The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1860, Page 6

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The clergy of Cham- bray, in Bavoy, have protested a; the project of annexation to Switzerland. The Papal govern- tent has prohibited commerce between Ancona and Romagna. A denial is given to the reported alliance between Austria and Russia. The Queen of England has extended the title of Lord Brougham to his brother William and his male heirs. Consols in London on March 3 closed at 944, and rentes on the Paris Bourse were feeble. | Money continued in good demand at 5j per cent, or j below the Bank minimum. The steamship De Soto, from Havana March 14, | arrived at this port last evening. The news is) not important. The rejoicings on account of Span- ish victories in Morocco were still continued in Ha- wana and Puerto Rico. The Spanish steam frigates | Buenguela and Francisco de Asis had left for Vera | Cruz, and report said for the purpose of giving to Miramon aasistance in his attack on Vera Cruz. Business in sugars was languid. Our correspondents writing from San Domingo City on February 22d and 25th, furnish some inte- resting statements in relation to the condition of affairs in that country. Washington's birthday had been celebrated for the first time, in San Domingo, | and the city was rendered gay by the display of | fags, firing guns, &c. The remission of daties on farming implements, machinery and mechanics’ tools, had produced a good effect, and a demand ‘was springing up for hand, horse and steam ma- chines of American manufacture. Our correspon Gent's description of the country, with his strictares on Wendell Phillips’ lecture on Touissant L’Over- tare, will repay perusal. From St. Thomas we have advices to March 1 The heatth of the town and island was good. In | Consequence of the large supply of breadstaffs and provisions there bad been a slight decline in the leading articles. Freights for small vessels were active. A full report of the state of the markets, the prices of provisions, &c., will be found in the letter of our correspondent. We have dates from Nassan, Bahama, to March 10. Persons seeking s more genial climate still continued to pour into the island. General Pierce and lady were stopping at the Royal Victoria Ho- tel. aud the season was very gay. Sir Wiliem } } ' | black republican party should triumph, the re- | | position. | flow from a strong Northern support to the Gore Ouaeley and family had ‘arrived at the fsland on their way to New York «At © complimentary dinner given to the new Governor of St. Vincents, Gen. Pierce had made an oratorical display which was much applauded. Ou the momienatteenee a Sp brigantine | @Te8¢ evils that must infalltbly acorne to every Was bronght into Naasaa, and her appearance and Northern interest, through the destruction of fitting up indicated that she waa American. It was | the brotherly sentiment between the various supposed that she had landed acargo of slaves | sections of the Union, by the triumph of politi- at Sagua la Grande, and been turned adrift. The | cal abolitionism, should be set forth in practi- island was perfectly healthy. cal and familiar instances to every audience. The Intent advices from Vonesuela, received by | The inviolabllity of the right of self-govern- way of Havana, state that the rebellion in that | ment in the South should be exemplified by the Pa ly pyeisgp’ Dine cet Faloon’s | exposition of its practical relations at home; combat. We aeviare publish the official account the guarantees of the constitution should be of the combat. caljed to mind; and in every voter there should The last of the Harper's Ferry conspirators, | @ planted the knowledge that, in defending Stevens and Hazlett, were buried at Eaglewood, N: | the rights of the South, he is defending the im- J., yesterday. The funeral services were performed | mutable principles that secure his own. at the residence of Marcus Spring, Esq. The Rev. We repeat that, to do this, mach labor and Dr. Arms, of Norwich, Conn., and Messrs. Tilton | expenditure are required. Caleb Cushing has aad Johnson, of this city, delivered short addresses. | buckled on his armor and gallantly volun- A full account of the proceedings, from our oWR | teored for the work, and Mayor Wood has con- reporter, will be found in another column. sented to leave his other duties and interests The letters from our special reporter at Lynn, Mass., fall account a ti for a time, to do his share in it; but private and hat EANO aC es individual exertion alone is not equal to the tion of the strikers on Friday last. It is stated that task, nor can a few persons be expected to there were at least ten thousand persons present, and that the strikers mustered five thousand strong, | bear entirely the labor and the cost of that including some fifteen hundred women. Nothing | which equally interests all. This great fact occurred to disturb the demonstration except a | should be at once taken into consideration by misunderstanding among the military as to pre- | the merchants, the bankers and the shipowners cedence. All efforts st compromise have 80 far | of New York, who are so immediately and 80 Proved unavailing, the employers and employed deeply inte a in the It of the Cor both remaining firm, and the tro romaine as far ticut election. If Connecticut shows, in her from a settlement now as at the beginning. ‘A sermon was delivered at the Academy of Masic | APril election, a majority for the conservative yesterday afternoon by the Rev. Heury Grattan | iMterests of the country, and for the preserva- Guinness, a gentleman whose preaching has here- | tion of its harmony and Union, the backbone tofore created some excitement among the reli- | of the political abolition party will have been gious public of New York. The building was | broken, even in New England—its cradle and its crowded to excess to hear him, and many hundreds | hotbed. The recent contest in New Hampshire were unable to obtain admission. A report of the | cannot be looked upon as any indication of the sermon, with a description of the reverend gentle” probable coming reult in New England. That ie manner, style, &c.,is given in ouredition | Siste has too little connection with the com- bpeiee merce and manufactures of the country to feel An account of a grand social party among the Mormons, furnished by our correspondent at Salt | te dangers now looming in the future; and, Lake City, is given elsewhere in our paper this | Moreover, the party leaders on the democratic morning. Itshows that our Mormon friends are | eide there very unwisely preferred what they not thoroughly monopolized by their devotional | called “a silent contest.” We must not havea exercises, but are fully awake to the refined enjoy. | silent contest in Connecticut. The people ments of social life. ig must be awakened to their true interests, and H. S. Boynton, late despatch clerk in the House | the dangers that menace them. Let the mer- of Representatives, was arrested on Friday on sus chanta of New York raise at once a fund to do picion of being 8 government defaulter. Soon after | nis work, It is their fight that is being his arrest a despatch was received from Washing- fought, and a few thousand dollars raised and ton stating that there were no charges against him, and he was promptly discharged from custody. | CXPended now may save the day in Connecti- cut, and give a new aspect to the struggle Mr. B. says the charges against him are false and malicious, and invites the closest scrutiny into his | throughout the Union. There is no time to be official conduct. lost; they must act now—to-day; and we call New arrangements have nearly been completed | upon every one of them to do his duty. for obtaining news from the steamships passing Cape Race, and before the 1st of April the plan will be in full operation. It is expected that the steamship Vanderbilt, Captain Lefevre, ,will be the first vessel to avail herself of these arrange- ments. She will sail from this port next Saturday at four o'clock P. M. for Havre, via Southampton, and returning, will leave the latter port April 18, | °l#y, seems to have taken hold of the minds of bringing the result of the fight between Heenan | ™®2Y people in all quarters, and to obtain and Sayers, and delivering it to the newsboat of | Seneral favor, especially among those who in- the association off Cape Race, from which point it | tend to be present at the Convention. The will be immediately telegraphed throughout the | want of accommodation for a large influx of country. strangers in Charleston, the exorbitant Edward Kellam, a street preacher, was arrested charges demanded for board and lodging at for holding forth in the Park yesterday, without a hotels .and private boarding-houses, and the licenae. Justice Connolly fined the prisoner $5, famine prices which provisions have already ber Bate to lon Kellam was committed reached in anticipation of the temporary is- The first shad of the present season in our waters | Crease to its population offsome fifty thousand was caught last evening at Robbin’s Reef. people, have convinced ail those who intend The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 1,000 | to visit that city during the Convention that bales, closing heavy and dull for the lower grades, while | they must be subjected to an expense far Ss Lersgad it without NPP seh oer 3 greater than they can afford, as well as to an Pt 5 We qi uplands at 11c., le ant New Orleans at 1130. 0.113. Flour wes dull and the | Smount of discomfort which they are unwilling common and medium grades of State and Western brands to bear. were 5c. to 10¢. per bbI. lower; Southern flour was less We publish to-day some statements with re- active ai the sl Grades were heavy and rather cheap- | ference to these facts, which ought to add er. was heavy, with the turn of prizes in favor of ur vious suggestion tha’ Purchasers, especially for common qualities; prime milling aa ok: be selected Sethe mine Jots were firm, Milwaukee club sold at $1 25, white South- ern of prime quality at $1 60, anda small handsome lot | tion besides Charlesten. It appears that ac- of white Kentucky at $1 70. Corn was in fair demand, | commodations cannot be had there for less with sales at trom es 9c. for soft white and sound | than ten dollars a day while the Convention Jersey yellow; Southern white sold at 780. a 80%0, | ; ‘ andichoice do. at 81¢. 82c., and{Weatern mixed, at depot, | meet aie ry . eee _ eat is por for 7c. a 79340. Pork was dull, with aales of meas at | 28 y Sora $18, old prime at $12 60, and new do.at$i463asi¢o7s;, | Standard. Why the original intention of Sugars were steady, with sales of 700.0 800 hhds,,and | meeting at Charleston should he adhered to, ee boxes, and sf rm maclado at rates given in an- | in view of these facts, we cannot conceive. other column. The stock comprised 13,100 bhds. of al i r kinds, 5,210 do, melado, 15,100 boxes and 42,000 bage | yee aad pret alien eau of Coffee was quiet, and no sales of moment were reported, | P&OP1€ WAO Will Hock there cannot be accom- There was a speculative movement in rice, owing to tole- | modated unless they provision steamers for graphic despatches from tho South advising an advance | their own use, and occupy them as hotels while they remain. in that direction; parties entered the market and pwr- | pases saa Wideheocyeltiel tad Sintec nie | Conventions have been held in different cities chielly af de. 4%c., labing an aavanc® of ic. to | Of the Union since 1824, and in that time New 34. per Jb. Freights wero steady, with a fai! amount of | )Ork, the great commercial metropolis of the engagements at unchanged rates. ; country, has never once been selected asa | place ef meeting: yet it is evidently the most ' fitting and convenient place for such purpose. | Charleston is at best an out-of-the-way place— | difficult to reach from distant points, and wholly inadequate in size to accommodate a large number of strangers. Lither Baltimore or | Philadelphia would be better: but New York | is pre-eminently the proper place for the Con- | vention. The influx of fifty or even a hundred | thousand strangers would not make a particle of difference in the price of provisions here, or the rates of board at our hotels; for the resources of supply around us are unlimited. The first public movement was the conyen- } Just at this seasen crowds of persons from all tion of manufacturers called at Meriden; mi | parts of the country will visit New York—those when they came together two enduring ahd | who are about to start for the watering places. opposing forces were found to be operating in | and those who come here to purchase goods. the bosom of every man. A great falling off | Here, too, is the great centre of amusements— in the demand of the South for Connecticut ‘ the Opera, the theatres, the picture galleries, the made goods led to the conviction that if the | sensation preachers, and all those things which every one wants to see and hear. The Central sult would be an inevitable and total logs of | Park will just be opening its summer beauties the Southern markets, and the first impulse was | to the eye, where the wearfed peliticians can that the convention should set the facts | air themselves after the labors of the day, and truly before the people. Then came up | enlarge their intellects by thecontemplation of in each mind the fear that if the fall- | one of the most magnificent public works in ing off in trade was acknowledged, it would | the world. Every one wants to come to New operate individually to the injury of the com- | York, but nobody wants to go to Charleston, mercial standing and credit, at the banks and | particularly at this time of the year. in the community. of every manufacturer who | Again, whatever reasons might previously acknowledged a decline in his business. Be- | have existed for selecting some central point for tween these two conflicting emotions the con- | holding the Convention, they have vanished vention of manufacturers came to naught, the | before the wonderful facilities for travel ea- members fearing to take a really practical | tablished all over the land. There is no large | city in the Union which can now be reached Subsequent events, however. have shown | with more expedition and comfort from all that the people of Connecticut have really be- | quarters than New York. come awakened to the great dangers to their | By all means, then, let the Executive Com- manufacturing industry, their commércial rela- | mittee resolve at once to change the place for tions, and through these to their agricultural | bolding the Convention from Charleston to this and domestic Interests, evoked by the hostility | grand metropolis. Few, we think, will be between the South and the North, which must | found to object to that course, while thousands will hail it with entire satisfaction. Public meetings must $¢ oalled every- where, and addressed by clear headed, eloquent and competent orators. The The Democratic Convention—New York the Proper Place to Hold it in. The proposition which we made recently, to change the place of meeting for the Democra- tic Convention from Charleston to some larger Importance of the Connecticut Election to the New York Merchants—Wha Should be Done to Save it. We have received a number of curious, inte- resting and important communications from the State of Connecticut, showing the different phases of the moral and political revolution now going on there, and springing from the material injury to the interests of the indas- trial clasces, produced by the political agita- tion of the abolition theories, and their adep- tion as a platform by the black republican party. \ } abolition theories of the black republican par- ty. This feeling underlies the struggle that is now agitating that State, preparatory to the | some weeks ago, the British press has taken up elections in April, and it only requires to be | the disenssion of American politics from the brought out and made strong by develope- | refreshing point of view offered by the squab- ment, combination and organization, ix order | bles in the House previous to the organization. to enable the conservative elements to carry | In the disgraceful attack made upon the Presi- the elections triumphantly. For this purpose | dent by the Clerk of the House, the Pryor, Ed- Orn Dmry Lives Annoan.—As we predicted tanity for the exercise of thelr critical powers, and they will not scruple to take fuli advan- tage of it. It may be pleasant for members of Congress to read these comments upon their misconduct; but we can assure them that it is not particularly agreeable to such of their con- atituents as may be travelling abroad. It would be hard, indeed, for the most enthusias- tic American to carry along such fellows as Forney and Pryor, or even to give any reason- able apology for their occupancy of the places they disgrace. The Market Rates of Public Virtuc at Albany aud Elsewhere, We print elsewhere a very comical article, published the other day in the Courier and En- quirer, and certainly one of the richest pieces of fan that has come from the pen of our mill- tary and diplomatic cotemporary for many day. It was altogether too good to be rolled up in a Wall street blanket, and we reprint it as one of the very best of recent contributions to the current comic literature of the day. The Chevalier Webb should be quite compe- tent to treat the question which is taken up in this article, from a broad, philanthropic stand point. For thirty years and more he has been “in the business,” in one way and another, and should be capable of telling us exactly the market price of the goods, of all kinds, from a fifty-two thousand dollar douceur to @ news- Paper editor; down to a ten dollar bribe for a school officer. We cannot deny that the Cheva- lier does give us some valuable information: His subject is the big Gridiron brought into the Senate by George Law. Of course he is very angry about the extensive utensil. He does not, however, say a word about the five or six nice little steaks which are broiling in the Assembly for somebody. Is it possible that Thurlow Weed is watching one of these little fellows, and will turn it over for the Chevalier Webb? As regards the Chevalier’s style, there are people who object to it. They cal) his distinc- tions absurd and his argument all nonsense, and say that he injured rather than helped his case; but we believe, with Sir Lucius O’Trig- ger, that when affection guides the pen he'd be a brute that would quarre) with the style. We admire Webb’s style. We always did. It is sui generis. He is like some clowns, who, without the smallest perception of wit or hu- mor, make the audience laugh at them by their utter and irrepressible stupidity. The Chevalier Webb goes to work mathema- tically to prove himself a donkey. He pro- ceede to tell us that Senatorial votes were bought for the Gridiron bill at from twenty- five to seventy-five thousand dollars each; that upon a test vote nine republicans and seven democrats voted for the iniquitous measure. And further, the comical Chevalier proceeds to argue that the republican party is a very vir- tuons and pure organization, because a greater proportion of democrats than republicans were bought up by the Law clique. Grand is the Chevalier when he says that “a majority of the republicans proved themselves incorruptible, honest and honorable men, when the enormous sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, well se- cured, was offered for a vote.” Wonderful chaps they must be. Astonishing fellows, who could resist such a temptation to commit official perjury, and “ become amenable to the penalty of ten years incarceration in the State prison.” Well may the Chevalier be proud of the virtuous fraction of his party, a greater fraction than that of the incorruptible Solons on the democratic side of the chamber. The way in which our contemporary ignores the fact that the repub- lican Senators outnumbered the democrats in the proportion of nearly four to one is as good as a play. Then look at his virtuous indignation:—“ No honest man will offer excuse or. apology for any legislator who can be induced to sell his vote.” That's true; that’s a wonderful dis- covery. Further, every debauched public ser- vant should “be made to serve ten years in the State prison, no matter to what party he may belong.” Good! But let us have enlarged prison accommodations, or a Governor like Clark. or King, or Seward. The factsin the case are all in favor of the integrity of the: repub- lian party, says the Chevalier, directly after stating that a considerable number of the Sena- tors on that side sold themselves out and out. It that does not reach the climax of absurdity, then we have no idea of what the article is. Come now to the grand heroic and magnani- mous peroration. The Chevalier will give “one word of justice’ to the two democratic Senators who voted against the bill. Irish vir- tue, in the person of Mr. Connolly, proved too much for the wiles of the seducer, though he offered seventy-five thousand dollars “ guaran- teed” (Webb emphasises that); and the repu- tation of Long Island was safe in the hands of Mr. Gardiner. Thus the Metropolitan Police District has two just men (at least two whose price has not been ascertained), who keep the Senatorial toga clean, and who may yet save it from the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, to which localities we are affectionately compared by the rural editors. Aad now, having finished with the Chevalier Webb’s argument that the republican party is virtuous hecause the democrats are corrupt, let us look for a moment at the wonderful rise which has taken place in fancy political pro- perty during the past few years. It is greater than the increase in the price of niggers, real estate, provisions, horses, dogs, or any other real or personal property. Since the discovery of the California mines, good, stout farm nig- gers have gone up from six or seven hundred dollars to fifteen hundred; fancy house servants, mechanics, &c., go for above two thousand, which is nearly double the former price. So with everything else. But the politicians beat all. According to the best data, there was a time when an Alderman could be had for fifty dollars; now, according to Brady, the price is two thousand, and they are not easy to be had at that. Congressmen are high, if we may be- lieve Seward’s friend Matteson. Legis- latures were, fortunately, quite low. The La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company bovght the assembled wisdom of Wisconsin fora song, and the business generally was looking well, when in comes George Law and bulls the market in a terrible way. Senators go up to seventy-five thousand dollars a piece, or one million and a-half for the lot which was purchased. However, that is not enough to tempt an immaculate Celt who graduated at Tammany, and carried to Albany the pure and upright principles imbibed from the sages of the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. I tabor and expoadtt"® must both be incurred, ! mundson and Hickman eploode, and the gens- ral behavior of members singe the session com- menceu, dur forslgn critics find ample ‘oppor Coal Hole. Ndr would the “enormous” sum cause a Long Island Senator to finch from his duty. If, as Sir Rodcrt Walpole said, “every man haé his price,” what is the figure of the unbought Sexatorst And is it going up any higher? Because, if s6, the business will become a monopoly, and as such it must be put down. We go for free trade in Senators, Aldermen, Councilmen, Congressmen, Assem- blymen, as well as in boots, hate, bonnets, coats and breeches. Give everybody a fair chance, and let us see if the increase of the price of niggers can’t be kept up to the mark of the average rise in the rates at which public officers are bought and sold. The Quarrels of the New York Dome- cracy=Their Hereditary Cause. ‘The dismissal of a weigher in the Custom House, who is one of the Mozart Hall delegates to Charleston, has led to quite am uproar among the New York democracy, opening afresh the old sores and exasperating recent enmitics. This employé, it appears, had his choice either of dismissal or to abandon his intention of going to Charleston; but he would not forego the latter, and he was, therefore, de- capitated. The local organ of Mozart Hall is savage upon the Collector, and threatens to expose a certain contract by which he is bound to act otherwise. The cause of the removal is traced directly to the influence of the poli- ticians of Western New York, who belong to the other democratic organization. This isa very pretty quarrel as it stands, and most edifying to the country, at such a crisis as that which at present impends over its destinies, The democracy of New York have long been the reproach of the party for their faction fights, and there seems to be no prospect of a termination to these miserable dissensions. We ha@ hoped, from the returns of the last elections, that by cordial union they might carry this State in the Presidential eleo- tion next fall, and thus perhaps be ‘ instrumen- tal in averting the danger which threatens the existence of the republic from the ascendency of the republican party. But these hopes are dissipated. The spirit of faction could not keep quiet for one month, and there is every probability of the quarrel being continued till the meeting of the Charleston Convention, and then to be transferred to that large theatre, as a source of division and distraction for the rep- resentatives of the whole democracy. But we sincerely hope that the New York delegates, every man of them, will be sent away with a rebuke that will serve them till after the Presi- dential election. It seems impossible that the democracy of this State can ever agree. There are many causes for this, but the principal one is that a clique at Albany inherit an opin- fon, from the time of the Van Buren dynasty, that they possess the entire wisdom of the party, and have a right to rule it with a rod of iron; and what makes the matter so remark- able is that in the séctions of the State which are blessed with the presence and influ- ence of these sage rulers, the democracy is always left in a minority. Knowing that they cannot carry majorities in their own counties, and fearing that the prominent men of the party in New York city, which does give ma- jorities, would naturally assert a right to a proper share in the control of the federal offices and the general management of the democratic affairs of the State, they invariably go to work to break these men down; and the moment one of them shows any ambition, or attains to popu- larity, they go instantly to work, either to bend or break him. If they cannot subdue him to their yoke, and make him go quietly in the traces, they doom him to the slaughter-house. They acted this part in the case of Dudley Selden, Gulian C. Verplanck and Ogden Hoff- man. They have also marked out for political destruction John Cochrane; and, in order the more effectually to accomplish their object, they have put him on their own ticket, so as to prevent his alliance with Wood, a team which might prove too strong for them. They are now playing the same confidence game with him that they played with Governor Wise, of Virginia, and, with the dexterity of trea- cherous Thugs, these political assassins will despatch him on the first opportunity. He will fever know anything about it till the noose is fast around his neck; and his only chance of escape, therefore, is to be always on his guard, and to keep them at arm’s length, till he can get out of their reach. With the Indian Thugs aesagsination is part of their religion. With the Albany Regency, to despatch a New York riva) is a fixed principle of greater obligation than aby of the ten commandments, and they have most religiously and scrupulously observed it upon all occasions. In recent years no man has become so obnoxious to them as Mayor Wood. It was by their influence he was de- feated in 1857. They tried to overthrow him again last December, but he beat them so badly that it is doubtful if they will ever recover from the effects of their defeat. Their prestige was overthrown, and they are now making the desperate con- vulsive efforts of cripples to retrieve their lost ground. The motto of the Albany Regency is “rule or ruin.” Like the Boston Post clique, who sway the New England States, in which they have no majorities, they do their utmost to de- moralize and break down the democratic party in New York city, in order that it may be re- duced to the same igvel as their own antisla very districts, and its majorities turned into minorities, that thus no leading democrat of the Empire City may have a chance of gaining an ascendency in the State. The instruamen- tality they use is division. Their maxim is, “Divide and rule.” Next, therefore, to nomi- nating the right man for the Presidency, the moet essential service the Charleston Conven- tion can render the democracy of this im- portant State, on which may hang as by 4 single hair the fate of the whole democracy, and of the Union itself, is to put down these in- eolent dictators, and quell the spirit of faction by sternly refusing to admit a single man of the delegates from the State of New York till they settle their quarrels among themselves, and come for admission in one harmonious band, ready to take counsel together as friends, and to present a united, unbroken front to the common enemy. Tar Brooxirx Ferry Leases —We see that the Supreme Court has postponed to the 22d of May next its judgment on the appeal from Judge Hogeboom’s decision in the case of the Brooklyn ferry leases. In the meanwhile the injunction is to be continued, which leaves the Legislature time to anticipate the principal poiat ia controversy. From the number of petitions which are dafly pouring in ia favor || of the One Cent F&rriage bill, there is uo rea & Sonsble ground to apprehend that the Assem bly win refxeeto pass it. The Union Compaay are making strenne®® *Morts to influence the Committee on Commerce am Navigation to re” port favorably to their interests, ut In pre- sence of such unanimous expressions of publi¢ feeling in support of the bill, they will hardly dare to report adversely toit, Should they be bold enough to do so, however, we believe that there is sufficient self respect left in the Assem- bly to prevent it compromising Itself on this measure. Where the justice of the cess is so patent, and where it is enforced by the @eneral opinion of the press and will hardly run the rick of ar on sation of har been the money of the monopo! EMixplerations in the Great West—The Northern Pacific Ratlway Ronte aud the Lander Wagen Road, We have received from” one of our corres- pondents on the Pacific coast a copy of « letter from Lieutenant Mullan, of the army, having in charge the explorations for the extreme northern Pacific route along the forty. ninth parallel, the material poimts of which we have published elsewhere. The explorations of Lieutenant Mullan will be found interesting. Pursuant to instructions from the War De- partment, the expedition left the States in April last, reached Oregon in May, or- ganized a competeat corps of operatives, &., and repaired to Fort Walla-Walla, Washington Territory, where, a more thorough formation ef the party being made, andthe military escort joining the expedition, they left for the Rocky Mountains, and haye now been absent aine months, most of the time being taken up in bridging streams, constructing boats, grading, felling timber, excavating mountain slopes, &e. The general direction after leaving Walla- Walla was in a line northward across the Snake river, thence along the valley of the Pa- louse, thence to she St. Joseph’s river to the “Coeur d’Aléne Mission,” reaching the latter point in the month of August. This mission fe at the entrance of one of the Rocky Mountain passes, and stands as a St. Bernard to the Alps, where the patient and toiling Jesuit has raised the standard of Christianity among the Indians, and where, amid snow and colds, and dreary, frowning mountains, the “children of the forest” are taught the praises of a great and good Oreator. The expedition, taking up their march from this place, worked through dense forests and over rivers for sixty miles, bridging streams, and making roads. This work of toil was continued till December last, when the snow and cold necessitated Lieutenant Mullam to suspend operations on theroute;and, halting in a mountain gorge, he set his men at’ work erecting log cabins, in which they are now pass- ing the inclement season and awaiting the opening of genial spring, when their intention is to move eastward towards the Missouri river. It is stated that there is now only a link of six hundred miles of land travel from the head of navigation on the Missouri to the Columbia by this route, and over this section a practicable military and emigrant road is now being com- structed. We make particular note of Lieutenant Mal- lan’s expedition, however, merely on account of the geographical and topographical infoe- mation it contains. There have been many expeditions over the vast plains and grand mountain passes of the West, but we are prac- tically no nearer to a Pacific railway than we were when old Bullion began to agitate the question in the Senate. The expeditions, from the time of the gallant and intrepid Lewis and Clarke down to the present time, have been, nevertheless, of immense service to the country in opening up the great region west of the Mis- sissippi. The country has donethe preliminary work carefully, and paid for it liberally. The re- sults of the lakors of Fremont, Carson, Beall, Bonneville, Cooke and others have enlightened us materially, and all the officers engaged im them deserve well of their countgymen. Dis- tinct from this view is another, with which, of course, the army has nothing to do. It is, however, important. It is the financial aspect of the matter. We hear of hundreds ofmillions of dollars spoken of as lightly as people gene- rally reckon sixpences or shillings. Where this money is to come from might be a serious question were it not for the prospect that the road, if it is built, will be constructed, like all great works of the kind, by private en- terprise, before government gets ready to act. Meanwhile, the cost of the official expeditions would make a pretty figure in the expense of the road. There is @ little item of nine hun- dred thousand dollars for the publication of eleven volumes of reports on this subject, ay be taken as a specimen brick of the whole edifice. At this rate the road would swallow up the income of the nation before its preliminary surveys have been completed. We have also received from Washington an abstract of the report made to the Interior De- partment by Mr. F. W. Lander, relative to the wagon road for Californian emigrants. The instructions from the Interior Depart- partment, of March 25, 1859, directed Mr. Lan- der to proceed to the frontier, thence to the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, to go over the road opened last year, make such improve- ment upon it as might be necessary; thereafter to proceed to Honey Lake Valley by the Hum- boldt river route, for the purpose of obtaining a continuous survey over the whole road aad further information of a route said to exist north of that river. The disbursement of the sum of five thea- sand dollars was placed under his directiom for the purpose of making peaceful arrange- ments with the Indian tribes, and to report to the Indian Commissioner, an abstract of which report has been published inthe Henan. It — scems, from the report, that thtee expeditions were in the field all the summer, under Mr. Lander’s charge; that one of these, under the direction of C. ©. Wrenshall, ® distinguished member of the expedition, was composed of Mormons and raised in Salt Lake City; that tha other expedition, distinct from his own, under the direction of W. H. Wagoner, an engi- neer, was an important edvance engi- neering party, which explored the whole unknown country north of Humboldt river. The main expedition, under Mr. Lander’s immediate charge, reached the South Pass on the 24th of June, 1859, During ite passage to that point large numbers of the re- turning and destitute emigrants to Pike’s Peak gold mines were metand relieved. These three expeditions were concentrated at ae 7 Aor Loader Claims that his wagon rosd for emigranty that bes been Gleqevered. The