The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1860, Page 7

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GOKDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. | TERMS, cash én advance, Money sent by mail witt be at the | r the Postage stamps mot received as subsarsption nts per copy, $7 per annum. Yat wise comes every Wednesday, n to any part of Great Britain, loth to include postage; the cand 2th of each month at Me LD on Wednesday, at four cents per iE DAILY HERALD ¥ ‘cente mnonymous correspondence, We do not f tions INTING, executed with nectness, cheapness and de- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIGLO'S GARDEN. Broadway.—Teisa Ampassapor— O'PLANIGAN AND THE FAlwins—MePaistTor ies, BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery.—La Tous pe Neste—Coi scan Broruexs—WiLn Wares, . WINTRE GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— EVANGELINE—TUBMING THE TABLES, WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway,—Lvaping Sreimc: Magxuce Buss or Box axp Bor, puavea KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Court en Awa. ux Katy--Kx Guts of Tue MRS. BROUGHAM’S THEATRE, 444 Broad vay —Deu FeMiLY—Lavaniva HYENa, CAN MUSEUM, Broadway,—Dsy and Fvening -Far or? Seven Won Farm | JSANIB Dkass—GiVING CURIOSIERS. SRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanios’ dali, 472 Broad. Humsesques, SonGs, Dances, &0—Tue SrRancen, O'S BALOON, Broadway.—Gro. Oneisrr’s Muv- * Sonos, Dasons, BouLesques, 40.—Tax Torpixs, COOPER INSTITUTE,—Exmrtion or Peaue’s Onigrxan Parvire o¢ Taw Covut or Deati—Afternoon aud Evening. SOPE OBAPEN, 720 Brosdway.—Gun, Tow Tavxe’s EX TERT MENT, Afternoon and Sveaing NATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Thesire— orcs, Davos, BURLRSGUES, OND2RDONK HALL, 4 8TRELS IN SONGS, Dancas, Bu Harm Mr: n.—Woon's MINSTRELS IN w YEAR Calis, By the a al of the Kangaroo at this port yes- te:day we have advices from Europe to the 22d ult., three days later than the accounts previously re- he news is interesting and important. nnexation of Savoy was considered as defi- settled. The Junta of Nice voted against arnexation. Iu the British Parliament an interesting debate took place on the subject of vote by secret ballot. aor’ Derby had been examined by the committee of the House of Commons in regard to the Galway Commutation act was recommitted to be reported complete. The Supply bill was debated, and made the special order for to-day, A melancholy tragedy occurred at No. 385 Eighth avenue, on Wednesday evening. Mary Anne Lataon, wife of Dr. Wm. B. Latson, while la- boring under a fitot jealousy, committed suicide by’ inhaling the fumes of lighted charcoal. Deceased left a brief note explanatory of her conduct, de. Claring that'she could no longer exist under the relationship existing between her and the Doctor, and accu-ing him of being the cause of all her troubles. Elsewhere will be found a full account of the ead affair, together with a report of the Co- roner’s investigation. The steamtug Magnolia and a posse of the har. bor police, with riggers and laborers, proceeded dewn the bay yesterday morning as far as the Narrows, for the purpose of removing so many of the fish poles as may obstruct the navigation. No difficulty was apprehended, as every opportunity was allowed the owners of the poles to save their ne‘s, or even to draw the stakes themselves should they wish to do so. About one hundred Were drawn yesterday in the North River opposite the c ty. The Police Commissioners held no meeting yes terday, owing to the absence of Commissioner Stranahan, and also at the request of Mayor Wood Ticre willbe but one more meeting before the Log'slature adjourns. The patrolmen of the force, who have been restrained from their pay owing to the tax levy not passing the Legislature, are to be id on Monday, the City Chamberlain, Mr. Stout, gagreed to advance the money on the pay” rolls, which are to be receipted and deposited with him, The Young Men's Democratic Union Club held their regular meeting last evening, according to announcement, at their headquarters, An address was expected from Colonel Rankin, of Phila- delphia, but owing to indisposition he was absent. After attending to some trifliag business matters the club adjourned. Capt. Swasey, of the ship Musconomo, at New Orleans from Liverpool, reports that on the 8th ult., while off the island of Cuba, he was chased and fired at by a war steamer carrying Spanish colors, The Museonomo was hove to, and the Spaniard questioned Capt. Swasey as to his desti- nation, aud then sailed away without further ex- planation. The Musconomo had her private sig- | vals and the American ensign flying at the time of the occurrence. The cotton warket yesterday was without chaage, while the sales footed about 1,000 bales, closing on the basis of quotations given in another column. The flour market was firm, while prices of Stato and Westera were without change of moment, Southern four was in fair jest at full prices. Wheat was lira and sales modo including C jab at $1 22, red Weetern at $1 45, movement is secured by the cc.operation of Louis Napoleon and the new commercial alll- ance between Frauce and England, {he Cabi- net of St. James is animated by a yery diffe- rent policy from that which marked it at the | beginning of the present century.’ The de- scendants of the old tory supporters of George III. will not be permitted to add another five hundred millions of pounds sterling to the na- tional debt for the purpose of) sustain- ing o few rotten dynasties upon the tlrones of Europe. England has determined ta let the Continent work out its own destiny, while she will pursue the path of commercial, industrial and maritime developement thatlies before her. With France and Italy in alliance with this policy of material developement, these three countries will command the resourdes of the whole world in support of their policy; and as time cements their alliances, and brings new generations of mento the support of their ideas, old theories in social and physical sci- ence, and old forms in practice, will melt away before them. Rapid Progress of Metropolitan Jour- nalism. The increase in the business returns of the Heratp within the last few weeks indicates unusual commercial activity this spring. Judg- ing both from our advertisements and circula- tion, the trade of the country is at present in a most flourishing condition. Our cash receipts from advertisements average daily from a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars—a larger pro rata increase than we have ever before noticed at this time of the year. Our circula- tion within the last month or two has received a corresponding augmentation, both North and South. The progress thus manifested in the growth and influence of metropolitan journalism will soon, however, be outstripped by its future career. Arrangements are in train by which a complete revolution will be effected in the operations of the newspaper press of this country. The contract that we recently noticed as having been entered into to convey the New York papers by a.special newspaper express train on the Hudson River railroad is but the inauguration of a system which will soon reach every part of the Union. The same enterprise is intended to embrace all the lines that radi- ate from New York. By the Hudson River and Central railroads the Western States and and smutty Cevada white at $150. Corn was drmor and in good demand, with fair gales, at rates given in an- other place. Pork was dull, with moderate sales, including new mess at $17 75 a $17 8144, and new prime at $14 183/ 8 $18 373g. Sugars were in epeculative demand, and the market was again active, with sales of about 2,600 hes. ana 80 boxes, at rates given in another place. In coffee, the firmness of holders continued to check sales; small lois of Porto Rico, Maracaibo and Rio were made at lic. atdige, Freight engagements were moderate, line of steamers, and explaiged the object the go- vernment had in granting the contract. The squadron which is to accompany the Prince of Wales on his visit to this continent is announced. ‘The feeling between France and England is said not to be satisfactory. The province of Emilia has been formally annex: ed to Sardinia. The Pope had excommunicated Victor Emanuel. The French army had commenced evacuating Lombardy. Austria refuses to renew official relations with Sardinia, and complains of Sardinian interference in Venetia. Hungary is still restless. The agitated condition of Naples remains un changed. The Spaniards had gained another victory over the Moors. The uneasiness caused by the Savoy question had somewhat affected securities. Consols on the 20th closed steady at 94] a 94] for money. The Liverpool markets presented no material change. Cotton continued dull, while breadstaffs were firmer than before reported. Files of Jamaica papers to the 9th ult. have been received. The Governor had prorogued the House of Assembly to the 27th, but it was generally un- derstood that there would be a special session to take into censideration the new Post Office ar- rangements. At the forty-first semi-annual meet- ing of the shareholders of the Bank of Jamaica, the report of the directors was presented and edopted, the shareholders expressing their entire satisfac” tion with the affaira of the institution, and a divyi- dezid of three and a half per cent on the haif-yearly transactions declared. Mr. McGregor, the immi- gration agent at Calcutta, had promised two thou- sand immigrants, an intelligence “more cheering for the planter,” says the Standard, ‘than any that has been received for some time y The direc” tors of the Clarendon & rd opany in their annual report give a very fav their operations during the past The United Btates sloop of-war § rived at Pensacola from Vera Cr led on the 20th ult. She re; ting. Several engagements between the hos- le forces had taken place, in which the liberals were victorious. It was reported that P been captured. The Brooklyn had not ari Vera Cruz when the Savannah left. Yesterday be private bill day, t business was transacted in Cong ste forty-two private bills were pa all the House bills of that ¢ t ‘oduced providing for the loc of United courts at Binghamton, N.Y. A call was bi on the State Department for the rep! Henry R. Selby on the occupation of the isis San Juan. The House resolution relative to the expenditure of money for public works at Chicago w dopted. The House passed seventeen private bills. Mr. Covode, who is at the head of a com- mittee engaged’ in making investigation into the electioneering tactics of the democrats, made a report setting forth that Collector Schell, of New York, refuses to divulge the names of the subscribers to a fund raised in this city for party purposes during the last Presidential canvass. The report concluded with a recommendation that the Speaker cause the arrest of Mr. Schell, and that he be held to answer for contempt. The subject lies over till Monday, when a counter report will be made, and the recommendation of the committee will be considered. A bill was introduced author- izivg the formation of a company for the improve- meut of the East river at Hellgate. A resolution was adopted requesting the President to communi- cate whatever information he may have relative to the expulsion of American citizens from Mexico and the confiscation of their property by Miramon. Several other subjects were brought up, none of them however of importance. In the State Senate yesterday the Canal bill came up, and the amendment striking out the Chenango extension and Long Locks, and reducing the tax to half a mill, was debated, and the bill was then postponed till to-day. Numerons unimportant local pill# were reported. The bill to abolish capital punishment was reported favorably as it passed the House. A bill to improve the navigation of the Bast river was reported. All the city railroad bills were favorably reported, and ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly, the New York Amended City Charter was referred back to the committee, which effectually kills off that scheme for the present. A motion to take up the Brooklyn One Cent Ferriage bill was lost for want of a two- onah has ar- whence she s Miramon as t of while rates were steady. The News from Europe—Effects of the Resuscitation of Italian Nationality, The news from Europe to-day shows that Louis Napoleon and Victor Emanuel perstst ia marching with the spirit of the age, and that the British government is willing to let the Con- tinent work out its own destiny. Sardinia has formally accepted the annexa- tion of the Italian duchies, as wells the Ro- magna, which has hitherto been considered as one of the States of the Church. In conse- quence of this fact, the Pope has officially an- nounced to Victor Emanuel that he may con- sider himself excommunicated from the Church of Rome, and his Holiness reserves to himself the duty of taking into consideration the inte. rests of the Church and of the good Catholics of Piedmont before proceeding to severer mea- sures, This .probably means the formal pro- mulgation of the bull of excommunication in all the Roman Catholic temples of the world, depriving the King of social communion with his fellow Christians. How little effect the paper thunder of the Vatican will have, is demonstrated in the fact that the cities of Milan, Genoa, Leghorn, Turin, Bologna and Florence have agreed to illuminate on the mo- ment the Pope’s bull is fulminated, and to give the event the character of a national celebra- tion. There is vast significance in this. The promulgation of the bull will bring the Pope, as the head of the Church, and Victor Emanuel, as the leader of the people, into direct antago- nism, and initiate in Italy a conflict between the people and the clergy, which may result in the utter overthrow of the latter. Priesthood cannot successfully oppose the spirit of the nineteenth century, so long as this marches in consonance with public order. ‘The steam engine, the telegraph and the pub- lic press have loaned their mighty powers to the mind of man, and this is rapidly germi- nating a new era in politics, religion, science, art and mechanics. The time when a Pope could force a Galileo to recant in sackcloth the opinion that the world turned on its axis has passed away; and to-day innumerable Galileos in every art and science are proclaiming their new theories in all lands to an accepting world. Italy, the cradle of civilization, the home of genius for ages, cannot lag behind in the mareh of intellect. For fifteen centuries she has been the sport of factions and the spoil of strangers. The Roman Empire, crumbling in the Peninsula from*the departure of Con- stantine, to found a new imperial cityat Byzan- tium, left a fragmentary mass which has been elutched alike by Goth, German, Frank, and their descendants, through alternate ages. Out of their decay the Pope caught a few fragments, in which an ecclesaistical government has suc- cessfully proved to the werld its utter unfit- ness to meet the social and temporal needs of men. as a self-governed nation, for the first time since the third century of the Christian era; and the best thing that can happen for her future greatness and power is, that the theories which have weighed like a nightmare upon her | e0 long, shall place themselves at once in open an‘agonism and hostility to the new order of things. The hesitation of the Pope to promul- gate the bull of excommunication against her new leader, indicates the secret fears of the Papacy, and the probability that some attempt will be made by it to avoid the new dan- But no enlightened mind will for a moment believe that the true interests of religioa are endangered by the separation of the ecclesias- “tical from the temporal power, or that Rome ence by the ‘itation of Italian nationality. This event must, through its own innate pow- er, and the widely extended ramifications of thirds vote, so the ferry companies have gained heir point. The Senste bil repeating the Military the Latin race, produce a great effect upon future of Europe. Its success as a poli Italy now comes forward and takes position | ger which threatens the Italian theocracy: | will lose one atom of its greatness or its infla- | 4] mains for her to do Canada will be put in possession of the New York daily papers many hours earlier than under the present system. By the Pennsylvania Central and the Baltimore and Ohio roads the Southern States will be supplied ina similar manner, and in Washington the members of Congress will receive the Heratp at breakfast, and will be enabled to enter upon the duties of the day with their ideas enlarged and fortified on the legislative subjects with which they will have to deal. By the New Haven railroad the whole of the New England lines, which form a com- plete net work intersecting that region, will be enabled to distribute the New York dailies with the same promptitude. The great lines will, in fact, become mere continuations of the streets of New York, along which, and their branch feeders, the metropolitan papers will be dropped with the same relative speed and punctuality and with the same rela- tive cheapness as within the city limits, the price for which the Herap can be purchased at New Orleans, one of the most remote points comprehended in the ar- rangement, not exceeding five cents. At Troy and other cities within the same range of dis- tance it will he delivered to the retailer at two cents, thus enabling him to sell it to the public at a slight advance upon the New York price. The effect of theee arrangements upon the condition and prospects of country journalism will be sensibly felt. They will reduce all the provincial papers to mere organs of local ad- vertising, and even in this respect they will experience a falling off, for wherever the New York papers largely circulate, be the dis- tance greater or less from the metro- polis, the latter will of necessity absorb a large proportion of the country advertising. The provincia) journals will, therefore, soon find themeelves in the condition of the little, dirty | newspapers of Jersey, Hoboken, Brooklyn and Washington, which, placed in immediate com- petition with the press of New York, have never been able todo more than barely keep themselves above water. But to the rural press alone will not be limited the effect of the new arrangements. The patronage re- ceived by the New York weeklies is, as is well known, mainly due to'to the difficulty which country people experience in getting our dailies: Let the latter be delivered with promptiiude, certainty and at reasonable prices, and the de- mand for the weeklies will almost entirely cease. Important, however, as are these re- sults to those who will be immediately affected by them, they are as nothing compared to the | influence which they are destined to exercise | upon the political future of the country. With | the opinions of the metropolis acting directly upon every city, town and hamlet throughout | the Union, we shall soon find a concurrence of | public sentiment with it which cannot fail to | act beneficially upon the national interests, As the great centre of the wealth, intelligence and | industry of the nation, New York has long been entitled to take the lead in all questions affecting its well being and prosperity. The efforts of corrupt politicians and fanatics have hitherto contrived to defeat the just influence to which it was entitled. A train of natural circumstances aud the result of its own enter- priee will shortly confirm to it the ascendency that it should have long since enjoyed. Grayp ExcrreMeNt OVER A WovLp-pe Mar- tyn—We publish elsewhere an interesting description of the return of Sanborn, the small martyr of Massachusetts, to his home in Con- cord, after his release from the United States authorities. He was welcomed as a hero re- | turned from the field, with shouts and thun. | der of cannon and joyous peals of bells— | the women being the most demonstrative of the crowd. Why not? Is he nota martyr ‘in the great cause of black republican trea- son—-the brand snatched from the burning—the | unclaimed Jobn Huss of the little village of Con- cord? He las worn the manacles of the tyrant; yea, the very marks upon his wrists were ex amined by the welcoming masses. His name, which was never known before, has been flashed all over the country by telegraph, and he waked up the other morning to find him- | self famous. He appeals grandiloquently to | the State of Massachusetts, amd informs that | venerable matron that the work now re- the martyr Sanbomn has done ond swfered enongh' Just as if the solid NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1860—TRIPLE SHEET. penn! v¢ alaasachusetts care an iots about him end his pseudo-martyrdom; just as if the whole affair is not a miserable piece of humbug, got up by political agitators for electioneering pur- poses! But absurd aa it is, it shows the rabid fanaticism which exists in the small communi- ties of New England villages, which wily de- magogues know so: well how to turn to ac- count, converting these quiet little villages into insane asylums, with a few conservative inhabitants to act as keepers, Anether Disgracefal Scome in Lovejoy and Pryor im the Ring. On Thursday the hall of the House of Rep- resentatives was again the theatre of a most disgraceful broil, the recital of which should cause every good citizen to blush with shame that the republic could elevate such men as those who originated it to places of honor and trust. From the very full and graphic description in the reports printed yesterday, it appears that Mr. Lovejoy, a member from Illinois, took occasion, while the House was in committee, o deliver himself of a very violent abolition harangue, in which the slaveholders of the South were depicted, after the Garrisonian fashion, as pirates, robbers, man stealers, and s00n. In the course of his harangue, Lovejoy crossed over from the republican to the demo- cratic side of the house, shaking his fist at the Southern members and proving himself to be as thorough a blackguard as ever was kicked out of a Five Points grog shop. Not to be outdone in his speciality, the truculent Pryor rose, and, departing from his place, ranged him- self in a threatening attitude alongside of Lovejoy. Hereupon a number of other mem- bers, pupils in the Pryor-Lovejoy school, sprung to their feet, and the house was tho- roughly disorganized. The more decent of the members endeavored, but in vain, to preserve order. After a number of altercations, which came quite close to the point where personal violence begins, the Chairman of the. com- mittee left the Speaker’s place, which was resumed by that fumctionary, and quiet was partially restored. Mr. Sherman announced that the House was now in order, which re- mark created some “laughter,” the whole af- fair being eonsidered, doubtless, in the light of a very magnificent joke. The country will look upon it in quite another light—that it is an eternal shame and a burning disgrace. It is not fair, however, to the better portion of the members of Congress to charge the re- sponsibility of such outrages upon others than the ringleaders and bottle hold- ers, Let us see who and what the principal combatants are. Lovejoy belongs to a miserable class of low politicians, representa- tives of which abound in all the legislative bodies in the Northern States, and sometimes get into Congress, very much to the gratifica- tion of their immediate neighbors. They are generally brieflees lawyers, or broken down editors, or persons who have failed in some honest pursuit, and take to politics for a living with the same views as they would have in go- ing to rob on the highway. Lovejoy himself is a demagogue of the castiron order. Heis a broken down editor, nigger stealer and nigger worshipper. He steals his god before he wor- ships him—a most economical arrangement. His attack upon the slaveholders was quite characteristic. He was as well aware as apy one else that when he abused the great landed proprietors of the South every word that he uttered was false in its spirit. The gentlemen of whom he spoke are, as a class, refined, cultivated, gen- erous and far more considerate and humane to their servants than many of the employers of white laborers at the North. All over the civilized world the name of American Southerner is synonymous with chivalry, gen- erosity and good breeding. We are describing now the slaveholder, not the poor white man at the South. It is to that class that Lovejoy’s comrade, Pryor, belongs. They are, though nominally opposed, in fact brothers-in-arms. Pryor does not own slaves. He is, like Love- joy,a broken down editor, and is not con- sidered in his own State or elsewhere as a gen- tleman. He represents in an eminent degree the poor white men of the South, and the meanest of them—the noisy, ruffianly, needy politician. Lovejoy is the type of the nigger worshipper; Pryor is the beau ideal of the nigger driver, distinct from the nigger owner. Lovejoy is a republican border Tuffian; Pryor occupies a similar position on the other side. Neither the member from Illi- nois nor he from Virginia represent, in any way the constituencies which, unfortunately for the good name of the republic and the boasted civilization of the age, sent them to Wash- ington. Their conduct in the affair of Thurs- day, in which they were the principal actors (the others were merely bottle holders, having undoubtedly emptied the bottles before they came to the House), was what might be expect- ed of them. To gain notoriety they would stop at nothing. We are quite confident that the conservative, law-abiding people in all sections of the coun- try will unite in severely rebuking the conduct of the border ruffian demagogues, Pryor and Lovejoy. And we trust thatthe true repre- sentative men of the South—the slaveholders, the men who have something at etake in the country—will treat such enemies as Lovejoy and such “friends” as Pryor with the con- tempt they deserve; and that, South and North, the feeling of the country will be as it always has been, from the Sumner affair down to the ruffianly exhibition of Thursday (one that would disgrace a Five Points caucus), one of strong indignation against the men who thus disgrace the republic in the face of the whole world. This feeling should be so strong as to compel the more decent of the members to take very stringent measures to preserve some semblance of order in the House. Arriva OF “GENTLE Spring.”—The etherial goddess of whom the English poet sings has arrived in town with her usual train. She made her debut for 1860 in Broadway on Thnrs- day, one of the finest of any season. The great avenue was in its holiday attire, and unrolled itecosmopoli'an diorama inall its glory. There were the belles retired from the outer world to the inacceséible cave of the fashionadle bon- net, and sweeping the frottoir with their spring sitks; the hundreds of natty broughams, coupes, bretts, and more stately equip ages flying about; .the mén of all nations, in- cluding China and Japan, the eager, earnest Western trader, the staid, solid Bostonian or the rightangled Philadelphian, the stately Soutberter, and the Tast Wallfteiar, the goad. and bad, the vicious and virtuona, the vee. { monde, the demt-monde and the Five Points- monde, Dives and Lazarus, all enjoying the delightful, balmy, springy atmosphere, all talk- " ing about the news, such as it is. The fashion- able people were all in a ferment of delight about the speedy termination of Lent, and the reopening of the Opera, The gossip was chiefly about the great succesees of little Patti in the provinces, and it was whispered that as she is “sweet seventeen” on Monday, when the season begins, there would be a special demon- stration in her honor. Then, what the new artists at the Winter Garden, where Maretzek commences on Monday, would turn out to be, was discussed with the interest and animation due to great questions; and £0 the gay throng promenaded and chatted, and flirted until the sun went down behind Weehawken heights, and the first spring day was over. Tue Cuarteston Convenvioy.—One month ago there were some twenty prominent demo- cratic candidates for the Presidency. Now there are only three or four. Political events during the brief interval have disposed of the | rest. There were in this State three candidates —Seymour, Dickinson, Wood; now there is but one of these who has any political vitality. The other two have been despatched by the Connecticut election. In Virginia there wete two—Hunter and Wise—who have effectually disposed of each other. In Georgia there was Cobb, who has resigned, and Stephens, who is dropped by the people. In Illinois there was Stephen A. Douglas, about whom there has been so much noise to, no purpose. The South has disposed of him. Ia Kentucky there were Guthrie and Breckio- ridge, who are now pretty much in the predi- cament of the Kilkenny cats. Some of the former friends of Douglas, who do not think it safe to stick to him any longer, talk of Breck- inridge as acceptable to the North, because he is not regarded as a decided pro-slavery man. But this very fact would kill him at the South, if there was any life left inhim. His affinities have been too close with Douglas to escape the Southern opprobrium which covers the Little Giant. ‘ His days are therefore num- bered. Then there were Dallas of Penasyi- vania, Slidell of Louisanna, Houston of Texas, Thomas A. Seymour of Connecticut, Pierce of New Hampshire, Orr of South Carolina, Jeffer- son Davis of Mississippi, Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts, Joseph H. Lane of Oregon, and one or two others. Of these, like the numerous horses which enter for the Derby, only three or four are to run for the nomination. To obtain it two con- ditions are necessary. First, the South must have the selection of the candi- date, for the vast majority of the votes come from that quarter; and, second- ly, he must be a man who will rao well in the middle States—Pennsylva- nia, New Jersey, Indiana and Illinoia—the bat- tle field where the victory must be won. The only men whose qualifications combine these two conditions are Wood, Houston and Lane. They are the only live men out of the score of candidates talked of a few weeks ago. There may be-another of whom nothing has yet been heard, but who may loom up at the last moment. We cannot tell. But among those who are named the contest is narrowed down to three, and perhaps before the 23d of this month the number will be still further re- duced. The delegates to the Charleston Convention will not, therefore, have so much trouble, after all, and may get through their work in one day, or at most two, including thg platform, which will necessarily be very short and sim- ple, the republicans having cut out for the de. mocracy @ plain issue, which must be fairly and equarely met, without hair splitting, or subterfuge, or evasion of any kind. ErrEcts OF THE Prince or WALES’ VIsIT To Awerica.—The announcement that the Prince of Wales intends to visit Canada this summer, it appears from the London Herald, has had an enlivening effect upon Canadian securities in England. There is very little doubt, we sup- pose, that the distinguished visiter will not confine his tour to the Canadian provinces, but will come across the border and take a look at his Yankee cousins and their various institu- tions as Well. No doubt he will come to New York, take a run down to Washington, and probably pay the West a flying visit. If he comes here, he will receive an ovation, we wil! venture to say, hardly second to that which his august mother’s dutiful subjects in Canada will give him, and will create more excitement than any celebrity who preceded him to the United States; for this interesting young man may one day be King of England, if the British government manage things properly and Queen Victoria does not live too long. As the present generation of Yankees never saw a king, they will undoubtedly flock from all quarters of the country to get a look at one who is at least a monarch in prospective. The young Prince during his visit here will be the admiration of the men, the pet of the wo- men, and the wonder of the million. We will ake him to the Opera, and escort him to the Central Park; Alderman Brady will thrill his Anglo-Saxon ear with his rich and chaste ora- tory; and the Ten Governors will feast him sumptuonsly, as their custom is, in the Workhouse at Blackwell's Island. The St. George’s Society will overwhelm him with kindness, loyalty and champagne; the St. Andrew’s will cram him with “hagis,” and even the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, forget- ting old scores, will insist upon drowning a shamrock with him in genuine Irish whiskey of the “Wiee” brand. In short, the Prince will have a good time generally. But if the announcement of his visit to Canada has already affected Canadian securi- ties, why not his visit to the United States run up American securities too? Now is the time, then, to speculate in United States stocks, State stocks and railroad scrip. The stock of every railroad he travels on will undoubtedly goupin the market, and if the Wall street men could only find out the programme of his tour in advance, they might make a good thing by buying up stock in the different roads on the route. Tue Spring Bustvess.—In certain respects the spring business is greater than it has ever been. It is greater, for instance, in advertising than in any previous year. Business men are every day finding their account in it more and more. To some of them, who understand the i “astone. philasanhe te — Sn oof ent ae PASSAGE OF THE WasatNGTON Hetcurs Bruu.— The bill for opening streets on Washington Heights has now been run through both housea of the Legislatir<, with a haste hardly equalled by the railroad gridirue «skemes; but we hope that Governor Morgan will give the matter due consideration and reflection before he ap- proves of it. From the extraordinary manner in which the Bill was rushed through the com- mittees, without a word of explanation being heard, many of the gentlemen owning pro- perty in that region do not precisely com- prehend its purposes or its effects. The scheme has been concocted as a matter of speculation merely, and nothing more, out of which some parties expect make money. When the streets and avenues provided for are opened, there will be an emigration to that vicinity of those valuable citizens, with their stock in trade of pigs and other disgusting nuisances, who formerly eccupied all that region around and below the Central Park, and whom it took the City Inspector, , aided by a strong posse of police, nearly six weeks, last summer, to root out, Theee enter- prising members of the community have been ever since looking out for a favorable location for themselves and their odious companions of the porcine tribe, and no sooner will the streets and roads around Washington Heights be opened than they will emigrate’ in that direc- tion, and either buy small lots or squat upon the property, precisely as they have done lower down for years past, until they were driven out as an insufferable nuisance by the famous police war of last summer. Thus property in that neighborhood, instead of increasing in value, will be materiaily re- duced. Instead of realizing two or three thou- sand dollars an acre for it, as some of the owners calculate upon, they may find its value reduced some fifty per cent, or therenbouts. We trust, therefore, that before the Governor, by his sign manual, elevates this speculating scheme into a law, he will give that earnest consideration to its merits which was denied to it in the committees and in both houses of the Legislature. | Tne Late Carrars Harrison.—A very praise- worthy movement—as will be seen by a notice elsewhere inserted —has been set on foot in Eng- land by some of the most prominent noblemen, bankers and private citizens, to raise a fand for the relief of the family of the lamented officer whose name stands at the head of this article. Captain Harrison, as everybody knows, was the commander of the mammoth ship “Great Eastern;” and his great desire in his lifetime was safely to navigate the leviathan to these shores, and to anchor her within the waters of our friendly bays. This happiness hes been denied him by a sud- den and untimely death, But this ig not the only fact that recommends the movement for the welfare of his family to our earnest consideration. As the commander of se- veral of the steamships of the Cunard line, Capt. Harrison made numerous voyages between Ameri- ca and England; and in his long and useful career, succeeded in raising up for himself a large circle of friends. He is, therefore, well known in this coun- try; and this, together with the lamentable circum, stances of his death, in the very noon of his useful. ness, cannot fail to awaken the generous sympathy of every American heart. If any additional incen- tive were needed for a unity of purpose in this movement, we might state that recent unforescen incumbrances arising out of the confidence and in- tegrity of Captain Harrison, have left his aged mother and other members of his family but poor- y provided for. Hence the noble initiative of his ellow countrymen. We sincerely trust that Americans will in thia case do their part cheerfully and liberally. In works of this kind the common brotherhood of the two peoples ia best made manifest, and the gntente cordiale which ought always to subsist between them most effectually maintained. The fame of Captain Harrison belongs to America as well as to England, and we feel convinced that out of the be- nevolence of the two nations, the sorrowing survi- vers of the lamented dead will be amply provided for. News from Mexic: Prysacora, April 5, 1860. The sloop of-war Savannah has arrived here, from Vera Cruz 26th ult. Her advices are that Miramon was retreat- ing. The sloop of-war Brooklyn had not arrived. Wo have been unable to learn any details of the news. ‘Wasmxcton, April 6, 1890. Semi official advices from Vera Cruz state, in addition to what has already been published, that tho liberals defent- ed the Fourth regiment of cavairy belonging to Miramon on the 5th ultimo, ten miles weet of Jalapa, taking their horses, arms and ammunition. Genera] Villalva, liberal, had defeated five hundred reactionists at San Martin, twenty-five miles west of Puebla, taking seven pieces of artillery, together with a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition. Genera! Pucblita, liberal, was besieging Lagarde, reac- tionist, at Hueyapam, fifty miles north of Mexico. The city of Puebla was threatened by the combined forces of Villalva, Alatriste and Cavajal. Several letters ‘state that the city bas already been taken, but this needg confirmation. Another Outrage Upon the American Flag. THE SHIP MUSCONOMO FIRED AT BY A WAR STEAMER SHOWING SPANISH COLORS. ‘Wasinatox, April 6, 1860. The New Orleans Picayune of Tuesday says that Capt. Swasey, of the ship Mugconomo, from Liverpool, reports _ that on the Sth of March, while he was, passing off Cuba, he was chaged and fired at by a war steamer carrying Spanieh colors. He hove to and was questioned by the steamer whither he was bound. The steamer then sailed away without giving any explanation. The Musconomo had American colors and private signals flying all the time, Non-Arrival of the Niagara. Sackvitx, N. B , April 6—Evening. There were no signs at Halifax at teno’clock this fore- noon of the Cunard steamship Niagara, now in her four- teenth day from Liverpool,and fully due. To-day boing 8 holiday (Good Friday) in Nova Scotia, the line hag ‘been closed most of the day, but was to havo opened this evening. To-night, however, the wires appear to be down, and. we are obliged to close without obtaining apy later advices from Halifax than above stated. The Wreck of the Hungarian. Haurax, April 6—A. M. Captain Crawford has arrived here from the wreck of the Hungarian, and will go to Boston by the Niagara. He has all the information and numerous documents reapect- bg the wreck. . W., April 6, 1869, The rumors in regard to the position of the affairs of tho Bank of Upper Canada, which have obtained circula- tion within the past two or three days, have their origin in a circular jesued by « former servant of the bank, making numerous charges against the institution. The bank, however, stands well, and its credit will not be effected in the least by these rumors. of the Arrest of F. Be born. Bostoy, April 6, 1869. Silas Carton, Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate, Wateon Freeman, Jr , Deputy United States Marshal, and Messrs. Coolidge and Tarlton, appeared Ball to day, at Concord, c! with as- hon mph pmpt to Kidnap Frank B. Sanborn, ‘They waived an examination, and gave bail in $2,000 each to ap- pear for trial at the next term of the Superior Court. Two Persons Drowned. Bostox, April 651868. ©. F. Whitney and A. A. Osborne, respectable’ young clerks of this city, were drowned ia Charles rivor yesters upsetting of & boat. Suits Growing —