The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. OORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS, cash in advance, Money sent by mail will be at the rive uacmers Poaage amps not ped ‘as subscription tik a ee fico conta 5 ate ne anna. mapa tae HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per Woturtaer con CORRESPONDENG®, containing «m) nt gemattdh hen oy ana a Oe lene Woeratiy m Forsian Sonsistorveves arn Faseon sur Kauvesras 0 ALL amp Pak: VAMMOS TEV... eee eseeeeeeeere es NOs TH _——————————————— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Usoce Pat's Casin— ‘Tn amp Ovr or Pisce—Banser, tax Baros. BOWRBY rasaran, Bowery.—Pizann0—Cmarcoat Boxnsa—swus Vor WINTER GARDE®, Brosdway, epposiio Bond streot.— Quscx Dooron—Ivannon. yo THEATRE, Brosdw Broadway.—Romancs or 4 Poo founa Max. LAUBA re nee Broad —Vamiry okt! mg BE, 624 \way.—Va' NEW BOWSRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Bavrurcon— Horszsson Kosinson. BROADWAY BOUDOIR. 444 Pemewer- Bom anos oF & Vaar Pour Youno Max- Wao Wi Wuo’s THEATRE FRANCAIS, 605 Broad (085 Broadway.—Lz Fics Nature. BARNUM’S AMERIVAN MUSEUM. Brosdway.—Afer- noon—Onraax ov Gamay. Evening—Ocronoon. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broadway — ‘Busczsquas, 8oncs, Dances, &c.—We Come ruom ens Hits, NIBLO'B BALGON, Brndway.—Gxo. Carusrr’s Mix. eraxis ix Songs, Dancks, ke.—Tus Mummy. NATIONAL CONCERT Mt” sf National Theatre.— Boncs, Dances, Buriesauus, dc. “TRIPLE SHEET. pom: York, Thursda, March 15, 1800. The News. By the arrival of the City of Baltimore at this port yesterday, from Liverpool, we have re- eeived our despatches and European files to the let inst. The letters of oar correspondents at Lon- don, Paris and St. Petersburg, and the extracts from our files, which are published this morning, contain complete details of the news to the latest moment. In the news by the steamer North American it was said that “the departure of the steamship Fal- ton had been postponed until the 7th of March.” ‘That being her regular advertised day, the Falton’s | departure had not been postponed. In Congress yesterday the Senate took up the Military Academy Appropriation bill. The amend- ment providiog for a regiment of mounted volun- teers for the defence of the Texan frontier was adopted by a vote of thirty-seven to nineteen, and the bill was then passed. The bill for the protec- tion of female passengers on shipboard was also passed. We have heretofore given an abstract of the provisions of this bill. A bill making Tampa Bay a port of delivery was reported. A petition numerously signed by Connecticut manafacturers, praying for an alteration of the tariff so as to af- ford them more protection, was presented and ad- vocated by Mr. Foster. Petitions in favor of the Homestead bill were also presented. The bill to increase and regulate the pay ‘ef officers of the navy was recommitted to the Committee on Naval Affiirs, with instructions to ‘inquire into the expediency of reporting « bill establishing the pay of each grade of officers per annum in dollars and cents, with an increase at stated periods up to twenty years of service. The House was engaged in discussing the slavery ques- tion. Mr. Curry, of Alabama, delivered a long speech on the protection of slave property in the ‘Territories. The most important point in the proceedings of the Legislature yesterday was the defeat of the gi gantic New York City Seventh Avenue Railroad bill in the Assembly, The Committee on Cities and Villages reported adversely to the bill, and the re port was accepted by a vote of 73 tol9. Inthe Senate the bill tolling railroads was made the spe- cial order for to-day. The City Tax bill was passed: We publish in another column a memorial of citizens of New York adverse to the Central Park Commissioners’ application fer authority to raise money to carry on the Park improvements. It will be presented to the Legislature to-day. Among some interesting articles on the progress of the labor movement now going on throughout the countey, we give a report of the proceedings of the bricklayers’ meeting held in this city last even. ing. The brickiayers now receive $175 per day wages, and they intend shortly to demand $2 per day. A general convention of shoe leather dealers of the States of New York and Pennsylvania was held Yesterday at the Astor House, for the purpose of forming an association for the protection of their interests. About forty tanneries were represented, The cause of this movement isthe depressed con- dition of the sole leather manufactaring business, The meeting was strictly private. The general Opinion was that the only remedy for the present state of things was to curtail their business for several months until the surplus of stock now on hand should be exhausted,and it was proposed to pass resolutions to that effect, and to get the ‘agreement of every member of the association to follow that course of action. The ship Wabamo, Captain Doty, bound from New York for Antwerp, canght fire about noon yesterday, while going down the bay, and burned to the water's edge. The flames spread with such rapidity as to defy every effort to subdue them. ‘The officers and crew were taken off by the pilot boat Elwood Walter, saving but little more than the clothing on their backs. The ship was owned by Mesers. Hurlbut, Latin & Co., and was valued at $32,000. Her loss is covered by insurance. She had an assorted cargo of merchandise valued at $70,000, which was insured for $54,467. In the Superior Court yesterday Judge Moncriey rendered a decision confirming the report of the referee in the Forrest divorce case as to the amount of the allowance of alimony, (deducting the sum paid by the defendant as temporary alimo- By,) and final jadgment was ordered in conformity therewith. A trial of one of the seven or eight hundred suits involving the pay of the old police force ‘was commenced in the Supreme Court yesterday. When the tenth juror was qualified the panel was exhausted, and the case was then adjourned till Monday. ‘The trial of what is known as the Norwalk Bank cage, in which James 8. Williams is charged with obtaining @ letter from the New York Post Office, addressed to F. A. Williams, containing a promis- Bory note for $3,000, was commenced yesterday in the United States Circuit Court. A report of the testimony is given in another column. ‘The weekly statement presented at the meeting of “the Commissioners of Emigration ‘yesterday showed the number of emigrants landed here dur- fing the past week to be 202, making the namber sisice January 1, 4,820. The apparent balance of the Commutation Fund is now $11,104 84. No besiness came up for disposal at the meeting, ‘The national association of base ball players held their annual meeting last night in the Cooper Institute. It was decided by a majority of 55 agai ist 27 that the “fly game” should act be playeg | this season, Delegates from base ball olubs in Washington, Baltlmore, Boston and Detroit were Present, Beef cattle were in plentiful supply at the cattle yards yesterday, and in fair request at prices rang ing from 7c. to 10¢. per pound, with occasional sales at over 10c. and under 70.’ Milch cows were very dull, and $5 per head lower. Veal calves were steady at 4c.to 7c, Sheep and lambs were buoyant at full prices, Swine were active and jc. higher, with sales all the way from 5jc. to6jc. There were on sale 3,182 beef cattle, 147 cows, 646 veals, 5,298 sheep and lambs, and 3,797 swine. ‘The cotton market was somewhat affected by the com- Plexion of the foreign, and by the telegraph reports from the South, to the effect that while the receipts wore leas ag tho ports generally, they bad materially increased in New Orleans during the week ending the 10th inst., which were 57,000 against 34,000 bales for the same week lat year, Thesales yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales, ciceipg on tho basis of about 113c. per Ib. for middling uplands. The roceipts at the ports aince the Ist of Sep- tember last bave reached 3,709,000 bales, against 3,038,000 in 1859, 2,122,000 in 1858, and 2,462,000 in 1857. The exports have reached 2,346,000 bales, against 1,091,000 In 1859, 1,237,000 in 1858, and 1,878,000 in 1857, The stock on hand amounts to 1,006,000 bales, azairat 927,000 in 1869, 777,000 im 1858, and 661,000 in 1°67. The flour market was lessactive, while the medium und higher grades were firm, and the lower quality brands more heavy. Wheat was in fair milling demand, with sales of good to prime lots white and red at full prices. Corn was steadier, while ‘sales were moderate, including Southern white at 760., Delaware do. at 750. and yellow at ‘8c. a 79c. Pork was without change of moment, with sales of new meee at $18 12 a $18 25, and now prime at $1450 a $1456. Sugars wore steady, with sales of 800 8 900 bhds. and 200 boxes at prices given in another column. Coffee continued firm, and 1,000 bags fair Rio ogld at 13%4c.; 400 do. at 18140. a 13X0., and 160 mats Java at 1530. Freights were firm, while rates wore un- changed and engagements were moderate. The New Complications in Europe—The New Commercial Policy of France and England. The contradictory nature of the accounts from Europe, in regard to the respective posi- tions of the several Powers on the great ques- tions tat agitate the current of politics, shows that at the present time there is little unity of action, if indeed any, among the Cabinets. The only two countries that seem to be pur- suing acommon policy are France and Eng- land, who have recently united for the purpose of giving an impuke to the commercial ele. ments of the world. In making the new treaty with England, France has thrown overboard the old fiscal system of the Continental Powers, andDrought into existence between two coun- tries bonds of peace and friendship, which must grow stronger and stronger with every year that passes away. They form the basis of a future unity of policy and purpose such as the first Napoleon long tried to establish with England, and which must materially influence their future course towards the nume- rous questions which are continually coming up in the European family of nations. Freedom of trade carries inevitably with it freedom in many other things, which gradually wins %s way among men until the general interests of the people come to override those of dynasties and poli- tical cliques. Louis Napoleon knew full well the blow he was striking at the political system of Continental Europe when he determined to plant in France the English policy of develop- ing trade. This will be best seen bya short view of the aims of each of the Continental Powers. ‘ In England the old tory policy, which makes common cause with the aspirations of the European dynasties, has been superseded by the commercial idea. The English people, instead of sympathizing with the protective system, which centres national prosperity and greatness in the advantage of a numerically limited class, hold to the theory that true wis- dom permits the consumer to buy in the cheap- est, and the producer to sell in the dearest market he can find. They therefore aim to create new markets for their products, and to open new sources of supply for their wants. Guided by this policy, the government has vainly endeavored to obtain an entrance for her merchants into the markets of the Continent, and failing there, it has sought to build up as allies to the new principles colo- nies in the East and commercial relations with the West. In both success has attended her efforts; and, as if to demonstrate the superiori- ty of commercial relations over those of poli- tics, the growth of her commerce, and with it friendship, with the United States, surpasses anything witnessed in any other portion of the globe. Bat antagonistic to ber commercial and po- litical connection with the populous regions of Asia, stands the gigantic power of Russia. From its earliest days Russia has felt the neces- sity of communication with the ocean. Con- quering and assimilating the numerous hordes that once wandered over her inland territories, she has grown like’ an elephant barred ina cage. Her first essay was to seize Finland from Sweden, and thus gain access to the Baltic. Then she conquered the southern provinces and the Crimea; but this only opened to her the de- sire to poseess the Caucasus, the Danubian Principalities, and Constantinople, 80 that she might command the Black Sea. The reduction of the shores of the Caspian carried her towards Persia, where her policy be- gins to encounter the interests of the British empire in India. And now she has stretched a long arm to the Amoor, and seeks to build up there for herself a power that shall control the Western shore of the Pacific, where France and England are both seeking a commercial entrance into China. Thus the policy of Russia and that of England are coming into conflict in many places. France, under the Napoleonic dynasty, seeks to carry out the ideas of the Tirst Napoleon. The Rhine and the Alps for boundaries, the Mediterranean a French lake, Italy allied with the French idea, and the French people to be- come the most active and predominating of the Latin nations, if not of the whole of Ea- rope. Thete aspirations bring her into con flict with several of the Continental Powers. Prussia, who acquired the provinces on the Rhine in the Vienna partition of Europe, is not only ready for war to defend her possession of them, but seeks the control of the German Confederation, from which she wishes to oust Anetria. Thus Prussia has neither % strong sympathy with France nor Austria, and in the past has leaned more upon an alliance with the tory sympathy of England. Austria, bankrupt and worn out as she is, still aims to hold together, and to in- crease her motley and incongroous empire. She resists the advance of Prussia in Ger- many, and that of France in Italy. She has contributed largely to thwart Russia in her echemes on the Danube, and endeavored to ob- tain those Principalities for herself. Thus she friend and foe with each of her neighbors. Italy throbs with @ universal aspiration to become a consolidated people and to ta'e place as one of the great Powers of Europe. In this she meets the opposition of many, and the hearty support of none of the other Powers. France is willing to aggrandize Pied- mont at the expense of Austria and the Po.e, in return for her own acquisition of Savoy and her old Alpine boundary; but Austria and the Papacy resist this, and enlist in their cause ‘the fears of Prussia for her Rhenish provinces, and the gengral distaste te sanction such prin- ciples of territorial change. Rome sees in this creation of an Italian Power the stripping of herself of those temporsalities obtained with 60 much guile and intrigue, and so she clings to Austria and the Austrian aims. This latter Power, to save her possessions in Italy, enlists Rusela in her behalf by sacri- ficing her pretensions to the Danubian Princi- palities, and Russia accedes to her present policy, perhaps to create a set-off with France and England for their opposition to her de- signs on the effects of the original “sick man” of parce. Thus it will be seen that in the present com- plications in Europe, the only policy that seems to rest upon a permanent and increasing basis 6 the new commercial alliance between France and Engiand. As the commercial interests which this must give rise to shall grow and ex- tend, the difficulty of war between them will continually increase, and bring about at the same time a more stable unity of purpose in regard to the joint policy to be pursued by them towards the resf of Europe. Louis Na- poleon’s aim will now be to palliate and delay future conflicts, until time shall have cemented his new alliance with England. He may at the same time foment old issues between the other Powers, helping Prussia a little now towards supremacy in Germany, then calming Austria by temporary concession to her de mands in Italy, and again stimulating the hopes of Russia for the prize of Constantinople. But these old fires, though from time to time they may throw out smoke, and seem to threaten an eruption, are suppressed volcanoes before the commercial alliance of France and England, never again to send their floods of lava over the face of Europe in a general war. The Japanese Mission—A New Sensation in Prospect. On the 22d of February last, the members af the Japanese E mbassy, seventy-one in number, left Simoda in the United States steam frigate Powhatan for San Francisco and Panama, from whence they will be conveyed here on one of our other ships of war. This is the first legation which has ever been sent to any foreign government outside of Asia by this exclusive people. Neither the Dutch, the English nor the Russians have suc- ceeded in obtaining from them a similar act of diplomatic recognition, and the readiness which they have shown in plaving their relations with us on this footing may be taken as an evidence of the superior esteem in which they hold our le. Pet is remarkable that both in Japan and China our representatives should not only have succeeded in obtaining concessions which hai always been denied to European envoys, but that the latter should have been indebted to their intervention in most of their recent negotiations. Until Commo- dore Perry’s arrival in Japan, no nation but the Dutch had been allowed to trade there; but this privilege was surrounded with so many restrictions, and was enjoyed at the expense of so many indignities, that no people of spirit would have cared to accept it on such terms. The concessions extended by our squadron would have been comparatively worthless but for the favorable manner in which Minister Harris improved the opportunities that they opened to him. By his judgment, his firmness, his equanimity and his conciliatory manner, he not only succeeded in keeping the American traders within bounds, but in giving to‘the Japanese an impression highly favorable to the American character itself. It is to this, un- doubtedly, that we owe the successful result of Mr. Harris’ diplomatic efforts. The Japanese made the last treaty with us not because they were forced into it, but because they had learned to like and esteem us as a people. Nothing proves more the extent of this feeling than the fact that to Mr. Harris’ good offices the English, the Russians and the French are ina great measure indebted for the benefits conced- ed in their respective treaties. The handsome testimonial sent to our representative by Queen Victoria shows the appreciation in which she holds the services rendered by that gentleman to her own envoy. To his intervention Prussia, which is now negotiating fora treaty, will probably also have to ac knowledge the same obligations, The arrival of the Japanese legaticn amongst us will be an event of singular interest. Be- sides its importance in a commercial and politi- cal point of view, it will offer to the mind of our public new subjects for speculation and re- flection. We shall have transported amongst us living types of a civilization which, though strange tous, and differing from ours, is in many respects not less advanced and admirable in its way. In some things we have even a great deal to learn from this extraordinary peo- ple, who themselves owe but little to foreign teaching. We wonder, for example, what will be the impression made on these Japanese strangers by the filthy condition of our streets and highways. In this respect there are no people in the world so scrupulous and particu- lar as the Japanese. They have no corporate plunderers to divert into their own pock- ets the taxation appropriated for the cleansing of the public thoroughfares. The prompt justice of the governmentsword bearer would soon punish any rascality of this kind. Our Japanese visiters will no doubt learn mapy things from us which will prove useful in their own country. They will find, for in- stance, that married women can be kept within the conjugal bonds without being compelled to pull out their eyebrows and blacken their teeth. It may be that they will be fascinated by the graces of our country women, and be tempted to take back with them American wives, Should they feel so inclined, we pro; mise them that they will find no very serious obstacles in their way. Our American girls are the most adventurous in the world, and dearly love titles. Many of them will proba- bly think the position of a princess, with nine town housesin Jedco and half a dozen lead mines to support them, better than that of a conntess in a Parisian entre-sol, or of a duchess in a Roman garret. Impertamee of the Nomination for the Vice Presidency. In their anxiety to make a President, the polf. ticlans seem to overlook the importance of nominating the right kind of man for Vice Pre- of obtaining the nomination for the Presi- dency, or about the chances of his election in the event of his being the chosen candidate of his party. There are competitors in abun- ce for the nomination to the Presidency oy party, the republican ww Union Opposition party. no one pect to care for the honor pik sn remus emoo aeretiren and the organs of the various par- ties, give themselves no trouble about the matter. Yet the office of Vice President is in every election very important, because the President may die, as did Harrison and Taylor, and the Vice President become tho gs of becoming the chief magistrate from the start- We will explain. With only two Presidential candidates in the field—a democrat and a republican— there must almost necessarily be an elec- tion by the people—that is, by the elec- tors; for the chances are very remote that.the number of votes would be exactly equal for both, and as one would therefore have a majority, he would be elected. But with three or more candidates contending for the prize, none of them may have a majority of all the electoral votes, and none, therefore, may be elected. In the present instance the appear- ance of a third candidate, the man of the Union Opposition, may produce that result. The re- publicans may not have as many votes as are necessary to a choice, and the Union party may so weaken the conservative strength of the democracy as to reduce its votes below the desired number, and the consequence would be ‘that the election must go into the House of Representatives, according to the provision in the constitution which requires the popular branch of Congress to elect a Pre- sident from the three highest candidates, the election to be by States—that is, that all the repreeentatives from any State count but as one vote, the majority of each delegation to determine on what side it is to be cast. In order to a choice s quorum of two-thirds must be present, and it is necessary that one candidate should havea majority of all the States. Now, it so happens that no party has a ma- jority in the House, and if each of the parties hold out from the second Wednesday in Febru- ary, the day on which the electoral votes of each State must be opened and counted in Congress, till the 4th of March, the day on which the inauguration must take place, there would be no election, and the Vice President would then become President. What was done once may be done again. It is as easy to hold out in the case of a President as in the case of 8 Speaker, with this difference, that the demo- crats would be better rewarded for preventing an election than they were in the case of Sher- man in this Congress; for if they can enly suc- ceed in preventing a choice in the House, they would be sure of having a democratic Presi- dent, seeing that the majority of the Senate is democratic, and that a majority of.the Senate elect a Vice President when there is no elec- tion by the people. Before the Senate there can be only two candidates for Vice President— the two highest on the list; s0 that one of them must be elected on the first ballot. In 1801 there were five candidates for Presi- dent, all of whom carried States. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were the two highest on the list, but bothequal. Jefferson was elect- ed by the House of Representatives. In 1825 there were four candidates, and no choice by the people, when John Quincy Adams was elected by the House. In 1837 Richard M. Johngon was elected Vice President by the Senate, none of the candidates having a majority of electoral votes. Whathas occurred two or three times in the history of the Union may happen now again in 1860. If the election of President goes into the House of Representatives, the democrats will have the game almost completely in their own hands. The South American Opposi- tion or Union party may not assist the demo- crats to elect their man, but they can neither elect their own candidate nor vote for the re- publican candidate. There is only one way in which the democracy could be defeated. The republicans of the House might possibly con- centrate on the candidate of the Union Opposi- tion party, and thus elect him in preference to allowing the democratic Vice President to be- come President in default of an election. In any case a conservative will rule in the White House, and a republican cannot be President of the United States, if the election goes into the House of Representatives. If the democrats were sure that the 'repub- licans cannot have a majority of the electoral vote,and that the election must go into the House of Representatives, there is one way in which they could cut off every chance of the Union opposition candidate being President, and that is by starting two democratic candi- dates, not in opposition to each other, but by @ friendly co-operation, running one in one State and the other in another. In this way each would have more votes than the Union can- didate, and consequently he could not go into the House of Representatives, for the number of candidates there must not exceed three, and of course the republican must be one, as the three having the highest number of votes must be selected. If, however, the democrats can calculate with any degree of certainty upon an election by the people, they will not hazard that experiment. There is another way in which the democrats may defeat their opponents if the election goes into the House, and that is by absenting themselves, so as not to permit a quorum, which requires two-thirds. The moral to be derived from the state of parties in and ont of Congress, and the chances of the election going into the House of Repre- sentatives, is that particular care ought to be taken at the Charleston Convention to select a good man for Vice President, and the Union Opposition party ought to be equally careful in selecting as their candidate for President a man of the right stamp; fer if they can only carry ore State they may, with the alliance of the republicans, obtain a majority for him in the [louse of Representatives, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 186@e4‘RIPLE SHERT. has beom forced to play the alternate parts of George Law Floored at Alvany—The Gridiron BM) smashed im the Assembly. Yesterday saw lively times at Albany: Thurlow Weed walked into the Assembly: and the Law Gridiron Railway bill, gotten up in the most philanthropic spirit, and with a view to develope the resources and. plunder the taxpayers of the metro- polis, was killed without the amallest cere- mony. If Law had his Austerlitz, Weed has his Waterloo. Law will do well to hunt up the Grapeshot, and start for St. Helena at once, Weed’s movements were Napoleonic. The Com- mittee on Cities and Villages report adverse to the bill, chiefly on the ground that it creates an enormous monopoly, and gives too much to one company. They believe in fair play, even among thigves. After a very little skirmishing the House agrees with the Committee by an overwhelming majority. The vote fs olinched in the thorough parliamen- tary gag way, by a motion to reconsi- der, and another to lay that motion on the table, which latter prevails—and Law and his suit ot corporators occupy the un- pleasant position of a number of big dogs with their tails between their legs. That is the end of the Gridiron, and probably of all the other city rallway projects, for this session, at any rate, although it is worth while to no- tice that nothing is said about the outrageous attempt at plunder upon the property of the city taxpayers. It is only a case of diamond cut diamond between Law and Weed, ,, Who can > with the poet— Caesar, with a Senate at his heels / ex the grand result, however, will be hailed with satisfaction in the metropolis, and while we heartily rejoice at the smashing of these city railway pirates with their own machines, it must be remembered that we are not yet out of the woods, so far as the opera- tions of the city brigands upon the city property are concerned. In addition to the city railway bills of Weed and Law we have a renewal of the attempt to make a tremendous job by cutting streets through Washington Heights; a bill to provide for the erection of a new City Hall to cost three millions, commissioners to be paid ten dollars per day; another bill to create a stock company to remove obstruc- tions from the East river at Hellgate, and empowering them to take toll from all vessels passing through the river; a bill to increase the fees of the Harbor Masters, at the expenee of small shipping owners, Sound steam- boats, Yankee schooners, etc., etc., and several other schemes of less importance, but all re- ported with the sole object of despoiling the metropolis, in “order to create patronage for hungry rural politicians and city strikers, bul- | 45, lies and broken down politicians. If all these bills should be carried through, the actual loss to the taxpayers would be not less than five millions of dollars, dnd it might be very near to double that amount. We aay an actual loss, because the Legisla- ture has no color of right to give away the city franchises any more than it has to vote the watch out of a man’spocket. Whatever public property, right of way, ferries, docks, slips, and all such matters, there may be in the city or ita waters, belongs to the Commonalty of the city, as represented by the Mayor and Common Council. It is pait of the security for the pay- ment of the city indebtedness, and its proceeds should be applied to the reduction of the rate of taxation. This is after the manner~ of a self-evident proposition and it would hardly need to be stated were it not for the astonishing apathy of our property holders, when they must see that the political pirates at Albany are plundering the people of New York as coolly as Fra Diavolo would take a traveller's purse. If our taxpay- ers stand such robbery on one side and extortion on the other, without protest, i deserve it all. There should be an indignation meeting of the taxpayers of the metropolis, great and small, to express formally the public detesta- tion of the vilest and most unblushing attempts at public plundering through the Senate that have ever been witnessed during the existence of constitutional government. The only legis- lation for the city that is desired is the pas sage of the Central Park Appropriation bill; but os there is no job in that—nothing for pumber one or number one’s friends— it lies on the Senate table. Happily for the long-suffering and much-abused peo- ple of the metropolis, the official existence of the Legislature is limited. The present Senate and Assembly have only a very few weeks to live. There will be during that time aseries of attempts at piracy upon the metro- polis, on a scale which is entirely uaprece- dented in the annals of official corruption. With Thurlow Weed, Jacob Sharp and other political freebooters in the Assembly, a piece of property they have bought like so much fancy stock, and George Law, with his crew, in the Senate, a majority of which has been made over to the railway speculators by express contract, there is no scheme so infamous that it might not pass, and with the same celerity thatthe Gridiron bill was rushed through the Senate and slaughtered in the House. Let us have the sense of the metropolis fully and for- mally expressed. The Tribune calls on tho republicans in the Legislature to resist all these schemes of plunder; but it is the blind leading the blind, and both shall fall into Thurlow Weed’s ditch. One party at Albany is as bad as the other. They ought.to have such @ rebuke from the people as could never be forgotten. And they will get it at the polls, if not sooner. Cvurrovs Movement oF THE Hipg aNp LEATHER Men.—We publish in another column a curi- ous circular, issued by some dozen hide and leather dealers in the “Swamp,” with a view to regulate the value of hides. These philoso- phers propose to the tanners to tan a smaller quantity of hides for the current year than be- fore, and thus increase the price of those al- ready in the market. They use a great many figures to show that a tanner can make as much money by turning out 7,500 hides in the year at a gain of 70 per cent, as by manufacturing 10,- 000 with 60 per cent gain, and they urge upon the tanners to restrict their operations for this year, because there is an overstock of leather in the market. Some of the plans adopted in these days to regulate trade are very extraor- dinary, and seem to be projected without any consideration for the effects of demand and supply, which regulate all trades. Some of the old Dutch merchants had s habit, when the market was overstocked with br Ayia, ne burning up or otherwise destroying © portion of it, for the purpose of enkasoing the value of the portlos, This is come- thing Uke the plan suggested by the philogo- phers of the “Swamp.” Tut Atlantic Tetxonara Eyrxerase—We learn by the recent news from Europe that the Atlantic Telegraph Company propose te raise the sum of twenty thousand pounds, with» view to take up the injured portions of the cable, which, it is said, lie within some two hundred miles of the Irish coast, and in close proximity to the shores of Newfound- land. The attempt will be commenced in May, at the Newfoundland side, the impression being that the fault lies within thnee or four miles of Trinity Bay. It is proposed to manufactarea new cable about 100 miles long to replacé the injured parts of the old one, previously asoer- taining that « perfect communication exists with the shore. ‘When the project for laying the cable was first suggested, many doubted the of connecting the two continents at all; and when the chain was actually laid at the botteme of the ocean there were still many who doubted that apy communication would ever pass along the wires, though the general opinion of the public was in favor of its entire success, It ag- pears, however, that the number who had abse- lute faith in the ultimate triumph of the enter- prise is only represented by the sum of seventy thousand pounds, that being the amount of ca- pital as yet received by the old out of six times that sum required {for the purpose of putting the cable in working order. Another company is now laying a cable to connect England with India, by way of Alexan- dria, the Red Sea, and Aden Kurrachee, to Ma- dras and Bombay. Twelve hundred miles of this line will be by submarine cable, and dur- ing the coming summer it will be tested suffi- ciently to ascertain whether the continuity cam be preserved throughout that distance under water. Ifthe test should prove successful the . Atlantic Telegraph Company will find no troa- ble in raising the amount necessary to carry out their enterprise. The whole line between Alexandria and India has been completed, as will be seen by the message received by the Red Sea Telegraph Company at London, which we give in another column, and it only now re- mains to be proved whether the communica- tion through the submarine portion of it cam be maintained, in which event there will be little reason to despair of the ultimate success of the Atlantic cabie. Ax EnGuisy Srortsman’s EXxrerreNce oF THE Prats axp THE Ivprans.—An English sports- man of some reputation, the Hon. Grantly Berkely, made a vieit to this country a short th the purpose of hunting buffaloes ae other wild animals of the quadruped and feather tribes upon the Western prairies of America. He brought with him a full keanel of dogs, highly educated in field sports; and with this canine train, a wagon load or so of guns, and a retinue of thirteen attendants, the Hon. Mr. Berkely started for the prairies, where, we believe, acting under the direction of some army officers on our frontier stations, he shot a few buffaloes and prairie chickens. He is now publishing a series of letters in the English papers, recording his experience of American eport, which contain some good, pleasant things, and a good deal of absurdity. He cets at nuaght the statements of Majors Scott and Marcy and others, as to the dangers to be experienced from the Indians on the frontiers, and declares that all fears upon that head are vain and futile. During a couple of weeks’ se- journ on the prairies, the Honorable Nimrod Berkely was never molested by the Indian tribes; no fierce Camanche disturbed his nightly bivouac with his wild warcry; no terrible Apache made mincemeat of his dogs; not s Nez Perces, Choctaw or Blackfoot crossed his path; and so, Mr. Berkely, having returned from a region where not a red man exists in his native condition, with his scalp on the top of his head—not a hair of it touached—demolishes the experience of Major Marcy, Col. Fremont, Kit Careon and all our other explorers with the assurance that no danger from hostile Indians is to be met on the Western frontiers. It Mr. Berkely wants to enlighten his fellow- countrymen upon frontier life, he must spemd about a year on the prairies bordering Texas end our far Southwestern territory. Afler that he may have something interesting to ‘tell about Indian hostilities—that is if he ever gets | back unscalped to tell his story. We publish to-day an account of a hunting expedition of anotber English nobleman, the Earl of Southesk, to the Rocky Mountains, where he has been sporting for seven months. This nobleman showed some pluck, and no doubt realized much enjoyment, as well as hardship and danger, from his trip; but Mr. Berkely seems to to have been an exception to the sportsmen of his class who preceded, him to this country. He reminds us somewhat of a young nobleman who came out here on a buffalo hunt several years ago, before our steam lines were running, who, upon beingninformed by the captain of the packet ship that they would probably reach New York next day, commenced to unpack his traps, and put all his sporting apparatus ia order for immediate use, supposing that he would only have to start.a few miles off from the Astor House to encounter herds of wild buffaloes. Mr. Berkely was evidently under s like impression with regard to our Indian tribes, and not meeting any impediment from hostile red men where the trail of an Indian is never seen, he jumped at the comclasion that all the statements about our hostile frontier tribes were untrue. Piccotomint Marrixp anp SeTtiep.—The last news from Europe will carry a thrill of sorrow through many a manly breast. To bresk the awfal intelligence as gently as possible, we quote the following from a London paper:— Piccolomini is married. on. at the Crystal Palace, and then lett for Dablia, where the knot was tied. The ‘of the singing bird is an Italian s by birth, & relative Soe of dove not, as in mi the som realized by the vorales, but e's mane some Italy. What will become of the grand army of vio- tims which the fair Slennese left sighing behind her when ehe sailed away from the land of the West, which she loved so much? What will Young New York do? What will become of the -which ambulate solemnly through the corridors of the Philadelphia Academy” Who 'eball assuage the grief of those juniors who assumed the guise of supernavme®- ties in order that they might be near it divinity? Fancy, if you can, the of that solitary pedestrian who one ty i ede horse power lorgnette the sb; ta Diva far from Oolunbin's J4 «1