The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1860, Page 6

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BaPvcn PoueiGe CouResroxDEts ake Pianeta’ ksaveoraa to Beal ass amp Pack: every day: advertisements in- a Hearse, Famiry ALD, and in the nd Burcpean TINTING executed with meatness, cheapness and de- aprttch. «NO. 76 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WIBLO’S GARDEN, Prosdway.—Afterncon—Am Hore Bevn.s—Uarry Max. presing—SuamDe Macuine: ry Gat~Larest From New Yore. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH now full, and no more of the old force could be taken on. The whole number on duty at this time is 1,400. The Board transacted some other busi- ness, for which see our report. The cotton market yesterday was tame, while the sales embraced abou’ 900 bales, closing on the basis of 11%c for middling uplands; ordinary and common grades were heavy and irregu'ar; the finer qualities were sus- tained. The flour market was heavy, and common and | medium grades were again lower, and closed at a decline | of about be. per bbl; the higher qualities were in moderate request at previous rater; sales of all kinds, however, were more or lees limited. Wheat was inactive and commos qualities neglected; prime to choice white ‘Weatern and Southern were sold at full prices, Corn was unchanged and esles were Nght. . Pork was lesa active; on the other side; for whatever nisy be his| brothels, policy shops, mock auctions and fau)te, it may with truth be said of the French Emperor that he has done more for the other metropolitan nuisances, and therefore the pastoral Solons were in the best hands, i the cause of European democracy during his brief | new police bill becomes a law, the republicans career than has been effected by all its pro- fessed apostles and leaders, Rejection of the Nicaragua Treaty—Op- Position to the Defemee of Commerce and the Transit Routes, The action of the republicans in the Senate will have a pretty electioneering fund. As for the police—well, it will remain in its pre. sent magnificently vigorous condition. It isa a great institution, the organized Metropolitan Police for the counties of New York, West- chester, Richmond and Kings. If the Commis- at Washington on the Nicaragua treaty proves! sioners are not proud of it, they are the most conclusively their factious Titi pinindins modest of modern philosophers, Give them to thwart the efforts of the administration for their money. It will all beneeded between this Dow meas sold at $18 a $16 123, and now prime at $1465 | the protection of our citizens and our national | time and November. 9914 75,0 dold d>. at $1260081256%. Sugars were qvitejsteady, with sales of 500 hhds. and 600 a 600 boxes, ‘at rates given In another place. Coflee was firmly held, white eales were modorate. Freights were firm, while engagements to English ports were fair. interests abroad. When the Nicaragua treaty was discussed in Executive session on Thursday, an amendment was offered by the republican side, repealing the article allowing force to be used in certain Departure of Distinguished Delegates to the Pugilistic Congress—Our Foreign Relations from a Fancy Point of View. We sincerely trust that the venerable states- man at the head of the Department of State The French Emperor's Speech=The Savoy | Contingencies for the protection of the lives | has kept his weather eye open as to the move- Question. % We have received by the Asia the text of Lonis Napoleon’s speech at the opening of the | animated debate, in which the jealousy and} who has lately croesed the Atlantic to take a um | French Legislature, a brief telegraphic sum- { hatred of the Nicaraguans for our government mary of which we published yesterday, from and property of our citizens in their transit across the isthmus, which was adopted after an and our citizens were sustained by documentary ments of the distinguished representative of the governing olasses of the United States leading part in a Congregs of Prime Ministers of the prize ring which is to meet in some quiet BOWERY THRATRR, Bowery—Gor Mannxnnc— | ‘© “i?cassian’s mails. The passage relating | evidence. Of course, after this, there wasno| and secluded English close, on or about the Ropmnr ¥uwer, WINTER GARDER, Brosdway, Qcace Doctoa—Ivaanoa ,WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rouance or 4 Poor Youno Max, ® LAURA KFRWR'S THEATRE, 64 Broadway.—Vacurr Faik—Onstinats Famy. NEW Gueat—Honsssnon ye YOUNG au to the annexation of Savoy, although moderate Powers, shows a fixed determination on the part of the Emperor to push this point of his life in the treaty, and it was laid upon the the injunction of secresy, for the purpose of permitting the facts to go before the coun- 16th proximo. opposite Bond street, | {2 ‘one and referring the question to the great | table. Senator Slidell then moved to take off} We need hardly to say that we refer to that pet of the sporting public, Mr. John C. Heenan, philosopher, philanthropist, pugilist and accre- Policy. Whether he be sincere or notin re- | try, which was carried; but pending | dited representative minister plenipotentiary garding this acquisition as necessary to the | motion to reconsider, the Senate adjourned. | from the -Five Points to the Seven Dials. We BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. —O'Neu, ax | Safety of the French frontiers, it is certain that | The question came up again yesterday, have sent a large number of American manu- = he means to make of it the pivot on which is | and the treaty was rejected. In this action} factures and Yankee notions abroad. They Ryenog-Fowsnoe OF a Vint You Yooxa Mas” Waos | 0 turn the whole scheme of his Continental | upon the Nivaragua treaty we have an| have bad the Collins steamers, and Hobb’s Wnot THEATRE FRANCAIS, 685 Broadway.—Rowan DUN Jeune Romun Favven. BARSUW'S AMERIOAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Afer- Qovn and Kveulng—Cororoon. BRY4 NTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broadway. — diplomacy. Although he no doubt considers it but just that France should receive some quid pro quo for the sacrifices she incurred in the Italian war, we believe that he would hardly press this matter, in antagonism to the epitome of the causes which defeated also the ratification of the recent treaty with Mexico. Both of these movements bring the country into the most embarrassing posi- tion in regard to our interests in Mexico and Buurescves, Sonas, axors, 4¢.—We Come reow tus Hits, | Strong feeling manifested in England, if he Nicaragua; and the utter abandonment of our NIBLO® BALGON, Brosdway—Geo, Onnurr's Mix- had not more important objecta to gain by it. | citizens abroad, which necessarily follows the Bras LX Soncs, Dancers, &c.—Tax Muauy. NAL CONCRRE SALOON, National Theatre.— NATI Sonos, DaNors, Bumcesques, 0 D. TRIPLE SHEET. _ New York, Saturday, March 17, 1880, “NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Will the numerous advertisers in the metropolis do us the favor to send in their business notices before nino o'clock in the evening? The pressure of all ons is now so great upon our columns that minutes are of more value after nine o'clock in the governments will prevent them from quietly | and not a local existence, evening than hours are before that time. Advyer- ‘tisers, in complying with this request, will derive the most benefit, for in the early delivery of the paper in the morning are their interests beat aub- served. The News. By this arrival we have details of European news brought by the Circassian, and telegraphed from St. Johns, N. F., were, however, published in yes- terday morning's Hznatp. The letters of our cor respondents at London, Paris, Berlin and Copen- hagen, which are given to-day, contain the latest The fact is that he is using this question as a means of forcing on a Congress; for, in the present conjuncture of affairs in Italy, there is no probability that Austria can be in- duced to enter into a conference if their | cal countries of Spanish America, at the mercy } naught, and the ballot box, settlement on the basis of the English pro- positions be made the only object of its meeting. By bringing up this Savoy question now, and imposing on the other Powers the alternative of either tacitly acceding to the an- nexation of tbat territory or of deciding them- selves on the justice of, the claim, he is certain of effecting what he has in view; for he well knows that the jealousy of the other Earopean submitting to its seizure, From the time when Louis Napoleon began | ing the South, but which must inevitably de- | And notwithstanding all this, there are people to feel himself firmly seated on the throne of | stroy the North and Centre as well. For mang | who say it is disgraceful, and quote something France, it has always been his policy to bring | years our shipowners and our nrerchaats have about euch complications in Continental affairs | clamored for protection from our navy | fortunate as to live inthis world when it had as would compel the recognition of his newly | when away from home, and the pigeon holes | become Christianized and civilized, and had founded power by the Continental sovereigns, The steamship Asia, which left Liverpool on the | #24 enable him to wipe out the wrongs and | flowing with their complaints and their calls | paper, and Congressmen and State Legisla- 3d inst., arrived at this port yesterday morning, | insults offered to his family by the treaties of | for reclamation at the hands ofthe government. | tures,-and Aldermen:— 1815. Thus, the Crimean war, which was the | But the administration has 10’ power beyond to the 3d inst. The main points of the intelligence | work of his agent at Constantinople, resulted | the writing of a diplomatic: mote on the sub- in the Congress of Paris and in the humiliation | ject; and corrupt and scheming Congresses of Russia—the two first great steps towards the | have constantly refused to take up the wrongs rehabilitation of the Napoleon dynasty and the | of individual citizens, unless the injured party punishment of one of the original wrong doers. | happened to be some one possessing great refusal toconfer upon the President the autho- rity to enforce a diplomatic demand by the guns of a sloop-of-war, leaves our whole com- merce abroad, and particularly In the anarchi- of the local authorities, may. That the republican Senators in Congress should adopt such a course as a part of their party policy, shows plainly what protection our sailors and our merchants may expect from the republican party should they ever become possessed of the reins of government. They seem to forget everything that has a national. and to be bent only on initiating a civil war, in the hope of destroy- be they what they of the State Department are crowded to over- : ith and infitence, and who had the leisure accounta of political and social occurren + | Again: in taking up the cause of Italy | weal! p those cajun ca andbighivextsistetecaconr Ps it is certain that Napoleon was as | to bring those to’bear on Senators and Repre- may be found the speech of the Emperor Napo-| much animated by @ desire to pay off | sentatives, The black republiceas have now leon to the French Legislature, and a debate in the | the old family debt of vengeance to Austria, as | adopted, as a party principle, a steady opposi- Britieh Parliament onthe Napoleonic policy with | by sympathy for the wrongs and sufferings of | tion to our making any effort for obtaining wot reference to the proposed annexation of Savoy to | the Italians. He would have effected that ob- | reparation for ovr injured shipowners and France, together with an interesting report from ject by diplomacy if he could, for Dr. Livingstone, announcing the discovery of an extensive cotton producing region in Africa. The mais by the il!-fated steamer Hungarian ar- rived in this city on Thursday morning, in a da- maged state, but most of the letters and papers between six and seven thousand of them alto | 8 gether. In Congrees yesterday the Senate adopted a post. Papers relating to the troubies on the Rio Grande, and a statistical statement of our trade with the British North American provinces, were received. A number of private bills were passed. A bill was introduced providing for a takicg final action on the bill, it was laid aside, and the Senate went into executive session on the Nica- ragua treaty, which was rejected by a vote of 31 to 21, The House did nothing “of public importance. Notice was given that the Sickles and Williamson contested election case would be called up on Mon- day. Several subjects of importance came up in the Legislature yesterday. authorizing the Coptral Park Commission to bor- row money wer, ordered ta a third reading. The Railroad Tolling vill was also ordered to & third reo ding, after the adoption of several amendmer ts, one of them allowing the Central Raijlroa? to charge two and a half cents per mile fare. The bill for laying out the northern section fT be city was reported upon favorably. In the ead sembly, a bill to provide for paying the interest ‘on the public debt, and means for the support of the government, was reported. The New York tax levy was concurred in. The sum of $193,821 for indexing the papers in the Register's office was tached to the bill. Several other matters were also acted on. Our despatches and reports give the de tails. Our Washington correspondents have informed the public of the recent flight from the federal capital of 8. C. Boyington,a subordinate clerk of the House of Representatives, with some $200,000 worth of Post Office certificates, which, it is alleged, he fraudulently disposed of, and kept the proceeds. Smce hi. «1 appearance from Washington his whereabouts remained unknown, and it was sup- posed he had gone abroad. A couple of police de- tectives, however, observed Mr. Boyington yester- day afternoon, in front of the International Hotel, on Broadway, where he was calmly surveying the magnificent panorama of that unequalled thorough- fare, and enjoying the sunshine. He was forthwith * conveyed to the station house, where he remains, awaiting the course of events. Stevens and Hazlett, the last of the convicted Warper’s Ferry conspirators, suffered the extreme penalty of the law yesterday, at Charlestown, Va., in presence of a strong force of military and a large he had more to gain by a Congress than by em- barking in @ costly and hazardous. war. The proposal for @ conference on the part.of Ras- sia, previous to the campaign, was made at his can be decyphered and made available. There are | instigation, and it was only defeated by the re- tured that he had as much to lose by this mode of xettlement as by venturing a few battles, resolution directing inquiry as to the expediency | Sffice the termination of the war repeated ef- of requiring prepayment of letters sent by penny forts have been made by the French Ediperor to bring about the assembling of another Con- gress. Obstacles raised by Austria and the Pope on one hand, and by Russia on the other, have hitherto interfered to prevent it. Austria district in California for the inspection of the boilers | Will not consent to yield a diplomatic sanction and machinery of steam veasels. The bill autho. | to the existing state of things in Italy; the rizing the sale of the public arms to the States,and | Pope cannot be brought to listen to any to regulate the appointment of saperimtendents of | arrangement national armories, was taken up. The Senate, by a position, Vote of 20 to 28, refused to etrike out the section | to enter any Congress which does not include Providing for the distribution of arms. Without | the treaties of 1856 in its proposed work of re- In the Sonate the bill | has been found in the proposed annexation of Savoy, and the project finds some show of con- sistency in the fact that is was mooted previous to the Italian campaigao. personally istance of Francis Joseph, who rightly conjec- consistent with his and Russia does not altered care vision. It is far from being the object of France to curtail the scope of its labors; but in view of the limits imposed by the questions im- mediately calling for settlement, she requires some decent pretext to compel the other Powers to forget their individual objections, and to meet her in conference. That pretext This we believe to be the true view of the question which causes so much present uneasi- ness abroad. We donot look upon itia the same grave light, as it is but a means to anend, and that a peaceable one. Louis Napoleon is clearly bent upon baving another Congress, in order tostil] further vindicate his family wronge, and, if possible, to recover some portion of the territory wreeted from France. Should this body meet, as there is every reason to believe it wil), we shall probably witness another re- distribution of the territorial limits and bovndaries fixed by the treaties of 1815. For what each Power asks, it must be prepared to yield something, and it will be fortunate ifin this general exchange the rights of nationa- lities are not bargained .away. Austria will probably demand the guarantee of Ve- netia and Hungary, Russia wil} require a re- merchants abroad, . except it be through a for-- mal declaration of war by act of Congress. It is no wonder that, with such a policy ruling at Washington, Amezican traders aro often glad: to seek English protection in foreign ports, as- has frequently ocourred; and every-merchant and shipowner will-be glad to learm that Mr. Slidell’s motion to remove the veil of-secresy- and let the facts be-knewn to the country wasa- finally passed. It was in orderto place our government in- the position in whioh # should stand in this im- portant matter tha Mr. Buchanan-has fro- quently called on Congress to confer upen. the President the authority to make a proper use of our force in sustaining the diplomatic demands of the gcvernment in defence of our citizens. Congress, would not even take the matter into consideration; and in view of the vast interests which are constantly perilled.in the fransit of Nicaragua, and in oar .commer- cial intercourse with Mexico, the President sought ‘to obtain. this right of pzotection. to our citizens by treaty with those. countries. He not only sxeceeded in this, but also. in combining with it, in one instancs, some af. the most valuable commercial concessions. wiich bave ever beon. attained. Bus: his patriotic efforts are rendered of no avail. The repubii- can Senators meet in caucus, end dotermine, asa measure of party policy, that the power to protect evr commerce abroad shall aot be given to the. Executive, and that the manufac- turing and commercial intarests abroad shall not receive the stimulus of a mew market, because, forsooth, it would. be omened by, and redouné: to the credit cf, an administration which does not unite in their insane crusade against the South. Let the merchants and manufeeturera of the North remember this, and let us have all the facts spread before the country. More TIxKERING WITH THE METROPOLITAN Porscr.—Our Albany correspondent informs. us that an unsuccessful attempt was made in the Senate on Wednesday to get up Mr. Oakey Hall's Police bill, and to have it assigned as the special order for the evening session. It cannot be that the Senators have become ashamed of their continuous raids upon the city taxpayers, and that they are going to let eofine @ thing as this Oakey Hall job stip formation of her boundary in Bessarabia, and Louis Napoleon may exact something more through their fingers. Mr. Hall's new bill pro- poses a reorganization of the police, and an locks, and McCormick’s reapers, and George Francis Train’s eity railways, and Colt’s re- volvers, and the Black Swan, and Goodyear’s overshoes, and Trist’s washing machines, and Paul Morphy, and Fred. Douglass, and lots of other things of all kinds and colors; but until the mission of the patriotic boy of Benicis, there hath been no representative of the roughs, the masclemen, the ruling powers be- fore whoee fists or teeth, or knives, or pistols, as the case may be, the majesty of the law is as the boasted palla- dium of popular government, becomes the mute instrument of vulgar and bratal tyranny. That ts the old fogy conservative view which some misguided people take of Mr. Heenan’s elegant invitation to the distin- guished son of Albion, Mr. Sayers. Mr. Heenan is certainly very obliging. He goes at hiss own expense, as Bell's Life hand- somely says, three thousand miles, to punch the head of another man, or to get his owm } punched by the other man, as the case may he. like thege lines from a poet who was not so steam and electricity, and‘ preackers and news- But alk these people are behing the age. ‘They don% understand the noble art: of self- defence, which consiste-in knocking down inoffensive-strangers and-bullying. unfortunate men. Tie masses, however, are.sound on the Heenan question. They view it in a proper light, as one of the most. important topics of the day. To: them it has more sig- nificance thdm the annexation of Savoy, the troubles of the poor oid Pope, the new treaty between Franee and England, the Austro-Rus- stan alliancs;the Gridiron Railroad bill, Robert Dale Owen’s last ghost, or Barnum’s “What is it?” This vastanid comprehensive question, in- volving the -mus cular reputation of the two countries—this cc ntest which is forever-to set- tle the questiom as to:the relative strength of the shriek of t),e American Esgle and the growl of the-Brit ish Lion—is attracting all the attention it deserves. Our gallant country- man maintains tle national reputation finely. He makes a. noise wherever he goes. He has been oliuded to in Parliament by an honorable member, who asked the government what it intendecl to do about the fight? The Home Secretary immediately, and in the most gentlemanly: mamner, snubbed the inquisitive Senator—told-him, in-offeot, that it was none of his business, but: that the government did not intend to.do anything at all about it. And so itis going om. Isn’tit delightful? Isn’t it a splendid commentary on the beneficial effect of the learning, tho piety, the moral and reli- gious progress of theage? Oughtnot Mr.Heenan to be a strong maa for Charleston or Chicago? And havent we sont several other equally bril- liant ornaments of the governing classes to breathe the fogs, and eat the roast beef, and drink the beer of Old England? The other day, the elegant and accomplished Mr. John Mor- rissey, the tender-hearted and ehivalrous Mr. Daniel. Cunningham, and the illustrious Ma James. Hughes, went over by the Africa, and. the elegant Mr. Mulligan, the Chesterfield.of the ring, was supposed to have boarded the same ship, and to be.on his way to give the swells of Piccadilly some idea of good breed- ing. Mr. Mulligan, however, had a little bust ness to atténd to in the Court of Sessions, and | has not yet been able to arrange his affairs so as to make his foreign trip. It is to be hoped, however, that he will yet succeed in gaining an opportunity to be present at the Congress. These distinguished special shoulder-hitting commissioners cannot fail te attract great at- tention in England. They will be as great curi- osities ag the Thugs of India or the man-eaters from the Fije Islands. We don’t think that Mr. Dallas will take them to the Queen’s draw- ing room, because he is a little old fogyish; but than Savoy. Ifa general revision of old dl- | increase in the expenditure of that department | he might do worse. We have no donbt that the plomatic arrangements is gone into he will certainly insist on a formal reversal of the © the trifling amount of seven hundred thou- sand dollars. The old police, which was call- roughs will behave themselves on the other side—they don’t lack sense, and they know 17, 1860.—-TRIPLE SHEET. rougha? They will have to take down Pryor and Edmundson instead of Morrissey and Mul- Ngan. That's bad, too, because the Congress. men only fight with women and non-com- patants. @Bhe roughs will be back, however, quite im time for Chicago. The Last Act of Nullification of the Con- stitution at the North, In the proceedings of the Legislature of Virginia on Wednesday last, we find a highly interesting communication from Gov- ernor Letcher, touching the contumacious and extraordinsry conduct of the Gov- ernor of Ohio, who refused, upon the re- quisition of the Governor of Virginia, to issue “warrants for the extradition of Owen | to demand dy requisition from the Governor of "lesser offence—one Silas Taylor, accused ef for- -be the object of their visite to our public book “collections; for we shoutd hardly thins it worth their while speculating om the chances of their prescription decreed against the Napoleon | ed ail sorts of bad names, did the same work | very well that there are no friendly Aldermen dynasty by the Congress of Vienna. Ifthe | as that which the Metropolitans perform for | in London to stand between them and the tread- other Continental Powers were far seeing—if | :hree quarters of a million; that expense has mil; and so they will keep quiet, Six weeks or they had apy eagacious statesmen to counsel | been swelled to nearly a million, and now it} so of decent behavier may send them back as them—they would avoid « Congress, and gllgw | fs proposed to odd seven hundred thousand | quiet as lambs and as mild as divinity stadents- course of spectators. Th the French Emperor to seize quia; toe cousbiationn of he cenianaipepaboatea * Savoy. His is but 9 single life, 97.4 psig Ks carry for a police tbat is not only inefficient, | ine other old ladies of Exeter Hall take Mor- tendance, and met their fate with resignation and | strument of the Church may abruptly terminate | but which is ueed'as @ political machine by| ricsey, Mulligan & Co. in hand? There's a even cheerfulness. The bodios of the culprits were | it, As bis dynasty has in reality no solid root | the black republican organization of this city. | a field for the philanthropist. There's a vine. forwarded to their friends at South Amboy, Now in France, and the prestige he has acquired | The Albany lobby bas spared no pains to get} yard for the Seumaah Rye re The — Bane must die with him. the other great Powers | the new police bill through, and has even gone} Almighty Nigger wouldn't be » circumstance At the meeting of wee Petice Commissioners yes | wint make a grave blunder if they bind them- | sofar as to send some of the rural Senators to | to it. Meantime, let the fight go on. Keep cool Soo tune bros ante selves by a diplomatic guarantee not te dis- | see the dens and sinks and stews of the city, | and don’t bet. The subject is too important apon | more to the burden which the taxpayers must | Why couldn’ the Duchess of Sutherland and - issues pending between the members of the old police fwrce and the Board to three referees. The turb the arrangements he has enforced. This, however, istheir lookout; we bave no sym- under police protection. No more affectionate relations could exist between brothers and sie- to be trifled with. It may complicate our foreign relations and tie up the San Juan ques- aintained between | ‘tion into “® ‘hard knot. Finally, whet will @ubject was made the special order for the next! patby with their policy or their grievances. | ters than those which are m: feeling. It was stated that the police furce ta! The interests of humanity and of progress lie | the police and the keepers of gambling hells, { the Charleston Convention do without tbe Brown and Francis Merriam, who were charged with being concerned in the Harper's Ferry insurrection. The fugitives were refused, first, because “no enactment of the State of Obie has clothed the Governor with suthority to surrender to another State fugitives from its justice, seeking refuge there;” consequently Governor Dennison nullifies the constitution of the United States, because his own State does not clothe him with any specific authority © obey it. Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, assigned 2 more manly reason for nullification than this, He said that every one had right to interpret the constitution for himself; that his State had a right, therefore, to pass a law neutralizing the law of Congress carrying out the provision for the rendition of fugitive slaves, and that the authority of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin was at least equal, if not superior, to that of the United States. We had eupposed that the constitution was binding on every citizen, whether a State law endorsed itor not; and we had further believed that Governor Denni son had taken a solemn oath to support the constitution. The quibbles by which he seeks to evade his responsibility are certainly worthy of a man who would “palter in a double sense.” For, in the second place, he says, un- der the instruction of the Attorney General of Ohio, that the words ‘fagitives from jasticé from Virginia” in the requisition do not neces- sarily mean that the fagitives had fled from Virginia, or were ever there at all. Upon such technical ground as this, substan- tial justice is refused by a Governor of a State, who refuses to carry out the compact ef the constitution, because it has any connection with slavery. This shows what republicanism is. Yet Governor Denni- son ha@ the impudence, in a fortnight after this, Virginia a fogitive from justice charged with a gery. The conduct of the Governor of Ohio is only in-keeping witir that of the Governor of Illinois, whe recently refused to- deliver up. a thief to- the State of Kentucky because he was also a slave, and actually contrived'to let kim escape.- The-Governor of Iowa, upon a mere technical point, refueed to surrender the brother of Cop- pic, charged with participation in the Harper's Ferry invasion. So’ badis this last case of Governor Dennison, of Ohio, that the Cincinnati Gazette, the leading organ of Chase and repub- licaniem in the State; gives it up as indefensi- ble, an@ concludes am- editorial paragraph in which it-refers to the facts In these significant ‘words :—“We will not at present discuss the nice legal points raised.” Nice, indeed. It is this disloyalty to the letter and spirit of the constitution, so characteristic of the repub- lican party, that is driving the Southern States to extremes, and will, if persevered in much longer, inevitably result in the dissolution of the federal republic. The policy of Northern States in which republicanism prevails is to enjoy all the advantages and protection of the Union, but not to discharge their obligations. States have their duties as well as their rights, and if they neglect or refuse to disoharge their duties, how.can they expect that the compact will be observed towards them,. or that the Union, which is the strength, thecommon bond and support of all, can be maintained in the face of such flagrant violations of the magna charta of American liberty? Pusric Guosts—Tuz Last New Srmurrvan Manrrestations.—We copy from two of our city contemporaries accounts.of. several marvellous spectral visitations, of which the Astor Library and the Historical Society have been the favor- ed localities. After a temporary sojourn in dingy back parlors and: mysterious attics with their feed interpreters, it seoms that the spirits are growing bolder and: are venturing hardily into public places. We always suspected, feom the unsatisfactory answers received through mediums, that the intelligence of these ghcatly babblers was of the most. limited kind, We areglad to observe that they themselves are becoming conscious of the fact, from the-dispo- sition which they at presend evince to cultivate their understandings. Such we presume to overtaking and frightesing a belated.librarian. Ghost stories are no novelty in this ofty. We have heen hearing constantly, of them for years past, sometimes in one shape and some- times in another, accordingly as they favored some particular theory or creed, At no time, however, have these supernatural wonders been more actively circulated than since the publi cation of Robert Dale Owen's last book. It was the same in England when Mr. Crowe's “Night Side of Nature” made its appearance. Every oye had a ghost story to relate, either of his own or somebody else’s experience. The result, of course, has been to unsettle the minds of many, and to render them ready to accept the strange doctrines and beliefs which fanatics erected upon these stories. Hence the number of new religions and isms which, in this country, have started up within the last dozen ei : This tendency, and some of the phenomena on which it is based, ate to be accounted for by scientific causes. Our planetary system has @ motion of itself, and in its revolutions it sometimes takes us inte = new region, from whence we receive an additional wave of that imponderable and mysterious fluid, oall it elec- tricity, magnetiem, or odic force, which exer- cises a disturbing influence over our physical and mental condition, and produces many of the effects which are‘looked upon as superna, tural. We are probably within the sphere $f that infizence now; otherwise it would b+, aifi- cult to account for the fact of so many respect. able and otherwise sane individuals openly avowing their helief inapparitiozsand the pos the spirits of the dead. es ‘The Ctty Ratiway Gon _ at Albany More Schemes to Piander t.._ TWaxpay- ers. Thursday offorded the last Opportunity for the introduction of bills in the Legiatature, and the lobby fired ite Gnal guns into that fat, rich and lazy prize, the ¢ity of New York. No tess than three more city railway bills’ wete intro- duced inthe Assembly, and two nisgnifisent schemes in the Senate. The Jacob Sharp and Thurlow Weed gang have already five or six bills in the House; and, therefore, we have, | with the Gridiron, which upset the Law fat into the Weed fire, about dozen schemes to rob the clty of the franchises which are the pro- perty of the taxpayers. The first bill introduced in the Senate is the old Broadway Railroad affair in @ new shape, It was presented by a Senator trom an adjoin- tpg county, as two of the city Senators are tucked away im George Law’s breeches pockets, another hag little thing of his owa on_band, and the fourth not being “let in”. properly. This bill gives the right of way from Seventy-ninth street to the Battery, all in Broadway, « most valuatte Brant. Ht would be impossible to compute, even in an approximate degree, the future value of such 2 franchise as this. Batthe com- pany intend to pay for it. Certainty they wild, They want to buy the Koh i-noor diamond for sixpence, and have twenty years time to pay for it. In other words, they will give half a yearly instalments of twenty-five thousand dol- lars. In consideration of the money paid, the road ts to be free of all other taxes, dues, fm- posts or assessments. We do not hesitate to say that this franchise might be sold, to-mor- row, for 2 million of dollars, cash down on the nail; and in ten yeara from now it will be worth five times as much. The other Senate bil! contemplates the build- ing of a road all around the city water fromt— another most valuable franehise—for which we do not see that any consideration is to be given. One of the Howse bills is for a road from the Grand street ferry to Hoboken ferry, crossing Broadway at Canal street. As thereare already no less than three lines of railway in Grand street, and two in Canal street, an¢ as the business in these great thoroughfares is dally in- creasing with the up town movement, this bill ought not to pass, om apy consideration what- ever. We preaume that there will be combinations formed to rush one or more of these bills threugh the Legislature; and they may peas. There is no telling what the Legislature of 1860, which will long Be remembered in the annals of public corruption and official venali- ty, way do. The mere introduction of suck barefaced schemes to rob the city treasury shows a most lamentable want of common honesty amopg our legislators, and one whick should be rebuked in the most severe manner , by their constituents. No one member whe has been implicated with any of the thieving lobby combinations should ever be permitted ‘to hold an office:of public trust or honor during »his natural life. Bribery in State Legislatures aud Common Councils has become as common as lying among the members, and it is high time that some sharp, exemplary punishment were infiicted‘upon the guilty parties, A Boston journal ssys the subject of the strikes of the jeurneymen shoemekers in.New. -England is not well understood atthe South | and: among members of Congress, and it goes on to charge the New Yorx Henatp with “ par- tisan mizrepresentations.” How the statements of tle Hexarp can partake of a“ character must appear a riddle to ‘its readers, who know the®% never belonged; and does not now belong, and never will belong, to any party. It has-ever maintained’s perfect inde- pendence of all political organizations, and will continue to do so to the end of the chapter. 5 That the Heratp has misrepresented: the cause of the strikes in Massachusetts. and New Hampshire our Boston contemporary has failed to show. We attributed them to the falling off in the Southern custom. What facts and:figures “doeshe bring. forward’to contradict us? None. He ssys that “this agitation at the Northis one -of thore periodical reactions which are. common to all industrial and enterprising commu- nities;” andthe asserts, without proof, and con~ trary to notorious facts published. to-the world, that the trade with the South has increased, but that “the increase caused by the growing prosperity of the South has been less than the diminished demand in the West, consequent upon the hard times which have prevailed there for the last two years; so that the West- ern failures of 1857 have only now taken effect against the shoe trade, and are tle real cause of the etrikes; and itis not the South bat the 'Weat that is to blame. Now, it cannot fail. to.be observed by every reader that the shoemakers’ strikes did not com~ ménce in 1857 or 1868, when every ether busi- ness suffered, nor even in 1859, but in 1860, when business ia all its branches*has com- pletely revived. ‘The coincidence that is a0. unfortunate for the republicaas is, that the troubles began just after the Southern people had adopted non-intercourse resolutions in’ every State, and that new local manufacturers were beginning to spring up like mushrooms at the other side of Mason and Dixon’s line, in consequence of John Brown's raid into Virgi- nia, aided and assisted by New England sub- scriptions; in consequence of the endorsement of this traitor and rebel throughout the North, amd in consequence of the tion of the atrocious sentiments of Helper’a boek by the principal republican mem- bers of Congress, and by nearly all the leading men of the party which contsols the majorities in nearly every Northern State~ Is It not notorious here in New York that they antielavery houses of the city have. done ne Southern trade during the winter, notwith- standing “the of the South?” The couge of the atrike i therefore too plain to be misunderstood, and the rea- son assigyed by the Boston paper ia too sbeurd for even a fanatic to swallow. Tt {s true there is another oanse behind the irsmediate one—s cause jae ee Qradu- ally operating for years, 8 politi- Mal butor @ natural and commercial nature— and that is, the decline of mapafactures in New Eogland, and their increase in the Middle and Southern States, The rapid developement of the of the latter States in recent years has given a great tmpetus to their manu- sibility of establishing communications: with | facturing industry, and the fact of thoir pos- eeming abundance of food and fuel and water- million of dollars for the franchise, payable in . )