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

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR ANB PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON BTS. TERMS, in advan: mM wont by mail will beat the pushaf thetemlers Postage stampe ot recetoed as subscription Me DAILY HERALD (10 conte per copy, $I per annum WEERLY HERAL every Saturday at six ol oF $3 per annum: the European Rdition every W ts hs cent per copy, $4 por annua to any part of tr ys ‘in, Be ony per the Continent, loth to énclude postage: it | “Katition on the Sh ond 2th of each manth at siz cents or $l Miper annum, PTR AMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four cente per | or $Bper anmun, Ns NAACE tae of anonymous correspondance, We do nek return rej eted communi roms JOH PRINTING, executed with neouiness, cheapness and de AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, —Inecanp As Ir Was— LO'S GARDEN, Broad: NIBLO’ mi Customs or Taw Countny—Li BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—K inc Lesm—Banmvousrt drw—Myr Naiguson's Wire. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond stren.— Evanceune. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.-—-Romance oF 4 Poor Yours Max. wrt KEENE’S TURATRE, 6% Brosdway.—Corers awn NEW BOWFRY, Bowery.—Uncis Tow’s Casor—Ouiver ‘Twist—Macie Taumrat. KABNUMS AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Day and Eveniog—Peurection—Jsanis Deans—Living Coniosires, BRY4NTS' MINSTRE way. Buu.zsqons, Soncs, NIBLO'S BALOON, Broadway.—Gno, Cunisry’s Mur. Prams ut Sonas, Daxors, Buutesqous, 40.—Tax Toovuxs. Mechanics’ Hail, 472 Broad- ANCES, &c.—THR STRANGER, COOPER INSTITUTE.—Exawrri0n or PRaur’s OnicinaL Paunring oF Tae Covkr oF dA uu and Kveniag. NATIONAL CONCERT 8aLOON, National Thestre.— Boxes, Dawoxs, BuKLEsques, 40. ONDERPONK HALL, 405 Grand astreet.—Hirtt Mux- praxis x Soxcs, Daxcas, Bontasquns, dc.—Bau Masque. CONTINENTAL WALL, Paterson —Woon's MinsTess ut Brmoriaw Songs, Dances, &c.—Nxw Yea Cars, TRIPLE SHEET. We are compelled, by the pressure on our ad- vertising columns, to issue another TairLe Suger Heravp to-day. With our rapidly increasing cir culation and business, we shall soon be under the necessity of publishing Tririe Surers, and perhaps QuavkurLe Surets, daily, during the active business months of the year. The publi- cation of these large sheets adds much to the usual labor of our establishment; and we there- fore need the aid of our advertising patrons. If they will have their Lusiness notices sent to the office before wise o'clock in the evening, they will not only benefit us, but will enable the pub lic to read their advertisements and the news of the day before breakfast. The News. In Congress yesterday the Senate passed the joint resolution providing for the reception of the Japanese embassy. The bill concerning courts in Territories—providing that the jurisdiction of the Probate Court shall not be less than $2,000, with the right of appeal in all cases—was passed. The Dill constituting Macon, Ga., a port of entry, was passed. The Indian Appropriation bill coming up, Mr. Latham offered an amendment to allow Cali- fornia to take care of the Indians within her boar- ders. Pending the question the discussion on the Homestead bill was resumed, and Messrs. Brown, Green, Wigfall and Johnson took part in the debate. The proceedings of the House were of a most extraordinary character. The discussion of the bill for the suppression of polygamy in Utah was re- newed, and the bill passed by a vote of 149 to 60. The Sickles and Williamson contested election ‘was brought up, and some papers in relation to it were referred. Then Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois, com- menced a vehement and inflammatory abolition hharangue, the like of which has probably never been heard within the walls of the Capitol. ‘His speech and manner created an intense excite- tment among the Southern members, who, con- struing Mr. Lovejoy’s gesticulations to mean threats of personal viclence, fiercely repelled ‘him, while the republicans crowded around the cause of the turmoil to affurd him protection if necessary. For a long time the wildest disorder prevailed. A grap) 'c description of the scene is given in our Congressional reports. The Democratic National Committee met at Washington yesterday, and unanimously resolved thot it is inexpedient, under existing circumstances, to change the place for holding the National No- minating Convention from Charleston to any other place, Several subjects of importance were acted on in the Legislature yesterday. In the Senate bills were passed relative to the sale of intoxicating Jiquors, to the sale of the Erie and New York City Raiiroad. The bill relative to State prisons, after some discussion, was made the special order for to- day, In the Assembly the Annual Supply bill was reported, and made the special order for to-day The Albany and Susqnehanna Railroad bill, gives $750,000 out of the pockets of the people in aid of a corporation, was passed, together with a Jarge number of other bills, of more or less impor tance. The so-called Washington Heights In” provement bill passed the Senate. Private despatches from Albany last night state that asa part of the arrangement between Tam- many and the black republicans, Isaac Bell and Andre Froment are to be appointed on the new almshouse commission. Neither the Kangaroo, due at this port from Liverpool, nor the Canadian, due at Portland from Liverpool, had been telegraphed up to a late hoar Jast night. We learn that the North German Lioyd’s steamaitip Bremen, which was to have sailed from Sout ampton for this port on the 21st ult., did not leave on that day, having been detain- ed in Bremen for 1 placing her ghaft, broken on her last outward pas sage. By an arrival at B.iltimore we have news from Liberia to the 16th of ,"ebruary. The ,vapers con- tain nothing of any impwttance. Among the tetters received is one to Rey. Di’. Pinney, Corres vonding Secretary of the Colonization Society, from Mr. L. Seymour, who went some years ago from Ha, ‘tMord as a missionary. His journal of a tour into th, ? in- terior about @ year ago, it will be remembered, « ‘2s republished in this country and attracted some a.'- tention. His last letter speaks very favorably of Liberia. The Liberia Herald of February 15, says that the President had left for Grand Cape Mount, for the purpose of settling, as far as practicable, cxatic Party. Caleb the wars and misunderstandings of the native tribes | Weod have been almost in that section. By the arrival of the California overland mail we have advices from San Francisco to the 16th | the con alt. aad frpm the Sandwich Islands to the 22d of February. The general news is devoid of interest. James K. Paulding, the author, died at his resi- dence at Hyde Park, New York, on Wednesday at midnight. We give a sketch of his career under | ‘° 80 into the fight boldly, and volunteered to | and , the apprepriate head in another column. Fire Marshal Baker was called to the City Hospi- tal yeaterday, to see a man named La Rochelle, who made .a confession to him implicating two cemphene was used, aad La Rochelle became 60 burned in the attempt to burn the house that he cannot survive, An account of the aflair appears elkewbere. ‘There was quite an excitement in and about the City Inspeotor’s official preuises yesterday, caused by the anxiety of certain parties to ascertain who w uld be the lowest bidder for the fat street clean- ing contract. In accordance with the published no- tice, the proposals that had heen sent in were opened atuoon. They were nine in number, and ranged from $300,000 per annum down to $229,500—the contract to run for five years, We give in another co- lumn a Met of the names of the bidders, the amounts proposed, and the names of the sureties. Tue award will be made as soon as the City Inspector and Comptroller have finished their scrutiny of the Proposals. The Harbor Commissioners yesterday com- menced removing the shad poles in the North river. It was expected that they would meet with forcible opposition from the fishermen, but the Commissioners’ party were not molested. At the meeting of the New York Sanitary Asso- ciation, held at the Cooper Institute last eveniog, no business of importance was transacted. The President, Gen. F. E. Mather, stated that abouta week ago he was in Albany to look after the bill now béfore the Legislature for the promotion of Public Health in the City of New York, which was now waiting its turn. It is the general opinion that it will not be passed this session. The second regular meeting of the French Re- publican Committee took place yesterday evening, at their rooms, 618 Broadway, and after gome dis- cussion, it was resolved that the existing laws on the observance of the Sabbath are sufficient for all purposes: that, therefore, they consider avy other law una sary and uncalled for, and that in so they are of opinion that they express the mous sentiment of the French population. It was also resolved to address the Syracuse Conven- tion upoa the necessity of the election of a repre- sentative ot the l’rench population to the Chicago Convention, A meeting of the Tammany Hall General Com- mittee took place last night. The report of the Committee on Contested Seats was accepted, ex- cepting the Eighteenth ward, in which case a ecial committee was appointed to effect a com- promise. Mr. Isaac V. Fowler was elected perma- nent chairman by acclamation, Mr. J. E. Devlin and Mr. A. B. Rollins secretaries, Mr. J. M. Marsh trea- surer, and Mr. Charles Mills sergeant-at-arms. A committee was appointed to prepare an address to the democratic electors. The committee then ad- journed to meet next Thursday. The Democratic Republican General Committee of the city and county of New York held their regular monthly meeting at Mozart Hall last even- ing. There was a full representation of delegates present, but no business of any importance was transacted. The committee adjourned at an early hour, until the next regular monthly meeting. A lecture upon “ Scotland and her Martyrs” wag delivered last evening at the church corner of South First and Eighth streets, Williamsburg, by Rev. Mr. Cochrane, of Jersey City, in which the sterling virtues of the Scotch Covenanters were duly eulo- gized and the evils attending the spread of Papacy portrayed in glowing colors. The idea of Bishops and Archbishops feasting with Presidents was re- pugnant to the lecturer’s ideas of civil and religious freedom, and he expressed himself fearful that Popery was rapidly getting control of our Muni- cipal, State and national offices. The tales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,200a 1,800 bales, The market closed steady on the basis of the qvotatious given im another column. Flour opened with firmness, but closed with lees buoyancy for common grades of State and Western, while prices were without change of moment. Southern flour was firm, and in fair request at full prices. Wheat very quict, and in the ab- sence of sales of moment quotations were nominal, Corn was firmer and more active, at quotations found else- where. Pork was heavy, and sales moderate at rates given in another place. Sugars were activo, and the sales embraced abou} 2,200 hhds. and 80 boxes at prices given eleewhere. Coffee was firm, while sales were limited. Freighta were steady, while engagements were fair, es- pecially to Liverpool, for which port corn and wheat were both engaged on private terms. poke Se The Reaction in New England—The Popalar Revolution in the North. * The late elections in New England prove that a reaction has begun in the popular mind there, which is the forerunner of a great political and moral revolution in this country. As long as things go well with him, there is no man that pursues an abstraction with more vigor, or follows an impracticable idea farther, than your true Yankee; but no sooner does its operation begin to affect his interest, to inter- fere with what he pithily calls “the main chance,” than his conservative feeling is at once ‘aroused, and he turns on his course with all the agility of a practised gymnast. This is the result that is beginning to show itself in New England. The people of that section of the Union have followed the teachings of the practical abolitionists and fanatics until one set of the rogues in politics, the remnants of the old broken down whig party, have come to believe that abolitionism was a fixed and perma- nent idea, which could be turned into a hobby and ridden into a powerful party organi- zation and political rule. They mounted it forthwith, and commenced to ride it with whip and spur. But the Union that has been con- summated between the abolition fanatics and tlm political rogues, and the manifest tendency of their aims to sap the guarantees of the con- stitution and destroy the Confederacy, has alarmed the South and begun to awaken the conservative feeling everywhere. New Hamp- shire is too remote from the great tides of com- mercial and industrial interests to have expe- rienced the effect of the new dangers. But Connecticut and Rhode Island are in close con- tact with the commercial metropolis of the Union, and in them the bonds of interest have already begun to draw. Here are the re- | sickts:- 1860, 1856. Conservative. Republican. “Buchanan, Fremont. Connecticut...42,717 48,068, 34,095 42,715 Khode island 10,601 6,680 «11,467 Tet 54,889 ‘0 ‘gain on 1856. Republican loss om 1866. Toi Here we have a total popular change of pearly fourteen thousand votes in an aggre- ate of a little over one hundred and eight thoy, 2d. The most remarkable feature in movement is that it has been pro- ~sithont assistance from the poli- ‘yled leaders of the demo- Cushing and Fernando the only prominent ~ coats and gone “seervation of assured stitution, without waiting to b. st the that they were on the winning side. Whe ‘a politicians have been doing may be seen. uiteg urged them } popular change.......ssceeesseeraecssenen this great duced almost , vicians and self-s ones who have taken off then boldly into the fight for the pr do there what he and Wood did in Connecticut; nien, bajued Morrissetts, in firing their crockery | ger and his crew wanted a silent fight there Biore in Giecuwich street. Some two gallons of | tuo. S| hungry Frenchmen,” OF bis purse ; bot # man of them volunteered for the campaign, saylog to the conservatives, “Your fight is wy fight, and the fight of the whole conatry, and bere Iam’’ But while Cusbiog and Woed weat iu to bear their share of the beat aud burden of the day, a part of the Tam- many Sacbems were in Washington trying to find out bow the Presidential winds blew for Charleston, and others were in Albany, where, with Confidence Cagger, they have sold them- selves to Thurlow Weed, in order to get a share of the epoits to be dealt out by a black repub- lican Legislature, in the shape of city railroads and other popular spoils. But the people themselves, assisted by an in- dependent journalism, have begun the reaction against fanaticism and political roguery. Their eyes are beginning to be opened to the destruc- tive tendencies of such political philosophers as Lysander Spooner and Theodore Parker, such politivians as William H. Seward and Joha Brown, and such fanatics as Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison. It is clearly seen that these blind leaders aim to destroy he fraternal commerce between the North and the South, as they have succeeded in break- ing the fraternal ties of religious commu- nion and party fellowship between them. It is clearly seen that the principles of the black republican party are utterly destructive to the constitution, which is now the only safe- guard of our Union, our liberties, our peace, our commerce, and our prosperity. The issue comes home to every merchant, every manu- f‘acturer, every farmer, every banker, every laborer or artisan, every miner, and every shipowrer. Whoever has a material stake in the present, and who- ever has sons to whom the future must be prererved, has a direct interest in the coming political issue. The people of New England, with whom the sentiment of material evil is so quick, have perceived the danger, and have be- gua the reaction against the mania of aboli- tionism, which is destined to fall before the rising conservatism of the country, as have its preceding maaias of anti-masonry, tempe- rance, Know Nothingism, and their kindred fal- lacies. Tue Case or Sansorn And NUvLutrication or Feperan Avraorrry.—In the case of San- born, who was concerned in John Brown's business, and arrested on Wednesday at Con- cord for contumacy, by order of the United States Senate Committee, the Judges before whom he was brought up by a mob, decided that he should be liberated, on habeas corpus, on the ground that the Sergeant.at-Arms of the Senate could not deputise his authority to make the arrest, and must make it himself in person. As to the other technical point raised by Sanborn’s counsel, that even the Sergeant at-Arms has no power to make an ar- rest outside of the District of Columbia, the Court did not deem it necessary to render any decision. But who c#it doubt if the Sergeant-at- Arms, instead of his deputy, arrested Sanborn, that the result would have been the same, and the authority of the supreme legislature of the country be equally nullified by the action of a State court? If the Senate want te have that tested, let them send the Sergeant-at-Arms to bring Sanborn, and they will see what the peo- ple of Concord, as well as the Judges, will do. Why cannot the Sergeant-at-Arms deputise his authority as well as a sheriff? To carry on the legislation of Congress it is necessary to sum- mon witnesses. The idea is absurd that the at- tendance of these witnesses cannot be com- pelled. If itbe true that the depntics of the Sergeantat-Arms have no power to act, and the Sergeant-at-Arms cannot act out- side of the District of Columbia, it is high time that a law should be enacted to remedy this defect; and we trust that Congress will not per- mit its authority to be thus trifled with and rid- den over by mobs of rescuers or Judges of State courts, and that if necessary they will send a brigade of United States troops to bring, Mr. Sanborn to Washington, and send him to the same quarters with Hyatt, if he refuses to an- swer. By all means let him be made a martyr. Sanborn was the individual who furnished the funds to John Brown, and was mixed up with Hyatt and Forbes, with whom Greeley dined in New York, giving Forbes $20 to help him to Kansas, where he was to teach military tactics to the disciples of John Brown. Let Greeley be brought before the Committee. He knows all about Sanborn and the plans of the leaders in the conspiracy. Let the Sergeant-at-Arms, aided by Captain Rynders, take him along. There will be no rescue in the city of New York. Tue Taree Hvuyery Frencawen Beninp THE Scenes.—Some time ago the three hungry Frenchmen undertook to manage the Opera and exploded, although the Opera went on. Latterly, one or more of them has tried his hand at the French theatre, and has succeeded in closing the concern. Through this proceed- ing the artists of the theatre have incontinently come to grief, and the Franco-American popu- lation has been reduced to a state of mind bordering on distraction. The amount of talking, and writing, and card manufacturing, and general sputtering which has been dane | by the parties concermed in the theatre is something wonderful to think of. The Con- necticut canvass or the debate on Jeff Davis’ anti-Douglas resolutions is nothing to it, And it is still going on. And, worse than all, no- body knows when it will end. And, singularly ; enough, nobody has the slightest idea as to | what it is all about. There's the fact that the theatre has been closed, and that there has | been an irrepressible conflict between the late | Director Mannstein and one of the “three who has been Pre- j sident of the Managing Committte of | the Subscribers. The majority of the ertists stick to Mannstein, many of the | abonnés are on his side, and the three thousand individuals who make up French society in | New York, and consider themselves of as much | if not more consequence than the thirty mil- lions of Americans in the Union, are holding meetings, and generally make a tremendous fuss about the matter. The real cause of all the row is enveloped in more than Fleusinian mystery. We have no definite information on the subject, but it is said tbat there is something awful at the bot- tom of it, and that the whole story would ~ake plots for as many as half a dozen novels be ‘bree or four playt. We advise Bourci- “sak up all the facts and work them ahah ‘ cault to 1c ‘eure sensalion drama at once. = he was rejected. They wanted a “silent | into a high pre, ¢e hope that all the French- ight.” The same was the case with the Con- | In the meantime, will keep as cool as possi: necticut fight. Tammany and Confidence Cag- } men, fed or hungry, Yokout for their safety d ble and k sharp lk Not a man of them opened his mouth valves. Sa NEW YORK \HERABD, FRIDAY, APRIL! 6, 186¢.TRIPLE, SHUN ; ‘Tae Opera in tae Paipit. ‘The sensation preacher is, like the French army, party of attack. Im the old times it was absurdly supposed that the ministers of Christ ought to preaeh peace on earth, good will to mea. If we mistake not, there is a spe cial command to that effect ina book which, among # certain section of the clergy, has gone out of fashion, Instead of the New Testament, the sensation preacher picks out the most bloody and savage portions of the Mosaic code, admixes with them some choice relec- tions from the sulphurous dominions of the Puritans, stirs in @ few extracts from the po- litical platforms of the day, throws in a poor joke here and there, and winds up by sending all his hearers to perdition, without the smallest chance for redemption. Of such order of men seems to be the Rev. Benry Grattan Guinness, who, after endea- voring in vain to convert the Irish to Pro- testantism, recently came over to the United States with the laudable intention of iaformiog all of us that if we are not, at the earliest pos- sible moment, awakened to grace according to be Guinness pattern, we will be inevitably damned. It was very kind of Mr. Guinness to come so far to tellus all this, and we are very glad to express the public's gratitade for the reverend gentleman’s generosity and self-sacrifice. The startling intelligence which he conveys has been listened to with complacency by very large numbers of people, and among them not a few of the Opera habitués, to whom the Rev. gentle- man paid his especial respects when he preached at the Academy of Music. The re- fined, cultivated, and, in many instances, truly religious persons who enjoy the bird-like scales of little Patti, or drink in the notes of the silver voiced Brignoli, were pretty severely prayed for, after this fashion:— Oh, God! this afternoon of thine own Sabbath day we meot in « place given only to worldliness, where multi- ‘ades come continually in whose hearts thy love dwells not and who know not the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, who, instead of caatiog the world bebind their back and counting all things lost for Jesus’ sake, set their aflections upon the things of tois world and care little concerning the things of eternity, Oh, God! wo meet in a place where mullitudes come jor carnal mirth and , where name is never meniioned, save at times it may be in sinf rivaldry, where thy Son’ is not glorified, but rather often, times where evn his professing servants, members churches, come in secre, mingling with the Dlind mult- Seg eemening et Sear CORN ENS broad read that leads o . We very much fear that Mr. Guinness knew nothing of the merits of the question upon which he passed. The Academy of Music and the profane play house are quite different things from each other. At least they are so held to be by liberal Christians in all parts of the world. Music is the gentle and soothing sacrifice which the religion of peace and truth and love offers to the God of the New Testament dispensation—the God who is all, good. Itis music and its influence which have given to the holy Catholic Church its great as- cendency. Even the most callous of infidels, the worst of doubiers, or the most determined of heretics, is insensibly awed as the solemn tones of the grand mass roll through the cathe- dral aisle. The operas contain a great deal of the music originally written for the Church. Nearly all the distinguished composers of pro- fane music have contributed the early efforts of their genius to the Church, and have repro- duced them in their works for the stage. As for profane ribaldry, the idea is absurd. Any such thing in a libretto would be expunged before the opera was produced, and if intro- duced by an artist (and they are generally prime Catholics), would be severely punished and atoned for in sackcloth and ashes. But Mr. Guinness is evidently ignorant of all these facts, and belongs to the ancient order of things. His idea of a sacrificial offering is that of blood. His God is an avenging deity that must be appeased by slaughter. He is a sapguineous shepherd, this Guinness, and is at least two thousand years behind the age. Notwithstanding, however, the infliction of major-excommunication upon the sinners who resort to Irving place, it will open its doors again to saints as well as to sinners, and the Opera will go on just the same asever. That auspicious event, the first night of the season, ig very properly fixed for Easter Monday, when the fashionable world will come out in its spring attire, and duly refreshed by Lenten abstinence. The opera will be Rossini’s ever charming “Barber,” with Patti, one of the most beautiful Rosinas, and Brignoli, the best of Almavivas. Our prima donna, Adeline Patti, has come back from a series of grand triumphs, the furore created by her in the provinces be- ing even greater than in the metropolis. The Academy will present a magnificent array of fashion and beauty on Monday. The belles and beaux of Manhattan will be reinforced by numerous importations from the rural dis- tricts, North, South, East and West. After a few weeks there will be, in spite of the Rev. Mr. Guinnese, an infusion of religious people, who come to town to attend the anniversary meetings, and pay a visit or two at the Opera, not “secretly,” but openly and in the face of the world. They will not go to the theatre, but they look upon the opera music as more or Jess religious, on the principle of Lorenzo Dow, who sang hymns to profane airs so that the devil should not monopolize all the best tunes. As for the words of the opera, people generally don’t know what they mean, and so they are of no earthly consequence. To four- fifths of the audience an opera is nothing more than a costume concert. The Academy is the opera house par excel- lence. It is there that fashion, society, litera- ture, dilettantism and all that takes the place of aristocracy in New York centres to pay homage to art in one of its divine forms. There the beaux may promenade and pay visits; there the belles may display their fine dresses to greater advantage than in any other place of public amusement in the metropolis. The audience of the Academy is therefore the opera audience, and is sui generis. The spring opens well for business and trade, the city is rapidly filling up with strangers, and every- thing looks like flush times, so that the Opera may be continued into the summer. That there will be plenty of it is a matter beyond per- adventure, the Guinness anathema to the con- trary notwithstanding. Waere axp WHEN ARE THE Next NorTHERN Exxscrioxs ?—-In Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio on the 9th of October. The battle fought im Connecticut and Rhode Island will be trans- ferred to those Middle States—the issue and the parties being the same. All eyes will henceforth look to those States, for on them mainly depends the solution of the Presidential dection. Conservative succees in them in Oc- tober will probably be success in November. Defeat will follow the same rule. Ohio may be doneidered @ fortorn hope: but Indlsna’ aad Pennsylvania can easily be won with a vigo- roua effort, and the right man for candidate. As for Pennsylvania, it is understood Forney is the undertaker to bury the demooracy. He is bat little in Washington. He is busily engaged in Pennsylvania trying to defeat Foster for Governor. This is the last instalment of the price be agreed to pay for the clerkship. The Anti-Lecompton votes which elected Pen- nington Speaker were the first, and the demoralization and overthrow of the democra- cy is the second. Let the commercial men of Philadelphia look out, or Foster, the candidate of the democratic and conservative interest, will have his throat out by a political butcher who is « greater adept in the art than even Confidence Cassidy. Capra, Puntsument—Tue Anouition Bru. Ananvonsp.—We eee that the promoters of the bill for the abolition of capital punishment have been obliged to take the back track, and to substitute Mr. Finch’s measure, from a con- viction of the improbability of getting the ori- ginal one through the Senate. The new bill possesses some features to recommend it; and, could it be stripped of others which are objec- tionable, would be an improvement on the pre- sent law. It limits the punishment of death to treason, murder, and arson in the first degree. It classifies under this head all murders perpe- trated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by other kinds of wilful, deliberate and pre- meditated killing, or which are committed in the perpetration of or in the attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, or in the attempt to escape from imprisonment. All other kinds of murder are to be deemed mur- der in the second degree, and to be punished by imprisonment for life. We approve of the principle of a legal gradu- ation of capital offences, for we believe that more criminals escape through the absence of a discriminating power in the law in this regard than from almost any other cause. Juries are naturally reluctant to apply the same degree of punishment to different degrees of the same offence, and they prefer letting off the offender altogether to confounding in the common death penalty the man who murders from sordid motives and he who kills in hot blood. We believe that if the definitions of capital offences adopted in the bill under consideration were to become law, a salutary change would soon be noticed in our criminal} statistics. Everything that tends to render punishment sure and in- evitable must, as a matter of course, contribute to diminish capital offences, as well as every other species of crime. ‘The provision that no execution shall take place within twelve months from the time of sentence, defeats, however, whatever good there isinthe bill. It has been justly observed, by a high legal authority, that it is of the greatest importance that the punishment should follow the crime as early as possible; that the prospect of gratification or advantage which tempts a man to commit the offence should instantly awake the at- tendant idea of punishment. Delay of execution serves only to separate these ideas; and then the execution itself affects the minds of the spectators rather as a terrible sight than as the necessary consequence of tranegression. A delay such as is accorded by this measure does more: it renders the escape of the criminal next to certain. With the op- portunities afforded by it—the new trials and appeals allowed by our laws in criminal cases, and the political and other influences which can be brought to bear in favor of the accused— it would in fact be impossible for a murderer ever to receive the punishment due to his de- serts. This, we take it, is the main object of the bill. As the opponents of capital punish- ment find that they have at present no chance of getting their pet project adopted, they seek to effect indirectly, through this measure, the purpose they have in view. The bill has passed the Assembly by a large majority, but it is to be hoped that the Senate will divest it of its objectionable clauses, retaining only those which are admitted to be an improve- ment on the law as it now stands. Tak TRIBUNE AND THE House CoMMITTRE OF InvestiGation.—The Tribune comes out strong against the investigation of the House Com- mittee of which Covode is chairman, and takes great credit for its sense of justice in deing se, seeing that the persons against whom the in- quiry is aimed belong to the democratic party. But Greeley has found this investigation to be atwo-edged sword, which cuts both ways, and he fears that it may cut rather deeper into his own party than any other. For instance, their beautiful boy, Forney, whom they have elected Clerk of the House of Representatives, got some $30,000 from New York to expend in the Pennsylvania election in 1856. We have never heard what became of it. Would it not bea matter of some interest to those who subscribed the money to find out? Tom Ford got,$20,000 to carry the Pennsylvania election, which he did not carry. He spent eight or nine thou- sand dollars of iton the newspapers of that State. What hashe done with the balance? Let the Printer of the House and the Clerk of the House be examined, and let Greeley be subpoenaed to tell what he knows about those matters, about which he feels as much tender- ness as 8 man whose corns are trodden upon. Tae Bux to Anoutsa THE AtMsHovsE Dr- PARTMENT.—The bill to abolish the Almshouse Department, with its Board of Ten Governors, and substitute in its place a “Department of Public Charities and Correction,” under the control of four Commissioners, has been re- ported by the Senate Grinding Committee- The serious charges recently made against the Ten Governors, and which Senator Robertson the putative father of this bill, has repeated in the Senate chamber on his own responsibility, if proven, would certainly warrant the aboli- tion of the present Almshouse Department; but we find that this bill gives the appointment of the four Commissioners provided for to the Comptroller, their term of office to be ten years. This is but another effert of the repub- licans in the Legislature to concentrate more power and patronage in the hands of the re- publican Comptroller, whom it seems to be their desire to constitute the chief executive of the city, instead of the Mayor. We are in favor of the managers of the Almshouse Depart- ment, by whatever name thqy may be called, whether Governors or Commissioners, being appointed by some responsible authority, in- stead ot being elected by popular vote; but we cannot conceive why the chief magistrate of the city is not the fit and proper person to appoint them. The Comptroller is charged the disborsement of the money to be ex- Mayor we obtsia ae additional check upon the action of the Commissioners, which is a stroug argument in favor of lodging the appointing power in his bands, as well as of maintaining the privciple that the Mayor is the real exeou- tive head of the municipal government. If all the executive power is to be centred in the Comptroller, piece by piece, in this way, the Legislature had better at once legislate Me. Haws into the Mayor’s office, and be done with it, Tue Parry Pourrictans, Nort anp Soura.— We have long entertained the opinion that the party politicians, North and South, are the greatest set of scoundrels that the sun ever beheld or that the moon was ever ashamed to look down upon; and recent events confirm us in that opinion. Look, for instance, at the la- bors of the Investigating Committees. They have utterly failed to bring home any corrup- tion to the President or his Cabihet—gentle- men and stateemen who are above anything mean, or dishonerable. But these investiga- tions have brought out extraordinary deve- lopements touching Forney, Tom Ford and others. It was on the corruption of the demo- cratic politicians, as developed in Pennsylvania, New York ‘and Massachusetts, that the republi- can party founded their hopes of ia Connecticut; and that the republicans all but defeated, that their former majority was beaten down to so low a figure, was not owing to the democratic managers, but in spite of them. It is a counter revolution of the people which has commenced in Connecticut and triamphed in Rhode Island. The Boston Post clique, the Albany Regency clique and the Tammaay Hail clique did nothing to aid in this struggle, but everything to defeat the good cause. They would neither send stump orators por money, lest the election should be won, and Mayor Wood should get the credit of it. They were a drag chain upon the popular movement to overthrow republicanism. But the people did nobly—so well in Connecticut that that State is sure to be carried for the Union next fall. The people ought everywhere to throw overboard the party politicians, and act for themselves. It will be far better for them in the end. Leoistative Provision Agarmst Unsape Burpres.—The bill to provide against unsafe buildings in the city of New York, we perceive, was paseed in the House yesterday by a very large vote, and without any amendments, aad it will now go to the Senate for the action of that body. The bill is a voluminous one, com- prising seventy-nine sections, and would ocoa- py about three columns of the Henap. It prescribes in detail the materials which shall and shall not be used in the construction of buildings; the dimensions of the walls, the erection of irom and brick piers, arches and columns; the capacity of walls and flooriags to sustain certain weights; the construction of flues so as to avoid communication by fire, aad almost all the minutixe of house building, which may be all excellent provisions if they can only be carried out. The mode of ap- pointing the officials who are to carry out the provisions of the act, however, we do not ap- prove of. For instance, the appointing power is given to the heads of the Fire Department, associated with three members of the Americas Institute of Architects. Now, we hold that the architects, who are very often builders as well, should have nothing te do with the appoiat- ments, inasmuch as their own work may very often require the supervision of the inspectors created under the act, in which case absolute impartiality can hardly be expected. In obedience to @ resolution of the Common Council, Judge Bronson has framed a very simple ordinance to provide against the erec- tion of unsafe buildings; but it appears- that the Legislature has forestalled it with the pre- sent bill, which, in all probability, will pass the Senate and become law. No doubt the recent frightful catastrophe at the fire in Forty- fifth street stimulated the Assembly to the pas- | sage of this bill, which is somewhat surprising, considering their usual dilatoriness in attend- ing to anything useful. NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC. Arrival of the California Overiand Mail,. Mxzoy’s Sranion, April 5, 1868. ‘The overland mail coach, with Sam Francisco dates te March 16, arrived at this station late last night. ‘The general news is of no special importance. Im consequence of the consolidation of the limes of steamships between San Francisco and New York the steamer Uncle Sam, advertisg! to sail on.the 20th, has been withdrawn, and the mails will go forward by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s steamer. another woollen factory has been commenced in Sam Francizco. ‘The Legislative Committee on the proposed change ef the eastern boundary of the State, so as to include the ‘Washoe mines, report adversely, on the ground of lack of constitutional power, uniess the question is first sub- mitted to @ vote of the people. Some fine specimens of copper in all to 200 pounds have a meaty cxactae ~~ Dol — euler These specimens yiel 33 per cent of pure copper. The vein sy which they were iaken is stated to be well detined, - outcroppings having been easily traced for over a mile. ‘The Sixth infantry have been ordered to Humboldt Bay by General Clark, on account probably of the late massacre Indians in tbat country. The latest news from the Carson Valley silver mines is but a repetition of former accounts. People were flocking » thither in large numbers, and preparations were active for erecting machinery suitable for : quite a for a time prevailed. same shock was felt in of ia nearest contiguous and = a ‘bing the equanimity of The to February 22, bi ‘unimportant. Statistics. published inthe Polynesian show the number of births im the last year to have been 1,612, and the deaths 2,291. The wheat crop last year was excessive to the i — ‘bushels, and was worth only forty cents per bushe! ‘The schooner Matilda recently arrived at Honolulu from Fanning’s Island, with 10,000 gallons which sold at a good profit. many islands in the North Pacific = ergreeety ey heb oe Pepa myn heen eive lucrative trad t grow up by turning aural production to. acca t in the manufacture of ‘The shipping news embraces the arrival at Honolulu of the whale Hibernia, of New Bedford, in leaky condition. ‘aie ine ‘condemned, ‘and sold at auction for about $50,000, The whalers ore, © energie Republic, Owego aad American, were in one saree The merchant Belle, from London for British Columbia, touched at Honolulu. ship Bi: Motaln row Now ‘Vou 16th, Arrived 13th, . lew Youk; steamer Orizaba, from Panama, faled 24th, ship Suma” ‘Valparaiso; 16th, Napier, for Callao. Ter opular trade la dul. Transactions are ‘The regu! oom Snel SKS ca cer Chat |, the market for which con- tinnes quite active. Candles wore selling in fair quantities ‘At a large trade sale of staple dry goods, seventy-three per cont of coat and charges was realized. Provisions are rather quiet, but prices are fully matntained. There were sales of {2bhds. Robbins bacon at 16c.: 400 batt barrels extra clean 73 at $11 a $12 25; 160 bbis. do. at $22 Hamas sro doll. Butter is somewhat improved; salea,