chenango Extension in it. In fact, it will be impossible to carry the biil without that extension included in its provisions, that body to regulate tolls upon railroads and authorizes the roads to pay a given sum in lieu of all tolls, and au- thorizes the Central Railroad to charge two and one-half cents for way fare on that road. The ‘irrepressible con- flict’’ on railroads is thus going on in both branches of the Teens. : Bellows made an able address to-day before the committee of the Assembly in favor of the establishment ot a sanitary code for Brooklyn and New York. BNEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Senate. Auuaxy, March 7, 1860. Mr. Lawrence (dem.), under the direction of the Com. mittee on Cities and Vibages, reported all the New York railroad bills in their hands for the consideration of the Senate, including the two introduced last night. They were made the special order for this evening. A bill was introduced to empower a Board of Super- visors to designate two papers in each county to pubiish election returns and session laws. The bill to incorporate the Zoological Society was re- ported favorably. The Canal bill was reported in Committee of the Whole House. ‘The Senate ordered the general sppropriation bill for completion of the canals to a third reading, in its origi- nal shape, including the Chenango canal appropriation. Friday was fixed on for a vote on a final passage. The Governor sent in a veto of the bill extending the time for the collection of taxes thi jout the State. | .. The Senate strongly sustained the Governor’s veto. On leh tes ge bill pass over the veto, the vote 8 to 19, . Sxauons made a majority report on the bill to col- lect tolls on certain railroads in New York, viz:—New York Central, New York and Erie, Northern, Troy and Whiteball, Syracuse and Binghamton, Cayuga and Susquo- Saratoga hanna, Troy and Saratoga, and Whitehall, Genesee Valley, Buffalo and ape Syracuse and Os- Watertown, and Canandaigua and wego, Rome and Elmira. The bill provides that the amount may be in From as follows:—New York Central, $500,000; New York and Erie, $240,000; Buffalo and Erie, $15,000; and Syracuse, $7,700; Northern, $5,000; Rensellacr and Sara- toga, $4,000; ya and Whitehall, $2,000; and Binghamton, ; Watertown and Rome, $4,000; juehanna, $1,300; and charge two eee Mr. Conxonty had consented that report be made that the question sht be before the Senate. He was op- posed to the prin of the bill. The report was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. EVENING SESSION. The Senate met to consider the Railroad bills for the | city of New York. was a very crowded attendance in the lobby, and intense interest was manifested by all. The Seventh Avenue Railroad Dill, introduced by Mr. Fiero last night, was taken up in the Committee of the Whole. This bill includes several independent routes as laid down in bills beretofore introduced in the Senate and Assembly, but combines all interests in one body of cor- Man; ‘were made to amend the bill and delay attempts acdon oh it, butall without saccess, it being evident that the triends of the bill were well drilled and prepared to carry it througb. alteration from the bak pd Dill was made by who ad The only the friends of the measure, ded the follo Dames to the corporators:—Mesers. Waller L. Gassou, J. H. Ransom, Thomas T. Davis and Edmund C, Bramhall. After much ekirmiehing Mr. Mannierre presonted a com- munication addressed to him by Messrs. N. Ludiam, Fdwin Hoyt, ). H Harght, 8. B. Althouse, Peter 1. Phelps and Benjamin 1. Swan, Jr., offering one million dollars for the franchise of the Broadway parallel route | only, or $70,000 annual license fee. give the secret movements of their opponents anda sly | Some of tbese written sketches give | alt Mr. Sruvora then moved that the Committee rise and report progress. In the Senate Mr Spixors moved to discharge the com- mittee from further consideration of the bill, and that it be ordered to a third reading, the final yote to be taken at half past cleven o'clock to-morrow, without delay, debate ecessary to wait for that, for | Or amencment. withstanding the double and twisted | the Delevan caucus to keep things | carried by the foliowing vote:— have toid the story for them, and the | lobby is today echoing and re-echoing to the private | Ketcham, Lay After several futile efforts to drive off this motion it was Arm—Mewra. Blood, Fiero, Grant, Hammond. Kelly, mm, “Lawrence, MeUre Ramsey, Richmond, Robertsos, Roteh, Bemloos, doinold, Truman and Warrer— 18. Nave Memare. Bell, Oulver, Connolly, Perry, Gardiner, MeLeod Murphy Goss, Titibouse, Mannierre, Montgomery, J. and Proeser—12. This bill upsets the bills agreedfon in the committee of the Assembly, which were carefully arranged as to cor- poratore. It is understood that tweaty votes can be se- cured in the Senate for the bill and that seventeen are certain. Assembly. Alnayy, March 7, 1860. ‘The bill to toll the railroads of the State competing with the canals came up as a special order. The bill was de- would solicit them from every person that knows bated all the morning. Various motions were made ex- cluding the Rome and Watertown Railroad from the ac- tion of the.bill. They were lost. The exclusion of fresh meats, fresh fish, game and poultry was carried, together With other amendmenis. After several amendments to the Railroad Toll bil!, Mr. Coorkk moved to insert a section exempting all roads arpose of en- | tollea from the operation of any pro rata law. The argu- w Paball consider ments of the advocates of rata having been that tolls at once. wees: Coca, ace le sick atttempt to drive the ill through, moved an adjournment, which was carried The Breoklyn Ferries. SHALL THE FARE BE ONE CENT On TWO? At a meeting of the Gommitice on Commerce and Navi- gation of the Assembly, on Tuesday afternoon, partics were beard for and against the passage of the amended One Cent Ferry bill, which bas already passed the Senate. Mr. Miller, of Erie, was in the chair. There was a large ‘attendance of parties from Brooklyn in mvor of the bill, among them being Aldermen Dayton and Strong, of the | Special Ferry Committee—Alderman Kalbfieisch, and others, wit Mr. J. W. Gilbert and ex.Attorney Gencral ‘Tremaine as counsel. A. Oakey Hall and Wm. M. Evaris, ‘Eeqs., appeared for the Sinking Fund of the city of New ‘York, in opposition to the bill. | _ Mr. Hatt was the first heard. He read the bill of rate of fare on all the ferries to one cent, without regard to locaion. This measure would, he said, largely affect 4 ic Suuking Turd, the commissiopers of which were trus- Send up the Board of Aldermen to | Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, and to amend the | A bill was reported to the Senate for the consideration of | tees of property pledged to pay the interest upon some of the publio debts of the city. Uf this income the leasing of he forry framchises formed a considerable part. His ob- Section to the Bill, then, was thag this income would be Goriousty endangered by it, and perhaps utterly destreyed, ‘es the bill, by cheapening the income of the franchises, Would necessarily cheapen the franchises themselves, He looked with some curicsty to see what the Boer Bs nt g A : g i : [ F3 i iy | part of the people ‘Ubat the ferriage should it paid or not, and conmneontiy doned, @ mandamus could be taken out te compel York to run them at one cent, pay or not pay. rates would certainly cause “‘tappenny’” ‘The inevitable reault of the Legislature this kind woulda be the dextrans Se geen half of , plying on bel that the principle on which this legislation ‘was that the matter was one of grave public It was not a mero municipal measure in any view. <A public ferry, connecting two large Revetng, 00 to speak, a locomotive highway navigable stream, an arm of the sca, should not a matter of emolument, either private or municipal. I primary object was the good of the public at large. power to regulate the ferries was vested in the city of New York, if at all, for the purpose of promotiag the ublic advantage. It never could be entrusted anywhere for the purpore of enabling the private grantee to make enormous gain. It would be found that from the earliest times, the ferriage bad been a matter of le re regu: iation. Tae cuunsel on the other side claimed to protect the Sinking Fund of the city of New York. Hecould find ho Jaw cevotipg theee ferry frarchises, in any form, to the payment of spy public debt. New York never had cerived apythisg from the franchises but from her slips and docks, and he doubted not that if the rate of ferrisge were reduced to one cent, the city would receive seme amount as at present. Mr. Gil- bert procecded to show tbat the ferries bad already paid very large divicencs when run at the rate of one cent; apd be ci ed the various charters to prove that the Legislature bad at different times regulated the rate of ferriage. The citizens of Brooklyn now asked for a new regulation, on the ground that it would promote the pub- Hic good. "The population, and consequently the trailic, bao of late years largely increased, and, among those who knew arsthing of the matter, there was not the slightest uestion but that all the ferries would pay large profits at nt. The interests of the people of Brooklyn and of York, and of the property owners and masses at 1ge, Were ‘deptical; and that was, that the ferries should be ron at the lowest paying rate. Alderman Kai srigiscn said that his learned friend had mace out @ Ftropg case in favor of the Western district of the city. His remarks would be restricted tothe Wil- liameborg ferrics. It had been doubted that, because the Peck Slip route wi Jong one, the one cent rate would pay. He would demonstrate by figures that it would. Jn 1849 the long ferry and two ehort ones were leased for ten years by a company having a capital of $150,000. ‘They built nine boats during their term. increased their conta by borrowing money, to $300,(00. At the end of three years, while three of the directors had re- ceived eularies of $6,000 each per annum, $160,000 of the capital haa been paid back, with interest; so that they coubied their money in three years. During the five years following they averaged 140 Ber cent per annum profits on the original capital. The year they ran at ove cent, having to compete with an opposition terry. Nevertheless, they divided 60 per cent on their original capital. A pew set of lessees took the ferry in 1859, ran it at ope cent per foot passenger and baif price for ve- hicles, yet paid running expenses and high rental of $21,600, although the old ferry company took away a large t of the travel by competing with them for a Bat cent for foot passengers and two cents for carts. The old vontes pet nappa ges) ag passengers. paying ) at one cent, which, with the cart travel, would ‘make’ their $450 per day. The running expenses, including the rent, would not exceed $300 per day, leaving an ample profit. But now there were three companies con- eclidated, with $800,000 capital, where $200,000 would be sufficient. The rate of two conte was fixed for the Western district as early as 1818, Circumstances bad greatly changed since the last FS i 38 iy g F jy an ? per cent per annum on the Division avenue ferries yielded an annual profit of 38 per cent. The effect of these high cl }, Mr. K. contended ‘was injurious to the property in lamsburg. It pre- vented capital from being invested, and the population irom coming there. Alderman Backbaus, Senator Spinola and Alderman Dayton, were heard on the same side, when the Committee adjourned to four o'clock to-morrow. Mr. Tremain and Mr. Evarts will then be heard. TELEGRAPHIC. ° Atnayy, March 7, 1860, ‘The Brooklyn Ferry question was argued this morning before the Supreme Court by Messrs. Gilbert and Tre- main for the people, and Mr. Evarts on behalf of the monopolies. The Committee on Commerce and Navigation held another session in the Assembly Chamber this afternoon. Mr. Demas Strong, of Brooklyn, a member of the Repub- lican State Central Committee, made a lengthy speech in favor of cheap ferries, and made many important charges against the monopoly that now governed those ferries, arguing that it was the duty of the Legislature to take decisive action at once. The great mass of the people demanded a change at once, and that, too, before the monopoly got their clutches fastened upon the people for another ten year’s term, He was followed by Mr. Tremain, with a lengthy speech, who answered the legal points that had been brought to bear upon the right of the Legislature to inter- fere. He thought that the Legislature not only bad tho right, but it was their duty to act at once. He was followed at sore length by Mr. Evarts,on be- half of the Union Ferry Company. ‘The testimony closed this evening. Police Intelligence. Reanrest oF 4 COUNTERFEITER —On the 23d ult. a man named Charles Whitmore, alias Hinsell and Ezra White, was arrested on a charge of passing counterfeit money, but subsequently made bis pate the Tenth pre- cinct station house, where he had locked up. OMcer Knight rearreeted bim on Tuesday night in Division street, and he was again sent to prison. Correcnoy.—We have been requested to state, in re- gard to the article in yesterdsy’s Herat concerning an alleged kidnapping of two sailors by a man named He! Notieana, that the charge is unfounded, hotwithstanding his arrest. The two gailsrs mentioned have sent us a com- munication, in which they entirely exonerate Mr. Noll- mann from the charge. Annests, &0., Last EventnG.—Detective Eustace ar- rested the well known prize fighter, James Kelly, better known, however, as Australian Kelly, at nis place of resi- dence in Eighth avenue, near Thirty-seventh street. Kel- ly, it will be remembered, was indicted by tho Grand Jury of Erie county for misdemeauor, by engaging in a prize fight with Price about six months ago. Morrissey and Tom O'Donnell were also present at the fight, and ‘were each taken back to Buffalo and fined $800, but Kelly and Price have thus far eluded the officers who have for fome time been on the lookout for them. Considerable excitement was manifested by the friends of Kelly when the officer. made known his errand, among whom were Jim Hughes, Billy Murphy and other well known of the ring. Prisoner was taken to the police quarters, where, after about an hour or ® magis- trate was ‘and Kelly admitted to bail. A man nemed Peter Hamell, of No. 387 East Tenth street, be- came his security. Detectives King and Slowey arrested a young man pamed Samuel McGibney on an all charge of grand Jarceny. On his person was found a heavy slung shot. He was locked up to answer. About balf-past seven o'clock two Germans, one named Herps, got into a dispute at the corner of Broadway and Spring street, which finally resulted in blows, and He of his opponent, he getting the best suddenly recei Stab is the left arm, On turning around, the other ty man suddenly left, runnit Gown Spring street at « rapid rate. Herps, on examining his arm, the wound Risatage Rolle dat et gw pra ere mated his a8 , the dispute arising from 4 ‘was a perfect stranger ~ : Par. ARREST OF AN ALLEGED Horas Tamr.—James Prico was arrested last by Poole on an alleged charge of @ Valuable horse and wagon, worth over $¢00 from fambertville, N. J. f Jersey City News. ‘Tar Grave Spectiarions.—In the suit of Christian Yost against Edward Hope, Jr., undertaker, of Jersey city, for damages in an alleged grave and coffin swindle, which was tried on Tuescay Jbefore Justice Stanton, the jury were upable to agree, and were accordingly dis- charged at 12 o'clock at night. They stood ali the while five for plaintiff and seven for the defendant. Court Calendar=—Th: Qarccrr—Part Nos. 1762, 1767, 1768, 1770, 1761,” 1782, 1783, 1784, 1708, 420, 1699, iW 585. 668, 1641 386, 1 - Our Concord Correspondence. Conconn, N. H., March 4, 1860. Demoralization of the New Hampshire Domocracy—Poor Pierce and His Star Ohamber—Proscription and Ds Bffects—Previdential Aspirations— Need of @ Rewrgantsa- tion of the Democratic Party in New England, de., éc. For nearly thirty years prior to 1854 the demooratic party was largely in the ascendant in the State of New Hamp- shire. In that year, however, they were badly beaten in the popular vote, and from that time to the present they have not been able to retrieve their fallen fortunes. At present they are demoralized and disheartened, without courage, spirit or enthusiasm, and almost without hope. ‘To one not familiar with the political history of the State, this singular and important change in public opinion’ may seem somewhat mysterious, but to those who have closely watched the machinations and observed the ma- nouvres of the leadors of the democratic party in New Hampshire for the past twenty-five years, the cause of the change is apparent, and the revolution itself no mystery. For the last quarter of a century the political affairs of the democratic party and the State have been managed by a secret cabal—a sort of star chamber, having their headquarters at Concord, where they not only gave dircc- tiom to the party, but fixed the status of each and every aspirant, and woe be to the unfortunate wight who had the temerity to rebel against the supreme dictation of this self sufficient and self-constituted junta. At the head of this star chamber was Franklia Pierce, and to its secret and inquisitorial deliberations is he indebted for the political distinction which be has attained. Whenever the Concord clique pulled the string the democracy of New Hampshire danced, and if any refused to dance oc faled to Koop me to the music, he was at once spotted, to be di of at tbe convenience of the immaculate cabal. Any movement which did not originate with, or that had not received the approbation of the Concord mquisitinn was considered ir- regular, and its advocates were summarily dealt with as and heretics. Such was the constitution of the democratic party in New Hampebire when Franklin Pierce was elected Presi- dent. In the dispensation of the patronage of his office, the newly elected chief ro epee of tue nation sought to increase the po wer of the cord Star Chamber and his own influence, by a systematic proscription of every democrat in the State whose influence seemed likely to conflict with or to overshadow hisown; and inthis manner the first seeds of dissension were sown, the bitter harvest of which the democracy have been gathering for the past six years. To Franklin Pierce, therefore, more than to any other man, is the present d condition of the democratic party in this State to be attributed. The rotten clique to which he belonged, and of which he was the master spirit, fincing that the Cemocracy were disposed to resist the dictation of the star chamber ana set up for themselves, resolved to deal vigorously with the contumacious rebels, and crush them out or perish in the attempt. Rule or ruiu was the motto of the Concord clique, and failing to accomplish the entire subj of the democratic party, they sought to weaken and destroy it in order to effectually get rid of the rebellious element which was daily growing more powerful, and threatening the overthrow of their select and higbly democratic organization. Thus fell the New Hampebire democracy. Poor Pierce, ambitious of another tilt in the Presidential arena, is now endeavoring to harmonize the conflicting elements in the party in order to propitiate the delegates to Charleston and secure their support in the Convention. Previous to bis leaving the country for the Bermudas, he made a nome to Exeter to tender the pipe of peace to John S. Welles, one of the delegates to Charleston, who, when the democratic candidate for the Senate, was defeated through tho intrigues of Pierce, because he spoke irreverently of the cabal and was not disposed to bow in submission to its mandates. Welles has not for- The democratic party of Massachusettse—Hallett, Greene & Co.—are actively engaged in not in Massachusetts and New Hampsbire, but throughout the mar 4 and the Post and the; hope to sucoeed ually well in , they equally we bardly be #0 fortunate. Poor Pierce philanth: looks only at the black side of humanity, bestowi: thought upon the misery, suffering and slavery that aro going on in its midst. A philanthropy that is quick to discern the wail of distress in the distance, but never looks at home for fit subjects for its sympathies and its charities. ‘This stooping and truckling to catch the popular breeze bas demoralized and well nigh BE dmetia—Democratic Feuds—Republican Sympathy with John Brown—Delegates to the Charleston Convention— heir Antecedents—Poor Prospects for Poor Pierce—Popu- lar Opinion Concerning Dissolution, dc., dc. ‘When, two years ago, the Democratic State Convention nominated Asa P. Cate as their candidate for Governor, ‘against Ichabod Goodwin, the republican nominee, they opened the canvass with vigor, and also with a fair chance of success, but the republicans, with the aid of “Sam,” ‘were victorious and Goodwin was elected. One year ago the same performance was gone through with a like result. The same candidates are again in nomination; and while the republicans, conscious of the silent influences at work against them, are fally im. | pressed with the importance, if not the absolute necessity, | of carrying the State in order to produce a favorable im. | pression in Rhode Island and Connecticut, the democrats | are idle and inert, and evince a reckless apathy quite out | of keeping compared with their wonted spirit and energy. ‘They have now an opportunity to strike a eerious blow at Diack republicanism in New England, if they will but im- | prove it;;but they manifest a strange and unaccountable disposition to allow the golden opportunity to pass unimproved. There is a bitter feud raging be- tween the Pierce and Burke wings of the democratic party, each accusing the other of conspiring to demoralize and defoat the democracy, and between the | petty and coptemptible bickerings of these emall fry par- tisan cliques, the standard of the party is allowed to trail in the mire of defeat. Poor Pierce has a mouthpiece in the Patrict, but that organ is silent as the grave concern ing the inactivity in the democratic ranks, and mhnitests ‘no disposition to rouse the rank and file to a sense of their danger and duty. If, therefore, the democracy succeed in making a re- spectable show on the 13th of this month—as I believe they will—it will be attributable to a spontaneous upris. ing of the bone and sinew of the State in opposition to the Darrow sectional policy of the repablicans, and not to any efiorts on the part of who style themselves leaders in the democratic party. moral effect which the re- sult in this State will have upon the vote in Rhode Island and Connecticut should not be overlooked, and no effort consistent with honor and food faith should be spared to insure, if not a triumph of party, at least a heavy re- duction of the four thousand republican majority of last 7 The Te) peaans Peg Beaute Tk their eighbors over e e, are impreg- born ° or ot acibelitionism, | and are decided! ited. ipathy to therners ant pe ag institutions. John Brown is versrated 5 Fj 53 i i H i i F I = e Z rmorly Pierce's law partner, and is persoual friend, As he goes tte tae Couyen, | republic. ‘The Bishop was ents, they will not support a ‘ After Douglas I think the Co I ik fer the nomination of some ‘ @ dernier resort. this State would mannered man’ peat Cnour 1 be dastafl to the people, sg E i 5 : i f ent bece I believe a majority of the biican would be in favor of a diesolution but f the electing their candidate tion, and will ight, if = Bg Somme et the Jai any event, especially J beaten in the try again. oe to idea of a dissolution im the event of a re- publican triumph. fight they propose to pick their fiints and of Rochester, Bishop Th His Positio: {From the Rochester (N. Y. Advertiser, March 5.} Hy rong neon Cy Ye cburches at the morni ee 7 ¥ Timon would lecture in the evening at St. "8, Ga tng Pope and his Pestion, and Une edie waa im consequence. The spoke extemporaneously, as be aiways does, and wandered far and often in his digres- ‘sions and illustrations, as men who know what they are talking about and something more erally do. He be- gan with a sort of prologue, in wi the Catholic church ana its spiritual head of to-day were in position likened to those of early bistory, and shadowed forth ag being, like them. besieged by calumny and vituperation—the rabble ‘and the million joining in the ‘‘cry of mad dog”’ raised against them. Reaching his subject, he cited the popular objection to the Pope Delng chiet of religion and sovereign of the Pa- pal States at the same time. Those who urge this objec- tion seem to forget that this combination has existed and been solemnized by God in all times—that at the present day Queen Victoria is the sovereign and head of the Eng- ie church, and the Emperor of Russia occupies a similar relation to bis country and the Greek church. At between these two on the one hand, and the Pope on the ctber, there is @ difference in favor of the latter. Ia the domestic relations and associations of the former there is danger to the rights of the subject which does not attach to the sovereignty of the bead of the Catholic church, The poorest Catholic, with the requisite educa- ton, piety, &c., may become Pope, and he seldom obtains office until nearly eixty years of age, while the average is fitty. He is governed by no selfish or family motive in the administration of affairs, but looks forward to the otber world rather than this, and hence the necessity of his occupying a position of Lm gp eae 80 that despots raps the. Inst phase ofa struggle Wat bas boom glog perbaps the last e¢ of a strugg ig on above nine hundred years. The first ae of Ger- many, whom the by his own free will consecrated as such, laid his pl to seize Italy; but he was ade- quately met by the Pontifl, who was certainly not the best of Popes. Since then an effort has been making be- tween France and Germany to see which shall possess Italy, and which attain the power to make the Pope in some measure their creature, in order to consolidate their em- ires, and perfect the di theyseek to fasten upon the Tosi ihe Popes have always found on the side of liberty. Protestant and infidel writers—even Gibbon and Voltaire—concede to them, Napoleon L the prees eought to » The Pepe, dated Fob, 2, magna and other provinces was VI dia retinguish them, in a short time isoner. Napoleon took him by force into France where 0 was held as a prisoner, and a life of privation be- cause he would not sacrifice himself and become a the tyrant head of the republic. Napoleon became-Emperor of France, He reorganized found no earthly 5 2 | ut F 5, i F3 Z ed : i : a5 Hi 33 ie Hu sees Baz li ae Hl eESE seee3 ty | il {i A é ; 5 I é g bf FE i ell 2! H f dred and fifty millions of Rome shortly after mation and was told by Protestant Ambassadors that they never saw a despotism so awfal. Du Iittle time it existed a debt of $6,000,000 was c: 1) valve'ets paper money issued to the for $3,000, When the shop was last in Rome Pope was pay: there bill d burning them. Under such a burthen by Mazzini the taxes bad of course to be increased, then arose a howl all over Europe, which was speed! echoed In congenial quarters elsewhere. The taxes of Papal States are to-day, proportionately, less than half of those in France. and less than one quarter of im Sardinia. For one pauper in the Papal States, in (naa to the population, there are two or three land, and even in our own favored country th tion is greator. The fact has been by writers that there are in Lraptns ance upon the schools of Italy than in one in ix ef the former, and one in Wales. In proportion to population more uviversities in Italy io country of the world, and these places are not supported by a burthensome Universities the tuition is free est grade. Why then is it said Dad.y governed? The prejudiced ig a priest ridden country.”’ Let us see. dor of France bas furnizhed his master H SEE BE. g ieee be ie i] & = e 5 Z Fop ore ill F = i E EF ge ; 3 es Fe i H il drea eighty laymen. State there are only five clergymen, and but deacons. Look at our own country and we fail as large a proportion of ministers and deacons lie station. People say this that the people im the Papal the Pope could not exist except if E BR 2 i E 4) H H i Hf ie HE ef pth bt fe Fi i i : : : Bru Fife i if ‘| ij Ft Her] : E i i iff oF: hi i f "| il i i ; I ef i i i F I il E E Hl i i FE i if fF ( 8 i z i i ‘The Bishop concluded with an A ay pre’ + iinpe te eres of woman against the tyranny Protector of the arts, s a (From the Baltimore Patriot, March 6.) The bese AE ec for the next Presidential election was F in Washington last Thursday night. Kentucky and New York are to be harnessed to the car of disunion democracy, and Breckenridge and Seymour are to be the Charleston nominees for President and Vice President. Every effort to avert thie decision will fail, and nothing will remain for the Charleston Convention to do but to confirm this arrangement, which that body will be sure to do. leaders of the democratic A and the developements will sustain it as surely as the Charleston Convention will meet, unless ,i ndeed, something entirely unforeseen and unantici should oocur to thet ie has It is now evident that come to go out of power, and we may hope forever and ‘The record of Mr. Breckenridge was chiefly a one, until be undertook, in an unfortunate , to make that ‘There is own of his at i Fe i t i we i es il iH i i | i Census of Kansas. We have received a copy of the census of the popula- tion of the Territory, as taken by the Assessors during the last year. This is ‘un extract Colored Total 16 1827 = 1,963 oe - 82 - 1,789 - 2,181 3 620 2 19% = 685 : 6 2116 - 659 a aint 12 3,807 36 3,000 187 . 12,122 3,961 1 3,012 - 669 _ 44 - 669 - 1,859 = 604 10 3,198 - 158 = 228 13 1,760 - ‘T08 Totals... see. eee ee see 0e 21,628 406 69,950 There are no returns from Clay, Dorn, McGee. Osage, Riley and Wilson counties.’ : i . The Trouble om the Rio Grande. ‘The Brownsville (Texas) Flag furnishes the latest report of affairs on that frontier:— Danditti The Honig thelr predatory excursions into Texas, where ae BE ar ge g ive died of old age, and ten were age. Eleven were below the age of tea leaving for the deaths amovg the citizeas of mature life only seven.