The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFYICB N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. RAMS, cash in advance. Money sent by mail will Le at the wider e'smdlers” Podage sainps wot received as subscription THE DAILY HERALD too cents per 1, ST per annum, THE WERKLY UERALD, coory Saturday at wr conts per copy, or 83 per unmum; the Enrapean Edition every Wednesday, Bi riz cents per copy, $4 per anmun 10 any part of treat Britain, or $610 any part of the Continent, both to include postage; the California Hatsion on the Wh of cach month as siz cents or $1 fW per annum, PPM FAMILY WERALD on Wednesday, at four conts per of $2 per unrvem VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENOR, containing important | Jron any quarter of the world; used, will be | Yor. 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Subseriptions and advertizemeats for avy edition of the New Yor Heratp will be received at the following places: tn Europe :— Sampson Low, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill Jansing, Starr & Co., 74 King William street. Lansing, Balawin & 8 place de la Bourse. Tacuing, Starr & Oo., 9 Cuapel street. R. Stuart, 10 Exchange » Bast. Lansing, Baldwin & Oo., 21 rie Corneille. Hascwwxe. .. be Chapeauronge & Co. Tho contents of the Evnorrax Rortox of tie Weraup ‘will combine the nows received by mail and telegraph at ‘the office during the previous week and up to the hour of pablication. The The News. By the arrival of the Bohemian at Portland we have intelligence from Europe four days later than previous advices. Italian affairs were still in an unsettled and feverish condition, and nothing had been definitely sgreed upon as to their future destiny by the great Powers. The question of the annexa- tion of Savoy to France still agitated political cir- cles, and an excited debate had occurred in the House of Commons on the subject. The second campaign against the Moors had been commenced, and an attack on Tetuan vigorously Tepulsed by the Spanish forces. The Moors were evincing a flerce spirit of resistance, and great pre- parations were making for the defence of Tangier. Telegraphic advices from China to the 30th January report teas quiet and in small supply. Silks were firm. The demand for money at Loudon continued active, and the market had somewhat improved. At Liverpool the cotton market closed active and steady. But little doing in provisions; breadstufls quiet and ateady. We have news fro: Vera Craz to the 15th inst, The military conference had been dissolved, and the siege of the city recommenced. The conference agreed upon an armistice, but the Juarez govern ment disapproved of its terms, because they did not sufficientty guarantee the constitution of 1857. We have news from Venezuela to the 6th inst, The government forces had succeeded ia defeating the troops of Falcon and Sotillo, in the vicinity of Ban Fernando, the former retreating with about a thousand men towards Portuguesa, and the latter, ‘with a smalier force, in the direction of Barcelona, Congress would soon meet, a quorum of represen- tatives being present at Caracas. It was believed that Tovar would be elected President by the popular vote. He had addressed an urgent request to Gen. Paez to return to the country. The interest felt in the oyster sloop tragedies still pervades the public mind. Numbers visited Johnson in the Tombs yesterday, among whom were his wife, and an artist, who took a cast of his head for public exhibition at some place of amusement. He stil maintains his cheerfulness and composure, and does not appear to apprehend the least danger from the serious charge against him. Jackalow, the Chinaman, accused as the perpe- trator of the murders on the Spray, still remains in the Jersey City prison. He will be examined by a United States Commissioner this morning, and probably sent to Trenton for trial. Jackalow ap- pears to be in high spirits,and enters freely into conversation. He was yesterday visited by an offi- cer who was attached to the Japan expedition of Commodore Perry, and who was on the steamer Mississippi when Jackalow was taken on board from one of the Loo Choo Islands. Our report, giving interesting details of that affair,and such other facts as have been developed in relation to the prisoner, will be found claewhere. Arrangementa have been made at St Joseph, Mo., to run a weekly express, commencing on the 3d of April next, to Virginia City, the first station on the California telegraph line, in eight days. ‘The express rates are not yet fixed, but the tariff for telegraphing the first ten words to any point n California is two dollars, each additional word ten cents. ‘The bill to increase and regulate the pay of the Bavy was discussed in the Senate yesterday. Seve- ral amendments and substitutes were offered, but no definitive action was had upon the subject. The Honse was principally occupied in the considera- tion of the bill to provide for the greater security of the lives of passengers on steamers. The sub- ject was finally laid over for further consideration, The primary republican elections of this city took place last evening in the different wards, for the purpose of selecting delegates to the State Conven- tion at Syracuse, which is to be held on the 18th of April. This Convention will elect the delegates to the Chicago Convention, to assemble on whe 16th of May. The shoemakers of New York held a meeting at the Cooper Institute last night to sympathize with the Lynn strikers. The room was nearly half filled, aad specches were delivered by Mr. Draper, a i r ¥ NEW YORK. HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1860.—TRIPLE -SHERT. delegate from Lynn, Horace Greeley and others. Over ove hundred and twenty dollars were collect- ed from the Tailors’ Benevolent Union of this city, and one bundred dollars from another society, in | aid of the strike, and the meeting adjourned with | cheers for the Union and the grand labor move- ment. A fall report appears in another column. A communication was received by the Almshouse | Governors, at their meeting yesterday, from Wm. J. Haskett, Chairman ef the Excise Board, inform- | ing them that $9,930 have been placed in the City | Treasury for the benefit of the poor. The money | is that paid for licenses by liquor dealers in the year 1859. Governor Oliver stated that the action | of the Board on the contract for heating the Island Hospital, which was taken last evening, was a con- tradiction to that part of the article in last Friday's Tribune which charged corruption on the mem- bers of the Board in that matter. Our report con- tains the remarks of the Governor on this subject, The nomber in the institutions now is 8,003, a de- crease of 4 for the week. Captain E. B. Mallet, of the ship John Cottle, was put on trial yesterday in the United States Circuit Cow? sharged with the murder of John H. Perry, first sc of the Cottle. The jury acquitted the p ‘Captain Mallet, and four of his brothers, who ‘e present, were moved to tears on the ren- f the verdict, and his wife, a young and in- j teresting woman, was deeply affected. ‘The case of James Shepard, who is charged with arson in the first degree, was called on yesterday in the General Sessions, but was postponed till this (Wednesday) morning, in consequence of the ab- sence of an important witness for the defence. It will be remembered that two years ago Shepard was tried and convicted of this offence and sen- tenced to be executed, but the Court of Appeals granted a new trial. The Engineer corps of the Seventh regiment have organized themselves into an artillery Com- pany, under Captain Viele, and will probably make their déit as such at the Fashion Course parade drill this spring. ‘The news by the Bohemian, received yesterday by the press, tended to depress the market for cotton; but e despatches subsequently received gave accounts ater period of a more favorable character, which for a time a better feeling. The sales embraced t 1500 bales, closing mainly on the basis of quota given in another cotmmn. Flour was heavy and with s moderate demand from the domestic trade; ceseriptions of medium and common grades about tive cents per barrel lower. Wheat wnchanged acd sales quite smsil. Corn with free sales within the range was was more active of neces given in another piace. Pork was rather firmer for mese, with tolerably free sales, both ou the spot and for tuture delivery, including new mess at $13, and new Mt $14 25a $14 S74;. Sugars were stoady and les Of about 1,400 a 1,500 hhds., 500 boxes Havans, end 9,009 a 10,000 bags Manila, at rates given in another piacs. Coffee was quiet but firm. Freights were steady. Among the engagements were some 13,000 busuels corn, it bulk and in bags, for Liverpool, ongpri- vate terme, Probable Action of the Charleston Con- vention—The Skies Clearing. In carrying out our invariable rule to give all sides a fair chance, we have printed, in our impression of to-day, several extracts from the democratic presses bearing upon the question as to who shall be selected as the standard- bearer of the party in the coming Presidential canvass. In these extracts both the Douglas and the anti-Donglas clique are represented, the former by Forney’s Philadelphia Press, and the latter by the fire-eating Charleston Mercury, a very influential journal in what Mr. Seward calls the capital States. A third clique, which regards Douglas as a dead cock in the pit, finds an organ in the Washington Star, which gently ambles General Joe Lane up and down the Presidential course, saying we are not exactly in the market, but if you wish for a very supe- rior article, the thing might possibly be ar- ranged. All these indications, as well as our private correspondence, from reliable sources, go to show that the leaders of the democratic party are beginning to see their way more clearly, and that as the time for the assembling of the Convention draws near, we approxi- mate some definite idea as to its line of action, which, as a matter of course, is mathematically marked out beforehand. Like their opponents, the democrats have been a little bothered with a multiplicity of candidates. Over twenty gen- tlemen, all upright and able statesmen—all sound upon the principles of the democratic party—reprecenting all sections, here, there and everywhere, all ready and anxious to dispense the loaves and fishes to the true believers, have been put forward by their friends, and have had guaranteed, beyond all question, more votes than the Convention will have members, But as the time waxes brief before the eventful day shall dawn, the twenty patriots drop off, one by one, and the unterrified seem to be set- tling down upon five or six of the most popular leaders. From that residuum the Convention | will have no particular difficulty in selecting a strong man. Under all these circumstances, the position of Senator Douglas becomes an object of eeri- ous consideration. He will go into the Con- vention with from seventy to one hundred votes, leading the poll, probably, on the first ballot. The anti-Douglas men go with their strength divided between several candidates, and they will scatter upon Guthrie, Dickingon, Hunter, Breckinridge, Orr, Joe Lane, and perhaps several others. The two- thirds rule will not be abrogated, and after bal- loting a day or two the majority of the Conven- tion will settle down upon two or three men, and the Douglas delegates, having kept togeth- er, will select one of these candidates, giving him the nomination instanter. This is a common sense view of the matter, and is founded, first upon the hypothesis that the invariable practice of conventions under similar circumstances. Now, as to Mr. Donglas. His friends have zealous in pushing him forward. Wice, of Vir- ginia, was pressed in the same way, but now he has weakened materially, ashe cannet command the support of his own State. Douglas goes into the Convention with an spparent strength beyond that of any other candidate. His eighty, oreven one hundred votes, come, however, from Northern and Western States, which will not, under any circumstances, cast an electoral yote for the democratic candidate. Still, their mo- ral influence may be important when the strug- gle comes, and may sway one or two of the doubdtful States. So these men cannot be en- tirely ignored. Opposed to Mr. Douglas stands nearly the whole South—the section from which the electoral votes for the democratic can- Gidates must come chiefly. Mr. Douglas is a brilliant man, an experienced statesman, a strong campaigner, and one of the real repre sentative minds which give the republic its force and individuality of character. Te would have made a capital President, and we would have supported him with pleasure, bad he oot made cme fatal blunder, which be canact retrieve—so far as the South fs concerned ; Mr. Douglas supported the administration of Mr. Buchanan from the start, the {llinois Sena- tor might have walked into the White House without half so much wear and tear, mentaly and bodily, as he suffered during his Senatorial campaign; but he saw fit to rebel, and now the South will not have him at any price. He may be Warwick—he cannot be King. Then as to the course of Mr, Douglas’ friends, who may have the Convention in their hands. {t has been confidently stated in various quar- ters that unless the Senator should be nomi- nated his supporters would bolt. This was Mr. Douglas cannot be nominated; second, upon | been very noisy, and perhaps a little bit over- | said to be the understanding with lorney, Adrain, and other fishy democrats, who turned around upon Mr. Buchanan because they could not monopolize the spoils, and before his reelection to the Senate it was claimed that Mr. Donglas sympathized with this idea. Since that time it has been an- nounced that he was pledged to go for the Charleston man in any case, But whatever may have been the change in Mr. Douglas’ miad since the period above referred to, it is very certain that Mr. Dougtas’ friends will not be so idiotic as to think of bolting because their idol is denied to them. The delegates to a National Convention have their private interests to look out for; they are sent to see that their friends are duly taken care of, if the party wins the day, and generally to keep a particularly sharp lookout for number one, If these men find that Douglas has no Southern strength, they will immediately go to work to make them- celyes whole with the rising sun, who must be selected with special reference to making a good run in the doubtful Central States—New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania—where the heat of the battle is to come. The Douglas men, by making a new man captain of the host, would bein a position to claim from him as much, if not more consideration, than they would obtain from their ackaowledged leader. They would drop him as the whigs abandoned Clay and deserted Webster, two men who, to judge from popular demonstrations, were adored with a degree of affection passing the love of woman. Call it selfishness, ingratitude, or whatever you please, the great fact remains the eame. Conventions, like corporations, have no hearts to speak of. As to who will receive the support of Douglas’ friends no one can tell at present. It may be Lane, or Orr, or Houston, or Hunter, or Breck- inridge, or an entirely new man. The Conven- tion willlook only to the doctrine of availa- bility and strength in the Central States. Jn conclusion, we cannot refrain from ex- pressing our heartfelt sympathy for the Forney- Haskin clique, who will be utterly ruined un- jess Mr. Douglas is nominated. They have hung to his skirts, trusting to a bolt, if nota nomination, and doing the interestiag martyr dodge in the meantime. They must be pre- pared to resign their offices, to assume the peni- tential sackcloth and the atoning ashes, and to return to the coal-hole, there to be politically fumigated and renovated, so as to come out new after a four years of penance and absti- nence, from even a smell of the flesh-pots, After Charleston they will have, poor fellows, nowhere else to go. Tus ConcressionaL Prixtive.—We perceive that the Washington Constitution is greatly ex- erciged by some of the remarks that we have recently made in connection with the public printing. In order that there may be no mis- conception as to our motives in offering these comments, we think it necessary to say that we have no particular hostility towards General Bowman or any of the other individuals who participate in the comfortable pickings derived from this source. To us it is of no conse- quence who are the recipients of them, or to what purposes they are appropriated, so long as the practice exists. That a portion of them should go to the support of a particular organ, under any particular administration, concerns us but little, if their destination must be al- ways an improper one. It is with the system that we war, and not with individuals. If, however, the odium which attaches to the for- mer should occasionally wound the susceptibi- lities of the political speculators that profit by it, they ehould have the good sense to feel that they have only themselves to blame for it. The report of Mr. Haskin, which we publish- ed yesterday, does not give all the facts con- nected with the history of these printing abuses. For the last forty years the public printing has ; been made the means of emasculating the Wash- ington press. Up to 1828 the National Intelli- gencer enjoyed whatever pap was derived from it, and, being of the old fogy order of journals, itkept it by its subserviency to both houses of Congress. It was not until Jackson came into office as President and organized the de- mocrstic party on a military basis, that the practice of giving the public printing to politi- cal organs sprang up. Its effect of course has been to nip in the germ whatever independence or usefulness the Washington newspapers might have possessed. No journal could resist the blighting influence of government patron- age, which, in destroying the confidence of the | public in its hone-ty, rendered it wholly de- pendent on this precarious means of support. Ithas been customary with the opposition to cast on the democracy the blame of all the cor- ption exercised by means of the public print- bat the opposition iteelf, under the different political denominations it has as- the time of Jackson, has itself as ready to turn fo the present Congress the desperate fight made by the republicans for the House printing shows the importance which they attach to this convenient lubricator | of party machinery; so that, as faras the morali- ty of the thing is concerned, there is but little ground for self felicitation on either side. Although the amount of public money that is profligately squandered under the present print- ing systemis a matter of the most serious consid- eration, we feel that it is secondary in its evils to the pernicious influence which it exercises on the press. In no free country should such a cemoralizing inducement be allowed to inter- fere with the responsibilities that journalists owe to the public. On the commercial in- terests of newspapers themselves, its results are, as we have shown, disastrous. Thus, whilst year after year the plunder from the public printiog bas been gradually swelliog until it has reached a million of dollars annually—a sum which the yearly receipts of the Huraiy sre now almost equal to, and will very soon exceed—the papers that have been subsidized by it bave been sinking and dying out like plants withered by am wunatural excess of heat. | sumed since ever shown | it to account, The New Hingiand Elections. Jeast it cannot be repaired at present. Had From all the recent intelligence we have received from Connecticut and Rhode Island, we come to the conclusion that it is highly pro- bable these States will be carried by the con- servative elements, against the revolutionary ideas of black republicanism. It is for the inte- rest of the white race, North and South, that they should do so; it is for the interest of the black race also—for the interest of humanity and civilization. We have every confidence in the shrewd common sense of the people of these States, that they will not be led away from the consideration of their own interests by any ap- peal to fanaticism or claptrap cry of the news- papers which talk of their being bought up by New York funds, The people of Connecticut and Rhode Island do not require to be bribed to do what is for their own advantage—that which will bring them more money than all that could ever be raised for thom by the mer- chants of this city. The New England States are on the point of being utterly ruined by the non-intercourse policy of the South, which will undoubtedly prevail in the contingency of the North consummating at the ballot box the systematic injustice and breach of faith which constitute the pro- gramme of the republican party. The manu- facturing interests and commercial relations ot those States are already seriously affected by recent political events, and the irresistible logic of these events is that if the same causes are permitted to operate any longer, complete destruction must be the consequence. religious sentiments of the citizens of Connec- ticut and Rhode Island are appealed to against “filthy lucre”—for which, filthy as itis, none show agreater desire than those who affect most to despise it. The clergy, for example, preach against it as ‘the root of all evil;” but they get all they can of it themselves; and, like one of the Roman Emperors who imposed a tax upon one of the most filthy of the excre- fions of the human body, and said the money derived from it smelled particularly sweet, they regard the almighty dollar as the fairest and purest of earthly objects, and sweeter by far than the ottar of roses. With the dollar.they prosecute their missionary schemes to the ends’ of the earth, and with the dollar they purchase or build for themselves very handsome houses, and live like the sons of kings. Without money a man’s piety avails him nothing; for if he can- not afford to pay for a pew in church he must take a back seat, and he is very lucky if he getsa seat at all. At all the religious anniver- saries, the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last thing, is money. And what is that for which men associate together in political com- munities? It is that they may make all the money they can. And what was the object of the American Revolution of 1776? It was mo- ney—to gain sixpence—to strike off six cents from the price of a pound of tea. Money is the representative of value of every kind, piety included. And what is this question of religion and conscience that is placed in the scale against the interests of the people of New England? It is the worship of the al- mighty nigger—that a black President should be elected, and some lovely Dinah do the honors of the White House; that black Sena- tors should sit in Congress, side by side with Seward; that an array of black beauty and fashion should occupy the front seats in the Opera house, and the moésat pro- minent pews in our churches; in fine, that black men should have the privi- lege of marrying the white daughters of the Anglo-Saxon race, and producing a mongrel breed like the Spanish American colonies. ‘Thus the whole conscience in the matter is no- thing more than amalgamation—the deteriora- tion of the white blood of the Caucasian race, and the elevation of the black to a social and political position for which the Creator never designed him, and for which he has no aspira- tion himeelf. Every attempt to pass the bar- rier which God has placed brings misery upon the black man anda curse upon the white, thus showing that the immutable laws of nature are stronger than human laws, and cannot be vio- lated with impunity. For these reasons, therefore, and for every consideration that can appeal to the patriotism and the self-interest of the people of New Eng- land, we hope that the two elections which will take place in a few days will result in the discomfiture of a party whose platform is fraught with destruction to the commercial re- lations between the North and the South, de- struction to the manufacturing interests of New England, destruction to the labor of the peo- ple, destruction to the value of property, de- struction to the peace of the couutry, destruc- tion to the Union of the States, destruction to their present prosperity and their future progress, and destruction to that matchless sys- tem of liberty invented and erected for us by our Revolutionary ancestors, a sacred temple, whose ruins, if republican fanaticism should prevail, posterity will water with their tears, and sigh in vain for the freedom that has been lost forever. Tur Cuarces AGainst THE TEN GOVERNORS.— The charges recently made by one of our co- temporaries against the Almshouse Governors have created considerable excitement in many quarters, as well as among the members of the Board, who, as we have before stated, are about to investigate them. The public are na- turally anxious to know precisely what these gtave charges are, and we therefore publish to-day the article from the Zribune in fall. We know nothing about them, as to their truth or error, but we print them, on the responsibility of our cotemporary, for the benefit of our readers. The Tribune of yesterday, however, we perceive, alleges that it can prove their cor- rectness before the court. It says: ‘If the Board will venture to test the validity of the damning charges we brought against them in any court where we can compel the positive dirclosure of the truth, we think we might safely attempt to prove our case, and more, from the evidence which we would draw even from the noisiest and rowdiest members of the Board itself.” The charges, it will be seen, are of a very serious character, amounting to gross profli- gacy, drunkenness, indecency and exirava- gance on the part of some of the Governors; and it becomes the duty of the Legislature to examine closely into them. The Legislature has authority to send for persons and papers, and can thus elicit all the facts in the case. If the conduct of the Almshouse Board be what it is alleged, it should be abolished altogether, and some new mode of managing our public in- stitutions should ke adopted. The preseat system, upon the whole, is abad one, andis one of the evils of our primary elections and grog- shop nominations, from which spring all the political demoralization of the day, The best way to reconstruct the Almshouse government would be to embody some new plan in the amended charter, giving the appointment of one commissioner to the Mayor, or to the three heads ofthe executive departments—the Mayor, Comp- troller and Corporat’ 9 Counsel—concentrating | all the duties and ali the responsibility of go- verning this department to some ove man com- petent for the office, and get rid of the Board of Ten Governors entirely—a Board which is composed of men many of whom are entirely unfit for the onerous and important duties en- trusted to them, either by education or social | position, and some of whom, we believe, have | been waiters in taverns, and heretofore filling other conditions in life not calculated to fit them for so responsible a position as the guar- dians of the poor, the sick and the orphan. H New York Journarism—A New Srectanry.— + Owing to the very active competition and quick , public recognition of the leading journals of | the metropolis, the business of publishingthem | has been reduced to an exact science, and in | some cases it~rises to the dignity of a five art. The New York dailies have great offices, filled with active brains and busy hands, and mon- ster presses which know no such word as rest. | Distinguished foreigners, and remarkable men | from the rural or provincial districts, visit the | great newspaper office as one of the lions of | the city, like the Central Park or the Worth Monument, and are much edified thereby. But there are some of the secrets of these iatellec- tual prison houses which are not unveiled to vulgar eyes. Thai wonderful personage, the able editor, is like the Veiled Prophet of Kho- rassan, the Sphynx, or the Delphian Oracle—not intended for public exhibition. He appears only in his articles, which are sometimes fear- fully and wonderfully written, For our own part, we profess to be able to sce as far into a millstone as most people, and even to have a glimmering occasionally as to the meaning of some of the writers of the incomprehensible school; but our con- temporaries occasionally throw ont a master- piece in the way of rigmarole, the purport of which even the seventh son of a seventh son | could not make out. The famous Quadrilateral essay, with its affecting account of the adoles- cent sympathies of the Mincio’s elbows, isa chef deuvre of this school,a Venus de Medicis compared to a plaster cast. Another of our cotemporaries published several articles upon the late Mr. Choate, headed “Choate,” “Choate,” “Choate,” and far more incompre- hensible than any of the oratorical eccentrici- ties with which that distinguished advocate was wont to puzzle simple minded jurors. Since Mr. Choate’s death, the eame pen has been de- voted to “Cushing,” “Cushing,” “Cushing.” Mr. Cushing is a clever man, and has Confucius at his fingers’ ends, but we are sure cannot ascertain the meaning of his journalistic op- ponent. Yesterday, “ the streets” were taken up and ventilated (not cleaned) in the ultra- incomprehensible style. The streets have been muddy before, but never in such @ condition as that to which the article we refer to has re- duced them. The frequent developement of this speci- ality has interested us not a little, and as a novelty we determined to investigate as to its cause. We believed that we had some little journalistic knowledge, but have to acknow- ledge ourselves beaten in the speciality alluded to. The journals referred to have systems of their own, and agree only in this speciality— the incomprehensible article. That is part of each of their systems. They have @ political editor, a philosophical editor, a war editor, a religions editor—in fact, an editor for every- thing—and, in addition, a drunken editor, who tumbles about, breaking his shins between the big dictionaries, and knocking his head against the King’s English, and finally goes off into a gentle snooze while pureuing the slippery logi- cal sequence, which eludes his grasp with the agility of Mr. Toodles’ hat. The drunken editor is the latest speciality in journalism, and is what the lobby would cail “a big thing.” Let us have more of him. ‘Tue Lossy ALLIANCE AT ALBANY AGAINST THE Cr or New Yorx.—We understand that an al- Viance has been entered into in the Albany lobby between the parties who got up the mammoth Gridiron Railroad bill which passed so triumphantly throngh the Senate, and the parties interested in the other six small grid- irons now in the House of Assembly. This manccuvre means nothing less than a combined attack upon all the rights, privileges and fran- chises of the city of New York, without consult- ing the wishes of its inhabitants, and is one of the most gigantic swindles ever perpetrated upon @ great city by a gang of vaga- bond politicians and rapacious speculators. The alliance between the interests of George Law and Thurlow Weed thus effected in the lobby will in all proba- bility be secured also in the House. And what will be the result? Not only will these six rail- road bills be merged into the mammoth grid- iron bill, and the whole franchises of our city railroads be swept away from us, but a host of other schemes, designed to plunder this city and rob it of its just righte, will be successfully carried through by the same corrupt agency. There is the West Washington Market plan, by which the city will lose several thousand dollars income per annum; the Harbor Master job, which will afford fat places for political fortune hunters from all parts of the State; the Metropolitan Health bill, introduced with a like object; the scheme to lease water lots to a set of hungry politicians, which, far from being a source of profit to the city, will be reduced to ® measure of corruption for s few speculators, and an array of other jobs which this most unholy alliance has mapped out. The railroad franchises alone, which are about to be stolen from the people of this city by wholesale, are worth several millions a year. The four roads now in operation are worth some ten millions, and they actually pay nearly twenty per cent upon their capital, and forty per cent upen their cost. The six roads now before the Legislature will be worth twenty millions more—in all, thirty millions. ‘The franchises of all these roads, if disposed of by the Corporation to the highest bidder, as they ought to be, would bring in enough to pay all the running expenses of the city go- vernment, and thus reduce the taxes to an equitable and endurable ratio. Can there bea greater outrage than for the Legislature to steal the property of the city in this fashion, and band it over to afew individuals? Tt bas really come to this—that the metropolis of Mew Yori is being soid and bartered away, with ail its rights and privileges, to a corrupt lobby at Albany. A Souathera View of the Strikes at the North. Lo another column we publish an article from the Charleston Mercury, which presenta gome strong points of the Southera view of the strikes at the North. The South, never having been troubled with strikes, can look down from its eminence upoa those disturbances of the com- mercial and manufacturing system of the North with a philosophic eye, and calmly trace them to their source. The labor system of the South, which Northera philosophers of the republican school are so anxious to change, is not subject to those violent shocks which are sustained from time to time by the so-called free labor system of the North, and which often rock the { social and political fabric to its foundations. “Manufacturers all over the world,” says eur contemporary, with great truth, “keep their la- borers as near the starvation point as circum- stances and the efficient operation of the fac- tories will alow.” It is so in Old England, and it is so in New England. The Southern States of this republic preseat the only exception in the world. It is the in- terest of the Northern capitalist to make all the money he can out of his laborers; be bas no interest in seeing the hands im his factory healthy or making money. What- ever money they make veyond keeping souk and body together he regards as so much ab- stracted from his profits. It is no concern of his that those in his employment cannot eara sufficient to feed, clothe and lodge themselves and their families; ic is not his affair that they pine away and die, partly from want and part- ly from excessive and protracted labor in a foul and over-heated atmosphere. Owing te the abundance of labor there are plenty of mem and women to take their places, and sell their services at starvation prices to the capitalist. They are as essentially slaves as the negroesat the South. The only difference between their respective conditions is that necessity forces them to do what the law compels the negroes— that their services are sold for a limited period, whereas the services of the negroare owned for \ite—a difference that is completely in favor ef the black and against the white man—for while his wants compel the white man to continue to sell his labor from week to week, or from month to month, for the whole of his life, he sometimes finds, to his misfortune and dismay, that he cannot get employment, and in that contingency he has no claim on the manufacta- rer, nor om any one else, for bread, and whem sickness or old age overtakes him, without bemg able to save a cent for a rainy day, he hus uo right to a sustenance from the manufac- turer to whom he has sold his labor for the rest of his life, and he must perish from want, if charity will not keep him alive. It is totally different with the labor system of the South. It is the interest of the planter or manufacturer who owns the services of the negro for life to treat him well, because if he treats him badly he dies prematurely, or he runs away, or he becomes sick, and in sickness and in old age he has a legal claim for support upon his master. He is free from care and anxiety, and never dreame of want. Hence the robust health and the happy disposition of the Southern blacks compared with the soured temper and sickly frames of the free negroes and mulattoes of the North. The difference between the treatment of mem whore services are owned by capitalists fore limited period and those of men owned for life is exemplified in a remarkable manner in the case of the Chinese coolies, who are worked almost to death in the seven years which they are bound, and endure more real hardship than the negro slave for his whole life. Nor is the negro a chattel, as he is represented by North- ern demagogues. If he were, he might be killed by his master like a bullock. Instead ef that, he is protected as a person, by the law, against the violence and cruelty of his master, who merely owns his services for life, and whose im- terest it is to take as good care of him as he would of a valuable horse. ‘Thus it will be seen that the overruling mo- tive of self interest operates in opposite direc- tions upon the labor systems of the North aad the South; end, though it is true that the re- cent strikes have been precipitated by Northern fanaticism operating on the South so as to induce it to partially withdraw its custom, the disease is chronic, and its causes lie further back. As to the effect of the strikes on the great political issue of the day, there is ne doubt that their tendency is to operate agaiast republicanism, for the manufacturers are for the most part of that fanatical creed, aad the probability is that the strikers will take the opposite side, particularly as the immediate cause of their suffering is mixed up with Joha Brown’s raid, Helper’s book, the irrepressible conflict manifesto of Seward, and the general course of the republican leaders and their or- gans at the North. Police inteliigence. Tar Recest Sap Cask—' oxexcrion.—Under the caption of “ A Sad Story,” we ;.viished a paragraph in our issue of the 2let inst. to the «ifect that a young Indy hailiag from Litt'e Falls,Herkimer covnty, in this State, and passing under the agsumed name of Cornelia Gannon, bad beer seduced under promise of marriage, and Drowght to New York by ber lover; and that bgt 9g was sudsequentiy rescued from a most horribie by her brother, amd tasea home. Since the eS of the paragraph in question, we learn that the young tady in question is net- ther @ native nor @ resicent of Little Falls. Her relatives, it appears, were apxious to concea! her real place of resi- dence, and gave the name of Little Falis merely to throw the police aud the public on the wrong scent. Coroners’ Inquests Yesterday. Founn Drownep.—Martin Beuler, a jeweller, reeiding at 46 Greenwich street, who has been missing for the last ten weeks, was found crowned at pier No. } North river yesterday morning. When last seen alive deceased wat under the influence of liqvor,and the general belief seems to be that he fell overboard while im that coadi- tion. There were some rumors of foul play m with this case, but a thorough investigation at the bands of Coroner Schirmer, fisted no foundation for the ailly Deceased 80 years of age, and was a native of Germany, Ramnoap Castanry.—An inquest was held atthe Four- teenth precinct station house upon the body of an un- known mani, about 46 yenre of ngs, Wie: eas Eo, ¢@ay morning at the corner Mulberry acd ae streets, by being run over by one of the New Havee freight cars. The jury exonerated the driver from al bdlame, and rendered a verdict of “Accidental death.’ ‘Vewis Casvarty.—Coroner Jackman was notified to hold an inquest at the New York Hospital upon the body” of Sohn MeLeon, a lad abont sixteen years of age, who of the matter showed that there ex- effect of recelved by Stas tro pe ‘wagon at thezcorner of Hudson and Ha- mersly streets, ob Monday. Kuxeo sy Fatuxc Dowx Starns.—Coroser Schirmer nest at the New York Hospital upon the body een |) & Dative of England, ‘66 years, who aied from the fects of injuries accidentally reonived falling a tight etair Thames ‘Mrest, oa %. Gest Verdict, ‘‘Accidental death.”” Bowsay Tamataa.—Mr. E. Eddy commenced an engage- ment at this house on Monday, playing tn “Jack Cade” to ‘an audience which crowded the immense theatre in every part. Mr. Eddy was received with the greatest catha- — played with a bia upual extisti vigor cd