The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1860, Page 6

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We publish elsewhere some additional details re- specting the captare of the Spauish-Mexican war steamers by the United States Gulf squadron, con- firmatory of the accounts previously received. The North Briton, from Liverpool 7th and Queenstown Sth inst, arrived at Portland yes- terday, bringing one day's later European news, The probsbility of a war between Austria and Pied- mont is discussed, and the last named Power is evidently preparing for the struggle, In Naples, Florence and the Rojan States great agitation con- tinued to prevail. The unsettled state of affairs had caused a decline in the Euglish funds, and a still further full is looked for. The war between the Moors and Spaniards has recommenced, and the Sultan has resolved to resist to the last. At Liver- pool the Awerican produce markets bad undergone no material change. By the arrival of the overland mail we have news from California to the 3d inst. The Demo- cratic State Convention for the choice of delegates to the Charleston Convention had been held. Neither of the factions ef the democracy were able to con- trol the convention. A ful! list of delegates was the j vi , | dent, adjourned until afternoon. _ rm lines met yesterday at Vouls after choosing Hon. James Guthrie Presi- ter sloop E. A. Johnson, of Islip, L. L, was found abandoned in the lower bay yesterday morning, ander ciryumstances which lead the police to believe that the captain and crew have | heen wurdercd and their bodies thrown overboard. fhe cabin of the vessel was covered with blood and buman heir, as also the deck, and the general appearance of things on board denotes that the | sloop bas been the scene of a sanguinary and despe- rate struggle. The E. A. Johnson was towed up por | to the city by the steamtug Ceres, and is now | moored in Fulton Market slip. The Coroner and | the police have the matter under investigation. For full particulars we would refer our readers to another column. The Commissioncrs of Emigration met yesterday afternoon. No business of importance was trans- acted. The special committe of the Board of Aldermen*| appointed to investigate the alleged contract for street cleaning entered into by Mayor Wood with R. A. Smith were to have met yesterday afternoon, but the City Inspector and Mr. Downing were the ouly parties present at the time appointed. ‘The Board of Education met last evening. We give a report of thelr proceedings in another co- tumn. Wendell Phillips delivered an address at the Cooper Institute last evening, on the subject of .“‘ Agitation Indispensable to Reform.” We give a full repert in our columns this morning. The demand for beef cattle was active yesterday, and the supply being light prices advanced half a cent a pound, ranging from 7c. to 10}c., with a few sales at a trifle above the outside price. Milch cows were very plenty and dull. Veals were steady at unchanged prices. Sheep and lambs were active at full prices. Swine were steady, at 6c. a Gie. for good to prime, and . a Ge, Aor other kinds. There were on sale 2,772 beef cattle, 235 mileh cows, 835 veals, 5,454 sheep and lambs and 2,290 swine. The cotton market continued dull yesterday, and sales were confined to a few hundred bales, on the basis of quotations given in another column. The recsipts at the porte have now reached 3,808,000 bales, which fs about equal to the entire crop of 1859—the largest ever befere known in the history of the country—and which, at au average vaiue of $50 per bale, gives sum equal to about $90,400,000, Estimates regarding the yield of the crop vary materiality. Som euppore that it will amount to 4,500,000 bales, which is probably an outside Ogure. Other calculations vary from 4,200,000 to 4,300,900 bales. The result will be influenood by the future receipts at New Orleans, and, whsihor thoy shall bo large or small, the market no doubt will be influenced in some degree by the character of the sea- son for planting this year’s crop. The floar market ex. nibited more tone, while sdles wore some larger for all kinds. Wheat was firmer, with modorate gales. Corn was heavy, and transactions limited. Pork was hoary and lower; sales of new mess were mae at $17 75 a $17 873,, and new prime at $14 873, a $14 50. Sugara were stendy, with sales of about 360 a 400 bhds, Cuba, 400 boxes and 840 bhds, molado, at rates given in another place. Coffee was firm but quiet. Freights were sicady, with fair amount of engagomonts at full rates. The New England Electtons—How to Carry Connecticut. In another page will be found an article from the New York Zribune on the New Eng- land elections, in which that journal maintains that the New Hampshire election did not go by default, but, on the contrary, that the con- servative vote was brought out to its fullest extent. The figures by which the Zribune tries to prove ils case are these:—In 1856 the whole selected, and among the resolutions adopted was one in favor of Daniel S. Di on for tho Presi- dency. There had been no arrival at Sau Fran- cisco from Atlantic porta, except the ship Hants- ville, from Boston. Commercial affairs remained much the same as previously reported, By way of New Orleans we have accounts from Havana to the 19th inst. Sugar was more active at slightly reduced rates, and freights were ad vancing. There was no general news of imper tance. In Congre ss yesterday the Senate passed tie House bill providing for the protection of female passengers on board emigract ships. A resolution calling on the President to inform the Senate if any instructions have been given to our naval offi- cers by which the United States naval forces were to take pert in the civil war in Mexico, and by what au ihe Mexican war steamers were re- cently ¢ red, was pted. The President was also called upon to cou jcate the correspon- dence that Las taken place with reference to the difficulties between the judicial fanctionaries of Utah Territory. The bill to reduce the | price of the public printing, and to regn- late the charges fo ing, &c., was taken up. The bill was amended so as to reduce the charges for printing twenty-five per cent below the present rates, the reduction to apply to all the public printing executed during the present session of Congress, except Post Office blanks; also that the binding shall be done by binders elected by Congress, and in that shape the bill passed. The Florida Claims bill was debated, and its farther consideration postponed till the 16th of April. In the House a resolution was proposed calling for information relative to the capture of the Mexican war steamers in the Gulf, but its introduction was objected to. The resolution of the Con tee on Elections, allowing Messrs. Sickles and Williamson time to take testimony respecting the allegations relative to the election in this city, was adopted. The Senate held an executive session yesterday, but we are not advised as to their proceedings. It is probable, however, that the Nicaragua treaty was under consideration, as it was sent to the Se- nate by the President. The proceedings of the Legislature yesterday are | interesting. Among the bills reported to the Se- | nate was one to provide for the better government | of schools in New York. Several bills were pass: | ed, among them that erecting the new connty of | Canisteo. The Governor sent ina veto of the bill | relative to the Society for the Reformation of Ju- venile Delinquents in the city of New York, anda vote being taken the bill was lost, 8 to 16. The | Metropolitan Police bill was made the special order | for next Monday evening. The New York and Erie Railroad bill 8 ordered to a third reading. An exe re ssion was held. | in the Assembly, among the bills reported, were | one to authorize New York to borrow money to | increase the supply of Croten water, one to repeal | the Commissioners of Record act, to authorize a | city railroad, to facilitate the collection of debts | 1S BOF even of Mayor Wood, though they may | p, against corporations, relative to recovery of rent | and demised premises, to amend the matic Asylum act, to aid by A Lake Ontario Railroad, to city railroads in Rochester. The Railroed Toll bill was re. | ceived from the Senate and the principal amend. | ments nonconcurred in. Tae Honse, ia Com mittee of the Whole, considered the Persona | Liberty bill. The bill to remove the obstructions | vote was 71,556; in the present year it isnearly 71,500; therefore a tull vote was polled at the last election. Now, these figures prove the very contrary of that for which they are pro- duced. The vote is somewhat less at this elec- tion than it was four years ago, whereas, al- lowing for natural increase in population, it ought to be at least 5,000 more. The Zribune admits that the full vote would count 75,000 A full vote has not, therefore, been polled; the conservative element has held back, and the election has gone by default, through the ma- | tions of the Boston Post clique, who de- sire to see the democracy defeated, ia order that, like the Albany Regency, they may retain iheir influence and power in the matter of j. It is clear that there in New Hampshire ut in the recent contest, offices and spoils. is a reserve vote which was not called | but which will be polled in the great irrepres- sible conflict of next November, as it was in the Presidential struggle of 1856, and may turn the scale of victory to the right side. There is another point which the Zridnme dis- putes in reference to the coming election in another New England State. It says Connec- ticut will not be prevented from going repub- lican in the ensuing contest by any considera- tion arising from loss of Southern custom, in- | asmuch as she never had any market worth mentioning for her clocks, her carriages, or her “ notions” of any kind, south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and nine-tenths of her goods have hithertoveen sold to jobbing houses in New York. Now, supposing this to be true, as it literally ie, it does not alter the argument one iota, nor take away the most powerful motive that can operate upon a Yankee, who, according to Wendell Phillips, would jump over hell's open mouth fora dollar at the other side. The jobbing houses of New York, from the number of three hundred to five hundred, purchase Connecticut goods, and they sell them to the South. But if the Sonth will not buy these goods from New York houses, then is it not plain that the industrial interests of Connecticut will, be affected by the with- drawal of the Southern trade! and in poiat of fact do not the Connecticut manufactarers already fvel the Joss, and have they not been agitating a conservative movement for the pur- | pose of restoring confidence to the Sonth? | But confidence fs not restored to the South, and will not be, till it is accomplished by a revolution at the ballot box. How is this tar | be done? Not by the speeches of Caleb Cush- | do good in their way, but by the three or four hundred jobbing housesin New York. In what | way? By sending ont their confidential agents, | not to make speeches, nor to make their appear- ance in public in any shape or form, but to visit the manufacturers privately, and repre- sent to them the common rain that awaits the | industrial interests of Connecticut and the in Harlem river and builda free bridge over the | cde of New York if the Southern castom, aame was passed, motion ¥y Mr. Varian to re | which has so much declined, should be alto- commit to assess thirty thousand dollars on New , &¢ther withdrawn, in consequence of the per- York and twenty thousand dollars on Westchester | Sistence of the New England States in their county being voted down. The various New York | hostility to the institutions of the South. The city railroad bills were made the special order for | jobbing houses of this city onght to hold a today. | private meeting, and despatch their trusty A convention of the managers of the leading | agents to make this appeal to the pockets, Eastern railway lines was he'd yesterday at the yhich if properly urged, will be stronge fe y ’ ger than 8t. Nicholas Hotel, for the purpose of establishing | any argument that can be offered he si a uniform time table, in order to insure prompt | F Li nites and reliable connections with the Western lines, | naticism. After perfecting an organization and appoioting a ot * committee, with iastructions to report a guitable | ald and under the influence of the New York time table for adoption, the convention adjourned | Jobbing houses, can control the election, carry tut tomorrow at ten o'clock. A similar conven.’ the Seymour ticket next month, aud broak the Thus the manufacturing interest. with the j | cordon of New England States, which stood to- gether for republicanism and in hostile attitude against the rights of the South. Such tri- umph of the conservative ticket in April would be the earnest of victory in the same State next fall; apd the example of Connecticut would have a most decided influence upon all the Middle States, while it would tend to re- assure the South and calm down that danger- ous excitement which has driven it to the very verge of disunion, and may at any moment precipitate its crossing of the fatal Rubicon from which there is no return; and then woe to Connecticut and all the New England States. The Mexican Complications—The True Cause and Probable Results. The gross neglect-and inaction exhibited by Congress in all matters regarding our foreign relations, for the past three years, are not only producing an extraordinary series of compli- cations, but are germinating causes that may culminate in the dissolution of the Union. Such a complication as that which now at- tends the Mexican question has never before been wiinessed. An insurgent s:my in pos- session of the capital of that republic, violating the rights of foreign residents, insulting our diplomatic representative for defending our citizens, and driving him from the country, and now using its utmost exertions to expel from Vera Cruz the legitimate and constitutional authorities of the republic. Growing out of this state of things, and our coterminous re- lations with Mexico, we haye now pending before the Senate at Washington, and ex- posed to the blind hostility of the black republican Senators, the most advantageous and important treaty of friendship and commerce that has ever been presented to that body. Besides these, a frontier excitement has been produced in Texas, calling for a filibuster movement against the neighboring republic, the separation of Texas from the Union, and the creation of a new confederacy, in conjunc- tion with some of the States of Northern Mexico; and to complicate still further our re- lations, we have the recent necessary landing of marines at Minatitlan to protect our citizens, and now the capture of two corsair ships in the Gulf of Mexico, which assumed the right to es- tablish blockades and harass the commerce of those seas. Coincident with these events there is the diplomatic intervention at Vera Cruz of the British naval commander in the Mexican waters, the machinations of a speculating French Minister in the city of Mexico; and, to crown ajl, the manifest connivance of the Spanish authorities in Cuba, in permitting the outfit at Havana of armed corsairs to cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. These extraordinary complications have grown out of the gross and wilful neglect of Congress to attend to our foreign relations, notwithetanding the urgent calls of the Presi- dent for the last three years; and not only is our national honor seriously compromised, and the respect due to our flag and the safety of citizens and their interests everygvhere abroad endangered, but our own domestic relations are thereby disturbed, and the Union itself placed in jeopardy. The insults that have been heaped upon us by the usurping government of Miremon in Mexico cannot be passed over with safety or with self-respect. If we refrain from exacting reparation for the past and en- fercing security for the future, the example of that insurgent leader will find imitators in a thousand places, and the very name of Ameri- can will become the synonyme of contempt throughout the world. Suppose, too, that Con- grees refuses to rouse itself to the contempla- tion of the present exigencies and to apply the remedy, and that Gov. Houston proceeds with his mad scheme of taking matters into his own hands and crossing the Rio Grande. Thereare thousands upon thousands of young, hardy and brave men in every State of this Union ready to rush to the new scene of adventure, and seek fame and fortune in the founding of a military confederacy beyond our borders. Nor is it certain that such a confederacy would always be beyond the Rio Grande. Whoever watches with impassioned eye the great moral currents that are surging through this Union will clearly see what States now forming part of our galaxy would seck to eater a Southern confederation. Here are the seeds of death to the Union, destruction to the brotherhood of the North | ond South, annihilation to their commercial relations, and, should the fanatic idea that now surges through the Northern Siates continue to rule them, a fraternal war would ensue which would drench the continent in blood, and be- fore which the petty anarchy of Spanish America would pale toa semblance of peace, and the conflicts of the nations of Europe would seem to be the very dictates of forbear- ance and mercy. Inthis emergency Congress must throw off its stupor, and resolve to act. The Senate must ratify the pending treaty with Mexico, provision must be made for frequent and constant postal communications with that republic, and the war which Miramon and his partisans have so long proclaimed against us and ours must be accepted as a fact, and steps be at once taken to crush the insolent faction. | The course of the Spanish authorities in Cuba, | In violating the comity of nations and permit- | ting the outfit of partisan corsairs, under their | very eyes, in the port of Havana, to vex and plunder the commerce of the American Mediterranean, should be at once made the subject of earnest investigation, and Spain her- | self brought toa knowledge of the fact that she cannot insolently interfere with and expose to danger our vast and preponderating interests in these regions of the world. In this emergency it will also become ihe resident to send a message to Congress, lay- ing before that body the exact position of af- | fairs, and stating the course that should be pursued. If Congress will not act on it the | people will. The country is tired of seeing the | Executive power cut down to a mere expres- | sion, incapacitated for action in any of our | foreign relations for the defence of our national | honor or for the protection of the indi- | vidual rights of our citizens abroad. If the giving or the denial of these necessary powers | to the President is to depend upon his personal | opinion whether a nigger is as good as a | white maa or not, it is time that the people | knew the fact and expressed an opinion on it, | The position that the black republican Senators have taken on the question of the ratification _ of the treaties with Nicaragua and Mexico | smounis to this and no more. Works ron Wexpen. Patuuirs axp Courayy.— | There are some fifty-seven colored persons now | waiting in this city to start for Yoruba, Africa \ The cance of their detention is want of funds NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. necessary to the undertaking, Among the number are three miuiaters of the Gospel. The object of this party is to star) a Christiaa indus trial settlement in Africa, and to attempt to | civilize its inhabitants. From the card of the corresponding secretary, A. A. Constantine, we see that a direct appeal is made to the philan | thropist. It appears to us, then, that those gentlemen who are lecturing in this city aud elsewhere could have no better chauce to prove their sincerity in the cause of anti-slavery than by contributing freely to this undertaking. Fashionable Amusements—An Operatic Irrepressible Conflict Ahead, The fashionable world, stagnating in the desert of mid Lent, deprived of its party, its Opera, or its dancing tea, is fain to live just now upon the hope of what is to come next month. Now, while the politicians are knee deep in excitement, and the merchants up to their eyes in business, society proper is doing nothing. Society is, in fact, ina state of mas- terly inactivity. Society would like to doa little shopping; but the dust in Broadway makes a journey over the desert of Sahara a comparatively easy task compared to a trip from the Fifth Avenue Hotel to Canal street, now the outpost of civilization, in a pro- menading point of view. Therefore, society does the pevitential, and gets ready for a grand outbreak when the spring is fairly opened. We are close upon that auspicious vernal season; that delightful period when the song of the birds, and the perfume of the violets, and the murmurs of the brooks, are happily commingled with souvenirs of catarrhs and rheumatics, and shad at terrific prices, and Downing’s splendid oysters when those of every one else were never so poor, and sus- Picious, veal and attenuated lamb at two shillings per pound or upward, and strikes and umbrellas and nasty streets, and“ many other things with which the etherial mildness of the gentle goddess is more or less tempered or acidulated, as the case may be. We account the opening of spring from Easter Monday, which falls this year on the 9th of April. The season promises to bea busy one in every way. Trade, especially in dry goods, flourishes more bravely than ever. The Southern orders which have been diverted from Boston and Philadelphia have more than made up for the few that were withheld from the metropolis, and which latter must come, directly or indirectly. As trade will be lively, the fash- ionable world, which rests here almost entirely upon a mercantile basis, is sure of plenty of money to carry on the war with till next winter. The consequence is that we may expect to see lively times in April, May and Jane, with a fair prospect for a busy summer. Next month the city will be thronged with Strangers; the hotels, churches, theatres and all other places of public resort will be thronged, and the metropolis will wear its brightest aspect. The Opera managers, as well as thé hotel and shopkeepers, are preparing for the new seagon. Ullmann and Strakosch are just now at Washington, where, it is to be hoped, the dulcet tones of little Patti's voice will soothe the savage breasts of the Capitol into at least an outward semblance of decency. The whole company is to return here in season to open at Irving place on Easter Monday. At the same moment Maretzek, with all his forces, has returned from Havana, having finished the work of musically celebrating the taking of Tetuan, and proposes to pitch his tent in the Winter Garden, and give the Academy na- bobs batile with the fiddleand thebow. As Ma- retzek and Ullmann are as fond of quarrelling asapy Irishman at a fair, and are never so happy as when they arein a row, it seems very probable that hostilities will really be com- menced. Maretzek, in addition to his former troupe, has some new artists, the principal ad- dition being Madame Fabbri, who is expected to make a great sensation. She has just come from South America, and brings strong recom. mendations from Madame Lagrange. Against Maretzek, Ullmann and Strakosch have the prestige of the Academy—which is a great deal for the Opera—as well as several very popular artists, including Patti, pet of the public, and they purpose making some new engagements. Among other movements, it is underatood that Signor Muzio is negotiating with Frezzo- lini for her early appearance at the Academy. Frezzolini, it will be recollected, came to this arcwned in mud or half stifled with dust. As to the city government—God save the mark!— it does nothing to avert either fate. Tus Fort Wasuixeron Jos iw Tak Lecis- Laine. Never, perhaps, had New York a Le- gislature which developed so many rascally jobs, of eyery shape and size, as the present one, There is Law’s mammoth Gridiron Rail- road job, which fortunately bas been knocked on the head; then there are the other five little gridiron, which it is expected may be run through, because they only represent jobbing on the retail principle; the West Washington Market job, the Harbor Masters job, and a host of others follow; and lastly comes the Fort Washington street opening job—the most cor- rupt of all. This scheme was introduced by an incorruptible Senator of the Tammany party, and its object is to make money for a few indi- viduals out of the property owners in that dis- trict. Curious enough, the pretext upon which the bill is introduced is a memorial from some of the property holders; but this memorial Las lecnsihentitieelie dt aa entirely to decide whether we shall be nate! Pbillips buys the Ne #, York Times Jn the car: cnly prays that nothing shall be done towards cutting up and defacing the land in that vicini- ty; it aske that no streets and avenues at all shall be opened there for two or three years to come. Now, itis evident that no bill is re- quired from the Législature to provide for doing nothing. The owners of property sim- ply want the land to be let alone as it stands, because they are convinced that no streets or avenues are required fhere at present, and when they are it will be time enough to legis- late them into existence. But this is not the worst part of the busi- ness, As the commission now stands, the names ofa few respectable men appear on it; but before fhe bill passes both houses they will be removed—wiped ctean out—or if they are suffered to remain on the commission, these gentlemen will be hoodwinked and bam- boozled by the secret plotters of the job, who are behind the curtain. This is essentially a republican Legislature. It is the first in which the republicans have had a good working majority in both houses, and for the time it is in session it has given examples of more corruption, rascality and rapacity than any Legislature that ever before sat in Albany. It exhibits a rapacity for spoils as fierce as that of hungry wolves after catile. The republicans are now about to hold a con- vention and select a candidate for the Presi- dency. The first choice of the New York re- publicans, and it may be the favored standard bearer of the party generally, is a New York Senator—W. H. Seward. What do they ex- pect to gain fer him by the reputation of the New York republican Legislature? Will not the people say, ifthe corruption, the infamy, the disgrace affixed to the Legislature of New York be a sample of republican political -mo- rality, how can you ask us to place the leader, counsellor and guide of your party in the bighest point of dignity and honor at our com- mand to bestow? Progress or THE Fixe Ants—ORratory IN A New Paase—Wenpe1t Pariiss.—The fine arts have made rapid progress in this couptry in recent years. Painting, drawing, sculpture, poetry, music and the drama are cultivated among us with more or less taste. These are every day calling forth criticiems—good, bad and mediocre. But there is a new art which has hitherto escaped the attention of the critics and connoisseurs, and it has been brought to per- fection at a single bound by Wendell Phillips. From the days of Xantippe, the wife of Socrates, to the present time, scolding has con- tinued in a rude state, and till now never de- served the name of art. It was reserved for the genius of a New England Xantippe in breeches to elevate it to such a degree as to claim for ita place among the fine arts, Mr. Phillips quotes Emerzon—another genius of the Puritanical stock—to the effect that a New Englander has more brains in his hands than any other man in his head. Phillips has got more brains in the “free lips’ which he says his mother gave him than any celebri- ty known to history. Dancing is described as the poetry of motion, The oratory of Wendell Phillips is the poetry of scolding. Thersites could not hold a candle to him. Phillips is Juvenal, Horace, Junius, Pope and Swift rolled into one. He has sublimated and etherialized country in 1857, with a first class European re- putation. Owing to her illness and a combi- nation of other unfortuitous circumstances, this artist did not make a very great sensation, and returned to France. After ashort absence Frezzolini revisited the United States last sum- mer. It is very probable that Frezzolini will be pitted against Pabbri, in which case there will be a most interesting contest. It is under- stood that Frezzolini has been for some time under the care of a very distinguished physi- cian in this city, and has entirely recovered her health, that her voice is in perfectly good con- dition, and that she is prepared to take the ficld in as prime order as when she made her early ‘successes in Italy, or carried the Pari- sians into the seventh heaven of enthusiasm. So between the Frezzolini arf the Fabbri there will be a grand artistic tournament. If it were possible, now, for the Democratic Na- tional Committee to change the place of meet- ing for the Convention from Charleston to New York, our epring season would be the gayest of the gay. Ifthe politicians became inharmoni- ous we could appease them with the Opera, and while we have a Washington Market they never. need fear that the provisions will run ehort. With the two Operas, and the Conven- tion, and the influx of Southern, Western and Eastern traders—to say nothing of the “rest of mankind” who land here in great numbers every day—the commercial, artistic, literary, scientific and journalistic metropolis of the Union would present such views of social life, and such curious and amusing admixtures of the manners and customs of the people of the civilized world, 9s could scarcely be matched in any great city of Christendom. A Preasant Aurersative—Suant. We pe Drownep ex Stircev—The condition of the city is falling back into its old abominations again. By a sort of galvanic operation Broad- woy is made clean now and then, but all the other streets present the alternative of a cloud of dust or @ sea of filth, according as the weather changes. When it rains they are im- paseable for mud and slush, and when they dry up, as they do very rapidly at this season, they become insufferable from dust, which, like the and of the desert in a simoom, penetrates the eyes, nostrils and lungs of the traveUer, to the great detriment of health and life, Thus we are leit to the mercy of chance gad the weather Billingsgate—purifying it from its vulgarity, and making it almost divine. He finds fault with all things in heaven ‘and carth, and the place below; but so classical and elegant is his satire that the object of it feels delighted, even when his throat is ent. It is evident that nothing can please hin— neither God, nor man, for womas,Nor govern- ment; but then his censure is couched in such exquisite poetry that it is a pleasure to re- ceive abuse from his honeyed tongue. He says “the best and ablest statesmen in the coun- try”—the man whom the party of Phillips in- tends to support for the Presidency—has com- mitted deliberate perjury at least a dozen times in swearing to stand by the constitution; but then this charge is conveyed in such lan- guage as to amount to a happy “compliment.” Washington, Jefferson and Co. are represented as a set of blockheads, or worse; but then they meant no harm, and were good men and aboli- tionists. Webster made a terrible wreck of himself, but then he had “the heaviest brain on this continent.” The whole clergy of New England are but appendages to rich men’s kitchens, and their opinions bought like Con- necticut clocks; but then the clergy have done good in times gone by, and they have given birth even to a Phillips. The country grows worse and worse every year. There is no se- curity for life or limb, or property or liberty, and no free speech. But the beat remedy for such misgovernment is anarchy and chaos. The whole political and social fabric ought to be pulled down; and as for reconstruct- ing it, that is none of his business, and is a matter of noaccount. All Phillipscares for, as he candidly declares, is to teardown. Let negro slavery be abolished, though twenty-six millions of white men should perish. He glories in destruction, and desires to be identified with it, like the individual who set fire to the great temple of Diana of the Ephesians that his name might be immortalized in connection with the conflagration. There is nothing too great or too small for the sweep of his versatile, flexible tongue, which, like an elephant’s trunk, can pick up the finest needle or clutch and crash the human form. Even the slippery “little villain,” who, like the “little joker” of the thimble-riggers, when you think you have him under one cup, mocks your senses and shows himself under another, is not too insignificant for ‘his notice. merely to see on what days it comes out fo) republicanism, and on what days against it. If this genius will take our advice, be wil make more monéy by lectures than Lincoln Let him give legtures or lessons in scolding «i $5 each for every pupil. Rarey has made fortune by decturing on the art of tamiag un raly horees; let Wendell Phillips give lectures| on that “unruly member which no man cae tame,”’ and he will soon realise as much moucy as will make a very handsome contribution to the fund which is now being raised for ibe “insurrection in the mountains,” which hesays will take place during the next four years, if @ democratic President should be elected. He the greatest master of the art of scoldiog ig ancient or modern times. | Tux Sunpay Amusement Biu.—Discomrrrurs OF THE SanpaTaRtans.—We are rejoiced to fini that Governor Morgan has vetoed the Sanday Amusement bill. This step has been prompte¢ by the same good sense and judgment whick have characterized several other of his official acts. If he would add to the credit that he has obtained by them, he would veto, in the event of their passing the Legislature, the five city railroad bills which are now before the Assen bly. As the result of infamous combinations to deprive the city of its most valuable fran- chises, an honest executive is specially bouad to mark them with his disapproval. Now that the efforts of the Sabbatarians have received this signal check, it becomes @ matter for consideration whether it would not be welt to-press at once for the removal from our statute books of Sunday laws altogether. They have notonly been shown to be pructically useless fer the objects contemplated by their promoters, but they do more harm than good by engender- ing a spirit of reaction. If greater reliance were placed on the good sense and self respect of the masses, we believe that there would be no occasion whatever for _ interference with the consciexces and rights of individvals. It is perbaps too late in the pre- sent sestion to introduce a bill for the repeal of these odious enactments; but with the cx- ample set by the veto of a republican Gover- bor, we have no doubt that ia the next there will be a reasonable hope of passiogit. In the meantime, much my be done towards practically superseding them. All the ra‘l- roads radiating from New York should take the initiative in emancipating our citizens from the annoyance of these foolich and tyraanioal restiictions. Let the Camden and Amboy, the Frie, the Hudson River, the New Haven, the cin and the Long Island railways, rua trains every hour on Sunday during the ensuing summer, and they will be doing a more acceptable service to God and man than the efforts of all the religious fanatics of our city have as yet accomplished. They will also be conferring an important benefit on them- selves, for we believe these Sunday excursion trains would prove one of their steadiest and most profitable sources of revenue. Notwithstanding the demonstrations that have been gotten up amongst the retired sinners of our mercantile aristocracy in favor of the Sunday Amusement bill, we believe that pub- lic opinion is ripe for these changes. Sensible people see that more crime is induced by con- fining the working classes to the pestijential aimoephere, moral as well as physical, of this dirty, unbealiby and ill-managed city, than by allowing them facilities of egress into the country, and the free enjoyment of those inno- cent and healthful blessings without which man is reduced to the condition of a mere machine, Bank Presents anp LopryMey.—In another column will be found a spicy letter from Mr. G. W. Stanton, one of the directors of the Bank of Central New York, in reply to the explana- tion published by the famous lobbyman O. B. Matteson, of the recent charges preferred against the latter in connection with that insti- Aution. Mr. Stanton asserts that the two notes, for $2,750 and $2,800 respectively, which Mr. Matteson had discounted at the Metropolitan Bank, of this city, as President of and in behalf of the Central Bank of New York, never went on the books of the latter institution, and were never heard of there until the trans- action was exposed by him (Mr. S.) to the other directors. At a meeting of the Board, convened at the yequest of Mr. Stanton, on the 24th of February, to consider Mr. Matte- son’s conduct, he says that the latter acknow- ledged that his (Stanton’s) statement was true, and that he had been guilty of what he mildly called “a technical irregalarity.”” An exami- nation of the books, however, showed that the affair of the bills was not the only ‘irrega- larity” of which he was guilty, for his account stood then overdrawn by more than nine hun- dred dollars. As bank directors do not much like to have matters of this kind bruited abroad, it was ultimately agreed by the Board that the resolution proposed by Mr. Stanton for Matteson’s removal would be withdrawn on condition that by the 25th of February he would make his account good, and place in the cashier’s hands satisfac- tory security for the discount at New York. On the following Tuesday, finding that the matter still remai;..! unsettled, Mr. Stanton returned to Utica uad a meeting of the directors called fi ‘allowing day, at which the reso- lution of | val was unanimously passed. It ‘was agre + wever, that the resolution should not bem. vblic until the Monday, in order to enable |... Matteson to secure the bank and resign the presidency, should he see fit to do so. Some other curious allegations are made by Mr. Stanton in reference to Mr. Matteson’s transactions with the bank generally; but for these we refer our readers to the letter itseif. Mr. Stanton’s statement, it should be added, is certified by the cashier and Mr. Rice, the direc- tor whom Matteson asserted had dissented from the resolution of removal. The only comment that.we have to make upon the above is, that if banks and other pub- fic institutions will put notoriovs lobbymea into places of trust they must expect to mect with these little “technical irregularities.” These gentry live by the breach of social and legislative proprieties, and it would be rather too much to ask of them to carry into positions of financial responsibility an amount of deli- cacy and scrupulousness which is foreign ta their habits. Democratic Fevps w Virosis ann New Yorx—How To Serre ‘Tue. —On another paga we publish an article from the Richmond Whig, giving an account of the progress of the fead between the Wise and Hunter factious of the democracy in Virgivia, from which it appears that though Wise is rather the stronger maa 43752,