The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1860, Page 6

~NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Perion ¥. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. SE 2b’ een Money von mail will be at the hk oy the vemdor. Felis deeal al eaked coe THE DAILY HERALD two conte per copy, $1 THB WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, F $3 per annem, the European Edition every W ay, St tla conte por copy, Si.per annum to-any part of, reat Brita: or Shee oF the Continent, both, to, tnctude poetage; ‘on the Bth and 2th @f each month at six cents ep or $190 ner annem. THE FAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per *WOLUN TARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing important ‘paid ‘for. Sat Sen Fostuan Go a nd Tor. RBIGH CORRESPONDENTS A! a BeQuestep To Seal aL ‘Larraus xD Pace WO NOTICE taken °f anonymous correspondence, We do not omen VERTISEMENTS renewed every day: advertisements in- verted to de Wancir Hani, Paar Vinssto, ond tn the ONby PRINTING JOB P, executed with and de- moatness, cheapness Welame XXv. AY AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIWLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway —A: 5 Quem amp Ou! oF Price: Bronine Wie Onuae Ouse Gai—Au Hatow Eve. Las O'R WOOWEEY THRATRE, Bowery —Wustae Tau—Ronnax's am GAEDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street, — WALLACK’S —! x THEATRE, Broadway.—Rouance or 4 Poom LAURA s pean KEENE’S THEATRE, 6% Broadway.—Co.izen NEW BOWERY THREAT Bowery.—Ricits or Wo mae—Younc VoLuntexn—sr. " ’ 's Kve—WiLrcL MogpER BROADWAY BOUDOIR. 444 Broadway.—A ternoon and Bvening—Ieisu Herkess—Musicat MeLanGu—PUNCHiNMLLO'S ‘Woome—Twe Buzzaros. THEATRE FRANCAIS. 595 Broadway.—Livne Txors— Les Faees Teekinime—Ii FAUT Qu'UNE Porte Soir Ov: weersz ov Feaure BAENUM’S AMRBR! MUSEUM. Broadway.—After Moon and Evening—Dow Ciesak pe Bazan—Onruian ov Ge Bava Lavine Coniosires, Ac. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Buurasques, Soncs, Daxces, d0.—We Vos raow rue Hiss, NIBLO’'S BALOON, Brondway.—Gueo, Cunistr’s Mix. Weenie oy BonGs, Dances, 40.—Tus Toovies. NATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre.— Gs, Dances, Buxixsqons, do. ONDEEDONK HALL. 405 Grand street.—Hartt Mix- Lire iw Sonos, Dances, Buaiesquas, &c.—Dows im ALs- NEWARK THEATRE, Newark.—Wooo's Mivsrinis ww Brwortax So: ~ TRIPLE SHEET. _ “New York, Saturaay, March 31, 1860. The News. The Arabia, which arrived here yesterday morn- ing, brings European dates to the 17th inst., being three days later intelligence. In Central Italy, as has been anticipated, the vote for annexation to Piedmont has been almost unani- mous. The fate of Tuscany, however, would seem to be as yet undecided. The Savoy question was causing the most in- tense excitement in England and Central Europe. In Parliament the House of Commons, after a fengthy Woven, -a-p4-4 she —-tinn ta iin the Lords in an address to the Crown on the subject of the commercial treaty by a majority of thirty. The French government had decided on reducing the Chasseurs to the footing they were on in 1853° ‘Troops had been ordered to Chambery. 6witzerland had protested against the annexation of Chablais and Faucigny to France. Germany was said to be preparing to organize the federal contingent army. The accounts from Naples are gloomy in the ex- treme. In Morocco nothing of any moment had occurred. ‘The Moors had sustained another defeat on the 11th. It is said the Emperor desires peace. A telegraphic despatch had reached England from Calcutta, by way of Alexandria and Kurra- chee, in six days. In London cotton was quiet. The demand for Money continued active. Consols, 943 a 94} for Money, and 944. 94j for account. In Liverpool cotton was very dull. Our correspondent at Aspinwall states the new Schedule of steam communication between Car- thagena, Bogota and the interior of New Granada was to go into effect at the date ofthe corres- pondence, March 20. Instead of a fortnightly mail the service was to be performed monthly. The Chiriqui gold seekers from this city are re- ported to have failed entirely in the object of their adventure. Coffin and Genther’s parties have be- come disorganized. Of Genther’s party one person (a Mr. Hennegan, of Bloomfield, N. J.,) has died, and another, named Finley, is in the hospital. The Coffin party had suffered sadly by fever. Gold was found near Escabana, but not in sufficient quanti- ties to repay the risk to health and trouble of getting it. Our advices from Greytown report considerable excitement among the residents of that place, con- fequent upon the new transit project of Captain Pim, via Monkey Point (Gorgon Bay) to San Me- guilito, on Lake Nicaragua. Preparations were making to build a new city at Gorgon Bay, and a large party contemplated leaving Greytown for that purpose. Ex-President Mora has not yet given up hopes of recovering power in Costa Rica. Accounts from Leon advise that Mora sailed on the 28th ult., with two vessels and seven hundred men, for (uana- casta Bay,where he expected to be joined by a large number of adherents. The disturbances at Chihuahua are likely to in- terrupt or destroy the trade with El Paso, and se- Tiously inconvenience the financial arrangements of the government, by preventing the exportation of specie from Sonora. Most of the specie used by our government and the Overland Mail Company in their Western operations is drawn from Chihuahua. Yesterday being private bill day, little public business was transacted in Congress. The Presi- dent sent in to the Senate a reply to a resolution of inquiry as to the authority under which the Squadron in the Gulf of Mexico had acted in their late operations. The House passed a bill making all letters returnable to their writers within thirty Gays, if so endorsed, when not called for, instead of being sent to the dead letter office. A substitute for the Pro Rata bill was passed by the Senate of this State yesterday. It provides for the appointment of three commissioners, to confer with commissioners for a similar purpose in other States, to inquire into the expediency of adopting @ general pro rata system, and to make a report on the subject te the next Legislature. Delegates have been elected in Arizona to a Convention to be held at Tucson on the first Mon; day of April, with a view to forming a provisiona government for that Territory. Jobn Crimmins, convicted of the murder of Dennis McHenry, expiated his crime on the scaffold in the prison yard of the Tombs yesterday morning. A detailed account of the execution and incidents Conneeted with it will be found elsewhere. The examination of Jackalow, the Chinaman charged with the murder of Captain Leete and brother on the sloop Spray, was resumed yesterday at Jersey City, before United States Commissioner Vroom and Recorder Bedford. Captain Webb, of the schooner French, who took Jackalow on board from the yawlboat, gave a detailed account of the incidents attending that affair and of the colliding of the Spray and Lucinda, which he had witnessed. A number of other witnesses were examined, when the case was adjourned until this morning. The will be fond in another column. ‘The trial of James Shepard, charged with arson in the first degree, ie drawing to s close. Judge Raseell aat in the General Sessions to @ tate hour last night, in order to finish the testimony. The summing up will take place this morning, when the case will be given to the jury in the afternoon. The Police Commissioners met yesterday after- noon, all the members present except Mayor Wood: Very little business was transacted, owing to the absence of the Mayor. The resignations of Peter Chirris, doorman of the Fourteenth ward, and E. W. Tuttle, patrolman ofthe Second ward, were re- ceived and accepted. Several resolutions were Presented and laid over until the next meeting, after which they adjourned. A large meeting of republicans was held in Brooklyn last evening, for the purpose of ratifying the nomination of Thos. W. Field for Collector of Taxes, John Williams for Street Commissioner, and J. C. Duryee for Commissioner of Repairs and Sup- plies, who will be the republican candidates for those offices at the election on Tuesday next. A destructive fire occurred at Independence, Mo., at an early hour yesterday morning. The loss of property is estimated at $150,000—twenty build- ings, including the Independence Hotel, being des troyed before the conflagration could be subdued. Utah advices to the 17th inst., by the Central overland route, have been received. The news is unimportaut and meagre. Brigham Young was en- gaged in starting schools and academies. Among the exports of cotton domestic goods last week were 187 packages, valued at about $19,000, to the Amoor river, formerly Northern Chins, now Eastern Russia. The cotton market yesterday continued to rule dull, while prices were not quotably lower. The sales were confined to about 400 a 500 bales, on the basis of quota- firmer, with a good demand from the trade, while sales were made to a fair amount. Southern flour was in good demand, and prices firmer. Wheat was more inquired for, avd the sales embraced about 10,000 bushels, including common red Southern at $125, {sir white do. at $150, and Iowa spring at $120. Corn was alo firm and in better request, with more doing at rates given in another place. Pork was leas buoyant, with a tendency te easier rates. New mess #011 at $1787 3g, and new prime at $14 26a $14 3734. Su- gare were firm and in steady demand, with sales of about 800 a 900 hhds. and 500 boxes, at rates given in another cotumn. Coffee was quiet, the firmness of holders tend- ing to check sales. Small lots of Jamaica and Maracaibo were reported at prices given elsewhere. Freights were steady, with moderate engagements at unchanged rates. The Condition of Europe—Resistance of Feudal Despotism to the Revolution. The news from Europe presents a fair aspect to-day, but beneath the surface the current is running strongly towards a mighty conflict be- tween the old dynasties and the Napoleonic ideas. When Martin Luther blazed upon Germany, a revolution was initiated against the ecclesias- tical despotism, hoary with centuries, which in- volved the whole of Europe in conflicts and coalitions for two centuries, settling down finally in a partial consummation in the estab- lishment of the new kingdom of Prussia, under Frederick the Great, and the reform of the Roman Catholic Church everywhere. Hardly had this been achieved, and the dynas- TES Ne Wered We. at WEY Wee uw ou tering upon a peaceful era, in which they could look after the commercial developement of their dominions, when the first French revo- lution burst upon France, and the European continent was again involved in revolution, now directed against the feudal despotism upon which its dynasties were founded. This revo- lution has gone on, with varying success, for seventy years, but it still exists. The political order of things in Europe is not yet settled. The dynasties still cling to the hoary feudalism of reigning by ‘divine right,” and by “ the right of blood,” and the revolution has its rep- resentatives, too, who claim to reign in virtue ofthe popular will. Nay, more: this repre- entative advances the idea that dynasties must be founded on “satisfied nationalities,” and, wondrous to behold, Italy, the cradle and home of ecclesiastical despotism, the people that for fifteen centuries has had no national or political existence, comes forward, and, by the unani- mous exercise of the popular voice, constitutes herself a nation, great and powerful, upon the revolutionary platform of Europe. It is the greatest spectacle that the age has seen. But where will these progressive changes end? Will feudalism give up its hold on Euro- pean society without a struggle? Is ecclesias- tical despotism utterly routed? Abundant evi- dences are daily to be seen that the end is not yet; that feudalism will still make a powerful resistance; that the ecclesiastics cling with desperate tenacity to the remains of their tem- poral sway. These are to be found in the in- trigues of Lord Derby last year with the Aus- trian dynasty, the opposition of the British tories to the present policy of peace with France, in the drawing closer together of Rus- sia and Austria, in the sturdy resistance of the Pope to the Napoleonic ideas, and in the changing difficulties that are continually gathering themselves in the path of Louis Napoleon and Victor Emanuel. When the French Emperor determined to declare war against Austria a year ago, itis reported that his uncle, Jerome, the brother of Napoleon, left the Palace in despair, exclaiming, “I fore- see that the times of 181] have returned.” Yes, the times of 1811 have returned, or they are, at least, near at hand. The era of dynastic coalitions against the executory legatee of the revolution is reappearing. But though it comes now with the same ideas as of old, it has new elements to deal with. The revolu- tion has created new allies to itself. Com- merce has risen to be a controlling power in politics ; the steam engine, by multiplying a thousand fold the power of man, has elevated the masses; journalism has penetrated and transfused the ideas of the age; and the interests of the many are to preponderate over those of the few. Uni- versal suffrage establishes dynasties, defines boundaries and creates nationalities. Cobden and John Bright now touch the seat once filled by Pitt; Michael Chevalier, the leader of the French free traders, is made a Peer of the Em- pire, and Cavour marshals the remnants of the old Latin race, full of enthusiasm, into the ranks of the revolution. These men represent the millions in their contest with the feudal theo- ties, and the power they wield shows how great has been the progress of therevolution against the feudal despotisms. But the dynasties will not yield without a struggle, and the new combinations that are germinating in Europe show that both sidesare preparing for it. Louis Napoleon flings away the old fiscal theory of France, and seeks to create the ties of a close commercial union with England. He secures the passes of the Alps by the annexation of Savoy and Nice, which is something more than the realization of an idea. He had already secured those of the Pyrenees, by recent treaty with Spain, and the revo- luffon is now pregnable only through the heart of Germany. Austris, meanwhile, is pouring her cannoa and the elements of war into the Italian quadrangle that has for 60 many ages been the scene of European con" flict, the German Powers are rapidly doubling thelr armed forces, the Pope is stirring up ecclesiastical resistance everywhere to the re“ volutionary power, and Russia watches and waits her chances to share the conflict and the prey. From this rapid but exact view of the course of affairs in Europe, it will be seen that in the last half century the progress of the revolution against feudal despotism has been great, though it is mot yet triumphant. The struggle for peace has yet to come, Disgracefal Attack Upom the President— The Special Message. The proceedings in the House of Represen- tatives on Thursday were of the highest im- portance. The President sent in a message, one of the boldest, most manly and straight forward State papers in the archives ef the republic, and the House, after a sharp debate, referred the document to the Judiciary Com- mittee. The message of the President refers eape- cially to the resolution introduced by Pennsyl- vania Covode, which called for a special com- mittee to investigate certain vague insinuations and mysterious inuendoes against the Execu- tive. Objection was made to the resolution at the time when it was introduced, on the ground that its statements were vague and unsatisfac- tory to the last degree; but it was adopted by the republicans, with the assistance of the For- ney-Haskin clique. This disgraceful personal attack upon Mr. Buchanan has not been with- out its parallel in the political history of the country. In 1829-30, General Jackson being in power, an attempt was made to control his administration by a clique of hungry office beggars and broken down politicians. The grand old man sent them to the right-about- face with as small ceremony as he showed to the British or the Indians. They then joined the opposition and assisted the whigs in getting up a series of attacks upon the President, which kept the whole country in a state of ex- citement altogether unparalleled. Allied with the whigs and disappointed democrats was the immense money power wielded by the Bank party, and the outside jpressure upon Old Hickory was tremendous. Party spirit has never run so high since. The dis- putes between the Jackson and anti-Jackson men were so acrimonious as to result in per- sonal rencontres and street fights in several cities North and South. No limit was put to the blackguardism with which the President was assailed in Congress and by the opposition press. The seceding democrats were led by Duff Green, whose Telegraph answered the same purpose of Forney’s Press of the present day. Even the person of the President was not sacred, and the greatest excitement was created aut ures w~ <7" *-— te @ soene on board of a steamboat, when some tool of General vacn- son’s enemies menaced the old hero. All these attacks, instead of injuring General Jackson, increased his strength with the masses, who rallied round him in great numbers. His ad- ministration was sustained at almost every elec- tion, and by a series of bold and brilliant measures he routed all his enemies, sweeping them out of his path like so many insects. The grand result was that, although General Jack- son was chosen positively on the one term principle, and notwithstanding the fact that it was one of the cardinal principles in his politi- cal faith that no President should be a candi- date for re-election, yet he was compelled to run again in spite of himself, and was triumph- antly returned for a second term. Now, the Forney-Haskin clique, and the black republicans in Congress, are pursuing with Mr. Buchanan the same game which the whigs and disappointed democrats tried on General Jackson thirty years ago. When Mr. Buchanan took office, he found he had not places for all the hungry beggars that sur- rounded him, and as they waxed clamorous or impertinent they were quietly set aside. Among these unsatisfied men were Forney, Has- kin and the others of the same clique, who call themselves anti-Lecompton democrats, but who are really nothing more than republicans of a dirty hue, part white and part black, with the latter predominating. They could not rule Mr. Buchanan, and now they serve Mr. Seward. The republicans use these allies as the Pope manages his Swiss troops, giving them occa- sionally a little plunder, like the printing job. Forney & Co.’s hostility to the President is entirely personal, as has been proven by seve- ral demonstrations, such as the drunken spree in the streets of Washington, after Forney was elected, and when he abused the Executive like a pickpocket, and drew down upon the House, which permitted such conduct to pass unrebuked, the well-merited denunciation of the leading journals at home and abroad. On the other hand, the republicans have trumped up their committee, in order to make political capital and divert the attention of the people from the real issues involved in the coming struggle. Knowing full well that not a tittle of evidence can be brought against the President, perfectly aware that the record of his two-score years of public life is entirely im- maculate, with their eyes open to the fact that James Buchanan stands to-day entirely free from the shadow of suspicion upon his public or private character, they do not dare to go as far as the enemies of General Jackson did, and bring in a bill to impeach the Presi- dent—the only way in which he can be con- stitutiomally reached by Congress. So they get up a mock investigation upon manufactured charges, not so clearly defined as to be sub- jects tor analysis, but still creating a bad im- preasion. It is a very mean, miserable, skulk- ing, dirty political trick, which could only have originated in the small minds of the small men who get into Congress now-a-days, when they ought to be sawing wood or making rail- ways. The fault about Mr. Buchanan’s course is that he has been too good, too generous, too magnanimous with such fellows as Forney and his clique. Such tricks as these never succeed. On the contrary, they invariably recoil upon the heads of their inven- tors. In the case of the present inquiry, the only evidence, so far, is against Forney, and others who claimed to have elected Mr. Buchanan. Forney, it seems, received thirty thousand dollars out of the Pennsylvania fund, and Haskin got five hundred to spend in his own district. Doubtless other developements as to the mendacity of the eponging clique which hong around the White House im 1857 will be developed by this committee, and the country will be gratified to hear the condem- EW, YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH. 31, 1860,—TRIPLE- mation of the political pirates out of their own mouths, In this state of things the attitude of the Pre- sident is above all praise. Hie message will command the admiration and applause of the country. It places him exaotly in Jackson’s position when he was renominated. And now, ehould this system of personal attacks upon the Executive be persisted in, it will assuredly place Mr. Buchanan in the field for a second term, when he would be elected beyond all doubt. Let it be thoroughly understood that the fishy democrats and the black republicans are conspiring together to trump up false chgrges and miserable insinuations against the character of so able, so upright and s9 faithful ® public servant as Mr. Buchanan, and his re- nomination and election for another term are beyond peradventure. We are aware that Mr. Buchanan absolutely declines to be a candidate at Charleston, under any circumstances whatsoever; but still the sense of the country might be taken in this manner, and Mr. Buchanan, when elected, if he did not see fit to serve, might allow the duties of the office to devolve upon the Vice Presi- dent. At any rate, we have no doubt that if a direct appeal should be made to the country Mr. Buchanan would be as enthusiastically sus- tained as was the Hero of the Hermitage in 1832. ConsumMATioN oF THE RarLroap SwixpLe IN THE AssEMBLY.—The six city railroad gridirons were rushed through the lower house at Albany during the post prandial session on Thursday evening, in rapid order, with a haste and at an hour which, considering the nefarious nature of the business, was perhaps quite appropriate, for deeds like this cannot well bear the daylight. In every essential point these six bills precisely resemble the mammoth Gridiron bill of George Law, which was rushed through the Senate with a unanimous vote, but was defeated by the vir- tuous members of the House, for the purpose of effecting a compromise. That compromise has now been made by the passage of these six bills; for we find the same interests, and in many cases the same names, represented in the six little gridirons as in the one big one. It is unnecessary to say that the principle involved in all these bills is identical—a flagrant rob- bery of the property of the city of New York for the benefit of a few rapacious individuals, most of whom are entirely unknown in this community, and many of whom hail from dis- tant portions of the State. We publish in an- other column the names of the incorporators of these six railroads; and we would ask how many of them are publicly known as_responsi- ble men in this metropolis. Is it not a monstrous outrage for the Legisla ture—composed, as the large majority of itis, of men representing every quarter of the State, and only a small minority representing this city—to plunder the metropolis of its justrights in this shameless and unblushing fashion? The Albany Legislature, for years past, has enjoyed & iver wuurinhla reputation for cor- ruption, ignorance and stupidity; pu a. present Legislature, which is black republican through and through, exceeds any legislative body which ever sat in the State Capitol, for corruption and infamy of every kind; and both sections of the republican party—the radical democrats and the old whigs alike—seem equally devoid of every decent principle, or any pre- tensions to shame, in their plundering foray upon the rights and interests of New York. When the mammoth Gridiron bill passed the Senate the public were stunned by the boldness of the scheme, the impudence of its projector, and the alacrity of that body to adopt it, and the newspaper press of the city were loud in their denunciations of it; but it is remarkable that now, when these six railroad biJls, which are identical with the Senate bill, have passed the House, there is not a word of denunciation or remonstrance from these quarters. It has been said that the newspapers of the city are interested more or less in these infamous jobs, and the statement has met with some credit from the public. Judging from the significant silence with which the passage of these bills is received, it would appear very probable that the charge is true, and that the newspapers of New York are in the same position that the newspapers of Wisconsin were shown to be in a recent railroad scheme in that State—that is to say, the participants in the spoils. There is hardly room to doubt that the action of the House upon the city railroad bills will be confirmed by the Senate, in which event this city will be plundered of a large income, suffi- cient to defray nearly all the expenses of its government. Carvaier Wess’s ULTIMATUM ON THE CuI- caGo CoxvEntION.—We publish to-day General Webb's manifesto on the Chicago Convention— his ultimatum regarding the interpolation of Madame Bates into the list of republican can- didates for the Presidency, by Hon. Massa Greeley, and the intrigues of the two Blairs— father and son—the one of Silver Springs, and the other of St. Louis. It is very clear that the Chevalier will not stand any such nonsense as that, and that if the Chicage Convention should commit so suicidal an act as to nomi- nate Bates, he will head a revolt in the name of republicanism pure and simple. If the party go out of its own ranks for a candidate, Douglas, as the rejected of the Charleston Con- vention, will be the man for Chicago. But Webb would prefer to see the pro-slavery democratic candidate elected rather than Bates. Seward is his beau ideal, and if the managers at Chicago should reject him for a Know Nothing like Bates, then let all whom it may concern look out for a bolt. Considering that the Courier and Enquirer is the special organ of Mr. Seward in New York, the announcement of Chevalier Webb is suffi- ciently significant. There is reason, too, in what he eays; for Bates is not only not arepub- lican, but hails from a party bitterly hostile to republicanism ; and to substitute him for the representative man of the republican party, or any of its representative men, would be a de- liberate act of felo de se on the part of the or- ganization, which would deprive it of Christian burial, and consign it to endless night, withont hope of a resurrection to life. That such a step, therefore, could not be taken without a revolt, and the setting up of a genuine repub- lican to oppose the Missouri fossil candidate, or any other outsider, may be regarded as a settled point. That William H. Seward will be the choice of the Chicago Convention is extremely probable. If he should not, it will only be because he finds his chances are too small to permit hing to en- ter his name for the great Presidential’ race of 1860. But if be or his party now shcink from the lesues whiph they have themsolves made, that will be the last of them. If they are de- feated in the fight, they will possibly live to fight another day; but to run away before the battle begins, after challenging their oppo- nents, would be the utter and jrretrievable rain of the republican army. General Webb is very properly in favor of fighting, It is the only hope of the party. Remova or Tuk Paver Duty ww Exauanp— Irs Errect on THE Newsparer Prkss.—The ma- jority obtained by Mr. Gladstone on the second reading of the bill to repeal the duty on paper removes all uncertainty as to the passage of the measure. The boon conferred by it on the working clasees of Great Britain will be im- mediately felt, inasmuch as it will at once mul- tiply the number of cheap journals, and of cheap publications of every sort. It does not follow, however, that because the experiment of cheap newspapers has proved so successful, in a pecuniary sense, here, it must be attended with a corresponding degree of success at the other side. Their number will of course be largely increased, and the majority of them will no doubt be able to sustain themselves. But to attain the influence and the prosperity which the same class of journals has reached amongst us, conditions are required, which we do not expect to see immediately fulfilled io England. The newspaper press in that country has hitherto existed almost entirely by the atten- tion which it paid to class opinions and preju- dices. Had it depended on mere party organi- zations for support, it could never have be- come of much importance. The proof ef this is to be found in the fact that almost all the leading English newspapers have changed their political course whenever it suited their fancy to do so, without at all endangering their circulation. The truth is, that, independent ot politics, they addressed themselves to particu lar social and inteliectual interests, aad what. ever they lacked in consistency in the one was made up for by their steadiness in the other. Besides, with a people so routiniére as the Eag- lish, it is not easy to displace long formed ha- bits, and it might be said of the family news- paper as of the family Bible, that it can boast its place in the affections of successive genera- tions. All this will be difficult and slow of altera- tion. Amongst the working classes the penny papers will undoubtedly find a large and im- mediate circulation; but the circulation will only pay its own cost. Their influence will not extend upwards, nor their profits from other sources increase, unleas they work on a system which will bring all ranks within the reach of their operations. This is only to be done by an immense amount of enterprise and energy exercised in compe- tition with their old established rivals. It will not do merely to rely on such support as the working classes can give them. They must become newspapers in the true sense of the word, and vie with their predecessors in the Dew 1H - -néainmont of the promptest and fullest intelligence. By pursuing tms vuusco, they will attract a large advertising patronage to their columns, and with it, as a certain re- sult, readers of every class. Such has been in & great measure the career of the cheap news- paper press in this country. It would never have succeeded unless it had been conducted in a spirit of emulation and independence which enabled it to distance all its old fogy competitors, and win from them the prizes of public support and favor. But even these qualities would have availed it but little, if it had not selected for its operations great com- mercial centres, furnishing the opportunities and the resources for the developement of its enterprise. Of what earthly use, for instance, would it have been to make such an experi- ment in Washington, whose prosy journals are suited to the stagnating atmosphere of a city which is only stirred up by the powder expend- ed in an occasional Congressional brawl? It will take time, as we have shown, to de- velope the full benefits of this important mea- sure. Once, however, English journalists be- gin to appreciate all the advantages that are to be derived from it, we may expect to find a marked revolution working itself out in the character and opinions of our kindred across the water. Tax Carrure oF THE Corsain STEAMERS, AND THE Spanish GoveRNMENT IN CuBa.—The Ha- vana papers are not at all satisfied at the cap- ture of the Miramon steamers by Captain Tur- ner, and think that the Powers of Europe will have to lay aside their Morocco wars, their troubles about Italy and the Pope, their watch- ings by the bedside of “the sick man” Turkey, and all their various little bickerings, and turn their attention to the settlement of the big question of the West, by putting a straight jacket on the giant republic of the North. As everything published in the Havana papers has to receive the previous sanction of the po- litical secretary of the Captain General, who is ex-officio the censor of the press there, we may take these views as the views of the Spanish colonial governmentin Cuba. It would be well for this temporary colonial institution to take a common sense view of this matter. Miramon and his steamers were captured because they were a nuisance upon the ocean, and if the colonial government in Cuba persists in putting out any more such, it may come to be consi- dered as a nuisance on the land, which we shall have to abate also. Tue Porsonep Cuarice Returyep To THEIR Own Lirs.—The black republicans in Congress procured an investigating committee, on mo- tion of Mr. Covode, for the purpose of prov- ing corruption upon their opponents in the persons of Mr. Buchanan and the administra- tion; but,asin many other cases where man proposes and God disposes, the poisoned cha- lice has been returned to their own lips; the corruption has been shown to exist on the other side. For example, the testimony of Collector Schell proves that in distributing the funds for the election of 1856, he gave $30,000 to Cheva- lier Forney, the managing man of the black republicans; and the testimony of Mr. Butter- worth shows that he gave $500 to Mr. Haskin, of Westchester, one of the chief engineers of the republican party. Will not these cheva- liers exhibit a little more of their dirty linen? Taree Prixcrs Comina to AmErtca.—It ap- pears that Great Britain, a respectable piece of tand lying off the coast of Europe, is about to send one of its royal scions to Canada this sum- mer,in the person of the Prince of Wales, to see what kind of a place this continent is. Japan, another island of about the same ex- tant, lying off the coast of Asia, at theother gide.of the world, is also, going to send two Princes to the United States. Thus it woeld seem that America is about to be specially fo- vored by royalty in the summer of 1860. Tue New Enoianp Evxections—Connecricur anp Ruope Istanv.—These elections, which will take place in the beginning of next week—that of Connecticut om Monday, and that of Rhode Island on Wednesdsy— are increasing in interest as the day of trial approaches. The victory in both battles is claimed beforehand by the re- publicans, on the ground of the means used by their opponents to defeat them. They say that money has been contributed by certain mer- chants of New York to aid the conservative cause, and the proof of this is to be found ia the secret circular which has appeared in the newspapers, But it is well known that the re- publican merchants of this city—those who “‘seH their goods and not their principles”—have also contributed money to their own party in Con- necticut and Rhode Island to assist them in the irrepressible conflict. The difference is that the republicans know better how to keep their own secret, and are not so leaky as the demo- crate, particularly the New England democratie editors, one of whom sent the circular back to New York to be published. These journalists are all a mean, contemptible set, who do notscruple to betray their friends. The republicans are more true to each other—their circular has not yet seen the light, though it is not the less a fact that it has been sent, aud that ample funds have been contributed. The money has been used on both sides to pay the expenses of the stump orators, who are generally not very flush of dollars. Tom Corwin, for instance, could not afford to pay his expenses in stump- ing the States. Nor could Mr. Stanton be ex- pected to pay his campaigning bills out of his own pocket. Some of the democratic orators are in the same predicament. As a general rule. those who follow the profession of the stump enlist in the services of those who pay them best, The republicans of New England come better up to their price than the demo- erats. They give finer living, superior drink, better hotels and better pay, and the value they receive in speeches is in proportion. Bat independent of these personal aad pecuniary relations, there is a great question at the bottom of the contest. There'is no local issue. The fight will therefore be on the sla- very question; and perhaps since the founda- tion of the government there never was a State election in which so vast a stake was involved, and in which so fearful a responsibility rested upon the people. By a concatenation of irre- sistible logic, great events for weal or wo hang upon the result. The contest in New England is the preliminary skirmish to the general bat- tle in November. If the republicans succeed now, the chances are that they will succeed in the Presidential election, and if they triumph in that, it will be the beginning of a contention between the North and the South which can- not end otherwise than in disaster; for the re- publican candidate will have been elected on principles incompatible with the constitution, s=4 the party are pledged to measures and ‘to a course of policy which cannot be carried out and the Union continue to exist. The euccess of the republicans in November will be the signal for the disruption of every tie which holds the federal republic together—the in- auguration of a reign of anarchy—the Iaumch- ing of the ship of State upon a dark, unknowa and stormy ocean, without a rudder, or com- pass, or chart, The Parties Who Own the Six Gridirons. ‘The following are the individuals or “incorporators,’* to whom the Assembly at Albany transferred the rights and privileges of this cityin the six railroads, which passed that body with such indecent haste on Thursday night:— . J. Hill, Edward P. Cowles, Hugh ith, John 8. Hunt, Jacob Sharp, B. Tower, Peter B. Sweeney, Jobn B, Rabcock, R. H. Marshall, Jobn Kelly, Jacob Hays. ‘Stephen R. Rowe, Charles W. Lawrence, > i Jobn Stuart, Jobn Kennedy, James S. Hunt, Charies C. Clark, Jobn Fay, Wm. Ravestya, William H. Peck, John C. Thompsca, Ryan, Joseph S. Craig. JOUSTON STRERT ROAD. Job L. Black, Samuel 8. Fitoh, Henry B. Winans, ‘Matthew D. Green, Wm. McDermott, Samuel Wm. McCaffel, Freeman Ferria, Tay Street,” Goorgo W. Dean, jay S. Treat, i Owen W. Brennan, Alex. H. Deanis, James Shaw. AVENUE D Roap. John E. Devlin, Wm. A. Hili, Henr hom Wm. A. Herring, y 4 m. A. Wm.D. Marvin, * John V: Goon, ‘Wm. P. . Geo. L. Thomas, Wm. H. Hayes, James Murphy. ‘TENTH AVENUE ROAD. Jobn T. Conover, Moses Ely, ‘Smith, Matthew T. Brennan, Rufus F. Andrews, Bloomfield Usher, Justin D. White, John M. Milis, D. Leonard W. Brainard, Delos D. Wolf, Thomas Black. BARCLAY STREET ROAD. Allen Bristow, Albert Van Vieeck, William Eagle, John Lord, Ellis Edwards. Mbormonc oF Barxum’s Aurnican Musxum.—We woid call the attention of our readers to the fact thatthe As- rican Museum, after having been closed for a short an- son in order to repaint and redecorate it, will reopenat one o’clock to-day, under the management of P. T. Br- num, assistea by John Greenwood, Jr. The dramtic company has been augmented by the addition of the yb- Me favorites, Mr. C. W. Clarke and Miss Emily Mestaer, both of whom are well known to the patrons of thellu- seum. The favorite drama of ‘Don Cezar de Baaa’’ will comprise the performance for this afternoon; Is addition to the new dramatic attractions, the Mupam collection has received numerous additions, and the least interesting is a bust of the pirate and Hicks alias Johnson, of the sloop E. A. Johnson notetiety. Manxes at Nimo’s Gaxpas.—Mr. and Mre. Birney ‘Williams, the favorite delineators of Irish and Ymkeo character, will give their second matinee at Nibie’s at two o’clock this afternoon—their last appearance for the present. The entertainment will consist of dramatic per- formances, interspersed with songs, dances, jigs amd ‘Yankee and Irish ecoentricities. Arrivals and Departures. ‘ALS. Arabia—H ca Fina Bete Bach, Consul F I, tarmento, Mester T id, Savyae teens: Raluiaee Loner Bloxland and lady, @ Brey, W H Be : fort Thomas Grey Grociwoos, 3 Wy f Miletander and Matanzas.—Mre Mrs Van 218—Steamship - tyes ation eae tenure Aue Meret Pema Pon a ea Matani *