The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. HAN E TD, Janes GOKDE EDITOR ANT AND FULTON 678. oyrics » OW. CORNER OF NAS: sont by mat will beat he TRRED, cash on orlwonce at ¢ Phak of he sender, Postage sa recetvad as mthscription Wire Daley MER <P ERAL pert of Uh > dnclude postane; tha Fepoonda tim om the “th and ‘ANA of each month at plz ene $1 60) per annum. Pete baMILY WEALD on Wednesday, at four cents per ‘on $2 per innum PoLUNtaRY CORRESPONDENCE, contuining tmpartant pets rom my quarter of the portlet teed nolh te Mberally % 2% i" Conuasronpants Age Paxtiovianty Baquestap to aL anv Pack- anne xr ve. We NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence return ees ee: one. ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every |; advertisementa tn. sorted én the Werery Hanatn, Pawity (innatn, and in the one Biditions, JOB PRINTING exented with neatncss, cheapness and de- We do not Wolamse XXV........... AMUPEMENTS THIS RVENING. NIRLO'S GAROEN, froadway,—Parey Crvoie—IN AnD Ost or Piace~Imsu Toro. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—A Moning Cart—Jueat- iG ix Pray Navan Paotrmes—OLo CLawratton. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Govsnzon's Wira—Iv.nu2%, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rowaxce ov A Poor ‘Younc Mam. LAURA KEENE’ THEATRE, 626 Broadway.—Joamus Deans. (NEW BOWERY THEATER, Bowory —Hiucet—Motuer Goosx ayp tue Gowpex Kac—Rosrer Macane. BROADWAY BOUDOIB, 444 Broadway.—Tas Hiwpen Banp. BARNUM'S 4MERICAN MUSEOM. Broadway —After, noon- Awpgrcin Farwess—YouR Live's wt Danern. Bven- Sng—Ocronoox, BRYANT@’ MINETRELS, Meobanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Bux.asquss, Boxgs, Dances, &0.—We Come rnow Tux Hits. NIBLO'S BALOON, Broadwey.—Gao. Canuty’s Mrv- erneis ix BonGs, Dances, &o.—bus, Day's New Yaan Cars, NATIONAL CONOERT SALOON, National Thestre.— Boxas, Dances, Buntasques, £0. New York, Friday, March 9, 1860. The News. The stcamship Nova Scotian, with European ad- vices to the 22d ult, arrived at Portland last night, but at so late an hour that onr telegraphic summary of the news is necessarily very brief. A vote in the House of Commons with reference to the budget bad been taken, and the result was re“ garded as insuring the ratification of the commercial treaty between England and France. The project of a European Congress was again revived. At Liverpool cotton was reported slow of cale at unchanged prices. Flour was dull, but firm in price, while wheat had advanced one shilling. Provisions were quiet. The Londen money market was somewhat easier. Consols, on the 2ist, were quoted at 94} a 947 for money. There had been an average business in American securities, at previous rates. There are now four steamers from Eyepe due at American ports this morning. The news by the latest—if received first—will be eight days later than that reported by the Africa. The vessels sailed from the other side of the Atlantic in the following oider, viz:— Destination. Now York. New York. Halifax. New York. In Congress yesterday the Senate made the Homestead bill the special order for Tuesday next. Mr. Grimes, of Iowa, gave notice ofa bill for the retrocession of the District of Columbia to Mary- land and the removal of the federal capital. Tues- day next was assigned for the consideration of the joint resolution providing for the enlargement of the Louisville and Portland Canal. Mr. Brown's resolutions respecting the protection of slave pro- perty in the Territories was then taken up, and Mr. Cotlamer, of Vermont, addressed the Senate on the subject. Mr. Wigfall withdrew his amendment to the Military Academy bil! appropriating $1,100,000 for a regiment of mounted volunteers in Texas, and offered another specifying items of expenditure, | which was adopted. In the House a bill was introduced providing for the payment of Indian war expenses in California; also a bill granting free farms to actual settlers in Territories, and pro- viding for the election of Territorial officers by popular vote ; also a bill amending the act limit- ing the lisbility of shipowners ; also a bill for the establishmennt of a national printing office; also a bill reducing the expenses of the Post Office De- partment; also a bill inviting proposals for carry- ing the Pacific mails. All the foregoing were ap- propriately referred. The Committee on Public Expenditures were authorized to employ a clerk, and were instructed to inquire as tohow the House binding contracts were awarded. The Army Ap- propriation bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole. A bill authorizing the President to have his annual message and the departmental documents printed in advance of the meeting of Congress was passed to a third reading. Our correspondents at Washington agree that the Mexican treaty will not be ratified by the Senate. Minister McLane will, however, proceed to Vera Croz in the war steamer Brooklyn, in a day or two, to look after American interests in that quarter. The Minister from Paraguay, Senor Jose Berges, was formally presented to the President yesterday, ‘The Minister made an appropriate address, to which the President replied in his usual felicitous manner. The proceedings of the Legislature yesterday were unimportant. In the Seuate the mammoth railroad bill; granting George Law and his associates permission to lay tracks through forty and odd streets of this city—covering the entire metropo- lis, as it were, with a net of iron—was read a third time, and parsed by a vote of twenty to twelve. The despatch of our correspondent, published in another column, gives some carious facts in regard to the manner in which this stupendous scheme was so swiftly rushed through the Senate. A bill ‘was introduced to incorporate the “National Hall Democratio Association of New York.” This is the association of the Mozart Hall de- mocrats to which allusion has heretofore been made. A bill was introduced to appoint commissioners to lay out that portion of the city lying north of 150th street, and to change the plan of that section of the city. Bills were reported to amend the Metropolitan Police act, to organise @ State Board of Claims, to establish a Nautical School in New York harbor, and to prevent harbor encroachments. A bill was introduced to prevent frauds in the sale of goods. The bill relative to Proceedings for the recovery of rent and demised premises was discussed and ordered to a third reading. The bill to prevent the sale of franduleat nger tickets was also passed tos third read- + In the Assembly a committee of five was ordered to report resolations ip regard to the Paci- fic Railroad. The Railroad Toll bill was ordered to a third reading; also the bill to provide for the payment of the floating debt of New York. Seve- -kal cther bills were also considered in committee and ordered toa third reading; among them the Dill to amend the exemption laws. We have advices from Porto Rico dated at Maya- guez on the 22d ult. The comaneretal report sa} Coffee is at 13{ for estate quality, at which rate mapy sales have been effected, and which figures now may be considered the current price for this description. In sn7ars we have experienced a de- cline of prices, which would have been to a greater extent if purchasers had ‘cpt more quiet. We quote $4) « $4) for eecow Amcricae provisions are in fair supply: best pork, $19; beef, $10; rice, $5 a $5}; flour, 612 a $12. Fish—cod, #14; sole, $3 mackerel, $7, Lamber—white pine, $26 a $27; pitel pine, $30 per 1,000 feet. Freight charters were ia fait demand. We publish in today's paper a maas of infor mation relative to the political and labor move ments How going on in various parts cf the coun’ including letters from our correspondents in New Hampshire, a report of the proceedings of the New Jersey Republican State Convention, which was held ut Trenton yesterday, and a report of a speech delivered by Caleb Cushing last night before « muss meeting of the democracy of New Haven. We also give a report of the proceedings of an organigation called the New York Central Workingmen’s Com- Mittee, a body composed of delegates from various trade societies, who desigu to enter into the poli- tical canvass on priuciples supposed to be favorable to mechanics and lab . A very interesting meeting of the New York Geographics! Society was held fast evoning, to receive several gentlemen connected with Arctic explorations, and welcome a native Esquimuux to our shores. Dr. Hayes waa present, and guve an outline of his contemplated voyage to the Arctic regions for the purpose of verifying Dr. Kane's discovery of the chen Polar sea, A full report may be found in another column. ‘The telegraph fu-nishes ua a brief account of a terrible domestic tragedy which occurred at Syra- cuse yesterday. A man named Tinker first poi- soned his two little children, and after folding their hands upon their hearts, left the bodies in an unac- cupied room, and repaired to a hotel, where he com mitted suicide by taking poison. The cause of thia lamentable affair is said to be the discovery of his wife's intimacy with a physician of Syracuse, under the influence of free love principles. The excite- ment in Syracuse, upon the revelation of the cir- cumstances of the case, was so great that the doc- tor was locked up in the penitentiary to escape the indignation of the populace. The fifty-third annual commencement of the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons was held last evening in the Rev. Dr. Parker's church, corner of Twepty-second strect and Fourth avenue. Not- withstanding the inclemency of the weather, quite a numerous audience was present. An impressive opening prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. Hogue, after which Dr. Delafield, President of the College, administered the Hippocratic oath and conferred the degree of Doctor in Medicine upon fifty-five gentlemen cemposing the graduating class. He then delivered the charge to the class. The prizes apnually given to the graduating students of the institution were awarded to the successful competi- tors. The valedictory address to the graduating class was delivered by Dr. Seth L. Chase, one of its members. Dr. Thomas M. Markoe followed with an address to the alumni, many of whom were pre- sent on the occasion. The exercises were more than usually interesting, and were listened to with marked attention throughout. The matter of the homicide on board the war steamer Brocklyn, that has been pending for seve- ral days past on Staten Island, before Justices Wolfe and Garrett, was finally,as far as they are concerned, disposed of yesterday at a late hour in the afternoon. Capt. Farragut and Lieut. Mitchell, of the Brookiyn, entered into their own recog- nizapces to appear as witnesses. Seventeen of the crew of the Brocklyn were also held to appear against Ray, and also against Cooper, who is charged as principal in the death of Ritter. The crew detained are to be paid off to-day at 12 o'clock, and discharged. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, but as the minutes of the previous meeting were not prepared in time by the printers, the Board ad- | journed after disposing of a few routine papers. In another column we publish the principal fea- tures of the will of the late Daniel fanshaw, who leaves $250,000 in real and personal estate in this city. rf a meeting of the Young Men’s Democratic General Commiitee Jast night, it was unanimously resolved that an association be formed in each ward in the city, composed of all those who are | willing to support the nominee of the Charleston | Convention, to be called “The Campaign Demo- cratic Assogiation.” The committee then adjourn- ed until Thureday, the 29th inst. The cotton market yesterday maintained the steadinces previously noticed, while the sales amounted to about 2,000 bales, closing tirm at unchanged prices. Tne flour market was active, with a good local and milling demand» and medium grades of State and Weatern closed at better prices. Southern flour was also in good demand, with a fair amount of eales and at better prices. Wheat was firmer, with rather more doing: among the sales were Chicago spring at $1 22 a $1 25, Milwaukee club at $1 25, ‘and Canadian white at $1 65. Corn was lesa buoyant: sound Jersey and Southern yellow were selling at 78c. a 80c. Pork was easier, while the sales were moderate, in- cluding bhew megs at $13 25 a $18 35, and old at $17 25 a $17 36, old prime ai $12 60, and new do. at $14 621; a $14 75. Beef was firm. Sugars were more active, with an advance of 3¢c. per pound on tho week's sales of re. fining graces; grocery goods were also firm. The salos embraced about 1,600 hhds. and 150 boxes Havana, with 200 hhde. Moladg, at prices given in another column. Cof- foo was firmer, with sales of about 6,000 bags Rioat 12);c. a 12e , with none offering in the afternoon under the latter figure. The steck of Rio in first hands was es- timated at €,000 bags. Freights were firm, with a fair amount offering, especially for British ports. Among the shipments we noticed some 100 dbis. flour at 23. 3d. Rates to the Continent continued firm, with moderate en- gagements. The Political Canvass in New England— Preliminary Skirmishes in the Presi- dential Campatgn. The early crop of spring elections is abont to come off, and the workers are already in the field, as will be seen by our letters and des- patches from several of the New England States, published in another column to-day. Within the next four weeks State elections are to be held in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and ne other general elec- tion takes place in the Northern States uatil September. These will, therefore, be looked upon as the preliminary skirmishes of the great forces which are ranging for the November conflict, and their results will consequently have some influence upon the mcral of the re- spective armies, and serve the leaders as a re- connoissance of the currents of public opinion in the far North, the nursery and hotbed of the abolition theories that have taken so strong a hold upon the black republican party. Several causes, running through the Know Nothing mania of 1853-55, and culminating in the Kansas excitement of 1856, had thrown the popular mind in New England off its balance, and given it over a prey to the abstract sophistries of a echoo) of impractica- ble philosopbers and the bedlamite ravings of practical abolitionists, New England au- Giences had accustomed themselves to listen to the empty nothings of Emerson, and the brilliant fallacies of Theodore Parker, and to applaud the ribald abuse of the Union, the constitution and the revered name of Washing. ton, by Garrison and Phillips But a reaction has commenced there, al- though what turn it will tuke is not yet clear. The revolutionary course inculeated by her political leaders, when no public or private right ie in danger, has awakened the conserva. tive fears of the whole country, aod these are beginning to react upon the material iateresis ef the New England people. Without a fertile soil or prolific mines, their interests lie in the NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 9,,.1860. developement of mauufactares and commerce, and this depeuds upov the maintenance of the feelings of brotherhood between the consuming and producing communities, The symptoms of a commercial estrangement be- tween the North aad the South, identical with that which hos sundered the communion of their churches and their political parties and epring- ing from the same orazy fanaticism of the New England philosophers and aboli- tionists, is beginning to tell upon the pockets ané the minds of the merchants, who are the middiemen between the Northern manufac turers and the Southern consumers. The innu meruble bonds of interest between them are electric in operation and convincing in effect. Avotber evidence of the reaction in New Eog land is to be seen in the strike now apreadtiog among the shoemakers, and beginning to agi- tate the other laboring classes there. Turning from dwelling on the imaginary wrongs of Southern siaves, they are beginning to look upon their own evils. The theories which have been go strenuously inculcated by their philoso- phere and preachers in behalf of distant no groes are being applied to the white race at bome. From these great, and mavy minor nascent facta, it is evident that the tide of popular feel- ing, which carried on the crest of its flood the Wilsons, the Hales and the Hamlins from the democratic to the republican ranks, is now ebbing. This may be eeen in the following figures from the electoral returns of 1856 and 1859:— Preamzwnn Evrenion, Srrixc ELECTION. 186 —— ——-1850,-— Dem. Reid. «= Dem. Repub. 82789 3345 Be NLS B0,308 996 43615 88,389 40,259 580 11,467 3546 8,933 As we have said, it is not yet clear what course the new tide in the public feeling of New England will take. The strong minds among its conservative elements have not taken the field in a compact body and with a general plan for action, but here and there they are beginning to waken and to work. The sen- sible and plain spoken meeting of the Connec- ticut manufacturers at Meriden gave an im- pulse in that State, and the canvass now going on for the April election has more spirit in it than is seen in either of the others, In New Hampshire the politicians are full of doubt as to how to deal with the rebellion of labor against capital, and in Rhode Island the predo minant sentiment has been that of the so-called Americanism, rather than sympathy with black republican abolitionism. The elections which are to come off between now and the 4th of April next will show whether the con- servative feeling of New England has been suf- ficiently aroused to the impending danger from the sectionalism of the black republican party to turn upon it and reject it; or if, by its con- tinued supineness, it will encourage the black republican leaders and their abolition allies to force the whole country through a Presidential campaign against their destructive principles, and create a commercial rupture between the North and South which will involve every Southern interest in temporary privation, and every Northern one in bankruptcy and rnin. Tre Brooxtyy Ferry Leases—Tae Cox- vest Berore THe AssEMBLY COMMITTBE.— We have now the case of the Union Ferry Company before us, as developed in the argu- ments of its counsel before the Committee on Commerce and Navigation of the Assembly. From the report published yeaterday, it will be seen that it is miserably weak in all the points which were relied on as a defence to the complaints bronght against the Company by the Brooklyn people. It does not seek, in fact, te meet those complaints at all—it enters into no statement to prove that the profits made- from tbese leases are notextortionate and more than double what they should be, and it shows no rational motive for continuing in the hands of a single company a privilege so valuable. Shifting its ground from these direct issues, it argues the question on a contingency whick has been started. in default of a better defence, namely, the injury that may result to the New York Sinking Fund from the cheapening of the income of the franchises. This position might gerve its purpose but for a few antecedent facta, which are sadly at variance with it. First, let us observe that it by no means follows that by putting up the leases to public competition in the manner required by the Brooklyn people, the franchises would be depreciated in value. On the contrary, it is certain that their price would be greatly enhanced; for there are parties in the field who are not only ready to bid as high for the leases as the Union Company, but who will bind themselves under penalties to run their boats at a cent ferriage and to give as good accommodation as is at present afforded. But apart from the offers of these individuals, is there not security enough for the interests represented by the Sinking Fund in the propo- eal made by the Common Council of Brooklyn to eecure to New York the fall annual value of these leases? It issurprising that in the face of such guarantees a lawyer should be found bold enough to insult the common sense of the committee by such an argument. As to the assertion that cheap ferriage must necessarily lower the character of the accom- modations at present afforded on the ferries, it is equally untenable. The profits to be made out of the leages at the one cent fare are, we con- tend, eufficiently large to enable the lessees to give all the facilities and coaveniences re- quired. When the three ferties—tne Fulton, the South and the Hamilton—were run by the old company they paid a divi- dend of 7} per cent,and a bonnes of 42 per cent, although the traffic was leas than half what it is now, and the Hamilton avenue an unprofitable line. From the statement of Al- derman Kalbfieisch before the committee, it appears that under the one cent rates the Wil- liamsburg ferries actually doubled the money invested during the first three years, and daring the five years following they realized 150 per cent per annum profits on the original capital. Last year, notwithstanding that they had to compete with an opposition ferry, they divided sixty per cent. So far, then, as a liberal mar- gin of profit is concerned, there is no fear that any new companies taking hold of the Union ferry leases will be unable to provide fitting accommodation for the public. To insare their doing it, there wiil be, first, the ineertion of penalties in their contracts; and, secondly, the influence of competition, which if the ieases are divided, would be the moet effective check ofall, With a railway track running along the Brooklyn shore, and equal facilities of reach ing the river on this side, the public would naturally select those ferries which had the best boats and which kept the best time. If the Aseembly are determined to do justice to the public in this matter, there is no reason to apprebend that the facts or the logic of Mr. Owkey Hall aud his colleague will exercise much weight with them. A weaker case, we repest, Was Dever made oul by any great ia- terest having talent and money to back it, than was presented to the committee on behalf of the monopoly, If with such a cage it geta the Asrembly to reject Senator Spinola’s bill, thea (be thousands of underpaid artisans, seam- etrestes and factory girls who reside in Brook- \yn for the cheapness of ita reata will have no difficulty in divining the means by which a mea- eure so vital to their interests has been de- feated. —_—$—$$—$__— Merting of the Shoemakers of New York— The Trade Rained by the Anti-Slavery Agitation, On Wednesday evening, as our readers saw from yesterday’s paper, a preliminary sympa thy meeting of the shoe trade was beld in this city, and a great mass meeting is to take place on Monday evening nextfor the parpoze of raising “the einews of war” for the New Eng- lend strikers. Not only will all the trade attend, but probably delegates from the otber trades; for when one’s next neighbor's house fs on fire, he naturally looke after bis own. It is not the shoe trade alone that is affected, and will be still more affected, by the anti-slavery agitation, but every other trade which derives a conaider- able portion of its support from the custom of the South. The shoe trade is the first to suffer; but the other trades will participate in the com- mon disaster, and therefore we may expect to see them represented at the meeting on Monday night, and perhaps soon call- ing separate meetings of their own. Sugh distress has the falling off in the Sonthern sboe trade produced in New Hampshire that the calamity has entered as an element into the important State election which is to come off there next week. The black republican journals absurdly ascert that the shoe business bas suddenly come down now in 1860 in conse- quence of the financial crisis of 1957. But the operatives know too well what the cause is- There was no falling off till after it appeared that John Brown's raidand Helper’s book were endorsed in New England. Here are plainly enough the cause and the effect. The “strike” movement is not only spread- ing over all New England, but extending to the other Northern States. Thus the first disas- trous effect of the irrepressible conflict is not on the South, but the North. The design to render the labor of the South unhappy and in- surrectionary has failed; but it has had the effect of making the labor of the North discon- tented, disaffected and revolutionary, The operatives of the North are beginning to see that they have been uted as mere instru- ments by politicians for their own base purposes, but that the result is now com- ing home to the business and bosom of every man at the North who earns hia bread by the sweat of his brow. The North and the South seemed to be made for each other, and the trade between them was profitable and con- venient to both; but the insane conduct of Northern politicians has inflicted on it a wound which msy soon terminate in its complete de- struction. Some of the New England politicians are lay- ing the flattering unction to their souls that the South must buy from the North. But nothing can be more ridiculous. There is nothing to prevent the South manufacturing for itself, but, on the contrary, everything to facilitate the change. There are new factories now in the course of erection, and if skilled workmen are wanted to teach and superintend the negroes, they can be easily had from among the “strik- ers” and discharged hands of the New England factories. We expect there will soon be a large emigration from thence southward of white labor, if not of capital, and that the prosperity of the Eastern States, which depended wholly on their manufactures, will thus receive a heavy blow, from which it can never recover. It iscer- tain that the South is now taking the most active measures to become independent of Northera manufactures, and that it will succeed there canntt be a shadow of a doubt. And who can blame the South for pursuing this course? Just suppose the case of a grocer with whom o wealthy family did a very large business, but who never lost an opportunity of maligning and slandering that family in public and in private, meddling with all its domestic affairs and giving it a very bad name. Could any one blame the head of this family for withdrawing his custom and giving it to some one more dererving of it. One of the first results of the fulling off in the Southern trade with New England will be a temporary increase of it in New York, New Jersey and Penspylvania. But its continuance depends on circumstances. The South regards the political course of these three States not quite so bad asthe conduct of the people of New England, and it will take from them what it cannot help taking from some State, till they become abolitionized, or till its own manufac- tures are developed and brought to such matu- rity that it can wholly dispense with the North- ern trade. Nor is it manufactores alone that will suffer. The commerce and the dry goods business of our large cities will be damaged, and real eState will be so depreciated in value that houses in New York will cease to bring the high prices now paid for them. Indeed, the owners of real estate in New York never were so apxious to get that kind of property off their hands. They have a presentiment of what is to come, and hence, instead of bills, “to let,” you will see everywhere over the city bills, “to be sold.” Sovraern Lire Farrurutty Puorograrnen.— Some two or three months ago we despatched several faithful reporters to different sec- tions of the country. They were instruct- ed to inquire into the effect upon the public mind of the John Brown raid, the Helper Book, Seward’s irrepressible conflict speech, and other demonstrations of the aboll- tion psrty. The most important portion of this duty fell to our reporters who were sent into the slave States, and as a part of the result of their investigations, we gave yesterday some exceedingly plain, straightforward, unpreten- tious descriptions of slavery as it absolutely exists in the extreme South. Our reporter de- scMbes a slave sale at Montgomery ia quite a different vein from that affected by the abo- tition writers, and his picture of life upona great plantation is more interesting from the fact that it is a simple statement of facts, without any attempt at rhetorical flourish or coloring, either for or against the peculiar io- stitution, Wedo not remember to have seen a iu print before eo dispassionate and candid» dercription of Southern life, as it really is, as that furnished by orf reporter. Stripped of the cant of the abolitionists, slavery loses one- half its horrors in a social point of view, and we find, when the facts are presented, how vilely the Scuth has been misrepresented atthe North. It may be that good will grow out of this agitation, after all. The time must come when the traders of the North will learn a little common sense, as far as their Southern customere are concerned; and all the light they can got in the meantime hastens that very desirable consummation. Tax New Crry Rartroap Scuxmes—Puvsprr or Tne City Treasury.—We see by the late action of the Legislature, that seven city rail- road bills have been reported by the Senate Committee for the consideration of that body, and that the Seventh Avenue Railroad bill passed the Senate yesterday by a vote of 20 to 12, Our special Albany despatches have thrown considerable light upon the mode in which this scandalous traffic in the resources of the me- tropolis is carried on by the corrupt lobby, and ita masters, the speculators in all kinds of mo- ney making jobs. The city railroads now in actual operation are worth not less than ten millions of dollars, and the seven roads just reported in the Senate, which include the Broadway railroad, will be worth fully twenty millions more. The tracks for all these roads can be laid down and the cars and horses pur- chased for about two millions, thus leaving a profit of eighteen millions; and this sum is to be divided among the lobby and thelr friends in office and some forty private indivi- duals, instead of going into the city treasu- Ty, where it properly belongs. This large amount would nearly pay off the entire debt of the city, including the liabilities incurred for the introduction of Croton water and the construciion of the Central Park. It would build and keep in repair all the stone piers required on both rivers. It would be sufficient to give us the most magnificent parkg in the world; and yet every dollar of it is-about to be handed over to these three hundted indivi- duals, many of whom will be found to be agents and brokers of George Law. Thus this emall class, by corrupting the Legis- lature and applying other agencies, is endea- voring to obtain control of the railroads and ferries of the city, to create a gigantic monopoly of the internal travel by land and water, to which the millions of people who inhabit the metropolis and its environs must submit their comfort and convenience. If these railroad schemes succeed—and with such an amount as eighteen millions clear profit to work the lobby with, what is to prevent them ?—we shall have to ride just as these forty incorporators may dictate—to be subjected to all such inconve- bience and suffering as they may choose to im- pose upon us—and by and by, in order to get into the cars at all, we shall have to learn ome cabalistic password like that of another famous “forty” whom we read of in the Arabian Nighte—“open Sesame.” No one, we presume, doubts the necessity of more city railroads. It is an excellent idea to facilitate the now cramped means of travel, and to open up the aveniies leading to the Central Park; but it is monstrous that the franchises of these projected roads, which belong to the city and are worth millions of dollars, should be given away to a few individuals. Tar Ricuts or Women.—The Tribune has been urging the Legislature to do something for the rights of married women. Why is not the following provision of the Revised Statutes (vol. 3, p. 240) sufficient ?— The rea! and personal property, andthe rents, issues and profits thereof, of any female now married, shall not be subject to the disposal of her busband, but shall be her eole and separate pr ty, asif she weres single fcmale, except 60 far as famo way be liabic for tne debts of her husband heretofore contracted. Would it not be as well to learn what the law is before exhorting the Solons at Albany to make any more patchwork? Ayorer Gop Spoon Investigation 1x Con- orEss.—The republicans in Congress are very busy getting up an investigation into the af- fairs of the administration, for want of some more formidable weapon of assault upon the government. This is only borrowing from the o)d gold spoon Ogle investigation which was tried in Van Buren’s time, when Mr. Ogle, of Pennsylvania, created a great excitement about the White House being furnished with gold spoons, damask draperies, and so forth, at the people’s expense. In recurring to this ancient dodge, however, the republicans will flad that they have taken the wropg track. They will Gnd that James Buchanan is a statesman, and has administered the affairs of the government with great propriety throughout. Mr. Bu- chanan courts and defies an investigation, and, discovering this, the republican members are beginning to back out, A Sensiptz Neoro.—An event has just oc- curred in Hayti, from which some of our white parsons and preachers who worship John Brown as a saint might take a lesson with great propriety. We find the following para‘ graph in the Revue de Commerce, published at Port au Prince :— We regret having received from Gonaives a letter giving intormation tat Mr. Gerdol, pastor of that place, bas formally refueed to celebrate the memorial rervics of the much honored John Brown, the priest saying that this gaint was but agiave thief. Arotbor priest has been asked for, and Mr. Gerdol has resigned his position as pas- tor of the community. Now here is a sensible negro, who is intelli- gent enough to discriminate between a saint who deserves a crown of glory, and a horse thief, a slave thief anda murderer, who de- served the gallows. Sraep rRom Naw Onizays.— We now daily receive New Orleans papers through Adams & Co, in three and # half days. This express line advertise to carry parcels from one city to the otber in eighty hours. ‘Waar's 15 Tae Wiyp?—The following paragraph appear- ed in cne of our exchanges yesterday:— Rewovat or 4 Baxx Paeupeat—We learn from the Utica Gberver that considerable excitement has been cavsed im business circles in that city by the announce- Hon. 0, 8 Maticson from the sday last, by = unanimous yore of the Board of Directors, who were calied together on the a in of Mr. George W. Stantoa, formerly of thie ty, and now of New York. Nothing of this kind was known to the President of the Metropolitan Bank of this city as late as half.past three o'clock on Wednesday afternoca. Vaspresix Sryaxemr Cowrany.—Yae “ Vandorbilt European Sicamsbip Company,” raaning between this port and Southampton and Bavre, will resume their tripe, which were discontiuued during the wiater, oa the ith of thie month, when the steamship Vanderbilt will iaave for Southampton and Barre, carrying with her the Uuited States mails She will retura from Southamptoa onthe Mh of April. Persors taking passage on thissteamer can bave an opportesity of paseing a fortnight ia England ‘and on the Continent, seeing the variour aporting events, which prmeipally occur im Apri, such us the diferent toes, Xc., aud reach Now York egain aftor an absence a scarcely five wooks, To businres men, or those pects 1 for time, this is a very greaj advantage. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Debate in the Senate on the Question of Slavery in the Territories, Proposed Establishment of a National Printing Office, Presentation of the Minister from Paraguay, Address of the Minister and Reply of the President. The Mexican Treaty Virtually Defeated, Kary Ker we. Our Special Washingtom Despatch. Wasuixarow, March 8, 1860. TRE CHARGES AGALVET THE aDsaNWrRaTION. ‘The select committee to be appointed under the resolu- tion of Mr. Covode, to investigate whether the charges that money bas been used by apy branch of the Executive de- partment to carry elections in any of the States and Terri- ‘ories, will be named to-morrow, and will probably be composed of the following gentlemen :—Mesers. Covode of Pennsylvania, Train of Massachusetts, Otin of New York, Robinson of Hlinois, and Wisslow of North Carolina. { Great disappointment and disgust provail at the maa- ner in which the corrupt politicians of the republican party bave arranged their investigating committces. Mang democrats sincerely desire that past corruptions should be ferreted out and exposed. Had either the reps. or the dem’s-reps. as the South Americans are beginning to be nicknamed, dared to specify one single charge, ncarig every democrat in the House would have voted for the resolution, As it stands, :t is only a drag net to catch something, no matter what. ‘THR TREATY WITH MEXICO, The friends of the Mexican treaty are now satisfied that the opinion repeatedly expressed in this correspondence, that it capnot be ratified, is a fact. They give itup. AU sorts of threats have been made that a failure to ratify it would involve the two countries in « war, while the prin- cipal point of objection to its ratification by the republices ‘Senators has been, that to ratify it would be recognizing a mob at Vera Cruz, and not a constitutional government: representing the people of Mexico, which would inevitably inyolve the United States in war with the charch party te sustain the mob. The main question has been a constita- tional one in the mincs of tho republicans, which pre- cluded them from considering the details of the treaty commercially to any estent. The commercial advantages, 80 far as they have been discussed, haye not been deem- ed of importance. The ratification would confer upom certain speculators, official and otherwise, a magaificent: railzoad job. The prevailing opinion is that the move- ments of the general government to sustain Governor Hovston in his Texas expedition against the Mexicans witt result in a war between Mexico andthe United States, so that the seekers of @ war with that puny republic will be gratified without ratifying the treaty. But the hungry claimants who have been working here for weeks to grab two mibions of the public money arc sadly disappointed,’ and will bave to borrow to get home. ) Senators Mason and Toombs, in conversation with the President and Secretary of State to day, im regard to Meni / can affairs, stated that they saw no hope for the ratifics tion of the Mexican treaty, and that they looked upos it as virtually dead. What course the administration will adopt in regard to Mexican affairs bas not been determined upon. Tney have all along labored under the impression that the treaty would eventually be ratified. Mr. McLane will sail in the Brooklyn from New York on Saturday for Vera Cruz. The government think it bighty important, in the present condition of affairs, that our Minister should be constantly in the vicinity of Vere Cruz, to guard and protect our interests. Some newspapers have erroneously stated that be ‘Home fquacron’s movements will be governed in a ¢ Gegree by his directions. The truth is, the flag receives his orders from the Navy Department, but be requested to avail himself of frequent cousul with our Minister, which, it is supposed in promigsat quarters, he will cheerfally do. Mr. McLane’s return is with reference to the protection of American persons and Property. ‘MOVEMENTS OF THE ALBASY REGENCY. Cassidy—the Wise letter man of the Albany 4das- 4rgus—ia bere, under the shadow of the Hou. Erastus Corning. Fowler, Ludlow and acrowd of others have ‘ately haunted Washington, to the great discomfort of pecple who have anything to do. Their object is of courge to scent the true quarry, and each one goes home with the assurance that it has been found, struck, and s big elice of patronage secured, tor some future timo. The Bulls of Bashan, and the fleshpots of Egypt seem to be the thought by day and the dream by night of your prowlars of the Regency. THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE BANKERS AND MR. COND. The committees on Judiciary in the Senate and Howse bave under consideration the claim of Sweeny, Ritten- house, Fant & Company, claiming damages for the refosal of the Secretary of the Treasury to permit them to deposit, in San Francisco for the payment of government etock. ‘They claimed the right to deposit three milons, aud lay dameges at about one ‘hundred thousand collars, 4 powerful lobby is engaged in bebalf of the ciaim, but it stands iittle chence of being favorably reported out of either committes. PENNSYLVANIA AND THE TART, ‘The republican members of ihe Peuneylyania dolega- tion bad @ meeting to night, to consult od the aubjict of the tariff. The resuitof tho consultation was Ga otpros- sion of opinion that the intcrests of Pennsylrania re- quire bigher duties on iron than were allowed it Mr. Sor- vill’s bill of last Congress. ‘TRE EMLECT OOMMITIRE ON THE PACIFIC RAILMDAD, Speaker Pennington will announce the Select Committe, on the Pacific Railroad to-morrow, and it wiil be comaty tuted as follows:—Mersra. Curtis of Iowa, Corwit of Onig ’ Fenton of New York, Rice of Massachusotts, Stout of Ore+ gop, Davis of Maryland, Farneworth of Mlincis, Hamilten of Texas, Aidrich of Minnesota, French of Mains, Scott of California, Taylor of Louisiana, Phelps of Missouri, Biak of Peupsylvenia, and Smith of Virginia. It will be O- served that both the Pacific States are represented ono committee, and nine of the members represent Midlle and Northern States—indicating that the great interets of thoee States will not be sacrificed by an oxtreme Sovhern road for the exclusive benefit of the South and '° ‘but that thee: interests will be regarded, and com and Wasb), »\-1. as well ag California, will be reoguized ontho P+. pe. In view of the great stampde mace to obtain « + vpon this committee, the Speker has mado an: <1 well distributed selection. ‘TRE PUNLIC PRINTING. ‘There aclety of propositions bofore de Senate and He + comittees on printing on te subject of pub: tug. One ie that of Sevstor Brown, for a Ys Bureaw in the Department of the Interior, wi: . commusioner of printing, and neccesary clerks,&c. Auother plan is to give out the work by :on- tract to the lowest bidder. This has aiready beon tired, ‘and failed. Avotber plan is that of Senator Hale, to re- duco the present prices twenty-five per cent. Anober plan is that of dirccting the Superintendent of Fubtic Printing to have the printing and binding executed at public expense, and authorizes him to lease or purchaze pecestary buildings, materials and machinery for tbat purpose, apd to sppoins a foreman of printing, and another of book binding, who shall employ neteseary workmen at prices not greater than ew paid by private estabilenments in Washingten City. | This pro- position meets with some favor. I tw <¥ident the present Congress aro determined to act in this matier,and to pus ‘a stop to the present corrupt aystem of doing the work, ‘SHB OVERLAND MASL SHRVICR, ‘The Senate Port Office Committee had a protracted meet- ing to-day, and had the eubjectof the eyeriand mali ser- vioe again before them. They are maturing a bill which is intended to meet the views of the House commitios. ‘The whole aubject wes foaily postponed until Monday next, when the Postmaster General will appear before them for the purpoee Gf couferring with thom upon thim important subject. PRESESIATON OF THR PARAGUAY MLESTRR. ‘Senor Berges was to-day presented to the Prositent by General Cass, end was attended by Mr. Ward, of tae United Raves Mission to Parsguay, who offleisted aa inter- preter. The follwing is the addrese of Senor Herges:— Mr. Presomvr—I catecm myeelf fortunate in bavirg Deou kelected to diachage the dutios of the character which Ir pre Upon the ratification by poor F ccal- leucs cf the troeties negotiated it araneion on the ata ef Feb » between. the plenipotentiaciss 4 pe r 4