The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1860, Page 6

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Shannon, will Yeave this port to-day fer Liverpool. ‘The mails for Europe will close in this city at ten o'clock this morning. _ The Eonoraan Gornion oF mm Harstp will be published ‘ab half past nine o'clock in the tnorning. Single copies, in ‘wrappers, six cents. ‘Subsoriptions and advertisemonts for any edition of the New Yorx Hznatp will be received at the following places fa Europo:— Loxmon....Sampeon Low, fon & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. Lansing, Starr & Co., 74 King William street. Paum..,...Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 8 place de la Bouras. Livmaroot... Lansing, S:arr & Co., No. 9 Chapel stroat. R. Stuart, 10 Exchange stroet, Kast. Ravez..... Jansing, Baldwin & Oo., 21 rue Corneille. Hamwond...De Chapeauronge & Co. ‘ Th By the arrival of the North American at Portland yesterday, we have European advices te the Ist instant, four days later than the accounts received by the America. The news is interesting. Owing to the purturbed state of political affairs, the London and Paris money markets had under- gone some fluctuations. Consols on the lst closed at 949 a 94] for money. At Liverpool the cotton market was dull, with limited sales at decline on the inferior qualities. Breadstuffs and provisions were steady. With regard to the reported alliance between Rassia and Austria the accounts are contradictory. The London Chronicle states on authority that a treaty hetween the two Powers was on the eve of being signed, while a despatch from Vienna says the report relative to the alliance was devoid of foundation. Accounts from Berlin state that the new propo- sition fora Earopean Congress had failed, owing to the refusal of England to allow the treaty of 1856 to be discussed. The report that the French Ministerial Council had resolved against Italian unity is confirmed. It will be seen that the policy of France with respect to the Italian question is andergoing important modifications. The French Assembly was to meet on the Ist inst. and the speech of the Emperor was looked for with great The Spanish fleets had bombarded several Moorish towns, causing immense damage to the enemy. A severe gale had swept the Mnglish coast, caus- ing some damage to shipping. The Joss of the American ship Luna, near Cher- bourg, is confirmed. Of one hundred and seven Persons on board ef her, hut two reached the shore alive, and one of them subsequently died. The North American brings news from India, China, Japan and the Cape of Good Hope. Every- thing of interest from these ports is given in our telegraphic summary of the news, published in another part of to-day’s paper. We have news from Northern Mexioo to the 10th instant. Generale Woll and Marquez bad pro- neanced for Santa Anna, Everything was quiet at Brownsville. We have files from Turks Islands dated on the %th ult. The Standard of that day says :--“One small cargo of salt shipped from here and @ barque now loading at Salt Cay are the only transactions which have taken place since our last report. We have on hand about 200,000 bushels. Price nowi- nal at 7 to Thc.” By way of Charleston we have Havana advices to the 10th inst., but they contain no news of im- portance. The sugar market was easier, with no quotable change in prices. The New Hampshire State election, the first that has occurred during the preset year, took place Jesterday, and resulted in the success of the repai+ licaus by an increased majority as compared with the election of last year. The steamship Chesapeake, Captain Crowell, which arrived here from Portland on Monday, brought the Canadian mails for Europs, to go forward by the Africa, for Liverpool, to-day. The proceedings of the Legislature yesterday were Interesting. In the Senate bills were noticed to prevent the fraudulent sale or concealment of property. Severs! bills were passed, among them the bill to collect damages for the destruction of the ‘Quarsntine buildinzs,to amend the Insurance act, to amend the charter of the State Lunatic Asylum, and toencourage vaccination. The Schuyler county ‘bilt was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Qill to repeal the seventy-five cent militia commn. tation tax was passed. The New York tax levy ‘was passed to a third reading. In the As sembly ‘the resolution for the appointment of a committee of nine to prepare bills for the acti NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAROH 14, 1880.—TRIPLE SHME Preseat—with some information respectiag street cleaning, whick is contained im our report, Tad Proceedings, however, were Only informal, a quo- rum of the committee not beiag present. In Copgreas yesterday the Senate made the Homestead bill the epecial order for tomorrow, by a vote of 31 to 28, Copies of despatches from our Minister in Chipa and the instructions to Com- missioner Peter Parker wore aid bofore the Senate. Mr. Toombs introduced a bill to establish a uniform Bankrupt law throughout the United States. Bills for the relief of Townsend Harris, our Minister to Japan, and John H. Wheeler, late Minister to Cen- tral America, were reported and. referred. The Committee on Foreign Affairs were instracted to inquire and report whether the treaty with Great Britain for the euppression of the African slave trade has beon executed, and whether far ther legislation is necessary to more effec: tually suppress the slave traffic on the African coast. The Committee on the District of Colambia were directed to consider the expediency of im- proving the jail of said District. The bill amending the act establishing the Court of Claints was taken up and discussed, and after the adoption of some, amendments was passed. The West Point Academy Appropriation bill was then taken up; but the Senate adjourned without acting apon it. In the House the bill inviting proposals for carrying the Pacific mail on a aingle line was passed. This bill does not interfere with any existing mail contracts. The bill establishing mail routes in Kansas was also passed. A bill providing for the sup- Pression of unlawful collection and de- livery of letters was reported by the Post Office Committee and referred to the Committee of the Whole. The Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee asked leave to report a bill au" thorizing a loan of $21,000,000 for the redemption of Treasury notes, and for regulating the duties on imports, and for other purposes, and that it be re- ferred to the Committee of the Whole. Objection was made, and the aubject was Iaid aside. In Com- mittee of the Whole the remainder of the session was occupied in a lively discussion among the re- publicans respecting the coquetting of their leaders with Douglas while that gentleman was engaged in the Kanas difficutty with the administration. It is reported from Washington that the National Democratic Convention have serions thoughts of changing the place of meeting of the National Con- vention, as the Charleston public house keeepers have put up their prices to an enormously high figure. In tho Supreme Court, general term, yesterday, Judge Sutherland confirmed the report of the com- missioners favorable to the extension of Chambers street from Chatham street to the East river, hold- ing that the proceedings of the Common Conncil were sufficient to authorize the openiag of the street. ‘The sales of cotton yeaterday embraced about 2,000 Dales, part in transit. The market was quite steady, and closed on the basis of 111;¢. for middling uplands. Fiour was firmer for the highor grades, and in good domand, ‘with a fair amount of salos, while common and ordinary brands were heavy, and tho demand moderate. Wheat ‘was firm and im good demand, with sales at full prices, The market for breadstafis ruled too high to justify ship. ments of moment to Europe. Within a day or two 11,000 ‘bushels wheat, ipart prime Canadian, costing $1 60, have been shipped to the Canary Islamds. Corn was heavy, and sales moderate. Pork closed with more ac. ivity, and at $18 a $18 18 for new moss, and at $14 50 & $14 56 for new prime. Beef was firm and in good do- mand. Sugars were firm, h sales of about 1,000 hhds, and $00 boxes, and 150 hhds. moiado, at rates given in another place. The coffee market was excited, and stocks limited to some 4,024 bags Rio, 21,448 mats, and 125 goveramont bags, and a total of all kiads of packages of 32,921, ‘The stock of Rio in Now Orleans was 30,500; in Baltimore, 8,500, The total of Hilo in the three ction, by last advices, amounted to 47,024. Taking the Present prices of tropical products and comparing them ‘with those current tex or fifteen years since, the contrast will be very clear, Brazil coffee at 141¢0. and Java at 153<c., sugar at 7c. per Ib., and cotton at 1140. per Ib. for middling uplands, go to show that the consumption of these articlos throughout the world, by the improved con- dition of the massca, haa overtaken the labor devoted to their culture. Freighta were firm, while ship room to Liverpool and London was limited. Eugagemenia, how- ever, were fair. The News from Europe~The Crisis on the Continent. The news from Europe, received last night by the North American at Portland, shows that the political relations of the several Powers have again assumed a critical position. It is both affirmed and denied that a treaty of alliance between Russia and Austria has been consummated. Whether this be true or not, there are powerful influences at work which have produced some remarkable results,, The Russian ambassador at Turin has informed Count Cavour that it would be the assumption of a great responsibility by Sardinia for her to annex ihe Italian duchies at a moment when the other Powers of Kurope are exerting them- selves so strenuously to preserve peace ; and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs has ad- dressed a circular note to Austria, inculpating the Pope for having permitted the aggravation of the Italian question by his neglectin the Romagna, and offering not te meddle with the States of the Church if the rest of the questions ‘The Free Labec Movement at the Sorta. Wo published yesterdsy the proceedings of 3 meoting of the jourmeymen ahoemakers of this city, held for the purpose of adopting measures to eartain the strikers of New Eagiand in their effort te obtain an advance of wages on the present starvation prices paid for their free labor. This meeting is only oneof many of the ¢ame character which are yet to be held. The move- ment is epreading on every side, The giant atruggle of labor against capital is only in the commencement of ita career. The republican perty have awakened the wrong customer. They have set on foot war against capital in the South, which has extended to capital in the North, and the shoemakers and men of other trades think that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, The republicans have endeavored to atir up to insurrection egainst capital the black labor at the other side of Mason and Dixon’s line, and the white labor on this ide has taken the hint and carried the war into the camp of Northern capi- tal. The intention of William H. Seward and his political friends was to enlist the free labor of the North against the capital of the South; but, instead of that, it is rising in rebellion against the capital of the North. Ithas begun with shoemaking, but it will extendj to every other trade: meetings have been held in a few places, but the movement willjspread to every Northern State and city, either in the shape of strikes or of raising ma- terial? aid for the strikers, and giving them moral support. The black republican leaders and {journalists are sorely troubled about the free labor strikes of white men; but they will soon find, like Frankenstein, who raised a mon- ster he could not quell, that they have started. a revolution which they cannot arrest. The snowball gathers volume as it rolls, and so will the labor movement against capital. One of the speakers at the meeting, evidently a friend of the manufacturing interest, told a story about shoemakers being able to earn twenty-four dollars per week—a statement which excited no small indignation, and would answer better to tell the “horse marines” than any intelligent assembly of free- men. The same gentleman repudiates the idea that any Northern white men are slaves. It is trae that they are not slaves in the technical, sense But what is in a name? Their “bosses” have not a right to their services for life; but. Northern working men have no right to sustenance and support from their employers for even an hour, much less for a lifetime. The difference between white labor at the North and negro labor at the South is this: that the one is free to eke out a miserable existence in the best way it can—to vegetate and rot—to be willing to work even to the destruction of health, foro reasonable remuneration, but denied the op- portunity of doing so—denied the right to live. And this is called free labor; while the other, which is called slave labor, is never tasked beyond its strength, is well fed, well clothed, well cared for in sickness and health, and provided for in old age by the authority of law. The black’ republican leaders have great sympathy for the imaginary sufferings and wrongs of these happy blacks, but no bowels of compassion for the woes of miserable white. men, -who, Made {A the image of God, are doomed to look at their wives and children dying by inches before their eyes for the want of that sustenance which the prices paid by Northern capital deny them. These agitators, who are the false friends of the black laborers of the South, aré the real ene- mies of the white operatives of the North. By driving away Sonthern custom ‘from the Northern labor market, the supply becomes greater than the demand, and the cufferings of the people become almost intolerable. But this is‘ only the beginning of sorrows. Every day matters will grow worse and worse, till the cause of the evil is removed, and the lost equilibrium between the North and the South is restored. But if the anti-slavery agi- tation is continued, and is not speedily put down by the voice of the people oppressed, through the ballot box, the present embarrass- ments of capital and the hardships of labor will be increased a thousand fold. And howwould the misfortunes of the laboring population of the free States be still more enhanced, if four millions of emancipated slaves were sent among them from the South, to augment the surplus labor, accumulate pauperism, and overwhelm property and industry with taxation for its sup- pork i in Italy are permitted to be settled in accord- ance with the popular desires. These are strange moves on the political chess Loard of Europe, and show that the old issue of the dynasties against the people is again ranging the Powers for diplomatic dis- pute, and perhaps for an armed conflict Ja the developements now made England is ac- cused of having broken up the recently pro- posed Congress, by refusing to permit the eventual discussion of the treaty of 1856. From this we gather that Russia wishes to break up the treaty of Paris, while the aim of Louis Na- poleon isto sweep away those of 1815. In this dispute England is no longer under the toty rule of George the Third, and through that the leader and paymaster of every combination of the dynasties against the popular aspirations of the age. Commerce has entered largely into the infuences that sway her councils, and this has little sympathy with the musty theories of rule by divine right and the inheritance of blood. Matters begin to wear a serious aspect, how- ever, and every steamer will now bring us im- portant and interesting news from the conti- | nent of Europe. tion | of the House was debated, and finally adopted. In j Tur Erecrios ty New Hampsates.—tThe first Committee of the Whole several bills were con- | State election of 1860 took place yesterday in sidered and ordered to a third reading. We refer | New Hampshire. It was generally supposed, to our despatches for details. The Beard of Ten Governors transacted no ‘Dusiness yesterday, there being no qnorum of members at the meeting. The weekly census of the institutions gives 5,199 persons in charge of the from the apathy displayed by the democrats, that the State would go for the republicans, | and it appears that no effort was made by the | former to preveat euch a result, much to the Governors, being a decrease of fifty-nine as com- | *Stonishment of the democracy all over the pared with the week previous. An interesting report from the Committee on Outdoor Poor, re- lative to children put out to nurse, was received. An abstract of it is given ia our report in another column. The second meeting of the Aldermanic special Committee appointed to investigate the matter of the alleged contract recently made with R. A. Smith by the Mayor, City Inspector and the Comp- trofier tock place yesterday afternoon at the country. Under these circumstances the elec- tion ended as might naturally have been ex- pected, in the triamph of the republicans. On the strength of this success the republi- cans will getup a great excitement, and will call it the pioneer of their future victories throughout the North. In Connecticut, how- ever, where the democrats have made an effort, and where the effect of the loss of Southern house of Mr. Delavan. The City Inspector and Sa- | trade is beginning to be felt, there may possi- “perintendent of Sanitary Inspection furnished Al- | bly be a different result next month. But we «rma Fatley—the only member of the commnittes ! shall eee. Tur Cuarneston Conventios—Wnexs Ir | Oven o nx Hety.The National Democratic | Convention, to be held at Charleston, to nomi- | nate a candidate for the Presidency, will come | off in} April next: and we see it stated that a | vast crowd will attend there—the statesmen j and the politicians, the office seekers and the | pipelayers, from all sections of the country, to | the number, at least, of 20,000. | This is ridiculous. Charleston could not | accommodate 5,000 persona, unless it sent them | to the cabins of the negroes. It is absurd in every way to hold a national convention at ; Charleston, Cincinnati was bad enough. The | charges there were as high as ten dollars per | day, and many of the poor loafers who went to | the Convention held there in 1856 found it \ difficult to get back again. Indeed, a large | Class of men who go to such conventions have to depend chiefly on charitable contributions by the way. Now, Charleston is further away> | it is more difficult to get there, and it is harder | to get back from it than Cincinnati. Besides, | there is considerable danger of those who never wash their faces being mistaken for niggers and detained as slaves. Then where is the { food to come from, unless by a miracle, like | that which multiplied the five barley loaves and | the two small fishes so as to feast a great multi- tude? They might get some pork and corn dodgers, but they would have to send to New York for their beef. New York, which everybody wants to see, is the place at which the Convention ought to be held—the most central and the most easy of sccees; and no matter what numbers may come, there will be plenty of accommodation for all withont extra charge. It is not yet too late to make the change. The republicans changed the time of holding their convention by a whole month. There seems to be no sort of impro- priety in the Democratic Central Committee changing the place, seeing that the change to the Emptre City would conduce so much to the convenience of all, and combine pleasure with bosiness in such & way as it would be idle to expeot in a emall city like Charlestoa. By all monns lot the Convention meot in New York. ) ' ‘The Debates ou the Hagtish Budget. Wo eee by the summary of the America’s gows that a motion by Mr. Ducane in the House of Commons, in opposition to the budget, has been defeated by a majority of 116. This and the result of Mr. Disraeli’s teat motion remove all doubts as to ite paseage. The addition that has taken place to the strength of ministers, as exhibited by the last division, is the best tribute that ean be offered to the convincing character of the explanations made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his masterly reply. ‘The importance of the votes themselves Can- not be exaggerated. The question involved in them, let it be remembered, was not one merely of cheap coal, cheap wines, and cheap cotton manufactures. It was not simply a triumph in the vindication of its commercial policy that the ministry achieved. That policy and its off- spring, the present scheme, are both based on principles the soundness of which has been os- tablished by the success of Sir Robert’s Peel's great reforms, and which can no longer be re- sisted on any but special grounds, having refe- rence to the opportuneness of their ‘The resulta of the victory which these yotesassure extend far beyond the commercial benefits that will bederived by both countries from the opera. tion of the changes effected by it. They define, in fact, to an extent scarcely to be hoped for by the friends of progress, the uncertainties of an obscure political future. They indicate what the course of these two great leading nations will henceforth be on questions affeot- ing the interests and happiness of the European populations; for no one can doubt that, once entering together the path of commercial im- provements, their views will become identical as to the necessity of giving the utmost expan- sion possible to the political action of com- munities oppressed by despotic restrictions. Taken in all their bearings, we are therefore justified in saying that the debate on Mr. Disraeli’s motion, and the votes by which it was followed, are the most important that have occurred in the British Parliament for upwards of a century. The defeat sustained by the opposition in their preliminary trials of strength have another significance. They show that the secret influ- ences which have so frequently thwarted the progress of liberal principles, both in the heme and foreign policy of the English govern- ment, are becoming powerless for evil. It ia well known that in high places the antiquated prejudices and doctrines which in George the Third’s time plunged Great Britain into pro- tracted and sanguinary contests, and loaded her down with debt, atill find a warm advocacy. These tendencies do not display themselves in the same" moods of rashness and obstinacy which marked the conduct of that monarch, but they have not the lessexercised a marked in- Hence. The Queen is, of course, extremely guarded in her conduct, for she is virtually the servant ofthe House of Commons,and must be content to accept her ministers and her opinions at its hands. Prince Albert bas not thought it necessary to maintain the same self control, and his interference is to be traced in many of the manwuvres by wich the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston sas from time to time been checked and defeated. The Court hates Deimentan for his broad, statesmanlike method of dealing with foreign questions. The principle that a successful revolution establishes the right ofa people to fix upon their own form of government naturally revolts and alarms it. Its application may some day or other affect its own family interests, and it is not therefore to be expected that it can look with favor on the disposition manifested by the present Premier to draw clocer the alliance with Louis Napo- leon, himself the creature and mainspring of this very principle. To Court influences, there- fore, may be ascribed, in great part, the forlorn attack headed by Disraeli against the new commercial arrangements with France. He is by far the ablest man in the opposition, and would have no objection to play the part of the second Pitt, if the opportunity offered. His recent disgraceful defeat by Mr. Gladstone has; however, not only demolished any hopes of this sort, but it has crushed completely the Court party. The predominance of progressive principles and of a generous foreign policy is henceforth secured in the administra- tion of English affairs, and no back stairs influences will again have an opportunity of opposing obstacles to the cultivation of friend- ly relations with those countries whose institu- tions and commercial interests have a nataral affinity with those of great Britain. To the Emperor of the French the results of these first two divisions on the budget must be a source of great relief. In face of the com- plications with which Hé is threatened by the reported alliance between Austria and Russia, the ratification of the commercial treaty with England is of the last importance. Where her material interests tend, the political inclinations of the latter Power are sure to follow. Lonis Napoleon has not run the risk of disturbing the present flourishing etate of things, and of creating discontent amongst the industrial in- terests in France, without counting all the ad- vantages that are to be gained from the perma- nent consolidation of the English alliance. Practican Luivsrratton or TH Inrepressi- nme Conriict—A Mirra Courany Dispanpep ror Fiperiry To THe Ustox.—An extraordinary affair has just occurred in Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin, particulars of which we publish in another column, which shows the progress of the irre- pressible conflict in that region of the North- west. It appears that a Captain Barry, of the Union Guard, which is represented as one of the finest companies in the Wisconsin State mi- litia, expressed an opinion in private conversa- tion, that in case of a conflict between the United States authorities and those of the State he would order out his company in obedience to the former, considering, as he did, the claims of country paramount to those of State. Upon being catechized by the Adjutant General, Captain Barry admitted that he conceived sach orders coming from the Governor would be il- legal, and should not be obeyed, inasmuch a3 it would mean simply a command to commit the crime of treason, to which he and his men would be subject to, and would deserve the penalty of death. Upon this admission of fidelity to the United States authorities, the black republican Governor of Wisconsin ‘at onee disbanded and disarmed the Union Guard, & portion of the regular militia of the “State. Here is practical lustration of the con- flict going on against the Union and the federal government in the Northwestern States, the existence of which is attempted to be denied by ef Moetals—Eloments of Oar n'a ‘The Age et ¥ ttenal Power for Harmony or Strife, With strides of anexampled rapidity th) This olty has boen plundered by country United States are advancing to the first posl- tion In the production and supply of metals— @ position which will make them masters of the industrial and commercial world. In the production of gold we already otamd first among the nations, and Europe turns her wistful eyes westward across the Atlantic whenever the increasing demand for silver in the East disturbs the equilibrigm of her money centres, In that of iron we are in- creasing with great rapidity, the beds of that ore lying scattered in every State, and with it wo possess nineteen-twentioths of the coal fields known in Europe and Americ, As coal is the real parent of both irom and working | power, the following table of the mumber of square miles of coul fields possessed by the several countries may be takes as the numeri- oul fepresentation of national power at no very distant erai—= =~ Ih addition to these immense elements of metalliferous wealth, the recent discoveries of eilver In Californis, Arizona and Northern Mexico promise soon to restore the eqnilibri- um in the supply of the precious metals, and to enable us to pour into the channels of com- mercea tide of silver equal to, and perhaps far greater than, that of gold, which, spreading from our shores, is rapidly stimulating the in- dustry and the trade of every.nation. Itis not alone from the newly discovered silver mines of California that we confidently anticipate these results. The developements of cin- nabar, and even of quicksilver in a pure state, which have recently occurred there, contribute largely to this end; for while they will stimn- late production in every silver producing country, they make all of these tributary to us. Quicksilver is the necessary amalgam to sepa- rate silver from the ore, and for a long period the monopoly of its supply was held by the Al- maden mines of Spain. The discovery of the New Almaden mines in California, some years since, reduced the price of that article from $130 to $45 wquintal. This soon began to produce its natural effect upon the produc- tion of silver in Mexico and South America, when an unwise claim, set up on the part of our government to the New Almaden mines, stopped their working, and sent the price of quicksilver up to twice the value to which it had fallen. This suit is still pending, and the mines are still stopped; but it isto be hoped that the new discoveries of quicksilver may re- lieve the silver miners from the evil bronght on them by the closing of the New Almaden mines. Thus, we are first in gold, firet in silver, firstin iron, first in coal, among the nations of theearth. ‘To these we may add first in cotton, first in lead, and, as the Lake Superior region opens, we shall be first in the production of copper. Theseele- ments will make us first in industry, first in commerce, and first in all the arts of peace and war, if an insane fanaticism snd, p wicked demagoguinm -< aviested m pre- sent “attempts to fasten upon the powers of the government, and, by destroying the guarantees of the constitution, break up the Union under which we now live and prosper. Under its beneficent provisions man is ‘ree to develope his enterprise, his capital, his genius and his labor, with such social organizations as may be best suited to the community in which he resides, the climate under which he lives, and the soi! he makes fertile by the sweat of his brow. These guarantees cannot exist in the crowded and clase-ridden commu- nities of Europe; and as long as we maintain them, America will be the ark of refage for the struggling talent, willing industry and the as- piring energies of youth from every quarter. But should we unfortunately endeavor to make our widely scattered communities and our di- verse races subject to abstract and impractica- ble theories of social organization and govern- ment, from that moment our unity have fied, and the very elements now making us first among the nations,will constitute so many objects of contention and strife,and make us only first in all the horrors of civil war and fraternal bloodshed. 7 MoveMENTS OF THE ALBANY FREEBOOTERS.— The extraordinary coup d'état made by the George Law gang of political pirates at Albany seems to have momentarily paralyzed the other faction; but the leaders thereof are as as the insect that pretends to be dead when it is only stunned. It is said now that things have got into such a condition that none of the city railway bills can pass. The Weed crew has the Assembly stowed comfortably away under hatches, like so many Congo negroes in & republican slave ship, while George Law holds the Senate with as good a title as he ever poeseceed in those celebrated muskets. When we consider the position of things at Albany, the prospect is not ravishingly beauti- ful. One branch of the Legislature has been bought up to plunder the taxpayers of the me- tropolis of some of their most valnable fran- chises; and, so far as that body is concerned, the foul bargain has been consummated. In the other House the drilled cohorts are only awaiting thesignal of their masters to vote away the same franchises to half a dozen railway speculators and lame ducks in Wall street. It is all of a piece with the corrupt legislation which would impede the progress of work upon the Central Park, and create a gigantic job by cutting streets through Washington Heights. Weed and Jageb Sharp’s Broadway Railroad, and George Law's Gridiron act extending over forty-eight streets, may be killed, and the taxpayers’ property saved for this year; but we are not so sure of that, Inany event, the fact remains the same. The Legislature of the State has been sold out and out to a gang of unscrupulous speculators, who contemplated a raid upon the city property which would bring from five to ten millions of dot\ars out of the taxpayers’ pockets. Whe franchises which the Legislature proposes to give away are the pro- perty of the city, and should be sold to liqui- date the interest upon the city debt, and re- duce the taxes, already swelled to an cnor- mous amount, and still going up. We trust that some of the heavy pro- perty holders, merchauts, bankers and me- chanics of the city, will move in this matter, and convene an indignation meeting to express the popular feeling which prevails in the com- munity. It is one of unanimous disgust and indignation ag to the infamous conduct of some of our rulers. Let (bem understand that there le point beyond which they cannes ge, | lot the red of correction be laid on tiofans and Wall street foanoiers quite enough. Let them turn to now, and cat other upy en Tas CanDiares For Tae Presmency- cuLaTIon os THE Wirvo.—We publish « reasoned letter from W: by Guthrie; nor, if nominated, would of election be 60 go0d, elther North or es come other men, The best man for the mination, and the best to ran,'ls General who, having beer born iz the South, would soceptable to its people, and having settied Indiana, and finally made Oregon bis the other Middle States, where the battle must be fought, The South, as we said, would go for him heartily because he born within ite limits, and there is against him, All, North and South, would dorse 9 popular man like him, who brought the party into trouble, as Deaglas done for the last two or three years, is not a very brilliant man, but that is not kind of man thatis needed by the country. is a man of sound principles end good firm and reliable. It was chiefly by his bra and coolness that the battle of Buena Vista won, and if hé receives the nomination Charleston he will probably win a greater baé-| tle, and one decisive of more important inte- rests‘than that which broke the power and the chivalry of Mexico, and made its conquest easy to the United States. Then, it was a ques- tion whether certain territory would be added to enlarge thé borders of the republic. Now, the existence of the republic itself is at stake, and the safety of the whole Union is the great prize which is to be contended for in the easu- ing November electiom The man who wins it ought to ‘feel prouder than to he the victor chief of Austerlitz or Waterloo. Next in order of time come the Union oppe- sition candidates, whose platform is substan- tially the same as that of the democracy. The- principal candidates are Bates, Bell aud Hous- ton, of whom the last appears to be the Most popular. As which of thm will obtain the nomination st Baltimore | it is hard to say, for the Union party is act yet formed. There is only 9 nucleus, aad thae’ no time to gather a party around it, nor ay principle of attraction or cohesion sufficiee'g strong to rally a new , van if the~- Oy one if on qamneeer Oe great issue Whig, absorbs the public interest and centres [je the two great parties—the democrats and publicans. Instead of losing their labor forming a new r-~y at the cieventh against the common enemy the party whese Principles and objects are identical with their own. They cannot win, and every vote they poll is one taken away from the chanoes of the democrats, who are equally conservative with themselves. Last of all comes the Chicago Conventios, where, judging by the light of the most recent intelligence from all quarters, and the various signs of the times, William H. Seward will obtain the nomination. Bates has no chance of it. His little sham republican Convention, got up for him by Blair, was really confined te one county, and the bogus members were } picked up at village barrooms, and wherever else they could be found at, from sixpence to~/ six ehillings ahead. Seward, therefore, will probably be the champion of the republicam party, with the higher law for itsplatform, and with this issue: that the free labor of the North is incompatible in the same Union with the slave labor of the South; and that an inter- minable war has commenced between the twe eystems and the two parties, which must be waged till one or other is put down, and all is slave labor or all is free. This issue the democracy have accepted, and with such a mam as Lane to lead them the chances of victory are in their favor. Tur News rrom Mexico.—It will be seen by the news from Vera Cruz, which we publish ia another column, that while Congress, with its party feuds and personal’ jealousies, is refusing to co-operate with Mr. Buchanan in endeavor- ing to establish our influence in Mexioo for the benefit of our commerce and industry, England is stepping into the field, and bids fair to make her coulisels paramount in the affairs of the ’ neighboring republic. Miramon had arrived with his forces in the plains around Vera Cruz on the Ist instant, when, coincident with this crisis, came the British mafl steamer, instructions from Lord John Russell to the English Minister at the city of Mexico, and also to Captain Aldham, of H. B. M.’s steamer Valorous, to pre- pose to the contending parties a truce of seve- as Juarez and Miramon were near the scene, Captain Aldbam acted on the instructions re- ceived’by him, and after conferring with the tween Juarez and Miramon, which may lead to some arrangement between them. Even should they produce no other resuit than a delay in the attack om Vera Cruz, this would be of great advantage te the defenders of that city, for the last of March ig the tatest period at which the unacclimated people of the high table lands in the interior dare remain on the sea coast. After that they are in immsinent danger of yellow fever. But the propositions of Lord John Russell will probably be moro successful than the mere production of delay. They bear an aspect whioh each party may embrace, for the purpose of allow- fog the country a fow months’ repese, sad in case they do not attaia theie Propoved result of » Coagross, they may load,