The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. | See JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.§ SSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS. » advance. Money sent mail will he at the eee ee ek! Sitage dampe not Ha the Lent oad Wit DAILY HERALD tieo cents per copy, $1 per annum Fae WEEKLY HERALD, cvery Saturday, sie cents per oF $3.per annum the Buropeun BAlition et hay, is per copy, $4 per annum to any part of See any part of the Continent, both to tnelude i Selpernia eition'om the Gth and’SMh of cach” mond per copy. or $1 £0 per annum, THE PANILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four centa per amu. taken of anonymous correspondence, We do not muantcations @, executed with nectneas, chelupmess and de: the tat sia conta No. 93 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S_GARDEN, Broadway.—Waits Hoass or tue Parrens—Wibow or He MiLt-—Ikisu ASSURANOR AND Yax- KEE MopsstY. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ixcomam -Visi0n oF tan Daap—sxow NormixG SeRvaNt, ‘ WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— BVADGRLINE. 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The Fnropean mails will close in this city ths af- ternoon, at half-past one o’elocis, to go by railroad, and at four o'clock, to go by steamboat. ‘The Ecrorean SprTi0w oF THe Herat will bo published at ten o'clock im the morning. aingle oopies, in wrap- pers, six conta. Subsoriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yous Hear will be received at the following places in Europe:— nF ig 7 w, Son & Co., 47 Ludgate Hil SIPS; eat res pret & Co,, 74 King Witham street. Parm,, ‘Usnsing, Baldwin & Uo. , 8 piace de Ia Bourse, 2; sing, Baldwin & Co "De Chupeauronge & Co. The contents of the Evrorsax Eprmon or tim HERALD will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at g the previous week and up to the hour of The election for State officers in Connecticut took place yesterday, and from the returns which we have received it is pretty certain that the republi- eans haye succeeded in re-electiong their candi- dates. But little of practical importance was done in Congress yesterday, yet our reports of the pro- ceedings of both houses are quite interesting. In the Senate a bill to authorize the location of cer- tain bounty land warrants heretofore issued was passed. The amendments to the Indian Appropria- py the Finance Ouummnwe, ‘nd notice waa given that the bill will be called up to-day. The bill for the adjustment of private land claims in Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri was passed. Mr. Davis’ resolution relative to slavery in the Territories was taken up, 21d Moesre. Saulsbury,Ten Eyck, Brown and Wigfall ‘elivered speeches on the subject. In the House ‘s were introduced providing for the removal of tructions at Hellgate and for fia improvement arlem river. They were reférred to the Com- eonCommerce. An attémpt was made to ace a bill for the suppression of the coolie vut it proved ineffttual. The bill for the ion of polygamy in Utah was then dis- ‘ the adjournment. ceedings of the Legislature yesterday eral peints of importance. The Police vesed in the Senate, and ‘recommitted w amendments. The six city rail- ch passed the House on Thursday, ved to the Senate Committee on s, and the committee have decided 46 regards sone of the projects. ‘e Legislature is now rapidly there is some hope that these to lie over. We refer to our rape 3 for details of the progress \ ‘apital. vo At. meeting of the Board of Supettisors yesverauy, . communication was re- vetved from the District Attorney remonstrating agsinat those provisions of the amended Police bill, now before the Legislatare, which provide for an attorney and assistant for each judicial district. A reaclutuon in'ncoordance with the sentiments of the remonstrance was adopted. The Board again adopted -the resolution in favor of appropriating $150,090 for, a. new.eonrt house, notwithstanding the, Miyor’s ‘veto. ‘No other business of impor- aang os ale “APS Boord’ of Afdermen “did fot organize last evening for- want of a quorum—most-of the mem- ng at Albany, and some absent from ill- - . Khe Pregident declared the Board adjourned sine dic, avcalbmust be! made byoa ‘thentmembors before they mestagain,.:». “Tue Bosra. "of! Conielimen “were “in, kession last evening. A’tesolution ‘was adopted dire sting the ‘Ordinance Committee to prepare.am: ordinance re- Muding’ the ratds’of iptercst ‘charged’ by’ pawn- brokgxs,,.op,.all..suma. below! $5," Phe: Corpora- tion Counsel was instracted to prepare a memorial forthe hegisiature againat the ipaseage -of the bill for whe terko¥al of the City Half to Madisbii ¢yuate. A-communication was-received-from the-Mayor-an- nouncing the death of fsdac ‘Péwnsend,one of the "Governors of the Almghouse, which ‘was referred tea special committee in order to make.:arraage- WbHts to attend 'the fiueral. “THE "Corpertttan at. ney Submitted his monthly, statement of n past va Penal reine de aes! ig 53026) 97... Large humber of ‘re ports of cofamit- tees were presented’ and fai ‘oter for fataré ac. The, Bgard, of, Ten Governors inet Fexterday and adopted resolutions of cendolence with the family of Governor isaac Townsend, recently “deceased. .We publich the resolutfons with our report in an- other column. - 1 a tS progtesding fitoughont "The tabor ‘thovément 3 the vity.” A large meeting of bricklayers took place ast night in Converition Hall, Wooster street, when it-way-ananimonely resoived-that ll the: membérs ‘of the bricklayer's society should strike, unless the an gaye, Ce ee ‘Gemiindéd—two' dollars "day: 'Meetngs of journeymen ° meres of painters of this city ae ete were also held. last evening, with a view to an ad- vance of wages. In conformity, with the solemn and imposing ad. vertisement of the Tammany Society, the Sachems, Sagamores, Wiskinkies, and all'the other savagos, atsembied yesterday in the council chamber of the '’ NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1860.—TRIPLE SHERT. Big Wigwam, hal’ sn hour after the setting of the sun, Three new members were inaugurated, and arrangements made fo: t! e next annual election of Sachems, which is to take place on the third Mon- day in this month. After transacting this business | the meeting broke up without signalizing them- | selves in any extraordinary manner. ‘The jury in the case of James Shepard, tried for | arson in the first deg ee, were brought into court yesterday morning, having been in confinement iy | *ince four o'clock on Saturday afternoon. It being | evident that they could not agree upon a verdict, the jury were discharged, and the prisoner was committed to the Tombs. The April term of the Court of Oyer and Termi- ner opened yesterday, Judge Hogeboom presiding. A jury was empannelled, and the Judge delivered to them a pertinent charge, a report of which is given in aoott er column. An affray occurred yesterday in a porter house No. 514 Water street, between Peter B. Hall and Patrick Murphy, ship caulkers, which resulted in the death of the first named. By the overland mail we have advices from San Frane’s:o to the 13th ult. The general news pre- sent: » feature of interest. The markets exhibit el) aprovement. The ships Harry Hastings, Grew public, Ocean Telegraph, Expounder, and Good ‘ope, from New York, and the Reynard, from Boston, bad arrived out. According t» the City Inspector's report, there were 446 deaths in the city during the past week, an increase of 32 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 20 more than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 2 deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &., 92 of the brain and nerves, 9 of the generative organs, 14 of the heart and blood vessels, 144 of the lungs, throat, &c., 7 of old age, 80 of disesses of the skin and eruptive fevers, 7 still- born and premature births, 49 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 39 of general fevers, 2 of diseases of the urinary organs, 1 upknown, and 29 from violent causes. The na- tivity table gives 315 natives of the United States, 80 of Ireland, 29 of Germany,1 of Scotland, 12 of land, ard the balance of various foreign coun- tries, ‘The cctton market yesterday continued without anima. tion, while prices wore unchanged. ‘The sales embraced about 1,009 ba’es, closing within the range of quotations given in another column. Flour opened heavy for medium 8 of Westero, but closed at firmer rates. Southern 's were firm. Among the sales were some lots for ort. Wheat was in better inquiry for milling, while Some jsales were made for export, the market closi:g with more firmness, Corn was tolerably active, while uvored purecasers. Pork was steady, without charge of nicment in prices. Sales were fair, including new mess at $1775 a $18, and new prime at $14 26. ‘Sugars were quiet but steady, while sales were confined © about 200 bhds. Cuba muscovados at prices given in Another place. Coffee was quiet but firm. Freights wero less_buoyant, whilo ergagements were fair. Among the shipments to Liverpool were 800 bales of cotton at '(d., 1,500 ble, flour at 2s., 4,000 bushels corn, in bags, 9° 6d., and,2,000 do. by steamer, in bags, at 8d. The Era of Commerce—Trade the Guurc- dian of Peace. While all Europe seems to be preparing for anotber universal war; while Italy, fretted with bayonets, is rising to a new national life; while Austria is pouring the elements of strife into the old historic square; while his Holiness shows by bis acts that he relies more upon bayonets than blessings, and while ia Eogland half psy drill sergeants command readily fifty pounds a month from volunteer corps, Lonis Napoleon has turned his eyes in another direc- tion, and invoked the true spirit of the age. The treaty of commerce which he has just completed with England revolutionizes the whole fiscal system of France, and threatens to serties egt pelanyt get ment te BSelautd, r George the Third, with his tory stamp acts, and his protective theo- 1d no more return to the throne of the British empire to-day than he could establish the sway of Britain over the thirty-three stal- worth sons of the old thirteen North American colonies. Yet the remnant of the old feudalism in England is struggling tenaciously against the new invocation, and endeavoring to defeat the commercial treaty recently establishe’ with France. This struggle is producing some re- markable developements, and we give today, in another column, a voice from the House of Lords—the nursery of English feudalism—and an article from the London Post, the echo of present political power in England. Both agree that commerce is the keeper of the peace of the world. Commercial intercourse is pronounced to be a thing absolutely good in itself, wholly irre- -epective of the principles or policy of rulers, and the example of the United States and England is triumphantly cited as conclusive evidence of the fact. So vast have become the exchanges between individuals in these two countries that their rulers dare wot disturb them by any public act, however difficult or dangerous may be the questions that arise. Whenever an intemperate or an unjust act by chance occurs, the spirit of commerce atidresses itself at once to the reacon of both par- ties, and the rising anger is soon calmed by its discretion and moderation. Lord Taunton and the London Post both de- sire that there shall be established between England and France the same broad commer. cial relations, the same powerful bonds to keep the peace that exist between this country and England; and the course which Louis Napoleon has taken will not only bring about this re. sult, but it ‘will create a vast accession to the power of commerce everywhere. The relations between ourselves and France will be wastly strengthened by it, and thus in the three countries one hundred millions of men wilt'soon become knit together in the bonds of gommetcey forming 8 moral power that must control the world. eis notalone on Louis Napoleon and the BeiGsh Farliamentthat the weight of this great Polloy. devolves. “We.have a high duty in it, and 0n6. to, which,.as a people, we must not pHOve xetFeant,. "The jidlidy of commercial, and not political alliances, is tha ‘American policy. ItDeghri whén this confederatton began to ex- She Ht ipithe. basis of our domestic, and the ‘Aw of-our foreign «policy, and the growth of Out industrial power is what has foreed: it up- ward, in spite of dynastic proclivities and. po- litical! ons: We have brought to its sup- portthe great supply of .cotton-and of gold to the hives of industry and the marts of com. Maree, Even to day, among ourselves, the yapid: growth \of these material elements of ‘peace and happiness is checking the’ fanatical ‘eplderit which ‘hae seized upon #0 maay in our Northern States, urging them, in pursuit of an ‘wbstract right; to commit a great practical wrong.” Andherein lies the duty we have ‘to perform in furtherance of this great commer- cial union.».Far from the influence of the po- fitical traditions of Europe, it is our part to Keep up ‘and to increase, the. supply of cotton aid of gold, “whicth-are’ the powder aad tke shot with which the spirit of commerce is] The Shew-Oarstang OnsemThe Demi- overthrowing the enemies of the peace of the world. The Question of the Seizure of the Mira- mom Steamers. Strenuous efforts are being made by some of the partisan journals, out of a party spirit of hostility to the administration, to justify the outrage of Commander Marin, and to bring censure upon the gallant officers of our navy who so nobly did their duty at Anton Lizardo. We believe that the course of Commodore Jarvis and Commodore Turner is entirely justi- fiable, and that they merit and will receive the hearty approbation of the government, as well aa the decree of justification from the tribunals when all the facts are ventilated. The case, though a rare one, is not so novel as some have supp There »re several which in part are analogous, an? have been in one form or another adju..cated. The question of jurisdic- tion is rendered clear by the cases of the cap- ture of the Essex and Essex, Junior, com: manded by Commodore Porter, by British cruisers, in the harbor of Valparaiso, during the last war. In the case of the Gene- ral.Armstrong the question of harbor capture algo arose, and the arbitrating European Powers refused reparation because the Armstrong fired the first gun. In 1823 the United States schooner Grampus captured the Spanish priva- teer Panchita, off Porto Rico, because, under suspicieus circumstances, she answered a hail with fire; but the vessel and crew were dis- charged from detention, her commission having been adjudged to be a legal one. In the case of the Marianna Flora, captured at sea by the United States schooner Alligator, some of the circumstances bear a still stronger analogy to that of the Miramon and Marquis. This ship fired upon the Alligator, without showing her flag, as the latter was running dewn to hail, with her flag flying; and, the case being carried to the Supreme Court on a question of dama- ges purely—for the ship and crew were released by the District Court—Judge Story held that the act “ was a hostile act, an indignity to the nation, and a trespass upon its rights and sove- reignty,” and that, “if the Alligator had been seriously injured, or any of her crew killed, nodoubt could exist that the ship ought to have been sent in for adjudication, to enforce redress, and also to administer, if necessary, punish- ment,” It is beyond a doubt that Commander Ma- tin showed no flag, that he committed the first aggression, that death resulted therefrom, and that both ships should have been consequently sent in for adjudication, and punishment if necessary. The questien will perhaps turn upon the legality of his commis- sion; for there can be no desire on our part to p»vish the national indignity and the tres. pass on our sovereignty by the pecuniary penalty of confiscation. Commander Marin’s neck, therefore, is in more danger than his pocket. The propriety of the capture and sending in admits of no question, under the cir- cumstances; and on this point our gallant na- val officers are entirely justifiable in the course they pursued. In discussing the question of the’ legality of his commission, Commander Marin may yet be brought to the necessity of showing the previ- ous consent of the Spanish government to his’ exercising rights of sovereignty within the Spanish territory, in order to save own neck, This may yet lead to serious diplomatic complications; and hence. probably, the reason for. the outcry which the Span- ish organs are making, and their call upon the Powers of Western Europe to put a straight jacket on the Young Giant of the West. The Western Powers of Europe. can present their claims in behalf of Marin as soon as they please; and they can do so, moreover, with the full convic- tion that if, after a fair trial, he is sentenced as a pirate, he will be hung as a pirate. The French commander at Vera Cruz undertook to interfere with impertinent letters to Commo- dore Jarvis, and he got the reply he deserved. The Spanieh commander there acted a little more discreetly. When he wished to protest against the capture he was told he could do so; but after inquiring into the circumstances, he concluded it was best notto protest at all. He had inquired into the character of the ships, sending a boat on board of them some time be- fore the occurrence with the Saratoga, and probably was well informed thereon. It will be seen, therefore, that Commodore Jarvis and Commodore Turner have done their duty, and nothing but their duty, and they should be sus- tained therein, without reference to party poli- tics br partisan aspirations. Tre Sermon TO THiEVES anp Prostrrvures— APATHY OF THE GovERNING CLAssEs,—Accord- ing to previous announcement, the Rey. Mr. Corbit delivered his sermon, which was espe- cially intended for the abandoned of both sexes, at the Greene street Methodist Episcopal church, on Sunday evening. With only a few exceptions, and thdse of the gentler sex, the governing classes paid no heed to the reverend gentleman’s invitation. The church was quite filled with sinners who are not known pro- fessionally to the detective police, a cir- cumetance which does not at all mili- tate against their claims to eminence among professors in any department of crime or immorality. Mr. Corbit preached a good sermon, and it is to be hoped that it was not altogether thrown away, although unheard by the audience for which it was specially pre- | pared. He would do well to try again; and, in | trying to imitate the example of his British brother in the faith, the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, to put in the tea and toast along with the theology. It is in this way only that the attention of the governing classes can be se- cured. They have too much familiarity with the City Hall to go anywhere unless there is spmething to be made out of it. Why not give Mr. Corbit the Governor's room, and let him hold forth to the Corporation and the classes whose support they especially covet? Let us have a sermon for the Aldermen, Councilmen, Ten Governors, employes in the Street De- partment, and the loungers about the Hall. If they can be brought to realizing a sense of their condition, the conversion of the thieves and harlots will be, by comparison, a very easy job. Trane Ses. The book trade sales in this city, have been declining for the last three or four years to such a degree that but little im Portance is now attached tothem. This season they are so laferior that some of the principal publishers have-refused to send books to them, and one lange firm-is having trade eales of ite | own. during the time they ate being carried on. Monde of Amoriea. ‘We priat in another part of our impres- sion of to-day, a further instalment of the evidence ia the famous breach of promise case at St. Lous, together with the determination of the jury, which has found a verdict for the defendant, and sent Miss Carstang out of ceurt with a heavy bill of costs. The counsel for the plaistiff has given notice of appeal; but we presume the cause will never be tried again. Accoréing to our usual custom, we have re- frained from alluding to this curious cause while it was in the proceas of adjudication. Now that it has been passed upon, we purpose to pay attention for a moment to the facts it disclose: and the lesson it teaches. First +s to the history of the affair. The plaintiff, Miss Effie Carstang, was, it seems, very respectably connected and properly educated. Her eary associations were not, as it would seem from the evidence, of the most rigidly virtuous character. After numerous amorous adventu es in Brooklyn, Charleston, S.C., and elsewhere, as it is alleged, she made the acquaintance of Mr. Shaw, who seems o be one of the new rich men of the day, and made so by the rapid developement of the re- sources of the Great West. Mr. Shaw, a per- son well stricken in years, is fascinated by Miss Carstang; he gives her many valuable presents, and finally pops the momentous question. He is accepted; the preparations for the wedding are made. Miss Effie already sees herself pre- siding over the palatial mansion of her octo- gparian adorer, when he suddenly breaks the si/ken tie and leaves the lady to the solitary celights of spinsterhood. e Tbis is terrible. Such perfidy should be punished. The injured and unprotected fe- ma’e rushes te the temple of justice and cries for damages! damages! damages! He has much morey, this Shaw—let him disburse liberally. Tbe Jawyers are only too happy to take up the i Next toa divorce case, breach of pro- actions are the best things going for the if the parties have any social standing our, whatever, all the details are reported, and the coursel get fine advertisements for nothing. Tey sometimes take cases of this kind as peo- p'* rent farms on shares, and recall to the ir- reverent mind the evidence of Mr. Weller io tle celebrated Bardell vs. Pickwick cicc, ‘o the effect that the plaintiff expressed her admiration at the conduct of her attorneys, who acted “uncommon handsome” in saying that they would not charge her a cent unless they got damages out of Mr. Pickwick. In the present case Mr. Pickwick suffered heavily. The intelligent jury, sworn for the first trial, awarded to Miss Carstang one hundred thousand dollars—the heaviest sum, we believe, ever given by law as asalve for injured affections and blasted hopes, The defendant succeeded in getting a new trial, and a commission was appointed to take testimony as to Miss Car- stang’s real reputation, and to investigate more particularly into the facts connected with her adolescent capers. This inquisition was com- posed of delegates from the counsel on either side, and its members travelled from place to place, examining a very great number of wit- nesses. It will be noticed that the privilege of cross-examination was accorded to the plain- tiff’s counsel, so that the depositions taken by the lawyers were of equal weight as if they maa woou sworn to in open court. All of the evidence that could be printed has been laid before the public, and the inference from the perusal of it and the verdict of the jury is that the plaintiff’s cha- racter was not, to use the mildest term that oc- curs to us, immaculate. Ifall the evidence is true, Mies Carstang’s love affairs have been very numerous, She has had, according to the witnesses, flirtations without number; of serious intrigues not a few have fallen to her lot; she has been several times affianced, but never wedded; and more than once detected in pecu- liarly perplexing predicaments with persons of the opposite sex. The array of evidence on the defendant's side must have been very strong to have overthrown Miss Carstang’s case. Put twelve intelligent American citizens in a jury box. Place before them a pretty woman in distress and a rich man who has, as alleged, promised marriage and then basely deserted her when her things were all ready, and the in- telligent jurymen, unless the facts are each as solid as a sixty-four pound shot, give the pretty woman swingeing damages, and go home to their dinners with the proud consciousness of having done their duty to a lovely woman in difficulty. That was the sentiment of the jury in the first trial of the Carstang suit; but the panel for the second exami- nation of the affair has been obdurate. The jurors evidently believe, from the testimony, that the plaintiff belongs to what is politely known as the demi-monde a French term for a class of women very well known abroad, and not altogether a stranger in some circles inthe United States. The best definition of the demi- monde woman extant is given in the play of M. Dumas fils, by the famous comparison of the peaches: the fruit as it is exposed to view in the basket looks all alike, but here and there you may find a specimen with a suspi- cious spot under the skin—not alargespot, but stilla spot. The unsound peaches represent the demi-monde women, who are clever, hand- some, well bred, cultivated, agreeable and so on—but they have the taint. The demi-monde woman has no affections—she has only appe- tites; she hasno heart—only a sort of air pump; her rule of life is founded upon interest tables. The question of money is the only vital matter with her. She is a gambler, and her game va- ties according to the circumstances and sur- roundings of her victims. In some cases she has been suspected of murder; in others she has led on her prey step by step until he has been comfortably lodged in the penitentiary ; but, in the majority of in- stances, the operations of this interesting and important class of the community are only known to the parties interested. The breach of promise dodge is a favorite one with the demi-monde; but such cases, in this section of the country, rarely come before the courts. The victim preferato pay roundly rather than make himself ridiculous. The operations of the demi-monde woman are 80 infinitely va- rious that they could not be enumerated in a moderate sized volume. She is to society what the lobby is to politice—a genteel pirate, with the black flag constantly nailed to the mast. We must do the common street woman the jus- tice to say that she is not acknowledged by the demi-monde. That interesting class regards the lorette with a degree of holy horror, com- pared to which the virtuous indignation of an- a 7 tdtea We m “Biion these facts for the entight- cient maidens an le dowagers {3 ex- tremely mild. woman | ennient of Exotm ” Hall. Base: d Ley higevegglien vr discussion at the next may be founé in the | excellent theme * d aan salons of very tiy she | meeting of the faratles “2° "88! — has a pew ina id attends | who hold forth there. y ——- ~—+——=— Oar Com Condition and Requirements ot . bal ‘i mercial Marine. %, ‘The severities practise@ towards satlors “hy regularity. The demi-monde woman lives everywhere. She has grown a social exorescence out of French novels, and the hotel or boarding house system, gur commercial marine have latterly subjected which has deprived at least two-thirds of the | . | a8 to some stinging reproaches on the part ef Northern and Western States, and half of that | tie English press, We might reply by well of the Southern, of anything like a home. Many | founded recriminations, but we have a more young women are brought up to the beliof that useful object in view than to resort to such they have only to know how to dress, dine, dance | arguments. There is undoubtedly a good deal and flirt so as to catch a rich husband. They | of ion in the statements put for lay plans accordingly; if they land their fish | peter am time by our paresis hi and it turns out badly, they hoist their colors | the water, but there is alao, unfortunately, but and take out letters of marque against Wall | too much truth in them. If we would applr @ street. If they fail, they resort to bullying, and | remedy to a state of things which is confess’ aly subsequently sometimes to the law. bad, and which is undermining the chars’.er ef It is not for us to say whether or not Miss | our merchant service, it will not doo glose Carstang belongs to the demi-monde. The | over facts which, damaging as they aay be to jury seemed to think so, and the evidence has ua, will still force their way into evidence. certainly a very ugly look. In any event, we seize upon the occasion to warn susceptible elderly gentlemen with plethoric pocket books against the crinoline privateers who infest all our large cities, and lie in wait for their prey, eeeking, like the roaring lion, whom they | may devour. Hereabouts the breach of pro- mise dodge is pretty well used up, and the se- duction law is a dead letter; but the gra- nivorous widows and experienced spinsters are as clever in the invention of new schemes as the lobby operators or confidence men. Let all the fine old gentlemen in Wall street take due notice of the Carstang case, and go- vern themselves accordingly, walking in virtue’s paths as the law directs. Forcetrc, or Breyerirs.—Lord Palmerston recently declared in the House of Commons that if the English Minister to China, Mr. Bruce, had submitted to half the indignities which were put upon the American Commiassioner in his visit to Pekin, he would have deserved to have been disgraced and removed from his post. The London journals have been talking for some time past in the same straia of all our proceedings in the East. The truth is, that the English are jealous of the footing that Ameri- cans have obtained in China and Japan. In- stead of being grateful for the good offices that our representatives render them, they repay them by misrepresenting their conduct. Mr. Ward submitted to no indignities in his visit to Pekin. He went in the fashion and according to the forms understood by the Chinese to be suitable to the dignity of an Ambassador. He showed his good sense by a compliance with their usages as far as was consistent with his own notions of propriety. If, instead of making this unwarrantable attack on Mr. Ward, Lord Palmerston had acknowledged the obligations which British diplomacy was under to our Minister in Japan—obligations personally ac- knowledged by Queen Victoria by a present of a gold snuff box to that gentleman—he would have been setting an example which might have further beneficial effects on British inte- rests in countries in which British arrogance has evoked hostility and hatred. ‘Tue CLEARING UP oF THE PoLrTicaL Hormon in Evrore.—The Italian question, so far as France and Sardinia are concerned, may be re- garded as virtually settled. In consideration Of the cession of Savoy by Sardinia, France gives up her opposition to the annexation of Tuscany. The French journals do not announce that the arrangement is formally concluded, but they state that it is ina fair way of being so. As they are allowed to intimate so much, we may take the reat for granted. : The difficulty in regard to the Romagna was to be got over by another of those coups de theatre which of late have been so frequently made to play the part of diplomacy. When the popular vote of that territory was announced to him, Victor Emanuel was to make a speech in Parliament, in which he would declare his postponement for the present of his acceptance of the wishes of the Romagnese, in the hope of reconciling those wishes with proper re- spect for the rights of the Holy See. It was not within the calculation of chances that the ne- gotiations which had been opened with this view would be attended with success. The delay would merely have the effect of placing the infatuation and obstinacy of the Pontiff in a stronger light than before, and of rendering his cage still more Hopeless. He will, of course, reeist all measures of compromise which destitute him of his poMtical rights over the Aimilian provinces, and he will be reduced, in spite of himself, to the territorial propor- tions which he occupies in the Laguerroniere pamphlet, without the honorary distinction which rendered that programme a little less humiliating—that of President of the Italian Confederation. The protest of the Swiss government against the absorption by France of the districts o1 Chablais, Faucigny and Genevois, is not likely to meet with more attention than the remon- strances of the Pope. It is useless to plead the guarantee of the treaties of 1815 against the projects of a monarch who inherits from those arrangements a legacy of vengeance. His elevation to the French throne was a for- mal repudiation of those treaties by France, and his career will be, as it has been, an un- broken effort to wipe out their results. As re- gards Switzerland, we own that we do not feel much sympathy for any injury that she may sustain by the designs of her powerful neigh- bor. The intolerance in religious matters which she has been in the habit of displaying shows her to be but little penetrated with the true republican spirit. A Few Facts ror Exeter Haut.—In looking over the tax list for 1859, of the city of Charles- ton, in the slave State of South Carolinas, we find that there are three hundred and fifty-five “free persons of color” who pay taxes on real estate, horses and “alaves.” Many of these Persons are women, and the taxable property in some cases amounts to sixteen, twenty and twenty-five thousand dollars. In quite a num- ber of cases—perhaps one-fourth of the whole— these colored taxpayers hold slaves, numbering from one to a dozen each; so that the free negroes of South Carolina have no scruples, it would appear, about keeping their brethren in bondage. The whole population of Charleston, white and black, is not over 50,000, out of which 355 free negroes are persons of property, paying taxes to the city. In the Empire City of New York, the capital of a great free State, there are nearly a million of inhabitants, of whom eleven thousand are free negroes, and out of that number there are not half a dozen “free persons of color” who pay a cent of | } Althongh we are far from flesiring to ex- tenuate the harshness which ov casionally brings American captains before the Liverpool police courts, we must say that they are, in general, more the victims of a 4ystem than intentional wrong doers. With such elements as he has got to contend with, a ship master must be endowed with more than Shristian temper and forbear- ance not to. bd brought into daily and violent collision with his men. Owing to the present pian of paying the sailor advance wages, hip owners have lost all control over fhe character and qualifications of the crew whom they employ. The money thns advanced goes, not into the pockets of the Sailors, but into those of the boarding house keepers and lasdsbarke, who live upon Jack’s earnings. The ship owners cannot, in fact, be said to bire sailors; they buy them of the land- lords with these advance wages. Did they not do so their ships might rot at the wharves, so deepotic is the power which these harpies exer- ciee over their unfortunate victims. If they got what they bargained for—good"and expe- rienced men—there would not be so much cause for complaint. All sorts of deceptions are, however, practised upon them. Goed looking and likely men are sent to the captain to pass an examination and get an order to sign the articles; when, however, the ship is towed out into the stream and the crew is got on board, it is found, in nine cases out of ten, that they are a parcel of blear-eyed druokards dragged out of a Five Points rum hole, and i “shangbaed” when men are scarce. We have | it on the authority of Captain Codman, an old and experienred shipinaster, that to such ap extent are these frauds carried, that in severa\” instances dead bodies have been hoisted in an % stowed away in the berths of the forecastle drunken sailors, and that for these corpses twe months’ advance has been paid. The vessel be- . ing under sailing orders, and it being necessary* to take advantage of a favorable wind, oi course it is too late to get other men. The ship goes to sea with a crew thus organized, and a fearful amount of responsibility is imposed on the shoulders of the captain. What wonder is it, then, that with the vile characters he has to deal with, and the provocations to which he is hourly subjected, he should be- © come almost crazy and be driven to acts which in his natural frame of mind he would never have dreamed of committing! To the experienced sailor the system of ad- vance wages is equally demoralizing. He be- comes the slave of the boarding house keeper, and is treated by him in a manner far more arbi- trary and inhuman than the negro has ever been treated at the South. He no sooner arrives in port than he is dragged into the den of some boarding house crimp and intoxicated, drugged and robbed. He is then sold by his landlord to some other ship owner, and is put on board a strange vessel, drunk, and without knowing anything of the arrangement made for him; the balance of his pay for the last voyage and the two months’ advance for the present being appropriated by the boarding house keeper. And so he goes on from year to year, working for these land pirates and undergoing all sorta of hardships and sufferings until his constitution finally breaks down under the influence of disease, and he is relieved from an existence which has become intolerable to him. Although, as we have said, there is some truth in the excessive severity charged against the officers of our merchant vessels, it should be stated that many of these accusations origi- nate in a confederacy entered into between the boarding house keepers and the pettifog- gers who hang about the courts. These wretches induce sailors to provoke their offi- cers to strike them, and magnify slight as- saults into formidable cases of personal vio- lence. Scarcely a ship, we are told, arrives from a foreign voyage without a prosecution inevitably awaiting its officers. The com- plainants are drilled by the landlords as to the testimony they are to give, and a case is made out so strong, by perjury, that the officers charged have no alternative but to submit to a money compromise «r be detained from going tosea. Of the mosey thus extorted the sailor of course gets but « fractional share. The remedy recommended by practical mem for these abuses is the abolition of the law by which a seaman can claim no pay froma ship owner in the event of a vessel being lost, and the doing away altogether with the system of advance wages. When there are no induce- ments for landlords to play upon the credu- lousness and simplicity of the sailor, there will be no difficulty in finding the proper sort of crews. To maintain, however, the personnel of the merchant service in a high state of efficien- cy, the restoration of the apprenticeship sys- tem, and the establishment of school ships for the education of mates and officers, are mea- sures indispensably called for. In the event of our being plunged into a war with any great naval Power, the results of these admirable systems of training would soon be demonstrat- ed to our advantage. Sovrnern Weatta Np NorTHERn Prorirs.— There will be found under this title, amongst our literary notices, a résumé of a Very curious and interesting work which has just been pub- lished in reply to the “ facts and figures” of the Helper book and the black republican agita- tors. It is from the pen of Mr. Kettell, a wri- ter who has made financial and economical questions a speciality, and who seems to have thoroughly investigated the issues treated in. this publication. He proves clearly that not only does every Northern business man owe his income or employment to slave labor, but that the value of all Northerm property reata %