The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1860, Page 6

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. ‘Wall the numerous siartaare in the metropolis do us the favor to send in their business notices before nine o'clock in the evening? The pressure of all sorts is now so great upon our columns that minutes are of more value after nine o'clock in the evening than hours are before that time. Adver- tisers, in complying with this request, will derive the most benefit, for in the early delivery of the paper in the morning are their interests best sub- served. The News. In Congress yesterday the Senate passed the bil) making appropriations for carrying into elect certain treaty stipalations with the Indians of Oregon and Washington Territory. A resolution ‘Was adopted instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the expediency of appointing a commission to revise and arrange in proper form the United States statutes. The consideration of Mr. Brown's resolutions relative to the protec- tion of slave property inthe Territories was then resumed, and Mr. Wade, republican, of Ohio, addressed the Senate on the subject. An effort was made to take up the Military Academy Dill, with a view to action on the amendment providing for the employ- ment of a volunteer regiment'in Texas, but it proved ineffectual. In the House the Committee op Public Lands reported back the bill making ap- Propriations of ‘land for the support of agricultural colleges. in the various States, with the recom- mendation that itdo not pass. A motion to lay the bill on the table was negatived—72 against 105. The subject was then postponed till the 17th of April. The Senate bill extendmg the provisions of the Swamp Land law to Minnesota and Oregon “was reported. A bill was passed authorizing an issue of patents for land selected for mail stations west of the Mississippi to the Pacific. A bill to in- corporate the United States Agricultural Society was reported. A member from Minnesota wanted an inquiry as to the propriety of removing the na- tioval capital to some point west of the Missic: butthe House would not entertain the proposition. In Conmnittee of the Whole, a dozen members or #0 only being in atte © slavery question was disenssed by Mr. and others. In the State Senate yesterday the New York city railroad bills, eigh' number, were reported, and the evening session was set apart for their conside- ration. Several bills were read a third time and pasted, mostly local in character. The Canal bill was taken up, debated and finally ordered to a third reading on Friday. A message was received from the Governor vetoing the bill to extend the time for collecting taxes, and the Senate refused to pase it ovet his veto. Mr. Sessions made a majority re- port on railroad tolls. An executive session was held. In the assembly the biil tolling railroads was taken up and debated. Several amendments were adopted, and progress was finally reported. The Assembly Co © met yesterday after- noon to hear argume the bill reducing the Brooklyn Ferry fare to one cent. Hon. Lyman Tremain, ex Attorney General, and Aldermen Day- ton, argued in favor of the reduction of the fare, and Messrs. W: f. Evaris and A. Gakey Hail appeared on b of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund sgainst the bill. It is thonght that three out of five of the committee will favor report- ing the bill favorably. A mass meeting of the shoemakers of this city was held at the Fourteenth Ward Hotel last evan- ing, to express their sympathy with the movement of their fellow craftsmen of the Eastern States, who are now absts gz from work in order to ob- tain more remunerative rates of wages, The moot- ing was very enthusiastic, and the remarks of the speakers were received with evident satisfaction. A committee of fifteen was appointed to take ap subscriptions in aid of the strikers, and the meeting | adjourned till Monday evening next. A fall report of the proceedings is given elsewhere in our columns. Atthe meeting of the Board of Education terday, the Superintendent of School Bniidi genta copy of correspondence whi tween him and the ward officers of the T ward, in reference to the unsafe ¢ new schoolhouse in Twenty-soventh strect. paper occasioned some debate, and was fir ferred to the Committee on Repairs. Ac cation from the loeal Board of the Poort asking for $22,388 29 to build a « Oliver street, was referred to th Finance. The school officers of The ward asked authority to advertice for y the building of a new schoolhouse in t and their application was referred to the Oo tee on Repairs. The Thirteenth ward asked ¢ 500 to purchase lots whereon to erect a new = building. The consideration of this subject was } postponed toa future meeting. Farther t lars of the proceedings may be found in onr report, | The Emigration Commissioners met yesterday | afternoon. The President announced the a ig committees for the engsning year to NEW YORK HARALD, THURSDAY, fl eame as those of last yoar, with the exception of the Castle Garden Committee, which is now com posed of Messra, Purdy, Hunt and Curtis, in view of the fact Uat ther: was little harmony in the Proceedings of this committee last year. The | Treasurer sent in a report of the number of emi- Grate arrived at this port since the formation of the Commission, and the amount of receipts and expenditures also up to January, 1860, which we Publish in another coluinn. The number of emi ‘The apparent balance in furor of the Commission is | now $9,888 84, The African Civilization Society, an organization of colored people, held their first meeting at the Cooper Institute last evening. We give a report of the proceedings in another colamn. Daniel H. Palmer, the individual who was caught while in the ect of abstracting letters from a lamp post letter box recently, was arrdigned in the United States Circuit Court yesterday. He pleaded guilty to the charge, aod was remanded for sen- tence. The extrejne penalty for the offeuce is ten years iinprisonment. The preliminary examination of witnesses in the case of the People vs. Ray was continued yester- day on Staten Island. We give to-day the evi- dence in fall of Dr. Walteer, and also that of Capt. Farragut, of the ship-of-war Brooklys. It is oot yet determined whether Ray will be held to answer or not. To-morrow it is likely we shall have the } decision of the Justices. We publish to-day # number of letters from the South, giving a grapbic account of a sale of slaves, and a Southern plantation and its thrice happy negroen, together with s description of the aiarm- ing political conditifn of the South, standing at this moment on the brink of separation from the North- ern States, in consequence of the mad attempt to interfere with ite peculiar institution. A very destructive fire occurred in Bridgetown Barbadoes, on the 13th ult. The flames broke out ina Jumber yard near High street, and spread over to Nelsen square, consuming many dwellings, stores und public buildings. The loss is estimated at $2,500,000. Messrs. Griffith & Jaffray, commis sion merchants, having houses both in Bridgetown and New York, were entirely burued out @nring ‘the conflagration, but they are fully covered by in surance. G. & S. Shock were fully covered by insn- rance in a highly respectable London company and all their constituents abroad would have their interests included. Flour rated at $6 45 to $7 in Bridgetown. We have advices from St. Johns, Porto Rico dated on the 24th ult, The market was full of American produce, except American pine plavk, which was in great demand. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention for the selection of delogates at large to the Chica go Convention met at Worcester yesterday. Th: delegates chosen are said to be divded between Seward and Banks in their preference for the Pre sidency. The market for beef cattle is without material change. Prime cattle are scarce and higher, but other kinds quiet at previous prices. Cows and calves are dull at former rates. Veal calves are steady at from 4c. to 7c. per pound. Sheep and lambs are also steady. Swine are quiet at from 5c. to Gfc. There were on sale last week 3,143 cattle, 136 cows, 574 veuls, 5,298 sheep and lambs, and 2,040 swine. The firmer tone noticed in the cotton market was main tained yesterday, while the sulcs embraced about 4,000 bales, about 2,000 of which wero made in transit. Prices closed on the basis of about 11'{c. for middling uplands. Flour was less active. Tho firmnosa of holders tonded to check sales of common and medium grades of State and ‘Western brands, while higher qualities wore rather firmer. Southern flour was firmer, especially for the higher grades, with a good demand from the trade Wheat was firm and in good request, while sales were moderate. Corn was less buoy: whilo gales were made toa fair extent. Pork was and sales were moderate, including now mesy at ae @ $18 3734, and new prime at $14 75. Sugars wore sefd to the oxtent of €20 hhes., chiefly reflnivg grades, at prices given in an other column. Coffee was quiet and sales limited Freights were firm, but engagements light. Great National Washing Day in Congress. In the British houses of Parliement they have perhaps balf a dozen times in the year, what are called “ field days,’ when the best ora- tors, both upon the treasury and the opposition benches, bring all their powers to bear upon the pending question. It is upon such occa- sions as these that British forensic oratory has attained its high place in the estimation of the literary as well as the political world. Coming from the same stock, and edncated after the same general system, fed upon Burke, and Pitt, and Charles James Fox, and cotem- porary with Derby, Disraeli and Russell, our American orators might naturally be expected to have caught some of the fire which has so often lighted up the halls of Westminster, How far the patriots and sages now assembled in Congress at Washington answer this very Teagonable expectation may be ascertained by a perusal of the debate inthe House on Tues- day, upon the resolutions of Mr. Hoard, a re publican member from this State. Mr. Hoard’s resolutions are pendant to those presented by Mr. Covode on Monday. Neither Mr. Hoard nor Mr. Covode, nor the members of the House generally, can appreciate the remark of the first Napoleon upon the absurdity of wash- ing the dirty linen of a dynasty in the eyes of the world. On the oontrary, our national laundresses insist upon flaunting the foul rags directly under the nose of all Christendom, no matter how foul may be the stench which they create. And so, instead of a field day in the House, there was a washing day. Mr. Hoard’s bundle of dirty linen was contributed in part by two members, Hickman, of Pennsylvania, and Adrain, of New Jersey. A long while ago these Spartan brothers said, in debate, that an | attempt upon their virtue, as public men, had been made by the agents of a corrupt and wicked administration. It appeara that the distinguished Brady, the Joseph of the New York Board of Aldermen, is not without bis peers. Jersey sends a patriot as incorruptible as the conscript father of the Fifteenth ward; and Pennsylvania is not without one member whose probity is proof against the wiles of | power or the seductions of patronage. True, in the ease of the virtnous Brady we have al- leged facts and specifications which are not vouchsafed by the others, We know, or at least Brady tells us, that he was offered two thousand dollars for his vote, and thet he spuraed the bribe. The statements of the Congresemen are very vague. They do not say what they were to hase, whether money, and how much, or foreign missions or places at me, and if so, where and what. To be sure, the Pennsylvania patriot does not say that he was offered “more than he was worth.” But no | facts can be drawn from so loose an assertion. ir. Hickman may be absurdly modest, as well as savagely virtuone (Pennsylvania politicians usually cultivate those qualities to the highest of perfection), and may set too small a value upon himself; or, on the contrary, he may be one of thore persons whom it would be ruinons to buy at their own price, and eall at their actual market valuation. The statement of the Jersey * (gome good has come out of Nazareth after a))) ix still more vague, acd the Commit tce of Investigatioa have very slender ground to begin upon. ‘The resolutions of Mr. Hoard made an im- mente disturbance in the House, and a great tcany Wasbwomen from all parties aod all tions of the country hurried up their pack- ages of foul linen towards the Speaker's nose. There was Houston from Alabama, with a very dirty bundle, sent all the way, proba bly under frank, from Maine. It was bought with the public money, aud was marked State Treasurer, Thix package was knocked about the benches for some time, until another was introduced by the same member, The | ss\ named linen bore yarious marks, The names of the Clerk, Printer, Doorkeeper and others, officers of the House, appeared upon sowe pieces of it. That which came from the Clerk's desk wae @8 foul as the stuff in the buck basket wherein the jovial dames of Wiadsor enveloped Sir John Falstaff, “rammed ip with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings sod greasy napkins, with the rankest com- pound of villenous smells that ever offended nostril.” The bouquet of the Clerk’s budget must have been more powerful than the com- bined stinks, fifteen in number, of the famous city of Cologre. Of course the Inundresses on the republican side returned to the charge. Pennsylvania Co- vode had a lot of dirty rags, sent by a distin™ guished democrat ef Pittsburg, whose name had been erased from his linen. Mr. Houston then proceeded especially to overhaul the bundle marked with the initials of the Cheva- lier Tom Ford. The public printing is noto- riourly a nasty job, and Mr. Houston thought that the Chevalier Ford’s skirts were said o be so tar bedraggled as to have fouled those of several other persons. Fi- nally, Mr. Hickman, a famous washwo- man, brought in his assortment {fo the shape of a comprehensive resolution to pro- vide for the cleansing of all the official dirty linen in the country by one committee. All this time the Iaundresses were shonting, quar- relling, laughing and talking at the top of their voices, after the approved manner of the tribe. Indeed, we are not quite sure that the regular professional washwomen would have been more quiet and respectable than the ama teurs at the Capitol. Now that the House has voted in favor of this display of dirty linen, ‘he committee will do well to make it as thorough as possible. Let everything come out on both sides, and about all parties and factions. Let them go back to 1856 und ascertain what became of the twenty thousand dollar fund raised to carry Pennsy)l- vania; then follow up the lobby in the last Congress and give us all the details of their doings. The Congress of the United States can- not do anything now which will tend further to disgrace the nation which it misrepresents, The House bas already touched the lowest depths of degradation. Already we are beginning to receive the first instalments of the criticisms and comments of the European press upon the workings of republican institutions ip the United States, as shown by the scenes in Con- gtess during the struggle for the Speakership. As a matter of course, the government and the people of the United States are held responsi- ble for the disgracefulsquabbies of their agents and servants, and very unfavorable conclusions are drawn as to the inefficiency of a system under which such outrageous conduct is per- mitted in the high places of the nation. If order and decorum had been restored in the House after the election of the Speaker, mat- ters would not have looked so badly for us; but the facts seem to show the existence of a worse state of things after organization thaa before. The squabbles among the members, the giving of the lie direct on the floor,*the dis- graceful exhibitions made by a member from Virginia and others, the orgie by which the election of the Clerk was celebrated, the scenes of petty intrigue and miserable , chicane- ty by a lobby of halfstarved,’ sucking pigs of country editors, and still more -receatly, the remarkably extensive dis play of national dirty linen made by the federa) Jaundresses, will afford a fine field for the British and French jourpalisis, who are only too happy to pick flaws in the modei republic, In view of the present state of seC- things at Washington, our rulers are deter. mined to open for ovr European critics the richest possible placers. But the matter has for us a stiil graver and more important signification. Congress is a body with limited powers and special duties. The constitution makes it the daty of the President to recommend in hisannnal message measures to promote the welfare of the govern ment. Then it becomes the daty of Congress to pass needful laws and make proper regula” tions for the practical working of the govern; ment. Congress has to regulate the financia, affairs of the country, to provide for the suppor of the army and navy, to regulate the postai service, the coining of money, the collection of the revenue, and soon. In addition to this ron tine business, there are certein special mat- ters, such as the abolition of the franking privilege, the condition of our relations with Mexico, and the disturbed state of the Texan border, the Pacific Railroad bill, the proposed alterations in the laws relative to the public domain, and many other matiers of vital im. portance, all awaiting Congressional action. With al] this important business on hand, Con- gress, in the popular branch, has wasted three montbs of the session in squabbles and rows which would disgrace a Five Points groggery. When will thia sort of thing be arrested? Can there not be found a considerable number of members who have decency enough to wash their dirty linen without the hall, and permit the public business to go on? Things at Wash- | ington can become no worse. It is time, there- fore, that they began to mend. Monaiity or THE New Crenk’s Arroixters.— The appointees of the Clerk of the Honse of Representatives are beginning to show their greed for spoil very early, a fact which, in con- nection with the rush after the printing spoils manifests that that they must have been awfully hungry. We perceive a statement that one of the Clerk’s newly appointed subordinates has already bolted for Europe with a coasiderab!« eum of money, which he raised among hiv friends for the purpose of speculating in Post | Office certificates, This is but the opening de velopement of the apeciality of the appointees of such an individual as the new Clerk of the House, and we may expect to see them a} feathering their nests ia the quickest possible time, and then running away. MARCH. 8, 1860 —TRIPLE { The Position of the South—Tne Letters | places for pious Pilsbury and others, and to of Oar Spectal Keporiers. On another page we publish a number of interesting letters from one of our Special Reporters at the Sontb, bearing on the irre- pressible conflict. with slave labor which was announced by Wm. H. Seward in bis Rochester manifesto, and inangurated in blood by John Brown at Harper's Ferry. From these reports it will be seen that in retaliation and defence, a policy of pon-intercourse with the North has been extensively adopted by the South; that whereas formerly the people were for the Union, and only a few fire-eating politicians were im favor of secession, now the mass of the people have become secessionists, and are far .abead of the disanioa politicians either in or out of Congress, In Tennessee and Kentucky the spirit of disloyalty to the Union ix not so strong, and the people are not so aaxions to precipitate revolution, eimply because they are border States, and in case of a dissolution and a civil war they would have to bear the brunt of the con- flict. But the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Arkansas and ‘Texas nre ready at any moment to cut the [ast ligament which holds them to the Union, and they are arming for the struggle which is threatened by Northern abolition in the event of secession. In anticipation of the dismemberment of the Union, as well as in retaliation upon New Eng land for its aggressionauponSouthera labor, the South bas commenced to mannfacture exren- sively for itself, and it will be seen by one of our Special Reporter's letters from Alabama, that at Hunteville there is « cotton factory in which all the operatives are negroes. Samples of the goods, which obtained the medal at three State fairs, now lie before us, and we have no hesitation in pronouncing them exceltent Hitherto it was more profitable for the South to keep the negroes employed in the culture of cotton, and buy the man- ufactured article at the North; but now, when the Southern institution is menaced with destruction, instead of purchasing from New England, the South is determined to be independent of Northern commerce, and to manufacture its own cotton, The negroes, under the instruction and direction of white men, make very good mechanics, and their labor can be applied to a variety of articles, which will deprive the North of a market for its manufactures, and precipitate to a crisis the war which has commenced between labor and capital in the New Englund Slates, In recont years manufactures have been making rapid progress in the South, and the city of Louis- ville, described by our reporter, is a remarka- ble example. But the present anti-slavery cra- sade has given them an impetus which wii! cause a greater progress in one year than here- tofore in ten, and place them in such a position as to seriously damage the manufacturing inte- resta of the North. They have the raw material on the spot, they have abundant labor which can soon be trained, and which will never “strike;” they have plenty of capital, and they have a vast water power, sufficient to move the machinery of the world. What fs to prevent them monopolising the whole market of the South? It is plain, therefore, that the anti-slavery agitation will not injure the South, but the North. And what is its ostensible object? To attempt the impracticable—to give freedom to happy negroes who do not desire it, but who spurn and loath their would-be benefactors, the effect of whose visionary black philanthro- py would be to drag down its objects to the level of poverty, vice and crime in which the free negro population of the North are steeped, Better fed, better clothed, better housed and better protected than any laboring popula- tion in the world, they would be sorry to change their enviable condition for the precarious subsistence and misery of even the white labor of New England, much less the deplorable position of the co: lored race at the North, mocked with the name of freedom. It appears that on one of the estates visited by our special reporter the begroes can save, afier every want is supplied, from $25 to $200 in the year, and one of them realized $300 last year. What poor man at the North can do that? Mention is made of another whore savings had accumulated to $1,000, But it has been said that families are separat- ed, Thatisa case of very rare occurrence, and is the exception to the general rule. Our reporter attended a slave sale at Montgomery, and fa no instance were the families separated, but invariably sold together. It will be seen that so satiafied are the negro population that the advantage of the slave institution is all on their side, that two free negroes applied to the Legislature of Alabama to make them slaves, and it is stated that over a dozen recent- ly returned to slavery in that State. It is only a few days ago we read a statement in the Cin- cinnati Commercial that the steamboat Tecum- seh took down the river a family of six negroes on their way te Helena, Arkansas, to enter again the service of their old master, after partaliing of “the sweets of liberty” for six years in New Yosk. Now, all these facts show that there never was such @ piece of criminal folly and infatua- tion as the attempt of Northerners to revolu- tionize the slave labor of the South. If they have any genuine charity, let them begin at home, and expend it on the white slavesmt their own doors. But instead of that, their fanatical course is ruining the cause of free labor at the North and destroying its manufac- tures; and nothing but the overthrow of their candidate in the Presidential election, and the ‘choice of a-man in whom the South can repose confidence, will avert the secession of the Southern States, with a proletarian revolution in New England, and a complete prostration of the industrial and commercial interests of the whole North. Toe Valve or tie Porice.—There are now before the criminal courts of this city about twenty-seven cases cf murder—a heavy calen- dar, considering that at the last session of the Court of Oyer and Terminer some six or seven other murder cases have just been disposed of. The criminal statistics of the metropolis for the last year bave shown a greater amonut of crimes of « grave character than any previous period; yet certain fanatics and certain fools would maintain that our miserable police sys- tem is perfect. The only true test of an effl- cient police is the repression of crime; aud so far from crime decreasing in this community, the records of our courts show an alarming increase. The only apparent use of our police system, as at present conducted, is to afford SHEET. put down the poor little Sunday newsboys. To botb these ends it has been sucoessfal, but in the repression of crime it bas miserably failed. African Slavers and Biack Kepublican Ow The sudden and great increase of the stave trade on the coast of Africa has startied the abolition philosophers of the Tribune ‘sud Times, and they are puzzled to know why they should each have received the same letter | about it at the eame time. Greeley’s note to the Zimes the day before yesterday confirms our suspicion that the letter bad been accom: panied by a private note to the editor, asking him to pitch into the subject editoriu!ly, although the smal)-souled editors of that sheet bave not the manliness to acknowledge, after the proof was before them, that the Zribune Gid not copy from its columns, and they still claim that « matter in which they were made easy tools was obtained solely through their own enterprise. Long practice in journalism has made us perfectly familiar with the tricks of political intrigners, and as soon as the fact came out that the same letter had been sent to the two papers, we knew at once the precise | character and flattering tone of the private | note which accompanied them. Months ago we denounced the nefarions bu- sinees of fitting out slavers that was going on in this port, and those of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachasetts and Maine. But the abo- lition sheets would not perceive the fact that was patent before them, and the black republi- con politicians loaned their efforts to keep the thing quiet and get the slavers off. Some of the inner communicants of the black republi- can church are suspected to have gone to Ha- vana to confer with the great slay traders there, and to offer them facilities for fitting out vessels in oup Northern ports. A Presidential election was coming on, and the anti-slavery lyre required a new string, the old Kansas cat- gut having been harped upon till it was turned into most unmusical shreds, But there would be wuric inthe slave trade, and liveiy tunes for a Presidentis! campaign, if a few cargoes of real Congo niggers, all alive and howling, could be caught trying to get into slavery in the Southern States. But todo this the slave traders must have assistance. Congo niggers will not come of their own accord, even to help elect an abolition President. Under these auspices the African slave trade bas received an immense impulse; and during the next six or eight mouths we may expect to hear of more slave landings in Cuba than have ever before been witnessed in an equal period of time. How many will be able to slip into the shoal bayous and coast waters of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis¢ippi and Louisiana, no one can tell. The black republican in- triguers will find there enough foolish fire-eaters teady to jump with their plans for reopening the slave trade. There is another curious co- incidence in this matter, which leads us to suspect that our Northern slave traders have a sharp eye for pecuniary as well as political profitin this matter. The great competition which the African slave traders in Cuba have suffered from arises from the importation there of large numbers of Chinese slave coolies, mostly in Boston and New York ships. What influences bave been bronght to bear on Ger. Serrano we know not; but the practical effect of his recent decree prohibiting the im- portation of slave coolies from Asia is to en- bance the price of the bozale negroes which our Northern traders have prepared to pour nto Cuba. ‘ There is a big nigger somewhere in this wood pile, and we want him brought out, in order to see who he belongs to and what he was put there for. How is it that the hotbeds of abo- litionized black republicanism have become the greatest outtitters of African slavers? How is it that the abolition and black republican leaders and orators never discover what is going on under their very noses till a good time comes to halloa? We are sorry that Horace Greeley did not preserve the private letter which he received with the verbatim copy of the communication to the other black republican paper. Was the haudwriting apy- thing like that of any of your old politics! as- sociates, Horace? ZooLocicaL Ganpens in THE CenTRAL Parg.— We see thata bill has been introduced in the As- sembly chartering a Zoological Socicty, and set- ting apart for it sixty acres of the land appro priated for the Central Park. We believe thata feature of this kind in the new Park would aia greatly to its attractions: but the amount of space demanded seems to us much more than is required. Neither the Zoological Gardens in London, nor the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, cover anything -Ifke this extent of ground, and yet we have never heard it stated that they were limited in accommodation. We are strongly opposed to any unnecessary curtsilment of the area of the Park appro- priated to the public promenades and drives. We admit the advantages resulting frora the establishment of a Zoological Society within its precincts, but we are satisfied that twenty, or at most thirty acres, would amp'y suffice for its wants. There is another provision in the bill to which we have @ still more decided objec tion, and that is the one excluding the public on Sonday. Unless this is expunged. we hope the measure will be defeated; for what will be the benefit of a zoological exhibition to our city population if on the only day on which the working classes can visit it it isto remain closed? This Sunday clause furnishes another illustration of the selfishness of the wealthy classes, who seck to use legislation for the creation of aristocratic distinctions and the exclusion of the less forturate from the amuae- ments end enjoyments to which they are enti- tled. It is no doubt intended that these gar- dens shall be reserved for the families and friends of the subscribers on the Sunday, as is the case in London, and that it shall become a place of exclusively fashionable resort. We trust the Legislature will make no appropria- tion of the Central Park land for such a pur- pose. If the Zoological Society will not take the concession without the Sunday clause, then we are opposed to their having it all. Increase or Crive ix Tae Crry—When we view the alarming increase of crime around us, it is some consolation to observe that the ad- ministration of justice is becoming more vigor- ous and appropriate to the condition of the city in this regard. Thus, in the case of Lane, the other day, who was convicted of swindling the Fulton Bank, we saw for the firat time a bank defaulter sent to the State prison, which evinces | ly afflicted. Some of the repay 8 determination on the part of our courts to dec) ee punish offecceaof thie character as they dewrve. In crimes of this kind an exumple was greatly needed, for there are many others who would be in a similar position to Lane if they were ‘ only found out, or if their offences were aot | hushed up through misiaken ideas of policy or mercy on the part of bank directors. A severe infliction of punishment in cases like this is the only available method of arresting crimes of this natue and correcting the extravagaat habits of the present day, When young mee of enlarged ideas as to expenditure and fast ' living, who are entrusted with duties of great ‘ responsibility, and are exposed to strong tewp- tation, discover that their career may terminate with the disgraceful punishment of a felon in the State prixon, there will be fewer instances of | embezzlement and forgery io banks and otber ‘ institutions. It is very much to be regretted | that the same rigor is fot exercised towards swindlere, official and non-official, inconn«: ) a with the public departments of the city guy ment, ere Ivwense Cmcciation or Hetrer’s Roox— Tremennocs Ervorrs or THE Rerveiican Leap» Ens.— While the democratic party are doing nothing to propagate national and conservs- | tive principles, but, like epicureans, are living | ou present spoils, without any apparent thought | of the future, the republicans are making tre- | mendous efforta to secure that victory in No- | vember next which will be the knell of the | Union. Their great guns are going about | everywhere, professing to deliver lectures, but {really to make antirlavery stomp speeches. We have bad several of these gentlemen iu New York already, and now it is announced that Jobn Sherman, of Ohio, the endorser of Helper’s book, and the candidate of the republicans foe Speaker, will shortly make his appearance among ué in the same character. Of Seward’e speech two or three hundred thousand copies have been already printed in pamphlet firm, which, with the newspaper circulation it has received, would bring it up to nearly three quarters of a million. And what are the fucts as regards Hetper’s treasonable, incendiary book? We learn that the number distributed upto the present tiine is about 143,000 copies, which includes both ‘he fifty cent paper cover edition and the one du!- lar edition. Its publisher expecta, however, to sell as mapy more before November, and that in this manner its circulation will exceed evea that of Mrs. Beecher Stowe’s “Uacle. Tom's Cabin.” A majority of the orders for the book bave come from New York and New Engiaod, and the number of copies sold in both the latter localities far exceeds the number sold in ail the other States combined. Immense quaa- tities of the book have been sent to Philudel- phia end Boston, and the orders from those Cities are still pouring in at a rate that bas di- minvished but little since their commencement. In the West, the demand for the work was not equal to the expectations of the publisher. He attributes this to « scarcity of money there, owing to the winter and hard times, but has hopes when summer returns and work is plenty, that the sale of the book will be largely increased, aided, a8 it must be, by the excitement attendant upon the Presidential campaign, About two thousand orders from the South have also beea filled; but the publisher thinks that those whe purchased the book did so more through cu- riosity to ree it than from any other motive. The book bas been a decided pecuniary success to all connected with it, and in more ways than one; for not only has it been a most lucrative speculation by itself, but it has algo increased the sale of many other works—some of them of a like nature—issued by the same publisher. ‘When the office of publication in this city was first made known throngh the columns of the Henatp, the number of copies retailed singly at the counter averaged one hundred and fifty per day, and this quantity only decreased whem the trade orders began to come in. Such are the exertions that are being made by the republican party to propagate the po- litical gowpel accorgii g to St, Helper—a book that stimutates the North, and the slaves and non-slaveholding whites of the Southern Siatea, to arise and overthrow the slave labor instita- tion by fair means or by foul, even if necessary ; by fire and sword. This book has been ea- dorsed by Mr. Seward and sixty-eight membera of Congress; and yet when they are addressing conservative audiences, some of the republican leaders pretend that it is no part of the repub- lican creed to interfere with slavery ia the Southern States. Now, all this time the South hag made no re- taliation by sending incendiary publicatioas into New England to influence Northern labor against capital. The only instance that has occurred of Southern propagandism at the North is the case of Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, who was invited by the abolitionists of Boston to address them; but they could not bear the | truth which he proclaimed, not against the North, but in vindication of the Southern in- stitution, and they hissed, and coughed, and interrupted him in the most disorderly manner. The democrats ought to organize a system of campaign epeeches, and get up publications to counteract the poison of Helper’s book and. other treason documents in the Middle States, where the battle isto be fought, and where the republicans are making stupendous exertions for the victory. Never was thera so much need of effort on the part of those who have faith in the constitution, and never, per- haps, has go little heen done to rally the peo- ple in defence of the great palladium of their liberties. Ax AnwStaveny Journan Ix Trocuue Avovt Tie Dewocranic Nowwarions,—The Bal- timore Patriot, as will be seen by an extract in another column, is very much troubled about the nominations which it asserts will be made at the Charleston Convention. But the biack republicans, of whom the Patriot is an orgav, wil have enough to do to manage their own nowinations at Chicago. They will have trou- bie enough before all is over, and they need not distress themselves about the supposed or real biunders of the democracy. As for one of the gentlemen whom it names, it is undoubted- ly mistaken. Seymour, of New York, has not been thought of at Washington in connection with the Presidency or Vice Presidency, and if the name of any Seymour has been on the tapis in democratic caucus, it is Seymour of Connec- ticnt, a very different man. Our contemporary has evidently got hold of the wrong end of the story. We presume his information is about equally correct as regards Breckinridge, by whose nomination in prospect ho is so pair” a SEES <a Se alee SS a a Sa NR ae BEDE Sah ee ee SSS